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Welcome to TeaDay, everyone. Please join us and share what is in your cup today, all day! Also jump into the topic of the day!
Yesterday we discussed what we enjoy doing during our tea life. Please continue to discuss yesterday's topic.
Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic. KYmidwife offered up today's topic, an interesting twist on the temperature aspect of tea. "I am curious about preferred drinking temperatures. We hear mostly about hot or iced... I am curious about everything in between. I am just wondering if, as tea cools, people enjoy it more, enjoy it less, enjoy the changes in flavor, or if they just ice it or discard it instead of finishing it." So there you have it. All about drinking temperature ... anything goes.
I am looking forward to sharing TeaDay with everyone today, regardless of the temperature of our tea!

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Although Altus is the smallest campus in the Wayland system, we have great success stories.
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Hello all. Recently I cut soda from my diet (not entirely, still drink 3-4 per week, but a drastic cutback from where I was) in favor of tea. I drink it at restaurants and have been upgrading tea-bags (went from cheap Lipton teabags to the silver needle ones). The ipton teas are good, but I can taste the lack of quality, so I purchased the InginuiTEA starter set from Adagio. I'm trying all sorts of teas, but for now I'm just going to stick with the black Adagio sampler. So, onto my questions:
1) Recommendations for getting cleaner water? I just run the faucet for about 20-30 seconds, but I'd like a way to get the best water I can and not a chalky taste I tend to get with it now.
2) Good teas to start off with? I have the black sampler, but I'm willing to try anything (as long as it's affordable).
3) Good "starter" teaware? I have a white ceramic cup similar to the glass one Adagio has, but I want something...umm..."fancier" if you will. I've seen some clay sets that are really nice on the forums here, but don't really kow much else about where to go.
Those are all I've got for now, thanks in advance
[EDIT] One more question, are there any recommendations you guys can give for a tea on the go? I can't always guarantee I'll have the time to sit down in the morning and drink my tea, so is there something like a portable coffee mug (ya know, those tall metal ones you find at Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts etc) I should get for my tea?


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SARANAC LAKE – The village of Saranac Lake does not own a small parking lot at the corner of Bloomingdale Avenue and Broadway that it tried to sell in late June.
Village Mayor Clyde Rabideau said in a press release that the village recently learned the small, seldom-used parking lot next to the No. 1 Chinese restaurant is owned by the state.
"The sliver of land accommodates three vehicles and dumpsters from nearby businesses and was maintained by the village for decades because of the belief that it owned it after the state DOT improved the state-owned highways on each side many years ago," Rabideau wrote in the release.
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In preparing paperwork for the transaction, however, village Attorney Charles Noth reportedly discovered that the state had never conveyed the parcel to the village and is still its apparent owner.
Rabideau said he subsequently asked village Manager John Sweeney to immediately inform the Leahys, who live next to the lot on Broadway. The mayor said the village will also notify the state of its findings and ask it to either maintain the lot or convey it to the village so it can be re-conveyed to the Leahys, if possible.
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Stock market hit 14,000 today - though for a very brief time. Historical record highs that seem to just keep on going.
Earnings season is currently underway, so we're one key earnings miss from a decent drop. Could be a rough ride over the next few days, but man, this market has been out of control.
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Egypts Arab Spring has ended...in Military Rule
Cast your minds back to Hosni Mubarack, President of Egypt, Pro-Western Dictator, Peaceful boarder with Jewish Israel, and Pretender in terms of Islamic States.
But the People did not want him. The clustered in the Square and demanded his head on a platter, promised reforms were simply not enough. The Western Super-Powers abandoned him, Barack Obama, Fourty Fourth President of the Federal Republic of The United States of America, rattled on about Democrasy and Liberation Whilst British Conservatism reminded the world that, Pro-West though Mubarack had been, he was also a dictator, boo, hiss.
Then the People spoke, and they ellected with one voice, The Muslim Brotherhood. Israels Skin crawled as for the first time a Hardened Islamic Egypt put her in her place. Barack Obama, appologised profusely to the Palestinians, and David Cameron barked on about some two state peace process which didnt involve Benyamin Netanyahu building on the west bank...and just to prove the point Palestine was recognised as its own Soverignty by the United Nations.
...and then disastor....The people suddenly realized they didnt like an Islamic State after all, far too many rules, much to much oppression.
There was much Knashing of teeth...and more crying in the national square...and hey-ho a military juncta takes control.
ooops...soo much for freedom, the democratic vote and...YES, The United State and The United Kingdom just lost a friend, and ended up with a country going throw writhing turmoil, only to rise as another dictatorship.
Jolly good show. Shame its a true story.
I just saw this on tv when I got home! Yesterday, Morsi was saying, "I'm not going anywhere!"
Today: Hey, Morsi, what was that?...your Muslim Brotherhood *** being overthrown that's what!
Did you see the crowds in the street, Dave...incredible! But why didn't they take to the streets like this immediately after his election, what took them so long?! The way I understood it, Morsi was voted in by those for/in the Muslim Brotherhood not those that were in the streets during the "Arab Spring" calling for democracy and Mubarak's ousting.
Did you hear about Obama sending tear gas to Egypt?:
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No...as I understand it, these were free and fair ellections.
Those people DID vote the Muslim Brotherhood to power...The problem they had was, once the Muslim Brotherhood was in power, they wanted to change Egypt from being a Country with Islam as its main religion...to an Islamic State...now an Islamic State is something alltogether different...because in an Islamic State the Religious Officials are ABOVE the Political Officials, AND ABOVE the Armed Forces...and they enforce full Sharia Law...which is also extended to Tourists...which of course is vital for Egypt.
Morsi was in the process of trying to push through an Egyptian Constituion which would make the above all happen...when the people who Ellected him changed their minds.
Well...Technically speaking, The Muslim Brotherhood are the Legitamate Authority on a democratic basis...you dont overthrow a Government...you have to vote them out of power...or else it is technically speaking an UNAUTHOURISED and NON DEMOCRATIC measure...often known as Rebellion.
The truth is very simple...it doesnt matter who gets democratically voted...because the TRUE power is with the Military....where the comanding officers are NOT ellected.
"The People" did NOT remove Morsi...that was done by a renegade armed force.
The truth of the matter, as I said all along...was that the West made a grave mistake in abandoning Hosni Mubarack...who had the power to keep control, was moderate but not fanatical, and was pro-west.
It just shows how blind the people are...I mean...if they've had a long and troubled past...how does that change with an ellected leader...if the ellected leader must still owe alligience to the Military
Thats what I dont like! I'd rather have a Monarchy, at least they have legitamate right through birth...rather then an unacountable, secretive and corrupt bunch of senior officers....We speak from expierience of having lived through a similar thing in our own land.
The English Civil War, was designed as a sort of Early Democratic Government mandate...They removed the Monarchy and set up the Government...but it was corrupt and unaccountable and ended up being a Military Jaunta..."The Council of Officers" rulled under Oliver Cromwell
The best part of a decades worth of history was ruined in this experiment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXOrkTrKzjc You can see what happened when Cromwell turned on the Government and sent them the same way as the King...this is his speech to The Rump when he dissolved them. Listen...this is almost exactly the same as Egypt...First the Ligitamate ruller is removed on the grounds of being tyranical, and then a democratic Government installed...and that fails within the first year, and the Military take over. Just as the Egyptian Army claim the people called on them to perform the coup...so Cromwell claims the people have called upon him to clense the nation a second time politically.
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Topic: HOWTO: Send Instant Messages from Rails
UPDATED for BackgrounDRb 0.2.1
In this tutorial we are going to use a BackgrounDRb worker to hold an IM client. Our Rails app will then use BackgrounDRb to tell the IM client to send instant messages.
To help put this example in the context of a real-world application, let's imagine that we are working on a newspaper website. Whenever a new article is created we want to notify readers by sending them an Instant Message.
Let's roll
Let's get started by creating a small Rails application. I'm assuming you are familiar with using scaffolding to build CRUD functionality so we are going to go through this part quickly.
1) Create a Rails application called dailynews.
saturn:~ bp$ rails dailynews
saturn:~ bp$ cd dailynews
2) Create a database and modify config/database.yml appropriately.
saturn:~/dailynews bp$ echo "create database dailynews" | mysql -u root -p
3) Build the Article model and edit the migration created in the last line of output.
saturn:~/dailynews bp$ ./script/generate model Article
exists app/models/
exists test/unit/
exists test/fixtures/
create app/models/article.rb
create test/unit/article_test.rb
create test/fixtures/articles.yml
create db/migrate
create db/migrate/001_create_articles.rb
Let's keep it simple and only give an Article a title and a body. db/migrate/001_create_articles.rb:
class CreateArticles < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :articles do |t|
t.column :title, :string
t.column :body, :text
def self.down
drop_table :articles
4) Migrate to build the articles table.
saturn:~/dailynews bp$ rake db:migrate
(in /Users/bp/dailynews)
== CreateArticles: migrating==================================================
-- create_table(:articles)
-> 0.1340s
== CreateArticles: migrated (0.1357s)=========================================
6) Generate scaffolding to get some CRUD goodness going.
saturn:~/dailynews bp$ ./script/generate scaffold Article
7) Start the server and check to see that things are working.
saturn:~/dailynews bp$ ./script/server
If everything went as planned we should be able go to http://localhost:3000/articles/new and create our first article. Maybe something about the weather?
Instant Message Me!
Ok, now for some IM fun. XMPP4R is a Ruby XMPP/Jabber library. Grab it and install. I'm using xmpp4r-0.3, which you can grab here: http://download.gna.org/xmpp4r/xmpp4r-0.3.tgz Installation is straightforward. Just unpack the archive and run install.rb. Like this (output removed for brevity):
saturn:~/dailynews bp$ cd /tmp
saturn:/tmp bp$ wget http://download.gna.org/xmpp4r/xmpp4r-0.3.tgz
saturn:/tmp bp$ tar -zxvf xmpp4r-0.3.tgz
saturn:/tmp bp$ cd xmpp4r-0.3
saturn:/tmp/xmpp4r-0.3 bp$ sudo ./setup.rb
A quick test with irb to make sure we have it installed.
saturn:/tmp/xmpp4r-0.3 bp$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'XMPP4R'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> quit
The line that says "=> true" means we have it. Back to our Rails app to start sending IMs.
saturn:/tmp/xmpp4r-0.3 bp$ cd ~/dailynews/
We are going to need two IM accounts (that speak XMPP/Jabber) to make this work. You could probably do it with one, but that gets a little confusing. If you have a Gmail account you already have a Google Talk account (http://www.google.com/talk/). I got another by registering an account on xmpp.us. I wasn't able to get iChat to register the new account. For that I used Fire (http://fire.sourceforge.net/). Don't worry about following the same steps I did to get your accounts setup. The important part is that you have two accounts.
The Setup
I'm on OSX using iChat to connect to my Google Talk account. The Rails app will use then use the xmpp.us account to send messages to my Google Talk account. To help keep things clear let's call the account Rails will use
firstname.lastname@example.com and the other firstname.lastname@example.com (Someone might actually own these accounts so please don't use them when testing your code).
Since we want to send IMs when a new article is created, let's define an after_create method in the Article model. This is article.rb:
require 'XMPP4R'
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
def after_create
# Connect to the server and set presence to available for chat.
jid = Jabber::JID.new('email@example.com/dailynews')
client = Jabber::Client.new(jid, false)
# Send an Instant Message.
body = 'Hello from Rails'
to_jid = Jabber::JID.new('email@example.com')
message = Jabber::Message::new(to_jid, body).set_type(:normal).set_id('1')
The first line imports the XMPP4R library that we then use to send the IM. In after_create we connect to the server, authenticate ourselves, set our presence and then send a message. Now when you create a new article you should get an IM saying "Hello from Rails." Check out the XMPP4R website for more info on the library and rdoc documentation.
Mission Accomplished?
Well, we did send an IM from our Rails application, so yes. But there is something about it that doesn't feel quite right. It seems cumbersome to have to login to the firstname.lastname@example.com account every time we want to send a message. Instead we ought to login and stay logged in between requests. Then we can fire off IMs easily. Enter BackgrounDRb.
If you haven't heard of BackgrounDRb, it is a plugin that "facilitates running background tasks in a separate process from Rails, thereby decoupling them from the request/response cycle." Awesome! BackgounDRb is typically used for long-running tasks that eventually finish, like uploading a large file. But what about a really really long task? Like one that never finishes? Like an IM client!
First things first. We need to install the BackgrounDRb plugin and get it set up. (NOTE: Requires Slave 1.1.0 or higher and Daemons 1.0.2 or higher.) I've trimmed all of the output except the last line to show which revision I'm using:
saturn:~/dailynews bp$ cd vendor/plugins/
saturn:~/dailynews/vendor/plugins bp$ svn co http://svn.devjavu.com/backgroundrb/tags/release-0.2.1 backgroundrb
Checked out revision 165.
saturn:~/dailynews/vendor/plugins bp$ cd ~/dailynews/
We set it up with a rake task which copies files where they need to be.
saturn:~/dailynews bp$ rake backgroundrb:setup
(in /Users/bp/dailynews)
Copying backgroundrb.yml config file to /Users/bp/Sites/examples/newsbot/config/../config/backgroundrb.yml
Copying backgroundrb script to /Users/bp/Sites/examples/newsbot/config/../script/backgroundrb
Take a look at config/backgroundrb.yml. I left everything as is. If you are running a firewall be sure that port 2000 is open or change the port to something else that is.
Now we will create a BackgrounDRb worker that will house our IM client. There is a generator that will create the necessary files. Let's call it Alert because it will eventually be sending news alerts.
saturn:~/dailynews bp$ ./script/generate worker Alert
exists lib/workers/
create lib/workers/alert_worker.rb
BackgrounDRb workers come ready-made with a do_work method. This method is called when you instantiate a new worker instance from Rails. We'll use this method to login to the firstname.lastname@example.com account.
To send the IMs we'll use another method, send_alert, that will take the title of an Article as an argument.
require 'XMPP4R'
class AlertWorker < BackgrounDRb::Worker::RailsBase
def do_work(args)
jid = Jabber::JID.new('email@example.com/dailynews')
@client = Jabber::Client.new(jid, false)
loop do
def send_alert(title)
to_jid = Jabber::JID.new('firstname.lastname@example.com')
message = Jabber::Message::new(to_jid, title).set_type(:normal).set_id('1')
This is very similar to the way we sent an IM in the after_create method. The main difference is that we are breaking the connection and sending an IM into two parts. In the do_work method we use an instance variable to hold the client. That allows the send_alert method to use it later on.
We only want one BackgrounDRb worker for our Rails application and we'll do this by setting the job_key when we instantiate the worker for the first time and then using the same job_key to access the worker later. Since we want this worker to be running all the time, we'll instantiate it in app/controllers/application.rb.
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
unless MiddleMan[:alerter]
MiddleMan.new_worker(:class => :alert_worker, :job_key => :alerter)
MiddleMan is the bridge between Rails and BackgounDRb. Here we use it to instantiate a new worker. Later on we will use it to access the same worker.
Start Your Engines
This part is a little tricky. Be sure that you start your Rails server, then BackgrounDRb, and then hit the web page. Like so:
saturn:~/dailynews bp$ ./script/server
Then from a different console:
saturn:~/dailynews bp$ ./script/backgroundrb start
Now hit a page like http://localhost:3000/articles/. The worker should now be running in BackgrounDRb and firstname.lastname@example.com should be logged in.
If you are having any trouble with BackgrounDRb keep in mind that any change you make to a worker will not take effect until you restart BackgrounDRb. Another thing to do if you are getting strange behavior is stop all ruby processes and start them up again. I had an errant process that caused me some "I swear I changed the right file" confusion.
Send It!
We are so very close now! The final piece is to change the after_create method in the Article model to send an IM via the worker.
def after_create
Now create a new article and, if everything works and the stars are aligned, you should get an IM containing the article title. Yay!
I hope you had fun with this and I encourage you to play around and experiment. What else could we do with this? I'm wondering about communication going the other direction. Possibly send commands to your Rails app from iChat? What else?
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Fantastic wares Victoria, IPT, Iannon, and Serg. Thank you all for sharing.
BTW, IPT, that is some extreme crackling on that piece, any inside shots you could share?
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Digging deeper, Pena's 2.36 K/BB and 0.79 HR/9 have resulted in a solid 3.72 FIP, between his career average of 4.01 and last year's 3.42. Pena's good pitching in high leverage innings combined with the ability to shoulder a relatively heavy load (157 IP between 2007-2008) have made Pena worth 2.2 wins since 2007 (including 2009 so far). …
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Fuligo septica
Fuligo septica is a species of plasmodial slime mold, and a member of the Myxomycetes class. It is commonly known as the dog vomit slime mold[2] or scrambled egg slime because of its peculiar yellowish, bile-colored appearance. A common species with a worldwide distribution, it is often found on bark mulch in urban areas after heavy rain or excessive watering. Their spores are produced on or in aerial sporangia and are spread by wind.
History and taxonomy
The first description of the species was provided by French botanist Jean Marchant in 1727, who referred to it as "flowers of tan"; Marchant classified it as a "sponge".[3] Carl Linnaeus called it Mucor septicus in his 1763 Species Plantarum.[4] The species was transferred to the genus Fuligo by German botanist Friedrich Heinrich Wiggers in 1780.[5]
Description and habitat
Like many slime molds, the cells of this species typically aggregate to form a plasmodium, a multinucleate mass of undifferentiated cells that may move in an ameboid-like fashion during the search for nutrients. F. septicas plasmodium may be anywhere from white to yellow-gray,[6] typically 2.5–20 cm (1.0–7.9 in) in diameter, and 1–3 cm (0.4–1.2 in) thick.[7] The plasmodium eventually transforms into a sponge-like aethalium, analogous to the spore-bearing fruiting body of a mushroom; which then degrades, darkening in color, and releases its dark-colored spores. This species is known to have its spores dispersed by beetles (family Lathridiidae).[8]
The spores have a two-layered wall, with a dense outer layer with spines, and a fibrous inner layer. During germination, the outer layer splits to create an opening, and more elastic inner layer ruptures later as protoplasm emerges. A remnant of the inner layer may be persistent and adhere to the protoplast after it has emerged from the spore. A peroxidase enzyme present in the inner cell wall plays a role in germination.[9]
Fuligo septica grows on rotten wood and plant debris, but can also grow on the leaves and stems of living plants.[10]
Human pathogenicity
This species is known to cause asthma and allergenic rhinitis in susceptible people.[11][12]
Resistance to metal toxicity
Slime molds have a high resistance to toxic levels of metals; one author was prompted to write "The levels of Zn in Fuligo septica were so high (4,000–20,000 ppm) that it is difficult to understand how a living organism can tolerate them."[13] The resistance to extreme levels of zinc appears to be unique to F. septica.[14] The mechanism of this metal resistance is now understood: F. septica produces a yellow pigment called fuligorubin A, which has been shown to chelate metals and convert them to inactive forms.[15]
Model of RNA processing
Introns are sections of DNA that must be properly cleaved, digested and processed prior to rendering functional mRNAs for protein synthesis. Because it has a large number of group I introns, F. septica is used as a model to understand the processing and evolution of RNA.[16][17]
Bioactive compounds
Extracts from F. septica show antibiotic activity against Bacillus subtilis and Candida albicans, and cytotoxic activity on KB cells (a cell line derived from a human carcinoma of the nasopharynx).[18]
Fuligo septica contains a yellow pigment called fuligorubin A that is thought to be involved in photoreception and in the process of energy conversion during its life cycle.[19] In 2011 a Japanese research group reported isolating and characterizing a new chlorine-containing yellow pigment from form flava that they called dehydrofuligoic acid.[20]
- ^ "Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=149977. Retrieved 2011-03-25.
- ^ Armstrong M. (2007). Wildlife and Plants: Sea Urchin to Sponge. Marshall Cavendish. p. 998. ISBN 0761477101. http://books.google.com/books?id=jBh0jgWdWtsC&pg=PA998.
- ^ Ainsworth GC. (1976). Introduction to the History of Mycology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN 0-521-21013-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=3R09AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA60.
- ^ Linnaeus C. (1763). Species Plantarum (2 ed.). Stockholm: Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. p. 1656. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11835043.
- ^ Wiggers FH, Weber GH. (1780) (in Latin). Primitiae Florae Holsaticae. Litteris Mich. Frider. Bartschii Acad. Typogr.. p. 112. http://books.google.com/books?id=NNwXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA112.
- ^ Kambly PE. (1939). "The color of myxomycete plasmodia". Botany 26 (6): 386–90.
- ^ Emberger G. (2008). "Fuligo septica". Fungi on Wood. http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/crust%20and%20parchment/species%20pages/Fuligo%20septica.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
- ^ Blackwell M, Laman TG. (1982). "Spore dispersal of Fuligo septica (Myxomycetes) by Lathridiid beetles". Mycotaxon 14 (1): 58–60. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59575/0014/001/0058.htm.
- ^ Stempen H, Evans RC. (1982). "Behavior of the inner wall layer of the germinating Fuligo septica spore: evidence of peroxidase activity". Mycologia 74 (1): 26–35. JSTOR 3792625. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0074/001/0026.htm.
- ^ Healy RA, Huffman DR., Tiffany LH, Knaphaus G. (2008). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States (Bur Oak Guide). Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press. p. 340. ISBN 1-58729-627-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=tl2fVAHuej4C&pg=PA341.
- ^ Santili J, Rockwell WJ, Collins RP. (1895). "The significance of the spore of the Basidiomycetes (mushrooms and their allies) in bronchial asthma and allergenic rhinitis". Annals of Allergy 55: 469–71.
- ^ Gianini EH, Northy WT, Leathers CR. (1975). "The allergenic significance of certain fungi rarely reported as allergens". Annals of Allergy 35 (6): 372–6. PMID 1239229.
- ^ Setala A, Nuorteva P. (1989). "High metal contents found in Fuligo septica L. Wiggers and some other slime molds (Myxomycetes)". Karstenia 29 (1): 37–44.
- ^ Zhulidov DA, Robarts RD, Zhulidov AV, Zhulidova OV, Markelov DA, Rusanov VA, Headley JV. (2002). "Zinc accumulation by the slime mold Fuligo septica (L.) Wiggers in the former Soviet Union and North Korea". Journal of Environmental Quality 31 (3): 1038–42. doi:10.2134/jeq2002.1038. PMID 12026071. http://jeq.scijournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=12026071.
- ^ Latowski D, Lesiak A, Jarosz-Krzeminska E, Strzalka K. (2008). "Fuligo septica, as a new model organism in studies on interaction between metal ions and living cells". Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine and Medicine 10: 204–9.
- ^ Lundblad EW, Einvik C, Rønning S, Haugli K, Johansen S. (2004). "Twelve Group I introns in the same pre-rRNA transcript of the myxomycete Fuligo septica: RNA processing and evolution". Molecular Biology and Evolution 21 (7): 1283–93. doi:10.1093/molbev/msh126. PMID 15034133. http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=15034133.
- ^ Haugen P, Coucheron DH, Rønning SB, Haugli K, Johansen S (2003). "The molecular evolution and structural organization of self-splicing group I introns at position 516 in nuclear SSU rDNA of myxomycetes". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 50 (4): 283–92. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2003.tb00135.x. PMID 15132172.
- ^ Pereira EC, Cavalcanti LDH, Campos-Takaki GMD, Nascimento, Silene CD. (1992). "Antibiotic and cytotoxic activities of crude extracts from Fuligo septica (L.) Wigg. and Tubifera microsperma (Berk. and Curt.) Martin (Myxomycetes)". Revista de Ciencias Biomedicas (13): 23–32.
- ^ Rahman A. (1988). Studies in Natural Products Chemistry. Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 237–8. ISBN 0-444-51510-0.
- ^ Shintani A, Toume K, Yamamoto Y, Ishibashi M. (2010). "Dehydrofuligoic acid, a new yellow pigment isolated from the myxomycete Fuligo septica f. flava". Heterocycles 82 (1): 839–42. ISSN 0385-5414.


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Not the first time I have posted photos of this Noutomi Susumu Hagi Kyusu (and coordinating wan-s) ... but there are always elements of this Kyusu that need to be shared with TeaChat, especially since this artisan is not as well known to the West. I consider it my responsibility and privilege to share it with you all ... in all its glory (as much as my phone can bring).
The form is "tebineri" or pinched versus wheeled. This is very common of this family in their brewing vessels.
The glaze is like glass ... crackled glass.
The spout on most Hagi are this style ... similar to a Hobin.
The inner plumbing works very well for even Fukamushi.


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Interchangeable weights on new Dynacraft VLS Adjustable Wedge let's you control a multitude of shot parameters
What had initially started as a science experiment to study the effects on center of gravity and ball flight, eventually ended up as a product that we chose to make available to the general public. I would like to introduce to you the Dynacraft VLS (short for Variable Launch and Spin) Adjustable Wedge series. It is a system that includes two interchangeable inserts; a 3g black anodized aluminum and 17g stainless steel as well as a small wrench and instruction sheet. The 14 gram or ½ ounce disparity in weights alters the center of gravity of the adjustable golf wedge to produce two unique sets of conditions to control the initial trajectory, spin rate, maximum height of the shot, landing angle, amount of roll and finally total distance the ball travels.
Physics 101: What should happen?
Why don't we revisit our science books for a moment? One would expect with the heavier weight in the lower position, you would expect the center of gravity to follow and be lower as well. Subsequently, you would see an increase in the ball flight. Using a Trackman launch monitor, were where able to gather information that would not be possible with the naked eye.
In this example, we had a better ball striker hitting several balls with the 56º model and took an average of the data. As expected, the adjustable wedge with the heavier weight located in the lower position created a slightly higher initial launch angle (3% or 1.4º). However, I am going to tell you upfront, this isn't always the case with everyone we tested. Solidness of contact, angle of attack and swing speed at impact are variables that affect the initial launch. After all, we have a human swinging the club.
A funny thing happened on the way to the apex of the flight path
Where we saw the biggest difference come was in the shape of the flight path when interchanging the two weights around. This was a direct result of a change in the spin rate with the heavier weight in the lower position creating (in our better player's example) a 16% increase in the spin.
You have probably heard head and shaft manufacturers touting higher launch and low spin for golf drivers to help maximize distance for many golfers, other than those with lower swing speed which need to the additional spin to keep the ball aloft. For each and every person and club in the set, there is a unique set of conditions (launch and spin) that maximizes results.
The surprising part for many golfers will be which position hit the ball higher. Even though the initial trajectory was lower with the wedge in the high / rearward CG position, the ball kept going outward and rising at the same time creating a higher peak trajectory between the two shots. Once it reached the maximum height, it was a good 8% higher (5.1 feet). Remember, this is with the exact same club with the only exception switching the two weights around.
Watch out green, here I come
The last part of the ball's flight path is the final descent. In this final diagram, we can see that the adjustable golf wedge with the weight in the higher and more rearward position will create a flatter (3º) angle of decent, which will allow the ball to release with more roll once it hits the green. In our case here, the roll was 23% greater (and a total distance of 7 yards longer on average) than the same head, but with the weight located in the lower and more forward position. This wouldn't be a good scenario if one had a hard time holding the green on approach shots. But those who can't seem to get the ball back to the hole will sure benefit.
The lesson learned by all of this is shifting 14 grams of weight can totally change the initial trajectory, spin, maximum height, landing angle, amount of roll and finally total net distance the ball travels. Not everyone will benefit with the higher and more rearward position just like not all golfers will like a certain type of ball (distance vs. spin). The Dynacraft VLS wedge gives you that option without having to change the brand of ball that you like the feel of and its' performance.
Make sure to try the head in both position for both full shots of the Dynacraft VLS Adjustable Golf Wedge as well as little finesse shots around the green in order to find the position which gets you (or your customer) closer to the hole. As you know, the closer you are to the hole, the more likely you are to make a putt and that my friends, is how to lower your score.
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There is actually 17 oz of dough, 8 oz of sauce, 12 oz of cheese on a 14" PG pizza. I am not sure about the cornmeal, although I think Wondra was used to dip the dough in before hand tossing.
As far as making the pizzas, the dough was hand tossed using a mold to shape the dough first, we stretched the dough on the pizza bench covered in Wondra flour. No cornmeal when I was there or with the original owner.
Hi-First post ever! Been reading this thread for a few days now and I have Norma's 100 hr 40 degree dough ready to go tonight. It's not exact- I used the high gluten flour from Restaurant Depot, but I followed the instructions for the cheese and sauce pretty closely. I was wondering a few things that I didn't really see in the thread, or it's all spread around. Are the sauce and cheese room temp when you add to the skin? And Norma- looks like you bake on a screen then move to the oven deck. How long each step and what temp is your oven? I have to admit I live right in PG territory- there's one 2 miles from my house and another 3 miles in the other direction. We like the pizza a lot and would love to be able to make it at home. Thanks! -Danny
I don't know if anyone is interested but Pizza Quixote (Marty) visited a Papa Gino's recently and gave a review at http://mainlinepizzaquest.blogspot.com/2015/06/review-papa-ginos.html Norma


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Jade Goody Dies on Mothers Day 09
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Jade Goody Dies: Her Story
"I may not be the sharpest tool in the sandwich box." True, but Jade had enough nous to make herself the UK's biggest reality TV star.
Jade Goody, the biggest star to emerge from Big Brother, has died after losing her much-publicised fight with cancer.
Her publicist Max Clifford said she passed away peacefully in her sleep at her home in Upshire, Essex on Mother's Day. Her mother Jackiey Budden said: "My beautiful daughter is at peace."
Max Clifford told Sky News that Jade had died as she had lived - in the public eye. He added that Jade wanted her funeral to be a "celebration" of her life.
Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody was born June 5, 1981 in Bermondsey, south London. Her parents split up when she was a toddler; father Andrew Goody, who served time in Wandsworth Prison, died of a heroin overdose in 2005. Her mother Jackiey Budden, who has also had a well-documented struggle with drugs, lost the use of an arm and an eye in a motorcycle accident. Despite the lack of a solid education, Jade worked as a dental nurse before taking the decision that would change her life; auditioning for the third series of Big Brother.
Big Brother 3, 2002
The public at large first got to know Jade way back in the summer of 2002. Then, as now, she came across as loud and ditzy, quickly making her mark courtesy of the plethora of 'Jadeisms'she came out with. Who can forget her belief that East Angular (East Anglia) was abroad? Or that strawberries were vegetables and Rio De Janeiro was a person? Then there was the notion that Saddam Hussein was a boxer and that Inspector Morse and Sherlock Holmes were real people.
During a drinking game she got a bit tipsy and stripped, almost showing her 'kebab' in the process. There was an infamous drunken encounter with fellow Big Brother 3 housemate PJ Ellis (he snubbed her the next day, but apologised years later when they met again) and a big barney with Adele Roberts over a 'fazooka' on her foot (verruca to the rest of us).
One of the final four alongside Alex Sibley, Jonny Regan and Kate Lawler, Jade made it to the last night. She may have come fourth, but she went on to dwarf Big Brother 3 winner Kate in terms of press coverage, wealth and fame.
Post-Big Brother
Easily the UK's most successful Reality TV star, Jade amassed a fortune of several million pounds from the release of her own fragrances, autobiographies and fitness DVDs. She was a perennial fixture in celeb magazines such as Heat, Now, New!, Star, Closer and OK!, not to mention appearances on TV programmes including Celebrity Driving School, Celebrity Wife Swap, Back to Reality, Jade's Salon, Just Jade, Jade's PA and Jade. A shrewd self-publicist, she kept herself firmly in the spotlight years after most Big Brother winners and losers have had their five minutes, let alone 15.
Becoming A Mother
Jade met fellow reality TV star-turned-presenter Jeff Brazier through mutual friends and it was lust at first sight: "I fancied him so much I just wanted to get his pants off there and then," she said. The couple went on to have two sons, Bobby Jack, born on June 6, 2003 and Freddie, born in September 2004. By the time her youngest arrived, the relationship with Jeff Brazier was effectively over.
In the summer of 2005, the Shh...Jade Goody fragrance was launched. It was so popular, it gave perfumes by Kylie Minogue and Posh Spice a run for their money. A year later, she published her story called, Jade: My Autobiography. Described as "heart-rending, hilarious and shockingly revealing", it became a best-seller.
London Marathon, 2006
Jade's attempt to run the London Marathon ended in agony. She collapsed 19 miles into the race and had to be rushed to hospital. Running for the NSPCC, she admitted she had hardly trained for the event and that her diet had consisted of Chinese takeaways, curries and beer. After returning home, Jade expressed her sadness at not finishing the course. "I was so exhausted, I couldn't carry on," she said.
Celebrity Big Brother, 2007
On January 5, 2007 Jade returned to the show that had made her. Alongside her mother Jackiey Budden, and then-boyfriend Jack Tweed, she re-entered the Big Brother house, this time for the fifth series of the celebrity version. There was much curiosity about her partner and Jade offered the following: "We're in love and we keep going back to each other. I met him when he was 18. He's grown up a lot. He's my soul mate." The series would go on to make headlines around the world after Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty became the victim of bullying by S Club 7 singer Jo O'Meara, model Danielle Lloyd and Jade.
The 'Race Row'
As Celebrity Big Brother 5 progressed, references to Shilpa as different because of her nationality grew meaner in tone. After she cooked a chicken meal for the house, Danielle complained about Shilpa touching the housemates' food: "You don't know where those hands have been," she said. Danielle also referred to her as a "dog" and alongside Jo, repeatedly mimicked Shilpa's Indian accent. Things culminated in a blazing row between Jade and Shilpa: "You need a day in the slums. Go in your community and go to all those people who look up to you and be real," she yelled. On the same day, Danielle said of Shilpa: "I think she should f**k off home", and Jade referred to her as "Shilpa Poppadom".
Complaints about the bullying flooded in to Channel 4 and Ofcom - which received a record 45,000 complaints by the end of the show. The Indian Minister for External Affairs said racist slurs were "unacceptable". Gordon Brown, who was visiting India at the time, apologised about the incident to the people of India. Jade was evicted from the house and denied she was racist during her exit interview with Davina McCall.
The Aftermath
Public sympathy and support for Shilpa took the form of votes and she ended up winning the show. Jade made appearances on TV shows, including GMTV and This Morning, to apologise for her behaviour, admitting a problem with anger management. Her perfume was pulled from the shelves of various retail outlets and she suffered from depression as she struggled to find work.
In June 2007, Jade miscarried Jack Tweed's baby and expressed fears that it was "God's punishment". However, the Church of England moved to reassure her that it wasn't. With their relationship suffering various ups and downs, the volatile pair split; Jade wasn't happy when she came across kiss-and-tell stories about Jack in the tabloids. At the time, a friend of the couple said: "They have been growing apart for months. The miscarriage hit them incredibly hard."
Determined to get her career back on track, Jade returned to television for Piers Morgan's BBC1 show Don't Fire Me, I'm Famous. She sobbed as she acknowledged how bad she felt about her row with Shilpa. The Britain's Got Talent judge later defended her, putting the bullying down to a damaged upbringing. "There's no excuse for her behaviour," he said, "but let's not pretend she's a racist it's an insult to the victims of racism who know what it really is."
Back To Reality In 2008
Living TV extended a hand to Jade when she really needed it. Jade's Salon and Jade's PA, her previous shows for the channel, had performed well in the ratings so it wasn't a huge surprise when they offered her more projects. "Whatever she's done, viewers have missed watching her exploits," said an insider. "We need a working-class hero and Jade fitted that role perfectly. Yes, she caused an outcry with her behaviour, but she's said she's sorry and spent quite a while keeping her head down. She's done her time and I think most viewers have forgiven her."
Jade released her second fragrance, Controversial, in July 2008. A month later, she underwent tests at an Essex hospital after a mysterious collapse. At the time, her agent said: "She passed out but was able to call the ambulance herself. She was losing blood and not in a good way. At the moment it's a mystery - they are keeping her in for tests until they can find out what the problem is. Her mum has been to see her and we just want her to get well again soon."
Reconciliation With Shilpa
Jade made the decision to sign up for Bigg Boss, the Indian version of Big Brother, hosted by Shilpa Shetty. The Bollywood actress said: "She's going in as someone who has had misconceptions about our country. I hope Jade learns first hand about our culture and how wonderful our people are." The show kicked off in August 2008 with the pair sharing a warm embrace and the Londoner saying: "What happened last year with me and Shilpa Shetty is in the past and I am not proud of it. I know I have behaved wrongly but that was my yesterday. Today, I have changed for the better and I am here to prove it." In the house she was tasked with learning some Hindi phrases and some Bollywood-style dancing.
Jade's time in the house was tragically cut short. Concerns about her health had been sparked by a series of mystery collapses. Given the all-clear for ovarian cancer in 2004 and bowel cancer in 2006, this time the news was bad. She was called into the Diary Room to speak to her UK doctor and told that the result of a recent biopsy was cervical cancer. Shilpa Shetty urged everyone to join her in praying for Jade when she left the house to fly back to the UK for treatment.
A month later in September 2008, Jade: Catch a Falling Star - her second autobiography - was released. That same month, then on-off boyfriend Jack Tweed (at that time very much 'on' again) was jailed for 18 months. According to The Mirror, Jade told a friend that her world had fallen apart. However, her cancer fight had to continue so she underwent a full hysterectomy in an eight-hour operation.
Living With Cancer
Doctors had hoped surgery would prevent the cancer spreading to the rest of Jade's body.
However, it was detected in the sac around her abdominal organs and she faced more chemotherapy. Already going through early menopause (as a result of the hysterectomy), radio and chemotherapy sessions resulted in noticeable hair loss. "My hair's falling out on my pillow and it's literally doing my head in! I'm going to look like a hard-boiled egg, but it doesn't really matter. Life and health are far more important than having hair," she said.
Digital channel Living had embarked on filming a series of documentaries about the reality star's life. Instead of glitz and glamour, viewers were sharing her pain as she gave a raw insight into her illness. The Next Chapter which aired in December 2008, showed Jade as she underwent a gruelling course of chemotherapy, while she continued to make life as normal as possible for her two young sons. Jade had signed up for a panto production of Snow White at Lincoln's Theatre Royal, but missed a number of shows due to illness.
2009 And The Prognosis Worsens
In January 2009, during filming for her reality show on Living, Jade was rushed to hospital. She underwent emergency surgery to repair a blocked kidney. Doctors said her infection resistance had been reduced due to the chemotherapy drugs. A week later, she lost all her hair and a fortnight after that, she posed bald for the first time in pictures published by the News Of The World.
Jack Tweed was granted early release on January 27 and left HMP Wayland in Norfolk. He was met by Jade who revealed that she couldn't wait to get married: "He hasn't formally proposed yet but we've been talking about it for months...There's just an acceptance that it's going to happen."
In early February, Jade received the heartbreaking diagnosis that her cervical cancer had spread to her bowel, liver and groin. A couple of days later, she was back in hospital again. This time, surgeons performed a lengthy operation to remove a golf ball-sized tumour from her bowel. Jade had complained of agonising stomach pains and doctors operated after discovering the blockage.
"The hard truth is I'd be dead if they hadn't cleared the blockage in my bowel," she revealed after the op. "The tumour made me constipated and caused my body to start bloating. My biggest fear was that I would have to have a colostomy bag. I've dealt with losing my hair - but a poo bag, that really would have been the final indignity for a woman. But, like everything else, I've coped because I have to. Where there's life there's hope. That is what I'm clinging on to."
Following the emergency op, doctors broke tragic news to Jade; her cancer was terminal. It had reached such an advanced stage, they could only provide treatment to prolong her life rather than cure the cancer. "I am devastated. I am frightened and I am angry. I don't want to die because I have so much to live for," Jade admitted. "The reality is I have gone from a 40% chance of a cure to seeing how long I can stay alive." After learning the prognosis, her partner Jack proposed at her hospital bedside.
Jade's £1 Million Wedding
Jade is reported to have earned close to £1 million from the television and magazine rights to her wedding. She finalised deals with OK! magazine and Living TV with publicist Max Clifford confirming that the ceremony would be the last in the ongoing series about her illness. With the help of family and friends, Jade planned her "fairytale" wedding. She briefly left the Royal Marsden Hospital in a wheelchair to exchange engagement rings with her fiancé.
The couple then visited Harrods where Jade picked a "beautiful" wedding dress, a gift from the store's owner Mohamed Al Fayed. Messages of help and support poured in from the general public and celebrities including Sir Elton John, Jonathan Ross, Simon Cowell, Paul O'Grady and Dale Winton. Even Gordon Brown expressed his sympathy for the terminally ill star. "It's very sad and indeed tragic that someone so young has got this deadly disease...and it's very sad indeed that the treatment that has been given has not been successful.
Speaking to Sky News, Max Clifford said: "This has given her something to think about, a happy event. The wedding, the christening of her two boys, these are all positive things to focus on as opposed to the cancer and what is happening to her and what she's going through."
He added that Jade had told him: "Max, I know I'm ignorant but I want my boys to have the best possible education money can buy and I am going to make sure that I do that for them so that when they grow up they know that mum did that." He also let it be known that Jade wanted the boys christened because she hopes, "they will get to know Jesus and through Jesus they'll be able to talk to her in years to come".
Jade and Jack's wedding took place on February 22 at Down Hall, a country house hotel in Hertfordshire close to her home in Ongar, Essex. Justice Secretary Jack Straw lifted the order that states Jack must return to his mother's home by 7pm every day so that he could spend the night with his new bride.
The bittersweet day included the release of white doves, as an expression of their love for each other, followed by speeches, a meal and a performance by the Sugababes. Guests included Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross, Antony Costa from boyband Blue and TV's Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. Max Clifford reported that Jade was able to stand for most of the 45-minute ceremony, but had to sit down for the last five minutes. "It was just a very heart-rending, happy ceremony, with lots of tears and lots of smiles and lots of laughter," he said.
Jade was determined to have her story told in order to prevent others from going through the trauma she faced. She was said to be "immensely proud" after the Government said it would review the current age limit for cervical cancer testing. After hearing that a panel of experts would consider whether women under 25 should be offered smear tests, the 27-year-old told Mr Clifford: "It's too late for me, but it will not be for millions of others." She also said, "At the end of the day, I can look back at my life and be proud of what I've done."
Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody was born on June 5, 1981. She died on March 22, 2009
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I have to rebuild a simple glossary for a client and am not sure of the cleanest way to do it.
Right now the glossary is built in Textpattern, a PHP CMS which we have outgrown. For the record, Textpattern has quite a few columns in its article table, but all I need are the Title, Body & Section fields to be mapped to :title, :body and :section_id
I know for sure I will need a sections table, model, controller and views. I am also positive that each section has_many :articles and that my articles table will need a section_id column.
The biggest problem here is that textpattern stores the actual name of the section with each article instead of its numerical ID. WIth such a huge inconsistency, I dont know how I can get around assigning the section ids of all 4,000 articles by hand (argh!)
For the sake of positive thinking, lets assume that this is stupidly easy to fix. Once I have imported this legacy data I am then faced with the task of how to structure these sections in Rails, with clean URLs that look like this:
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Debates of Nov. 28th, 2007
House of Commons Hansard #26 of the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was resp.
- Question Period
- Economic Statement
- United Nations
- Russell Martin
- Violence Against Women
- Genome Canada
- Gold Glove Award
- Ukraine
- Roger Levert
- Bloc Québécois
- Ukraine
- Government Policies
- North American Indigenous Games
- Middle East
- Minister of Justice
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Tackling Violent Crime Legislation
- The Environment
- Airbus
- Victims of Crime
- Hog and Beef Industries
- Fishing Industry
- Manufacturing Industry
- Middle East
- Violence Against Women
- Employment Insurance
- Agriculture
- Colombia
- Justice
- Child Safety
- Darfur
- Points of Order
- Government Response to Petitions
- Judges Act
- Committees of the House
- Workplace Psychological Harassment Prevention Act
- Employment Insurance Act
- Human Rights
- Petitions
- Starred Questions
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Motions for Papers
- Private Members' Business
- Income Tax Act
- Tackling Violent Crime Act
- Budget and Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2007
- Canada Evidence Act
- Employment Insurance Act
- Phthalate Control Act
- Old Age Security Act
- Food and Drugs Act
- Income Tax Act
References to Individuals in the Gallery
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Yvon Godin Acadie—Bathurst, NB
Mr. Speaker, I would like you to check the "blues" to see why all members stood up for somebody in the gallery.
Last week we had the same experience when the Minister of the Environment referred to somebody in the gallery. This is what it creates. It takes away the privilege of members of Parliament in this House of Commons who get paid to do a job here.
Mr. Speaker, it is your responsibility to keep order in the House. I want you to check the "blues".
References to Individuals in the Gallery
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
I am happy to check the "blues", but my impression as to what happened is that the member who gave the statement made no reference to the presence of someone in the gallery. It is just that members apparently recognized someone in the gallery and the applause followed.
I do not know how the Chair can be responsible for that kind of thing, despite efforts. I will check the "blues" in case there was some reference, but I did not hear one. I thought the member had avoided that quite properly.
Government Response to Petitions
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre
Tom Lukiwski Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8) I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to six petitions.
Judges Act
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Niagara Falls
Rob Nicholson Minister of Justice
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-31, An Act to amend the Judges Act.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Foreign Affairs and International Development
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Kevin Sorenson Crowfoot, AB
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the first report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
In accordance with its order of reference of Tuesday, October 30, 2007, your committee has considered the supplementary estimates 2007-08, Votes 1a, 5a, 10a, 20a, 25a, L40a, 45a and 50a under Foreign Affairs and International Trade and agreed on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 to report them without amendment.
Mr. Speaker, I also have the honour to present, in both official languages, the second report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
In accordance with its order of reference of Monday, October 29, 2007, your committee has considered Bill C-9, An Act to implement the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention), and agreed on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 to report it without amendment.
Workplace Psychological Harassment Prevention Act
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Brian Masse Windsor West, ON
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-487, An Act to prevent psychological harassment in the workplace and to amend the Canada Labour Code.
Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to introduce this important bill regarding psychological harassment in the workplace. This bill would fill a gap in terms of harassment, in that operations and procedures would be put in place to protect workers from psychological harassment.
We have seen a number of cases across this country where workers have been intimidated. This bill would correct that by providing the proper justice and making sure there are penalties for those who perpetrate this type of crime on individuals.
This is the first attempt at tabling this bill. I would also note that the provincial NDP is tabling similar legislation in the province of Ontario. As well, the former Saskatchewan NDP government actually passed a bill on psychological harassment.
This is an important issue for workers across our country.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Employment Insurance Act
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Raymond Simard Saint Boniface, MB
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-488, An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and the Employment Insurance Regulations (excluding pension from earnings when calculating employment insurance benefits).
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise this afternoon to introduce my private member's bill.
Currently, Canadians who receive pension income and wish to continue to work or go back to work are forced to pay employment insurance premiums, but they would most likely not benefit from the insurance plan if they were laid off. The reason is that their pension income is currently considered as revenue and offsets the insurance benefits. My bill plans to change that so that their pension income would not be in that calculation.
I am bringing this bill forward for two basic reasons. First is the issue of fairness. I do not believe that any Canadian should be paying into an insurance plan when he or she could never benefit from the plan. Second, given the current labour shortage in this country, it is a total disincentive for people to go back to work or to continue working once they are receiving a pension.
This is a correction.
This is good for Canadian seniors and Canada's economy. I thank my colleague from Madawaska—Restigouche for his support. I plan to convince my other colleagues in this House to support this bill.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Human Rights
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Olivia Chow Trinity—Spadina, ON
Mr. Speaker, there have been consultations with all parties and I believe that if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for the following motion. I move, seconded by the hon. members for Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, Scarborough—Rouge River and Vaudreuil-Soulanges:
That, in the opinion of this House:
i. During its wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands, from the 1930s through the duration of World War II, the Imperial Armed Forces of Japan officially commissioned the acquisition of young women for the sole purpose of sexual servitude, who became known as 'comfort women'; and
ii. That some Japanese public officials have recently expressed a regrettable desire to dilute or rescind the 1993 statement by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono on the 'comfort women', which expressed the Government's sincere apologies and remorse for their ordeal; and
iii. That Japan has made progress since 1945 in recognizing and atoning for its past actions, and for many decades has been a major contributor to international peace, security, and development, including through the United Nations; and
iv. That the Canada-Japan alliance continues to be based on shared vital interests and values in the Asia-Pacific region, including the preservation and promotion of political and economic freedoms, support for human rights and democratic institutions, and the securing of prosperity for the people of both countries and the international community; and
v. That the Government of Canada should therefore encourage the Government of Japan to abandon any statement which devalues the expression of regret from the Kono Statement of 1993; to clearly and publicly refute any claims that the sexual enslavement and trafficking of the 'comfort women' for the Japanese Imperial Forces never occurred; to take full responsibility for the involvement of the Japanese Imperial Forces in the system of forced prostitution, including through a formal and sincere apology expressed in the Diet to all of those who were victims; and to continue to address those affected in a spirit of reconciliation.
Human Rights
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
Does the hon. member for Trinity—Spadina have the unanimous consent of the House to propose this motion?
Human Rights
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Some hon. members
Human Rights
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
Human Rights
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Some hon. members
Human Rights
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
(Motion agreed to)
Routine Proceedings
November 28th, 2007 / 3:15 p.m.
Raymonde Folco Laval—Les Îles, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to table this petition signed by hundreds of people in Laval—Les Îles and the surrounding area. It is addressed to the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.
The signatories are being seriously bothered by the noise from airplanes taking off from Montreal-Trudeau airport between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. every day, as a result of a route change authorized by the advisory committee on sound management, which did not include representatives of the City of Laval. The petition asks the minister to restore the flight paths out of Montreal-Trudeau airport that were in effect before the advisory committee made the change.
Starred Questions
Routine Proceedings
3:20 p.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre
Tom Lukiwski Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform
Mr. Speaker, would you be so kind as to call Starred Question No. 73. Due to the length of the answer, I ask that the answer to Starred Question No. 73 be printed in Hansard as if read.


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About the Author: Ambassador Barrie Walkley serves as the U.S. Consul General in Juba, Sudan.
Early Monday morning, I was present as Salva Kiir Mayardit, First Vice President of Sudan, registered to vote in the Southern Sudan referendum. The crowd's excitement was tangible as Vice President Kiir arrived at the voter registration center next to the John Garang mausoleum in Juba, presented the required identification document, and received his voter registration card. President Kiir received cheers from the assembled crowd when he held up his finger, stained with purple ink, to prove that he had registered.
Later in the day, I accompanied Justice Chan Reec Madut, Chairman of the Southern Sudan Referendum Bureau, on a visit to Torit, Eastern Equatoria, to observe the process there on the first day of registration. We stopped at several registration centers, including one in a predominantly Muslim area of town. The population in Torit, as elsewhere in southern Sudan, was in general excited about registering for the referendum, with a large crowd and assorted groups of traditional dancers gathered outside the local registration committee offices. The mood at all centers visited, however, was one of calm and order. The Governor of Eastern Equatoria told Justice Chan that freedom of speech is being protected and that opposing points of view -- for unity or for separation -- are being allowed full expression.
In the next few weeks, more than 5 million people may register to participate in the Southern Sudan referendum. More than 2,500 registration centers in Southern Sudan expect to register as many as 4,795,995 voters. In the North, 165 centers will receive an estimated 274,064 voters. Around the world, 209 registration locations in eight locations outside of Sudan will register as approximately 352,725 people using materials procured by the United Nations Development Programme and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems with the financial support of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The hard work of the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission, the CPA parties, and the international community has been vital to this effort.
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I woke up this morning and realized I may be having too much fun. ...
Illustration by Jeremy Collins
I woke up this morning and realized I may be having too much fun.
And what, you may ask, is my problem?
I'm a huckin' runner, an easily distracted individual who negates responsibilities and throws caution to the wind just to run. It's an impulse, like spotting a trailside boulder on a run and catching big air off it, just for fun. It gets to be habit over time.
It all started years ago. I met this woman who was a runner, so I became a runner, too, and we've been running ever since. Now I find my days are consumed with running. When I'm not running, I'm cross training. I write about running, do paintings of runners, take pictures of runners and plan vacations around running. I run for my money and give others a run for theirs.


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For me, the Fluxus art movement of the nineteen-sixties, stands next to the American surrealist cause–Joseph Cornell, Marcel on 14th Street, etc–as one of the more continually compelling moments in contemporary art. As the subject of the beautiful show at MOMA, an institution not ignorant of the fact that, at its heart, Fluxus wasn't interested in institutions at all, one also feels a certain sadness looking at the work, given that Fluxus was about shared impermanence–the art work that disappeared after it was produced, or as it was being produced–and museums are about things being fixed, identified, the vitrine. But I do not mean to be unkind about this show, which not only saddened me but inspired me to think of my being a viewer as a kind of performance, a concept that was first introduced to me by the artist and musician Kim Gordon, who once asked how an onstage interview I'd done had gone; she called it an interview-performance. And she was right to identify it as that because after you get up there in a nice suit or whatever, clutching prepared questions–the so-called script–with lights and what not on you and the subject, it is a performance, and I remember how, after Kim asked me about the conversation, I started thinking how any number of activities could be identified as a performance, you know? Laying in bed in Northampton one snowy night, I started to conceptualize what I called paper performances–that is, little words and maybe just scratches on pieces of paper that would amount to a writing performance, I don't even know if this would include a dream or whatever, but I liked thinking of writing as a kind of pirouette, the pencil as an instrument. Or a beautifully worn pink toe show. Fluxus took it's name from the Latin, and means "to flow." Inspired by John Cage's "chance" compositions of the nineteen-sixties, the Lithuanian-born artist, George Maciunas, organized what is arguably the first Fluxus exhibition at a gallery on Manhattan's Lower East Side that basically challenged artists to come up with stuff that was as indeterminate and far reaching as Cage's sound/non-sound. Macuinas' manifesto was a gorgeous poem of defiance: "Purge the world of bourgeois sickness, 'intellectual,' professional & commercialized culture, PURGE the world of dead art, he wrote. He went on. "PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE in art, PROMOTE living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dillettantes [sic] and professionals." Here, here! I wondered if Macinuas would be my performance boyfriend and walk me through the show, so taken was I by his ideas, even though our love would be otherworldly: my performance boyfriend died in 1978. Still, I have been known to fall for this kind of crankiness–it offsets my charm and likability and prevents people from exploiting either: the audience gets excited and scared when you have a "mean" boyfriend. I know in my heart George would have no problem being that for me: he was a Scorpio, born on November 8th. But let's leave astrology aside for the moment; it is too fixed. When you walk into the show, there's a hilarious Macinuas film that consists of famous names–Warhol, Ono (Yoko was one of the very first Fluxus artists and is represented in the MOMA show with a lovely meditative film of her eye opening and closing but mostly closing) and other artists. I don't know if my performance boyfriend meant the film as a kind of put on, but I was amused by it, as was my companion for the afternoon, the author Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, appropriately fetching as always, this time in a red dress. And I wondered after I found the little Jonas Mekas movie seen below what Sharifa might have looked like cooking dumplings with George in the movie–my performance girlfriend with my performance boyfriend, both in an activity or performance that pre-dates Rirkrit Tiravanija's noodles by some thirty years–since she is, after all, a movie star, if the definition of a movie star is someone you want to look at all the time, that is, a person who is capable of generating feelings all around not necessarily through speech but through gestures, and companionable silence. We broke that silence when we laughed at several of the pieces in the show, which are difficult to describe because that is the nature of Fluxus; description is too bourgeois in the face of so much spirit; it would block the flow. In any case, I remembered, while looking at various pieces–I was intensely admiring of a set of photographs of an audience flying paper airplanes–of an art work I had seen long ago, when I was a boy. It was created by the British-based artists Gilbert and George in 1971 and they called it a postcard sculpture. On it was a drawing of the artists looking out a window at the falling snow, and it said, in part: "As we began to look we felt ourselves being taken into a sculpture of overwhelming purity life and peace a rare and new art piece…Thank you for sharing this moment with us." The Fluxus show was like being taken into a sculpture not so much of overwhelming purity–you can't have that feeling in a museum–but an atmosphere of a rare and new art piece of my own creation, and it had to do with words as a limiting element. As I've said, Sharifa and I didn't speak much at all while we looked at the significant ephemera, and it occurred to me that that moment in time, of not speaking and with emotions flowing, was exactly where I wanted to be, and was the threshold of where I am now: of sharing moments no one should pay for. Not with words. Not with avoidance. Not with recrimination. Not with regret. Not with anything short of presence. This evening, walking home after a performance, I stopped into the St. Marks Bookstore; I was not weighed down by my silence; only words can do that to me these days. Silence permeates my thinking because its a way of not obscuring my internal mise en scene. I was looking at magazines when the young man behind the information counter asked how I was, they hadn't seen me in a while, where was I, in Massachusetts, oh, I was teaching? His mother had dropped out of Wellesley where I was teaching, they had a little money for me, the book I had produced had sold a few copies, could they have more copies, ten or fifteen to sell, wait, they had a check to pay me for what they'd sold. And on the walk to the register I saw people I've known for years even though they're old because I didn't want that boy's enthusiasm to be minimized by the breath of pleasantries I didn't want to exchange if exchange is the word when somewhere deep down you know the people you've known for years don't actually like you. And at the cash register the lady asked if the store had ever given me a discount, another gift, and I thought of my performance ghost of a boyfriend, George, and how this exchange about something I'd published and let out into the world with a minimum of control–you can't call me a distributor, you can't call me a museum–was such a proud moment for me because the experience of publishing that book resulted in these thoughts and exchanges, that boy behind the counter who'd always looked as if I'd upset his day, suddenly becoming, with a smile, my new mean performance boyfriend with a heart of gold in his mind let alone body, and how his attention gave me the strength to avoid those people who never liked me anyway but I would feel obliged to talk to and be polite to anyway because it's in my mother's DNA, which is to say mine, and the anger about that social falsehood is all mine, but in any case how Fluxus were these moments, how "Thank you for sharing this moment," was it to remember and almost forget and then memorialize and walk away from this flow of feelings?
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The Graveyard Book, a Jungle Book takeoff about a toddler raised by ghosts and werewolves, has won the Newbery Award for children's literature.
(Neil) Gaiman's book opens with a baby boy escaping an assassin who is massacred by his parents and older sister. The boy totters to a decrepit cemetery, where he's adopted by ghosts, christened Nobody Owens (Bod for short) and given the Freedom of the Graveyard.
On Gaiman's blog, he writes that "The Graveyard Book" is not a children's book. It's "a book for pretty much for all ages, although I'm not sure how far down that actually starts. I think I would have loved it when I was eight, but I don't think that all eight-year olds were like me."
The book isn't meant to be scary, says Gaiman. It's about growing up.
The award maintains the modern Newbery tradition of honoring books about death and parental absence. But it sounds like more fun than some of the recent honorees, which have been criticized for being inaccessible and dreary. It was a best-seller pre-Newbery.


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Forest Community Action WG meeting, Sunday 9th March 2008, 8-9pm, downstairs office (action room out of action)
= In attendance =
Tim, Pet, Ras Babi, Fudge, Robyn, Tomla, Zi, Morgan.
Apologies from Alex.
= Agenda ==
* Ras gave an overview of this Community Action WG.
* French workshop - Morgan would like to run one, has five or six people interested already.
* Drumming workshop - Zi would like to run this on Sunday afternoons, plus would like to run an event on Africa Day, 25th of May, anniversary of the foundation of Organisation of African Unity. Suggestion from Fudge* for drum making workshop for either selling or playing. What is required for a grant for this? Zi will speak to Gary.
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Day
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar#Eras
* Film production workshop - Pet/Tim/Pockets, interested in teaching film production techniques. Can use the new computers in the action room. Milk to look into open source video editing/production software.
* Sorting out the garden- Meet with Blue at next meeting.
* Possible Livingston Forest outreach? Zi.
Meetings are the second sunday of every month, 7pm