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- 1 i3Detroit, members bimonthly meeting Nov 2nd 2010
- 2 Budget Summary
- 3 Heating
- 4 Fire Inspection
- 5 Web Working Group
- 6 501(c).3
- 7 Beautification
- 8 PR Committee
- 9 Penguicon/i3 Party Aftermath
- 10 Potlock II
- 11 CRM Update
- 12 Vertical shelving
- 13 Oakland eCornicopia
- 14 Podcasting Night
- 15 Signage/Logo
- 16 Detroit Urban Craft Fair
- 17 Paper Tigers NY
- 18 Punchlist
- 19 alendar Review
i3Detroit, members bimonthly meeting Nov 2nd 2010
Where: i3Detroit (comons area) When: Nov 2nd 2010 7:30pm
Budget Summary
- Not quite breaking even during the winter, based on current estimates; in black once heating season is over.
- Radiant: Awesome but expensive ~$10K 3-4 week lead time
- Forced air replacement: Much cheaper, but noisier and messier. ~$4200 Shorter time span
- Third quote tomorrow: infrared option?
- Swit will see about getting another quote from someone he knows
- Radiant vs. forced: 25% cost savings, may not recoup up front cost for a long time (years)
- Landlord may knock some rent off in exchange for i3 paying for install
Fire Inspection
- Fire Marshall made a surprise inspection
- Didn't like wood pile under chop saw
- Box touching ceiling needs to be untouched
- Auto shop needs sprinkler system and fire rated walls—not going to happen
- Overall, went well.
Web Working Group
- Transfer put on hold until mid next week
- Ashley went to IRS seminar; got secret guide book
- Minutes from meeting are on list, wiki
- Might be able to get filing done for $250
- Ross is reading the Noisebridge tome
- Need to be a community asset to get non-profit status
- AHA is kicking our ass in community outreach
- A couple projects in the works; sidetracked by Halloween
PR Committee
- 2.5 members; Nick is looking for add'l members.
- Need to set up first meeting
Penguicon/i3 Party Aftermath
- PA system sucked
- Webcam was nice
- A bit disorganized/under-prepared overall, but it was a lot of fun
- Pictures might be good for future publicity
- Better costume contest next year
- Raffle in future? Considered gaming, but might be possible.
Potlock II
- Need big todo items
- Classroom?
- Expand shop area into graveyard area; get rid of graveyard
- Graveyard should be for stuff left over from in-space projects, not junk hauled in on the hopes that it gets used.
- Graveyard purge will happen at next potlock. Current member shelves will be moved to new member storage; old storage will become graveyard.
CRM Update
- Ed's looking for volunteers to beta test; contact him directly if you're interested.
Vertical shelving
- Nearly done; to be finished at potlock
- Need to be attached to roof before use
- Usage limits intentionally vague
- Ashley has storage bins available on first come, first served, you-clean-it basis
Oakland eCornicopia
- Subject is "open", topics are:
- Open Education
- Open Access
- Open Source
- Swit wants to get together a hackerspace panel (Rust Belt spaces)
- May 27, 2011 One month after Penguicon
- Needs volunteers for some of the panels
- Open Hardware panel: Arduino
- Video/image editing: Gimp, Audacity, etc.
- Swit will post call for presentation topics to public list
Podcasting Night
- Should there be a podcasting night?
- May spark interest in podcasting studio
- See thread in members list
- What happened to the logo discussion?
- Submit all current logo ideas to a vote?
- Dustin will merge into a single document for printing/online versions
- Vote will occur at meeting after potlock
Detroit Urban Craft Fair
- i3 invited again
May have 2 booths
- First weekend of December, Sat-Sun
- Contact Nick if you're interested
Paper Tigers NY
- Doing documentary of hackerspaces; will be by the space some time this weekend.
- Hose reel nearly done; low pressure hose to be replaced
- Tall shelving: Finish at potlock
- Speakers: need wire; Russ can order wire at cost; waiting on heating to be done
- Power strips in room: Paul needs to mount powerstrip
- Power strips in e-room: Nearly done
- Curtains: Need fixtures
- Safety signage: Ross will talk with zone wardens about sign needs
- Weatherstrip windows: Swit doesn't like design; will use tape to seal frames/plastic to windows
- Paper towel holders: Potlock item; Swit volunteers to make it happen
- Outlets: Paul will take care of them when possible
alendar Review
Hackerspace callin: ext. 3232 will connect you to call in


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Debates of Dec. 2nd, 2010
House of Commons Hansard #109 of the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was columbia.
- Question Period
- Government Response to Petitions
- Committees of the House
- Standing Committee on Finance
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Committees of the House
- Business of Supply
- Sustaining Canada's Economic Recovery Act
- Business of Supply
- Business of the House
- Business of Supply
- Special Olympics World Summer Games
- Mental Health
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- Mining Industry
- Renfrew County District School Board
- Poland
- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
- Marc Céré
- National Defence
- Edmundston Fire Department
- Partners For Youth Inc.
- Violence Against Women
- Defence of Hong Kong
- Firearms Registry
- Prison Farms
- Pensions
- Government Priorities
- Afghanistan
- Foreign Affairs
- Afghanistan
- Justice
- Release of Documents by WikiLeaks
- Afghanistan
- Copyright
- Infrastructure
- The Environment
- Justice
- The Economy
- National Defence
- Taseko Mines Limited
- Taxation
- The Economy
- Veterans Affairs
- Agriculture
- Telecommunications
- The Economy
- Veterans Affairs
- Canadian Forces
- Government Spending
- Business of the House
- Points of Order
- Business of Supply
- Criminal Code
Opposition Motion--West Coast Oil Tanker Traffic
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:30 p.m.
Keith Martin Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, BC
Mr. Speaker, we share the same province and our constituents have spoken loudly about their concerns over the environment and the government's lack of action in dealing with some of the major environmental challenges we have seen.
My colleague mentioned the first nations situation and how they must be consulted as partners in addressing these challenges. Could she tell us how the government could do a better job of engaging first nations to ensure their needs and the needs of non-first nations people are met and we have sustainable development in the future for British Columbia?
The engagement between environmental and human security are two halves of the same whole and, unfortunately, the government is missing the boat on this. China and other countries are vaulting ahead and we do not seem to have a plan. As I mentioned before, even the United States has an active partnership that it has developed with the private sector and other partners.
The government has an opportunity to develop these innovative partnerships to deal with the environmental challenges before us. How does my colleague believe it needs to do a better job to achieve these objectives?
Opposition Motion--West Coast Oil Tanker Traffic
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:30 p.m.
Libby Davies Vancouver East, BC
Madam Speaker, we must respect the traditions and territories of first nations. More than 50 first nations will be impacted in a very negative way by this pipeline and any disaster or spill that might happen. The fact that first nations have come out so strongly and in such a united way with one voice and working with many other partners and allies is a strong indication that the government not only has to be at the table in terms of working out land use, development and plans, but it needs to be done in a way that is respectful of the history and traditions of first nations communities. We have not seen that.
What is taking place with this Enbridge proposal flies in the face and contradicts many of the principles we have heard around working in partnership with first nations. From that point of view, it is a test of what the government says and what it actually does. This motion brings that to the forefront.
The government has an opportunity here to do something in a meaningful way by engaging in consultation, or it can ignore what first nations are saying and only listen to the captains of industry who basically just want to export more and see the tar sands grow more.
Opposition Motion--West Coast Oil Tanker Traffic
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:30 p.m.
Mark Warawa Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment
Madam Speaker, my colleague across the way talked about action on the environment. As she well knows, this government is one of action and we have a continental harmonized approach to tackling the fight against climate change with aggressive targets of a 17% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. She also knows that emissions have already started to go down under this government.
Last night, we saw her and all the members of the NDP vote against a federal sustainable development act. We also know that in committee they are opposing and actually trying to change the definition of "sustainable development". We have seen them in action voting against sustainable development last night and also in committee. Why does she not care about ensuring her actions match her words?
Opposition Motion--West Coast Oil Tanker Traffic
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:30 p.m.
Libby Davies Vancouver East, BC
Madam Speaker, I would note that the parliamentary secretary neglected to mention one other action his government has taken, which is to kill the great climate change bill that was in the Senate, using an unelected, undemocratic body to kill a very progressive, forward-looking bill. It is sad that he would neglect to mention that action.
The fact is that the NDP has a superb record on bringing forward concrete proposals around climate change. We have been the strongest opponents in this House in terms of challenging the government on its lack of accountability on climate change. Our bill passed, not once but twice, through the House of Commons and then was killed in the Senate. Need I say more in terms of where the government is at?
It is heading into the next round of negotiations in Cancun and it has no plans. The one thing we had as a ray of hope, the government killed it off.
Opposition Motion--West Coast Oil Tanker Traffic
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:35 p.m.
Bill Siksay Burnaby—Douglas, BC
Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to participate in this debate on an NDP motion today, which says that:
...the government should immediately propose legislation to ban bulk oil tanker traffic in the Dixon Entrance, Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound as a way to protect the West Coast's unique and diverse ocean ecosystem, to preserve the marine resources which sustain the community and regional economies of British Columbia, and to honour the extensive First Nations rights and title in the area.
This is a very important and timely motion. Many people in British Columbia have recently become mobilized. People have been mobilized on this issue for decades, but recently the Enbridge proposal to put a pipeline through northern British Columbia, from the Alberta tar sands to the north coast of British Columbia, to allow supertanker traffic out of the north coast of British Columbia has mobilized people to call into question the judgment that would see this kind of proposal go forward.
People are hot to trot on this issue, to put it mildly. It is something that is incredibly concerning and there is huge support for ensuring a ban on tanker traffic on the north coast of British Columbia. Polls have shown that over 80% of British Columbians support a ban on tanker traffic on the north coast of British Columbia.
We know that there are very significant features of the north coast that are significant in terms of the ecology of this planet. The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact coastal, temperate rainforest in the world, and the government and others have worked to preserve that area. Unfortunately, all it would take is one tanker accident to undo that work and to damage, perhaps irreparably, that rainforest. This is one area that a legislative tanker ban would continue to protect.
We also know that the ecotourism industry is growing in British Columbia and certainly in the north coast. We know that it is a $2.6 billion industry at this point and there is lots of potential for expansion of that industry.
We know too that the kind of support that has been exhibited in British Columbia is extensive. The Union of B.C. Municipalities in October, without dissent, passed a motion calling for a ban on tanker traffic on the north coast.
We also know that B.C. first nations have been very involved in this, that their territories are directly impacted by this proposal and would be directly impacted by any kind of tanker accident on the north coast. They have been incredibly outspoken and united in their opposition to tanker traffic on the north coast. The Coastal First Nations made a statement in March 2010. The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs and the First Nations Summit have spoken out clearly on this issue. Just minutes ago, the Fraser First Nations, who represent 61 indigenous communities along the Fraser River, signed on to their Fraser declaration opposing the Enbridge pipeline and the tanker traffic on the north coast. There is absolute unanimity among first nations in British Columbia on this issue, and it is growing daily, as we have seen today.
There are many concerns about what an accident on the north coast would mean. We have seen that on the west coast of North America before. The Exxon Valdez is a terrible example of what could happen, with 11 million gallons of crude oil spilling in Alaskan waters. We know that it killed 2,800 sea otters, 250,000 birds, 22 orcas, 300 harbour seals, 250 bald eagles, 1.9 million salmon and 12.9 billion herring, so it was a significant accident and it caused incredible long range damage to the west coast.
We keep hearing that there is an Alaskan tanker exclusion zone, that tankers cannot come within 150 miles of the coast of Haida Gwaii, and yes, there are in place north-south restrictions, but what we are talking about now is opening the door to east-west transport in and out of ports on the north coast of British Columbia. This is a completely different proposition, so responding to questions about a north coast tanker ban by saying that there is this exclusion zone really completely misses the point and does not deal with the need for a legislative ban on tanker traffic on the north coast of British Columbia.
Why is it necessary? Environment Canada tells us that it predicts, every year, 100 small oil spills, 10 moderate oil spills and 1 major oil spill, based on current levels of tanker traffic in Canada.
Given the unique difficulties of navigating the north coast of British Columbia, the unique difficulties of cleaning up a spill that happened in those waters, this has to be a concern.
In my own constituency, people are concerned as well. I think the issues on the south coast are somewhat different because there already is existing tanker traffic on the south coast, and a lot of that is based in my constituency of Burnaby—Douglas.
Because of the concerns that folks on the south coast and in Burnaby have about this, I hosted, with my colleagues from Burnaby—New Westminster and Vancouver East, a forum on oil and water transportation issues back on November 10. We invited a range of people to speak to this issue.
Kinder Morgan, which represents the existing pipeline from Alberta to the coast, which has its terminus in my riding, did not participate in our panel. However, it did send representatives to attend the meeting. Port Metro Vancouver, as well, sent representatives to attend the meeting and be available should there be questions.
The panel included folks from Dogwood Initiative, Andrea MacDonald was the representative of Dogwood Initiative. We had Ben West from the Wilderness Committee and Terry Engler from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 400. We had the Pacific Pilotage Authority. Captain Kevin Obermeyer, its president and CEO, was its representative. Captain Stephen Roy Brown, the president of the Chamber of Shipping, was also on our panel.
Those folks all presented about the key issues that are related to the transportation of oil on the south coast and out of Port Metro Vancouver, out of Burnaby—Douglas, in fact.
Burrard Inlet forms the northern boundary of Burnaby—Douglas, of my riding. It is, as I said, the terminus of the existing pipeline from Alberta's oil fields to the west coast. Kinder Morgan owns and operates that, and that facility is located in the riding.
Burnaby—Douglas is also home to the Chevron refinery, the only refinery on Canada's west coast.
Burnaby—Douglas used to be the home of a Shell refinery and Gulf refinery, as well. Those have since wound down. However, Shell and Petro-Canada still have distribution facilities in Burnaby—Douglas.
The oil and gas industry is a significant industry in my constituency. It would be wrong for me to ignore the fact that people are concerned about their jobs in this industry, in my riding. They do recognize that this industry does provide good, family-supporting union jobs, and that they produce and distribute products that we all still use. That raises the question of the job impact. It also raises the question of how we change our lifestyle and our dependence on fossil fuels.
We know, too, that products that are produced in Burnaby and that are piped to Burnaby are also shipped up the coast of British Columbia to coastal communities, to power vehicles, to actually power electricity production in some communities, so that this is still a necessary requirement for those communities and something that has to be maintained.
We also need to consider, though, how we change the fuel consumption habits in those communities, how we can help those communities change their dependence on fossil fuels and shift to alternative energy sources.
We also know that some of the products that come through the pipeline to Burnaby are shipped to the northwest United States for both further refining and distribution. Recently, products are being shipped to Asia, more oil and crude oil is being shipped to China, in particular, and the potential for raw bitumen exports to Asia also continues to come up.
There is concern about oil spills in my community. We have seen a major pipeline accident in July 2007, where oil spewed over a neighbourhood for almost half an hour while it could not be shut down after an excavator broke the Kinder Morgan pipeline. That has people in my constituency very concerned about the safety of pipelines, given that they go through residential neighbourhoods, given that they go through wilderness areas, as well, in British Columbia.
People in the riding have concerns about the navigation of supertankers and large oil tankers into Port Metro Vancouver and under the Iron Workers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge.
There is concern about pilots. There is concern about what happens if a ship loses power. There is concern about the clearance from the bottom of the harbour and what it would mean if a tanker ran aground. There is also concern about spill response capacity. We know that Burrard Clean Operations, the organization that has major responsibility in Port Metro Vancouver, has a 10,000 tonne cleanup capacity, but we also know that many of the tankers that come in and out of the harbour carry 110,000 tonnes of oil products. We also have heard recently that the Coast Guard's capacity to respond to an oil spill is also in question after a recent audit.
There are lots of questions that arise for people on the south coast as well, questions about risk management, questions about how we want to tie into the further development of the tar sands, and these are all issues that need to be addressed both on the north coast and--
Opposition Motion--West Coast Oil Tanker Traffic
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:45 p.m.
The Acting Speaker Denise Savoie
Questions and comments, the hon. member for Burnaby—New Westminster.
Opposition Motion--West Coast Oil Tanker Traffic
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:45 p.m.
Peter Julian Burnaby—New Westminster, BC
Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the member for Burnaby—Douglas for his comments on this important motion. The member is renowned as one of the strongest constituency members of Parliament in the country. He has a long history of serving the previous member of Parliament. In the last six and a half years he has been absolutely phenomenal in providing that constituency service and support in the constituency. He runs an operation that is really a template for all of us as members of Parliament.
The member hosted, as he mentioned earlier, that public meeting around the issue of this possible extension of monster tankers off the B.C. coast. I would like him to speak very specifically about what kind of feedback he had from the residents of Burnaby—Douglas at that meeting, how people feel in his riding. We heard earlier that the Conservatives were saying do not listen to British Columbians. They certainly do not seem to care about British Columbians' opinions on the softwood lumber sellout or the HST. I guess the question is are they going to listen to British Columbians on monster tankers? To what extent are people in his riding concerned about the Conservative plan to push monster tankers on the B.C. coast?
Opposition Motion--West Coast Oil Tanker Traffic
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:45 p.m.
Bill Siksay Burnaby—Douglas, BC
Madam Speaker, as the member knows because he was at that meeting, people are very concerned about the whole question of tanker traffic and oil tanker traffic on the coast. They are concerned from the point of view of what it means to the explosive and expanded development of the tar sands and the sustainability of that kind of oil development. But they are also concerned about what it means to transport bitumen, crude oil and other petroleum products through a pipeline across British Columbia through wilderness areas and through residential and urban areas. They have had the very dramatic experience of what results when there is an accident and accidents happen. Enbridge had a very serious pipeline accident in the American Midwest in the not too recent past. These are very serious issues and accidents can happen. Almost inevitably accidents happen, so people are concerned about the safety of the pipeline.
People are also concerned about what happens when that oil is transported out of Burrard Inlet. They have seen what happens when there is a spill in our local harbour in Burrard Inlet. They saw that after the pipeline accident where a lot of that oil that spewed from the pipeline when it was broken ended up in the harbour, in Burrard Inlet. They saw the damage that caused. They have seen smaller oil spills resulting from ordinary tanker traffic in and out of the harbour, which has caused problems for wildlife and problems for recreational use around the harbour area. They have seen the kinds of issues that arise and the kinds of problems that we have with managing the industry that we have now.
People are not taking a ridiculous position on this. They realize that they still use those products. They realize that jobs are part of all of this, so they know it is not necessarily an easy solution on the south coast where we demand these products, where we need these jobs, but they believe that there are alternatives to further expanding the tar sands, to further expanding and enabling the use of fossil fuels. They want a government that hears them on that. They do not have that now. They do not have a government that listens to them when it comes to their concerns, the overwhelming concerns of British Columbians, about tanker traffic on the north coast and their concerns about how that existing traffic is managed on the south coast.
They do not have a government that is willing to listen to them and to take action on those things. That is why we have brought this motion forward today, to say that we need a legislated ban on supertanker traffic on the north coast. That is something that needs to be written down so that it is taken into consideration so that the policy is in place and there is no backing away from it. The support for that position is so widespread in British Columbia, municipal politicians without dissent agree with that. Incredible organizations and coalitions of first nations have come together, almost unprecedented, to support a ban on this and to oppose the Enbridge pipeline through northern British Columbia.
Something is happening. The Conservatives had better listen to it or they are going to hear it from British Columbians.
Opposition Motion--West Coast Oil Tanker Traffic
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:50 p.m.
Joyce Murray Vancouver Quadra, BC
Madam Speaker, I am pleased to present some of my thoughts on the issue of the NDP's opposition day motion.
This is a commitment that has long been held by the Liberal Party of Canada. In fact, it is the heritage of Prime Minister Trudeau from back in 1972 that the Liberals are still supporting. We are very pleased that the NDP members are in support of this also.
I have been listening to the debate. That eight out of ten British Columbians feel very strongly that there should be a ban on supertanker traffic along the north coast is a very key point.
Let us look at what is behind the fact that British Columbians feel so strongly about this. I think it is simple and we can never lose sight of this context. That is, if there are 200-plus supertankers in that area and something goes wrong, and it seems that something always will, we cannot undo it. We can never reverse it. There is no turning back. The government can spend billions but we can never go back to the way it was. Nor can we ever reverse the public anger and the public sense of betrayal should there be an accident. That is the key point.
If the government, as it seems to be doing, is determined to support a project that would entail hundreds of crude oil supertankers in these vulnerable and dangerous waters and the worse should happen, the world will be changed forever. British Columbia's coastline will be changed forever and the world will have changed for the worst. That is the key issue. That is the crux of why so many British Columbians are clear that it is not worth that risk.
We mentioned that eight out of ten British Columbians support this ban. There was a poll by an independent polling agency that asked:
Since 1972, the Canadian federal government has banned oil tankers from transporting crude oil through B.C.'s inside passage to protect the coast from oil spills. Now, Ottawa is considering allowing oil tankers to transport crude oil through our coastal waters. In your opinion, should we ban or allow oil tanker traffic in B.C.'s inside coastal waters?
Over 80% of respondents said to ban it. Just 15% said to allow it. That is a very clear indication of the will of British Columbians.
As other members have pointed out, this is across the spectrum. Communities right across British Columbia support a ban. First nations support a band. In fact, 61 indigenous communities that have claimed territory in the Fraser Basin which actually represents about two-thirds of the land mass of British Columbia have just signed a declaration. They are concerned about the impact of tanker traffic and potential spills on the salmon's ocean migration routes and rightly so, because there is no going back should there be a major spill.
I have been in that area of British Columbia. I have had the privilege to work in inlets on the coast. I have had the privilege to be in boats and small planes, and to recreate in that area, as do many thousands of British Columbians and tourists. People come from outside our province and our country to experience what is considered to be an international jewel, the mid and north coast of British Columbia.
I have walked in the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary amid the grasses and the estuarial waters where grizzly bears come to feed on the returning salmon. To picture that area covered with black, tarry goo is unimaginable. Modelling of a spill from a tanker in the inland north Pacific coastal waters suggests that the spill could affect the ecology, the coastline and plants and animals that depend on it from the tip of Vancouver Island to well north of Prince Rupert, depending on the time of year and weather conditions.
Do we want to risk that? Does the government want to risk that? The government is speaking in favour of that, but the people of British Columbia and first nations are against it. The government has a choice either to listen or not to listen to the people of British Columbia.
It could risk changing the coastline of B.C. forever. These tankers are far larger than the Exxon Valdez. That oil spill happened over 20 years ago and the oil has not gone away. The impact on wildlife is ongoing. Some species have never recovered. We risk losing more wildlife should the government continue to push forward.
The Conservative government has adopted its usual tactic of sowing confusion through deceit in its response to questions that I have put forward since visiting the Gulf of Mexico last May. I have received an array of responses to my questions as to whether the government will continue to respect the ban on tanker traffic in the inland north coast waters as governments have done since 1972. The responses from the government have been designed to confuse this protection with the protection on the exterior coast of Haida Gwaii and with drilling moratoria. This was a separate moratorium.
The government is using its usual tactic to deceive and confuse. That is exactly why the Liberals have taken a stand. That is why in June, the Leader of the Opposition said that the Liberals would put a permanent ban in place to ensure the continued protection of this precious area.
Opposition Motion--West Coast Oil Tanker Traffic
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
The Acting Speaker Denise Savoie
The hon. member will have 12 minutes left for her comments after question period.
Special Olympics World Summer Games
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
LaVar Payne Medicine Hat, AB
Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to congratulate my constituent, Christine Sullivan, who will be competing in power lifting at the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece.
Christine is from my riding of Medicine Hat, and she and 108 other athletes are proudly representing Canada. In Greece they will promote the fundamental principles and values of the Olympics. These athletes show us that no matter what the obstacle, through hard work and dedication they can achieve athletic excellence. They are an inspiration to us all.
The 2010 Winter Olympics were a resounding success. There we saw the Olympic spirit as we watched our athletes uphold the values of friendship, respect and excellence.
I am certain that Christine and her fellow athletes will continue to make Canada proud. Sportsmanship is a commendable goal and these athletes are given the opportunity to be role models and teach our kids valuable lessons. The real winners in sports are those who know how to persevere and to behave with dignity.
Let us all unite behind the red and white jerseys of our Special Olympics athletes.
Mental Health
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Sukh Dhaliwal Newton—North Delta, BC
Madam Speaker, mental health is something that impacts all Canadians, either directly or indirectly.
Dr. Shimi Kang is a young woman who has spent many years as one of Canada's leading experts on youth and women's mental health and addictions.
She founded Canada's largest program for youth with mental health and substance use disorders, and created the youth, culture and mental health fund to address awareness and stigma in diverse and immigrant populations.
She is making a real difference by creating awareness across all communities.
I stand today to commend Dr. Kang for her work and wish her luck in her candidacy as one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40.
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Josée Beaudin Saint-Lambert, QC
Mr. Speaker, in 1992, the United Nations General Assembly declared December 3 to be the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 650 million people throughout the world have a mental or physical disability that affects their daily lives.
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities provides an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of how having a disability affects people's lives. This day also serves as an opportunity to increase awareness among the public and private sectors of the concrete benefits of integrating these individuals into our economic and social system. Today, the public and private sectors are encouraged to find innovative solutions to effective integration.
I would like to emphasize the importance and relevance of this day on which we all have the opportunity—together—to transform words into actions. We all have a role to play in making equal opportunity a reality, thus ensuring that people with disabilities are truly able to participate in our society.
Mining Industry
Statements By Members
December 2nd, 2010 / 2 p.m.
Niki Ashton Churchill, MB
Mr. Speaker, today I am standing on behalf of the people of my riding and the people of Manitoba who are saying that Vale's plan to close the smelter and the refinery in Thompson is unacceptable.
Many Manitobans are critical not only of Vale but of the federal government. How can this government justify giving Vale $1 billion to strip over 600 jobs from Manitoba and eliminate our major processing capacity?
Did the federal government know that Vale was planning to cut our jobs when it gave Vale our money? Did it even ask? Where were the Manitoba Conservative members of Parliament? Is it just a coincidence that all this took place during the debate over foreign takeovers and potash in Saskatchewan?
One thing is clear: Vale's announcement is an attack on the people of Manitoba. The government talks about job creation. How about working to keep our jobs?
The government must be at the table. It is time for the government to stop standing up for Vale and to start standing up for the people of Thompson and Manitoba.
Renfrew County District School Board
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Cheryl Gallant Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
Mr. Speaker, the students and teachers of Renfrew County District School Board are saying goodbye to Mr. Roy Reiche.
Roy served the students and parents of Renfrew County for 15 years as the elected trustee for Laurentian Valley and North Algona Wilberforce townships as well as being the board chairman for three terms.
Renfrew County's population is spread out in pockets over a wide geographical area. Our residents, particularly in the rural areas, face a number of challenges when it comes to the delivery of services. This fact is apparent when it comes to education and the need to provide the same opportunities for our students as students receive in areas where they have access to more resources.
Roy operated on the basis that one puts the students first. This has meant fighting for education dollars when necessary and using the resources one has in a responsible fashion. It is a lot of hard work with many tough decisions. For his time on the board of education, Roy will be remembered as a class act.
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- USA Table Tennis was well represented at the 2008 International Table Tennis Federation Challenge Cup in Helsingborg, Sweden by six athletes and two coaches. The ITTF Cadet Challenge is an event for cadet age athletes (under-15 years old) where the continents are represented by teams. The 2008 North American Table Tennis Championships held in July 2008 in Las Vegas, Nev. served as the qualifier for the North American continent. In that event, the United States qualified for six athletes and two coaching positions. Canada qualified two athletes. Canada was also represented at the ITTF Cadet Challenge by the team leader.
Representing North America in the 2008 International Table Tennis Federation Cadet Challenge in Helsingborg, Sweden were:
Cadet Girl's Team
Ariel Hsing (USA)
Lily Zhang (USA)
Sylvan Guo (USA)
Anne Deng (USA)
Emilia Gheorghe (USA)
Cadet Boy's Team
Justen Yao (USA)
Peter Li (USA)
Pierre-Luc Theriault (CAN)
Tian-Terry Zhang (CAN)
Keith Evans (USA)
Team Leader:
George Damianov (CAN)
The North American Cadet Team participated in a three day training camp in Helsingborg with the other participating teams prior to the start of the competition. The USA Table Tennis Cadet Girl's Team of Ariel Hsing, Lily Zhang, Sylvan Guo and Anne Deng finished fourth overall in the team competition. In the Cadet Girl's Doubles Hsing and Zhang placed ninth, while Guo and Deng finished 11th. In the Cadet Girl's Singles competition Hsing finished a U.S. best 10th place. Zhang was 13th, Deng 21st and Guo 22nd.
On the boy's side, the North American team finished the team event in sixth place overall. In the Cadet Boy's Doubles competition Peter Li of the USA teamed with Tian-Terry Zhang of Canada to place 12th, while Justen Yao (USA) and Pierre-Luc Theriault (CAN) placed 14th. In the Cadet Boy's Singles competition Li finished 19th and Yao placed 29th.
For complete and detailed results from the 2008 International Table Tennis Federation Cadet Challenge in Helsingborg, Sweden please visit


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I loved this piece. One of my favorite Einstein quotes is "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." We spend our entire lives searching for magic, for something law-defying, for amazement, for wonder. Something to give our lives, this existance, meaning. But the more we explore the vast reaches of space, and all its inhospitableness, the fact that human beings have somehow managed to survive – thrive even – on this rock spinning in the middle of the universe, isn't that really magic enough? When did that stop being enough? Some people see our quest to find other life in the universe as a way of justifying our existence or proving/disproving some cosmic riddle, or God itself. I see it differently. I think that our seeking will eventually lead us back to just how truly special we are as spiritual beings, as life forms, and this amazing place we call home. We are unique. We are amazing. We should not be here - not logically anyways. In that, we will find our own magic, the forgiveness we seek for being imperfect, and the tools to treat each other with respect warranted by a true miracle.
When I was growing up I wanted more than anything to be a theoretical physicist. I was raised in a small town in Wisconsin, with a population of only a few thousand. We had't much in the way of resources, but our small public library did have biographies of Einstein available, biographies that I read from cover to cover. My high school physics teacher had a small collection of more advanced scientific works he leant me repeatedly, along with books of post secondary mathematics that I felt, whether rightly or wrongly, I learned more from during summer breaks than I did the rest of my academic year. He also leant me a large Celestron reflector telescope. I'd take that telescope with me outside the bounds of our small town, sometimes in bitter frigid mid winter cold, and study collections of nebula stars and planets for hours and hours, carrying a small pocket picture book of astronomy in my pocket, a book I'd thumb through to locate whatever that telescope and my location made it possible for me to find. The most peaceful experiences I have ever had in my life occurred when out in those telescopic fields, often ending with me stretched out in a lawn chair beneath the halo of the Milky Way. Those experiences are forever tangled up in my mind with the words and ideas of Einstein, along with others of his kind. In that lawn chair I'd lose myself in a bottomless well of stars, thinking about Einstein's notions, about eternity, about Spinoza, about the billions of years behind and before me, about those billions and billions of stars. Like most young people I had my fair share of difficult adolescent and teen times. I'd deal with them often by taking out that telescope, mulling over what I'd read, making my troubles feel so infinitely small against the backdrop of that ancient sky. They'd almost always evaporate, and I'd feel so incredibly whole, so at peace with everything in my life. I eventually gave up my boyhood dream of being a theoretical physicist. Lately I've been struggling with just what I want to do with the rest of my life, deeply dissatisfied with the small ephemeral box I feel I've stepped into somehow. Listening to your program made me weep over that lost boyhood sense of cosmic meaning, of cosmic access that Einstein so beautifully describes, that I once thrived on so many years ago now, in those telescopic fields of mine.
I hope you have recaptured
I hope you have recaptured some of your early moments of peace and wholeness Scott.
Let me begin by complementing the entire staff on another wonderful program.
I have attached a photo of myself in front of a Pierre Bonnard painting at the Pompidou Museum in Paris. My wife had sent me there to meet up with my two sons(25 & 30) as a sixtieth birthday present. It was like being back in college. We stayed in a relative cheap hotel and I followed them around Paris for a week. One major stop on their itinerary was the Pompidou. Modern art was much more their thing than their father's. Upon entering the museum, we each headed off in a separate direction and I found myself before this, in my opinion, not-modern painting. And it is in this unlikely setting and posture that I experienced what Einstein referred to as an experience of the universe as a single significant whole. Such an experience that when I returned to Texas, I wrote a poem describing that moment so that I might revisit it in the future. And, as you will see, I am not a poet!
Below is a note I wrote to myself:
At the Musee Pompidou, a museum attended more for the boys than myself, I was drawn to a painting,
more impressionistic than modern, that animated an idea in which I held great interest. It was a self portrait by
Pierre Bonnard; a second rendering of a scene painted earlier in his life. The scene was of the artist, late in
life, seated at a table in his bathroom. The earlier painting was of a young man, handsome, strong of body,
and surrounded by expensive accoutrement and furnishings. Fine bottles of oils and perfumes covered the
table and a plethora of colorful fabrics and drapes in the background. The later painting was portrayed as
much more austere. The table with a few simple containers and the colorful fabrics replaced with a rather
plain and non-imposing wood panel. The artist himself now older, somewhat fragile, yet with a contented
posture. This later painting carried a harmonious air not present in the earlier work. The symbolism in these
two paintings is revealing and refreshing. The bright colors, the bravado, the omniscience of the earlier
painting portrays the neurosis of man. The psychic struggles that all humankind create and inherit through
living. The second painting is stripped of these colorful appendages and ascetic. A reduction of the ego and
the neuroses it has created. The revelation is that this "gift of life" is part of the natural cycle of life. Its arrival
may be accelerated or retarded by the manner in which one chooses to live but the gift is there for everyone.
It doesn't have to be earned, it is there. The Buddhist monk might find that peace long before the American
corporate mogul but both will find it! One may enjoy it for years while the other perhaps only moments. We
leave this world as we enter it, in peace, free of baggage. Pierre Bonnard's piece acted as a portal through
which this revelation was revealed. And that is the magic of art, all art.
I have had more than my fair share of those moments in my life but I have never been able to pursue them. They come to me as a gift from life. And if that is what Einstein, Democritus, the post-modern theologians, Jesus, Buddha, Meister Eckhart, the Sufi, the Kabbalist, and others have spoken of, then I am in agreement...it is the hub.
David Richardson
If you are at all interested in this subject you should read,
Einstein's Rabbi: A Tale of Science and the Soul
I have to take strong exception with Paul Davies and his statements how the "greeks and the jews" (or any religion) gave us our modern tradition and understanding of faith vs. reason. Faith encompasses that which can not be reasoned [as Einstein said!]. Likewise, reason is to not take something "on faith". Successful attempts to confuse these two concepts by religious majorities gave us the word atheist. However, I think it was Jonathan Miller who pointed out: "We dont have a word for those who don't believe in unicorns". Either way, it is a brilliant moment in human history when the greeks or Decartes help us to understand the fundamental difference between faith and reason, which allows civilization to become unshackled from unjustifiable ideas and leap forward. Whether its christians, zoroastrian, muslims, or jews, these groups hide these boundaries for good and bad reasons. None of this disputes or condemns a need and place for religious philosophy in our lives. However, by blurring these concepts your panelist particularly misses the point of today's show. Whether its a Priest, Rabbi, Aquinas or Maimonides, we will always be confronted with those who try alchemy to combine these truly diametrically opposed concepts. The greeks first glimpsed the differences between perceived and testable concepts about nature. Just look at the optical illusions crafted into their buildings.
Your program on Einstein does a grave disservice to those eager to gain an intellectually honest understanding of what one of our greatest thinkers opined about God. The very reference in your program description to Einstein�s �wisdom on � the mind of God� utterly violates what Einstein intended by the term �God�. Einstein would have argued that �the mind of God� is an oxymoron; he repeatedly, specifically, and emphatically rejected the concept of a God in possession of a �mind�. In your endeavor to make an ally of God to those �of faith� you are not alone. Believers have long sought support for their cosmological conceits from Einstein by mining his writings selectively for the odd comment that, taken out of context, suggests he shared their views. He did not. Einstein used the word �God� similarly to the way Spinoza did, simply as a convenient euphemism for the sum of natural laws. The Jewish leaders of the day excommunicated Spinoza for espousing that view, and from their standpoint they did so with very good reason. For Spinoza�s �God� bore very little resemblance to that of believers in and defenders of God as conceived in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Einstein arguably went even further than Spinoza. He flatly rejected any notion of God that entailed anything other than an equivalence to the natural laws of the universe � those known, those undiscovered yet, and even those that might prove unknowable. He specifically rejected any belief, frequently imputed to him of a God possessing a consciousness, a God who would hear or respond to prayers, who knew of or intervened in the events of daily life. (Some people characterize this as a �personal God�, and Einstein himself used that term. But the aspects of God he rejected went beyond the merely �personal�.) One gets the sense that, having used the word �God� euphemistically � and considering what he opined about the concept in the context of all that he wrote about it, not just on the basis of a few selectively extracted snippets, it�s absolutely clear that for him it was, indeed, euphemistic � he regretted it for the rest of his life. As Richard Dawkins quotes in The God Delusion: �It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God� If there�s is something in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.� And: �I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuine religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.� As these quotes make plain � and far from cherry-picking, I have cited just two of countless other similarly expressed views � �religious� and �God� for Einstein bear almost no relationship to what those terms mean to the traditionally religious or �spiritual� (another term so ill-defined it has virtually no meaning other than as a code word for �religious� used by people who implicitly feel that, being a bit more recondite, it�s similarly a bit more elevated.) In summary, anyone interested in presenting what Einstein really believed would refrain from even writing the phrase �Einstein�s wisdom on � the mind of God�.
Dear Ms. Tippet,
Your program on the beliefs of Albert Einstein was, to say the least, fascinating. Even better, the link you provided on your website containing Paul Tillich's response to one of Einstein's address interested me even more. Tillich has long been one of my favorite theologians and I think only he could have delivered such a respectful and thoughtful retort to one of the greatest intellects of all time.
Life is mysterious and wonderful. That's part of what I take away from what Einstein had said. Even better, we only understand a miniscule portion of what there is to know and there is always something more to learn. For me, that means every tomorrow has the promise of being even more fulfilling than life today.
Again, thanks for putting this on the air!
Robert Miller
Circle Pines, MN
AE's likely quip on learning of black holes - "i didn't see them coming"
(would be ironic since no light escapes from them)
I can say that thanks to Public Broadcasting I have learned about the age, size, and construction of the Universe, and this knowledge has helped me define my place in it. It's sad that for thousands of years people didn't have the tools that we have, and so had to invent 'gods' like Zeus, Thor, Neptune, Vulcan, etc. to explain things. I hope that people who still reject science even as they use its processes and discoveries every minute eventually come to their senses. I hope this happens before Republican energy and environmental policies ruin the planet.
I'd also like to compliment Krista Tippett's generosity of spirit - she has just released a book on religion and the cosmos and what does she do? She tells us about Einstein's book and Dyson's book! In an era of religious conflict and disrespect she brings a wonderful acceptance of religious differences, always high-minded, respectful, and with playfulness and humor to boot!
For me, life's a dash
to the final parenthesis:
(You're born, you grow, you ebb –
& OMG! it's curtains.)
Hypothetically to Albert E.,
universal relativity:
spacetime's bent, no end,
the climax an ellipsis. . .
For Bohr, the quantum
is mechanically uncertain:
Life's sentence is a run-on, a splice.
Maybe a fragment?
-- Robert E. Brown, Ph.D.
Professor, Communications Dept.
Salem State College; Salem, MA 02478
Adjunct professor, Harvard Extension School
March 1, 2010
Even though he was resistant to the "new physics" of Quantum Mechanics, Einstein nonetheless was instrumental in the its development. Newtonian Physicists and Orthodox Theologians could and would only venture to the edge of our respective dogmas, beyond which one dared not venture. While we stood comfortably before the veil, Quantum Mechanics had already lifted it and ventured beyond it. What they found was the certainty of uncertainty; the space between probability and possibility. There, oddly, can we find a meeting place between physics and metaphysics; a place where scientists and theologians can only stand in awe and wonder. This is Joseph Campbell's "ah" where, while observing the commonplace, we perceive a life beyond our limiterd understanding. It is a place where we discover consciousness and unity beyond the limits of time and space. But this consciousness and unity does not lead us to the vastness of God, but rather the dynamic yet inperceptible life of the subatomic.
Since I was a child I yearned to know the true nature of existence. The summer after I graduated from High School I went camping with some friends. The campground was on Lake Huron. After the campfire one night I choose to sleep on the beach because there were a
hundred times more stars then I had seen before in the city. While star watching I was treated to a spectacular meteor shower. I had the sense that I was invited to this show. During the night I fell in and out of sleep many times. The last time I woke up the Sun was peeking over the horizon. There was a beautiful gradient of morning sky to night sky. This time I felt was invited to join this dance by swimming in the Lake. Once in the water I was transformed. I felt my atoms were mixing with the atoms of the water and air. I was One with everything around me. I was overwhelmed with a feeling of peace and well being. This was a gift to me, an answer to my years of yearning to know.
Once more I asked the question, " What's it all about? ". The answer came to me almost as an echo to my question. Love.
As a person who is very grounded in science and has little knowledge of religion but much curiosity about what may be out there I must say I was excited to listen to Einstein's thoughts on God and religion. It seems that Einstein saw God as more of a concept of nature and everything that it encompasses, not as a supreme being set out to create man and control him. Einstein's belief that there "must be something deeply hidden behind everything" is truly an inspirational and motivating way to look at the world. Einstein's "longing to understand what God was thinking" was a driving force behind all of his work. He yearned to explain nature and God through mathematics. Much like the ancient Greeks, Einstein saw religion and science as two separate entities. We are told that "Einstein did not believe in a personal God" but rather "a rational world order." Einstein's views, thoughts and discoveries continue to influence science even to this day. This becomes evident when you listen to the speakers of this program. You can here in their voices and words the influence that Einstein has had in the lives/careers. I was pleasantly surprised by the beauty of the words and theories communicated in this program. Some may think of science as dry and boring, this broadcast reminds us of the elegance of nature that inspires science.
EINSTEIN'S COSMIC WHOLE: The
EINSTEIN'S COSMIC WHOLE: The word cosmic itself sounds out CAUSE MIC, and MIC is the word we use for mike, for the amplification of sound. The resonance in Einstein's seeking and seeing, a cosmic whole, is deeply contained in the words of the Jewish "mantra", Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. Now One, can refer, in this much repeated phrase, that has such history attached, being spoken in the depths of despair as well as in prayer, all the time, as all being ONE, meaning the entire universe of being, including all that lives and breathes within, and also what is animate AND inanimate. It is said that to explore inner space is as deeply profound as the exploration of outer space, and I know this is true.
What is very evident, from poetry, from all creative activity, from our own observations in walking and racing through life, is that it IS all, deeply ONE, and Wonderful, also aurally, of course ONE DER FULL.
Artists recreate that one ness in myriad ways. As trees limbs become dancers, shells and objects from the ocean are arranged as flowers, or chimes, and we can do anything magical with nature, and feel a deep resonant, YES! when we perceive that one ness, in new and vibrant ways The amazement of this, in the eyes of the beholder, is always the JOY of it, and then there is always, ALL WAYS, More...
We also use language in infinite creative ways, being creative with it. The recent New England Flower Show for example, had an item for gardeners called Foxglove. Fox Gloves. For hands. How clever! We do this constantly with words, but do we stop and ponder the alchemy of this? How is it we can do this at all? Words are infinite clay in our hands, and I say, we do potentialize what is within words. If we can do it with words, we WILL actualize.
This is a different perception of the universe, or one I have not encountered in print before, and it does bring me constantly to my knees, and in a constant encounter with the Ineffable.
Perhaps as I am saying, within words themselves, there is a story that will bring us all home, a universal story, that will make sense of all acts of creativity. I am seeing it. I am writing about it. Is this what Einstein perceived?
Universe: One Verse.
Look to the deep, brilliant, metaphoric connects in all of our lives, and do marvel. It's about MARVEL.
My late father was a student
My late father was a student at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1941-1944, during which time Professor Einstein was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The seminary students held a chapel service each morning--Dad told us Einstein often attended these morning services. Whether or not Einstein believed in a personal God, it is evident he sought to understand God in his own way.
I agree with you WHOLE
I agree with you WHOLE HEARTEDLY. Surprising to me, not many, almost none, of my acquaintances agree with me.


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Introduction to Animation Camp: For kids aged 9-12
There's a lot of roles involved in making an animated short – story artist, set designer and character animator to name a few. Here's your chance to learn what it takes to truly animate a movie. Working in a supportive team environment, you'll create models, landscapes, rigging and animated movements using the open-source software Blender (www.blender.org).
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Power Authority Unveils Plans for $5 Million Visitors Center
January 29, 2004
CANTON – The New York Power Authority Thursday unveiled plans for a new $5 million visitors center for its St. Lawrence-Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Project in Massena.
Addressing the St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce meeting here, Robert Hadler, the Power Authority's community relations manager at St. Lawrence-FDR, said that construction of the facility would begin this spring.
"Our trustees have approved the construction of this new facility and we expect to be going to bid very shortly," said Hadler. "We want to have shovels in the ground as soon as the weather permits and we have every expectation that we will cut the ribbon and open the center in time for the 2005 tourism season."
The former visitors center, located in the Barnhart Island end of the Robert Moses-Robert Saunders Power Dam, was a popular tourism stop for visitors to the North Country, hosting over 5 million visitors since it opened in 1959.
It was temporarily closed to the public immediately following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and permanently closed after a thorough security analysis of all Power Authority facilities.
"We announced then, in May 2002, that we would build a new visitors center at Hawkins Point," said Hadler. "This new site, facing the power dam across the project's tailrace, will provide a dramatic new vista for the thousands of people we expect to visit the new center. This will be a major addition to the tourist attractions in the St. Lawrence Valley."
Paul Haggett, executive director of the Massena Chamber of Commerce, said the announcement was a major plus for the tourism industry.
"Hawkins Point is an ideal site for this visitors center and I can hardly wait for the grand opening," said Haggett.
Karen St. Hilaire, executive director of the St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce, said, "We were disappointed when the Power Authority was forced to close the old visitors center, but today's announcement more than makes up for that disappointment. We're very much looking forward to opening day."
Sandy Cook, Town of Massena Supervisor, said, "Tourism is a very important part of our economy and this $5 million announcement is just the great news that we've been waiting for."
Ken MacDonnell, mayor of the Village of Massena, echoed those sentiments. "I know a lot of people, residents and visitors alike, have been disappointed since the center was closed, but this new facility will put a whole new face on our tourism activities."
Ernie LaBaff, president emeritus of the Aluminum, Brick and Glass Workers International Union, said, "This is a great way to restore a major tourist attraction while assuring the safety of this absolutely vital electricity production facility."
Hadler said the new building will incorporate all of the exhibits from the current visitors center, exhibits that were installed during a $1.5 million renovation and upgrade that was completed in July 2000.
A Watertown architectural contractor, Bernier Carr & Associates is working on a final design for a partial two-story building with the main floor dedicated to public displays, a theater and a community room. The basement will house staff offices, storage and mechanical and utility rooms.
The new center will also have a new outdoor area to host community events.
The site of the new center, Hawkins Point, will also be enhanced by improved boat access and parking. The improvements are included in the new 50-year license granted to the Power Authority last year by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The enhancements and the new construction will be implemented in concert with each other.


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Microsoft Office Error 30045-11 indicates that there is some issue with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook etc). In this article we have given step by step instructions to resolve the issue. The error 30045-11 generally occurs while installing, opening/launching, updating, uninstalling, removing or while sending/receiving emails.
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About the Author: Stephanie Cabell is a program analyst in the Bureau of Resource Management's Office of Strategic and Performance Planning.
For the past several years, the State Department has been engaged in efforts to integrate robust evaluation of programs as an integral part of our business. Spurred by the need for greater agency-wide use of performance and evaluation information to support strategic planning and budget processes, State has been cultivating tools to systematically incorporate evaluation research to document program accomplishments as well as ineffective practices. With the implementation of new evaluation policy, joint capacity building initiatives with USAID, annual conferences on program evaluation, and the establishment of a Community of Practice within the agency, the Department is laying the groundwork to strategically plan for, conduct, and integrate high-quality evaluations into the management and study of government programs.
This year's conference on program evaluation will be held June 7-8 and is entitled Diplomacy, Development, and Defense -- Evaluating Foreign Policy Success. The conference will bring together evaluation practitioners; program managers at State, USAID and the Department of Defense; other government agencies; academicians and students; representatives from international affairs and foreign embassies; non-governmental organizations; and the private sector. It represents a unique opportunity to gather with colleagues around a shared interest in exploring the role of evaluation in supporting and advancing successful defense, diplomacy and development initiatives.
You can participate! The conference's program committee invites presentation proposals that address effective evaluation methods in diplomacy, development, defense, or building evaluation capacity. More information about proposals is available here. The deadline for submission is February 18, 2011.
The 2010 conference on program evaluation, New Paradigms for Evaluating Diplomacy in the 21st Century, was an exciting opportunity for more than 200 professionals in international affairs to reflect on how foreign affairs agencies can make effective use of evaluation to understand progress towards global level impact. In her message to conferees, Secretary Clinton talked about the benefits of making rigorous program evaluation a central component of strategies to make the most effective use of our diplomatic and development tools and resources.
Last year's conference generated discussion on the growing importance of evaluation and measurement in the work of foreign affairs agencies, and highlighted such issues as interagency coordination among agencies with similar missions, the role of public diplomacy as a successful foreign affairs strategy, incentivizing evaluation to encourage the sharing of lessons learned, and creating ways to connect with the larger evaluation community. You can view proceedings from the 2010 conference here.
The Department used feedback from the 2010 conference to launch a Community of Practice to foster interchange and knowledge-sharing among State's growing community of evaluation practitioners. You can request more information about State's evaluation Community of Practice <a data-cke-saved-href="mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com?subject=From DipNote: Information Request on Community of Practice" href="mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com?subject=From DipNote: Information Request on Community of Practice" "="" title="here">here. We look forward to your joining us in June!
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