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Hampstead Tea, Organic Fairtrade, Biochai Tea, 4.38 oz (125 g) (Discontinued Item)
Shipping Weight:?0.57 lbsShipping WeightThe Shipping Weight includes the product, protective packaging material and the actual shipping box. In addition, the Shipping Weight may be adjusted for the Dimensional Weight (e.g. length, width & height) of a package. It is important to note that certain types of products (e.g. glass containers, liquids, fragile, refrigerated or ice packed) will often require protective packaging material. As such, these products will reflect a higher Shipping Weight compared to the unprotected product.
- Product Code: HAT-00012
- UPC Code: 813427000122
- Package Quantity: 4.38 oz (125 g)
- Dimensions: 2.2 x 3.2 x 8.15 in, 0.3 lbs
- Exotic Spiced Leaf Tea
- Fair Trade
- Organic Certification UK6
Our biodynamic Biochai tea is spiced with exotic organic spices from the East. It is based on a traditional Indian recipe, where chai is drunk throughout the day as a creamy latte style drink. Biochai is a rich, fragrant, intense tea that awakens and revives. It is delicious both hot and iced as the special blends of organic spices are selected for their piquant qualities. The spices come from carefully nurtured organic farms where sustainability and ethical practices go hand in hand.
The biodynamic tea is grown at Makaibari, the first biodynamic tea estate in the world, situated at 3-4000 ft high up in the Himalayas. The estate is protected on all sides by lush virgin rainforests and is the home and livelihood to a community of 1700 people, a family of panthers, and richly diverse wildlife.
Our promise to you. We believe we have some of the finest organic teas in the world. The purity and quality of our teas, and the natural harmony and well being of the estate and its people, mean everything to us. Our biodynamic, organic and fairtrade credentials are your guarantee that our teas are produced in the best and fairest ways possible. We hope they give you as much pleasure and enrich your lives as much as they do ours.
Suggested Use
Enjoy. Allow one level teaspoon of tea per person. Pour on freshly boiled water and infuse for up to 3 minutes. Add a generous amount of milk and sugar to taste.
Fairtrade black tea (60%), ginger, lemongrass, pepper, cardamom seeds and cloves.
All ingredients are biodynamic and organic
In keeping with our philosophy, our teas are free from all artificial additives and gmos.
the best tea drink for me
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the best tea drink for me
The finest spices-tea Very rich and unique taste homely & heating
Expensive and weak.
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Expensive and weak.
Personally, I will not order this tea again. I have to use more than 3 times as much of this tea than others if I want to even make it taste close to the others. Wake up Hampstead!
The BEST chai blend!
Posted by SteeleBlue on Apr 07, 2016
This an amazing tea. So flavorful and has all the genuine components of traditional chai. This chai fits my organic lifestyle and Hampstead Tea is a great company with tremendous products.
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this tea has a nice balance of flavors, no one flavor was overpowering or dominant. for a chai though, it was quite mild. i prefer something stronger.
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the best tea drink for me
The finest spices-tea Very rich and unique taste homely & heating
Great Chai Tea!
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Can't go wrong with this tasty Organic Fairtrade Chai Tea!


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Matt Hamill vs. Roger Hollett
Round 1:
Tentative opening minute, with both guys flicking jabs. Hollett connects on an overhand right. A similar second minute, with Hamill missing with an attempt at a big uppercut. Midway through, still no attempts to take the fight to the ground. Hamill finally goes for a takedown, grabs a leg, and takes him down. Hamill raining down left hands to the side of Hollett's head as Hollett covers up. One minute left. Hamill continuing to pepper Hollett with left hands. Hollett not doing much besides covering up. Hollett finally gets up in the closing seconds and tage Hamill, opening a cut under his left eye.
Round 2:
Hollett tags Hamill with a left and goes for a spinning back kick which doesn't connect. Hollett sprawls a Hamill takedown attempt. Hamill shoots the double and gets the takedown about 90 seconds into the round. Joe Rogan's talking about bringing headbutts back into MMA, which should give you an indication how little Hamill is accomplishing on the ground. They're back to their feet. Midway through the round. Hollett throwing occasional kicks. Hamill's left arm looks spent after the first-round barrage. Hamill scores a late takedown.
Round 3:
Hamill shoots for a takedown in the opening minute and gets it. Hollett's ground defense basically consists of getting on his hands and knees and covering up. Hamill grinds away, mostly throwing right hands. Hollett tries to get out, but Hamill ends up in his half-guard. Hollett gets back to his feet with 2:15 left and lands a right to the body. But Hamill immediately takes him down again. Dan Miragliota stands them up with about a minute left. Hamill scores his sixth takedown of the fight, where the bout ends.
Matt Hamill def. Roger Hollett via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27).
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Brian Stann vs. Michael Bisping
Round 1:
An early exchange leads to a clinch and a positional battle along the fence, as the two switch position several times. They break about a minute in and end up in center Octagon. Stann throwing single punches and catches Bisping flush on the face. Bisping connects with a straight left. Bisping with a takedown attempt. Goes for it tenaciously, pushes Stann against the fence, they bounce off, Bisping goes for a trip, doesn't get it. Bisping does connect with a solid elbow off the break, though. Inside leg kick by Bisping connects to the groin, but Stann fights through it. Wild exchange ensues. This time, Bisping eats a low blow. Back to action, just over a minute left. Close round. Bisping with a left. Bisping with a single leg, doesn't get the takedown, and Stann nails Bisping with a big right hand in the closing seconds.
Round 2:
Bisping goes for a takedown about 30 seconds in. Stann resists the initial attempt, but Bisping scoops him up and registers a slam. Bisping gets into side control, but Stann rolls out of it, reverses and puts Bisping on his back. Stann in Bisping's guard. Bisping working for a triangle but doesn't get it. Stann says he got thumbed in the eye, but while he talks to referee Josh Rosenthal, Bisping pounces. The two are back on their feet with two minutes left. Bisping's left jab finds a home when he uses it. Bisping with another takedown in the final minute. Bisping workds for a Kimura but doesn't get it.
Round 3:
The fighters exchange leg kicks. Bisping once again effectively uses his jab to set up his takedown. Stann gets back to his feet. One minute in. Bisping makes a half-hearted takedown attempt. Back to center Octagon midway through. Stann cut under his left eye. Stann's big right hand hasn't found a home since late in the first round. Stann sprawls another takedown attempt. They're clinched along the cage. Another Bisping takedown. Stann back up. Stann with a late flurry.
Michael Bisping def. Brian Stann via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
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Joseph Benavidez vs. Demetrious Johnson
Round 1:
Yves Levigne is the referee for the first-ever flyweight title bout. Johnson pops Benavidez with a left. They clinch and Benavidez lands a couple knees. Benavidez clinches Johnson along the fence. Johnson reverses and they break. Johnson pops Benavidez with a straight right coming in. Benavidez whiffs on a takedown attempt as Johnson steps aside. Benavidez tags "Mighty Mouse" with a spinning back fist. Benavidez tries to pin him against the cage, but Johnson breaks loose. One minute left. Johnson lands a well-timed right as Benavidez comes in. They clinch, Benavidez goes for a kneebar but doesn't get it.
Round 2:
Benavidez just can't seem to find his range. As soon as I say that, Benavidez land a right hand and a low kick. Johnson with a leg kick. Benavidez chases down "Mighty Mouse" and lands a couple rights to the jaw. Benavidez grabs for a leg, can't get it. Two minutes left. Johnson's speed and footwork continues to be a puzzle for Benavidez. Benavidez shoots for a takedown and misses again. Johnson hits a knee as Benavidez gets up. Same deal as the round comes to a close, Benavidez lands a right and a left in the late moments.
Round 3:
Benavidez connects with a combo and misses with an attempt at a head kick. Johnson catches a Benavidez body kick and a scramble ensues. Benavidez is bleeding from a cut over his left temple. Benavidez with a low kick. Benavidez throws a low kick. Benavidez scores a takedown, Johnson scrambles to his feet, with Benavidez scoring a knee off the break. Late clinch followed by a right by Johnson.
Round 4:
Benavidez lands a huge right hand which drops him. Benavidez maneuvers into position for a choke. Has it in tight, Johnson kicks his legs vigorously trying to get out. It's a one-armed choke by Benavidez. Johnson gets out and catches Benavidez in a leglock. Benavidez gets out and ends up in Johnson's half-guard. Benavidez works into side control. Johnson spins out and they're back to their feet, clinching along the fence. Benavidez goes for a trip but ends up on the bottom. Back to their feet. Johnson has Benavidez in a body lock. They break. About a minute left. Johnson with a takedown, back to their feet, Benavidez lands a kick on their way up. Johnson with a takedown and land short elbows to the torso. Round ends in that position. Tons of action in the round.
Round 5:
Johnson looks the fresher of the two. Johnson with a takedown, Benavidez gets up, but Johnson with another takedown. This time when Benavidez gets up, he eats a high kick. Johnson taunting Benavidez. Another takedown by Johnson. Benavidez spins out, but Johnson grabs a front facelock. They stand and break. Two minutes left. Benavidez goes for a single-leg, but doesn't get it. Final minute. Benavidez starting to look desperate, but can't get anything done.
Demetrious Johnson def. Joseph Benavidez via split deicision (48-47, 47-48, 49-46) to become the inaugural UFC flyweight champion.
48-47 Johnson 48-47 Benavidez 49-46 Johnson
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Jon Jones vs. Vitor Belfort
Round 1:
John McCarthy is the referee. Jones on hands and knees as he waits for McCarthy to call them out. Jones comes crawling out and almost eats a head kick as he gets to his feet. Jones goes for a single-leg. Belfort tries for a standing guillotine, but Jones scores a takedown. Belfort has an arm bar. Jones drops him to the mat. Belfort hangs on. Jones finally breaks out. Jones still in Belfort's guard. Jones lands a couple elbows which cut Vitor open. Belfort very busy trying to tie Jones up, but Jones is still getting elbows and punches in and making them count. Under two minutes left. Belfort is bleeding badly. One minute left. Nasty, nasty elbows by Jones. Jones stands late, Belfort stays on the mat. Jones back to the mat in the closing seconds.
Round 2:
The doctor checks out Belfort and clears him for round two. Belfort again fans on a high kick. Jones stalks Belfort, has him backed up near the fence. Jones just misses on a spinning back elbow. Belfort with a head kick. Jones throwing low kicks. Belfort bleeding from behind his right ear. Midway through. Jones clearly respects Belfort's hands. Jones with a front kick to the side of the head followed by another low kick. They tie up, Belfort lands a knee to the body and then pulls guard. Curious decision. Ninety seconds left. Belfort wants to go for another armbar, doesn't have the opportunity. Belfort goes for a triangle as the horn sounds.
Round 3:
Jones drops Belfort with a kick to the body. Jones again ends up in Belfort's guard. Belfort doing his best to tie Jones up. Jones stands, Belfort stays on the mat, but McCarthy orders him back up. Jones misses on a spinning back kick. Belfort connects with a left and Jones connects with a right. Crowd chants for Belfort. Belfort pulls guard. Same deal as before. Belfort tries to hold Jones off while looking for a submission; Jones sneaks in the occasional big elbow. Final minute. Jones lands a late series of elbows.
Round 4:
Belfort fans on a high kick and there's a flurry. Belfort tires to pull guard but it backfires in a hurry as Jones quickly transitions to a Kimura and gets the submission.
Thh...thhh...thhh...that's all folks!
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I give Jones his props tonight, I really thought he was done with the armbar.
Rumor is Vitor had a broken hand going into the fight, would make sense with how he was pulling guard and not wanting to strike.
I didn't see the fight but I thought it would have went faster. WAR Jones though!
Vitor seems like such a nice guy.
As for Vitor, I thought about this for a few last night. Do you think that maybe he let it go rather than breaking his arm? Kinda like Matt did with Royce once he knew that he wouldn't tap.
And for Ben...If you were working last night can you suggest that when they put stats and percentages up that they give more information? What I mean is they would show like 'Leg kicks' and provide how many landed and the percentage. Not all of us can calculate how many were thrown when 3 sheets to the wind
Denise that's how he always comes out. Looks like a big black ape
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LangTech 2003 Date: 24-Nov-2003 - 25-Nov-2003 Location: Paris, France Contact: Magali Jeanmaire Contact Email: langtech2003elda.fr Meeting URL: http://www.lang-tech.org Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics ,Computational Linguistics Meeting Description: LangTech 2003 is the second edition of the European forum for speech and language technology. It offers a unique platform for the HLT community, bringing developers and entrepreneurs together with integrators, investors and users. LangTech 2003 focuses on the technical and commercial aspects related to existing speech and language technologies. LangTech 2003 Europe's language technology and industry event ELDA, Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency, is organising the 2nd edition of the European Forum for Language Technology, LangTech 2003: http://www.lang-tech.org. This forum is dedicated to individuals and organisations, both industrial and academic, involved in the development, deployment and exploitation of spoken and written language technologies. This exciting and informative event will be held in Paris: Meridien Montparnasse Hotel, on November 24-25 2003. LangTech 2003 will capitalise on previous achievements, and address the state of play from an industrial and R&D perspective. It will demonstrate the potential for language and speech technologies to help improve business processes. Areas where language technologies are already widely used include machine translation, document retrieval, voice-control, speech recognition and digital content localisation. In addition to key presentations from leading industrial players, LangTech 2003 will include ''elevator pitch'' sessions to give speech/language technology SMEs and start-ups an opportunity to present their companies and products. If you would like to submit a proposal to participate in these sessions, We invite you to contact us at langtech2003elda.fr. In addition, an exhibition will be organised during the two-day conference, where cutting-edge companies can showcase their products, services and applications. Please take full advantage of the LangTech 2003 exhibition area to showcase your products, meet your clients, and promote your activities. You can contact us, at langtech2003elda.fr. Special early Bird rate for exhibitors booking before August 1, 2003: Euro 3000. More information about SME presentations and registration for LangTech 2003 are available via the official conference web site, at http://www.lang-tech.org. Registrations received before August 1, 2003 will benefit from a discounted early bird delegate fee of Euro 525 (Academic rate: Euro 325, Special price for Delegates from Accession countries) - a 100 Euro discount! If you would like to find more about the sponsorship opportunities offered to our partners, please contact us at langtech2003elda.fr. Background: The pace of commercial deployment and near-market maturity of speech and language technologies over the last few years led to the initial LangTech 2002 last September in Berlin so as to showcase advancements and bring developers, entrepreneurs and researchers together with integrators, investors and corporations. LangTech 2002 was attended by some 330 participants from over 30 countries and across five continents. The programme featured presentations given by representatives of over 70 companies, from 20 nations. Most importantly, nearly two-thirds of LangTech attendees came from industry or commercial concerns. The programme also included keynotes from major industry players, as well as 23 SME elevator pitch sessions which aimed to attract customer and/or venture capital interest, and an exhibition, in which 20 European companies participated. Complete information on LangTech 2002 can be viewed from the dedicated web site: http://www.lang-tech.org.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue


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Crispy Open-Faced Quesadillas
- 2 large (10-inch) flour tortillas
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Kosher salt
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 lime, zested and juiced
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro or parsley leaves (or 1 teaspoon dried parsley)
Preheat the broiler.
Brush the tortillas on both sides with vegetable oil and lightly salt. Heat a large saute pan over medium heat and cook the tortillas, 1 at a time, until slightly golden on both sides. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together the sour cream, lime zest and juice, cumin, and salt and pepper, to taste, until smooth. Pour into a plastic squeeze bottle or sturdy resealable plastic bag and cut small tip in corner.
Arrange the browned tortillas on a baking sheet and sprinkle evenly with cheese. (You may need to do this in batches if both tortillas don't fit on 1 tray.) Broil until the cheese bubbles and begins to brown, about for 1 to 2 minutes, (be careful not to burn). Slice each quesadilla into 8 wedges and drizzle sour cream decoratively over the top. Sprinkle with cilantro and serve.
Recipe courtesy of Melissa d'Arabian
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by Anton Shilov
Engineers and researchers at the IBM Hursley development lab in England and the Almaden Research Center in California have demonstrated groundbreaking performance results that outperform the world's fastest disk storage solution by over 250%. IBM has demonstrated, for the first time, the game-changing impact solid-state technologies can have on how businesses and individuals manage and access information.
The results were achieved using Flash solid-state technology coupled with IBM's highly scalable storage virtualization technology. Under the codename "Project Quicksilver", IBM achieved groundbreaking results in transferring data at a sustained rate of over one million Input/Output (I/O) per second – with a response time of under one millisecond (ms). Compared to the fastest industry benchmarked disk system Quicksilver improved performance by 250% at less than 1/20th the response time, took up 1/5th the floor space and required only 55% of the power and cooling.
Performance improvements of this magnitude can have profound implications for business, allowing 2-3 times the work to complete in a given timeframe for classic workloads, enabling tremendous efficiency for time sensitive applications like reservations systems, and financial program trading systems, and creating opportunity for entirely new insights in information warehouses and analytic solutions.
IBM is driving a comprehensive approach to leverage solid state storage, which is an emerging enterprise technology that has no moving parts, thus eliminating many of the access delays associated with electro-mechanical disks. Technology leadership for IBM is rooted in 15 consecutive years of U.S. patent leadership, unmatched by any competitor in the world today. IBM continues to develop, integrate and optimize solid state storage into the broad range of applications, middleware, operating systems and hardware in their storage and server offerings, well beyond a simple replacement of disk.
"The ultimate benefits of solid state will require software, management and systems capabilities – with IBM being uniquely positioned, with its deep research and development capabilities and broad product and services experience, to unlock that potential," said Andy Monshaw, general manager of IBM System Storage.
As an example, IBM's first to-market implementation of solid-state drives for select IBM BladeCenter servers has been available since June of 2007, enabling customers to experience enhanced reliability. The ongoing cross-IBM initiative promises significant energy savings and dramatic I/O performance improvements. Additionally, by deploying automated management capabilities, IBM is creating fully integrated information infrastructures that can deliver significant customer benefit.
"IBM is integrating this technology with systems and applications so that companies can achieve real business value from solid-state disk. Quicksilver is a significant step forward in this comprehensive systems strategy. This is not about replacing today's hard disk drive with a new form factor, this is about having a complete, end-to-end systems approach - and that's not something EMC, HP or Sun can match," added Mr. Monshaw.
IBM has a decades-long proven track record in system innovation including the memory chip, the hard disk drive and the relational database. IBM Research has developed breakthrough data center provisioning technology that automatically understands and balances the utilization of diverse storage components in the information infrastructure, including solid-state storage. Additionally, to get the most value from high performance system resources in storage, IBM Research patented key technologies that help maintain required quality-of-service for higher priority applications.
Quicksilver is part of IBM's focus on leveraging new and emerging systems technologies to deliver advanced data center capabilities and business value to customers. IBM is committed to develop solid state storage to create real-world uses across a broad range of applications, middleware, and systems offerings.


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Senso Ava I Sneaker
Senso Ava I Sneaker
Crimson, black and white plaid felt sneaker, leather detail around heel, thick white rubber sole.
No one should ever have to sacrifice comfort for a pair of swoon-worthy heels. Thank goodness for Senso, a storied Australian label with a serious cult following. Husband and wife duo, Kim and Scarlett Meller began the label in 1980 taking inspiration from the classic yet obscure, creating modern, effortless shoes with a subtle sense of luxury. The company now includes their three daughters Alicia, Imogen and Skye, so the family's commitment to quality and construction runs deep. Sourcing fine materials, trims, treatments and even linings all over the world, each pair of sandals, heels or sneakers is crafted with every detail in check. We'll take ten.


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There's a letter arriving this week in mailboxes throughout San Diego underlying the threat to women represented by Carl DeMaio:
Women's right to choose and access to safe birth control are under attack.For twenty years, Bob Filner has defended women… our right to choice, our right to healthcare, our right to equal pay.Bob Filner has a 100% voting record on women's health. He put the Lily Ledbetter Equal Pay for Women Act on President Obama's desk. Now, it's the law.Carl DeMaio is a stealth candidate who refused to answer Planned Parenthood's questions about women's access to health care. Carl DeMaio cannot be trusted.Julie Bornstein, ChairPlanned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest


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I'm not sure which.
My husband's birthday is 12/12/12. So we're spending a week, all of us, at a beach house. Should be fun – games every night. Good food, wine, maybe some bourbon (Jaye). Just the family.
Of course according to the popular press's interpretation of the Mayan Calendar the world will come to an end on 12/21/12. Sort of the inverse of 12/12/12.
According to what I've read, the Mayan Calendar doesn't actually predict the end of the world. The Mayans believed in the end of an era or particular age, and the beginning of a new era, or age.
So maybe just the end of the world as we know it. Which is my second favorite R.E.M song, the first being Losing My Religion.
Anyway, I'll be back on the 15th. If there's wifi at the beach house I'll keep in touch, otherwise I guess it'll be a Julia blackout for a while.
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To the Journal editor:
There has been a great deal of ink used in the process of explaining why Marquette County Road 595 would have increased safety, improved opportunities for development and generally created jobs in the county.
The main purpose of the road would have been to facilitate the transport of ore from the mine to a processing plant.
One alternative would be to utilize rail service. I do not claim to be an expert and certainly I have not taken the time to study existing rail lines. However, the one argument that I have heard repeatedly in dismissing the railroad is that the terrain is too steep and the railcars could not make it up the grade.
Again, I have no great preconceived notions on transport of ore. However, I do have an observation. When a child wants a piece of candy just before lunch, parents often say no. When pressed with the question, "Why?" in a dismissive tone, parents sometimes tell children that their teeth will fall out.
Trains are used to transport materials across the Alps, the Rockies, the Urals, the Andes and across mountains all over this globe. I believe that the highest molehill here in Michigan is Mount Arvon in Baraga County at about 3,000 feet.
I do not recall that there is anything remotely approaching that height between Marquette and Humboldt Township. Do train engines only work going downhill? If so, how do they get back to the top of the hill? Is it like a giant sleigh where the workers have to drag it back up to the summit?
There are probably a hundred or even a thousand good reasons not to give a child a piece of candy before lunch – spoiling of appetite, substitution of empty calories for nutritious food, etc..
But please do not insult my intelligence by telling me that rail transport will cause my teeth to fall out.
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Listen to 'The Sound of St. Cloud State,' again
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
The Husky Sports Band released its third CD "The Sound of St. Cloud State" in May.
The 25-track CD includes music performances from the football and basketball seasons such as "University Hymn" by Amy Dale and Harvey Waugh, "Rawhide" by Ned Washington and Dimitri Tiomkin and "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond.
Band president Deondre Smiles, a senior from Maple Grove majoring in geography, said his favorite tracks on the disc are the drum cadences. "It shows off the drumline, and highlights the hard work we put in," he said. Smiles also was a part of "The Sound of St. Cloud State" CD that was released in 2010.
More than 80 student musicians performed on the disc and they now have some semblance of an idea of what goes into releasing a CD, Smiles said. They certainly now know the pressures of playing to perfection.
"When you're performing on the football field or in the stands, it's live music and a mistake here and there won't hurt anything. At a recording session, things
can drag on if the music isn't absolutely perfect, so there's pressure to perform at your absolute best," Smiles said.
Pressure or not, Smile's favorite part of being in the Husky Sports Band is twofold: "It's great to be able to make music with your friends and help the Huskies win, all at the same time."
Founded in 2006, the Husky Sports Band performs for athletic and campus community events. Glen Tuomaala is the director. Membership is open to university and local high school students.
"The Sound of St. Cloud State" is available for $10 at the information desk in Atwood Memorial Center and online at cdbaby. com/cd/huskysportsband. The songs also are available for download online.


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Topic: Still struggling with selection option in form helpers
I have a simple selection list in a form. I'd like it to select the option with the same idea as a variable passed by a link tag. I've tried 3 different ways of creating the selection list now and still can't seem to get it working.
The link:
<%= link_to 'Add Task', :controller => "tasks", :action => 'new', :project_id => project %>
The recieving partial:
Associated Project

<select id="task_project_id" name="task[project_id]" >
@projects = Project.find(:all)
options_for_select(@projects.collect {|p| [p.name,p.id] }, params[:project_id])
P.S. How do you make the code in these forms have line numbers and pretty formatting. I figure if you magnificent moderaters are willing to help me through the learning curve I might as well make things a little more readable.
-SICP (Abelson, Sussman)


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iHerb Customer Reviews
Savings of: CA$10.63 (15% off)
Good Product
Posted by energetyx on Aug 23, 2013
I've tried a number of alternatives to whey protein powders, and this is definitely one of the best. It mixes better than other rice protein powders, tastes pretty good and has an excellent nutritional profile. However, it still doesn't compare to the smoothness and versatility of whey protein and has a noticeably dry/course texture. Expensive, too.
good protein
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Love the ingredients not too much the flavor. I LOVE chocolate and was a little disappointed in the lack of flavor
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Rewards for McCourt living right I guess.
Like Calcaterra said, owning a MLB franchise is a license to print money. I've been sympathetic to Dolan's ownership until now. But with the revelation of the Indians profit and now this... time to call bullshit on all of the crying poor.


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Debates of May 27th, 2002
House of Commons Hansard #192 of the 37th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was life.
- Business of the House
- Child Predator Act
- Assisted Human Reproduction Act
- Legal Aid
- Memorial Cup
- World Partnership Walk
- Jesse Rosensweet
- Hepatitis Awareness Month
- Member for York Centre
- Féria du vélo de Montréal
- Government Contracts
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
- Member for Glengarry--Prescott--Russell
- National Defence
- Ottawa Jewish Community
- Cabinet Shuffle
- Ottawa Jewish Community
- Fisheries
- Kenner Collegiate
- Liberal Party of Canada
- UV Index
- Government Contracts
- Research and Development
- Health
- Government Contracts
- Softwood Lumber
- Government Contracts
- Boat Towing
- La soirée du hockey
- Ethics Counsellor
- Ferry Services
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
- Employment Insurance
- Government Response to Petitions
- Committees of the House
- Business of the House
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Standing Orders
- Request for Emergency Debate
- Assisted Human Reproduction Act
- Public Safety Act, 2002
Assisted Human Reproduction Act
Government Orders
1:45 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
James Rajotte Edmonton Southwest, AB
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments from my colleague.
I will speak to the amendment to Bill C-56, which states:
...this House declines to give second reading to Bill C-56, an act respecting assisted human reproduction, since the principle of the bill does not recognize the value of non-embryonic stem cell research which has had great advancements in the last year.
As my colleague pointed out, this is really one of the main points which was in the official opposition report to the health committee that studied the draft bill: that we have a three year moratorium on embryonic stem cell research, that we proceed with caution on these serious and grave ethical matters, and that in areas like adult stem cell research where the potential is quite frankly limitless at this point and is unknown, let us use these three years to really examine those alternatives. As the former leader of the opposition, Preston Manning, used to say, where there is an ethical route and a scientific route that converge, that is the route that should be taken.
I do want to quote extensively from an article in the New York Times of March 7, 2002, because it does point to some of the potential of adult stem cell research. It stated:
Adding an important piece to the rapidly changing picture of human stem cells, researchers have found that cells from the blood can regenerate not just the blood supply, but tissues of the skin, liver and gut.
This means that adult stem cells may actually be very potent, which was previously thought to be a criteria that applied only to embryonic cells.
The finding strengthens the emerging view that the body may possess a cache of universal repair cells that could patch up almost any damaged tissue. These repair cells, probably located in the bone marrow and fairly easy to harvest, can move out into the bloodstream and help regenerate any tissue that signals it is in distress.
Such a theory is far from proved, but if true could lead, some scientists believe, to new therapies aimed at enhancing the natural process.
This could be a possible answer to the pleas from people who, as all of us do, know people who suffer from degenerative diseases like Parkinson's. This could be the hope for them. The embryonic stem cells are being held out as the only hope for them when in fact there could be another hope for them in dealing with these diseases.
The article goes on to quote Dr. Helen Blau, a stem cell expert at Stanford University, who stated:
This appears to be a regenerative response we were never previously aware of. It suggests there may be a repair mechanism that goes on throughout life but is insufficient in major disease. If we could amplify this mechanism it could become a whole new form of medicine based on using the body's own cells to treat disease.
Some researchers even say that we should do the embryonic stem cell research because we need that as a comparative study for adult stem cell research, but again, in an area ethically fraught with danger, we believe we should proceed with caution.
I want to continue quoting this article because it is interesting. It stated:
The new finding is based on patients who received transplants of blood-forming cells from relatives after cancer treatments that had destroyed their own bone marrow cells.
...In a similar study reported this January, patients' own cells were found to have become incorporated in transplanted hearts. But this is the first report that human donor stem cells, presumably from the bone marrow, can populate several different kinds of tissue.
There is another quote, from a Dr. Donald Orlic of the National Institutes of Health, the advisory board to the president, who stated:
What is so good about this study is that it is showing bone-marrow derived stem cells demonstrating a high degree of plasticity because they have repopulated three organs.
Stated the article:
Plasticity is the stem cell's ability to become several types of mature cell.
Biologists have believed until recently that each tissue in the body has its own dedicated source of stem cells that repair just that tissue. While this idea still seems true, bone marrow has begun to emerge as a source of general purpose stem cells that work to repair damage wherever it occurs. It is not clear if the system of stem cells found in particular tissues is entirely separate, or somehow dependent on the bone marrow system.
What does seem clear is that the bone marrow stem cells are far more versatile than the tissue specific stem cells.
Physicians have already learned how to make the blood-forming stem cells rush out of the marrow into the bloodstream by injecting a person with a natural factor or cytokine called GCSF. The stem cells can then be harvested from a donor's bloodstream and used instead of a marrow transplant.
The patients studied by [this] team received blood-borne cells harvested from their donors in this way. Though the cells that contributed to the patients' skin, gut and liver presumably came from the donors' bone marrow, this has not been proved.
This suggests that there needs to be more research in this area to see exactly what the potential is.
The article went on and stated:
But experiments with mice have revealed the bone marrow as a source of versatile stem cells that can incorporate into several tissues, including the heart.
Bone marrow stem cells may in fact repair many, if not all, tissues and perhaps on a daily basis. But the repair system obviously fails to cope quickly enough with major damage, such as the loss of tissue in heart attacks. Perhaps, with the use of cytokines like GCSF, the marrow repair system could be brought to bear in many types of disease.
The...researchers said they were considering several such approaches, including collecting marrow cells from a donor's blood and injecting them directly into a damaged organ. "We might see the first clinical data in two or three years," Dr. Körbling said. Dr. Orlic is working along these same lines and plans to see if GCSF-induced marrow cells can reverse heart attacks in rhesus monkeys before testing the approach in people.
It seems to me that particularly when we are embarking upon this new area of research where we have great potential in adult stem cell research, we ought to focus our efforts and resources in that area rather than embarking upon the ethically fraught area of embryonic stem cell research. That brings me back to a point I made in my previous speech. The bill fails to include or refer to arguments of first principle, that is, we are discussing issues on the surface without defining some of the most fundamental things before we get into those arguments.
The official opposition has asked that the preamble be amended by including the phrase "the dignity of and respect for human life". That needs to be in the bill. It was in the Liberal majority report. It was in the official opposition's minority report and it needs to be in the forefront of the bill. It also needs to be in clause 22 of the bill as the primary objective of this new assisted human reproductive agency. It needs to have that as a guideline.
I come back to the whole issue that was highlighted, as I mentioned before, in the discussion between Preston Manning and Ms. Françoise Baylis from Dalhousie University. Ms. Baylis stated:
The first thing to recognize in the legislation and in all of your conversations is that embryos are human beings. That is an uncontested biological fact. They are a member of the human species. What is contested is their moral status. The language we use there is technical and that's where we talk about persons.
Therefore, the distinction for her is the distinction between a human being, which an embryo is, and a human person, but what has to be done in the bill and throughout the land on all of these life issues, I think, is that we then must distinguish between a human person and a human being, if there is a distinction. Maybe there is not a distinction. That is the debate we need to have in this place.
Ms. Baylis stated:
I think what becomes very clear is that when you're talking about embryos, you don't need to have a debate about whether or not they're human or human beings. The answer's yes. That's a biological claim. The term "person", however, is not a biological term. It is not a term about which there are facts. It's a moral term. It's a value-laden term about which people will disagree, and they will then point to facts to try to tell you that their definition is the right one.
It seems to me that this is the main issue for us to debate here. Quite frankly I am not one who will stand in the House and say I know all the answers as to what exactly makes up a human person and a human being, but I have studied the issue. I have read the words of people like George Grant, one of the most pre-eminent Canadian philosophers of all time, who said this is the most fundamental question for any society because it impacts on so many other pieces of legislation and it impacts on how we value human life. He said that we have to decide what it is that is common to human beings and yet unique to them, so that we can stand up and say we have a charter of rights that says human persons have a right to life.
If human persons have a right to life, then we had better justify why it is they have that right to life. Is it the exercise of reason? Is it the capacity to exercise reason? Is it free will? Is it the capacity to exercise free will?
We have to decide exactly why it is we say that human beings or human persons have a right to life and the right not to be deprived thereof, or that for certain things such as an embryo, even an excess embryo created through IVF, somehow we can destroy that life and use it for research purposes. We need to answer that very fundamental question and debate that question in the House before we decide on what particulars the bill will have. That is the main point. That is why the official opposition has introduced this amendment, quite frankly: to ensure that this issue and this debate receive full deliberation and to ensure that in this very sensitive area we move very cautiously and prudently.
Legal Aid
Statements By Members
May 27th, 2002 / 1:55 p.m.
Charles Caccia Davenport, ON
Mr. Speaker, apparently legal aid fees have not been increased since 1987. It was reported last week that as a result 46 Ontario regional law committees had withdrawn their services from legal aid work.
In addition, at the largest gathering of lawyers in British Columbia history, lawyers demanded that the attorney general restore the $48 million he plans to divert from legal aid.
Speaking to the Defence Counsel Association of Ottawa, lawyer David Scott said that low rates for lawyers have reduced our legal aid programs to "token systems", where the rights of the poor are breached routinely.
Time is long overdue for governments to bring legal aid funding to fair levels. All Canadians must have access to legal counsel regardless of wealth.
Memorial Cup
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Jim Abbott Kootenay—Columbia, BC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Kootenay Ice won the Memorial Cup in Guelph, Ontario.
Let us look at the team's history. In Cranbrook for only four years, the first two playing at the old Cranbrook Memorial Arena with a seating capacity of only 1,500, the Ice won the Western Hockey League championship in their second year, then moved to the new Cranbrook Recplex.
Now at 4,500 screaming fans, they decisively won the Western Hockey League championship this year. The Kootenay Ice lost their first two playoff games at home, but just like the rest of the residents in my constituency, they did not give up. They came back, first defeating Prince George, then Kelowna and then a very strong team from Red Deer.
Coached by Ryan McGill, the Ice moved on to win the Memorial Cup with a convincing 6-3 win over the Victoriaville Tigres. I wish to extend congratulations to team owner Ed Chynoweth and particularly to the players, who showed so much character in playing a controlled, disciplined, forceful style of hockey.
I was proud to be among the hundreds of Kootenay residents who went to Guelph, Ontario to cheer for the Ice. Fans and players were fire on ice.
World Partnership Walk
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Marlene Jennings Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, QC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday thousands of Canadians in cities across the country participated in the 18th annual World Partnership Walk. The Aga Khan Foundation organizes the annual walk in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and Portugal. It raises money for development projects in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia.
This year's walk brought in an estimated $2.6 million in Canada, 25% more than last year. There was also record breaking participation in many cities.
In the past 18 years this entirely volunteer run event has raised millions of dollars for the funding of early childhood development, health care improvements and rural development.
I ask all hon. members to join me in congratulating the Aga Khan Foundation on another successful World Partnership Walk and in applauding them for their very important work.
Jesse Rosensweet
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Sarmite Bulte Parkdale—High Park, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am both happy and proud to rise today and announce to the House that a Canadian was awarded one of the most coveted prizes of the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, which ended yesterday in France.
Toronto filmmaker Jesse Rosensweet won the jury prize for his short film The Stone of Folly during the closing ceremony of the 55th Cannes festival.
His animated film, lasting eight minutes, is a dark comedy about the adventures in a hospital during medieval times. Of the 11 short films listed in the official competition, The Stone of Folly was the clear audience favourite.
I invite the House to join me in congratulating Jesse Rosensweet for this major accomplishment. I am certain that we will be hearing more about him in the near future.
Bravo, Jesse.
Hepatitis Awareness Month
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Carolyn Bennett St. Paul's, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to inform the House that May has been declared Hepatitis Awareness Month by the Canadian Liver Foundation.
Hepatitis is the most prevalent liver disease in this country. It affects over a half million Canadian men, women and children. Hepatitis C, which spread by contact with contaminated blood, is expected to reach epidemic proportions in Canada increasing the number of liver related deaths by 126% and the demand for donor organs by 61% by the year 2008.
Hepatitis A and B are the only forms of liver disease that are preventable by vaccine, yet thousands of people still contract these diseases each year because they do not understand their risks or how to protect themselves.
The Canadian Liver Foundation was the first organization in the world committed to reducing the incidence and the impact of hepatitis and other forms of liver disease.
For those living with hepatitis, the foundation's 30 volunteer chapters across the country are a valuable source of information and support. I ask the House to join me today in honouring the Canadian Liver Foundation and its volunteers during Hepatitis Awareness Month.
Member for York Centre
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Brian Pallister Portage—Lisgar, MB
Mr. Speaker, I remember just a couple of months ago, when we were asking questions about the conduct of the Minister of National Defence, that he was having some trouble explaining about his men taking al-Qaeda prisoners in Afghanistan. He was not very clear on when he had been briefed, on when he had been rebriefed, on when he had told the caucus, on when he had told the Prime Minister and on why he had not told the Prime Minister. However the Prime Minister still refused to replace that minister.
That was not all. The defence minister was not sure about uniforms. He was not too clear on the rules of engagement. He was not very solid on helicopters. He was not all that impressive on any of it, quite frankly. Still he stayed on in the job until Sunday when the overwhelming incompetence caught up with the staggering lack of ethics.
Canadians deserve better.
Member for York Centre
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
The Speaker
I think the hon. member knows that attacks on members are not permitted under Standing Order 31 statements.
Féria du vélo de Montréal
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Raymonde Folco Laval West, QC
Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, the 11th Tour des enfants launched the Féria du vélo de Montréal. During this event, more than 6,500 kids rode 20 km on bicycles in the streets of Montreal.
It took a great deal of courage and perseverance for these kids to brave mother nature and take up this challenge. Afterwards, they clearly relished the celebrations planned for them.
Throughout the weekend, Montrealers were encouraged to use their bikes to travel the streets of the city.
Adults are also invited to take up the challenge of the Tour de l'Île, which will be held at the end of the week and will close this year's Féria du vélo de Montréal. Many kilometers of streets will be reserved for the use of cyclists. Take advantage of it.
Government Contracts
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Diane Bourgeois Terrebonne—Blainville, QC
Mr. Speaker, for several weeks now, the media, the opposition parties and all those who believe in transparency have been asking the government to launch a public inquiry.
New revelations are made daily. The reports from Groupaction, the contracts to L'Almanach du peuple , and the connections linking the former minister of public works and the minister of immigration to an advertising firm seem to be just the tip of the iceberg.
Over the weekend, we learned that another minister, namely the Minister of National Defence, displayed favoritism by awarding a $36,500 contract to his ex-girlfriend.
How many more scandals will have to be unearthed before the Prime Minister realizes the need for a public inquiry?
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Mauril Bélanger Ottawa—Vanier, ON
Mr. Speaker, on May 23 the Ontario health minister, Tony Clement, announced that the heart and vascular surgery unit of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario will close in April 2003.
When the CHEO unit closes, eastern Ontario children requiring vascular surgery or emergency cardiac procedures will have to travel approximately 400 kilometres to Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children to receive the medical attention they so desperately require.
CHEO serves a population of approximately 1.5 million people in eastern Ontario. Why would 140 children per year who require cardiac or vascular procedures travel to Toronto when an effective unit exists already at CHEO? Not only will this put some children at risk, it will worsen the almost unbearable stress already experienced by these children and their families. Centralization is not the best way to improve health care delivery in Ontario.
While he attempts to explain this most recent announcement to eastern Ontarians, I wonder if Mr. Clement will declare that Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children will offer its services in both official languages, as the CHEO has been mandated to do.
Member for Glengarry--Prescott--Russell
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Betty Hinton Kamloops, Thompson And Highland Valleys, BC
Mr. Speaker, let us rewind the tape to last Thursday. The minister of public works was having a very difficult day explaining to the House that he might have made a little mistake in selecting a departmental contractor's home for a family vacation weekend but that it really was not all that bad.
Opposition question after opposition question called for him to do the honourable thing and resign. "No, no, Mr. Speaker", said the minister, "there is no reason to resign". "No, no, Mr. Speaker", said the Prime Minister, "I have confidence in my minister".
Two days later the world changed. The minister was tossed out of his portfolio and was no longer credible in the role of clean-up guy.
However, in a strange twist he reappears in his old job and Canadians are left to wonder whether he was fired, punished, rewarded or given a get out of jail free card from the Prime Minister.
When it comes to ethics and morals, there is much to wonder about with this government.
National Defence
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Janko Peric Cambridge, ON
Mr. Speaker, I would like to welcome the 136 Kiowa air cadet squadron from Ayr and the 21 Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada army cadets from Cambridge.
Founded two years ago, the 136 Kiowa is Canada's newest air cadet squadron while the 21 army cadet corps was formed in 1887. The 121 Galt branch of the Royal Canadian Legion sponsors both groups.
The national cadet organization promotes leadership, responsibility, discipline, good citizenship, physical fitness, communication skills and an interest in the Canadian forces. Cadets receive hands on training that complements school studies with some education boards accepting cadet subjects for school credits.
My riding of Cambridge has a long and proud history of involvement with the national cadet program and I welcome these cadets to Ottawa as they learn about parliament and our federal institutions.
Ottawa Jewish Community
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Judy Wasylycia-Leis Winnipeg North Centre, MB
Mr. Speaker, the Ottawa Jewish community is living in fear today, its religious institutions under siege as police have warned of an impending attack on a local synagogue. This is disturbing in itself but even more so because it is part of a pattern of hate motivated crimes against Jewish institutions across Canada.
Just a week ago Quebec City's only synagogue was firebombed. Earlier attacks occurred against Jewish institutions in Saskatoon, Toronto, Montreal and Edmonton. This is not to mention the rise in anti-Semitic vandalism and personal assaults. There have been 110 reports of anti-Semitic incidents this year alone. In Winnipeg, members of the Jewish community report an increase in incidents of verbal abuse, racial slurs and damaging graffiti.
These horrific developments demand our immediate attention. As the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg has said, the situation requires the Canadian government to be bold, decisive and unequivocal in speaking out against what has become a well planned campaign of hatred and vilification.
Let us stand today against the rising tide of anti-Semitism and against racially and religiously motivated hatred any time it happens, anywhere in Canada.
Cabinet Shuffle
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Pierrette Venne Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday, after being pressured for several months because of a series of scandals, the Prime Minister was forced to make an urgent cabinet shuffle, the second one in four months, and he demoted the minister of public works.
Yet, this minister had been appointed in January to clean up the department after the controversial Alfonso Gagliano left, in the midst of accusations of political interference.
With this new shuffle, the Prime Minister is once again hoping to clear his government of the multiple accusations that are being levelled at it.
But no one will be fooled. This is a cosmetic shuffle, a sad attempt to divert people's attention from the real problem, which is the corruption that plagues this government. We all know that the real problem remains and the Prime Minister can rest assured that the Bloc Quebecois will get to the bottom of things.


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Debates of Oct. 1st, 2010
House of Commons Hansard #75 of the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was seniors.
- Question Period
- Federal Sustainable Development Act
- Government Spending
- Ministerial Responsibility
- Seniors
- Ministerial Responsibility
- G8 and G20 Summits
- The Economy
- Quebec City Arena
- Agriculture
- Census
- Justice
- Harmonized Sales Tax
- Employment Insurance
- Potash Industry
- Steel Industry
- Employment Insurance
- G8 and G20 Summits
- Veterans Affairs
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Justice
- G8 and G20 Summits
- Airport Security
- Foreign Affairs
- Leader of the Liberal Party
- Russia
- National Order of Agricultural Merit
- Veterans Affairs
- Decriminalization of Marijuana
- Seniors
- Liberal Party
- Granby International Song Festival
- Seniors
- Commonwealth Games
- Seniors
- Aviation Safety
- Right to Vote
- Billy Diamond
- Governor General of Canada
- Doug Korpleinsky
- Committees of the House
- Pope John Paul II Act
- Retirement Income Bill of Rights
- First Nations Financial Transparency Act
- Criminal Code
- Committees of the House
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
Leader of the Liberal Party
Statements By Members
10:15 a.m.
Dick Harris Cariboo—Prince George, BC
Mr. Speaker, while Canadians are concerned about the economy and jobs, the Liberal leader clearly has other priorities.
On Wednesday when Parliament was debating employment insurance, an important issue to Canadian workers and business, the Liberal leader bizarrely announced that the issue was the census, not EI. In the same week that Statistics Canada reported on the country's economic growth, the Liberal leader said that his priority was to make it easier to possess and use marijuana. The census, marijuana, it seems like everything is a priority for the Liberal leader, except the economy.
There is little wonder that the Liberal leader does not want to talk about the economy. His economic agenda includes increasing taxes on Canadian business, lowering the EI qualifying period to 45 days, increasing the GST back to 7%, and throwing in the Liberal leader's iPod tax.
There is quite a brain trust going on over there.
Statements By Members
October 1st, 2010 / 10:15 a.m.
Borys Wrzesnewskyj Etobicoke Centre, ON
Madam Speaker, in late August I introduced the leader of the democratic opposition and former deputy prime minister of Russia, Mr. Boris Nemtsov, at the Black Ribbon Day Conference at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre, hosted by the Central and Eastern European Council of Canada.
The following day Mr. Nemtsov and more than 100 democracy activists were arrested. Some were imprisoned using Soviet-style laws for participating in unsanctioned meetings.
Prime Minister Putin openly threatened the activists and established a new tenet of Putinism, stating, "You will be beaten on your skull with a truncheon. And that's that".
Commenting on the west's silence, Russia's leading broadcast journalist, the exiled Evgeny Kiselev, lamented that the west "has traded the Russian democratic opposition for oil and gas".
The Russian people are fighting for their constitutional rights of free assembly and of free media.
Will the Conservative government publicly and unequivocally condemn Mr. Putin's slide toward authoritarianism and his campaign of arrests of human and democratic rights activists in Russia?
National Order of Agricultural Merit
Statements By Members
10:15 a.m.
André Bellavance Richmond—Arthabaska, QC
Mr. Speaker, Ferme St-Ours inc., run by Chantal and Martine Bourgeois and Serge Lefebvre from Saint-Ours, recently won a gold medal from the Ordre national du mérite agricole. As president of the Fédération des producteurs d'oeufs de consommation du Québec, Mr. Lefebvre is well known for defending supply management.
Since 1993, Ferme St-Ours has specialized in table egg production, maple syrup production and crop farming, with an approach to farming that is rooted in innovation, respect and authenticity.
The Ordre national du mérite agricole also honoured 20 or so other farms including Les Vergers Denis Charbonneau Inc. in Mont Saint-Grégoire, which won a silver medal, and Ferme Tullochgorum SENC in Ormstown, which won a bronze medal.
On behalf of my Bloc Québécois colleagues, I want to congratulate the owners of Ferme St-Ours and the other recipients on these richly deserved honours. Quebec's agriculture industry stands out because of passionate people like these.
Veterans Affairs
Statements By Members
10:15 a.m.
Irene Mathyssen London—Fanshawe, ON
Madam Speaker, when we ask Canadian soldiers to put their lives on the line in combat or peacekeeping missions, Canada needs to ensure that when these men and women return home, they are properly supported, that we fulfill our obligations to them as they fulfilled theirs to Canada.
The government is offering only band-aid solutions to veterans and ignoring the clawback of benefits, inequities in the ranking system, and the closing of beds in veterans hospitals.
Shamefully, the government is closing half the veterans beds at London's Parkwood Hospital and downloading responsibility for modern-day veterans to the province.
Caregivers at veterans facilities across the country have the expertise and skill to provide the top-level and specific care that is required. The hospital provides the appropriate supports that give quality of life to veterans.
The recent announcement on the reforms to the veterans charter are only words. What veterans need is real action.
The only way the Department of Veterans Affairs can hope to regain any legitimacy is by allowing a full public inquiry into its treatment of veterans.
Decriminalization of Marijuana
Statements By Members
10:20 a.m.
Shelly Glover Saint Boniface, MB
Madam Speaker, it is starting to make sense why the Liberal leader's team has endorsed the job-killing 45-day work year.
His star candidate from B.C., Ross Rebagliati, knows very well that working a little here and a little there, as he calls it, basically just being Ross, is enough to get by if the coalition has its way. Working 45 days a year gives someone a lot of time to sit around the couch.
A media headline this week indicated that the Liberal leader would reintroduce a marijuana decriminalization bill. There is no smoky haze here. The Liberals are very clear that they would decriminalize pot and advocate for a job-killing 45-day work year. The Liberals are really out of touch with Canadians.
Our government will not support this legislation that sends the wrong message to our kids about marijuana.
Statements By Members
10:20 a.m.
Judy Sgro York West, ON
Madam Speaker, today is Canada's first National Seniors Day, a day enacted to recognize the contributions made to society by seniors in every region of Canada.
While I am pleased to offer my appreciation to the millions of seniors who work hard every day to help build Canada, I would prefer to show that appreciation.
Canadian seniors continue to struggle. We hear that every day. Inadequate pension rates, low-income thresholds, unfair clawback rules and living expenses that are increasing faster than the payout rate are each contributing to less and less gold in one's golden years.
Seniors are not asking for a national day; they are asking for national action. It has now been 612 days since the government promised that kind of action and seniors are tired of empty promises.
Let us hope that in the spirit of seniors day, we will finally nudge the government to start showing, not just saying, that it cares about seniors.
Liberal Party
Statements By Members
10:20 a.m.
Jacques Gourde Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, QC
Madam Speaker, the Liberal Party leader's priorities are very clear. He wants to tax Canadians more so that people can get employment insurance benefits after working for just 45 days; he wants to hike taxes; and he also wants to decriminalize marijuana. Our government is trying to maintain the necessary and fragile equilibrium between supporting economic renewal and keeping the employment insurance program solvent.
We all know that the Liberal government literally raided billions of dollars from the employment insurance fund. Now that they are the opposition, the Liberals want to permanently increase premiums by 35%. That is not what Canadians want and, once again, the Liberals are not listening to them.
As for the Liberal-backed marijuana legislation, our government will never support a law that sends such a bad message to the youth of our country.
Granby International Song Festival
Statements By Members
10:20 a.m.
Monique Guay Rivière-du-Nord, QC
Madam Speaker, on Wednesday, the Festival international de la chanson de Granby was awarded the Prix du 3-juillet-1608 for its exemplary work defending and promoting French language and culture in America. This prize is awarded by the Conseil supérieur de la langue française and commemorates Samuel de Champlain's founding of Quebec City.
The Festival international de la chanson de Granby has been one of the largest promoters of francophone artists over the past 42 years. Through this festival, our artists and their songs are able to get wide exposure abroad because they receive the resources they need while seeking the goal of preserving the beauty of our language. This prize rewards the efforts put forth by the festival's organizers and participants.
On behalf of the Bloc Québécois, I would like to offer our congratulations on this prize and our best wishes for a futures as rich as the past.
Statements By Members
10:20 a.m.
Ed Komarnicki Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Madam Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to rise in the House to recognize today as the International Day of Older Persons and the proposed day in Bill C-40 to be Canada's National Seniors Day. In June the Minister of State for Seniors introduced Celebrating Canada's Seniors Act, which passed with the support of all parties in the House.
This Conservative government recognizes the important involvement of seniors in our communities and their valuable contributions to Canada as a whole. They are volunteers, mentors, business leaders and experienced workers.
When I think of a senior who volunteered all of his life in many capacities, I think of my long-time acquaintance and friend, Bob Burns of Estevan, Saskatchewan, who at 80 years of age still umpires ball.
On behalf of the Government of Canada and all Canadians, I would like to say a big thanks to the seniors of our country.
Commonwealth Games
Statements By Members
10:25 a.m.
Joyce Murray Vancouver Quadra, BC
Madam Speaker, I stand here to wish great success to our Canadian delegation at the Commonwealth Games starting Monday in India.
After the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, I understand the substantial money, time and effort involved in hosting and on behalf of Canadians I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to India for hosting this year's games.
The first Commonwealth Games were held in Hamilton, Canada in 1930. Thus began a long tradition that has played out every four years since then. These events remind us that sports have an incredible unifying power because they bring people from all four corners of the world together.
Competitive sport has the power to deliver lasting benefits, transforming people, communities and cultures. I applaud our athletes' commitment and perseverance. They inspire our youth to reach further, push harder and achieve personal successes.
We wish our Canadian athletes the best of luck. Our hearts and minds are with them. May the games begin and may they win gold.
Statements By Members
10:25 a.m.
Dave Van Kesteren Chatham-Kent—Essex, ON
Madam Speaker, today Canada joins the international community to celebrate the United Nations International Day of Older Persons. October 1 is also the day designated in Bill C-40 to be Canada's National Seniors Day.
In my riding of Chatham-Kent--Essex, I have conducted a series of visits to seniors homes, where I converse with seniors in an exercise called "listening to seniors". It is one of my most enjoyable functions, where a wealth of wisdom and advice is gleaned from our oldest and wisest citizens. We talk about the Canada they grew up in and the changes they experienced, good or not so good. They offer an abundance of great advice about where we ought to go and how we ought to get there.
I am thankful for our seniors and forever grateful to them for the Canada they have helped build. I treasure the time I have been able to spend with each one of them and look forward to our next appointment with "listening to seniors".
Aviation Safety
Statements By Members
10:25 a.m.
Dennis Bevington Western Arctic, NT
Madam Speaker, last week Canadians who fly in and out of Victoria harbour learned that the government, through its lack of interest in safety, is putting their lives at risk. A report by QualaTech-Aero Consulting showed that despite 10 years of promises, Transport Canada has not taken any safety planning actions.
Victoria is the third busiest float plane base in the world. Transport Canada is the owner and operator, as well as the regulator. Despite this, the harbour airport does not even meet Transport Canada regulations. But get this: Without any safety plan in place, the minister has given the green light to the development of a mega-marina which will create major hazards to sailboat masts.
Over and over again the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities has learned how lax the government is when it comes to aviation safety. When will the minister take up his responsibility and protect Canadians who fly?
Right to Vote
Statements By Members
10:25 a.m.
Jay Hill Prince George—Peace River, BC
Madame Speaker, I rise today to remind Canadians of their democratic duty.
Never have I been prouder to be Canadian than when I helped to serve a hot Christmas dinner in 2006 to troops just coming off the front lines in Afghanistan, and again in the last election when I received an email from a commanding officer detailing how his troops were willingly accepting additional risks to deliver ballot boxes to those same front lines, to ensure that no soldier missed the opportunity to vote.
Compare these young Canadians, who are already putting their young lives on the line to bring democracy to a war-torn land, including extra risks in the name of democracy, with citizens back home in Canada who have become so apathetic, they cannot even be bothered to cross the street to vote.
There is no greater privilege than having the right to vote. People have died to preserve that right; indeed some people still are in some lands. I implore all Canadians to think about their choices and re-engage in the political process.
Billy Diamond
Statements By Members
10:25 a.m.
Louis Plamondon Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, QC
Madam Speaker, we were saddened to hear that Billy Diamond, a well-known aboriginal political personality in Quebec, has passed away.
He was a founding member of the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec, serving as Grand Chief from 1974 to 1984. In 1975, he signed the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, which led to the construction of large hydroelectric dams on James Bay, on behalf of the Cree community of northern Quebec. He also represented the Quebec Cree and the Assembly of First Nations during the constitutional conferences of 1982 and 1983. He was also a businessman involved in various Cree businesses, including Air Creebec. In 1987, he was made a knight of the National Order of Quebec in recognition of his contributions and his legacy.
My Bloc Québécois colleagues and I salute Mr. Diamond's involvement. We wish to convey our sincere condolences to his wife, Elizabeth, and their six children.
Governor General of Canada
Statements By Members
10:30 a.m.
Mario Silva Davenport, ON
Madam Speaker, on behalf of my colleagues in the Liberal caucus, I would like to salute Governor General designate David Johnston and his wife as they begin their new roles today.
Mr. Johnston has had an impressive career as an educator, legal scholar, athlete and university president of both McGill and Waterloo. Governor General David Johnston has inspired Canadians in the classroom and has brought international recognition to Canada's capacity for science, research and development. As a renowned academic and university leader, he has shown his tremendous dedication to post-secondary education and its role in building an innovative, highly skilled future for Canada.
We have full confidence that Governor General David Johnston will perform his constitutional duties with grace and dignity, acting within the principles of Canada's parliamentary democracy. We know he will ensure continuous and stable governance in a non-partisan manner and continue the tradition of the excellence established by his predecessors.


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Topic: Heroku stoped showing my css
I have no idea what change or where to check but Heroku stoped showing my css.
i looks great on my local host. Where can i look for this problem?
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I have no idea what change or where to check but Heroku stoped showing my css.
i looks great on my local host. Where can i look for this problem?
Sounds like you haven't got asset_pipeline configured properly on deployment
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/r line-cedar
Thanks i will look at this and hope that it works again
I notice that my images are working fine the the asset_pipeline but not my css
do you know what order the assets get loaded?
You need to make sure the css is getting compiled properly. It's not about the order things are loaded in. Did you get any errors when you compiled them?
i have not seen any errors when i compile. the momand that i am using to compile is
bundle exec rake assets:precompile
bundle exec rake assets:precompile
/Users/moiseszaragoza/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby /Users/moiseszaragoza/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global/bin/rake assets:precompile:all RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_GROUPS=assets
Did you ever solve this?
i move everything to the public folder but i still want to use the assets pipeline
not solved
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AU-ABC is an initiative between Air University and civilian higher education institutions (including Wayland Baptist University) to offer baccalaureate degree programs via distance learning that are relevant to an individual's Air Force career field.
The program is designed to transfer CCAF credits so students can obtain a bachelor's degree with no more than 60 additional semester credits. Students will be able to go to one centralized web site, the Air Force Virtual Education Center, for their educational needs including approved degree programs offered through the AU-ABC Program.
The Applied Science major of Wayland Baptist University's Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) is classified as a Category 1 program for all 68 CCAF degree programs, by meeting the following criteria:
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Skip to comments.Gregory Mocks LaPierre for Proposing Armed Guards,Sends Kids to High-Security School
Posted on 12/23/2012 3:42:45 PM PST by jimbo123
David Gregory mocked the NRA's Wayne LaPierre for proposing that armed guards be at every school in America. But the NBC host seems to have no problem with armed guards protecting his kids everyday where they attend school in Washington, D.C.
The Gregory children go to school with the children of President Barack Obama, according to the Washington Post. That school is the co-ed Quaker school Sidwell Friends.
According to a scan of the school's online faculty-staff directory, Sidwell has a security department made up of at least 11 people. Many of those are police officers, who are presumably armed.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Too bad LaPierre wasn't armed with this fact going in. He could have made DG look silly.
Democrats are aghast at spending $8 Billion per year to protect schoolchildren yet they're only too happy to give Planned Parenthood millions of dollars per year to kill babies.
It's not possible to be a Progressive and not be a hypocrite.
The hypocrisy of the Dems never ceases to amaze me.
Democrats are aghast at spending $8 Billion per year to protect schoolchildren yet they're only too happy to give Planned Parenthood millions of dollars per year to kill babies.
Not even counting the secret service with their fully automatic weapons. Gregory is suvha tool...
It would have been edited out and thus become a non story
The NRA did a good job of setting the trap and catching the liberals in blatant hypocrisy.
There is now a list a mile long of liberals who personally avail themselves of armed guards in one guise or another, but would deny the average citizen to do likewise.
LA school district is the the second largest in the nation, or at least right up there. All high schools have police asigned to every campus. Have had for years. Will take action to protect via armed police, the rest of the schools soon and already have increased drive by patrols. Why don't liberals know their facts either.
As OBrien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped.
Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue.
You can turn it off! he said.
Yes, said OBrien, we can turn it off. We have that privilege.
You proles aren't even outer party so just shut up, pay your taxes and send your kids and grand-kids off to the gun-free indoctrination centers & killing zones.
I'll bet that he did it in French too.
It is obvious that liberals believe children are a valueless, expendable commodity. That's why I despise liberals.
These people are afraid of your guns. Which is why they want to take them away.
He should have been armed with the ammo against the elites sending their kids to armed and guarded schools.
In fact, this needs to be put out there in every interview and publication.
He should be waving a dvd box set of:
Or the Muslim Brotherhood billions and the crony capitalists who start up these phony green energy enterprises.
Wait a minute, federally funded armed guards are good if they are recommended by Clinton, but a Neanderthal idea if proposed by the NRA? So the content of the information isn't what makes something good or bad, it is who says the information.
More people need to know that what Wayne LaPierre suggested is what some beloved Democratic party leaders have suggested. What people also need to know is that truth doesn't matter, protecting our children doesn't matter, what matters to the left is gotcha politics.
America is going to get a symbolic solution that will produce no meaningful results because nothing else is possible without cooperation b all sides on the issue.
Sooooo tagable...
The solution is allow concealed carry at schools. That would not cost the tax payer much and would be very effective.
Flashback: Clinton Requests $60 Million to Put Cops in Schools
100% true too! ;-)
It appears that liberals would prefer more children to be endangered than to do something as unthinkable as actually agree with the bloodthirsty, evil NRA.
The real advantage of the concealed carry option is that until its pulled, no one knows who has one.
Armed guards can be spotted, distracted, eliminated, or just worked around. If the bad guys don't know who has what, planning one of their murderous escapades becomes much more difficult and problematical.
Even schools where no one carries will still benefit.
I'm sorry I missed the exchange between Gregory and Wayne LaPierre on Meet the Press. I'm in the process of moving into a new house and trying to get ready for the holidays, so I didn't check FR until late today, AFTER my oldest daughter ran into Gregory in the Charlotte airport. She said a lot of passengers were fawning over the guy; if I had known about his comments to Mr. LaPierre, I would have told her to ask Gregory about the armed guards at the private school attended by his children. She thinks Gregory is an ass and would have no problem embarrassing him in front of his "admirers."
One more thing: that eleven member security team at Sidwell Friends is just the tip of the iceberg. With Obama's daughters enrolled, there is a continuous Secret Service presence as well, and I'm guessing tax dollars have been spent to upgrade school security, just as the agency makes modifications at the homes of former presidents who still receive protection.
It's also rather interesting that Gregory's wife is a former general counsel for Fannie Mae who resigned from the organization after it imploded in 2008. Naturally, she was never sanctioned or faced criminal charges, and quickly became a partner at a major NYC law firm.
My daughter also found it curious that Mr. Gregory was on a flight to Lexington, KY today, traveling by himself. No family in tow, and no camera crew in tow. I wasn't aware of any breaking news out of Lexington today, certainly nothing that would require the presence of an NBC News star. I also can't find anything in Gregory's bio (or his wife's) that mentions any ties to the Commonwealth. Perhaps some KY FReepers can do a little digging.
A typical hypocritical ass. I hope whoever he has on next week finds a way to work that little factoid into the conversation.
He should have been armed with the ammo against the elites sending their kids to armed and guarded schools.
In fact, this needs to be put out there in every interview and publication.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education plan has raised graduation rates and created more high-quality schools, argues Paul T. Hill in The Atlantic. "Don't ditch it," writes Hill, who directs the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington.
Bill de Blasio, the likely next New York City mayor, has made a lot of promises about public education. No additional charter schools; no free space for many charter schools educating city kids; less reliance on student test performance to judge schools; and a moratorium on the closure of low-performing schools.
If the new mayor follows through, he'll dismantle Bloomberg's Children First reforms, writes Hill. That would be bad for students.
When Bloomberg became mayor, less than half the students in New York City's high schools graduated in four years. Today, nearly two-thirds graduate on time. Every year, more than 18,000 young people graduate high school than would have been expected in 2002. The percentage of graduates who enter college without needing to take remedial courses has doubled since 2001.
Furthermore, "new small high schools started during the Bloomberg administration are more effective than the schools they replaced," writes Hill.
On campuses where new small schools replaced large underperforming high schools, the overall graduation rate increased from 37.9 percent to 67.7 percent. . . . Students who entered the new small schools with the lowest test scores benefited from them the most.
New York City charter students are learning more than their counterparts in traditional schools, according to the most recent CREDO study. That's especially true for low-income minority students and special education students.
Across the city, in new schools and old ones, the trends are positive, writes Hill. New York's next mayor should commit to key parts of the Children First agenda:
Keep pupil-based funding. Continue to increase the share of total funding that goes directly to schools. The students most in need benefit most from pupil based funding.
Preserve gains in the teaching force via recruitment from many sources, rigorous tenure processes, and mutual consent hiring at the school level.
Keep opening new schools especially in neighborhoods where there are few or no high performing schools. Don't cut off chartering as one route to creating effective new schools.
Preserve gains in the quality of principals via rigorous selection and training and by maintaining principals' control over their school's staffing and spending, in-service teacher training, and purchases of assistance.
Perfect, don't scrap, reporting on student gains by school.
Keep performance based accountability and continue re-staffing and closing/replacing persistently ineffective schools.
Continue the iZone experiment with new uses of money and technology, and help all schools use ideas that are emerging.
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Youngstown native Terrance Dials was named Big Ten Player of the Year. Way to go Terrance! Finally, a Y-town Buckeye who isn't an embarrasment. Nice honor for a guy who has paid his dues.
Thad Matta=Big Ten Coach of the Year. No brainer here. What a stud. 44 wins in 2 years. This should be the beginning of a beautiful thing. Thad and Tress, the dynamic duo.
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I read rumors about this a while back, but now it looks confirmed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/arts/ ... nted=print
It's so much like Mick Jagger to do something like this. He's always trying to stay on top of the popular culture game. I'm not really knocking him for it - the show could be interesting.
I really have no problem with Mick acting like a star - ie, hanging out at Studio 54 back in the '70s, performing on MTV, etc. If anything, I'm sure it will be interesting.


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I have fixed Dutch and Russian language packages and added a bunch more for this board totalling 45 languages. What this means is the buttons links and so on can now be customized by each individual through the User Control Panel. To change the language you simply click on the User Control Panel, and then click Board preferences on the left and then select the language from the pulldown options in My language:
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