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I am grateful to the many readers who commented on my Spitzer piece. I cannot answer all the points they raise. I shall briefly respond to a group of points about Spitzer, and then turn to the important arguments of Valentina Urbanek and Scott Anderson about the specialness of sex.
Todd Henderson is right to ask me what I think about the financial laws that Spitzer is suspected of having broken. Do I think that if the suspect financial transactions occurred in connection with activities that should never have been illegal, those ancillary transactions themselves should not be deemed legally or morally problematic? I do not hold this view. I think that if there is solid evidence that Spitzer actually broke laws involving the use of campaign money, mail and wire fraud, etc., then he should be held accountable for these violations. However, all the evidence so far (including a comprehensive Associated Press inquiry whose results were published on March 21) suggests that he did not violate these laws. Let's wait and see.
James Joseph, in two posts, asks me some excellent questions. I agree with him that Spitzer is being reviled in part because of perceived hypocrisy. If he had been a zealous prosecutor of financial crime, I would not consider it hypocritical for him to have broken laws concerning prostitution, since, as I've argued, these laws should not exist. (Similarly, William Bennett was not hypocritical when he inveighed against vice of many sorts but indulged in gambling, which his religion does not forbid.) However, Spitzer actually went after prostitution with zeal. Insofar as he did so, his behavior is hypocritical.
then asks whether we shouldn't hold all public officials to the letter of the
law, even if the laws in question are bad. I am not convinced. There are
many sex laws on the books that are bad laws: laws against adultery and
fornication, for example. Until Lawrence
Kansas Texas, consensual sodomy (both homosexual and heterosexual) was a
criminal offense in many states. Nonetheless, I myself would not think less well of a public official who
broke such mean-spirited and offensive laws. Indeed, very many public officials did so, and everyone who knew the
content of sodomy laws knew that they very likely did so, in the common case
where sodomy was defined in terms of oral-genital and/or anal-genital contact without regard to
the genders of the parties. (At one
point prior to the bench trial in Bowers v. Hardwick,
lawyers for
Hardwick tried to get information about the sexual conduct of
employees of the Georgia Attorney General's office, in order to
ascertain how
many of those heterosexuals had violated Georgia's equal-time sodomy
law. The information was not forthcoming.) So, I wonder if Mr. Joseph
would have liked
(in the pre-Lawrence days) a searching inquiry into the sexual practices
of public officials within their chosen personal relationships, to determine
whether their behavior was or was not consistent with the sodomy law. I certainly would find that idea profoundly
In his more recent post, Joseph asks me about the relative indifference with which public opinion greeted the Patersons' revelation of their extramarital affairs. I agree with him that this reaction shows that America has progressed a good deal since the days when even to have been divorced was virtually disqualifying for public office. Now the equanimity extends beyond divorce to non-secret affairs during a troubled period in a marriage. Prostitution, however, still upsets people greatly, in part because it reminds people that some women are not primarily identified with a marital relationship, but have sex with lots of men – the very thing that, as I wrote, often prevented rape convictions, in the days before evidence of a woman's prior sexual behavior was excluded from trials. So, I would say that our society still needs to learn restraint in passing judgment on female behavior.
Now to Urbanek and Anderson. Together, their posts (hers a comment on my original piece, his an independent post) ask an all-important question: If we do not treat sex as unique, but regard it as one among many forms of employment, will we still be able to say the things we want to say about sexual harassment and other related issues of concern to feminists? I have long regarded Anderson's Ethics article as the most powerful challenge to my own views in this area, so I'm glad to have this chance to attempt a reply.
First, let me clarify my own position. In my 1998 JLS article (reprinted in my 1999 book Sex and Social Justice), I argue that the important issues to focus on, where sex work is concerned, are the same issues that should concern us when we think of low-paid factory work and other work that is performed by women with few employment options. We should, that is, institute careful protections for health and safety. We should make sure that women are protected from violence on the job, and that they have choice of which clients to accept. Above all, we ought to ensure that all women have a decent education that gives them access to a wide range of employment opportunities, so that nobody is railroaded into sex work for want of options.
Urbanek agrees with these points, and for this reason is inclined to favor decriminalization. She argues, however, that sex has a special link with self-respect, in such a way that even in a regime of legalized sex-work the sex-worker will continue both to be stigmatized by others and to feel herself of low worth. I am not convinced. I think that my intellectual labor has a very deep and intimate connection with my self-respect. That is why I would feel a deep loss of self-esteem were I to be in a repressive state that forced me (or tried to) to write what pleased the regime rather than what I wanted to write. Such submissive intellectuals are rightly stigmatized, though they may be excused if the threats that led them to sell out were severe. Similarly, I think that what is connected to stigma and low self-esteem, where sex is concerned, is lack of control and autonomy. Many sex workers lack these things, but legalization would enable them to gain more control, to unionize, and in general to exercise their trade in a self-respecting way. I would add that in many times and places married women have utterly lacked control and autonomy, and have for that reason lost self-esteem. In my view, control is the issue pertinent to dignity, not the presence or absence of a wage.
Anderson then asks the toughest question of all: can a feminist like me say what I've said about prostitution while continuing to uphold laws against sexual harassment? In the workplace employees may be asked to do all sorts of things as a condition of continued employment, he argues, and it seems that it is only a view that sex is sui generis that allows us to pass laws forbidding employers from asking for sex in the workplace.
Many feminists of the postmodern/queer theory stripe do think that a general stance against Puritanism and the legal regulation of sexual conduct entails opposition to laws and policies against sexual harassment. Janet Halley, for example, has argued that we ought to reject all laws and policies that divide sex acts into good and bad, demonizing some group of sexual actors as the deviant or bad ones; she explicitly applies her conclusion to university policies on sexual harassment, and, more generally, to Title VII, which she calls "extremely porous to existing antigay attitudes," an invitation to "sexuality harassment." (See Halley, "Sexuality Harassment," in Directions in Sexual Harassment Law, ed. Catharine MacKinnon and Reva Siegel [New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004] 182-200.) I disagree. When one takes a stand in favor of women's freedom of choice, urging the decriminalization of sex work under certain specific conditions, one is not prevented from identifying non-consent, coercion, and discrimination as evils in women's working lives. Sexual harassment is wrong because it harms women, who cannot work with dignity under conditions in which they are being pressured for sexual favors. As Catharine MacKinnon powerfully argued in Sexual Harassment of Working Women (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), sexual harassment is a ubiquitous form of sex discrimination, and it establishes a hierarchy of power in the workplace, in the presence of which no woman can be fully autonomous or dignified. So, my general interest in dignity, control, and freedom for women leads me to favor such policies.
Anderson's argument has not yet been answered, however. Can we really forbid employers (and employees) from asking for sex as a condition of employment without conceding that sex is in a category of its own? I think we can. Each workplace must figure out which forms of exploitation and discrimination are its biggest dangers, and each may reasonably make rules prohibiting employers from asking for whatever it is that might lead to exploitation and harm. When I was a professional actress and a union deputy for Actors' Equity, most of my union time was spent enforcing the rules against requiring actors to bring coffee, work in the box office, paint scenery, etc. – all of which the union-management contract forbade, recognizing that these are standard ways in which actors are exploited. Those rules were profession-specific, and each profession will have its own list of off-limits activities. In all professions, however, sexual pressure on women is a major form of exploitation and discrimination, so it's reasonable for all workplaces to police sexual harassment.
Halley and her sympathizers argue that sexual harassment policies forbid many consensual transactions and thus, like laws against sex work, interfere with people's personal choices. They are forms of inquisitorial and puritanical intrusion, and anyone who supports a right of sexual choice in general should object to them. Interestingly, a similar argument has been suggested by our colleague William Landes, in "The Art of Law and Economics: An Autobiographical Essay," 41 The American Economics no. 1 (spring 1997), reprinted in Passion and Craft, Economists at Work, Michael Szenberg, ed. (Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 1998). Landes argues (very briefly and tentatively) that university sexual harassment policies impose transaction and other costs on the dating and marriage markets: for example, he says, he could not have dated his current wife, who was then a graduate student under his supervision. So, both the postmodern feminist and the libertarian economist suggest that it is I who am being puritanical and repressive in upholding such policies.
First of all, it is not at all clear that Landes would have had any difficulty conforming to the requirements of a sexual harassment policy. The policy at MIT (Valentina Urbanek's institution) is an extremely weak one, forbidding only conduct "that has the intent or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual or group's educational or work performance at MIT or that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive educational, work, or living environment." Consensual dating would usually not violate that policy. Our university has a much tougher policy, forbidding (or at least describing as "unwise and inappropriate") all sexual contact between people who stand to one another in the relationship of supervisor and supervisee. Such more stringent policies are by now the norm in most universities, because it is recognized that even a relationship that is consensual at the start may evolve in a way that puts undue pressure on the weaker party. Even so, however, Landes's future would not have been compromised. He could simply have arranged things so that he did not supervise this particular graduate student's work. That happens all the time. Suppose this were for some reason impossible, and suppose Landes had indeed been deterred by the existence of such policies: then, as he says, "I would have been a big loser." Nonetheless, as Landes himself acknowledges, it is still possible that the overall benefits of such policies (Landes mentions "reducing coercion by men") exceed their costs.
But still, isn't it inconsistent of me to object to a Puritanism that puts sex work off limits and then to turn around and support policies that put many very common forms of sexual behavior off limits? Once again, I reply: no, because the Millean defender of liberty is a defender of genuine liberty, which entails non-coercion, the opportunity to choose, and, I would add, a climate of equal respect and non-discrimination. Sexual harassment policies protect these important values.


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What's the Saying Variety 2 Level 9
What's the Saying Variety 2 Level 9
What's the Saying Variety 2 Level 9 Answers, Cheats, Solution for iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android.
Last updated on May 3rd, 2014 at 06:35 am
What's the Saying Variety 2 Level 9 Answers, Cheats, Solution for iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android.
It's dancing in the rain for #46 (not sancing)
Answer for variety 2 level 12 should be "too intense"
Im stuck on. 3 11 7 13 black line whelming please help
Overwhelming odds
I'm stuck on the red and green letter t with positive and negative signs in it
Aiight, I am stuck and need some help. The pic is thus…..The word IT with a leg between it.Anyone got this one?
'Put the foot in it'
I am stuck on the one with half the leg with a blue ball behind it with an red arrow pointing to the ball can someone please help
Above average
3 and spell backwards with finger pointing at the last one
Rags to riches
Rags to riches
im stuck two big guys on the top with an arrow between them and under the arrow is a man in a red car???????
MorganHoughton Above Average
Speak of the devil
Im stuck on 1+1+1=3 (1+1+1)/3=1
Above average .
@Anne Turner Near the knuckle
@Anne Turner Near the knucle
Face to face with danget
Plz help: there's a fire and a little devil and a light switch
I need help on level 300 it has a black shadow of a profile of a man and woman looking at each other over a yellow and black hazard symbol
Did u figure it out
Face to face with danger
What's red I = red I minus 1
red eye reduction
Please help, I've realized that the level doesn't matter but it's 3 something. It's the one that has One plus one with two legs under it but a guy is grabbing one.
I got it, pull someone's leg duh
He's ahead of his time
The letter u and 3 1s?
It's kind of a blur but try, some ones behind you
What's the one with the word HEART in green with a blue arrow pointing down to heart?
Change of heart
561 is all bent out of shape
I need help with level 562 there's the word bad underlined and the number 2 under it with a circle with a line through it behind it
not half bad? does that match the word count?
Sorry, bottom RIGHT corner
Level 224. Earth in the top left corner and in the bottom left corner.
Drawing attention
I am stuck on tension with a hand and a pen
Drawing attention
I need help with level 561 it has the word all going across the screen but the last L is under the first L
Level 561, ( A, with 2 L's stacked) any ideas? (Answer as: 3, 4, 3, 2, 5.)
I am stuck on the same one. I have no clue what it could be. Hopefully someone answers us soon.
did you get level 562 yet? it has the word bad underlined with the number 2 under it
not half bad?
All bent out of shape
Waterloo ?????
I am sn the one with the word may a idian a hall a egypt and a word king ?????????? any one help
history in the making
I am also stuck on level 20 with the leg/limb, blue ball and a red arrow pointing to the blue dot. Can anyone help me, please?
Did you figure it out? I am stuck!!
5310 pointing up 02468 from left to right.
I also am stuck on level 30 with the half leg, blue ball and red arrow pointing down. Can anyone help me with the answer. All my friends cannot answer it either.
Stack the odds
i am stuck on level 30 the one with the leg and foot and a blue ball behind it and a red arrow pointing to the blue dot it is a 3 word answer with only 14 letters
Did you figure it out??? I am stuck too!
near the knuckle
thanks! right answer, but i don't get it.
Error in judgment
I am stuck on Leaderboard. it has a number 1 with the word He in green and number 2.His and number 3.Time
he is ahead of his time
Set the record straight
I need help with back written twice and the number one in a cirlce? Anyone?
under the weather
Whats the leg and a blue dot with an arrow pointing at it
Am stuck on the leaderboard with he in green
Plesae help the word heat twice (one going down n the other across) with a blue arrow going back
Hill waterloo ???? Help
Uphill battle
Uphill Battle
Uphill battle
uphill battle
Stuck on …. BLUE PINK
pass with flying colors
what is the answer to the one with awful at the bottom of the screen?
I'm stuck on a hand holding a ticket with 10110011written on it??
Bite to eat
Grab a bite
Sult + jury in white boxes????
Add insult to injury
I'm stuck on the one that says i M.D
Eye doctor
What is the one with basket 3times with fruit and eggs lol 454
Level 92: solution an underneath is solution again..
Step spelled backwards or pets w the letters backwards. What is this??
step backwards
Im stuck on level 207. There is a sideways eye and stand and then a blue down arrow. Under the arrow is an eye that's normal and the word stand.
i stand corrected
I'm stuck on the one that has daylight twice a arrow under the bottom daylight & it has a finger pointing at the top of the bottom daylight…….
Broad daylight
What's the answer to I=I-1????
What's I=I-1???
Please help!!!
I'm stuck on that one too
red eye reduction
Does anyone know what this is? I'm so stuck..
Level 201
Short of breath
I need help the picture: DEEF
Im stuck on level 202 it has a sun clouds raining over a sun with. Sad face
under the weather
Anyone know what the picture of 1 + 1 then there is a line with like two legs hanging, ane clean and one hairy, and a dude/person touching the hairy leg.
Pull Someones Leg
Pulling someones leg????
Need help all it says is star on green background
Need help all it says is star on green background. Please help iv try every possible. Thing i could think of lol
What is the one with space in like an ice cube then a finger pointing to space without an ice cube?
Im o puzzle 60 i got a upsidedown clock
The word two written in black and the number 10 in each corner in red
Do anyone know what 10 10 two 10 10 mean on what's the saying?
Too intense
i am on level 177, i am having a THE written in blue having a lightenting bolt striking "T"
can some one help me out plz
Stuck on level 430
finger points to a line with 1+1+1/3=1
Above Average
Counter clockwise
Stick on 201- android. Time in blue over the alphabet. Any help?
Long time no see
Stuck on the one with the two switch words purple and black
What's Level 169 on the Android version? It has a guy with a soccer ball on his knee, 'JERK', Action Action.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
knee jerk reaction
I need the one where its a guy hitting a soccer ball with his knee and then it says JERK and then says Action twice.
Knee jerk reaction
Anyone know the answer to level 293? Its a boy silhouette and a girl silhouette with a hazardous material symbol below it. hellllp
What is it.I'm stuck
Face to face with danger.
Black dot that says hi?
Talking point
Stuck 91
Elevator in black
Elevator out of order
whats the one with white boxes with sult jury? level 299..
please help!
Add insult to injury
Cut to the chase
I'm stuck on level 289
I'm stuck on this one……
1, 2, 3, 4…..
And a picture of a bat
Please help!
Count dracula
blue time and missing "c" in the alphabet?
Long time no see
What is this?
Forgive and forget
Im on level 38. I have a number box at the top going 1234567890 and a clock with the word wise.
Counting or counter clockwise
What's the answer to the puzzle with the two dice?
Stuck on the one that has the little boy pointing up to the word "come" spelled backwards and the letter "D" above the backwards "come" any ideas?
Comeback kid
Someones after you
I need the one with the devilan a on switch
Speak of the devil
What about level 288. GOLD. OLD IN GOLD AND THE G IN BLAK.
Old as gold
I am stuck on level 189 there is the word chase in black on top of the word chase in red and there is a slash separating from top left to bottom right…….any ideas?
Cut to the chase
I need help with the one that says reviews viewer
Mixed Reviewss
Face to face with danger
I need help its a man and womans head abouve some kind of radioactive sign 5 words.
Stuck on a set of twins, an arrow pointed down with person in little red car with something flying out of it.
Rags to riches
I need help on the one that has all written twice above the word page
All on the same
I need help with the one that says "attention" with the first n underlined
Center of attention
I need help, I'm on the one where it says :
After Me
After Me
After Me
Repeat after me
repeat after me
Whats the one with a red coloured in square and a blue circle not coloured in
Diamind ring
I need that one too
Mine has a black dot saying 'hi'. ______ _____
Talking point
Talking point
Talking point
Level 201 on android version. 'Record' then a blue arrow down 'record'.
Set the record straight
What about this one
Long time no see
The one with a penguin on ice
Tip Of The iceburg
I am stuck on 204.
anyone know this answer
See eye to eye
See eye to eye
Anyone know what this is: numbers 1-10 a clock face and the word wise
Counting or counter clockwise
What's the one with the word heart (and its green) then a down arrow pointing to the word heart an black
Change of heart
Need help on level 205 record down arrow record
Set the record straight
stuck on waterloo hill
Uphill battle
I am stuck on level 293..on what's the sayin…..
sult + jury in white boxes
Insult and injury or insult to injury
add or adding insult to injury
level 293 – a horse with the words NEWS coming out of his mouth
Straight from the horses mouth
Maybe straight from the horses mouth
thanx, it was straight from the horses mouth
Once in a blue moon
Mine has a purple ball looking object with different variations of the number 1 inside of it. 4-word placement. Please help.
Once in a blue moon
The one with the word solution twice
Its resolution
What is cold thermometer collar and hot thermometer
Answer is hot under the collar
I need help order on a line?
Order online
I'm stuck on level 47 where there is a green R plus a red R
Mine has a black arrow pointing up with "111" inside it and the word "time" in red letters under it…does anyone know this one?
Once upon a time
Once upon a time
Once upon a time
Maybe third time lucky
Mine has the word "heart" in green letters then a blue arrow pointing down to the word "heart" in black letters
did you ever figure the green heart with blue arrow and black heart it?
did you ever figure out the one with the word heart arrow down and another word heart
I need the answer to this too the word heart in green pointing down to heart in black
Change of heart …it goes from upper case to lower case
Change of heart
Change of heart…changed from upper to lowercase
Mine has
Anyone know what it is?
Equal importance?
Answer is equally important
equally important…
I have finished all 270 levels yesterday it took me almost 2 days
Need level 46 its a red filled in square next to an open blue circle
Diamond ring
Diamond ring
I'm stuck on the one with the word record and it's un even with a blue aarrow down to record
Set the record straight
Equally important
Equally important
I need the answer to level 171 it's the word "the" in blue letters with a lightning bolt in the top of the "t".
Bolt out of the blue
For level 16 middle of the night
The answer is "summer"
I need help, with solving Ad_Verds
I need level 85 I'm u
I am bigger than you
This didnt help but all the others before this have. This didt help because it ha a long answer here but a short answer on the app
Middle of the night
What does that mean
If the answer above doesn't work just type in summer, it worked for me
I need 40
I need level 40

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As is our practice on Wednesday we will now sing O Canada, and we will be led by the hon. member for Crowfoot.
[Editor's Note: Members sang the national anthem]
House of Commons Hansard #150 of the 37th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was wto.
2 p.m.
The Speaker
As is our practice on Wednesday we will now sing O Canada, and we will be led by the hon. member for Crowfoot.
[Editor's Note: Members sang the national anthem]
Canadian Music WeekStatements By Members
2 p.m.
Tony Tirabassi Liberal Niagara Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, I share in the celebration of our music industry. February 27 to March 3 is Canadian Music Week and every year the creators, broadcasters and entrepreneurs involved in our music industry get together to share visions, celebrate successes and lay the groundwork for addressing the new challenges they face.
For many, names like Alanis Morissette, Marie-Jo Thério, Barenaked Ladies, Céline Dion, Nickelback, Sarah McLachlan, Garou and other superstars define Canadian music. Canadian music as a whole is a great success story with Canadian songwriters and musicians from all corners of the country playing an important role capturing and reflecting the diverse Canadian experience.
I congratulate all participants in Canadian Music Week. Let us not forget that now more than ever it is important that all Canadians support our Canadian musicians by enjoying their music.
Mattie McCulloughStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Bob Mills Canadian Alliance Red Deer, AB
Mr. Speaker, this last week Red Deer, Alberta and Canada lost a truly great woman. Mattie McCullough died at age 92 and her great significance to our community was recognized last Saturday.
Mattie had many accomplishments in her life. She was a recipient of the Order of Canada, a long-time champion of education, president of the Alberta Home and School Councils' Association, honorary president of the Canadian Angus Association, holder of an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Alberta, and many more. Most important was that Mattie was so humble, always willing to listen, and always providing a sharp analysis of everything political. At age 86 she even enrolled in a university class.
I first met Mattie when her Angus bull chased me and my biology class out of their pasture. From then on we became the best of friends.
Mattie was always excited about education. She mastered the computer and could not believe the new information she could get from the Internet.
Our community and Canada lost a true Canadian and we will miss Mattie McCullough.
2002 Winter OlympicsStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Judy Sgro Liberal York West, ON
Mr. Speaker, millions of Canadians followed our Olympic athletes on their road to gold. Thanks to the wonderful power of TV and radio, Canadians from coast to coast watched and listened as the CBC broadcast the thrilling performance of these extraordinary Olympians.
Our public broadcasting network deserves the highest accolades for its outstanding coverage. The CBC gave us a dazzling show of athletes performing at their finest hour, and by doing so drew the country together in a spirit of passion and national pride. It was a special time for all of us.
I congratulate the producers, the directors, the technicians and the announcers who made it all possible, who brought the Olympic Winter Games into our homes and entrenched them into our hearts. Just as we have every reason to be proud of our athletes, so too we take pride in the CBC which truly showed us what Canada is all about and what we are made of. I thank the CBC.
2002 Winter OlympicsStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Rodger Cuzner Liberal Bras D'Or—Cape Breton, NS
Mr. Speaker, it is indeed a great pleasure to stand in the House today and congratulate the tremendous Olympic performance of our Canadian athletes, and in particular to acknowledge the contribution of Cape Breton's own Al MacInnis.
As the senior statesman of the men's hockey team, Al's on ice performance was equalled only by his poise and leadership. Al has long been recognized for his tremendous skill but more so as a consummate team player. The pride and joy of Port Hood, Cape Breton epitomizes all that is good about sport and represents the truth that in our great country, Canada, dreams can come true.
I am certain that all Canadians are very proud of the entire Olympic contingent, but let it be known that none are more proud of their own than the people of Cape Breton.
2002 Winter OlympicsStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Raymonde Folco Liberal Laval West, QC
Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, the Olympic flame went out, marking the end of the Salt Lake City winter games and the return of our Canadian athletes.
Among them, Tania Vincent and Amélie Goulet-Nadon, two young athletes from Laval, proudly came home with the bronze medal they won in the 3,000 metre short track speed skating relay. Tania Vincent had already won a bronze medal at the Nagano games, in Japan, in the same event.
Pascal Richard, who grew up in Laval, finished 15th in the skeleton event.
I join my fellow citizens of Laval in congratulating our Canadian athletes who, throughout the Salt Lake City games, made us share their Olympic dream.
JusticeStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Vic Toews Canadian Alliance Provencher, MB
Mr. Speaker, in less than three months two RCMP officers in Manitoba have been shot, one of them fatally. Just last week the home of another Winnipeg police officer was firebombed in a suspected gang related act of intimidation. In both shootings we know that some of the suspects were wanted for parole violations.
While criminals in Canada are increasingly more willing to use violence against our police officers, our solicitor general continues to accelerate the process of early release that will see more dangerous offenders released from his club fed style prisons. This not only defies common sense but it puts police at an unacceptable risk.
In order to restore public confidence in our justice system and to give police the support they need the Liberal government must act immediately to require criminals to earn their parole and to restore badly needed funding to our frontline police officers.
Film IndustryStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Mac Harb Liberal Ottawa Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, last night fans of the Canadian film industry were swept off their feet with the debut of Men With Brooms at the Museum of Civilization. Featuring Canadian film stars Leslie Nielsen and Paul Gross, Men With Brooms has proven that our film industry is a strong player on the international stage.
I am equally delighted to congratulate the National Film Board and Winnipeg animator Cordell Barker for his second Oscar nomination for the short animated film entitled Strange Invaders . In 1989 Cordell Barker received his first Oscar nomination for the hilarious short film The Cat Came Back . This latest accolade amounts to the 66th Oscar nomination for the National Film Board over the past 63 years.
I am sure that all Canadians will join me in wishing good luck to the National Film Board and Cordell Barker as we await the Oscar award winners on March 24.
Kim St-PierreStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Robert Lanctôt Bloc Châteauguay, QC
Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my Bloc Québécois colleagues and myself, I wish to congratulate Kim St-Pierre, the goaltender for our women's hockey team, which won the gold medal at the Salt Lake City winter Olympics.
Kim St-Pierre, who is from Châteauguay, is the perfect example of an athlete who makes sacrifices to achieve her goal and who believes in her ability to reach the ultimate objective, an Olympic medal.
At the age of 3, Kim was already enrolled in figure skating. Later on, she discovered hockey and decided to make the necessary efforts to succeed in that sport. Kim was also an excellent softball and soccer player. Our gold medal winner wants to resume her kinesitherapy classes at the university as soon as possible. This will enable her to use her experience and to provide practical advice to our future athletes.
We are proud of her talent, her courage and her determination. Through her perseverance, she is showing that it is possible to achieve our goals and to fulfill our dreams. she is a distinguished ambassador for all Quebecers.
Bravo Kim!
Medical Hall of FameStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Joe Fontana Liberal London North Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, today we are honouring eight very special Canadians as they are welcomed into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. These leaders and pioneers have contributed greatly to medicine in the areas of muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, cancer treatment, cell biology, neuropsychology, disease treatment and genetic research.
The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and museum is a national organization that was established in 1993 in London, Ontario to pay tribute to the Canadian men and women who mark the history of medicine and to inspire the next generation. To date the organization has honoured 49 of Canada's medical heroes.
I congratulate these eight laureates for their remarkable achievements. Their contributions have not only impacted the well-being of Canadians but have made an impact across the globe, and we thank them for their contributions. They too are the gold medallists of the world.
Harry RankinStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Svend Robinson NDP Burnaby—Douglas, BC
Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute today to Harry Rankin, long-time Vancouver civic politician, lawyer and social activist who died yesterday at the age of 81.
Harry Rankin served the people of Vancouver and British Columbia well. He was a member of city council in Vancouver, first elected in 1966 and retiring after almost 30 years in 1993.
In his career he always spoke out on behalf of what he called the little guy. He was also a respected lawyer who had a reputation of going to bat in court for the underprivileged, for the labour movement and for civil liberties issues. He was a bencher of the law society as well.
My colleague from Vancouver East is a former colleague of his from Vancouver city council. Another former colleague from city council, fellow councillor Pat Wilson, said Harry Rankin "dominated Vancouver city politics for almost 30 years and at the peak of his influence there was no more articulate, passionate or effective champion of ordinary people at any level of politics".
Harry Rankin was a great Canadian and certainly all of us will mourn his passing. We extend our condolences to his wife Connie Fogal and to his family.
Canadian Wheat BoardStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
David Anderson Canadian Alliance Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
Mr. Speaker, today the Auditor General of Canada completed a one time audit of the Canadian Wheat Board. In her report she makes several recommendations that must not fall upon deaf ears.
However she was not permitted to examine all Canadian Wheat Board activities. Her audit was limited to the study of management practices. The auditor general was not permitted to examine the cost of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly to farmers or the role and mandate of the board.
When will the minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board commit to allowing the auditor general to conduct regular and full audits of the Canadian Wheat Board in order to allow western Canadian farmers to know how much the system is costing them?
In Ontario the wheat producers have been required to market their grain through the Ontario Wheat Board. However in the last few years Ontario farmers have been allowed to market 20% of their own grain crop. Soon Ontario farmers will be allowed to market a third of their own crop outside of the board and eventually they will be allowed to market their entire production.
When will the minister, who is supposed to be representing western Canadian interests, give western Canadian farmers the same opportunity?
Guaranteed Income SupplementStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Gérard Binet Liberal Frontenac—Mégantic, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois loves to stir up panic among seniors about the guaranteed income supplement. As soon as the report by the Standing Committee on Human Resource Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities was tabled, I took the initiative of informing seniors on their entitlement to these benefits.
My office received more than 425 calls, and after investigation it was found that only 5% of cases needed to be harmonized.
The Bloc Québécois loves to perpetuate myths among the population by playing on their vulnerability and insecurity, merely for political gain. This is unacceptable.
TaxationStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Monique Guay Bloc Laurentides, QC
Mr. Speaker, more and more Quebecers are realizing, with indignation, the unjust tax imbalance that is happening year after year between Ottawa and the provinces.
The Minister of Finance, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, the Prime Minister, all say this is a myth, that it does not exist. This is a fine illustration of the traditional hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil, of people who do not want to hear anything, see anything and most particularly say anything.
But this reality does exist and we have clearly demonstrated its existence. The reality is that the federal government has recorded an increase in receipts of some 45% since 1994-95. The reality is that the federal government has recorded $13.4 billion in surplus funds in the first nine months of the year.
The reality of the provinces and of Quebec, however, is far less rosy. The sick are the first ones to fall victim to this scandalous situation.
Yet on the other side of this House, there they are closing their eyes, covering their ears and, if they do open their mouths, it is to distort reality.
Kyoto ProtocolStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Mr. Speaker, during a Team Canada trip last week some of the premiers presented a letter to the Prime Minister opposing ratification of the Kyoto protocol. I was sorry to see that the premier of my home province was among them.
After our farmers have faced four years of drought, I would expect the premiers to show more concern about global warming. How many wells have to run dry each summer? How many lakes and rivers have to die? How many children and seniors have to suffer from respiratory diseases before Premier Hamm will consider our environment a top priority?
I urge all Canadians to press the premiers to support the Kyoto protocol so we can all breathe a little easier.
Softwood LumberStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Progressive Conservative
Bill Casey Progressive Conservative Cumberland—Colchester, NS
Mr. Speaker, today British Columbia's forestry minister joined the chorus of softwood stakeholders calling for a united Canadian stand against the American attack on our softwood lumber industry. For months politicians, foresters and manufacturers have called for the Minister for International Trade to bring all of the stakeholders together to establish a single united position.
Although the U.S. is well organized and well prepared, we have never established our own Canadian bargaining stance. Instead each region has established its own direction. Never did the phrase united we stand, divided we fall apply so aptly. It is hard to imagine how an outcome that will be satisfactory to all regions can be concluded if all the stakeholders have not been brought together by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Even though there are only a few days left, I urge the minister to gather together all stakeholders to develop that one specific Canadian position for our bargaining stance.
The EnvironmentOral Question Period
2:15 p.m.
West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast B.C.
Canadian Alliance
John Reynolds Canadian AllianceLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, in a report titled "Pain Without Gain" Canadian manufacturers and exporters warned today that ratifying Kyoto could lead to the loss of 450,000 jobs. Does the Prime Minister accept these figures and if so, how could he dream of ratifying the Kyoto protocol?
The EnvironmentOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
Saint-Maurice Québec
Jean Chrétien LiberalPrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, I do not accept those figures.
The EnvironmentOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast B.C.
Canadian Alliance
John Reynolds Canadian AllianceLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister does not believe the former cabinet minister he himself appointed as head of the CBC. Perhaps he will believe the government of the province most affected by Kyoto.
Alberta estimates that Kyoto could cost Canada 2% to 3% of GDP. That is $25 billion to $40 billion by the year 2010.
Does the Prime Minister believe Alberta's numbers and if so, how can the Prime Minister support the Kyoto protocol?
The EnvironmentOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
Saint-Maurice Québec
Jean Chrétien LiberalPrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, the government wants to implement the Kyoto protocol and we have negotiated to improve it. We are still asking to have clean energy exports of Canada recognized. We are talking with the provincial governments at this time to reach an agreement between all the partners. We have to make sure that we make a contribution to ensure that the climate of the world improves in the years to come.
The EnvironmentOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast B.C.
Canadian Alliance
John Reynolds Canadian AllianceLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, if the Prime Minister does not believe Perrin Beatty and Ralph Klein, then perhaps he will believe Industry Canada.
Somebody said they are Tories. That may be true, but let me talk about Industry Canada and what it has to say. Industry Canada's studies show that Kyoto could cost Canada up to $75 billion per year and lead to the loss of 4% of oil, agriculture and chemical jobs, 9% of natural gas jobs and 11% of electrical jobs.
Is shutting down the economy of Canada the Prime Minister's legacy for Canada?
The EnvironmentOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
Saint-Maurice Québec
Jean Chrétien LiberalPrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, there is at this moment some discussion among the provincial governments and the federal government to look at all the facts.
There is the reality too that climate change is causing a lot of problems, for example to the climate in western Canada. Farmers there might pay a price in the future if we do not do anything about it.
We have to look at both sides of the problem. As usual, we will look at all the facts and make a decision in the best interests of all Canadians.
The EnvironmentOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Rahim Jaffer Canadian Alliance Edmonton Strathcona, AB
Mr. Speaker, the only global warming is in the Liberal caucus these days.
Manufacturers and exporters have sounded the alarm. According to them, Kyoto could cost us 450,000 jobs. Even the slowest Liberal, such as the Minister of National Defence—if it were explained to him several times—should be able to realize the catastrophic effect this could have on our economy.
Why is this government so determined to ratify this dangerous protocol, without even getting the provinces' consent?
The EnvironmentOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
Saint-Maurice Québec
Jean Chrétien LiberalPrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, regarding the comments from the opposition on party unity, we know that this party will soon have its fourth or fifth leader in eight years, so we have nothing to learn from them. There is also another party that has ended up back there in the corner.
I would like to say that we are giving this problem serious thought. This is a very serious problem that concerns all Canadians. We have nothing to gain by trying to frighten people when we do not have all of the facts. When we do have all of the facts, we will make the right—
The EnvironmentOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
The Speaker
The hon. member for Edmonton—Strathcona.


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With all-in-one printer vendors competing to offer the most functionality at the lowest price, consumers are left with a difficult shopping decision to make. In a recent review, to the $99 Lexmark Impact S305 scored favorably with us, but we felt cheated by the missing fax function. Epson picks up Lexmark's slack with the introduction of their $120 WorkForce 310, a true all-in-one device that can print, fax, copy, and scan with output speeds that crush the competition. The printer can use improvement in photo output quality and benefit from a wireless connection, but its inexpensive cost of ownership and rapid print speeds make the WorkForce 310 a fully capable business printer and well worthy of our recommendation.
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The Epson WorkForce 310's design marries an elegant wave shape with a solid control panel in the center that gives you one-touch access to the most popular settings. Most of the printer is swathed in a matte black finish with small touches of a faux-carbon black plastic weaved throughout the external case. We took issue with the barren control panel on the Lexmark Impact S305, but Epson suffers no issues here; the two-line LCD displays all relevant print information as well as individual job progress, cartridge-installation directions, and detailed instructions on how to fix a paper jam. The unit can store up to 60 speed-dial numbers for outgoing faxes and you get five empty buttons on the panel to start you off. There's also the standard array of buttons for print modes, menus, and a large directional pad for scrolling through the screens.
The WorkForce 310 also benefits from a 30-sheet automatic document feeder on its top that automatically picks up individual sheets from a stack in the tray. Any multifunction or all-in-one printer for business use should include an ADF, although this feature also was missing from the Lexmark. At the same time, keep in mind that ADFs always add significant bulk to the printer. The Epson WorkForce 310 measures a workable 1.8 inches wide by 21.3 inches deep by 11.9 inches tall, but users with limited space might want to for a more compact printer. When you're not copying or faxing stacks of paper, you can store up to 100 sheets of plain 20 pound white paper in the input tray that folds out of a rear panel, and all outbound prints get corralled by an extendable on the bottom lip of the printer.
The side of the WorkForce 310 houses the connectivity ports you need to pair it with your home or work computer. IT Pros and business shoppers will find the Ethernet and USB ports sufficient for network connections, but it's important to note the lack of wireless access. We suspect that this omission won't really concern business professionals, but a Wi-Fi print server does add appeal to consumers who don't want to deal with another cable on the back of their computer.
Just above the control panel, you'll find two hinged bays that expose the 1,200 by 2,400 dpi scanner glass and ink cartridge repository. Its scanning functions let you save an image in three ways: to a specific file folder, as a PDF document in a folder, or as an attachment in an outgoing e-mail message. The included NewSoft Presto Page Manager software helps to organize your scanned images, but the Optical Character Recognition left us with numerous spelling mistakes and character confusions.
Unlike many budget printers that leave you with only two small ink tanks that produce a limited spectrum of color, the Epson WorkForce 310 offers a unique five-ink cartridge bay: one for each of the separated black, cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges in addition to an extra slot for one more black tank. The extra black cartridge is useful for when you need a backup, but it's worth noting that the printer will not operate without the additional cartridge installed.
To factor the most cost-efficient price per page, we're using Epson's XL black and color cartridges that cost $20 and $17, respectively. In accordance with Epson's posted ink cartridge yields, we determined the cost of printing to be an affordable 2.5 cents per page of black ink and 3.2 cents per color. Again, the catch is that you'll wind up spending double to purchase two black ink cartridges at a time.


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Now that's real-time
Yesterday I did something very cool. You might not think so. If you're the sort of person who paraglides, for example. Or leaves the house most days. But for me: totally exciting.
In the morning, I carried my coffee upstairs to my office and checked my email. This is almost always a bad idea, but still, hard to resist. I had a message from Meredith, who said she was very much enjoying Machine Man. That wasn't the cool part. Well, it was. It's always cool when someone tells you they like something you wrote. It never gets old. But what came next was even cooler: Meredith was a neuroscience major. She wrote:
I'm surprised he doesn't have any phantom pain, since that's extremely common; while the prosthetics would help trick the brain for sure, with that many limbs taken off, he would certainly have pain. No one totally understands phantom pain, but the idea is that our perceptions are not totally sensory; they are, in a large part, just our brain's best guess. So, basically, the brain guesses that the limb is still there, but you can't control it (unclench the phantom fist, etc.). A very simple technique has just been developed by Dr. Ramachandran at UCSD that is incredibly successful: Using a $5 drugstore mirror to make the arm that's still there look like the arm that got cut off. This makes the brain think that what your one arm is doing, the phantom arm is doing. So those with phantom pain can get rid of an uncomfortable position.
I knew of phantom pain, of course, but thus far hadn't thought of anything interesting to do with it. Now, thanks to Meredith, I did. Suddenly phantom pain seemed extremely interesting. So I opened up a blank page and began writing.
Often people email me interesting things about the subject areas in which I write. After Company, for example, I heard a lot of terrific workplace horror stories. Which is great, but I always think, "I wish I'd heard that two years ago." Because then I could have used it in the book.
Yesterday, I sat at my desk with no idea what I would write for that day's page, received an email from a neuroscience major, wrote something based on her insights, and published it. Then, to make it even better, the first reader comment (from always-interesting Pev) was: "Nice research on phantom limb pain, Max."
This is the kind of research I can dig: the kind other people do for me, before I even know enough to ask. It's not the first time it's happened with this story. And it's a totally unexpected side-benefit of the real-time serial format. I'm loving this.


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The bill, which is unlikely to become law, would notify consumers within two days if their information is hacked.
The House voted by a substantial margin on Friday to impose stringent new security standards on HealthCare.gov.
The vote would require the Health and Human Services Department to notify consumers within two business days if their personal information was hacked on the online health insurance marketplace. It comes following Republican claims that security on the site is more lax than the Obama administration admits and follows numerous earlier votes to repeal or pare back Obamacare.
The vote on the bill was 291 in favor and 122 opposed. Sixty-seven Democrats voted yes.
The bill was introduced on Tuesday by Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., and debated and passed on the House floor three days later. As with previous anti-Obamacare measures, the bill, known as the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act, is highly unlikely to pass the Senate and be signed by the president.
The White House slammed the proposed law on Thursday, saying it "would impose an administratively burdensome reporting requirement that is less effective than existing industry standards and those already in place for federal agencies."
Health and Human Services officials have said HealthCare.gov meets the government's information security standards and that there have been no successful breaches of people's personal information on the site to date.
House investigators, led by Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., claim the Obama administration ignored numerous red flags in the rush to meet their Oct. 1 deadline for HealthCare.gov to go live, including a recommendation from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Chief Information Security Officer Teresa Fryer that the launch be delayed.
House Democrats claim Fryer's warnings are taken out of context and the security risks on the website are overblown.
Both sets of claims are based on documents from contractors and government officials that have not been released publicly out of fear they could give hackers a "road map" into HealthCare.gov.
HealthCare.gov was nearly un-usable after its Oct. 1, 2013 launch due to about 400 coding glitches and insufficient storage space. The online marketplace has functioned at an acceptable level since Dec. 1 but analysts worry the early troubles may have made consumers wary of the site and could prevent the government from reaching its enrollment goal of 7 million people by the end of March.
If too few people enroll in the marketplace, that could increase risk and raise premiums to unaffordable levels. Concerns about security risks on the website could further depress enrollment.
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Editorial: Don't blame Burger King for ducking taxes
Burger King, corporate deserter?
That's what President Barack Obama would call the fast-food giant now that it's buying Tim Hortons Inc., the Canadian coffee and doughnut chain.
But the epithet is hard to swallow.
The $11.4-billion deal announced Tuesday will allow the Miami-based Burger King Worldwide Inc. to slash its United States tax bill by moving its corporate home to a foreign country, a strategy known as inversion. At least 21 companies have announced or completed such deals since the beginning of 2012, according to Bloomberg News. Obama castigated them last month for doing business as usual in the United States while renouncing their citizenship to avoid taxes.
He's wrong to vilify corporations for legally reducing their tax bills.
Corporations exist to make money. Their executives have a fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profits. Rather than trying to shame them, the United States can slow inversions by reforming the U.S. tax code to make the strategy less appealing.
The top federal corporate tax rate in the United States is 35 percent. That's among the highest in the world, although many corporations actually pay much less and those most successful at exploiting loopholes pay zero. In Canada the top federal tax rate is 15 percent.
Congress should tilt the playing field in our favor. Eliminating the corporate tax would be the best approach, as long as reformers also scrap the lower rate for capital gains and dividends, and tax that income the same as income from work. Cutting the corporate tax rate while closing loopholes would work, too, or enacting a territorial system in which only profits earned in the United States would be taxed by the United States.
Of course, any of that would require Congress to take on contentious tax reform, something it hasn't had the courage to tackle. Until it does, the message to corporations like Burger King is, have it your way.


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Shifting from confrontation to cooperation, congressional leaders expressed optimism Thursday that agreement was near on extending this year's payroll tax cut, renewing unemployment benefits and averting a federal government shutdown.
"We can extend payroll tax relief for American workers and create new jobs and keep the government running and, frankly, we can do it in a bipartisan way," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters, a turnabout from weeks of partisan sniping from both sides.
"No more show votes," Boehner said after praising earlier remarks by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., that lingering disagreements on a mammoth spending bill could be easily resolved. "It's just time to legislate."
Reid opened the Senate's morning session by saying he and the chamber's top Republican have held talks to resolve remaining disputes. With lawmakers itching to return home before the holidays, Reid said he and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., hope they can reach a deal "that would get us out of here in a reasonable time, in the next few days."
Standing just across the aisle, McConnell agreed with Reid — a stark contrast to recent days, when the two have fired sharp partisan volleys at each other.
"We're confident, optimistic we'll be able to resolve both on a bipartisan basis," said McConnell, referring to one bill that would renew the payroll tax cut and jobless benefits, and a separate spending measure that would keep federal agencies open.
President Barack Obama applied pressure of his own, saying Congress "should not and cannot" go home until it had resolved the issues.
"There's no reason why we shouldn't be able to extend these items, the payroll tax cut, u.i. before holidays," he said, using the abbreviation for unemployment insurance. "There's no reason the government should shut down over this, and I expect all of us to do what's necessary in order to do the people's business and make sure that it's done before the end of the year."
In part, the turnabout reflected the calendar: 160 million Americans would get a sudden tax increase on Jan. 1 if the payroll tax cut was not renewed, and most government agencies would close this Saturday without agreement on spending legislation.
The drive to broker agreements also underscored a sense that weeks of partisan battling, in which each party accused the other of causing tax increases and a federal shutdown, had finally run their course.
"We've done enough back-and-forth, the Republican leader and me, staking out our positions, and our positions are fairly clear to the American people," Reid said.
A clear sign of movement came late Wednesday, when aides said Democrats were abandoning their demand for a surtax on millionaires to help finance payroll tax cuts.
On a separate spending dispute, House Republicans had said Wednesday night that they would try pushing a massive $1 trillion spending bill through the House on Friday, relying only on GOP votes, to prevent a federalshutdown. Reid said Thursday that he believed remaining partisan disputes on that bill could be quickly settled.
Neither party wants to risk the wrath of voters by closing government agencies.
White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said Wednesday that Obama had problems with some social, environmental and other provisions in the spending legislation. Pfeiffer said Congress should approve a short-term bill to keep the government open while disputes are resolved.
The pre-Christmas wrangling caps a contentious year in a capital hindered by divided government, with Democrats controlling the White House and Senate while Republicans run the House. Lawmakers have engaged in down-to-the-wire drama even when performing the most mundane acts of governing, such as keeping agencies functioning and extending federal borrowing authority, tasks that are only becoming more politically delicate as the calendar nears the 2012 election year.
The GOP-run House approved its version of a payroll tax cut bill this week, but it drew solid opposition from Democrats and Obama in part because it would force work on the Keystone XL oil pipeline from western Canada to Texas Gulf Coast refineries, which Obama would rather delay. They are also unhappy that the bill is financed by cuts to civilian federal workers, Obama's health care overhaul bill and other programs that Democrats say would avoid meaningful contributions from the rich.
In one instance of cooperation, the Senate was expected to give final congressional approval Thursday to a $662 billion defense bill that would allow the administration to prosecute terrorism suspects in the civilian justice system.
The White House had initially issued a veto threat against the bill over language requiring the military to handle some terrorism suspects. An agreement was reached by including a provision ensuring that the role of domestic law enforcement agencies would be unchanged.
The spending bill would finance the Pentagon and nine other Cabinet-level departments, as well as scores of smaller agencies. It would trim the budgets of the Environmental Protection Agency, foreign aid and Congress itself while providing funds to combat AIDS in Africa, patrol the U.S.-Mexico border, operate national parks and boost veterans' health care.


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Gaza, November 16, 2012 (Photo: Anne Paq/Activestills)
We hear news that the Israeli state has called up 75,000 reserves and is planning for a ground invasion. I continue to hear loud explosions of air raids surround our home in Saftawi, Gaza. The constant buzzing of the Israeli drone has become part of the backdrop of this weapons battle. I hear news that Hamas shot down two Israeli F-16s. I hear news that an Israeli drone was shot down late last night. I hear the rockets continue to be launched from locations around Gaza and reach the outskirts of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The shape of these two forms of violence shows how a state is able to launch a war and how a non-state movement is able to resist it. As bombs continue to rain down on Gaza and rockets continue to break the Iron Dome and make it into Israel, a review of dominant mainstream media sites in the West and Western governments reveals a very skewed understanding on the (il)-legitimate use of violence.
Two days ago, on November 14th 2012, a potential ceasefire between the state of Israel and resistant factions on in the Gaza strip was broken when Israel launched the targeted assassination of Ahmed al-Jabari, the leader of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade. All Gazans immediately knew what this meant: there would be a retaliation launched by Hamas, a war of bombs and rockets would soon escalate and it would most likely continue. Gazans knew they would be bombarded with shelling from the sea, the sky and potentially land as ground forces would approach Gaza's eastern border. This is exactly what happened; and two days later this battle of weapons between Israel and Palestinian movements including Hamas is going strong.
However, through the eyes of Western government and mainstream media some of these killing apparatus are regarded as legitimate and others are not. The F-16, the Apache helicopter, the drone, the bomb are weapons that the US, the UK, the EU can understand and relate to. They should as they are large importers of Israeli military and intelligence technology. The rocket, homemade from donkey shit and sugar or fabricated using Iranian technology is a weapon that is foreign to Western discourses on legitimate forms of killing. While both apparatus have maimed and killed civilians and military targets over the last two days, the bomb dropped is a more comfortable thought in the minds of the BBC watcher in England than the rocket being launched from a Palestinian resistance fighter into Israel. These western narratives forget that the rocket is used by the lesser military power in this asymmetrical bomb competition between Israel and Gaza. It neglects that resistant fighters in Gaza don't use high performance jets or helicopters, not because they elect for a more brute or savage weapon; no, they use the rocket because they don't have drones who can target identified military leaders from hundreds of meters up. They don't have the military technology, power or resources to send fighter jets to Tel Aviv or launch a naval battle from the Mediterranean. They do not enjoy the support of the largest military power around the globe to assist it in making its attacks more "surgical".
Benjamin Netanyahu felt comfortable enough to call Israeli attacks on Gaza as "surgical" (quoted in Al-jazeera "Rockets aim at Tel Aviv as conflict escalates"). The doctors of war proceed with great precision, although I would urge to strongly disagree with Netanyahu's comments, as the death toll of civilians grows to twenty-nine and over two hundred injured in Gaza. However, Israel feels that it is a waging a professional war on Gaza, which is somehow more legitimate than the Palestinian retaliation attacks. And Western media and government voices support this reasoning, not only through their unbraided political and economic support for Israel, but also through their continued narration of the bomb competition between Gaza and Israel: through Western media and government there are clearly good guys and bad guys. Foreign Secretary William Hague says, "Hamas bears principal responsibility for the current crisis. I utterly condemn rocket attacks from Gaza into southern Israel by Hamas and other armed groups." In addition, to this western media and government narratives support a most controversial concept that the Israeli life is worth more than the Palestinian. As Israeli deaths make the headlines, the Palestinian death is always included as a secondary. The killing of civilians in war is wrong and must be avoided at all costs, but unfortunately it continues to happen. Gaza is a 12km by 40km territory populated by 1.5 million Palestinians lives, when an Israeli bomb lands here a civilian will lose its life; this is regarded as collateral damage and is excused on this regard of legitimate mistakes of war. When Hamas or other factions send rockets into Israel and approximate urban areas, civilians are also at risk; however, the Western discursive understanding of this damage to life is regarded as terroristic and the brutal intention of an illegitimate body waging an illegitimate form of war.
All Palestinian resistant movements are referred to as militants or terrorists. Western media sources feel comfortable awarding responsibility for all attacks on Israel as being launched by that "terrorist organisation": Hamas. Hamas, who although has strongly avoided the topic of elections in recent years, it was once upon time the democratic elected body of Palestine. Hamas was also not responsible for the rockets launched prior reaching the ceasefire on November 14th, 2012 before the assassination of Ahmed al-Jabari; Hamas's military wing leader. The blowing up of one of its leader was bound to bring Hamas into this violence, which at least initially, it was trying to avoid. Many Gazans critique Hamas for not maintaining its resistance stance against Israel. However, Hamas has now forcefully taken up the mode of retaliation following the assassination of its leader; I stress that Hamas's armed response comes as no surprise. However, Western media sources and governments were too quick to label Hamas attacks as uncalled-for militarist action. The argument that Hamas was compelled to respond to the assassination of one of its leaders does not enter western political or media discussions.
I would like to ask a question of these dominant Western discourses. In their mind who is allowed to legitimately resist against Israel? According to Westerns news media all resistant fighters in Palestine are militants. Israel, as a western favored state, is allowed to target and assassinate Hamas government and military officials: March 2004, Gaza: Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas, killed by missile strike, April 2004, Gaza: Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, co-founder and leader of Hamas, killed in missile strike, January 2009, Gaza: Said Siyam, senior Hamas commander, killed in air strike and now, November 2012, Gaza City: Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari, commander of Hamas' military wing, just to name a few. This precision killing is regarded as a legitimate form of violence. Hamas or other movements working from within Gaza are legitimate targets because they are regarded as militants or terrorists; their retaliation attacks, however, are regarded as illegitimate because they are from non-state militants or terrorists. So Palestinian military and political leaders can be legitimately targeted but they are not allowed to legitimately retaliate.
Palestinian factions represent a non-state (as we all know way to well Palestine does not have its state yet) and therefore, any form of violence Palestinian movements engage in will be, by de facto, that of a non-state actor. War or violence launched by a non-state actor, is so quickly coupled with militant or terrorist in the western discourse on legitimate uses of violence. Palestine continues to be forbidden its status and capability as a viable state; how then is Palestine meant to resist its occupation, when Israeli leaders wage their own war on Palestine and simultaneously work so energetically and aggressively to dissallow its status as a state? How are Gazan resistant movements, which do enjoy almost unanimous support from the entire Gaza population, meant to resist in a way which is legitimate to western governments? If these Western narratives were more dedicated to their own professed adherence to human rights then they would not be able to stand in defence of Israel. According to the Geneva Conventions a people under occupation have the legal right to resist their occupation; this Article 1 (4) of Protocol 1 stresses that force may be used to pursue the right of self-determination. States and actors who attempts to suppress the Palestinian right to resist violent occupation is in direct contradiction with the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, which all legally aim to provide support to those fighting colonial regimes. The Western discourse on the legitimate use of violence needs to sensitise and educate its view: Palestinians have the legal right to resist and that is exactly what they are doing.


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This past February, renowned experimental composer and harpist Zeena Parkins curated an eclectic series of events at New York's avant-garde music venue The Stone. During the last week, Parkins invited a number of guiding lights from San Francisco's experimental media scene to perform. One highlight was the synthesizer trio Phase Chancellor, an improvisational group who have made memorable, yet infrequent appearances at various art and music spaces since 2005. Comprised of video artist Nate Boyce, musician J. Lesser, and Matmos's M.C. Schmidt, the outfit channels the early investigations in electronic art and video carried out by John Cage, David Tudor, and Nam June Paik. Phase Chancellor distance themselves from their predecessors through their integration of digital technology. The backbone of the performance is Boyce's mesmeric imagery, prepared mostly through the processing software Jitter, but altered and added upon live using a hacked video mixer fed oscillations by his Korg Mono/Poly synth. (In the accompanying video, imploding circles in the center of the image are generated by the arpeggiator function on this device.) The Mono/Poly is also part of the sound mix, to which Lesser and Schmidt contribute a rich counterpoint of electronic textures, avoiding the concept of drone altogether in favor of a perplexing and ever-shifting sonic environment. - Nick Hallett
Video: Phase Chancellor at the Stone, February 22, 2008


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Star power is as much a factor in cocktails as it is in show business, with each ingredient selected for its ability to occupy center stage, or to share the billing in a flavorful ensemble. But sometimes credit for carrying the show comes down to a bit player that excels not at attracting the spotlight but at making everything else on stage shine brighter—that is the role of bitters. "There's something about the properties of bitters that brings out the flavors that are already there," says Derek Brown, co-owner of The Passenger in Washington, D.C., and its adjoining bar, The Columbia Room. On their own, bitters are—well, bitter, in some cases insufferably so; but when a few drops are added to a cocktail, the effect is similar to taking a scratchy print of an old movie and remastering it in high-def. "Bitters make you more receptive to other flavors, and everything becomes more interesting and nuanced," adds Brown "Some work as accents, others as binders to connect the dots of the flavors. Just adding a little bitters brings out the crux of a cocktail's character."
What Bitters Are
Bitters are concentrated tinctures combining herbs, spices and botanicals, such as cardamom, aniseed and dried orange peel, their flavors typically (but not always) expressed in high-proof alcohol, with a bracing bitterness from gentian, quassia bark, dandelion or wormwood. Bitter is an evolutionary alarm signal sent by nature that a plant is potentially dangerous—but sometimes the risk comes with rewards. "Whenever a bitter flavor hits your tongue, it lights up your brain and sends you one of two messages: 'This could kill you,' or 'This could be fun,' " Brown says.
The bitters family tree includes European digestive bitters that are consumed by the glass, and high-octane patent medicines that were hawked with dubious health claims. Bitters entered the boozy vernacular in 1806, when an early definition of "cocktail" included bitters as one of the key components. Over the following decades, many styles entered circulation, with brands such as Boker's, Abbott's, Stoughton's and Drake's Plantation Bitters deployed in countless cocktails, along with two brands that survive today—Angostura and Peychaud's. In addition to commercial brands, barkeepers across the country commonly prepared their own house styles of bitters. But by the end of the late 20th century, bitters were a forgotten extra in the grand show of mixology. "There was that crusty bottle of Angostura on every bar's shelf, and who knew how long that had been there," Brown says. "Peychaud's Bitters were even less available."
Today that situation has dramatically changed. The modern bitters selection includes re-creations of vintage recipes and contemporary takes on classic styles, as well as bitters from a new generation of producers who are as likely to reach for hot chiles, roasted cacao nibs, celery seed or lavender flowers as they are for tradtional ingredients, making the bitters available to today's bartenders an embarrassment of riches. "Almost any flavor of bitters is available online or is distributed locally," says Brown, who uses a dozen styles of bitters at The Passenger, and more than 30 styles at the Columbia Room, many of which are made locally or crafted in house. "I'm pretty enthusiastic about how it's changed."
Aromatic Bitters
For cocktails made with aged spirits, such as whiskey or brandy, or robust ingredients, such as sweet vermouth, the best bitters are usually from the class known as "aromatic." Most aromatic bitters have familiar spice flavors—cinnamon, cloves and cardamom, along with vanilla and leather notes if they're oak-aged—that share common ground with aged spirits in classics like a Manhattan or Old Fashioned. "A lot of the flavors in aromatic bitters are found in whiskey and vermouth," says Giuseppe Gonzalez, co-owner of Painkiller, a tiki bar in Manhattan. Gonzalez says that when these full-flavored ingredients meet in a mixing glass, each surrenders some of its character, but by adding aromatic bitters, those subtle nuances are restored. "There's a natural marriage of flavors between the ingredients, and the bitters bring everything together," he says. "They bump up the flavor of the whiskey to where it should be, and it enhances the flavors that are already there."
The longtime regent of aromatic bitters is Angostura, produced since 1824 from a secret recipe and packaged with a densely worded paper label that seems too big for the bottle. Recently plagued by distribution problems, Angostura is usually widely available, and until recently it was the only aromatic bitters sold in most regions of the country. Similarly venerable is Peychaud's Bitters, a softer, more floral style introduced in New Orleans around 1830. Instead of the usual winter-spice profile, Peychaud's has a rich anise-laden flavor that works exceptionally well in New Orleans classics, such as the Sazerac and Vieux Carré, as well as with Scotch whisky in such drinks as the Flying Scotsman.
The past few years have seen an aromatic bonanza, as brands such as Fee Bros. Old-Fashion Aromatic Bitters (and another Fee's style, aged in used whiskey barrels) have become more widely available. Bitters experienced a further boost starting in 2006, when German bartenders Stephan Berg and Alexander Hauck launched The Bitter Truth with a line that included spice-rich aromatic bitters and Jerry Thomas Decanter Bitters, based on a recipe from the 19th-century bartender. "In the old days they had so many different types of aromatic bitters," Berg says. "We wanted to extend the understanding of these kinds of bitters, and we thought it wouldn't hurt if we had a second style so people could make their choice, and to give some credit to the most famous bartender of the 19th century."
Adding to the reappearance of vintage styles of aromatic bitters, last year Scottish bartender Adam Elmegirab introduced a re-creation of Boker's Bitters, a brand that originally debuted in 1828 and was key to such drinks as the Japanese Cocktail and the Martinez, but which has been out of production since the 1920s.
While aromatic bitters are synonymous with 19th-century classic cocktails, they're also an essential component in exotic drinks, such as those from tiki pioneer Donn Beach, who combined Angostura with Pernod as a secret signature in such drinks as the Test Pilot and the Zombie. At the tiki-themed Painkiller, Gonzalez gives a Queen's Park Swizzle an aromatic boost by dashing Angostura on top of the drink. Such an ardent advocate for bitters that he developed the Trinidad Sour—a concept-warping drink that's based on a full ounce of Angostura—Gonzalez says that even in complex exotic drinks made with multiple rums and tropical juices, bitters can be essential to centering a drink's flavor. "Especially in a drink with three rums, cinnamon syrup, grenadine, absinthe and falernum," he says, "you need one ingredient that can bring everything together."
Citrus Bitters
Sometime during the 19th-century bitters boom, aromatic bitters were joined by the citrusy character of orange bitters. Drinks accented with orange were nothing new—European liqueurs and aperitif wines, which utilized the dried peel of bitter orange, were often added to cocktails to lend gravitas and complexity. But orange bitters were like a condensed version of these liqueurs, enhancing the bright citrus snap and astringent bite with a spicy character from ingredients such as cardamom and coriander.
Almost defunct as a style only a few years, ago, orange bitters are now available from several producers. For several years, Fee Bros. kept the style alive with their West Indian Orange Bitters, which has a soft, citrusy flavor. Then in 2005 they were joined by Regans' Orange Bitters No. 6, a crisp and spicy bitters developed by bartender and drinks writer Gary Regan. The Bitter Truth introduced an orange bitters in 2006, and in 2008 Angostura added to its product line with an orange bitters that has an assertive natural-orange flavor and an impressively complex depth.
While aromatic bitters share many flavor characteristics with aged spirits, such as whiskey, orange bitters seem tailor-made for the airy herbaceousness of gin (it was a staple ingredient in Martinis during the cocktail's first five decades). Orange bitters also have a particular affinity for herbal liqueurs, such as Chartreuse, and appear in such drinks as the gin-based Bijou and the intensely floral Alaska Cocktail. While the spice notes of aromatic bitters often make them a better accent in drinks made with bourbon or rye, Brown says orange bitters help balance the heaviness of Scotch whisky when used in cocktails like the Rob Roy.
Recently, orange has been joined by other citrus flavors in the bitters category, including grapefruit versions from Fee Bros. and Bittermens Bitters. The Bittermens grapefruit bitters use an ingredient familiar to craft-beer drinkers: Pacific Northwest hops. "The hops give the bitters a nice, green, vegetal taste, but also some flavor tenacity," says co-founder Avery Glasser. "If you think about a hoppy Northwest IPA, that flavor hangs in your mouth for a while, much longer than if you drink grapefruit juice." In addition to such drinks as the gin-based Charles Lindbergh from Boston bartender Jackson Cannon, Glasser says a favored use for these bitters is to dash them into a gin and tonic along with a splash of maraschino liqueur.
The New Frontier
The craft-cocktail revival has been accompanied by a flood of new spirits and flavors, some requiring a re-imagining of bitters. While living in San Francisco in 2007, Glasser and his wife, Janet, had the idea of creating a tequila-friendly bitters for a Mexico-born bartender at Bacar restaurant. Free-associating their way toward a flavor, the Glassers settled on a style with the rich, spicy character of molé. "I combined classic bitter theory with new flavors," Avery says. "Classic bitters have cinchona and angelica and gentian, which are standard European digestive bitters components; but we also used Mexican-style cacao, Mexican cinnamon and hot pepper. I don't think anyone's used hot pepper flakes in a classic bitters recipe."
While developing what became Bittermens Xocolatl Mole Bitters, the Glassers became part of a growing number of producers who are creating new styles. In Vermont, Urban Moonshine makes bitters with the richness of maple syrup; Maine-based Sweetgrass Farm Winery & Distillery makes brightly flavored cranberry and blueberry bitters; Jamaican Bitters based on rum and flavored with Caribbean spices are made by Milwaukee-based Bittercube, from bartenders Nicholas Kosevich and Ira Koplowitz; and Boudreau's Bitters, from Seattle bartender Jamie Boudreau, features a bright and lush Cherry Bitters.
Also in Seattle, bartender Miles Thomas has been making Scrappy's Bitters since 2008. Thomas now sells styles ranging from a classic orange to lavender, chocolate and cardamom. While his emphasis is on bitters that feature a single flavor, each style requires the use of multiple ingredients such as grains of paradise, angelica root, horehound and mace. "Most of the time, one flavor has multiple components, so something like cardamom can taste like a couple of different things," he says.
Other novel flavors continue to appear on the bar. The Bitter Truth released a celery bitters in 2008 that quickly became a favorite in savory gin and tequila cocktails. This year the company introduced a Creole Bitters that has an anise-laden richness. This summer, the Glassers introduced two new styles of Bittermens Bitters: a citrus- and ginger-accented Elemakule Tiki Bitters made for tropical-style rum cocktails; and Boston Bittahs, flavored with citrus and chamomile and designed to work with gin.
For Brown, the array of available bitters has opened a new frontier of flavor. "You can look at drinks analytically and come up with new flavor combinations that are excellent," he says. "Now you can ask, 'What are the best bitters for this cocktail?' rather than, 'What are the only bitters available for this cocktail?' "


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After an air-traffic controller was suspended for falling asleep during an overnight shift at Washington's Reagan National Airport, federal lawmakers and officials are debating the balance between adding more personnel to increase safety and the financial costs of doing so.
On Thursday, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood directed Reagan airport to add a second controller to its overnight shift and advised other airports with only one night controller to review their staffing policies.
That action was criticized by Rep. John Mica (R) of Florida, chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who called it "a typical bureaucratic response," in a statement Thursday.
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Congressman Mica pledged to investigate the matter but noted there are few flights into Reagan airport during the night shift, and that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a policy of allocating staff to match air traffic. Adding another air-traffic controller, he said, goes against that policy.
The cost of adding another air-traffic controller to the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift would likely reach six figures per year in Washington, for example. Washington-area air-traffic controllers are the best-paid in the country, with a median hourly wage of $63.20, or $131,460 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's about $12 an hour more than the national median for air-traffic controllers.
Most midsize airports must have at least two air traffic controllers on duty at all times, because they are responsible for controlling local airport traffic as well as regional traffic within a 50-mile radius. Reagan airport is not subject to this FAA regulation, because a tower in Warrenton, Va., handles the regional traffic.
Some critics of the current policy say towers should be manned not only for safety, but also for national-security reasons that trump cost. Reagan airport is located in Arlington, Va., about four miles south of the White House.
"Because of where Reagan airport is – in a very sensitive national security area – that tower should have at least two people in it," said Mike Pangia, a former FAA lawyer, in an interview with the Associated Press.
Mr. Pangia also noted that risk of human error is always present, and having two people helps prevent mistakes.
"We have two pilots in the cockpit because they are human beings, and you have to take that into account," he said.
National Air Traffic Controllers Association President Paul Rinaldi agrees with that assessment, and issued a statement Thursday slamming one-controller staffing policies which called them "unsafe. Period."
Though both planes which were forced to land without clearance Wednesday touched down safely, there have been crashes linked to one-person air-traffic control shifts. In August 2006, 49 people died when flight Comair Flight 191 tried to take off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Ky. The runway was too short, and the plane crashed before liftoff.
The air-traffic controller had instructed the crew to take off from the correct runway, but neither the controller nor the crew noticed when the plane lined up at the wrong runway. At the time, the controller was monitoring both takeoffs and landings, as well as air traffic around the airport, a job often done by two people, the the National Transportation Safety Board noted in its report on the crash.
Still, Mica thinks that resources would be better allocated if air-traffic staffing were given to times with high air traffic.
"In difficult financial times for the nation, it is critical that we utilize our limited resources in the most responsible fashion without compromising safety," said Mica.
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The Score: Haitian Electoral Council 3, Wyclef Jean nothing.
After first leaving the hip-hop star off the ballot for this November's presidential elections and then rejecting his claims to residency in Haiti, electoral officials stated that they will not hear Jean's appeals and he is no longer in contention for the office, reports Reuters.
Samuel Pierre of the council's legal arm cited a section of Haitian law that says rulings issued by the electoral body are final, leaving no room for further action by Jean's camp.
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"Therefore there is absolutely no possibility for Wyclef Jean to be added to the list of candidates approved to run in the next presidential elections," he said. "So it's over."
On August 21, Jean, 40, was made aware of his disqualification and initially agreed to honor the decision before changing his mind. He was one of 15 candidates who were eventually tossed out of the race to succeed Rene Preval, who is forced to leave office due to term limits.
Haitian officials excluded Jean because they said he did not meet residency requirements, which state that presidential candidates must be able to show five consecutive years of residency before running.
Jean attempted to present legal documentation to prove his standing.
"I have spent half my life in Haiti going back and forth," he said in an interview with MSNBC.
Jean maintained that his celebrity status might be a boon to the shattered nation, which deperately needs financial and developmental aid in the wake of January's massive earthquake that left over 230,000 dead.
Selected Reading: Reuters, New York Times, MSNBC