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Nobody wants to hear you wax morose about the things in your life you'd change. It's not a very good blog post. It's a much better bartender story. Bartenders are trained in that sort of thing: Indecision, Regret, Wondering.
The Internet as a whole, not so much.
But, oh hell, you're getting it anyway.
I'm so busy being a "jack of all trades" that I haven't narrowed down my one passion. I'm so.. passionate… that I haven't figured out where to concentrate that passion on.
I'm actually, literally, A-D-D with my passion.
This is ultimately what's wrong with telling our children they can have the world. THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER! Which, side-note, gross, right? Why not my globe or my fortress or my bitch? I digress.
We tell our children they can be anything! ANYTHING! OMG YOU CAN GO TO THE MOON.
But look, most children won't make it to the moon so that's a little bit of false advertising, no? YOU CAN BE PRESIDENT. Well, comon, maybe? But most likely you'll end up a slightly over-weight middle manager at a firm who could use several more employees and a little more vacation time and a mortgage that swallows you whole.
The pessimism, it is dripping off of me.
I blame the weather.
In most respects I am an optimistic person, always thinking I can do it all! I can be great at all things! I WIN! THE ENTIRE WORLD! IT IS MINE! [evil laugh as I claim my empire] And in other respects I realize there's no way to live up to my own expectations. It's learning how to balance my own wants and needs with reality and that is crushing. How do we tell our children life is not a fairy tale without squishing their dream of greatness?
And how do we prevent them wondering what the hell happened in their mid thirties?
Insight? I need it.
Maybe the problem is managing your expectations. There's nothing wrong with being a good-enough mom and an employee who doesn't hate their job. That's a hell of a lot more than a lot of people have.
My big goal in life? To be content. I don't have to conquer the world - hell, I don't WANT to. I don't want to be CEO of *anything*. I would just like to carve out my tiny little nook of space in this world where I can be myself and be happy. That's enough.
By cindy w on 2010 11 18
Awesome reply, babe. Of course. Content? That's a great goal.
By Mrs. Flinger on 2010 11 18
Well said Leslie! I think we all go through this at some point in our thirties. Hang in there the sun is just around the corner (figuratively…. not literally, at least in our part of the world.)
Matthew tends to spread himself thin. He wants to do it ALL right NOW. This is a wonderful personality trait of my kid but the kicker is he is ultra-aware of how well, or NOT, he does things. He is acutely aware when someone else is better than he is at something. He is our "sensitive" one so this also leads to tears and anguish. My solution to not stomping on his dreams of doing it all and having it all and giving him a dose of reality is to encourage him to MASTER one thing at a time! We are working on sight word books as he is soooo close to reading on his own. We have 12 sight word books and I wanted to work on one at a time until he mastered the book and then move on. He didn't. He wanted to read one a day and then he saids he'll know all the words and wouldn't forget. Yeah well after a week of doing it his way we are back to book one over and over until he really gets it. It is a hard lesson to teach our kids. Hope this helps!
By shari on 2010 11 18
Keep telling them they can go to the Moon! How else are they going get there?
By Matt Robin on 2010 11 18
Great comment Cindy!
I tell O he can grow up to be anything he wants but we need to take it one day at a time. That way I feel as though I'm not crushing any potential dreams, but instilling that any dream takes time? Or something. Fuck, I'm probably doing it all wrong.
By Ashley on 2010 11 18
(Have you read Nurture Shock? You should.)
Do you think the root of this is the belief that you can do anything? Or rather the fear that you can't?
It seems like the fear of failure would create the need to juggle a variety of success-attempts, hoping that maybe just one will not drop to the ground and shatter your confidence.
The greatest way we fail our children is by trying to remove failure from their lives. They need to fail. They need to struggle. They need to know that when they can't do something on their own, they can ask for help, or outsource, or just fucking QUIT while they are ahead.
By laura on 2010 11 18
"most children won't make it to the moon"
Most of them don't try but are happy in the knowledge that they could if they wanted to.
Same for us grown-ups. How many of us actually tried to do something we really wanted with our life as opposed to settling for just falling into place and rolling with it.
"You are not gonna win any competitions unless you enter as many as you can" and other suitable nuggets of wisdom
By John Henry Donovan on 2010 11 18
I would say "try to find the thing that doesn't feel like work and do it." That's where your real talents lie. So many of us spend our lives fighting to make our pegs fit into the wrong holes and being miserable doing it.
My other advice is: do what is right in front of you to the best of your abilities. Washing the dishes, wiping faces, driving down the road, making phone calls to customer service - do it all so you would be proud to say before God or your mom or whoever is important to you "I did that. That was me." That will go a long way to making your heart rest easier.
By Suebob on 2010 11 18
This is what I love about you people. Nuggest of wisdom.
Two coffees and a workout later and I'm feeling a bit more optimistic.
I love the "do what is right in front of you to the best of your abilities" that's just enough of a "presence" type attitude that my A-D-D can handle. Be HERE when you are HERE and be THERE when you are THERE. That's something I have been trying to do more often. WORK when I work and be home when I am home. Excellent advice.
And JH, that's true. Knowing you can do anything and choosing to do ONE thing is probably better than not trying to do anything at all.
By Mrs. Flinger on 2010 11 18
great site, first time here…stumbled over from loralee's. i actually got into a blowout with my man recently on my add ambitions. sometimes wish i could have 3-4 lives to try out all the options…
as far as parenting i read something recently that really struck home…tell kids good job when they succeed…NOT good boy/good girl. Complimenting the effort rather than the child apparently helps to build productive self-esteem and teach effort pays off to life goals.
whoa i just got pretty heavy for some lite blog surfing over a morning cup of coffee!
By islamama on 2010 11 20
I don't think you need to do a damn thing to let your kids know life is not a fairy tale. Remember junior high? Making it through the hell that is the ages of 11 - 14 will make them figure it out fast. You have to be there to pick up the pieces and figure out how to keep their self images from crumbling. Let them have the fairy tales now while they're little. You're a fine mom just the way you are.
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Ceratopogonidae, or biting midges are a family of small flies (1–4 mm long) in the order Diptera. They are also known as no-see-ums, midgies, sand flies, punkies, and others in North America, and sandflies[1] in Australia. They are closely related to the Chironomidae, Simuliidae (or black flies), and Thaumaleidae.
They are found in almost any aquatic or semiaquatic habitat throughout the world, as well as in mountain areas. Females of most species are adapted to suck blood from some kind of host animal. Culicoides, Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea), and Leptoconops suck vertebrate blood. Some Atrichopogon and Forcipomyia species are ectoparasites on larger insects. Dasyhelea species feed exclusively on nectar. Species in other genera are predatory on other small insects. Larvae are always found in some damp location, such as under bark, in rotten wood, compost, mud, stream margins, tree holes, or water-holding plants (i.e., phytotelmata).
Many of the hematophagic (blood-eating) species are pests in beach or mountain habitats. Some other species are important pollinators of tropical crops such as cacao. The blood-sucking species may be vectors of disease-causing viruses, protozoa, or filarial worms. The bite of midges in the genus Culicoides causes an allergic response in equines known as sweet itch. In humans, their bites can cause intensely itchy, red welts that can persist for more than a week. The discomfort arises from a localized allergic reaction to the proteins in their saliva, which can be somewhat alleviated by topical antihistamines.
The smaller members of the family are tiny enough to pass through the apertures in typical window screens. Camping tents are often equipped with extra-fine mesh netting, called no-see-um nets, to keep the pests out.
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- Culicoides impunctatus—known as the Scottish midge, or Highland midge
- Culicoides imicola
- Blanton, F.S. and W.W. Wirth. 1979. The sand flies (Culicoides) of Florida (Ceratopogonidae). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas Volume 10. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
- Borkent, A. and W.W. Wirth. 1997. World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 233: 1–257.
- Clastrier, J. and W.W. Wirth. 1978. The Leptoconops kerteszi complex in North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin Number 1573.
- Downes, J.A. and W.W. Wirth. 1981. Chapter 28: Ceratopogonidae. Pp. 393–421. In: McAlpine, J.F., B.V. Peterson, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, and D.M. Wood. Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume 1. Agriculture Canada Monograph 27.
- Hendry, George. Midges in Scotland 4th Edition, Mercat Press, Edinburgh, 2003 ISBN 1-84183-062-3
- Mullen, G.R. and L.J. Hribar. 1988. Biology and feeding behavior of ceratopogonid larvae (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in North America. Bulletin of the Society for Vector Ecology 13: 60–81.
- Wirth, W.W. and F.S. Blanton. 1974. The West Indian sandflies of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin Number 1474.
- Wirth, W.W. and W.L. Grogan, Jr. 1988. The Predaceous Midges of the World (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae; Tribe Ceratopogonini). Flora and Fauna Handbook Number 4. E.J. Brill Publishers, Leiden. xv + 160 pp.
- Wirth, W.W., N.C. Ratanaworabhan, and D.H. Messersmith. 1977. Natural history of Plummers Island, Maryland. XXII. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). 1. Introduction and key to genera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 90(3): 615–647.

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WESTFIELD – Resignations by two assistant chiefs this week has shaken the Westfield fire department.
"I'm not going to sugar coat anything; there's a lot of turmoil in the department," Chief Steve Pacanowski said Thursday. "It's imploding, yes," he added.
Dave Davies and Brad Damcott, both longtime members, resigned effective Tuesday, according to Barry Underwood, chairman of the village fire commission. Davies was chief of the Hook & Ladder Co.; Damcott was chief of Citizen Hose Co. In addition Davies was first assistant chief; Damcott second assistant chief of the department.
"We're down a couple of fire chiefs," Underwood commented. "I'm just disappointed that it's come to this,"
Asked about the reason for the loss Pacanowski continued to be blunt: "Political b.s.; lack of respect for line officers and chiefs."
Pacanowski also cited factionalism between "older members versus younger members" when he described problems in the department.
What Pacanowski termed "rumor mongering" in the department was, he said, at least partly responsible for Damcott's resignation. "It was affecting his personal life."
The chief would not outline the alleged rumor's content.
Underwood replied, "I just think frustration," when asked the reason for Davies resignation. Davies sent the commission a letter of resignation effective Sept. 3, Underwood disclosed.
Damcott announced his resignation to Pacanowski who in turn notified the fire commissioners at their meeting Tuesday.
Pacanowski said the Citizen Hose Co. would formally accept Damcott's resignation, but Underwood said both resignations were accepted Tuesday by the fire commission.
Last Sept. 17, at the regular village board meeting, Pacanowski accompanied by about 20 firefighters, read a letter excoriating the village administration "for continued mud slinging and slanderous comments regarding the members of the fire department."
"If this kind of disrespect and slander continues, you may find out the hard way just how much money 878.5 years of service actually saves the village," Pacanowski warned.
Lack of turn out in response to calls is another concern according to comments made publically and off the record. An official in a neighboring municipality who asked not to be identified said other departments are aware of the sometimes inadequate response in Westfield. "You can hear it on the scanner," he said.
Members of the fire commission expressed concern during recent sessions about the response to recent fires in the towns of Portland and Westfield. Underwood has repeatedly stressed the need to recruit new volunteers. Longtime department member Lyle Holland said "five or six" new volunteers have recently joined, but noted the village has 52 firefighters compared to 78 in the early 1990s.
Underwood said he expects the fire commission will have nominations to fill the two leadership vacancies by Oct. 1, when it next meets. "We're going to let the department come up with suggestions," he said.
In the interim, Underwood said, Captains William Bills and Jerry Ruch will take charge of the Hook & Ladder Co. and Citizen Hose Co., respectively.


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QUEENS—Some 85 new jobs in Buffalo and Elma will
result from the latest low-cost hydropower allocations from the Niagara
Power Project approved Tuesday by the New York Power Authority (NYPA)
Steuben Foods Inc. in Elma and Niagara Ceramics
Corp. in Buffalo have agreed to create the additional jobs for
expansions that are expected to increase power demand.
"We're looking forward to supporting capital
investments by Steuben Foods and Niagara Ceramics, as they enhance their
competitiveness through ambitious expansion plans," said Joseph J.
Seymour, NYPA chairman. "The Niagara project is a major force for job
creation and protection in Western New York, with more than 43,000 jobs
linked to its power production, and these two employers are the latest
examples of its importance to the area's economy."
Seymour noted that the latest allocations were
approved under an enhanced process for making Niagara hydropower
available on a continuous basis for creating jobs in the region. In less
than two years, the new job commitments have reached about 2,600.
The Western New York Advisory Group, consisting of
the Power Authority, Niagara Mohawk, Empire State Development Corp., and
the Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, recommends the industrial allocations
from the Niagara Project.
Steuben Foods is a leading manufacturer of global
brand foods and beverages using technologically advanced extended shelf
life and aseptic processing and packaging techniques. The company is
preparing to begin the first phase of an expansion that when fully
completed in the next several years is expected to create 75 new jobs,
adding to an existing work force of more than 300.
Steuben will receive a new allocation of 3,000
kilowatt (kw) from a 250,000-kw block of Niagara industrial power known
as expansion power.
In addition to the promised low-cost hydropower,
which is vital for the planned expansion to be feasible, the Elma
company is working to complete a package of other economic development
incentives and expects to announce more information later this year.
Niagara Ceramics, which manufactures decorative
dinnerware, will receive a 300-kilowatt allocation from a 445,000-kw
block of Niagara power known as replacement power. The company, which
currently has a work force of 190, plans to add 10 additional jobs
linked to its acquisition of two electric kilns, for firing decorated
dinnerware products and other ceramic shapes.
Together, expansion and replacement power—both
reserved for Western New York businesses and industries—represents about
one-third of the Niagara Project's total output.
The Niagara Project is the largest single source of
electricity in New York State, with a net dependable capability of
2,400,000 kw. It provides some of the lowest-cost electricity in the
state or, for that matter, the country.
The Power Authority Trustees approved the two
latest hydropower allocations at their monthly meeting, held Tuesday at
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Shaw says he supports abortion amendment
A proposed amendment to the state constitution which would essentially ban abortion in Iowa is supported by a lawmaker representing Webster County.
State Rep. Tom Shaw, R-Laurens, said Wednesday that he is in favor of the proposal.
"I do agree with the language," he said. "I do believe life begins at conception and that we have an obligation to protect all innocent life."
The proposal from state Rep. Dwayne Alons, R-Hull, would amend the Iowa Constitution to define life as beginning at conception.
"I certainly would vote for it if it did get to the floor," Shaw said.
However, he is skeptical that the measure will make it to the full House of Representatives for a vote.
The Legislature is facing a Friday deadline commonly called the funnel that pares down the number of bills lawmakers can consider. Most bills that have not been approved by a committee in the chamber in which they originated by Friday's deadline are ineligible for consideration for the rest of the legislative session.
Shaw said the abortion measure has been assigned to the House Human Resources Committee, but as of Wednesday afternoon that panel had not scheduled any action on it.
"It just does not look like it's going to make it," he said.
State Rep. Helen Miller, D-Fort Dodge, indicated that she thinks it's possible the bill could advance because Republicans control the House of Representatives. In an email to The Messenger, she did not offer any opinion on the bill.
State Rep. Rob Bacon, R-Slater, did not respond to a request for comment.
To become a part of the state's constitution, the proposed amendment would have to be approved by the Legislature this year and be approved by the Legislature elected in 2014 before being submitted to the voters for approval.


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Debates of May 31st, 2002
House of Commons Hansard #196 of the 37th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was wildlife.
- Royal Assent Act
- Government Grants
- Asia Pacific Business Association
- South African War
- Housing
- Agriculture
- Mérite Stellaris
- Lachine Canal
- Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas
- Canadian Forces Day
- Foreign Affairs
- Atlantic Canada
- Canadian Forces Day
- Claudette Carbonneau
- Bilingualism
- Agriculture
- Baltic States
- Government Contracts
- Government Grants
- Government Contracts
- Government Grants
- La Soirée du hockey
- Kyoto Protocol
- Airport Security
- National Unity
- Government Grants
- Government Contracts
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- Official Languages
- Agriculture
- École de médecine vétérinaire du Québec
- Health
- National Defence
- Community Television
- Whistleblowing
- Fisheries
- Presence in Gallery
- Government Response to Petitions
- Nuclear Safety and Control Act
- Committees of the House
- Divorce Act
- Corrections and Conditional Release Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Royal Assent Act
- Competition Act
- Bill C-15B, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Cruelty to Animals and Firearms) and the Firearms Act
- Competition Act
- Criminal Code
Royal Assent Act
Government Orders
10:45 a.m.
Lorne Nystrom Regina—Qu'Appelle, SK
Madam Speaker, I will speak for only a few minutes so that my colleague from Brandon--Souris has a chance to speak before 11 o'clock as well.
I want to say first that we support the bill before the House today, which will change the procedure of how bills achieve royal assent. Our party supports the bill and I gather that all parties in the House support the bill as well. It is a very minor and very timid step toward parliamentary reform of this great institution of parliament.
I do object, in terms of parliamentary reform, to the fact that the bill to reform parliament originates in the Senate, a place that is not elected, not democratic and not accountable. It is rather ironic that a bill to reform this institution comes from a House that needs reform or, in my opinion, abolition, because those people do not have any legitimate authority when they are not elected like members of parliament. They have no accountability. They are senators until the age of 75 and are accountable to absolutely no one. Even their estimates are not very accountable to the House of Commons because the chair of the committee of the Senate that is responsible for Senate spending has refused to appear, or at least has refused to in the last two years, before the appropriate House of Commons committee.
This is my first point : We have to abolish the other place and have a parliamentary system that is totally democratic and accountable to the Canadian people.
In terms of the bill before us today, it is kind of ironic that this bill was in the works for the last 20 years. It has gone through all readings in the other place and now is before the House of Commons. It amends a procedure that has been part of the parliamentary system for about 500 years. For many years here we had a person called the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod who would always knock on the door here whenever royal assent was required. A tiny change was made recently when a woman began doing the procedure. She is called the Usher of the Black Rod. We are about the only parliament in the world that does this for royal assent after every single bill. The British, the Australians and the New Zealanders have made changes to speed up the process by having written royal assent. We have not done that yet in Canada, so we are finally catching up with the times in terms of this procedure.
I also want to say at this time that I think we need pretty radical parliamentary reform to make this place more relevant to all the citizens of this country. We need electoral reform in Canada as well, but this morning I want to talk about parliamentary reform.
In our country, the executive, the Prime Minister, has far too much power, not just at the federal level but at the provincial level as well. Our Prime Minister appoints all the ministers, the parliamentary secretaries, the head of the army, the head of the national police, the head of every important agency, all the senators, the people on all of the important commissions and agencies, and the justices of the supreme court, the federal court and so on. That is awesome power that is given to the Prime Minister under our constitution.
What we need is a parliamentary reform package that would in many cases allow the Prime Minister or the government to nominate someone and have the relevant parliamentary committee ratify or reject the nominee from the federal government. This is the kind of process that we need to take away some power from the executive, from the government.
We also need to take away the power of the government to set election dates whenever it wants. Many democracies in the world have a fixed election date. That should be the case in our country as well so that the Prime Minister does not play with the election date for partisan purposes.
We should have a fixed budget date. With a fixed budget date we could have more planning in terms of the provinces knowing when the federal budget will be delivered. As well, the school boards, the hospital boards and the municipalities then would know when provincial budgets would be delivered. That would be a planning process which would work well on behalf of the people of the country.
We should have a fixed date for throne speeches, fewer confidence votes in the House of Commons, more power for parliamentary committees, more independence for parliamentary committees and more power for individual MPs. That is the kind of democratic reform package we need here in the House of Commons. This bill is just one little timid step in the direction of reforming this institution.
We should also reform the voting system in Canada to bring in a system of proportional representation so that each and every single vote would be equal. Equal citizens would have equal influence. If a party gets 15% of the votes it would have 15% of the seats. As it is now, we are one of only three countries in the world that have more than 8 million people and still use a pure first past the post system, the others being India and the United States.
About a year and a half ago in the United States, George W. Bush got 550,000 fewer votes than Al Gore, but who is the president of the United States? George W. Bush. Historically we have had the same distortions here in this House of Commons.
Even Britain now has started to reform the process, bringing some PR into the Scottish and Welsh parliaments in electing all their MPs to the European parliament through a system of proportional representation.
These are the things we should be doing: reforming parliament, reforming the electoral system and reforming how we finance election campaigns to bring in more public financing. Today's bill is just a small step toward making our system more accountable and more democratic for the ordinary citizens of this country.
Royal Assent Act
Government Orders
10:50 a.m.
Progressive Conservative
Rick Borotsik Brandon—Souris, MB
Madam Speaker, I would like to commend the member for Regina--Qu'Appelle for two reasons, first for allowing my brief intervention before we go to question period and also for the thought provoking comments he made with respect to democratic reform.
I say that because we as the Progressive Conservative Party have just put out a discussion paper on democratic reform. The member could have helped us write that paper. I will send it to him, because a lot of what he said with respect to parliamentary reform as well as electoral reform is encompassed in the paper.
I agree that there is a need. We see it more every day with the ability of the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister's Office to take the government and the country in a direction that the majority of Canadians really do not want, yet there are no checks and balances.
I will take a little exception to the comments of the member for Regina--Qu'Appelle, because there is a need for a backstop. The only backstop we currently have in our system is that of the Senate. It may not be a perfect backstop but certainly it is the only institution we depend on for that sober second thought, because we see across from us right now a majority government that is not prepared to listen to the opposition, not prepared to listen to committees and not prepared to listen to the general public. It simply will push through legislation that is not right. The only backstop we have now is the Senate.
I say that because Bill S-34 was brought forward by the Senate. By the way, it was first brought forward by Senator Lynch-Staunton, who is the opposition leader in the Senate. It was brought forward on numerous occasions, but at that time the Senate decided that because it was a thought coming from some other individual in the institution, it probably did not have any real bearing to it. However he persevered. In fact the legislation that now has come forward looks an awful lot like the legislation that was proposed by Senator Lynch-Staunton. I give him full credit for at least making this small step in trying to adjust the traditions we have in the House.
The second thing I would like to say is that this is probably one of very few pieces of legislation that will have the total support of all parties in the House, which means that all parties have a desire to move forward with this type of reform. This is a small step. It is a very positive step, but small nonetheless.
As was mentioned earlier by a lot of members in the House, the bill has to do with royal assent, a symbolic process we have whereby we walk from this House to the Senate to get royal assent for bills that have been passed. There are a number of reasons why this tradition has outworn itself. We know full well that in the Commonwealth we are the only ones to still have this procedure and formality. There are ways to make the House more efficient and the legislation would in fact do just that. It would make the House more efficient.
We should take this as an example. We should take this as the ability to have all party consent in other areas of making the House more efficient. The member for Regina--Qu'Appelle mentioned that perhaps we should look at committees being much more efficient. Perhaps we should be looking at making voting in the Chamber much more efficient. Perhaps we should look at the possibility of electoral reform in Canada, which certainly would make our system more efficient .
There are four problems, but I know I do not have a lot of time before question period. The problem with this obviously is that the tradition has worn itself out. There is very little support right now for the tradition of royal assent. I am happy to say that there is all party support for this. Certainly our party, because of the ability to develop some efficiencies in the House, will support it.
In closing I once again would like to thank Senator Lynch-Staunton from the other place for putting forward the bill. Perhaps if we do get other bills coming from the Senate that speak to democratic and parliamentary reform, we will look at them in as favourable a light as we look upon this piece of legislation. The Progressive Conservative Party will be supporting this legislation.
Government Grants
Statements By Members
10:55 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
Darrel Stinson Okanagan—Shuswap, BC
Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and the solicitor general just do not get it. They cannot see any problem with the solicitor general lobbying his employee, the RCMP commissioner, for a grant for a college run by the solicitor general's brother. Conflict, what conflict?
Let me try to explain to the ethically challenged across the way.
Fairness dictates that grants should only ever be awarded on the basis of merit. They should be awarded only to projects that have certain universally applied and predetermined criteria. Anyone who stands to gain politically, personally or directly through his or her family should not influence the decision making.
What is considered to be fair, decent and common sense on Main Street seems to be incomprehensible to the Liberal minister, but then again, the fish rots from the head down. If in the eyes of the Prime Minister this is just an MP doing his job, then we should not be surprised when that rot spreads throughout the entire Liberal government.
Asia Pacific Business Association
Statements By Members
11 a.m.
Sophia Leung Vancouver Kingsway, BC
Madam Speaker, last week I was proud to attend the 9th annual gala dinner of the Richmond Asia Pacific Business Association. With over 600 people in attendance, the dinner raised funds to support the association's non-profit community activities for many charitable organizations.
I would like to congratulate President Ian Cheung and the board of directors of the Richmond Asia Pacific Business Association for all their hard work in making this association a leading organization promoting business and serving community needs in health and social services in Richmond and across the greater Vancouver region.
South African War
Statements By Members
11 a.m.
Mark Eyking Sydney—Victoria, NS
Madam Speaker, today marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the South African war, also known as the Boer war, a war for which more than 7,000 Canadians volunteered and 277 gave their lives.
It is important that we remember the brave men and women who were some of the first to leave their homes to defend the values that define us as Canadians. They began what has become a long tradition of Canadians serving the cause of peace around the world.
The South African War Book of Remembrance lists the names of all Canadians who lost their lives serving in the war and rests in the Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower. Veterans Affairs Canada has recently amended the book to add the names of 11 soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice in this war. The book can be viewed online on the Veterans Affairs website, where visitors will also find a South African war feature that includes a brief history of the war and Canadians' involvement.
May we never forget.
Statements By Members
11 a.m.
John McKay Scarborough East, ON
Madam Speaker, I rise in my capacity as chair of the Ontario caucus. Yesterday was a very good day for Ontario. The Deputy Prime Minister and the Ontario minister for housing, Chris Hodgson, signed an affordable housing program agreement.
This has been a long time coming. The Liberal caucus fought to get a commitment to affordable housing included in the Liberal Party platform in the last election. After the election, the Prime Minister included it in the throne speech. From there, $680 million was allocated in the budget and then the negotiations began.
The government's negotiations with the Government of Ontario were particularly difficult and protracted. The Government of Ontario has no ideological or monetary interest in affordable housing. The Deputy Prime Minister, however, was determined that with or without the co-operation of the province the people of Ontario would receive their share of the money. Yesterday was that day.
I wish to express many thanks to the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the parliamentary secretary from Mississauga West, and the chair of social caucus and member for Don Valley West. It was a team effort. It was--
Statements By Members
11 a.m.
The Acting Speaker (Ms. Bakopanos)
The hon. member for Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar.
Statements By Members
11 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
Carol Skelton Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar, SK
Madam Speaker, I am sure that the agriculture minister would like to give himself a pat on the back after seeing recent Statistics Canada reports on cash receipts for farmers. While the numbers appear positive for the year, the reality is that continued drought and low commodity prices will guarantee that incomes for Canadian producers will once again fall in 2002.
The incomes of Saskatchewan producers in 2002 will be half of what they were in 1978. Input costs continue to rise and incomes continue to fall.
While Canadian producers are struggling to survive, the government continues to talk about solutions. Agriculture in Canada has been hurting for years. It is time for the government to stop talking and start acting. Instead of rewarding its political friends, the government must focus on Canadians.
Agriculture is a national industry and must be a national concern. Canadian agriculture deserves the attention of the government.
Mérite Stellaris
Statements By Members
11 a.m.
Hélène Scherrer Louis-Hébert, QC
Madam Speaker, the Mérite Stellaris gala organized by the Charlesbourg—Chauveau chamber of commerce was held on April 26, at the Capitole, in Quebec City.
The Mérite Stellaris honours businesses and people who have excelled all year long, and it recognizes those who sometimes work behind the scenes to keep the business world thriving in the dynamic region of Charlesbourg—Chauveau.
The finalists and winners are small and medium size companies that do their utmost to be first, by offering innovative, creative and quality products and services to their clients. The Mérite Stellaris is the only event in the region that underlines the work done by businesses, thus giving them an opportunity to get to be known.
The Government of Canada gave the award in the Arts and Culture category. The eighth edition was held under the honourary presidency of the Hon. André Ouellet, the CEO of Canada Post. A special "Tribute to a builder" award was given to Jules Dallaire, from the Fonds de placement immobilier Cominar, which is a real estate investment trust.
I congratulate the organizers for making a success of this event and I say to them "See you next year".
Lachine Canal
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Marlene Jennings Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, QC
Madam Speaker, I had the honour of representing the Government of Canada at La Grande Parade du canal Lachine, on Saturday, May 25, in Montreal.
Thousands of people gathered along the Lachine Canal to celebrate its reopening after being closed for 30 years, and to watch close to 150 boats specially decorated for this great event go by.
I want to mention the exceptional contribution of a number of stakeholders, including Paul Bourgeault, the founding president of the Berges de Lachine, who came up with the idea of organizing La Grande Parade; the Lachine lock operators for their efforts and talent for amusing the crowds during La Grande Parade; and Benoit Havard and the Jeunes explorateurs internationaux.
La Grande Parade was a tremendous success and I congratulate all its organizers. It is with great enthusiasm that I look forward to the 2003 edition of La Grande Parade du canal Lachine.
Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas
Statements By Members
May 31st, 2002 / 11:05 a.m.
Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Laval Centre, QC
Madam Speaker, I wish to draw the attention of the House to the presence today on the Hill of the President of the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas, Laura Pavòn Jaramillo. Now a representative of the Federal Congress of Mexico, she was formerly a representative of the Congress of the State of Mexico, mayor of Toluca, senator of the Republic, and president of the Senate.
Ms. Pavòn Jaramillo is the first woman to chair COPA, a permanent and automous forum of parliamentary assemblies of unitary, federal and federated states, regional parliaments and interparliamentary organizations of the Americas
COPA encourages further exploration of and follow-up to the discussions at the summits of the Americas and in other forums. Here in this country, a group of friends of COPA has just been formed. I encourage all members of the House to join it.
Canadian Forces Day
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
David Pratt Nepean—Carleton, ON
Madam Speaker, on April 25 the House unanimously passed a motion to proclaim the first Sunday in June as Canadian Forces Day. This Sunday, June 2, marks the first official Canadian Forces Day.
The purpose of this day is to recognize the tremendous contribution made by the Canadian forces both at home and abroad. I was delighted to see that one of the first official statements by our new defence minister was to draw attention to Canadian Forces Day, to encourage citizens to celebrate the contributions of our military, both regular and reserve forces, and to encourage local communities to get involved. Because this motion was passed just a few short weeks ago this year's Canadian Forces Day activities will likely be fairly modest.
I am pleased with the comments by our new minister that "in the next and following years, the first Sunday in June will become the focus for better developed plans to celebrate this wonderful day."
Foreign Affairs
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
Stockwell Day Okanagan—Coquihalla, BC
Madam Speaker, Taiwan is a democracy which respects the rule of law. Its people enjoy true freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion. Taiwan is one of Canada's important trading partners and its free market economy provides its citizens with a relatively high standard of living.
Yet the federal Liberals ban Taiwanese cabinet ministers and certain Taiwanese officials from entering our country. Just last year the government denied the Taiwanese health minister the right to visit our country. Taiwan's minister of foreign affairs is banned by the federal Liberals from entering Canada. While we recognize the importance of good relations with China and the importance of developing a free market system there, surely allowing Taiwanese cabinet ministers to visit Canada should not be a hindrance to our other relations.
We are not imposing our own views on the one China policy between Taiwan and mainland China. What signal do we send to the world when we deny Taiwanese democratic representatives the right to visit Canada? We allow supporters of communism to visit our country. We should not slam the door on those who support democracy.
Atlantic Canada
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Andy Scott Fredericton, NB
Mr. Speaker, regardless of political affiliation and province, business persons, trade unionists, academics, public servants, community activists, athletes, and artists from Atlantic Canada have come together over the past three days in a unified response to the opposition leader's divisive and baseless comments about our region.
Early in the last century Atlantic Canadians sacrificed a north-south Atlantic trade based economy in the interest of building an east-west nation. Since then, whether during war, depression, drought, or providing skilled labour throughout Canada, Atlantic Canadians have been there. We are anything but defeatist.
I join editorialists and civic leaders from across our region and call on the Leader of the Opposition to apologize.
Canadian Forces Day
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Wendy Lill Dartmouth, NS
Mr. Speaker, on April 25 the House of Commons proclaimed the first Sunday in June as Canadian Forces Day in recognition of the great contribution by the Canadian forces both at home and abroad in our NATO and Norad commitments, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, search and rescue, peacekeeping and peace support operations.
Over the years I have been honoured to be part of other special days spent with veterans and peacekeepers who carry the scars of their struggle for democracy within their bodies and minds, and with the families on the Halifax jetty as they have said hello and goodbye to their loved ones leaving for tours of duty in a violent world.
I was present at the funeral for Nathan Smith, one of our Princess Pats killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. He was a young man who loved soldiering, loved his life and country, and the values of freedom and justice which he held deep in his soul.
Canadian Forces Day will join Remembrance Day, D-Day and the many other days of the year that we remember to thank the brave and selfless men and women for their love and loyalty to this great country.


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Karapánou, Margaríta
Karapánou, Margaríta 1946–
Karapánou is a Greek novelist.
Jerome Charyn
No retelling of "Kassandra and the Wolf" can explain its charm, or its riddles. A first novel by Margarita Karapanou,… "Kassandra and the Wolf" is one of those rare creations that come alive mysteriously, without any antecedents. The book is original, terrifying, complete. It invents its own history, eases in and out of nightmare as it mingles dream and fact.
"Kassandra and the Wolf" is a short, muscular novel with an absolute sense of craft. It is never sentimental, pretty or overblown. Margarita Karapanou understands that a story is nothing more than detail, detail, detail; we can howl about meaning, mutter little truths about character and development, but it is the placement of words in a particular order that makes a landscape credible, that forces us to believe in Kassandra, her grandmother, and Fani…. The language throughout is merciless and crisp. Wherever Margarita Karapanou has come from, wherever she goes, "Kassandra and the Wolf" remains a stunning achievement: a lovely, sinister book. (pp. 14, 18)
Jerome Charyn, in The New York Times Book Review (© 1976 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), July 25, 1976.
[In "Kassandra and the Wolf," the] adult world, or that part of it which is sexual and violent, [is] seen through the eyes of a precocious (to put it mildly) six-year-old girl named Kassandra. Miss Karapanou's first novel, which is fairly arresting at first because of the shock of reading about a small child's absorption with violence and sex, is really a collection of surreal vignettes about the child's relatives, servants, and playmates in Athens. All the vignettes are quite short—rarely longer than one or two pages—and all exemplify what the publisher calls Kassandra's "pristine sadomasochism."…
[It] all becomes terribly repetitive and boring, and even the violent sadomasochism takes on an unpleasant fashion-magazine chichi. (p. 79)
The New Yorker (© 1976 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.), August 2, 1976.
Michael G. Cooke
Karapanou [in Kassandra and the Wolf] exploits the frissón of the child-narrator vis-à-vis the harsh perversities of soidisant adult sexuality, and with the license of a fairy tale she goes in heavily for metamorphosis. She alludes to Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, but she really pays homage to William Blatty's The Exorcist. Algolagnia, martyrdom, crucifixion, procrusteanism, suicide games, slaughterhouses, dementia crowd upon metamorphoses in this brief but repetitious book, which ranges in effect from fairly titillating to unfairly tedious. The staccato form—fifty-six sections and 115 pages—fragments instead of concentrating attention. It does not do violence to the work to cherish and regret the isolation of two sets of instruction concerning bedroom etiquette, from Fani the joyously sensual maid, and from Grandmother, that perpetual virgin of the mind. (p. 152)
Michael G. Cooke, in The Yale Review (© 1976 by Yale University; reprinted by permission of the editors), Autumn, 1976.
Kimon Friar
Kassandra and the Wolf may technically be described as a series of loose, unchronological episodes pretending to be a novel, as told by a girl just beginning grade school. From the psychoanalytical point of view—the wrong one—it may be read partly as the polymorphous, perverse life of a little girl learning what in technical terms are perversions. But Katrapánou is too knowing in the ways of psychoanalysis to make of her book a case history. Those psychoanalytically or pornographically oriented will find ample ammunition for misinterpretation….
Grandmother Sappho, when she is not reading The Brothers Karamazov, teaches Kassandra that well-bred girls who grow up to be ladies must never show they like the act of love…. But on the other hand, there are the servants. "My child," says Fani, the scullery maid, "learn the secrets under the sheet, open your legs, and let the little stars and hurricanes into your belly." It is no wonder that the little girl cannot sleep nights, as she broods: "I've got plenty of time before I become a nice Lady."
Karapánou's triumph is that she has transcended her technical insights and in this sublimated fiction has written a hilarious and moral indictment of the adult world. This is seen through the eyes of a child who is neither moral nor immoral but simply as amoral as a kitten; yet we must never forget that the insights are those of the mature woman who has created...
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Susannah Clapp
[Kassandra and the Wolf] is admirably ambitious both in matter and manner. Short, unlinked episodes, headed like chapters in a child's primer—"The Lesson", "The Plasticine", "The Picnic"—mix probability and possibility, savagery and sweetness in unpredictable proportions. In short, determined sentences Kassandra explains that the local slaughterhouse is one of her favourite loitering-places, that she bites governesses, and is being read The Turn of the Screw at bedtime. But most of the information is more exotic and more slippery….
Kassandra and the Wolf is best at showing a particular version of childhood; as a state where everything has significance and nothing has consequence. It is this which makes its fantasies persuasive. The ordinarily odd and the extravagant are nailed with the same amount of detail and the same lack of circumstantial proof: there is no immediate way of distinguishing fact from fantasy—only contradiction by subsequent stories….
Of course, some fantasies are more interesting than others, and dud dreams stand out. Kassandra's more sweaty imaginings, involving bananas and beddings and father-figures racing along the sea-shore, are not particularly illuminating. But the moments at which the novel lashes itself into excitement are outweighed by a general steadiness of tone. Miss Karapanou has perfected a style which does not sound weeny and does not sound arch, but which manages, by its jumbling together of the trivial and the enormous, and by a staccato manner of delivery which makes most observations into actions, to sound out of tune with adult life without sounding like a translation. It is a style which accommodates both realism and excess, and which enables Kassandra to chronicle striking states of emotion and moral disintegration in the shape of the grown-up figures who flit in and out of the scenes. In cataloguing the despairs of dypsomaniac aunts, masturbating governesses and MPs' mistresses, her coolness inevitably has on occasion some tinge of the cute, but she never appears merely as an emblem of childhood, nor as a particularly horrid little girl.
Susannah Clapp, "Nursery Notions," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1978; reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), November 17, 1978, p. 1347.


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Saw the episode yesterday. One of the better episodes in the Original Series and it was the launchpad for the Ash/Charizard combination that we all know now. Both Ash and Charizard did some serious growing up in this episode.
Saw the episode yesterday. One of the better episodes in the Original Series and it was the launchpad for the Ash/Charizard combination that we all know now. Both Ash and Charizard did some serious growing up in this episode.
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This episode was the most emotional episode, even that episode where Ash almost lets Pikachu go isn't as emotional as this one.
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I'm sure this is just an oversight, but Tad tells Ash he'll 'battle him in the Orange League.' Good thing the league is just fighting the champion...
It was nice how Charizard finally obeyed Ash after him & Misty were helping him to recover. The ending was beast because he won and finally listened to Ash.
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Finally Charizard obeys! This is probably the most memorable episode for me, because it was just that epic! And it was about time that Charizard learned a lesson for not listening.
I was surprised that Charizard got frozen into a block of ice like that. I never imagined that Fire types could be frozen. During the part where they were all rubbing Charizard, I liked how Ash was talking about his history with Charizard - it was nice seeing flashbacks of when it was still a Charmander. In the end, I was glad that Charizard began to obey Ash.
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Yep, Ash deserved an obedient Charizard.
Golden episode. That moment when Charizard decides to obey Ash from that point onward is unforgettable. The way Ash took care of Charizard when it was freezing from the battle was really a demonstration of a great trainer. Props for Ash in this episode.
So this is the last we see of the rebellious Charizard. I liked Charizard as a disobedient Pokemon, because he was too cool to obey Ash. He was the Fonzie of Pokemon.
Of course, Charizard as an obedient Pokemon has his highlights too.
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I haven't seen this episode, but I've read the synopsis. It sounds good; I'd like to see it. The title pun sounds reeeeaaaally inappropriate, considering the theme.
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Lol Charizard took a hit from articuno and nothing happened but a poliwrath freezes it and hes out for an entire night.
About gosh darn it time Charizard starts obeying Ash. It took too long. But, Chad was a cool character. I'll add him to the list of COTDs that I actually like.
One of my favorite moments came true. Chirizard actually listens. Found it funny that Chirizard got frozen as well.
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Finally we actually get to see Ash's most powerful team member obey him. Happy day for everyone.
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This episode is a huge turning point for both Ash and Charizard. It all started when a large speedboat almost tackled Ash and co. after narrowly missing, the driver introduce himself as Tad. Misty interrupts him demands an apology for "almost" hurting Togepi. Tad says that Misty shouldn't be mad because it makes her face look like a TENTACRUEL.... but Misty takes this as a complement and blushes?? Whoa, that was weird.
Anyway, Tad challenges Ash to a battle and he accepts. Tad and Ash begins their battle with choosing Poliwrath and Pikachu respectivly. Despite Pikachu shocking Poliwrath with his tail, it didn't seem affected by it. But it was easily managed to defeat Pikachu with Hypnosis and Water Gun! Ash wasn't happy about Pikachus defeat, so he chooses Charizard. Charizard, as usual, Flamethrowers Ash and starts disobeying him. As a result, Charizard gets frozen by a powerful Ice Beam from Poliwrath and Ash loses the battle.
The episodes starts getting interesting from here. With the help of Misty and Tracy, Ash does his best to warm Charizard up by rubbing his hides. I liked how Ash was talking about the good times he spent with Charizard, it was touching. This is when Charizard realizes that despite it disobeying Ash all the time, he hasn't given up on it.... and guess what? Charizard finally starts obeying Ash! The whole "Ash warming up Charizard" sequence was heartwarming, and the BGM(Tears after the Cloudy Weather) was perfectly fitting for the scene. It was awesome when Ash and Charizard worked as a team and defeated Tad and his Poliwrath, that showed what they can do if they work as a team.
This is, hands down, one of the best Orange Islands episodes. Too bad 4kids chose such a punny dub title for this amazing episode, they should've came up with a better dub title.
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Definitely in my Top 5 Pokemon episodes of all time. Badass emotional episode.
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Also, the anime and the games aren't equal, anyway.
This episode was truly a momentous occasion. Ash's Charizard finally starts obeying him after all this time!
I know this is the anime and not the games, but it is odd how a fire Pokemon can be frozen that easily.
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Looking back, I was surprised that Tad's Poliwrath's Ice Beam was able to freeze Charizard to begin with. I would've thought that Charizard being part Fire-type would've prevented that, but I guess not. Anyway, I was so happy when Charizard finally started listening to Ash and when he beat Poliwrath at the end.
I was browsing Netflix earlier and I saw that this was the latest Original Series episode available. Such is very fitting, given that for some people (those that liked the rebellious Charizard), this episode is where Charizard, as a character, jumps the shark (or in this case, jumps the Sharpedo).
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So I just rewatched this episode. Looking back it was a surprisingly beautiful and emotional episode. It really shows Ash compassion and heart as a trainer. Staying up and caring for a Charizard who disobeyed him at every turn.
Episodes like these is why OS will always be my favorite season
This was such a important episode cuz of how Charizard's ego softened and he started obeying Ash's commands. I admit that I didn't like Charizard much before this episode cuz he used to jeopardize Ash but I finally began liking him here. :3
Charizard getting frozen by Poliwrath made me yell wtf. I thought the whole struggle he went through here was lame.
Charizard finally got a better attitude and began trusting Ash. But in hindsight I'm ticked off that it took 60 episodes to get to this point. 7/10
These Beatles lyrics (RIP George Martin) reflect my opinion on how Charizard's character changed from this episode:
I'm looking through you, where did you go?
I thought I knew you, what did I know?
You don't look different, but you have changed
I'm looking through you, you're not the same
Still as I said several years ago, loyal Charizard does have his moments.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (458 votes).
In short: Excellent organisation, at the hillyish end of "undulating"In full: Great pre-race info - everything you need. Very friendly on the day. I ran Ashby 20 2 years ago and I think this event is probably as good. It has better scenery and friendlier marshalls (although the legendary Ashby drink station friendliness is still better). My one gripe would be that the water was in cups, and on a hot day that was a bit of a pain. The only mark down on beginner-friendliness was the "broom wagon" at 4 hours would be a bit off-putting, although I note several people recorded times after 4 hours. Excellent hoodie at the end, nice finishing venue too.Date of review: May 2, 2012
In short: Overall OKIn full: Car parking a nighmare despite arriving before 9am end up on grass verge 10 mins from hq. Toilets hopelessly inadequate for numbers. School hall was too small for numbers attending. Start area farcical. However, reasonably enjoyed the race due to fellow competitors and the scenery, not forgetting the undulating courseDate of review: April 28, 2012
In short: Bedford Harriers set the benchmarkIn full: A wonderfully organised event, a credit to Bedford Harriers. A challenging course as it's more up/down than flat and featureless. great marshalls, and nice touches having jelly babies and isotonic drink available at the end.will definitely do it again, cheers, Al(wearing my bright orange hoodie with pride!)Date of review: April 16, 2012
In short: Great scenery + marshalling on this 20 milerIn full: Enjoyed the race very much. The loop format was interesting as I was able to see the leaders coming past me ! On the plus side was the landscape, the marshals ,the Air Cadets on the water stations and the large field in which to fall down after the race. The hoody was good too - one fellow competitor stated it looked like a breakout from Guantanamo on the way back to the car !Less positive was the distance of the car parking from the start, the size of the main hall (although the congestion was not aided by large club groups feeling the need to 'stake their turf'), toilet provision and the temperature of the showers...brrrh !Date of review: April 5, 2012
In short: Miles 1 to 19 great, shame about the other bits.In full: Miles 0-1: Poor parking – grass banks out of the village. HQ – OK, they are always busy so just plan ahead, no worse than others. Race Start – shambles in short. Reverse filling a narrow road, so obviously nobody wanted to move back so late start and loads of slow runners up front – wasn't hard to predict. (Fence the pavement off, make everyone walk down it to the back first then fill up that way and have predicted finish markers – easily solved, no?)Miles 1-19: Beautiful course – scenic, undulating, but not overly hilly and water stations every 3 miles. Excellent marshal's, all friendly and helpful. Water in polystyrene cups not ideal, but just stop and walk for a couple of seconds worked fine.Miles 19-20: What a ridiculous finish. Winding narrow alleyways through a housing estate, some single file. Surely this could be improved as it is not what you want at the end of a 20 mile race. Only topped by the draconian marshal at the finish moaning and stopping people taking 2 (small) pieces of fruit rather than 1 – not her fault really, but from an organisation point of view ½ a banana after 20 miles (and £20) is a poor show. Ditch the dodgy orange hoody and push the boat out to a whole banana next year.Would probably do it again on balance as the course makes it, but the poor start and finish would make me think twice.Date of review: April 3, 2012
In short: Beautiful scenery and fantastic marshalls.In full: This was my first 20 mile race, and Oakley made me really enjoy the experience.The scenery was really pretty, there was lots of local support, regular water stations on what turned out to be a much hotter day than expected and some fantastic marshalls. Several marshalls towards the end (I must have looked drained by this point!) questionned me to check I was OK.The hills were quite nice, and kept the course interesting. There was nothing overly steep, and I always knew that when I had gone up, I would be going down again soon!The downside was the queueing for the toilets until 9:58 when the race began at 10. We had been queueing for nearly half an hour!Date of review: April 2, 2012
In short: Another great Oakley 20 experience. Great atmosphere, brilliant marshalls and fantastic scenery. Shame my hamstring did not agree!Date of review: April 2, 2012
In short: My first DNF. In full: I pulled up with cramp and a possible muscle tear at near 16 miles. A big thank you to the spectators and marshalls who looked after me and got me back to the finish. Nice to know your all there.Will come back next year and finish the job.Date of review: April 2, 2012
In short: top race by Bedford harriersIn full: As far as i am concerned Bedford Harriers always deliver a top race, and yes they did again this year. and as a runner from Milton keynes i will return again in 2013 . ps keep up the good workDate of review: April 1, 2012
In short: Fantastic day and well organised.Date of review: April 1, 2012
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