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RITCHIE, Sir WILLIAM JOHNSTON, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 28 Oct. 1813 in Annapolis Royal, N.S., third son of Thomas Ritchie* and Elizabeth Wildman Johnston; d. 25 Sept. 1892 in Ottawa.
William Johnston Ritchie's father was a member of the House of Assembly for Nova Scotia who later became a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the western division of the province. His mother was a daughter of William Martin Johnston and Elizabeth Lichtenstein*. She died when he was less than six years of age, leaving a family of five boys and two girls. Thomas Ritchie remarried twice and had two children from his third marriage. Little is known about the young William Ritchie but some 60 years later "grey-beard inhabitants" of Annapolis remembered him as a "rollicking, rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed boy, full of fun and animal spirits."
Ritchie was educated at the Pictou Academy under Thomas McCulloch*, a Presbyterian minister and founder of the first non-sectarian school for higher education in Nova Scotia. McCulloch was an outstanding educator who subsequently became the first president of Dalhousie College in Halifax and it may be assumed that the young Ritchie received a sound and thorough education. He chose to study law in Halifax with his elder brother John William Ritchie*, who would later serve as a judge of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
Although William Ritchie was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1837, he moved to New Brunswick and was admitted to practise law in that province in 1838. It is unclear why he chose to leave Nova Scotia. His early practice in Saint John was not lucrative: he recalled that he handled one case in his first year and that his professional earnings the next year were only £5. Ritchie became much more successful in the early 1840s, however; according to a contemporary, Joseph Wilson Lawrence, he "built up the most extensive and lucrative practice, probably, that any one has enjoyed in the City of St. John." He developed a reputation for integrity and sound judgement in his legal business, and the energy with which he promoted his clients' interests contributed to his success with judges and jurors. His forceful advocacy led to his being challenged to a duel on 19 Aug. 1845 by Edward Lutwyche Jarvis, whose father was being sued by Ritchie's client. Jarvis accused Ritchie of insinuating fraudulent conduct on his part. In a letter to his challenger, Ritchie rejected the notion that he might have wronged him, and said that he had acted honourably, making no statements "but such as the evidence, the just development of the rights of my client, and the ends of justice warranted." "I shall never," he concluded, "allow myself to be overawed or deterred from fearlessly doing my duty to my clients, please or displease whom it may." It was a sentiment he claimed to be guided by, both before and on the bench. Ritchie's decision neither to apologize nor to fight a duel was taken with the concurrence of his legal peers and marks a salutary and significant change in gentlemanly conduct from that of 1821 when George Ludlow Wetmore* was killed by George Frederick Street* in a duel near Fredericton.
On 21 Sept. 1843 Ritchie had married Martha Strang at Rothesay, Scotland. She was a daughter of the late John Strang, a leading St Andrews shipping merchant. This marriage produced a son and a daughter. Martha died in 1847 and on 5 May 1856, in Saint John, Ritchie married Grace Vernon Nicholson, a daughter of the late Thomas L. Nicholson and stepdaughter of Vice-Admiral William Fitz William Owen*. They would have twelve children, seven sons and five daughters.
Despite his lucrative practice, Ritchie did not devote all his energies to the law. He also took an interest in politics. George Edward Fenety, a journalist and keen observer of the New Brunswick political scene, noted that "Mr. Ritchie was brought up in an ultra Tory camp, yet he had sufficient independence of character, when he crossed the Bay and had made himself conversant with the political situation in this Province, to cast in his lot with the advocates of reform." Whether he shed the strong tory views of his family because of his education at Pictou or because he found himself initially outside the circles of privilege in New Brunswick is uncertain. Whatever the case, in taking up the reform banner Ritchie became a staunch advocate of responsible government.
He first ran for a seat in Saint John County and City in 1842. Although unsuccessful, he was observed by Fenety to be "a young Liberal of great determination, just beginning to show fire." The province's government was then based on a mixture of British colonial and New England ideas that had been imported by loyalists after the American revolution. When the province took over the administration of crown lands in 1837 [see Thomas Baillie*], it obtained exclusive control over all internal sources of provincial revenue. The House of Assembly dispensed these revenues according to the local concerns of individual members, with little leadership from an executive that lacked the leverage to initiate policy for the good of New Brunswick as a whole. Responsible government held scant attraction for assemblymen because it would limit their powers of appropriation. Thus in 1842, when Ritchie was first a candidate, the popular mood was not one of reform, although a notable advocate of the "radical" idea of responsible government, Lemuel Allan Wilmot*, was elected for York County. That Wilmot was chosen to sit on Lieutenant Governor Sir William MacBean George Colebrooke*'s Executive Council in 1843 with conservative members of the provincial "family compact" such as Robert Leonard Hazen* and Edward Barron Chandler* reveals how far from the British notion of party government New Brunswick remained.
When Ritchie ran, successfully, for Saint John County and City in 1846, responsible government was very much an issue. He claimed in 1847 that with his first candidacy in 1842 he had advocated not only a government based on the confidence of the assembly, but also an executive with the power to initiate money bills, "and he had seen nothing since to induce him to alter his opinion." Together with Wilmot and with others who argued more or less strongly under the banner of reform, he continued to attack the ruling establishment. The reformers were labelled by Hazen "as rabid a set of men as ever any Government had to deal with." In early 1848 the New Brunswick assembly considered Colonial Secretary Earl Grey's dispatch of 31 March 1847 to the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, Sir John Harvey*, on the subject of instituting responsible government and passed a resolution to "approve of the principles of Colonial Government contained in the Despatch . . . and of their application to this Province." Yet while responsible government had arrived in principle, its practice was still questionable. Surrender of the initiation of money grants to the executive also remained an unsettled issue.
For reform to happen some semblance of a disciplined party system was necessary. Despite the loose application of the terms Liberal and Conservative, most members of the assembly were guided by their local concerns and, above all, by the desire to retain a seat. The events of 1848 would show how easily party lines were crossed. That year the new lieutenant governor, Sir Edmund Walker Head*, invited longtime reformers Wilmot and Charles Fisher* into a government dominated by their former opponents. Their acceptance dismayed the "purist" Liberals such as Ritchie, who violently resented their actions, and did much to weaken the reform cause. As for the new government, according to historian William Stewart MacNutt*, the "only consistent opposition that faced it came from Ritchie and two or three other members who on occasion referred to themselves as 'the Liberal party.'"
While the establishment of responsible government was being slowly and imperfectly realized, Ritchie was occupied with other legislative concerns. One cause for which he consistently agitated was the removal of the seat of government from Fredericton to Saint John, a proposal that had divided the colony for years and had prevented the construction of permanent government buildings. In a March 1848 attempt, the resolution was soundly defeated in the assembly.
Ritchie's legislative record reflects a progressive, development-oriented approach to New Brunswick and its economy. He favoured inducements to immigration and settlement, and in 1847 advocated that 50-acre land grants be given to "hardy pioneers" from the United Kingdom, who would have the right to purchase up to 100 acres more after settling. Progress, Ritchie believed, depended on the enterprise of the individual farmer and the small businessman. Opposing a bill to repeal the usury laws, which limited lending rates to six per cent, Ritchie argued that such legislation would "place the whole resources of the country into the hands of some half a dozen money lenders." His reform stance was aimed at freeing New Brunswick and its government from the few families that controlled its offices and purse.
Ritchie was also actively involved in the struggle to build railways in New Brunswick. There were two main proposals: an intercolonial line, which was to link Nova Scotia with the Canadas, and a line from Saint John to Shediac, later the route of the European and North American Railway, which would link up with American routes [see Edward Barron Chandler]. Ritchie strongly favoured the latter road, pushing for government support both as a member of the assembly and as a prominent member of the Rail-Way League. His agitation for this railway greatly increased his political stock in Saint John, but by 1850 the government had not approved any guarantees for it.
Ritchie's status as perhaps the most committed of the New Brunswick reformers became apparent in 1851, when on 2 August, in Fenety's words, "a terrible bomb-shell was thrown into the Liberal wigwam in St. John." Robert Duncan Wilmot and John Hamilton Gray*, two Liberal members, moved over to join the tory government. Ritchie, Samuel Leonard Tilley, Charles Simonds*, and William Hayden Needham* harshly condemned the actions of their former colleagues, vowing that if Wilmot was re-elected after being appointed surveyor general, they would resign their own seats in protest. Wilmot was convincingly returned in Saint John. Ritchie, Tilley, and Simonds honoured their promises, earning themselves points for integrity but leaving the government with virtually no opposition for three years.
During his absence from the legislature, Ritchie continued his legal practice. His most significant client was the European and North American Railway, for which line he had lobbied so strenuously in the assembly. By late 1853 construction on the road was under way, Ritchie having drafted the contract with the British builders. He continued as counsel even after returning to the assembly in the 1854 elections. Before that vote, Ritchie was offered the honour of being appointed a qc. He accepted it only after being assured that it was offered, as Sir Edmund Head wrote, "without reference to party or political consideration of any kind."
In June 1854 Ritchie won Saint John County and City by six votes; it was, however, widely believed by the opposition that his margin was only one vote. The ensuing session was most notable for the resignation of the government on 28 October. Charles Fisher, who had returned to the reform camp, brought forward a motion expressing a want of confidence in the tory administration and the resolution was adopted by 27 votes to 12. The executive resigned and Lieutenant Governor John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton* called on Fisher to form a government. Responsible government had arrived in practice as well as in principle.
The early accomplishments of the new, ostensibly Liberal, administration – of which Ritchie was a member without office – included vesting the initiation of money bills in the executive and an election bill that introduced the secret ballot and extended the franchise. Ritchie strongly supported the electoral proposals, speaking for two and a half hours on their behalf during the debates. In 1855 S. L. Tilley introduced a prohibition bill. Ritchie voted to postpone consideration of this legislation but the bill passed and went into effect on 1 Jan. 1856. Its impact led to the Liberals' electoral defeat later that year. By then, however, Ritchie was no longer a member of the government. On 17 Aug. 1855 he had been appointed a puisne judge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick.
Ritchie's appointment to the bench was accompanied by both praise and protest. Liberal supporters noted that as a barrister he had "gained an eminence rarely attained, while his long and diligent struggle for the establishment of Liberal principles in this Province must have an important influence in securing a just reward for such meritorious service." There was also regret at the loss of his political talent and influence. Opponents questioned the appointment, claiming to have searched in vain for achievements that marked Ritchie as either a great statesman or a great lawyer. It was speculated that Attorney General Fisher had guaranteed the post to Ritchie to obtain support for his leadership of the new government in 1854.
One of Ritchie's most notable decisions while on the New Brunswick bench arose out of the Chesapeake incident. In December 1863, during the American Civil War, a group of conspirators had captured a Union merchant ship, the Chesapeake, in the name of the Confederacy. The incident increased tensions between the United States and British North America since Union warships in recapturing the Chesapeake had violated imperial waters. Northerners viewed much of British North America as sympathetic to the Confederate cause and were threatening to scrap the reciprocity agreement of 1854. While diplomacy eased the difficulty to a large extent, Ritchie was faced with a decision whether or not to uphold a warrant detaining for extradition on piracy charges three conspirators – all British subjects – who had escaped to New Brunswick. Ritchie held that the warrant was improper and released the three because the act of piracy had not occurred within the territorial waters of the United States. The decision was hailed by some observers as the best solution to a difficult problem in that it spared the United States the necessity of prosecuting British subjects on charges carrying the death penalty. Ritchie had also avoided recognizing the belligerent status claimed by the accused, a recognition that would have inflamed opinion in the northern states. The captives' release satisfied the Saint John populace, some of whom harboured sympathy for the Confederate cause. Ritchie maintained that he was not affected by such considerations: "Whomsoever it may please or displease must be to me, judicially, a matter of indifference. The only duty I have to discharge is . . . to declare the Law as I believe it to be, wholly regardless of consequences."
Ritchie became chief justice of New Brunswick on 30 Nov. 1865, succeeding Robert Parker*. He was appointed over the head of the longer-serving and still popular Lemuel Allan Wilmot, who had become a puisne judge in 1851. Opponents of Albert James Smith*'s anti-confederation government called the supersession of Wilmot an "outrage," arguing that the "insult to the senior judge appears gross, flagrant and without excuse." Ritchie's supporters claimed that Wilmot had used the bench as a political forum for his "harangues" promoting confederation, and that the government could not overlook such shocking behaviour. The controversy focused more on the insult to Wilmot than on Ritchie's qualifications for the position.
In 1869 Chief Justice Ritchie wrote a decision, virtually forgotten today, which for the first time held a provincial statute to be invalid under the British North America Act of 1867. In The Queen v. Chandler Ritchie maintained that a New Brunswick debtor law of 1868 infringed on the exclusive power of the federal government to legislate in the area of bankruptcy and insolvency. Where parliament or the provincial governments "legislate beyond their powers . . . ," he wrote, "their enactments are no more binding than rules or regulations promulgated by any other unauthorized body." The case has been rightly compared to Marbury v. Madison, which in 1803 established the concept of judicial review of constitutional validity in the United States. Ritchie's decision in Chandler merits an important place in Canadian constitutional law for its clear exposition of the nature of judicial review.
When Sir John A. Macdonald introduced a bill to establish a supreme court for Canada on 21 May 1869, Ritchie wrote a vigorous and perceptive critique of the draft legislation. Although he strongly supported the need for an appellate tribunal of last resort "whose precedents would be a rule of decision for the Courts of all the Provinces," he equally strongly disapproved of the exclusive and concurrent jurisdiction that the bill would give the proposed court. In his opinion parliament lacked the authority to grant the jurisdiction; moreover, he feared such a court would "weaken and enfeeble" supreme courts in the provinces. He was also opposed to retaining the full extent of the existing appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Retention not only flew in the face of the notion of self-government, but was expensive, leaving the unfortunate litigant "a gray headed man with empty pockets."
This early attempt to establish the court was not realized. However, as Ritchie neared the end of his tenth year as New Brunswick's chief justice in 1875, the Liberal government of Alexander Mackenzie succeeded in establishing a court of appeal for the dominion [see Télesphore Fournier]. The minister of justice, Edward Blake*, while wrestling with the British government over the question of continued appeals to the Privy Council, named the first six members of the court. On 8 Oct. 1875 Ritchie was made a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; the chief justiceship of New Brunswick then went to John Campbell Allen. Ritchie's appointment was greeted with widespread approval. In Saint John it was said that the wisdom of the "eminent jurist" was to be "extended to a wider and more important sphere." The Toronto-based Canada Law Journal, while lukewarm toward the other non-Ontario judges on the new court, praised Ritchie as being of "strong will and decided views. . . . This appointment is an excellent one."
The new Supreme Court endured what a subsequent chief justice, Bora Laskin*, termed an "uneasy infancy." It was criticized in parliament, in the legal press, and even within the court itself. However, a study of the work of the tribunal from its inception in 1875 until Ritchie's death in 1892 reveals that Ritchie provided stability and strength to the court. Appointed just a few weeks short of his 62nd birthday, he brought to it 20 years of judicial experience. Although initially its eldest member, he enjoyed robust good health: the court's first registrar, Robert Cassels, reported that he was "endowed with a splendid physique, tall, well built, and athletic in frame, his energetic manner and bearing indicated the great reserve of nervous power which has assisted a fine mind to do its work to the best advantage." Except for illness between 25 Jan. and 30 April 1889, he rarely missed a sitting of the court in almost 17 years. By contrast the first chief justice, William Buell Richards*, was in poor health even when appointed in 1875. During Richards's absence from the bench from 3 June 1878 until his resignation on 9 Jan. 1879, there were 13 reported decisions. Of these Ritchie wrote what must be regarded as the most significant majority decisions in more cases than any other judge.
Upon Richards's resignation, Ritchie was named by Sir John A. Macdonald to fill the vacant chief justiceship, a position he assumed on 11 Jan. 1879. Ritchie's tenure would include the longest period of stability in court personnel in the institution's history. There were no changes in the puisne judges between 14 Jan. 1879 and 3 May 1888. When the new chief justice assumed his post, the young court was still experiencing difficulties in establishing its position in the eyes of the legal community. In parliament several attempts were made between 1879 and 1881 to abolish the tribunal completely. Macdonald believed that Canadians would come "to consider it as one of the tribunals of which they should be proud," but that pride was slow to develop. The legal community was, in a very Canadian way, reluctant to accept the home-grown institution. In 1882 the Supreme Court was described in the Canada Law Journal as having "so far been a failure." There was discontent about delays in the rendering and printing of decisions. Observers complained as well about the court's tendency to issue multiple judgements. This criticism was weak, because the practice was in line with common-law tradition followed by both the House of Lords and the United States Supreme Court. However, Canadian jurists had been spoiled by single opinions written by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
The Supreme Court during the Ritchie era was also criticized for "infirmities of a personal nature," and for a lack of consultation and cooperation among its members. Ritchie has been accused by historians of having "clearly failed to mould the individual justices into an effective, harmonious unit." Certainly there were personal difficulties. Mr Justice Samuel Henry Strong*, described by a lawyer as possessing "a shocking bad temper," was undoubtedly the main culprit. In 1880 he wrote to Macdonald making a scathing attack on Mr Justice William Alexander Henry*, commenting also that "the Chief seems to think of anything rather than his judicial work and is never ready with his judgments." In fact it was Strong who appears to have been most responsible for problems in the reporting of decisions. Observers noted that the chief justice also had a temper, but, they added, he kept it "well under control, and his relations with all who came in contact with him were most happy."
Many of the problems associated with the Ritchie court were the result of the circumstances of its founding. Canadians were still adjusting to their new dominion status and continued to identify with their own regions. Their regionalism was reflected in legal circles, which, particularly in Ontario and Quebec, looked more favourably upon courts in Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City than upon the Supreme Court in Ottawa. Indeed, there were suggestions that if the court was moved to Toronto both suitors and judges would benefit from the legal talent around Osgoode Hall. Concern about the ability of the English Canadian members of the court to deal with matters of Quebec civil law and of the French Canadians to cope with common-law questions also brought proposals to abolish the institution.
The overriding factor in the slow acceptance of the court's authority was simply that it was not the true court of last resort for the dominion. Its decisions could be appealed to the Privy Council, and even more damaging was the fact that appeals could bypass it altogether and go direct from the highest provincial court to the Privy Council. Not only did the situation preclude the development of an authoritative Canadian court, but the continued presence of the Privy Council meant that Ritchie and his colleagues were bound by the principles and decisions of that higher tribunal.
Despite the difficulties of the court, Ritchie handed down many significant decisions during his 17 years in Ottawa. In The St. Lawrence & Ottawa Railway v. Lett, he held in 1885 that the death of a woman caused by the negligence of the railway was a substantial loss entitling the husband and children to recover damages. With Henri-Elzéar Taschereau* and John Wellington Gwynne* dissenting, he wrote: "How it can be said that the loss of such a wife and mother is not a substantial injury but merely sentimental, is, to my mind, incomprehensible." This decision continues to be cited with approval. In the Manitoba school question case, Barrett v. the City of Winnipeg, the Supreme Court in 1891 unanimously struck down the Manitoba Public Schools Act of 1890, because it threatened denominational school rights which Catholics had enjoyed in practice when the province joined confederation. Ritchie found that the act "prejudicially" affected a group when they were taxed to support schools of which they could not conscientiously avail themselves. Unfortunately, this enlightened decision was overturned by the Privy Council. Some years earlier, in 1877, Ritchie had written a strong decision in Brassard et al. v. Langevin, known as the Charlevoix election case. He held that certain sermons and threats by parish priests in favour of Hector-Louis Langevin* constituted undue influence; their message was that a vote for the Liberal candidate, Pierre-Alexis Tremblay*, was a grievous sin. Ritchie considered the case to involve "grave questions of constitutional law" and maintained that "there shall be no undue influence or intimidation to force an elector to vote or to restrain him from voting in a particular manner." Holding that no clergyman of any faith was above the law, and finding the priests to be agents of Langevin, the court declared the election void. Ritchie's decision is evocative of some of the reform principles he had advocated during his political career in New Brunswick. He was not a great innovator, but he was a good, conscientious, and independent judge.
Chief Justice Ritchie was called upon to perform certain vice-regal functions. During the absences of the governor general, Lord Lorne [Campbell*], from 6 July 1881 to January 1882 and between 6 Sept. and December 1882, Ritchie acted as deputy governor of Canada. He was knighted on 1 Nov. 1881, the honour being made retroactive to 24 May. In March 1884 he was appointed deputy to Governor General Lord Lansdowne [Petty-Fitzmaurice*].
The appointment to the Supreme Court at Ottawa placed Ritchie, his wife, and family in a new social environment. As Ottawa attempted to assert for itself a stature worthy of its political significance, the establishment of the new court in 1875 "added six new stars to the social firmament." Shortly after the swearing-in, Governor General Lord Dufferin [Blackwood*] hosted a grand dinner for the new justices, and Ritchie soon found himself a prominent member of the Ottawa scene. He also became involved in the city's fledgling cultural circles. As chairman of an 1879 committee to establish an art association, a group that included Allan Gilmour, Edmund Allen Meredith, and others, he commented on "the want, very severely felt, of a school where our young people might be taught drawing, painting and sculpture, under good professional teachers." He served as president of the Art Association in 1882–83. He also had an interest in building and architecture. While still in Saint John he had owned some property which George Stewart*, a contemporary writer, described as a source of diversion for him: "The judge, whose taste for architecture is well known, often planned the style of building he would like to put up. . . . It was no uncommon thing for him to draw near to a table, and with pencil and paper plan buildings of infinite variety. It was good employment for the mind, and less expensive than actual building."
An Anglican, Ritchie attended St George's Church in Ottawa. In 1889 the rector, Percy Owen-Jones, introduced changes to the service that evoked strong objections from many of the congregation, including the chief justice. Ritchie, a staunch low-church Anglican, found the chanting of the kyrie "obnoxious," and his objections, combined with those of other low churchmen in the parish, led to the resignation of the rector the following year. His views reflected his family upbringing and had perhaps been reinforced by the teachings of McCulloch at Pictou, whose writings included a tract entitled Popery condemned by Scripture and the fathers . . . (Edinburgh, 1808).
In May 1892 the chief justice was stricken with bronchitis. It seemed initially that the time spent away from Ottawa during the summer would lead to recovery. However, upon returning to the capital on 6 September, Ritchie suffered a relapse, and he died at home on 25 September at the age of 78. His tenure as chief justice of the Supreme Court – 13 years, 8½ months – established a record not yet surpassed. He was survived by his wife and 13 children. Lady Ritchie had shared in her husband's rise to prominence in Ottawa, and continued to play an active role in the capital's society. She was a founder and first president of the Ottawa chapter of the National Council of Women of Canada and served as an original board member and a governor of the Victorian Order of Nurses. Lady Ritchie died on 7 May 1911.
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There are, unfortunately, no surviving papers of Sir William Johnston Ritchie, from either his days in Saint John, N.B., or his time in Ottawa. The following are his only published writings, apart from his decisions in law reports: "The Chesapeake": the case of David Collins et al. . . . before His Honor, Mr. Justice Ritchie, with his decision (Saint John, 1864), and Observations of the chief justice of New Brunswick on a bill entitled "An act to establish a supreme court for the Dominion of Canada" (Fredericton, 1870).
ACC, Diocese of Ottawa Arch., St George's Anglican Church (Ottawa), minutes of vestry meetings, 1889–90: 64–81, 90–99. AO, RG 22, ser.354, no.2187. NA, MG 26, A: 148624–40, 148652–61; RG 31, C1, 1881, 1891, Ottawa. N.B. Museum, J. C. Webster papers, packet 73. QUA, 2112, boxes 2–3. St Paul's Episcopal Chapel (Rothesay, Scot.), Copy of marriage certificate for W. J. Ritchie and Martha Strang, 21 Sept. 1843 (original certificate in possession of James Smellie, Ottawa). Supreme Court of Canada (Ottawa), Minute-books, MI (8 Nov. 1875–11 April 1884); MZ (12 April 1884–16 Nov. 1891); M3 (17 Nov. 1891–7 Dec. 1900). Canada Law Journal (Toronto), new ser., 11 (1875): 265–66; 16 (1880): 73–75, 99–100; 18 (1882): 87–88; 28 (1892): 484. G. E. Fenety, Political notes and observations . . . (Fredericton, 1867); "Political notes: a glance at the leading measures carried in the House of Assembly of New Brunswick, from the year 1854," Progress (Saint John), 1894, collected into a scrapbook (Fredericton, 1894; copies in the NA Library, N.B. Museum, and CIHM, ser. no.06725). Legal News (Montreal), 1 (1878): 140–41. N.B., House of Assembly, Journal, 24 Feb. 1848; Supreme Court, New Brunswick Reports (Saint John and Fredericton), vols.8–16 (1854–77), reports for 1855–75. Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada, comp. George Duval et al. (64v., Ottawa, 1878–1923), 1–20. Stewart, Story of the great fire. Head Quarters (Fredericton), 22 Aug., 5 Sept. 1855. Morning Freeman (Saint John), 2 Dec. 1865. Morning Journal (Saint John), 1 Dec. 1865. Morning News (Saint John), 20 Aug. 1855; 1, 6 Dec. 1865. New Dominion and True Humorist (Saint John), 16 Oct. 1875. Ottawa Daily Citizen, 16 June, 19 Nov. 1879; 10 April 1883; 26 Sept. 1892. Ottawa Evening Journal, 8 May 1911. Reporter and Daily and Tri-Weekly Times (Halifax), 30 Jan. 1879. St. John Daily Sun, 26 Sept. 1892. N.B. vital statistics, 1856–57 (Johnson). Gwyn, Private capital. Lawrence, Judges of N.B. (Stockton and Raymond). MacNutt, New Brunswick. J. G. Snell and Frederick Vaughan, The Supreme Court of Canada: history of the institution ([Toronto], 1985). Robert Cassels, "The Supreme Court of Canada," Green Bag (Boston), 2 (1890): 241–45. Bora Laskin, "The Supreme Court of Canada: a final court of and for Canadians," Canadian Bar Rev. (Toronto), 29 (1951): 1038–79. Frank MacKinnon, "The establishment of the Supreme Court of Canada," CHR, 27 (1946): 258–74. M. C. Ritchie, "The beginnings of a Canadian family," N.S. Hist. Soc., Coll., 24 (1938): 135–54.
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Plastics Chemical BPA Common in 'Preemie' ICU: Study
Banned in sippy cups and baby bottles, it's present in hospital equipment; health risk unclear
URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_134278.html
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The chemical, bisphenol A (BPA), is used to make many of the ventilators, intravenous lines, catheters and other devices tiny babies need to stay alive in those first critical days.
BPA is believed to be an endocrine disruptor, which means it may interfere with the hormone system in humans. Some research has linked BPA with reproductive and developmental problems, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Last July, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups.
The lead author of the new study, published online Feb. 18 and in the March print issue of Pediatrics, stressed that her paper did not come to any conclusions regarding health effects of BPA.
"This was an exposure assessment study," said Susan Duty, an associate professor of nursing at Simmons School of Nursing and Health Sciences in Boston. "We did not set out to determine any health outcome so I cannot speak to health effects from these particular exposures."
Most human exposure to BPA comes through diet: BPA can leach into foods and beverages from the containers in which it is packaged.
In this study, though, that turned out not to be the case. BPA levels in urine samples taken before and after feeding (either breast-feeding or formula feeding) were the same in the 55 infants who participated in this study. All were premature newborns staying in a hospital neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
But babies who needed four or more medical devices had 1.6 times higher BPA levels in their urine when compared to those who were exposed to three or fewer devices.
Respiratory devices were linked with higher BPA exposure than other devices.
And, although in all cases urine concentrations of BPA were lower than those cited as potentially harmful by the U.S. Environmental and Protection Agency, they were still 16 to 32 times higher than those seen in children from the general population, Duty said.
Also, she added, "there is controversy about the effect of low-dose BPA exposures because some studies of exposure during vulnerable time periods of child development report effects on behavior and executive function in children and shortened [anal-genital] distance in male offspring."
Duty pointed out that the particular NICU she studied had made "a conscious voluntary decision to choose products without BPA whenever possible and still we found these associations with BPA."
It's unclear if there are alternative ways to make the devices needed to keep tiny, vulnerable babies alive.
Sharon Wilkerson, dean of the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Nursing, cited one study that had found differences in exposure levels between hospitals, "suggesting that some products may be better than others."
On the other hand, BPA strengthens plastic and plays a cementing role.
"We don't want a catheter in the vein to come apart because that would be worse than the BPA," Wilkerson said. "There's a fine line of making sure that as we try and get people to use less BPA in the production of products, we don't jeopardize the outcome from that."
A group representing the chemical industry said the study is not cause for alarm.
"This study found that exposures to BPA from the use of life-saving medical equipment on premature infants in the NICU were low and well within safe limits established by regulators," said Steven Hentges, of the Polycarbonate/BPA Global Group at the American Chemistry Council.
In a council news release, Hentges added that "the BPA exposures for all of the infants in this study are short-term, limited to the time when life-saving medical treatment is necessary, and well below government-set safe intake limits for BPA, which are conservatively set."
A medical expert not involved with the study said more information is needed.
"Clearly, this study found more exposure but the question is what does that mean," said Dr. David Mendez, a neonatologist with Miami Children's Hospital in Florida. "We just don't know enough right now.
"If we find that BPA is a real player in the long-term health outcomes of babies, we can come up with safer ways to deliver nutrition, to deliver our oxygen," he added.
For now, study author Duty said, "the first priority must be to provide the medical care needed to help these infants survive their premature birth."
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Physicists have been struggling for decades to unify quantum mechanics, which corrals the particle flock, with Einstein's general theory of relativity, which sculpts space and time. They've come at it with various approaches, including string theory, but it remains stubbornly intractable. Yet—taking a common tactic that physicists use to break apart complex challenges—what if we simplified the problem?
They've now come to a whole new understanding of quantum particles that enormously eases the task. A hypothetical particle, the "graviton," shapes spacetime, bringing unity to the two theories at last. For a fascinating armchair journey through a different kind of spacetime, check out this issue's cover story, "Loops, Trees and the Search for New Physics," by Zvi Bern, Lance J. Dixon and David A. Kosower.
Among earthly concerns, maintaining health ranks high for most of us. Our special report, "Tomorrow's Medicine," will give you a view of what's next. You will learn how nanoparticles could help detect cancer earlier, when it is easiest to eliminate; how smart implantable devices could warn of an imminent heart attack or help manage diabetes; how retinal chips and synthetic photoreceptors could restore sight; and how personalized medicine may finally arrive. As always, we welcome your feedback.
Meet the Scientific American Imprint
It's been many years, of course, since Scientific American was "just" a magazine (and, for those who don't know, it is the longest continuously published magazine in the U.S. at that). In addition to the monthly print glossy, you can get regular updates from our staff and bloggers online at www.ScientificAmerican.com on your mobile phone and, soon, in regular tablet apps. But this month I wanted to focus on the newest member of the Scientific American editorial family—a book imprint developed with our sister company Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG).
For many months I have been working closely with Amanda Moon of FSG, who is spearheading the effort to find the best, most authoritative voices for the imprint. She has attended our editorial board meetings, visited conferences and otherwise canvassed the research world for authors who can provide the kinds of in-depth, scientifically compelling books that you would expect from Scientific American. "What a Plant Smells," by Daniel Chamovitz, is the first excerpt in a series that we will run as the books become available; more materials, including blogs by the authors, will appear on our site.
The books join the first imprint title, the acclaimed Journey to the Exoplanets iPad app created by former longtime Scientific American art director Edward Bell and Hugo Award–winning artist Ron Miller. Enjoy!
This article was published in print as "New Physics and Future Medicine."


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Americans now know that the "change we can believe in," which President Obama promised, means a taxes-optional administration. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner rode out the bad news about his failure to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes on income he earned while working for the International Monetary Fund, and still won confirmation. The man now in charge of the IRS says it was "an innocent mistake."
Remember that line -- in case you are audited.
Now come reports that Obama's pick to be both his health policy czar and secretary for Health and Human Services -- former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle -- had to amend his tax returns and pay $140,000. Among other errors, Daschle forgot to pay taxes on a car and driver supplied for three years by, as he put it in a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, "a close friend."
Daschle wrote that he is "deeply embarrassed and disappointed by the errors that required me to amend my tax returns." Also: "My mistakes were unintentional."
Remember those words, too. There's just one problem with both Geithner's and Daschle's stories: If they really did not know that they were evading taxes, then they're stupid.
And if Daschle really thinks that media mogul Leo J. Hindery Jr. gave him a car and driver for three years out of friendship, and that "a gift from a good friend," as he put it Monday, would be exempt from taxation, then Daschle is too stupid to be trusted with health care reform.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday, "The president believes that Sen. Daschle is the right person for the very important job of ensuring that we cut costs, reform our health care system, and finally give the American people in health care the outcomes that they deserve."
I don't think so.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Daschle told the Senate Finance Committee that he "had grown used to having a car and driver as majority leader and did not think to report the perk on his taxes." Which tells you that you don't want Daschle's mitts anywhere near the federal Treasury. Cutting costs? No. This is the guy you want when you're looking for someone to pass the Grey Poupon.
It wasn't that long ago that now-Vice President Joe Biden, when a senator, argued that it is "patriotic" for affluent Americans to pay higher taxes. Now that the Democrats are in power, they won't demand that one of their own pay up. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid described Daschle's tax revelations as "a few little hiccups."
No wonder Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., and GOP whip, quipped, "It is easy for the other side to advocate for higher taxes because -- you know what? -- they don't pay them."
On a serious note, it is not in America's national interest to make it impossible for human beings, who err, to survive the ruthless Beltway gauntlet. But it also is not in the country's interest to hand incompetent (or venal) people the keys to the kingdom. After all that campaign talk about keeping former lobbyists out of policy-making, Obama tapped a former politician who cashed in upon losing re-election -- making $5 million over two years, including more than $200,000 speaking to the health care industry -- to be his go-to guy on health care.
I sure hope Americans did not elect another president who values loyalty over competence. In 2006, D.C. Democrats told voters that they wanted to upturn the GOP Congress' "culture of corruption." That lasted maybe two years. Maybe. Now it's business as usual. The Senate confirmed Geithner by a 60-34 vote. Ten Republicans supported him, while a mere three Democrats did not. "How can Mr. Geithner speak with any credibility or authority?" one of the three -- Iowa's Sen. Tom Harkin -- rightly asked.
Daschle is expected to slide through the Senate confirmation as well. Obama said Monday that he "absolutely" supports Daschle. Democratic senators will support him, and some Republican senators will, too. They are, after all, members of the same club.
The careful vetting of would-be officials in Obamadom that you read about in November? Well, for the right people, it turns out to have had a rubber stamp at its bottom.


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phonetics, the study of speech sounds and their physiological production and acoustic qualities. It deals with the configurations of the vocal tract used to produce speech sounds (articulatory phonetics), the acoustic properties of speech sounds (acoustic phonetics), and the manner of combining sounds so as to make syllables, words, and sentences (linguistic phonetics).
Articulatory phonetics
The traditional method of describing speech sounds is in terms of the movements of the vocal organs that produce them. The main structures that are important in the production of speech are the lungs and the respiratory system, together with the vocal organs shown in Figure 1. The airstream from the lungs passes between the vocal cords, which are two small muscular folds located in the larynx at the top of the windpipe. The space between the vocal cords is known as the glottis. If the vocal cords are apart, as they are normally when breathing out, the air from the lungs will have a relatively free passage into the pharynx (see Figure 1) and the mouth. But if the vocal cords are adjusted so that there is a narrow passage between them, the airstream will cause them to be sucked together. As soon as they are together there will be no flow of air, and the pressure below them will be built up until they are blown apart again. The flow of air between them will then cause them to be sucked together again, and the vibratory cycle will continue. Sounds produced when the vocal cords are vibrating are said to be voiced, as opposed to those in which the vocal cords are apart, which are said to be voiceless.
The air passages above the vocal cords are known collectively as the vocal tract. For phonetic purposes they may be divided into the oral tract within the mouth and the pharynx, and the nasal tract within the nose. Many speech sounds are characterized by movements of the lower articulators—i.e., the tongue or the lower lip—toward the upper articulators within the oral tract. The upper surface includes several important structures from the point of view of speech production, such as the upper lip and the upper teeth; Figure 1 illustrates most of the terms that are commonly used. The alveolar ridge is a small protuberance just behind the upper front teeth that can easily be felt with the tongue. The major part of the roof of the mouth is formed by the hard palate in the front, and the soft palate or velum at the back. The soft palate is a muscular flap that can be raised so as to shut off the nasal tract and prevent air from going out through the nose. When it is raised so that the soft palate is pressed against the back wall of the pharynx there is said to be a velic closure. At the lower end of the soft palate is a small hanging appendage known as the uvula.
As may be seen from Figure 1, there are also specific names for different parts of the tongue. The tip and blade are the most mobile parts. Behind the blade is the so-called front of the tongue; it is actually the forward part of the body of the tongue and lies underneath the hard palate when the tongue is at rest. The remainder of the body of the tongue may be divided into the centre, which is partly beneath the hard palate and partly beneath the soft palate; the back, which is beneath the soft palate; and the root, which is opposite the back wall of the pharynx.
The major division in speech sounds is that between vowels and consonants. Phoneticians have found it difficult to give a precise definition of the articulatory distinction between these two classes of sounds. Most authorities would agree that a vowel is a sound that is produced without any major constrictions in the vocal tract, so that there is a relatively free passage for the air. It is also syllabic. This description is unsatisfactory in that no adequate definition of the notion syllabic has yet been formulated.
In the formation of consonants, the airstream through the vocal tract is obstructed in some way. Consonants can be classified according to the place and manner of this obstruction. Some of the possible places of articulation are indicated by the arrows going from one of the lower articulators to one of the upper articulators in Figure 1. The principal terms that are required in the description of English articulation, and the structures of the vocal tract that they involve are: bilabial, the two lips; dental, tongue tip or blade and the upper front teeth; alveolar, tongue tip or blade and the teeth ridge; retroflex, tongue tip and the back part of the teeth ridge; palato-alveolar, tongue blade and the back part of the teeth ridge; palatal, front of tongue and hard palate; and velar, back of tongue and soft palate. The additional places of articulation shown in Figure 1 are required in the description of other languages. Note that the terms for the various places of articulation denote both the portion of the lower articulators (i.e., lower lip and tongue) and the portion of the upper articulatory structures that are involved. Thus velar denotes a sound in which the back of the tongue and the soft palate are involved, and retroflex implies a sound involving the tip of the tongue and the back part of the alveolar ridge. If it is necessary to distinguish between sounds made with the tip of the tongue and those made with the blade, the terms apical (tip) and laminal (blade) may be used.
There are six basic manners of articulation that can be used at these places of articulation: stop, fricative, approximant, trill, tap, and lateral.


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Aretha Franklin Will Perform at Whitney Houston's Funeral
Aretha Franklin will be performing at Whitney Houston's invite-only funeral service on Feb. 18, Entertainment Tonight is reporting. Record label executive Clive Davis, who helped guide the careers of both singers as the president of Arista Records for a quarter-century, personally requested to have Franklin perform, and the Queen of Soul found it impossible to turn down the invitation.
Franklin was Houston's godmother and appeared briefly in her 'How Will I Know' video. Earlier this week, Franklin performed part of 'I Will Always Love You' on stage as a tribute to the woman she called "one of the greatest singers that has ever stood before a microphone."
Franklin said after hearing the news of Houston's death, "It's so stunning and unbelievable. I couldn't believe what I was reading coming across the TV screen. My heart goes out to Cissy, her daughter Bobbi Kris, her family and Bobby."
The funeral is set for noon on Saturday, Feb. 18, at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., where Houston sang in the choir as a child. Despite a report that Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown was banned from the service, Brown has denied the rumors and will apparently attend as well.


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Last week Apple quietly updated their Retina MacBook Pro lineup with faster processors. The 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro now comes with a 2.4 GHz, 2.7 GHz, or a 2.8 GHz quad-core processor. The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro now comes with a 2.5 GHz, 2.6 GHz, 2.9 GHz, or 3.0 GHz dual-core processor.
How do these new Retina MacBook Pro models perform compared to the original models? To find out I've collected Geekbench 2 results from the Geekbench Browser for all of the Retina MacBook Pro models and charted the scores below.
If you're not familiar with Geekbench, it's our cross-platform benchmark utility. Higher Geekbench scores are better, where twice the score means twice the performance. If you're curious how your computer compares, you can download Geekbench to find out.
15-inch Retina MacBook Pro
Below is a summary of the processor upgrades for the different 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro models:
|15-inch Retina Mid 2012
|15-inch Retina Early 2013
|Core i7-3615QM @ 2.3 GHz
|Core i7-3635QM @ 2.4 GHz
|Core i7-3720QM @ 2.6 GHz
|Core i7-3740QM @ 2.7 GHz
|Core i7-3820QM @ 2.6 GHz
|Core i7-3840QM @ 2.7 GHz
Each model received a 100 MHz increase in processor speed. Besides the differences in speed, the processors for each model have the same specifications.
So, how do the new 15-inch MacBook Pros perform?
The new processors bring between a 3% to 5% increase in performance to each MacBook Pro model according to the Geekbench 2 scores. This increase is entirely due to, and in line with, the increase in processor speed.
One thing to note is that the new mid-range Retina MacBook Pro has the same speed processor as the old high-end Retina MacBook Pro. However, the new mid-range model is slightly slower than the old high-end model. While this seems surprising at first, the difference is easily explained by comparing the two processors: the old high-end processor has more cache than the new mid-range processor.
13-inch Retina MacBook Pro
Here is a summary of the processor upgrades for the different 13-inch Retina MacBook Pros:
|13-inch Retina Late 2012
|13-inch Retina Early 2013
|Core i5-3210M @ 2.5 GHz
|Core i5-3230M @ 2.6 GHz
|Core i7-3520M @ 2.9 GHz
|Core i7-3540M @ 3.0 GHz
Like the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, each 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro model receives a 100 MHz increase in processor speed.
However, unlike the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, which only ships with the new processors, the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro ships with both the old and the new processors. The old processors appear in 13-inch models that start with 128GB of storage, while the new processors appear in 13-inch models that start with 256GB of storage.
How do the new 13-inch MacBook Pros perform?
It turns out the new 13-inch MacBook Pros receive a boost similar to the new 15-inch MacBook Pros. The new processors bring a 3% to 5% increase in performance according to their Geekbench 2 scores. Again, this increase is in line with the increase in processor speed.
Final Thoughts
With Haswell, Intel's new processor architecture, at least four months away, I'm not surprised Apple updated the Retina MacBook Pro lineup with the latest Ivy Bridge processors. I am surprised Apple didn't update the MacBook Pro lineup at the same time. Both the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro come with the older Ivy Bridge processors (although you can upgrade the 15-inch MacBook Pro to the newer Ivy Bridge processors). I wonder if this is an indication that the Retina MacBook Pro is more popular than the MacBook Pro, or perhaps that this is the last generation of the MacBook Pro.
I imagine we'll find out what happens to the MacBook Pro later this year when Apple releases new Haswell-based laptops.


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When it comes to nutrition labels, shoppers generally fall into one of two camps: Those who read them, and those who would rather not know. Recently, a third category came to light: Those who, despite reading labels, still might not know what they're really eating.
Current regulations from the Food and Drug Administration allow for less than completely accurate labeling when it comes to trans fats, the dangerous diet-busters that have been linked to elevated cholesterol and an increased risk of coronary artery disease, sudden cardiac death and possibly diabetes.
This understanding led medical student Eric Brandt to ask, how many trans fats are flying under the radar and stealthily ruining our diets?
Food companies are allowed to round down when reporting trace amounts of trans fat, touting foods containing less than 0.5 grams as trans-fat free.
Brandt discovered that consumers can easily exceed the daily recommended value of 1.11 grams, despite their best efforts. Just three servings of deceptively labeled foods with 0.49 grams each of trans fat put a consumer over the recommended limit—though the labels would lead them to believe they were making healthful choices.
Brandt has called on the FDA to enact a more precise reporting and labeling system that would help shoppers get the accurate information they need to make informed decisions.


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Google upgraded its Search Appliance for the enterprise to help workers find information stored anywhere in their organizations.
Google Search Appliance 7.0, which went on sale Oct. 16, is designed to allow administrators to add information from the cloud, social networking sites, secure storage sites on the Web, and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 files. It works with PCs, tablets and smartphones.
Among other improvements, "we've refined our relevance signals," said Matthew Eichner, general manager of Enterprise Search at Google, in a blog post. "Entity Recognition automatically identifies and suggests content you might be looking for," he noted, adding that GSA 7.0 also allows employees to add their own search results.
A new document preview feature allows users to see thumbnails and full-screen document previews alongside their search results.
IDC analyst David Schubmehl said users would like enterprise searches to be as easy as Web searches, noting that slow searches can hurt productivity. A 2009 IDC study found that the time spent searching for data averaged 8.8 hours per week per employee, at a cost of $14,209 per worker per year.
This version of this story was originally published in Computerworld's print edition. It was adapted from an article that appeared earlier on Computerworld.com.
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One of my favorite tools to share with students and teachers is Readability. This handy bookmarklet tool scrubs webpages clean of distractions by eliminating the ads and creating a more readable version of digital text. By itself, it's a really useful tool for students, but when combined with Google Docs, it can be part of an effective and efficient method for taking digital notes.
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Good afternoon, folks!
Just a quick update to point you to some stuff I have up over at Nerds of a Feather.
1. Reading Deryni: Saint Camber - The second in my series of essays on Katherine Kurtz's Deryni novels.
2. Reading Deverry: Act One - Likewise, the first of my series of essays on Katharine Kerr's Deverry novels (this one covers the first four books - read more Deverry)
3. My Favorite Stories Don't Get Nominated: A Hugo Love Story - a meditation on why I love the Hugo Awards even though, as the essay title states, my favorite stories don't get nominated.
I've been busy.


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I'm keepin'em hype I'm leavin'em right I'm even uptight Holdin the mic and say the word FUCK more times then Dolomite I'm the nigga that got the last words you got served Smokin fat herbs and gunnin niggas down like back burs With fast words I'm zipper I'm funky like raptors And I'm much much more then a mouth full of adverbs and bad words Stick it to a nig like chop sticks (? My rapper I'm rapper ?) More flava more flava more cooler then a tub of Kool-Aid I'm never in doubt before so nigga then why try Hittin harder then Popeye slappin motherfuckers like Cha-Cha I fuck with a capitol "F" put (?) to death (??) crowd def And I'ma continue to flow until I come up on my last breath So homie raise up (OH!) Hold these tricks up (OH!) See I'm that nigga that tells whether or not a nigga stay now look here [Chorus] (x8) I'm not that nigga I'm not that nigga I'm not that nigga to fuck You been picked off Keep fuckin wit a nigga like me get hip-tossed Fuck fightin faggot nigga I know He jumped your bitch ass like Kriss-Kross And look at a riddle that I be little When I'm a jumbo now a fiddle I jump in your eardrum and play (?Baradiddle?) Stop wanting to ditch'em I'm in this bitch and comin out rich In case yah know 'bout a FIRED UP son of a bitch Inch by inch as I drench I'm a sense clench That bullshit that yall niggas (???????) (?play of a pinch?) I got the gimmick to make them bitches rough like they can feel me They can't get near me cause they fear me but yall don't hear me Just like that bitch I saw Who hit my fucking car Look-it-hear I'm playin that hoe from (?Chipiwalk?) Whatchu talk? I'm very (?hard pressin?) so niggas can kick this fuckin lesson I am fluorescent as if caressing from that fuckin crescent A nigga that know how Nigga that been to serve (Go Child) Mamma that pushin shake my head just like they got a loo-ow So come with the pussy the paper the pen and the pussy now PASS ME THE MIC Show you around jump on yo' ass just like a (???) I shot more shit then Shawn Kemp but got more bitches then a world pimp And got more flavour then a brown shrimp I'ma be comin out flossin shit that make a nigga gon' talk some shit But if you ain't brought shit Then I ain't the nigga to start shit wit' [Chorus] x8 You couldn't fuck the old but all of a sudden what make you think you can fuck wit the new shit You stuck on stupid I ain't that nigga to fool wit' A nigga might sprout up talkin about WHAT The only way to keep my muthafuckin name out your muthafuckin mouth is keep your muthafuckin mouth shut I don't step (??????) fire then a gutter I'm takin'em 10 at a time cause I ain't SCARED of you muthafuckers I'm strippin'em up I'm rippin'em up and flippin'em off And I'ma continue to flow on rhymes then single'em out and choppin'em all up Making classics See massive titties and pussies and asses But got more hoes then a value class More vicious then BooBoo wash you up like we do I'm blacker then Voo-Doo, harder then a rough rhyme (????) Black like Sheep, I'm Cool like Jay in effect like Rex I'm Grand like Pub huh, huh daddy are you? I'm Ice like T, rock like Kim fuck it Spice like One but got more Enemies then the Public nigga I kick it around (???) (?choke on bread crumb?) (?Rich'n and pitchin?) (?????) to the hair drum The bigger opponent nigga thats you You can't compare a nigga like Mystikal to Skidrow or Ugly Kid Joe But yet you suddenly pickin terf wit me You irkin wit me jerkin wit me when I tell your bitch to stop flirting wit me I'm giving it (?mad house like fan belt?) I came tho I know you niggas can't fuck wit me cause I can't fuck wit my damn self I'm making yall mummble (or what I thought of.....) Nigga you beating me is like cuttin a Philly grass with wire cutters I, Be keeping to you all so breakin'em off And still uh, fuck with me you faithful walkin around with pork chop drawers I'm ready to graze and blaze pump up the gauge and pick up the pace I'm more deadly then having safe sex, with a bitch with AIDS A nigga like myself is BAD for you hoe tho I fucked that bitch one time and now that hoe can't hold herself That shit be kicks and niggas be smokin in cliques and fuckin'em tricks I rollin from that Big Easy Where the buddha are beyond and niggas they rumble, over the least mumbo-jumbo Standing tall like this Mutumbo but turn that shit to Briant Gumble That's how we do it when we kick it back on my block It's pop or get popped Kill or get killed Drop or get dropped And nigga be wondering why they always spunnin is off of some dumb shit Cause I ain't, cause I ain't, cause I ain't that nigga to fuck with bitch [Chorus] Fade till End


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(CNN) -- After a nearly 20-year absence, Nixon-loving, Reagan-worshipping Alex P. Keaton is again slinging his political views on television.
Michael J. Fox, who played the conservative teen on the 1980s sitcom "Family Ties," says that if the right-wing, tie-wearing Keaton were a real person, Alex would disagree with the Republican stance against increased embryonic stem cell research.
"I was recently asked what my character, Alex P. Keaton would think of me campaigning for stem cell research," Fox said Monday during a speech in Keaton's TV hometown of Columbus, Ohio. (What would you like to ask Fox?)
"First, he would be happy I'm wearing a tie. And I think he would tell me I'm doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do." (Full story)
Fox, who's battling Parkinson's disease, moved from side to side as he spoke about his hope that stem cells can unlock cures to many afflictions, including his own.
He's backing Democratic midterm candidates who agree with his views. Critics oppose research that would destroy human embryos. (Watch Fox make his case -- 2:35)
Whatever happened to Alex?
But Fox did pose the question: What would Alex do? Keaton was never shy about incorporating his politics into everyday life, becoming a true spin doctor years before that term entered the lexicon. Remember when he used to advise his little brother Andrew with Republican cheers or Democrat jeers?
He carried a briefcase to high school. He ran for student council president. He espoused odd ideas for teens, such as capitalism and supply-side economics.
Despite all that, "Family Ties" focused mostly on themes surrounding its title, says Robert Thompson of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television. "It was never a show about politics. It was a way of using politics to frame a fish-out-of-water scenario."
At first, Alex P. Keaton wasn't supposed to garner so much attention on the show, which also starred Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross as Keaton's liberal, ex-hippie, baby boomer parents.
Eventually, Fox's popularity vaulted him on to the covers of teen magazines, which then led to roles in films such as 1987's "The Secret of My Succe$s" and 1991's "Doc Hollywood," where he played characters identified with the young yuppie myth.
Fox himself embellished the Keaton myth by adding the middle initial P to Keaton's name as an ad lib during an audition, according to IMDb.com.
Rep. Alex P. Keaton, R-Ohio
By 1989, after seven seasons , "Family Ties" ended and Alex left the Keaton home to begin a career on Wall Street.
Later, more fictitious information about Keaton surfaced during Fox's final episode of his 1990s sitcom "Spin City," when it was revealed that Keaton was elected as an Ohio congressman, according to IMDb.com.
"Most Americans in their 30s know Keaton's character," Thompson says. "He represented a shifting political demographic in the '80s, a portion of a generation who rejected their boomer parents' Democratic loyalties."
Whatever Keaton might have thought about stem cell research, his hero's widow, former first lady Nancy Reagan, shifted her views in favor of it, as the former president was dying of Alzheimer's disease.
CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider says there are a lot of Republicans who agree with Fox on the stem cell issue and many of them are around Nancy Reagan's age, 85.
In the case of middle-aged voters, they tend to be Republican "especially if they are yuppies like Keaton was," Schneider said. "But they still tend to be liberal on social issues. Fox could be tapping into something here: fiscally conservative voters who are fed up with the Iraq war and the influence of the religious right over the GOP on issues like stem cells."
Michael J. Fox, front left, as Alex P. Keaton on "Family Ties," which aired on NBC from 1982 to 1989.


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I'm about to pull my hair out!
And it's all about numbers.
Now, I'm not a math genius, but I can hold my own.
I balance my checkbook. I don't go over my budget.
In fact, I can even count to 20 in French. (Vraiment!)
But when people are assigned specific numbers as part of their identity, and then all those numbers are changed … well, let's just say it interrupts the smooth passage of my day.
When I was hired in 1991, I was assigned a 2-way radio number: Forty.
Two score.
Several years later we had added enough staff that it was time to organize the numbers to coordinate with departments. I became twenty-one. I was pleased. Sort of a compliment, don't you think?
And this week, due to additional growth, we've moved on to three-digit numbers. I am now 160.
One-sixty. (Oh, excuse me, did you call for one-sixteen? My mistake!)
We're a month from opening, so I'm not yet using my radio much, but it's on in the background as the construction, maintenance and cleaning crews communicate out in the park.
They're making a valiant effort, throwing all those big numbers around. Not everyone answers right away. Sometimes it takes two or three tries. And once in a while, a two-digit number sneaks through.
Even, in desperation, an occasional name
But far be it for me to be resistant to change! (The fact that I already lost my tiny cheat sheet out in the park, notwithstanding.) It's time to start memorizing all those new numbers; chant them under my breath; put a face with a … number.
For decades, we had just one person with a three-digit 2-way number. The rest of us existed happily with two digits, while Mr. Koch (Will's dad) stood alone with three.
I loved to hear Mr. Koch on the 2-way as he identified himself: 007.
That dear man passed away in September of 2001 at the age of 86. At the start of the funeral mass, his wife, children, and grandchildren carried special objects to the altar. These objects represented many aspects of Bill Koch's life: his family, the town of Santa Claus, his family's theme and water parks, highway development, Lincoln's boyhood home, and more. I had to grin when among all the gifts at the altar; a small placard caught my eye.
On it was printed three simple numbers: 007.
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The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact/compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million sold as of 2007. Over the past 40 years, one Corolla car has been sold on average every 40 seconds. The series has undergone several major redesigns.
The name Corolla is part of Toyota's naming tradition of using the name Crown for primary models: the Corona, for example, gets its name from the Latin for crown; Corolla is Latin for small crown; and Camry is an Anglicized pronunciation of the Japanese for crown, kanmuri.
Corollas are manufactured in Japan and in Brazil (Indaiatuba, São Paulo), Canada (Cambridge, Ontario), China (Tianjin), India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom (Derbyshire) and Venezuela. Production has previously been made in Australia (Victoria). Production in the United States (Fremont, California) ended in March 2010.


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FBI looking for confessed serial killer's possible rape victim in Oregon
MAUPIN, Ore. -- FBI agents in Oregon are looking for a woman they say is the first victim of confessed serial killer Israel Keyes.
Keyes committed suicide while in jail in Alaska last weekend as he was awaiting trial for the February murder of an Anchorage barista, Samantha Koenig.
Keyes told the FBI agents he raped - but did not kill - his first victim in Oregon between 1996 and 1998. He said the girl was 14 to 18 years old, and that the sexual assault happened on the Deschutes River near Maupin.
FBI officials said the victim was with friends and Keyes was able to discretely separate her from the friends.
To date, authorities have not been able to find any relevant police reports that would fit this scenario, and it is possible that the victim never reported it.
If Keyes was being accurate about the time period and the girl's age, she would now be in her late 20s to early 30s. She may have lived in the area or simply been visiting the area on vacation.
Keyes told investigators he often traveled great distances and liked to find his victims along hiking trails, at campgrounds and in other remote areas.
Before his death, Israel told investigators he killed eight people, including at least four in Washington state. He's also believed to have robbed banks as he traveled across the country, but the FBI hasn't identified any robberies in Oregon for which he may have been responsible.
Anyone with information is asked to call 503-224-4181.
-- FOX12 Oregon (KPTV/Portland)


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Hematite, also spelled Haematite, is the mineral form of Iron Oxide.
Chakras - Base Chakra
Zodiac - Aries, Aquarius
Planet– Mars
Element – Fire/Earth
Typical colours -Black to steel or silver-grey, brown to reddish brown, or red
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OUR LADY PEACE–Raine Maida (vocalist), Duncan Coutts (bass), Jeremy Taggart (drums), Steve Mazur (guitar)—will be kicking off a U.S. headlining tour starting October 19 in Solana Beach, CA to promote their seventh studio album, BURN BURN, which was released July 21 via Coalition Entertainment (Records) through Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group. While the trek is set to conclude October 31, more dates are being added throughout the rest of the year.
The album, which debuted at #41 on the Billboard "Top 200 Albums" chart, has already produced a hit single with "All You Did Was Save My Life," thanks to heavy rotation at four different formats: Alternative, Top 40, Triple A and Active. The video stars fellow Canadian, Shenae Grimes, of "90210" and "Degrassi: The Next Generation" fame.
"The End Is Where We Begin" is the second single is now being serviced to radio and has recently been added to stations nationwide including KDGE/Dallas, KTBZ/Houston, WKRK/Cleveland, KRBZ/Kansas City, WPBZ/West Palm Beach and WGRD/Grand Rapids. A video for the song will make its premiere in the next couple of weeks.
Primarily self-produced in lead singer Raine Maida's Los Angeles home studio, BURN BURN marks the longest period between studio albums for Our Lady Peace. It also signifies a sonic and philosophical rebirth. The band now enjoys a creative and professional freedom that they haven't experienced since the release of their now classic debut. "I think about the way we made NAVEED," Maida recalls. "We were just starting, we knew nothing about the business and we had no expectations. It was four guys in a room just trusting their instincts. We went back to that. 'Liberating' doesn't really even sum it up."
BURN BURN is a triumphant return to what Maida terms "a proper, mature rock album," steeped in the kind of raw intensity that drove their early material. Blinding rays of anthemic light make way to the tender poise and precision of a band that was looking for a way out and found a satisfying new way in.
Our Lady Peace's live show is as good as it's ever been and was on display during July's sold-out shows in New York City and Los Angeles that had Billboard gushing, "OLP proved their readiness as arena-worthy superstars during the opening night of the Canadian act's U.S. tour." The performance in Los Angeles left the Troubadour none-too-pleased with the damage OLP incurred. Maida victoriously climbed up to walls to the second floor during "All You Did Was Save My Life," leaving a heap of destruction in his wake. A fan caught the stunt on video and it can be seen on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrSVi5Ce_go).
The album has been racking up rave reviews since the album's release:
"…a nice return to the soaring rock they made their name on. Lead singer Raine Maida sounds more mature than ever – mostly forsaking his once eye-popping falsetto – and brings a poetic touch to his tales of everyday struggle and hope…Often praised for their energetic live show, OLP keeps the anthemic tracks flowing with 'The End Is Where We Begin,' 'Escape Artist,' 'Refuge,' and the blistering 'White Flags.' Check This Track Out: 'Monkey Brains' is a manic blast of energy that features a – dare I say it – Iron Maiden-influenced effort by bassist Duncan Coutts."
–John Kosik, Associated Press
"Fingerprints of the band's past are all over it, from the frantic basslines and guitar blasts found on the eccentric 'Monkey Brains' to stripped-down rocker 'White Flags'…the soaring, piano-driven 'Never Get Over You' is proof that singer Raine Maida can still write a killer ballad."
–Evan Lucy, Billboard
"…the slower moments are anthemic rather than sappy and the fist-pumping rockers are infused with righteousness and not mirth, with the two extremes tied together with an earthbound spaciness that splits the difference between U2 and Coldplay."
–Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
"…a bombastic rock record…"
–Mike Schiller, Popmatters.com
Check out Our Lady Peace at any of the following stops:
Mon 10/19 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up
Tue 10/20 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
Wed 10/21 Tempe, AZ Clubhouse Music Venue
Thu 10/22 Las Vegas, NV Rio Hotel & Casino
Sat 10/24 Houston, TX The Woodlands Pavillion
Sun 10/25 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
Tue 10/27 Johnson City, TN Electric Cowboy
Thu 10/29 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
Fri 10/30 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
Sat 10/31 Kansas City, MO Kansas City Power & Light District
Tue 11/13 Banff, Alberta Wild Bills Saloon
Thu 12/3 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues
Fri 12/4 Jacksonville, FL Freebird Live
Tue 10/20 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
Wed 10/21 Tempe, AZ Clubhouse Music Venue
Thu 10/22 Las Vegas, NV Rio Hotel & Casino
Sat 10/24 Houston, TX The Woodlands Pavillion
Sun 10/25 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
Tue 10/27 Johnson City, TN Electric Cowboy
Thu 10/29 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
Fri 10/30 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
Sat 10/31 Kansas City, MO Kansas City Power & Light District
Tue 11/13 Banff, Alberta Wild Bills Saloon
Thu 12/3 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues
Fri 12/4 Jacksonville, FL Freebird Live
(ABC Public Relations – Oct. 5th 2009)