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NDP MP for Vancouver East (B.C.)
Won her last election, in 2011, with 62.80% of the vote.
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Citizenship and Immigration June 20th, 2014
Mr. Speaker, today on World Refugee Day, with a global refugee population surging past 50 million people for the first time since World War II, it is time for the Conservatives to recognize the failure of their policies. Instead of a fair and accessible process, the Conservatives have passed laws to shut out refugees and cut access to health care and have spun themselves in circles on the Syrian refugee crisis. Canada must do better.
Will the minister commit today to focusing on protection for refugees instead of playing political games?
Health June 19th, 2014
Mr. Speaker, the Royal Society expert panel on the review of Safety Code 6 released its report a month ago and recommended that more research was needed into the health risks of radio frequency fields. Consumers and health advocates are demanding more information and safeguards to reduce exposure to harmful radiation and to investigate radiation hypersensitivity.
How does the Minister of Health plan to follow up on the concerns coming from the public and the Royal Society's recommendations?
Natural Resources June 18th, 2014
Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives refuse to listen. It is not only first nations that have said no to northern gateway; it is all of B.C. Over 60% of British Columbians have said that they do not want northern gateway threatening their coast and communities. The UBCM and virtually every municipality along the pipeline route has said no. Therefore, why are B.C. Conservative MPs ignoring their constituents?
Let us start with the senior federal minister for B.C. What does the Minister of Industry have to say, or is he ducking under his desk?
Respect For Communities Act June 17th, 2014
Mr. Speaker, the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands is very correct. When I spoke the first time to the bill, I actually went through A to Z. I went through all of those conditions. What makes it even worse, though, to add insult to injury, is that even if it were possible for an applicant to meet all of those conditions—and the member has outlined how difficult that would be—the minister could still turn it down, so it is very discretionary.
It seems abundantly clear that the purpose of the bill is to ensure that no further safe injection facilities will be set up in Canada. That would be a huge issue in many local communities, because the homework has been done. There are organizations and advocates who want to see this kind of health facility and health intervention set up for people who are very marginalized.
It is very unfortunate. I hope we will get into it at committee. We hope to see the bill significantly changed so that it is objective and based on evidence.
Respect For Communities Act June 17th, 2014
Mr. Speaker, those are two very reasonable questions and I will do my best to answer them.
FIn terms of the decrease in crime, the fact is, there were more than 30 peer review studies that were done around InSite, so all of these questions were looked at. I would encourage my colleague to look at the report so he can see for himself, from these objective, evidence-based reports. What happened in that neighbourhood? Did things improve or not? I can tell him that the reports say that it did improve, but he can read it for himself.
In terms of what the NDP would do, first, we need to understand that InSite came from the local community. It was not imposed by Ottawa. It came from the city. It came from a grassroots involvement, and in fact right now, across Canada, I believe that there are applications from Montreal, from Toronto, even from here in Ottawa, possibly Victoria and even Edmonton.
There are applications being considered right now. A clear response needs to be evidence based. The local community needs to have done its homework and want to go ahead with it. We do not want to see the bill, though, squash that, which it will do, given the enormous powers that it gives to the minister.
Respect For Communities Act June 17th, 2014
Mr. Speaker, Bill C-2 was first introduced in June 2013, a little over a year ago, as Bill C-65 and came back to the House as Bill C-2 in October.
I am proud of the fact that about 50 members of the NDP caucus have spoken to this important legislation. However, I am ashamed to say that what we have heard from the government side is divisive debate. From day one the Conservatives have portrayed the issue of respecting the Supreme Court of Canada's decision on safer injection sites in Canada as a black and white issue.
I go back to January 27 of this year when the government House leader told the Hill Times that he will tell people that opposition parties want drug injection sites to be established in their neighbourhoods without people having any say. He then talked about the extreme position that the NDP was taking. Nothing could be further from the truth.
For the government House leader to portray our discourse on this legislation in that manner shows first, how the Conservatives like to create division and fear among people, and second, that they know absolutely nothing about North America's only safe injection site, which is located in Vancouver's downtown east side and called InSite. The fact is that InSite was set up over 10 years ago after extensive consultation with the local community.
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that InSite and other supervised injection sites must be granted Section 56 exemptions under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act when they "decrease the risk of death and disease, and there is little or no evidence that it will have a negative impact on public safety...."
Upon reading the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada it is clear that it understood the arguments that were being made by the litigants, that this was a health measure, that it was about saving lives and that it was about preventing people from needless drug overdoses. Over the past 10 years, InSite has gone on to become incredibly successful and has helped improve the health and well-being of many people. It has saved literally countless lives in the Downtown Eastside.
Over 30 peer review studies have been done on InSite. It received its first exemption in 2003. From the extensive research that has been done since it opened, Vancouver has seen a 35% decrease in overdose deaths. Furthermore, InSite has been shown to decrease crime and communicable disease infection rates and relapse rates for drug users. That is quite remarkable. NDP members have always said that InSite is just part of the solution; it is not the only solution.
It is quite remarkable that this facility has been able to accomplish so much. One would never know that after hearing the speeches from government members. One would think it was just about chaos and law and order, that it was about imposing something on a community.
InSite did get a further exemption under the act for another year. I want to put firmly on the record that InSite has done a remarkable job in Vancouver.
I would also note that over those 10 years, organizations like the HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, the Canadian Medical Association, and the Canadian Nurses Association, never mind the 30-plus peer review studies, have all come out firmly on the side of evidence that InSite is about saving lives. They came to this conclusion upon their analysis of how InSite is operated. They have been critical of Bill C-2 because they know, as we know having examined the bill, that it is really about setting the bar high. So much discretion and subjectivity is given to the minister that it would be very easy for her on flimsy, non-evidence-based opinion to turn down other applications across Canada.
That is the fundamental problem with this legislation. At the end of the day, Bill C-2 would not meet the test of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision on InSite.
Again we have a familiar pattern, as we just saw with Bill C-36 on the laws pertaining to prostitution. We have a government that is bent on its own ideological agenda and refuses to examine the evidence before it on some of these very important measures that pertain to safety, health, and well-being.
Just to show how important this facility is and that others across the country could provide the same kind of service, in Vancouver, on June 4, I happened to notice an item in the paper that said, "Vancouver Police are issuing a public warning after officers responded to seven reports of suspected heroin overdoses in the Downtown Eastside in the span of a day". Clearly, there was some really bad stuff on the street and people were really suffering.
The article further stated, "Sgt. Randy Fincham said active drug users need to be 'extremely cautious' and to visit Insite". There we have it. Even the Vancouver Police Department recognizes that InSite has been a very important health and safety measure for drug users. It provides a safe place to inject, and there is medical supervision and support when it is needed so that people do not die by overdose. As is said so often in the Downtown Eastside, dead people cannot get treatment. I find it very interesting that local police are actually telling people to make sure they go to InSite to take advantage of its services so people can have the medical support and safety that is required.
New Democrats believe that the provisions of this bill before us are very onerous and very partisan. This led us to suspect what research had actually been done in preparing the bill. I put a question on the order paper back in October of last year and asked specifically what kind of consultation the government had conducted before it brought the bill in, particularly for front-line service providers, medical research professionals, and so on. The response that I got from the government, in part, said, "In the development of the proposed legislation, Health Canada consulted with Public Safety Canada, Justice Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and central agencies". Basically, nobody on the government side actually bothered to talk to the people who are providing the service.
I know that not one Conservative minister of health that I visited and spoke to about InSite over the past years has visited InSite. There is a complete lack of knowledge about what this facility does. I am very concerned that with this bill the minister will confer on herself enormous discretion and power to make decisions based on political opposition and not on the merits of what is what is taking place in the local community and how such a facility can help a population that is very much at risk and marginalized.
There are a couple of other points that I want to make. A very important one is that there was the recent passing of a very wonderful activist, Bud Osborn, a poet, and pioneer at InSite in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He was much beloved in the neighbourhood, a former drug user himself. He understood from the very beginning, through the poetry he wrote and the words he spoke to people, how important this facility was in fostering a united community, where people were not divided between good and bad.
I want to pay tribute to the remarkable life and work of Bud Osborn and what he did not only in my community but across the country. He became a hero to many people for his courageous, outspoken way of putting the truth before people. He convinced politicians of all political stripes and met with the Minister of Health here in Ottawa a number of years ago, as well as the media, lawyers, prosecutors. He had an enormous amount of influence in my community because he spoke the truth from his own experience and believed very strongly that InSite was a lifesaving measure.
As this bill goes to committee, I want to say that New Democrats are very distressed that it is going to the public safety committee and not the health committee. It seems completely in conflict with what the goals of this bill should be in terms of a necessary health measure. We know that the bill is heavily weighted against the acceptance of these medically necessary services, so we will be demanding that there be a thoughtful and thorough review of the bill.
There have been a lot of scientific studies. We need to debunk the myths, the misinformation, and the rhetoric that we have heard about safer injections sites from the government side. When the bill gets to committee, I do hope very much, as we have said earlier today, that there will not be a censor of the witnesses, that there will be a thorough review and that we can make sure that the bill does indeed meet the test of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Respect For Communities Act June 17th, 2014
Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, the minister has not answered a couple of basic questions.
I would note, and I am sure he is aware, that the last time this bill was debated in the House was at the end of January of this year. It has already been five months. I am curious to know why, at the eleventh hour, the government is now bringing in closure. We could have had debate on the bill in February, March, April or May. I am afraid the minister's responses just do not cut it.
The other question he has been unable to answer is why this bill, which is clearly a health measure, is not going to the health committee. This is about a health intervention to save lives, and that is very clear from the Supreme Court of Canada decision. Why is it going to the public safety committee?
That is a very basic question about the government's attitude to this issue and the bill. Why is the bill going to the public safety committee and not the health committee?
Respect For Communities Act June 17th, 2014
Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to see how the government House leader acts in sort of a flippant and dismissive way when he reads this motion. It is no wonder, as this is the 74th time since 2011 that the government has introduced closure on a piece of legislation before the House. That means that most of its legislation has been rammed through, forced through by closure, because it cannot bear to have a proper comprehensive debate in the House of Commons by members of Parliament from all parties on any government legislation. It is bent on the idea that it has to ram it through.
Bill C-2, which is an amendment to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, is a particularly important bill because it follows a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada concerning safer injection sites in this country. As we have seen with other legislation, most notably Bill C-36 recently, which also has to do with a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada concerning laws pertaining to prostitution in this country, this is yet another bill in this House that basically does not stand the test of the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada.
I would ask the minister why the government has decreed that this bill will not go to the health committee where it should go, because it is a matter pertaining to the health and well-being of Canadians who are very much at risk and who have been marginalized, rather than going to the public safety committee. That demonstrates the conclusion that the government sees this as just another law and order measure, as opposed to a measure that is affecting the health of people. Why were people not properly consulted on this bill, such as front-line service workers, so that we would have the benefit of that in terms of debating the bill? Why will it now go to the public safety committee instead of where it should be going, which is for a thorough examination at the Standing Committee on Health?
Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Act June 11th, 2014
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House today to speak in support of third reading of Bill C-442 for a national framework for Lyme disease.
Today is a special day. It is not every private member's bill that gets to third reading. The fact that this bill has means that it has stood the test. It has gone through the challenges of going through second reading, going to committee, through amendments, and here it is back in the House. We are anticipating and hopeful that the bill will be approved today in the House of Commons and then go to the Senate.
I would like to speak briefly to the bill, but I would first like to congratulate the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands for the hard work that she has put into this bill, into building alliances and talking to people in different parties. It is a good example of the goodwill and the solidarity that can develop around an issue when people recognize that something needs to be done. I only wish it would happen more often in the House. There are so many issues that need our attention, collectively, with a spirit of fair play and goodwill. Maybe this bill will be a good model for that, but I wish it would happen a little more often.
When this bill came to the health committee, I was pleased to be there. We went through it and heard witnesses. Hearing the witnesses was incredibly compelling. We heard from Jim Wilson of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation. People shared personal experiences about this disease, which is not easy to do in a formalized parliamentary hearing as a witness with all of the official trappings that go along with that.
Chris Powell and her daughter Nicole were quite remarkable. Nicole, who is from British Columbia, was quite remarkable in sharing her experience of having Lyme disease and the suffering she was going through. It is not only physical suffering, which she still endures, but also the emotional anguish of not being able to get a proper diagnosis.
One of the critical elements of the bill is that it would bring together the different elements we need in terms of not only prevention and better public awareness, but a medical community that is in a much more heightened state of awareness with respect to Lyme disease, as well as better clinical diagnostic tools and testing.
We heard horrifying stories from people who had gone to extraordinary lengths to find out why they were so sick and why they could not get help. We know there are two tests available in Canada, but they pertain only to basically one strain of the tick that produces Lyme disease. There is so much that needs to be known.
We heard stories about the amount of money people had spent to go to the United States, for example, where other testing has been available, to finally get a correct diagnosis. Then they would come back to Canada and have somebody contradict that diagnosis. It a nightmare for these people to live through, not just enduring and living with the disease, but coping with systemic barriers and obstacles to proper diagnosis and get the treatment they need. We heard all of that at committee. It was compelling and it made us all acutely understand that we needed a national framework.
I want to spend a moment on that. As the health critic, I meet with many organizations across the country, in Ottawa, in my riding and elsewhere. There are so many issues and people are literally begging the federal government to show leadership to develop a national strategy, whether for dementia or Alzheimer's. This is just another example of that. It is a reflection of our complex system.
We know that health care is a provincial delivery system. There is no question about that. However, there is a necessity for federal leadership. Under the Canada Health Act, we have a duty and responsibility to ensure that all people in our country, whether rich or poor or whether they live in the north, south, east, west or the centre, in small communities or large urban centres, have accessibility to our health care system. We know the inequities are getting greater, and not just between provinces but also within provinces.
There is an overarching issue that the bill also reflects, which is that we need to see the federal government be at the table. We need to see the federal government take leadership on these issues. Many groups are calling for a national strategy. People know the reality of this kind of scattered approach. It is like a patchwork across the country and that just is not good enough.
The bill speaks about a federal framework and would bring together the players. As the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands has outlined, a key element of the bill is to convene a conference and include people who have Lyme disease and advocates so they are at the table as well. It is really about trying to bring the players together to develop that national framework.
We also heard at committee very interesting testimony from representatives of the Public Health Agency of Canada. They told us that Lyme disease had been a reportable disease only since 2009. We are only beginning to get a sense of the numbers out there. Of course many cases are not reported. Either people do not know they have the disease or if they suspect it, they do not get a proper diagnosis.
I agree with the member that we will face an explosion of cases, particularly with climate change and a warming environment. In southern Canada and places like B.C., where we really have not seen that many cases of Lyme disease, this will be on the increase.
I was very interested to hear that the Public Health Agency of Canada was conducting a fairly major public awareness campaign. In fact, the people from the agency assured us that Lyme disease should be a household word by the end of summer. People would know what it was, what they needed to be aware of and what they should do. I hope they are right because we do not want to see anybody suffer through this.
The issue of testing is very important. We heard loud and clear that there was an inadequate testing procedure in Canada. We need to have much better availability of testing with a greater depth of testing for different kinds of bacteria and strains.
Then finally on research, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research told us that some very good research was going on in Canada. I believe one of the researchers was in Calgary and another was maybe in Ontario. We need to fund that research. We need to know about the different strains so people can receive the appropriate diagnostic analysis and treatment.
The New Democrats have been very happy to support this bill all the way through. We are critically aware of this issue. It is something we speak about with our constituents. I am sure many of us have had visits from our constituents who have been affected by Lyme disease.
At the end of the day, we owe gratitude and thanks to the Lyme disease Foundation of Canada, which has done incredible work on this and has never given up. It is not easy. We have resources here. We can bring forward a private member's bill, which I do not want to diminish as it has a very important part. However, what is really wonderful is the fact that the people in the community, those who themselves are suffering, pushed this boulder uphill. They did not give up and they compelled us as legislators to take on this issue and support it.
Finally thanks go to those advocates. We need to remain vigilant and monitor what goes on to ensure this framework becomes a strategy that will help people.
Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Act June 11th, 2014
Mr. Speaker, I would first like to thank the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands. I know that she has put an extraordinary amount of work into this bill and it was very good to have it at committee. As she pointed out, there were some amendments made at committee and now there is certainly no problem with the name, in terms of not calling it a national strategy but a federal framework.
As she knows, as she mentioned it briefly, one of the things that was taken out of the bill by the government side was the reference to establishing guidelines and the allocation of funding. That is a consideration we have to think about. I would like to ask the member what she is thinking in terms of how this bill now goes forward. It obviously goes to the Senate, but, beyond that, it is very important that we remain vigilant and monitor the progress of this national framework to ensure that there actually is an allocation of funding so that research can continue, public awareness can continue, and that a national framework can be developed.
Would the member share any thoughts she has on that?


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I came across this page on the nokia site which lists devices which run different editions of S40 and S60 systems.
I am wondering what happened to the old nokia phones which cannot run java at all -- where can I get a list of them? All the ones listed here seem to run some version of java (midp 1.0, cldc 1.0).
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After 5 minutes of talking Beyonce & Jackie Robinson West, Nillz & Ricky rein it in to discuss Rose's soreness and performance last week as a member of Team USA. We also discuss the final roster set to compete for the FIBA World Cup in Spain and run a "Bulls vs. Cavs" Fastbreak now that the Kevin Love trade is official.#101: Basketball Needs Chicago
August 18, 2014 10:37 PM PDT
Ricky O'Donnell is back to share his experiences over the weekend at Team USA training camp, the World Basketball Festival, and the United Center for Derrick Rose's return. Listen to him and Nillz discuss everything from Coach K's apparent beef with the SB Nation writer to a potential friendship with Jahlil Okafor to the stage presence of Doug E. Fresh. We also run a Bulls forecast edition of the "Fast Break."#100: Keepin' It 100
August 10, 2014 10:04 PM PDT
We celebrate the milestone with a roundtable discussion featuring Doug Thonus of the Bulls Beat and BullsConfidential.com. We react to the reported Cavs trade for Kevin Love and how the Bulls now match-up with the new Eastern Conference favorites. The 2nd part of the show is a retrospective "fast break" talking about our favorite moments in the podcast's 100 episode history.#099: Getting Over The Top
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Fresh from the Vegas black jack table, ESPN's Nick Friedell joins Nillz to discuss the fallout from Paul George's devastating injury and the implications on Derrick Rose. Listen to Nick also talk about Rose's return to playing at an elite level and whether (of course) the offseason acquisitions are enough to put the Bulls' "over the top."#098: Boosted Spirits
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City seeking federal assistance for Threefoot
Published: September 8,2010
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MERIDIAN — Harsh economic times have stymied efforts to restore Meridian's Threefoot Building, a 16-story art deco structure now listed as one of America's Most Endangered Historic Places.
Built by a prominent family in the 1920s, the building is one of only three art deco skyscrapers in Mississippi.
Mayor Cheri Barry and officials with the state Department of Archives and History are seeking $150,000 in grants to stabilize the building until officials can reach a renovation deal with a private developer.
Hank Holmes, director of the archives agency, said he's planning to examine the building later this month to gauge its condition after years of decline.
"I understand it's not in very good condition," Holmes said. "There are really no available grant programs now, but there may be some emergency stabilization money through the state Department of Archives and History."
The city owns the building, once used for office space but vacant for years. The trust submitted Threefoot Building for the national endangered list released in May. It's located near the historic Marks-Rothenberg Building, now known as the Mississippi State University Riley Center, and an opera house.
For now, Barry said Threefoot Building is a casualty of the national economic downturn. She said it's a $60-million to $70-million project to restore the building because "it's in deplorable condition."
Barry said city officials had been in negotiations with HRI Properties, the New Orleans-based company responsible for the restored King Edward hotel in Jackson, to transform the building into a hotel.
Barry said the city's talks with the company ended when local leaders decided against pursuing a $16-million revenue bond.
HRI President Tom Leonhard said his company had signed a contract with the city, but he understood the reason for the pullout earlier this year. Leonhard said his company's urban renewal projects require a public-private partnership and often a financial commitment from cities.
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Anonymous on 11/01/2010
We had "suspected" bedbug activity in the unit next door. The super had both the suspect unit and our unit sprayed fully, and confirmed there was no evidence of actual bedbug activity.
Later we ourselves had some strange bites and although they did not look like bedbug bites and we had no other signs of infestation, the super had our unit sprayed.
So far it looks like the super of our building takes the begbug problem very seriously and has no problem taking preventative action, rather than re
quiring "confirmed evidence" of infestation before spraying.
Anon. on 07/31/2010
Moved in September '09, first floor and everything seemed to be going fine until June '10 when my partner and I received our first bites. She thought it was hives, or an allergic reaction to something in the environment because of the size of the welts. We had the plants outside our window cut down and all the while our super never mentioned anything about bedbugs to us.
It wasn't until she had an appointment with a dermatologist (after seeing several doctors who themselves were baffled at th
e marks) who said the source was most likely bed bugs. That night after work I checked and sure enough we had an infestation.
The Super is dealing with the situation in a timely fashion (had an exterminator come in within a week of the reporting) but continually gets angry at us when she says we should have reported it as soon as we knew. Also states that we knew the entire time, but didn't do anything about it.
Rhetorically: Who sits in an infestation of bed bugs and does nothing about it for two months?!
But I digress, after throwing out $500 worth of cherished items, and expensing another $600 for cleaning, were hoping that the rest can be salvaged once we bag the mattress and box spring after the second treatment.
Our recommendation: don't move into the first floor if you can avoid it!
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Who Was the Real DRACULA?
By Melodie Romeo
Surely you have heard of Dracula—everyone has. But did you know that there really was a Vlad Dracula? My first novel, Vlad, a historical romantic thriller, mixes carefully researched facts about the villainous prince with fictional characters and events to fill in the gaps that history has left us regarding this bloodthirsty 15th-century Romanian prince.
Vlad Dracula (also known as Vlad Tepes and Vlad the Impaler) was born in Transylvania in 1431, the middle son of Vlad Dracul, the prince of Walachia (a province of what is now modern Romania). Even as a young boy, he had a fascination with death, climbing to a window in the palace overlooking the executions. When he was 11, Vlad and his younger brother, Radu, were taken hostage by the Sultan of the Ottoman Turks, and while in Turkish hands Vlad became enthralled with the execution method known as impaling. It was often a slow and tortuous way to die. Death could be instantaneous, but most often the victim was left dangling, waiting for gravity to pull his or her body through the long, wooden stake.
In 1448, Vlad learned that his father and older brother had been murdered by Hungarian and Walachian noblemen who opposed his rule. The sultan loaned young Vlad a small force to retake the principality, but he was unable to hold power and fled to neighboring Moldavia. In 1456, Vlad orchestrated a coup, killing the Walachian prince in power and establishing a bloody reign that lasted six years. During this time period, it is estimated that he killed at least 100,000 people.
And yet, many Romanians consider him a national hero. One reason is because he continually defeated the advances of the Ottoman Turks who threatened to invade Europe. He also eliminated crime. How, you may ask? Simple. All crimes were punishable by death. There is a famous tale of the well with the golden chalice that was never stolen in the six years of his reign. He also eliminated poverty; you guessed it—by killing the poor. Numerous accounts record Vlad's tactic of inviting "unproductive" members of society to great feasts, promising that they will never go hungry again, and then burning down the building with all inside.
Vlad did not limit his executions to criminals and vagrants; clergymen, nobles and foreign diplomats were not exempt. One of his first acts as prince was to hold a great Easter feast, inviting all of his nobles, their families, and servants to attend. Once inside, he accused them of plotting to murder his father and brother. He had all who were adults at the time of the assassinations impaled along with their wives and servants. The youths were sent on a 50-mile forced march to rebuild his castle at Poenari. The young nobles worked in their Sunday clothes until they became rags, and then they continued naked until it was completed. Vlad scored points with the peasant class, for they were amused by the nobles becoming forced labor while many peasants were elevated into positions of nobility.
Vlad did not limit his killings to residents of his own principality. He went on a bloody rampage through Transylvania, murdering everyone in his path, in search of a rival to his throne. During this venture the rest of Europe discovered what he had really been up to. They described Dracula as "chopping up men, women, and children like cabbage." His taste for blood was insatiable; he would drink his victims' blood from a silver cup. Once he impaled 20,000 Turkish prisoners around the capital city to discourage an invasion; the tactic proved successful.
The bottom line is, Vlad Dracula was not a vampire; he was something much worse—a real man. He did not hesitate to torture any man, woman or child he chose. He was a monstrous, mass murderer on a scale unequaled in history until Adolf Hitler, and yet in his own way, he found a place
as nationalist and protector of Christendom in Romanian history. In VLAD, I focus on the last month of his life and the fictional characters who set about to end his bloody reign once and for all. After 14 years of exile, Vlad returned, but there were those who refused to let history repeat itself. The identity of the prince's killer is a mystery to history, but not to those who dare to enter his dark world and follow the treacherous course of our heroes as they set out on their quest. G
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Hey guys,
I'm having some mixed results from installing QtMobility 1.0.2 and I wanted to check up if what I'm doing is correct.
First of all, I have the Qt Nokia SDK, it included QtMobility, I've updated it to 1.0.1 using the "Maintain Nokia Qt SDK" app and so far things have been doing ok. Or at least that's what I think.
I wanted to install the latest 1.0.2 release of QtMobility, I followed these instructions in order to do so:
So far I was able to have it running on the cellphone by installing QtMobility_Express_Signed.sis directly on it, and Qt Creator seems to detect my settings. The only problem is that it doesn't work on the Simulator.
Then, I find another set of how to install instructions:
First of all, the "Bulding for Symbian on Windows" section says:
Building Qt Mobility for Symbian is not necessary as the package contains pre-built binaries for the SDK and SIS file for the device. See the symbian\install.txt file on how to deploy these.
Which is incorrect since there're no pre-built binaries for the SDK anywhere.
Second, running the configure.bat (using the Qt for Symbian command prompt) gives me these results at the beginning:
etcetera... (everything it checks returns a Not Found)Code:c:\Nokia\QtSDK\QtMobility\qt-mobility-symbian-opensource-1.0.2>configure c:\Nokia\QtSDK\QtMobility\qt-mobility-symbian-opensource-1.0.2 Checking available Qt 4.6.3 Checking make ... Symbian abld make found. Start of compile tests Checking Audiorouting_s60 ... Not Found Checking Tunerlibrary_for_3.1 ... Not Found Checking RadioUtility_for_post_3.1 ... Not Found Checking OpenMaxAl_support ... Not Found Checking Surfaces_s60 ... Not Found
And lastly, every time I try to use multimedia's libs from QtMobility they work fine on the device (I can play audio using QMediaPlayer), but the simulator will always throw:
defaultServiceProvider::requestService(): no service found for - "com.nokia.qt.mediaplayer"
So testing is kind of a pain since compiling for the device takes years.
Why things have to be always sooo difficult? I just wanna code
Please, if anyone can shed some light into correctly installing QtMobility I would really appreciate it.


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It's time for another Archive Collective CRIT NIGHT ! These critiques are pretty informal. We open up an apartment, we welcome the public, we drink a ton of coffee, and we talk about new work from three local/regional artists using photography.
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If you meet the truth, annihilate it
Gay marriage looks silly to those who cannot admit to the myths and the flaws of design and execution in their own marriage.
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One way of solving the problem of overpopulation on Planet Ark .. i guess..
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And given how we tax poor mother earth with our numbers, I'd say the more ways, the better.
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"This is yet another reason any tar sands project in Northern New England is far too risky."
03-13-2014 // Miles Grant
According to the company that owns it, the 64-year-old pipeline that currently transports crude oil from Portland, Maine, to Montreal has already passed its projected retirement date, documents recently discovered by the National Wildlife Federation show. The Exxon-owned Portland Pipe Line Corporation (PPLC) seeks to reverse the aging pipeline to transport heavy, corrosive, toxic tar sands oil, one of the dirtiest, costliest, and most climate-disrupting fuels in the world.
"This is yet another reason any tar sands project in Northern New England is far too risky," said Jim Murphy, senior counsel at the National Wildlife Federation's Northeast Regional Center. "As we saw with the tragic tar sands oil disaster in Mayflower, Arkansas, last year, these old pipelines can and will fail. It would be utterly irresponsible to try to pump impossible-to-clean-up tar sands through a pipe the company itself admits is past its retirement date and that crosses some of New England's most sensitive wildlife habitat."
As shown by court documents from the 1990s recently discovered by the National Wildlife Federation, both the Exxon-owned Portland Pipe Line Corporation (PPLC), which owns the pipeline system, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) have stated that the pipes' lifespan is 60 years. The 18" pipe, which is most likely to be used to transport tar sands oil, was built in 1950 – putting its retirement date at 2010, four years ago. The other line, a 24" line that runs alongside it, was built in 1965 and would therefore only have 11 years of use left.
"These documents show once again that the pipeline company and its corporate owners will say anything to achieve greater profits," said Dylan Voorhees, clean energy director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine. "When it suits them they argue the pipeline's end-of-life is in 2010, then, when they want to consider piping tar sands, they argue it can be used in perpetuity. This is no time to consider converting it to carry toxic tar sands across Sebago Lake, Maine's largest drinking water supply."
"These documents are the smoking gun that should finally put an end to any attempt by the oil industry to use the pipeline to carry tar sands. Enough is enough," said Emily Figdor, director of Environment Maine. "We call on the Portland Pipe Line Corp. to promise the people of Maine, from Bethel to South Portland, that our communities, our water, and our coast will not be put in harm's way by a reckless project that should never have been considered in the first place."
Background: In 1994, PPLC was involved in a case before the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, where the company was seeking an abatement of taxes levied on the pipeline by the town of Gorham, New Hampshire. While Gorham stated that the pipeline would remain in service for 90 years, PPLC argued with a report and expert testimony that a more realistic lifespan would be 60 years. In the case, the New Hampshire Supreme Court accepted the 60 year estimate. This information can be found in a trial brief signed and dated by counsel for PPLC.
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Rivals: (#2 C / #5 overall)
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24/7: 99 (#1 C / #9 overall)
Wishoops: (#1 player in 2015)
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Previous Rankings: 5-star (#1 C/#6 overall > #1/#3 > #2/#4) by Rivals; 5-star (#1 C/#1 overall > #1/#3 > #2/#2) by Scout; 5-star/96 (#2 C/#5 overall) > 95 (#2/#2 > #2/#3) by ESPN; 5-star/99 (#1 C/#8 overall > #2/#10 > #3/#9 > #1/#4) by 24/7
2014 First Team All-State (AP)*
2014 All-State - Div. 4 (WBCA)*
2013 Second Team All-State (AP)
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2012 Honorable Mention All-State (AP)
2012 Second Team All-Midwest Classic Conference - North
2011 WBY Shootout All-Tournament Team (Wishoops.net)
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2014-15: Senior (Dominican)
2014: U17 World Championships | USA Basketball
2014: 22.0 ppg, 11.3 rpg, 3.9 bpg, 1.3 apg, 3.5 TO/g | UA Association
2013-14: 24.3 ppg, 13.1 rpg | Junior (Dominican)
2013: 13.6 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 2.6 bpg, 54% FG, 14-23 FT in 20 mpg | FIBA Americas U16
2012-13: 16.9 ppg, 11.6 rpg, 3.1 bpg | Sophomore (Dominican)
2011-12: 13.4 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 3.1 bpg | Freshman (Dominican) - MaxPreps
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Stone's recruitment was jump-started in April 2012 with offers from heated, in-state rivals Wisconsin and Marquette. However, it was inevitable that heavyweight players nationwide got involved and Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky and UCLA have turned up the heat. This 6'10" baby-faced monster has dealt relatively well with being touted as one of the top pivot prospects in the country -- regardless of class -- for several years now. Instead of seeing his rankings slip, Stone has adapted. He's been developing good footwork and refining his already impressive array of post moves. He was recently elevated to the top-ranked 2015 prospect once again by Scout:
Stone has a big frame with soft hands and is incredibly skilled for a young center. He can step out and shoot or back you in and score with his footwork, touch or skill set. He's not an elite athlete, but makes up for it with his size and skill.
Stone wowed onlookers at the LeBron James Skills Academy in 2013, then started trimming his physique in hopes of leading Dominican to a third-straight WIAA championship (which he did). He has always said that he intended to wait until his junior or senior season to decide on a college, and with so many options, why not? Mississippi shooting guard Malik Newman, the top overall player in 2015, has been quoted several times saying he and Stone want to become a package deal at the college level. That development would throw a serious monkey wrench into Wisconsin's hopes of landing the Dominican star. Though the package deal theory has been debunked to some degree, the "will he or won't he" nature of the rumors are constant.
At the Reebok Breakout camp, a touted matchup fizzled when Stone experienced a macaroni-and-cheese "mishap." Stone has informed scouts he will take all five official visits and make a decision in time for the November 12 early signing date. Battling a groin injury, Stone traveled to Dubai in August to play in the U17 World Championships with Team USA. There he set a standard for blocked shots while regaining his reputation as a double-double machine.
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Hey, Erik Hassle! After your impressive Booth debut, Pathetic, I was quickly Ready for You to return to our pages; we just had no idea it would be so soon. After a little more than week, Hassle is once again knocking down our doors with a similarly unique, but differently vibing tune. While Pathetic had a bubbly, poppy aroma, Ready For You falls much more squarely on the R&B side of the tracks. Here the Sweden native slows things down, and though it is not easy to be so soft yet powerful and versatile, he nails the performance atop the swooning, ambient production stylings of Gustaf "Grizzly" Jonsson. If Ready For You has you ready for Hassle's RCA debut, Somebody's Party EP, you'll only have to wait a few weeks; the project is slated for release on March 4.
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When trauma expert A. Brent Eastman MD, chairman of the American College of Surgeons Board of Regents, describes his inspiration to take up medicine, he often starts with a tale from his childhood in Evanston, in rural southwestern Wyoming.
He tells how in the early 1950s, his uncle Gilbert was basically the region's entire trauma system. Gilbert was not only the county coroner, he also owned the area's funeral home and taught first aid on the side.
"Whenever there were injuries on the roads or ranches, he and his mortuary helper could slip out the coffin rollers in his 1951 Cadillac combination hearse and ambulance, slip in a gurney, stick on the flashing red light, and be on their way," Eastman wrote in a recent issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The article, part of the Scudder Oration on Trauma, is entitled "Wherever the Dart Lands: Toward the Ideal Trauma System."
Sometimes, a funeral had to be postponed for a medical emergency. "It was a somewhat delicate maneuver to offload the casket and take off for the scene of the trauma, not to mention disconcerting to bystanders, when the hearse arrived. No doubt some of them wondered about a conflict of interest; would they turn left to the mortuary, or right to the hospital."
Gilbert also organized the town's response to "The Great Train Wreck of 1951," when a train carrying surgeons from San Francisco to Chicago ran a red light covered by snow in Evanston, and hit the back of another train. Several of the surgeons were killed and several others wounded.
"As an 11-year-old boy I was taken by my father, a locomotive engineer running the great steam engines and my hero, to see this crash because the engineer was a next-door-neighbor and friend. This was my first exposure to mass casualty and it awakened my interest in trauma," Eastman says.
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Milwaukee, WI (SportsNetwork.com) - Brandon Knight poured in a game-high 30 points to lead Milwaukee to a 108-105 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday.
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It currently houses a museum and various craft shops tucked away in its back alleys, built in a uniform way where gardens meeting on adjacent properties seem to make the whole idea of property go away. Located just at the mouth of the village, the Bukchon Traditional Culture Center is a great place to get the low-down on not only the village itself, but its history and artist integrity, providing audiovisual materials and a shop.
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Colorado City Mayor Jim Baum got the call last week; a call bringing good news to city officials deep in the middle of making significant infrastructure expansions. The City of Colorado City is the recipient of another grant from the Texas Department of Agriculture in the amount of $275,000, according to Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples.
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You might currently be experiencing an odd sense of deja vu. That's because I wrote a post with a very similar title to this – Nicky Morgan: the Minister for Women who doesn't believe in equality for all women – just about three months ago.
Back then, David Cameron had been forced into a mini-reshuffle of his cabinet by the resignation of Maria Miller because of …er, what was it now? being insufficiently apologetic in a public apology, was that it? Miller's resignation had created a bit of a headache for the prime minister, not so much in the awarding of her main Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport portfolio (that was handed readily enough to Sajid Javid) as in the handling of her secondary role as Minister for Women and Equalities.
The problem Cameron faced was that the Women and Equalities portfolio had to be given to someone of cabinet level, because any suggestion he was downgrading the importance of the role would have been politically toxic. The Minister for Women had – for pretty obvious reasons – to be a woman, and the Minister for Equalities had – for very similar reasons – to be someone who was in favour of equality. (In practical terms 'in favour of equality' meant someone who was in favour of LGBT equality, since the legislation for equal marriage in England and Wales had been the only major equalities Bill put through the current UK parliament.) So, to recap, Mr Cameron was looking for a woman who was in, or could be promoted to, the cabinet and had voted for marriage equality.
This proved to be an insoluble conundrum for a prime minister who headed a parliamentary party that was 84% male, and in which only about two out of every five MPs had voted for marriage equality, so he took the decision to split the portfolio. The incoming Culture Secretary – who had voted in favour of equal marriage, but was a man – was made Minister for Equalities, while Nicky Morgan – who was a woman, but had voted against equality – was made Minister for Women, and granted permission to attend cabinet in that capacity.
All in all this was a pretty unsatisfactory fudge. It blurred the government's approach to equality (who should lesbians subjected to misogyny and homophobia turn to for help – the Minister for Women, or the Minister for Equalities?), and it meant that the official government champion of female equality didn't support equality for all women. But it was this unsatisfactory fudge that persisted from early April until mid July.