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Animals who are bred and killed for their fur in China live in misery from birth to death. Chinchillas, foxes, minks, raccoons—and, yes, even dogs and cats—are jammed into crowded wire cages, and the close confinement and filthy conditions quickly lead to mental illness. As documented in our undercover video, fur farmers kill animals by bashing their heads in or breaking their necks while they are still conscious.
Animal protection laws are nonexistent in China, but PETA Asia is working overtime to change that. Whether by submitting recommendations for China's first-ever animal protection legislation, going undercover at fur farms, or exposing the hideous conditions for animals in Chinese zoos, PETA Asia is tirelessly on the front line for animals.
Please take a moment to write to the Chinese ambassador to the U.S., Zhang Yesui, and ask him to do everything in his power to put animal welfare on the agenda in his country. Share the video with family and friends, and remember: If we don't watch it, we can't stop it.
For more information on animal welfare in China, please check out PETA Asia's Web site.
Written by Jennifer O'Connor
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how dare you kill those poor animals for stupid fur that people will just throw away in a few months
i have seen so many videos like this, i sometimes wonder why the people videoing this do not do something, tape it and then go back and do somethin..to keep showing these and nothing is being done is not helping. these need to be shown on tv's, bill boards signs..anywhere where people buy fur products. i hate that most everything from our coffee cups to probably this computer are made in china, how do we get away with not supporting them..didja notice that not one animal made a noise, if they could talk, would they still bash their heads in and skin them alive, would you do this to a human, oh thats right, humans can yell, scream, and FIGHT BACK. i hope china meets a terrible end..like a catastophe that wipes them off the face of the earth..this is how sick i am,,but enough of the videoing,,DO SOMETHING for those who cannot speak
I believe it was Gandhi who said we will be judged by the way we treat our animals.
People wonder why animals (all animals) face extinction. Like seriously what makes us so evolutionarily important that we can do this to an animal? Can I get the Lat and Long of that place so I can go there and throw down? plz.
can you please play the whole video of the rabbit ?
OMGi cant belive they can do that to those animals their so cruel i cant belive it..what are they thinking they dont see all that pain ???
This is so sad and sick i eel so bad for those animals.They should be set free not tortured. They get hit,hurt,slaughtered and it makes you think what kind of soul,or person can do that to nature to make clothes?money? shame on then let the animals RIP <33
this is deplorable, have we, the human race, evolved to this?? Our depravity towards the animal kingdom & our war against nature cannot continue, its great that technology can be used to expose this barbaric vanity that humanity is enslaved to.
Well done all young veggies- I too stopped eating meat at 13 and haven`t looked back- over 20 years ago!! This video breaks my heart, I just think of my own furbabies and couldn`t imagine this happening to them. There is no need in this day and age to wear fur! Plain and simple. It isn`t glamorous – it is disgusting. I read that China labelled alot of raccoon fur as fake, so not even fake is safe now. PETA keep fighting for all fur babies in the world and everyone stay fur- free this winter!!
@milktray9999 There is nothing humane about killing other living things.
@milktray9999 Killing is never humane.
My friend sent me the link to this and i feel sick, this video has given me all the more right to stick to being a vegetarien all though it won't help all the animals, i still feel it's right. This needs to stop, the question is HOW do we stop it? Answer..we can't.
omg i cant belive they hurt those poor little animals like that. i thought they would of killed them humanly atleast. Some even saw there brothers being killed first. Feel like crying how can we stop this.
China is such a backward country – the cruelty and barbaric killing has to stop and be exposed!! I have stopped purchasing products manufactured in China. Boycott products manufactured in China!
Katherin I am 14 and I have also gone veg at an early age…I am so proud of you and how quickly you changed…good for you! 🙂 I know it can be hard at times but just keep going…it gets easier every day! 🙂 Animals do not deserve to suffer…I honestly don't know how people live with themselves…killing and abusing animals is completley barbaric. I hate people who are ignorant. "I KNOW YOU HATE ME": You are a sick individual…I just hope you eventualy gain some sense. The same for you Melissa…you don't know just how wrong you are. If someone so much as looks at an animal the wrong way I go after them…so far in my short lifetime I have contacted PETA and gotten friends and neighbors in trouble with the law…I have lost over 13 friends because I stand up for the innocent…they can think what they want…I know I did the right thing.
You're all heart Melissa, NOT!! Don't you know we're all connected. Your comment made me really sad. And you're wrong, because it IS A BIG DEAL.
this is terrible how could they do this to poor innocent animals, they feel pain just like us humans so why be treated differently. i will never buy.
I am sorry but I can not watch the video. After watching 5 seconds of ABC TV Four Corners horror show on Live Export, my well being has been permanently damaged. I instantly became vegan. There is so much cruelty in this world, I suffer so much desperately trying to do a positive change but i feel that I am beating my head into a brick wall. I don't believe in any imaginary god but i believe in few living gods. One of them is Lin White – Animals Australia.
though the video repulses me I cannot help but think about the animals we eat in western europe, some parts of the world wouldnt kill a cow, are we wrong? are they wrong? (personally, if I saw someone so much as look wrong at a cat I would throw em in the boot n bury em up on the moors!)
i hated the video but i hated even more melisa's comment Thats not the point i dont even care if i eat a hole cow(bad example srry). its how it was killed how it might suffer. if u watched the video u can see an already "meat" animal still alive
I don't get it why people still want to wear animal fur. animal fur is for prehistoric people before civilization. Now we have modern technology to have artificial fur.
My heartbeat has stop…………. its the hike of cruelty, are we really Humane?


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Debates of March 16th, 2010
House of Commons Hansard #10 of the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was quebec.
- Question Period
- Independent Adviser to Review National Security Information
- Sébastien's Law (Protecting the Public from Violent Young Offenders)
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Copyright Act
- Crimes Against Humanity
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Business of Supply
- 2010 Power Smart Manitoba Winter Games
- Crimes Against Humanity
- La Tribune Newspaper
- Infrastructure Funding
- Violence Awareness and Random Acts of Kindness Week
- Francophonie Week
- 2010 Winter Olympics
- Community Television
- Justice
- Kraft Hockeyville 2010
- Young Offenders
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- 2010 Paralympic Winter Games
- CTZoom Technologies
- 2010 Paralympic Winter Games
- The Budget
- Israel
- Afghanistan
- Health
- Tax Harmonization
- The Environment
- Food Safety
- Status of Women
- Justice
- Rights & Democracy
- International Aid
- Automotive Industry
- Telecommunications
- Automotive Industry
- Agriculture
- Telecommunication
- Status of Women
- Justice
- Environment Canada
- Israel
- Telecommunications
- Provincial transfers
- Environment Canada
- Telecommunications
- Presence in Gallery
- Business of Supply
- Criminal Code
Opposition Motion—Throne Speech and Budget
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:45 p.m.
André Bellavance Richmond—Arthabaska, QC
Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to rise to speak to this important motion from the Bloc Québécois, tabled this morning by the member for Joliette.
We note that the Speech from the Throne and the budget do not meet the needs of Quebec. We heard several speeches today both from members of the Bloc Québécois and members of the other opposition parties, outlining the deficiencies of the throne speech and budget.
When the members of the party in power cite a few quotes on a few points that may have seemed positive to some, it is always the same thing: one can never say that a budget is entirely bad, just as one can never say that a budget is entirely good. However, the Conservative Party has puts its blinders on and is pretending that everything is just fine. But that is far from the case.
Some have been forgotten in the throne speech and budget who desperately needed attention. When we rise in the House, it is not to talk about things we have pulled out of thin air. We consult people and we meet with them, and they are probably the same people that our colleagues from the Conservative Party meet with, but they do not necessarily hear the same things as we do concerning the demands made by certain groups.
Like my colleague from Compton—Stanstead who sits with me on the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, I think that we could have expected much more sweeping measures in the last budget to come to the assistance of the agricultural sector.
Even before tabling the previous budget, the minister had announced with great pomp and ceremony the setting up of a real program, AgriFlex. As its name implies, this was a program designed to be flexible in order to meet the needs of Quebec and the provinces. But the government had set a little trap.
When we read the budget and saw exactly what the AgriFlex program announced by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food contained, we realized that they had left out income support. And there is the rub. In the final analysis it appears they set up a program that is strictly window dressing. It was not at all what the agricultural sector had asked for.
So we always have to be careful. It is not because the government says it will do something that it will introduce a measure that truly meets the needs of people in a real and concrete way.
The government quoted someone as saying that this or that was great or wonderful. I, too, found some statements about agriculture. These ones demonstrate that neither the Speech from the Throne nor the budget respond to Quebec's agriculture needs.
In a press release most likely sent out the day after the budget, Quebec's farmers' union, the Union des producteurs agricoles, said:
Time will tell if the new budget contained anything useful for the agriculture sector. During Minister Flaherty's pre-budget consultations, the UPA had spoken with him about specific requests, which the federal budget has not currently addressed. Quebec's agriculture sector is disappointed.
They are cautious, and they have every reason to be. One only has to think about the AgriFlex program that I mentioned earlier to remember that you cannot count your chickens before they hatch.
This press release spoke specifically about private woodlots, which my colleague from Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques spoke of. The UPA stated:
The same goes for the lack of a registered silvicultural savings and investment plan for the 425,00 woodlot owners in Canada. There are 130,000 in Quebec and 35,000 of them are forestry producers. There is nothing in the budget about this. The automobile industry got help and the oil industry as well, but the hundreds of thousands of forestry producers who have endured years of crisis are still waiting...
The UPA is also disappointed that there was no follow-up to the request for funding it put forth in partnership with the Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to go ahead with development plans for various sectors of Quebec's agricultural production.
Pierre Lemieux, senior vice-president of UPA, was quoted in the press release, not the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture. I do not think that the latter would have had such sensible things to say about agriculture.
We cannot say that the government has satisfied all the requests, which were totally reasonable in this period of economic recovery, to help a sector that creates thousands and thousands of jobs and generates billions of dollars both in Quebec and in Canada.
The UPA fears cuts. The UPA has grave concerns about the intentions of the federal Minister of Finance who is looking to reduce program spending by $1.3 billion in order to balance the budget within the next five years. "It would be sad to see the agricultural sector take another hit", warns the union, which also pointed to the structured nature and the importance of agricultural investment, especially for regional economies.
A number of requests were made by the Union des producteurs agricoles and the various agricultural sectors in Quebec when the government launched its prebudget consultations. We do not rely on the government's prebudget consultations alone. We hit the ground to meet with people and talk to them about their concerns.
I had the honour of welcoming the hon. member for Hochelaga in my riding. We talked to people not only from the agricultural sector, but also from the community, business and municipal sectors. This is the same approach I used throughout Quebec with my colleague, the finance critic, in order to understand precisely what people wanted. Three recommendations from the agricultural sector had already been made to the federal government, and the government has not acted on them.
As I was saying earlier, there was a request for an AgriFlex program worthy of the name to allow Quebec to use money allocated to the AgriFlex program to finance its own income security programs.
A second recommendation had to do with improving the AgriRecovery program to have it cover losses on a specific basis in the short, medium and long terms and to allow the recovery of businesses affected by crises like the golden nematode crisis in Saint-Amable. My colleague from that riding and I have worked hard on that issue in order to get the government to listen to reason. The government completely abandoned potato farmers who were dealing with golden nematode a few years ago.
Finally, there was a recommendation on assistance for the meat sector. In the budget, monies were allocated to help slaughterhouses. That is not new money. The money will be taken from existing programs.
If we just look at what is written in the budget, we might think that there is good news. We have to give credit where credit is due. However, as I mentioned earlier, there is the matter of AgriFlex. We must read between the lines and know the exact details of this program to ensure that American producers and Quebec producers are placed on a level playing field. Quebec producers have to respect Canadian rules regarding specified risk materials. However, American producers do not, giving them the advantage. There is a difference of almost $32 per head, which means that, for one year, $24 million are needed to deal with this problem in Canada. An amount of money was allocated in the budget. We have to see whether the criteria will enable our slaughterhouses—especially the Levinoff-Colbex facility in Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover, which is very close to my riding—to access the program and help them to survive. It is a question of survival.
I will continue by sharing the reactions to the budget of others in the agriculture sector. Here is one from the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. This time, the Conservatives cannot accuse the evil sovereignists of speaking against the budget. The title is quite eloquent and telling: "Not much new for Canadian Agriculture in Federal Budget". That is the title. I will read from the press release. "Dubbed a 'Jobs and Growth Budget,' we had hoped the budget would show increased investment in the agri-food sector--a sector which was recognized in the Speech from the Throne as an industry that is the foundation for Canada's prosperity and supports thousands of communities, both rural and urban, and provides one out of every eight jobs in 2008—"
Laurent Pellerin, CFA president, said: "We had hoped to see some initiatives that would encourage and assist new entrants to provide the needed growth and increased stability within the sector."
These types of comments are an indication that the budget does not have unanimous approval of the agriculture sector. The CFA was also surprised.
Opposition Motion—Throne Speech and Budget
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
The Acting Speaker Denise Savoie
The hon. member will have five minutes for questions and comments after question period.
2010 Power Smart Manitoba Winter Games
Statements by Members
1:55 p.m.
Candice Bergen Portage—Lisgar, MB
Madam Speaker, this past week, the city of Portage la Prairie proudly hosted the 2010 Power Smart Manitoba Winter Games, opening its doors to 1,400 athletes, 960 volunteers, as well as coaches and spectators.
It was a tremendous opportunity for the city and municipality to showcase the just completed PCU Centre, a remarkable state of the art recreational facility.
The Manitoba games showed that the dedication and success of Canada's Olympic team is continuing to inspire young Manitoban athletes to follow in their footsteps.
I give special thanks to co-chairs, Ferdi Nelissen and Jim Malenchak, and their team of volunteers, people like Marion Switzer who was in charge of the food venue. She went the extra mile every day to make athletes feel welcome and well fed.
May the memory of the 2010 Manitoba Winter Games live on in the community and inspire young Manitobans to strive for excellence in all that they do.
Crimes Against Humanity
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Jim Karygiannis Scarborough—Agincourt, ON
Mr. Speaker, 22 years ago, in the early evening of March 16, 1988, seven or eight planes conducted up to 14 poisonous gas bombing runs on the Kurdish town of Halabja in northern Iraq.
The attack, which was ordered by Sadam Hussein, lasted five hours and when it was over 5,000 people were dead, almost 10,000 were injured and, since then, thousands have died from complications.
In 2009, I had the opportunity to visit the predominantly Kurdish region of northern Iraq, referred to as Iraqi Kurdistan. While there, I visited the town of Halabja and the Monument of Halabja Martyrs, which is staffed exclusively by survivors of the gas attack. I was struck by the strength of the survivors and their resilience.
Today, I asked the House for unanimous support of a motion recognizing this attack and other atrocities against the Kurdish people as a crime against humanity.
On behalf of the Canadian Kurdish community, I want to thank all members of the House for their support.
La Tribune Newspaper
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
France Bonsant Compton—Stanstead, QC
Madam Speaker, La Tribune, which was founded by Jacob Nicol in 1910, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. That is 100 years of quality articles, faithfully covering the news in the Eastern Townships and Centre-du-Québec region.
To celebrate this occasion, management of the newspaper organized a major event at the Université de Sherbrooke cultural centre with 1,300 invited guests. I would like to congratulate Maurice Cloutier, editor, Louise Boisvert, president and editor, all of the journalists who were named ambassadors of the Mérite estrien, as well as everyone who helped make this evening a historic event.
The secret of La Tribune is that it has always operated with the same passion. The journalists and employees care about developing the community and about the well-being of the people who live there.
Happy anniversary to La Tribune. I wish it continued success.
Infrastructure Funding
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Irene Mathyssen London—Fanshawe, ON
Mr. Speaker, according to representatives from the non-profit sector, only one in twelve non-profit infrastructure stimulus applications were approved by Infrastructure Canada.
In London, two very worthy projects, the Spriet Centre for the safe storage and display of artifacts at Fanshawe Pioneer Village and the Arctic Gallery Project at the Children's Museum of London, which works to educate our children about Canada's north, were among those denied any federal funding.
Both of those organizations have done extensive fundraising and received funds from the municipality but they cannot complete their projects without federal help. Both projects are shovel ready.
These initiatives would support existing jobs, create short term jobs through infrastructure upgrades and establish long-term opportunities by boosting London's tourism sector.
Museums and science centres are asking the government to establish a $200 million dedicated fund to keep these facilities up to date and to educate and inspire our children.
I support Canada's museums and science centres and I call upon the government to do the same.
Violence Awareness and Random Acts of Kindness Week
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Daryl Kramp Prince Edward—Hastings, ON
Mr. Speaker, sometimes, as we all know, things can get a tad contentious here in the House of Commons during question period as we battle and debate in wars of words over bills and partisan disagreements.
So, it is always refreshing to see a community come together to put aside personal differences and partisanship to reach out to help other folks in their communities.
Last week in Belleville, the community participated in Violence Awareness and Random Acts of Kindness Week. Everyone wore blue ribbons and went out of their way to take a little extra time to help their fellow citizens.
I wish to extend congratulations to the founders and the organizers of this event, the kindness crew and to everyone in Belleville and area who participated. I am sure many lives were enriched and I hope everyone will remember to carry the sentiments of kindness to others with them every week of the year.
The poet, William Woodsworth, said, "The best portion of a good man's life are his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love".
I ask all my colleagues to remember to show a little kindness.
Francophonie Week
Statements by Members
March 16th, 2010 / 2:05 p.m.
Lise Zarac LaSalle—Émard, QC
Mr. Speaker, tomorrow night, March 17, the Club Richelieu LaSalle will celebrate our French language and culture with its presentation of the 2010 night of the Francophonie. This is, after all, the de la Francophonie Week.
Once again, the organizers will crown la Francophonie's Richelieu LaSalle personality of the year. The fourth person to receive this award will be singer Marie-Élaine Thibert, one of the discoveries from Star Académie's television first season.
This talented artist has had successful albums since her arrival on the scene in 2003. She rubs shoulders with the who's-who in Quebec music. Marie-Élaine Thibert is involved with the Children's Wish Foundation as a sponsor and spokesperson. I, along with my constituents in LaSalle—Émard, would like to offer her our most sincere congratulations for this well-deserved honour.
2010 Winter Olympics
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Rick Casson Lethbridge, AB
Mr. Speaker, for two weeks in February, my wife and I had the incredible experience of being volunteers at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Together with our friends, Fran and Roger Hohm, we travelled from southern Alberta to Vancouver to help out at the curling venue.
Our new friends, Ken and Hiroko Yoshihara, took us under their wing and made our stay in their home very special.
The curling competition, under the leadership of sports manager Neil Houston and his team of Kyla, Laura and Russian understudy Olga, ran the on-ice competition with focus and expertise. Our sports liaison co-workers, Ken and Gail Damberger, were great partners.
What an unforgettable experience to be part of the thousands of volunteers, the blue jackets, who helped make the 2010 Winter Olympics the best games ever, and to witness first-hand the tidal wave of national pride that rose up and swept across our great nation. Winning a silver and gold in curling was icing on the cake.
This week, the Paralympians continue carrying the Olympic spirit for us all.
Some things in life turn out to be far better than expected and this experience was one of them.
Community Television
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Carole Lavallée Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is holding hearings in April to address the demands of community television stations, which are trying to emphasize the need to increase their revenues as well as their capitalization, which are affected by current regulations.
Community television stations have an important regional base and convey information in their respective regions. The creation of a Canada-wide community channel would go against the very notion of local television. In order to ensure the survival of community television, the CRTC should, among other things, continue to compel cable television companies to offer the local community channel as part of their basic service. The CRTC should also allow them to relax the rules around advertising so that community television stations can increase their revenues.
At the regional or local level, community television is what allows people to access quality information about what is happening where they live and in the surrounding area. That is one of the many reasons why the Bloc Québécois supports their demands.
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Daniel Petit Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC
Mr. Speaker, today our government has announced legislative changes that would strengthen the way the young offenders system deal with violent and repeat offenders.
These measures will give our constituents greater assurance that violent and repeat young offenders will be held accountable for their actions. They will help ensure that protection of society is duly taken into consideration in sentencing these criminals.
This bill is entitled "Sébastien's Law" in memory of Sébastien Lacasse and in honour of the determination and courage of his parents, Line and Luc. The Lacasse family and other courageous families work tirelessly to defend victims' rights. In introducing this bill, our thoughts are with all the families who have lost loved ones in crimes involving violent and repeat young offenders.
The Association des policières et policiers provinciaux du Québec also support us in this because it is a matter of protecting families and making our neighbourhoods safer.
Kraft Hockeyville 2010
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Scott Simms Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor, NL
Mr. Speaker, it is with great pride that I stand here today to pay tribute to the town of Bishop's Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador. Last night, Bishop's Falls reached the final 12 communities in the running for Kraft Hockeyville 2010.
With just over 3,000 people, Bishop's, as we call it, is the little town of athletes. Hannaford, Goobie, Kennedy, Stanley, Healey and, of course, Faulkner are all legendary names in our town.
Alex Faulkner of Bishop's Falls was the first Newfoundlander to ever play in the NHL, most notably alongside Gordie Howe. He learned to play hockey on the Exploits River and, from there, he played in arenas all over the world.
This is a town whose spirit is larger than any map can hold. It is a town of legacies, such as the legacy of Ron Healey, a community builder as well as a legendary referee, who taught us the value of youth.
I want to congratulate Kerry Lynn Greene and her team of volunteers. I also congratulate Kraft and CBC Sports for allowing us to show the entire country that Bishop's Falls is Hockeyville 2010.
Young Offenders
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Ed Fast Abbotsford, BC
Mr. Speaker, today the Minister of Justice tabled legislation to strengthen our young offender system. Bill C-4 would give Canadians greater confidence that violent and repeat young offenders will be held accountable. It would also ensure that the protection of society is given due consideration when young offenders are sentenced. All too often, a young offender who commits a serious crime such as murder or aggravated sexual assault receives a sentence that is much shorter than Canadians expect. Our new law would require the courts to consider adult sentences for youth who are convicted of these serious crimes.
In some cases, a youth who is convicted of a violent offence is quietly released into the community without anyone knowing about it. This means residents have no way of knowing a convicted sex offender is in the area. Bill C-4 would, in some cases, require the courts to publish the name of a violent young offender when necessary for the protection of society.
This bill is just another way in which our Conservative government is improving the safety and security of Canadians.
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Don Davies Vancouver Kingsway, BC
Mr. Speaker, my great riding, Vancouver Kingsway, is one of the most diverse in Canada. It is a wonderful blend of cultures from every continent. Men, women and children of every race, religion and ethnicity join together to seek happiness and prosperity and to live in peace and harmony. Vancouver Kingsway is a multicultural success and a model of what makes Canada work. We celebrate our uniqueness, we unite as Canadians and we treasure our freedom to be who we are.
March 21 will mark International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On this day, we remember that prejudice and intolerance still exist. We remind ourselves that building a civil and respectful society for all is the responsibility of every one of us.
The Canada of today was built by first nations and immigrants from all over the world. The Canada of tomorrow will deepen that reality as we welcome more people from every nation.
Let us celebrate our Canada as one that is tolerant, respectful and dedicated to the principle of equality, and let us commit ourselves to stamp out intolerance and discrimination in all of its forms.
2010 Paralympic Winter Games
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Blake Richards Wild Rose, AB
Mr. Speaker, yesterday was a golden day for Canada, as our Canadian athletes won two gold medals and a bronze at the Paralympics.
The people of Canmore, in my riding of Wild Rose, are very proud of their own Brian McKeever, who won Canada's first ever winter Paralympic gold medal on home soil. Brian won gold in the 20-kilometre, visually impaired cross-country ski race, along with his brother, Robin McKeever, who acts as his race guide.
Our second gold was won by Lauren Woolstencroft, of North Vancouver, in women's standing slalom. Lauren is a four-time gold medallist and the reigning world champion in slalom, giant slalom, downhill and super G.
We are also proud of Karolina Wisniewska, who took the bronze in the women's standing slalom. Karolina, who lives in Vancouver, is now a seven-time Paralympic medallist.
On behalf of the people of Wild Rose and all Canadians, I wish our Paralympians continued success at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.


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March 5, 2012
March 5, 2012 | Backgrounder on Energy and Environment
Abstract: A major public concern about nuclear reactors has been that the spent nuclear fuel could remain stranded at the reactor site indefinitely. In the 1970s, courts prohibited the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from licensing new reactors unless it assured the public that the waste would be removed—a requirement called the "waste confidence" rule. President Obama's decision to abandon plans for removing the waste to the Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada creates an uncertainty that could be a barrier to the expansion of nuclear power. Two nuclear policy experts argue that the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act provides sufficient confidence that spent nuclear fuel will be removed and, thus, that the waste confidence rule is unnecessary and should be abandoned.
The Obama Administration and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) scored a victory in their war against Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a nuclear-waste repository when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted in September to dispose of all pending matters in the Yucca licensing case without approving or disapproving the Department of Energy's application to construct and operate the repository.
By pushing the nation further from a solution for nuclear-waste disposal, the vote also damages the prospects for nuclear energy expansion. Under current practice, the NRC can license new reactors only if it expresses confidence that the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from the reactors will be disposed at an off-site facility. This requirement is referred to as the "waste confidence" rule.
Recognizing the link between new construction and waste disposal, the NRC's chairman, Gregory Jaczko, persuaded the NRC to revise the waste confidence rule to reflect an assumption that no waste repository will be built in the foreseeable future. The problem is that this revision undermines the original purpose of the rule, which was to assure the public that nuclear waste would not remain at nuclear reactor sites indefinitely. Specifically, the revised rule:
Fortunately, there is a way forward. The courts first required the NRC to make a "waste confidence" determination for new reactor licenses in the 1970s, before the U.S. government chose Yucca Mountain as the national repository site. This determination was to provide the public with the NRC's pre-licensing assurance that nuclear waste from new reactors would not be left at reactor sites indefinitely. When the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) became law in 1982, a waste confidence determination became an unnecessary anachronism because the NWPA mandates that the Energy Department take responsibility for commercial nuclear-waste disposal. Given the confusion that the NRC's rule revision will cause, Congress should simply acknowledge that the waste confidence rule is irrelevant and that the Nuclear Waste Policy Act alone meets the waste confidence requirements.
As is the case with so many agency regulations, the waste confidence rule was a response to the courts. In the 1960s, the nuclear industry and the U.S. government planned to recycle spent nuclear fuel, like France and the United Kingdom do today. But in the mid-1970s, U.S. government policy changed, banning commercial spent-fuel recycling. As a result, reactor owners had no choice but to store SNF on-site until it could be moved to a geologic repository. The problem is that no such repository was ever licensed or constructed.
Nuclear opponents exploited the uncertainty caused by that policy change. They argued that because there was no program to remove the SNF from reactor sites, the NRC could not license new reactors without studying the environmental impact of perpetual on-site waste storage. They demanded that there be no new reactors until the "waste issue" was resolved. As a result, 13 states passed legislation banning new nuclear construction.[1]
Federal courts ruled that the NRC could not issue a reactor license unless it either studied the long-term impact of on-site waste storage or expressed confidence as part of its regulatory determinations that SNF would not remain on-site for an extended period of time.[2] The NRC chose to adopt the waste confidence rule and avoid the long-term impact study for each individual site.[3] In adopting the rule, the NRC promised that it would not continue to license reactors if it did not have "reasonable confidence that the wastes can and will in due course be disposed of safely."[4]
Then, in 1982, Congress enacted the NWPA, which mandated that the Energy Department build a repository and move SNF from reactor sites to the repository. In 1987, Congress chose Yucca Mountain as the site for the repository, subject to an NRC safety review and license. The NWPA provided the Energy Department, the NRC, the courts, and the public with a predictable process for nuclear-waste disposal and the mechanisms to resolve any legal issues that emerge. In essence, the NWPA resolved the waste issue, thus making the waste confidence rule obsolete. Even so, the NRC kept the rule in place, updating it in 1990 to express its confidence that the repository would be available "within the first quarter of the twenty-first century."[5] The NRC reviewed the availability date again in 1999 and made no changes. Its confidence was well grounded on the obligation of the Energy Department and NRC to implement the NWPA mandate to license and build a repository at Yucca.
However, the waste confidence rule created a linkage between the Yucca license and new reactor license that nuclear opponents could use as a weapon. They could potentially stop the construction of new reactors by stopping Yucca. For 30 years this linkage was all but irrelevant because no utilities were interested in building new nuclear power plants. In 2007, a new wave of reactor license applications arrived at the NRC. Unfortunately, nuclear opponents and Senator Reid had been working for decades to delay the Yucca project. By the time interest had emerged to build new reactors, not only was there no repository, there was no license to build one, either. This lack of progress allows reactor opponents to use the waste confidence rule to block new reactors.
After 25 years and $15 billion in pre-licensing activities, the Energy Department filed a license application with the NRC for the Yucca project in 2008. The NWPA required an NRC decision on the application within three years of filing. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Candidate Barack Obama promised Senator Reid that he would oppose the Yucca project and cut its funding, beginning with his fiscal year 2010 budget.[6] Despite the uncertainty about Yucca in 2009, Gregory Jaczko, named chairman by President Obama, urged the NRC to update the waste confidence rule. The NRC initially voted 2 to 1 against updating it.[7] Explaining the majority vote, Commissioner Dale Klein said that an update at that point could be "perceived as a rush to judgment in the midst of a dynamic environment that promises to affect the Nation's approaches to storage and disposal of SNF."[8]
In January 2010, President Obama fulfilled his political promise to Senator Reid by announcing that he was terminating the Yucca project, because he considered the project "unworkable." The President directed the Energy Department to withdraw the Yucca license application, which would prevent the NRC from fulfilling its NWPA obligation to approve or disapprove the license application. The Administration rationalized its defiance of the NWPA mandate by stating that the Yucca project does not have "social and political acceptance." In June 2010, the NRC licensing board rejected this rationale and denied the Energy Department motion to withdraw. The denial was appealed and was pending until the NRC's September 2011 order suspending all action on the license.
In July 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on the appeal, warning the NRC that it would intervene if the NRC did not make a final decision on Yucca within the three-year time frame set by the NWPA.[9] The NRC has not made the required final decision, and a group of petitioners, including the states of South Carolina and Washington, and the National Association of Regulated Utility Commissioners, supported by the Nuclear Energy Institute, have asked the court to force a decision by the NRC. The court's decision is not expected until summer 2012.
In the midst of legal uncertainty and political turmoil, Chairman Jaczko pushed the NRC, including three new members appointed by President Obama, to approve a revision to the rule that assumes that the Energy Department and the NRC will successfully defy the NWPA and that Yucca would not be licensed.
On December 23, 2010, the NRC published its decision, making the following key revision to the waste confidence rule:
10 CFR §51.23(a). . .the Commission believes there is reasonable assurance that
[at least one mined geologic repository will be available within the first quarter of the twenty-first century, and] sufficient repository capacity will be available to dispose of the commercial high-level waste and spent fuel [originating in such] generated in any reactor [and generated up to that time.] when necessary.[10]
The revised rule is a radical change because it removes the assurance that the repository would be available by the "first quarter of the twenty-first century." The revised rule does not provide a basis for confidence that SNF will be removed from reactor sites to a repository in due course. As consolation for the broken promise to remove SNF, the NRC expressed its belief that SNF can be safely stored for 60 years after the reactor license expires, and that a repository will be available, "when necessary." The NRC does not state when removal is necessary. The possibility of indefinite on-site storage is precisely the uncertainty that the rule was supposed to end. The NRC has increased uncertainty by signaling the waste may not be moved from the reactor sites for a century or more.[11]
The new waste confidence rule contains flaws that undermine current law and hinder future reactor construction:
1. It Ignores the NWPA. The NRC decision revising the waste confidence rule acknowledges that the NWPA "mandates a national repository program, and until the law is changed disposal in a repository remains the controlling policy."[12] Yet, even though the NWPA also mandates that the repository be built at the Yucca site, the NRC decision expressly assumes that the Yucca facility will not be built.[13] The supposedly independent NRC blindly accepts the Administration's defiance of the NWPA, a law enacted by Congress and reaffirmed in repeated votes and appropriations over the past 30 years. If the NRC can "assume away" the NWPA merely because of policy differences, the rule of law at the NRC has ended.[14] The NRC should have simply acknowledged that the NWPA gives sufficient basis to provide confidence that SNF will be removed from reactor sites. This would have allowed the NRC and the Administration to respect the rule of law while allowing the policy debate to unfold.
2. It Is a "No Confidence" Rule. The revised rule does not express confidence that the waste will be removed, although that is what the public demanded and the courts required when the NRC adopted the rule. In fact, the NRC decision expresses doubt about whether the waste will be removed, stating it could not predict "the time needed to bring about the necessary societal and political acceptance for a repository site."[15] The NRC tried to finesse its failure to express confidence in removal to Yucca by emphasizing its determination that on-site storage would be safe for 60 years after the expiration of the reactor license. The 60-year interim-storage determination may give comfort to current reactor owners. It does nothing to give the public and investors confidence that waste from new reactors will ever be removed.
3. It Will Promote Litigation by Raising Concerns that "Interim" Storage May Become Permanent. NRC reactor regulations and reactor-operator best practices assure that on-site SNF storage is safe until the reactor is decommissioned. After decommissioning, permanent storage in an off-site geologic repository is necessary to mitigate the risks of SNF becoming stranded at a decommissioned site. The NRC based its revised-rule decision on the obvious conclusion that interim on-site storage is safe for 30 years after the reactor license expires, and on the less obvious conclusion that long-term storage should be safe for at least 30 years beyond that. Simply stating that on-site storage can be safe does nothing to move the nation closer to an effective nuclear waste disposal policy that resolves concerns that interim on-site storage will become permanent. By failing to express its confidence that the Administration would comply with the NWPA and remove SNF to Yucca, or to institute an alternative program to remove nuclear waste, the NRC has invited nuclear opponents to challenge the rule on the basis of on-site storage hazards. Indeed, this is already occurring.
In February 2011, the states of New York, Vermont, and Connecticut challenged the new rule in federal court.[16] The states argue that the NRC should abandon the generic waste confidence approach and conduct full site-specific impact assessments of indefinite on-site SNF storage. The three states claim that:
These changes to the rule will bring new, unnecessary, and costly delays to the licensing process. For example, in the rulemaking proceeding, the NRC advised parties with site-specific SNF-storage concerns that they could raise them in site-specific license proceedings. This is, in essence, an invitation to protracted hearings on a complex, controversial issue that may be worrisome for reactor developers and investors.
4. It Undermines Investor Support for New Reactor Construction. Nuclear business and non-profit organizations have stated that building a repository is critical to the expansion of American nuclear power. Nuclear developers and investors need to know that there is a solution to the waste problem. Otherwise they may fear they would be saddling themselves with interminable licensing proceedings and indefinable SNF-disposal liabilities.[17] Some views from the industry:
Until waste confidence is firmly based on the NWPA and a Yucca repository, or a defined alternative, developers will be hesitant to move forward with new reactor projects. It may be expensive or impossible for them to prove the long-term safety of on-site storage in site-specific proceedings, because many sites are suitable for reactors but may not be appropriate for long-term waste storage. Finally, with the uncertainties created by the Administration and the new rule, state waste-based nuclear moratoriums are not likely to be repealed.
5. It Undermines the Incentives for Long-Term Nuclear Waste Management Solutions. The rule revision encourages a strategy of avoiding a permanent solution for nuclear-waste management. A basic condition for commercial nuclear power operations is that there must be a reliable method to dispose of SNF. Federal assumption of the responsibility for this commercial activity in the NWPA meets that condition. As long as the Energy Department was making slow but steady progress toward opening a repository at Yucca Mountain, it was reasonable for the NRC to deem the NWPA mandate an adequate basis for waste confidence. However, the Administration's attempt to terminate the Yucca project without any backup plan renders this notion obsolete. By expressing confidence that SNF will be removed despite any evidence to support such a conclusion, the NRC effectively removes any pressure for any party to move on the issue. The rule under current circumstances essentially fortifies the status quo.
The NWPA made the federal government responsible for waste disposal and required it to collect and store SNF beginning in 1998. The Administration, however, has demonstrated its disregard for this established law by abandoning the Yucca project and trying to stop the NRC from completing its safety review and issuing the facility license without establishing an alternative waste-disposal strategy. The NRC's statement that it maintains confidence that a disposal solution will be developed without Yucca or establishing an alternative strains credulity. Further, it removes any incentive to find a way to remove the spent fuel from the reactor site.
Congress can provide significant clarity by doing two things:
The United States has struggled for decades to implement a predictable and rational nuclear waste management policy. The difficulties are the result of poor policy choices, not of technological or economic obstacles. This government-created problem has led to unnecessary impediments to the expansion of clean and safe nuclear energy. Fixing this problem should begin with Congress simply demanding that America's government bodies follow the law.
—Cornelius Milmoe is a lawyer and nuclear energy expert who has worked in the government and private sector. Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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[1]The states are California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
[2]See Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 435 U.S. 519 (1978); State of Minnesota v. NRC 602 F.2d 412 (DC Cir. 1979); Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 462 U.S. 87 (1983).
[4]"NRC Consideration of Environmental Impacts of Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel After Cessation of Reactor Operation; Waste Confidence Decision Update; Final Rules," 10 CFR Part 51 75 Fed Reg. 246, December 23, 2010, p. 81038.
[5]"NRC Consideration of Environmental Impacts of Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel After Cessation of Reactor Operation; Waste Confidence Decision Update; Final Rules," p. 81032.
[6]Harry Reid, "Killing the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump," U.S. Senate, at http://reid.senate.gov/about/upload/yucca-mountain-accomplishments.pdf (February 13, 2012).
[7]Jeff Beattie, "NRC Withholds 'Waste Confidence' Finding, Citing Yucca Decision," Managing Power, November 2, 2009, at http://www.managingpowermag.com/supply_chains/NRC-Withholds-Waste-Confidence-Finding-Citing-Yucca-Decision_212.html (February 13, 2012).
[8]Nuclear Regulatory Commission, "Dr. Klein's Comments on SECY-09-0090: Final Update of the Commission's Waste Confidence Decision," September 9, 2009, at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/commission/cvr/2009/2009-0090vtr.pdf (February 13, 2012).
[9]"In Re: Aiken County, Petitioner," U.S. Court of Appeals (DC Circuit) No. 10-1050, July 1, 2011, at http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/872039F019B626D7852578C00053956D/$file/10-1050-1316111.pdf (February 13, 2012).
[10]"NRC Consideration of Environmental Impacts of Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel After Cessation of Reactor Operation; Waste Confidence Decision Update; Final Rules," pp. 81032–81076.
[11]In conjunction with its recent actions on the waste confidence rule, the NRC directed its staff to provide a plan for a longer-term waste confidence rulemaking. This longer-term rulemaking would update the waste confidence rule to address impacts of storage beyond a 120-year time frame, and would include the development of a supporting environmental impact statement. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, "Staff Requirements Memorandum," SECY 09-0090, September, 15, 2010, at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/commission/srm/2009/ (February 13, 2012).
[12]"NRC Consideration of Environmental Impacts of Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel After Cessation of Reactor Operation; Waste Confidence Decision Update; Final Rules," p. 81063.
[13] Ibid., p. 81067.
[14]The NRC licensing board addressed this issue in its decision on the Energy Department's motion to withdraw the Yucca license application, stating, "Where the law is declared to require it, however, DOE and other agencies within the Executive Branch are often required to implement legislative directives in a manner with which they do not necessarily agree." ASLBP No. 09-892-HLW-CAB04, June 29, 2010, slip opinion, p. 19.
[15]"NRC Consideration of Environmental Impacts of Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel After Cessation of Reactor Operation; Waste Confidence Decision Update; Final Rules," p. 81037.
[16] New York, Vermont, and Connecticut v. NRC, US Ct. of App. (DC Circuit), Docket No. 11-1045. The State of New Jersey and several environmental groups have subsequently joined as petitioners.
[17]The NRC has directed its staff to provide a plan for updating the waste confidence rule to address impacts of storage beyond a 120-year time frame. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, "Staff Requirements Memorandum," SECY 09-0090. NRC hearing on extended storage was held on September 26, 2011.
[18]Nuclear Energy Information Service, "What Do They Know?…and, When Did They Know it?" December 8, 2010, at http://www.neis.org/Campaigns/Moratorium/what_do_they_know.shtml (February 13, 2012).
[19] Ibid.
[20]American Nuclear Society, "Licensing of Yucca Mountain as a Geological Repository for Radioactive Wastes," February 2009, at http://www.ans.org/pi/ps/docs/ps80.pdf (February 13, 2012).
[21]Nuclear Energy Institute, "Key Issues: Nuclear Waste Disposal," at http://www.nei.org/keyissues/nuclearwastedisposal/ (February 13, 2012).
[22]Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, "Draft Report to the Secretary of Energy," July 29, 2011, at http://brc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/brc_draft_report_29jul2011_0.pdf (February 13, 2012), and Jack Spencer, "A Free-Market Approach to Managing Used Nuclear Fuel," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2149, June 23, 2008, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/06/a-free-market-approach-to-managing-used-nuclear-fuel.
[23]NWPA, Sec. 119, gives the U.S. Courts of Appeals exclusive jurisdiction over any final decision or action by the Energy Secretary, the President, or the NRC on issues that fall under the purview of the NWPA.


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This guide is applied from nGrinder 3.2.1. Please upgrade nGrinder if you want to use this. Your pom.xml in the Groovy script should be updated to point ngrinder-groovy 3.2.1 as well.
From nGrinder 3.2.1, nGrinder supports a special annotation "@RunRate" for Groovy script. You can assign this annotation on test methods to control the run frequency. @RunRate takes the run rate value in the unit of percentage(0..100). For example, @RunRate(10) means that this method is executed only 10% of total runs.
@RunRate(10) @Test public void doTest() { ... // This part will be executed only 10% of total runs }
Be careful! the above number 10 is NOT the this method's relative execution rate of total test methods. Each @RunRate annotated method is completely independent from other @RunRate annotated test methods. For example, assume there are two test methods annotated by @RunRate.
@RunWith(GrinderRunner) class TestRunner { ... @RunRate(50) @Test void doTest1() { ... } @RunRate(20) @Test void doTest2() { ... } }
nGrinder agent thread will try to execute the above test methods by loop. When nGrinder thread run 100 times, doTest1() will be executed only 50 times, and doTest2() will be executed only 20 times. Precisely speaking, they will be executed in the following way.
You might want to simulate this in your IDE by simulating the execution loop. Only you should do is to provide @Repeat annotation on the class level like following.
@Repeat(200) @RunWith(GrinderRunner) class TestRunner { ... @RunRate(50) @Test void doTest1() { ... } @RunRate(20) @Test void doTest2() { ... } }
When you run above JUnit test in the IDE, you will find that doTest1() is executed 100 times (because it's 50% of total run 200) and doTest2() is executed 40 times.
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Seriously? Let's stay on 'track'
To the editor:
I thought I was a struggling small business owner (currently with near 400 other businesses in resolution of support) with a good effort to create an important new venue, important to our collective economy and quality of life. Now I hear, from the Adirondack Scenic Railroad executive's commentary, I'm a special-interest elitist! I would be interested to know when, in 10-plus years of this effort, this happened?
Having started grooming for snowmobilers on the corridor in the '70s at our family's expense, we found it an invaluable asset to our business. We were ecstatic when the camp owners formed a snowmobile club and became sanctioned by the New York State Snowmobile Association, helping immensely to expand the effort. So you may understand my surprise to hear that keeping the corridor open through ice storms, winter winds and culvert breaches has ALL been done by the railroad.
Historically, the corridor lost financial viability in the 1940s. Industry and transportation no longer needed a railroad, and losing the U.S. Mail was the final nail. I remember two trains a day in each direction running empty and our place being closed all winter until snowmobiles in the '60s started running the tracks between the weekly freights.
Now we are working with ARTA, the Adirondack Recreational Trail Advocates, started by a group of all Adirondack residents, with more than 12,000 supporters, several municipal governments and hundreds of local businesses, in an effort critical to our business and potentially a dramatic transformation to the year-round economy of an entire region. We know what snowmobile tourism has done in our area and how much greater it could be. The experiences of other areas show bicycle and other trail recreations could easily eclipse that.
Please write: Raymond Hessinger, director, Freight and Passenger Rail, New York State Department of Transportation, 50 Wolf Road, POD 54, Albany NY 12232, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The homecoming / Carsten Stroud (MYSTERY FICTION) -- Kate and Nick Kavanaugh (lawyer and cop respectively) take in young Rainey Teague, whose parents have died under mysterious circumstances. Rainey is a handful. Well, actually, Rainey is turning out to be someone--or something--downright scary: a shape-shifting time-bending little boy who will have to resist being taken over by "Nothing." Will Kate and Nick be able to save him? Will the mirror they have kept up in the attic ultimately be their downfall? When more disappearances start to happen, where do they turn? No one can explain what is happening, but everyone knows that their sleepy, peaceful town, Niceville, is turning out to be anything but nice.
The light in the ruins / Chris Bohjalian (FICTION) -- Hoping to safeguard themselves from the ravages of World War II within the walls of their ancient villa in Florence, the noble Rosatis family become prisoners in their home when eighteen-year-old Cristina's courtship by a German lieutenant prompts the Nazis to take over the estate, a situation that leads to a serial murder investigation years later.
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Love the taste of this tossed with spaghetti. I brown some bacon bits first and add some chopped shallots and garlic before adding the sauce to simmer slightly before adding the cooked spaghetti in before finishing with some chives. Not a traditional way to cook it but taste wonderful, full of cheese and flavor. No preservatives. Will order again for sure. Very versatile and convenient.
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Wow – just read this article on CNN. I just wanted to post this because I think it is so odd that this woman has apparently slept with both Michael Flatley and Brian Urlacher – two men who may in fact be the opposite of one another. This Tyna Marie must be a real catch…
Who is this Tyna Marie Robertson?
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Tyna Marie a real catch??? She's a woman who sleeps with men and then tries to shake them down for money…. she's been ordered to pay Michael Flatley $11 million for false accusations. Of course, Flatley was a moron for sleeping with a woman he hardly knew.


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This letter was full of new information for me. The recipient of this letter was John Dominis, about 17 years old, from his first cousin, Sarah Ann (Snelling) Moore of Boston. First of all, John's cousin Sarah mentions the courtship incident with Charlotte Mott I blogged about previously at this link. http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/07/serendipity-week-3-letter-between-two.html No, he didn't marry "that charming young lady Miss Mott" but in 1862 he married Lydia Paki, the future Queen Lili'uokalani.
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By JAMIE THOMPSON
Published April 1, 2005
At night, when it was quiet, all Mary Schindler could see was her daughter's face, dying, starving.
"Please let my daughter live," she begged after Terri's feeding tube was removed.
Bob and Mary Schindler have been, in many ways, the emotional heart of their daughter's story. Who could not be moved by the parents' desire to save their child, no matter what?
Their entreaties inspired hundreds of supporters to travel by cars, buses and planes, to march, chant and pray outside the Pinellas Park hospice where Terri lived. They had to do something.
The Schindlers knew what some doctors said, that Terri's mind was empty, that she was already gone.
They also believed that Terri laughed, cried and moaned. That she sometimes seemed to smile when her mother bent down and said, "Mommy's here." That she seemed to turn her head toward sunlight, to groan when her father played opera music in her ears.
They believed Terri was still in there.
When she sobbed, her mother hurt inside. It was almost like a plea, Mary Schindler said: "Help me, Mommy, help me."
The Schindlers' beliefs tugged at millions across the nation. Doctors get it wrong sometimes. But mothers? Mothers know, some thought.
They fought their son-in-law every step of the way. They won the support of many of the country's power brokers, all the way up to the president.
The Schindlers themselves are regular folks, a middle-class, Catholic family who raised three children, Terri, Bobby and Suzanne, in the suburbs of Pennsylvania. Bob Schindler, now 67, ran a business selling industrial supplies, among other things. Mary Schindler, 64, stayed home with the children, volunteering at their Catholic school.
They followed their oldest daughter, Terri, and her new husband, Michael Schiavo, to Florida in 1986.
Four years later, Terri collapsed.
The Schindlers and Schiavo remained close during the first few years, then a fight over money and Terri's care tore them apart.
It was almost too much for Bob Schindler to see his brown-eyed girl, still in her 20s, lying in a hospital bed, unable to speak or move. The former altar boy, who had contemplated becoming a priest, doubted for the first time whether God was real.
Mary Schindler learned to work her daughter's arms and legs, to transfer her from the bed to a wheelchair. She visited her daughter nearly every weekend. She brought pictures and gifts and poinsettias.
She felt certain that Terri knew she was there.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 1, 2012) – Three U.S. women's beach volleyball teams will begin main draw play on Tuesday in China in the Shanghai Grand Slam, the first grand slam event on the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour.
The U.S. women's beach volleyball team of Misty May-Treanor (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Kerri Walsh (San Jose, Calif.), seeded fourth, will open pool play on Tuesday against Italy's 29th-ranked Gioria Daniela and Giulia Momoli. In their second Tuesday match they will face Germany's 20th-ranked Jana Köhler and Julia Sude.
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Lauren Fendrick (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Brooke Hanson (Woodland Hills, Calif.) are seeded 15th and will begin pool play on Tuesday against Canada's 18th-ranked Heather Bansley and Elizabeth Maloney. Also on Tuesday they will face Georgia's 31st-seeded Cristine Santanna and Andrezza Martins das Chagas.
On Wednesday, Fendrick and Hanson will complete pool play against Brazil's No. 2-seeded Talita Da Rocha Antunes and Maria Antonelli.
The U.S. women's beach volleyball team of Angie Akers (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Brittany Hochevar (Fowler, Colo.) failed to advance to the main draw of the Shanghai Grand Slam, an event on the 2012 FIVB SWATCH World Tour.
Akers and Hochevar defeated Greece's Christina Roubanis and Joanna Papageorgiou, ranked 28th in qualifying, in the first round, 21-17, 17-21, 15-10 in 48 minutes. But the U.S. pair fell in the second round to Netherlands' Madelein Meppelink and Sophie van Gestel, ranked 12th, 16-21, 22-20, 15-6 in 45 minutes.
The men's tournament will begin with the qualification bracket on Tuesday. The U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Brad Keenan (Westminster, Calif.) and John Mayer (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) is ranked 25th and will open against the eighth-ranked French team of Andy Cès and Kevin Cès.
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Friday, 23 January 2009
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Former EastEnders star Michelle Ryan and comedian Lee Evans will guest star in Doctor Who's Easter special, the BBC has confirmed.
Ryan will play the mysterious Lady Christina de Souza in the special episode, entitled Planet of the Dead.
"I'm a huge fan of Doctor Who and very excited to be joining David Tennant and the Doctor Who team," she said.
Evans plays a character called Malcolm, whose life becomes connected to the Doctor's in unusual circumstances.
Planet of the Dead is the first of four Doctor Who specials, marking the end of David Tennant's tenure as the Time Lord.
'Can't wait'
Ryan is best known for playing Zoe Slater in the BBC One soap and starring in the American remake of Bionic Woman.
Recently, there has been speculation that she could be cast as the Doctor's new assistant, when Tennant's replacement, Matt Smith, takes on the role next year.
It is not known whether this appearance rules her out of that role - Catherine Tate's character Donna Noble first appeared in a Doctor Who Christmas special 15 months before she returned as the Doctor's assistant.
Ryan said: "It is such a fantastic show and I can't wait to get started."
Executive producer and writer Russell T Davies said: "Michelle is one of the most sought-after young actors in the country and we are delighted to announce that she will be joining the team.
"As always the script is being kept strictly under wraps. However, we can reveal that Lady Christina is a woman with a mysterious past who's going to have a huge impact on the Doctor."
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Sports news from the Pollock, SD area.
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The Lady Tigers gave up a 14 point first half lead but used free throw shooting in the fourth quarter to hang on for a two point win Monday night, Feb. 12. They defeated Standing Rock, 58-56, in a game played on the Warriors' court.
Both teams dropped a bucket in early. After an old fashioned three by the Warriors, M-P began a seven point run with a trey. Standing Rock came back with five of five free throw shooting to take the lead, 10-9. M-P tied the game with a free shot and then took the lead back with a trey. After a bucket by SR and two free shots by the Tigers, SR tied the game back up at 15-15 with a trey. M-P got the last bucket of the quarter to lead, 17-15.
SR opened the second quarter with a bucket and the game was knotted again. M-P got the next five points and opened up the biggest lead of the night, 22-17. After a single free shot by SR, M-P put down five of six from the charity stripe and two from the field to open up a double digit lead, 31-18. In the final 2:30, SR got a single bucket. The Tigers got a free shot and bucket to lead at halftime, 34-20.
In the first four minutes of the third quarter, SR put down three buckets. M-P got a bucket early and then free throw shooting let them keep their double digit lead. M-P was up, 39-26, at the 4:00 mark. SR edged back into the contest with two buckets and a free shot that cut the lead to eight. M-P did nothing offensively for over two minutes, then in the final 1:30 they got a bucket and free shot to go back up eleven at the break, 42-31.
SR's press bothered the Tigers as the fourth quarter opened, and the Tigers' offensive wows continued. SR got a bucket and went four of four from the line to trim the lead back to five, 42-37. M-P finally got a shot to fall about 2:30 in. The teams exchanged buckets over the next two minutes of play and the Warriors also got two free shots to trim the lead to five again. With 3:30 to go SR got another bucket and then went one of two from the line to pull within two, 46-44. M-P answered with two free shots and then the teams exchanged buckets. A trey by SR cut the Tigers lead to one and they followed it up with a bucket to take the lead. M-P grabbed the lead back with two from the charity stripe. After a miss at the line by SR the Tigers got two more from the line to go up three. SR came right back with an old fashioned three to again tie the game up, 54-54. M-P came back with two from the line and SR scored from the field. A free shot by M-P put them up one. They failed on three of four in the final minute but the one they made was enough to give them a two point win.
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