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What a difference 10 years makes...Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at 7:49 AM
Leming Hall Girls' dorm, SEMO campus, circa 1960, fall semester. My "buds" and I are wearing what we wore to class in that era. I'm on the far right. Leming was torn down to build the University Center.
I especially laugh at her generation's protest involvement. I think a group of students marched on one of the administration buildings and demanded later curfews - or some such foolishness. We would NEVER have done such an unruly thing! It wouldn't have occured to us, having grown up in the calm Eisenhower years of the 50's and having such role models as Marge Cleaver... I look at the old photos and marvel at how NEAT everyone was, while my sister's generation looked like something the cat dragged in...
There were many restrictions on students "back in the day." Girls were especially regulated by the social structure. The dress code did not allow us to wear pants to class - We could wear jeans, shorts or "pedal pushers" only after 4 p.m., and since there were no evening classes (that I remember), that meant no pants in class.
My sister's southern university, Troy State in Alabama, went even farther: Though girls on her campus were allowed to wear jeans and tee shirts to class, they had to live in campus housing, and they had a nine p.m. curfew on week nights. The boys, of course, could live anywhere they chose and could be out all night. The university didn't seem to care what they did, as long as it did NOT involve the girls! I think we know what THAT was intended to prevent...
At my dorm, the front door was the only way in, and it was locked by the dorm mother at precisely 10 p.m. If we were late, we had to ring the bell, which brought everyone to the stair landing to look down and see who it was, amid whispers and giggles.
I suspect that my sister and her classmates were quite familiar with that rather unwashed segment of society known as "hippies;" whereas my generation had only a stray, occasional "Beatnik," many of which seemed to have an interest in the theatre crowd. I was never allowed to consort with that creative group of unconventional people, since I had already formed an alliance with my future husband, a person firmly grounded in reality and ungiven to acts of spontaneity.
In looking back over those ancient years, I feel as if I'm writing about another person... That foolish young girl can't be me...
I fully expect my sister to log on to this blog, from her distant location 250 miles to the west, where she will hopefully fill in the gaps that I've left out. My mind will need jogging to remember more details.
The rest of you fellow bloggers can feel free to jump in with your own memories of "How it was in the 'Old Days'"! Give me some time, and I may just come up with an old photo!!
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LOVED those men!!! Lone Ranger, Tonto, Hopalong Cassidy!!! Now, those were men of honor!!
My dad liked Tom Mix!! Ah, that white cowboy hat was a mile high!!
-- Posted by goat lady on Tue, May 6, 2008, at 5:11 PM
Another one who took his roll seriously was Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger. Years after he went off the air he visited shopping malls, schools, anywhere he was invited, as The Lone Ranger. When the movie was about to come out the studio sued him and wouldn't let him wear the mask any more. It made me sooooo mad that I've STILL never seen the movie. The leading man also was seen at bars acting like a drunken fool. Not the kind of Lone Ranger I'm interested in.
-- Posted by Ducky on Mon, May 5, 2008, at 8:45 PM
GL, William Boyd, who played Hopalong Cassidy, took his portrayal very seriously and tried to use it to help influence the behavior of young people. Hopalong was a mythic good guy -- he didn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, swear, he treated people fairly, and he only acted in self-defense by letting the bad guy draw first.
-- Posted by FJGuy on Mon, May 5, 2008, at 5:30 PM
SKKKKKKKKKKYYYYYYYYYY KINNNNNNNNGGGGG! Loved that show.
You all talking about dating....my dad was a highway patrolman, 6'4", rarely smiled at dates.
When I moved back home, people would ask me who I dated in high school. Well, I never went steady, and most of my dates were good friends, but I maybe dated a few, not many.
Then one day a guy I went to school with said, "I always wanted to ask you out when we were in high school, but I was scared to death of your dad!"
And then it hit me. NO WONDER I hadn't dated very much in high school!!
-- Posted by lovebooks on Mon, May 5, 2008, at 1:25 PM
Madeline Dejournett's response:Lovebooks, you've sparked a memory! Did your parents move to Cape when Randa was in college? I seem to remember a house on the corner up by Southeast Hospital.
One night I was about five minutes late getting back to the dorm, and the door, of course, was locked. I was too mortified to ring the bell, so I had my (future) husband take me to that house by the hospital, where I tried to get up the nerve to go ring THEIR doorbell to see if I could spend the night there.
Alas, I lacked the nerve for that, either - so we went back to Leming Hall, where I was then about 30 minutes late, and I took my medicine - rang the doorbell and suffered the humiliation of the whispers from the top of the stairs!!!
I've always wondered why they threw the gun away. Did they figure they weren't EVER going to have any more bullets? Sometimes movies and tv can be sooooo stupid. Old movies are still the best.
Kids today also couldn't fathom a tv show where a married couple slept in twin beds. That's another thing that confused me.
We loved "Sky King" when we were kids. It made my daddy so mad when they'd be on the radio and say "Over and Out." He'd say "it's either 'Over' or 'Out', not both." You could count on it as sure as the sun coming up in the morning. Sometimes we'd say it just to get his goat. (Sorry goat lady)
-- Posted by mokath52 on Mon, May 5, 2008, at 1:08 PM
Oh, no! Not another Baptist! Just kidding, some of my favorite people are Baptists... I know for a fact that Baptists do allow themselves to square dance, at least...
Hopalong Cassidy was still going strong in the fifties, when my brothers and I watched the Saturday morning serials down at the Weeks Theater. Hopalong was timeless.
We used to count the number of gun shots. Notice that when the shooter used up all his bullets, he threw the gun away?
-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, May 4, 2008, at 7:37 PM
goat lady, are you kidding, Baptists are not allowed to dance!!!!!!!!!!!!my dear late wife loved to Square dance at her school, but I have 2 left feet and am always falling, I could barely do the 2-step slowly.
Dresses were long, never saw a girls knees, had to be home by 8:00pm, missed a lot of movie endings, leave half-way through to get her home on time. Lone Ranger, Ken Maynard, Tex Ritter, Hop-a-long Cassidy were our heroes, guns never ran out of bullets, hay rides, ice cream socials, good clean fun was the order of the day and night. Kids now a days would go 'nuts', but we were happier, poorer, but we didnt know it, everyone was poor, except for the big farmers, just like today...........lol..........
-- Posted by changedname on Sun, May 4, 2008, at 10:48 AM
Ah, Dexerite, tell us about the forties! Did you jitterbug? Foxtrot? Did you dance to Tommy Dorsey?
I LOVE the music of the forties! And the women's dresses! And their hair! And the movies!
Well, pretty much everything about the forties is fascinating.
-- Posted by goat lady on Sat, May 3, 2008, at 9:09 PM
Oh wow...well...I wasn't allowed to go out on dates...AT ALL! I couldn't go spend the night with anyone. I couldn't go to the movies. These things are the main reasons I moved out the day I turned 17. Thank God I had understanding friends;-) I didn't even need a curfew!
So you can only imagine how wild I went when I did move out...well...when I wasn't working full-time and going to school full-time. I'm glad my boys are still young...I remember how much I snuck out...I can't imagine what they're going to do...
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Fri, May 2, 2008, at 10:27 PM
In many ways the time of Woodstock in 1969 is incomprehensible to any college student today. There were no cell phones, no electronic calculators, no cable television, no personal computers (and no World Wide Web for another 25 years), no inexpensive long-distance phone calls, no digital cameras, no DVDs or even VHS movies, etc, etc. Yet, everyone got along just fine. And it is equally incomprehensible to youngins today that was possible for a high-school educated man working a 40-hour work week to support a stay at home wife and children. Of course it can't be overlooked that virtually all young women always wore skirts to school, and generally very short ones. Hoorah!
-- Posted by FJGuy on Fri, May 2, 2008, at 3:21 PM
Daddy strict??? Oh yessssss. I wasn't allowed a "car" date until I was 16. Up until then I could meet a boy at the movie theater if Daddy dropped me off and picked me up. My dates were not allowed to honk the horn and expect me to run out. They had to come to the door and ask for me. I had to stay in my room until Daddy called me. They were expected to carry on a conversation with my father for a short period of time. Then he would say "let me see if she's ready" and he would summon me from my room. Daddy had been a major in the Air Force and a flight instructor. Everybody liked him and he was not a physically imposing man, so I never understood why that brief conversation with him proved so intimidating to my dates. He terrified them. I thought it was funny.
He also had veto rights on my outfits. I had to undergo an inspection before my date arrived. He would ALWAYS wait up until I was home, even if it meant falling asleep in a chair watching tv. In later years when my curfew was later he'd be "watching" the test pattern.
We started out with a 10:00 curfew. When I was older and had proven that I could meet curfew he extended it to 11:00 and finally midnight.
Madeline's kids thought my stories about the age I started dating and my curfews were soooo funny. I guess they thought I was a dinosaur. They never got to meet their grandfather, but if they had they would never have believed he could be strict.
-- Posted by mokath52 on Fri, May 2, 2008, at 12:07 PM
thanks MD, I was a little apprehensive in making the statement I did and hoped it wouldn't be taken wrong. It's fun remembering the 'olden days' when things were different and values meant something. Church ice cream socials were the biggest thing that ever occurred when I was growing up in the 40's, thanks for your columns each week and keep up the great work.
-- Posted by changedname on Fri, May 2, 2008, at 8:53 AM
Madeline Dejournett's response:It's all in good blogging fun, and I'm not easily offended, anyway. I joke around enough myself - I can't afford to get upset when someone else does!
The country folks in this region loved to gather at someone's house and dance back in the 30's and 40's, from what I hear. I'm not really sure what kind of dances they did - if it was square dancing or some of the more "modern" ones. They do mention the home made ice cream, too.
4 cuties MD, your skirt seems awful short!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are guys allowed to make comments on this blog??
-- Posted by changedname on Thu, May 1, 2008, at 8:11 PM
Madeline Dejournett's response:Mmmm...It does, doesn't it? Must be the camera angle, because we wore our skirts just above the knee - not very short at all, by modern standards.
Guys are allowed, only if they mind their manners and can add interesting comments about the past.
Ladies, these stories are hilarious to read. I didn't have college days. I started my family early. But I did have an old-fashioned daddy. Just the idea of his daughter going to D.A.R.E graduation at the skating rink was something he couldn't stand. I got to go, FOR AN HOUR! I wasn't allowed to go to Homecoming until I moved out on my own at 17. He didn't let friends call, and you can figure that DEFINETELY included boys...friends or otherwise. He didn't even go to Woodstock...but he was 25 in 1969. He was a backwoods country boy with Christian values...and he was an older parent. He was 36 when I was born. So I can relate to the strict enforcement of parents for sure.
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Thu, May 1, 2008, at 10:00 AM
Madeline Dejournett's response:Well, Kathy went with Daddy after Mom and Dad were divorced, so she bore the brunt of his strictness - but I really don't think she minded, did you, twin? He was such a sweety - and so much more dependable than Mom was during that era.
I've posted one of the pictures from my freshman year; in fact, I think Daddy took it. You can see the beautiful old dormitory in the background. I'm sure that the University Center has been much more practical and serviceable than the old dorm - but the dorm was a beautiful building! I wish I had taken more pictures! I just assumed it would be there forever.
Hahaha! We also used staplers to put hems in our skirts. It sometimes played havoc with nylons...And, of course, unlike mokath52, we did not have panty hose! I don't remember when they first came out, but I think we were still wearing the old nylons, which had to be held up with those uncomfortable clips on garter belts or girdles.
How did we ever stand it - without air-conditioning, it had to be miserable, but I don't remember being any hotter in the summer than I am now!
-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, May 1, 2008, at 7:13 AM
I remember soaking up all Madeline's stories about college and dorm life. I couldn't wait to go to college. It was going to be so exciting to do all the things she did.
Oh my, what a difference those 10 years made. We were part of two different eras. The protest march my dear twin sister mentioned was all female. We marched on the Administration building demanding later curfews. We had to be in the dorm by 9:00 on weeknights and 10:00 on weekends. Heck, the library stayed open until 10:00 on weeknights. Our protest earned us a later curfew. They changed it to 10:00 on weeknights and Midnight on weekends. If we were late we had to ring a bell and the assistant director of the dorm had to let us in.
Yes, indeed. I did ask my Dad if I could go to Woodstock. He said "sure, over my dead body." I took that for a "no." I knew he wouldn't let me go, but it did him good to get all riled up every now and then.
We weren't allowed to wear slacks in high school there in Alabama. For a period of time we even had to kneel on the floor and the home ec teacher would measure our hem lines. The hems couldn't be more than 4 inches from the floor. It was miserable in that heat wearing skirts/dresses and panty hose. Ick.
I took some dresses with me to college, but I never wore them after the first semester when I learned the lay of the land, so to speak. From then on I wore jeans and T-shirts. They're still my favorite attire, although the jeans aren't so tight any more. I was soooo sad when I couldn't find hip-hugger bell bottom jeans any more.
Daddy insisted that I take an iron with me to college. One of his friend's wives offered that bit of advice. The only thing I ever used it for was making grilled cheese sandwiches. It worked great!
Oh what fun times. Ducky's right. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- Posted by mokath52 on Wed, Apr 30, 2008, at 11:14 PM
Madeline Dejournett's response:When I taught at Cape Central in the late sixties, the principal at the Junior High made the kids line up in the halls, where he measured the length of the guys' sideburns and the girls' skirts.
I had high school classes in the junior high, because we were overcrowded in the high school. It was particularly gauling to have to put up with his foolishness. A grown man with a yardstick down on the floor measuring girls' skirt hems!
Hahahaha! You are so RIGHT! It was like we were living in a COCOON!!!
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, Apr 30, 2008, at 9:42 PM
Madeline Dejournett's response:Oh, ladies, you are RIGHT ON! We had to yell, "Man on the floor!" when I was in school. Hahahaha! When my daughter lived in Dearmont in 2000, they had guys taking showers on their floor -- and it was NOT supposed to a co-ed floor!
As for Woodstock, I'll let my sister tell you that story - as soon as she wakes up and gets on the blog... As I understand it, she had a chance to go, but our dad had a COW!!! She did NOT go! To say that Daddy was from the old school was putting it mildly. Wouldn't let me date Malden Airbase guys and wouldn't let my sister go to Woodstock! Just think of all the wonderful experiences we missed!
I thought of another thing, too! When I was teaching, I would sometimes tell my students that I graduated from high school in 1969. They'd go crazy! Oh my gosh, did you go to Woodstock???
Woodstock? Never even knew it happened 'til way later.
One afternoon my dad called me at SEMO. He asked me if I had gone to classes that day. Of course I had gone to every class. What was the problem? My dad said he had heard on the news that college students all over the country were staging moratoriums because of the Vietnam War.
Not at SEMO. We didn't even know about it!
-- Posted by lovebooks on Wed, Apr 30, 2008, at 9:27 PM
Can you believe that we had to be in at 11:00 on week nights and 12:00 on weekends? The guys would take us back to the sorority house and then they'd all take off and do what they wanted. How ridiculous! And we didn't even think a thing about it! I couldn't wait until I was a Senior so I could get a "Senior Key" and get to stay out until 1:00!!!
Before I started at SEMO I decided I wanted to live in Towers. Two of the dorms were for the guys and two were for the girls. The cafeteria was the common area. When I stated my preference to my mom and dad, my dad went balistic. He had to go up there and check out Towers to MAKE SURE there wasn't any intermingling of the sexes in the dorms! I would not have been able to live in Towers otherwise.
Nowadays you may have guys living next door to girls and everyone hangs out in each other's rooms. Amazing. We would never have DREAMED of such a thing!
-- Posted by lovebooks on Wed, Apr 30, 2008, at 9:18 PM
I got my new Clearwater Creek catalog this week (all I can do is LOOK - Can't afford those prices!!) - They had an A-line sheath like we used to wear in the 60's! It was lime green! Oh, the memories! I had a loose-weave straw-colored sheath that I made myself - It was my favorite dress.
Buy 60-inch wide material, put the middle of the dress on the fold, cut out two pieces, and sew them together. Hem, and you're done! They were great!
Only problem with mine was that I could NOT get the crease out of the center! No amount of washings or ironings would dent it. Oh, well, poor girls have poor ways...
I still can't buy at Clearwater Creek...and I don't sew...In fact, I rarely wear dresses anymore...
Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end...(How does that song go...?)
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, Apr 30, 2008, at 5:33 PM
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Madeline (Giles) DeJournett is the Advance writer for the North Stoddard Countian. A retired high school English/history teacher, she spent 32 years teaching in 5 schools in Missouri and Alaska. These days, she lives quietly with a menagerie of wild and domestic animals on 52 secluded acres in the remote Tillman hills south of Advance. She graduated from Dexter High School in 1960 and Southeast Missouri State in 1964. She can be contacted at email@example.com.
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2015 Missouri Valley Wine Competition Results
Here are the results of the 2015 Missouri Valley Wine Competition.
Medals and score sheets have been mailed out. We had 320 entries of which 236 entries qualified for a medal. There were a lot of high quality wines this year as evidenced by the number of medals awarded.
Thank you for entering the 2015 Missouri Valley Wine Competition. I hope you will enter next year's competition.
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The Missouri Valley Wine Competition will be held February 22nd, 2009.
We have 26 confirmed Judges that include Missouri Wineries, Sommeliers and Regional Judges.
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EMU PLANETARIUM'S SUMMER SHOW LINE-UP: The EMU planetarium has a "star-studded" line-up of movies planned to entertain and educate its audiences. All shows will be viewed in the planetarium, located at 402 Mark Jefferson Science Complex. Tickets must be purchased in advance from any EMU ticket office or online at EMU Tickets. Below are the dates, times and details for each movie:
"The Little Star That Could" story is about Little Star, an average yellow star searching for planets of his own to protect and warm. Along the way, he meets other stars, learns what makes each star special, and discovers that stars combine to form star clusters and galaxies. Eventually, Little Star finds his planets. Each planet is introduced to the audience with basic information about our solar system. Show date is Saturday, July 27, 2 p.m. Run time is 35 minutes. This movie is appropriate for all ages and recommended for families. Each "Little Star" show includes "Seasonal Stargazing" with a run time of 7 minutes. Visit The Little Star That Could Movie to watch a preview.
"Galileo: The Power of the Telescope" Two eyes and two pieces of glass revolutionized human understanding 400 years ago. The eyes belonged to Galileo Galilei, and the curved pieces of glass were the lenses of his telescope. In "Galileo: The Power of the Telescope," you'll learn Galileo's personal and powerful story, and explore how his discoveries displaced long-held views about the universe. Narrated by Dava Sobel, author of the award-winning biography Galileo's Daughter. Show date will be Saturday, July 27, at 3:15 p.m. This show is appropriate for ages 13 and up. Run time is 30 minutes. Each "Galileo" Show includes "Seasonal Stargazing" with a run time 15 minutes.
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Growing up in nearby Lancaster, Papadosio's Anthony Thogmartin always felt a special connection to the earth.
In a recent phone interview, the musician, who currently makes his home in Asheville, North Carolina, said he'd often spend days in relative isolation hiking the boggy wilderness surrounding his childhood home. It was during this time he started to develop the strong ecological conscience that has become intertwined with his band's music and mission.
"I ran face-first into huge deforestation projects right there," Thogmartin said. "There was an outerbelt built around Lancaster which cut directly through where I spent most of my time [and now] there's nothing left there. It's just road.
"They also did a huge mining operation in another area, and then a fracking operation in another area. I remember some of those places as beautiful … so it was very hard for me to deal with. It really hits close to home for me."
These events are a large part of the inspiration behind the second annual Earth Night, which is slated to take place at LC Pavilion over the course of two days this weekend. While last year's inaugural event was smaller in both size and scope (it was confined to a single day and placed an increased focus on the mysticism surrounding the date 12/21/12), Thogmartin and Co. thought bigger this time around.
The music lineup is beefed up, with appearances from The Main Squeeze, Shigeto, Hundred Waters, Ott & The All-Seeing I and, of course, Papadosio. In addition, a daylong symposium scheduled to take place on Saturday, Dec. 21, at Vue, 95 Liberty St. in the Brewery District, includes speakers addressing topics ranging from environmental activism to nutrition.
"What we've been doing recently is trying to tally it all up and get a real picture of what it takes to do what we do," said Thogmartin, who was born to an aircraft mechanic father and a mother who worked in the field of vision rehabilitation. "As a band we're at an interesting crossroad where we're starting to be able to pay our bills without accruing a bunch of debt, so now we're trying to see how we can fit ourselves into the world responsibly."
The idea of fitting in has been something of a running theme for the musician, who grew up a self-proclaimed loner and still struggles to see where his band fits into the music scene at large. Though often pegged as a jam band, Papadosia incorporates more electronic elements into its sound, coming on like dance music for the granola set. If "Avatar's" Na'vi ever embraced computer technology, this is the type of music it would make.
Indeed, it wasn't until the longtime outsider enrolled in classes at Ohio University in Athens that he finally discovered fellow travelers similarly skeptical of the world around them — a concept that surfaces often in the band's music.
"It was right around then I realized culture as a whole is really skeptical of what's going on all across the board," he said. "We're all skeptical of so many things: how the government is operating, the financial system, large banking cartels.
"We're all skeptical of the whole thing, and our music reflects that. It's not the battle cry of some odd, weird [loner]. It's everybody's. We're all in this together."


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Debates of June 13th, 2005
House of Commons Hansard #114 of the 38th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was information.
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Joe Comartin Windsor—Tecumseh, ON
Madam Speaker, as we can tell from the comments of the member that just spoke, he is quite passionate about the subject, a passion which I share, because of the impact that the border has on our economy in the Windsor-Essex county area and on the livelihood of so many of our people. A good deal of that livelihood is being threatened at this point to a great degree because of inaction on the part of the government.
Specifically, the bill is part of an overall strategy by the government to consolidate services into one super ministry under the Minister for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. This is just one component of it. With this particular bill, which all parties agreed was an appropriate step for the government to take, we are consolidating the customs program, the customs investigations and appeal functions, and the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency. We are taking part of that agency, bringing in the intelligence interdiction and enforcement program, including ports of entry from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, and finally the inspection of ports of entry and the Canada Food Inspection Agency.
The NDP has been willing to support this because we believe it is important to focus attention on our border crossings and our ports of entry. All too often in the past, because these programs have been somewhat isolated within their respective departments, there has not been enough attention paid to the issues with regard to ports of entry. With regard to the security at ports of entry, and at the rest of the border crossings, a secure but efficient methodology must ensure that cargo and passengers are able to move back and forth without undue hindrance. This development, in terms of bringing this together, makes good practical sense.
When the bill came before the justice subcommittee, all parliamentarians sitting on that committee felt reasonably comfortable with it, but there were some amendments. I want to touch on those briefly.
One of them affected the reporting function. Although there was a modest reporting function, by the amendment that we introduced and passed in the subcommittee, we strengthened the responsibility of the minister to report. As we will see in a few minutes, when I conclude my speech, that is an important factor, and the need to strengthen it was equally important.
The other point that raised some concern with the employees at the border was that they were defined under the Criminal Code as peace officers. As a result of a decision that I believe came out of my region of the country, the charges that the employees at the border might lay under various pieces of legislation on a number of occasions had been challenged as to their capacity to lay those charges. In a couple of cases the charges were actually dismissed on what was seen as a technical problem.
The employees had been asking the government for the last five to seven years to amend the section of the Criminal Code, so it would be clear they had the responsibility and the jurisdiction to lay the charges. The government had not done that when the bill was introduced originally. The public service employees came forward with a very clear, concise and obviously persuasive argument as to the need for this amendment. It was taken up by all members of the committee, including, finally, the government members, and the amendments were moved, supported unanimously and passed. It is now in the bill which, with support from all parties, will pass and their job will become a little easier.
As an aside on this point, there has been an ongoing debate between the public service employees at the border, arguing that in a number of cases they need to have greater security for themselves.
We have heard of many incidents at border crossings where individual members were positioned there by themselves. There have been several incidents where people have suffered ill health and had no one to assist them. There have been other occasions where there were very clear security threats to them and they had no meaningful backup at all.
There is an ongoing debate as well as to whether border crossing guards should be armed. At this point they are not allowed to carry firearms in spite of some clear cases where that would have been of some benefit to them.
To be clear on this point I must say that this debate has been raised by employees themselves. A number of them have not been trained or properly prepared to carry firearms whereas others have. This is going to be an ongoing debate. A case just came down from the federal court with respect to wardens in our national parks and it may have some impact on this issue. We may be moving to that at some stage in the near future.
By consolidating the departments and more specifically these programs, we are going to have clearer information because we will get annual reports from the minister. We will be able to focus our attention on the actual issues confronting us at our border crossings and ports of entry. I hope and expect that an inevitable result of this consolidation will be greater security and more efficient use of our border crossings to move both cargo and passengers.
With regard to arming border guards and the security issue, major work still needs to be done. We hear reports that some containers coming in at our ports of entry on both the east and west coasts are not being inspected. A very small percentage are in fact inspected. This is worrisome from a terrorist standpoint because inspections are minimal. This issue must be addressed. Once this consolidation is fully in place and functioning, the government will see the need to provide additional services of a security nature at our ports of entry.
As we heard from the member for Windsor West, the border crossing between Windsor and Detroit is the busiest one in the country. It could be argued that it may be the busiest crossing of any place in the world as far as cargo is concerned. In spite of that fact, we cannot get the government to address a number of issues that confront our community.
There is a major issue concerning whether we need an additional crossing, and there seems to be overwhelming evidence that we do. However, the government has been extremely slow in responding to that need. That is having a major impact particularly on the auto industry, but generally on the manufacturing industry.
This is not just an issue with regard to the Windsor-Essex county area. We have heard substantive evidence about problems with regard to moving manufactured goods across our border and the backlogs this is creating. There are backlogs throughout all of southern Ontario, right into Quebec and all the way back to Montreal.
We expect these issues to be addressed in a much more efficient and responsible manner than they have in the past. We expect that the additional resources that are required to meet our security needs at our ports of entry and border crossings will be forthcoming in geographic areas like the Windsor-Detroit area. We expect that an additional crossing, when needed, will be addressed much more rapidly than it has been historically.
The NDP will be supporting Bill C-26. However, we will be watching the outcome once it is in place to see how these programs are functioning and we will be pressing very hard for them to be expanded.
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1:45 p.m.
Paul Szabo Mississauga South, ON
Madam Speaker, I am pleased to hear that the New Democratic Party will be supporting the bill.
Those who have been following the debate will know that there is an inextricable link between the movement of economic goods and services as well as security issues. It would seem to me that as we move into more stringent security provisions, this must necessarily involve some additional work or scrutiny, or possible delays on the economic side.
We have a situation where it is not just enough to complain about a problem. Rather we must look for that appropriate balance between the security needs which must be in place for us to deal with the challenges we are facing these days and the steps that can be taken to improve the flow of goods and services.
I know the member is very knowledgeable about the area as it is his home area and the initiatives that have been talked about from time to time, such as having secure yards where trucks could get pre-cleared, to help with the delays that are caused simply by the enormous amount of truck traffic, not only from Ontario but substantively from Quebec. This causes some concern because to disrupt the economy of Canada is also a form of terrorism.
I would be very interested to hear whether the member is satisfied that proper discussion has gone on with regard to those reasonable steps that can be taken to ensure a smooth flow of economic goods and services.
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1:45 p.m.
Joe Comartin Windsor—Tecumseh, ON
Madam Speaker, overall we are not satisfied with the response.
The cabinet member who is now the Minister of Foreign Affairs was in Windsor. We were having a meeting with representatives for both sides of the border. I remember raising with them that the big issue right then was the need for the U.S. side to expand the number of gates into the U.S. side. The American side was way behind what Canada was doing at that point in terms of providing the proper services at the border crossings to allow the free flow of goods at the same time as providing security.
I agree with my friend from Mississauga South that there is a need for balance. There have certainly been times that we in the Windsor area in particular have felt that the security demands from the U.S. side were unreasonable. On a number of occasions we have been able to convince them to take a step back so that goods and passengers would flow freely.
On the basic question about whether the government's response has been as fulsome as it should have been, I said in my opening comment that I did not think so. I am going to use as an example the provision of a ferry service that we have in the Windsor area. There is litigation going on about this right now which may be close to being settled finally, but even before 9/11 we had set up a system that allowed the bridge company, which is a private company, to receive customs services for free. It is not charged anything.
On the other hand, the ferry service is being charged a per vehicle cost in order to have customs and border security people at the crossing. It is a small company in comparison with the bridge, which is a huge corporation, but the government has refused a simple change in the regulations that would make it possible for customs people to be there, to move vehicles across in an efficient way without costing the service that amount of money. That service would be a good alternative to deal with some of the backlog at the bridge and the tunnel in the Windsor area. The government has refused to follow through on that.
With regard to the member's other question as to marshalling guards, that has been considered. It was proposed by the former mayor of Windsor. It has never been taken up by the government and it still has not responded to that request.
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1:50 p.m.
John Maloney Welland, ON
Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise before the House to promote this very important piece of legislation, a bill to create an innovative border management organization that will strengthen our capacity to respond swiftly and effectively to risks and threats to our country.
Security is the cornerstone of our society. When this country was formed, our descendants made a conscious decision to establish a nation that would be founded on peace, order and good government for Canadians. Successive governments and generations of Canadians have upheld that ideal with the result that Canada has become one of the most successful countries on the earth.
However, the repeated and unprecedented challenges we have faced since the millennium began have identified weaknesses that could endanger our way of life.
The events of 9/11 drove home that point in a tragic but tangible way. The shocking reality is that terror knows no boundaries and respects no life. No one is immune to the damaging effects of these forces in our increasingly interconnected world. This was an especially hard lesson learned by Canadian businesses which depend on a free and open border for $2 billion daily in cross-border trade and millions of travellers who once took border crossings for granted.
To protect our citizens, economy and society, we have to better anticipate and be prepared to address any and all hazards arriving on our doorstep. Terrorism, illegal migration, organized crime and other threats must be combated. That is why the public safety and emergency preparedness portfolio was created, to bring together key national agencies dedicated to public safety, including the Canada Border Services Agency, Correctional Service of Canada, the RCMP, CSIS, the Canadian Firearms Centre and the National Parole Board.
The CBSA has been set up to build on progress already achieved since we signed the Canada-U.S. smart border declaration with our American neighbours in the aftermath of September 11. A smart border is one that makes a distinction between low risk and high risk travellers and cargo arriving at the border, letting the former move through quickly, while taking the necessary time to take a closer look at those who pose a threat.
The CBSA will accelerate this work by aligning complementary security activities previously spread among three government organizations into a single, streamlined unit. The new structure allows the agency to take a more integrated and multifaceted approach to border management to improve the quality, effectiveness and affordability of border services.
Proposed Bill C-26 will allow us to move forward with an integrated and multifaceted approach to border management, which is a key component of our national security policy. Members of the House will recall that this policy focuses on three core national security interests: protecting Canada and Canadians at home and abroad; ensuring Canada is not a base for threats to our allies; and contributing to international security.
Thanks to the integration of the main activities of border security and intelligence, the Canada Border Services Agency is already in a position to better protect Canadians, while facilitating the free flow of admissible persons and goods.
In less than a year since its launch, the agency has accelerated a number of progressive measures undertaken by its predecessors. For example, it has made every effort to improve border flow and to expand the NEXUS and FAST programs for pre-approved low risk travellers and commercial traffic.
FAST, the fast and secure trade program, NEXUS, and many other smart initiatives put in place in recent months and years depend on pre-screening people and cargo to separate those who pose a threat from those who do not. While the vast majority of clients comply with law and regulations, we have put in place risk management strategies to identify, detect and interdict high risk people and goods.
Pre-approval makes it possible for CBSA officers to speed up the processing of legitimate travellers and businesses with good track records, particularly those that have been pre-cleared. However, the CBSA denies the use of Canadian territory to anyone involved in terrorism or serious criminality and prevents the entry of goods, including animals, plants or food products, that threaten the safety of Canadians.
Knowing how effective this approach to border management is, the CBSA has expanded FAST to expedite the movement of low risk cargo and truck drivers. It is now in effect at 19 of the largest and highest volume land border crossings.
The NEXUS program fills the same need by simplifying land crossings for pre-approved low risk frequent travellers. It also continues to expand. By last November we had over 70,000 people registered in the program using NEXUS sites at 11 locations across the country.
The launch of the NEXUS air pilot program at the Vancouver International Airport this past November allows pre-approved travellers to clear customs and immigration in Canada or in U.S. pre-clearance by simply looking into a camera that recognizes the irises of their eyes as proof of identity.
Of concern to all constituents, we have also ensured that Canadians are exempt from the U.S. visit program. An entry and exit system has been established in the United States to record the identity of people entering or leaving the country. Canadian and American citizens are not subject to this new policy.
As well, we have established Canada's National Risk Assessment Centre, which became operational on a 24/7 basis in January 2004. We can now share automated lookouts with the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection. The centre will also serve as the focal point for managing and coordinating national and international watch lists, including lists of lost and stolen passports and other travel documents, to stop high risk travellers upon their arrival in Canada.
Our countries have also agreed to share advance passenger information and passenger name records on high risk travellers destined for either country.
The recent budget tabled by this government provides additional funding for the container security initiative that would allow CBSA to enhance Canada's marine security program. The primary goal of the container security initiative is to protect the global trading system and to keep the trade lanes open between foreign ports and Canada by targeting and interdicting potential terrorism threats before they reach our shores.
The government has invested in the marine security initiative to ensure that Canada is meeting international standards and can harmonize our regulations with those of our global trading partners. The agency takes a multi-layered, risk based approach to security at marine ports, which includes the advance targeting of high risk vessels and goods, the use of new technology and increased cooperation with our partners.
There is much more the CBSA will do in the months ahead with the passage of this bill. In partnership with other federal departments and agencies, it will develop a new partnership of smart border initiatives involving the U.S. and Mexico and expand smart border principles around the globe.
Few issues matter more to the welfare of our nation than making sure we are ready and able to detect and respond to new and emerging threats to our society, threats that endanger the competitiveness of Canadian business as well as the health and safety of the public.
I am confident that the CBSA will be an effective first point of contact as it manages the movement of people and goods into and out of Canada. All members of this House should give this legislation speedy passage.
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1:55 p.m.
The Acting Speaker (Hon. Jean Augustine)
The member will have 10 minutes remaining at the next debate since there was no indication of the splitting of time.
Public Service
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Larry Bagnell Yukon, YT
Madam Speaker, I am about to make an announcement that everyone in the House of Commons will be very proud of. Today, Cecil Oliver and Natural Resources Canada are celebrating a milestone unequalled in the history of the Government of Canada.
This year, Cecil Oliver, an employee of the department, marks his 60th year of continuous public service with the government. Mr. Oliver began his career with the Canadian Forces in 1945. In 1968 he moved to civilian work with aeronautical and technical services in the mapping services branch of what is now Natural Resources Canada.
Today, at 79 years of age, he continues his career as a senior technologist. His colleagues agree that he is an invaluable resource. In honour of long and dedicated service to Canada, Cecil received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal.
I ask hon. members to join me in congratulating Mr. Oliver on his outstanding record of 60 years of service to the people of Canada.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
James Lunney Nanaimo—Alberni, BC
Madam Speaker, citizens of Nanaimo were traumatized by the May 31 assault on an 89-year-old woman in her own home. Charged with break and enter and sexual assault is Franklin Shane Dorfer.
Dorfer was a repeat offender, convicted in 1994 after two break and enters involving elderly women, including a 71-year-old who was raped. Residents would like to know why this man was on the streets, having served only part of a seven and a half year sentence. He was released only to commit further B and Es, the latest in 2004.
Although he was not considered a good candidate for parole, Dorfer was released again. He violated his parole and a warrant had been issued for his arrest at the time of the Nanaimo attack.
Prisoners need to earn parole. Automatic statutory release needs to be scrapped. We need mandatory minimum sentences for repeat and violent offenders. We need truth in sentencing. These offenders should serve their full term.
Violent crimes against the elderly should be an aggravating factor for sentencing. More needs to be done to protect our elderly citizens and restore safety to our streets.
Canadian Diabetes Association
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Peter Adams Peterborough, ON
Madam Speaker, I attended a juvenile diabetes fundraiser this weekend. During the winter I met with the Peterborough chapter of the Canadian Diabetes Association and toured its office. It does wonderful work in our community and country.
More than two million Canadians live with diabetes and that number will double by 2020. Escalating obesity, sedentary lifestyles and an aging population all feed the national epidemic of diabetes. Diabetes leads to heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, limb amputation and blindness. It costs over $13 billion each year. However early diagnosis, aggressive treatment and lifestyle change can stem the tide, delaying onset and even preventing the disease.
I support the Canadian Diabetes Association in all its efforts to develop a national diabetes strategy. We have supported the association in the past. Let us continue to do so. We should help those living with diabetes in every possible way. We should work to prevent and cure this disease.
National Public Service Week
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Diane Bourgeois Terrebonne—Blainville, QC
Madam Speaker, it is a great pleasure for me today to draw the hon. members' attention to National Public Service Week and the generous contribution of public servants to society.
Members of the public service face many challenges. For example, it is estimated that nearly 25% of public servants are victims of psychological harassment in the workplace.
Today I want to stress the importance of passing a bill that will prevent and address psychological harassment in the workplace. Such a bill would go beyond simple policies that are based on good intentions and would provide true protection to public servants, thereby enhancing their performance.
The Bloc Québécois is anxious to see Bill C-360 passed and it wishes all public servants an excellent week.
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Francis Scarpaleggia Lac-Saint-Louis, QC
Madam Speaker, I wish to inform the hon. members of this House of the appointment of Jacques Bilodeau as Canada's ambassador to the Eleventh Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which will be held in Montreal from November 28 to December 9, 2005.
Mr. Bilodeau will be working with the key stakeholders at the Montreal conference on climate change as the representative of the Minister of the Environment. He will facilitate consultation with the interested parties in order to advance discussions on the development of a new plan for the post-2012 period.
Throughout his 30-plus years in the Public Service of Canada, Mr. Bilodeau has held various positions in the Department of Foreign Affairs, including that of the Prime Minister's representative during the Francophonie summit in Burkina Faso in the fall of 2004. Mr. Bilodeau's extensive background in diplomacy should help him in the successful performance of his duties.
Mr. Bilodeau has a Master's degree from the École nationale d'administration publique and a Bachelor of Arts and Science from Université Laval.
Bridgewater Flood
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Gerald Keddy South Shore—St. Margaret's, NS
Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this time to call attention to all the committed and dedicated men and women from my riding of South Shore--St. Margaret's who worked tirelessly during the recent state of emergency in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
From May 22 to 27, heavy rain fell throughout Nova Scotia with 225 millimetres of rain falling in the Bridgewater area alone. Heavy flooding resulted, roughly 100 people were evacuated from their homes and 17 roads and 12 bridges in Lunenburg county had to be closed by the department of transportation.
I commend the volunteer fire departments and other emergency workers for their role in protecting the residents of our communities.
Emergency Measures co-ordinator, Brian Kaiser, along with dozens of professionals and volunteers, performed yeoman service in coordinating the municipal and provincial response.
To everyone involved in the response team and to all the neighbours who assisted neighbours, I extend a sincere and heartfelt bravo, good work and thank you.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Borys Wrzesnewskyj Etobicoke Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, this past Friday, I attended a photo exhibit dedicated to educating the public about a terrible human tragedy in Polish history.
Sixty-five years ago the Soviet army took 21,000 Polish army reserve officers prisoner after occupying eastern Poland under terms of a secret deal between Hitler and Stalin.
After rounding up these reservists, lawyers, doctors, businessmen, teachers and other professionals, the intellectual elite of Poland, the Soviets took them to various locations where they were gagged, bound, executed and buried in mass graves. The largest known mass grave of these execution sites was the Katyn forest near Smolensk, Russia.
For decades the Soviets denied they had committed this atrocity. Finally, in 1992 the Russian government handed over documents to the Polish president, Lech Walesa, showing that Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin did indeed order the massacres. Notwithstanding this evidence, Russian President Putin refuses to acknowledge the Katyn massacre.
I hope that some day all Canadians will be afforded the opportunity to learn more about this terrible crime through displays and interactive media at a prominent national museum in Canada.
150th Anniversary of the Town of Saint-Sauveur
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Johanne Deschamps Laurentides—Labelle, QC
Mr. Speaker, I had the opportunity recently to take part in an evening launching the festivities marking the 150th anniversary of Saint-Sauveur, a town known for its exceptional quality of life and joie de vivre.
At this event, the organizing committee paid tribute to six women who have made a remarkable contribution to their community in recent years. As architects of economic and social development, these six women make Saint-Sauveur the dynamic town it is.
These committed women are Annick Cazin, Huguette Chartier, Lise Foisy, Micheline Barbe, Johanne Martel and Annie Dagenais. They have the well-being of the community of Saint-Sauveur at heart.
The Bloc Québécois pays tribute to these six women. I am convinced that their efforts will produce results. More committed women can only be good for our society. I congratulate and thank them.
Seniors Month
Statements By Members
June 13th, 2005 / 2:05 p.m.
Beth Phinney Hamilton Mountain, ON
Mr. Speaker, June is Seniors Month. I want to recognize the contribution of seniors, particularly those in my riding of Hamilton Mountain.
With advances in technology and medicine, seniors are living longer, healthier lives while continuing to contribute to both the social fabric and the economic prosperity of Canada.
Sackville Senior Centre in my riding has approximately 1,400 active members participating in a variety of mentally and physically challenging activities.
The percentage of seniors in Canada is growing rapidly, which requires that we remain diligent in protecting health and pension supports.
The government has shown its commitment to seniors in the present budget by increasing the guaranteed income supplement, by increasing support to the new horizons program and by increasing support to caregivers. In fact, most of the features in the present budget will help seniors.
I thank all seniors for their support, enrichment and inspiration.
Aerospace Industry
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Colin Carrie Oshawa, ON
Mr. Speaker, Quebec's industry minister stated on the weekend that Quebec could create its own policy for the aerospace industry in the absence of any federal policy.
For months now, since October to be precise, the federal government has been promising such a policy but nothing is forthcoming.
Given the importance of this issue and this sector for Canada and especially Quebec, it is high time the federal government showed transparency and tabled a real draft policy on the aerospace industry.


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Skip to comments.Does God Have a Super Bowl Favorite?
Posted on 02/03/2013 7:29:33 AM PST by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
The decidedly secularist Sports Illustrated evidenced by the busty swimsuit models it teasingly features on the home page of its web site (alongside the latest sports news, which is what SI is supposed to be about) thought the occasion of the Super Bowl would be the perfect time to weigh in on the subject of Christianity and football.
The cover of its February 4 issue, still available on newsstands, has a picture of Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, under the headline: Does God Care Who Wins the Super Bowl?
In the cover shot, Lewis is up to his shoulders in water, hands folded as in prayer. It seems obvious the image is meant to suggest the baptism of Christ; as if Lewis, who was at least indirectly involved in the murders of two people the last time his NFL team made the Super Bowl, is some sort of Messianic figure.
SIs cover story asserts, The sport with the biggest Christian presence, most famous Christian athletes and most religious leaders affiliated with teams features a culture that seemingly goes against the values of Christianity.
So whom did SI assign to write about the values of Christianity as they relate to big-time football? Mark Oppenheimer yes, hes Jewish religion columnist for The New York Times.
Is it any wonder that a writer who disbelieves the divinity of Christ, who thinks he knows better than the 80 percent of us who identify ourselves as Christ followers, would sneer at footballers who publicly profess their Christ followers?
In his cover story, Oppenheimer mocks what he says has become customary for many NFL players: They point to heaven, pray on their knees and thank Jesus in post-game interviews.
The SI writers sarcastic prediction for todays Super Bowl: Ray Lewis will wear his customary black T-shirt under his uniform that says PSALMS 91 and 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, if successful on a big play, will kiss either his tattoo of the words GOD TO GLORY or the one that reads FAITH.
Well, as a Christ follower who is also a football fan, I see absolutely nothing wrong with NFL players honoring God, giving glory to their Lord and Savior.
In fact, I root for those who are not ashamed to publicly profess their Christian faith be it Lewis or Kaepernick, one of which will win the Super Bowl, or such past Super Bowl MVPs as Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees and Kurt Warner.
As to whether God cares whether the Ravens or 49ers win todays Super Bowl, I think not.
But I do believe He delights in athletes who make full use of the talent with which He has blessed them; who pursue their craft as unto the Lord and not to men; who glorify Him when they achieve success; and who evince His peace, which surpasses all understanding, even when they fall short of victory.
Yes he does, Dalla Cowboy's but we may have to wait untill the second coming.
Sorry typing with one hand and fending off a deranged Jack Russel with the other.
You're forgiven, friend. The Cowboys will be in the thick of things next season, along with my hometown Redskins.
I refuse to play along.
I just have a feeling that God will favor the losers in this situation...
ha ha ha...
God will be watching The Puppy Bowl.
NWO folks. Thw whole idea here is to ruin football because it is basically an American sport. Not enough of the world watches football. Americans have to learn to hate football. What is the best way? Regulate it to a wussy sport and promote soccer, the game most of the world watches.
Nothing that happens anymore is happenstance. It is purposeful manipulation.
They did try to export football as a big sport, but it didn't work. So now, football has to be destroyed.
Looks like we are heading to the point of laying back and taking it. Very sad.
He will be on the side of all those players who are injured for life. The one's who make the mistakes while millions watch in disbelief.
Matthew 9:12
But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
Speaking of which, have you heard about all the goings on with Jerry Jones changing the Cowboy's mascot? I guess he wants to re-sell everyone t-shirts.
The proposal is going to be an armadillo. When they have home games, they will simply roll up and play dead. When they are on the road, they will get killed. Of course, they will be changing their colors. They will now be black and blue.
Jesus will be on the side of every champion. Every individual who against all odds rose to the top of their game.
On a day when everyone doubted their abilities. They looked the devil in the face and proclaimed.
"The Lord rebuke thee!"
As a matter of fact, I have a feeling that Jesus is rooting for every single man on the field and woman on the sidelines.
Last time I checked - he was not willing that any should perish...
ha ha ha...
Ray Lewis with his hands folded in prayer? That's a laugh.Too bad his hands weren't similarly positioned on the night he participated in the murder of two people.
BLASPHEMY!! Two Hail Mary's and four Our Father's for you, nascarnation! LOL!
I forgot to mention that He is probably favoring every fan in the stands who are watching the men on the field and the women on the sidelines...
ha ha ha
I think God put Tom Landry in charge of football matters.
While Tom Landry's Cowboys are known for their two Super Bowls against Chuck Noll and the Pittsburgh Steelers, Landry also led Dallas to three other Super Bowls, and were a Bart Starr quarterback sneak away from representing the NFL in the second Super Bowl. Tom Landry was 2-3 in Super Bowls, winning both in New Orleans and losing all three at Miami's Orange Bowl Stadium.
Landry coached the Cowboys to their first Super Bowl win, defeating the Miami Dolphins 24-3, holding the Dolphins to a mere field goal. The Cowboys won their first Super Bowl a year after losing a heartbreaker to the Baltimore Colts. The Cowboys lost the first battle with the Steelers, in a game that is heralded as a classic. The rematch would be just as good, with the Cowboys being a Jackie Smith catch away from beating the Steelers in the rematch. Super Bowl XIII, the rematch, featured Cowboys Linebacker Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson saying famously "Terry Bradshaw couldn't spell c-a-t if you spotted him the C and the T." Landry recalled in his autobiography how he cringed when he heard that, because he didn't feel that Bradshaw needed additional motivation in a big game like the Super Bowl.
Last I checked, God could care less about games. He is into souls.
Of course, but since RG3 hurt his knee we all have to wait until next year.
The good news is that, the more football is attacked, the more popular it becomes.
Tell that to this Red Soxs fan when in 2004 the long World Series drought had ended when the Red Soxs won the World Series. Prayers were heard.
God has no favorites, according to the word- but he does reward obedience.
It won't be after they wussify it! That was my point!
That will not happen believe me, I am confident. Besides, how popular is soccer in this country anyways? Not much.
Wake up. Once they wussify the game, which is what this is all about, they will push soccer, because more people in the world community watch soccer. Football is American, that is why it has to go.
Think NWO, that is what is happening at a lightning pace now.
God's a Saints fan, of course.
Your opinion, not mine. You wake up. Plus I do not believe anyways.
Yet the SB gets more "eyeballs" than soccer anyways via tv. So you lost the argument. Move along.
It was comforting to see that Jim and John Harbaugh are active members of their Catholic parishes in California and Maryland.Their parents did a good job.
Maybe he just tunes in for the commercials. There's no denying he's a fan though; why else would he have put wings on a buffalo?
The Saints
LOL, I lost no argument. You watch, in the next few years our football is going to be under attack. Football is no more popular than it was years ago. Geesh!
What are you? Naive?
Well the SB is broadcasted around the world so it PROVES that it is STILL POPULAR. I stand by my argument. Case closed
Case is not closed anywhere but in your head.
yes, He does...
Consider the Ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them.
Luke 12:24
Pro football is commercial driven. Proof is in that of the ads that are shown during the SB. Other sports just do not have that type of power to attract commericial ads.
Other sports will when football is ruined.
Please stop it with the "conspiracy theories" OKAY. This DEBATE IS OVER.
PLUS I do not believe you anyways.
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To remind you what afterimage illusions do; after some period of staring at the certain image, the colors burn inside your eye retina, and after the illusion animation disappears, because of your newly gained super-powers, you're still able to see the negative image afterwards. Now that we've repeated the basics, let's see what today's optical illusion does. Stare at the little black cross for a minute or so. After some time, blue and pink letters (that spell incorrect colors) will disappear. Still, you'll be able to see the previously read colors. Does all this make sense? I had some tremendous trouble with my English today… must be the hangover.


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Esky woman enters two guilty pleas
ESCANABA – A 20-year-old Escanaba woman faces prison after recently pleading guilty to two felonies in connection with a home invasion and the assault of a Bark River man in 2011.
Ashley Marie Stodola appeared in Delta County Circuit Court where she pleaded guilty to second-degree home invasion and pleaded guilty to attempted larceny in a building. She also admitted to being a habitual offender, second offense, during Tuesday's plea hearing.
Stodola's sentencing is set for March 15 in circuit court. Second-degree home invasion, as a habitual offender, carries a maximum punishment of 22.5 years in prison. Attempted larceny in a building, as a habitual offender, carries a maximum sentencing of three years in prison.
Stodola is one of three individuals arrested in connection with a scheme to assault and rob a 41-year-old Bark River man on Oct. 22, 2011, in Bark River Township.
Alyna Caryn Brunette, 21, of Escanaba, was sentenced to seven months in the county jail on one count of attempted larceny in a building in connection with the 2011 incident. The judgment was handed down in circuit court on Jan. 24.
Also on Jan. 24, the third co-defendant, Michael Scott Jones, 19, of Escanaba, pleaded guilty to third-degree home invasion. He stated he made plans with Brunette, Stodola and others to break in the house, beat up the victim with bats, and steal his money. Jones admitted he kicked the door down and punched the man in the face.
Jones will be sentenced in circuit court on March 4. Third-degree home invasion carries a maximum punishment of five years in prison. He remains lodged in the county jail in lieu of a $10,000 bond.
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In short: Wet, muddy but good fun for a Saturday morning adventureIn full: First of all I would like to thank the organisers for a good race and particularly the marshals who recognised I was going to miss the start and did everything they could so I only just missed it. The first couple of kilometres involved slightly overgrown single track paths in the woods (I've got the cuts from the brambles to show for it) and then it was mixed up with paths/tracks and fields. The horse trodden fields did make it tough on the ankles and the mud by the gates meant a kilo of weight on your trainers. With the gates to jump over as well the course was certainly a challenge. It seemed to me that 7k to 9k was short and due to not paying attention and following others missed the gate to the field up to 9k although we did hop over the next available gate from the road. Certainly threw about 10 of us!! A marshal was posted there later after it was mentioned. It was a shame the field wasn't bigger as I enjoyed the race and the company of the other runners; it was a nice friendly atmosphere.Date of review: August 16, 2010
In short: Amazing feet do it again - BrilliantIn full: A Sunday morning well spent on a beautiful trail run. Great race, well organised. It was certainly tough. Fantastic goody bag, love the medal. Thanks and I hope to see you in July for the ½.Date of review: February 22, 2010
In short: November morning well spentIn full: The organisation accompanied by friendly & encouraging marshals was top class. Great cross country course that was challenging in places, those bomb craters took some determination to charge up. There are not many races I get to the finishing line smiling without a care of my time but this certainly was. Raise my hat to Tom Dable for a great sprint finish. An extremely enjoyable morning, thank you very much Sphinx.Date of review: November 24, 2009
In short: Mud glorious mud!In full: Very tough going in the mud and surface water. My legs were all over the shop slipping in the mud. Once I got over the shock of how bad the course was I got on with it and enjoyed the 2nd lap. A very satisfying saturday morning run. Thank you Tamworth AC.Date of review: August 3, 2009
In short: Hot day but always love running this eventIn full: Local race and not missed it for the last 4 years. Although the hottest race for me of the year so far it was still a very enjoyable event, well organised as always. It is a shame the numbers only marginally increased on last year, especially with a 800 race limit. It may be challenging course with the hills up to 7K but what a great traffic free course it is with good vocal and water support from the locals. Hope to make it again next year. Thanks Northbrook.Date of review: June 1, 2009
In short: The venue backed by the weather made this event!In full: Pitsford was a superb setting for this event and the weather was just perfect. If I also include a very satisfying PB this was personally a truly brilliant event. I do have to agree with others that NRICC did let themselves down on organisation. They are only a charity after all and not a running club but no event should be organised without toilet facilities. No momento and a t-shirt that was a large lady-fit! I felt sorry for those that had to cross the finishing line whilst weaving through traffic exiting by the finish line. I did thoroughly enjoy the race and hope to be back next year, please keep with March, but would expect to see some improvements in the organisation.Date of review: March 18, 2009
In short: Tougher than expected!In full: It was a 'No Frills' event but very well organised. Bit heavy going on the run course on 90% grass but not muddy. The bike certainly was challenging however those seasoned pro's made light work of it. An enjoyable race that I would like to do better at next time. Well worth the trip.Date of review: March 2, 2009
In short: Very enjoyable – few cheeky hillsIn full: This was my first at this event and my first of the year and I thoroughly enjoyed it. An excellent course, well marshalled and a good atmosphere even though there were only 140 entrants. A few cheeky hills especially at 6½ but that made the finish line all the more rewarding. A big thanks to Juliet and Sara who I had never met before but in our own little group we ran a great race which helped me achieve a brilliant PB. Thank you to Wrekin Runners for a well organised event. Hope to be back next year.Date of review: February 19, 2009
In short: Great way to end the tri yearIn full: This was a great event to end my first tri year. Organisation brilliant as it has been throughout the year. Great location. The marshall at the swim to bike to run transition was brilliant in voicing his support. Loved this event and will be back next year. Thank you pace setter events/one step beyond.Date of review: September 22, 2008
In short: Very hard, very muddy, extremely rewarding an excellent race.In full: Bit slow on adding my rating. This has to be my best achievement to date. I have never felt so pleased to see the finishing line. Beautiful day but the ground was very muddy and those hills, oh those hills. I was not offended by the Marmite girl only wish I had some fuel in the tank to stay with and get under the 2 hours. This was very tough but hey I'll be back next year.Date of review: September 1, 2008
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Two goals. 17 seconds.
If you live in Chicago, chances are you know this story.
Of course it's the epic tale of the Chicago Blackhawks lifting the 2013 Stanley Cup after beating the Boston Bruins in a dramatic late comeback during Game 6 of the Finals.
Bryan Bickell and Dave Bolland (we miss you, Dave) scored two late goals in 17 seconds to beat the Bruins 3-2 and bring hockey's most prestigious honor home to Chicago.
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For all you fathers and father-like figures or mentors out there, keep passing on the skills you learned from your father to the next generation of young men and women.
When I look across my golf clubmaking workshop, I am reminded all the time of the value with working with my hands. Even many of the clubmaking tools and measurement devices I rely on are made by hand like my shaft cutting jig, ferrule turning holder, digital deflection board or blade-style grip remover to name just a few. I learned those valuable skills from my father as well as a gentleman named Forest Sands, who was like a father-figure to me and so many others too.
For many recreational golfers, they may not be aware of the network of professional golf clubmakers or the cottage industry that serves them. Golf has been around for more than 500 years and clubmakers have been around just as long to fit, build and repair golf clubs. Golf may likely be around for another 500 years and there will always be someone needed to work on golf equipment. This is especially true today when the major OEMs (Original Equipment Marketers) no longer manufacturer their own goods, but rely on someone from half a world away to build for them.
I don't want to see a world as I get older in which we have people unable to build or fix things because we have evolved into a disposable society. For all you fathers and father-like figures or mentors out there, keep passing on the skills you learned from your father to the next generation of young men and women.
Have a great Father's Day, enjoy some tasty grilled food, watch the US Open and hopefully play a little golf yourself. And if you have to fix something around the house, shop, garage or barn on this weekend, bring someone along to learn and help out – believe me they will appreciate it for a lifetime.


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|The recommendations here are under development and may change before implementation.
The intent of the OBSERVE operation, as implemented by Couchbase client libraries, is to give developers the ability to observe the status of a key with respect to a specific change. For example, a developer may want to somehow mutate a document behind the key identified by the string "foo". Given that a Couchbase cluster is distributed and concurrent and acknowledges the request before the given document, there are situations where the application developer may want to observe whether the specific mutation they made is either:
- safely replicated to one or more nodes within the cluster
- persisted to the master, or persisted to one or more nodes within the cluster
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The Java client library, and it's dependencies, will require changes to return the CAS value through the OperationStatus object.
The basic idea is that given the OperationStatus object (or optionally, multiple OperationStatus objects), an Observer can report on whether or not the operation has been replicated, persisted, or processed for indexing.
OperationFuture<Boolean> setResult = cbc.set("foo", 0, "bar"); if (setResult.get()) { Observer watchit = new Observer(setResult.getStatus()); else { // do something because the set failed } // now that the observer knows what to observe... ObserveBoolean observeSuccess = watchit.blockForReplication(1); // this will block if (!observeSuccess) { // handle whatever we want to do for this change switch (observeSuccess.getStatus()) { case OBS_TIMEDOUT: // do something for the timeout case break; case OBS_MODIFIED: // key was either modified by someone else or failover occurred break; } }
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|These recommendations are preliminary, and have not been reviewed.
Given that the item being mutated may be changed at any time by another actor in a deployment, the key idea here is for the client to use the CAS value returned from the mutation operation. Since the client library knows at all times (though, asynchronously) which node is responsible for the vbucket for a given key, and knows which nodes are slaves for that key, the client library can use stats key as a method of determining what has happened with a key on this given node.
If, for example, application code wanted to check for "foo" with CAS value 12345, it would use STATS KEY against whichever nodes it needs to in order to report the status. This would be done in a loop, with some reasonable backoff (possibly guided by recommended polling times from server stats) until a reasonable or user specified timeout. In this loop, the client would first check to ensure that "foo" 12345 is still the current value on the master for this vbucket. If it is not the current value, it simply returns an error. Assuming it is still the current value, if the application code is simply checking for persistence or index processing, this can be evaluated from the STATS KEY response. If the application code is checking for replication or whether or not the modification has been persisted on multiple nodes, it can then proceed to check any slaves, as identified by the cluster configuration, for status of persistence or replication of "foo" with CAS 12345. At this stage, if it's successful, it returns that response to the application code. If it is not successful, then it waits an interval and loops again. Thus the possible set of return values would be either OBS_SUCCESS, OBS_MODIFIED, or OBS_TIMEDOUT.
Note that the status OBS_MODIFIED does not indicate monotonic forward mutation. For example, in one scenario a failover may have occurred and the item key "foo" being observed may have been reverted to a previous state. This state may even be some value prior to the initial fetch before the application code mutated the value of the document.
Implementation Constraints
OBSERVE is a binary protocol only operation. It could be implemented in ASCII, but that would currently be complicated by the fact that mutation operations do not return the new CAS value in ASCII protocol. Since Couchbase Server uses binary protocol exclusively, we do not
h2 Implementation Questions
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Blockbuster's Self-Inflicted Tragedy Is Our Loss
It won't be missed by many, but the experience around it will.
There was a time long before the company's 2010 bankruptcy and its 2011 buyout by DISH Network
Amid the 2-for-1 rentals and myriad boxes of Mike and Ikes were customers from the far reaches of a one-town radius, including my old teachers, friends from grammar school and kids I worked with at the nearby Shop-Rite. It wasn't exactly country-store friendly, but it was one of the few ways you got to see everyone outside of school or work and get a glimpse into their lives. You could judge their Steven Segal movies and romantic comedies, but they judged Police Academy and Dick Tracy rentals just as harshly. Occasionally, there was even common ground or a solid recommendation -- I wouldn't have seen early Hong Kong action movies if a friend hadn't put A Better Tomorrow and City On Fire in my hands during a trip there in the early '90s.
When I moved to Weehawken, N.J., after college, my nearest Blockbuster was a location in the center of Hoboken on its main thoroughfare of Washington Street -- just a few blocks down from the legendary and recently defunct rock club Maxwell's. At that time, Blockbuster created more parking trouble along Washington than Maxwell's ever did with its shows and the display of double and triple parking that occurred on the curb just outside its doors became a magnet for gripes, fights and increased parking ticket quotas in the years that followed.
Even in a town teeming with bars on every other block and restaurants from one end of Washington Street to the other, Blockbuster was a grand common area. You, your neighbors and friends may have been united only in your hatred of the store's long checkout lines and the blissful ignorance of its staff -- who seemed to lack even basic knowledge of the films they were renting -- but it was something you experienced together. You pulled cheap, if scratchy, selections from the used DVD bin each Christmas and bumped into each other after store hours trying to sneak overdue rentals into the Quik Drop. It wasn't a great experience, but it was a collective one.
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Legendary cult-favorite Yoshitoshi ABe (Serial Experiments Lain, Haibane Renmei) tempts us to witness every gritty detail of man's downward spiral in a future overrun by violence, greed, and depravity. In pursuit of perfection, humans develop a technology to replace limbs with robotic parts. However, this innovation injects corruption into the underground city of Lux.
After Ichise loses an arm and a leg to please a vengeful gang member, a beautiful but perverse doctor equips him with experimental prosthetics against his will. Only a prophetic young girl's vision of his destiny fuels his will to survive. When an army of men transformed into terrifying machines invades the city, Ichise rages against humanity's demise— but can his actions actually be the catalyst?
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Federal budget cuts close airport towers
By The Associated Press
Three air traffic control towers in Michigan and eight in Wisconsin are among 149 nationwide that will be closed due to federal budget cuts.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday that it will close towers at W.K. Kellogg in Battle Creek, Coleman A. Young in Detroit and Sawyer International in Marquette County's Sands Township.
The Wisconsin airports affected are in Eau Claire, Janesville, Kenosha, La Crosse, Milwaukee's Lawrence J. Timmerman, Mosinee, Oshkosh and Waukesha.
The FAA says the closings only involve airports that used contractors for the towers. Other towers on a preliminary list that came out last month could still be at risk.
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