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100% Brett Trois IPA Recipe
Beers fermented with only Brettanomyces (as opposed to the more traditional secondary fermentation following brewer's yeast) are starting to really gain some traction. There was an initial wave of excitement in 2004-2005 when Pizza Port (Mo' Betta Bretta) and Russian River (Sanctification) released two of the first 100% Brett beers. I started this blog not much after by posting a recipe for my first 100% Brett beer, a fruity low-gravity saison.
Recently there seems to has been another wave of interest in 100% Brett beers, thanks in no small part to Chad Yakobson's research and enthusiasm for the technique. Chad is fermenting almost all of his beers at Crooked Stave with a variety of Brett strains, most of which he has isolated from beers and wines. Rather than featuring funky Brett byproducts as the dominate flavor, he is making spiced, hoppy, and dark beers that gain fruity-complexity from the unique fermentation. It is also exciting to see the recent re-release of Mo' Betta Bretta (I'm looking forward to trying the bottle Jacob picked up for me... assuming Peter and Tomme were joking about the pineapple, garlic, and oregano?).
The batch I brewed last weekend was inspired by one of my favorite 100% Brett beers, the 2010 New York ultra-collaborative Super Friends IPA. Brewed at Ithaca with help from the brewers of Captain Lawrence, Ommegang, Southampton, and Flying Fisher, it was hopped with Citra and fermented with BSI Brett brux var. Drie and smaller amounts of a few other strains. Bright and citrusy hops with a complementary fruity-funkiness made for a unique IPA. With the release of White Labs Brett brux Trois, their version of Brett Drie, I decided to brew something similar. Hopefully White Lab's strain has similar characteristics to the original, which was isolated from a bottle of Drie Fonteinen J&J Blauw at the behest of Adam Avery. It will be interesting to see, especially considering Chad identified two separate isolates in the BSI culture.
I played around with the hops a bit, adding some Centennial to the Citra for complementary citrus character, and a bit of Chinook to keep it from being too fruity. I liked the combination of Citra and Chinook in the second runnings American Bitter I brewed two years ago, but I wanted to reduce the resiny/grapefruit character from the Chinook. I added a half pound of acid malt after starch conversion to provide some lactic acid for the Brett to create the fruity ester ethyl lactate.
Super 100% Brett IPA
Recipe Specifics
Batch Size (Gal): 5.25
Total Grain (Lbs): 13.50
Anticipated OG: 1.064
Anticipated SRM: 4.3
Anticipated IBU: 96.5
Brewhouse Efficiency: 69 %
Wort Boil Time: 75 Minutes
70.4% - 9.50 lbs. Canadian Pale "2-Row"
22.2% - 3.00 lbs. German Wheat Malt
3.7% - 0.50 lbs. Cara-Pils Dextrine Malt
3.7% - 0.50 lbs. Acid Malt
5 ml HopShot (Extract) @ 60 min.
1.50 oz. Centennial (Pellet, 8.50% AA) @ 60 min.
2.00 oz. Centennial Pellet (Pellet, 8.50% AA) @ 0 min.
1.00 oz. Citra (Whole, 10.00% AA) @ 0 min.
1.00 oz. Chinook (Whole, 13.00% AA) @ Hop-Back
1.00 oz. Citra (Whole, 10.00% AA) @ Hop-Back
2.50 oz. Citra (Whole, 10.00% AA) @ Dry Hop
1.50 oz. Centennial (Pellet, 8.50% AA) @ Dry Hop
1.00 oz. Chinook (Whole, 13.00% AA) @ Dry Hop
0.50 - Whirlfloc @ 15 min.
0.50 tsp - Yeast Nutrient @ 15 min.
WLP644 - White Labs Brettanomyces bruxellensis Trois
Water Profile
Profile: Pliny the Water
Mash Schedule
Sacch Rest - 60 min @ 153 F
6/22/12 300 ml starter of WL Brett Trois, started.
6/28/12 Stepped up to 1.6 l (pitched .1 L into Berliner weisse)
7/1/12 Brewed with Keith
4 gallons distilled plus 5 gallons filtered DC tap water. 10 g gypsum, 3 g CaCl.
Added acid malt for the last 20 minutes of the mash since the pH was already low enough without it.
Fly sparged into Peter's keggle. Hot break.
One bag of ice was not enough for the pre-chiller for the plate chiller, only got the temperature down to 78. Put in the fridge for four hours to bring it down the rest of the way.
65 F ambient temp for fermentation.
No apparent fermentation the next morning, but when I shook the Better Bottle there was a huge CO2 release that cause it to blow off.
7/9/12 Moved out of cold room to 75 F to help finish fermentation.
7/12/12 Gravity down to 1.010, fermentation appears about finished. Big fruity flavor, hard to distinguish hops from the Brett.
7/22/12 Kegged with the bagged dry hops. Extra 3 cups put into a plastic bottle with 6 Chinook cones, force carbed.
8/23/12 What a terrific, tropical-fruity, balanced, quenching, summer IPA!
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|Tony Pearson holding his new XO laptop
My XO laptop arrived Friday, December 21, this was from the [Give 1 Get 1 (G1G1)] program fromthe One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation. The program continuesto the end of this month (December 31).
Here are my first impressions.
- Setup was Easy
Open the box, put in battery, and plug in the adapter. Enter your name and choose your favorite color for your stick figurine. No passwords, no parameters. Software is pre-installed and ready to use.
The four pages of instructions included how to open the unit (not intuitive), where the various connection ports are located, what the home screen and neighborhood screen look like, safety warnings, and a nice letter from Nicholas Negroponte with an 800 phone number and website in case more help is needed.
Connecting to the internet was the first thing I did. The neighborhood screen shows all the Wi-Fi access points. It recognized mineand three others. I clicked on mine, entered my WEP key, and was connected.
- Main Screen
This is a Linux operating system running the Sugar user interface.There are four screens:
- Neighborhood - shows all Wi-Fi access points
- Friends - shows all other XO laptops nearby, in my case I am all alone
- Home - your stick figurine with all the applications you can choose from are represented as icons at the bottom, just like OS X on my Mac Mini, or the launchpad on my Windows XP. Left panel for clipboard items.
- Application - Applications run in full-screen mode
Four buttons across the top allow you to jump to any screen instantly.Everything else is single left-click. No double-clicks or right-clicks.
A circle on the home screen designates which applications are running, and how much of the available 256MB RAM they are consuming. This makes it easy to seeif you can run more applications or need to shut something down. Youcan jump to any application, or shut it down, from this view.
Shutting down the XO is done by clicking your stick figurine,and choosing shutdown.
- Pre-installed Applications
I fired up the browser. The default 'home page' offers some help offline, as well as links to online resources and a google search bar. The full-color 1200x900 is very easy to read. You can hit ctrl+plus to make the fonts bigger. In bright sunlight, the screen turns automatically to greyscale.The built-in browser is easy enough to use, with standard back, forward, re-load, and bookmark buttons. The URL entry field also shows the pages title. It doesn't have tabs to see multiple pages at the same time, but I was able to fire up a second instance of the browser, so thatI could alt-tab back and forth between the two web sites.
There are so many applications that they don't all fit on the bottom of the screen.Left and right tab buttons will display the next set. I don't know if it is possible to re-order the icons, but I can certainly see some applications appealing to different ages, and perhaps re-ordering them into age-specific groups might be helpful.
Basic applications include the Abiword word processor, a PDF viewer, a simple paint program, calculator, chat, and news RSS feed reader; TamTam music to play and edit compositions; and some learn-to-program-a-computer software including Pippy, Etoys, and TurtleArt.
The 'record' program lets you take 640x480 pictures with the built-in camera, up to 45 seconds of video and audio recording. The picture abovewas taken with my XO, and edited online using [snipshot.com]. Another program can be usedto make video calls to another computer, similar to Skype or IBM Lotus Sametime.
- Connection ports
The XO has built-in microphone and speakers, but also microphone and speaker ports, as well as three USB ports, and a slot for an SD memory card.
The QWERTY keyboard is designed for small children hands, I found myself using my two index fingers in a hunt-and-peck style. People who use Blackberry's or other hand-held devices might be able to use their two thumbs instead. Also, I am not used to a touchpad as the pointing device. My other laptops have a red knob between the G/H/B keys that acts like a joystick. So, I decided to attach my Apple keyboard/mouse to one USB port, which allows me faster typing and better resolution with my mouse.
I also inserted a 1GB SD card into the slot. Getting to the SD slot was challenging--you have to rotate the screen 90 degrees so that the lower right corner is over the laptop handle. It appears I need to purchase some tweasers to get my SD card back out, so until then, it will remain there as permanent addition to my XO.
A terminal application provides a command line interface into Linux.
[olpc@xo-10-CC-6F ~] $ df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on mtd0 1.0G 365M 660M 36% /tmpfs 35M 0M 35M 0% /dev/shm/dev/mmcblk0p1 983M 7.9M 975M 1% /media/CANON_DCThe 'vi' editor is installed, in case I need to make changes to fstab or anythingelse in my /etc directory.
There is no S-video or VGA port. However, a teacher could probably fold thislaptop up in e-book mode and lay it flat on an [overhead projector] since the screen can handle bright sunlight in black-and-white mode.
- The Journal and the Clipboard
There are no folders or subdirectories here. The journal acts as your desktop, holding all the files you have referenced, sorted in chronological order with the most recent on top. The journal application is started automatically when you boot up.My SD card is shown as a separate entry at the bottom right corner, but I have access only to files on my top-level directory on the card. The journal allows you to drag and drop between the system and the SD flash card.The list can be filtered by file type and application, so finding things is easy.You can also copy anything in the journal to the clipboard, appearing on the leftpanel of the home screen. You can then launch or paste this into other applications.
Pressing Alt-1 takes a 1200x900 snapshot of the current screen, and puts it into the journal.On websites that allow you to upload a file, including GMAIL, snipshot.com, etc. the browse button brings up the journal. So, for example, you could take a snapshot of the current webpage or paint creation, and send it as an attachment to someone via GMAIL. Google has an XO-enabled version of GMAIL that you can download from the OLPC activities page.
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Home was a relative term among early Adirondackers
For the past few weeks, I have used this space to review historic evidence of native peoples in the Adirondacks in an effort to consider the long-held notion that the Adirondack region has always been too inhospitable to allow for any permanent indigenous presence.
Central to this story is the tale of "barkeaters," a mythical group of native people who could not survive by traditional hunting and fishing methods, and had to eat bark in order to survive.
According to legend, the Adirondack region was known as "land of the barkeaters," due to rough terrain and harsh climate. The country was considered unsuitable for permanent settlement.
However, recent research at the University of Toronto has raised questions regarding the concept of occupation being defined by the establishment of permanent villages and settlements.
"The variety of labor, and the regularity of seasonal rounds into the area combined with political and cultural connections, clearly show the Adirondacks were an indigenous homeland prior to European contact," the study explains.
Melissa Otis, author of the study, seeks to change the perception of indigenous occupation as being defined exclusively by the establishment of permanent village life. She contends that a space can be occupied in different manners that serve to define it as being part of an ancestral homeland.
There is ample evidence to indicate that prior to European contact, both Iroquoian- and Algonquian-speaking peoples regularly journeyed to the Adirondack region for extended periods. They came for religious and spiritual purposes, for trade and procurement of natural resources and to protect historic territory.
The author explains the concept of home was a "relative term" among native peoples. Often they had a "home base" where they spent much of the winter and part of the early spring, but they were known to move to other regions throughout the year in search of fish, game and other natural forage.
In fact, the eastern-most members of the Haudenosaunee (Mohawk and Oneida) maintained permanent villages along the Mohawk River and on Oneida Lake.
For generations, they would venture into the Adirondack region for months at a time in order to hunt, fish, trap and forage. Evidence of their camps has been found near Sabel, Indian Lake, Long Lake, Saranac Lake and Raquette Lake.
Eventually, many integrated into local Adirondack communities and functioned as guides and woodsmen. In many cases, their descendants can still to be found today.
In later years, the Onondaga, Cayuga and the Mohawk traveled to Catholic mission villages along the St. Lawrence River, as did many of the Algonquian groups who were often more mobile than the others.
Yet, for much of the year they would often be on the move to target specific territory during different seasons for purposes of hunting, trapping, fishing or to forage berries, nuts, fruits and tubers.
As the Adirondack tourist trade burgeoned in the late 1880s through the middle of the 20th century, native peoples often ventured into the park to work as guides, perform in Indian pageants and to sell baskets and other Native wares. Eventually, theme parks picked up on the public interest, and native performers soon became major attractions in the tourist towns of Old Forge, Lake Placid and Lake George.
Over the years, there have been numerous discoveries that provide an indication of the extent of the original settlers of Adirondack lands.
There is irrefutable evidence of historic hunting and fishing camps that include cultivated farm fields, clearings, orchards, council grounds, mines, foot trails, work sites and on the many 'carries" that connect various water bodies. There have also been discoveries of tools, flint, shards and more.
According to John Fadden, curator of the Six Nations Indian Museum in Onchiota, the evidence of pottery is often of special significance, as it suggests the presence of women who typically made the pottery on site. This locally made pottery was often too large, too heavy or too fragile to transport for any great distance. As a result, the pottery was often stored for the next user, and to inform others the land was part of their territory.
It is interesting to note that Adirondack hunters have been responsible for the discovery of numerous clay pots over the years. Pots are often discovered in caves, slant rock shelters or at the base of cliffs in places such as Silver Lake, Lake Placid and St. Regis Mountain.
Pots have also been discovered where they were left at hunting and fishing camps as part of a supply chain used to send meat and skins back to villages in the Mohawk Valley.
There are also a number of dugout canoes that have been discovered at the bottom of lakes in St. Lawrence, Franklin, Hamilton and Essex counties.
In last week's column, I attempted to define the geopolitical concept of "shatter zones" in an effort to explain the political instability and human suffering that occurred during the 16th and 17th centuries in the marginal areas of colonial North America.
Indigenous populations suffered greatly during this period of cultural warfare due to the lack of advanced weapons and a limited resistance to a variety of diseases such as small pox that were introduced by the Europeans.
This was a period full of strife that was carried over from European conflicts. It led to the Beaver Wars, the French and Indian War and ultimately to the American Revolution.
It was also a time of great cultural and military turmoil, as old customs deteriorated and geopolitical issues destroyed many of the old alliances. For most indigenous populations, the entire northeast morphed into a "shatter zone," which is a marginal area where people were forced to leave their ancestral homelands and seek shelter and refuge in efforts to escape the violent effects of colonization.
They fled to marginal areas, which have been described as "zones of refuge" that are typically defined by their inaccessible and isolated landscapes. The Adirondack region certainly served as one such place, as did the Catholic missions at Akwesasne, Kahnawake and Odanak.
It is interesting to note phonetic pronunciations in the Mohawk language for bark eater, which is a-non-daks.
Porcupine or "they eat bark" is la-dee-loon-daks.
Beaver is ja-nee-doh.
It appears the word Adirondacks (la-dee-loon-daks) is much closer to the Mohawk word for porcupine than for the beaver (ja-nee-doh). (These translations were provided by John Fadden, curator of the Six Nations Indian Museum.)
Of course, porcupines are also notorious barkeaters.
For further information regarding native peoples of the Adirondacks and the Northeast, please visit the Six Nations Indian Museum in lovely downtown Onchiota. It is one of the finest small museums in the Adirondacks. The facility is open seasonally or you can visit online at www.facebook.com/SixNationsIndianMuseum.


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Hi Bellas!
I am so glad this weekend is over, lol. Sorry about posting the winners of the Sigma Giveaway late yesterday but I had to take a sick day to recover from the massive bachelorette/bridal shower weekend I helped to coordinate this weekend. It took months to plan and it was a total success...but I was exhausted from the process! Like I said, I took a sick day off to recover from fatigue and some weird shoulder strain I got. However, it was truly worth it in the end. I'll post pics soon!
Speaking of Brides, here are pics from a Bridal Consultation I did a few weeks ago. The bride is getting married in an evening ceremony this month. Interestingly enough, she doesn't wear much makeup, but it's her fiancee who encourages her to wear more. Usually it's the guys who are anti-makeup!
The bride wanted a natural look but she wanted color at the same time. Usually with a consultation, I do one eye first and then a completely different look on the other eye to give the bride some options. On her first eye we went with completely neutral colors - champagnes and browns. On the other, we went for a purple smokey eye since she wanted color! In the end, after some consulting, we went somewhere in the middle with pinks and berries.
I also airbrushed her skin. I was happy to find out that she matched a shade of Kett Comestics perfectly! Usually I have to mix and match the colors. Here's another trick I learned...the bride's top lip is significantly lighter than her bottom lip. It looked strange with the liner and one gloss. To compensate, I added a berry toned lipgloss just to the top lip to make it balance out with the bottom one. Easy fix!
Here's What I Used (All MAC unless specified):
-MUFE Orange Corrector
-Nurturing Force Primer
-Kett Airbrush Foundation
-Housewine blush
-Redhead MSF
-Definitive Sculpting Powder
-soft ochre paint pot
-spiked brown pencil and embark e/s on brows
-all that glitters e/s
-Spiced Chocolate Quad: nanogold e/s, spiced chocolate e/s, sweet chesnut e/s
-Revlon Colorstay Liquid Liner in blackest black
-Ardell falsies
-Chesnut lipliner
-A mix of Pink and Plum lipglass
Till next time, Ciao Bellas!
Atlanta Makeup Artist
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Bridal Consultation - Pinks and Berry Tones
Posted by MakeupByRenRen at 10:11 AM
Labels: bridal makeup, wedding makeup
7 comments:
- Shen said...
ohhhh real pretty! :)
- September 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- LaDonna said...
She looks lovely! Like a princess, which I bet is what a lot of brides want on their special day. Great job Ren!
- September 9, 2009 at 12:21 PM
- lifeis. said...
Love this look! She looks absolutely gorgeous!
- September 9, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- themakeup101 said...
i like how you actually show and write what you used on your clients, i haven't come across any other makeup artist that does that and i am always curious! thanks soooo much!! you did a fabulous job!
- September 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM
- didrik_13 said...
I love the look..I will try to do it tomorrow ;)
- September 13, 2009 at 6:53 PM
- ngocupham said...
I think this is a very beautiful bridal look, subtle and elegant. Love it
- September 13, 2009 at 9:57 PM
- Banana said...
OOh, pretty!! (: Neat trick.
- September 26, 2009 at 4:55 PM
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to life's great mysteries
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Arguments are based on words, keep an eye out for dictionary violations.These people just love to violate the dictionary. They will use words in the most twisted ways. Many times you can easily win right at the beginning by quoting good old Webster. One of the best references it the 1913 edition of Webster which has the real meanings of words in it. It was published before these people could take over the dictionary business, so it's reliable. If you catch them in a dictionary violation, that alone invalidates their argument. There is no defense against this. Just keep repeating it. Eventually, they will argue with you about the meaning, but you have Webster on your side.
Demand proof for everything.These guys just love to say things without showing proof. An easy win is to demand proof for every claim. Don't worry about whether the claim is reasonable, or commonplace, or whether its truth would validate the argument. Don't get confused about why you are demanding proof. It's not to show that the thing isn't true! The purpose is to show that it might not be true. This being the case, you just need to discredit the proof they provide. Sometimes it's easy as pie. If they link to Wikipedia, just say, "Wikipedia is not a reliable source". Everyone knows this. If they link to some partisan website, well, how can that be trusted?! If they link to a blog, heck, that's worse than Wikipedia! If they manage to find a source not so easily impeached, don't panic. All you have to do is say that the source does not say what they claim it does. Remember, if you can make the argument about the sources instead of their point, they've lost.
Become morally outraged.This is a great one because it goes right to the heart of things. I mean, they are morally corrupt, after all. Look for anything that is just not morally acceptable and make it the issue. It will show everyone else just how bad this person is, and why it doesn't matter what they say. Anyone so reprehensible can't have anything worthwhile to say. You will probably find others who agree, and help to chastise your opponent. Keep in mind that the issue over which you become exercised needn't be something you are normally concerned about, nor something very important. It just has to be something that appears to violate the ethos of the group, or at least of your own supporters. This will allow you to dismiss anything the person says as coming from a "poisoned well". Cool, eh?
Ignore context, take each thing as if it stands alone.One of the ways these people confuse things is by tying together a bunch of facts and ideas. If you take each of the points they raise as separate, you have a lot better chance of derailing their argument. Keep the bits isolated, don't argue about two at once, just focus on disproving a part and the whole will collapse. This is a general principle to apply to all of the above.
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semantics |səˈmantiks|
1. The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics, which studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of meaning.
2. The meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text
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Google services support three different types of use when it comes to your identity: unidentified, pseudonymous, identified. Google Profiles is a product that works best in the identified state. This way you can be certain you're connecting with the right person, and others will have confidence knowing that there is someone real behind the profile they're checking out. For this reason, Google Profiles requires you to use the name that you commonly go by in daily life.
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The sapling is weak,
it bends to every wind,
it stands for nothing.
The old tree is strong
it forgets there are winds
it cannot resist.
Remember being young,
return to it
when you find yourself
ready to break.
The ideal that leads
to your destruction
cannot be called ideal.
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1. a collection of myths, esp. one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.
• a set of stories or beliefs about a particular person, institution, or situation, esp. when exaggerated or fictitious.
2. the study of myths.
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The value of the pursuit of answers to epistemic questions lies in the space beyond the limits of speech and before the limits of thought.
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NYPA Receives First Place Award For Work Safety
Paul DeMichele
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March 31, 2011
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WHITE PLAINS—New York Power Authority (NYPA) President and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Kessel today announced that NYPA has received the first place American Public Power Association's (APPA) Electric Utility Safety Award for operating practices in 2010.
"The safety of the Power Authority's 1,600 employees in the operation and support of NYPA's generating and transmission facilities across New York State is of the greatest importance to us," said Kessel." The first-place ranking from the American Public Power Association underscores the care and diligence of our outstanding workforce, of which we're very proud. On behalf of NYPA, I thank the American Public Power Association for awarding us top honors."
NYPA was one of 200 other utilities judged by the APPA in categories according to the number of work-related recordable injuries or illnesses and the number of worker-hours during the previous year, as defined by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The Power Authority was entered in the second-largest category, for public-power systems with one million to approximately 3.99 million worker-hours.
The safety awards were presented in late March by David Dwinell, chairman of the APPA's Safety Committee, at the Association's annual Safety Awards of Excellence Breakfast as part of its 2011 Engineering and Operations Technical Conference in Nashville, Tenn. John Kahabka, NYPA's vice president for Environmental Health and Safety, accepted the award for the Power Authority.
Paul Allen, chairman of APPA's Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3) Review Panel and vice president, engineering at Nashville Electric Service, noted that the award recipients "stand out as utilities that are continuing to strive for excellence for their customers and their communities."
The APPA's RP3 panel recognizes public power utilities that demonstrate proficiency in reliability, safety, workforce development and system improvement. Criteria within each category are based on sound business practices and represent a utility-wide commitment to safe and reliable delivery of electricity.
Since 1994, NYPA has placed first 12 times and second five times in its category.
APPA is the national service organization for the nation's more than 2,000 community- and state-owned electric utilities serving 45 million people.
About NYPA:
■ The New York Power Authority uses no tax money or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity. ■ NYPA is a leader in promoting energy efficiency, new energy technologies and electric transportation initiatives. ■ It is the nation's largest state public power organization, with 17 generating facilities in various parts of New York State and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines. ■ Approximately 80 percent of the electricity it produces is clean renewable hydropower. Its lower-cost power production and electricity purchases support hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout the state. ■For more information, www.nypa.gov.


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Antenatal perineal massage decreases risk of perineal trauma during birth
- Division of Women, Children & Family Health, University of Colorado Denver, College of Nursing, Aurora, Colorado, USA
- Correspondence to : Professor Marie Hastings-Tolsma, Division of Women, Children & Family Health, University of Colorado Denver, College of Nursing, 13120 East 19th Avenue, PO Box 6511, Room 4315, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Marie.Hastings-Tolsma{at}ucdenver.edu
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Implications for practice and research
Pregnant women who have not yet experienced vaginal birth should be informed about the benefits of antenatal perineal massage.
Conditions where antenatal perineal massage may benefit women who have already experienced vaginal birth, needs further exploration.
The additive value and acceptability of intrapartum perineal massage, including its effect on immediate postpartum pain, dyspareunia and incontinence, should be assessed.
Upwards of 70% of women experience perineal trauma during childbirth.1 Concern over such trauma is significant for pregnant women, particularly for those from ethnic minorities, where cultural differences have been found to increase worry about possible intervention, pain and discomfort associated with birth.2 Anecdotal reports have long suggested that performing perineal massage during pregnancy and labour is …


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Be careful what you wish for.
The cliché echoes in my head as I stare numbly at the bushes and boulders receding in the distance. My partner Leah Gallant and I are one week into a month-long circuit of the Everest region of Nepal, stopped dead in our tracks at 14,000 feet in an isolated valley close to the Tibetan border. The trail, which has grown progressively more indistinct and narrow over the last four hours, has finally vanished into a web of animal paths that fade in the brush. Around us, arid foothills fold up into craggy peaks of neck-straining scale. The irony is painfully obvious: We've come in search of something most trekkers in the Khumbu never experience—something akin to raw wilderness—and we're getting more than we bargained for.
It's an unheard-of problem elsewhere in the Everest area, where the well-trod trails are as wide as a highway lane, worn by centuries of yak trains and four decades of trekker traffic. Not here. After two days of hiking up the Bhote Kosi valley, on the western side of Sagarmatha National Park, we've strayed far enough from the high-use areas that the route forward is too faint to follow. I know we can ask for help, but that seems almost as bad as getting lost. Leah has no such reservations.
"Let's wait for Dawa," she says. Dawa is our porter. A porter I didn't want to hire. A porter I'm still not sure I want. It feels like cheating. Plus, our communication strains the limits of my Nepali phrase book, and it seems that regardless of the question, Dawa's answer is always a big grin and the same words, "Yeah, yeah, no problem." I'm not even sure he's ever traveled this route.
It's getting late, and clouds are beginning to gather around the peaks. Somewhere in the valley ahead of us is Lungde, the last tiny hamlet that offers shelter, a safe haven where we can sleep before heading over the 17,500-foot pass beyond. We're not facing a crisis, exactly, but it's not the kind of place to be wandering around in the dark, in subfreezing weather, without a tent or stove.
Just then, Dawa catches sight of us and calls out from down the hill.
"Sister! Justin! This way," Dawa says, stomping through the knee-high underbrush with Leah's pack.
"Are you sure, Dawa?" I ask.
"Yeah, yeah, no problem."


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Common wombat
The common wombat (Vombatus ursinus), also known as the coarse-haired wombat or bare-nosed wombat, is a marsupial, one of three species of wombats and the only one in the genus Vombatus. The common wombat grows to an average of 98 cm (39 in) long and a weight of 26 kg (57 lb).
The common wombat was first described by George Shaw in 1800. There are three subspecies, though their distinctness is somewhat uncertain:
- V. ursinus hirsutus, the nominate form, is found on the Australian Mainland.[3]
- V. ursinus tasmaniensis, is found in Tasmania.[3] It is smaller in size than V. ursinus hirsutus. [4]
- V. ursinus ursinus, was once found throughout the Bass Strait Islands but is now restricted to Flinders Island to the north of Tasmania.[3] Its population was estimated at 4,000 in 1996 and is listed as vulnerable by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and IUCN Red List.[5][6]
It is widespread in the cooler and better watered parts of southern and eastern Australia, including Tasmania, and in mountain districts as far north as the south of Queensland, but is declining in Western Victoria and South Australia.
Common wombats are sturdy and built close to the ground. When fully grown they can reach anywhere between 80 and 130cm, and between 17 and 40kg. The wombats found on Tasmania and Flinders Island are often smaller than their mainland counterparts. It is distinguished from both Hairy-nosed wombats by the fact that it has a bald nose.
Common wombats are a solitary, territorial species, with each wombat having an established range in which it lives and feeds. In this area, they dig a tunnel system, with tunnels ranging anywhere from 2 to 20 metres in length, along with many sidetunnels. There is usually only one entrance to the burrow, although they may create a smaller one to escape with. Often nocturnal, the common wombat does come out during the day in cooler weather, such as in early morning or late afternoon.[7]
Common wombats are herbivorous, subsisting off grass, snow tussocks and other plant materials. Foraging is usually done during the night.[7]
The common wombat can breed every two years and produce a single joey. The gestation period is about 20-30 days, and the young remain in the pouch for 5 months. When leaving the pouch, they weigh between 3.5 and 6.5 kg (7.7 and 14 lb). The joey is weaned at around 12 to 15 months of age and is usually independent at 18 months of age.[7]
- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. eds. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 43-44. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.
- ^ Taggart, D., Martin, R. & Menkhorst, P. (2008). Vombatus ursinus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 December 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- ^ a b c "Common Wombat". Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment. http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter-nsf/WebPages/BHAN-53F7KJ?open. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
- ^ "Common Wombat". Wombania's Wombat Information Center. http://www.wombania.com/wombats/common-wombat.htm. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
- ^ Vombatus ursinus ursinus — Common Wombat (Bass Strait)
- ^ Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group (1996). Vombatus ursinus ssp. ursinus. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 15 March 2007.
- ^ a b c "Wombats, Wombat Pictures, Wombat Facts". National Geographic Society. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wombat/. Retrieved 21 July 2011.


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Debates of Feb. 5th, 2002
House of Commons Hansard #139 of the 37th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was national.
- Government Response to Petitions
- Budget Implementation Act, 2001
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- Montfort Hospital
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- Research and Technology
- Boreal Forest
- Cambodia
- Poverty
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- Equilization Formula
- Golden Jubilee
- Thérèse Daviau
- Montfort Hospital
- William Poy
- National Defence
- Aboriginal Affairs
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- Minister of National Defence
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- Questions in the House of Commons
Government Orders
1:35 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Roy H. Bailey Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Madam Speaker, it would appear that government members do not believe that bringing in legislation will be of any benefit. That is what I hear them saying. I hear them saying that a hodgepodge, throwing it in with CPIC, will be the answer.
Not one province in Canada believes that. Not one police force in Canada believes that. My only assumption is that the Liberals do not seem to understand that high risk offenders do not pay any attention to provincial boundaries. They move back and forth. It is imperative to have a national sex offender registry.
Government Orders
1:35 p.m.
Progressive Conservative
Loyola Hearn St. John's West, NL
Madam Speaker, following up on the previous question, the government continues to say that it has an adequate registry. I am beginning to wonder if it is talking about the one that is supposed to be in existence. If we look at the amount of time and money it is spending on the gun registry, is it trying to tie it into that? Certainly the present registry is not the one Canadians want. Would the member comment on that?
Government Orders
1:35 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Roy H. Bailey Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Madam Speaker, I do not think the government really wants to have the half a billion dollars and growing in the gun registry connected with what we are trying to do here. I can assure the hon. member that the cost of doing what we want to do with this registry would make the expense of the gun registry look like a Sunday school collection. I would do that without any hesitation of the cost of the national registry we are talking about.
The police say that they are pleased to lend their collective voices in support of a national sex offender registry. That is what they are saying across Canada.
Government Orders
1:35 p.m.
Brenda Chamberlain Guelph—Wellington, ON
Madam Speaker, members on both sides of the House are worried about sexual offenders. There is no doubt about that.
For Alliance members to try to portray themselves as the good people who are defending the interests of people and the Liberal members as the terrible people because we do not is simply quite untrue.
The reality is we do have something in place called CPIC. When I met with police officers from Guelph, Ontario, they told me it was a good system. It needs more money and more expansion and that is happening. We on this side of the House always work to expand and make things better.
It is wrong to simply throw out a system that works and which the police back. To do that at the gain of real political points is a cheap shot.
Government Orders
1:40 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Roy H. Bailey Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Madam Speaker, the hon. member knows very well that I never in my life made a cheap shot of that nature in the House and I did not do it with this issue.
Let me quickly respond. If what we have presently is the answer, why do the police continue to say that they want a quicker response, that they want the registration to be this way or that way? The hon. member would know that in her province the police support the provincial registry. It is not something that only we are saying. It is being said across Canada.
Government Orders
1:40 p.m.
John Maloney Erie—Lincoln, ON
Madam Speaker, I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion of the hon. member for Langley--Abbotsford on behalf of my colleague, the Minister of Justice.
We on this side of the House are unequivocal in our support for any feasible measure that will effectively protect our children, indeed all of our citizens, from sexual predators. At the same time, however, I would urge all members to exercise caution and not jump at any measure that promises a quick fix, that claims to be a cure-all for this most pressing problem. I fear that a temptation in the specific area of sex offender registries is to leap first and look later. That appears to have happened all too often in some jurisdictions that have gone before us.
In fact this morning in the justice committee the hon. member for Prince Albert commented that often we are too quick to pass laws, to push a button that makes us feel good, but we are weak in evaluating and monitoring. Now the opposition wishes to charge forward on this issue. It seems to pick whatever process best suits its political purposes. What hypocrisy.
For example, over the last decade, the number of registries of sex offenders has jumped from a few isolated ones to registries in the 50 American states, in the United Kingdom, in Scotland, Ireland and even recently in Canada, in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia.
Given the implementation of these registries, one might easily assume that these registries stop sex offenders in their tracks. With all of these registries by now, one might assume there are all kinds of studies that empirically support such claims. Imagine my surprise when I found out that not one single study has been published that empirically concludes that sex offender registries reduce reoffending rates. Imagine my surprise when I found out that in many jurisdictions quite the opposite has happened.
For example, in the majority of states in America that have implemented a sex offender registry, anyone, even those of us sitting at home in Canada, can log on to the Internet and see pictures and addresses of every known sex offender living in that state. In many cases their pictures will be available like that for the rest of their lives. Has that active publication of personal information reduced sex crimes? Apparently not.
Here in Canada where sex offender registries have yet to have any impact on available data, the incidence of violent sexual offences per capita has been steadily dropping over the past few years. This is not the case however in most U.S. jurisdictions that publish the names of sex offenders over the Internet. At the same time these states have all experienced atrocious acts of vigilantism against these offenders. While some may say "Very good, they deserve it", I and the government could never condone any such system that invited retaliation.
The question is, why would anyone pass a sex offender registry law that to date seems to have had so little positive effect? All too often these policies are drafted in haste, in a crisis situation born of desperation. All too often we have seen an isolated tragedy involving a sex offender and a child which causes an immediate legislative call to arms. In their haste, as has often been the case in this highly emotional issue, legislators fail to understand all the consequences of their emotionally drafted bills.
In almost every single case where a legislative body has passed a sex offender registry bill, the same scenario was played out: a painful and highly publicized case of kidnapping and murder of a child, followed by community outrage, calls for action and passionate speeches calling for new and better tools to combat this problem. Were the resulting registries always the best tools for the job? Was careful analysis of sex offender traits and trends used to model and shape a policy designed to reduce reoffending? Were legislators solely dedicated to finding the right policies? Or were there other factors at play, factors such as revenge, blame and politics?
How well did the resulting registries work? Did sex offenders all stop offending? The data suggests otherwise. For example, in one of the most comprehensive recidivist studies ever undertaken, a recent study by the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives looked at over 45,000 historical sex offenders in the United States and concluded that 87% of these convicted offenders do not commit another sex offence after release. This rate is substantially better than that observed for other forms of property and violent crimes. Yet sex offender registries typically target 100% of convicted offenders regardless of their determined threat or likelihood of recidivism based on a personal profile. In most cases all of these offenders are required to register for the rest of their lives.
Instead of focusing its efforts on, for example, the 13% who are likely to reoffend, police forces in the states that have sex offender registries must spend their resources on monitoring 100% of all convicted sex offenders, over 200,000 of them to date in the United States, regardless of their likelihood of reoffending. Most criminology experts argue that the registry concept is incredibly inefficient.
Many of the American registries are facing a new threat from their state and federal supreme courts where rights based challenges against lifelong mandatory registration requirements are starting to proceed through the appeals process. The news is not great. Many states, including Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey, have had their respective registries struck down in whole or in part as a result of clashes with state constitutional rights, few of which are as stringent as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Certainly there are lessons to be learned from these experiences.
When the United Kingdom drafted its sex offender registry and forced Ray Whiting to register for his sex offence related murder of Jason Swift, how did it happen that after his statutory release for that crime he managed to rape and murder yet another victim, young Sarah Payne? Why did the local police admit that the U.K. sex offender registry, as it existed, was of little use in monitoring the offender, or in preventing the subsequent crime, or in treating the offender, or in investigating and apprehending that offender?
Why did subsequent inquiries conclude that toughening the existing sex offender registry would have had little impact in preventing cases like the Sarah Payne tragedy? Why was it that most experts concluded that Whiting's failure to receive therapy and assistance in integrating into the community was the chief factor that caused this tragedy? Why did the U.K. government introduce in the following year a new sex offender registry law?
What then do we make of sex offender registries? Are they perfect? Certainly not. Are we intent on repeating these types of mistakes? Hopefully not. Can we learn from the experience of others? I sincerely hope so.
The motion before us today is an example of the desire to sprint ahead without having examined all the pitfalls that may lay ahead. The implication of this motion is that the government is doing nothing while our children remain in danger. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I would like to note the solicitor general's efforts to date on this matter. The solicitor general rose in the House last March and stated emphatically that he supported the motion by the member for Langley--Abbotsford, as did all members present, because this nation already possessed one of the most technologically advanced criminal registries in the world, the Canadian Police Information Centre. We know it as CPIC. Further, he told the House that his department would begin evaluating potential improvements to CPIC in the specific areas of sex offences, citing the criticism that CPIC was not address searchable by police officers.
In a very short period of time he fulfilled that commitment when he announced on September 11 last year that a new database within the CPIC system was to be created: the sex offender category. Further, he announced that the database would be address searchable and would be up and running within a year, funded completely by the federal government.
That is not all the government has done in recent years to combat the dangers of sexual predators. In 1997 we proclaimed Bill C-55 which strengthened the dangerous offender rules in part XXIV of the criminal code and also created a new sentencing provision called long term offender.
As a result of these changes, prosecutors in almost every province are aggressively pursuing dangerous offender and long term offender designations. In fact, since 1997 the number of successful dangerous offender applications has doubled each year.
The 1997 legislative package also created a new category called the long term offender. It targeted individuals who were clearly a threat but who would not meet the threshold as a dangerous offender. This new designation recognized that released sex offenders who received supervision and treatment in the community experienced dramatically lower recidivist rates than offenders who were released at warrant expiry without conditions for supervision or treatment.
In addition to their custodial period, long term offenders can be sentenced to up to 10 years of community supervision and conditions following the termination of their custodial period. This innovative measure has already resulted in over 100 successful long term offender applications.
The government also recognized that there were new emerging areas of sex crimes that needed to be targeted specifically. In 1997 and later in 1999, parliament passed important measures to protect children from being drawn into the sex trade. A new offence of aggravated procuring was created, with a minimum five year sentence, to deal with those who use violence against a child and force that child into prostitution related activity. Special protections were instituted to make it easier for children to testify in court against pimps.
Bill C-15A, which is now before the House, contains new provisions that would make it an offence to lure minors over the Internet for the purpose of committing a sexual offence. However, none of these initiatives happened overnight.
While I agree with my colleagues that this is an urgent problem, cobbling together a mandatory sex offender registry without looking at all the issues, all the details and all the facts will not result in good legislation.
Instead, the solicitor general has taken a different approach. He has asked his officials to work with all the provinces and territories to fully explore the issue, to determine what is and what is not feasible in the Canadian context, to determine what works and what does not, and to find out where some jurisdictions have succeeded and where others have failed. I fully support this approach and this side of the House fully supports this approach. It is obvious to me that the provinces also support this approach. Why else would they be participating fully in the federal-provincial-territorial working group on high risk offenders currently seized with this matter?
Canadians must abide by many rules, many laws and many conventions that are uniquely Canadian. The division of powers between federal and provincial governments is quite different from that found in, for example, the United States or the conventions and laws of the unitary styled United Kingdom. We have a constitution, including a charter of rights, that is unique and, while similar, is different from the American bill of rights. Any proposed national sex offender registry can only be successful if it is designed and drafted within this unique Canadian context.
It is for those specific reasons that there are high level discussions taking place among the federal, provincial and territorial officials on what kind of registry system would be workable in the very unique Canadian context. From the issue of charter and privacy challenges, to how information could be transferred from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and from computer system to computer system, to whether non-compliance should be a criminal code offence, there are many choices and the solicitor general is looking for a consensus among our partners before proceeding further.
That approach makes sense. If we are going to have a registry, we should have one that works, that is efficient and affordable, that will recognize the impact of the charter of rights and freedoms, that is not in breach of federal or provincial privacy laws, that local police agencies will have the ability and resources to administer, one for which all provinces and territories from coast to coast to coast can agree on a consistent approach, and one that will not drive convicted sex offenders underground with changed identities and no hope of rehabilitation.
In closing, I must decline to support the motion, not because I do not wish to protect our children from sex offenders, because I do, but because I insist that my government does more than just pretend to protect our children from sex offenders. I will not support any measure that is not properly understood, not completely explored and does not receive full scrutiny at every level.
No measure within the criminal justice system exists in a vacuum, sex offender registries included. The task of preventing recidivism by sex offenders needs an effective, multi-faceted approach, from investigation to capture, from charge to prosecution, from sentence to release and, finally, from community supervision and treatment to rehabilitation.
A sex offender registry, in whatever form it ultimately may take, is just one piece of this very big puzzle. It will be no panacea, but if we do it right and do it carefully maybe it can work. If we are careful it will not be a strain on police resources, it will not drive violent sexual predators underground and it will not bring a flood of charter challenges.
I urge my colleagues on all sides of the House to give our federal-provincial-territorial officials a chance to do their work, to reach a consensus and to evaluate the options. At that time we will be in a much better position to know where we should be headed, what legislation to support and how best to make our children safe.
Let us take the necessary time to study the issue carefully and positively. Let is take the necessary measures to enact effective strategies that will protect our children and indeed to protect all Canadians.
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Randy White Langley—Abbotsford, BC
Madam Speaker, I do not know what to say about that speech. We do not need a sex offender registry but we are building one. I have heard more contradictions in that speech today than in most speeches in the House.
What really escapes me, however, in the comments my colleague on the Liberal side made, is that we do not need a registry that is convoluted, costs a lot of money, drives offenders underground and makes criminals out of people. I think he also said that we should study this for a long time and make sure it is done right and conclusively.
It seems to me that this is the government that brought in something called a gun registry quickly, which drove more innocent Canadians underground, and that cost somewhere we think in the neighbourhood of $650 million.
Does the member opposite think the gun registry was a darn good idea? Could he also tell us why that registry, such as it is, was such a great idea and a national sex offender registry is not a good idea?
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
John Maloney Erie—Lincoln, ON
Madam Speaker, if my friend wants to know what to say about that speech, I will say it was an excellent speech.
We have the CPIC system which is already in existence. We have a national security system. We have a system that is in place that can be improved upon. However we should be looking with our partners, the provinces and the territories, at how to implement a system that would be effective, cost efficient and would thereby protect all the children. Is the gun registry a good system? Yes. I think it is an excellent system. Gun control is effective and necessary. It is something that all members in the House should be advocating.
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Jay Hill Prince George—Peace River, BC
Madam Speaker, as with my colleague from the Canadian Alliance, I cannot believe the speech that the member for Erie--Lincoln just delivered. It was unbelievable. I hope there are a lot of Canadians out there watching the sad display of a speech in the House about the need for a national sex offender registry.
He talked at great length about how the provinces had to buy in, that there had to be agreement from the provinces and that we had to look at what was successful in other countries. Yet that was not the case with the now infamous firearms registry. The government forged ahead no matter that the majority of the provinces were opposed to it. The majority of Canadians were opposed to it, the ones who at least understood what was happening with that registry. The cost has been astronomical.
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Statements by Members
February 5th, 2002 / 2 p.m.
Eugène Bellemare Ottawa—Orléans, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is with great pride that I rise to speak today. I would like the House to recognize the tremendous efforts made by Gisèle Lalonde and the committee to save the Montfort hospital during the last five years.
Last Friday, the Ontario government announced that it accepted the decision of the Court of Appeal of Ontario. This court found that the Montfort hospital was essential to the survival of the French language community in Ontario and that the rights of that community were guaranteed by the constitution. This is a victory for all Franco-Ontarians, as well as for all francophones in Canada.
My colleagues join with me in paying tribute to the perseverance of Gisèle Lalonde and her committee. The battle has been a long one, but we have come out of it stronger and more unified.
More than ever, I am proud to be a Franco-Ontarian.
National Defence
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Brian Fitzpatrick Prince Albert, SK
Mr. Speaker, the dark shadow of the Liberals continues to loom over the Canadian armed forces. First the Liberals eradicated the army, navy and air force with an ill-conceived policy of unification. Then they took the word armed out of Canadian armed forces. Now they want to get rid of the Canadian identification and just call it forces.
Is there a Liberal in the House who can tell Canadians and our men and women in uniform what this is all about? Apparently this accelerated assault on our Canadian military heritage is being driven by a desire to connect with young people.
When the Liberals learn that our Canadian military heritage is what attracts young people to the military we will be accomplishing something. Renaming or disguising the armed forces will not attract new recruits; it will only further tarnish the image of a once proud institution.
Member for Calgary East
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Dominic LeBlanc Beauséjour—Petitcodiac, NB
Mr. Speaker, I rise to extend my best wishes to the hon. member for Calgary East who underwent successful heart surgery yesterday.
I had the privilege of getting to know the member for Calgary East before my election to the House when we were on the same trip to Africa in 1999. I was with him when he made a triumphant return to his old high school in Arusha, Tanzania. I learned much about this country from him.
I am sure all hon. members join me in wishing the member for Calgary East a speedy and full recovery, and a quick return to the House.
Research and Technology
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Paul MacKlin Northumberland, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise in the House to pay tribute to the members of my research, innovation and technology advisory committee which just presented me with their final report.
Last January, when I first gathered this group together, I asked them to look at my riding of Northumberland and work with stakeholders to form a vision for the technological future of my riding. It was my feeling that as a rural riding we faced unique challenges in the new economy that needed to be addressed quickly.
The hard work done by all members of this group has had long lasting effects right across my riding. In the coming months I look forward to working with the many stakeholders to implement many of the recommendations in the report.
I wish to express my sincere thanks to chair Susan Hale and the committee members for their great spirit of volunteerism that has lead to this report.
Boreal Forest
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Charles Caccia Davenport, ON
Mr. Speaker, Canada is home to the world's largest remaining wilderness forest. Our boreal forest is a beautiful wilderness area with millions of square kilometres of sensitive woodlands, wetlands, fast flowing rivers and deep lakes, which protect caribou, wolves, bears, migrating birds, et cetera. Canada's boreal forest is increasingly under threat from logging, mining, oil exploration and hydroelectric dams.
Let us remember that the boreal forest played a vital role in our nation's history. Native peoples, and later voyageurs, used its mighty rivers to travel and discover this country.
Canada's boreal forest is a great legacy. Governments, federal and provincial, must ensure its protection. I ask Canadians to let their elected representatives know how strongly they disapprove of the heavy logging of the boreal forest. Future generations deserve the protection of this most valuable common good.
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Antoine Dubé Lévis-Et-Chutes-De-La-Chaudière, QC
Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, February 3, Cambodia held its first local elections. Over 1,000 foreign observers were present for this historic event, which represents one more step towards the introduction of real democracy in this country, which has been ravaged by more than two decades of dictatorship and civil war.
Cambodia's local elections are a step in the direction of increased representation of the rural population, which accounts for almost 85% of the country's 11 million inhabitants. Preliminary results indicate that Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party won a majority in the 76 communes.
However, these results are disputed by human rights defence groups, which have noted irregularities. In addition, the election campaign was punctuated by violence, with eight candidates and a dozen activists losing their lives. The Cambodian government will therefore have to work to improve the safety and transparency of the next elections.
For its part, the international community must pursue its efforts to help the Cambodian people build a modern and democratic state.


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Plenty of praise for event
It was far from fair. Some may even call it excellent.
But the results speak for themselves – fair attendance increased, many of those who attended offered compliments and many who participated were just as grateful. Overall, it was an outstanding edition of the Chautauqua County Fair.
The event, which runs for a week, began with the bang of a cannon and ended with the bangs of the demolition derby and fireworks. There were plenty of compliments on the rides and the addition of Wednesday night's grandstand event showcasing area fire departments was a nice touch.
Now, the outlook moves to the 133rd edition in 2014. "We are already looking toward next year and we plan on adding some new and exciting attractions," Mike Ferguson, fair spokesman, said.
The bar has been raised.


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Has anyone caught this program? I caught an episode today. Cool stuff.
The episode I saw, The Evidence, though started about half way through, basically talked about ancient structures (mainly the great Pyramids), how impossible it was to build back then, and the theory of extraterrestrials lending a helping hand.
The History Channel kicks ass.


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Topic: What can be "stored" in the app instead of in a DB table?
Having not come from a computer science/programming background, I'm having an internal struggle with this
I always have a lot of little lists of options that are needed throughout my applications and probably won't be changing very much, if at all. Some examples:
- User's title (Dr, Mr, Mrs, Ms, etc.)
- User's suffix (II, III, Jr, etc.)
- Directions (North, South, East, West)
- Answers (Yes, No, Sometimes, etc.)
- and so on
To handle these I can think of three (or maybe two and a half) solutions, but I would like some feeback from the pros.
1) Create arrays for the lists inside a model to use in generating select options and then store the string in a database column. For example have TITLES = %w(Dr Mr Mrs Ms ...) in my User model, create options using it, and then store "Dr" or "Mrs" in the "title" column of my users table. There are some database normalization issues here, but it cuts down on querying and/or joining. Also, if it is a list that would "never" change (e.g., North, South, East, West), does it need to be stored in a database table?
2) Create a plethora of models and tables for each list and establish all the has_many and belongs_to relationships. This seems to be more correct, but is it necessary all the time?
3) This one is closely related to #2. In my last application I saw there were going to be a lot of lists where I have simply the option name and id, so I created an options table and implemented some Single Table Inheritance. It still required creating models for each, but cut down on my tables. Not sure if this is the best idea or not...
So in addition to your thoughts on the preceding, I guess I am asking, when is it best to just have things coded in the application, and when should you stick it in a database?
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Bird Show BandPosted by Christian Carey in CD Review, tags: Amish Records, Brooklyn, Christian Carey, File Under ?
Bird Show Band
Amish Records AMI 041
Composer and electronic musician Ben Vida has recorded solo as Bird Show on three previous releases for Kranky. This time out, he's made Bird Show a band project. Although he's based in Brooklyn, Vida travelled to Chicago to record, enlisting the aid of post-rock cohorts: Tortoise's percussionists Dan Bitney and Josh Herndon, keyboardist Jim Baker, and bassist Josh Abrams.
MP3: Quintet Four
Both Baker and Vida employ vintage synthesizers – an ARP 2600 and a Moog Voyager – as the lead instruments on the records. The complex of sound created by the synths encompasses a collage of avant-noise and bleep. Solo sections, such as Vida'sturn at the end of 'side one,' are skronk prog feasts, reminiscent of 70s watersheds such as Sun Ra or, more conventionally, Tony Banks' work on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and some of the odder moments on Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
The rhythm section, on the hand, crafts a background that hews closely to avant-jazz. As usual, Bitney and Herndon are a owerful pair, crafting interlocking grooves that are one part African-influenced polyrhythms and another On the Corner Era swinging fusion. Abrams, who has considerable experience in noise and field recording projects, is the glue that holds these two seemingly at odds sound environments together. He provides enough rhythmic urgency and indeed swing in his walking lines to coalesce with the Tortoise drummers, all the while keeping the melodic palette of his soloing and the harmonic inflections of his accompaniments outside enough to shadow the otherworldly timbres of the synthesists. This is particularly apparent on "Quintet Two," a rousing improv that imagines an electrified free jazz/post rock/sci-fusion hybrid that's truly progressive without ever seeming bloated as a result.
Tautly compelling and sonically adventurous, Vida's found a winning lineup in the Bird Show Band. Rumour has it he's currently at work on an opera. Dare we hope this quintet is in the 'orchestra' pit?


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Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017
Upcoming events in AdvancePosted Saturday, October 10, 2009, at 11:57 AM
Thanks to Corey for undertaking this new website program. Our prayer is for it to prosper. We also pray for the rain to STOP, so that Bloomfield can have a good fall festival!
* Oct. 17, Saturday - Ginger Hewitt, owner of G's Gifts & Ice Cream Parlor, is having a Fall Pumpkin Fest at her shop on the corner of Sturdivant and Ash Street in the old downtown Advance across from the old park. This will be the first year for this festival, so she says it's starting out small, with crafters, music, pumpkin spitting contests, pumpkin-chunking contests and other games for the kids. Ginger has renovated the old Advance Bank, which was built around 1904. Go inside and see the old vault!
* Advance Wise Buys, our new antique store on Sturdivant Street just down from G's, opened on Oct. 5. The antique showrooms and the piano studio are just beautiful. Owners Brenda and Wayne Voss are joined by her brother, who has been in the antique business in St. Louis for years. The Voss's daughter Vickie, who runs the studio, has been a piano repair technician for 25 years. You must go see the antique piano in the window! The store is open on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.
* Oct. 31, Saturday, is Halloween. The United Methodist Women are having a Fall Bazaar on Friday, Oct. 30, 3-6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 31, 7 a.m.- 5 p.m., Nov. 1, 12:30 p.m.- 4 p.m. Soup, baked goods, handmade aprons & crafts, knick knacks, jewelry, candles, gift boxes, cool junque. The church is located on Whitwell Street, which runs between the church and the old gym. Turn on Sturdivant Street and look right. It's the church with the dome.
* Oct. 31, Saturday, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Advance Community Library Book and yard sale - outside on the old tennis court beside the library - Highway C beside the old gym.
* Oct. 31, Saturday night (don't know times yet) - Word is that Bethel Gen. Baptist church will be having its third annual big Halloween event for the kiddies; however, they have been unable to get the old VFW building this year, so they'll have to pitch a tent out at their church, which is six miles west of Advance. That's bound to put a damper on an event which has been HUGE when held at the VFW building. The games, food, costume contests, and other events have attracted as many as 250 children from around the area. It has definitely been a community - rather than simply a church - event.
* Oct. 31, Saturday night - City Hall will be open to hand out candy to trick or treaters. The trick or treating curfew in Advance is 9 p.m. Folks should turn off their porch lights at that time.
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Great event coordination for the 31st. You can go directly from the book and yard sale to the Bazaar and then to the Halloween party!
-- Posted by FJGuy on Sun, Oct 11, 2009, at 3:03 PM
The artist put a lot of interesting detail in the painting of the red house and tree.
-- Posted by FJGuy on Sun, Oct 11, 2009, at 3:04 PM
Aha! So you've found the NSC site, have you, FJ? Good!
I believe that's a photo, but it does have an artistic quality, doesn't it?
-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, Oct 11, 2009, at 4:38 PM
It looks more like a painting than a photo to me. If it is a photo then a special lens must have been used to mute the colors.
-- Posted by FJGuy on Sun, Oct 11, 2009, at 7:16 PM
So --- is everyone gonna put up signs on the Modot poles???? I'd hate to think some sweet little old Methodist or library lady would be arrested for illegal sign posting!
One jailed inmate: "Pardon me, ma'am, what are you in for?
Little old lady: "Well, young man, I taped a bazaar sign on that there stop sign up to the highway!"
-- Posted by goat lady on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 6:33 AM
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