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Debates of May 16th, 2005
House of Commons Hansard #99 of the 38th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was budget.
- Business of the House
- Taiwan Affairs Act
- An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments
- Hospice Peterborough
- Liberal Party of Canada
- Doug Wilson
- Rimouski Oceanic
- Deep Lake Water Cooling
- Premier of Saskatchewan
- House of Commons
- The Prime Minister
- United Way Hockey Tournament
- Rural Ontario Landowners
- House of Commons
- The Budget
- Sponsorship Program
- Liberal Party of Canada
- Government of Canada
- Conservative Party of Canada
- Prime Minister
- Sponsorship Program
- The Budget
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Sponsorship Program
- Justice
- Citizenship and Immigration
- The Budget
- Agriculture
- Fisheries
- Sudan
- Natural Resources
- Education
- Agriculture
- Infrastructure
- Veterans Affairs
- Social Development
- The Environment
- Presence in Gallery
- Certificates of Nomination
- Government Response to Petitions
- Criminal Code
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Question No. 119
- An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments
- Business of the House
- An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments
- Business of the House
- An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments
An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Don Boudria Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
I would simply like to say thank you, given the time. As an ardent advocate of parliamentary procedure, I think it is time move on to members' statements. To my colleague I just want to say thank you very, very much.
An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments
Government Orders
2 p.m.
West Nova
Nova Scotia
Robert Thibault Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health
Madam Speaker, I want to congratulate the member on such an excellent speech and, above all, on such a wonderful career. Canadians owe him a great deal for the services he has rendered in Canada and abroad. No one owes more to this member than francophones outside Quebec. He has always fought to ensure respect for the rights of linguistic duality in this country. He led major battles in health care in his part of the country and in education in our part of the country. He was always there to support Canada's francophones, and we thank him for it.
An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments
Government Orders
2 p.m.
Don Boudria Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
Once again, thank you for such praise, which I do not deserve, but which I appreciate. Thank you.
Hospice Peterborough
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Peter Adams Peterborough, ON
Madam Speaker, in some communities the hospice is a place. In Peterborough it is more than that. It is a group of people who work to enhance the comfort, dignity and quality of life of individuals and families living with or affected by a life-threatening illness or grief.
In the 15 years or so of its existence, Hospice Peterborough has trained over 800 people, of whom 300 ended up volunteering with the hospice. In a very real sense, these volunteers are Hospice Peterborough. I would suggest to members that palliative care volunteers are a very special group of volunteers. These are people who work with the dying and the bereaved in their own homes. As someone has said, "They care enough to connect, laugh and cry...to sit up all night, to gently hold a hand, to share their time and their essence".
Their contributions to health care are tremendous but the humanity they bring to death and dying is worth even more.
I thank Hospice Peterborough.
Liberal Party of Canada
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Rick Casson Lethbridge, AB
Mr. Speaker, Canadians will be going to the polls very soon to pass judgment on the Liberal government.
Leading up to this judgment day, we are witness to the spectacle of the Prime Minister travelling across Canada making deathbed promises at the rate of a billion dollars a day; promises made without the proper programs in place to administer these funds. Now is that not exactly how the ad scam was operated?
Canadians will reject this obvious panic stricken display of Liberals trying to buy votes to cover up the fact they used dirty money to buy votes in the first place. This act of desperation clarifies the fact that the government is corrupt and is ruining the finances of our great country.
The question now becomes: Who is best equipped to clean up the mess made by these Liberals?
Having Liberals throwing buckets of hard-earned taxpayer dollars on a fire started with stolen taxpayer dollars is not the answer. Arsonists do not make great firefighters.
The clear choice to put this fire out and clean up this mess is the Conservative Party of Canada.
Doug Wilson
Statements By Members
May 16th, 2005 / 2 p.m.
Lloyd St. Amand Brant, ON
Madam Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to a member of my riding of Brant who recently passed away.
Mr. Doug Wilson died on May 5 shortly after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
Mr. Wilson was the city solicitor for the City of Brantford for many years and guided city council and staff in Brantford through many political and bureaucratic projects.
He has been described as a man who had incredible integrity, was soft spoken and his word was worth gold. He was an avid sportsman and played many sports with a high degree of proficiency. He was a modern day renaissance man and the theatre was a large part of his life with his wife, Colette. He was also fond of jazz and avidly read works of literature.
Doug Wilson was a conscientious professional, a very fine husband and a devoted father. Many individuals had the privilege of calling him a friend. He will be greatly missed.
Rimouski Oceanic
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Louise Thibault Rimouski—Témiscouata, QC
Madam Speaker, today I want to celebrate the fantastic season our major junior hockey team, the Rimouski Oceanic, has just had.
Having won the regular season championship and the playoffs, the team broke the record of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Canadian Hockey League for the longest string of consecutive victories, with 35.
We must praise the hard work and efforts of the organization as a whole, and the players in particular, as well as the remarkable performance of Sidney Crosby, the leading scorer throughout the regular season and the playoffs, the best junior player in the country and best junior prospect for the NHL draft.
Congratulations to the Oceanic on winning the President's Cup and good luck at the Memorial Cup Tournament.
Deep Lake Water Cooling
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Mario Silva Davenport, ON
Madam Speaker, recently it was announced that up to 10 Ontario government buildings, including the Ontario legislature, will by 2007 be cooled using deep lake water cooling technology.
I was pleased to be instrumental in promoting deep lake water cooling when I served as a member of Toronto city council.
One of the partners in this project, Dennis Fotinos, noted that this latest announcement will be a "catalyst that has opened up a huge opportunity".
Indeed, along with fellow deep lake water cooling proponents like Michael Nobrega, another partner in this project, Enwave has demonstrated the enormous advantage in cooling buildings with this technology.
Currently, buildings like the Air Canada Centre, the Toronto-Dominion Centre, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre South and the Steam Whistle Brewery use deep lake water cooling.
It is initiatives like these that we must encourage to meet the Kyoto protocol. I offer my congratulations to all those involved in the deep lake water cooling project.
Premier of Saskatchewan
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
David Anderson Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
Madam Speaker, last week we saw the premier of Saskatchewan single-handedly destroy any chance of getting an immediate equalization deal for our province. Throughout the week he gave a seminar on how not to succeed in Ottawa.
Monday he made promises he could not possibly keep when he showed up declaring he was here to get a new deal. He said that he was not going home until he got one. He even brought extra socks.
Tuesday he displayed his political ineptness when he attacked his only allies. The Conservative MPs from Saskatchewan have made equalization an issue in Ottawa. We need to work together.
Wednesday he disappeared, perhaps to wash his socks.
Thursday he panicked. Knowing that he could not get an equalization deal, he started dealing for second best.
Friday he gave up and headed home.
Saturday he demonstrated the results of poor negotiating when he bravely tried to convince our province that pennies are the same as dollars.
Our province has been betrayed. This federal Liberal finance minister has no intention of giving Saskatchewan a fair equalization deal. It is time the premier acknowledged that.
House of Commons
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Mark Holland Ajax—Pickering, ON
Madam Speaker, I had the opportunity over the course of the weekend to talk with constituents and to knock on doors. I can say that those constituents were very disappointed in what they saw in Parliament last week, with Parliament being paralyzed.
I can say that I too have been very disappointed with the way things have operated in this House over the last number of months, starting with the accusation leveled against the member for York West. We had over two months of this House being captivated with that, only to find out it was completely false.
For me, last week was a real low when the public accounts committee, which had two days set aside to hear witnesses from across the country talk about national security and a passport action plan, was boycotted. Those witnesses came from across Canada to sit down in a half empty committee room that did not have quorum.
I want this House to return to a place to which we are proud to bring students, in which we are proud to work and a place where we debate ideas and issues, not personalities. It is time for us to get to work.
The Prime Minister
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Odina Desrochers Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, QC
Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister is definitely clinging to power. After being crowned leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, 18 months ago, he stated that his government would tackle the democratic deficit.
Six months later, he broke his word. Through partisan tactics, he sabotaged the work of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, which had been mandated to shed light on the sponsorship scandal, despite the fact it had been largely exposed by the Auditor General.
One year later, scared by revelations at the Gomery commission, the same individual did everything he could to back out. He even went on television to try and demonstrate that his government was still able to manage the affairs of the state. But in his arrogant way, he refuses to recognize that he has lost the legitimacy to govern.
To save face, he has no choice but to accept the verdict of parliamentarians and call an election immediately.
United Way Hockey Tournament
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Anthony Rota Nipissing—Timiskaming, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate everyone who was involved in the annual House of Commons hockey tournament for the United Way, an event which took place recently here in Ottawa.
This year's tournament featured 10 teams, comprised mainly of employees of the House of Commons and the Senate. In all, over 100 players took part in the event.
The final game saw the team of Liberal staffers, known as The Herd, take on Rock's Boys, a team made up of House of Commons security constables.
Fans were treated to a see-saw battle from start to finish. The game featured plenty of great scoring chances, including a penalty shot in regulation time. After three periods the teams were tied at three goals apiece. A shootout was then held to determine the winner. In the end, thanks to some stellar goaltending, The Herd came out on top by a score of 4 to 3.
Of course, the real winner of this year's tournament was the United Way which will benefit immensely from the nearly $2,500 that was raised over the course of the event.
I congratulate once again the players, the organizers and the fans for contributing their time and energy to a great cause.
Rural Ontario Landowners
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Cheryl Gallant Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
Mr. Speaker, my fellow Canadians, this is a wake-up call. The united landowners of rural Ontario have arrived on Parliament Hill to demonstrate against the latest attack on Canada's democracy.
The federal Liberals hold Parliament and the people in contempt. They have used deception to bankrupt Canadian farmers and have stolen their hard-earned money to bestow illegal privileges on their friends and cronies.
Rural Ontario Landowners
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
The Speaker
The member knows, and I have said it on occasions before, that referring to government as stealing money is unparliamentary. She will want to refrain from this.
Rural Ontario Landowners
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Cheryl Gallant Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
Mr. Speaker, three parliamentary defeats by a majority of the people's elected representatives in the House of Commons has deprived this administration of its moral and parliamentary authority to govern.
The united rural landowners of Canada demand: the inclusion of property rights in Canada's Constitution; protection from subsidized foreign commodities destroying our farm incomes; a stop to the theft of property through deceptive and false environmental regulations; an open border for our cattle; the protection of quota value from arbitrary government policy; an end to government attacks on the rural economy; the reduction of excessive and intrusive legislation and regulations; the removal of all corrupt federal politicians; and the dissolution of this dictatorial Parliament. Power to the people.


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About the Author: John Whittlesey serves as Environment, Science, Technology and Health Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in London.
Late last month I visited the University of Sheffield and York University, both in England, in order to learn more about their science-related programs and partnerships.
Multidisciplinary research is a major theme, as traditional academic specialties now have to work together laterally to make progress on the issues of the day such as pollution, climate change, and regenerative medicine. The classic lone scientist, even a brilliant one, working alone in his/her lab is seen as less valuable than an interactive team. They call it translational research, using academic tools to solve practical problems. High-resolution imaging and computer modeling are cross-cutting themes, as are the need for public outreach and for networking with other institutions and businesses. The importance of basic research was clearly shown when my host told me that Nobel Prize winner Harry Kroto (from Sheffield) said he had "no idea" of the ultimate results from his original research on carbon chemistry when he started. It took decades for the value to become apparent.
Sheffield, a former rust belt town heavily dependent on coal mining and steel mills, has emerged with a modern economy and average unemployment after a painful restructuring. A Boeing-supported Center for Advanced Manufacturing has re-oriented the steel industry around high-end alloys, specialty parts, and cutting. The economic contribution of the steel industry hasn't changed much but the number of people in the industry has dropped significantly. Nearly 20 percent of Sheffield's students and staff come from outside the U.K., mostly because U.K. budget rules make foreign students a very attractive source of tuition income for the university. While in Sheffield I visited a tissue generation lab (for helping victims of burns), an environmental science lab looking at pollution remediation and soil formation using Genetically Modified Organisms, and several very cool electron microscopes that can scan down to the atomic level.
Later during my visit to York University, I found it has an interesting specialty: using micro-organisms to break down explosives (think firing ranges and mine fields). They are also doing some great work on how climate change affects the range of species. The fabulous data sets dating back to Victorian times created by generations of British bird-watchers, butterfly fans and other naturalists is a huge resource in this endeavor. The Chemistry Department is doing some cool work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA on measuring international transport (dispersal) of pollutants in the atmosphere. York University prides itself on being a forum for collaborations between university and business. After my visit to York University, I also did an interview on BBC Radio York. My visits to both universities proved quite fascinating and it was great to see their scientists and students utilizing new tools and strategies in their research. Their willingness to partner with others truly sets an example and will hopefully lead to the long-term solutions to such pressing issues as climate change.
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Kathern E. Lane, 94, of 805 U.S. Route 45 North, Eldorado, died Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, at her residence.
She was born to the late John Townes and Bessie Jane (Cummins) Coomes on January 5, 1918. She was a homemaker and a member of the Eldorado Church of God.
On May 19, 1934, she married John W. Lane and he preceded her in death on May 14, 1971. Surviving are four sons, Dorman (Gail) Lane of Canton, Ga., Bruce (Faye) Lane of Marion, Jack (Donna) Lane of Eldorado and Eddie (Tina) Lane of Eldorado; two daughters, Sue (Ray) Underwood of Eldorado and Jenny (Pat) McCowan of Lake Bluff. Also surviving are 11 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren and one sister, Helen Newman of Eldorado. She was preceded in death by a brother, Glenn, and two sisters, Mattie Dee Williams and Gladys Barton. She was also preceded by two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 19, 2012, at the Watson Funeral Home with the Rev. David Mays officiating. Burial will be in Lindale Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. until service time at the funeral home on Wednesday.
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Kelley Becherer sets new world mark on final day of CanAms
Kelley Becherer, pictured at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, broke a world record on the final day of competition in Minneapolis.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The last day of the U.S. Paralympics Spring Swimming Nationals/2013 Spring CanAm proved to be a great success for U.S. swimmers. More than 10 records were broken on the final night of competition at the University of Minnesota.
Kayla Wheeler (Seattle, Wash.) was awarded Swimmer of the Meet.
Wheeler broke two more American records - in the 200 meter freestyle and 200m freestyle split (S1) in 6:00.64 and 2:54.52, respectively. The CanAm LC Performance points charts determine which swimmers are the top performers each day. Day 1-3 female Swimmer of the Day was awarded to Wheeler which ultimately led to her being awarded the Swimmer of the Meet.
U.S. Paralympian Kelley Becherer (Sheboygan, Wis.) broke the world, Pan American and American records with a 32.61 swim in the 50m backstroke in the women's S13 class. Justin Zook (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) broke the American record in men's S10 50m backstroke in 59.33.
The 200m breaststroke American record was broken by Elizabeth Wasil (Colorado Springs, Colo.) with her 3:34.14 in the SB9 class, and in men's SB1 event, Curtis Lovejoy (Atlanta, Ga.) set a new American record in 7:33.26.
Three more American records were set in the women's S11 50m backstroke by Letticia Martinez (Las Cruces, N.M.), Elizabeth Smith (Muncie, Ind.) in the S9 class and Alyssa Gialamas (Naperville, Ill.), who finished in 50.39, setting a PanAm record in the S5 class.
Ryan Duemler (Colorado Springs, Colo.) broke a 13-year-old American record with his swim in the 400m freestyle (S8) with a time of 4:40.78. Duemler broke two records during the three day meet.
"I'm speechless - It hurt like no other!," Duemler said. "My coach Dave Denniston has helped me out a lot and really pushed me to the next level. I have great training partners including Jessica long who push me in every practice. I really hope my times here make the worlds team!"
During the course of the meet, U.S. swimmers set six world records, and collectively broke 28 American records and 12 Pan Am records.
Results from the performances in this meet will be used to determine who will be named to the U.S. Paralympics Swimming World Championships Team that will compete in Montreal, Canada, Aug. 11-17. The roster will be announced next week.


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Connie Cullen
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August 9, 2005
MOUNT VERNON—Traffic and pedestrian signals here
will soon be using less electricity and burning brighter thanks to the
New York Power Authority (NYPA), which has begun replacing them with new
long-life, energy-efficiency lamps of the kind it provided earlier this
year for the traffic signals in New Rochelle and Peekskill.
"The new traffic and pedestrian lights are good
news for the people of our city on a number of counts—not the least of
which are anticipated savings of about $74,000 a year on the city's
electric bills. Plus, they last much longer and are brighter than the
old fixtures," said Mount Vernon Mayor Ernest Davis at an event Tuesday
near City Hall, to formally kick off the start of the signal-light
project. "For all those reasons, we're grateful to the Power Authority
and Governor Pataki for making the installations possible."
"Projects like the one in Mount Vernon are part of
the continuing efforts under Governor Pataki to use the latest
technologies to enhance the energy efficiency of tax-supported public
facilities, lower municipal electric bills, and improve air quality by
lessening the demand on power plants," said Eugene W. Zeltmann, NYPA
president and chief executive officer. "We're excited about working with
Mayor Davis and the City of Mount Vernon on the new signal
installations, which also contribute to traffic safety by providing
better illumination, particularly during poor weather and bright
sunshine when traffic lights are more difficult to see."
The new lighting technology consists of red, green
and amber light-emitting diode (LED) modules that use about 90 percent
less energy than the current incandescent bulbs, while lasting 10 times
longer. That means lower maintenance costs.
Over 2,700 new LED fixtures will be installed in
the existing traffic and pedestrian signal-light housings located
throughout Mount Vernon. Typical traffic signal-light housings hold
three, six, nine or 12 fixtures, depending on the street intersection.
The project is expected to cover every signal-light in the city.
"If you've seen the new traffic signals in New
Rochelle and Peekskill, you know that the ones slated for Mount Vernon
are going to be an improvement over the old ones," said Sobeida Cruz,
NYPA director, Public and Governmental Affairs, who represented the
Authority at Tuesday's event.
The nearly $340,000 project for Mount Vernon should
be completed by the end of the year. It is in addition to other
energy-efficiency initiatives NYPA has undertaken at various public
buildings in Mount Vernon, including the Public Library, that have
lowered the city's energy bills by more than $60,000 a year.
The Power Authority will provide the financing for
the latest signal-light project and recover its costs over a five-year
period by sharing in the savings, after which Mount Vernon will keep all
future savings.
NYPA has undertaken more than 100 energy-efficiency
projects for public facilities in Westchester, for a savings of over $7
million a year on their electric bills, and reduction of annual
greenhouse gas emissions of about 54,000 tons. They include high
efficiency lighting, new heating, ventilating and air-conditioning
systems, and electric motors. Statewide, NYPA has completed more than
1,400 energy efficiency projects, for an annual savings of over $90
million and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of some 705,000 tons a
The Westchester facilities benefiting from
energy-efficiency upgrades are among those in the county receiving
lower-cost NYPA power, which saves governmental customers tens of
millions of dollars a year, compared to the market prices they would
otherwise pay. Mount Vernon has been one of those customers since May
Additional Power Authority efforts in Westchester
include the Western Hemisphere's first commercial fuel cell to harness
waste gas to generate electricity, at the Westchester County Wastewater
Treatment Plant in Yonkers; nine solar power installations; and putting
nearly 200 electric-drive vehicles on the county's roads.
NYPA is the largest nonfederal public power
organization in the country, with generating projects ranging from a
2,400,000-kw hydroelectric facility near Niagara Falls to a small hydro
project at the Kensico Reservoir.


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In managing its multibillion dollar research and development efforts, DHS has experienced cost overruns and delays in the procurement and deployment of technologies and systems needed to meet critical homeland security needs. DHS could help reduce inefficiencies and costs in its research and development program by completing testing efforts before making acquisition decisions and including cost-benefit analyses in its research and development efforts.
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The Society welcomes membership from interested family historians in all parts of the world. The Society has a library located within the public library at Inverness, Scotland and publishes a journal four times a year.
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When sending in your application, please state the family names you are tracing, with area and periods; this information will be listed in the society's bulletin, unless you request otherwise. Please also mention that you found out about the society from this HFHS home page, provided by GENUKI, or first from the GENfair pages.
The Society's Quarterly Journal - and other publications
The Society's journal, usually 28 pages, is produced four times a year: in November, February, May and August. Each issue contains articles of interest to the Highlands of Scotland genealogist, as well as queries, a new members listing and the occasional line-drawing for illustration; a cumulative index for all previous issues is maintained. There is a specific FAQ regarding submission of material to the Quarterly Journal.
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Le Salon de Musiques' October 2012 ConcertPosted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement, tags: chamber music, champange, Downtown Los Angeles, food, romantic
The first concert of Le Salon de Musiques' 3rd season on October 14 will feature GLINKA's Serenade for Piano Sextet on Theme from Bellini and LYAPUNOV's Piano Sextet op 63, which is a US PREMIERE. The concert will be introduced by musicologist Julius Reder Carlson and performed by ROGER WILKIE and SARAH THORNBLADE on Violins, BRIAN DEMBOW on Viola, RON LEONARD on Cello, NICO ABONDOLO on Bass and GAVIN MARTIN on Piano. The performance will be followed by a one-hour informal conversation between the musicians and the audience where they can share ideas, concepts and impressions about the music performed while sipping French Champagne and enjoying a gourmet buffet prepared by Patina.
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion – Fifth Floor
135 North Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
October 14, 2012 at 4:00 pm
GLINKA : Serenade for Piano Sextet on Theme from Bellini
LYAPUNOV: Piano Sextet op 63 USA PREMIERE
ROGER WILKIE (Violin), SARAH THORNBLADE (Violin),
BRIAN DEMBOW (Viola), RON LEONARD (Cello), NICO
ABONDOLO (Bass), GAVIN MARTIN (Piano)
Tickets: $65.00 per person $45.00 for students
There is a 10% discount if tickets are purchased for three or more concerts And a 20% discount for a full season subscription
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But talk about straw men, the end of our freedoms is upon us b/c some municipal lawmakers told restaurants they cannot add child oriented incentives to their meals until those meals are nutritionally improved. My God you'd think McDonald's itself was incorporated into the Constitution.
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Here's how RW members rated this race (201 votes).
In short: Surprising in a pleasant wayIn full: The good - weather was fantastic: clear cool and autumnal. The scenery along the canal was great. Water points, mile markers and especially marshals were great. I managed to shave a couple of minutes off my PB without expecting too.The bad - narrow in places; slippery under foot. But that's no one's fault and is more than outweighed by the scenery. The ugly - a generic medal, a banana and a cup of water seem inadequate for what we've paid and done. Lack of loos - ain't it always so? Date of review: November 12, 2012
In short: Fun course over lovely, quiet route,although recent rain left it a bit muddy - you'd never guess there is countryside like this inside the M25. Nicely organised, although long loo queues at the start. Great atmosphere.Date of review: November 12, 2012
In short: Not a PB course but a fun routeIn full: First time doing this. On the whole it didnt offer quite what I expected - the canal was pretty boring and the path was in poorer condition than I expected. Thankfully the sun was shining! Saying all that, the atmosphere at the start was great and I'm bloomin stiff this morning so must have been a test! I'm in 1.26 form and did 1.28.30 so gives an idea of pace.Would hate to have been further back in the 'masses'...the pathway is thin in places!Date of review: November 12, 2012
In short: Great race, split start contributed enourmously to new PB. Nice scenery path can be slippery and uneven but OK; encourages a bit of leg lift!Date of review: November 12, 2012
In short: My first half. Enjoyed the run, happy marshalls and good weather. Mind i'm darned stiff today though :-)Date of review: November 12, 2012
In short: 1st time running event In full: nice touch with transport to start may be a little early, may could have done with some more toilets but as usual every one left it late to go. the split start was a very good idea, i started in the 2nd wave watched the bottle neck from the 1st wave on the canal path at the start. the route was not surprisingly muddy due to the amount of rain but not a problem the marshals were excellent as usual, plenty of water stops and clear mile markers, may be the finish was a long way from the car park and had to walk a long way but it was free. will i do it again next year YES Date of review: November 12, 2012
In short: Not a race for a PB but excellent for a training runIn full: As usual excellent organisationTougher than a normal half marathon due to the constraints and conditions as previously stated by reviewersThe mud did not help but it twas the same for everyoneRunners two abreast early on with no regard to those wishing to pass were a nuisance. Perhaps in future a recommendation to run "indian file " would not go amiss.This event is well worth a visit!Date of review: November 12, 2012
In short: Lovely course and PB by 5 minutes In full: Canal side run - lots of water stations - plenty of space to settle into the run and a pleasure to be away from the roads. Rain earlier in the week made it a bit slippery but not too bad with road shoes. I like the splat shaped medal - will be signing up for my 3rd in row next year. Date of review: November 11, 2012
In short: Another Purple Patch successIn full: The best race organizers always make sure to arrange the weather in advance :-) This is a nice little jaunt along the canal, with start and finish venues good for public transport. Course is mostly flat but with some short climbs, and can be a bit muddy and sloppy underfoot. Bag stowage excellent, which matters for those of us who don't have a car. Smoothly organized as ever, plenty of water stops and a nice medal. Really good event, must come back next year.Date of review: November 11, 2012
In short: Flat and FunIn full: Very, friendly, could have done with more toilets at the start. No stress just get on and run.Date of review: November 11, 2012
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We just received the following letter from a Senior Master Sergeant, USAF:
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Dear Blue Star Mothers and Community of WNY,
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Merrie Archer serves as a Senior Planning Officer in the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization.
My name is Merrie Archer. I'm a senior planning officer at the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. I've been with S/CRS for three and a half years. And I deployed to Haiti several times over the course of 2006 and 2007, the first several times with a team of interagency partners from USAID, other areas of State Department, INL, Diplomatic Security, folks from SOUTHCOM, and other folks from DOD as well.
The conditions at the time, especially in 2006, were still very dangerous. It was impossible to travel around the country in anything other than armored vehicles. And even to and from the hotel, we had to be under guard with armored vehicles. And when we went to the areas that we were sent to work in, we had to go with a relatively large deployment of Diplomatic Security, and usually UN peacekeeping escorts as well.
We deployed because we were designing and then setting up a special initiative to respond to the instability in Port-au-Prince. It was called the Haiti Stabilization Initiative. And effectively, it was the very first time that this kind of initiative was set up. It's a multisectoral activity really designed to pull together all of the different capabilities of the U.S. Government and target them toward one geographical area that was the locus of instability and, you know, provide some sort of assistance there.
We ended up calling it the Haiti Stabilization Initiative, affectionately known as the pointy end of the carrot, basically because the UN peacekeeping mission was supposed to be providing the pointy end of the stick, and our initiative was the development that would allow the security gains that they made to be sustained. So now, effectively, two years down the road, this particular area – Cite Soleil – we wouldn't say it's completely rid of the gang members and the political instability that was there, but life has resumed as usual, and it has reincorporated, for the first time in over a decade, into the rest of the broader city.
One of the really interesting parts of my time there was – having spent part of my career working in and on Haiti for different organizations, was going back and seeing some of the local and international partners that I had worked with in the past and interact with them, and have them be able to sort of have confidence in what we were putting forward because they knew me, they knew me from several incarnations down there in other activities. And seeing some of the folks, such as the women's groups in Cite Soleil who, at one point, had been only focusing on the violence perpetuated against women by the gang members, the rapes and whatnot, transform themselves into an organization that was channeling assistance to folks to sort of regain productive lives.
Having spent much of my career in the field before coming to Washington to work with S/CRS – and it was exceptionally good for me to be able to get back out in the field and do a reality check – what it enabled me to do was to come back with the sense of what's important, what we can accomplish, and how we can accomplish it. So I would go out again in a heartbeat.
Related Entry: Ambassador Herbst discusses the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization and the Civilian Response Corps.
Rubens in Washington, DC writes:
How do I join the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization? Or how can I help?
Helen in Pennsylvania writes:
I look forward to the day that Hati is stablized. There have been so many problems over the past 20 years in Hati. It is a beautiful island.
Meliss in Virginia writes:
when deployed are you issued any type of military gear and equipment?


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LINGUIST List 20.2546
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Calls: Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/Poland
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Full Title: GLOW Workshop on Information Structure
Date: 13-Apr-2010 - 13-Apr-2010
Location: Wroclaw, Poland
Contact Person: Gisbert Fanselow
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Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax
Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2009
Meeting Description:
Recursivity of Information Structure
Date: 13 April 2010
Organizers: Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Fery, Manfred Krifka
Invited Speakers: TBA
Venue: Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, ul. Kuznicza 22, 50-138 Wroc?aw
Information structure has been thoroughly studied in many respects, but,
surprisingly, hierarchical aspects have not received the attention they deserve.
Some remarks supporting a hierarchical organization of information structure can
be found in Rooth (1992, 2006) and Krifka (1999), while other researchers are
inclined to assume a non-recursive model for information structure (see Tomioka
2006 for relevant discussion). Contributions to the workshop should present
evidence from phonology, syntax, or semantics that allows to decide whether
grammar involves a hierarchical and recursive information 'structure' or merely
a flat, non-recursive information 'partition'. The following topics exemplify
the kinds of questions that we hope will be addressed in the workshop (though
the list is, of course, not meant to be exhaustive).
Can the different types of information partitioning (e.g., topic-comment,
focus-background) enter a subordination relation (as argued in, e.g., Neeleman &
de Koot 2008), and if so, is their combinatorial potential constrained in a
grammatical rather than conceptual sense?
In Japanese, a topic may follow the subject or occupy the sentence initial
position. In German, topics show up in different slots, as well. These multiple
options raise the issue of whether slots related to information structure are
present both in CP and in VP, the two derivational phases proposed by Chomsky
(2005). Is there a syntactic and prosodic difference between the two layers of
IS in a clause? Can these options be realized at the same time? Is it only the
phases, that may host IS-related categories? If so, why do phases have such a
privileged status? Is this property related to their status as domains of
Spellout? Topic and focus refer to the common ground of an utterance and are as
such main clause phenomena, but elements bearing the expressive characteristics
of topics and foci appear in embedded clauses. If this argues for complex
hierarchical relations among the elements bearing markers of information
structure, the question is how these relations are encoded prosodically, what
roles accent and phrasing play in this respect, how registers are employed and
whether their use in complex information structure is different from simple
recursive structure, and how various F0-compression operations are integrated
into such a model
How do recursion and cyclicity in syntax and prosody relate to each other?
Recursivity has long been considered to be one of the core properties of syntax.
As for prosody, the Strict Layer Hypothesis states that prosodic structure has a
limited number of layers, and that recursivity is either excluded entirely from
the prosodic component or that it is strictly limited (see Selkirk 2000 for
instance). Can this view be maintained in the light of evidence from the
hierarchical organization of information structure?
Call for Papers:
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attached files (the name(s) should also be clearly mentioned in the e-mail) to:
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RE:Byron's story on nymphing...
In the fishing report Byron told about a gentlemen who used a nymph and small split-shot sinkers to nymph with and no strike indicator. I took up this great sport of fly fishing about 6 years ago. I was in Townsend on vacation and decided to bike up into the park on morning. I stopped and watched this gentlemen fly fish. I had always been intrigued by flyfishing and after watching him and the setting got me hooked. I taught myself by reading articles on the internet and magazines. Even after 6 years, there is not a fishing trip that goes by that I do not learn something.
One interesting article I remember stated that if you are not getting hung up every now and then, you are not fishing nymphs correctly. Makes sense. The reason I use nothing but sinkers and bead headed nymphs is because I had trouble trying to tie on the strike indicator. So one day, I just said to heck with it and done it the old-fashioned way. As a boy I always kept my right fore-finger under my line while fishing using a Zebco reel for a bite and it still works for me today using my 4 wt. fly rod. I have an extra spool I take with me that has a 12 ft. sinking tip that helps a lot also. Last week while fishing in the park I caught most of my fish on a hare's ear nymph. I still like to feel the "tick...tick" of a trout digging for the nymph and trying to set the hook at the right time. Most of the time I miss, but when I get lucky, it makes it even more satisfying.
Re: RE:Byron's story on nymphing...
Great post.
Never would have thought that such a quiet, simple strike could produce such a rush. What you described is, for me, one of the great satisfactions fly fishing has to offer. I could use some more practice on my timing as well. Matter of fact, I think I'll go practice tonight. Thanks for the post.
Re: RE:Byron's story on nymphing...
The take and the initial hook-up is very exciting, indeed! It imparts a feeling that touches the soul.
Re: RE:Byron's story on nymphing...
I like it when you are nymphing and catch a fish, even a nice one and after you play and release the fish you are thinking about everything that happened to see what it is trying to teach you, and you really think about it but can't figure out how you knew there was a fish on in the first place. that means that your 6th sense is working on all cylinders ;) or you're just lucky, either way it ought to be a good day :D
Re: RE:Byron's story on nymphing...
I am sure there is no one out there that has not experienced the sensation of starting to pick up your line to discover a fish has either taken our nymph or a drowned dry....then the problem becomes how you answer your buddy when he asked how they took it or what you were doing to extract such a prize....the problem then becomes do we lie, feed them a line of BS or do the unthinkable and admit we don't really know and were just lucky.
Re: RE:Byron's story on nymphing...
This is really off the Smokies trail, but I know what y'all are talking about when nymphing. I have fished the Frying Pan in CO a few times, and everyone knows abt the "meises" (sp?) shrimp that were put in the reservoir above the dam to feed the lake trout. Well..., they don't all stay in the reservior, and the trout that feed below are huge and very smart. I once stood in the river as two browns at least 24 inches each used me as structure to feed behind, but for the first two times there I was skunked in the trophy water below the dam with shrimp. Finally caught abt a 16' brown on the rig, and while I do not care if I ever get back to the FP, finally scoring with that nymph rig was worth the trip. I just have to put that river in the too hard pile. Watson
Re: RE:Byron's story on nymphing...
thanks for the replies, I enjoyed reading everyone of them.
Rog1, I have had that happen more than once when picking up my nymph for another cast and feel the trout on the other end........ ;D
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Teaching criminal law at Fordham Law School, John Pfaff posts at PrawfsBlawg about the Supreme Court's recent decision in Cavazos v. Shirley Ree Smith, dealing with two critical and troubling issues arising from the case.
The question at the heart of Cavazos is whether a 7-week old boy, Etzel Glass, died one night from SIDS or due to shaken baby syndrome (SBS) at the hands of his grandmother, Shirley Smith. At trial, the jurors heard from dueling pathologists about the likely cause of death, and they ultimately accepted the story of the prosecution's doctors and convicted Smith.
The evidence in the case was ambiguous. Many (though not all) of the "tell-tale" signs of SBS were missing, and the state's experts concluded that death resulted from an undetected—and perhaps undetectable—shearing of the brainstem. Smith's pathologists noted that Etzel was a low birth-weight child born with jaundice and a heart murmur, all of which are risk factors for SIDS. A classic dueling-experts situation.
The forensic diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome, a diagnosis that exists only for the purpose of prosecution and to give an ugly, criminal name to what was previously an otherwise inexplicable cause of death, has come under increasing attack. At its creation, courts took for granted that such a thing was real and had a basis in medical science.
As is too frequently the case, its existence failed to bear up to scrutiny, and medicine is coming around to acknowledge that it's a purely manufactured creature, used to give the impression of proof of a crime for deaths that can't be otherwise explained or which weren't the result of any crime or violence. But when a baby dies, someone has to be blamed, and so a crime was created.
Pfaff confronts the problem of fighting the "dueling experts" dilemma:
The [9th] CCA adopts the conventional view on jury fact-finding in complex scientific cases: "The expert opinion evidence … was conflicting. It was for the jury to resolve the conflicts. The evidence was substantial and sufficient to support the jury's conclusions…." The Ninth Circuit, on the other hand, argues that the scientific uncertainty here bars a beyond-a-reasonable-doubt conclusion about guilt as a matter of law.
This is fascinating stuff, where two witnesses, both accepted as experts and qualified to render opinions, clash, the 9th Circuit held that the prosecution's expert, as a matter of law, cannot meet the threshold for conviction. Pfaff questions whether this is an example of the 9th Circuit's "judicial activism," or conceptual logic in the face of precedent.
But there is a different, broader way to read the Circuit court opinion that in some ways avoids the AEDPA problem (but introduces a host of other problems): what if we have a blanket rule that when both the state and the defense introduce plausible, reliable and contradictory scientific evidence about an essential element of a crime, the state automatically loses?
Think of it this way: when both sides introduce credible expert testimony on an element of a crime, perhaps there is no uncertain fact for a jury to "find." What we have is a "known unknown": we know that we do not know the answer.† And not knowing seems to be reasonable doubt; or, phrased more carefully, in the presence of a "known unknown" it is unreasonable to say that you know one way or the other. And at least in criminal cases, that should tip the balance automatically in favor of the defense.
† It is unfortunate that Donald Rumsfeld has been mocked for using this term, and it is unfortunate that the term now often elicits a snide laugh because of its association with Rumsfeld. The concept is a profoundly important one, and whatever your impression of Rumsfeld he used it completely correctly in his speech.
What comes off as rather obvious given Pfaff"s explanation is, indeed, a profound notion. When experts, by definition acknowledged as they've been allowed to offer scientific evidence and opinion, conflict, is there any rational basis for an ultimate determination that one wins and the other loses beyond a reasonable doubt? We can accept that there's a real question, but that doesn't mean a real answer follows.
And yet, the analysis doesn't stop, but goes to the next level, where real world decisions are made.
Even if you're not convinced by this argument—and I'm still trying to decide if I am—the jurors' lack of epistemic competence may still play a role: while perhaps in theory there is some fact to be "found" here, the people we are asking to find it are effectively blind. Jury pools are not well-educated: at best about half are college graduates (and this from a study set in Connecticut, the sixth-best educated state in the country), and few college graduates have real math/science training. So if dueling experts do not theoretically demand a non-finding, does the clear inability of the jury pool to make the necessary finding along rational lines do so pragmatically?
Think about it (and think hard, now that the question is staring you in the face), the practical absurdity of asking a jury, a bunch of nice folks with utterly no qualification to determine which of dueling experts is conceivably better, no less correct to the exclusion of the other, reaching a verdict. There is no rational basis for them to do so; whether they have some magical quality that permits them to decide truth from lies is one thing, but to decide scientific merit when they may not be able to spell "scientific"? It's nuts.
Pfaff goes on to proffer a "radical" theory, that given the absence of a rational basis upon which a jury could reach a verdict, the statute could be changed to reduce the prosecution's burden from proving commission to showing that commission was "plausible."
Forcing us to rewrite statutes along these lines lays bare the implications of the legal fiction of "jury factfinding" in situations of scientific complexity and "known unknowns." They are not finding that x caused y; at best they are finding that x perhaps caused y, or that it is not completely impossible that x caused y, or something along those lines. The revised statute may be unpopular—how can we convict someone for possibly causing a death?—but again, stripping away the legal fiction of "jury factfinding" here, that is what we are doing.
While this would be extremely unpopular, essentially eviscerating the standard of proof via the backdoor in criminal convictions, Pfaff's point is that it would at least be honest, ridding us of the legal fiction that juries find facts rather than reach verdicts.
Whether you agree with Pfaff's ideas, he's managed to mix in doctrine and theory with some extremely controversial, and very real-world, issues that we confront regularly in the trenches, providing quite a bit to think about and, more importantly, so great points around which argument can be crafted in the trenches that will inure to the benefit of real people and real cases. An exceptional post that proves scholarship can, and is, useful to the legal profession, and clarifies and advances thought and argument in the trenches, where real people dwell.


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Turner, Wacholder Secure Silver Medals on Beach in Poland
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 7, 2008) – U.S. beach volleyball players Tyra Turner and Rachel Wacholder had the best SWATCH FIVB World Tour finish of careers on Saturday as they took the silver medal at the US$350,000 GE Money Bank Mazury Open in Stare Jablonki, Poland.
Sixth-seeded Turner (Fort Meyers Beach, Fla.) and Wacholder (Laguna Beach, Calif.) advanced to the final with a 21-19, 21-16 win in 46 minutes over Brazil's 12th-seeded Salgado sisters (Carolina and Maria Clara).
In the final, they ran into Brazil's second-seeded Shelda Bede and Ana Paula Connelly, who beat them 21-19, 21-16 in 39 minutes before a capacity crowd of more than 4,000 at the Hotel Anders centre court.
Turner and Wacholder shared $19,500 for their best FIVB placement in 12 SWATCH starts along with earning 540 points for second place. They are currently the fourth-ranked U.S. team on the Beijing list with 3,100 points. Misty May-Treanor (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Kerri Walsh (Santa Clara, Calif.), the reigning Olympic and world champions, have 5,840 points with Nicole Branagh (Orinda, Calif.) and Elaine Youngs (El Toro, Calif.) in second and sixth overall (4,140 points).
Saturday's finale was the 73rd-time Brazil and the United States have competed for a SWATCH FIVB World Tour women's gold medal. The Americans have won 43 times after Branagh and Youngs defeated Talita and Renata for the top spot on the Spanish podium last week in Barcelona.
The race for Olympic qualifying points for both the men and women will get serious June 9-15 at the Smart Grand Slam in Berlin, Germany. A victory at a Grand Slam tournament is worth 400 points, as opposed to 300 for an open tournament.
Scheduled to compete are the U.S. women's teams of May-Treanor/Walsh, Branagh/Youngs, Jen Boss (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)/April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Turner/Wacholder and the U.S. men's teams of Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.)/Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Jake Gibb (Bountiful, Utah)/Sean Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.)/Casey Jennings (Las Vegas, Nev.), Stein Metzger (Honolulu, Hawai'i)/Mark Williams (Los Angeles, Calif.) and Nick Lucena (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)/Sean Scott (Kailua, Hawai'i).
There is more information on the FIVB beach volleyball site at www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/index.asp.


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Oracle's Ellison Cuts a Cloud Deal
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- If one were to ask Oracle's(ORCL) billionaire founder Larry Ellison what his best deal of 2012 was, it might have nothing to do with a well publicized Hawaiian Island land grab.
Just days after reporting better than expected earnings that were driven by strong software sales and an improving payoff of a $7.5 billion 2009 acquisition of hardware giant Sun Microsystems , Oracle has returned the M&A table in announcing a $810 million deal for cloud software specialist Eloqua(ELOQ) that caps off a 18 months of software deals.
Oracle said the deal for Eloqua, which values the software specialist at $23.50 a share and caps an impressive 50% stock run since its early August initial public offering, will help the enterprise software and hardware giant add to its growing set of cloud offerings.
Specifically, Oracle said Thursday's acquisition will help the company grow its so-called Oracle Marketing cloud, in a move to provide sales and marketing businesses with better virtual relationships and analytics.
Eloqua makes software products that help businesses track and analyze revenue in real-time and gives firms the ability to measure the returns on marketing and sales campaigns. Dell(DELL) and Cisco(CSCO) are among the company's thousand-plus set of users and Oracle says it expects to greatly expand the platform.
"Eloqua's leading marketing automation cloud will become the centerpiece of the Oracle Marketing Cloud," said Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President of Oracle Development.
Already, Oracle's had a busy 18 months bolstering its cloud services, after being accused of falling behind upstart cloud-CRM giant Salesforce.com(CRM) . Earlier in 2012, Oracle bought cloud HR and training specialist Taleo for $1.9 billion . In October of 2011, the company bought another cloud specialist, RightNow, for $1.9 billion .
While Oracle's cloud deals and its stated multi-year goals in the fast-growing piece of the tech world are in the early innings, the company's recent earnings signal a cloud software transition is already underway at the tech giant.
On Dec. 18, the company reported stronger than expected earnings, driven by 18% gains in new software and cloud revenues and 22% revenue growth in its U.S. operations. Meanwhile, European business grew 12%, rebutting fear an E.U. slowdown would stall growth.
Overall, Redwood City, CA-based Oracle earned on a non-GAAP basis 64 cents per share on $9.094 billion in revenue, thanks in part to new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues, which rose 17% year-over-year.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting second-quarter earnings of 61 cents per share on $9.01 billion in revenue.
Meanwhile billionaire chief executive and founder Larry Ellison made a strong case that the company's acquisitiveness is paying off .
In reference to a $7.5 billion 2009 acquisition of Sun Microsystems , Ellison said "Sun has proven to be one of the most strategic and profitable acquisitions we have ever made," in a press release.


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I've tried several different tie guan yins from green to lightly roasted, roasted, and high roasted, jade, grade A, and grade B. I'm curious if there's a high quality or really high quality type of tie guan yin? Like.. the best in China?
I should also mention that I'm not interested in aged or roasted teas. I want the best green TGY.


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let me set you up right now, this is easy as pie
This is your diet-
Breakfast -
3 tall glasses of cold water
3 whole eggs (scrambled or hard boiled, protein)
half avacado (fat to help you stay full)
1/2 Apple or Orange (carb aka sugar)
Lunch -
1 Whole Chicken Breast (protein)
two handfuls of broccoli or asparagus (fiber & vitamins)
5 almonds (healthy oils and fiber)
1/2 Apple or Orange (carb aka sugar)
2 glasses of water
Dinner -
1 Whole Chicken Breast
Two Handfuls of Broccoli or Asparagus
5 almonds
2 glasses of water
I would try to add about 30 to 45 minutes of LIGHT cardio every day, walking while talking on your cell phone, biking around the neighborhood, something. Cut out all caffeine, cut out all fizzy sodas, diet sodas, anything other than water or green tea. If you end up eating bread, cut out the fruit.
Carb = Sugar = Bread = Fruit - it's all the same shit, if it's not immediately burned, it turns into FAT
For your chicken breasts, bake them in the oven, 4 at a time, coated in mustard. 350 degrees for 35 minutes. I think this diet is a great guideline, to maintain protein and strength, while filling you up with healthy fats, oils, fiber, vegetables, fruit for card / sugar, and almonds for fiber and healthy oils. The water will keep flushing out your digestive system, the light cardio will turn on your metabolism.
I did this and went from 330 pounds to 210 pounds in about a year. I always felt full, happy and content. If you are strength training, feel free to add a scoop of whey in WATER (not milk) to supplement the extra protein. Hope this helps
Just curious, about how many slivered almonds is 5? 20?


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Rated 5 out of 5�by DGBFamily Most Excellent!! Surprise gift for avid disc golfer and he is THRILLED! Exactly the same basket as we have at our local disc golf course. Sturdy yet lightweight enough to be portable. Looking forward to some beach disc golf now! June 13, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5�by NonnyPlaysDiscGolf Best product for home use We have made a disc golf range in our back lot. We ordered the Innova DISCatcher Sport Disc Golf Target for that purpose. We have three targets, which we fastened down with metal stakes. This goal is very well made and sturdy, which we will need here in Oklahoma, to withstand our weather challenges. We look forward to many hours of enjoyment playing disc golf in our own backyard! (Plus, our grandkids think it is really cool). May 6, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5�by JoJo Very good quality, but heavy and bulky Honestly did not even completely take it out of its box. It looked like a great quality item.....but was way bulkier than I was imagining. I returned it for this reason only and ordered the lighter weight collapsible one, as it is something we want to be able to transport easily. I would recommend it for someone who wants to use it in their own backyard.......looked great for that....just wrong for our purposes. February 11, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5�by SAP Great Item We purchased this item for our grandson for his birthday. He was VERY PLEASED October 2, 2013