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Join VLN in nominating the Cornelius, Davidson, and Huntersville hoteliers who truly make Lake Norman stand out as a destination! VLN is accepting nominations for its Making Waves Hotel Awards Program through the end of December. Award categories are in guest services, sales, and management for hotel staff in Cornelius, Davidson and Huntersville.
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The 2013 award winners were Joy Penninger, with the Davidson Village Inn (Outshines from the Front Lines), Cristal Moncur, with the Homewood Suites in Davidson (Stellar Seller) and Ernest Massey, with the Sleep Inn & Suites in Huntersville (Lead to Succeed).
We are now accepting submissions for 2014!! Nomination forms must be received by December 31, 2014. Self nominations will not be accepted. Award winners will be determined based on a combination of the number of nominations received and the descriptions on why he/she is deserving of the award. The winners will be announced at VLN's annual Awards Reception in February 2015.

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Central Texas — Police from across the state will serving food at most Texas Roadhouse restaurants on Thursday in an effort to raise money for Special Olympics Texas.
Restaurants in Waco, Temple, Killeen and Bryan/College Station will be participating.
This is the fifth year the restaurant chain has put on the event with local law enforcement.
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A Bachelor of Mathematics is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for successfully completing a program of study in mathematics or related disciplines, such as computer science or statistics. The Bachelor of Mathematics degree is frequently abbreviated as B.Math or BMath.
A BMath program generally lasts three years with a fourth "honours" year in China and Australia. BMath programs are increasingly taking about five years to complete because of coop or internship placements.
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This story is from the fourth quarter 2010 Adventist Mission DVD. You can watch the Adventist Mission DVD in your local church or online at www.AdventistMission.org.
The Australians have a term called a walkabout. It's origin comes from the time when an Aboriginal man would set out by himself, walking the bush. A spiritual journey where he would hope to discover himself.
Don Fehlberg, a pastor in Western Australia, has gone on his own walkabout, his own spiritual journey to reach the Aboriginals of the Outback.
"I've been working specifically with aboriginal people since 2000, but started doing this full time in 2004," says Pastor Fehlberg, associate director for Aboriginal Outreach for the Australian Mission. Pastor Fehlberg has helped establish an Aboriginal church plant called Jigalong.
"Public evangelism fits these people very well," says Pastor Fehlberg. "They love pictures and stories and we use these a lot in evangelism here to illustrate the message.
"The Aboriginals like to have church and they feel good when they've had church. And that's one reason why we work so hard to help them do what they really want to do."
"They're very spiritual people," says pastoral intern Dieter Stahl. "A lot of the kids are very spiritually receptive and so they understand spiritual themes and concepts easily. They have a hunger for God and they're actually asking for God. To be able to share that and equip the locals with the ability to share for themselves, that's the main attraction for me."
"I think Jigalong is getting stronger for the Lord and for the church," says Pastor Fehlberg. "Now the congregation has plans to reach out to the people of the western desert. They have discovered God's commandments and especially His Sabbath and they want to share this with others so they can be ready for Jesus' soon coming. There's a real burden in their hearts to tell others."
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You're working on your latest C++ project, an infinitely cool piece of software that everyone is dying to see. Before you release, however, you want to get rid of as many bugs as possible. You know you have a certain bad habit you learned in C, the one you have to go back and fix time, after time since you keep forgetting you're writing in C++ now.
Enter CodeWizard by ParaSoft, a tool that searches through your code for violations of good C++ coding standards. Based on programming ideas from Scott Meyers' books Effective C++ and More Effective C++, CodeWizard automatically enforces thirty-five descriptive rules or "items" for effective C++ programming—standards that significantly reduce the number of errors in your code. In addition to Meyers' rules, ParaSoft has included a list of thirty-six additional items.
What kind of rules are we talking about? First of all, the items have each been given a rating according to the severity of the rule. The five ratings, from least serious to fatal, are: Informational, Possible Violation, Violation, Possible Severe Violation and Severe Violation (see Figure 1). An example of an Informational rule is item 2 under the Effective C++ list: "Prefer iostream.h to stdio.h." So, for instance, if you include stdio.h in your code, one of the warnings that will come up will explain that you shouldn't use stdio.h when coding in C++ (see Figure 2). A Possible Violation is rule #17: "Check for assignment to self in operator=." Item #22 catalogs a Violation: "Pass and return objects by reference instead of by value." A Possible Severe Violation is something like, "Don't try to return a reference when you must return an object." Severe violations can prove to be fatal to your program. Rule #10 is a good example: "Write delete if you write new." Seems obvious, of course, but you may forget it and thus cause ugly memory leaks. The items are divided into different categories, such as "Shifting from C to C++", "Memory Management" and "Inheritance and Object-Oriented Design".
Figure 2. C++ Code that Violates a Rule
CodeWizard came with some instructions on installation and basic usage. The distribution file is a tar file—it's up to you to manually copy it over from the CD and unpack it. A graphical installation program would come in handy for less experienced users (although you probably won't be using the UNIX version of CodeWizard, if you aren't familiar with a UNIX shell and basic commands). You can configure CodeWizard as either root or a regular user—both ways worked fine for me. A license is required, which must be obtained from ParaSoft. The pslic program, the ParaSoft License Manager, will give you a machine ID and a network ID, which you give to ParaSoft. In return, you'll receive an expiration date and a password which will unlock CodeWizard. I'm sure there's an easier way to manage licenses, one that doesn't require contacting ParaSoft, but this method minimizes pirating (which is, of course, a concern only for commercial software vendors—the GPL is beautiful in that it completely shatters software piracy).
You use CodeWizard in place of your compiler on the command line. Instead of typing
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codewizard project.c -o projectYou can set the compiler for CodeWizard to use in a configuration file. CodeWizard then scans your code for any of the violations in its rule set. On a side note, you can suppress any of the rules (in case some of them make no sense when applied to your particular project), or you can add your own rules using RuleWizard (see Figure 3). There is a Motif GUI program, Insra (see Figure 4), that displays the error messages and allows you to open the source files, make any necessary changes, rebuild the program and retest the code for violations. If you want to keep everything strictly console-based, however, you can do that as well.
All in all, I'd have to say that CodeWizard can be an incredible help in C++ coding. A Java version is available as well, and with the ability to add your own rules, you could foreseeably use it for almost any other language as well. Though it is expensive, if you're serious about your C++, this would be a wise investment.Version 3.0 is due out in September.
Ben Crowder is a young Linux aficionado living in Utah. In addition to fiddling with the insides of computers, Ben enjoys reading, writing and music. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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At Kelly Liken, potato-crusted trout (pictured) is served with a lemon beurre blanc and haricots verts (12 Vail Rd.; 970-479-0175; three-course prix fixe, $45). When Liken is not at the stove, heres where you can find her:
APRÈS "You have to stop in at Pepi's Bar for a pint of Austrian beer and the tunes of crooner Rod Powell [231 E. Gore Creek Dr.]. If it gets late, head over to the Red Lion for Crazy Mountain Brewery suds and great covers by Phil Long [304 Bridge St.]."
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Since the launch of Blekko, we have had a clear mission; and that is to eliminate spam from web search. With thousands of slashtags created by our users to help reduce spam, we are making quick and significant progress in achieving our set goals.
In the past, our efforts to clean-up search have included our partnership with the Stack Overflow community, and our public banning of the top 20 sites most users marked as spam at Blekko.
Today, we are taking the next giant step forward with the launch of Blekko's new AdSpam algorithm. This new technology will dramatically change search. It's the first search algorithm ever created to find spam rather than rank results. The algorithm is specifically designed to recognize pages which are spam and eliminate them before they ever appear in search results.
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This map shows the lay of the land in California, with a flat central valley flanked by mountains on both sides. The lowest point in California and the lowest elevation in North America is in Death Valley at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. California's highest point is Mount Whitney which is 14,505 feet (4,421 meters) above sea level, making it the highest summit in the contiguous United States. The two places are only 85 miles apart.
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We recently asked readers to stake their claim to the title World's Best Cruiser. After 11,000 votes from BT readers, it was clear that Martha and Ken Wiseman of Romeoville, Ill., had made a watertight case: The retired educators have hit almost 350 ports on nearly 70 cruises in the past 38 years. "In 1973, we met a couple who had just gotten off a cruise," Martha says. "Our eyes lit up as they described it -- and we never looked back!"
CHOOSE YOUR CABIN WISELY Choosing a cabin is all about location, location, location. Check the ship's layout online before booking, and opt for a room with passenger floors above and below you. You don't want to try to sleep right under the disco, the casino, or the running track.
PACK SMARTLY Most cruise lines offer certain drinks for free -- juice, lemonade, iced tea, coffee, milk, tea -- but you'll have to pay for soda. If you're a caffeine addict, pack a bottle or two. Unlike on a plane, you won't have to worry about paying for the added weight.
PLAN YOUR SCHEDULE For fire-safety reasons, cabins don't have their own irons. Don't wait until the last minute to tackle your evening wardrobe. You can find shared irons down the hall in the laundry room, but lines often form before mealtimes. Opt for off-hours (like mornings).
WAKE UP EARLY It's easy to lose track of time in a windowless interior cabin. Before going to sleep, tune into the ship's bridge-camera channel for real-time videos of the front (or bow) of the boat. The screen will act like a virtual porthole, and you'll rise and shine with the sunrise.
GET YOUR EMAIL WITHOUT PAYING ROAMING CHARGES Internet phone services like Vonage can be programmed to send transcribed voice mails to your email in-box. That way, you can check your home answering machine quickly at an Internet cafe without paying insane roaming fees on your cell. The transcriptions won't always be perfect, but you'll get the gist.
KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR TOWELS Don't assume you can save a spot at the pool with your towel. Cruise lines give you one pool towel at the start of the cruise. If you don't have it (or a cleaned trade-in) at the end, you'll get charged. If you let it out of your sight, you run the risk of losing it or having it stolen by a fellow cruiser.
KNOW WHEN TO PREPARE FOR ROUGH SEAS If your tablecloth is wet at dinner, you should prepare for rough seas. Restaurant staffers have been known to slightly dampen the tablecloth to keep plates and glasses from sliding.
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Lost his last election, in 2011, with 38.30% of the vote.
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Business of Supply March 8th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, I would argue that what I am talking about is fundamental to the motion we are dealing with today. Let us consider the fact that this is not an isolated, one-off instance. If it were to be held out as a mistake, a one-off occasion that could easily be explained as one error, that would be one thing. However, it is part of a broader trend.
At stake in the House are the very institutions that ensure that our democracy is kept viable and strong, that we have strong independent oversight, that agencies like Elections Canada are able to set and enforce rules to make sure that fairness is maintained and that our system of democracy is kept healthy. There could be nothing more germane than going over examples of the government attacking those institutions as part of a broader pattern.
Mr. Kennedy, for talking about the changes needed at the RCMP, was let go. He did not want to go but was let go. We have not heard a word from his replacement in over a year, someone who has disappeared into the ether, a former Conservative fundraiser with no experience with the national police force and who is doing his job by not saying a thing or demanding changes.
Munir Sheikh, the head of Statistics Canada, who refused to have words put into his mouth to the effect that he supported the idea of ending the long form census when he had thought no such thing, was effectively forced out of his job because he would not buy the government's talking lines.
And the following were fired as well: Colonel Pat Stogran, the Veterans Ombudsman; Peter Tinsley, the chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission; Richard Colvin; and Steve Sullivan, who said that the government's plan for victims was unbalanced and would not work. Marty Cheliak, head of the Canadian firearms program, was also fired. And there is Kevin Page, the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
Consider the pattern. When looking at Elections Canada and the way the rules are being flaunted, not followed and essentially waived off as insignificant, we see that it is part of a trend and pattern that must be arrested and expunged.
Here are the fundamental questions. What if we let this stand? What if we allowed these attacks on the independent institutions that oversee Parliament to stand? What if we put a stamp of approval on them? What if Canadians do not stand up and challenge them? What is to stop a future prime minister from going the next steps and eliminating all of the lights that shine in dark corners and give us insight into what is happening, that ensure that when Canadians are making decisions in elections they are doing so with facts, and that when Parliament is making a decision in the House, it is doing so with accurate and viable information?
If we do not fight to protect the laws that are put in place by agencies like Elections Canada, then we will watch everything fall like a row of dominos. When we stand in the House and are forced to vote on bills that have no costing and no information provided, we are already seeing those dominos falling. When we see the independent officers of Parliament, one after the other, being knocked out and replaced with people who refuse to speak out, who refuse to do anything but carry the government talking points, we are walking into a situation that we cannot get back from.
This motion is about the in and out scandal, but it is about much more. It is about protecting the institutions that maintain strong and healthy democracies, and we have to take a stand.
Business of Supply March 8th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, nothing is more fundamental to democracy than the independence of parliamentary institutions, having oversight and ensuring that our system has rules that are followed and adhered to.
In the time I have allotted I will talk about the in and out scandal and why it is such a concern, but moreover, why we as parliamentarians have to be deeply concerned about the trajectory, not just of this issue but of others, and its implications on democracy.
The in and out scandal is, at its base, an attempt to break election laws, laws that were put in place to ensure during a campaign every party was on equal footing, every party had limits and every party was allowed to spend a certain amount.
For one party to be able to break those rules to the tune of $1.2 million and to be able to go out and buy all kinds of additional ads and have resources that other parties are not afforded is not just wrong but, frankly, it amounts to electoral fraud, which means that the electoral process we had was uneven because one party was conferred an unfair advantage.
If we were to allow that to stand, if we accept the Conservative argument that this is just an administrative issue and we should not worry about it, what precedent would that establish? What message does that send?
If the people who make the laws flaunt the laws and if the people who make the laws say that no one really needs to follow the laws if they can find clever ways around them, how can we possibly have a strong democracy?
The Conservatives say that this is an issue faced by everybody. Only one party had its national campaign headquarters raided by the RCMP. Only one party had charges brought against senior organizers and senators in its party. Only one party has a paper trail of doctored documents to try break election laws. That party is the Conservative Party of Canada. Therefore, to suggest that everybody does it does not pass as anything more than empty rhetoric.
More than that, even after being caught, charged, taken to court by Elections Canada and the court tossing out the Conservatives' arguments saying that they were bogus and ridiculous, the Conservatives still stand in defiance. They still refuse to own up to what they have done or to acknowledge that what they did in the past was wrong. They refuse to own up to their error and to say that they never should have done it. Instead, they try to brush it off as unimportant.
I think it sends a terrible message and establishes an awful precedent. However, it is part of a bigger trend.
Recently a minister was charged with allegedly doctoring documents to make it look as though department officials were the ones who made the decision to cut funding to KAIROS when, in fact, those bureaucrats had done exactly the opposite. That minister was in committee and in the House and made comments that she did not know who altered the documents. She clearly misled Parliament because later she came back and said that she did know. For that, we are told that the minister is courageous and that the minister is a strong minister who we should all applaud for the work she is doing, even though the Prime Minister will not even allow her to respond to the questions that we pose.
Much bigger than that, though, is the trend that the government has of going after independent voices, voices that speak out and demand change. It started with Linda Keen. Linda Keen was the president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission who stood and said that the government was wrong in how it was handling radioactive isotopes that are critical in diagnosing cancer. However, because she spoke out and took an opinion, she was fired.
It continued with Paul Kennedy, the RCMP Public Complaints Commissioner who said that what was happening in the RCMP was wrong, that it needed to change, that there were important recommendations, from Iacobucci to O'Connor to the public safety committee, that were left unimplemented and that, without those changes, we would have other problems, either with tasers or with people who suffered like Maher Arar and Mr. El Maati, Mr. Nureddin or Mr. Almalki.
Business of Supply February 17th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, the member said that the cost is worth it. She says that she knows the cost, so she should table the cost. What is the cost? There are a total of 24 crime bills before the House. I will not read them all since there are a lot. We have the cost of exactly zero of them. We have the head count of exactly zero of them.
The one bill we did challenge, which is Bill C-25, the minister said:
We're not exactly sure how much it will cost us. There are some low estimates, and some that would see more spent — not more than $90 million.
The only bill we ever received a number on was the amount of $90 million, but when the PBO did an eight-month report, with which they stonewalled the Bloc, the cost was $10 billion to $13 billion.
The Conservatives would understand, I would hope, that we are not just trusting them to take a Father Knows Best attitude. If the member knows the costs, she should table them.
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Mr. Speaker, that is an excellent list. I do not know if I could build on it. However, when we have first-time non-violent offenders, we should have two objectives.
First is to ensure that they never commit crimes like that again. We want to ensure our rehabilitation efforts are successful. That is precisely why we want to keep something like this. We should keep it when we have the correctional investigator saying that it is effective, that it is needed. We should keep it when we have people on the front lines of rehabilitation saying that it has been an enormous success and we should ensure we do not toss it out.
Second is to be informed and understand that when there are victims, we have to ensure those victims are not re-victimized.
All evidence shows that instead of cutting from things like the RCMP white-collar task force, we need to be putting money into it. Instead of making cuts to the national police service, we need to be investing in it. We need to be putting in things like restitution orders to ensure victims who have been victimized get their money back. This is what we have to be doing.
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Mr. Speaker, I completely agree. We have to make decisions on the basis of evidence. We have to be able to demonstrate how our policies will work and where they have worked elsewhere. On that basis, this completely fails.
I will speak to cost, and this is for the Bloc Québécois. On the two-for-one remand credit, the Minister of Public Safety told us the cost would be $90 million over five years. The real cost turned out to be $10 billion to $13 billion. Yet the Conservatives bring crime bills, bill after bill, and they refuse to tell us the cost.
How dare the Bloc vote for a bill with no costing, with no information whatsoever? What kind of precedent does this establish? What happened to the members of the Bloc Québécois who stood and demanded information on the statistics before they voted on things?
To play some politics, Bloc members are willing to vote for a bill that has nothing in terms of cost, yet has all kinds of information to show that it is going to hurt rehabilitation and the safety of our communities. I just do not get it.
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Mr. Speaker, of course we voted at second reading. As I explained, we wanted to amend it and really focus on the people he is pretending the bill is about.
However, I will tell members what I am shocked by. I am shocked that the Bloc Québécois is willing to vote for a bill when it has no costs, that it is willing to vote on a bill that has no idea of the fiscal implications on it. I am shocked that the Bloc Québécois will vote for a bill that the Quebec Bar Association says is unconstitutional and will not work. I am shocked that the Bloc Québécois would stand up against pretty much every church group that is out there that says that the bill will not work, or against the Elizabeth Fry Society, the John Howard Society and an assembly of health care providers that is pan-Canadian from Quebec to Newfoundland to the Yukon that all say that this stuff does not work.
I am shocked that the Bloc did not vote with us two years ago to put in provisions that would have ensured that Mr. Lacroix did not get out. Where was the Bloc two years ago? Why was the Bloc not with us two years ago when we introduced measures to stop large-scale fraudsters? Why is it including everybody else in this in a way that would badly damage public safety?
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Mr. Speaker, let us take the example of a drug mule under this situation. Let us take the example of a woman in a bad or abusive relationship, which, unfortunately, is very often the case, or she is caught up in a crowd that is less than desirable because of an economically vulnerable position, who, because of that economically vulnerable position, makes some bad choices, becomes a mule, not necessarily for drugs, but for other goods that maybe she did not realize were stolen, or maybe even did realize were stolen, what do we do with her?
There has to be a consequence, absolutely, but long periods of protracted incarceration do one thing. They lead to more crime. They lead to less rehabilitation. It has been proven in every jurisdiction it has been tried.
Therefore, keeping that woman, who might be a mother, away from her children, as long as possible in a jail cell does one thing. It reduces overall resources to deal with violent offenders who need to be treated. In that situation, it could cost anywhere from, at a low, $185,000 to a high of $250,000 a year to incarcerate her, where conditional release will be $23,000. It does nothing for public safety and it reduces resources to deal with those who are a danger to society and we do not want to let out.
We need to be intelligent and thoughtful on this stuff.
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Mr. Speaker, in a couple of hours this House will vote at third reading on a bill that we have had about three days to work on. Parliament is yet again being asked to vote on a bill with absolutely no idea whatsoever what the costs will be. Effectively, Parliament has a blindfold on and has been wished good luck. It will find out after the bill has been passed and the money has been long since spent what the financial implications are. This is no way to conduct business.
As I watched last night, we had a couple of hours to listen to witnesses and listen to serious concerns regarding this bill. Yet again there was a closure motion so we could only deal with it until 10 o'clock.
Here are the facts. This sudden urgency, this sudden flurry of activity that came from the government could have been easily avoided if it had listened over the last number of years when Liberal members said that we should make sure we fix this, that we should shut down the provisions that allow someone like Earl Jones or Mr. Lacroix to get out early. We have been very clear on that. We have consistently pushed for it. We did so in press releases. We did so at the justice committee, moving it as amendments. The government refused to act. Then Mr. Lacroix got out because of the government's inaction. The government was caught with its pants down. It was embarrassed and suddenly, there was a flurry of activity. Suddenly it said that we should adopt this overnight or we do not care about victims; adopt this overnight or we are on the side of criminals. It is a defensive argument and it debases this House.
I have sat here and I have listened to members talk about rape victims. Just yesterday a Conservative member stood in the House and said that there are certain members of Parliament, of course they were not named, who support organizations that do not want jail time for people who rape children. What on earth is happening to debate when the Conservatives do this kind of thing? This is debate about first-time non-violent offenders and there is someone standing in the House talking about raping children and saying there are members in the House who do not support tough sentences for somebody who commits a crime like that. That is shameful. It shows us how desperate the Conservatives are to put politics ahead of an honest debate.
Here is the honest truth. Over the last two years not only did we advocate for these types of provisions that would stop someone like Earl Jones from getting released early, but in committee last night I, along with Liberal members and members of the NDP, proposed a series of amendments to make it targeted.
We voted yesterday at second reading to have the ability at committee to debate this matter, to focus it and get rid of the most offensive provisions that touch on things that frankly none of the Conservatives has been talking about and to determine what the Conservatives say the stated purpose of the bill is. What did they do? They voted against those amendments. In recorded vote after recorded vote, they blocked our efforts to amend the legislation.
Then they had the audacity, the intellectual dishonesty, to stand in the House and say that we do not care about victims, that we want to let Earl Jones out. It is despicable and it is dishonest.
To say that we have fair differences, to say that between us there are bridges we cannot build, that we cannot find compromise in certain areas, that is fine. To say that we both care about public safety, we both want to make a difference but we have a different approach to how we want to achieve it, is fair. However, to stand in the House and say that certain members support criminals, certain members do not support victims, give me a break.
Every single one of us in the House was elected because we care about our communities and our families. Every single one of us in the House comes here every day to try to make a better country, a safer country, with less violence and fewer problems. When we cast aspersions like that, the only thing we do is turn off Canadians and have them tune out. They say that this is not real debate and is nothing but games.
What I am trying to do here, and what we have tried consistently to do over the last number of days, is to point out deep concerns we have with provisions in the bill that eliminate the accelerated parole process for everyone.
Why should we care about that? First of all, this bill does nothing for victims. I mentioned that in my question.
It is worth mentioning that the member for Brampton West asked a series of good questions to victims. He asked what was more important to them and what did they want to see. Their most emphatic responses were around things like restitution and the ability to get money back from the people who victimized them. These are people who lost their life savings. Their first priority is getting back those savings. Certainly one of the first priorities of the government should be to stand side by side with them and say it is going to do everything it can do to get that money back.
One victim talked about his concerns with the idea that somebody like Earl Jones would just leave the country with his hard-earned money. We should be there for the victim every step of the way.
We heard another victim talk about the tax complications that come with this kind of situation. There are tax difficulties. As a government, and I speak in the collective sense of parliamentarians, we should be seeking ways to give tax breaks and different ways of assisting people who have been in that situation to dig themselves out.
We certainly heard from victims about the importance of enforcement, about putting money into the RCMP. It was only two days ago we heard about deep cuts of some $20 million that had been made to the national police services, which now the RCMP has to fund because there is a shortfall from the federal government. This is for services as essential as the sex offender registry and CPIC. We also know about cuts that have been made to the RCMP task force on white-collar crime.
It strikes me as disingenuous to say that opposition members do not care about victims when we are saying we have to do more to stop there being victims in the first place. We watched more than 70% being slashed from the crime prevention budget. When I talk to not-for-profit groups across the country that do great work in trying to stop crime before it happens and they tell me that they have to focus all their attention and energy on maintaining what little federal funding they have left to stop crime in their communities, that is wrong. When we talk about prevention, it is specifically because we care about victimization. It is specifically because we want safer communities, that we want honest answers for them.
In those examples, by investing in community capacity, by investing in police resources, by passing bills like what we have been pushing for, for well over four years now, to give lawful access abilities to our police to chase after criminals who use electronic media to perpetrate their crimes, by enabling them in those ways, we stop there being victims in the first place.
For anybody who has been victimized, the first thing that goes through his or her mind is how to make sure the pain and hurt and suffering never happens again. How do we stop it? It is not just about punishment.
On the punishment front, I cede to the Conservatives. They want to out-punish us. That is fine. The question is: Where does that lead? If our only objective is punishment, if we do not invest in those things I was talking about around prevention, where all those cuts have been made, we do no service to victims.
The Conservatives hand-picked the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime, Steve Sullivan. When he came to the conclusion after working with the Conservative government that the Conservative plan for victims will not work and is the wrong direction to go, he was fired. He was let go only because he spoke out.
Why did he say this plan was broken and would not work? It was not just because the Conservatives cut more than 40% from the victims of crime initiative, an initiative that sought to break cycles of victims that feed criminality. We have to remember that many victims become criminals if we do not address the base pain of their victimization. He said that not nearly enough money was being put into prevention and because of the cuts he saw, not nearly enough resources were being put into policing and not nearly enough resources were being put into helping victims once they had been victimized. Those are the kinds of things we have to do.
The Conservative plan to chase after incarceration and only incarceration as the solution, and then to vilify anybody who suggests that we should also look at other ideas, has been tried before. I mention this because it is important before embarking on a new endeavour to ask if somebody has tried this before.
Here in Canada we enjoy very low crime rates. During the years of Liberal power, we saw the crime rate, year over year, go down. At the same time, we enjoyed very low rates of incarceration. In thinking about it, those things are actually symbiotic. If there is a low rate of incarceration and a small number of people in prison, it is because there is less crime and fewer criminals. If there are overflowing prisons, and we are building more and more and it is growing and growing, it is because we have a lot of crime. It is not a good indicator.
In Canada, we had a strong model and, if we are going to break from that, where are we going? This same hyper-partisan approach to crime was tried by Republicans in states like California where they tried to vilify people who talked about prevention and investing in rehabilitation and programs. They called them people who did not care about victims and talked about them in the same kind of hyper-partisan terms that we have seen on the other side. Then they proceeded down a path of building more and more prisons, just churning them out one after the other.
What happens? Let us look at this bill. This bill disproportionately affects women. Some 62% of the people who will be affected by this will be women. These are women who are coming out of vulnerable situations or who are in situations where they are in a bad relationship or bad associations and end up carrying, not necessarily drugs, but goods of some sort, such as stolen goods. They are probably doing it under duress because they are in a bad situation, an impoverished situation.
If those women are a first-time non-violent offenders, this bill would eliminate their opportunity to move into conditional release. What does throwing them in jail longer and potentially keeping them away from their children for longer periods of time? Does that promote public safety?
In the experience of California, it did not. What ended up happening was that when they took first-time non-violent offenders and put them in jail for longer periods of time, there was a degradation in their condition.
Now that the prisons are more full and more replete with first-time non-violent offenders, there is less money to go around, which means that programs and services will be less effective. We already see that happening here in Canada where there is less money for programs and services. The correctional investigator is saying that we have a developing crisis here and there just is not enough money to deal with all of the people coming in to make them better.
Offenders who go into prison for a minor crime, go into an environment that is overcrowded and that does not have the services to address their root condition, remembering that more than 80% of inmates suffer from addiction issues. In the women's population, a quarter suffer from serious mental health issues. We are giving no money to those issues. In fact, we see it starting to slip away more and more. We then release them and, in this case, it is six months or two years later, whatever the case may be.
What happens when they get out? They start committing more serious crimes. In California, this vicious cycle became so bad that the rate of recidivism, that rate of reoffending, was over 70%, which means that for every 10 people who walked out a prison door, 7 would commit a crime.
We heard an interesting statistic last night. The violent reoffending rate for people who have been accessing the program is 0.3%. We are tossing out the window a program that has a violent recidivism rate of 0.3%. The system we are emulating is the California model that sees violent recidivism rates, not only in the double digits, but over 20%. It does not seem to me like that is something we would want to chase.
The problem in this vicious cycle is that it keeps feeding itself, it keeps chugging. The more those services are cut, the more people who go into prisons and the more stretched we become, the less there is available.
In California's example, it eventually had to go to private prisons where the conditions got even worse, where double bunking became triple bunking and where the lack of services became a complete absence of services. I do not think that is a path we want to cross.
When we look at the bill, we should consider the fact that many legal experts, including the Barreau du Québec, say that it is unconstitutional as well, that the retroactive features contained within the bill are unconstitutional and will not stand up to challenge. It is probably the result of hastily crafted legislation that was done behind closed doors, did not involve the parties and rammed through in three days, but those sorts of things are important to look at.
In a broader sense, in the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Cameron is undoing this kind of punishment agenda, while in the United States we see an undoing of this kind of agenda. Newt Gingrich, who is considered the father of this whole idea, is saying that it is broken and it does not work. Canadian Conservatives stand alone in the world, conspicuously so, in chasing after this disaster.
I will point to one other quick example before I make a couple of other points. We need to look at Florida versus the state of New York and the two approaches they took. New York decided that this kind of prison agenda was not making sense, so it actually reduced its overall incarceration rate by some 16%. At the same time, Florida continued charging forward with these types of conservative policies for non-violent offenders. The result was that Florida had an increase of 16% in its incarceration.
If we use Conservative logic, Florida should have been a Nirvana. Florida should have suddenly seen massive decreases in its crime. The opposite was true. Not only was Florida now burdened with billions of dollars in new costs, but its crime rate had gone up. Meanwhile, in New York, which saved billions of dollars and decreased incarceration, its crime rate went down. That is the case, the tale, everywhere it has been tried. This is not some debate in abstraction.
This is a debate with hard evidence and, if we care, not just about costs but also about victims, if we care about making a difference and making our communities safe and we are honest about that intention and not seeking to play politics, it takes longer to explain but it makes sense to do the right thing.
It is important to read the comments that came in from the correctional investigator. These are his statistics and the concerns that he expressed. He said, "The abolition of APR will result in non-violent offenders remaining in federal custody for significantly longer periods before being released into the community—this with limited net public safety benefit".
He goes on to say, "We can also expect that the Parole Board of Canada will have to hold more hearings than before, as APR typically is conducted by a paper review. These associated costs, in addition to significant incarceration costs, are important and need to be calculated".
"Of course, we have nothing. They refused to give us the figures".
"Statistics show that overcrowding in prisons leads to higher levels of tension and violence and jeopardizes the safety of staff, inmates and visitors".
He continues on to say, "With overcrowding, timely and comprehensive access to offender programs, treatment and meaningful employment opportunities are measurably diminished".
He continues on to say, "Capacity is currently most limited at the most medium security level, where bulk of correctional programming is supposed to take place and this bill will negatively impact it".
He goes on to talk about the overrepresentation of aboriginal people and how the bill will disproportionately impact them. He continues to say that the office is concerned, as I mentioned before, about women offenders and the fact that this disproportionately targets them. We must remember that for women offenders the cost of incarceration is anywhere from $180,000 to $250,000 a year.
These are not smart solutions. They are backward, failed Republican solutions and we do not need them here. We need to be smart, not dumb, on crime.
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Here is the problem, Mr. Speaker. A member of Parliament asked a question about what the government has done for victims and the response is to say that the member supports criminals. What absolute nonsense.
I was at committee last night. I watched every single opposition member, except for the Bloc Québécois, vote to ensure people like Earl Jones are not eligible for this condition. Shame on that member for trying to portray that any member of the House, either the member who posed the question, or myself, or a member of the Bloc, or the member herself supports Earl Jones getting accelerated pardon review.
The member should have listened two years ago when at justice committee we moved provisions that would not have allowed Mr. Lacroix out.
If the member is interested in victims, why has nothing been done to implement restitution orders so that when victims are taken for this kind of money the individual who commits the crime has to pay the money back? Why has the government made cuts to the RCMP task force on white-collar crime that goes after these criminals? Why has the government sat for years on legislation that we have been waiting to pass on lawful access to give police the tools to go after these kinds of criminals? Why has the government made cuts to crime prevention? Why has it cut from victims' services? Why did the government fire its victims' ombudsman, the government's own hand-picked ombudsman, who said its plan for victims is broken and will not work?
If the member is concerned about victims, why is she not addressing those issues?
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Mr. Speaker, we are approaching third reading and it would seem almost impossible to believe that the Conservative government would be asking Parliament to vote in mere hours with no cost whatsoever.
First, does the member have an expectation that Parliament would vote in the dark with a blindfold on? Does she find it acceptable that we should just vote for bills without any idea whatsoever what the cost implications would be, particularly when we have seen that these types of bills cost enormous amounts of money? The Parliamentary Budget Officer has said that just one of the Conservative crime bills would cost between $10 billion to $13 billion. Where is the money?
Second, I would accept any evidence. I am begging for it and I have asked, but there has been nothing again and again. What evidence is this being based on? Could the member show a single jurisdiction in the world where first-time non-violent offenders are put in for long periods of incarceration where it does anything but increase violence, increase victimization and create more problems?
Last, why would Conservative members not support our efforts both in committee and two years ago to go after large-scale fraudsters, focus it there and keep the accelerated parole review for others?


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These seven points, the smallest treatise you can find, are of immense value. You will have to meditate over each statement. They are the whole of religion condensed; you will have to unfold each statement. They are like seeds; they contain much. It may not be apparently so, but the moment you move into the statements deeply, when you contemplate and meditate and start experimenting with them, you will be surprised - you will be going into the greatest adventure of your life.
The first:
First, learn the preliminaries.
What are the preliminaries? These are the preliminaries. First: truth is. Truth is not something to be created, truth is not something that is far away. Truth is herenow; truth surrounds you as the ocean surrounds the fish. The fish may not be aware - once the fish becomes aware of the ocean, the fish is enlightened. The fish is not aware, cannot be aware, because the fish is born in the ocean, has always lived in the ocean, is part of the ocean as any wave is part of the ocean. The fish is also a wave - a little more solid, but born out of the ocean, lives in the ocean and one day disappears in the ocean. The fish may never come to know about the ocean. To know something, a little distance is needed. To know something, perspective is needed. And the ocean is so close, that's why the fish may not be aware of it.
So is the case with truth, or if you like you can use the word God. So is the case with God. It is not that he is far away and that's why we don't know about him; it is because he is not far away but very close by. Even to say that it is close by is not right, because you are it. He is within you and without: he is all and all.
This is the first thing that has to be allowed to sink deep in your heart: truth already is, we are in it. This is the most fundamental thing to begin with. You are not to discover it; it is not covered. All that is needed is a new kind of awareness, which is missing in you. Truth is there, but you are not aware; you are not mindful, you are not alert. You don't know how to watch, you don't know how to observe, you don't know how to look and see. You have eyes but still you are blind, you have ears but you are deaf.
The first preliminary is truth is.
The second preliminary is the mind is the barrier. Nothing else is hindering you from truth, just your own mind. The mind surrounds you like a film, like a movie that goes on and on, and you remain engrossed in it, fascinated by it. It is a fantasy that surrounds you; a continuous story that goes on and on, and because you are so fascinated by it you go on missing that which is. The mind is not; it is only a fantasy, it is only a faculty for dreaming.
The mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be, dreams of great ambitions, achievements. Dreams and desires, that is the stuff mind is made of, but it surrounds you like a China Wall. Because of it the fish remains unaware of the ocean.
The second preliminary is the mind is the only barrier.


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Thousands of workers from Southeast Europe headed to Sochi for what sounded like a dream job in constructing venues for the Olympic Games. In some cases, when they arrived, they found out differently.
By Mladen Dragojlovic for Southeast European Times in Banja Luka -- 28/02/14
Thousands of illegal workers from Serbia and BiH were hired for construction jobs for the Olympics. [AFP] |
Milan Vukelja left to work on an Olympic construction site in Sochi, Russia, this summer with dreams of a regular salary and steady employment. But his dream became a nightmare two months later when he and 20 men from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Serbia were deported for being illegally employed.
"We had a promise from the manager of Serbian employment company Hey You that we were not going as illegal workers, that we would have good conditions, food and documents. Nothing of that was fulfilled. The entire group of workers was arrested and deported from Russia," Vukelja, from a village near Prijedor in BiH, told SETimes.
The group was promised about 4,000 euros for two months of work, but so far they have only received a small part of that.
Elena Krsmanovic from Serbian NGO Astra said the organisation has had about 20 calls from workers who were victims in Sochi. They said there are about 500 Serbian workers in Russia.
"We have had some cases in which the victims were returning to Sochi, because they managed to get some money from employers. They consciously became victims again just to gain the chance to feed their families," Krsmanovic told SETimes.
Around 5,000 Serbian workers have gone to Russia over the past four years. Most of them were in Sochi, working in bad conditions, Sasa Simic, president of Serbia's independent construction workers union, told SETimes. Serbia and Russia do not have an agreement guaranteeing workers' rights.
"We finished the job ahead of schedule and demanded our pay. A Russian man came in wielding a gun. He was like the baddie in a gangster movie. We took what little money they gave us and left," Sasa Matic, an unemployed 41-year-old from the western Serbian town of Sabac, told Reuters of his experience.
The problem with fraudulent job offers in EU countries is so big that the Banja Luka police department recently issued a public warning to prevent people from trusting various organisations.
The false organisations are paid hundreds of euros in fees, but the victims do not get official visas or work permits. After being paid, the "employment agencies" close their doors and do not answer their phones. The victims then become members of an army of underpaid workers with suspicious permits.
According to a study last year by human rights group Pour la Solidarite, there are between 5 and 7 million workers without permits in the EU. If these workers are caught, they are deported and their employer pays a large fine.
According to the Republika Srpska Ministry of Labour, unemployment in BiH is a large problem.
"The privatisation of large enterprises left workers without jobs and they can't find other engagement. Many of them risk going to other countries to work illegally, and then be deported. Also they risk to pay a fine but, in many cases, their salaries are not enough to cover it," Minister Petar Djokic's office told SETimes.
Boris Pupic, the spokesman for the BiH Agency of Work and Employment, said there is no estimate of how many workers from BiH are in other countries illegally.
"BiH has an agreement on employment with Slovenia, and with Germany on the employment of medical staff. Nothing else is regulated. Employers are less likely to engage BiH citizens for employment because they know that we are required to check the conditions for our workers. Therefore, most employers in the EU that seek workers from BiH involve private employment agencies," Pupic told SETimes.
In the case of Vukelja and other workers in the Sochi group, the owner of the agency that sent them to Russia, Dusan Kukic, was arrested and charged with human trafficking.
Vukelja is still waiting to see his salary.
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Wind River enables integrated commercial and open source solutions through enhanced support for TIPC in industry leading VxWorks operating system; contributes TIPC implementation to open source community through SourceForge
London, March 8, 2005 – Delivering on its mission to help device manufacturers standardise on choice, Wind River Systems, Inc.the global leader in Device Software Optimisation (DSO), has announced that it is extending the Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC) open source protocol to support the VxWorks operating system. TIPC is a protocol designed to optimise development of multiple processor systems, such as carrier grade clusters and network equipment devices, and has to-date been available only for Linux. By offering TIPC support for its Linux-based and now VxWorks-based platforms, Wind River is driving standardisation and choice for all device software developers regardless of operating system. Wind River is contributing the TIPC extensions back to the community via SourceForge. In order to better support TIPC and ensure its portability to as many operating systems as possible, Wind River has contributed its adaptation for VxWorks to the TIPC Open Source project on SourceForge.net, part of the OSTG Network and a wholly-owned subsidiary of VA Software "Open Source has always stood to give manufacturers, developers and end-users more choices in the operating systems they use, and SourceForge.net is pleased to be the base for adding to these choices," said Jeff Bates, vice president of editorial operations for OSTG. "As the IT marketplace continues to change, the release of open standards and open products are part of the engine of success in the marketplace." "This is great news. VxWorks' support for TIPC shows that Wind River is serious about supporting interoperability with Linux and other OSes," said Jon Maloy, M.Sc. senior researcher, Ericsson Research Canada, Montreal. "They clearly understand the need for a standard IPC mechanism for device software. Their contribution to the TIPC project has been invaluable, and their success once again proves that making TIPC easily portable was a smart strategy." As industries converge, in areas of telecom and datacom, next generation networks and devices must be designed around standard protocols to ensure interoperability. Linux and VxWorks are the two predominant operating systems used in connected devices. Today's announcement enables TIPC to be leveraged across a significantly larger number of tomorrow's devices. Key benefits that TIPC for Wind River's General Purpose Platform brings to the industry include:
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Cathy L. Ciolek
Co-Director of Clinical Education
Senior Physical Therapist Neurologic & Older Adult Clinic
Secondary Appt. Assistant Professor
Physical Therapy Department
053 McKinly Lab/320 McKinly Lab
- 2005-Aug 2007 Arizona School of Health Science Mesa Az – Doctor of Physical Therapy
- 1990–1993 University of Delaware – Department of Continuing Education: Advanced Certificate in Gerontology
- 1985-1989 Ithaca College – Bachelors of Science in Physical Therapy: Faculty Award for Outstanding Service to the Department
- 1980 Boston University -- B.S. Degree Human Movement Studies
- 1976 United States Naval Academy – Midshipman Honorable discharge
Professional Experience
2004- Present University of Delaware Newark, DE
- Associate Director for the Neurologic and Older Adult Physical Therapy Clinic (2004 –2010)
- Director Clinical Education (2008-Present)
- Director Geriatric Physical Therapy Residency (2006-2011)
- Assistant Professor (2007- Present)
- Responsible for PHYT 806 Geriatrics and PHYT 620 Education Process in Community Health (2009-present)
- Faculty Instructor, University of Delaware Doctor of Physical Therapy Entry Level Program. (2004-2008) Co-teaching PHYT 806 Geriatrics. Guest lectures annually in PHYT 600 Intro to the Profession, PHYT 631 PT in Acute Care Environment, PHYT 633 Applied Physiology II, PHYT 804 Neurophysiologic Evaluation and Treatment, PHYT 810 Clinical Management and Administration.
- Clinical Educator for 12-14 part time integrated students in PHYT 822 Neurologic and Older Adult Experience and 0-2 full time experiences annually (2004- Present)
2007- 2010
- AT Still University of Health Professions, Mesa Az
- Adjunct Faculty: PT 830 Geriatrics Physical Therapy
- Responsible for creating, delivering and grading online course for tDPT program students 2-3x's/annually.
- Kendal~Crosslands Communities Kennett Sq, PA
- Physical Therapy Supervisor 2003-present
- Clinical Physical Therapist 1998-2002
- 2000-2004 Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, Provo UT Non Appointed Faculty
1995–1998 ManorCare Health Services Wilmington, DE
- Director of Rehabilitation
- Physical Therapy Manager
- Staff Physical Therapist
1992–1995 Ciolek Physical Therapy Wilmington, DE
- Owner- home health and contract LTC
1989–1992 St. Francis Hospital Wilmington, DE
- Staff Physical Therapist
Special Certifications and Awards
- Received Board Certification in Physical Therapy as a Geriatric Clinical Specialist from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialists in 1996. Re-Certification approved through 2016.
- Certified Emergency First Responder since 2006
- Certified CPR for professional rescuer since 2004
- Credentialed Clinical Instructor by APTA, November 2003, Advanced Clinical Instructor (Level 2) Credential by APTA October 2009
- Joan Mills Award, Section on Geriatrics/APTA
- February 2008, highest honor of the Section on Geriatrics, presented for outstanding contributions to the field of geriatric physical therapy and Section on Geriatrics leadership.
- President's Award, Section on Geriatrics/APTA.
- February 2006, presented for service to the Section on Geriatrics
- Clinical Educators Award, Section on Geriatrics/APTA. Awarded February 2006 for outstanding clinical education to students in physical therapy.
- Lynn Phillippi Award: Advocacy for Older Adults, Section on Geriatrics/APTA. February 2001 in recognition of advocacy for older adults through publications, teaching and practice.
Continuing Education Presentations Given
- Geriatric Competencies in Physical Therapy: Preparing for the Future, CSM programming Feb 2011.
- Mentoring the Clinician Beyond Entry-Level: Skills, Knowledge, & Behaviors for Successfully Residency & Fellowship Mentoring, CSM Preconference Course 2009,2010, 2011
- Working with Older Adult Can Be Fun, Section on Geriatrics student programming at CSM 2009, 2010, 2011
- Guest Speaker: Southeastern PA Dystonia Support Group, Dec 2008
- Foundation for Long Term Care 2007- Albany NY. Understanding Physical and Chemical Restraints.
- APTA Combined Sections Meeting 2007- Boston, Massachusetts. Why Vital Signs are Vital to Your Practice.
- Guest Speaker. Delaware Brain Injury Association Meeting, January 2007.
- Guest Speaker: Peripheral Neuropathy Support Group- Why can't I keep my balance? September 2006 Wilmington, DE.
- APTA Combined Sections Meeting 2006- San Diego California. Invited speaker: Ethical Decision Making in Geriatric Residencies: In the clinic and academic programs.
- Physical Therapy Update, Delaware Parkinson Educational Program, 10/23/05
- Multiple Sclerosis, A Course for Physical and Occupational Therapists. Speaker. 9/17/05 Sponsor: Delaware MS Society.
- Special Populations- Geriatric Issues. Applied Physiology, UD, May 2005
- APTA Combined Section Meeting Platform Presenter, Feb 2005
- DE MS Society- Exercise for the client with MS, September 2004
- Grand Rounds- University of Delaware, Gait dysfunction in client, Nov 2004
- Consultant to Pennsylvania Restraint Reduction Team (PARRI) 2004
- Clinical Instructor, DPT Program, UD, Fall 2003, Spring 2004
- Guest Lecturer- Management for the Geriatrics Client in the Acute Care Environment, DPT Program, Widener University PT 735, Spring:2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
- Guest Lecturer- Restraint Management, University of Delaware, DPT Program, Geriatrics Course, November 2003, 2004
- Grand Rounds- University of Delaware, Head Injury in Geriatric Client, May 2003
- "Ask the Expert" Geriatric Exposition, Section on Geriatrics APTA, CSM Feb. 2003
- Presenter: Fall Prevention for the SNF Client. PARRI Regional Conferences, May/Sept 2002
- Gait Training Vs. Ambulation. Presented Feb 2002, American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting.
- Aquatic Therapy & Intervention: Maximizing Functional Stability & Mobility in the Older Adult. Co-presented at PT 2001, Anaheim, California with Paula Geigle, PT, PhD June 2001.
- Teaching Assistant: Delaware Technical and Community College, Neurology Lab, Winter 1998.
- Speaker: Issues in Geriatric Healthcare: Restraint Management. March 1998. Sponsored by Delaware Technical and Community College, Georgetown, DE.
Professional Service
American Physical Therapy Association, Member 9/87-present
Appointed to APTA Awards Committee- subcommittee on practice and service June 2008-2011
Appointed to APTA Task Force on Governance Review (and Core Group) November 2009-Dec 2010
Appointed Chair APTA Task Force on Governance Review Subgroup on Section 2011
Appointed to APTA Guidelines Development Initial Meeting, Dec 2008
Invited participant- Developing Clinical Education Standards Consensus Conference, Dec 2007
Appointed Hooked on Evidence, geriatric clinical scenarios panel, September 2006
Appointed APTA Representative to the Technical Expert Panel for the Staff Time and Resource Intensity Project, Iowa Foundation for Medical Care/CMS 2005-2007
Appointed member- APTA Advisory Panel on Practice 2002-2005, Chair 2004-2005
Co-Author- Guidelines for the Recognizing and Providing Care for Victims of Elder Abuse, APTA Published 2000
Delaware Physical Therapy Association, Member 9/87- present
President 2003-2004, 2005-2006
Delegate 2000-2006
Chief Delegate 2000-2002
Continuing Education Coordinator 1998-2003, 2005
Listserv Coordinator 2000-present
Membership Chair 1995- 1999
Section on Geriatrics, APTA, Member 6/91-present
Section Delegate 2008-2011
Nominating Committee 2002-2005, chair 2004-2005
Listserv Coordinator 2000-present
Leadership Task Force, 2001-2006
Member of CSM Program Committee, 1997- 2004
Member Editorial Board GeriNotes, 2000- 2002
State Liaison for State Liaison Delaware, 1995 to 2002
Secretary, 1999-2001
Chair Task Force on Alternative Environments, 1998-2000
Section on Administration 2001- 2007
Neurology Section 2004-presentAmerican Geriatrics Society 2001- present
Published Articles and Posters
- Haley R, Danks K, Reisman D, Ciolek C. Quad Strength with Electrical Stimulation helps patient Post Stroke with Knee Osteoathritis Return to Function. Poster at APTA Combined Sections Meeting, New Orleans, LA 2011.
- Keenan G, Ciolek C. Quad Strength with Electrical Stimulation helps patient Post Stroke with Knee Osteoathritis Return to Function. Poster at APTA Combined Sections Meeting, New Orleans, LA 2011.
- Ciolek C, Schaeffer M. Intergenerational Physical Therapy. Poster at APTA Combined Sections Meeting, Nasvhille TN, 2008
- Ciolek C, Delaune MF. Falls in Community Dwelling Older Adults- Part II: Examination and Evaluation. PT Magazine CEU Article, Nov 2007.
- Brewer K, Ciolek C, Delaune MF, Newton RA, Williams A Falls in Community Dwelling Older Adults: Introduction to the Problem. PT Magazine CEU Article, July 2007.
- Ciolek C. PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR A PATIENT WITH TBI- Using skilled interventions and collaborative teamwork to help a patient attain full participation in his community. Platform presentation at APTA Annual Conference. June 2006, Orlando FL.
- Ciolek C. Physical Therapy Examination's Key Role in Establishing Medical Diagnosis in a Patient With Lower Extremity Pain Related to Walking. APTA Annual Conference. Feb 2006, San Diego, CA
- Ciolek C, Ciolek DE- Clinical Management of Physical and Chemical Restraints. A home study module for the Section on Geriatrics, APTA 2005.
- Ciolek C, Ciolek DE- Clinical Management of Physical Restraints. A home study module for the Section on Geriatrics, APTA 1998.
- Ciolek CH, Geigle PR. Age and water do mix. Rehab Management. 2002; 15(1)
- Wellmon R, Gardner L, Conway J, Heinrich K, Melnick M, Rao M, Totman M, Herlihey J, Ciolek C. The Activities-Specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale: The Relationship to measures of standing balance, gait speed, and age in elderly individuals. Poster at Physical therapy 2001: Annual Conference and Exposition of the APTA.
- Ciolek CH. Finding a way to improve quality of life: Meet Meryl McCormack, PT, MPA, GCS. GeriNotes. 2000; 7(5)
- Ciolek CH. American Physical Therapy Association's recent initiatives in restraint reduction. Untie the Elderly. 2000; 12(1)
- Ciolek CH. Direct access to physical therapy services. GeriNotes, 2000. 7(2)
- Ciolek CH. Meet Carol Glasscock, PT, MS of FIT FOR LIFE™. GeriNotes. 2000; 7(1)
- Ciolek CH. Task Force on Alternative Environments/ Models of Care Delivery and Management: Expanding to meet member's needs. GeriNotes. 1999; 6(6)
- Ciolek CH. The HCFA's new restraint standards for acute care Hospitals. GeriNotes. 1999; 6(6)
- Ciolek CH. The Eden Alternative. GeriNotes. 1999; 6(1)
- Ciolek CH. One simple act of listening. GeriNotes. 1998; 5(5)
- Ciolek CH. Quality of life in nursing homes: An oxymoron? GeriNotes. 1998; 5(4)
- Ciolek CH. How to reduce restraints with wheelchair seating and positioning. Gerisource. 1997; 2(2)


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His podium finish at the last round in Germany arguably rescued Nelson Piquets reputation. Luck may have been on his side, but the result certainly seems to have boosted his self confidence - as shown by his impressive second place in Fridays second practice session, beating team mate Fernando Alonso into fourth
Q: Nelson, you clocked a fantastic time and result in the second practice session. But will it carry through into Saturday afternoon?
Nelson Piquet: Well, practice has nothing to do with qualifying. On Friday everybody is doing different things. Some people are running light, some are heavy, some are risking a bit more, some are running on soft tyres - so its a very different situation to qualifying. What I think is that we will be quite competitive. We could be in the top five or the top ten, or it could even be difficult to be in the top ten, as it has been. In qualifying it makes no sense to focus on the times from Friday. We just need to see were we can improve further because there is always room to improve.
Q: With your podium finish two weeks ago circumstance was on your side. Did luck play a role in achieving Fridays strong result?
NP: I havent seen any safety car today! True, I was lucky in Hockenheim due to the safety car, but I finished the race in second place and had a better pace than the Ferraris. Everybody needs a bit of luck during a race - that is normal - and in Hockenheim luck leaned on my side. We have been quick in Fridays afternoon session and hopefully that is an indication for qualifying - and the race.
Q: A second place in Friday practice may not be significant overall, but it must be psychological boost
NP: To have a good day always feels great, but I have no illusions that everybody will be quicker in qualifying, that everybody will be running very light, and that everybody will increase the speed, so we have to look where we need to improve.
Q: What do you think Ferrari will do?
NP: Well, Ferrari obviously will be quicker than us - and McLaren as well - but if we are really quick, as indicated by the times we did Friday, then we could be fighting BMW.
Q: You never complain about the car, even when its obviously not competitive. Do you consider the driver to be responsible for the results?
NP: In most of the qualifying sessions so far there have been drivers who have been quicker than me, so I think first of all - before I start complaining - I need to get my act together and really go quicker than my team mate. The day I am quicker than my team mate and I am not qualifying on pole position then I can start complaining about the car.
Q: After Hockenheim and your Friday showing here, you seem to be on a roll - do you expect to be in the points again on Sunday?
NP: As I said, Friday does not mean a lot and everything can be completely different after qualifying but, yes, points are always possible and I am quite happy with the car. But before you can start dreaming about points there is the qualifying - and that plays an immense role at this track because it is very hard to overtake here, so qualifying needs to be very good.