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Debates of May 7th, 2007
House of Commons Hansard #148 of the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was senators.
- Question Period
- Privilege
- Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
- Senate Appointment Consultations Act
- Hartland Firefighters
- St. John the Evangelist Catholic School
- World AIDS Orphans Day
- Northern Residents Tax Deduction
- Lloyd Crouse
- Meadow Lake Fire
- Jazz on the Ridge
- Diving Grand Prix in Montreal
- Réjean and Stéphanie Gignac
- Balmy Beach Community School
- Leeds—Grenville
- Great Gathering of Acadians
- Benoît Chevalier
- French Language Education
- National Mental Health Week
- Senate Tenure Legislation
- Superior Court of Quebec
- Afghanistan
- Saint-Hubert Airport
- Ministerial Expenses
- Afghanistan
- The Environment
- Afghanistan
- Ministerial Expenses
- Government Accountability
- International Trade
- Gasoline Prices
- Taxation
- Fisheries and Oceans
- The Environment
- British Columbia Flood Mitigation
- Government Programs
- Fisheries and Oceans
- Human Resources and Social Development
- Presence in Gallery
- Government Response to Petitions
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Points of Order
- Senate Appointment Consultations Act
- Criminal Code
The Environment
Oral Questions
May 7th, 2007 / 2:55 p.m.
John Godfrey Don Valley West, ON
Mr. Speaker, Treasury Board requires that before recommending any regulation, departments and agencies must produce a full cost benefit analysis.
The environment minister keeps making claims about his plan that a growing list of environmentalists, scientists and economists simply do not believe.
Will the finance minister confirm whether his department signed off on the costs and penalties associated with this eco-fraud, or is this whole sham simply a solo tour de farce on the part of the environment minister ?
The Environment
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Ottawa West—Nepean
John Baird Minister of the Environment
Mr. Speaker, that is ridiculous. Why does the member from Toronto not listen to the Liberal premier of New Brunswick?
I was reading on cbc.ca, which I read from time to time, and it says, "New Brunswick's Liberal premier has distanced himself from the federal Liberals' plan to cut greenhouse gases...". Shawn Graham said Wednesday that he opposes the aggressive "cap and trade" policy favoured by the federal Liberals. Why? It may have a negative impact on our province's economy.
Why are the federal Liberals against economic growth in New Brunswick?
British Columbia Flood Mitigation
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Ed Fast Abbotsford, BC
Mr. Speaker, communities in B.C.'s Fraser Valley are threatened by a large scale flood this spring. The potential for a crisis is very real due to last winter's massive snow pack which is beginning to melt. In fact, some residents of Abbotsford still remember the disastrous flood of 1948. If another flood occurs, damages will be significant. The Government of B.C. has asked for emergency assistance.
Would the Minister of Agriculture and the member of Parliament for Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon tell the House what the government is doing to address this urgent issue?
British Columbia Flood Mitigation
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon
Chuck Strahl Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board
Mr. Speaker, the hon. member joined me, the Prime Minister and other MPs touring the potential flood zone in B.C.'s Fraser River Valley on Thursday.
As we speak, the province of B.C. is working on the dykes and other structural projects along the Fraser, including in my riding of Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon, to help fight any flood waters that could come over the next number of weeks.
The government has listened to the needs of British Columbia. Following the tour, the Prime Minister announced $16.5 million to match the B.C. government's dollar for dollar in our flood mitigation efforts in British Columbia. We have announced another $4 million for dredging activities in the Fraser Valley to help both navigation and the flood problem.
We are getting it done in the Fraser Valley.
Government Programs
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Irene Mathyssen London—Fanshawe, ON
Mr. Speaker, the richest Canadians have increasingly enjoyed very good fortune while, at the same time, 40% of Ontario families, more than 600,000 households, have seen little or no gains in their incomes in 30 years despite working longer hours.
Conservative and Liberal governments have failed working Canadians. Families struggle just to make ends meet. We need pay equity. We need a national child care program and we need an end to child poverty. When will the government take real action?
Government Programs
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Jim Flaherty Minister of Finance
Mr. Speaker, as the member knows, in budget 2007, at long last, the government introduced the working income tax benefit for Canadians. This is a great step forward to help make things more equal for Canadians, to help Canadians get over the welfare wall and to join in the gainful employment that is available in Canada today in our strong economy.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand why the Liberals opposite plan to vote against the workers income tax benefit.
Government Programs
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Irene Mathyssen London—Fanshawe, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is not effective. Ordinary people are struggling to afford food. One time funding and tax tinkering does not solve long term hunger or homelessness.
Why does the government continue to give tax breaks to the rich and leave the poor to struggle every day? We have no national housing program, not enough child care spaces and women in Canada still only make 71¢ for every dollar a man earns.
We can afford to change it. Will the minister stop the big industry tax breaks and start thinking of ordinary Canadians?
Government Programs
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Medicine Hat
Monte Solberg Minister of Human Resources and Social Development
Mr. Speaker, the member mentioned ordinary Canadians and she mentioned child care.
I think the NDP have a lot of explaining to do. Not long ago, the member for Trinity—Spadina went to the government operations committee and moved a motion to remove the universal child care benefit, which provides $100 a month to 1.4 million families every month, something that helps all Canadians.
When will the NDP members explain why they are against helping all those people? That is a shame.
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Scott Simms Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor, NL
Mr. Speaker, the northeast coast of Newfoundland and Labrador is now experiencing the worst ice conditions in decades.
Unable to get their fishing gear in the water, hundreds of families have been without any income for about a month and, as a result, many are unable to provide for their families.
The minister has stated that he is monitoring the situation but time is running out. Something needs to be done and it needs to be done right now.
Will the minister stand in the House and announce an ice compensation package for fishermen on the northeast coast?
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
St. John's South—Mount Pearl
Newfoundland & Labrador
Loyola Hearn Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is right. The northeast coast of Newfoundland has experienced the worst ice we have seen in probably 30 years. It was evident by the number of sealing vessels trapped over the last few weeks.
We have had discussions with various ministers who would be involved in such a program. We are aware of it. Yesterday, I spoke to the president of the union and we had a discussion on possibilities.
We are monitoring the situation and, if help is needed, help will be provided.
Human Resources and Social Development
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Fabian Manning Avalon, NL
Mr. Speaker, lately I have noticed a disturbing trend among the members of the opposition. Rather than letting the facts get in the way of a good accusation, they are taking allegations as truth.
In just one more example, last week the member for Brampton—Springdale accused the government of not acting for the homeless in this country.
Would the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development help the Liberals' research department with the facts on this issue?
Human Resources and Social Development
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Medicine Hat
Monte Solberg Minister of Human Resources and Social Development
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Avalon for recently announcing $1.4 million in new funding under the homeless partnering strategy for the Salvation Army Wiseman's Centre in St. John's.
The homeless partnering strategy works with all levels of government and not for profit to find local solutions to local problems. That is part of over $2 billion a year we provide to the provinces for not for profit housing and homelessness.
We are getting the job done where the Liberals really failed.
Presence in Gallery
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
I would like to draw to the attention of hon. members the presence in the gallery of His Excellency Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
Presence in Gallery
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Some hon. members
Hear, hear!
Government Response to Petitions
Routine Proceedings
3 p.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre
Tom Lukiwski Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to 10 petitions.


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You've probably heard of the effort to ask people to stop using bottled water because of the environmental damage the used bottles create. What you maybe didn't know is how many Catholic groups have joined the fight. Details are in the current edition of the National Catholic Reporter, which also offers a sidebar on how we got to the point where bottled water is everywhere.
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Friday, September 6, 2013
AgustaWestland Inks Sino-US Deal for Chinese Distribution
Agreement includes the purchase of 20 helicopters made up of AW189, AW139, AW169, GrandNew and AW119Ke variants.
AgustaWestland has reached a distributorship agreement at the China Helicopter International Exhibition, making Sino-US its non-exclusive distributor of civil helicopters in China. The agreement excludes sales of helicopters in Hong Kong and Macau, and includes orders for 20 helicopters valued at $223 million. The two companies signed a preliminary agreement for the helicopter order at the Paris Air Show in June 2013, which consists of AW119Ke single engine, GrandNew light twin, AW169, AW139 and AW189 helicopters.
Display at the China Helicopter Show. Photos courtesy AgustaWestland
Sino-US, a Shanghai Zenisun Investment Group subsidiary, will look to introduce the new generation of AgustaWestland helicopters into the Chinese civil helicopter market, a market that AgustaWestland's senior vice president, Emilio Dalmasso calls "increasingly important." Both companies are pursuing a variety of mission requirements, including VIP transport duties.
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Court rules attorney fees not mandatory
The Columbus Dispatch - February 24, 2014 03:46 PM
Open-government advocates are disturbed by a public-records ruling handed down by the Ohio Supreme Court last week.
The justices voted 6-1 to uphold a ruling against a South Euclid woman who was denied recovery of attorney fees in a case where the city did not turn over records she had sought until she went to court.
The woman maintained she was entitled to mandatory reimbursement of her legal fees. The court majority disagreed, ruling that a 2007 change in state law made payment of a plaintiff's attorney fees mandatory only if a court ordered the production of records.
After ignoring the woman's records request for two months, South Euclid finally turned over the records a couple of days after she filed a complaint in court.
Justice Sharon L. Kennedy was the lone dissenter. "If no fees could be awarded unless the court had ordered a party to produce records, it would allow a public office to sit on a public-records request until a case was filed and then turn over the records before the court had a chance to issue an order," she wrote.
Dennis Hetzel, executive director of the Ohio Newspaper Association, said: "Unlike many other states, Ohio citizens have few options other than going to court if their requests are rebuffed.
"Public-records cases aren't typical lawsuits. The relief you want is the record, not money, and you shouldn't have to be wealthy to fight City Hall. In this decision, the court has made it much more difficult to recover attorney fees."
The court ruled that the woman was entitled to a recovery of damages. Ohio law caps public-records damages at $100 a day and a maximum of $1,000.


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Use of antidepressants in the second trimester is associated with reduced pregnancy duration, and third trimester antidepressant use with infant convulsions
- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Correspondence to: Dr Jennifer L Payne
Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 550 N. Broadway, Suite 305, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; jpayne5{at}jhmi.edu
Commentary on:
Implications for practice and research
Second trimester exposure to antidepressants was associated with preterm birth.
Third trimester exposure was associated with infant convulsions.
The absolute risk for both outcomes is extremely low and most infants will not have these complications.
Decisions about whether to use antidepressants during pregnancy should include the severity of the mother's psychiatric illness.
Large studies that include severity of the mother's illness need to be conducted.
Approximately 10–20% of women will meet the criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) during their lifetime, including during pregnancy.1 Rates of antidepressant exposure …


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Sopra (Paris:SOP) announces the proposed acquisition of HR Access Service Line, currently owned by IBM France, through its subsidiary Sopra HR Software. This acquisition would increase significantly the pace at which Sopra is deploying its strategy for human resources solutions.
IBM is a recognised market player in the development of HR Access software providing integration services, maintenance and outsourcing solutions for payroll and human resources administration. Its suite of offerings in this area caters to clients of all sizes and across all industries, covering the HR Access product life cycle from end to end.
For Sopra, this proposed acquisition, would further the strategic plan which targets a strong presence in software solutions and associated services. It would bring the Group closer to clients, enhance its solutions-oriented approach and provide recognised expertise on the human resources market. The
HR Access Service Line would join Sopra HR Software in making Sopra's Human Resources solutions a market standard.
Financial disclosures
The acquisition would take the form of a partial transfer of business (cession partielle de fonds de commerce). The acquisition price has not been made public.
The proposal has been approved by Sopra's Board of Directors. The acquisition, subject to the usual conditions precedent including consultation with employee-representative bodies, is expected to be finalised in July 2014.
The annual pro forma revenue of Sopra's Human Resources solutions would be approximately €150m in 2014.
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Beer Festival Tee-Shirts now on sale at Minehead's Buffer Stop Shop
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The official tee-shirts for this years CAMRA Beer Festival have been produced and are now on sale at Minehead Station shop priced £10.00.
The shirts are black with a small Festival logo on the left breast which features a Bagnall Tank engine to mark the 35th Anniversary of the re-opening of the WSR. The back has a large Moor Brewery logo on it including the brewers "Drink Moor Beer slogan. Moor is this years main sponsor of the Festival.
Please ring 01643 700387 if you wish to buy one of the shirts by mail order.
The Festival itself will also feature a very limited bottle-conditioned beer which will be sold at the Festival Sales Stand. It will be brewed specially by the Draycott Brewery (who also supply beers sold through the shop at


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Will the Mormon Church's racial history be a problem for Mitt Romney?
(RNS) Until 1978, African-Americans were denied full membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has refused to say whether he thinks his church's racial policies before then were misguided. Daniel Burke explores Mormons' troubled history with race.


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*-*-* Editor's note: Dr. Belyayeva's review of MacWhinney's _The Emergence of Language_ which appeared in LINGUIST issue 10.928 was inadvertently cropped short. What follows is the complete review. *-*-* MacWhinney, B. (Ed.). (1999). The Emergence of Language. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. Mahwah, NJ. 500 pages. Reviewed by Dina Belyayeva Synopsis: This book is the first comprehensive collection of papers that promote an emergentist approach to language acquisition. Emergentism is a conceptual framework that does not explicitly reject either nativist or empiricist position but rather takes a step further from the current plateau of the nature-nurture debate by showing how language emerges from interactions between biological and environmental processes. The 16 chapters of the book were initially presented at the 28th Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition, and offer contributions from a broad range of perspectives, such a connectionist, lexicalist, cognitive, functional and social-pragmatic. Overview and Critical Evaluation: The book is exceptionally well written which makes some highly specialized topics accessible to a much wider audience of linguists and psychologists interested in language acquisition issues. The first chapter (The Emergence of Language: A Conspiracy Theory - - Jeffrey L. Elman) offers an outline of a connectionist perspective on language developed by Elman and his colleagues in their 1996 book RETHINKING INNATENESS. Unlike nativism that defines innateness in terms of specific wiring at the level of representations, emergentism redefines innateness by offering a taxonomy of levels: representational, architectural and chronotopic (responsible for timing). An innate behavior, therefore, is a result of interactions between processes that modify environmental input at each of these levels. Elman uses computer simulations to demonstrate how non-domain-specific processing constraints result in domain- specific behavior. Although he purposefully draws all the attention to a single level (chronotopic), more elaboration on how levels interact (particularly Table 1.1.) is needed for readers to appreciate the proposed taxonomy. Elizabeth Bates and Judith C. Goodman (Chapter 2 - On the Emergence of Grammar from the Lexicon) take on the debate about domain- specificity of language by offering a unified lexicalist approach to grammar acquisition and processing. In this chapter they pursue two objectives: to demonstrate (1) that grammar and lexicon are acquired by the same mental-neural mechanisms, and (2) that these mechanisms are not unique to language. To support their position they offer a summary of longitudinal and cross-sectional data from normal children that reveals strong correlation between vocabulary size and grammar development. Their reevaluation of existing experimental and longitudinal studies dealing with atypical populations helps to rid of some stereotypes that were often used as evidence for grammar-specific neural wiring in the brain. A more moderate emergentist view on the role of the lexicon in grammar acquisition is offered by Adele E. Goldberg (Chapter 7 -- The Emergence of the Semantics of Argument Structure Constructions). According to this view, argument structure acquisition is an emergent property that derives from the processes of categorization and generalization of the meaningful input. Within this approach a particular role is assigned to light verbs that are characterized by more general semantics and greater accessibility in a wider variety of contexts. An interesting diachronic perspective on emergence of grammar is proposed in Chapter 3 (Generativity and Variation: The Notion 'Rule of Grammar' Revisited -- T. Givon). As a premise for the discussion Givon offers a review of philosophical antecedents to nativist and empiricist positions. A Cognitive- Adaptive Perspective that he later details takes an intermediate position that is more in line with the emergentist trend. A range of typological and variational data is presented to support for this middle-ground position. Some acronyms (pp 96-97) may be not familiar to a wider audience of readers and need to be explained. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 offer processing accounts that take into consideration statistical aspects of linguistic input. Chapter 4 (The Emergence of Grammaticality in Connectionist Networks - Joseph Allen & Mark S. Seidenberg) begins with a discussion of problems created by the competence-performance distinction adopted by the generative approach. According to this approach statistical aspects of linguistic input (e.g. impoverished input, negative evidence) are excluded as important factors in language learning. To demonstrate the contrary the authors chose the concept of grammaticality. A&S used a variant of a simple recurrent network to demonstrate that grammaticality judgments do not necessarily require access to principles of grammar, but may be based on statistical regularities of linguistic input. In Chapter 5 (Disambiguation and Grammar as Emergent Soft Constraints - Risto Miikkulainen & Marshall R. Mayberry, III) M&M present computer simulations to demonstrate how particular kinds of linguistics constraints (soft constraints) emerge from statistical regularities of word cooccurrence. Although their models successfully apply soft constraints by correlating new input with past contexts, it's not clear whether they will be able to resolve structural ambiguities that trigger garden-path processing. Marryellen C. MacDonald (Chapter 6 - Distributional Information in Language Comprehension, Production, and Acquisition: Three Puzzles and a Moral) uses analyses of verb modification ambiguity and heavy-NP shift to demonstrate how processing constraints emerge from distributional information that was made available to a speaker in prior comprehension and production events. The same system of emergent constraints is proposed to govern language acquisition. In conclusion she offers a review of studies that can develop this branch of language acquisition research. It is surprising though that she does not consider the Optimality Theory accounts as potential contributors to the field. Brian MacWhinney (Chapter 8 -The Emergence of Language from Embodiment) presents a unified theoretical framework of language organization and processing by using a cognitive ability of perspective-taking as a starting point for emergence of embodied meaning. Four perspectival systems (affordances; spatio-temporal reference frames; causal action chains; and social roles) are used as central organizing principles that provide common cognitive ground for many distinct language phenomena. MacWhinney outlines neurophysiological implications of the proposed hypothesis and clearly defines its limitations. Catherine E. Snow (Chapter 9 - Social Perspectives on the Emergence of Language) promotes a view according to which children's linguistics abilities emerge from interactions between children's social capacities and social- pragmatic conditions of their immediate environment. She introduces a new form of bootstrapping - - pragmatic precocity -- as the primary force that helps to take the language learning process off the ground. Chapters 10, 11, and 12 address issues of lexical acquisition and processing. The first chapter in the group (Children's Noun Learning: How General Learning Processes Make Specialized Learning Mechanisms - Linda B. Smith) presents results from a series of longitudinal studies that demonstrate how general mechanisms of associative and attentional learning create shape bias in learning of count noun terms. The conclusion that word learning emerges from general l eaning processes not special to language follows the "party line" of the emergentisit program outlined by Elman. The author, however, is not sufficiently explicit on the criteria that distinguishes between language-specific and general learning processes. The remark that attentional learning can be also achieved by non-linguistic perceptible cues, such as hand gestures, inadvertently entails that signing is a non-linguistic behavior. Chapter 11 (Emerging Cues for Early Word Learning - Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek & George Hollich) proposes the developmental lexical framework that captures mechanisms of early word learning. The authors adopt a hybrid emergentist position that attempts to offer a common ground for various approached to word learning, such as the constraints-based, social- pragmatic and domain-general. The principles that were largely borrowed from the constraints-based literature are said to evolve from basic into more complex as children become more sophisticated in their abilities to weight a variety of cues. A new method (The Interactive Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm) is offered to illustrate how children learn to incorporate these principles. The method does not require cumbersome eye tracking equipment to measure duration of infants' attentional states. Yet, it is not clear how this paradigm can be implemented to register whether a child actually follows experimenter's gaze. As a model, the proposed hierarchy of principles lacks internal structure that could be used to define mechanisms responsible for transitions between and within tiers. William Merriman (Chapter 12 - Competition, Attention, and Young Children's Lexical Processing) presents a model of children's lexical processing (CALLED) that ties many loose ends existing in the literature. The model's centerpiece is a device that uses associations between various dimensions (features, functions, exemplars) and contextual cues (objects, scenes, events) to acquire and access words. Words' retrieval can be affected by learned attentional responses to words. Factors affecting attention include recency and frequency effects, distinctiveness of features, and social, pragmatic and linguistic cues. What makes this model particularly attractive is that its competition-attention component can be used to construe lexical principles (e.g. Shape Bias and Mutual Exclusivity) as emergent properties. It also offers a rule that can predict which principles are most prominent at different points of lexical development. The remaining chapters address issues of phonological development. In Chapter 13 (Statistical Learning in Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Domains - Richard N. Aslin, Jenny R. Saffran & Elissa L. Newport) preferential listening technique was used to demonstrate infants' sensitivity to phonotactic regularities of artificial languages. The obvious discord between the experimental findings suggesting that general learning mechanisms are employed in language learning and concluding remarks that take a rather sharp turn towards nativism creates a rather awkward impression. If the purpose of the paper were to demonstrate that "unconstrained learning mechanisms will not, by themselves, correctly learn just those things that every human baby learns" , than the study should have been designed in a way that could generate supporting evidence. Chapter 14 (The Emergence of Phonology from the Interplay of Speech Comprehension and Production: A Distributed Connectionist Approach - David C. Plaut and Christopher T. Kello) and Chapter 15 (The Emergence of Faithfulness - Joseph Paul Stemberger & Barbara Handford Bernhardt) address the issue of phonological development from two different perspectives - connectionist and Optimality Theory (OT). P&K present a computer stimulation of the framework that captures computational aspects of phonological processing as the basis or emergent phonological representations. The stimulation provides an impressive research tool by being able to demonstrate how a model can learn from variable input and use the extracted knowledge to gradually achieve the target production level. S&B present their variant of OT, according to which constraints that guide children's phonological development are not innate domain- specific processes, but rather emergent principles sensitive to communicative and information processing needs. The final chapter (The Emergence of Language from Serial Order and Procedural Memory - Prahlad Gupta & Gary S. Dell) presents a connectionist account of sequential processing according to which language learning is a specific form of procedural memory functioning. Authors present behavioral data and computer simulations to demonstrate how phonological constraints emerge from learning contingencies of sequentially organized input. They use a speech error model to draw distinction between procedural and declarative memory. The proposed distinction is consistent with existing neuropsychological data. In addition to what was mentioned in the chapter, the presented account of lexical learning also has important implications for tip-of-the-tongue states and second language cquisition theories. (I have one remark regarding organization. It will be less confusing if experimental conditions are referred to by a single label: 'list- wide' <=> 'sequence- wide'). Reviewed by Dina Belyayeva. I graduated from the University of Florida and currently I am looking for a suitable position in New England. 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Assembly, Senate Propose Budget Increases For Education
Members of the New York state Senate and Assembly are calling for a massive reallocation of state funding toward education in the upcoming executive budget.
In its recently passed budget proposal, the Assembly announced a budget allocation of $21.1 billion in school aid, an increase of $834 million in formula aid over the 2012-13 school year. Likewise, the Senate's proposal would increase school aid by $415 million more than what was appropriated for education in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive budget proposal in January.
As part of the aid increase, the proposals deal aggressively with the increasing of foundation aid and decreasing the gap elimination adjustment. A press release from the Assembly states that $208 million of the budget is included for foundation aid, $25 million for high tax aid and $100 million for the GEA.
According to state Assemblyman Andy Goodell, R-Chautauqua County, this is relatively good news for Chautauqua County.
"The good news for all Chautauqua County schools is both the Assembly and Senate version (of the budget) has a direct increase in local funding for schools," said Goodell. "When we eliminate the GEA, we restore financial aid to the schools. This is very beneficial for our schools because we generally get double the revenue based on the number of students. The increase in foundation aid is less helpful for us because that doesn't go to low-wealth schools as much, and the high tax aid does virtually nothing for Chautauqua (County)."
He added: "What I'm doing, in conjunction with Sen. (Cathy) Young, is moving more funding into GEA reduction and away from high tax aid – and the Senate's version also does that."
According to Sen. Young, R-Olean, the Senate has proposed redirecting money from other areas of the state budget to fund these changes.
"In the Senate, we have prioritized education and school aid funding, and we wanted to build on the governor's budget," said Young. "We are willing to reallocate fiscal stabilization money to reduce the GEA, and that would benefit every one of my schools. We've also proposed totally eliminating the GEA in three years. This is something we're going to work for to get positive results. Competitive grants don't work well in upstate districts, and we want to see the money flow (into basic funding)."
In the governor's budget proposal, Cuomo called for $203 million to be placed into the state's fiscal stabilization fund. This money was to be used at the governor's discretion to help districts that were struggling to meet their operating costs, such as rising pension rates.
Additionally, the competitive grant recommendations made by the governor's Education Reform Commission received $75 million. The recommended initiatives included grants for the implementation of full-day kindergarten, an extended school day or year, community school programs, early college high school programs and bonuses for high-performing math and science teachers. Recently, the Citizens Budget Commission reported that less than 10 percent of the state's nearly 700 school districts applied for these grants, which would ultimately benefit only 3.6 percent of the state's students.
According to Goodell, these were the budget areas in which the Assembly chose to make revisions. Goodell said that the majority of the money in the fiscal stabilization fund was reallocated toward basic educational funding, while $35 million of the $75 million appropriated for the Education Reform Commission's grant proposals were redirected to general aid.
"If these changes occur, state aid for Chautauqua County schools will be exceeding the rate of inflation this year," said Goodell. "Every school district in the county will see increases in state aid, which would have gone up by $6.39 million – that's just under 3 percent. We have not made up for all the cuts that were implemented when the state first ran into real fiscal problems, but we're making substantial progress."
Both the Assembly and Senate budgets also included additional funding for SUNY and CUNY colleges. The plans include an additional $150 per full-time equivalent student, which raises the total community college base aid to $2,422 per FTEs.
This increase is an attempt to restore community college aid to 2008-09 funding levels which, according to Sen. Young, would impact state education on a grand scale.
"Our community colleges are so significant to our education system," said Young. "And they provide high quality education at a very reasonable cost – they've been a tremendous asset."
Goodell pointed out the benefits that this would have on Jamestown Community College students.
"The $150 in additional aid per student because it helps keep JCC affordable while providing a high quality education," he said. "For many of our local residents, JCC is a tremendous opportunity to obtain college credits that are recognized in some of the finest four-year colleges in the nation and that extra $150 (per student) helps ensure that the JCC experience is both affordable and high quality."
Now that the budget proposals have been passed, the Assembly and Senate will hold budget conference committees to reach a single overall budget agreement. Currently, they are on track to to pass the earliest state budget in recent memory.
"Both houses are pretty close in many areas of the budget, and education is a high priority, so I feel confident that we can work out any differences we have," said Young. "Hopefully, we'll get the budget passed by March 21."


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The production director of Bethesda Game Studios said in a blog post that Microsoft Corp. should open up application programming interface (API) for Natal motion sensor to enable third-party and independent software developers to create video games-unrelated applications for the device.
"Seeing Natal in action, I was totally blown away by it. It seems wasted on games, really. Microsoft should open the Natal API up, like Apple does with the iPhone/iPad. Let anyone make a Natal 'app'. I bet someone makes a killer app that has nothing to do with gaming," said Ashley Cheng, the production director at Bethesda Game Studios, in a blog post.
So far Microsoft has not announced any plans to open up Natal or Xbox 360 APIs to independent developers due to the fact that it can neither control the quality of applications, nor receive royalties from such developers nor control its consoles. By contrast, Apple controls everything that is iPhone/iPod/iPad-related: it sells applications designed by third-parties itself, it ensures that applications comply with Apple's policies, it does not allow installation of anything it does not sell onto the devices, it does control usage of its products.
Although it is highly unlikely that Microsoft goes Apple way and opens up APIs in exchange for total control over its Xbox 360 systems, the software giant has said many times that Natal motion sensor can be used in applications beyond gaming. Quite natural usage model for Natal is its usage for controlling the Xbox Live experience instead of the remote. Another usage pattern could include Windows-based PCs for those, who dream about managing windows like in Minority Report movie.
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Skip to comments.Mediterranean diet good for diabetes, study shows
Posted on 02/06/2013 11:49:11 PM PST by neverdem
Diets lean on meat and rich in healthy fats like olive oil were most effective at promoting weight loss and lowering blood sugar among people with diabetes in a review of evidence from the last 10 years.
Benefits were also seen with diets low in carbohydrates, high in protein or low in simple sugars.
"If you look at different types of diets, these four can improve various aspects of diabetes control," lead author Dr. Olubukola Ajala, a diabetes specialist at Western Sussex Hospitals in the UK, told Reuters Health.
More than 24 million Americans have type 2 diabetes. People with the disease cannot store glucose in their cells effectively, and their blood sugar levels can go dangerously high. Lifestyle changes like weight loss and cutting calorie intake can improve blood sugar control and reduce the risk of complications from the disease, but it has not been clear which diet plans work best.
Ajala and her colleagues reviewed the results of 20 studies comparing the effect of seven popular diets on adults with type 2 diabetes. Mediterranean diets, low-carb diets, high-protein diets and low glycemic index diets - which rank foods by how quickly their carbs turn into glucose - all lowered participants' blood sugar.
After following the diet for at least six months, the people on a Mediterranean eating plan also lost an average of 4 pounds. No other diet had a significant impact on weight, according to the findings published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
"We were quite surprised by the Mediterranean diet in particular," Ajala said. "I would have thought that low-carb would have been the best for losing weight, but Mediterranean seems to be better."
A Mediterranean-style diet emphasizes fruits, vegetables and legumes, whole grains, fish, and using olive oil and herbs in place of...
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Conclusion: Low-carbohydrate, low-GI, Mediterranean, and high-protein diets are effective in improving various markers of cardiovascular risk in people with diabetes and should be considered in the overall strategy of diabetes management.
Thanks for the thread. I'll check this out tomorrow.
Um. Later today. :)
i try to eat a Mediterranean diet as much as possible... olive oil, red wine... colorful veggies... and protein—including meat...
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P.S. Check the link in comment# 1 about diet.
I am finding out walking on a treadmill 4-5 times a week for 25 minutes helps me more than any diet. I am Medicare age, my blood pressure and sugar levels also improve with that exercise routine.
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for me it's 80 percent what i eat and 20 percent exercise... at 47 years old, 5'5" i weighed 125 lbs last summer... not bad... looked pretty good... but i decided that before i got any older i was going to have a flat tummy... no amount exercise was going to do that... to get it would depend on what i ate... i now weigh 113 lbs and have a very different body... i look much younger... clothes look really good on me...
i don't "diet" so to speak... i eat well 5 days a week and indulge 2 days a week... i have been exercising regularly for the last 5 years, mostly hitting the treadmill as well as other types of workouts... that is how i knew i would not get my flat tummy mainly by exercise... and i researched it too...
i guess it depends on what our goals are... i was already healthy with good bp and cholesterol when i weighed 125, so i guess you can say my goal was mostly about "looks." when i eat Mediterranean, i fill full taking in fewer calories... and the food is really good... tasty, healthy... even my skin is better... and i just love that i can wear anything and it looks good on me... call me vain! :)
You're vain! :)
I've found Paleo diet works well for me.
i agree... the one i kind of go by suggests things like bread dipped in olive oil and roasted garlic... i eat whole grain pasta and brown rice... couscous... polenta... etc...
I tried a low-carb diet once ( South Beach) and was extremely constipated, even with the healthy, high-fiber foods included. When I relented and ate some carbs - a muffin - I immediately got relief.
Anyone know why?
I tried a low-carb diet once ( South Beach) and was extremely constipated, even with the healthy, high-fiber foods included. When I relented and ate some carbs - a muffin - I immediately got relief.
Anyone know why?
I tried a low-carb diet once ( South Beach) and was extremely constipated, even with the healthy, high-fiber foods included. When I relented and ate some carbs - a muffin - I immediately got relief.
Anyone know why?
... and exercise.
I know that if you have a high fiber diet, you should be drinking lots of water. As to the muffin "moving things along" I'm not sure. Personally I believe moderation and variety are the way to go. It helps achieve a balanced diet, and you don't get tired of the same foods and quit.
P.S. I like the triple poop post...
i've never tried a "low-carb" diet... i really have never dieted... i do what i think i can maintain... i love pasta, not too big on bread nor flour tortillas--they're good but i don't have to have them... i like rice--all kinds... but i prefer brown... it keeps me regular and my stomach "flat."
my regular indulgences are fried tortilla chips (which i fry myself) with salsa and my own homemade guacamole (spicy and very good)--the salsa and guacamole are not indulgences... they are quite "Mediteranean." and i love a good cheeseburger... and my own chicken tacos--and it's only the fried tortilla shell that doesn't fit the Mediterranean lifestyle...
i've never tried a "low-carb" diet... i really have never dieted... i do what i think i can maintain... i love pasta, not too big on bread nor flour tortillas--they're good but i don't have to have them... i like rice--all kinds... but i prefer brown... it keeps me regular and my stomach "flat."
my regular indulgences are fried tortilla chips (which i fry myself) with salsa and my own homemade guacamole (spicy and very good)--the salsa and guacamole are not indulgences... they are quite "Mediteranean." and i love a good cheeseburger... and my own chicken tacos--and it's only the fried tortilla shell that doesn't fit the Mediterranean lifestyle...
This the Mediterranean pyramid with all the carbs at the bottom?
Cure the disease!
I was surprised to learn how nutrients affect regularity. Maybe whatever you substituted for the carbs contributed to the constipation. Fiber will make you move. I also noticed that high ratios of meat can cause some constipation. Some report that magnesium will make things happen.
It might make sense to get some blood work done with an analysis by someone who pays attention to the alphabet levels, etc. It seems the older bodies benefit from nutritional calibration.
I am on the isagenix program
I have lost 20 pounds in 15 days
been on it 3 weks and am putting on lean muscle again, too
I hope to lose 100 pounds in the next 4 months
I lost 3% OF MY BODYFAT ALREADY
I feel better than on any of these diets
while I reccomend a low carb diet, if you want to lose FAT, you need a cellular detox diet like ISAGENIX, and I can set you up :)
It aint cheap, but it works, it uses un-denatured protein from beef that are grass fed, not corn fed, so, no growth hormones or biogenetically engineered foods
and I mean it :)
go to youtube, search for isagenix and blood
yep..... it actually works.
Other numbers also improve
The devil is in the details in these kind of studies. What raises red flags for me is how little weight was lost on the low carb diets. This suggests they didn't really study low carb diets but rather "lowered" carb ones.
Also fruits are very high carb but they're not all alike. What exactly were the carb loads of the various diets? The abstract isn't all that revealing. Hopefully the full study becomes public soon.
My experience is cease bread and potatoes and sugary stuff....... that will do the job.
That is considered by me to be "reduced"
My DIL went on rigid no carb diet for several months and experienced very dramatic weight loss. For me, the reduced program produces results.
The American way is to always go to extremes. My experiece is the extreme is not really necessary
What kind of healthy, high fiber foods did you eat on South Beach?
You should be filling your plate with veggies. Over time your system will adjust and a muffin won't be necessary. Stay away from cheese and any low carb "franken foods" - processed, packaged convenience products that claim to be low carb. Don't be stingy with the good fats, either. And flax seeds are your friends.
You might want to switch to Atkins or do some reading on a higher fat, low carb diet. There's plenty of evidence that this is a healthy, effective diet. Fat isn't bad for you. Carbs are when eaten in excess.
Ive been low carbing it for almost twenty years, started with atkins, and now use the Hampton's version, designed by a former staff doctor of the Atkins group...
i exercise three tymes a weeks, about 12 mins a day, doing body weight exercises, dont need a gym....
i usually eat junk food, on the weekends, then 'back on the horse' on monday.
Sounds like you're a "Fuhrmaniac", i.e. a follower of Dr. Joel Fuhrman's regimen (it's not a "diet"), from the book "Eat to Live".
Long story short: I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes the week before Halloween. My doctor told me to get the book and follow it. After 3 months of (mostly) following the doctor's orders, the results are striking:
My HbA1c dropped from 11 to 4.6, average glucose 80, blood glucose 114. My cholesterol levels have dropped, total down to 150. More work to do on that front, but I'm on the right track. I was taking metformin (500 mg twice a day), but my doctor pulled me off the medication yesterday.
Regular exercise is equally as important. Fortunately where I live, there's a network of hiking/biking trails along the Trinity River.
My weight has dropped from 225 to 195, and I've been between 190-195 for the past two months. Another two months of steady exercise and healthy eating, and I'll meet my next goal: shedding my t-shirt when I take my son & grandson to the local aquatic center this summer.
The Eat to Live regimen is no diet. I've never eaten more food in my life. My largest meal is in the evening, consisting of a large salad with several ingredients, to include several tablespoons of garbanzo beans, plus a bag of steamed veggies. When I'm still a bit hungry after that, I'll have a bowl of berries, such as the 3-berry blend you can find everywhere. My beverage is water or iced tea (sugarless). I haven't had a carbonated soft drink in 3 1/2 months.
Dare I say it, but the bad news I got back in October was a blessing in disguise.
What kind of muffin?
I guess I'm fairly suspicious that a high carb diet like Mediterranean would show these results. There is great resistance to low carb diets mostly because of the red meat most people eat with it. PETA types and nutritionists wedded to the low fat concept seem to hate it.
Your body takes a while to adjust to the sudden absence of poisonous-to-humans-yet-vitamin-fortified wheat flour (brought to you by ADM and their wholly owned subsidiaries in the US Senate) that you have been wolfing down every day since that first bowl of Count Chocula back in the 70's. You need Vitamin E supplements, also, or you will develop strange, dark lumps that feel like swollen lymph nodes all over your body. Many people have this happen and unnecessarily give up the low-carb diet.
Pretty much any diet that focuses on fresh foods, protein, veggies, fruit, good fats, prepared at home is going to be good for you.
That's wonderful news! Congratulations!
I've read tons of books on the subject of high fat, low carb diets. Dr. Fuhrman is not a fan of animal proteins and fat. I am.
But, I'm a big fan of people choosing the right plan that works for them to get them healthy and happy. Whatever plan works that someone can stick with. That's what really matters.
Great job on your hard work!!
FWIH The secret is in the legs. The more muscle in your legs, the more regulated your sugar.
European veal is different from American veal I think. The difference is how the animal is treated.
Something about high-fiber, low-carb diets just don't agree with me.
Everything that was recommended on the meal plans: LOTS of raw veggies, eggs and whites, small amounts of lean meats (mostly chicken breast), olive oil, low fat cheeses, etc. It seems I was having salad with every meal. Phase I of the plan is pretty extreme on the carb limitations (no fruit, bread or pasta), but I had plenty of fiber going into me. And lots of water to wash it through. It's very similar to Atkins, except for the type of fat and meat you are allowed, and really takes off the weight - I lost 13 pounds in 2 weeks. And I don't care if "it was just water weight," weight is weight, and my knees thanked me.
But the constipation was uncomfortable. I heard this from other reviewers on-line as well.
The key is to curtail eating processed foods, period.
The "bad" kind made with processed white flour, sugar and fat/butter.
Kind of the opposite end of the spectrum from high-fiber.
I wonder where does tequila fit in this diet? In any event:
Don Julio anejo, good.
Cuervo anything, bad.
Most low-carbers mainly eat chicken and fish for their meat. Maybe I'll have red meat once a month, or so.
Is it closer to 4 or to 5? (Be honest) ;)
Whole fruits are best, not just the juice. And fruit with higher fiber (pears) helps save off the quick uptake of sugar that contributes to diabetes.
Importantly, diabetics should learn about and take several supplements that can help them fend off some of the worst aspects of the disease.
1) Vitamin B-1. Diabetics typically urinate a lot, which results in depletion of albumin. This is responsible for kidney damage. It is also hard on the heart.
However, taking a B multivitamin over an extended time may actually be harmful, so stick to B-1.
2) R-Alpha Lipoic Acid (R-ALA)(not just 'plain' ALA), has been shown to both limit diabetic peripheral neuropathy, but also to improve circulation in the extremities. This neuropathy and reduced circulation is responsible for most diabetic foot problems.
I think European veal smokes Davidoff fags.
tequila fits in the evening :)
my faves for sipping are Casa Noble Anejo (purple bottle), Clase Azul Reposado... and i want to try Don Elias Extra Anejo...
i like Tres Generaciones Anejo for sipping and shooting...
and for shooting, i like Corralejo Reposado (blue bottle), Don Julio Anejo, Patron Silver...
Jose Cuervo has a premium tequila i have not tried... i want to... it's supposed to be good--Jose Cuervo Reserva de la Familia... it's over 100 bucks a bottle... i have had Patron Platinum--really smooth--but very pricey...
No kidding!
Weird. Not you, of course. Just the constipation. I know it's not part of south beach, but coconut oil - a few TB (total) throughout the day seems to help a lot of people with that problem. You may want to give that a try.
It sounds like SB worked really well for you otherwise. Tweak it a bit and see what happens. Or, you could do what a lot of people have done: eat a bag of sugar free candy containing maltitol. You won't ever complain of constipation on a low carb diet again.
That makes sense to me. When figuring what is good for the body, think of how our ancestors evolved going back over a million years. Those genes get passed on. They survived by walking many miles everyday in search of food. Agriculture is only 15,000 years or old. Before that it was a nomadic life. They ate fruits, berries, root vegetables and whatever animal they could kill for food which had to be sporadic with no guns nor bows and arrows.
LMAO...When the treadmill was in the garage (I have a 4 car tandem garage..lots of space) I hated using it because it was cold there 7 months out of 12. Now I have it in my living room and I am using it much more. I can watch TV, listen to music and the 25 minutes goes fast. Got to go now...and get on the treadmill lol.
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Feline diabetes is most commonly associated with obesity and physical inactivity, which is why it is important for pet owners to keep an eye on their cat's weight and make sure they are getting the right amount of food and proper exercise to help ward off the disease. There are a number of clinical signs that could indicate your cat is developing diabetes, including an increase in appetite and thirst as well as increased urination and urinating in places other than the litter box, lethargy and an unkempt coat, the ASPCA reports.
Treatment can vary for diabetic cats from intensive in-hospital care for felines that are seriously ill to something as simple as oral medication, according to the ASPCA. Many cats benefit from the change to a diet high in protein and low in carbohydrates—this helps lower their blood sugar and address weight loss if they are overweight or obese. This type of diet is not right for every cat and it is important to work closely with your veterinarian to determine what food is best for your cat and whether your cat will require insulin therapy.
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Maya Lin talks about her "What is Missing?" project.
What I am really focused on is the diminishment [of] the quality of the planet itself."well as National Geographic have also contributed. We are a very visual species, but what if you didn't see it first but you heard it first. Again, if I can get you to look at something afresh — if I can get you to stop assuming you know what it is, maybe you will pay closer attention. It is about slowing you down, and sound is a way to get you very psychologically and personally connected to a place or a species. The videos blur out at first so you actually can't tell what you are looking at. The idea is we tease you in a bit and get you to operate almost on a visceral level.
You might not notice it until it's too late, and that I think is what we're coming up against."watching all these videos. And it is not just species, it is places, whether it is a mangrove forest or a specific place like the Hoh Rain Forest, which is one of our last pristine rain forests in the [U.S.]. And we were able to make more [videos] that focused on China, whether it is the soft-shelled turtle or sharks, focusing on shark fin soup, many of the animals that were used in traditional Chinese medicine. And again, it [made] people aware that these animals are on the brink of extinction and that just by not eating it you can begin to change [things].
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Enjoy the benefits of coconut milk in these six recipes.
The coconut milk you find in the refrigerated section of the grocery store is made from finely ground coconut meat liquified in water until it is a suspension, and then diluted with water to make it less fatty and more drinkable. The lighter coconut milk beverage is not a good substitute for the heavy, creamy canned coconut milk typically used in Thai cooking, says Alisa Fleming, chief editor of GoDairyFree.org and author of Go Dairy Free: The Guide and Cookbook. But it can substitute for dairy milk in pancakes, cake batters or light cream soups, she says.
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To the Journal editor:
First point is the EPA did not kill the Marquette County Road 595 project. Neither did the MDEQ. It died because it did not satisfy the legal environmental requirements.
But the really good news came from Dan Blondeau, KEMC spokesperson, when, after bemoaning the demise of the County Road 595 project, he told us, "Our focus now turns to existing trucking routes as we originally outlined in our mine permit application".
It took a while to locate that document, dated Feb. 14, 2006, but on page 21 we found the originally specified route, as follows:
East on Triple A road, 9 miles to County Road 510. East on County Road 510, approximately 3 miles to County Road 550; south on County Road 550 approximately 20 miles to a railhead in the vicinity of Marquette.
We have thus come full-circle, so to speak, back to the optimum haul road, the alternative route which was omitted from the recent list of alternatives.
It is the shortest, simplest, cheapest, least disruptive way to get that high-grade direct-shipping ore on its way to refinery and market and Michigan will not have the traffic problems, the maintenance or the tailings disposal problem on its hands for ever. Even the sulfur and the iron content are marketable!
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