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by skatingtripods » Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:48 pm
by peeker643 » Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:03 pm
Skating Tripods wrote:It would be awesome to see a pro actually win this damn thing again. If it's not Negreanu, Ivey's the guy I'd want to see.
Thursday, June 18, 2009 The BJ Report: A Look Back at the First 31 EventsBy BJ NemethLas Vegas, NVSince my last update here at the Tao of Poker, another 12 events have been completed, and the big stories just keep on coming. Here are the top seven:1. Phil Ivey Wins His Sixth -- No, Make that Seventh -- WSOP BraceletPhil Ivey is the best poker player in the world. Period.In the poker media, we're used to saying things like "arguably the best player" or "one of the best players," but I've decided to stop using qualifiers when it comes to Ivey after watching him this Series. There are a lot of young online guys who might have the potential to be as great as Ivey, but check back in 10 years to see if they can match the results of Mr. I-Don't-Want-To-Talk-To-The-Media.Ivey had a disappointing WSOP last year after betting big on himself to win his sixth bracelet. He increased the bets on himself this year, which turned out to be a good investment. Ivey told PokerNews that he scooped all his bets after winning the second bracelet. (At least one player bought out of the bet.) The amount of money he won in side action is still up for debate, and I've heard reliable numbers ranging from $6 million to $12 million. (Remember that Ivey wasn't betting at even odds, so he didn't have to risk that much himself.) Regardless of the real number, it's clear that Ivey is the big winner of this WSOP, both in terms of dollars, prestige, and legendary status.The entire story of Ivey winning his second bracelet of the WSOP is too long to include here, and they say a picture is worth a thousand words -- so here comes my commercial interruption. I got some kick-ass photos of Ivey, with captions that take you through the ups and downs of his day. Here's the link.FYI, there are rumors that Ivey wants to bet that he'll win three bracelets in two years, starting in 2010. But it may be tough to find people willing to bet against him.Speaking of three bracelets, Ivey still has more than 20 events left this year to win his eighth, which would tie Erik Seidel on the all-time list. When was the last time a player won more than two bracelets in a single WSOP? In 2002, when a young pro became a star by winning three events. His name was Phil Ivey.
by peeker643 » Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:04 pm
philivey11.3 million now. Just cracked KK with 97. Down to 36 players.
by peeker643 » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:21 pm
by leadpipe » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:23 pm
e0y2e3 wrote:How true is the Ivey stereotype Lead/etc...?I mean I always hear he is the best alive, but I don't watch or follow the "sport" nearly close enough to have ever seen quantitative evidence of this. I have seen him called Tiger many, many times, but I have never seen him be Tiger.Guess I'm just asking what his deal is.
by peeker643 » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:26 am
2009 November Nine:Seat 1: Darvin Moon - 58,930,000Seat 2: James Akenhead - 6,800,000Seat 3: Phil Ivey - 9,765,000Seat 4: Kevin Schaffel - 12,390,000Seat 5: Steven Begleiter - 29,885,000Seat 6: Eric Buchman - 34,800,000Seat 7: Joe Cada - 13,215,000Seat 8: Antoine Saout - 9,500,000Seat 9: Jeff Shulman - 19,580,000
by Lubber » Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:03 am
by leadpipe » Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:35 pm
Lubber wrote:Great.. now we can look forward to Norman Chad blowing his boy Ivey on each of the ESPN episodes.
by peeker643 » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:29 pm
Lead Pipe wrote:Lubber wrote:Great.. now we can look forward to Norman Chad blowing his boy Ivey on each of the ESPN episodes.Easy, Lub, Chad is like family to Peeker and me.
by skatingtripods » Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:47 pm
by peeker643 » Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:57 pm
Skating Tripods wrote:Still nothing new on Weber?
by skatingtripods » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:49 pm
Peeker643 wrote:Skating Tripods wrote:Still nothing new on Weber?Nothing. I sent you an email a couple weeks ago for a game in Perry this weekend but there was a lack of interest and no game will be played.I'm just tired of playing Julie the Cruise Director. I put it out there and I'm always willing to play, but I'm too old, tired and apathetic to chase people down.
by peeker643 » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:55 pm
Skating Tripods wrote:Peeker643 wrote:Skating Tripods wrote:Still nothing new on Weber?Nothing. I sent you an email a couple weeks ago for a game in Perry this weekend but there was a lack of interest and no game will be played.I'm just tired of playing Julie the Cruise Director. I put it out there and I'm always willing to play, but I'm too old, tired and apathetic to chase people down.I think I got it, put it aside to respond later and forgot, I apologize.I'm heading to Mountaineer on Saturday, so I'm definitely out anyway.
by jpd1224 » Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:13 am
by peeker643 » Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:18 pm
jpd1224 wrote:Great experience at the WSOP. Won a spot in event 51, 1.5 K Hold em buyin. Sold out, 2900 players. Made it through 3/4 of the field. No money tho. To make matters worse, got railed by a guy in full Gator regalia. Tried to get in Event 54 but it sold out the night before. Definitely would have won that one. Met a bunch of players who do it for a living. Very enlightening. They partner frequently. Ended up buying small stakes in a couple events. Got a little return.Pros have much contempt for Harrah's Entertainment Corp. Players flock to other places, especially Venetian and downtown for tourneys and live games. Venetian had daily tourneys, $500 buyin, 900+ players, top prizes of 85K+. The cash games there were very lively. Good vibe downtown. Nugget and Shoe had baby tourneys every day, 100 to 200 buyins with 200 to 300 players. No prizes on tourneys but did OK on cash games; won a high hand jackpot with quad 4's.All in all it was much fun, minimal losses. Sign me up for 2010.Anyone interested in joining a sattelite league for the main event? Play second Monday of the month, about a 1250 committment over 10 months, 40-50 players, prizes every month.Money won at WSOP is split. We had a guy finish 139th in 2007, for a 60K payday.I can provide more details upon request.
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Mongolia, China take judo golds; Japan melts down
BEIJING (AP) Mongolia won its first-ever Olympic gold with a victory in judo and China collected its second on the mats after two Japanese contenders crashed with first-round losses Thursday.
Mongolia got its gold medal from Tuvshinbayar Naidan, who defeated Kazakhstan's Askhat Zhitkeyev in the men's 100-kilogram class.
China's Yang Xiuli flipped her first four opponents then won in an overtime decision over Cuba's Yalennis Castillo to take the gold medal in the women's 78-kilogram division.
"The first thing I thought of was my parents and my coach," said Naidan, who bolsters his judo with elements of traditional Mongolian wrestling. Mongolia has won medals in wrestling, boxing, shooting and judo in previous games, but never a gold.
Naidan marked a big upset over Athens Olympic champion Keiji Suzuki of Japan in his opening bout. He scored a waza ari with just under two minutes remaining in the final, then added on two yuko to seal the victory.
Azerbaijan's Movlud Miraliyev and Henk Grol of the Netherlands took men's bronze.
The competition was left wide open after Japan crashed out in a disastrous preliminary round, with Suzuki and 2007 world silver medalist Sae Nakazawa both losing their first fights.
Suzuki, who moved down to 100 kilograms for Beijing, was never a factor.
Naidan came out hard and grabbed Suzuki's legs, lifted him off the mat and drove him down to his back.
Suzuki was then upended by a throw in the loser's bracket and eliminated from a shot at bronze.
"I didn't expect it would be easy to win, but I didn't expect this, either," Suzuki said. "I'm very disappointed. It's a shame."
The meltdown was another huge disappointment for Japan's men, who had pinned their hopes on Suzuki, but have won only one gold medal after six days. In Athens, the Japanese team won a record eight golds, five of them by women.
The reigning world champion, Luciano Correa of Brazil, also fell to his back and failed to get a medal.
Grol, who was making his Olympic debut but has won 22 of 24 bouts internationally this year, went ahead early with a waza ari in their opener. He unleashed the winning throw with just under two minutes left in the bout.
Grol, who is ranked No. 1 in standings this year, earned his semifinal ticket by throwing Poland's Przemysiaw Matyjaszek about 30 seconds into their match. In the semifinal, he fell behind Zhitkeyev, but then went ahead with a waza ari. Both then tried throws, and the judges ruled Zhitkeyev came out on top.
The second semifinal match went into overtime, with Azerbaijan's Movlud Miraliyev and Naidan unable to score in the first five minutes. Naidan ended it with a flip after nearly two minutes.
Women's gold medalist Yang said being in the Chinese military prepared her for her final - a 10-minute marathon.
"On the battlefield we can't be afraid of anything," she said. "So what is there to be afraid of in competition?"
She didn't need to fear Japan.
After a first-round bye in the women's 78-kilogram division, Nakazawa, the 2006 Asian Games champion and 2007 silver medalist at the world championships, trailed going into the final minute of her second-round match. With seconds remaining, Italy's Lucia Morico added a yuko to finish it off.
Nakazawa was making her Olympic debut, and Japan was hoping she would bring a third gold, after Masae Ueno and Ayumi Tanimoto defended their titles.
"The weight of representing your country at the world championships and at the Olympics is different. It's much heavier here," she said. "I couldn't turn the support of the fans into a strength for me."
In another upset, Russia's Vera Moskalyuk, the 2006 European champion, lost her first fight to Spain's Esther San Miguel. Miguel, a three-time Olympian, went ahead with two points and Moskalyuk couldn't fight her way out of the hole.
In the semifinal she fought Yang, who scored a yuko halfway through, then two more and an ippon right at the bell for the win.
San Miguel lost the bronze-medal bout to France's Stephanie Possamai, who scored a waza ari.
The other bronze went to South Korea's Jeong Gyeong-mi.

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Posted on 05/09/2012 7:38:26 PM PDT by neverdem
Logic takes us strange places sometimes, like when a judge found herself writing this little gem: "The purposeful viewing of child pornography on the internet is now legal in New York." That's a sentence you'd want to wash your hands after committing to paper (heck, or wash your eyes after reading), but it comes at the end of a line of reasoning in an appeals court decision that makes sense even if it appears to provide a loophole for kiddie porn lovers.
Essentially, the court ruled on Tuesday, you can't be held responsible for things you just see online, even kiddie porn, the viewing of which isn't actually illegal under New York law. As MSNBC.com's M. Alex Johnson reports, the majority opinion by New York Court of Appeals Senior Judge Carmen Ciparik:
"Rather, some affirmative act is required (printing, saving, downloading, etc.) to show that defendant in fact exercised dominion and control over the images that were on his screen," Ciparick wrote. "To hold otherwise, would extend the reach of (state law) to conduct — viewing — that our Legislature has not deemed criminal."
It's true: Under article 263 of New York's penal code, it's illegal to create, possess, distribute, promote, or facilitate child pornography, but it's not illegal simply to view it...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlanticwire.com ...
Does this mean that, if you were walking down the street, and their was a billboard of this material, you wouldn't be guilty, because you unknowingly walked by it and saw it?
Doesn't paying for it, thus enabling the producers to produce more of it from the profits, count as facilitating it?
Our country is toast. Hell reigns supreme.
Why wouldn't it be legal to view it.
It's illegal to possess it, download it or otherwise store it.
So it's not necessary to criminalize the viewing, since all of the activities leading up to that viewing are illegal.
Her logic makes sense, given how the internet works. How could it ever be legal to be held liable for pop-ups that are pushed to your web browser without your specific request? I don't think it's technically feasible to differentiate, and if it were there would instantly be ways around it.
A case where protecting the rights of the many allows abuse by the few.
No its not "totally legal", even from this ruling. 141 of 143 counts were still upheld.
It should be totally illegal of course.
"Purposeful viewing" means you wanted to see it, you did it on purpose.
I truly hate democrates!
Look at what they've done to our great country!
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Viewing child pornography online isn't a crime, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in the case of a college professor whose work computer was found to have stored more than a hundred illegal images in its Web cache.
The court dismissed one of the two counts of promoting a sexual performance of a child and one of the dozens of counts of possession of child pornography on which James D. Kent was convicted. The court upheld the other counts against Kent, an assistant professor of public administration at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Kent who said at his sentencing that he "abhorred" child pornography and argued that someone else at Marist must have placed the images on his computer was sentenced to one to three years in state prison in August 2009.
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In other words, "the purposeful viewing of child pornography on the internet is now legal in New York," Judge Victoria A. Graffeo wrote in one of two concurring opinions that agreed with the result but not with the majority's reasoning.
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The technical details revolve around copies of deleted files that remained in the cache of Kent's Web browser, which were the basis of the two counts that were dismissed. They were discovered, along with other materials, during a virus scan that Kent had requested because his computer was running slowly.
To demonstrate possession of the images in the cache, "the defendant's conduct must exceed mere viewing," Ciparick wrote, adding that "the mere existence of an image automatically stored in a cache" isn't enough.
Furthermore, the prosecution failed to prove that Kent even knew his Web browser had a cache in the first place, writing, "A defendant cannot knowingly acquire or possess that which he or she does not know exists."
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Kent's convictions on the other counts rested on other evidence, including a folder on his machine that stored about 13,000 saved images of girls whom investigators estimated to be 8 or 9 years old and four messages to an unidentified third party discussing a research project into the regulation of child pornography.
But how hard do you really think it is to create a computer virus which would load this stuff onto ANYBODY's computer? Do you really want our government having the power to lock people up for possession of computer files?? I mean, selling the stuff, yeah, lock em up but that's as far as I can see going with it.
For once a good law out of New York.
If, for example, the hacker group Anonymous put a kiddie porn pop-up on Free Republic, all New York residents could be prosecuted if they loaded the Free Republic page.
The way it stands now, you could only be prosecuted if you purposely saved it to your computer.
And Dan Savage says...."Come my Good Pedophiles, you can emerge into the new dawn of Darkness is now Light and Light is Darkness!".
Pedophiles...the true children of homosexuality....and the Sodomites want their children to be able to come out and play.
Can even a rational mind doubt the signs of the times?
Presuming this story is accurate (huge presumption with the MSM), the judge ruled on the law as it is - not as she or any of us wishes it was. That's what you get when you have judicial restraint.
Strangely I agree with the ruling, there are too many ways for this kind of material to get onto your computer, even if you are not viewing child porn. I've read of a few cases were people with infected computers have been sentenced to years in prison, mainly because the prosecutor, judge and jury had no clue how computers work, some substitute teacher in the NE comes to mind but can't remember her name as a good example.
We should note here that the act of browsing and veiwing child porn is illegal under Federal law.
Which begs the question...would Obama's federal government bring charges against fine upstanding undoubtedly liberal college professor like Kent...?
Federal charges against a College Grounds Keeper, yes!
But, Federal charges against the Professer Kent of Public Administration...nah, he'd get a pass. Holder would see to it.
That seems perfectly reasonable. If nothing else it forces the state to have solid evidence that someone did something wrong.
If it was never downloaded or distributed it then how do they prove someone viewed it? Install spyware on our computers that cam-cords users?
Anyone using the internet is aware of redirect links that take the computer to unintended sites.
Our fellow Freepette, Gabz, is herself involved in getting a legislative fix to the technical omission submitted tomorrow morning in the NY Assembly. It is not expected to meet any opposition, which would be political suicide. And then NY law will duly ban web browsing of kiddie porn.
The truth is much duller than the speculation. Would it were all slips in the governance of the US were this minor.
Another popular way to prove someone possessed child porn is when he uses his credit card to buy it, and that focuses on a product made by for-profit pornographers, pretty good evidence.
Mis-leading headline, if you read the story.
There was a thread on here about someone that saved child porn onto another person's computer, and the one that had the material saved onto the hard drive got jail time until the offender was found.
I don't know about you, but I think it's a good law, that protects people from hackers, and not just those that view your keystrokes, or plant a virus on your computer.
Does it provide for an exclusion for those who are victims of a computer hack?
It is worse than that. It says it is ALREADY illegal to download it.
The complaint HERE is that it is NOT illegal if your computer goes to a page with that porn on it because then you 'viewed' it. Or if someone else shows it to you.
So do they prosecute us based on the cookies that were on our computer? Or put Spyware on our computers that cam-cords us covertly and sends the video out to them like a Cyber virus??
Yes we should trust Obama with that power.
"Does it provide for an exclusion for those who are victims of a computer hack?"
Do you mean like what happened to Congressman Anthony Weiner?
A lot of folks on this thread don't know what the hell they're talking about.
You can watch it without downloading it.
I used to do my computer stuff at an Internet cafe, and a guy was downloading kiddie porn at one of the computers. The guy next to him saw him doing it and called the cops.
They were there in seconds. Grabbed the guy, secured the computer, left a female cop there to watch the computer so no one messed with it, and went to get the cyber squad or whatever it's called.
Yes, but, you say this is what it is.....and I say, It'll get "progressively" worse because there is not an anchor in the Truth anymore.
You see it as good. I see it as incremental backsliding into darkness.
Do we really need to protect all dumb-asses that would allow someone the access to such a wide open playground of darkness that is the internet?
I use the internet....productively.
But, no one gets on my computer, it is a responsibility.
Yeah, we are saving some dumb ass from himself...I get it.
The whole point of hacking a computer is to gain access to someone's machine that doesn't want you to have access. Stuff like saved financial data on Excel spreadsheets, things like that.
I don't know about you, but should someone hack my computer and put kiddie porn on it, I'd rather the FBI track down the person that hacked me, over putting me in jail for 10 years, making me register as a sex offender, and destroying my life because I was a victim of a computer hack, and the hacker just happened to put kiddie porn on my hard drive.
However, there are several safety guards that common individuals can partake of.
I use Ubuntu on my home computer with other security measures.
My laptop has US gummit grade Norton on it.
I know that this doesn't preclude a dark possibility, however, it does greatly reduce the likely-hood.
But, I doubt the individual that had the friend put porn on his computer really qualifies as "having taken measures" to minimize these possibilities.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
Similarly its not actually illegal to take drugs, even hefty class A major addictive substances. Its illegal to trade in them, to own them, to distribute them and make them, but not actually to take them.
Add to that the stigma of being accused of such even though someone could be a victim of such a website and be totally innocent, such is so devastating to one's career and life that I believe caution should used when going after such criminals. However I got no problem whatsoever with someone who is found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt to have their lives snuffed out for good.
YEp. This is the typical existential approach to pedophilia: the kid molested me, I had no idea. THis is the way the communist thinks and acts, and it rapes and constricts in sin slavery.
The key test of course is to remove the material and ask people to free the children and pardon those homosexuals who got into the gay marriage scam and turn their lives around to support heterosexual marriage... but, nah... this is a mandate to suicide and starvation.
New York State and Obama are rapists.
Oh, we are living in Obama's Kenya jungle all right, with roaming wolves and "accidental" existential bullies. The Nazies did not know it, right? I mean, it's not like they were not raping the farms of Europe dry...
I would hope there is a qualifier to the effect of "purposefully" in the language... this used to be understood in older criminal law but mens rea has fallen by the wayside in many criminal law applications today.
except these are children that are being exploited and are under the age of consent...
not being a proponent nor a user of porn, this is a good decision. There is a way to discern between a purposeful act of downloading and maintaining a collection of child porn for distribution and a person going to one website and through a blind click, going to a misrepresented website and getting images dumped on to browser history/cache.
I remember my dad (NYPD) was doing a sting back in the 80's right before he retired and they had to get people to ask for and purchase imagery that they wanted to be child porn. Then when it was just pictures of adults instead, they raised hell and got pinched. They used to rent hotel rooms and share the stuff but now they can do it online.
The police could not just hang pictures in a store window and arrest everyone that walked by. The active intent is illegal.
I think it was these types of cases that made my dad pretty much lose hope in humanity and retire.
Yes, paying for it counts because that's an "affirmative act." In this case there was no evidence that that occurred.
Incredibly misleading headline, BTW. (But that's the headline from the original article, so what can you do)
Anyone carelessly surfing the net runs across a great many undesirable images. All that is being said is that you have to prove intent. That a picture in the cache only means that they REACHED a website with child porn, not that they intended to go there. otherwise investigators who have to examine these pictures would be guilt simply for seeing them, as would the jury who has to see the evidence.
Now it obvious this guy wants child porn, but each criminal count must be proved seperately. These counts under discussion only have proof that here reached these pictures, not that here chose to do so. Bare in mind here was convicted on the other counts.
There needs to be clear proof of intent. malicious spy and adware has sent me to all kind of places on the net as punishment for trying to clean it out. Fortunately, never kiddy porn. But more than once, I've turned on my computer and received a nasty surprise.
I once searched for a file for a game, found it. next time I opened my browser, Candy was spread eagle on my screen. I got my file, but had to wipe my puter out and reload windows.
My brother did an innocent search for star trek, and then landed on a very sick site featuring star trek characters. Type chistian into your search engine and see what you get. These sick sites are very good at drawing you in. they don't care about offending anyone.
Anything can happen on the net. Emotional laws are not a good way to legislate. That is what dems do.
It isn't just hacking. These animals are very good at tricking people in. remember whitehouse.com and what happened with that.
type christian into a search and see what you get. You'll likely get a really shock.
So is incompetence or carelessness in IT security now a crime in your eyes?
I'm quite careless when doing research for books I write. Why? Because I use Ghost and can restore my computer to proper use in under 10 minutes.
Those of us who know how to fix them don't crap at the possibility of an infection. And antivirus is far from 100%.
Now, I don't doubt the man was deliberately seeking kids porn, but you have to prove intent, not simply exposure. If exposure alone is enough, you'd have to arrest the judge, jury, and investigators for viewing the pictures.
It's not illegal at all to make or sell if you call it a nudist family photo and no sex acts are depicted.
Major loophole that I'm sure fellows like Jerry Sandusky appreciate.
Then that would make it accidental or inadvertent viewing of it.
Purposeful viewing IS intent. It would make more sense logically to say the accidental or inadvertent viewing of child porn is not illegal in NYS. Purposeful viewing is going to include procuring it somehow.
I want out of NY ASAP.....
Do you not see the hypocrisy of that position?????
How can you say that prostitution, which is essentially solicitation for sex, doesn't affect others but generic solicitation does?
They're both solicitation. That is simply making one kind of solicitation, for sex, not illegal while other types are.
And yes, prostitution DOES affect others. What about the wife of the man who hires out a prostitute? Her health? Her(their) marriage? Their money? The affect on the kids when the marriage falls apart?
Prostitution is NOT a victimless crime, especially in light of the number of prostitutes who are under the control of pimps.
Reading the post I couldnt figure out the objection to NYS law,. It makes downloading, saving, printing, possession or distributing it illegal. The objection stated above is that 'viewing it' is not illegal.
I always object to laws that leave key interpretations in the hands of judges or juries and that sounds like one. How do you prove that someone who didnt break the current law above only 'viewed' it?
No I dont want people procecuted for the cookies that are written to their computer.
"Its not illegal at all to make or sell if you call it a nudist family photo and no sex acts are depicted."
Hopefully yes. But the company that placed it on there and the person who paid for it would be in a heck of alot of trouble.
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- System memory: DDR3 4 x 4GB Mushkin Redline (Spec: 2133 MHz / 9-11-10-28 / 1.65 V);
- System drive: Crucial m4 256 GB SSD (SATA-III,CT256M4SSD2, BIOS v0009);
- Drive for programs and games: Western Digital VelociRaptor (300GB, SATA-II, 10000 RPM, 16MB cache, NCQ) inside Scythe Quiet Drive 3.5" HDD silencer and cooler;
- Backup drive: Samsung Ecogreen F4 HD204UI (SATA-II, 2 TB, 5400 RPM, 32 MB, NCQ);
- System case: Antec Twelve Hundred (front panel: three Noiseblocker NB-Multiframe S-Series MF12-S2 fans at 1020 RPM; back panel: two Noiseblocker NB-BlackSilent PRO PL-1 fans at 1020 RPM; top panel: standard 200 mm fan at 400 RPM);
- Control and monitoring panel: Zalman ZM-MFC3;
- Power supply: Xigmatek "No Rules Power" NRP-HC1501 1500 W (with a default 140 mm fan).
For the primary tests and summary diagrams we overclocked our six-core processor with the clock generator frequency set at 125 MHz, the multiplier set at 35x and "Load-Line Calibration" enabled to 4.375 GHz. The nominal processor Vcore was increased to 1.385 V in the mainboard BIOS. After that we tested the new cooler at even higher frequency and voltage settings. Turbo Boost was disabled during this test session, and Hyper-Threading technology was enabled to increase the heat dissipation. The memory voltage was at 1.65 V and its frequency was 2000 MHz with 9-10-10-28 timings. All other parameters available in the mainboard BIOS and related to CPU or memory overclocking remained unchanged.
All tests were performed under Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 operating system. We used the following software during our test session:
- LinX AVX Edition version 0.6.4 – to load the processor (memory - 4500 MB, Problem Size – 24234, two 11-minute cycles);
- Real Temp GT version 3.70 – to monitor the processor core temperatures;
- Intel Extreme Tuning Utility version 22.214.171.124 – for monitoring and visual control of all system parameters during overclocking.
So, the complete screenshot during the test session looks as follows:
The CPU was loaded with two consecutive LinX AVX test runs with the settings as indicated above. The stabilization period for the CPU temperature between the two test cycles was about 8-10 minutes. We took the maximum temperature of the hottest CPU core for the results charts. Moreover, we will also provide a table with the temperature readings for all cores including their average values. The ambient temperature was checked next to the system case with an electronic thermometer with 0.1 °C precision that allows hourly monitoring of the temperature changes over the past 6 hours. The room temperature during our test session varied between 24.8-25.4°C.
The noise level of each cooler was measured between 1:00 and 3:00 AM in a closed room about 20 m2 big using CENTER-321 electronic noise meter. The noise level for each cooler was tested outside the system case when the only noise sources in the lab were the cooler and its fan. The noise meter was installed on a tripod and was always at a 150 mm distance from the cooler fan rotor. The tested cooling systems were placed at the edge of the desk on a sheet of polyurethane foam. The lowest noise reading our noise meter device can register is 29.8 dBA and the subjectively comfortable noise level in these testing conditions was around 36 dBA (do not mix it up with low noise level). The fan(s) rotation speed was adjusted in the entire supported range using our in-house controller by changing the voltage with 0.5 V increment.
We are going to compare our today's hero, Cooler Master X6 Elite, against our traditional leader in the sub-$45 segment - Thermalright TRUE Spirit 140 with one default TY-140 fan:
Cooler Master X6 Elite was also tested with an alternative fan – Scythe Slip Stream 140, but it didn't improve the cooling efficiency in any way. The design of Cooler Master X6 Elite doesn't allow installing a second fan. I would also like to add that the rotation speed of all fans was controlled using the same special controller I mentioned above with ±10 RPM precision.


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To the Journal editor:
By now, we have all heard that the proposed Marquette County Road 595 has been ruled out as a viable option by regulators. This was our preferred transportation route for Eagle Mine.
We appreciate the hard work and perseverance by the Marquette County Road Commission and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. We also appreciate the support from community, state and federal leaders to permit CR 595.
During the review of CR 595 many alternatives were considered, including rail. After thorough and rigorous review, none of the alternatives were considered to be viable.
The conclusion of CR 595 brings to an end a seven year, $20+ million effort to permit a new north-south route in Western Marquette County. With production on the horizon the time for option analysis is behind us.
Our plan is to work with the MCRC and local units of government to utilize the existing roads for transportation during production.
We are committed to funding the MCRC to upgrade existing roads. These upgrades will benefit the community by saving tax payer dollars, improving more local roads to all season standards and enhancing recreational and commercial access.
We hope discussions on truck traffic are based on a factual understanding of our road use. During production we've estimated fifty round trips per day between the mine and the mill. According to a 2009 MCRC traffic study, our trucks on CR 550 are estimated to be 4-6 percent of total traffic.
On Wright Street our trucks will be an estimated 2-4 percent of total traffic. On U.S. 41, our truck traffic will be an estimated 1-3 percent of total traffic.
We will set the same high standards for transportation as we do for the rest of our operations. We will not compromise on safety. Our trucks will be new, clean, safe and fitted with GPS, which will determine location and measure driving habits and speed.
With CR 595 behind us we are gearing up for production, improving public roads, creating new job opportunities and paying local taxes that support our schools and local governments.
We will be providing more information on our transportation plans in the weeks and months to follow.
On this topic and other matters, we encourage individuals to go to our website at riotintoeagle.com, visit our Information Center in downtown Marquette or call us at 486-1257.


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Known for dramatic interiors that meld Hollywood glamour and ethnic exotica, Martyn Lawrence Bullard doesn't just design for A-listers—Cher, Elton John, and Jimmy Choo's Tamara Mellon, to name-drop a few—he also lives like a star. For eight years, the droll Londoner, seen on Bravo's Million Dollar Decorators, has made his home in a 2,800-square-foot 1922 Mediterranean villa in Whitley Heights, one of Los Angeles's first celebrity enclaves. Previous tenants have included silent-film icons Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. Later, novelist William Faulkner wrote screenplays on the balcony off what is now Bullard's master bedroom. "It's amazing to live with something original," says the designer, who decamped for L.A. in 1994 as an aspiring actor and now plays himself on TV. "When you walk in, you are immediately swept up in the romance of history and this old style of living."
In the living room, the chesterfield is upholstered in a Rogers & Goffigon linen, the lamps are by Christopher Spitzmiller, the photograph is by Denise de la Rue, the sconce is 18th-century Italian, and the rug is by Mansour Modern. Bullard designed the cocktail table, stools, and the patterned chair; that chair and the curtains are of fabrics he designed for Schumacher.
Yet even the charms of the old can grow, well, old. Without sacrificing the louche feeling of the 1920s—an era when movie stars built Egyptian-revival rooms and decorated with Chinese opium beds—Bullard set about transforming the home he shares with his partner, producer Michael Green, and their Wheaten terrier, Diva. Having popularized the current bohemian-decor craze in his clients' houses and at the Colony Palms Hotel in Palm Springs, California, Bullard brought it home, creating a worldly sanctuary that accommodates his modern lifestyle and passion for films, fashion, travel, and photography.
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I crave for the tastes of my childhood. The gobhi that doesn't taste like plastic. The kheera that can be bitter sometimes. The papaya that has not been artificially ripened. The brinjals that don't have an unnatural, waxy shine to them. The tarbooz (watermelon) that does not leave a bitter after-taste in the mouth. I picked up some veggies from a farmer's market in Bandra recently and I wanted to cry with happiness at just how divine they tasted.
Pesticides in everything. We know that. We are a third-world country with too many hungry mouths to feed but still, this may not enough to justify the killing fields of Punjab.
I have been trying to switch to organic fruit and vegetables, more so ever since I found this wonderful website run by the amazing Raj Ganpath who advocates eating real food (I hope to post my own success story about fat loss and strength gain soon).
MOFCA is Mumbai Organic Farmers and Consumers Association (MOFCA)
MOFCA is a cooperative association of organic farmers (working within a 200 km radius of Mumbai) working collectively with consumers from Mumbai towards the betterment of local seasonal organic food grown and consumed within our region.
Hari Bhari Tokri- Version 2.0
From the experiences and learnings of the first season we would now like to present you with an updated proposal; Hari Bhari Tokri - Version 2.0
Before we get into the details we would like to reiterate the goals we had set before ourselves at the beginning of the first season; i.e. the promotion of sustainable farming methods in the Greater Mumbai area through;
Demonstration and sharing of sustainable farming techniques.
Creation of an alternative market model with shared risk and fair
prices for farmers and consumers.
Consumer education in order to create and sustain the demand for
Seasonal Local Organic food.
At the onset of our next season, we would like to keep these goals as
primary and try and stay away from becoming "just another vegetable
Starting this season we propose the concept of "Farm Sharing".
20 farmers have pledged their lands and labour to the practice of sustainable farming methods of cultivation for this upcoming monsoon season (2011).
MOFCA will support them with sharing of technical know-how and other
farming resources, creating an assured market and a fair, consistent price for their produce and creating and managing the supply chain logistics.
In order to sustain this project MOFCA is looking for shareholders for
the upcoming season. As shareholders you will be helping to promote
sustainable farming throughout the community. In return you will have
access to part of the produce grown by the farmers.
We have available to us a total of 4 acres of farm land, cultivated by the 20 farmers partnering with us for this season. We are estimating a yield of 100 kg. / week from each acre which will give us a total of approximately 400 kilos. We have 200 farm shares available this season for public issue.
Being a Shareholder means:
You share both risks and rewards
Traditionally, farmers have borne the brunt of nature's vagaries while
consumers have become increasingly disconnected from the process of
food production, and from the human and ecological communities that
support this process. Shareholding is the first step towards restoring
the balance and harmony in our local food web.
As a consumer-shareholder, each week during harvest time you will
receive a share of the harvest. The cost of this is included in the share
price for the season and is fixed for its duration so as to be fair to
both farmer and consumer. Variety and bumper yields are our shared
rewards and scarcity and losses, our shared risks. In all situations, an
uncertain and variable harvest is the medium through which we learn
to respect Nature and to live in community.
Consumers and farmers have the opportunity to know each
The farmers will know who's eating the food they are growing; and
the consumer will have some peace of mind, knowing exactly how and
who is growing the food that their family is eating.
You help partnered farmers to better plan their growing cycle.
Wastages that occur from excess produce not being sold will be
minimized, which in turn will reduce losses to the farmer and keep
costs to the consumer under control.
The liabilities of large projects are shared
The liability of larger projects which need to be undertaken for the
long term running of such a project are shared amongst all the
shareholders and not the responsibility of a few individuals.
You get weekly supplies of organic vegetables at a fair, pre-
determined price
Your share as a partner entitles you to quality organic vegetables
grown on the farms. Without intermediaries, you benefit from
reasonable, predetermined prices that will be paid direct to the farmer;
these are not subject to economic fluctuations or false scarcities. In
order to make this possible we have factored the cost of vegetables
and logistics for one season, into your share value.
The coming growing cycle is the monsoon season which begins in May
with sowing and we expect a harvest from July to October. For this
season we have 200 farm shares available for public issue, each worth
Rs 3,000/- (Rupees Three Thousand Only). This share amount will be
taken on registration and the shareholder will not have to pay weekly
for the vegetables.
People in Mumbai, the final orientation meet will be held on 19th June, Sunday at 10:30 am at Peddar Road, 701 Prabhu Kunj, Next to Cadbury House.


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Two marimba discs from American ModernPosted by Jay Batzner in CD Review, tags: CD Review, chamber music, Jay Batzner, marimba, nakura, Paterson, percussion
Wood and Forest
works by Jacob Bancks, Kenji Bunch, Robert Pateron, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Michael Torke
American Modern Recordings
- The Trees Where I was Born for solo marimba – Jacob Bancks
- Duo for Viola and Vibraphone – Kneji Bunch (with Kenji Bunch, viola)
- Forest Shadows for solo marimba- Robert Paterson
- Arbor Una Nobilis for marimba and violin – Jacob Bancks (Jesse Mills, violin)
- Winik/Te' for solo marimba – Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
- After the Forest Fire for marimba, flute, and cello – Michael Torke (David Fedele, flute; Wilhelmina Smith, cello)
Robert Paterson
Six Mallet Marimba
music of Robert Paterson
American Modern Recordings
- Komodo
- Piranha
- Stillness (with Sarah Schram, oboe)
- Clarinatrix (with Meighan Stoops, bass clarinet )
- Duo for Flute and Marimba (with Sato Moughalian, flute and alto flute)
- Tongue and Groove (with Jeremy Justeson, alto saxophone)
- Braids (with Victoria Paterson, violin)
- Links & Chains (with Robin Zeh, violin)
- Fantastia (with Dan Peck, tuba)
Also released last week by American Modern Recordings, a disc of the music of Robert Paterson using Paterson's unique six-mallet marimba technique (and featuring Paterson on marimba throughout). The addition of two more mallets is actually more subtle of a change than I expected. The texture is mildly thicker but what really comes through are more nuanced shapes on the inside voices rather than a bombastic "listen to all those notes!" kind of effect. The solo works Komodo and Piranha are great compliments to each other (Paterson wrote them to be so) in that Komodo fixates on the lower range of the instrument while Piranaha surfs and splashes nimbly in the upper register. I must confess that oftentimes I have difficulties with the form of solo marimba music since a lot of it sounds (to me anyway) as inspired by a stream-of-consciousness narrative that never connects with my ears. Paterson's works do not suffer from this ailment, however, and his fluid forms are well communicated.
The bulk of the disc features the six-mallet marimba as an accompaniment instrument for a wide variety of performers: oboe, bass clarinet, tuba, violin, and flute. In each case, Paterson largely regulates the marimba to the background of the texture, providing harmonic support for facile and enjoyable melodic writing. Paterson is adept at mixing and matching the timbre of the marimba with these various instruments so it never sounds as if he is recycling materials or techniques from one piece to the next. The feature of the disc, after all, is the six-mallet technique. Paterson's range of music expressions show variety in using six mallets, whether it be ominous dark chords with Stillness or the sultry bass lines of Clarinatrix and the middle movement of the Duo for Flute and Marimba. Nuanced arpeggiations are possible and displayed in the Duo as well as Tongue and Groove. I am particularly fond of Links & Chains for violin and marimba with its tightly woven accompaniment and edgy yet lengthy violin melody. I'm not sure how wide-spread the technique of using six mallets is but this disc and Paterson's music show lots of potential for those willing to try.


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Like death and taxes, it's inevitable that sooner or later, most of us are going to overindulge. However, if you enjoy consuming spirits, there are ways to drink without feeling sick the next day.
"Most of us know what our limits are," says Mark Spivak, author of Iconic Spirits: An Intoxicating History. "The key to drinking safely and successfully is knowing and respecting your own body." Here are some of his favorite tips for avoiding a hangover:
- Get enough sleep. A good night's rest immediately prior to a night of partying will help buffer the impact of alcohol consumed, in addition to improving your well-being in almost every possible way.
- Monitor your diet. Eat a balanced meal before you go out on the town. In particular, going heavy on the protein and carbohydrates will help stabilize your system for the night ahead.
- Employ quality control. Don't drink bar booze—call your brands. A dollar or two per cocktail is a small price to pay for not abusing your system with impurities. Don't drink at any establishment that uses premixed cocktail components, particularly slower places where the mixers may have been sitting around for days or weeks.
- Don't try to compete with others. An evening out should be an enjoyable social occasion, not a contest. Let everyone drink at their own pace, and make sure you do the same.
- Know your set point. Just as weight gain or loss relates to your metabolic set point, Spivak believes there is a set point for alcohol as well. You know how much will make you tipsy and how much will make you feel lousy the next day—so behave accordingly.
When all else fails, take some aspirin or ibuprofen immediately before retiring.
About Mark
Mark Spivak is the food and wine editor of Palm Beach Illustrated, educating our readers on the finer points of wine and spirits and reviewing the top culinary spots of South Florida since 2001. Visiting wine regions, distilleries and culinary meccas around the globe, Mark's voice, an authoritative pen of the epicurean scene, can also be read on his blog Global Gourmet, where he writes about his experiences and insights exclusively on palmbeachillustrated.com.
Mark is also the author of The Affordable Wine Guide to California and the Pacific Northwest (also available as an e-book). His newest tome, Iconic Spirits: An Intoxicating History [Lyons Press], hit bookstands in November 2012.
Iconic Spirits is a must read for any and all interested in the world of the high-proofed. The book chronicles 12 unique spirits and categories that helped forge the cocktail culture of today, sharing the untold stories and the hidden tales of each. Included are cocktail recipes, many of which are classics and genre originators.


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Published April 25, 2012
Dayo Ibitoye
KADUNA, Nigeria, May 14 (UPI) -- At 27, Lanre Lawal seemed to have a bright future. He had distinguished himself as a fine student with a degree in civil engineering. For the young man from Osun state in southwestern Nigeria, a promising job with a good income was almost certain.
But Lanre's joy was short lived. One day he slumped to the floor and was rushed to the hospital. That was in 2007. He died three months later from lung cancer.
Peter Oguns, Lawal's childhood friend, said Lawal had been a regular smoker since their secondary school years.
"There's nothing I didn't do to try to stop him from smoking but he wouldn't listen," Oguns said. "He was so addicted that he smoked at least 10 sticks a day."
Lawal is one of many Nigerian young people who have struggled with tobacco addiction. Despite the danger tobacco poses, the federal government has yet to sign into law a wide-ranging act which will regulate the sale and advertising of tobacco products and restrict where people are allowed to smoke People under the age of 18 won't be allowed to buy cigarettes, and health warnings will have to cover at least 50 percent of the packaging. All forms of tobacco advertisements, sponsorships, promotions and endorsements will be banned.
In July 2009, over 40 civil society groups, lawyers and public health advocates stormed the National Assembly in the capital, Abuja, to demand that the Nigerian legislature to sign the National Tobacco Control Bill into law. The bill had been brought before the Assembly five months earlier, but it took more than two years before lawmakers finally approved it. Since March 2011, the bill has been awaiting ratification by the federal government.
Nigeria is at serious risk of President Goodluck Jonathan does not ratify the bill, said Tola Oyebode, a doctor and a member of one of the protest groups.
"I see people die every day from tobacco addiction," Oyebode said.
That experience drove Oyebode to form an organization dedicated to getting the bill ratified. The bill, once enacted, could dramatically reduce the number of tobacco-related deaths in Nigeria, he said.
Nigeria is one of the largest markets for tobacco products in Africa. About 13 million Nigerians are smokers, and about 17 billion cigarettes are produced in the country each year, Oyebode said.
Over the past decade, there has been a steady increase in the number of smokers, he said. About 7 million cigarettes are smoked each day.
The bill hasn't been enacted because of pressure from tobacco lobbying groups, Oyebode said.
"I am convinced that these lobbying groups benefit a lot from the proliferation of tobacco in the country," he said.
Government officials did not respond to repeated requests to comment on these allegations. Members of the National Assembly have also been unwilling to publicly account for the delay. One assemblyman, who only agreed to speak if his name was withheld, confirmed that the tobacco lobby has weakened the government's resolve to introduce effective legislation.
"Nigerian government officials lack the required understanding of the methods used by the tobacco industry to influence government policies and legislation," the assemblyman said. "What we all know is that the tobacco companies have (heavily) infiltrated the decision of the government".
Akinbode Oluwafemi, a speaker at a recent forum organized by the Coalition Against Tobacco, argued that lobbying groups are taking deliberate steps to influence the government.
"I am dismayed that there is an alleged clandestine move by tobacco lobbyists to compromise our lawmakers with the intent of thwarting the passage of the National Tobacco Control Bill," he said in an interview. "How else can you explain our law makers' foot-dragging on the bill nearly one year after the public hearing?"
Western tobacco firms are among those applying pressure, said Isidore Obot, executive director of the Centre for Research on Information on Substance Abuse, at a forum.
Stringent anti-tobacco laws in the west have turned those companies' attention to sub-Saharan Africa, Obot said, and Nigeria is considered the "jewel" in the tobacco business.
Tobacco-related health problems are worse in Nigeria, he said, because the tobacco content of the cigarettes sold in the country is higher than in those sold in western nations.
Joseph Bulus, a doctor, said tobacco kills about half of its lifetime users. About 70 million people died worldwide as a result of smoking between 1950 and 2000, and it's estimated that over the next 50 years, 450 million may die because of tobacco use. Most of those deaths will be in developing countries.
Adamu Mukhtar is from northern Nigeria, but for the past 20 years has lived in Lagos, Nigeria's most populous city.
Mukhtar not only smokes tobacco, but also Indian hemp. Speaking in broken English laden with his local Hausa dialect, he said smoking makes him forget his troubles and relax. He has become so addicted that hardly a day passes without him finishing at least six packets of 20 cigarettes each.
The thick-set, balding auto mechanic has a typical attitude toward smoking.
"Whether I smoke or not, I will still die," he said. "Everybody will die of something. If tobacco kills me, so be it".


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Whittier women's basketball co-captain Margo Campos was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a junior in high school.
"It completely changed my life," said Campos in a recent interview with the Whittier Daily News.
Still, the Poet point guard decided not to let the disease get the best of her and strives to stay positive.
"My health obstacles are tough," Campos said, "but this has allowed the people around me to become more aware of diabetes, which affects so many people in the United States."
In support of their captain, the Poet team decided to donate the proceeds from Thursday's game against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps to the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
"Margo is as tough as they come," said Head Coach Elizabeth Stanley. "She is incredibly competitive and demands the best from herself, while inspiring her teammates to do the same."
According to the ADA, type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults when the body does not produce enough insulin--"a hormone that is needed to convert sugar starches and other food into energy needed for daily life."
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Twenty years ago – 1993
Edward Gnadzinski, 80 Cleveland Ave., Fredonia, rolled the first 700 series of his four-year bowling career, a 236-266-277-779 on alleys 11 and 12 at Lucky Lanes. The score topped the previous house record of 777 set by Dale Kozlowski. Gnadzinski, who carries a 180 average, was bowling for the Jack of All Trades team in the Rich Kaczor League. His previous high series, a 660, was bowled a week earlier.
Thirty years ago – 1983
Connie Williams, daughter of Mrs. Helen Williams of Monroe Street, Silver Creek has been named Student of the Week at Silver Creek Central School. She is one of the top-ranking students in her senior class and was named a Commended Student in the National Achievement Program for Outstanding Negro Students. She is also a member of the National Honor Society. Connie was also an MVP and All-Star in both basketball and volleyball. She plans to attend the General Motors Engineering and Management Institute to become an electrical engineer.
Forty years ago – 1973
Fredonia Chapter 430, Order of the Eastern Star, has made a $1,000 contribution to the building fund for the new temple.
Fifty years ago – 1963
At a meeting of the Business Men's Improvement Party of Fredonia, Mayor Russell R. Joy was unanimously endorsed as a candidate for re-election in the upcoming mayoral race.


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Topic: "Illegal" field names
I'm developing an application that has to connect to a legacy database. I have no control over the structure of this database, but the Rails application has to read and write to certain tables in that database.
So I've setup the two connections, and everything works fine. Except the one table kept on giving me an error when I tried to save to it. Either a new record, or an existing record. It kept on complaining about
"ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)"
in the callback function of ActiveRecord. This happened whenever the Model attempted to validate the record.
So I finally figured out that the table in the Legacy database has a field called "callback" (It's a telephony app). So when Rails created the ORM structure it overrides it's own "callback" method with a new one mapped to the field called "callback".
The only way I could think of around the problem, was not to map that field. Luckily I don't need to use that field for my app. So I put the following into my Model:
module ActiveRecord
module ConnectionAdapters
MysqlAdapter.class_eval do
def columns(table_name, name = nil)#:nodoc:
sql = "SHOW FIELDS FROM #{quote_table_name(table_name)}"
columns = []
execute(sql, name).each { |field| columns << MysqlColumn.new(field[0], field[4], field[1], field[2] == "YES") unless field[0] == 'callback'}
This code comes out of the MySQL adapter for ActiveRecord. I added this bit:
unless field[0] == 'callback'
This does the trick very well, but I feel it's a bit of a dirty fix to the problem. It certainly makes upgrading to a new version of Rails (or ActiveRecord) problematic, as I'll have to make sure to check that specific method to see if it needs updating.
Is there a better way to let ActiveRecord not map a certain field in a table? Or even better, give a field a method name that's different from the field name?


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Debates of Nov. 2nd, 2004
House of Commons Hansard #20 of the 38th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was victims.
- Canada Account
- Export of Military Goods
- Competition Act
- First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Take Note Debate
- Criminal Code
- Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994
- Contraventions Act
- Visually Impaired
- Agriculture
- Athens Olympic Games
- Writers
- Dairy Industry
- Riding of Oxford
- ADISQ Gala
- Jean Lemire
- Canadian Automobile Association
- Health
- Dan MacPherson
- Sudan
- Canadian Automobile Association
- Dairy Production
- Agriculture
- East Nepean Eagles
- Natural Resources
- Parental Leave
- Privacy
- National Defence
- Trade
- Air Transportation Security
- Social Programs
- Agriculture
- Softwood Lumber
- Ukraine
- Automobile Industry
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Justice
- Terrorism
- Taxation
- Automobile Industry
- Fisheries and Oceans
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Aboriginals
- Canadian Heritage
- International Cooperation
- Health
- Contraventions Act
- Criminal Code
- Supply
- Tlicho Land Claims and Self-Government Act
- Criminal Code
- Contraventions Act
- Message from the Senate
- Assistance to Hepatitis C Victims
Contraventions Act
Government Orders
1:50 p.m.
Russ Hiebert South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, BC
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to address Bill C-17, an act to amend the Contraventions Act and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to decriminalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana. I will begin my comments by discussing some of the health consequences of this drug in particular.
First, let us be very clear that there is demonstrable harm with the use of marijuana. It is far worse than smoking. It is an activity that we are officially, as a House, trying to discourage. For example, emphysema and lung cancer are both consequences of smoking and drug use.
The New England Journal of Medicine says that smoking five joints a week is the equivalent of smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Clearly there is a link to health consequences.
The Neurotoxicity and Teratology journal reports that a baby exposed to marijuana while in the womb has an increased chance of hyperactivity and social problems. The National Academy of Sciences says that marijuana can cause cancer, lung damage and babies with low birth weights. Another journal, Circulation Research of the American Heart Association reported a five-fold increase in heart attacks among people who smoke marijuana. The British Medical Journal revealed an increased incidence in schizophrenia and depression. Lastly, a Dutch study shows that cannabis smokers are seven times more likely than other people to have psychotic symptoms.
Clearly there is a host of health problems associated with this particular activity and we as a House should be doing everything we can to discourage it.
Let us be very clear from the very beginning. We are not talking about the marijuana of the 1960s and the 1970s, which was in a completely different category. In the 1960s the THC levels in marijuana was about .5% to 2%. What we see today coming out of British Columbia, what is known as B.C. bud, has THC levels of 35%. That is an enormous increase in the toxicity and the potency of this particular drug. What is also clear is that this is like the crack cocaine of marijuana. It is a natural step to harder drug usage. I know this from my experience, which I will refer to later, as an attorney having talked to young people who have been addicted to these drugs.
Finally, as the Canadian Medical Association acknowledges that cannabis is an addictive substance, why do we want to make it more accessible to young people instead of less accessible? I personally think it is a huge act of hypocrisy on the part of the government to have this legislation alongside Bill C-16, the drugged driving bill, because under Bill C-16 the government seems to acknowledge that driving while under the influence of marijuana is a serious concern and one we need to discourage, under Bill C-17 it makes it more accessible.
This morning I was talking to Sergeant Paul Mulvihill of the Surrey RCMP detachment in my riding. He was telling me that this approach was very short-sighted.
While I generally support the notion of Bill C-16 and the idea of a drugged driving bill, I want to comment briefly on some of my concerns. It probably needs a lot more funding to ensure that the officers are properly trained to administer that legislation and so the convictions will stick.
Health is not the only concern that I have with this particular legislation. I am also concerned about the economic consequences. We know these people have higher rates of absenteeism from work. There is a greater increase of family breakdown, a greater use of the medical system, such as addiction treatments and rehab centres, and of course there is the cost of incarceration. The more accessible these drugs become to Canadians, the more chances they will have to suffer the consequences of that. We need to consider this from an economic perspective.
I find it striking that just a few weeks ago the first ministers came to an agreement on health where they are handing out stacks of cash to the provinces to deal with health care and here we are encouraging, by reducing the consequences, behaviour that will cost our health care system enormous amounts of money. It will be a huge drain on the system.
From an economic perspective we cannot forget that we live next to our largest trading partner, one of the largest in the world, and that is the U.S. I can tell members that the Americans take a dim view of what the Canadian government is considering with this legislation.
The U.S. drug czar has recently indicated that there will be repercussions if we push ahead with this plan because 95% of the drugs, particularly those grown in British Columbia, do not stay in B.C. They go straight across the border, and they send us cocaine in exchange. It is a horrible problem. In light of the delays we are currently experiencing at the border, do we want to instigate further problems?
As a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, we already face higher scrutiny at the borders. The second busiest border crossing in the country is in my riding. Truckers are waiting six to seven hours to cross the border with their products and we are proposing legislation that would increase the level of scrutiny and make it even harder for people to make a living as they move trade to and fro across the border.
We are not just talking about the economy. Those are general statements. We are talking about truckers with families in my riding who cannot make a living when their trucks are sitting at the border and not moving. This is a serious problem and we are bringing forward legislation that would poke another stick in the eye of the Americans. It is not the right thing to do.
I want to briefly address some of the criminal concerns related to the legislation.
The government claims that this is not about giving kids criminal records for smoking a joint. I beg to differ. The bill suggests that a fine be given for the possession of 30 grams of marijuana, which puts this whole theme that it is pushing to the lie that it is. Thirty grams of pot is enough pot to make 30 to 60 marijuana cigarettes. Let me say that if people are walking around with 30 to 60 joints in their pockets it is not about personal possession, it is about trafficking.
What do we do here? We fine these people a $150 for trafficking. However, to a drug pusher who is making tens of thousands of dollars a month, paying a $150 fine is the cost of doing business and it is not a very big cost at all. In fact it is a small price to pay.
While I appreciate the fact that there are increased sentences for grow ops when 25 plants or more are at stake, what the legislation would actually do is decrease the consequences for grow ops with less than 25 plants. That just does not make any sense. Why would we be more lenient on people than we have been in the past as a result of this?
At the end of the day, without mandatory minimum sentences for these crimes, nothing will change. There will be no practical consequence.
The reality is that the lenient Liberal appointed judges are part of the problem. Because there are no deterrents under the existing system, the problem is getting worse. For example, in 1992, in the Vancouver area, 29% of the charges laid were drug related charges. In 2000 it had dropped to 4%. Clearly being lenient is not solving the problem.
I have spoken to enforcement officers in my riding who are tremendously frustrated with all the time and effort they have put into collecting evidence and having their cases dismissed in court or the sentences being of no real consequence to the criminals.
Let us make no mistake, grow ops are a serious problem. They cost us hundreds of millions of dollars a year. In fact, electricity utilities alone lose about $200 million per year from theft.
Where are the escalating sentences? The legislation equates the possession of pot to a parking fine. It is not even as serious as a speeding ticket where with subsequent speeding tickets the cost of the fine goes up. That is not so here.
As a lawyer who has dealt with criminals, I am all too aware of the dangers of gateway drugs like marijuana. I have spoken with far too many young adults who as teens experimented with marijuana and have now spent a decade hooked on hard drugs like heroin.
Here we are doing everything we can to help people stop smoking but we are about to legalize marijuana, a drug far more dangerous to society and especially vulnerable youth. It does not make sense. I will do everything in my power to ensure that drug dealers will not have legal access to our children, and that includes amending the legislation.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Inky Mark Dauphin—Swan River, MB
Mr. Speaker, with the Canada-U.S. border closed to cattle exports, farmers can no longer afford to either sell or keep their livestock.
The government has provided little help politically or financially. While producers struggle, the government promises loan guarantees for the construction of Canadian packing plants. Guarantees alone will not build even one packing plant. The government stands by while this industry dies.
The Canada-U.S. border must be opened. The Liberal government must immediately start a WTO proceeding just as we have done to protect other Canadian industries. A successful challenge would oblige the U.S. to open its borders.
What is the government waiting for? When will it act? It is time that the Liberal government stood up for our cattle producers at the WTO. Canada's producers deserve a government that will support them in their time of need.
Athens Olympic Games
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Raymonde Folco Laval—Les Îles, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate athletes Alexandre Despatie, Christopher Kalec, Philippe Comtois, Julie Leprohon, Jean Pascal, Nicolas Macrozonaris and Achraf Tadili, as well as coaches Jean-Paul Girard, Michel Larouche and Stéphane Larouche, all of whom took part in the Athens Olympic Games.
They all deserve to be honoured for representing us in their respective sports disciplines.
I have had the good fortune to witness all the sports talent in our region, even in groups of young people who participate in sports just for fun. I support all action aimed at helping our local athletes to achieve their goals. We in Laval are proud of our athletes, and I thank them.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Pierre Paquette Joliette, QC
Mr. Speaker, On Saturday, October 16, for the fourth year in a row, local writers left their usual haunts and set out to bring literature to the people, in the heart of downtown Joliette.
Again this year, some fifty writers from the Lanaudière region and all over Quebec, among them the three I accompanied, Élise Turcotte, Stanley Pean and Louis Caron, gave their time and their words in particular to anyone wanting to write a poem, a greeting card, a love letter, even a political speech.
The public scribe locations were provided by various downtown Joliette businesses, thereby continuing the great partnership of our region's business and cultural communities.
My congratulations to the man behind this project, Jean-Pierre Girard, and this brave group of writers who make this unique event possible. It hearkens back to the era of public scribes, when writers made their talents and knowledge available to others. Certainly no one in Joliette was suffering from writer's block that day. Congratulations to all who took part.
Dairy Industry
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Lynn Myers Kitchener—Conestoga, ON
Mr. Speaker, I would like to draw to the attention of the House that representatives of Canada's dairy producers from every province are in Ottawa today to meet with members of Parliament on important issues related to this vital agricultural sector.
Dairy producers are here to discuss clear rules regarding the use of dairy terms and images which are not misleading to consumers. They are also here to discuss the impact of BSE on dairy producers' income. Since the discovery of a single case of BSE, dairy producers have suffered many losses due to the decreased market value of veal calves, replacement heifers, and cull cows resulting in the loss of an estimated total of $419 million on an annual basis. As the House knows, the dairy supply management system is based on three pillars. Each of these three pillars are equally important; weakening one would compromise the entire system.
It is most encouraging knowing that so many members of Parliament have taken the time to meet with the dairy farmers to discuss the current issues affecting this important industry.
Riding of Oxford
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Dave MacKenzie Oxford, ON
Mr. Speaker, as one of the first members of the 38th Parliament to be sworn into office, I am extremely honoured to stand before this House today as the member of Parliament for Oxford.
The riding of Oxford is a prime example of the fabric that makes up this great nation of Canada. It is filled with urban centres like Woodstock, Ingersoll, Norwich, Tavistock, and Stompin' Tom Connors' favourite, Tillsonburg.
During the election campaign and since then I have travelled to every corner of the riding. I can assure the House that the people of Oxford share many of the same values and concerns as those of their fellow Canadians.
I am pleased to report that the following mayors are present in Ottawa today taking part in the Ontario auto industry meetings: Mr. Paul Holbrough, Mayor of the Town of Ingersoll; Mr. Michael Harding, Mayor of the City of Woodstock; and Mr. Steven Molnar, Mayor of the Town of Tillsonburg.
I urge my fellow colleagues to welcome their presence here with us today.
ADISQ Gala
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Sarmite Bulte Parkdale—High Park, ON
Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, October 31, the Félix awards were presented at the 26th gala of the Quebec recording, performance and video industry association. This event, broadcast live from St. Denis Theatre on the French network of the CBC, celebrated the outstanding contribution of francophone music.
The ADISQ showcases the exceptional talent of our artists and the expertise of professionals in the Quebec music industry. The vitality of the industry is obvious. It is reflected in the diversity and quality of its artists.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank ADISQ, a key stakeholder in the Canadian music industry, for organizing this event every year, and to congratulate all the music artists who took part.
The government is proud to support artists and the Canadian recording industry through various Canada music fund programs. In four years this fund will have invested approximately $95 million in this industry in order to strengthen all of its sectors from creators to audience.
Congratulations to all the winners at ADISQ.
Jean Lemire
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Pauline Picard Drummond, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society will be presenting Jean Lemire from Drummondville with its gold medal for his mission and his five documentaries on the impact of climate change on the wildlife and the inhabitants of the Arctic. Since their first screening in 2003, these documentaries have been seen by more than 10 million people.
Trained as a biologist, Jean Lemire makes us realize that the thawing permafrost is distressing proof that the Arctic is suffering the effects of global warming.
In September 2005, he will head out for the Antarctic, one of regions most seriously affected by climate change. He and his team will spend one year aboard their sailboat and produce a series of movies for the International Polar Year, in 2007.
Congratulations to Jean Lemire and all his team. May his movies encourage us all to take aggressive action to save our planet.
Canadian Automobile Association
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Alan Tonks York South—Weston, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise to congratulate the Canadian Automobile Association, CAA, for the important work it does on behalf of Canadians. I also want to welcome its 11 clubs to Parliament Hill who are visiting us today from across the country.
The CAA is a federation of automobile clubs which represents the rights and interests of more than 4.5 million Canadian motorists. Through public awareness campaigns and government advocacy, CAA is working with public policy makers to improve roadway safety, reduce accident related injuries, and assist government to meet its climate change goals.
This year the CAA's focus is on roadway infrastructure and the urgent need for additional funding. While supportive of the government's recent commitment to infrastructure redevelopment, it urges us not to forget the important role roads and highways play in the Canadian economy.
I want to thank the CAA for its efforts and for the important work it does on behalf of Canadian motorists and the travelling public.
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Rob Merrifield Yellowhead, AB
Mr. Speaker, since 1998 the official opposition has urged the government to compensate all hepatitis C victims of tainted blood.
We accepted Justice Krever's recommendation to compensate all victims, not just those inside an artificial window. However, year after year the Liberal government has denied fair treatment to thousands of Canadians and their families. On October 21 the Commons health committee passed a motion urging this government to compensate all who contracted hepatitis C from tainted blood. The motion passed unanimously.
I have given notice to move concurrence in this House for this motion. During tonight's debate we will be looking for clear support from this government and a timetable for action, not more studies. We cannot erase the wrongs of years past, but we can do something for the remaining victims and their families before it is too late.
Compensation was the right thing to do in 1998 and it is the right thing to do today. The funds are in place; the excuses are getting weak. Canadians are watching. Victims are waiting. Let us do the right thing.
Dan MacPherson
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Wayne Easter Malpeque, PE
Mr. Speaker, I want to note before the House the passing of a valued member of our community, Mr. Dan MacPherson. Dan, as stated by a friend, walked the talk in being an active member of his community, his industry, his province and his country. He touched many lives.
I will name just a few of his achievements. He was president of the Prince Edward Island Branch of Holstein Canada, founding member of the Dairy Producers Association, president of the P.E.I. Federation of Agriculture, founding chair of the Farm Centre, 4-H Club leader, founding member of the P.E.I. 4-H Council and its president, Sunday school teacher and superintendent for 30 years, elder and clerk of session, trustee for the Charlottetown Rural High School, chairman of the Second Queens PC Association, funeral director, and founding member of the Central Queens Funeral Coop.
Dan was a kind and supportive family man who was a good neighbour, a successful businessman, and a man of faith who lived true to his convictions.
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Alexa McDonough Halifax, NS
Mr. Speaker, the Darfur region of Sudan is the site of the worst humanitarian crisis in today's world. There are 1.5 million displaced Sudanese, hundreds of thousands of starving and diseased, and tens of thousands killed, raped and tortured.
Yesterday the Sudan Liberation Army walked away from peace talks conducted under the auspices of the African Union because the government army conducted new raids on refugee camps in Darfur, denying humanitarian agencies access to refugees.
The Prime Minister must unequivocally condemn these raids. He must not use his trip to Sudan later this month as an excuse for remaining silent in the wake of these latest atrocities. Canada's peacebuilding leadership is desperately needed. We have a moral obligation to show that leadership in this desperate crisis.
Canadian Automobile Association
Statements By Members
November 2nd, 2004 / 2:10 p.m.
Werner Schmidt Kelowna, BC
Mr. Speaker, I rise to welcome representatives of the Canadian Automobile Association. The CAA is a traffic safety advocate that works with public officials, media, motorists and the general public on such important issues as school safety patrols, the safety of child car seats and seat belts, and of course safer roads and highways.
Much of our daily routine and economic activity involves the use of vehicles travelling on a network of roads and highways that need to be maintained and upgraded for the safety of the travelling public. The CAA remains committed to these traffic safety goals and is here to remind us of the need for appropriate funding of our highway infrastructure on which so much of our lives depend.
Better roads and highways will provide Canadians with economic, environmental and safety benefits. I congratulate the CAA for its continued diligence on behalf of drivers, motorists and the travelling public.
Dairy Production
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Paul Crête Rivière-Du-Loup—Montmagny, QC
Mr. Speaker, dairy farmers from all regions of Quebec and Canada are meeting today with members of this House.
These dairy farmers of Canada represent thousands of families working on dairy farms that generate agricultural revenues of around $4 billion. Considering direct sales for milk processing and the economic activity derived from the provision of goods and services to dairy producers and processors, the industry's economic activity adds up to $26 billion and provides employment for 142,505 Quebeckers and Canadians.
In addition, survey results show that Quebeckers and Canadians pay less for dairy products than do their neighbours to the south. Stable and competitive prices for consumers, a steady supply of high-quality milk for dairies, and the ability of producers to earn fair market returns; these are the advantages of a supply management system.
I want to thank all those who feed us.