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As a kid growing up in the Ozarks, I've always heard of the notorious Bald Knobbers. There are manikins and pictures of them painted on the walls of Silver Dollar City's "Fire in the Hole" ride. Also, the Bald Knobbers made their raid and set a cabin on fire nightly at Shepherd of the Hills' outdoor drama. Lastly, and my favorite, was The Baldknobbers Hillbilly Jamboree Stage Show from Branson, Missouri. When I was a little boy, I enjoyed these entertainers; they held my fascination in the early 1970's (I'm 46 years old). I remember they came to Mountain Home, Arkansas, in late April of 1972. They were some wild characters & great musicians such as, the Wild Man on the guitar, Droopy Drawers playing the washboard, and George Aggernite thumping washtub & string. The small school stage was packed full of musicians and equipment, and the night began in the gym auditorium with enormous excitement. After the second song, comedian George Aggernite was announced, and he ran onto the stage, tripped over his washtub, and fell off the stage. A collective sigh could be heard across the auditorium. As the trooper & performer he was, he crawled back on stage, cracked a few jokes, played a song, and then went backstage to bandage his cut leg. He came back a few moments later and acted like nothing was wrong.
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The Baldknobbers Hillbilly Jamboree Stage Show.
George Aggernite (Lyle W. Mabe) was one of the main characters I always watched on stage because, in my mind, he was larger than life. The reason? He was on the nightly 10 o'clock KY3 news out of Springfield, Missouri, doing commercials for Empire Gas. I didn't get to see him often because we didn't have a TV, due to we lived to far in the valley to get a signal. Therefore, I would spend the night, every so often, at my Granny Anderson's knowing she would watch the news, and I would see George Aggernite with his toothless smile.
Of Politics & Religion
And now, a word of warning…I'm about to sound a little political. As to the "party" I belong to…American. After that, it's a toss-up. I am conservative and get an uneasy feeling when meeting politicians because I don't always trust them. Nevertheless, I'm one of the guys that will make phone calls, write letters, and emails from the White House all the way down to the locals. I do this because it is my call, duty, and responsibility. If I have done this sincerely, the burden and responsibility is then upon the representative. I realize that many politicians have disregarded my nuisance; but in the Day of Judgment, the Lord will hold them responsible for their transgressions. I've long been a political activist before some people who woke up late in the game called the Tea Party. Nothing against Tea Party, but 2009 was a bit too late. I believe the Lord gives our nation the leaders we deserve, and we have to work with the ones we have been blessed or cursed with. In the end, I'm an optimist. I believe with every cursed & corrupt leader/leaders, we have the opportunity to see our mistakes as a nation. At this moment, we have such glaring opportunities it is amazing. Yes, you may read between my lines.
Political parties, many times start out with great intentions. But, as time goes by, grandiose objectives become mixed with flamboyant excess and disparaging corruption. In times past, political maneuvers and tactics were meted out by stately politicians who would pelt each other with their canes, brandishing a Bowie knife, or have a civil duel. (Lately, that doesn't sound like a bad idea.) Additionally, an exasperated crowd may revert to tar & feathering the culprits and ran them out of the country. At this time, these alternatives, unfortunately, are not looked upon kindly by those who make the laws for us to live by.
The Ozarks' History
In the past, the Ozarks too has had its' political parties, though we haven't seen them on the ballot lately. The two parties I'm referring to are the Baldknobbers and the Anti-Baldknobbers. To the defense of the Baldknobbers, it all started out with good intentions with the determination of freedom to practice their religion. As to the historical Ozark Bald Knobbers, there is a story to discover that will show the darker side of our nature and the terror and prejudice once endured. These events spanned Taney, Christian, and Ozark counties in Missouri. There is one book covering these Ozark desperadoes called, Bald Knobbers: Vigilantes on the Ozarks Frontier, by Elmo Ingenthron and Mary Hartman. According these authors, the Bald Knobbers were "mostly conservative Republicans and former Unionists," the anti-Bald Knobbers were mostly "Democrats and former Confederate soldiers." The initial leader of the Bald Knobbers was a man named, Captain Nathaniel N. Kinney, whose nickname was the "Old Blue Gobbler."
At the moment, I might be of the Anti-Bald Knobbers Camp because in the late 1800's they won in the courts, and the losers were literally strung up…on a rope. This may mean I might also have a Southern leaning in looking at the War of Northern Aggression, which is sometimes known as the Civil War. It seems from time to time, history hangs its' heroes on the gallows at times.
Throughout this year, 2012, I will be blogging a series of newspaper articles from the 1886 – 1918 that will cover the spectrum of the Bald Knobbers. I have culled and saved over 100 of these fascinating articles that details their conception, raids, capture, trials, executions, and exoneration. We will discover how others looked at the whole series of events to the commercialization of these outlaws. I am not going to write the whole history of the Bald Knobbers on this blog, but I will post significant articles that chronicled some of their exploits, triumphs, and downfalls. Additionally, you may notice, the spelling of this group can be either "Bald Knobbers" or "Baldknobbers." This is the beginning of the saga called the Bald Knobbers which is all a part of our Ozarks' History.
They had to Hang Two Men and Shot Another,
and to Pray, Speak, and Sing with
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FORSYTH, Mo - April 24. The town, situated in Taney county, twenty-five miles from a railroad and within sight of the bald knob of the Ozark Mountains, is a forbidding little place. The people are easy going in everything except their deviltry. Shiftlessness is the rule. They can get up energy enough to shoot or hang a man, but it would take some entire families to produce enough vim to paint a weather-beaten house, mend a roof, or nail a hinge on a gate. There are two factions in the county.
About a year ago the first Sunday school ever held in this region was opened here. As soon as the scheme was broached there was trouble. The Cogburn boys announced that there never had been a Sunday school in Taney county, and it was altogether too late in the century for one to be started now. They and their friends attended the service and interrupted them. The backers of the Sunday school called upon the Sheriff for assistance but he was a sympathizer with the Cogburns and on the ground that no jury could be found to convict them, and that it would cost a good deal of money anyway, he refused to take action. Finding themselves outside the protecting influence of the law, the Sunday school party held meeting to devise mean of self-defense. The last of these, at which a permanent organization was effected, was held in the bald knobs, and from this fact the band became known as the "Bald Knobbers." Two brothers named Taylor, who had been in the habit of riding on to the porches of dwelling houses and firing their rifles in at the windows, were the first victims of, the knobbers. They were caught at their tricks one night and the next morning their bodies were found hanging in a tree where the pious Bald Knobbers had placed them. This episode opened the war in earnest.
|Captain Nathanial N. Kinney
The Sunday school having flourished and established a few branches in various parts of the county, it was decided to hold a convention at Oak Grove late last summer. Everybody attended,
knobbers and anti-knobbers. Things went smoothly the first day, but on the morning of the second day of the session, when the allegations met, they round a skull and crossbones and a coffin marked "Capt. Kinney's," and a note to Kinney, with a buckshot enclosed, warning him to get out of the country as soon as possible. Capt. Kinney was the leader of the knobbers, a man six foot five, weighing 250 pounds, and a very enthusiastic worker in the Sunday school.
The Cogburn boys were in the Convention that morning when it was called to order, apparently without their guns, but it was afterward learned that their sisters, who were also present, had the family revolvers suspended under their skirts, where they could be reached at a moment's notice.
After the opening prayer several speakers referred to the skull and cross bones episode, all denouncing the authors of the placard in unmeasured terms. While these addresses were in progress the Cogburns laughed out loud and made frequent interruptions. Then Capt. Kinney stood up, and after clearing his throat, said:
"I don't know exactly who left them things In the vestibule, but I can guess pretty straight, and all I have to say is that I'll bet he'll need a coffin before I do. If he undertakes to interfere with this convention I think there's enough of us here to hang his hide on the fence in about three minutes. I'm a peaceful man and don't want any trouble, but I give everybody here fair warning that this Sunday school convention is going to sit here till it gets through business, and anybody who interferes with it will get hurt."
After further speeches in the same strain the convention adjourned. In the afternoon all the delegates came around many of them with rifles and shotguns. The brother who led in prayer knelt with his face toward the door and held a revolver in his hand. Not one of the delegates, whether they were speaking, singing, or praying, dropped his weapon once during the proceedings. The Cogburns made no further demonstration, but when the convention adjourned they again threatened that no more such meetings would be held.
From that time down to the first of this month, Capt. Kinney and the Cogburns kept a continual lookout for each other. Then one Sunday evening one of the Cogburns was seen hanging around the church which Capt. Kinney usually attended. He had a rifle, and as he had been drinking, it was thought that he was about on mischief, A young man who taught one of the classes in the Sunday school determined it his duty to inform the Captain of the circumstance, and he accordingly walked down the road to meet that worthy. Kinney had his gun also, and being forewarned he crept stealthily to the church, got the drop on Cogburn, shot him dead as he stood in the doorway. The Coroner's jury was made up of Bald Knobbers taken from the Sunday school, and Kinney was acquitted on the ground that the shooting was justifiable.
Soon after this tragedy, which was only one of a score or more that had proceeded directly or indirectly from the institution of the Sunday school and the organization of the Bald Knobbers, several prominent men in the town not previously identified with either faction determined on organizing a militia company. The Anti-Bald Knobbers, who had suffered severely at the hands of that organization, saw in this scheme an opportunity to get even, and they espoused the cause in large numbers. Meetings were held, a roster was signed, and two prominent citizens started to the capital to lay the matter before the Governor, and receive the necessary authority and equipment. At this stage of the proceedings the Bald Knobbers got wind of the enterprise, and they, too sent delegates to Jefferson City. They showed Gov. Marmaduke that not one of the proposed militiaman was a taxpayer, and proved to his satisfaction that the organization was intended to make war upon citizens. One young man who had been induced to enlist, confessed that the intention of the military leaders was to match on the Bald Knobbers some time when they were in church or Sunday school, and take them prisoners. Then they were to be deposed of in various ways. Capt. Kinney was to be shot down in the presence of all the others, several were to be lynched, others were to be whipped, and still others were to be banished from the county.
When Gov. Marmaduke came to examine into the matter closely he made up his mind that a militia company was not needed in Taney county, and he therefore refused to issue arms and commissions. This decision filled the Bald Knobbers with glee, and they proceeded to hold a celebration. They now number about five hundred and comprehend about all the preachers and Christians in this county. Further violence is expected.
End of Article
Works Cited:
Darnell, Gerry. Bald Knobbers: The Ozark Vigilantes. "Turmoil and Unrest in the Missouri Hills." 12 Dec. 2010
Ingenthron, Elmo and Mary Hartman. Bald Knobbers: Vigilantes on the Ozarks Frontier. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 1992.
Our History. 2011. Baldknobbers Jamboree Show. 12 Dec. 2010 <http://www.baldknobbers.com/history/>.
"The Pious Bald Knobbers." The Sun, Ney York City, New York. 53.237 (25 Apr., 1886) 1. New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. United States Library of Congress, Washington D.C. 15 Nov. 2011 < http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov>.


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Jemima Codrington: Flaherty's new mortgage rules of course are stirring the industry. But there are several changes that have taken place behind the scenes that investors may not even know about. We get the scoop in this week's Investor Insight.
Dustan Woodhouse, Our Mortgage Expert
Dustan Woodhouse: These days I would say that the most important question to ask a broker is, "do they qualify for the existing mortgages they currently have?" Because if they are contemplating disposing off a property, they may well not be able to replace it. And that isn't just investment properties, it's owner-occupied properties.
There's been a lot of media coverage of the various changes that Mr. Flaherty brought in through CMHC, but there's been a lot less coverage of several significant changes that have come in through the banks, primarily the chartered banks that have been affected. Over the last couple of years the buildup was on credit, good clean quality credit and that still matters.
But over the past few months, the past few weeks in particular, the focus is primarily on documented income and by the documented income I mean on your tax return, your line 150 income, excluding any dividend income, excluding any RSP meltdown, it's all about what your salary actually is and for the great majority of self employed individuals, it's going to create some big hurdles moving forward for getting mortgage financing.
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What Is a 'Hamburger Button' Anyway?
You probably use these app gestures all the time, but do you know the terminology? WSJ's Jessica Lessin takes you through the "lingo" of app touch interactions.
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Two California medical-malpractice insurers have agreed to lower their premiums, a decision the state-insurance commissioner says will lower costs to healthcare providers in the state by $4 million.
State-insurance commissioner Dave Jones used the occasion to renew his call for authority to stop health-insurance companies from raising premiums excessively.
Currently, Jones has the authority to reject excessive medical malpractice, life and property and casualty insurance rates through Proposition 103.
But, according to insurance department officials, he lacks the authority to regulate health-insurance rates, as was exhibited in the April 1 decision by Aetna to follow through on a decision to raise health premiums on small employers despite Jones' finding that the rate hikes were excessive.
In announcing the decision of the medmal insurers to reduce rates, Jones again voiced support for A.B. 52, state legislation he is sponsoring that would give him authority to reject rate-hike requests he considers excessive.
"It defies reason that the insurance commissioner has the legal authority under Proposition 103 to reduce excessive medical-malpractice-insurance rates for doctors, dentists, and other medical providers, but I don't have the authority to reject excessive health insurance or HMO rate increases for ordinary Californians, their families, or their businesses," Jones said.
"We need to extend Proposition 103 to health insurance and HMOs so that we can reject excessive health insurance and HMO rate increases that are devastating Californians and California's businesses," he said.
The decisions by Medical Protection Company (MedPro) and NCMIC Insurance Company were announced by Jones, who said MedPro agreed to reduce rates 11.9 percent and NCMIC 7.25 percent.
MedPro is the fifth largest medical malpractice writer in California; NCMIC specializes in writing medical malpractice insurance for chiropractors.
The total premium savings from the companies' decisions total nearly $4 million annually, Jones says. MedPro will implement its rate reduction on June 1 and NCMIC on July 1 of this year.
The two join three other insurers—NORCAL Mutual, The Dentists Insurance Company and The Medical Insurance Exchange of California's physicians and surgeons program—that have lowered rates recently due to actions taken by Jones.
He said the total savings to medical providers in California will be nearly $23 million.
Last year, Jones required medmal insurers to submit rate filings to the Department of Insurance to justify their current rates. After a review of those filings, Jones called for the rate reductions.


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Merlin is conjuring up another season at Syfy. The drama, which saw its ratings rise in season three, will be back for a fourth season in 2012.
The show — known as The Adventures of Merlin throughout the rest of the world, outside of the U.S. and the United Kingdom — returns with star Colin Morgan as Merlin, as well as Bradley James as Prince Arthur and Angel Coulby as Gwen. Katie McGrath, Anthony Head and Richard Wilson are also back, while John Hurt once again lends his voice to the Great Dragon.
Season four of the show, set in Camelot, follows Merlin as he looks to ensure that Arthur "fulfils his destiny as the Once and Future King." Joining the show in season four are Nathaniel Parker as Agravaine, as well as guest stars Gemma Jones as Cailleach and Phil Davis as a sinister Circus master.
Syfy licenses Merlin (produced by Shine TV) through FremantleMedia Enterprises, which will air the show in the U.K. on BBC One this fall. On Syfy, season three of Merlin averaged 1.9 million viewers, up 12 percent compared to season two.


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Ambassador Super Cinema
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Designed in an Art Deco style, by prolific cinema architect John Knight in 1928, the Ambassador Super Cinema was the only remaining example of Knight's many theatres in the northwest area of England.
Built for the Snape & Ward circuit, the Ambassador Super Cinema opened on December 24th 1928, the opening films were Emil Jannings in "Vaudeville" and Conway Tearle in "Enemies of Society". There was also a variety programme on the 16 feet deep stage. It had a 40 feet wide proscenium, six dressing rooms and an orchestra pit, which contained a Jardine 'Rex Gloria' 3Manual organ. The Ambassador Super cinema featured a strong symmetrical façade, a projecting centrepiece flanked by Italianate style towers, and fluted Art Deco style moulding the full width of the façade at cornice level.
The theatre's interior was very well preserved. The foyer had a marble staircase with metal balustrade on fluted posts and windows with decorative coloured glass. The auditorium had a coffered ceiling and a fluted frieze matching that on the exterior, as well as a narrow balcony to rear.
The side walls were decorated with stepped panels under shell moulded plaster hoods - both of these mouldings inspired by the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs. Decorative shields with winged helmets and drapes at beam ends to ceiling coffers.
By 1963 it was operated by the G.B. Snape Group of Assoc. Cinema Companies chain. The Ambassador Super Cinema closed on 28th November 1964 and was converted into a Mecca Bingo Club, who kept very well maintained.
A preservation group were attempting to raise the funds to purchase, renovate, and develop the building into a community media and arts centre.
Although this was designated a Grade II Listed building, the Ambassador Super Cinema was stripped of its designation and was sadly demolished in April of 2004.
Recent comments (view all 41 comments)
Hi Andy,
Sorry but I mislaid your phone number.
I still have my 15 minute Video of the intact interior of The Ambassador Cinema.
Cath Connett
Hi Cath
Email me at and i will give you my number.
sorry you could`nt save the ambassador.
what chance have nobodies got when contractors and councellers
are in the same bed?????
Hi Andy
If Possible could you email me any photo's of the insibe of the cinema looking from the stage area to the projection room and inside the projection room
many thanks. Brian.
I dont have any unfortunately.
According to the developers, this building had 'little architectural merit'! I wonder if future generations will say the same about what has been built on the site!
This is what was lost…..
….and that's just the outside!
May all concerned in this wanton destruction of our Heritage, hang their heads in shame.
Ive been driving past this building for about 40 yrs now. Fantastic building. What a great shame its now just another mini housing project.
We simply cant demolish glorious buildings like this, time and time again.
Salford council should resign, en mass.
A couple more pictures taken just prior to demilition here:–
As per usual listing status means nothing when money talks.
The Ambassador was a lovley cinema. My farther was the sound engineer so we would go there once a month. I used to work with one of the projectionist, a man called Don Collier. In 1982 a freind and I removed the 2 BTH SUPA projectors. I rebiult them and used them in my home cinema.
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Phillies, Braves to honor Fregosi before March 5 game
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Jim Fregosi managed the Phillies to the World Series in 1993 and spent the last 13 years as a special assistant to the general manager for the Braves. So it's fitting that a memorial service will be held at Bright House Field before the Atlanta-Philadelphia exhibition game March 5.
Fregosi, whose outsized personality touched hundreds, died last week at 71, triggering an outpouring of tributes. "Jim Fregosi, who spent 53 years in the game, was one of the most respected men in baseball," noted Phillies vice president, alumni relations Larry Shenk, who is helping to organize the event.
Members of Fregosi's family, as well as dozens of friends and former teammates, are expected to pay their respects to the baseball great who was an All-Star shortstop for the Angels and also played for the Mets, Rangers and Pirates. In addition to the Phillies, he managed the Angels, White Sox and Blue Jays. Each club will be represented.


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Being a bit of a free spirit, for years I resisted any kind of unnecessary structuring of my workdays. Sure, I'd do my client calls and other appointments, but when it came to unscheduled work, I'd just look around for what needed to be done next, work on that until it was finished, take a break, and then look for the next task.
This strategy worked fine for me, except that I never felt there were enough hours in the day, and I always felt the stress of what I thought was a heavy workload. Then, about two years ago, I made a life-changing discovery. I decided to grow my business and take on new research, publishing and client projects but started to get that familiar feeling of having too much work to and not enough time to do it. Then I noticed I was working about the same number hours as I did before adding these extra assignments.
How was it possible that I was doing more work in the same time? When I compared my working days, with fewer versus more projects, I realized that I wasn't really doing more work—I had simply become more efficient.
For one thing, I grouped similar tasks together, so I didn't have to mentally change gears between projects. I also worked in longer stretches with fewer breaks. But most importantly, I found less time-consuming ways to get things done; from emailing questions to clients rather than calling, to checking my emails at regular intervals rather than constantly, to changing or updating existing documents rather than writing everything from scratch, to name a basic few step.
The truth is that for years I'd been wasting my time on "fake work," a term coined by Brent Peterson, author of the book "Fake Work: Why People Are Working Harder but Accomplishing Less." That is, inefficient or redundant tasks were filling up my days, creating the illusion that I was busy, while preventing me from tackling new, more challenging tasks because "I just didn't have the time."
This realization led me to take a hard look at exactly what I was doing during my workdays, even at my "new," more productive level. Sure enough, I was surprised to find that I was in fact doing things more efficiently, but only efficiently enough to fill up my days with my new level of what needed to be done.
So I started to experiment with how efficient my clients and I could become if we really put our minds to it. To do this, I divided "open" time into finite windows, which I set aside for specific tasks such as doing the follow-up work after client calls or working on my publishing projects or my website, etc. What I found was that the discipline of having a fixed window of time to get things done motivated me to get them done within that time. When I shortened my allotted time, I got them done in less time.
Rather than cramping my "free spirit" style, I realized that working on one task for the next two hours, or whatever "window" I had, with additional time windows allotted to work on other tasks later, freed me up to completely focus on what I was doing, and find the best ways to do it.
The net result is that I actually work fewer hours, get way more done, and best of all, my level of productivity has actually gone up. In fact, time windows have worked so well in my business that I highly recommend them to all my clients, especially those suffering from the traditional challenge faced by advisors of having way too much to do and too little time to do it.


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State Boundary: Ceará, Brasil, 2001
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- This polygon shapefile contains the state boundary of Ceará, Brazil, in 2001. Brazil contains 27 Unidades Federativas (UF) - 26 states and 1 federal district. The states are generally based on historical, conventional borders which have developed over time. This layer is part of the Evolução da divisão territorial do Brasil 1872 - 2010 dataset, a collection of data representing the evolution of Brazilian states, municipalities and cities.This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Wordless Wednesday - Space Shuttle Rocket Birthday Cake
My son requested a space ship cake for his birthday. My mom enjoys baking cakes and found an instructional video on the Betty Crocker website for a Space Shuttle Cake. Didn't it turn out cute? It's ready for take off!
By the way, the Space shuttle Discovery, NASA's oldest shuttle, is due to return to earth today for the final time this morning [10:57 am CT]! For coverage of the landing, watch NASA TV.
Find more of this week's Wordless Wednesday (or Wordful) posts at 5 Minutes for Mom.
17 comments:
- rhapsodyinbooks said...
Wow, I thought for sure you bought it! Great job!
- March 9, 2011 at 8:36 AM
- Liz Mays said...
That came out superbly! I love it, and I know he did too!
- March 9, 2011 at 9:16 AM
- LadyD Piano said...
What a lovely cake in just the right colors. I bet it was delicious, too!
- March 9, 2011 at 9:37 AM
- TheAtticGirl said...
That is awesome! Your mom is very talented!
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- March 9, 2011 at 9:47 AM
- Susie said...
He looks so happy!!!
- March 9, 2011 at 11:55 AM
- Secret Mom Thoughts said...
Super cute. It came out great.
- March 9, 2011 at 12:41 PM
- Heather (One Take On Life) said...
That is one cool cake! Way to go, I don't think I could ever make a space shuttle look that good.
- March 9, 2011 at 1:33 PM
- An Apel a Day said...
Super cool! I made one last year. I think yours tops mine! I made a cool robot though.
- March 9, 2011 at 3:18 PM
- Serendipity is Sweet said...
Wow, awesome cake! Happy birthday to him ;)
- March 9, 2011 at 4:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
That's adorable...so cute! (The cake and the kid!)
- March 9, 2011 at 9:04 PM
- Shena said...
Awesome cake. Nicely made....
- March 10, 2011 at 12:04 AM
- Natalie PlanetSmarty said...
This cake looks gorgeous. Happy birthday to your son!
- March 10, 2011 at 12:43 PM
- Anonymous said...
A perfect launch timed with the retiring of Discovery shuttle.
- March 10, 2011 at 1:30 PM
- MyCorrie said...
Thats total creativity!
- March 11, 2011 at 2:37 AM
- FreePLRStore said...
Now I would love to have this one on my son's birthday!!
- March 11, 2011 at 2:38 AM
- Kristie said...
How fun! Your mom is very talented and Happy Birthday to your little guy!! :-)
- March 11, 2011 at 1:22 PM
- Unknown said...
I can't believe you made this!! It turned out awesome. Happy birthday to your son!
- March 12, 2011 at 5:17 PM


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Now that I broke the ice, tested the waters and hopefully cleared the air by answering a reader's question on a touchy subject in my last post, It's Hard to Be Ethically Consistent While You're Tap-Dancing on Eggshells, It's my turn to ask a question:
Why is it that when members of the Wedge wolf pack were being killed in Washington State, people throughout the environmental community were up in arms, but now that the Colville Tribe has announced plans to initiate the first hunting season on wolves in the state on their northeastern Washington Reservation, folks are staying mostly silent about it?
People are fond of saying that the Native Americans believed this…, or did that…, as though all tribes were of one mind and every individual felt the same way as each other about everything, regardless of which tribe they were with or what part of the continent they lived in. For example, I'll never forget this line that made me scoff out loud during a lecture: "Native Americans never ate anything that died in fear." What? How does an animal pursued and shot with arrows not experience fear?
European Americans have gone from thinking of the Native Americans as barbaric savages to egalitarian angels. Neither impression is based on a scientific understanding of human nature. And neither is the revisionist notion that all tribes were like-minded on every issue (case in point are the different attitudes on wolves expressed by the Colvilles, who plan to hunt the few wolves who have returned to their reservation, and the Ojibwe of the Great Lakes region who respect wolves. .
On a related issue, the following is an article I wrote while the Makah tribe were shoring up plans to kill whales off the Washington coast…
Commercial Whalers and Slave Traders
In a May, 1995 letter to the U.S. Commerce Department, Dave Sones, the Makah nation's "fisheries" manager revealed the tribe's intent "to harvest whales not only for ceremonials and subsistence, but also for commercial purposes." This sentiment was recently echoed by Canada's Nuu-Chah-Nulth tribe, who also hope to get into the commercial sale of whale products.
Despite continued public support for whales, our IWC delegates struck a five year deal with the Russians to get the Makah a back-door quota of whales. In 1997, defying an international treaty on trade in endangered species, they traded 20 of the Alaskan Inuit's bowhead whales (down to only 13 percent of their original population) for 20 gray whales from the Russian Chukotkas.
The Chukotkas were happy to trade up for the more palatable bowhead. Very few of them will even eat gray whales, which are said to have the texture of gum erasers and are known in their language as "the one that makes you poop fast." (The real source of the gray whale's nickname "Devilfish"?)
Seeing as how the Clinton administration is assisting the Makah in their effort to return to whaling, wouldn't it be a nice, symbolic gesture for the President to join them in their ceremonial whaling preparations? These included prayer and self-flagellation, as well as fasting and sexual abstinence.
Other rites that were part of their whaling ceremonies are kept secret from "outsiders;" they are "nobody's business." Are there skeletons in the closet they don't want exhumed? The media have depicts a Disneyized version of the historic Makah: a simple, sharing people, unique in their reverence for the Earth's creatures. Summon the image of the Plains Indians, substitute whale for bison. But the coastal Makah were different, killing more prey then they could ever eat themselves.
Whales were rendered into oil to be traded along the Pacific. They were a source of great wealth for the tribal elite, who thought themselves superior to other Indians, including buffalo hunters. Although the primitive Makah's ability to conquer massive sea mammals without motor boats or heavy artillery was impressive, it was also excessively cruel. And, according to European witnesses, so were some of the related rituals: "Since it was the first whale of the season, special ceremonies we involved…When it was brought ashore, a slave was sacrificed, and the corpse was laid beside the whale's head, which was adorned with eagle feathers…" observed Haswell and Boit, eighteenth century writers. Boit understood that cannibalism was also occasionally practiced.
Slave trading was an integral part of the Makah socioeconomic structure. Slaves were considered chattel, a thing of less than human status, one step below "worthless people" in their caste system. Possession of slaves was prestigious; to sacrifice a slave on a formal occasion demonstrated an arrogant disregard of wealth. Unfortunately for their lower castes, this was before the United Nations Decade of Education in Human Rights.
In order to capture new slaves and acquire new territories, the Makah frequently undertook military expeditions to distant villages. Relying on the element of surprise, they would attack and kill all of the adult males in the unsuspecting tribe. Women and children were taken as slaves; infants and elderly were left for dead. Slain members of the conquered tribe were decapitated, their heads brought back to be displayed as trophies. Clearly, the killing of whales is not the only bygone tradition that modern society would condemn or reject if given a voice. The Makah continued to capture and trade slaves well after the 1855 treaty prohibited it.
Meanwhile, Japan, in their ongoing effort to promote the backslide into commercial whaling, discovered a crisis situation in 1995. They learned the number of their young people who had never tasted whale was on the rise! In answer to that shocking trend, their "fisheries" agency began a slick marketing campaign that included a home delivery service for whale meat. A quarter-pounder there now goes for $55.00 U.S. That's without cheese. Or a bun. But a word of warning to those planning to stop by the Moby Dick's franchise (coming soon to your neighborhood) for a juicy double-devilfish burger: Don't forget the Kaopectate!


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Sound off for March 2
Remember the bumper sticker "I'm from the State and I'm here to help"? Malloy's version of this is he wants to help electricity ratepayers by forcing those who are happy with CL&P's standard option onto the auction block. He proposes to put 100,000 ratepayers in a block and hold an auction with the highest bidder winning the new customers. Where will the auction money go? Why, not to the ratepayer, but to the state! A loss for the consumer and a tidy win for the state. The flimflam man has come up with this idea to generate money for the state and it's no deal for the customer. You will not be able to opt out. I have called CL&P for a list of suppliers and will sign up with someone on my own to ensure that I get to choose, not the state. The state is not going to make money at my expense. I urge others who are as outraged as I am to contact their legislators ASAP. Our calls, emails have worked with the proposed elimination of the car tax. Our cries were hard in Hartford. I.E. our ability to vote Malloy out of office was heard. Let it be heard again with this proposal to "help" us.
In response to my blog that was posted yesterday about the amount of stories focusing on the Republican side of things and my use of the word plant. Well the word plant may have been two hard for the blog master to swallow. So I will use the words place or put or stuff or whatever. The fact remains that your blog more often than not has a lot more articles against the Democratic side of things.
As I stated, I brought this to your attention on a few occasions and know for a fact that there were blogs sent in favor of the Democratic side of things and they were not printed. Please not that I have no control over anything you put in the blog, but from my perspective there has been an imbalance on numerous occasions. You do have control and in my opinion you should use more of it to make sure your blogs are more balanced. Independent voter!
Would you like to live like a king or queen? Why not become an educator? You can earn all the money you want, when you become a part of their runaway budget. The sky is the limit. As an educator, just give a good speech on the need for better education and the taxpayers will be forced to pay and pay and pay. You will have vacation time from late June to September. You will be able to afford a vacation to the destination of your dreams, while the taxpayers are forced to take a stay-cation in their backyards. When the taxpayer has a burger and milkshake for dinner, you will be dining aboard the cruise ship Princess and enjoying a cocktail in the ship's lounge. When you become an educator, you can enjoy the fruits of life, including annual raises and a big retirement pension. The taxpayers will give you the world.
I notice you only pick and choose what you want in the paper. I have called several times and I don't think my calls have ever been put in the newspaper. I do not know why that is, but I did call in an article about the city person that was plowing on Clarence Street. Whoever put the article in the paper was asking for comments. I did comment that I thought it was terrible. And I think that city officials should know that this is going on. I don't think it is fair to the taxpayers. I don't know what else to say. Let's be fair out there now. I don't think they should be plowing their sidewalks and driveways on city time and in city vehicles. I think the Public Works should be notified of this.


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Gillette (brand)
|Product type
|Safety razors
|Procter & Gamble
|Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
|Previous owners
|The Gillette Company
|"The Best A Man Can Get"
Gillette is a brand of men's safety razors and other personal care products including shaving supplies, owned by the multi-national corporation Procter & Gamble (P&G).
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, it was originally owned by The Gillette Company, a supplier of products under various brands until that company merged into P&G in 2005. The Gillette Company was founded by King C. Gillette in 1901 as a safety razor manufacturer.[1]
Under the leadership of Colman M. Mockler Jr. as CEO from 1975–91, the company was the target of three takeover attempts, from Ronald Perelman and Coniston Partners.[2] On October 1, 2005, Procter & Gamble finalized its merger with the Gillette Company.
The Gillette Company's assets were incorporated into a P&G unit known internally as "Global Gillette". In July 2007, Global Gillette was dissolved and incorporated into Procter & Gamble's other two main divisions, Procter & Gamble Beauty and Procter & Gamble Household Care. Gillette's brands and products were divided between the two accordingly. However, both the Gillette R&D center in Boston, Massachusetts as well as the Gillette South Boston Manufacturing Center (known as "Gillette World Shaving Headquarters"), still exist as functional working locations under the Procter & Gamble-owned Gillette brand name.[3] Gillette's subsidiaries Braun, Duracell (until 2014) and Oral-B, among others, have also been maintained by P&G.
Older products
Double-edged safety razors
The first safety razor using the new disposable blade went on sale in 1903.[4] Gillette maintained a limited range of models of this new type razor until 1934 and the introduction of the "Aristocrat". The great innovation of this new model was the "Twist to Open", or TTO design, which made blade changing much easier than it had been previously, wherein the razor head had to be detached from the handle.
1947 saw the introduction of the new "Super Speed" model, also a TTO design. This was updated in 1954, with different versions being produced to shave more closely—the degree of closeness being marked by the color of the handle tip.
In 1958, the first "adjustable" razor was produced. This allowed for an adjustment of the blade to increase the closeness of the shave. The model, in various versions, remained in production until 1986.
The Super Speed razor was again redesigned in 1966 and given a black resin coated metal handle. It remained in production until 1988. A companion model, "The Knack", with a longer plastic handle, was produced from 1966 to 1976. In Europe, the Knack was sold as "Slim Twist" and "G2000" from 1978 to 1988, a later version known as "G1000" was made in England and available until 1998. A modern version of the Tech, with a plastic thin handle, is still produced and sold in several countries under the names 7 O'clock, Gillette, Nacet, Minora, Rubie and Economica.[citation needed]
Newer products
- Techmatic was a single blade razor introduced in the mid-1960s. It featured a disposable cartridge with a razor band which was advanced by means of a lever. This exposed an unused portion the band and was the equivalent of five blades.
- Adjustable Techmatic is a version of the Techmatic dating from 1970. The adjustable version featured user-selection of shave closeness on the cartridge. The adjustable version was interchangeable with the non-adjustable version. Both versions of the Techmatic and their cartridges have been discontinued.[citation needed]
- Trac II was the world's first two-blade razor, debuting in 1971. Gillette claimed that the second blade cut the number of strokes required and reduced facial irritation.
- Trac II Plus is an identical model but adds a lubricating strip at the top of the blade. The blades and handles are interchangeable.
- The European versions of the Trac II and Trac II Plus are known as the GII and GII Plus respectively.
- In the Asian market GII Plus razor blades are manufactured for the Asian market.
Trac II blades are still made by American and foreign razor blade companies. American Safety Razor Company make a Trac II version blade in the U.S. called the Personna Twin II Plus. In India the Supermax and Gallant brands manufacture Trac II handles and blades. According to USRazor, sales of the Trac II style razor have always been strong and have increased over the last few years due to consistent quality and increased consumer demand.[citation needed]
- Custom Plus is a series of disposable razors
- The Custom plus comes in many varieties: the "Fixed disposable razor", the "Pivot disposable razor", the "Customplus 3 sensitive disposable", and the "Customplus 3 soothing disposable".
- Good News! was the first disposable, double-blade razor, released in 1976.
- The Good News! came in three forms: the "original", the "Good News! Plus", which included a lubricating strip, and the "Good News! Pivot Plus", which featured a lubricating strip as well as a pivoting head.
- Atra (known as the Contour, Slalom, Vector in some markets) was introduced in 1977 and was the first razor to feature a pivoting head, which Gillette claimed made it easier for men to shave their necks.
- Atra Plus featured a lubricating strip, dubbed Lubra-Soft.
- Gillette Sensor debuted in 1990, and was the first razor to have spring-loaded blades. Gillette claimed that the blades receded into the cartridge head, when they make contact with skin, helping to prevent cuts and allowing for a closer shave.
- The Sensor for Women was released around the same time and is nearly identical, but has a wider cartridge head.
- Sensor Excel was released in 1993. This featured "Microfins," a piece of rubber with slits at the bottom of the cartridge and Gillette claimed this helped to raise facial hairs, making for a closer shave.
- Sensor 3 has three blades instead of two. All Sensor handles can use all Sensor cartridges.
- Blue II is a line of disposable razors. In Latin America, it is marketed as the Prestobarba.
- Blue 3 is a line of three-blade razor, cheaper version of Sensor 3 (Sensor compatible). Available also in disposable variant.
- Mach3 The first three-blade razor, introduced in 1998, which Gillette claims reduces irritation and requires fewer strokes.
- The Mach3 featured five improved microfins and spring blades, a pivoting head with greater flexibility and a blue lubrication strip that faded with usage to encourage users to change their blades more frequently.
- Mach3 disposable. The above with a different plastic handle.
- Mach3 Turbo This razor was released in late 2001. It had ten microfins as opposed to the five on the original, a new grip and claims improved lubrication and "anti-friction" blades.
- All Mach3 blades are interchangeable between the three products in the range, so it is possible to use the Mach3 Turbo blades on a Mach3 razor.
- Mach3 Turbo Champion has a slightly different handle design.
- M3Power is a battery-powered version of the Mach3 Turbo razor which can also be used with the power switched off. The blades differ from Mach3 Turbo with a new coating which Gillette describes as "PowerGlide".
- Mach3 Sensitive was awarded a 2012 Best New Product Award after being voted 'Best in Show' in the program's awards in Mexico.[citation needed]
- The lubrication and microfins are identical to Mach3Turbo. The Mach3 Power Nitro has a slightly different handle design.
- Venus is a female version of the Mach3. Mach3 blades can attach to a Venus handle and vice versa.
- Venus Divine is a female version of the Mach3 Turbo.
- Venus Vibrance is a female version of the M3Power. Venus blades are interchangeable across the line.
- Venus Embrace is a five-bladed razor with a ribbon of moisture surrounding the blades.
- Venus Breeze is a three-blade razor with shave gel bars built into the head of the razor.
- Another version of the Breeze, the Venus Spa Breeze, is essentially the same as the Breeze, but with a white tea scent to the shave gel bars.[5]
- Venus ProSkin MoistureRich, launched in January 2011 in the United States, is an updated version of the Breeze, featuring Moisture Rich shave-gel bars that are enhanced with a triple blend of body butters.[6]
- Gillette Fusion is a five-bladed razor released in 2006. The Fusion has five blades on the front, and a single sixth blade on the rear for precision trimming. Its marketing campaign was fronted by the sports stars Roger Federer, Thierry Henry and Tiger Woods.
- Gillette Fusion Power is a motorized version of the Fusion. The Fusion Power is battery powered and emits "micropulses" that are claimed to increase razor glide.[citation needed]
- Fusion Power Phantom The Fusion Power Phantom (Stealth in UK) was released in February 2007 and features a redesigned handle with a darker color scheme than the original.[citation needed]
- Fusion Power Phenom was released in February 2008. It has a new blue and silver color scheme.[7]
- Fusion ProGlide and Fusion ProGlide Power were launched on June 6, 2010 in North America.
- The ProGlide series feature re-engineered blades with edges that are thinner than Fusion and are finished with low-resistance coating which the company claims allow the blades to glide more easily through hair.[8]
- Fusion Power Gamer (also known as "Cool White" in select markets)
- Fusion ProGlide FlexBall released in June 2014
- The ProGlide FlexBall has a handle allows the razor cartridge to pivot. Gillette claims that it means 20% fewer missed hairs, the ability to cut hairs 23 microns shorter, and 23% increased skin contact.
The desire to release ever more expensive products, each claiming to be the best ever, has led Gillette to make disputed claims for its products. In 2005, an injunction was brought by rival Wilkinson Sword which was granted by the Connecticut District Court which determined that Gillette's claims were both "unsubstantiated and inaccurate" and that the product demonstrations in Gillette's advertising were "greatly exaggerated" and "literally false". While advertising in the United States had to be rewritten, the court's ruling does not apply in other countries.[9]
Procter & Gamble (P&G) shaving products have been under investigation by the UK Office of Fair Trading as part of an inquiry into alleged collusion between manufacturers and retailers in setting prices. According to the Daily Mail newspaper, an industry insider claimed that the Fusion range of blades cost only £0.05 each to manufacture, yet sold for up to £2.43: a mark-up price of more than 4,750%.[10]
Net worth
In 1999, Gillette, as a company, was worth US$43 billion, and it was estimated that the brand value of Gillette was worth US$16 billion. This equated to 37% of the company's value, which was the same as DaimlerChrysler, one of the world's largest car manufacturers at the time.[11]
Gillette has a long history of promotions for its products, especially towards young men. Current promotions include sponsorship of sports events such as Major League Baseball (since the 1940s, when it was the only sponsor for World Series television broadcasts) and the England national rugby league team, along with the Rugby League Four Nations. Gillette ships a razor to males in the United States around the time of their 18th birthday; as of 2010 Gillette has been sending the Fusion ProGlide. Athletes such as Roger Federer, Tiger Woods, Shoaib Malik, Derek Jeter, Thierry Henry, Kenan Sofuoglu, Park Ji-Sung, Rahul Dravid, and Michael Clarke are sponsored by the company.[citation needed]
There were calls to boycott Gillette products given their association with Thierry Henry, after a handball by Henry went undetected by referees and allowed France to knock Ireland out of qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Marketing experts have highlighted "the curse of Gillette", given the mishaps that happen to sports stars associated with the brand.[12]
In popular culture
- Saturday Night Live featured a triple-blade razor in 1975, 23 years before the Mach3, with the slogan "The Triple-Trac. Because you'll believe anything". Not to be outdone, satirical newspaper The Onion printed a mock-commentary by Gillette's president after Wilkinson/Schick introduced their Quattro razor in 2004, three years before the Fusion was introduced, entitled Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades.[13]
- Mad TV also featured a parody poking fun at Gillette's Mach3 line of products. Mad TV called the product the "Spishak Mach 20".
- Gillette continues to hold the naming rights to Gillette Stadium, which is home to the NFL four-time Super Bowl champions New England Patriots and the MLS New England Revolution.
- Eh Joe (1965), an avant-garde screenplay for television penned by the minimalist writer Samuel Beckett, references Gillette razors several times in its script.
- The James Bond film Goldfinger features a Gillette Slim 195 Adjustable twist to open (TTO) razor which contains the homing device Bond used while aboard the title character's private jet.
- British comedian Michael McIntyre made jokes parodying the brand's adverts during his Mock The Week appearance, saying: "Our closest shave yet. In fact, it's too close. It acts like a bacon slicer. Go back to using the previous one."[citation needed]
- In laser research and development, a "Gillette" is a non-standard measurement used as a rough estimate of a particular device's penetrative ability; a "four-Gillette laser", for example, can burn through four Gillette safety razor blades.[14]
Canadian headquarters
Until the late 1980s, Gillette Canada's headquarters were in the Montreal suburb of Mont-Royal, Quebec until they moved west to another Montreal suburb in Kirkland. The Kirkland offices were closed in 1999 and Gillette Canada moved to Mississauga, Ontario, a Toronto suburb following the Gillette acquisition of Duracell. The Mississauga offices were closed in 2005-06 after Procter & Gamble acquired Gillette, and Gillette's Canadian headquarters are located in downtown Toronto with parent Procter & Gamble on Yonge St.[citation needed]
- ↑ Gillette, K.C., The Gillette Blade February 1918, vol 1, No. 4, page 9.
- ↑ Gale Directory of Company Histories: The Gillette Company, answers.com; accessed August 22, 2014.
- ↑ Gillette website, gillette.com; accessed August 22, 2014.
- ↑ Gordon McKibben. Cutting Edge: Gillette's Journey to Global Leadership, books.google.com; accessed August 22, 2014, p. 26
- ↑ "Gillette Venus: Venus Spa Breeze 2-in-1 Razor", gillettevenus.com; accessed August 22, 2014.
- ↑ "Gillette Venus: ProSkin MoistureRich Razor", gillettevenus.com; accessed August 22, 2014.
- ↑ "Gillette Unveils Newest Members of Its Gillette Young Guns Lineup" (Press release). Gillette. February 11, 2008. Retrieved February 15, 2008.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Gillette Fusion ProGlide Shaving Razor for Men, Official website; accessed August 22, 2014.
- ↑ "Truth in advertising", Gizmag.co.uk; accessed August 22, 2014.
- ↑ "Sharp practice? The razor heads that cost just 5p to make, but sell for £2.43 each", Daily Mail, June 8, 2009
- ↑ Jane Pavitt. Brand New, September 2000. ISBN 0-691-07061-X.
- ↑ "Henry, Woods, Federer: The curse of Gillette". The Independent. London, UK. November 29, 2009. Retrieved May 3, 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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Further reading
- "King C. Gillette, The Man and His Wonderful Shaving Device" by Russell Adams (1978), published by Little Brown & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- The Gillette Company History (thefundinguniverse.com)
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By incorporating Git and GitHub, Zend is bringing version control to bear on web application development projects in today's distributed developer environments. Git is an open-source distributed version control system recognized for its ability to handle small to medium to very large software development projects with speed and efficiency. GitHub is a web-based hosting service for projects that use Git.
According to Zend, "Armed with Git/GitHub support, Zend Studio 9.0 users can bring in code from a repository to clone, share, and branch it, working and collaborating more efficiently than was possible before. New smart product configuration enables developers to customize their IDE, easily adding and removing plug-ins such as Mylyn task-focused programming as well as color themes and more, to suit individual work preferences and project requirements. As a result, Zend Studio 9.0 can provide on average a 67% faster default startup, with a 40% smaller default disk footprint and a lower memory footprint."
Zend Studio 9.0 also features JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5 editor improvements that help developers write and edit client-side code more productively. Because Zend Studio is based on Eclipse, web application developers using Zend Studio should also find that they can benefit from many of the enhancements delivered by the Eclipse community in Eclipse 3.7.
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BERLIN (CBS/AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger is quoted in an interview in Germany's top-selling newspaper saying he's still in love with his estranged wife, Maria Shriver.
The actor and former California governor is quoted in Tuesday's Bild newspaper as saying that despite their separation, he spent Christmas with Shriver and their children.
Schwarzenegger is cited as saying "we're not fighting any war: I still hope for reconciliation; I still love Maria."
Shriver filed for divorce last year after 25 years of marriage following Schwarzenegger's admission he fathered a child with the family's housekeeper.
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Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron (born February 5, 1934), nicknamed "Hammer," "Hammerin' Hank," and "Bad Henry," is a retired American baseball player whose Major League Baseball (MLB) career spanned the years 1954 through 1976. Aaron is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. In 1999, editors at The Sporting News ranked Hank Aaron fifth on their list of "Greatest Baseball Players".
After playing with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League and in the minor leagues, Aaron started his major league career in 1954. In his final season, he was the only remaining and last Negro league baseball player on an active major league roster. He played 21 seasons with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves in the National League, and his last two years (1975–76) with the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League.


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Emmy-winning 'Born To Explore' shares passion for adventure
When Richard Wiese told his parents he wanted to go higher, he wasn't talking about the swingset.
Still in elementary school in the winter of 1971, he packed his rucksack, left his mom and three sisters at home and set off with his father for Mount Kilimanjaro.
Wiese admits that, in retrospect, letting an 11-year-old climb Africa's tallest peak wasn't the best idea. But, it was an experience he would never take back -- one that made him the globetrotting explorer he is today.
"I don't know if you can have a defining moment as a young child, but if there was a defining moment, that was it," said Wiese, of Weston.
Now, Wiese is sharing his appetite for adventure as the host and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning ABC travel program, "Born To Explore."
Produced in a cozy office above Bobby Q's Bodacious BBQ & Grill in Westport, the 30-minute show follows Wiese to unpublicized corners of the globe, where he seeks out unique people, exotic fauna and adjective-defying wonders of the natural world.
The mission of "Born to Explore," he said, is "to inspire young people and spark their interest for discovery and the love of outdoors."
That can be an elusive goal in an age of apathy-inducing technology. But if the ratings for "Born to Explore" are any indication, Wiese and the team at his production company, Explorer Films, are getting through to viewers: the show is consistently rated in top spot of its Saturday morning time slot. In addition, it has taken home a string of awards, including a recent Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Single-Camera Photography.
Explorer Films has reached these accomplishments while reamining a mom-and-pop operation. The staff is comprised of local residents who also happen to be friends: Mercedes Velgot of Weston, executive producer; Andrew Ames of Redding, senior producer; Erica Pulcini of Rowayton, assistant producer; Stephen DeLuca of Westport, assistant editor; and Louie Rousso of Mamaroneck, N.Y., production assistant.
Wiese described the office as a "family setting," where employees watch each other's kids when their co-workers are busy.
"To work on a wonderful show, with people who are good friends, and to have total editorial freedom, it's just terrific," said Velgot, who is also Wiese's neighbor and has known him for nearly two decades.
An independent company, Explorer Films has sole editorial discretion over its content; it does not rely on the resources of a major broadcasting network. Even so, this hasn't kept "Born to Explore" from traveling to the far corners of the world.
In just two years, Wiese and his camera crew have hung out with elephants in India; observed a polar bear migration in Canada; and navigated the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest with Batwa Pygmies in Uganda. They've even been on the world's biggest dinosaur dig with Dan Akroyd.
Behind all the travel plans is Wiese, who boasts a pedigree worthy of Lewis and Clark. After climbing Kilimanjaro with his father (the first airplane pilot to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean), Wiese worked in the Yucatán jungle placing satellite collars on jaguars, scaled and sampled Tanzania's Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano and participated in two expeditions to Antarctica's core glaciers. In 2002, he became the youngest president of The Explorer's Club, a professional society dedicated to scientific exploration of Earth, its oceans and outer space.
Wiese developed the idea for "Born to Explore" shortly after writing his book of the same name.
"We threw it together with spit and glue and it came out really well," Wiese, said of the pilot episode, which documented his search for alligators in North Carolina. "From the time `Born to Explore' first aired, it's been successful."
That being said, Wiese admits he faces an uphill battle in educating younger viewers on the virtues of exploration. The pull of technology is strong. The world can seem like a scary place.
But as Wiese stressed, you don't have to be "superman" to be an explorer, nor do you have to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
"All it take is a passion for adventure, nature and people -- an explorer's view of curiosity and an open mind to all the people and animals you meet."
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House of Commons Hansard #260 of the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was income.
House of Commons Hansard #260 of the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was income.
An Act to Change the Name of the Electoral District of Châteauguay-LacollePrivate Members' Business
5:35 p.m.
Some hon. members
An Act to Change the Name of the Electoral District of Châteauguay-LacollePrivate Members' Business
5:35 p.m.
The Deputy Speaker Conservative Bruce Stanton
Accordingly, the bill stands referred to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
(Motion agreed to, bill read the second time and referred to a committee)
A motion to adjourn the House under Standing Order 38 deemed to have been moved.
TaxationAdjournment Proceedings
5:35 p.m.
Pat Kelly Conservative Calgary Rocky Ridge, AB
Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight in adjournment proceedings to talk about the answers that I received to a couple of questions back in October. For those who do not recall the events then, there was quite a bit of confusion over Thanksgiving weekend and the days that followed, when it was reported by The Globe and Mail that it was the intention of the Canada Revenue Agency to begin taxing the benefits of retail employees.
This was reported and people thought this seemed unusual and probably thought this was not something the Liberals were doing, yet on the following business day on Tuesday, that was when initially the government confirmed that this was what it was going to do, that a folio had been changed several months earlier to state that indeed it was going to tax the benefits of retail workers. This would include those who work in restaurants and shops, low-wage earners for the most part.
This was initially confirmed by the government and I seem to recall it was the President of the Treasury Board who went on a television program and confirmed that this was what they were doing. After a confused day, eventually the minister said, no, this was not their intention at all. She said at that time that this was not an intention of the government and that they were going to reverse that decision and change the folio to not tax retail workers.
I raised the question in question period. In the answer I received, as one can read in the Hansard, the parliamentary secretary talked about the middle class and other things and stated, "The document from the agency did not reflect the intentions of our government."
I do not find the answer that I received satisfactory and we are here tonight to discuss that further. If this were not government policy, how did it come to be published in its folio? This was not something that some bureaucrat somehow did without anyone knowing. This is a publicly available document.
The Retail Council raised the prospect of the taxation of retail employee benefits at the finance committee, so this was out there in the public as a concern that some had, yet it took until The Globe and Mail had reported this for it to really get the public's attention. In answer to the question, the Liberals denied that this was government policy. They said this public folio, which gives guidance to tax preparers, did not represent government policy.
If it was not government policy, where was the minister to prevent this from happening? We have seen a number of things that have come about, such as the denial of a disability tax credit to disabled Canadians, to autistic Canadians, the troubles that have been experienced by single parents who have struggled with the agency in not being able to receive their benefits.
If this was not government policy, if this was just the bureaucrats running amok, why was the minister not taking responsibility and ensuring that her bureaucrats did not attack or target vulnerable Canadians?
TaxationAdjournment Proceedings
5:40 p.m.
Brampton West Ontario
Kamal Khera LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue
Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening to put a stop, once again, to the misinformation that has been spread in recent months by some members of the opposition with the sole intent of confusing Canadians. In fact, I am quite taken aback by the misleading allegations they have made on the subject of employee benefits.
I am pleased to have this opportunity to set the record straight by separating myth from reality and letting members opposite know the truth of the matter.
The opposition seemingly prefers a reckless war of words over a clear-headed review of the numerous measures our government has taken to support the middle class and those working hard to join it.
We have emphatically stated before that the Canada Revenue Agency does not target retail employees' discounts.
Furthermore, contrary to what has been stated by the opposition, it is not considered a taxable benefit when employees working in a restaurant or at a food court counter purchase food from their employers at a reasonable discount.
To help taxpayers and their representatives comply with their tax obligations, the Canada Revenue Agency has a long-standing practice of posting technical publications on its website. The CRA's guidelines and folios provide practical guidance to taxpayers and tax preparers on how the CRA administers specific aspects of the Income Tax Act.
The tax folio on employee benefits and allowances was published on the CRA website on July 7, 2016. In October, 2017, after stakeholders expressed their concerns, the minister instructed the Canada Revenue Agency to remove the folio from its website and to clarify the wording and consult with stakeholders.
Furthermore, I would like to remind the member opposite that our government has raised taxes on the wealthiest 1% of Canadians in order to lower taxes on the middle-class. Opposition members, including the one that I am debating with tonight, voted against that initiative. They have shown their true colours, and Canadians are not fooled.
We stopped the cheques the Conservatives were sending to the millionaires and we replaced them with the Canada child benefit, which put more money in the pockets of nine out of 10 Canadian families and lifted more than 300,000 children out of poverty.
Our government's focus has always been clear, and that is to help the middle class and those working hard to join them.
TaxationAdjournment Proceedings
5:45 p.m.
Pat Kelly Conservative Calgary Rocky Ridge, AB
Mr. Speaker, I guess in the Liberals' world, when the government publishes a folio that says it will change how it deals with the taxation of employee benefits and then after a media storm of controversy quickly scrambles, backpedals, and changes it, that somehow the opposition is the confusing party and has misled Canadians.
It is the same with the disability tax credit. The governing party changed its documentation, its processes, and its paperwork in May and somehow the opposition misled Canadians. Somehow the opposition misled Canadians when the government made a decision that resulted in a tax credit being taken away from disabled Canadians. It backpedalled on it, switched it months later, and blamed the opposition for misleading Canadians. Canadians are not buying that.
The confusion on this issue is coming straight out of the department. The minister needs to get control of her department and ensure that it communicates clearly with Canadians.
TaxationAdjournment Proceedings
5:45 p.m.
Kamal Khera Liberal Brampton West, ON
Mr. Speaker, our government's first action was to raise taxes on the wealthiest 1% of Canadians so we could lower them for the most vulnerable and the middle class. As a result, nine million Canadians see more money on every paycheque now. The member opposite voted against that.
Our government is committed to delivering results to Canadians from a public service that has been internationally recognized as among the best in the world.
With all due respect, we will take no lessons from the Conservatives.
Official LanguagesAdjournment Proceedings
5:45 p.m.
François Choquette NDP Drummond, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House once again to talk about official languages and the importance of investing in our official language communities across the country. On February 1, I had the opportunity to ask the Minister of Canadian Heritage, who is also responsible for official languages, an extremely important question. My question was about the importance of heeding the ultimatum issued by community organizations that say official language minority communities across the country are under-funded.
It has now been 10 years since those organizations last received any additional funding, since their funding was indexed, yet the cost of living has risen steadily. They are stretched thin, and that is why they want stable, adequate funding that meets their needs so they can help communities grow and thrive.
It is high time that the Liberals and the minister put their words into action when it comes to official languages. As I said in the question, enough with the promises, enough with the empty rhetoric. It is time to take action. They are unable to keep their promises. We have not seen anything concrete. On the contrary, while they are twiddling their thumbs, there are problems everywhere: some organizations are forced to lay off all their employees and get by with the help of volunteers, and some organizations no longer have any offices.
I have two solid examples of the problems we are seeing right now. The first has to do with literacy and basic skills. The government decided to work on a project-by-project basis instead of providing stable funding. The Réseau pour le développement de l'alphabétisme et des compétences, RESDAC, drummed up projects left and right and managed to survive thanks to its incredible resourcefulness. However, for two years now, all of their projects, their very good projects have been rejected. RESDAC has survived despite the fact that it no longer had basic funding.
In November or December, its representatives and those from FCFA held a huge press conference to say that the situation is dire, that they were in a bad way, that they were out of money, and that they were on life support. In fact, volunteers are providing minimal service. There is no longer an official languages literacy and basic skills support network anywhere in Canada. That is unbelievable to me. A complaint was even filed with the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages. It resulted in two recommendations for which we are still awaiting a response. We are told they are working on it, but it will take at least six months to get any answers, while the needs are pressing. There needs to be an urgent response to help this group.
Chronic underfunding of community media is another problem. Community media, our official language community papers and radio stations, have lost over 80% of their advertising revenue. That is right: 80% of their revenue has evaporated.
I would like to know what the government is planning to do. Will it respond to the ultimatum?
Official LanguagesAdjournment Proceedings
5:50 p.m.
Parkdale—High Park Ontario
Arif Virani LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism)
Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Drummond. Our government has a clear mandate to develop a new official languages action plan that enhances the vitality of minority francophone and anglophone communities.
For two years now, we have been actively working to support English- and French-speaking Canadians from coast to coast to coast and to promote our official languages.
We would like to point out that, in the summer of 2016, we held 22 round tables across the country to hear from official language communities and work with them to address issues affecting their cultural development and vitality. We are proud to report that nearly 7,000 people participated in the consultation process on line and at the round tables.
The cross-Canada consultation process was carried out using an approach based on respect, openness, and sincere collaboration. What we learned has been used to develop a new multi-year official languages action plan to support English and French-speaking minorities across the country.
We listened very carefully to the concerns of our official language communities all over Canada. Those communities raised some crucial issues and challenges, including the importance of ensuring the continued existence of the Canadian Francophonie, as well as enhancing the vitality of official language minority communities, raising the individual bilingualism rate, and working to bring Canada's linguistic communities closer together.
Our government is committed to putting forward a new official languages action plan, which will come into force on April 1, 2018. We and the member for Drummond know that our new action plan will breathe new life into government action in support of our linguistic minority communities, and we will stick to that plan.
We now have a new Commissioner of Official Languages, appointed in keeping with the government's commitment. This progress comes on the heels of many other meaningful steps our government has taken to support these communities. In particular, we have appointed two bilingual justices to the Supreme Court of Canada. We have modernized the court challenges program, initiated a review of the rules on designating bilingual service points, invested in the construction of educational infrastructure in minority communities, and restored the international mobility program, in relation to the other immigration program, as well as many other achievements that we are proud of.
Official LanguagesAdjournment Proceedings
5:55 p.m.
François Choquette NDP Drummond, QC
Mr. Speaker, official language communities are demanding action. They want some very concrete and specific things, including an increase in funding. They are asking for $575 million over five years, the money they would have received over the past 12 years had their funding envelope been indexed. That would give them a chance.
The communities are also asking that federal funding be indexed as of the next budget. I asked for that before and the communities have been asking for it since 2017. Nothing has been done yet. The communities are also asking for more development programs by and for the communities. It is important that they be granted the opportunity to provide these programs. What is more, the action plan must have a real impact on the ability of official language communities to create their social fabric and enhance their vitality. These are important things that the communities are asking for.
Can my hon. colleague confirm that the government has heard the ultimatum delivered by the communities and will soon take action?
Official LanguagesAdjournment Proceedings
5:55 p.m.
Arif Virani Liberal Parkdale—High Park, ON
Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned in my initial comments, we have already taken action. We are not just paying lip service; we are taking action.
I can tell my hon. colleague from Drummond that significant investments are directly made in community initiatives and projects every year. The next official languages action plan will renew this approach in order to support our official language minority communities.
I assure the member for Drummond that since 2015, the Government of Canada has made the reinvestment of dollars into the vitality of our official languages minority communities a priority both for the Acadian region and throughout the country.
We took the time to consult our official language communities and to listen to their concerns, and our next action plan will address these concerns.
The EnvironmentAdjournment Proceedings
February 8th, 2018 / 5:55 p.m.
Elizabeth May Green Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC
Mr. Speaker, I am speaking tonight in adjournment proceedings, and the timing is almost impossible to believe. On October 20, I attempted to warn the Minister of Environment and the Prime Minister of how very dangerous it would be to give the offshore petroleum boards in Atlantic Canada any power or role in environmental assessment. The idea that the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board or the Canada-Newfoundland & Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board should have any role in the environmental assessment of projects over which they have regulatory authority is desperately worrying. I say that because these boards were created by legislation to expand offshore oil and gas. That is their role. They have a mandate to expand offshore oil and gas.
I said to the minister on October 20 that offshore petroleum boards in Atlantic Canada have legislated mandates to expand oil and gas activity. They have never had any role in environmental assessment, and if they did, it would be a conflict of interest. Now it appears that the Liberals are following through on Stephen Harper's plan to put these boards into environmental assessments, where they should not be.
I have to say that my final question to the Minister of Environment was whether she could assure this House that she would keep these offshore boards out of environmental assessment. Her answer was not very clear on October 20. The answer is really clear today, because we now have omnibus Bill C-69, which entrenches a role for these very boards in environmental assessments, where they have no business being.
There has been a bit of fancy footwork in the Liberal talking points. Expert panels reviewed the broken laws left after the Harper era by omnibus budget bills C-38 and C-45. We had massive consultations. Very high-powered expert boards were commissioned to look at the National Energy Board and provide recommendations and to look at the environmental assessment process and provide recommendations. Both recommended that energy regulators should play no role in environmental assessment and that there should be a stand-alone environmental assessment agency.
In some ways, if we were to read the press releases and the talking points, one might think that is what was just done today in Bill C-69. There is one agency, called the impact assessment agency, except for one thing. When one reads it in detail, one finds that when there is a project that would be regulated by one of these boards—what we used to call the National Energy Board, which we will have to get used to calling the Canadian energy regulator; the offshore petroleum boards; or the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which, for the first time ever, Stephen Harper put in the frame of environmental assessment in 2012—under the Liberals, these boards would continue to play a role in environmental assessment.
This is how they did the fancy footwork. There is only one environmental assessment agency, but when a project falls into one of those jurisdictions, the people put on the panel to review the project must be taken from the boards of those agencies. They will apply their other laws at the same time as they go through environmental reviews.
Let me talk about the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board. I am going to quote Dr. Lindy Weilgart, an adjunct professor at Dalhousie University and an international expert on seismic blasting. She talked about the seismic surveys, approved by the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, in the migratory habitat of the endangered right whale. Air guns are shot every 10 seconds around the clock. It is the loudest human-produced noise right after nuclear and chemical explosions. That is why she said that in 2016, 28 right whale experts declared that the additional distress of widespread seismic air gun surveys represented a tipping point for the survival of this species. The Liberals today have given these boards a role in environmental assessment.
I am horrified by this. I ask my colleague, the hon. parliamentary secretary, how she can live with what the government has just done.
The EnvironmentAdjournment Proceedings
6 p.m.
Northumberland—Peterborough South Ontario
Kim Rudd LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak to the issue raised by the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands regarding the role of offshore boards in environmental assessment.
In June 2016, the Government of Canada launched a comprehensive review to restore the confidence of Canadians in federal environmental assessment processes, restore lost protections of our fisheries and waterways, and modernize the National Energy Board. Now, after more than 14 months of extensive engagement with indigenous leaders, provincial and territorial leaders, businesses, environmental groups, and Canadians, the Government of Canada has introduced proposed legislation that reflects the values and priorities Canadians expressed throughout this process.
The proposed impact assessment act, tabled by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, lays out a vision for a modern impact assessment and regulatory system that recognizes that the environment and the economy must work together to help us build a sustainable future. It represents an important shift in the way that major projects will be assessed in Canada.
First, the proposed changes seek to broaden project reviews from environmental assessments to impact assessments with a focus on sustainability. This means that assessments would consider a broader range of potential impacts to understand how proposed projects could affect not just the environment but also social and health aspects, indigenous peoples, jobs, and the economy over the long term.
Second, regulatory certainty would be achieved by making the system more efficient and predictable, giving companies the clarity and predictability they need with legislated timelines. Also, a single federal agency, the impact assessment agency of Canada, would lead all impact assessments for major projects. This includes projects that are regulated by the offshore petroleum boards in Atlantic Canada. In recognition of the joint management offshore accords with Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, the agency would collaborate with the offshore boards in reviewing major offshore oil and gas projects. This would ensure that we continue to rely on the wealth of technical knowledge and expertise that they have developed over the past 30 years. Under the proposed framework, decisions would be based on whether a project with adverse effects is in the public interest based on key factors.
Another element of the proposed legislation, reconciliation with indigenous peoples, is one of the main elements of the design of the new system. The proposed changes seek to build new partnerships based on recognition of indigenous rights up front. This includes early engagement and participation at every stage. This legislation would create new space for indigenous jurisdictions to enter into agreements with the federal government to exercise powers under the act, including the potential to conduct assessments. Going forward, it would be mandatory to consider and protect indigenous traditional knowledge alongside science and other evidence.
Finally, transparency and science are essential elements of the proposed new process. The new system aims for more openness and transparency. A new online platform would be created to share information and data, and to make it easier for the public to access.
In conclusion, the proposed legislation reflects values that are important to Canadians, including early, inclusive, and meaningful public engagement; nation-to-nation, Inuit-crown, and government-to-government partnerships with indigenous peoples; timely decisions based on the best available science and indigenous traditional knowledge; and sustainability for present and future generations.
The EnvironmentAdjournment Proceedings
6:05 p.m.
Elizabeth May Green Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC
Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to take up the point that the hon. member has made, that the offshore petroleum boards have developed technical work and expertise. However, I have worked with these bodies. Their technical work and expertise means that the fox is guarding the hen house.
I will repeat that the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board in 2010 knowingly approved seismic testing in the Gulf of St. Lawrence when the most endangered whale species on the planet was making its transit. These boards are irresponsible. They are reckless. They are captured by industry. Their mandate in their legislation is to expand offshore oil and gas. They must be removed from anything to do with environmental assessment.
It is not as if the government was not warned. The Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Peskotomuhkati first nations wrote to the government and told it that they had no confidence in these bodies. They begged it, as well as the fisheries organizations and environmental groups throughout Atlantic Canada, to not put the offshore boards anywhere near environmental assessment.
Members on that side of the house have ignored the warnings. The Liberals have betrayed the whales, Atlantic Canadians, fishermen, and first nations. They must get these boards out of environmental assessment.
The EnvironmentAdjournment Proceedings
6:05 p.m.
Kim Rudd Liberal Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON
Mr. Speaker, through this proposed legislation, the Government of Canada has demonstrated its commitment to restoring robust and thorough reviews of major projects while working closely with provinces to avoid duplication. Our goal is to provide regulatory certainty to business, to respect the rights of indigenous peoples, to engage communities, and to protect the environment for generations to come. We know that the environment and the economy must go hand in hand.
The EnvironmentAdjournment Proceedings
6:05 p.m.
The Deputy Speaker Conservative Bruce Stanton
The motion that the House do now adjourn is deemed to have been adopted. Accordingly, the House stands adjourned until tomorrow at 10 a.m. pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).
(The House adjourned at 6:07 p.m.)


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