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Sounds like you are interested in socially-responsible investing, or SRI. SRI is sometimes referred to as "sustainable," "green," "ethical" or "mission" investing. Many of us want to grow our money, but not at the expense of others, animals or the environment. This is a strategy to avoid investing in entities that may promote harmful products, exploit their employees or citizens, pollute the environment and/or violate human rights.
The history of SRI goes back centuries, but its mainstream popularity really began in the 1960's with anti-war and civil rights activism. In recent decades the movement has gained tremendous momentum and today represents over $3 trillion in total managed assets, a clear indication that many investors like you are as concerned with the impact of their investing as with their personal financial gain.
SRI generally encompasses three focus areas:
- Investment in companies and governments believed to uphold certain values and make positive social, political and/or environmental change a priority, and divestment in entities that are believed to have a negative impact. The areas of concern are often referred to as "Environmental, Social and Governance" or ESG.
- Shareholder activism. SRI investors tend to be a passionate bunch and interested in doing their part to help create positive change. Shareholder activism aims to promote certain values and influence corporate and/or political decision-making that could have a detrimental impact. This is accomplished through a variety of methods, including conferences, broadcasting, protests, lobbying, publishing and social media.
- Community investing makes it possible for local organizations to provide financial services to low-income individuals and capital for small businesses and vital services like affordable housing, childcare and healthcare. This has become a rapidly growing aspect of SRI and involves directing capital from investors and lenders to communities, both local and global, that are underserved by traditional financial services institutions.
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Using Panasonic Capacitor Technology to Replace Tantalums
Breaking Away from the Tantalum Trap
In today's market there is an increasing need for stable voltage in countless applications but especially for the computers and digital equipment that use powerful microprocessors, such as CPU, ASIC and LSI. These processors deal with massive volumes of data and require large scale integration and faster clock speeds which call for more load current and in turn, lower operating voltages. Additionally, the market is seeing current ramp at the start of LSI operations (di/dt) becoming faster and faster.
The components industry is under pressure to provide solutions that manage the risk of unstable power. Various capacitor technologies are employed in voltage regulators such as tantalum capacitors, aluminum capacitors, and for low ESR (equivalent series resistance), polymer capacitors and multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC).
The Unstable Supply of Rare Tantalum Ore
The first technology mentioned, Tantalum capacitors, uses a rare metal (tantalum) as its primary material and because of its scarcity it suffers from cyclical shortages. Our industry has seen such shortages in 1997, 2000, and 2008. To solve this cyclical shortage of material, other types of capacitors found their way into applications which typically used Tantalums, for instance, MLCC's replaced the smaller capacitance tantalums, larger capacitance tantalums were replaced by aluminum capacitors and, in the low ESR arena, polymer aluminum capacitors are regarded as an excellent substitute. Looking ahead it appears that another shortage is coming due to the instable supply of tantalum ore, according to industry sources. This will inevitably lead to a shortage in supply and an increase in the cost of tantalum capacitors.
Conflict Minerals
"The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act," which became effective on July 21, 2010 discourages the use of conflict minerals including gold (Au), tantalum (Ta), tungsten (W) and tin (Sn). These metals were produced from the mines in the Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries which are controlled by non-government military groups, or unlawful military factions. Illegal mining profits by local military groups in the Eastern DRC leads to human rights abuses, environmental travesties, and theft from the Country's citizens. This is another consideration for increased on tantalum capacitors.
Breaking Away from Tantalum Capacitors
Tantalum capacitors have a strong foothold in the North American market, especially when compared to their use throughout the rest of the world. In the past, tantalums were chosen because there was a lack of other options available and the industry's complacency despite its notable weakness of mandatory voltage derating (in order to prevent failures). With the potential shortage and inevitable price increase; now is the time to contemplate how to break away from the tantalum trap. With an abundant supply of material, Aluminum Capacitors are one viable option; with products that include aluminum polymer capacitors and surface mount aluminum capacitors. Polymer aluminum capacitors use polymer as a solid electrolyte. They boast ESR values as low as 3mohm (@100KHz). This is because polymer offers 10,000 times better conductivity than the electrolyte found in wet aluminum technology, and 1,000 times more than MnO2 used in tantalum technology. Polymer Aluminum Capacitors have available capacitance ranges from a few microfarads to 560uF. In addition, they also offer stable capacitance against frequency and temperature changes.
Surface Mount Aluminum Capacitors cover an extensive CV range from 6.3V to 450V / 0.1uF to 6800uF, and are available for general purpose to low impedance. State-of-the-art SMT aluminum capacitors use high-conductivity electrolyte, achieving 60mohm (100KHz) ESR which surpasses regular tantalums. If we can rethink the entrenched use of tantalum capacitors and view capacitor selection from a new perspective, we will be able to achieve better designs and reduce costs at the same time.
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Panasonic Electronic Components' Surface Mount Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors are available in a broad range of voltage ratings and capacitance values. Featuring low ESR, high ripple current, long service life and operating temperatures up to 125°C, they can be used in many applications including A/V, telecommunications, automotive and industrial control equipment.
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SP-Caps are Surface Mount Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors that use a conductive polymer as their electrolyte material. SP-Caps are primarily used as input and output capacitors for DC/DC converters due to their ultra low ESR values. Panasonic SP-Caps offer excellent performance for moderate to high capacitance and voltage values at low cost.
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Here's my first attempt at a Sicilian. Turned out pretty good. I basically used Jeff V's recipe and converted to "cups" and "tsp" type measurements since I didn't own a scale at the time with a few variations. I have subsequencly purchased a scale so I can try recipes the "correct" way. The dough really rose thick when cooked. Sat in fridge for 2 days. I didn't quite get that crispyness that you can see in Jeff V's pic along the edge though. I used a spray for the pan instead of olive oil. Maybe that was the problem. Anyway, here it is.


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Paint your decals, you'll be happy you did later. The effect is much better. I stencil'd mine, let me know if you need any advice on how to do that. RafalFett has some nice templates up in the armor section.
Nice work so far!! The backplate's gonna be a hard road to overcome, but it looks like you have everything under control. Great paint so far, especially with the gauntlet to chest armor comparison.
What are you using for the backplate? You could probably make your knees with big enough pipe if you make them with two pieces. Seen some ABS and FG that were two pieces.
Looking outstanding so far. So you three leveled the paint? Silver, yellow, then the green with the masking fluid correctly applied in between?


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As more pet owners are choosing to take their four-legged friends along with them during travel by car or airplane, giving a dog confinement training may help reduce the stress it may feel while in transit. VCA Animal Hospitals reports that although on a day-to-day basis a dog may easily accompany its owner to run a few errands in the car, traveling for long distance or on an airplane can be a very different experience.
The new form of travel is likely to cause some degree of fear or anxiety in the dog, so teaching it ways to relax prior to takeoff can be key. VCA recommends crate training it as a way to give it a safe haven during the ride.
First, get the animal used to the crate by keeping its dog toys, a soft bed and even a blanket on top of it to create a cozy dark nook. Make sure to only use the area in positive situations so it feels calm there. Never scold the canine and then send it to its crate, as this could send mixed signals to the animal. Once it recognizes the space as its safe spot, you should try to put it in its crate in the car and see how it reacts. If it settles in nicely even as the car moves, then it should be OK during air travel. However, if it paces, pants or seems anxious once the car moves, it may need positive reinforcements like treats, or more time in the car before it is ready to fly.


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Do You Still Love Us This Morning?Posted by Jerry Bowles in Classical Music, Concerts, Contemporary Classical, Music Events, S21 Concert
The kids done good. I was proud. Thanks to all of you who came out–we actually had a crowd–and to all the wonderful musicians who played their hearts out. It was a great evening. David Toub has the early bird report here.
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text: @Caleb, thanks for sharing your experience and the pictures. I am sure, being physically present there would have given you an astounding feeling, especially going back in the time. Few years back I got a chance to visit US on a business trip and my colleague there gave me a ride to the Air & Space museum near to Washington Dulles airport. Apart from many other exhibits (aero planes), there was a section for NASA's Space missions. It was an astonishing experience. I can imagine the feelings you might have got when you entered in the old command center!!


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Here's how RW members rated this race (156 votes).
In short: Easy conditions compared to some years - my worst time!.....In full: .....I guess that is tempus fugit for you. Can we have a blue towel next year please?.... I'm getting too much stick down our club for using the pink one.Date of review: February 18, 2011
In short: Another great Stagger - thanks SRCIn full: Unusually the weather was really mild this year, and not too wet underfoot so no mud! The sandy bits were easy to run on as well. Ideal conditions for running this event. I liked the pink towel - I got a white one last year, so it was good to get a different colour this year and I don't think it was a 'girly' pink. Thanks to all the marshals and everyone else involved in this event - especially Ian!Date of review: February 11, 2011
In short: Very hilly and tough race but great sceneryIn full: Good weather today helped. Very congested start at several stages in the early part - lots of stopping and single file - took a while before it opened out. Lost count of the hills an stiles i had to climb over. Certainly tough and not one for time but very enjoyable if you like running off road. Unusual pink towel when you cross the line instead of a medal - not sure how that will go down when i'm at my gym...lolDate of review: February 8, 2011
In short: Another successfull stagger. Great race, well organised but hard and unforgiving x-country course. Ran slower than I wanted to - will be back next year to tackle the stagger!!Date of review: February 7, 2011
In short: Another excellent race.In full: Thankfully dry underfoot again this year though very windy. Excellent race, well organised with great marshalls. Will be back again next year and for the Stumble in the summer. Date of review: February 7, 2011
In short: well organised event, could have done it faster though.Date of review: February 6, 2011
In short: Enthusiastic and cheery marshalls added to this excellent race! Date of review: February 6, 2011
In short: FantasticIn full: Great fun , really lovely as usual ,much slower than previous years but enjoyed it a lot!Date of review: February 6, 2011
In short: beautiful scenery,well organisedIn full: fantastic event well organised.a credit to the organisers,definately be back for this oneDate of review: February 6, 2011
In short: Loads slower than last year, but I like it so much i ran it with a bad leg :)Date of review: February 13, 2010
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Former mayor offers backing
In today's politically charged atmosphere many local communities are having difficulty recruiting good qualified candidates to run for office.
In this year's village of Fredonia election, two very qualified women have come forward and are willing to give of their time and energy. I'm talking about Susan Mackay and Phyllis Jones.
Susan Mackay served previously as trustee when I served as mayor. I always could count on Susan to take on the most difficult assignments with outstanding results. Susan was instrumental in securing our Main Street grant and several other grants. She also updated our comprehensive plan and was a leader in Festivals Fredonia and the farmers market. If I needed a difficult job to be done, I knew I could count on Susan Mackay.
Phyllis Jones is another highly qualified candidate. She has served for five years as zoning board member, a thankless, yet critical position in the village. She's been very active in the Rotary and served as its president.
I have known both of these women for many years and would recommend both for the position of trustee. The village will be well served. No matter what your party affiliation, I would encourage you to cast your vote on Monday.
Frank Pagano is a former Fredonia mayor.


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'Tough week': Horror, sadness fill nation
For many of us heading back to work today, it is the start of a new week. Thank goodness.
We can all agree it was a trying week – locally and nationally. It began one week ago with the Boston Marathon. Around 3 p.m. last Monday, a city and nation watched in horror on televisions, computers and cell phones as three died and hundreds were injured in a senseless bombing. By Friday evening, those responsible died in a shootout and the other main suspect was found in a pool of blood in someone's boat.
West, Texas, was in the spotlight as well after a fertilizer plant became engulfed in flames Wednesday and exploded. The small town will never be the same.
And in Chautauqua County, we also had our share of sadness. An inexplicable double homicide in the south county has led to four arrests and a Thruway accident to our east killed three people and injured eight.
On Friday evening, President Barack Obama echoed the sentiments of many while addressing the nation. "All in all it's been a tough week," he said. "But we've seen the character of our country once more."
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Hamilton, Alexander
Alexander Hamilton 1755(?)-1804
American statesman and essayist.
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Alexander Hamilton is best known as the principal author of the classic work on constitutional government, The Federalist (1787-88). However, his enduring influence on American matters of state lies equally with his reports to Congress on the financial affairs of the Federal government. Hamilton is chiefly responsible for the design and establishment of Federal institutions, and above all for the financial system which helped consolidate the states into a nation, and then put that nation on its path toward an industrial economy. Hamilton is often considered the rival of Thomas Jefferson, for while Jefferson promoted a democratic agrarian society, and sided with France in matters of foreign policy, Hamilton foresaw a manufacturing economy founded on secure financial principles, and he sought for the United States a government closer to the British model.
Biographical Information
Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis in 1755, the illegitimate son of Rachel Faucett Lavien and James Hamilton. Orphaned early, Hamilton worked for a merchant on the island of St. Croix. His precocity and business acumen were quickly noted, and he was sent to the American colonies to be educated. Hamilton enrolled at King's College in New York (now Columbia University) but his studies were cut short by war with the British; he was appointed captain of an artillery company, and in 1777 was appointed aide-de-camp to General George Washington. In 1782 Hamilton was admitted to the New York Bar and appointed a New York delegate to the Continental Congress. He attended the Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787, and his essay-writing campaign for ratification of the Constitution resulted in The Federalist, which also contained essays by John Jay and James Madison. Hamilton's appointment as Secretary of the Treasury in 1789 prompted the reports on finance and manufacturing which Jacob E. Cooke has called Hamilton's "enduring claim to fame." Following his resignation in 1795, Hamilton practised law in New York City and continued his interest in New York and national politics. His attacks on political rival Aaron Burr resulted in the latter's challenge to a duel. He reluctantly accepted, and he met Burr on the morning of July 11, 1804 in Weehauken, New Jersey. Hamilton was mortally wounded and died the following day.
Major Works
Hamilton's most enduring work is The Federalist (1788), the series of political essays he wrote with Madison and Jay. Hamilton was responsible for two thirds of the papers, which were written under the pseudonym "Publius" to support ratification of the Constitution, but now provide a contemporary commentary on the intentions of the Founders. Taken as a whole, The Federalist is considered a classic treatise on constitutional government; it provides a theoretical foundation for the United States Constitution. In addition, in his capacity as Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton wrote a series of important and influential reports. His Report on Manufactures (1791) argued that only by establishing an industrial economy would the United States be free of reliance on foreign markets. This work, and others such as the Report on a National Bank (1790) and the Report on the Public Credit (1795), sought to expand the powers of central government. Throughout his life Hamilton was a prolific pamphleteer; under a variety of pseudonyms—Publius, Phocion, Catullus, Tully, Pacificus, Lucius Crassus—he used the press to engage in vigorous political argument. These essays, along with his legal writings, attest to Hamilton's faith in the written word as both a guarantor of civil order and a spur to action.
Critical Reception
Hamilton's writing sought and often resulted in political change. From the outset he engaged in a polemical dialog with his political rivals, and his ideas prompted strong partisan reactions of acceptance and rejection. Hamilton's success as a rhetorician is measured less in critical reviews than in the shape of American government during his lifetime and since, for the acceptance of his arguments brought on practical remedies. The success of Hamilton's ideas and the persuasiveness of his rhetoric determined, in large measure, the industrialized capitalist character of the United States, and spawned the judicial, governmental and financial institutions which sustain it. Hamilton's conservatism, his attachment to monarchy and aristocracy, and his claim that self-interest is a political constant have made him a clear target for criticism, but the widespread implementation of his ideas is testament to his capacity for compromise.
Principal Works
The Federalist (essays) 1788
*The Mind of Alexander Hamilton (essays, speeches and letters) 1958
†The Papers of Alexander Hamilton 27 vols. (essays, letters, speeches and notebooks) 1961-1987
‡Selected Writings and Speeches of Alexander Hamilton (essays, speeches and letters) 1985
* These works were written between 1757 and 1804.
†These works were written between 1768 and 1802.
‡These works were written between 1775 and 1803.
Thomas Jefferson (memoir date 1818)
SOURCE: "The Anas: Explanations of the 3 Volumes Bound in Marbled Paper," in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Saul K. Padover, The Heritage Press, 1967, pp. 107-20.
[The third president of the United States, Jefferson is best known as a respected statesman whose belief in natural rights, equality, individual liberties, and self-government found its fullest expression in the Declaration of Independence. During the early years of the American republic Jefferson, by his outspoken opposition to Federalist policies, became the leader of the Republican (now Democratic) Party. As such, he was a bitter opponent of the Federalists' chief spokesman, Hamilton. In the following excerpt from a portion of his memoirs originally published in 1818, Jefferson offers a contemptuous portrait of Hamilton.]
Hamilton was not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption. In proof of this, I will relate an anecdote, for the truth of which I attest the God who made me. Before the President set out on his southern tour in April, 1791, he addressed a letter of the fourth of that month, from Mount Vernon, to the Secretaries of State, Treasury and War, desiring that if any serious and important cases should arise during his absence, they would consult and act on them. And he requested that the Vice-President should also be consulted. This was the only occasion on which that officer was ever requested to...
(The entire section is 479 words.)
Henry Cabot Lodge (essay date 1882)
SOURCE: "Professional Life—Duel and Death," in Alexander Hamilton, 1882. Reprint by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883, pp. 237-84.
[Lodge was an American politician, historian, and author, who coedited the North American Review with Henry Adams from 1873 to 1876, and who later served as associate editor of the International Review. His works of American history and biography include A Short History of the English Colonies in America (1881), Alexander Hamilton (1882), and Daniel Webster (1883). In the excerpt below, from his biography of Hamilton, Lodge summarizes his subject's accomplishments in glowing terms.]
Hamilton is one of...
(The entire section is 870 words.)
L. H. Boutell (review date 1885)
SOURCE: "Alexander Hamilton," in The Dial, Chicago, Vol. VI, No. 61, May, 1885, pp. 5-7.
[In the excerpt below, Boutell provides a laudatory account of Hamilton's life and works.]
When New York ratified the Federal Constitution, the people of that State celebrated the event by a festival procession, in which was borne a flag with the portrait of Washington on one side and that of Hamilton on the other. The enthusiasm of the hour, which recognized these great men as foremost among the founders of the republic—as the men who knew how to build and save a State—has been justified by the political history of succeeding years, and especially by the fierce and bloody...
(The entire section is 2496 words.)
The Atlantic Monthly (review date 1887)
SOURCE: "Alexander Hamilton," in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LIX, No. CCCLI, January, 1887, pp. 115-23.
[The following is an approbatory overview of Hamilton's character and works.]
As one reads the writings of Alexander Hamilton, it is impossible to escape a sense of regret that he was not born within the limits of the thirteen colonies in British America. The most distinguished statesman of the United States should have been a son of their soil, a product of their civilization, a result of their formative influences. It was a strange freak of chance or destiny which placed so magnificent an intellect in the head of a child to be born illegitimately, of obscure...
(The entire section is 4265 words.)
Vernon Louis Parrington (essay date 1927)
SOURCE: "Political Thinkers—The English Group," in Main Currents in American Thought, An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920: The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800, Vol. I., 1927. Reprint by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1955, pp. 297-326.
[Parrington was an American historian, critic, and educator. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the first two volumes of his influential Main Currents in American Thought (1927); the third volume remained unfinished at the time of his death. In the following excerpt, Parrington presents Hamilton as a key theorist of American industrial economy.]
Of the disciplined forces that put to rout the disorganized...
(The entire section is 5955 words.)
Frederick C. Prescott (essay date 1934)
SOURCE: An introduction to Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, American Book Company, 1934, pp. xi-lxxii.
[In the excerpt below, Prescott traces Hamilton's career as both a political theorist and participant in government.]
Hamilton's interests of public concern were mainly political. His work as a lawyer was secondary; that as a financier and economist, as will appear, was subordinate to his political activity. We are here concerned, therefore, primarily with the development of his political theory and its applications.
When the outbreak of the Revolution converted Hamilton, at the age of nineteen, from a student to a soldier, his political...
(The entire section is 8376 words.)
Bertrand Russell (essay date 1934)
SOURCE: "Jeffersonian Democracy," in Freedom and Organization: 1814-1914, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1934, pp. 259-73.
[A respected and prolific author, Russell was an English philosopher and mathematician known for his support of humanistic concerns. In the following excerpt, Russell compares the political philosophies of Jefferson and Hamilton, noting that the success of the Jeffersonian Republicans ironically led to the advent of Hamiltonian economic policies in the United States.]
In the first Congress elected under the new Constitution, the business of using democratic machinery to make the rich richer was brilliantly inaugurated. During the War of...
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John Allen Krout (essay date 1957)
SOURCE: "Alexander Hamilton's Place in the Founding of the Nation," in American Themes: Selected Essays and Addresses of John Allen Krout, edited by Clifford Lord and Henry F. Graff, Columbia University Press, 1963, pp. 19-32.
[In the following essay, originally a paper delivered before a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in 1957, Krout stresses Hamilton's importance as a pioneer American economist and advocate of centralized government.]
Every successful nation-builder of modern times—Colbert in the seventeenth century, the elder Pitt in the eighteenth, Cavour and Bismarck in the nineteenth—understood the relation of economic strength to political...
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Dumas Malone (essay date 1964)
SOURCE: "Jefferson, Hamilton, and the Constitution," in Theory and Practice in American Politics, edited by William H. Nelson with Francis L. Loewenham, The University of Chicago Press, 1964, pp. 13-23.
[Malone wrote the definitive biography of Jefferson: the six-volume Jefferson and His Time (1948-1981). In the following essay, he explicates the respective roles of Jefferson and Hamilton in shaping the interpretation of Constitutional law and the role of government.]
Jefferson and Hamilton had much to do with interpreting the Constitution, but little or nothing to do with its framing. Had Jefferson been available, he could hardly have failed to be a delegate...
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Albert Furtwangler (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: "Strategies of Candor in The Federalist," in Early American Literature, Vol. XIV, No. 1, Spring 1979, pp. 91-109.
[In the following excerpt, Furtwangler provides a close analysis of language and rhetorical strategy in The Federalist.]
In the course of the eighteenth century an important shift occurred in the usage of the word "candor," so that it came to mean what it does today: forthrightness, frankness, direct honesty. Corresponding with this shift was a perceptible turn in the way readers and authors regarded one another or looked at the writings that stood between them. When a writer early in the century asked his readers to be candid in accepting...
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Forrest McDonald (essay date 1980)
SOURCE: "The Rhetoric of Alexander Hamilton" in Rhetoric and American Statesmanship, edited by Glen E. Thurow and Jeffrey D. Wallin, Carolina Academic Press and The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, 1984, pp. 71-86.
[In the following essay, originally a paper delivered at a conference in 1980, McDonald discusses Hamilton's language, his rhetorical strategies, and his literary style.]
The political rhetoric of the Founders of the American Republic has received scant attention from scholars. The relative neglect is understandable. On the one hand, the very concept of rhetoric has, in modem times, all but lost its classical...
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Russell Kirk (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "John Adams and Liberty under Law: Alexander Hamilton," in The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, revised edition, Regnery Books, 1986, pp. 75-80.
[An American historian, political theorist, novelist, journalist, and lecturer, Kirk was one of America's most eminent conservative intellectuals. His works have provided a major impetus to the conservative revival that has developed since the 1950s. In The Conservative Mind, Kirk traces the roots and canons of modern conservative thought to such important predecessors as Edmund Burke, John Adams, and Alexis de Tocqueville. In the following excerpt from the seventh (1986) edition of that work, Kirk discourses on Hamilton's...
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Further Reading
McDonald, Forrest. Alexander Hamilton: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1979, 464 p.
Complete biography and critical reading by one of the foremost modern authorities on the era of the Constitution's framing.
Miller, John C. Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in Paradox. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959, 659 p.
Focuses on Hamilton's political life, especially his dedication to American national unity.
Mitchell, Broadus. Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity, 1755-1788. New York: Macmillan, 1957, 675 p. and Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure, 1788-1804. New York:...
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Demong, Frenette look ahead to world championships
Olympic gold medalist and 2009 world champion Billy Demong is gearing up this week for what could be his final FIS Nordic Ski World Championships, which start today in Val di Fiemme, Italy, with the opening ceremonies.
The plan right now is for the Vermontville native to retire after the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, and then start focusing on his business, Demong Designs, which he runs with longtime friend Kris Cheney-Seymour, also from Vermontville. The two are based in Park City, Utah, and design skiing trails and venues.
"When I re-evaluate, it would, for sure, be quickly after the games and for a long period of time," the 32-year-old Demong said in a phone interview earlier this month, "but I see myself moving on after Sochi. I'm really focused on those Games and trying to do what it takes between now and then to be ready. … I think five Olympics will be a good long career. I'll be 33 next year at the Games and while not too old to be a skier, for sure, I think I'll be at a point where I'm actively looking at how can I translate this into a career off the snow."
That transition was aided last year when Cheney-Seymour moved to Park City so the pair could work together.
While Demong has devoted a lot of energy in recent years to setting up the framework for Demong Designs, he said the focus until Sochi will be primarily on his skiing and jumping as he looks to add to his already stellar nordic combined skiing career.
So far, this season hasn't been Demong's best. A big part of that has been that he suffered from a case of the whooping cough late last year for roughly a month. That hurt his training and kept him from being at 100 percent for much of the winter season. But he indicated that he had been feeling stronger earlier this month and hoping to return to form.
Frenette inspired by Burke
While Demong is carefully planning for what may be the final stretch of his skiing career, Saranac Lake native and 2010 Olympian Peter Frenette is trying to establish himself as a ski jumper on the World Cup circuit.
Frenette has done pretty well recently, recording some top 30 finishes this winter. He is also scheduled to compete in Italy in the ski jumping world championship competitions this week. It will be his second time at the event.
"I'm excited to jump this year in the world championships. I have been jumping pretty well and hope to keep it going for world championships," Frenette told the Enterprise by email recently. "I think my better results as of late are mainly due to me being a little more relaxed. I have been on World Cup all year and am starting to settle in."
Frenette said he's looking forward to the mixed team event, which is new in the world championships this year. The team consists of two men and two women on one team. The women ski jumping team overall is very strong, so he's optimistic about the mixed team's chances, he said.
He also took note of Tim Burke of Paul Smiths winning a silver medal in the 20-kilometer individual race at world championships in the Czech Republic last week.
"It's also very inspiring to look at Tim Burke, who just won a silver medal at world champs this week," Frenette said.


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NEW YORK -- Google's(GOOG) executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, plans to sell more than 40% of his shares in the Internet search giant.
Schmidt plans to sell 3.2 million shares of Google. If he sold all of the shares at Google's closing price Friday of $785.37, he would take home $2.51 billion.
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The $11 billion merger would create the world's largest airline. The airlines have resolved key differences on valuation and management structure, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Southeastern Asset Management has been joined by three of Dell's(DELL) largest shareholders to object to the $24.4 billion deal to take the No. 3 PC maker private.
Harris Associates, Yacktman Asset Management and Pzena Investment Management, which together hold 3.3% of Dell's outstanding stock, now plan to vote against the buyout, sources told Reuters.
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In short: Challenging, wonderful scenery, very friendly, extremely well organised... :)Date of review: October 11, 2008
In short: I still have the warm glow 5 days later!In full: An excellent race. I can only echo what the others have said about the lovely people, amazing route, surprising weather. If you only do 1 marathon in the UK do this one!Date of review: October 10, 2008
In short: What a great day, just fantastic!In full: The organisers deserve all the great praise already mentioned by others. The glorious weather (yeah really!!),stupendous scenery and a wonderful course made this my best event of the year by far.I cannot recommend this race highly enough whether it'd be your first or if you were a season marafunner.Date of review: October 9, 2008
In short: Even the sun came out for us.In full: Everything was was spot on and straight forward from registration to the post race food. The actual run was perfect, good weather, great course, scenery and some of the most friendly and helpful marshalls I've ever encountered.One little gripe, where are all the greasy spoons in Inverness?Date of review: October 9, 2008
In short: They didn't tell me about the hill at 21 milesIn full: Everyone talks about the hill at 17 miles but that was fine. The surprise at 21 miles (though shorter) nearly killed me.Glorious scenery for my first marathonDate of review: October 8, 2008
In short: Good scenery & organisationIn full: Glorious scenery, challenging route and value goodie bag. An excellent day out. My only complaint was the toilets at the start made it a bit of a rush.Date of review: October 8, 2008
In short: Brilliant from start to finishIn full: Breathtaking scenery, fab atmosphere, PB potential, great goody bag. If I ever do a marathon again, I will definitely consider this one.Date of review: October 8, 2008
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In short: Challenging! Will be back again.In full: My fourth time of running this event and I can never tire of it. The scenery, warm welcome and all around experience makes it a must for any one wishing to tackle a challenging course.Date of review: October 8, 2008
In short: Fabulous race - beautiful scenery - now if they could just flatten a couple of the hills...In full: Very friendly race in a beautiful setting, perfect weather and the best goody bag I've had this year. I had a smile on my face almost all the way, even going up the hills.Is this one of my all-time favourites? It is now.Date of review: October 7, 2008
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When Seconds Count (Or Do They?)
"No traditional business jet will take you closer to the speed of sound," promises Gulfstream in an announcement about its recently certified G650, which boasts a maximum velocity of Mach 0.925.
But wait: Cessna is claiming a top speed of Mach 0.935 for the forthcoming upgraded version of its Citation X. "At Cessna, we design, engineer, manufacture and fly the fastest civil aircraft in the world…so [customers] can work faster, more efficiently and get the job done," proclaims Scott Ernest, the company's president and CEO.
Clearly, we're not talking here about the speed difference between the Concorde and a Greyhound bus. The top speeds of the G650 and Citation X vary by Mach 0.01, which might mean the difference between traveling 612 and 618 nautical miles per hour.
Could that really be enough to produce any notable change in one's ability to "work faster, more efficiently and get the job done"? No—unless perhaps you can "get the job done" in about a minute. On a thousand-mile flight, taking a jet that travels Mach 0.01 faster might allow you to be sipping an espresso in an FBO at your destination by the time a passenger from the slower jet strolls in to order a cup. Granted, this difference could be critical if your jet ran out of caffeine and you needed an emergency shot to remain conscious, but otherwise, who cares?
As it turns out, lots of people do. That's why aircraft manufacturers make a big deal out of speed variations that, in reality, don't add up to much. They know that no shortage exists of Type-A folks who like to feel they're making the most of every minute—even when they're not.
Consider, for example, that the computer industry regularly convinces millions of consumers to add RAM, opt for speedier Internet connections or buy faster processors to cut the time it takes to boot up PCs, download files or open programs. Never mind that these upgrades can cost hundreds of dollars; that the time saved is measured in seconds; or that many of the people who save those seconds also waste hours watching inane YouTube videos.
I confess that I've often succumbed to this maximize-every-minute mindset myself. Recently, for example, I discovered a way to bypass a heavily trafficked street and cut my torturous six-minute daily commute by, oh, maybe 30 seconds. That might not sound like cause for celebration but, somehow, it made me feel good. On some level, I think, I sensed that half a minute twice a day would add up. And I was right: after only a week, I'd saved enough time to watch another stupid YouTube video.
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Flexible Learning Year had positive effect on test results
Springfield School Superintendent Keith Kottke cited the positive effects of the Flexible Learning Year (FLY) Consortium as part of the reason for his school's higher 2013 MCAIII test results released Monday by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE).
He said Springfield and Sleepy Eye being part of the FLY has enabled them to share best practices.
"I think it's been very productive for both schools," Kottke said. "Coaches do it too. We'll break down the data and go from there to improve."
Sleepy Eye High School Principal Shane Laffen said his school's 2013 seventh- and eighth-grade MCAIII test scores were higher than last year.
"Plus, we had a lot of students who were just a (test) question or two away from meeting or exceeding standards," Laffen said.
Sleepy Eye led area schools with 68.4 percent of fourth graders exceeding math test standards. Springfield was next at 63.3 percent. Springfield led sixth-grade math test takers with 67.6 percent exceeding standards. Sleepy Eye was next at 53.1 percent.
"Some of our math test scores are the highest since we began MCAIII (tests, three years ago)," said Kottke. "Our upper elementary scores were very good. We're a strong reading school. Our district average was quite good too."
Springfield led area schools in third grade MCAIII reading test results with 56.5 percent of its students meeting standards. Meanwhile, 30.4 percent of Sleepy Eye third graders exceeded standards.
Fourth grade test results were very close with 53.1 percent of Springfield students meeting standards and 52.6 percent of Sleepy Eye students meeting standards.
Springfield led area reading test-takers in the seventh grade with 49 percent meeting standards and 19.6 percent exceeding standards.
In 2013, students took new tests for the first time that were based on more challenging reading standards Minnesota adopted to help ensure students are better prepared after graduation, according to an MDE news release.
Last year, MCAIII math test takers were given the option of taking an online test up to three times and using their highest score. This year, the state's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) flexibility waiver allowed students just one test, a likely reason for slightly lower math scores this year, according to MDE.
Kottke said he favored students taking up to three tests and made it known to Education Commissioner Brenda Casselius.
Twenty-two of the 25 school districts applied and received Commissioner of Education approval for a three-year FLY term beginning with the 2013-14 school year. Area schools in the plan include Sleepy Eye, Springfield, Comfrey, Mountain Lake, Windom, Westbrook, Walnut Grove and Redwood Valley.
Allowing FLY schools to begin up to two weeks before Labor Day was intended to increase student achievement with shared staff training and development and boosting collaboration between schools and regional colleges.
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The article also stated that one major league player had also purchased clinic documents from a former clinic employee so that they could be destroyed. That player was not identified until Friday, when the two people said it was Rodriguez.
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Tiger is occasionally served in restaurants in Hanoi and Beijing, where rare dishes denote status.from their pharmacopeia in 1993, skins still sell for up to $35,000, and organs and body parts — bones, whiskers, eyeballs, penises, paws, claws — are snapped up as souvenirs or ingredients of traditional Asian medicine. Tiger is occasionally served at restaurants in Hanoi and Beijing, where rare dishes denote high status. In Russia, the uber-wealthy have acquired a taste for tiger pelts as home décor; in Sumatra, magic spells require tiger parts.
The level of assault on natural areas [in Asia] is unprecedented in human history."projects were launched to boost power production. For tigers, this was bad news. John Seidensticker, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian's National Zoo who has been working on these issues for decades, describes development across Asia as devastating for wildlife, particularly for the large, connected landscapes necessary for big cats. "Roads are horrible ecological traps for tigers," he said. "The level of assault on natural areas [in Asia] is unprecedented in human history. Tigers need big areas. That's where the rub is."
Tiger landscapes function as critically important watersheds serving 832 million people.educational campaigns; and develop long-term financing schemes to pay for it all. The draft document outlining the program is a manifesto for a new paradigm of conservation, seeking to counter the notion that this might be another single-species conservation project. The program seeks to protect the tiger as the apex predator in its ecosystem and as an emblem of all biodiversity in that system. Protection of the tiger, it states, entails protection of tiger landscapes, which also function as critically important watersheds serving 832 million people. Conservation, the program's author's insist, "is no longer a fringe concern."
Critics point out the World Bank has a checkered history when it comes to conservation projects.opportunities in India and China while "simultaneously green-washing its warty environmental visage." At the Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, Karanth said that consultants made away with much of the money as 12,000 timber trees were smuggled from the reserve and tiger and elephant poaching rose. "Despite huge investments," he concluded, the Bank's project "damage[d] wildlife and habitats without increasing local community support."
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The path to our cure is not found in a race to be the first to dip into the stirred waters of a porticoed pool, but through advancing more deeply into Jesus, the Living Water.Â
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FALL RIVER, MA (Catholic Online). Today in the Gospel, Jesus compassionately asks a man, crippled and sick for 38 years, "Do you want to be well?"
At first glance, it's a strange question. It's like asking a starving man if he'd like a sandwich, a man in prison if he'd like a pardon, a post-partum woman if she'd like to hold her newborn.
The answer is totally obvious: of course the man would want to be made well. He was, after all, at the Pool of Bethesda to participate in a superstitious race with the blind, lame, crippled to be the first one into the pool when the waters were stirred, believing that that was the path to be restored to wellness.
But Jesus asked the question at a deeper level, trying to solicit the man's deep desires, so that the man's will would be involved in the cure. The man didn't respond the way we would have thought he would, with an emphatic "Yes, I obviously would like to be made well!" Instead, he acknowledged that he needed help to be cured - he needed someone, he thought, to place him into the pool when the water became "alive."
Jesus had come to help and cure him with another type of living water, the living water enlivened by the Holy Spirit he had announced to the Samaritan woman in the encounter immediately preceding the scene in the Gospel.
Jesus' words to this man are almost identical to what he said to the paralytic he healed in Capernaum, "Rise, take up your mat and walk," because there is a great similarity between the miracles. In Capernaum, Jesus first forgave the paralyzed man's sins. In Jerusalem, Jesus told the man, "Lord, you are well. Do not sin any more." In each miracle, Jesus did not cure merely a physical paralysis but a spiritual one due to sin.
And so the Lord asks us today, this Lent, this Year of Faith, "Do you want to be well?," and he intends something far greater than physical health. He wants to free us from sin. In fact, he's already done it once before - on the day of our baptism - but he wants us to live this reality and not to "sin any more." He wants us, in fact, to recognize the power of our baptism and to grow in the reality of the living water that cured us.
This type of growth is what the first reading from Ezekiel points to in prophecy. In a vision, God brought Ezekiel to the Temple in Jerusalem and pointed out to him that from the eastern side of the temple a trickle of water was flowing down toward the Judean desert. He brought him a thousand cubits forward - about 500 yards - and the water was now ankle deep. He then journeyed another thousand cubits and the water was knee deep. After another 500 yards, the water was up to his waist. After journeying a thousand cubits more, it was over his head and the only way he could enter it was through swimming. And what the water did was that it gave life in the desert wherever it flowed and even brought the Dead Sea - which is 20 times saltier than the Atlantic and therefore too saline for fish to survive in it - back to life and fish began to flourish anew in it.
This was a prophecy about what's supposed to happen in baptism when we enter into the stream of water flowing from side of the true Temple - Christ's body - on the Cross, the blood and water that is the source of the sacramental life of the Church. On the day of our baptism, we're sprinkled, so to speak, with the living water who is Christ.
But we're supposed to advance in that water, walking one cubit at a time deeper into our communion with him, so that at the time we begin to pray at home it's up to our ankles, by our first Confession and holy Communion it's up to our knees, by our confirmation, it covers our loins, and then we continue to grow so that we're basically swimming in Christ, as he begins to give life to everything in us and around us that is dead, everything that's crippled, so that even things like the Dead Sea can be given a resurrection in Him.
The question for us is: Is this the story of our life? Has our life been one of continual growth in faith, in our friendship with Christ, in loving worship of God and service of others? If we're honest, many of us will admit that many times, rather than walk cubit by cubit with the Lord into deeper communion, we've taken various detours and gone off into the desert on our own to search out oases real or imaginable that at least temporarily have become more important to us than our relationship with the Lord.
In this Year of Faith, regardless of whether we've always lived in our baptismal graces and nourished them or whether we've wandered and squandered them, all of us have a chance, the great blessing, to get back fully into the stream of living water and begin to head once more, cubit by cubit, in the path that will lead us to the fullness of life here and eternal life with God. Jesus asks us, "Do you want to be made well?"
But this cure through growth in faith doesn't happen to us by osmosis. It doesn't occur but just "wishing" to grow in faith. We have to make resolutions and then act to correspond to God's grace. Jesus offers us the living water but we need to walk in it, to live in it, to swim in it.
That means, first, that we regularly partake of what the early saints called the Sacrament of "second baptism," which is the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, in which Christ bathes us anew in living blood and water flowing from our side and restores our soul to its baptismal beauty and dignity.
But it is also meant to happen through our Lenten practice of prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
This is one of the treasures that Benedict XVI taught us during his pontificate. In his 2011 Lenten letter, he stressed that a "particular connection binds baptism to Lent," a connection that the Second Vatican Council's document on the liturgy exhorted all pastors in the Church to accentuate, by making greater use "of the baptismal features proper to the Lenten liturgy."
The purpose of Lent, Benedict taught, is to revivify our baptismal entrance into Christ's death by putting to death whatever in us is mortal so that we may share more fully in Christ's risen life. "Baptism," he insisted, "is not a rite from the past, but the encounter with Christ that informs the entire existence of the baptized, imparting divine life and calling for sincere conversion; initiated and supported by Grace, it permits the baptized to reach the adult stature of Christ."
Lent helps us to advance cubit-by-cubit in the graces of baptism.
"By immersing ourselves into the death and resurrection of Christ through the Sacrament of Baptism, we are moved to free our hearts every day from the burden of material things, from a self-centered relationship with the 'world' that impoverishes us and prevents us from being available and open to God and our neighbor. .Through the traditional practices of fasting, almsgiving and prayer, which are an expression of our commitment to conversion, Lent teaches us how to live the love of Christ in an ever more radical way.
This radical path begins with fasting, which "takes on a profoundly religious significance for the Christian: we learn to overcome selfishness in order to live in the logic of gift and love. . Far from being depressing, [fasting] opens us ever more to God and to the needs of others, thus allowing love of God to become also love of our neighbor (cf. Mk 12: 31)."
The journey continues with almsgiving. The idolatry of goods, Benedict writes, "not only causes us to drift away from others, but divests man, making him unhappy, deceiving him, deluding him without fulfilling its promises, since it puts materialistic goods in the place of God, the only source of life. . The practice of almsgiving is a reminder of God's primacy and turns our attention towards others, so that we may rediscover how good our Father is, and receive his mercy."
Finally, by prayer, "We nourish the itinerary of faith initiated on the day of our Baptism. . When we pray, we find time for God, . to enter into that intimate communion with Him . opening us to the hope that does not disappoint, eternal life.
In sum, "through the personal encounter with our Redeemer and through fasting, almsgiving and prayer, the journey of conversion towards Easter leads us to rediscover our Baptism." It's a time to "renew our acceptance of the Grace that God bestowed upon us at that moment, so that it may illuminate and guide all of our actions. What the Sacrament signifies and realizes, we are called to experience every day by following Christ in an ever more generous and authentic manner, . so that we may immerse ourselves [in Jesus' death and resurrection] and possess eternal life."
This is the path toward our total cure.
Father Roger Landry is pastor of St. Bernadette Parish in Fall River, MA and national chaplain of Catholic Voices USA. His homilies and articles are found on catholicpreaching.com.
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Debates of March 31st, 2009
House of Commons Hansard #37 of the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was cuts.
- Question Period
- Canadian Human Rights Commission
- Government Response to Petitions
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Committees of the House
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Business of Supply
- Auditor General of Canada
- Environment and Sustainable Development
- Orangeville Lions Club
- Community Leaders
- Desjardins Tourism Awards
- Community Builder
- Volunteer Firefighters
- Family Services Centre
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Visa Requirement
- The Economy
- Navigable Waters Protection Act
- Forestry Industry
- Quebec Bridge
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Automotive Industry
- Goods and Services Tax
- The Economy
- Finance
- Employment Insurance
- Taxation
- Public Safety
- The Environment
- Correctional Service Canada
- Goods and Services Tax
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Employment Insurance
- Afghanistan
- Aerospace Industry
- Employment Insurance
- The Environment
- Presence in Gallery
- Point of Order
- Business of Supply
- Business of the House
- Business of Supply
- Official Languages Act
Community Builder
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Paul Dewar Ottawa Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the contributions of Jack McCarthy to our community in Ottawa. On April 16, Ottawa will celebrate 20 years of Jack's work as the executive director of the Somerset West Community Health Centre.
Jack is a community builder. He is passionate for social justice. He believes in people and empowers them. At his core, he embodies a humanitarian commitment to all, regardless of race, class or gender. As a result, Jack has led our community by bringing a diversity of voices together from right across Ottawa.
From the time he began his career as a child protection worker, his advocacy for affordable housing, education, employment and health promotion has made our community stronger.
Jack embodies the notion of thinking globally and acting locally. He has used his experience in community development to benefit thousands of people here and abroad.
We thank Jack McCarthy for his commitment to our community and for making our community a healthier place to live.
Volunteer Firefighters
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Candice Bergen Portage—Lisgar, MB
Mr. Speaker, this morning I met with Fire Chief Andy Thiessen of the Morden Fire & Rescue. Fire Chief Thiessen is in Ottawa this week for the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs' annual government relations week.
The CAFC is a national organization representing more than 1,000 chief fire officers in all Canadian provinces and territories.
More than 85% of the firefighters are volunteers. Volunteer firefighters in Canada fight fires, tend to the injured, search for missing people, provide emergency medical treatment, and teach public safety.
I stand today in the House to recognize the tremendous contribution that volunteer firefighters make in communities like my riding of Portage—Lisgar, keeping us safe in our homes and communities. They give of their time and energy and put their lives on the line for the sake of their friends, neighbours and all Canadians.
Family Services Centre
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Mauril Bélanger Ottawa—Vanier, ON
Mr. Speaker, the national capital region family services centre is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year.
Sister Micheline Beaulne, Father Jean Monbourquette, Father Benoît Garceau, Sister Claire Malette, Brother Maurice Lapointe and Reverend Father Roger Guindon worked together to set up the family services centre, whose mission is to create community support networks. Every day, it touches the lives of many francophone families in the region and the riding of Ottawa—Vanier. One of the centre's guiding principles is that a society's well-being depends on families.
To mark the anniversary, I would like to salute the nearly 200 dedicated volunteers who continue to make the centre's services available. They are providing the kind of exceptional community support that deserves to be in the spotlight. Congratulations to them all.
Citizenship and Immigration
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Paul Calandra Oak Ridges—Markham, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express both my anger and frustration as a father of two young daughters at the incredible decisions made at the citizenship and immigration committee today.
At a meeting earlier this month, opposition members voted unanimously to recommend that the Government of Canada not deport any individual to Sri Lanka regardless of criminal convictions. My motion today would have rectified the committee's previous error and would have shown all Canadians that we are serious about public safety. However, again, the official opposition voted unanimously against my motion to deport individuals convicted of serious crimes in Canada.
According to the Liberals, people like Panchalingam Nagalingam, implicated in the fatal shooting of two teenagers, a meat cleaver attack, the trashing of a community centre, threats, assaults and credit card theft would be allowed to remain in Canada. The Liberals talk tough on crime when the cameras are on but show by their votes that indeed they continue to put the rights of criminals ahead of victims.
Will the Liberal leader ask his MPs to support Canadians, or will he continue to sit back, smirk and put his hands in the air--
Citizenship and Immigration
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
Order. The hon. member for Trois-Rivières.
Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Paule Brunelle Trois-Rivières, QC
Mr. Speaker, the leader of the Liberal Party has boasted that he placed the government on probation. And yet, it seems that he is incapable of influencing its decisions in order to help workers. The cuts at the CBC are the most recent example.
When this government's lack of flexibility forced the CBC to cut 800 jobs, the Liberal Leader mildly lamented the situation and hoped that the decade of underfunding imposed on the corporation by the Liberals had been forgotten.
It should be noted that, under the Liberals, the CBC's budget, in constant dollars, decreased by $200 million annually, from $900 million to $708 million.
As long as the Liberal leader, through his inaction, continues to endorse the measures adopted by this Conservative government, he must assume responsibility for his complicity.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Tilly O'Neill-Gordon Miramichi, NB
Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this time to mark a very special occasion in our country's history.
Sixty years ago today, Canada was made complete when Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation. In the past 60 years we have grown together as a strong and united country, a country that we all should be very proud of.
The people of Newfoundland and Labrador have made a tremendous amount of contributions to Canada. Their rich culture and passion for life is sewn in the fabric of this country. Without Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada would not be what it is today: the greatest country in the world.
On behalf of all members of the House, we wish to congratulate the people of Newfoundland and Labrador on the 60th anniversary of joining Canada.
Visa Requirement
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Borys Wrzesnewskyj Etobicoke Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am proud that after three long years of informing, petitioning and cajoling the Conservative government, my Motion No. 247 and its previous version, Motion No. 99, calling on the government to lift visitor visa requirements for Croatia was finally implemented.
Twenty years ago, the Iron Curtain came down, and two days ago Canada's visa curtain around Croatia came down as well. It is immensely gratifying that this Easter will be the first that families and friends from Croatia will be able to visit their loved ones in Canada and all it will take is the purchase of an airline ticket.
It is rare for the contents of an opposition private member's motion to be adopted in its entirety by the government, and I am proud that for the second time the Conservative government has seen fit to implement one of my motions.
I am humbled by the support I received in the thousands of communications and petitions from individuals belonging to Croatian Canadian parishes and organizations from across Canada. Together we were many and we made it happen.
The Economy
Statements By Members
March 31st, 2009 / 2:10 p.m.
Jim Abbott Kootenay—Columbia, BC
Mr. Speaker, someone just wrapped up his "telling them what they want to hear" town hall series out in B.C.
Someone called the forestry sector one of the "basement industries". Someone obviously wants to abandon the resource sector.
Not only does someone not care about resource jobs, he also wants to lose the auto sector. In B.C. he told his audience he did not want to spend money to stabilize the manufacturing industry of southern Ontario. Someone would not dare say that to the communities in southwestern Ontario.
Someone may have dreams of killing the resource sector in B.C., or the auto industry in Ontario, but his real dream is to impose a job-killing carbon tax.
Since first suggesting the idea decades ago, someone has championed the carbon tax idea in the Liberal leadership and during the last campaign. If imposed by now, someone would have crippled the Canadian economy.
Someone, the Liberal leader, is bad for Canada's economy.
Navigable Waters Protection Act
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Jean Crowder Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
Mr. Speaker, constituents in Nanaimo—Cowichan were dismayed when changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act were passed.
The Conservative government is using the excuse of removing red tape to grant the transport minister unprecedented powers to decide which waterways are worth protecting and which are not.
It is unacceptable that one individual has the sole authority to approve the construction of a dam, boom, or causeway. This is undemocratic and may cause irreparable damage to our precious lakes and rivers.
Environmental triggers within the NWPA to ensure a proper assessment prior to starting a construction project over or next to one of Canada's waterways were replaced by the unilateral authority of the transport minister to grant approval for works without any parliamentary review or public disclosure.
The long-term consequences of any given project need to be carefully considered and weighed against the benefits before it can it can be allowed to go ahead. Navigation and environmental rights should not be abandoned in the name of expediency.
In B.C. we know badly designed dams destroy salmon runs. The transport minister does not have any responsibility to protect salmon habitat, and with no public disclosure we will not know a decision has been made that will affect salmon until it is too late.
Forestry Industry
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Jacques Gourde Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, QC
Mr. Speaker, the leader of the Liberal Party recently declared in a flippant tone that the forestry and logging industries are low end or basement industries, as he likes to call them. How can an intelligent person say such a thing? When he tours such Quebec regions as Abitibi, in Lac-Saint-Jean or the Saguenay, will he tell workers to get out of their basements and, like him, see the light?
The member for Etobicoke—Lakeshore seems to look down on Canada's forestry and logging industries from a great height. On this side of the House, we believe that the forestry industry is an important primary industry in our economy and not a low end one.
The Liberal leader has clearly demonstrated that he is more at ease in an ivory tower than in the real world with real workers in the resource regions of Quebec and Canada.
Quebec Bridge
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Pascal-Pierre Paillé Louis-Hébert, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec or CMQ recently reiterated the request made in 2003 by the mayor at the time, Mr. Allier, to the Canadian Minister of Transport that it honour its commitment to completely refurbish the Quebec bridge. Here is the gist of the resolution passed on February 26, 2009.
If the work is not completed, the bridge will continue to deteriorate, and the cost to repair and maintain it will continue to increase. Although an independent firm had estimated the cost at $63 million, that number has since increased as a result of environmental requirements that must be taken into account as well as additional costs associated with the poor condition of the bridge structure.
Furthermore, the CMQ pointed out that the Government of Canada invested $440 million to repair the Jacques-Cartier, Champlain and Victoria bridges, while the Quebec bridge is being left in a very poor state.
This government must reassume ownership of the Quebec bridge, complete the restoration and, once and for all, show a little respect for this "national historic site".
Newfoundland and Labrador
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Todd Russell Labrador, NL
Mr. Speaker, 60 years ago today, just before midnight, Canada gained its tenth province and the people of Newfoundland and Labrador became Canadian citizens. Today is the anniversary of our confederation with Canada.
The past six decades have brought great change. There have been ups and downs. However, on balance we are richer for being part of Canada, and Canada is richer for our presence.
In my riding of Labrador, the decision was clear. Voting in 1948, for only the third time in our history, my ancestors achieved a long-held dream. With 80% support, we chose Canada and we still do.
March 31, 1949, gave new meaning to our country's motto: A mari usque ad mare, "From Sea to Sea".
When the day breaks over Canada, it breaks a little earlier than it did on July 1, 1867, and we are all better because of it.
On this date we became part of this great country, this united country, the best country in the world. On this date, Canada became complete.
Vive le Canada.
Automotive Industry
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Daryl Kramp Prince Edward—Hastings, ON
Mr. Speaker, hypocrisy is defined as a condition of people pretending to be something they are not.
For example, let us say one pretends to care about the auto industry while in Ontario, but when in British Columbia one tells people that one does not support the auto industry. That is hypocrisy.
Let us say that one is the father of the job killing carbon tax and campaigns on it, but then tries to distance oneself from it. That is hypocrisy.
Or if one pretends to support the seal hunt and then allows one of the senators and top advisers to work to ban it. That could be hypocrisy.
If one signs one's name to a letter calling for a coalition government with a separatist party and then later lets on that it did not happen. That is hypocrisy.
It is clear. Based on the definition and the examples given, the leader of the Liberal Party suffers from that condition.
Automotive Industry
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
The hon. member may find himself suspended for making statements if he persists in ignoring the ruling I made the other day. I know that may cause some disappointment.


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Hawker Beechcraft Premier I
In 2006, Hawker Beechcraft (HBC) introduced the Premier IA to near-universal acclaim: Here was a composite-fuselage light jet that could be flown single-pilot at speeds up to 450 knots with a near-standup cabin with room for six to seven passengers and a range of nearly 1,500 nautical miles, depending on load. Compared with the Premier, the original Cessna Citation CJ looked like a lawn tractor and was slower to boot.
The IA sold relatively well for a long time and was supposed to be replaced last year by an updated model dubbed the "Hawker 200." That was, until HBC ran off the financial rails, eventually filing for bankruptcy protection earlier this year.
The IA was itself a successor to the Premier I, the first business jet Raytheon designed from the wheels up. (The company acquired its Beechjet and Hawker models, except the 4000, from other manufacturers.) Announced in 1995 at an introductory price of $4.5 million, the Premier I was delivered to customers from 2001 to 2005. The airplane features a rigid and lightweight rolled graphite, epoxy laminate and honeycomb fuselage mated to highly swept aluminum wings. The fuselage is manufactured on a giant automated computer-controlled machine that dramatically cuts production time. Boeing is using this advanced technology to make the fuselage barrels on the new 787.
The Premier's composite fuselage is incredibly strong. Several thousand people got to see just how strong when one crashed on landing at the Experimental Aircraft Association's Oshkosh air show in 2010. The pilot and passenger, although injured, walked away; in just about any other jet, the outcome would likely have been far worse.
The Premier's composite construction yields a fuselage with 15 percent more interior volume that is 20 percent lighter and up to three times stronger than comparable aluminum structures. The cabin is substantially wider and taller than anything else in this class.
On the outside, the I and IA look virtually the same and they have the same engines. That's where some of the similarities end. The Premier I, to put it politely, had issues. Some were cultural, others were physical.
All Premiers have the FAA designation RB-390. The R stands for Raytheon, the B for Beechcraft. Raytheon bought Beechcraft in 1980 and sold it in 2007. The Raytheon purchase did many good things for Beechcraft. It brought more professional management and financial stability, but it also instilled a risk-averse culture, a rigid management style and a laser-like focus on the bottom line that took no prisoners. Raytheon introduced innovative and game-changing aircraft such as the Starship, Premier and Hawker 4000 with much fanfare only to become slaves to cash-flow aerobics. The models languished in development, were sent to market before they were ready and took too long to fix after they were field-tested by unappreciative, paying customers. Unfortunately, the ill will this created lingers in the minds of some airplane buyers to this day.
While you expect low-serial-number aircraft to have a few teething problems, the Premier I had more than its share. Cabin ceiling panels, attached with Velcro, came loose in flight and smacked passengers on the head. The rigid composite fuselage tended to amplify cabin noise. Sensors malfunctioned, prompting rejected takeoffs and precautionary landings. De-icers died. Hydraulics leaked. Air conditioners overheated and failed. Thrust levers stuck at high altitude. Automatic lift-dump spoilers (control surfaces that provide aerodynamic braking) failed to deploy on landing, sending several airplanes off runway ends.
The manufacturer remedied these problems over time through a series of service bulletins and mandated and optional modifications. The company redesigned the lift-dump system–which originally relied on an automatic switch for activation–so that the pilot could manually activate it more quickly with a handle in the cockpit.
Early Premiers encountered other problems, mainly because some of the pilots who flew them were new to jets and brought bad habits to the cockpit, such as landing too fast or landing with a tail wind. These are things you shouldn't do in any airplane, but you can get away with them on occasion in a turboprop because the pitch of the propeller blades can be reversed on landing, substantially decreasing stopping distances.
Bugs aside, with the proper training a single pilot can operate the Premier safely and HBC estimates that about 50 percent are flown this way. All Premiers feature Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 glass-panel avionics and Williams International high-efficiency FJ44-2A turbofan engines. The engines propel the Premier to 41,000 feet in just 23 minutes and burn around 130 gallons an hour–for the pair–while the aircraft cruises at 450 knots. As fuel burns off, pilots must take care to reduce engine power settings to prevent the aircraft from exceeding its maximum design speed. The Premier performs well on short runways and can easily use 4,000-footers. With seats full, it has a 700- to 800-nautical-mile range. With full fuel, the airplane can carry a pilot and two passengers 1,200 nautical miles with comfortable IFR reserves. Most operators fly the aircraft lightly loaded with throttles to the wall: Climb high quickly and go fast.
The Premier's cabin features a beverage center with snack, ice and beverage drawers and room for hot and cold beverage jugs. Six individual executive seats slide, swivel and recline. An electric-flushing chemical toilet seat is in the back. You can equip the cabin with entertainment options such as a DVD player and Airshow and the external baggage compartment can hold 400 pounds.
The engines of aircraft enrolled in the Williams Total Assurance Program benefit from an increased time-between-overhaul interval of 4,000 hours (compared with 3,500 for those not enrolled). HBC offers a Support Plus program that covers all scheduled and unscheduled airframe and systems maintenance for $280 per flight hour (annual minimum 200 hours).
A 10-year-old Premier I runs about $1.7 million and updating the avionics, repainting the exterior and putting new fabric in it will set you back another $300,000. Considering that a new Premier IA rings the register for $7 million and goes no faster, that's a bargain. The airplane's early history may have been troubled, but you can't argue with its present value.
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Hopefully the newer Premiers were actually better built. I took care of RB-30(actually #11 off the line since they had to stop production and on restart pushed those already started off to the side to make way for the newer version) for a couple of years and was not impressed from a maintenance and design standpoint. I can remember sitting in Flightsafety the first day and the instructor writting on the board "Don't ask me why because I don't know". It wasn't a knock on his knowledge of the material, it was a swipe at the engineering of the plane. They threw together a bunch of ideas reaching from the Starship to the Beechjet to make this plane. If you had worked on either of those two planes then you saw the same issues/problems being carried over to the Premier. There are some good ideas on the plane but overall, if you've worked on other brands, you just look at the plane and shake your head. I always thought if Beech got with Cessna they could make a hell of a plane, but only if Cessna had the lead.
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