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Share Your Orders Thread
I just ordered this weeks 52teas tea of the week. I love the fact that they have free shipping but at the same time it's dangerous because I feel like I'm much more likely to make an impulse buy haha
I made an impulse buy last winter, and haven't opened it yet.
The Blueberry Danish, and Peanut Butter… I think cheesecake.
I say you got to try at least one this week for science. I want to know how they taste
Too many new teas coming soon. I am saving them for the Winter season this year instead.
I ordered some oolong samples… because I needed orchid oolong.
First order in quite a while, from Verdant!
Laoshan Roasted Oolong, 1oz
Hand Picked Early Spring Tieguanyin, 1oz
Hand Picked Spring Tieguanyin, 1oz
and, because Verdant is the best,
Gardens of Anxi and Golden Earl reblends!
I'm disappointed about Verdant's lack of communication about the Laoshan delay and the fact that I can't cancel.
If you emailed them, you might be able to cancel. I just wish the blends could be pre-ordered as well so i could lock those in.
Have they given any reason for the delay this year? I know that there was drought this year in Shandong, at least in Rizhao, maybe that had something to do with it? Just curious.
I don't recall receiving an email about the delay as posted on the website that they will do when dates change. THOUGH, t be fair, i may have received one and just not registered what it was saying? I just noticed the date had changed when i was looking at the site again… heh
They only announced a 1 week delay, not a 5-6 week delay.
I tried emailing them earlier, still waiting for them to get back to me. I actually just realized how many vendor emails im awaiting haha
Is the Golden Earl reblend super secret? I looked on their web site and it doesn't look like it is there.
TeaTiff – it was part of their blends club, so it is limited for now. I just managed to snag what was left after the blends club and bundle club shipped out.
David's tea sold out of the 1 item i would have purchased, so Verdant got my money. Sad because LB won't come fooorrreeeever, i picked up:
1st picking LB (though i liked it slightly less than LB)
Vanilla citrus Spice
Campfire Blend
Yu Lu Yan Cha pre-order
yeah, verdant confirmed the LB delay with me.
what even is yu lu yan cha? its obviously not actual yancha, why would they call it that? verdant even sells an actual yancha!
apt – I just read the page on this tea the other day. It was pretty neat how it came to be. It also describes how the name was crafted. Sil- Thanks for the reminder about Yu Lu Yan Cha. I am thinking I should add some of this to my order that will be shipped in the near future.
TeaTiff – the delivery date on this one changed to July as well, as a heads up.
Three orders in the past three days. Whoops, relapse!
Fengqing Dragon Pearl Black
Della Terra
Lemon Chiffon
Lime Chiffon
Whispering Pines
Golden Orchid
North Winds
Ailaoshan Black
Bi Luo Chun Yunnan Black
Golden Chai
El Dorado Chai
I've been waiting on a few of WPT's black teas to be back in stock, and then with the 4th of July sale I saw my chance. I couldn't help it! My VT order is en route and now I have so many teas headed my way…
I've not had anything from Whispering Pines yet, but I approve of the Teavivre and Della Terra Teas. Those are goooood.
A good Della Terra order!
I have been so bad and like Kimquat have placed three orders in the last three days – unlike her, I ordered lots of teas. I need help…
4oz chocolate genmaicha
2oz Laoshan Black
2oz Green Laoshan Genmaicha
1oz LB Chai
Whispering Pines
Bi Luo Chun Yunnan Black Tea 1 $7.65
Ailaoshan Black Tea 1 $7.20
Fujian Black Tea 2 $9.46
Imperial Gold Bud Dian Hong 1 $10.58
S'mores! 1 $7.43
Golden Orchid 1 $11.25
Chocolate Chai 1 $6.75
Dark Roast Anxi Tieguanyin 1 $7.65
Huang Zhi Xiang Phoenix Mountain Oolong 1 $6.75
Elderwood 1 $19.58
Yunnan Dian Hong: Classic 58 1 $6.75
Yunnan Sourcing
Premium Grade Jin Jun Mei Fujian Black Tea of Wu Yi Shan * Spring 2014
50 grams $9.00
Spring 2013 "Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong" of Wu Yi Fujian Black tea
100 grams $8.50
Himalayan Black Tartary Buckwheat Roasted Tea * Fagopyrum tataricum -
250 grams $7.00
Imperial Grade Jin Jun Mei from Tong Mu Guan Village * Spring 2014 -
50 grams $11.00
Imperial Pure Bud Yunnan Black tea of Simao * Autumn 2013
50 grams $7.00
Pure Bud Bi Luo Chun Yunnan Black tea * Autumn 2013 -
50 grams $6.00
Imperial Mojiang Golden Bud Yunnan Black Tea * Spring 2014 –
50 grams $9.00
Yi Mei Ren Wu Liang Mountain Yunnan Black Tea * Spring 2014 -
100 grams $8.00
Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong of Wu Yi Fujian Black tea * Spring 2014 –
50 grams $5.00
Does Yunnan Sourcing sell anything under 50 grams?
Ubacat – the Mandala sale was a great deal, but I had just placed an order – I have TONS of Manadala tea here.
Lariel – the smallest amount that I saw was 50g – and some were 100g. I'm not a fan of that, but it's sooooo cheap that I feel like if I don't like something, will just use it as a black base for iced tea. I've tried a few and thought the quality was good….
Marzipan – all their oolongs – which includes some of the Fujian blacks – are 13% off – OOLONG13
Dexter, you can't go wrong with YS. I have everything from your order and more…much more. Lotsa cakes. Very happy with my purchases.
Whispering Pines I placed an order myself. Sleeping Bear and El Dorado just couldn't resist.
Verdant is great solid order. You did great. Enjoy. YS will take awhile but it worth waiting;-)
I've been eyeing YS longingly for a while. Might have to order some for my birthday.
Thanks boychik – I'm a big Verdant fan have been waiting for LB Chocolate Genmaicha to come back in stock – all the others are just replenishing favorites.
I'm I HUGE black tea fan – have been wanting to order from Yunnan Sourcing for awhile – I upgraded shipping to 10-20 days. I'm excited to try them. Will also be interesting to compare them to other sources I have here and to compare them to the WP I just ordered.
I'm waiting for the 5 for 5 new customer sampler from Verdant to be back. Regret not ordering that previously. (Hopefully they're bring it back.)
Great teas! I hope to order from Whispering Pines on their next sale. I had too many orders going on this time.
Dexter – heh i can't let stress make me shop. not until i get through all the purchases we had to make for moving the house
I resisted Yunnan, mostly because I made a big Whispering Pines order, subscribed to a Golden Tips tea box, and have a couple of other things coming in. Honestly I forget what I order half the time and then I'm delighted when things come in the mail.
I caved and ordered a 2.5 oz tin of Spring Keemun from Damn Fine Teas. free shipping till the end of the day today and limited edition tea!
Yes! Samples are the best for that reason. I almost never blind buy anymore :)
I placed three orders this weekend…yelp!
52 teas
Coconut cream pie honeybush
Bannana pudding black tea
Della terra
Cocnut creme candy
Pineapple upside down cake
Lemmon chiffon
Hello sweetie
Tamirand pop
Almond indugence
Flowery pineapple oolong
Taiwanese mountain black
Oriental beauty
Canteloupe and cream
Wanting tea for vacation and I do not want to mess with loose leaf so I caved and placed another H&S order with some sachets.
30th Anniversary Blend
Tower of London
Irish Breakfast
Eight at the Fort
Supreme Breakfast Blend
Elaine's Blend.


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School budget vote, take two, in Tupper Lake
TUPPER LAKE – Residents of the Tupper Lake Central School District will get a chance to vote on the second version of the district's 2013-14 budget Tuesday, after they defeated the first version of it in May.
The first budget would have needed 60 percent of the vote to pass, since it exceeded the state-imposed tax cap, increasing the tax levy over the current year's by 8.35 percent. It didn't even get 50 percent of the vote, though, with 685 voting against it and 512 voting to approve it.
The district's administrative team has taken another hack at the budget and come up with a second version, which comes in a percentage point under the tax cap, so it would only need a simple majority of the vote to pass. It would increase the tax levy by $274,954, or 3.76 percent, to about $7.6 million.
This budget would get rid of seven instructional positions, including two layoffs and five that wouldn't be filled after a resignation or retirement.
Administrator pay
The new budget includes a pay freeze for district Superintendent Seth McGowan, who made $130,732 in salary and $35,774 in benefits in the current school year and was slated to make $133,347 in salary and $41,327 in benefits in 2013-14. He took a freeze once before in the past, three years ago when the district laid off about a quarter of its instruction staff.
McGowan signed a letter of understanding earlier this month agreeing to no pay increase for 2013-14, but the agreement states that he will return to his originally agreed-to pay increase in following years. The school board agreed in January to give him a 2 percent salary increase for 2014-15.
McGowan also signed an addendum to his contract last week that extends it through the 2015-16 school year and will give him a 2 percent salary increase for that year and require him to contribute 100 percent of the premium increase on his health insurance coverage between 2011 and 2016.
The school board also signed contracts with new administrators – middle/high school Principal Matt Southwick and Director of Special Programs Petra LaBarge – agreeing to pay both $83,500 in 2013-14 and give each a 2 percent raise in the two following school years.
Teachers' insurance
Teachers are also looking at ways to help alleviate the increases in their health insurance costs, according to a press release union co-President Aggie Pelletieri emailed to the Enterprise Friday.
"While no decisions have been made, both the Tupper Lake United Teachers leadership and the district are confident that some cost savings can be achieved in the coming months," Pelletieri wrote.
Tupper Lake teacher contributions to health insurance have increased in recent years and will continue to, and the contribution is comparable to similar schools in the state, she wrote.
Bus proposition
Also in May, voters also turned down a proposition to buy two new school buses by a wide margin – 750-426 – but the same question will be back on the ballot Tuesday.
The district's administrative team launched a public information campaign to convince voters that the bus program, which the district has been using for the last handful of years to recycle its buses, is worth the cost. The proposition asks voters to allow the district to spend a maximum of $230,500 on the two buses, but district Superintendent Seth McGowan explained at a recent school board meeting that the actual cost to the district, between the state aid that goes along with the program and the relatively good resale value the district gets for buses with it, the actual cost to the district would end up at about $59,000 over the next six years.
Voting is set to run from noon to 8 p.m. at the middle/high school. Anyone who has lived in the district, which covers Tupper Lake, Piercefield and part of Colton, for more than 30 days and is a U.S. citizen, is eligible to vote.
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Associate Veterinarians and special expertise available
Currently 5 veterinarians on site.
Educational Resources
All up to date vet/tech journals, magazines & VIN members on site.
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Hello All,
Ok so here is my problem... Tea
I like to drink Tea. I drink it in the morning, lunchtime, evenings and everywhere in between...
The problem is at 1am in the morning I often find myself staring into the obsess of my soul (which I dont mind - but if Im trying to get up at 5am it is not ideal)...
How can I drink tea throughout the day and NOT spend the evenings unable to sleep???
Ive read a couple of things on this point
1) 80% of caffeine is extracted in the first 30 seconds - in a gong fu styled ceremony, for the first steep/wash of the leaves do it for 45 seconds then discard and continue to drink.
2) Place a spoon full of sugar under your tongue just before you get into bed
3) give yourself a talking too e.g. 'Ive had a natural substance, that's good for me. Its natural to feel this way, just relax and enjoy the feeling'
4) dont drink at night
5) Roasted tea has less caffeine than greener tea
What do you guys do at night? Not drink? Or does caffeine not really affect you? Do you have any low/no caffeine teas for the evenings?
looking for tips or ideas to keep drinking gong fu style throughout the evening and still being able to sleep so I can wake up and keep going the next day!


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The holidays are hard upon you. You´ve no time to read novels or even short stories. But you don´t want to be out of touch. Your sense of wellness depends…
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Cloche Hat
Date: [1940..1949]
Creator: Richmond, Blanche
Description: Cloche style hat of black felt. Upturned brim of black Persian lamb wool higher in front and tapering to back. Elastic band for securing hat to wearer's head. Label on inside headband: "Blanche Richmond / Salon des Chapeaux / 711 Church St. / Evanston"
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Date: 1940~
Creator: Smith, Helen
Description: Hat of black felt. Styled somewhat as a fez, the hat has a slightly conical crown with flattened top. At back are two segments of black silk braid/knotwork. Inner black grosgrain ribbon hatband. Designer's label: "Original / Helen Smith / Marshall Field Annex - Chicago"
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Date: 1940/1949
Creator: Green-Field, Benjamin B.
Description: Hatlet of navy blue and white. The crown of the hat is formed of two hollow teardrop shapes, set with points overlapping, of a coarse navy blue fabric edged in dark blue plastic or vinyl piping. Extending from the point of each teardrop is a partly unrolled cone of the same material with an inner white/cream lining. Extending from the open end of each cone are single segments of the piping. The hatlet is overlaid with blue netting/veiling with a wide mesh and with scattered pairs of blue and white beads affixed to intersections of the mesh. The underside of the hatlet is lined in blue grosgrain ribbon, and has two small elastic cords holding two small plastic combs to secure the hatlet to the wearer's head. Designer's label sewn inside: "Bes-Ben / Made in Chicago" and an applied label with handwritten "318"
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Recent graduates Carolyn Newswanger '14 and Erin Eulberg '14, as well as Kelci Kaulana Quinabo 15, Madyson Statley '15, and Tiffany Tsui '15, and Rebecca Robinson '15 will leave for a month-long teaching practicum in Hong Kong this week.
The group will participate in pair-teaching at three different preschools operated by Victoria Educational Organization (VEO).
The six Poets were selected to inaugurate VEO's new Practicum Center for English-speaking students to assist with VEO's English language program.
Having been selected through a competitive application process, the students enrolled in the course, "Early Childhood Practicum in Hong Kong: Intercultural Teaching and Learning," co-taught by Professor of Education and Child Development Judith Wagner, director of the Broadoaks School, and Katie Roller, director of the Office of International programs.
During the spring term, students researched early childhood theories, philosophies, and policies in the U.S. and China. Fieldwork was conducted at Broadoaks to provide one example of preschool practices in the U.S.
While in Hong Kong, the students will maintain an interactive journal to continue their cross-cultural analyses, as well as complete two collaborative projects that include a "multicultural learning wall" and a book comparing the early childhood practices in each country. Students will also have the opportunity to explore the various neighborhoods in Hong Kong and travel to China.
With the support of the Office of International Programs, the Hubert Perry Travel Scholarship Fund, sponsored by alumnus Tien Zee, is covering students' travel expenses. Dr. Maggie Koong, chief principal of VEO, is sponsoring students while in Hong Kong -- providing housing during their month-long stay, a transportation stipend, and the fee for the practicum.
Koong is a tireless advocate for young children, especially those who are most vulnerable. She is president of Organisation Mondiale Pour L´Éducation Préscolaire (World OMEP), an international, non-governmental and non-profit organization concerned with all aspects of children's wellbeing, rights, and early education. Koong is an NGO representative to the United Nations and is also first vice president of UNICEF Hong Kong. She serves on numerous child- and family-related organizations in China.


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California Dreamin' - Page 2
California may be the coolest state in the Lower 48. It has a little bit of everything, including the lowest place in the U.S., Death Valley. At 282 feet below sea level, it's lower than a snake?s belly in a Hummer rut. A night run across the dunes under the moon is a spectacular way to explore it. Just watch out for snakes, scorpions and tarantulas, which will basically scare the crap out of you. That's why you should run at night, naked. (It beats soiled shorts.) Besides, it's too hot for clothes.
The next awesome place you should go is Mount Whitney, which is about 150 miles from Death Valley, and the highest point in the lower 48 states (14,494 feet elevation.) Some people like to run there from Death Valley in a race called "Badwater," but I wouldn't recommend it unless pain and hallucinations are your thing, or your name is Marshall Ulrich. Marshall's known for running solo between the two places, trying to decide which he likes better, the highs or the lows, though in truth he's better known as the guy who surgically removed all his toenails, so they wouldn't bother him on long runs like this.
It's 11 miles one way from the trailhead to the summit on the main Mount Whitney trail, which is amazingly beautiful (and long enough). Just don't put your lunch down on the summit because California marmots are very stealthy, and fat for a reason. You'll know you're hungry if you still eat lunch after a flea-bitten varmint ate half of it.
It's not far to the trails in Yosemite National Park, which could keep you busy for weeks, but my favorite has to be the route to the top of Half Dome that ends at the summit with a 400-foot cable ladder climb. The views 4800 feet above Yosemite Valley will fill you with inspiration, which is helpful when you need to get back down the ladder around the guy paralyzed with fear at half height, who keeps saying, "I think I'm gonna fall."
A run through the Giant Sequoia Grove should soothe your nerves because everyone keeps saying, "Oooh" and "Aaah." Or, just outside the park, take a dip in the Mono Lake moonscape where tourists go to lose their shoes in the mud.
In the Lake Tahoe area, one of my favorite places is Emerald Bay, where you can access the trail into Desolation Wilderness and countless alpine lakes. I ended up there without a good map, and took a digital shot of the trailhead map to carry with me. But I took so many beautiful pictures, I wore down the battery three hours into a six-hour loop. That's how I learned you can rub the battery to create enough static electricity to charge your camera for 15 seconds. Long enough to find the next turn.
A run around the lake on the Rim Trail is a hardcore option for the pain enthusiasts. I pondered about twenty miles of it one day, but got distracted when I saw cliff jumpers diving off rocks into the crystal clear water below. That?s a workout, too, you know.
Did I go to San Francisco with flowers in my hair? Metaphorically speaking, I gathered flowers of experience all along the way. I did reach San Francisco several times, but found the journey there more enjoyable than the destination. It's the same thing with trail running.
Bernie wishes he was in California again.


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The only real difference between muffins and other quick breads is the pan you bake them in. But those little muffin cups allow for a lot more potential variation, depending on what you do at the last minute before baking.
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Although it is played by about 15 million Americans and amounting to a $1.5 billion a year industry, and even though it is a growing business and worth talking about, this post is not about the real-world economics of fantasy sports.
Instead, this post is about the typical structures of fantasy leagues, particularly football (the most popular), and what these leagues can tell us about the participants' most basic economic assumptions or impulses. I will argue that the default model in fantasy sports is one of an authoritarian and interventionist governing body, which severely restricts fantasy commerce.
But just who are we talking about? As Marketplace reports, the typical fantasy sports players are "male, they're about 36, and they own their homes."
So what are the basic structures of fantasy leagues? (more…)


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Support March for Babies
Premature birth is the No. 1 killer of newborn babies.
Every year, more than 500,000 babies are born prematurely in the United States. Those who survive often have lifelong health problems, including cerebral palsy, mental retardation, chronic lung disease, blindness and hearing loss.
The March of Dimes is dedicated to improving the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.
Since 1970, the March of Dimes' March for Babies has raised $2.6 billion toward this goal. At present, millions of dollars are invested in active research grants in Iowa.
Research efforts have succeeded on many fronts, including:
Advances in diagnosis and surgical treatment of heart defects, which affect 1 of every 100 babies born in the U.S.
Development of surfactant and nitric oxide therapies to treat respiratory distress syndrome, a common affliction among premature babies
Effective screening at birth for disorders for which treatment is available.
The positive effects of the March of Dimes are patently obvious to anyone who has had children. But even those who are not parents benefit from the efforts of the organization. By working to reduce the rate of premature births, millions of dollars in health care costs are saved.
In 2013, more than 7 million people in 900 communities across the nation, including Fort Dodge, will hold March for Babies events, in which teams of fundraisers will walk to support the March of Dimes.
The Fort Dodge walk is scheduled for April 20 at John F. Kennedy Memorial Park.
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There are movies that (just as there are people who) take such pleasure in themselves that you can't help but admire them. It's contagious — they are enchanting precisely they so openly revel in their movie-ness. "Casablanca" may be the best-known, but the supreme example is surely Jacques Rivette's 1974 "Celine and Julie Go Boating," starting a revival run in a new 35mm print, this Friday at Film Forum.
The most experimental of nouvelle vague directors, Rivette was here concocting a recipe for a cinematic joie de vivre so heady it might be sustained for three-plus hours. "Celine and Julie" is verdant, airy, and playful — at once a leisurely exercise in narrativity, a comic rite of spring, an extended riff, a genial incantation, and a feminist buddy film. Harpo-mop Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian with a scholarly interest in the occult, and mercurial Celine (Juliet Berto), a pouty stagemagicienne, cross paths and form a friendship based on playful role swapping and mutual mind-reading.
There's a measure of preciosity but the actresses are resourceful, unafraid, and often very funny. (New York Times reviewer Nora Sayre characterized Berto as "a defiant, ruthless clown.") Whimsy is grounded by the vulgar schoolyard pranks and submerged eroticism of the pair's telepathic rapport. "Celine and Julie" is scripted but it has the free-associative feel of a fantasy created by two imaginative kids over the course of a long summer vacation. (Truly, Rivette learned the lessons of his open-ended, quasi-improvised 14-hour epic "Out 1"; "Celine and Julie" is his rules of the game in more ways than one.)
The movie's first act is a long, playful hide-and-seek pursuit across Paris; in the second act, Celine and Julie become accomplices, investigating the sinister doings in a seemingly haunted house. They relive their discoveries as shared memories, triggered by some magical sweets (part Proust, part "Alice in Wonderland," part mescaline). The situation becomes more explicitly cinematic when they discover that the house is offering a continuous loop showing of the same domestic mystery.
Alternately horrified and hysterical with laughter, Celine and Julie watch a pair of mannered mam'zelles (Bulle Ogier and Marie-France Pisier) slink around in murderous competition for the affections of a fatuously morose widower (the film's producer Barbet Schroeder). Thus, the movie turns into an essay on spectatorship that, in its delirious third act, has the duo intervene in the melodrama they have been critiquing. Their high spirited, improvisatory style alternates with the over-determined, claustrophobic atmosphere in manner that suggests Jean Renoir and Fritz Lang battling for control of the universe. What's magical about "Celine and Julie" is the way it conjures up so many earlier movies (Feuillade's serials, "Duck Soup," "Last Year at Marienbad," "Band of Outsiders," Vera Chytilova's "Daisies," to name a few) while seeming completely sui generis.
At the same time, "Celine and Julie" seems to have cast its spell on such disparate subsequent films as "Irma Vep," "Mulholland Drive," "In the City of Sylvia," and especially Madonna's most respectable vehicle, "Desperately Seeking Susan." It seems to have always been with us but, like any cult film, "Celine and Julie" required time to find its audience. Hailed by its devoted early champion Jonathan Rosenbaum in both Sight and Sound and Film Comment, "Celine and Julie" had its US premiere at the 1974 New York Film Festival (along with Rivette's even longer "Out One/Spectre"), then waited over three years for a commercial release.
In early '78, New Yorker Films opened the movie at the Cinema Studio where, if memory serves, it lasted less than a week. Some 10 months after that, before vanishing into the realm of Rivette retrospectives and one-day revivals it got a brief run downtown at the Public Theatre. Senior critic Andrew Sarris had two more commercial openings by nouvelle vague directors (Claude Chabrol's "Violette" and Eric Rohmer's "Perceval") that week and so "Celine and Julie" was reviewed for the Voice by its neophyte third-stringer, moi: "The quintessential French movie of the past 15 years … an original and entertaining metaphor for film-watching and, perhaps, film history." Decades later, that history is unthinkable without Rivette's glorious intervention.
Indeed, having newly revisited "Celine and Julie," I could not help but superimpose its premise over the weekend's two other outstanding releases — the superlative comic-book (or pure cinema) son-et-lumiere spectacle that is "The Avengers," and the lovingly restored re-release of Shirley Clarke's landmark 1961 adaptation of Jack Gelber's dope opera, "The Connection." While it's superhero business as usual to watch the eponymous Avengers vie with Loki for control of their scenario, it would be truly fabulous to watch Celine and Julie insert themselves into and take control of "The Connection"'s Pirandellian ritual.
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A Passion for People, A Love of Words
Retired teacher shares her knowledge with students about the power of words.
Retired teacher shares her knowledge with students about the power of words.
The Bard's work references natural world
Author Linda Valdez discusses memoir about her marriage, life
A conversation with naturalist and author Sy Montgomery about her ongoing quest to better understand the consciousness and emotions of animals.
Scholar says that without this almost 400 year old book, only half of Shakespeare's plays would be known today.
University of Arizona scholar Cristina Ramirez explores the legacy of Mexico's female journalists in a new book.
Artist, filmmaker and author Kathryn Ferguson discusses her book about the changing social and political landscape of the U.S. - Mexico Border.
Tucson author creates fantasy worlds from imagination, research, and a knack for creating sense of place.
Sean Prentiss' book explores the complicated legacy of Edward Abbey, and follows his footsteps through the Sonoran Desert region.
Scientist, food activist and writer raises awareness and enthusiam about plants, food, and a healthy environment.
An act of betrayal looms large in the latest novel from Tucson author & creative writing professor Elizabeth Evans.
Hear why Barry thinks his parents were part of "The Greatest Generation - to Party", and other pearls of wisdom from his new book.
Readers of all ages tell about the books that have touched, thrilled, or inspired them the most.
Author Aurelie Sheehan's new story collection explores the mythical side of one of Tucson's busiest thoroughfares.
Explore a lesser known side of the late actor's work, one that earned him a devoted following beyond the final frontier of "Star Trek".
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Healthier Shrimp and Vegetable Fried Rice RecipeHealthier Shrimp and Vegetable Fried Rice
When finely chopped, cauliflower is similar in size and texture to rice. It absorbs the flavors of the vegetables, shrimp, and soy sauce in this healthier version of fried rice. Adding extra cauliflower is also a great way to stretch your recipe servings further while limiting excess calories. A combination of brown rice and a variety of vegetables keep this meal nutritious and filling.
Tips for the cook: Freshly cooked rice is tender and it breaks easily when stirred. For the best results with fried rice, use leftover rice that has been stored in the refrigerator. To add new flavors and nutrients to the dish, consider experimenting with different types of whole grain rice such as red rice, black (Forbidden) rice, or wild rice.
Yield: 6 servings
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, sliced
- 1 ½ cups cauliflower, finely chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, cored and chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, cored and chopped
- 1 cup sugar snap peas
- 1 cup cooked brown rice
- 20 medium cooked shrimp, chopped
- 1 ½ tbsp reduced sodium soy sauce
- ¼ tsp ground black pepper
- Heat the olive oil in a wok or large skillet over medium-high. Add the garlic, onion, celery, and cauliflower. Cook for 2-3 minutes, until the vegetables begin to soften and brown. Add the bell peppers and cook 30 seconds more.
- Stir in the sugar snap peas and the rice. Cook for 1-2 minutes more. Add the shrimp and cook 1-2 minutes just until the shrimp are heated through. Stir in the soy sauce and black pepper. Serve warm.


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Debates of Dec. 8th, 2011
House of Commons Hansard #63 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was elected.
- Question Period
- Canada-U.S. Relations
- Ban on Shark Fin Importation Act
- Strengthening Fiscal Transparency Act
- Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act
- Safer Railways Act
- National Philanthropy Day Act
- Human Rights
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Senate Reform Act
- Streetsville Rotary Club
- Community Centre 55
- Employee of the Year Award
- Experience Genie Award
- Infrastructure
- Christmas Charity Organization
- Leeds—Grenville United Way
- King of Thailand
- Graham Dennis
- Violence Against Women
- Canadian Wheat Board
- Ballast Water
- Heron Emergency Food Centre
- Canada-U.S. Border
- Canadian Wheat Board
- John George Diefenbaker
- Canada-U.S. Relations
- Canadian Wheat Board
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Canada-U.S. Relations
- Minister of National Defence
- National Defence
- The Environment
- Agriculture
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Search and Rescue
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Infrastructure
- Canada-U.S. Relations
- Rural Airports
- Justice
- The Environment
- Seniors
- Justice
- Fisheries and Oceans
- International Trade
- Veterans
- Housing
- International Trade
- Parliamentary Librarian
- Business of the House
- Privilege
- Political Loans Accountability Act
- Newfoundland and Labrador Fishery Rebuilding Act
- National Strategy for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) Act
Senate Reform Act
Government Orders
1:40 p.m.
Justin Trudeau Papineau, QC
Madam Speaker, a couple of days ago in the House we debated the merits of Bill C-20, which was all about rearranging the distribution within the House. The NDP very clearly said Quebec needed to be better represented with even arbitrary limits and that it could not go beneath 24% so that it would be properly recognized.
The one place that Quebec is properly recognized historically is in the Senate, where 24 senators are guaranteed to be from Quebec. It is the place in our parliamentary system where regional interests get to speak most loudly. Quebeckers, whether politicians or public opinion, have repeatedly said that they want to keep the Senate, maybe improve it a bit but keep it, not abolish it.
The fact that the member is speaking about abolition of the Senate, when over half of his caucus is from Quebec, is something I would like him to address. Does he still have the agreement of half of his caucus that abolishing something that is important for Quebeckers is a good thing?
Senate Reform Act
Government Orders
1:40 p.m.
Jasbir Sandhu Surrey North, BC
Madam Speaker, I am very proud of the team from Quebec, my NDP colleagues who were elected on May 2. I want to thank Quebeckers for electing them to this House of Commons.
I basically disagree with the premise of that question. The senators do not have a voice. It is an undemocratic, unelected institution. The Prime Minister is the one controlling everything. As we have seen in this House, bills have been rammed through. My Conservative colleagues are limited to their speaking notes, so basically the Senate is duly unelected. The true voice of Quebec is being represented by my NDP colleagues in this House.
Senate Reform Act
Government Orders
1:40 p.m.
Guy Caron Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC
Madam Speaker, I am one of those New Democrat members from Quebec. Since the start of my term, and even during the preceding election campaigns, not a single citizen came to see me to talk about the Senate. So, to say that the Senate is an institution that Quebeckers are deeply attached to is nonsense, in my opinion.
To respond to the concerns of the hon. member for Papineau and to ask a question of my colleague from British Columbia, I would like to know what he would think of resolving the matter once and for all. Let us put the question to all Canadians and Quebeckers. Let us ask ourselves whether a referendum would be the way to resolve this issue once and for all, rather than blowing smoke.
Senate Reform Act
Government Orders
1:40 p.m.
Jasbir Sandhu Surrey North, BC
Madam Speaker, I want to point out that the true voice of Quebec is being represented in this House by my colleagues who were elected on May 2.
The other house is undemocratic and unelected. The only voice that is being represented there is that of the Prime Minister.
In response to my colleague's question, the only way we can truly listen to Canadians on whether to reform or abolish the Senate is to have a referendum. The sooner we do that, the sooner we can get on with the reform or the abolition of that undemocratic, unelected institution.
Senate Reform Act
Government Orders
1:45 p.m.
Anne-Marie Day Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC
Madam Speaker, I am also one of those 59 members, and I am proud to be one. The only time I heard anyone speak about Senate reform was after the election, when there were three partisan appointments of candidates who had just lost the election. Otherwise, it is of no concern to my constituents.
Many countries have abolished their senates, including Finland, Germany and Japan. Does my colleague think that these countries put themselves in difficulty by abolishing the Senate?
Senate Reform Act
Government Orders
1:45 p.m.
Jasbir Sandhu Surrey North, BC
Madam Speaker, the second house has been abolished at the provincial level, and it has worked. I believe it is time to have a referendum so that Canadians can decide whether we want to keep that house or not. That would be a true democracy.
1:45 p.m.
The Deputy Speaker Denise Savoie
Order, please. I have the honour to inform the House that a communication has been received as follows:
Rideau Hall
December 8th, 2011
Mr. Speaker,
I have the honour to inform you that the Honourable Marie Deschamps, Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, in her capacity as Deputy of the Governor General, signified royal assent by written declaration to the bill listed in the Schedule to this letter on the 8th day of December, 2011 at 8:30 a.m.
Yours sincerely,
For Stephen Wallace.
The schedule indicates the bill assented to was Bill S-1002, An Act to authorize the Industrial Alliance Pacific General Insurance Corporation to apply to be continued as a body corporate under the laws of Quebec
The house resumed consideration of the motion that Bill C-7, An Act respecting the selection of senators and amending the Constitution Act, 1867 in respect of Senate term limits, be read the second time and referred to a committee.
Senate Reform Act
Government Orders
1:45 p.m.
Robert Aubin Trois-Rivières, QC
Madam Speaker, what a passionate debate on Senate reform. When I was elected on May 2, if someone had told me that I would be starting a speech in this House by saying that I agree with the Right Hon. Prime Minister on something, I never would have believed them.
But I must admit that I agree with what the Prime Minister said when he described the Senate as, and I quote, "a relic of the 19th century". I think that "relic" is an appropriate word choice, since we all dream of having a sacred relic for all the virtues it is supposed to represent. But it rarely has any benefits.
In light of this statement, I see two choices, since the status quo is no longer acceptable. The first choice is to simply abolish the institution of the Senate. I assure the Prime Minister that he would have my support and my party's support if that was what he wanted to do.
In addition, as all provincial senates have been abolished since 1968, we can draw the logical conclusions: the provinces manage very well without senates and there is no reason to believe that it would be otherwise for the Government of Canada.
More and more Canadians believe that we should be able to express our opinions on the matter in a national referendum. According to an Angus Reid poll conducted in July 2011, 71% of Canadians expect a referendum of that kind. That is what you call a strong mandate.
In more than a century, the 13 attempts at Senate reform have failed. Perhaps it is time to draw the logical conclusions. But, once again, the government is proposing a convoluted bill whose purpose is to make us think that the Senate is being reformed, whereas what we will see is something even more questionable.
The government is moving forward with fake Senate reform since holding a constitutional debate and dealing with the provinces and territories on the form, the function, the representative nature and even the legitimacy of that chamber are out of the question. So, welcome, everyone, to the world of mystery and illusion. Let me give you some examples of how comical, or how ridiculous, the situation really is.
First of all, the Senate would be made up of elected representatives. Those who want to keep the institution may find that principle appealing. But it becomes at the very least questionable when we realize that the provinces could choose to hold Senate elections—of course, at their own expense. I draw your attention to those words: once again, financial responsibility is being transferred to the provinces. The federal government is going to download that responsibility onto the provinces without consulting them beforehand.
But the best of it is that the provinces could choose to hold elections using whichever method seems best to them. Perhaps the method would be the cheapest, the most politically expedient; who knows what considerations could go into choosing a method of holding an election. They could also choose not to hold one. On that point alone, it is difficult to imagine anything more nonsensical.
The incoherence of the proposal seems clear to me already. But if that were not enough, after all is said and done, the Prime Minister of Canada would have no obligation to appoint a person who had been previously elected by a province or territory. Heaven knows that, since this session opened, we have lost count of the times when we have realized that the government is not listening to Canadians. So why should the provinces and territories invest time and money in a process that may ultimately serve no purpose?
I also smiled rather broadly when I read in Bill C-7 that candidates for election to the Senate must be nominated by a political party that is registered in the province.
It was amusing to imagine for a few moments the list of potential candidates elected by a Parti Québécois government or the list that would be drawn up by Québec solidaire. It seems to me that here as well, we have obvious proof of the impossibility of reconciling eventual senatorial election results in Quebec with appointments by a Canadian Prime Minister, whoever that might be.
Now, I need to underscore the unilateral process in this bill. Consultations with the provinces and territories are also glaringly absent from this bill. This government is making it a habit to act entirely on its own. The strong mandate pretext cannot possibly justify making such major changes without consulting the main partners, and—why not—the whole population, as I was saying earlier.
I feel as though I am watching an old episode of Father Knows Best. The cartoonists back home chose that image for their caricatures of the government and the Prime Minister, and I think they are on to something.
The Canadian public was deeply affected by the NDP message that they were going to do politics differently and wanted all of the elected members of this House to work together in a manner marked by attentiveness, openness to others and respect. It is not enough to say "Vote as we do so that we can work together".
If the government goes forward with this bill, it already knows that there are going to be challenges, since Quebec has already said that it considers Bill C-7 unconstitutional and intends to prove that if necessary.
There is another incongruity in this bill, and it concerns accountability. After an election, elected members are generally held accountable to the electorate. Well, think again. Once again, we are dealing with smoke and mirrors. With a single nine-year, non-renewable term—by the way, nine years is equivalent to two terms in the House of Commons, and even a bit more—the pseudo-elected members of the Senate would go directly from election promises to retirement, in recognition of their good and faithful services to Her Majesty. The only way of trying to lengthen your political career would be to temporarily leave the comfort of the Senate to try to get elected to the House of Commons, knowing that if you lost, you could return and finish your term in the comfort of the red chamber. And I could also say a few words about that retirement. One term, followed by a pension. Now there is an approach that is rather difficult to support in an economy where Canadians are having trouble making ends meet.
Now, what of the potential conflicts between the two chambers? It also makes sense that a Senate that has practically the same powers as the House, filled with the false sense of legitimacy that sham elections would bring, could end up bringing us one step closer to the same kind of impasse that is seen in the United States, where the two chambers paralyze one another.
In this House, we have already seen bills passed at third reading be blocked in the Senate by a partisan onslaught. Imagine the power that a Senate could wield if it deemed itself elected and representative.
In closing, the problems with this Senate reform are so great in number that we are automatically brought back to option A—the NDP proposal that the Prime Minister has already toyed with, I might add—namely the out-and-out abolition of the Senate.
I should say in passing that all my attacks are directed against the institution and not its sitting senators. In many cases, I have tremendous respect for their service to the nation.
While some premiers openly favour abolishing the Senate and others find it pointless, why not have the political gumption to ask Canadians, who foot the bill, to decide? It could end up being an extremely positive decision. In one fell swoop, there could potentially be a rapid return to a balanced budget without the need for cuts to services for Canadians.
Madam Speaker, thank you for having given me the floor. I would like to thank my colleagues in this House for their attention.
Senate Reform Act
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
The Deputy Speaker Denise Savoie
The hon. member for Trois-Rivières will have five minutes for questions and comments after oral question period.
Streetsville Rotary Club
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Brad Butt Mississauga—Streetsville, ON
Madam Speaker, the Streetsville Rotary Club is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011 and has been the Rotary home for many of Streetsville's leading citizens since its inception. Its motto is "Service above Self" and its nickname is "The Good Fellowship Club".
Streetsville Rotary has about 30 dedicated members with one charter member who has a perfect attendance record, Mr. Maurice Foster. They are business, professional and community leaders who are organized for humanitarian service, encouraging high ethical standards and helping build goodwill and peace.
This club supports programs in my community such as Easter Seals kids, Dreams Take Flight, Adventure in Citizenship, the Rotary Youth Exchange and Rotary Camp Enterprise. The members are active supporters of the Streetsville Bread and Honey Festival where they hold the annual pancake breakfast. As a Rotary member myself and a recipient of the Paul Harris Fellowship, I know the important work service clubs do in our community.
I wish the Streetsville Rotary Club a happy 50th anniversary, and all the best for the future.
Community Centre 55
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Matthew Kellway Beaches—East York, ON
Madam Speaker, as Christmas fast approaches, Community Centre 55 in my riding of Beaches—East York is gearing up for its 30th Share a Christmas program. Last year, over 700 volunteers came out on winter nights to sort, pack and deliver presents and food to over 4,000 people. This year the need is expected to be greater.
These numbers point to the desperate circumstances of so many families in these economic times, and to the continuing deterioration of social and economic supports for Canadian families in need. These numbers also speak to the generosity of so many constituents and businesses in the riding, as well as to the tremendous organizational capacity of Community Centre 55 and its staff, all of whom have hearts of gold and are moved by the spirit of Christmas.
In Beaches—East York we are blessed to have Community Centre 55, its management, staff and volunteers not just at Christmas time but year round.
Employee of the Year Award
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Dean Del Mastro Peterborough, ON
Madam Speaker, I rise today to extend my warmest congratulations to Wilma Anderson from my riding of Peterborough for winning employee of the year at the Canadian Tourism Awards. This award is presented to a front-line employee who best exemplifies excellence in the tourism industry. The Tourism Industry Association of Canada recognized Wilma on November 24 for her stellar work at Elmhirst's Resort near Peterborough.
Wilma joined Elmhirst's Resort in 1985 as a dishwasher, later moving to housekeeping and eventually managing the department. In 1990, Wilma was promoted to guest services manager. As a single parent struggling to balance home and work, she was able to take over the department and without any formal training excel at supervision, staff motivation, budgeting and time management. Her caring attitude and willingness to provide a hug when needed has helped Elmhirst's Resort become the successful small business it is today.
I congratulate Wilma for her hard work and her perseverance. I congratulate everyone at Elmhirst's Resort for winning this prestigious award.
Experience Genie Award
Statements By Members
December 8th, 2011 / 2 p.m.
Judy Foote Random—Burin—St. George's, NL
Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize William Breon, a young man from Grand Bank in my riding of Random—Burin—St. George's.
At 12 years of age, he has proven to be a prolific fundraiser in the fight against multiple sclerosis, a disease his father Frank has been battling for more than a decade. Over the past five years, William has raised approximately $15,000 to help combat this dreaded disease. His commitment is exemplary. At the MS walk in St. John's last year, William was the top fundraiser, collecting over $5,000. He has received the Grand Bank outstanding youth volunteer award and the MS Society non-merit award and has been nominated for an Experience Genie award.
To win the Experience Genie award, William needs our support. I encourage everyone to visit experiencegenie.com and vote for William so he can have a wish granted by the experience genie.
I ask all members of the House to join me in saluting 12-year-old William Breon who has proven that people are never too young to make a difference.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Lois Brown Newmarket—Aurora, ON
Madam Speaker, our government continues to stay focused on what is important to my constituents in Newmarket—Aurora and to all Canadians, jobs and economic growth.
Our government's actions through Canada's economic action plan have led to the creation of nearly 600,000 net new jobs since July 2009.
This Saturday in Newmarket I will be celebrating the completion of a major investment in our town, the Newmarket Riverwalk Commons. I am proud to be part of a government that committed more than $2 million to help revitalize Newmarket's downtown urban space, while creating local jobs in our community. Thanks to this economic action plan investment, Newmarket will enjoy accessible, modern, indoor and outdoor recreational facilities, having a tremendous positive impact on the health of our community for years to come.
I congratulate everyone involved in the planning and development of this long-anticipated community asset and look forward to a wonderful opening this Saturday.


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Lots O'Meat Lasagna
- 1 1/2 pounds ground chuck
- 1 pound ground Italian sausage
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons ground oregano
- 1 teaspoon ground basil
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes with basil, garlic, and oregano
- 2 (15-ounce) cans tomato sauce
- 1 (6-ounce) can tomato paste
- 1 1/2 cups small curd cottage cheese
- 1 (5-ounce) package grated Parmigianno-Reggiano
- 2 tablespoons freshly chopped parsley leaves
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 9 oven-ready lasagna noodles
- 2 (8-ounce) packages shredded mozzarella
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large saucepan, combine ground chuck, sausage onion and garlic. Cook over medium heat until meat is browned and crumbled; drain.
Return meat to pan and add oregano, basil, salt and pepper. Add tomatoes, tomato sauce and paste. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 30 to 45 minutes.
In a small bowl, combine cottage cheese, Parmesan, parsley, and eggs.
Spoon 1/4 of sauce into bottom of a 13 by 9 by 2-inch baking pan. Place 3 uncooked lasagna noodles on top of sauce. Do not overlap noodles. Spread 1/3 of cottage cheese mixture over noodles, top with 1/4 of sauce and 1/3 mozzarella cheese. Repeat layers, ending with sauce, reserving 1/3 of mozzarella cheese.
Bake 45 minutes. Top with remaining cheese and bake 15 minutes or until hot and bubbly. Let rest 10 minutes before serving.
Recipe courtesy of Paula Deen, 2008
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The Land Board's declaration of ownership describes the nature and extent of the state's interest in the submerged and submersible land underlying the 89-mile segment of the Rogue River. Final Report Items presented to the Land Board for its consideration: All documents in PDF format. Land Board Agenda Item Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Appendix F Appendix G Study Findings The following findings are based upon the agency record: (1) The Rogue River study segment has been used in a variety of ways both before and since statehood. Among these uses include: Indian canoe and raft use; cable ferries; the transport of people and goods on boats; commercial fishing from boats; as a mode of transport for logs; and various recreational watercraft. (2) The use of canoes by Indians was reported by early explorers during the 1840s and 1850s at or in the vicinity of RM 79.5, 95 (Applegate River), 102 (Grants Pass) and 110.5 (Evans Creek). An oral history taken of one of the last members of the Takelma Tribe also reports that canoes were portaged at Rainie Falls (RM 66) and "upriver of Galice Creek." In addition, there is reference to the use of log rafts by Indians living upriver from Table Rock (RM 131). (3) Ferries were operated from the 1850s to early 1900s at approximately RM 81, 90, 95, 102, 107.5, 110.5, 131.5, 140 and 146. (4) Wooden boats were used from the late 1890s to the early 1900s to transport goods and people primarily from Grants Pass (RM 102) to various points downriver (Gold Beach at RM 0.0, Mule Creek at RM 47.5, Missouri Bar at RM 51, Winkle Bar at RM 53, and Russian Charlie Bar at RM 63). Evans Creek (RM 110.5) was also identified as the starting point for one trip downstream. (5) Commercial fishing for salmon from boats was conducted during the 1890s through the mid-1930s from Dead Man's Island (RM 101.5) near Grants Pass to Hog Creek Landing (RM 83). (6) Log drives were reported to have been conducted on an occasional basis and often with difficulty, from the 1880s to 1916 between various points on the upper study segment to Tolo/Gold Ray Dam (RM 125.5). (7) Boating recreationists use a wide variety of watercraft along the entire 89-mile study segment. (8) Although the general orientation of the Rogue River remains the same as it was at statehood, it has changed its course along various lengths of the study segment due to avulsion and accretion, a process which continues. (9) The flow of the Rogue River through the study segment was at the time of statehood likely equal to or greater than it is today. (10) Most of the recreational watercraft currently used on the Rogue River draw less than 8 inches when loaded with people and gear, and many 6 inches or less, and can use the study segment at a minimum flow of 800 to 900 cubic feet per second (cfs) with occasional scrapping of the bottom of the watercraft or the need to portage around some obstacles. (11) Flows of 1,000 cfs enable watercraft to use the water more easily, with a flow on the order of 1,400 cfs providing an even more pleasant experience. (12) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has determined that the minimum average monthly flow (after withdrawals for irrigation, municipal and domestic purposes) prior to the completion of Lost Creek Dam in 1977 at various points along the study segment over various recording periods was 1,160 cfs in August at Grants Pass (RM 102). (13) The Oregon Water Resources Department reports: (a) An 80% likelihood exists that a flow of 1,000 cfs or more would have occurred at the time of statehood at all points along the study segment throughout the year except in September at the confluence of Elk Creek (RM 152), and (b) A 50% likelihood exists that the lowest flow at any point along the study segment would be 1,150 cfs in October at the confluence of Elk Creek (RM 152.) (14) Indian dugout canoes and some other watercraft used in the Oregon Territory at the time of Oregon statehood had a draft of 6 to 8 inches of water. Current recreational watercraft now used throughout the study segment have the same floatability characteristics (3 to 8 inches of draft). (15) There is no evidence that the federal government reserved any portion of the study segment for any purpose prior to statehood that would prevent the transfer of ownership of the study segment to the state. Conclusions DSL concludes that in 1859 the 89-mile study segment of the Rogue River was used or susceptible to being used in its ordinary and natural condition as a highway of commerce over which trade and travel could have been conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel at that time; and that the federal government did not reserve any portion of the study segment for any purpose prior to statehood that would prevent the transfer of ownership of the study segment to the state; and that the state has owned the land underlying the study segment of the Rogue River since statehood. Furthermore, the state's ownership extends to all lands located below the line of ordinary high water along the 89-mile study segment, unless lawfully conveyed or granted to another entity by the state since statehood and as affected by the principles of accretion, erosion and avulsion. The nature of the ownership includes two components: fee simple title (the jus privatum) and dominion as the public's trustee over the natural resource for public trust uses such as navigation, commerce, fisheries and recreation (the jus publicum). Rogue River Q and A DSL also has prepared a new document to answer common questions about the study, entitled "Questions-Answers: Rogue River Navigability Study" Where to find all documents concerning this study To see the public input received by DSL along with other documents concerning the study, go to: The Background Page. Questions? Chris Castelli, Senior Policy Analyst 503.986.5280 or firstname.lastname@example.com
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Tap into it: Maple School on Feb. 2
The recently established Franklin County Maple (Producers) Association, in cooperation with Brushton Moira Central School Future Farmers of America and Cornell Cooperative Extension, is pleased to announce their First Annual Maple School. Whether you are a seasoned maple syrup producer, a less-experienced sugar maker, or an individual interested in learning the ins and outs of making maple syrup at home, this all-day event, which will be held at BMCS on the Gale Road in Brushton on Feb. 2, will offer informational and hands-on classes and workshops that will most certainly be of interest to you.
The FCMA Maple School is an opportunity for anyone involved in or considering becoming involved in maple sugaring to learn about or brush up on:
- Cutting edge sugarbush management and maple syrup production technologies
- State-of-the-art sugaring and sugar production related equipment, machinery and tools and how to use them and
- Universally accepted methods for collecting sap and making high-quality maple syrup and value-added maple sugar products.
It's also a chance for greenhorns and rookies to expand their understanding of large production and small farm sugaring operations and how these family run businesses that produce hundreds of gallons of quality maple syrup of exceptional flavor every year.
A noteworthy and wide-ranging variety of informational and educational classes are being featured. Among them are Maple Tubing for Beginners; Sugarbush Thinning for Improved Growth and Productivity; Ensuring Sugarbush Regeneration; Filtering and Canning; Making Maple Cream and Candies; Making Maple-Coated Popcorn, Suckers, Smoothies, and Slushies; Economics of Buying and Selling Maple; 20C & Home Licenses Needed for Maple and Marketing; Ag District Property Tax Assessments; and Stainless Steel Welding. Presenters include specialists from Cornell University and Cornell Cooperative Extension, Soil and Water Conservation District professionals, maple syrup producers who take great pride in making only the highest quality maple products, and industry consultants.
This is a truly diverse group of folks. All of them bring their insights, their knowledge, their experience, and their expertise to the event. And all of them will be available to answer questions and address concerns.
Rarely have I had the privilege of working with a group of individuals with the enthusiasm and determination of FCMA's founding members. Several times this year, I've seen them quickly take ideas from vision to reality. This Maple School is their latest effort.
At a meeting held earlier this year, FCMA core members brought to light the fact that they, and many other North Country maple producers, travel great distances to attend maple schools when they are offered in downstate counties or in neighboring states. All agreed that there was an obvious need to make a similar educational experience available here. And a lot of planning and hard work has gone into making that happen.
The comprehensive variety of classes that have been scheduled as part of the Feb. 2 event are intended to meet the requirements of just about anyone interested in maple. Whether you're a large-scale producer who sells to wholesale markets, a small sugar maker who sells direct from your home or at the farmers markets, a backyard or would-be home maple syrup maker, or just a curious consumer, the First Annual FCMA Maple School will have something to offer you.
While you're there, you can also attend the trade show, which will showcase equipment and supplies from dealers including CDL USA (Dallaire), Leader Evaporator, Dominion and Grimm, Burch Bottle and Packaging Inc. and Airgas. Several makers of maple products will have their wares displayed for sale, too. Among them are Parker Family Maple Farm, Homestead Maple, Hastings Family Maple, Sugar Hill Farm, Adirondack Maple Farm, Beaver River Maple Supplies and, of course, the Franklin County Maple Association. In addition, representatives from Cornell Cooperative Extension, Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation District, New York Forest Owners Association and the Wild Center will oversee tables with handouts and be available to answer questions and speak with you throughout the day. And while you're at it, please support the artisans and craftspeople who will be on hand displaying their skills and their handiworks. And take a little time to look over the variety of items being offered by the flea market vendors who will be selling their goods, as well.
If you would like to attend the Maple School, participate as a vendor, or sell maple sugaring or related equipment through the auction, you can find registration forms online at the BMCS FFA website (www.bmcsd.org/ffa/index.html). The cost to attend, which includes lunch, is $20 if you register in advance or $30 at the door. Vendor table space is $10 if you bring your own table or $20 if you would like the FFA to provide a table for you. Lunch is extra. The fee for selling equipment at the auction is 10 percent of the sale price charged to the seller. Other terms and conditions apply.
Worldwide demand for maple syrup and other maple products continues to grow. And we live in one of comparatively few places in the world where maple sugar production is even possible. A maple school, like this one, represents an exceptional opportunity to learn (or learn more) about maple syrup production from the trees to the table, about the sustainable forestry practices that make it possible, and much more.
If you are a New York forest owner with a suitable site, growing sugar maples and managing your stand for sugar production can maximize the productive use of your forest natural resources and allow you to leave a healthy, productive forest, a lasting resource, and a working agribusiness to your heirs.
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A loss of one of our freedoms
The recent shooting of all those beautiful children in Connecticut is very heart wrenching and occurrences of this sort that have been happening far to frequently leaves people of my generation puzzled as to what has happened to produce so many of these brain addled, zombie looking, psychopathic killers that are committing these horrendous acts. (I'm 80).
The answer seems too simple to just blame violent movies, hours on end of shooting people on the video games and the media in general? Or is it the use of drugs that has affected the way the brain works? It's beyond me what the causes are, I only know that life is different in today's society than in my early life.
A gun is an inanimate object whether it is empty, has five rounds in it or 25, by itself it can't hurt anyone, in the wrong hands it can kill just as well as other inanimate objects such as cars, knives, hammers, screwdrivers, golf clubs, ropes etc. We can't remove all these items from our availability.
I don't pretend to be intelligent enough to have the answers to the problems I only hope it doesn't cause the eventual loss of one of the freedoms that was granted to the American people by our constitution and bill of rights.
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Like many salamanders Desmognathus ochrophaeus mates by way of internal fertilization. The female of the species will release a scent from one of her "courtship glands" on a leaf, branch, bark, etc. that will coax a male to come and release a spermatophore on the ground. Desmognathus ochrophaeus are non-vocal and so must use scent cues to mate with each other. One very important sense involved in mating is olfaction. Using scents the female is able to entice the male to release his sperm package onto the ground, which she will then pick up and place directly into her vent. This differs from what we traditionally consider mating, because the male and female Desmognathus ochrophaeus do not physically make contact and induce a direct transfer of sperm to ova. Year after year an individual salamander will breed along the same segments of a stream.
These salamanders are most active at night and on dark, humid days. Adults may congregate in crevices and shale banks during winter.
An interesting behavior attributed to Desmognathus ochrophaeus that is common to many salamanders is the ability to lose their tail when threatened by a predator. On Desmognathus ochrophaeus and many other salamanders there is a predetermined zone of breakage at the base of the tail where it will break off, leaving the tail behind, but allowing the rest of the salamander to get away. When the tail breaks, segmental muscles pull out, leaving the tail behind. The contraction of sphincter muscles on the blood vessels minimizes bleeding. The broken tail will wiggle, contort, and move around to distract the predator, hopefully giving the salamander enough time to escape. The slamander may be short its tail, but at least he'll live for another day. Luckily for Desmognathus ochrophaeus, the tail eventually regenerates (Cohen 1995).
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Joseph Bernardo commented on an older version of Behavior:
The description of courtship and mating is inaccurate, because the two sexes do come into physical contact. The description of tail loss stating that "predetermined zone of breakage at the base of the tail where it will break off" is true for some salamanders but not Desmognathus- the tail can break off at any position along its length, not just at its base.


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In January, for the first time ever, more cars were sold in China than in the United States.urban areas has been driving the demand for autos. Over the past decade, China has tripled its vehicle fleet to 45 million while India's has doubled to 15 million. And these figures do not include tens of millions of motorcycles and small, rural vehicles in these nations. In January 2009, for the first time ever, more cars were reportedly sold in China than in the U.S.
Following the U.S. down the wrong path toward fossil fuel-dependent motorization could be catastrophic.are needed. For example, public-private investment funds targeted at clean transport technologies, multilateral government support to increase financing of sustainable transportation projects, and help developing zero-emission-vehicle policies could all spur China to pursue a more sustainable course. The most car-centric nations owe it to themselves to be involved as more than mere observers. It's in their self-interest to enthusiastically and generously help China pursue a more benign transportation and energy path. When it comes to transportation, China's missteps could be devastating, while its revolutionary innovations could be lifesaving for us all.


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To the Journal editor:
With all the rhetoric regarding restricting or eliminating our right to bear arms, the latest argument that restricts only certain types of weapons seems to be gaining ground.
The tragedy of any senseless killing, especially the killing of children, cannot be eliminated by restricting certain forms of weapons.
The fact is, a deranged person who is determined to take innocent lives, will find some way of accomplishing that. The weapon is an inanimate object that can do no harm or good until used by a human being.
Our Second Amendment right was put in place for a reason and the type of arms available has nothing to do with it. Our Constitution is a well thought out document that has stood the test of time and is not meant to be adjusted; it is not a living document.
A main purpose of the Second Amendment is to allow citizens to be armed so the U.S. can be protected from enemies both foreign and domestic, including the government itself.
How many years ago did Thomas Jefferson say, "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
If any bans are put in place, the law abiding citizen will be at a disadvantage as criminals will pay no attention to the law. What is more important is another of our freedoms will be diminished.
Restricting our right to bear arms is putting a band-aid on a cancer. The disease of constantly turning our backs on God and the Christian fundamentals we were founded on is spreading in favor of "political correctness." We need to reestablish a respect for life.
To view all people as created by God and not just the evolvement of a glob of primordial ooze would help bring back the value of every human life and trickle down to everything from TV and movies to video games to abortion clinics to using a firearm for the provision of hunting and the protection of our loved ones and home.
Think of the harm done by a knee jerk response to the recent shooting horrors in light of our future freedom. Let us return to our founding principles.
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Hey everybody,
we are hosting two domains from a single application (lets say domain1.com and domain2.net). What we are trying to do is to have different name routes in both domains?
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www.domain1.com/entries (in view we are calling posts_path)
www.domain2.net/articles (in view we are calling posts_path)
but it will show the same results on both domains.
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map.resources :posts, :as => "entries", :conditions => {:domain => 'domain1.com'}
map.resources :posts, :as => "articles", :conditions => {:domain => 'domain2.net'}
If I call posts_path on domain1.com everything is fine and the route generated is www.domain1.com/entries
but if I call posts_path from domain2.net route generated is www.domain2.net/entries
(Routing Error - No route matches "/entries" with {:subdomain=>nil, :request_uri=>"/entries", :remote_ip=>"xx.xx.xx.xx", :protocol=>"http://", :content_type=>nil, :host=>"domain2.net", :accepts=>"text/html,application/xml,*/*", :method=>:get, :domain=>"domain2.net", :port=>3000})
it should be www.domain2.net/articles
We can't figure out why the second ':as' parameter was ignored even when the domain is domain2.net and conditions is satisfied.
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Managing particle systems efficiently was a key task in building life-like special effects like dust, smoke and water into Cogswell's Project X short animated films.
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it wasn't a real crash... they said is landed, and kinda "slid" across the runway.2 of 3 wrote:Just came back from the Coldplay concert in Toronto. As hard as this is to beleive, the show just ROCKED. The place was just packed with people half my age(or even younger) and there was tons of energy. Fantastic light and video show as well. I'd say even you haters would have been impressed.
Nice touch with a lyric change too "give me truth, don't give my lies"
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The place went nuts.(air france jet crashed at the airport just hours before the show and caught fire...no one killed,and no serious injuries)
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LAURIUM – Sharon Marie Sabo, 67, a resident of Laurium, passed away at her home on Jan. 12, 2013.
Sharon was born Oct. 11, 1945, in Wyandotte, Mich., a daughter of Paul and Sophie (Malicki) Crnkovich. She was a graduate of Wyandotte-Roosevelt High School, Class of 1963.
On Apr. 18, 1963, she married Michael Sabo in Wyandotte.
She was an avid reader, she loved to cook, she loved to laugh and she enjoyed playing the poker machine at the casino. Sharon had a sweet, kind heart and poured out that love on her three grandchildren.
Surviving are her husband, Michael; a daughter, Nicole (Tony) Cimbalik of Peoria, Ill.; three grandchildren, Evan, Jack and Bree; a brother, Richard (Mary Jo) Crnkovich of Southgate, Mich.; a sister, Paulette (Robert) Toth of Grand Blanc, Mich.
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Anyone do multiple side by side tests at all around this in the past?
What is the white sauce you are using ? Is it just bechamel sauce ?
I've done a dozen variations of this test. IIRC, I even did one with Chau where I pounded the edge with my fist and still got a great rise in the edge. The main problem with the applicability of my results for others is that the atmospheric pressure here at 7000 feet accentuates the expansion of gas bubbles during baking.
Bill, thanks for the insight! Do you have a link at all where you documented some of this? I'd be curious to see results/records. If not, no worries... and thanks for doing the tests as well. I figured I couldn't be the first one to come up with the idea.
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The San Francisco Chronicle has named Whittier alumnus Steve Matthiasson its "Winemaker of the Year" for 2013.
The son of anthropology professors, Matthiasson was born in Winnipeg and traveled west to attend Whittier, where he graduated in 1991 with a degree in philosophy. However, to the Matthiason family, farming remained an intellectual's pursuit and he returned to school to study horticulture at UC Davis.
Now living on a farm in Napa with his wife, Jill, and sons, Kai and Harry, Matthiasson is a top viticultural consultant and makes wine for his own label, Matthiasson.
"I still pinch myself every morning," said Matthiasson. "I'll go out there at night and stand in the vineyard and look at the stars and say, 'Wow, this is our farm. We pulled it off.' "
Click here to read: Winemaker of the Year: Steve Matthiasson digs for Napa's roots.
Matthiasson was also named the Napa Valley Winemaker of the Year in 2012 by Food & Wine magazine.
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Next stop Seattle for ROV winners
ALPENA – The Thunder Bay Junior High sixth and seventh grade Robot Factory 4-H Club team Underwater Rescue Research Company placed first in the Ranger Class at the Great Lakes Regional MATE ROV Competition on Saturday, taking top scores in the company and poster design, pool missions, and barely missing the top spot for the engineering presentation points.
"The day went fantastic," coach Bob Thomson said. "Sarah Waters did a great job coordinating the event. The whole thing just flowed smoothly and everything was right on time."
The team took second in last year's regional competition and traveled to Orlando, Fla., to compete against high school and college teams in their same class, where they placed in the final top two-thirds of the international competition. Team members have high hopes of doing even better at internationals this year in Seattle and placing high at that level for the first time again competing against teams of mostly high school and college level members.
The Robot Factory 4-H Club team was in good standing after its first try at its pool missions, but it was the second attempt that really put it out in front of the competition.
"The second round they nailed it out of the park on their missions," Thomson said. "The kids exploded with excitement. Here are sixth- and seventh-graders and they are the best engineering robotics team in the region. Now they have to go against the best in the world at internationals."
Second place for the Ranger Class went to Melvindale High School. Both teams will move on to the International ROV competition in Seattle in June, representing the Great Lakes Region.
"I'm extremely proud of what the student's have been capable of producing," Thomson said. "The students will be working to raise funds to travel to internationals this year."
All Saints Catholic School's High Speed Research team, and Alpena High School's team were among those that receiving a Team Spirit Award for their engineering skills, presentation, and safety portions of the competition. Award winning All Saints team was comprised of first and second graders Clayton Thomson, Morgan McConnell, Finn Williams, and William Shultz. The winning Alpena High School team members were Scott Parkham, Stephen Torok, Cory McConnell, and Courtney VanWagoner.
Local Alpena teams also placed with high marks in the Scout class missions, the design, and the engineering presentations during the competition.
"Our Sanborn teams swept the scout class, winning first, second, and third, with a majority of their points coming from the ELA Components (posters and the engineering presentation) combined with the missions in the pool," Thomson said.
First Place in the Scout Class went to the Robot Factory 4-H Club, Blue Eagle Research team, from Alpena. Team members were Dylan Fleck, Rose Cornelius, Kyle Barbeau, Justin Seymour, and Cloe Maskell.
The Black Widow Research Team came in second place with members Caleb Eaton, Jordan Schultz, Megan Zuchowski, Lauren Cousineau, and Kali Awiszus.
Team Underwater Research came in third place with members Robert Barbato, Lindsay Syma, Riley Arlt, Jake Schiller, and Noah Fischer.
The competition's "Duct Take Award" went to team Green Thunder, with members Samantha Jobin, John McNeal, Trisha Daoust, Mason Barch, and Miya Zbytowski.
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Snowmobile Safety Program At NYPA Visitors Center Set For Saturday, Feb. 26.
Steve Ramsey
February 7, 2011
NORTH BLENHEIM–The Blenheim-Gilboa Visitors Center will be the site of a New York State-certified Snowmobile Safety Course on Saturday, Feb. 26, beginning at 9 a.m.
The course is free and open to anyone aged 10 years or older. It will provide fundamental information for snowmobilers to ensure their safety and that of other trail users. Successful completion of the course will result in the award of a New York State Snowmobile Safety Certificate.
Children aged 14 through 17 may operate a snowmobile without adult supervision only if they have completed a New York State-recognized safety training course. Children aged 10 through 13 may do so if they have completed the course and are accompanied by a person 18 year of age or older who is within 500 feet.
The eight-hour course will be taught by Donna Rivenburg, a state-certified instructor with Safe Riders, a snowmobile safety awareness program, developed by the New York State Snowmobile Association. Refreshments will be served, but participants are encouraged to bring their own lunch.
Reservations to participate in the Snowmobile Safety Training Course are recommended. Please contact 800-724-0309 to reserve a place.
The handicapped-accessible visitors center, housed in a restored 19th-century dairy barn, features hands-on exhibits for students of all ages and abilities. The visitors center will be open as usual on Feb. 26, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Blenheim-Gilboa Visitors Center is located on Route 30, five miles north of Grand Gorge, 17 miles south of Middleburgh and 50 miles southwest of Albany. School groups and community organizations are welcome. For more information, call 800-724-0309 or visit www.nypa.gov.
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■ The New York Power Authority uses no tax money or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity. ■ NYPA is a leader in promoting energy efficiency, new energy technologies and electric transportation initiatives. ■ It is the nation's largest state public power organization, with 17 generating facilities in various parts of New York State and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines. ■ Approximately 80 percent of the electricity it produces is clean renewable hydropower. Its lower-cost power production and electricity purchases support hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout the state. ■For more information, www.nypa.gov.


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