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Science Oxford Live
Science Oxford Live is Oxfordshire's cultural centre for science and enterprise. Science Oxford Live is the place for anyone and everyone to come and be engaged by the wonder of science.
Science Oxford Live is an experiment, and anyone who visits Science Oxford Live is taking part. We're looking for the best and most effective ways of sharing the importance of science and the best way to do this is by experiment. We'll try new types of exhibition and new ways to engage the public.
The discovery zone is an investigation area to experience science first-hand with equipment that allows you to fire a vortex or air, send secret whisper messages across the room, colour your shadow and much more.
All our activities are hands-on and we encourage you to explore science by playing. From soft foam building blocks to a video microscope, the discovery zone has something for curious minds of all ages.
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Sat during Term Time
Mon-Sat during School Holidays
Closed: Sundays and Bank Holidays
Admission to Science Oxford Live is £3.50 per person / £11 for a family ticket (up to 5 people)
Events are £5 per person / £16 for a family ticket (up to 5 people)
Additional info
Birthday parties are available after school. From £100.
Inventing Isobel
A school workshop for Key Stage 1 available in conjunction with a visit to Science Oxford Live
Isobel is a great inventor, or so she thinks. However with the pupils' help, she soon discovers that she has chosen some unusual materials for her inventions, and that she needs to think more about their properties before she creates something new.
How to obtain
Call 01865 810000 for booking.
£4 + VAT per pupil. Adults free. 2 hour session including Inventing Isobel show and visit to the discovery zone.
Joining Forces
An upper Key Stage 2 show in conjunction with a visit to the discovery zone at Science Oxford Live
Lilly loves Sir Isaac Newton and tries to get him to notice her. She has lots of demonstrations involving pushes, pulls, magnetism, gravity, air resistance and friction - and is always trying to show that girls are better than boys. Pupils use their own knowledge and ideas to try and catch her out!
How to obtain
Call 01865 810000
£4 + VAT per pupil. Adults Free
2 hours session including a visit to the discovery zone at Science Oxford Live
Primary Shows and Workshops for Oxfordshire ONLY
Science Oxford Next delivers show and workshops in Oxfordshire in your school, all designed to support science, mathematics and design & technology.
Shows can accomodate up to 60 pupils
Workshops can bu run for 30-60 pupils.
We can fit three KS 2 shows/workshops or five KS1 shows/workshops in a standard school day.
How to obtain
Check out the full menu of activities available on our website www.scienceoxfordnext.com.
Alternatively, call 01865 810000 to speak to our education staff
Science of Magic
A lower Key Stage 2 show to book in conjunction with a visit to the discovery zone at Science Oxford Live
Ziggy is the worst magician in the world. This show encourages pupils to ask 'How?' and 'Why?' as they use their observational skills, knowledge and creative thinking to help Ziggy come up with some cool tricks for his new magic show.
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01865 810000
£4 + VAT per pupil. Adult Free.
2 hour session including a visit to the discovery zone at Science Oxford Live
Science Oxford Live
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The Jessica Jones merch table is empty
Posted by MegDunk in Girl issues on January 24, 2016
By a lot of accounts, Netflix's Jessica Jones was a successful, popular show.
Though the ratings were disputed by Netflix execs, the "hacked" ratings suggest the show was the most popular among the 18-49 demo.
Over on Rotten Tomatoes, the show has a 93 percent approval rating.
And the show has been awarded a Season 2.
But, there's no Jessica Jones merchandise.
A 7-year-old and his dad today were combing for Deadpool character merch in the toy aisle at Target. The Deadpool movie is rated R. But, this very-much-not-17-year-old kid was excited to look for the character Fabrikation on the end cap.
Jessica Jones doesn't have a rating, but it's certainly not for kids.
However, there's no adult merchandise, either. There aren't any Jessica Jones Valentines on the card aisle. There aren't Jessica Jones Dooney and Bourke bags. Not even a single T-shirt.
Here's what you get when you search for Jessica Jones on the official Marvel store.
Jessica Jones is one series in a Marvel/Netflix partnership that will end with The Defenders series bringing the characters together in Hell's Kitchen. So far, Daredevil is the only other part of this partnership to stream.
Good news for you if you want Daredevil merchandise: It's plentiful.
Merchandise based specifically on Netflix's Daredevil series is planned for next month. (And looks awesome.)**
Other franchises have been called out lately for not producing merchandise for girls or with female characters. Star Wars: The Force Awakens was called out for not including Rey in most merchandise. Just lack week, fans questioned #WheresRey in the Monopoly game.
I like Jessica Jones. A lot.
So, if Marvel made a $200 bag with Jessica Jones I would be tempted. If they made $2 Valentines, I would buy them in bulk.
Time to step up, Marvel.
Give this girl something to spend her money on.
In the meantime, I made some free Valentines.
Here you go:
**Information on merchandise specifically tied to Netflix was added. h/t to Mitch Schwartz.


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Just watched your haunted youtube video, I must say, I'm impressed! Great job!
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I hear ya Jim! We're fortunate in that we have a very passionate team! It also presents it's challenges when, like you say, they get bored! LOL
Maybe some of your employees that want gore in your show are just bored and need more to do? hahaaha!
I have had some real dangerous suggestions come from some past employees. I tell them they can do those things in "Their" haunted house when they get one.
"And just how did the customer come to fall backwards down a flight of stairs?"
Maybe jumping out at the top of the stairs to scare someone Might be a No-no? Duh?
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Just before I went in for surgery you & others sent me words of encouragement, for that I sincerely thank you.
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Hey! We're practically neighbors! I work at Nightmares Haunted House in Bentonville, AR! I've been to Raycliffe Manor before, about three or four years ago. It was great!
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Linda Womack, William Womack. Embracing Encaustic: Learning to Paint with Beeswax. (Hive Publishing; Second edition, May 15, 2008.)
Embracing Encaustic by Linda Womack
Linda Womack, William Womack. Embracing Encaustic: Learning to Paint with Beeswax. (Hive Publishing; Second edition, May 15, 2008.)
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Revisiting old topics and filling in holes is quite a chore, yet a necessary one, one that will offer more quality information. For example: recent activity and questions surrounding hardboard and/or masonite, has directed our attention to fill in the blanks on that topic (currently under revision/addition), as well as, more about gesso (specifically encaustic gesso) and other topics (search the tabs), all are in the works.
Prior years were to get as much general information as possible up and available- a starting point. More and more however, new topics are focused and detailed, and old ones will be getting revisiting; removing any possibility of confusion.
I should point out that this is a one person operation (takes me awhile to get around to everything, ohh yeah, I should make some art), Anyway, where was I?, oh! one person operation..., even though I tend to refer in posts and topics as we, it is to remove the need to revisit things later when it really is we. All of this whilst working, making art, and whatever may be the case.
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I think I have finally calmed down a bit after more than 100 messages via Facebook and Twitter with my DNA Testing Buddies, Joan Miller and Carole Riley. A couple others have joined our Gene Pool Party, but I'll wait until they have publicly blogged before introducing them.
Two days ago, we each ordered a DNA testing kit from 23andMe.com since the price of the kit was reduced to $99 from a whopping $499. To participate at the $99 fee, a customer also has to sign up for a $5/month subscription for one year. What the heck - a long time ago I discovered that genealogy is a hobby that can be even more expensive than golf! There's also some postage costs involved, which was much higher for Joan in Canada and Carole in Australia, as compared with mine in the U.S.
I am, by far, the least knowledgeable of this trio when it comes to DNA testing for genealogical purposes. So I have the most to learn. I'll share what I learn as we go through this journey.
Unlike some of the other DNA testing services, 23andMe requires users to spit into the container rather than doing a cheek swab. We are already joking about this being our "spitting contest."
In addition to the potential for making connections with living individuals who share a common ancestor, the results from 23andMe provide information regarding health and disease risk factors and some predictability to one's reaction to certain drugs. As my prescription costs seem to increase with age, and as there are some health issues that run in the family, this makes the test even more valuable to me.
As far as genealogy, no, you don't spit in a cup and automatically have a bunch of family tree charts appear! But it may put you in touch with others who share a similar lineage and provide information regarding your global origins. What little I've seen in television programs about the origins and migratory patterns of humans has fascinated me, so it will be fun to see how I fit in the big picture. I already know that my ancestors are from Ireland, England, Denmark, and Germany - but where else did my ancestors come from?
Related sites and blogs
The DNA Testing Buddies:
Joan Miller's blog - Luxegen Genealogy and Family History
Carole Riley's blog - Carole's Canvas
Kerry Farmer's Family History Research
All of my posts on this topic
Blog roll of our posts and other blogs about DNA testing for genealogy
The Spittoon - blog from 23andMe


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NY Senate passes bills to curb heroin scourge
(AP) -- New York's Republican-led Senate has passed nearly two dozen bills to curb heroin use, including a measure to allow schools to administer a powerful heroin and opiate antidote.
On Monday, the Senate passed 23 of the 25 bills introduced last month following a series of forums held around the state on heroin and opioid use.
"There's one place we shouldn't be lenient and we shouldn't turn our backs," said sponsoring Sen. Jack Martins, a Long Island Republican.
The legislative package seeks to limit prescriptions of opioids for acute pain and allow schools to issue naloxone, an antidote for heroin overdoses. It also creates a statewide heroin awareness program and increases penalties for selling the drug, especially on playgrounds.
Experts say that a crackdown on prescription drugs has pushed addicts to heroin, which is significantly cheaper and easier to obtain. Deaths from heroin overdoses in New York more than doubled from 215 in 2008 to 478 in 2012, according to the state Health Department.
With more than 30 heroin-related bills in the upper chamber from both sides of the aisle, some Democrats are wary that some of the measures simply increase criminal penalties.
Sen. Gustavo Rivera took to the floor to voice his discontent with the way the majority coalition, Republicans who lead the Senate with a faction of independent Democrats, handled some of the legislation.
"It is unfortunate that the majority of these bills go in the opposite way it should be going," the Bronx Democrat said, adding that addiction is not a criminal issue, but a public health one.
Sen. Liz Krueger of Manhattan also criticized some of the legislation saying that increased criminal penalties takes the state back 40 years to the tough, and failed, Rockefeller drug laws.
The bills were delivered to the Democratic-led Assembly who are currently holding their own forums.


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Teen gets life for killing mother
A 17-year-old boy has been imprisoned for life for fatally stabbing his mother ninety-four times.
Live updates
Son jailed for life after murdering his mother
Seventeen-year-old Kieren Smith has been jailed for life for the murder of his mother Leah Whittle. The teenager stabbed his mother 94 times at the home they shared in Weymouth in Dorset in July. Leah Whittle had moved back to the county from Yorkshire with her son after her marriage broke down.
During the eight-day trial the court heard that Smith had lied to police telling them his mother had been killed by drug dealers. The court also heard that the teenager had been expelled from school at the age of 14, and that he had spent the next two years alone in his room watching dvds.
In sentencing Smith to life imprisonment with a minimum tarrif of fifteen years before he becomes eligible for parole, Judge Guy Boney said:
"Your life revolved around watching DVDs alone in your room with an absence of emotional engagement.
"It is from that diet of constant DVDs that your fascination of knives came from. That kind of unhappy & unfulfilling life that you lived must, in fairness, be put against your background, that your parents separated when you were little more than a baby and your family life was almost non-existent.
"I accept that you are not by nature an emotional man, but you have shown not a smidgen of remorse."
Nicholas Haggan QC, who was defending Smith in court said the teenager's motive for the murder was unknown.
The QC said: "It's always difficult to give an explanation and in this particular case it's impossible. One will never know why the defendant did what he did. This is not an ordinary case; we accept it's very unusual for a young man to kill his mother."
Teenager jailed for life after killing his mother
A 17-year-old boy has been imprisoned for life for murdering his mother. Kieren Smith stabbed 42-year-old Leah Whittle 94 times at the flat they shared in Benville Road in Weymouth in Dorset, on 21st July.
Sentencing the teenager at Winchester Crown Court Judge Guy Boney said Smith would have to serve at least 15 years behind bars before being eligible for parole.


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The Smear Campaign Against Larry Lessig And Free Culture
from the getting-nasty dept
Given all of that history, it's still rather amazing to read its newly released report on how the "Free Culture" movement, as explained by Larry Lessig, is really a "quasi-socialist" movement. Reading the full paper, you get a sense of how Washington DC works. It's a pure smear job that takes Lessig quotes out of context for ultimate impact and fills the rest with ad hominem and totally unsupported attacks. I certainly don't agree with everything that Lessig has to say -- and I particularly disagree with some of his policy recommendations. But there's simply no way to read Lessig's work and come to the conclusions in this paper if you are being intellectually honest. You can disagree with his conclusions. You can disagree with his reasoning -- but to paint what he has to say as a celebration of communism or socialism is simply a smear tactic and a political hack attack.
What becomes clear as you read the attack is that the author, Tom Sydnor, simply read through Lessig's works in search of sentences that could be taken out of context in order to paint Lessig as a secret socialist/communist. It's hard to see how that's "scholarship." It's not worth refuting each and every statement here, but we'll give a few simple examples. First, Sydnor claims that Lessig "demonizes" property owners. Actually, Sydnor claims that Lessig "literally demonizes property owners." Unless Lessig is turning property owners into demons, then I'd have to say that Sydnor doesn't understand what "literally" means. But, more to the point, this is a rhetorical trick by Sydnor, which is the basis of nearly his entire paper, where he repeatedly assumes that intellectual property is no different than tangible property. This is a fabrication. There is no reason to ignore the very real differences between the two unless you're trying to unfairly and dishonestly paint someone as supporting something they have not.
While making fun of Lessig (Sydnor snidely accuses Lessig of "name calling" before referring to Lessig as a "hypocritical demagogue" -- kettle, pot, etc.), Sydnor points out that Lessig "analogizes property rights to the pesticide DDT." If you're playing along in the home game, Sydnor is pulling this from page 129 in Lessig's book Free Culture. Lessig's actual point, which is quite valid and interesting is that DDT was originally designed to serve a good purpose, but it was only later that it was realized that it had negative unintended consequences. This isn't "demonizing property rights" as Sydnor implies. It's merely pointing out that even those with the best of intentions (the makers of DDT or the creators of copyright law) may not realize the negative consequences of their actions, and how those negative consequences may outweigh the positive consequences.
"No one set out to destroy the environment. Paul Muller certainly did not aim to harm any birds. But the effort to solve one set of problems produced another set which, in the view of some, was far worse than the problems that were originally attacked. Or more accurately, the problems DDT caused were worse than the problems it solved, at least when considering the other, more environmentally friendly ways to solve the problems that DDT was meant to solve."If someone can explain how that's somehow demonizing property rights, I've got a job for you as a paid shill in DC. Instead, it's making a valid point that isn't demonizing anything -- most certainly not property rights. You can go through the rest of Sydnor's piece, and each and every time you'll notice he does one of two things: he conflates copyright with tangible property or he takes statements out of context to prove his point. He's also not beyond ridiculous hyperbole. In pointing to a rather reasonable quote from Lessig about why we should be interested in seeing if other systems can provide better outcomes, Sydnor brushes off all other systems of copyright by claiming:
"But during the last century, humanity conducted many vast experimental investigations of the relative merits of these "different property systems and the freedoms each allowed." Those experiments were run by well-intended people who sincerely believed that replacing systems of private property with "different systems" would improve the material and spiritual well-being of humanity. During those experiments, millions were murdered and billions were impoverished and enslaved.Hyperbole much, Tom? Sydnor, once again, is equating copyright to tangible property (missing the irony that copyright -- a government granted monopoly -- seems a lot more closely aligned with the centralized governments of the former socialist nations than a system that relies on the free market). He then cuts off any questions about looking for a more reasonable system than copyright (which is a monopoly right, not a property right) by suggesting that any other system leads to "millions murdered" and "billions impoverished and enslaved." It's quite a leap. If there was any left, this paper destroys any credibility on pretty much anything coming out of PFF these days. It's the worst kind of political smear tactic.


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Did Eunice Police Choke A Suspect? (NSFW)
Did a Eunice Police Officer go to far while arresting a suspect?
In a video that's began circulating on Youtube, you can see the suspect denying what he is being arrested for, which clearly makes the officer in question enraged as he grabs the suspect by the throat. (Action in question begins around the 7:52 mark of the video.)
Eunice Police Chief Ronald Dies told KLFY TV-10 that he believes the incident happened sometime last winter and that the evidence gathered will be sent to either the FBI or Louisiana State Police.


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While most of these risks are also associated with vaginal deliveries in general, they''re more likely with a vacuum extraction.
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Possible risks to your baby include:
Serious infant injuries after a vacuum extraction are rare.
Before your health care provider considers a vacuum extraction, he or she might try other ways to encourage labor to progress. For example, he or she might adjust your anesthesia to encourage more effective pushing. To stimulate stronger contractions, another option might be intravenous medication — typically a synthetic version of the hormone oxytocin (Pitocin).
If vacuum extraction seems to be the best option, your health care provider will explain the risks and benefits of the procedure and ask for your consent.
If you haven''t already been given a regional anesthetic, your health care provider might give you an epidural or a spinal anesthetic. A member of your medical team will place a catheter in your bladder to empty it of urine. Your health care provider might also make an incision in the tissue between your vagina and your anus (episiotomy) to help ease the delivery of your baby.
During a vacuum extraction, you''ll lie on your back with your legs spread apart. You might be asked to grip handles on each side of the delivery table to brace yourself while pushing.
Your health care provider will insert the vacuum cup into your vagina, place the cup against the baby''s head and check to make sure no vaginal tissues are trapped between the cup and the baby''s head. Then your health care provider will use the vacuum pump to create suction.
During the next contraction, your health care provider will rapidly increase the vacuum suction pressure, grasp the cup''s handle and try to guide the baby through the birth canal while you push. Between contractions, your health care provider might maintain or reduce the suction pressure.
After your baby''s head is delivered, your health care provider will release the suction and remove the cup.
Vacuum extractions aren''t always successful. If your health care provider isn''t able to achieve suction, he or she might use forceps — an instrument shaped like a pair of large spoons or salad tongs — to help guide the baby out of the birth canal, or opt for a C-section.
If your health care provider achieves suction with the vacuum and the cup accidentally detaches two to three times, or the baby doesn''t move when the vacuum is used, a C-section is likely the best option.
After delivery, your health care provider will examine you for any injuries that might have been caused by the vacuum. Any tears or incisions will be repaired.
Your baby will also be monitored for signs of complications that can be caused by a vacuum extraction.
In the meantime, you can help promote healing:
While you''re healing, expect the discomfort to progressively improve. Contact your health care provider if the pain gets worse, you develop a fever or you notice a pus-like discharge.
Pregnancy and birth stretch the connective tissue at the base of the bladder and can cause nerve and muscle damage to the bladder or urethra. You might leak urine when you cough, strain or laugh. Fortunately, this problem usually improves within three months. In the meantime, wear sanitary pads and do Kegel exercises to help tone your pelvic floor muscles.
To do Kegels, tighten your pelvic muscles as if you''re stopping your stream of urine. Try it for five seconds at a time, four or five times in a row. Work up to keeping the muscles contracted for 10 seconds at a time, relaxing for 10 seconds between contractions. Aim for at least three sets of 10 repetitions a day.
If fear of pain leaves you avoiding bowel movements, take steps to keep your stools soft and regular. Eat foods high in fiber — including fruits, vegetables and whole grains — and drink plenty of water. It''s also helpful to remain as physically active as possible. Ask your health care provider about a stool softener or fiber laxative, if needed.
If you''re unable to control your bowel movements (fecal incontinence), frequent Kegel exercises might help. If you have persistent trouble controlling bowel movements, consult your health care provider.


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Alright, so a couple of days ago I was talking to a friend of mine in class. And we began to talk about religion. Now I'm far from the kind of person that likes to showcase my views on things, But I told him I was an Atheist. He Actually didn't believe me at first, and said that people have to take a oath to become an atheist. We literally argued about this for 5 whole minutes before I finally said lets go to an computer and get google the definition. after I showed him what atheism actually is, He still retained doubt. I just said forget it, and ended the conversation on it there.
What I'm asking is how long will people remain that ignorant on atheism. It's not like he's dumb when it comes to other topics. He says He's a christian and he never even read the bible. And when I told him and another friend I read it They Laughed. Oh yeah and I forgot to mention one of the guys laughing has a tattoo that says "blessed" on his chest. And he never read the bible. That's just stupid to me, But I kinda want to know what other people think about this.
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Tom Sarbeck was kind enough to respond to my question (above) privately, rather than "embarrass me publicly," and while I appreciate his discretion, I don't feel I require the additional protection.
Tom Sarbeck has sent you a message on Think Atheist
Subject: American profit takers being destroyed
archaeopteryx, I'm feeling no need to embarrass you so I'll answer privately.
Your remarks about profit takers have persuaded me that you know little of sociopathy or psychopathy, both of which have recently been renamed to antisocial personality disorder. Do some web searching on those terms. In short, people with those illnesses lack empathy. Those who are not in prisons or mental hospitals can do very well in either business or politics.
What Tom fails to realize is that I have a background in psychology and am quite familiar with both the terms sociopathy and psychopathy, and hardly require the use of Wikipedia to refresh my memory. The one thing that Tom neglected to do, was answer my question.
Tom, you justified the use of the atomic bomb on both the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, vaporizing untold thousands of women, children and the elderly, who took no active part in WWII, yet whose vaporized corpses joined with Earth's atmosphere, where doubtless, everyone on earth likely managed a breath or two of their essences. This, despite the fact that surrender talks were underway and there was no actual need to drop either bomb, except to show the world what our military capabilities were. Tom maintained that this action on our part, was necessary to, "guarantee that those who profit from war will be destroyed."
My question, however - the one that went unanswered - was who will guarentee that American arms manufacturers, who profited greatly in all wars from the Korean "Police Action," the "Conflict" in Viet Nam, and both of our incursions into Iraq, be punished? American arms manufacturers have made a veritable fortune supplying our forces with arms. They have further supplied arms to other conflicts around the world that did not directly involve the US. This group has a huge lobbying camp in Washington, and have even been rumored to have instigated conflicts in various world locations, in order to open a market for their arms.
My question was that if vaporization was a fitting punishment for Japanese arms manufacturers, how are these American arms manufacturers punished?
A Cliff Notes course in basic Psychology is not likely to answer that question, but if I ever need one, I'll know who to ask. And for the next time, Tom - I don't embarrass that easily --
Alright, archaeopteryx, let's do it publicly.
You appear to not know, or you consider it unimportant, that in March of 1945, a one-night firebombing raid on Tokyo burned to death or suffocated thousands more people than the atom bomb instantly vaporized in Hiroshima.
Can you be claiming that death by "vaporization" is more painful than death by burning, by inhaling air so hot that it burns every body tissue it touches, or by suffocation?
Despite a background in psychology, do you think for a moment that your use of guilt will persuade the world's decision makers to destroy their nuclear weapons? They understand human nature better than you.
If you had been thinking clearly, you wouldn't have asked about American arms manufacturers. Until you think more clearly, you will remain stuck in the past. I won't join you there.
RE: "in March of 1945, a one-night firebombing raid on Tokyo burned to death or suffocated thousands more people than the atom bomb instantly vaporized in Hiroshima."
I would have to see substantiated statistics on that claim before I could even consider accepting it, much less respond to it.
But it's good to see that you've elected yourself the judge of thinking clearly.
Bombing of Tokyo (Wikipedia)
"The US Strategic Bombing Survey later estimated that nearly 88,000 people died in this one raid, 41,000 were injured, and over a million residents lost their homes. The Tokyo Fire Department estimated a higher toll: 97,000 killed and 125,000 wounded."
"In Hiroshima 140,000 were killed and Nagasaki 80,000. Many later died due to radiation poisoning and injuries sustained from the actual bombing."
"a one-night firebombing raid on Tokyo burned to death or suffocated thousands more people than the atom bomb instantly vaporized in Hiroshima."
I'm not seeing those "thousands."
Thank you. I'd seen earlier estimates of immediate deaths by fire in Tokyo and by immediate vaporization in Hiroshima.
Elected myself? I'll have you know it's an hereditary position.
You're now more concerned with numbers than with being vaporized?
RE: "Elected myself? I'll have you know it's an hereditary position."
Well played!
RE: "You're now more concerned with numbers than with being vaporized?"
Since those vaporized are beyond my capacity to assist, I'm more concerned with the accuracy of your statements.
Hi Tom,
I realise you were in the armed forces and during active combat at that, so I couldn't possibly know how it must have felt. That might give rise to a justifiable degree of military patriotism and perhaps American arms manufacturers might fall within that purview.
But putting that aside for one moment, American arms manufacturers have also been making arms and delivering them, with the help of the Government, to non-American buyers, in foreign countries. The UK does it too, albeit to a much lesser extent.
This is simply wrong. This is profiteering from war, in a non-patriotic way, for the sole purpose of monetary gain, and as such is a stain on arms manufacturers from both our countries.
Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or more than three-quarters of the global arms market, valued at $85.3 billion in 2011. Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals.
This is the profit that needs explaining, not the money spent on financing and equipping the military for your own country's activities.
Your link explains it. Saudi Arabia being the largest purchaser. Iran makes them nervous I suppose.
The important question being do we have a right or obligation to sell armament to those who don't necessarily practice our own form of government but do support us regionally? The politics of war and flexing your muscle is expensive and not very appetizing.
What happens when the ally that you arm today, becomes someone else's ally tomorrow? Unfortunately modern arms are likely to outlast transient government's treaties.
@Strega - we already know what happens.
We instigated a war between the Iraqis and the Iranians because we were pissed that Iran booted our buddy, the Shah, and armed the Iraqis, which very arms and military strategies they used against us in both Bushies' Iraqi conflicts.


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Rosie, who has a very lovely (and drool inducing!) site called Rosiebakesapeaceofcake has tagged me for a Six Word memoir. So here goes....drum roll please:
Was born...ate lots of cake
1. Write your own six-word memoir.
2. Post it on your blog (and include a visual illustration if you'd like).
3. Link to the person who tagged you in your post.
4. Tag five more blogs with links.
5. Remember to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.
I'm tagging to participate in this meme:
Ling, of Ling's Passion
Jessie, of Cakespy
Courtney, of Coco Cooks
Blog princess, of Food Film Fiction
Mike, of Mike's Table
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
I've been tagged for a six word memoir!
Posted by The Caked Crusader at 20:13
2 comments:
- Rosie said...
LOL Oh my that is a great answer - Was born...ate lots of cake hahahaha.... Me too!! :D
Thanks for taking part :)
Rosie x
- 10 April 2008 at 10:31
- Mike of Mike's Table said...
lol, very succinct
- 10 April 2008 at 18:00
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Artopia: December 2007 Archives
As Far As The Mind Can See
While sauntering through the fourth floor of the Whitney ("Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE," 945 Madison Avenue, through February 10), I was jotting down words in my notebook. The person I was with said: I can tell which ones you like by where you stop and write down the titles. You like the early pieces that involve something physical.
My favorite: A 36" x 36" removal to the lathing of support wall or plaster or wallboard from a wall (1968); closely followed by A wall cratered by a single shot-gun blast (1968).
Here is Weiner's 1969 "Statement of Intent":
1. The artist may construct the work.
2. The work may be fabricated.
3. The work need not be built.
Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.
Although this loaded statement now seems like a Condition of Sale decree, at the time it was almost a call to arms, both extending Minimalism into contradictory anticapitalist realms and criticizing art's market profile. Or so it seemed to me.
Now it looks like just another avant-garde test or tweak. Nevertheless, by no account is Weiner considered a raving commercial success. I will give him that. But works are for sale, works are sold. I am not sure there is much of an auction record yet, but at least the adventurous collector can sport a green badge of courage.
Most of the art in the current retrospective consists of Statements, artworks that are manifested only as words. The words can be on manhole covers, as in front of the Whitney (IN DIRECT LINE WITH ANOTHER & THE NEXT, 2000), across the top of the Whitney building (AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE, in yellow letters outlined in red), or the untitled take-what-you-want pad (1970), credited to the collection of H. & N. Daled, that offers, on separate oracular sheets: RIGHT OF CENTER; MIDDLE OF THE ROAD; AND LEFT OF CENTER.
Most of the art surveyed, however, consists of words stuck to walls, e.g. FERMENTED, WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE. AT SOME GREEN TIME. TO THE EXTENT OF HOW DEEP THE VALLEY IS AT SOME GIVEN TIME. A GLACIER VANDALIZED.....
There are too many words, too many artworks on each wall, in too many colors, in too many sizes of type.
We love words, but we like them naked.
I left thinking that the exhibition should have taken up all floors of the Whitney. The words and sentences could have been allowed to breathe; the instructions would have had space to grow in your imagination. The words do not have to be deployed at angles, in color. They can speak for themselves. As I left I couldn't help imagining the same words -- which singly can be very effective -- in some vast Dia-like display; one piece to a wall.
Since I am a poet (as well as critic, artist, etc.) I am attracted to words. I like the way they look, sound, feel, along with how they mean various things. Words are not immaterial. Contrary to the long-forgotten cultic language therapy of General Semantics, words are things.
Weiner is not a poet. He actually thinks he is saying something with his words: that art need not be any more material then letters on a wall. He is right, of course, because art is not what it is materially, but what it does.
How do Weiner's words relate to Aram Saroyan's severely reductive, one-word poems of the 1960s? These were recently reprinted by Ugly Duckling Press, in their Lost Literature Series, as Aram Saroyan: Complete Minimal Poems. One reviewer was enthusiastic about the 12 minutes of reading time this 280 pager requires. Some will prefer the trickier poems, like the National Endowment Award-winning "lighght." But I prefer the severity of "Shakespeare!" "guarantee," "Judd..." (!), and "oxygen." Saroyan once published a "book" of poetry that was all empty pages and took the form of a ream of blank typewriter paper.
Words in art are not an issue. There are sometimes words in Cubist paintings, in the early work of Marsden Hartley, and certainly in Stuart Davis. And then in Pop Art too, when the comics are appropriated, as in early Warhol and all of Roy Lichtenstein.
Words as art is something else. Weiner's instruction pieces are not a problem, because there is something physical that completes the picture: a hole in the wall, a stain on the floor. My solution to the problems posed by the wallworks is that Weiner's words are not in themselves the artworks; instead they are instructions or hints meant to stimulate various kinds of mental activities, some of them quite abstract.
The obverse universe is made of poems that are not printed out, but are spoken from a score or, in the case of my own "whisper poem," according to an instruction: for instance, "Whisper the following into someone's ear or into the ears of many different people, one at a time, at a gathering of any kind, the phrase: no one is drowning in the beautiful lake." I performed this in 1967 at a poetry event (Michael Benedikt, John Giorno, and myself) in the chapel of the former orphanage that was then Robert Rauschenberg's New York studio.
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Kara Walker at the Whitney too is also worth seeing, for a different kind of politics -- more overt. Walker continues to address racism and sexism through silhouettes that are blunt and sometimes lewd, befitting the subject matter. My only criticism is that by ironically exploiting the Victorian and extremely ladylike silhouette tradition - exploding it with irony, as it were --- Walker is more or less locked into cliché images of the Deep South. We do not take this to mean that racism existed only in 19th-century Mississippi, Alabama, etc., but one now begins to wonder if the silhouette leaves the North and the present too much off the hook. Agitprop does not work by implication.
The Building Is New, But Is the Art?
Yes, I have visited the New Museum's new Sejima and Nishizawa building in the Lower East Side (235 The Bowery at Prince). The building is as striking as its photographs: irregularly stacked "cubes" of different sizes. The insides are yet to be proved. The narrow and I assume heavily U.V. protected, sliver-like skylights on each floor are unnecessary. They do not abate the claustrophobia inherent in the closed, or nearly closed, rooms. In fact, they only tantalize. They remind you that you are in fact in a closed space. We do not like the fluorescent lighting at all. If they do not flicker perceptibly now, they will. And in any case, it's a bit like being in the Whole Foods basement on Union Square. (There is fluorescent lighting there, too.) The difference at the New Museum is that the food has been removed.
And the exhibition? There are some outstanding works here and there in "Unmonumental," but the universal scale - taller than persons, but not by much; or smaller -- and the casual jumble of materials wears everything down. The exhibition looks like a solo retrospective of an artist who has looked too long (but not hard enough) at Rauschenberg's combines and loosened up the components to no particularly effect. But, to be fair, I will take another look when collages and sound installations are added to the mix.
I cannot really judge yet how the three cubic galleries are going to work. How will paintings look? Will there be false walls here and there? Right now the spaces seem to drain the art of energy, but that may be just a trick of inflated expectations. Later, in terms of programming, we will find out if we need an art venue that will be to the New Museum what the New Museum once was to the Whitney.
The Worst of Hirst
Finally, to end on a cheerful note. This is what naysayers have been waiting for: a truly wretched showing by Damien Hirst, now probably one of the world's richest artists. At Lever House on Park Avenue at East 54th (one of the icons of modernist architecture in Manhattan) is a commission by the Lever House Art Collection called School: The Archeology of Lost Desires, Comprehending Infinity, and the Search for Knowledge. Love the title; hate the installation.
Dead lambs (and a lone shark) in separate tanks of formaldehyde are hooked up to "intravenous tubes" in front of "the teacher" in the form of a 12-foot tank, containing two sides of beef but also, alas, an umbrella, a birdcage with a dove, and an armchair.
First question in our art-student quiz: which two artist is Hirst referring too? Which one is associated with sides of beef? And which artists with the objects? Essay question for extra credit: Why is Hirst referring to these artists at all?
School is on display in the glass-enclosed Lever House ground-floor space just beyond the open court that sports Hirst's monumental sculpture The Virgin Mother (based on a fetus-revealing medical model), which I think is "sensationally" good, as is his $8 million signature pickled shark titled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), now on display at the Metropolitan Museum for three years. School also includes a big sampling of Hirst's undistinguished medicine cabinets filled with drug packaging, placed around the periphery of the tanked-up "schoolroom." All the display lacks are his bad spin paintings and his equally uninspired dot paintings. The slaughtered lambs by themselves - sans shark, sans teacher-tank - would have resulted in a stronger installation. We remain confident that art history will weed out these lesser efforts along with the medicine cases. Actually, we are hopeful, but not confident.
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Right of Spring
Drawing on a wide range of source material for movement and gestures -- from the BBC's dramatization Riot at the Rite, to Sarah Bernhardt, Robin Williams, Groucho Marx, and Yvonne Rainer -- this dance attempts to invoke the passion and furor that accompanied the premiere of the original at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, May 29, 1913. -- 'RoS Indexical' program notes
Yvonne Rainer's new dance piece, RoS Indexical --- RoS is short for Rite of Spring --- was at the Hudson Theater on West 44th Street in the heart of the Theater District for two performances, Nov. 18 and 19. It was jointly commissioned by Performa 07, the Second Biennial of Visual Art Performance, and Documenta 12.
Rainer is a dance icon who in the early '70s gave up dancing and choreography to make feminist films. She is now back.
My balcony perch afforded an excellent view of the stage floor. I had what was once called the king's seat and would be easily able to see the floor patterns of the dance --- important in the Baroque era --- and the orchestra audience. The latter is always important to take in so you can count bald heads and what in Florida are disparagingly called Q-tips by the born-theres to get an estimated demographic.
To my right were ballerinas. I could tell because they were lovely and just a bit too thin. And on my left was another, younger ballerina, sitting between Mom and Dad. An Artopia orchestra plant later told me that he and his boyfriend had been surrounded by ballerinas and their grandparents, none of whom --- derived from overheard chit-chat --- seemed to have a clue who Rainer was.
Because of the ratio of ballerinas to Q-tips, I'd say the average age was 32, the same as for a movie at the Sunshine Theater on Houston Street; too young for Broadway, and positively infantile compared to the Metropolitan or City Center operas or any symphony orchestra concert.
From my king's seat I spied the bespectacled Rainer "mingling" or, rather, receiving. I cannot swear there were curtsies from her fans, but there was certainly a lot of air-kissing. A few dance critics were recognized by Artopia, and I myself spotted avant-garde film critic Amy Taubin and John Erdman, who performed in Rainer's 1973 This Is the Story of a Woman Who... And Nan Goldin or Lynne Tillman? I had forgotten to bring my binoculars.
A card table and four folding chairs are at stage right. There are headsets on the table, although from my balcony seat this was not clear until the four women performers in colorfully layered gym gear enter and sit at the table -- and the headsets on. They hum to the beginning section of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, mimicking the sounds coming through their earphones (which we do not hear). They are at first rather out of tune.
Your Artopian spy, yours truly, recognizes the music because as a teenager Rite was one of his favorites -- and not only because, played at full volume, it drove his parents nuts. Vying for first place against Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #5, even he knew Rite was a rite of passage.
At stage left rear is an overstuffed sofa. The music now blares from the theater's sound system. I remember the sounds. Part of liking Rite was the story of the riot in the theater in Paris at its and the knowledge that Vaslav Nijinsky had done the choreography. We permanently carry around in our head the album-cover illustration to Debussy's Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun. Loony Nijinsky, impresario Sergei Diaghilev's peasant-souled inamorato, choreographed that one too. Nijinsky as a faun; Nijinsky with hoofs. Better that than silly Petrouchka Nijinsky.
The four women stomp in unison; do pow-wow motions with elbows up. Throughout there is a lot of elbow action, I'd guess quoting photos and other documentation of Nijinsky's attempt to be "primitive." But since this is Rainer's Rite, Rainer's Nijinsky, there are ordinary movements: fallings, walkings, sittings and going here and there from place to place, but sometimes in time to the pounding music. Occasionally, all four dancer move in unison too. I do not remember in-unison group movements or movements cued by or in time to music in Rainer's now legendary The Mind Is a Muscle, which I saw at the Anderson Theater in the East Village in 1968. The Mind was a brilliant summation of what Rainer had done before at Judson Church, as one of the stars of that peak of dance creativity in New York, in America and in the world.
Suddenly the soundtrack of RoS includes illusionary catcalls from the audience: I paid my money for this? This is an outrage; this is garbage. Or words to that effect. The houselights come on once or twice to remind us of the physicality of place. This is New York, not Paris. The people sitting around us are sitting there like sheep, dance sheep.
The dancers remove their sneakers and move about in tissue-box shoes. Black banners inscribed in white with words on both sides, descend from the stage rafters and hang above the dancers who are oblivious to them...SAVAGE...DECAY...WHO? ME?...IF NOT NOW...AARGH...One rectangle turning in the air said LUNCH on one side, SUFFER on the other. One slowly turned from DECAY to LAPSED. The dancers below may be the speakers or thinkers of these words, but they appear to be unaware of them -- as "unaware" as the onstage audience in a production of Gioachino Rossini's Oedipal Semiramide I once saw in Berlin. A ceiling of roses slowly descended, apparently crushing the onstage "audience," which the opera made clear they surely deserved. Nothing so operatic here. The words above, unlike the roses, stay where they belong.
At one point, plants in the audience, two of them in folkloric Russian costumes, storm the stage in protest and actually carry off one of the dancers. Never fear, she returns, no worse for wear.
And the music? Nowadays, alas, it is hard not to think of Disney's Fantasia, in which the once-shocking Rite of Spring is conducted by Leopold Stokowski, the pounding dissonance cueing a battle of cartoon dinosaurs. Walt Disney has a lot to answer for; but for this sin alone he is from now on permanently banned from Artopia.
Rainer's new stage piece allows us to hear Stravinsky again. That in itself is a miracle. Our ears are cleaned out; we no longer have to deal with the bad stuff, the conservative music he wrote later in his career. And we can finally bury Walt's dinosaurs. (Now if we could only do something about Julie Taymor's desecration of The Magic Flute.)
And then later we think, as if talking to Edwin Denby (who was the best dance critic ever), one thing dance does is help us see music. It doesn't illustrate music, it makes it visible.
I have been reading poet Charles Baudelaire's rare "novella" La Fanfarlo, serendipitously found two days ago while scouring the thrift shop of The Ladies Village Improvement Society of East Hampton.
In La Fanfarlo, the antihero's beautiful mistress is a dancer, perhaps to allow Baudelaire, the art critic who championed Delacroix and Manet, to offer some of his thoughts on that form:
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. It is matter, graceful and terrible, animated and embellished by movement.Dancing is poetry with arms and legs!
And, in the case of Rainer, it is poetry with a brain. Dancing can also be a critique. Dance can be analytical and ironic.
A Call to Arms (and Legs)
Rainer must choreograph more dances. Her choreography will allow us to share her mind, her theatricality, and her pitch-perfect negotiation of meaning and dead-cold formality, all anchored in the way we move. After George Balanchine there was Merce Cunningham; after Cunningham there is still only Rainer.
The irony here is that the audience for Rainer's RoS was so passive, unlike those Parisians so long ago who instinctively knew that their world had ended. Here is Rainer playing with a sacred piece of modern music, playing with modernism, showing us dancers in sneakers, elbows ever up, making fun of Nijinsky's probably very silly choreography. Here is Rainer in the act of joyfully and with a light hand deconstructing an acknowledged masterpiece, a musical benchmark, In the process she gets at exactly why it is a benchmark. And we are stunned.
Dance, of course, has been on the back burner for nearly 40 years. Proto-Artopians used to go to dance concerts, as well as underground films and gallery openings. Denby, long after he had stopped writing, taught two or three generations of artists and poets (including his downstairs neighbor Willem de Kooning and poet Frank O'Hara, who worked at MoMA) how to look at dance, simply by inviting them as his guests. Well, not exactly "simply." One knew his eyes were peeled; he was on dance alert.
I remember the elderly Denby (he, yes, had been a comic dancer in the Weimar Republic) once leaning over and whispering, "Watch her come on stage from our left. She will be invisible until she hits the center at the rear." He was right. Suddenly, as one of Balanchine's best, she was dance personified, she was bigger than life. She had become her own spotlight. And she wasn't even pretending to be a princess or a dying swan.
Why would anyone interested in art want to see Mark Morris, as amusing as he can sometimes be? Or the depressing, overwrought Pina Bausch?
Shall I entertain you with my theories about why dance lost its edge? It is not that certain minor postmodernist choreographers were seduced by Broadway, or that everyone got worn out or disillusioned or simply too old to dance and knock about; or that some dancers began to think they were philosophers. Some of them are.
No, dance critics are largely to blame. A few really, really bad, boring critics with tin eyes in key positions can kill a world.
For RoS, Deborah Jowitt in the Village Voice gave out one of her patented, almost purely descriptive, reviews. Hey, Deborah, what is Rainer's place in dance now? Is RoS worth seeing? Well, at least this piece isn't poisonous, like the trashing dished out by the untalented N.Y. Times dance critic Claudia La Rocco. She calls what I saw as constantly engaging "a thoroughly dispiriting evening" and an "ill-conceived encounter with dance mythology." She also claims that "the rules of engagement have changed radically since Ms. Rainer --- once at the forefront of change --- left dance."
The rules of engagement have changed? Really! The rules of engagement have disappeared, thanks to conservatives like La Rocco. A review such as this proves that Rainer is still on the edge.
La Rocco is obviously not the new Jill Johnston we sorely need. Without Johnston's constant attention to Judson Church dance in the Voice during its heyday, it is doubtful that post-Cunningham dance would have thrived. Nor does it look like our new Johnston, whomever she or he is, will make it into the now largely unread Village Voice. But, please, when can the Times lead critic, Alastair Macaulay, who is excellent when he describes the details of a Balanchine dance like Agon, try something more adventurous?
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For American leadership, these crises were not directly linked. But the Chinese saw them in a different light. As he sought to influence global events, Mao Zedong viewed developments such as the establishment of U.S. military bases in Taiwan and elsewhere through the lens of strategy. As he put it, fixed overseas facilities are indeed "nooses" that often hamper more than they help.
But investing in ships creates a different dynamic than building bases on foreign soil. Sea-based forces are immune to the political noose. Naval forces enable U.S. national-security flexibility in the face of dynamic geopolitical and technical change. The Fleet can be shifted around the globe—rapidly in crisis or methodically during strategic developments. Operating on the high seas, the President doesn't have to ask permission of another country before ordering naval forces to take action. Ships have proved adaptable to technical and operational requirements that change over time. Aircraft carriers, the preeminent Navy capital investment, are true mobile bases. Their flexibility allows them to slip the noose while supporting multiple generations of aircraft and adapting to a wide range of missions throughout their 50-year lifetime.
Additionally, unlike pouring concrete overseas, building ships creates economic and technical dynamism within our nation. According to the Department of Commerce, every $1 million spent on shipbuilding creates 18 direct and indirect years of employment. Putting our capital-investment resources into ships for the Navy rather than temporary bases overseas could employ tens of thousands of Americans. This would strengthen the shipbuilding industrial base, which remains one of largest manufacturing chains in the nation that has not been outsourced to China. Investing in ships strengthens this industry and allows shipbuilders to flexibly support other arenas, such as key engineering requirements for energy infrastructure.
Perhaps pouring concrete was appropriate during the Cold War, but today, we must be able to adapt to rapid changes. The nation is at an inflection point where reassessing paths of doing business is not only possible, it is necessary. Our national requirements drive the simple conclusion that we must loosen the noose. The United States should be very judicious in pouring concrete overseas and focus on building reusable U.S. Navy platforms in our shipyards.


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Mr. Speaker, I rise today with respect to the point of order that was raised by the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands a number of days ago. We have heard from the Liberal Party and the government. New Democrats want to add our voice to the conversation in, hopefully, a timely and brief manner.
I rise in support of the motion by the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands with respect to her concerns and the concerns shared by many of us in this place about the manner in which the government has moved Bill C-38, the omnibus budget implementation act. My friend made a number of points. Some of them, we would suggest, are stronger than others for your purview, Mr. Speaker, but on the central theme we find ourselves in agreement.
On many of the concerns that were raised, you have heard from the official opposition New Democrats throughout question period, public commentary and in conversations in the House with you, Mr. Speaker, on the nature and form of the bill and the concerns we share with Canadians of its effect on members of Parliament to do our jobs. This is why I appeal to you directly, Mr. Speaker, in the decision that you have to make because, ultimately, it is your choice in the way we conduct ourselves as members of Parliament and the House conducts itself.
Let me take care of one point right away that the government has raised as a measure of defence of the process that we are engaged in with this more than 400-page budget implementation act, extending over more than 700 clauses, affecting as many as 70 acts of Parliament, either revoking them entirely or modifying them significantly. We have never seen the scale and scope of a bill like this before in parliamentary history, from our purview and the purview of experts who have watched this place over many years. Therefore, let us do away with the idea that the government believes that having a number of hours of debate either here or in committee has somehow satisfied the test that Canadians and parliamentarians understand what is in this act. That is, frankly, not the case. It is almost impossible to understand all of the implications that have been brought in with this act because the government is withholding certain pieces of information, which we will bring to your attention in days to come.
The first point that the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands raised was around the fact that there is no central theme to the bill, thereby making it inadmissible or detrimental to Parliament and parliamentary democracy.
The second point raised was that there was little or no link between the budget itself and what the government has called the budget implementation act. In passing conversation with somebody not as familiar with this place as members are, a Canadian would assume that a budget implementation act would be explicitly linked to the budget by its name and form. Yet we find within the budget implementation act many pieces of government policy that are never mentioned at all in the budget. One example is the removal of Canada from the Kyoto protocol. There is no mention of this in the budget whatsoever, no mention of any aspect of climate change policy or anything to do with that particular act of Parliament, and yet in the budget implementation act there are a couple of lines that remove Canada from that international treaty.
Aside from concerns about whether one agrees or disagrees with the government's intentions with respect to climate change and its lack of actions, the point has to be made that if a government is introducing a budget implementation act with all sorts of measures that have nothing to do with the budget itself, it becomes a budget act in name only. In the actual function, the government is piling in a number of initiatives, policies and new directions for the government that should stand alone and independent for discussion by MPs and the Canadian public.
The intervention by my friend in the corner suggests that for members of Parliament to be able to do our jobs, we need to be able, in good conscience, to hold government to account. Her third point was that the bill is not ready and imperfect and she made a number of interventions on that, which I will not touch on too much.
To your role in this, Mr. Speaker. Ultimately you are the arbitrator of this place and the defender of our privileges and efforts as members of Parliament to do what Canadians send us to Parliament to do, which is to hold government to account. That is not simply the role of opposition members. So too is it the role of government members in this place. They too are encumbered with the effort to hold government to account at all times.
If we remember parliamentary history, there was a time in this country that, when MPs were elected and then needed to be placed in cabinet, they actually had to run in a byelection because their role had fundamentally changed to one in which they were defending the government's policy, that is in cabinet, as opposed to sitting as a member of Parliament regardless of party affiliation. That role is fundamentally different.
The concern that we have is twofold. We have seen a trend of increasing cynicism from Canadians towards politics in general and towards this—


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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- This time last year, the Toronto Blue Jays were looking forward to getting measured for 2013 World Series rings. The problem was they gagged on the lofty predictions, finishing last in the rugged American League East. Boston won the division and the World Series.
The Philadelphia Phillies, after winning the National League East five consecutive summers, came up short in 2012 and opened 2013's Spring Training determined to prove that the prior season was a mere aberration.
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- This time last year, the Toronto Blue Jays were looking forward to getting measured for 2013 World Series rings. The problem was they gagged on the lofty predictions, finishing last in the rugged American League East. Boston won the division and the World Series.
The Philadelphia Phillies, after winning the National League East five consecutive summers, came up short in 2012 and opened 2013's Spring Training determined to prove that the prior season was a mere aberration.
It wasn't. Philadelphia tumbled to 73-89, its first losing season since 2002, and along the way, the team's performance cost manager Charlie Manuel his job. He was replaced by Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg on Aug. 16.
Wednesday, under threatening skies at Bright House Field, those two teams began what they hope will be the road back to respectability, if not contention, in their respective divisions.
The Blue Jays, with virtually the same lineup manager John Gibbons used much of 2013, defeated the Phillies, 4-3, in the Grapefruit League opener that was called after 6 1/2 innings because of rain.
As beginnings go, there was a glimmer of hope for both teams.
Of note:
• Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista, who finished the last two seasons on the disabled list, blasted a mammoth home run off Roberto Hernandez in the first inning that sailed out of the ballpark over the left-field seats. Bautista led the Majors in homers two consecutive seasons in 2010-11.
An injured left wrist slowed him in 2012, and last season, it was a bruised left hip; he didn't play after Aug. 20.
Indications are Bautista is back.
"It felt pretty good, I can't deny that," said Bautista, who also walked and scored two runs. "More importantly, I felt like I was seeing the ball great. It didn't really feel like I haven't been playing for awhile. So that's a positive."
• With runners on first and second and one out, Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard ripped left-hander J.A. Happ's first pitch to center field for a single to pull the Phils even.
Yes, that was against lefty Happ, a nice start for Howard, who's determined not only to come back strong from his last two injury-plagued seasons, but also to improve his at-bats against left-handers.
Howard has shed some pounds, appears in great shape, and for the first time in well over two seasons, he is healthy.
As goes Howard, so go the Phillies.
Of the 30 Major League teams, only the Yankees are older than the Phillies. Age is a major concern, but if their core players -- Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins and Carlos Ruiz -- can push the calendar aside and remain healthy, the Phils could be much better than preseason forecasts.
"I look around at the potential of our lineup, I look at the potential of our bench guys, the potential of our starting pitching and our bullpen, and I like what I see," said Sandberg. "Mix in some of the younger guys and, to me, that youth brings energy. Along with our experienced players, all in all, I like our team."
Sandberg's Wednesday lineup could be the same when the Phillies open the season on March 31 against the Texas Rangers in Arlington.
It has frequently been asked whether it's time to rebuild in Philadelphia, especially with an aging team.
To that, Phils president Dave Montgomery said: "We're not going to blow this whole thing up. We have a commitment to our fans and our players."
Montgomery mentioned third baseman Cody Asche and center fielder Ben Revere as youngsters, plus several relief pitchers, as changing, somewhat, the face of the team.
"I came in here to create a structure, that's my style," Sandberg said before Wednesday's game. "We have a full clubhouse gathering 15 minutes before we take the field for stretching. That's my time with the players to get everyone's head on straight before we take the field, to get everyone on the same page before that game. We'll do that the whole spring."
To the new manager, communication with the players is extremely important.
"I want to let them know how I'm feeling," Sandberg said. "Communication is No. 1, and structure No. 2. I want the players to play at the top of their abilities, and also be allowed to show their abilities and utilize their skills."
The Blue Jays were the talk of baseball between the end of the 2012 season and the beginning of the '13 campaign. No club made more significant moves. They added NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey and All-Star shortstop Jose Reyes, along with outfielder Melky Cabrera and pitcher Mark Buehrle.
They were 10-17 in April, and Reyes sprained his left ankle and was lost for 10 weeks. With all the new parts, the Blue Jays never jelled. A myriad of problems beset the starting rotation.
Eyebrows were raised in Toronto when GM Alex Anthopoulos did little to change the makeup of the team -- no major trades, no big free-agent signings this past offseason. It was mostly stand pat.
"Sometimes you sit there and say, 'We won 74 games, when everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong,' " Anthopoulos told ESPN.com. "So this year, what happens if we just have a little bit of luck?
"I can understand the skepticism about our team, absolutely, coming off the year we're coming off. But I just don't think it's a stretch to expect improvement out of a lot of these guys this year, simply because the floor was so low."
Former player and veteran Toronto broadcaster Buck Martinez is convinced there were so many new parts in 2013, including manager Gibbons, the Blue Jays were never grounded.
"I know you hear this, but no team was hurt more by the [World Baseball Classic]," said Martinez. "The third baseman, the shortstop, the first baseman and Dickey were all gone for the [Classic] during Spring Training. This was a time when they needed to be together and get to know each other."
A year ago, the Blue Jays lost five of their first seven games. This season, their first seven games are against the Rays and Yankees, teams expected to battle for the division crown. They'll know in a hurry just how good they can be.
And it won't take much longer for the Phillies to find out if their aging players can regain their youth.
Hal Bodley is the senior correspondent for MLB.com.


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It isn't healthy to run for office as an atheist. You would lose the religious vote.
You are correct. Those laws are unconstitutional. They are still on the books, though. True enforcement would be difficult, to say the least. Still, it's a statement of the prevalent attitude in those places.
How many atheists do you think are serving in any elected offices in those states> Or nationally, for that matter. Last I heard, the national count was exactly - one.
I suspect there are many more but they now to openly declare to be atheist is political suicide, just as being black or gay was inn earlier times.
These State laws have been declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in the 1961 case of Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488. The State's just haven't gotten around to taking them off the books. But, it's illegal to enforce them.
Why would I n ot be serious? I do wish it were not true, but there t is.
You cannot be serious?!
No taxation without equal representation(?)(!)
How can this be constitutional? Doesn't this violate my civil rights?
Let's take them to task!
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Gap year travel
This article is a travel topic
A gap year is an extended break that some people take at a life transition, such as between studies, between study and work, or between careers.
There's no need for such a trip to be precisely a year, of course, but a year is a typical length of time for people who have just finished secondary school: they typically have to delay university entrance for a year to take the time off. Some of the same principles can be applied to just a summer between school and college, or any extended break "between jobs".
This article discusses options for low budget long-term travel of the type that a gap year traveler might be interested in.
Pre-departure planning is important. No matter how much you plan for the trip there may be instances where you have to throw all the planning out the window. However, there are certain things you should watch for and plan for:
Check with the appropriate consulate or embassy in your country to find out if you will need a visa to visit the country of your destination, especially for an extended period of time. Some countries have extremely detailed and complicated entry/departure laws, and treat visits of a week or two very differently from longer stays. IATA Visa Database [1], provided by Delta, is an excellent place to check whether you need a visa or not.
Itineraries are important for two people: the traveler and the traveler's family. Some parents will be more supportive of allowing their son ordaughter to go abroad if they know where they'll be. An itinerary may be helpful in the event that an emergency happens and somebody needs to contact you while you're away, and helps to satisfy a parent's instinctive need to know where their children are.
If you're traveling to one area, check the cost of living there. If it's high you'll probably want to budget more carefully and save some money before leaving. The lower the cost of living the less you'll have to save, but be sure to have a back up reserve in emergency cases.
Consider opening a second account in your home country and allow your parents or a close relative to have access to the account. In the event that you have to come home early they can withdraw money from the account, which can be used to purchase a return ticket for you.
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If your gap year is going to involve several stops in several different countries and continents, you should look into the many budget tickets designed for long term travel. Gap year travellers are often referred to as backpackers and will often receive discounted travel. Examples include:
By air
Open ended return tickets allow you to come home at any time within a year. They're more expensive than regular round-trip tickets, but are cheaper than two one-way tickets. Open-jaw tickets allow you to return from a different city than the one you flew into. Also more expensive than a standard return ticket, but cheaper than two one-way tickets, and may be worth saving you the cost and time of returning to the city you started in. If your travel plans are more ambitious than that, round the world flights might fit your needs.
By train
Long term train tickets aimed at backpackers and travelers. Sometimes these will let you travel more cheaply than any local fares. Examples include the Eurail pass in Europe, the Backpacker rail pass [2] in Australia, and for travelers in North America, see Rail travel in North America.
By boat
By car
By bus
A long trip may be impossible to save for in advance. Often gap year travelers want to support their journey by taking work, often of a low-skilled and/or intermittent nature. Unfortunately, working in other countries often requires a work visa. Typically these are onerous for gap year travelers: you need to find an employer to apply for the visa, the visa is expensive, and the employer must show that they cannot hire someone with your skills locally. The work visa will be tied to your term at that employer. However, there are some visa schemes and work schemes that cater specifically to those who are looking for a job to support their travel.
If you are a citizen of certain countries, you can work in some other countries without needing a visa at all:
Gap year travelers who are under 30 should look into visa arrangements where you can go to a country for a certain period of time, often 12 months and sometimes up to 24, and work intermittently. The intention of the visa is that you work in order to fund your trip, and there will typically be restrictions on your working including: not working for more than a certain amount of time during the visa period, not working for any one employer for a long period, working only in specified industries and sometimes not working in jobs that further your career path.
These are typically reciprocal arrangements: your country will offer visas of this sort to citizens of certain other countries and those other countries will do the same for you. Hence it is best to check with your own country's foreign affairs officials to see if you have reciprocal visas, and if so, with which countries.
See Working abroad for suggested employers and industries.
An increasingly more popular option for those planning a gap-year is to travel and learn. This is especially popular with school leavers, allowing them to take a year out before university, without compramising their education. In many cases, enrolling on a gap-year course abroad can actually improve your chances of moving into higher education back in the UK. Typically there will be a tuition fee to enroll on these educational programs. There are two reasons for this: firstly, many of these courses are run by private institutions, and secondly, becasue international students rarely attract government funding.
There are a number of organisations offering gap year educational programmes. A few of these include:
As an alternative, or to complement the working holiday, many people have chosen to embark on a volunteering experience. These meaningful experiences allow individuals the chance to give back to the international community, whether this be teaching in underprivileged schools, working with animals in Africa, or helping with community development project. Typically there will be a fee to participate in these programs, and participants are not paid. Prince Harry most famously embarked on a volunteering Gap Year in 2004 when he went to South Africa.
There are many organisations offering gap year placements. A few of these are:


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