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Debates of Nov. 4th, 2009
House of Commons Hansard #107 of the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was vaccine.
- Question Period
- Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program
- Health
- Robert Gagné
- Status of Women
- United States Ambassador to Canada
- The Environment
- Take Our Kids to Work Day
- Canada Post
- Employment Insurance
- Media Literacy Week
- Bloc Québécois
- Northern and Rural Canadians
- Firearms Registry
- Literary Awards
- Cape Breton Highlanders
- Canadian Olympic Athletes
- Health
- Employment Insurance
- Health
- Infrastructure
- Health
- The Environment
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Health
- VIA Rail
- Employment Insurance
- Government Advertising
- Government Policies
- Quebec City Armoury
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Product Safety
- Firearms Registry
- International Aid
- Agriculture and Agri-Food
- Sealing Industry
- Presence in Gallery
- Supplementary Estimates (B), 2009-10
- Public Accounts of Canada
- Individual Member's Expenditures
- Civil Aviation Safety
- Pacific Coast Albacore Tuna Vessels and Port Privileges
- Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes
- Roméo LeBlanc
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Points of Order
- Committees of the House
- Holiday Harmonization Act
- Statements by Ministers
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Motions for Papers
- Business of Supply
- Criminal Code
- Business of Supply
- Employment Insurance Act
- Made in Canada Act
- Business of the House
- First Nation Cadet Programs
Public Accounts of Canada
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Vic Toews President of the Treasury Board
Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to table today, in both official languages, the Public Accounts of Canada, 2009.
The Government of Canada is committed to sound financial management and reporting. I am pleased to note that for the 11th consecutive year the Auditor General of Canada has provided an unqualified audit opinion of the Government of Canada's financial statements. I have the documents here.
Individual Member's Expenditures
Routine Proceedings
November 4th, 2009 / 3:10 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
Order, please. I have the honour to lay upon the table a document entitled "Individual Member's Expenditures" for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009.
Civil Aviation Safety
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Lawrence Cannon Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Speaker, with leave of the House and pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), I would like to table, in both official languages, a treaty entitled "Agreement on Civil Aviation Safety between Canada and the European Community" signed in Prague on May 6, 2009.
Pacific Coast Albacore Tuna Vessels and Port Privileges
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Lawrence Cannon Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Speaker, I would also like to table a document entitled "Exchange of Notes between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America concluding amendments to the Treaty between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America on Pacific Coast Albacore Tuna Vessels and Port Privileges", done at Washington on June 12, 2009.
Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Lawrence Cannon Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Speaker, lastly, I would like to table a document entitled "Framework Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America for Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes" done at Washington on September 9, 2009.
Roméo LeBlanc
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam
James Moore Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages
Mr. Speaker, this past summer, the remarkable life of Roméo LeBlanc came to an end. It is fitting that the House now has an opportunity to record our collective appreciation for the life and remarkable public service of a great Canadian, a former member of the House, a minister of the Crown, a Speaker of the Senate, Canada's 25th Governor General and Canada's first ever Acadian Governor General.
All of these accomplishments notwithstanding, Roméo LeBlanc was, first and foremost, a son of the Acadian community. It was fitting that his state funeral was held at St. Thomas church in Memramcook, New Brunswick.
He was a man of great personal character, great decency, dedication and strong loyalty to family, friends and country. Community mattered to Roméo LeBlanc and his service to the people of his home community was the greatest. His establishment of the Governor General's Caring Canadian Awards is testimony to the high value he attached to the strengthening of communities through volunteering and caregiving.
He championed the telling of Canada's greatest stories through the teaching of history and artistic expression. As Her Majesty's representative, he touched the lives of all Canadians he met during his hundreds of events across Canada.
At the time of his passing, there was a great outpouring of affection for Monsieur LeBlanc. In fact, I noticed one of the comments on a CBC website, where a Canadian wrote in anonymously and said, "I was very sad to learn about Monsieur LeBlanc's passing. He signed the Nunavut charter and I was there, a teenager, witnessing a page in Inuit political history. He was an astounding human being".
The fact that his dedication to public service was cut short only by the rapid progression of Alzheimer disease goes to show the strength of the values that inspired him to help others in need.
We salute the Right Hon. Roméo LeBlanc and thank him for his service to Canada. We also thank his family and his community for having given him the opportunity to make his outstanding mark on Canada's history.
I would like to say to my good friend, the member for Beauséjour, that I am sorry for his loss. The LeBlanc name will live on with pride in the House of Commons through him.
Roméo LeBlanc
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Michael Ignatieff Leader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, I rise to join in the tributes to a great Canadian, a member of the House, a member of the other place and a devoted servant of Canada, the Right Hon. Roméo LeBlanc.
Roméo LeBlanc was always a proud Acadian, a leader and a beacon for his community, especially as the 25th Governor General of Canada and the first Acadian to bear that title. At every stage of his long and impressive career, Roméo LeBlanc was dedicated to the service of his country.
He was an incredible fisheries minister, at home with everyone on the wharf. The bond he developed with everyone on the wharf and in the whole fishing industry was legendary. He held the post for eight years. I think he was the distinguished Canadian to hold that post the longest. We remember his service to the fishing industry and the fisheries with affection and respect.
As a senator and then Governor General, Roméo LeBlanc was a tireless advocate of education, volunteerism and teaching the history of Canada. He also championed the cause of improving living conditions for the first nations.
We want to publicly offer our most sincere condolences to the LeBlanc family, especially to our colleague and friend the hon. member for Beauséjour, his son, and to his daughter Geneviève.
Today, in the place that he served, we pay tribute to Roméo LeBlanc's career. We remember him as a consummate public servant and a staunch believer in Canada and the Canadian people.
While we mourn the loss of a great Canadian, we also celebrate his life and his place in the history of a country that he loved with a passion.
If I could conclude in a personal way, I think anyone who attended the funeral service in that little church in Memramcook will never forget the deep affection and love that was expressed for him by the crowd outside and the crowd inside.
And when we all sang that beautifully melancholic song, Partons la mer est belle, we felt the affection and respect that everyone at that ceremony, everyone in that small town felt for a very great Canadian who will be sorely missed.
Roméo LeBlanc
Routine Proceedings
3:20 p.m.
Michel Guimond Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC
Mr. Speaker, this past summer, Acadia lost one of its most illustrious native sons, Roméo Leblanc, at the age of 81. During his long career, Mr. Leblanc left a lasting impression on us all. We will remember him for many different reasons.
He was very proud of what he was. He took pride in his origins, his roots. He was also proud of being Acadian and francophone. Born in 1927 in Memramcook to a father who worked for the railway, he had nothing in his background that destined him for the career he would have.
Mr. Leblanc left a long list of achievements. He began his career as a teacher and journalist and was then elected to Parliament as the member for the riding of Westmorland—Kent in New Brunswick. He served as a minister and a senator and later as Governor General, becoming the first Acadian to hold this position. I believe that he did as much for Acadian culture as the greatest figures in the history of his people.
Roméo Leblanc was a simple man who led an extraordinary life. He was a man of the people, a hands-on kind of man who was close to people. He had a big heart and understood the importance of working for the development and enhancement of his community. He always stood up for his people and for the values he cherished.
In his village, in his corner of the country in New Brunswick, Roméo Leblanc was considered a leading figure. Everyone appreciated his genuineness and generosity. His high office never prevented him from remaining close to people, which is remarkable. He never hesitated to go down to the wharves and meet people. It is no surprise that he came to be known as the "fishermen's minister".
Roméo Leblanc created the Caring Canadian Award, which recognizes individuals and groups whose unpaid, voluntary contributions provide extraordinary help or care to people in the community. It is also thanks to him that we recognize the contribution of aboriginal peoples every year on June 21, National Aboriginal Day. Lastly, I think of the very important work he did to defend and promote Canada's francophone community. That shows what kind of man Roméo Leblanc was. He was committed and dedicated. That is why he was a true model and a great source of inspiration for Acadians.
In closing, on behalf of the leader of the Bloc Québécois, the member for Laurier—Sainte-Marie, and all the members of the Bloc Québécois caucus, I would like to express our sincere sympathies to our colleague, the member for Beauséjour, on the loss of the man who was much more than his model in politics, the man who was his father, Roméo Leblanc.
Roméo LeBlanc
Routine Proceedings
3:25 p.m.
Yvon Godin Acadie—Bathurst, NB
Mr. Speaker, it is an honour for me to speak today on behalf of the NDP to pay tribute to Roméo LeBlanc, who was considered by all in my community and by myself to be a great politician. The work he did during his career as a member of Parliament, fisheries minister, senator and Governor General had a lasting impact on New Brunswick, Acadia and Canada as a whole.
During his time as fisheries minister, or, as Jean Chrétien put it, minister of fishers, Mr. LeBlanc helped fishers in his region and across the country tremendously. He made great strides forward during his mandate because he was close to the people, close to fishers. He was like one of their own and he knew how to listen to their concerns.
He loved his work and our beautiful country passionately, and he wanted people to care more about politics. My colleague, Bill Blaikie, who had a chance to work with Mr. LeBlanc, told me about what a simple, fair and down-to-earth guy he was, how he liked talking to people and listening to what others had to say to him. I think that many people in politics now could have learned a lot from spending time with Mr. LeBlanc.
He was the first Acadian to be appointed Governor General, and was a great defender of la francophonie in Canada and throughout the world, but many other causes were close to his heart, including volunteerism.
In 1996, to honour everyday heroes who help others and ask for nothing in return, he created the Governor General's Caring Canadian Award.
He wanted the qualities of openness and compassion that he so admired in Canadians to be applied to solving the problems that divided aboriginal and non-aboriginal people in Canada. He declared June 21 National Aboriginal Day, to pay tribute to the first nations, their culture, their history and their contribution to the development of our country. In doing so, he showed us, yet again, how much respect he had for Canadians, and how much he wanted us all to be equal.
I will conclude with something Mr. LeBlanc said in his installation speech in February 1995:
If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.
I think that his wish came true, because that is exactly how many Canadians, myself included, will remember him, as a man who believed in his country and its people, and also as a man who was close to people, who respected them, and who profoundly touched the lives of many Canadians. Mr. LeBlanc's family, including the member for Beauséjour, have every reason to be proud of their father's accomplishments.
Interparliamentary Delegations
Routine Proceedings
3:25 p.m.
Yasmin Ratansi Don Valley East, ON
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 34(1) I have the honour to present, in both official languages, three reports: the report of the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation of the Canadian Group of Interparliamentary Union, concerning its participation at the eighth workshop of parliamentary scholars and parliamentarians, Wroxton College, Wroxton, United Kingdom, July 26 to 27, 2008; the 17th session of the Steering Committee of the Parliamentary Conference on the World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, April 3 to 4, 2008; and the meeting of the Asia-Pacific working group of the Interparliamentary Union, Beijing, China, March 20.
Use of Props in the House
Points of Order
Routine Proceedings
3:30 p.m.
Rodger Cuzner Cape Breton—Canso, NS
Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order arising from question period.
Government members en masse contravened one of the Standing Orders by using a prop at the start of question period. What is truly offensive about the contravention is this. Upon inspection of the mittens that were used, which I checked out because I thought for sure there would be a place to cut the connector string that many on the other side would require, or even a trace of an "L" on one and an "R" on the other, on the inside, where we would have expected to see the Canada action plan signage, we saw a sign that said "made in China".
The government members were very forceful today, saying that they stood up for Canadian jobs. We talked about the jobs that had gone to Wisconsin with the train contract. The Conservatives should apologize to Canadian workers for waving their mittens, which were made in China.
Use of Props in the House
Points of Order
Routine Proceedings
3:30 p.m.
Peter Van Loan Minister of Public Safety
Mr. Speaker, the gloves that people were wearing here, showing enthusiastic support for Canadian athletes, was a private sector initiative designed to support Canadian athletes. We on this side ensured that they were all paid for. People can buy them at $10 a piece and help support our athletes. That would be the right Olympic spirit and a great show of pride in Canada.
Use of Props in the House
Points of Order
Routine Proceedings
3:30 p.m.
Michel Guimond Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC
Mr. Speaker, I imagine that you do not intend to respond immediately from your chair to the point of order raised by my colleague, the Liberal Party whip. However, I refer you to a decision you made following, I believe, the Nagano Olympic Games, where one party made extensive use of props—I cannot think of the French term—that is, accessories or objects.
Before you give your ruling, I would like you to examine the decision pertaining to the Nagano Olympic Games and I believe you will be in a position to enlighten us as to how to proceed in this similar matter.
It was obvious that all Conservative Party members were attempting to impress us with their show of mittens. But if the mitten fits—
Use of Props in the House
Points of Order
Routine Proceedings
3:30 p.m.
Libby Davies Vancouver East, BC
Mr. Speaker, on the same point of order, I know the Conservatives are very much into optics these days. Now we find out that the Liberals suddenly have a new-found love for made in Canada. We will vote on a bill tonight about made in Canada, so maybe members of the House could think about what they will do in terms of that vote. There is an opportunity to support made in Canada.
I also point out that the mittens, which are made in China, are also not union made. If we truly believe in what we stand for, then let us get away from the optics and vote tonight for the bill on made in Canada.
Use of Props in the House
Points of Order
Routine Proceedings
3:30 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
I am not sure that where the mits are made is of any relevance to the Chair in this mini debate, but what is of importance is the use of props in the House. I was shocked that so many members were using props, with which we know we have trouble.
Members have raised points before about various buttons on occasion, certainly ribbons and other things such as scarves and other items like that, which have been raised in the past. I think these mittens fall in the same category. I hope we will not see a repeat of this. If it continues, obviously the competition could become intense and we may see all kinds of different things appear, which may not be entirely in the best interests of the House.
I would urge hon. members to show proper restraint in this regard.
Does the hon. member for Jeanne-Le Ber also wish to raise a point of order?


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About the Author: Kurtis Cooper serves as the Public Affairs Chief for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs.
On December 21, young people set the agenda at the UN Security Council. U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan Rice delivered the introductory remarks for the special event, Voices of a New Generation.
Ambassador Rice said, "This type of informal meeting is not what we usually do, but in my view it's one of the most important events of the month-long presidency of the United States of the Security Council in December. We called this informal meeting to bring greater attention to the concerns of young people around the world. Your lives are being shaped and sculpted by a world of challenge and change. And by bringing your voices into this room, we remind ourselves not only that real lives are at stake in our deliberations. We remind ourselves that we, the grown-ups, are only the temporary stewards of the Earth, and that we owe it to you, the next generation, to provide a more peaceful world of growing prosperity, equality, democracy, and opportunity.
"So let me say to the young people of the world: you have a stake in our debates every day. But today, you and your generation will have a voice as well."
She continued, "At the beginning of the month, when the United States began our Presidency of the Security Council, we invited anyone, age 13 to 21, from any part of the world, to tell us what they thought was 'the most vital challenge to peace and security facing your generation.'
"From December 2 to 14, we received almost 1,000 submissions from young people in more than 90 countries and on every continent. They came in dozens of languages, including all six official languages of the Security Council: English and Chinese, French and Arabic, Russian and Spanish.
"They poured in by e-mail, on YouTube, and through Facebook. And some were even written by hand.
"The responses, as I said, came from every point of the globe, but we heard a striking number of common themes. And I want to just share with you briefly a short sample.
"Hani Daou, a 16-year-old from Beirut, Lebanon, wrote: 'I've always asked myself, how does a war last so long? If a dispute was to originate in one generation between two nations, how is it that the same dispute ignites a war nearly 50 years after?'
"He went on to say, 'The most vital challenge to international peace and security facing my generation is the inheritance of a hateful outlook toward another culture or population from our previous generation.'
"Nineteen-year-old Check Wallah wrote from Cameroon, 'The main goal of every government is to maintain a calm and serene atmosphere both within its borders and beyond. However, a close examination of the issues reveals that the most vital challenge to international peace and security in today's societies lies in ineffective governance.'
"Abhishek Anirudhan, who is 15, emailed us from India: 'As modern terrorism is continually changing, and is in the hunt for innovative methods of carrying out attacks, propaganda campaigns and the Cyber World is without doubt a new combat zone -- and one that terror organizations are striving to take advantage of.'
"And finally, I'll just read another one from Janet Bering, a 19-year-old from Houston, Texas, who asked Security Council members this: 'In the year 2050, how old will you all be?... In the year 2050, I will be 59, and witnessing the most pronounced effects of global warming. Decreasing water availability, desertification of previously arable land, increasingly severe flooding and storms, extinction of potentially economically viable species: all of these are effects of climate change that will directly threaten international peace and security.'
"The majority of ideas we received came via e-mail, but we also received lots of videos posted on Facebook and YouTube. We've compiled a montage that we will play at the end of this session to let you hear some of those voices.
"I really wish that we had time to discuss all of them. But in the interests of time and focus, we've selected just three submissions to play in their entirety. And they'll serve as the basis for our discussion today. These videos present distinct voices from three different regions of the world, but together, they echo themes that we heard throughout many of the submissions we got.
"In short, young people long for peace, they want to be protected from war and bloodshed. They worry about conditions that could ignite conflict. And they see a clear link between their security and development.
"The three videos we will show now come first from a girl named Fabiola Mercedes Estrada, a 17- year-old, from Venezuela. Gloria Ramazani, a 20-year-old girl who lives in Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And thirdly, from Oussama Bessassi, a 17-year-old from Tunis, Tunisia."
Click here to watch the video montage. You can learn more about the video's featured participants here.
You can read Ambassador Rice's complete remarks here. You can view photos of the events here.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
In order to keep the peace is to realize that military force is needed, but
Yeonpyeong-island, Korea, North Korea's artillery firing exercises on the debt? the debt, on the outside of all men, but expressed willingness to back (to being compromised, but the retaliation should be)
other side
Today Yeonpyeong-island marksmanship training conducted. Who is shooting for? How long will the people of Korea. People's lives and safety, oblivious to believe the government should live geukmindeulyi gayeopseupnida mb. The fire, caused by training, is to all chekimeun mb entirely. The people want peace. Peace is the way out.
Just a retaliatory attack on North Korea to end the problem, in conjunction with South Korea as political unity and peace, you do not have people getting here ... I keep the country has a vested interest in the rich countries will be.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Dear to,,,
I went to China. In conclusion, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
And now a little emotional conflict between South Korea and Taiwan, many people are worried about it cause I think. Some electronics companies in Korea tell me you went to the president, secretly, the results would it be?
And, in Tianjin, is that a small event. September 2012,
I would like to promote it. Like the Shanghai Expo ....
Thank You.
Pamela G. in West Virginia writes:
The secret to a more peaceful world is in the next generation.New social acceptance will be formed if we include young people in the dialogue.

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In short: great to have such challenging slopes, great for marathon trainingIn full: Many thanks for great stewarding, really supportive and encouraging!Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: A very well organised and friendly event. In full: A nice race, expertly organised especially as there were no road closures. Shame the ford was too deep but the sun even appeared for us towards the end. Oh, and a nice big hill to negotiate. many thaks to Crowborough runners!Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: Exceptional marshalingIn full: Superb marshaling along a tricky course - they seemed to be in all the right places and very encouraging too.Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: Down, down, down, up, up, up up!!!In full: Can't really find anything to fault this race. No problems with the organisation. Very well marshalled and glad we didn't have to go through the ford. We even got the sunshine one of the car park marshalls promised!!Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: good challenge and a friendly raceIn full: good marshalling, the hill is very tough, nice medal and well earnt !good 10k pb challenge.overall very good local event.thanks to crowborough runnersDate of review: November 29, 2009
In short: A well marshalled and well organised race - thank you!In full: Pre-race admin efficient; excellent car parking, sign posting and admin support, which included post race hot showers and hot food. Suggestion for 2010: please place a time display board at the finishing line.Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: Would I do it again? probably but I dont want to!In full: I left this flippin' thing alone for a couple of years and only did it again to see if that hill had been flattened! Well organised and great marshal support but I hate it.Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: Great organisation, killer hillIn full: There is nothing flat about this course. You're always running uphill or running downhill, so no places to take a breather.I twisted my ankle running through the ford on lap one, but have no one to blame other than myself.Cracking organisation, would do again.Not a fan of Palesgate Hill though - especially not the second time!Date of review: December 1, 2008
In short: Second time i ve travelled from Bexleyheath for this well organised event. 11 weeks of training with just That Hill in mind. Date of review: December 1, 2008
In short: Yes it does have the 'killer' hill, twice, but if you cope with it, that adds to the achievemen Date of review: December 1, 2008
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Mixed Martial Arts: UFC champion Matt Hughes at Max Muscle in Loves Park April 21
By Doug Halberstadt
Sports Columnist
Nine-time UFC champion Matt Hughes will be hanging out in the Rockford area this Saturday (April 21). The UFC legend nicknamed "Country Boy" will be the featured guest at the customer appreciation event hosted by the sports nutrition store Max Muscle, 6738 Broadcast Pkwy., Loves Park.
Hughes will be at the store from noon until 4 p.m. He will be posing for pictures and signing autographs for fans inside a fighting cage. Professional model and author Hilda Castillo will join Hughes for the celebration.
Max Muscle's customer appreciation event will also include professional body paint artist Johni Kucera. Her skills will be displayed on Max Muscle-sponsored athletes Brandon Truckenmiller and Jerry Foss. Truckenmiller and Foss are local amateur bodybuilders pursuing their pro-card (professional status).
Customers can also take advantage of big sales on all products, services and apparel. Multiple product vendors will be on site offering samples and giveaways. Saturday store hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Following their afternoon at Max Muscle, Hughes and Castillo will make their way over to the Grand Ballroom at Cliffbreakers Resort for the special 10th anniversary of Rumble on the River. Clay Goodman and Todd Green have invited Hughes to help them celebrate their 10th year of promoting mixed martial arts events.
Many of the area's top local fighters have entered the ring in the "Rumble" events. Will Brooks, Kenny Booker, Damian Norris, Tom Butler, Josh Labree, Kent Rexford, Vince Ramos and Andrew Navickis are just a few of the names that have fought on previous cards.
Saturday night's card features Matt "The Reaper" Mahurin taking on Nick Lasher. For more about the Rumble on the River or to purchase advance tickets, contact Cliffbreakers at (815) 282-3033.
I hope he has a great time; it sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun.
Maybe he can get a few pics for us of the professional body paint artist's work. I just saw a show on, "The Making of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue", and they had professional body painters paint swimsuits on some of the models--you would have thought they were in the real thing. Very cool.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Lima, Peru, on October 15 and 16. In Peru, she will meet with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala to discuss bilateral and regional cooperation. She will also participate in an international conference on women's financial inclusion -- Power: Women as Drivers of Growth and Social Inclusion -- at which she will deliver remarks to the plenary.
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer will accompany the Secretary on the visit.
Ramon Z. in Peru writes:
We followed her effort being done for women in the world to strengthen them and make them part of the development of their people. We must accompany this effort with connectivity for real social inclusion, 'cause three of four women are illiterate. However we know (women) strengthen the development of society. My mother was also a lawyer. Welcome Mrs. Hillary.
Robert W. in Nebraska writes:
God Bless Hillary Clinton
The most important, the most dedicated, the most unselfish women in the history of our great country. These are not a the words of longtime supporter. I supported Obama in 2008 and I make no apology for it, but who else has served so well for so long for so many.Â
Did she maintain a superhuman poise during a national scandal? Did she suffer some of most vile comments at  of her husband's political enemies? Did she serve the people of New York as a United States Senator honorably? Has she worked tirelessly across the globe for all people of America as Secretary of State? Has she given her all, in almost every moment of her life to her country for twenty years? Yes, she did. Has she perhaps more than anyone else lived up to call of JFK? Has she consistently asked not what her country would do for her but instead lived a life of service to her country? Yes she has.Â
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Dr. Blankenship studied at Miami University, majoring in psychology and minoring in neuroscience. He received his Ph.D. at Indiana University as a double major in psychology and neural science. His dissertation was titled, "The Effects of Amygdala Lesions on Hippocampal Function and Eyeblink Conditioning in Rats."
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Dr. Blankenship teaches at all levels (100 to 400, including occasional graduate level classes). He enjoys teaching Physiological Psychology (PSY 343) and Principles in Neural Science (PSY 443), as well as major requirement classes, Introductory Psychology (PSY 100) and Statistical Methods and Research Design (PSY 223).
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Dr. Blankenship's research has always focused on the basic biological underpinnings of learning and memory. General research questions would include: "How do various anatomical structures in the brain participate in forming memories?" and "How do chemical signals in the brain participate in forming new memories?" More specifically, Dr. Blankenship and his students are studying the biological basis of Alzheimer's disease and factors that potentially prevent the progression of the disease.
Recent Scholarly Activities:
The Neuroprotective Effects of Flupirtine on Beta-Amyloid Induced Memory Impairment. Jefferson, M., Smeltzer, S., McMillan, J.L., Henry, C.C., Klauser, B.M., Adolph, A.L., Kiebel, E.M., Martin, T.M. & Blankenship, M.R. Presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago Illinois (May 2011).
Insulin-Induced Memory Facilitation and ADDL-Induced Memory Disruption. Blankenship, M.R., Devries, Smeltzer, S., Hemphill, L., Peterson, M., Love, S.& Crowley, Z. Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago Illinois (April 2010).
Alzheimer's-associated A-beta oligomers show altered structure, immunoreactivity and synaptotoxicity with low doses of oleocanthal. Pitt, J., Roth, W., Lacor, P., Blankenship, M., Velasco, P., De Felice, F., Breslin, P. & Klein W.L. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, E-publication in advance of print publication, July 22nd 2009.


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I find myself baking much more than I thought when starting this blog, probably because I am not a baker and it's a challenge for me and I love challenges. Attempting to create beautiful and delicious bakery goods to have and to share has helped refine that skill. On the "behind the scenes" action I find myself chanting, "No need to be frightened." Head strong and after copious amounts of butter and eggs later I feel complete. Whoever said that baking is an easy task to undertake was wrong or perhaps left a few details out. I find comfort working with my favorite baking medium [eggs], nothing more and nothing less; whipped egg whites can do spectacular things. Light as air, meringue can satisfy my sweet tooth any day.
Chocolate Pâte Sucree Recipe
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup cocoa powder
6 tablepsoons unsalted butter, softened
1 ½ cup confectioner's sugar
1 large egg
¼ teaspoon sea salt
This is the chocolate tart base for these or any filled tart.
Process butter, confectioner's sugar, cocoa powder and salt in a food processor until smooth and creamy, approximately 3-5 minutes. Add egg to the mixture and further process for a few minutes, scraping the sides and bottom of the food processor bowl.
Once egg is completely incorporated, turn processor off and add the flour all at once. Run the food processor to create dough. This will be almost take five seconds. If you see any loose dustings of flour, do not worry. Place dough onto a work surface and knead gently to form a ball. Place on a piece of wax paper and fold edges over dough and flatten. Chill for at least two hours.
Divide dough into eight equal pieces. Working with one dough piece at a time, roll out to an eighth of an inch. Even if you see the pan through the dough, don't be alarmed, the egg in this type of dough will cause it to expand and make a nice crust. Place dough into tart pan and press along the edges to cut the dough to shape. Now press dough into the sides of the tart pan. The bottom may split as you do this, but no fear, just press the dough to make a nice smooth bottom. Repeat with remaining tart pans. Chill for thirty minutes and prick bottoms a few times with the tines of a fork. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for 12-14 minutes. You may be wondering why I haven't instructed to blind bake this crust, I find that there is no need, as the dough is rolled out thinly and it does not puff so much.
Recipe Makes 8-4" tarts.
Raspberry Chocolate Tart Filling Recipe
7 ounces heavy cream
6 ounces best quality semisweet chocolate
3 Tablespoons raspberry puree
Combine the cream and raspberry puree in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Immediately pour over chocolate chunks, whisk until smooth. Allow mixture to cool slightly then place three tablespoons in each tart shell. Chill to firm chocolate.
Toasted Meringue Recipe
½ cup plus 1 Tablespoons granular sugar
3 Tablespoons water
2 large egg whites, room temperature
pinch of cream of tartar
pinch of sea salt
1 ½ teaspoons fresh lemon juice [optional]
Bring sugar and water to a boil over medium heat. [Bring temperature to 238°F] Meanwhile, whip egg whites until frothy. Add cream of tartar and sea salt. Whip on medium high speed until soft peaks form.
Once sugar syrup reaches the proper temperature, slowly pour into the egg whites. [The best way to incorporate the syrup is to pour it down the inside of the bowl, avoiding the wire whisk.] After the syrup, incorporate lemon juice, and whip egg whites on high speed until glossy [approximately 5-8 minutes.] Use meringue immediately.
Fill a pastry bag with a large rounded star tip and pipe onto the chilled tart. Now comes the fun part where we have a chance to burn the kitchen down. Using a torch, toast the meringue to your liking and garnish with fresh raspberries.
As with any recipe, I encourage you to edit, experiment and adjust. What's right for you is what works. If you feel like busting out this recipe, let me know what you think.


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USAID and the Asia-Pacific Rebalance
Early in his presidency, President Barack Obama launched the Asia-Pacific Rebalance policy. This policy is founded on the idea that the region is hugely consequential to our future, and it is essential to implement a long-term strategy to strengthen our relationships not only with the countries but with the people of the Asia-Pacific region.
It is an exciting and pivotal time for U.S. policy in the Asia-Pacific region. It is the most dynamic, fastest growing region in the world. Over the next five years, nearly half of all growth outside the United States is expected to come from Asia.
More people live in Asia than anywhere else on the planet. Hundreds of millions have been lifted out of extreme poverty over the past few decades, contributing to economic growth, regional stability and a growing middle class. In the next decade, trade volume in Asia is expected to double, and by 2050, Asia's GDP is projected to account for more than half of the world's GDP. This presents tremendous opportunities to create American jobs, and support regional and global security and prosperity.
Yet with rapid economic growth come complex development challenges. The Asia region still has more than 50 percent of the world's extreme poor, 70 percent of the world's malnourished children, and the majority of all natural disasters. A host of other development challenges hold the region back, from weak systems of governance to climate change.
The Indispensible Role of Development
Now and in the coming decades, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region will play a more consequential role in the state of world affairs. The long-term success of the Asia-Pacific Rebalance will be determined by just how the Asia-Pacific develops.
How a country develops can make the difference between economic growth that is lasting and economic growth that is fleeting.
Between cities powered by clean, sustainable energy sources versus suffocating pollution in overwhelmed urban areas.
Between a generation that grows up illiterate and malnourished, or one that is educated and healthy and breaks free from the cycle of poverty.
Between an oppressed populace with no hope for the future, or one empowered to unlock its full potential.
The decisions these countries will make today will impact the global economy and jobs, the air we all breathe, the world's food supply, and whether our planet is plagued by conflict or peace.
In addition, we are all safer and stronger at home when fewer people face destitution, when our trading partners are flourishing, when nations around the world can withstand crisis, and when societies are freer, more democratic and more inclusive.
President Obama understands the stakes very well. That is why he elevated development to a core pillar of our national security strategy, alongside diplomacy and defense.
While we must focus on solving immediate crises, it is essential that we also address the root causes of poverty, conflict and instability.
That is where development comes in. We not only lend a hand during times of humanitarian crisis or natural disaster, but we partner with countries over the long haul to help them develop into more reliable partners.
In launching the Asia-Pacific Rebalance, President Obama contended that security and peace, shared prosperity, and fundamental rights for every human being were its key elements.
By helping to build more peaceful, prosperous and just societies, USAID's development efforts underpin the Rebalance.
At USAID, our mission is to end extreme poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential. Key to achieving success is ensuring that development gains are broadly shared, or inclusive, of all a country's people — which is also key to ensuring that development progress can be sustained over the long term. Our efforts also help advance the key elements of the Asia-Pacific Rebalance, by building the foundation for peace and prosperity.
Our work in each of these seven development sectors helps advance USAID's core mission of ending extreme poverty and promoting resilient, democratic societies:
- Promoting health and strong health systems
Poor human health hinders economic advancement and perpetuates the cycle of poverty. A healthy population is more stable and generates more income to invest. Simple interventions like family planning, malaria prevention, affordable immunizations, access to lifesaving drugs, and clean water and nutritious food lead to healthy families that can contribute to their communities and countries. Helping prevent the spread of infectious disease, such as tuberculosis or animal-to-human disease, also protects our health of the United States.
- Ending hunger and improving well-being
A dynamic agriculture sector can accelerate broad-based economic growth while food security and nutrition are central to the health and well-being of populations. Promoting inclusive, country-led agricultural growth is among the most effective poverty-reducing tactics and is at the heart of Feed the Future, the U.S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative led by USAID.
- Strengthening democracy, human rights and governance
Governments that protect rights, respond to citizens, are built to withstand shocks, and resolve disputes peacefully are better positioned to ensure growth endures and reaches vulnerable and marginalized populations. The strengthening of democratic institutions makes governments more participatory, accountable, legitimate and responsive to their citizens. Central to achieving this is the recognition that civil society is a key pillar in any healthy democracy.
- Expanding access to quality education
Early grade learning outcomes have a direct correlation to a country's economic growth. A 10 percent increase in the share of students reaching basic literacy translates into a 0.3 percentage point higher annual growth rate for that country. Few societies have achieved high and sustained rates of growth or significantly reduced extreme poverty without investing in expanded access to quality education.
- Reducing climate change impacts while helping communities better manage their natural resources
The world reached a historic crossroads with the signing of the Paris agreement on climate change in December. The effects of climate change are likely to impact the extreme poor the most. Environments that are vulnerable to changing climate patterns are often the most reliant on agriculture for food and income and the least able to financially protect themselves or respond to disasters.
- Fostering sustainable, broad-based economic growth
Broad-based economic growth is necessary for long-term prosperity and stability. USAID partners with countries to unlock private investment and scale up clean energy development to reduce emissions growth, which helps over the long term to stem the severe weather that affects stability and resilience.
- Providing life-saving humanitarian assistance and supporting disaster mitigation
Asia suffers the majority of the world's natural disasters — from devastating typhoons to catastrophic earthquakes. Effectively responding to and mitigating natural disasters and crises around the world ensures that the extreme poor and most vulnerable populations receive life-saving assistance. Building resilience to recurrent crises through planning, prevention and preparedness reduces countries' vulnerability to destabilizing shocks and ensures populations are not pushed back or further into poverty.
We're seeing results throughout the region, based on our partnerships and investments:
- In part due to USAID, Cambodia has met its Millennium Development Goals on maternal and child mortality way ahead of schedule and reduced HIV prevalence by more than 50 percent, paving the way for setting the ambitious goal of zero new HIV/AIDS cases by 2020.
- In Indonesia, USAID has helped reduce multidrug-resistant tuberculosis mortality by over 80 percent over the past five years with the introduction of cutting-edge technology.
- In Bangladesh, where 41 percent of children are stunted, Feed the Future efforts have improved the incomes of 1.8 million farming households and expanded their access to more diverse and nutritious food.
- In Sri Lanka, with USAID elections support, the people went to the polls twice last year to demand dramatic political changes in their government. These elections have completely transformed the U.S.-Sri Lanka relationship, offering an opportunity for a stronger bilateral relationship in the future and leading to greater cooperation on both diplomatic efforts and human development objectives.
- In Burma, USAID provided the expertise and resources to help local watchdog organizations and Burmese press monitor the milestone 2015 elections — an important step in Burma's long struggle for democracy.
- In the Philippines, our education assistance is improving the reading skills of one million children in the early grades. In addition, USAID's support is leveraging $40 million a year of Philippine government funds for collaborative research and scholarships with American universities, at a ratio of 20 to 1 for the first year alone.
- With USAID assistance, Bangladesh recently achieved self-sufficiency in rice production through the widespread adoption of higher yielding, climate-tolerant rice.
- USAID partners with Indonesia to help conserve its rich biodiversity. USAID supports the Indonesia Palm Oil Pledge, a commitment by the world's leading palm oil producers to transition to sustainable production that breaks the link with deforestation. The bulk of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions come from deforestation — a global problem the world has woken up to with the recent forest fire crisis.
- In Vietnam, USAID works in close coordination with other U.S. Government agencies to promote and support implementation of reforms critical to potential Trans-Pacific Partnership participation and improve our access to Vietnam's growing market for U.S. exports.
- In the aftermath of the devastating April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, our support has helped jumpstart the agricultural sector, rebuild livelihoods, get children back in school, train homebuilders in earthquake-resistant methods, prevent disease outbreaks and maintain healthy communities.
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Object recognition is a central task in computer vision. It is difficult because objects can vary greatly in appearance. Classic approaches tended to focus on geometric models inspired by computer graphics. Contemporary work follows a more statistical approach and learns models from "big" collections of training data. In this talk I will discuss a family of approaches that combine these schools of thought through the use of latent variable statistical models. These models produce state-of-the-art performance on a variety of established benchmark tasks including object detection, human pose estimation, and facial analysis.
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Deva Ramanan is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. He received his B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Delaware in 2000, graduating summa cum laude. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2005 under the supervision of David Forsyth.
His research interests span computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics, with a focus on visual recognition. He was awarded the David Marr Prize in 2009, the PASCAL VOC Lifetime Achievement Prize in 2010, an NSF Career Award in 2010, the Outstanding Young Researcher in Image and Vision Computing Award in 2012, and was selected as one of Popular Science's Brilliant 10 researchers in 2012. His work is supported by NSF, ONR, DARPA, as well as industrial collaborations with the Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Computing, Google Research, and Microsoft Research. He has held visiting researcher positions at the Robotics Institute at CMU, the Visual Geometry Group at Oxford, and has been a consultant for Microsoft and Google.
He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) and is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). He regularly serves as a senior program committee member for the IEEE Conference of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), and the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). He also regularly serves on NSF panels for computer vision and machine learning.


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Tampa Bay Buccaneers management, all the way up to the Glazer family that owns the team, is fully on board with trading for New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis, multiple sources told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday. That includes paying Revis what is considered an acceptable salary.
The hold up, for now, is what the Jets are willing to accept in a trade. The Buccaneers don't want to relinquish their first-round pick in next month's NFL draft. Tampa Bay holds the No. 13 overall pick.
Darrelle Revis missed mnost of last season after suffering a knee injury. (AP)While the trade price for a star player was set this week with the Seattle Seahawks giving up a first- and a seventh-round this year and a third-round pick in 2014, the Bucs aren't willing to match that deal exactly, a team source said. The big difference is that Seattle's first-round pick this year was No. 25 overall, far less valuable than Tampa Bay's first selection.
The same Bucs source indicated Tampa Bay might be more willing to surrender its 2014 first-rounder, gambling that next year's selection won't be as high if the team improves. The Buccaneers have already made a significant play in free agency to improve by signing safety Dashon Goldson to a reported five-year, $41.25 million deal.
As for why the Jets, who declined to comment, might be better off with a first-round pick next year, it's highly possible the team may have to make a change at quarterback and perhaps head coach after the 2013 season. More draft picks in 2014 might give the Jets the ammunition to make a trade, if necessary, for a higher pick depending on how many quarterbacks are available in the 2014 draft. For instance, Teddy Bridgewater of Louisville is projected by many analysts to be a first-round pick next year and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M could also declare for the draft.
The 2013 draft is not loaded with top-end quarterbacks. It's been speculated that Geno Smith could be the only first-round quarterback, though some observes believe no passers will go in the opening stanza. Beyond that, the Jets likely don't want to take a quarterback now if they are looking to hire a new coach who might want to pick his own quarterback.
Either way, the Jets may have no choice but to make a deal. Jets owner Woody Johnson declined to discuss the Revis situation earlier this week, saying he would talk about it at the league meetings, which start Sunday in Phoenix.
As for Tampa Bay, the key to making this deal happen is that the family of owner Malcolm Glazer (sons Bryan and Joel Glazer are the co-chairmen of the Bucs) is extremely interested in completing the trade.
Beyond Revis' playing ability, the cornerback's college coach at Pitt, Dave Wannstedt, is now on Tampa Bay's staff as the special teams coach and has spoken highly of Revis. In addition, the Bucs had a positive experience with high-priced free agent wide receiver Vincent Jackson last season. Jackson, who had two DUI incidents while playing in San Diego, signed a five-year, $55.55 million deal last season. Jackson, represented by the same agents as Revis, was productive last season (72 catches, 1,384 receiving yards, eight touchdowns) and was also a high-character individual for the organization.
Finally, the Bucs are not afraid to spend on high-end players. Aside from Jackson last season, guard Carl Nicks had a strong season after signing as a free agent. Also, one of the key additions to the Bucs prior to the team winning the Super Bowl in the 2002 season was wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson.
The Bucs had to give up two first-round picks and give Johnson an eight-year, $56 million contract extension (the highest ever for a wide receiver at the time). Johnson became one of the team's top offensive weapons on the way to the title.
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If we get anything less than a 1st and a 3rd in this year's draft, there's going to be no riots because no one will go to games.
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I agree with whoever the author of the article is that we'd honestly be better off with a 2014 first rounder than the 2013. Just make them kick in an extra pick in this year's draft. I say we take the 2013 3rd rounder, 2014 first AND 4th that can escalate to a 3rd dependant upon his play. 2014's draft should be much better than this year.
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Claremont Graduate University CGU) will host a pair of events in April to explore issues surrounding the Violence Against Women Act, a recently-enacted federal law that strengthens the criminal justice system's response to crimes against women, including domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking.
The first will be on April 17, when producer, writer, and director Aishah Shahidah Simmons visits campus to show her film NO! The Rape Documentary. Simmons, an incest and rape survivor who teaches a course on gay and lesbian lives at Temple University, uses her film to share the stories of Black women rape survivors who defy victimization.
The film features the voices of violence prevention advocates, theologians, sociologists, historians, anthropologists, and other leading scholars and human rights activists who provide an interdisciplinary context with which to examine sexual violence in African-American communities. They also explore how rape is used as a weapon of homophobia.
Simmons will show and discuss the film at 7:30 pm in Albrecht Auditorium, 925 N. Dartmouth Ave.
On April 25, Professor Elizabeth Hillman from The University of California Hastings College of the Law will visit to discuss violence against women and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ) people in the military.
Hillman is president of the National Institute for Military Justice, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting fairness in and public understanding of military justice worldwide, and is co-legal director of the Palm Center, a public policy research institute that played a key role in ending the "don't ask/don't tell" policy of discriminating against gay men and lesbians in the U.S. armed forces.
She has published two books, Military Justice Cases and Materials and Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court-Martial, and many articles, the most recent a chapter entitled "Sexual Violence in State Militaries" in Prosecuting International Sex Crimes (Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law, 2012).
Hillman's talk begins at 7 pm, also in Albrecht Auditorium.
Both events are sponsored by CGU's Applied Women's Studies Program and the Women's and Gender Studies Certificate Program. The Intercollegiate Women's Studies Programs at Scripps College is a co-sponsor of the Elizabeth Hillman talk. Related events are being planned for the fall.
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MARQUETTE – In the wake of Thursday's Michigan Department of Environmental Quality decision not to issue a permit to the Marquette County Road Commission for its County Road 595 project, Rio Tinto now plans to redirect its efforts toward upgrading existing roadways to transport copper and nickel from its Eagle Mine to the Humboldt Mill.
Road Commission Engineer-Manager Jim Iwanicki said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to remove objections to the project prevented the DEQ from issuing a permit that had the required federal backing.
"It's a shame that the EPA has killed a good project," Iwanicki said. "The EPA's action is going to affect a lot of lives in Marquette County and the road commission believes it will affect them negatively."
The proposed 21-mile, north-south County Road 595 was slated to run from County Road AAA in Michigamme Township to U.S. 41 in Humboldt Township, providing a more direct hauling route for Rio Tinto and affording additional safety, recreational and economic development benefits for county residents.
The DEQ previously approved Rio Tinto trucking ore from the Eagle Mine using County Road AAA, County Road 510 and then County Road 550 to Marquette. The route would then use Sugarloaf Avenue, Wright Street, County Road HQ, U.S. 41, M-95 and then County Road 601 to the mill.
Rio Tinto had agreed to fund the $82 million County Road 595 project, provided the permits required could be obtained and construction started by this May. The mining company has been awaiting the outcome of the County Road 595 permitting process.
"While we are disappointed with this decision, it does give us clarity as we look to production in 2014," said Dan Blondeau, communications and media adviser for Rio Tinto in Humboldt. "Our focus now turns to existing trucking routes as we originally outlined in our mine permit application. We'll work with the Marquette County Road Commission and local units of government to utilize the existing routes."
Iwanicki said a group of contractors – including Payne and Dolan and Bacco Construction – had already been named to work on either County Road 595 or upgrading the existing roads in Rio Tinto's transportation route. Work will now focus on improving those roads to primary standard.
"Work on those projects will probably start this summer and finish up next summer," Iwanicki said.
The cost is expected to range between $40 million and $45 million, the majority of which will be paid by Rio Tinto, Iwanicki said.
In early December, the EPA lifted a previous objection to the road commission's alternatives analysis for the County Road 595 project, but reaffirmed its objection on minimization of impacts and compensatory mitigation plans for impacts to wetlands, streams and wildlife.
EPA Regional Administrator Susan Hedman in Chicago said according to law, the DEQ had 30 days from Dec. 4 to satisfy the EPA's reaffirmed objection by issuing a permit that includes minimization and mitigation plans consistent with requirements outlined by the EPA, or notify the agency the DEQ intended to deny the road commission's permit application.
Absent such action by the DEQ, the authority to process the application would transfer to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The application process would then have to restart.
Iwanicki said the EPA "stonewalled" road commission efforts to comply with the agency's request in several phone conversations held with the road commission, EPA and DEQ in December.
"The EPA moved the bar every time we got close," Iwanicki said. "Throughout the whole process, it's been an ever-changing target."
The road commission responded on Dec. 27 to the EPA's requirements for removing its remaining objections, but Iwanicki said it became clear before Christmas, the federal agency would not be satisfied.
DEQ staff, who Iwanicki said originally opposed the project but were good in trying to find reasonable solutions to get the project built, were sent on holidays rather than working through Christmas in a fruitless effort, Iwanicki said.
In a letter Thursday, DEQ Director Dan Wyant wrote to Hedman announcing the DEQ would not be issuing a permit for the County Road 595.
"As we have discussed previously, I believe that there are reasons to support the approval of this project," Wyant wrote. "However, this letter serves as formal notification that due to the short time frame allowed by statute and the complexity of the issues remaining, the Michigan DEQ is not issuing a permit for Marquette County Road 595."
On its website Thursday, the EPA said it had received Wyant's notification and the permitting authority had now transferred to the Army Corps.
"Since April 2012, EPA has worked closely with Michigan DEQ and the county to develop a mitigation plan to finalize a state permit for the project," the EPA statement read.
The basis for the EPA's objection was the project's impacts to aquatic resources were significant and proposed mitigation would not sufficiently compensate for impacts.
In late August, a new proposal was announced for mitigation that would preserve 1,576 acres, including 647 wetland acres, near the McCormick Wilderness.
In addition, the road commission originally proposed filling 25.8 acres of wetlands and constructing 22 stream crossings in building County Road 595. The county instead planned to fill 24.3 acres of wetlands, replace 19 steam crossings and build seven others.
Iwanicki said the agency never liked the project from the start and for months worked to change expectations and requirements. He said Thursday's official finality to the project was expected and was "just the bow on the package."
"They played a good game of bureaucratic nonsense," Iwanicki said of the EPA.
With Rio Tinto now shifting its funding and focus to the existing transportation route projects, Iwanicki said the necessary County Road 595 project permit will not be pursued through the Army Corps.
"Funding for this project has been tied to Rio Tinto and if there's no funding available we can't very well build it," Iwanicki said.
John Pepin can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 206.


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Wind storm kills Clovis man
April 4, 2009
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A spring wind storm that pounded eastern New Mexico Saturday with 65 mph gusts is being blamed for the death of a Clovis man.
Juan R. Chavez, 35, died after a wind blast caught the loading door of a semi truck, slamming him into a wall at a Southwest Cheese dock.
Chavez suffered head injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at Plains Regional Medical Center, according to Curry County Undersheriff Wesley Waller.
Waller said the freak accident happened about 10 a.m. as Chavez was prepping the truck at the plant's loading dock.
Southwest Cheese Human Resources Manager Brenda Miller said Chavez was a warehouse operator. He had worked at the plant since it opened in October 2006.
"This was just kind of a strange accident to have happen," said Miller.
"We certainly express our sorrow and condolences to his family," Miller said. "We're keeping his family in our thoughts and prayers. He was a well liked employee."
Clovis was directly in the path of the spring wind storm, which moved across the state to the Texas panhandle.
The National Weather Service reported the strongest winds hit eastern plains and central mountain chain, knocking out power to about 5,000 customers in southwest Albuquerque, tearing down signs and toppling trucks.
Clovis Police Department Chief Steve Sanders said no damage was reported by early evening.
An Xcel Energy spokesman said though there were power outages in Hobbs and Albuquerque, none were reported in Curry, Roosevelt or DeBaca counties.
The National Weather Service warned that the strong winds would result in areas of reduced visibility in blowing dust, which were visible throughout Clovis most of the day.
Ken De Los Santos with Curry County Emergency Management, said the most dangerous part of windy weather is usually the fire hazard it causes.
"Everybody is watching for fires," he said. "There's a red flag warning also."
De Los Santos said his organization disperses weather information obtained from the National Weather Service to 300 to 400 people via e-mail. The list is made up of media outlets, city, county and government agencies, businesses and individuals.
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So, what else is new?
Just keep digging into history of any area long enough, and one can find news or events that have been tested and failed numerous times before. For instance, let's try moving the municipal beach back to Lake Flower.
Mayor Tim Jock and his board directed me, as village manager – if I didn't accomplish anything else – to move the beach from Lake Colby back to Lake Flower. Now with all the officials behind it and my appointed Sons of the Beach Committee working on it, with plans drawn for the water and sewer lines for a bathhouse, with "most" of the residents for it, it failed. A large, vocal group opposed the move with many legitimate concerns: Some of the beach property is gone, River Street is three lanes of traffic and too dangerous for crossing, and part of the beach is now a wetland. HELLO! there is a oxymoron if I ever heard one. So let's see how the new move-the-beach committee makes out; it ain't gonna' happen, folks. How many times and how many man hours have been spent on, let's see, how about if we make Saranac Lake a city? Been there, done that. Wait, how about we consolidate Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake into a new county named Adirondack County? None of our three communities have anything in common with the two county seats, Elizabethtown and Malone. Maybe not a huge study but we sure spent a lot of time talking about it.
The Post-Standard, 1935
I am so lucky that my readers think of me and rather than just throw out old newspaper clippings, as this lady was about to do, they bring them to me. I am writing these columns way ahead, but on Feb. 25, Ann Cooney, whose mom, Sylvie Bola Cooney, was a speedskater in the 1932 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid when the sport for women was a demonstration event, brought me a tattered copy of the Syracuse Post-Standard dated Feb. 22, 1935. There is a picture of the King and Queen crowning at the Olympic Arena, and her mom is in that picture. We'll get to that bigger story later. However, that page from 1935 is just loaded with stories, not just about Lake Placid but also Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake and Malone.
More on consolidation
Now how about this? Wouldn't it be nice if we take that part of North Elba and St. Armand in Essex County and make that area part of Harrietstown, lop off that section of Essex County and make it part of Franklin County? I have heard that idea more than once in the last 82 years, but wait until you read this from the Post-Standard headlines:
Petitions out for Saranac's consolidation – Harrietstown would gain first-class standing thru move
"Saranac Lake – In continuance of the movement started here recently to consolidate those parts of Saranac Lake, which now lie in Essex County, with the town of Harrietstown, petitions relative to this change are being circulated in the respective areas.
"One of the most important results of such a project would be sufficient increase in population in the town of Harrietstown to enable it to become a first class town, thereby bringing many additional benefits to this vicinity. It would also make for easier assessment and collection of taxes, as well as easier handing of work relief projects.
(New York towns are classified by statute as being a town of the first class or a town of the second class determined by population. However, the playing field was leveled by the state Legislature in 1964. Until that time, first-class towns had more legal power.)
"The proposed consolidation would bring into the town of Harrietstown, and consequently into the county of Franklin, those portions of the town of North Elba and St. Armand in Essex County, which are now included in the incorporate limits of Saranac Lake.
"Cutting down the tax revenue of the towns and county affected, it is expected that plan will bring the strongest opposition from town and county officials. Proponents of the change declare that persons living in the designated areas are desirous of becoming a part of the town of Harrietstown.
"When the petitions are completed, they will be presented to Senator Benjamin Feinberg, Senator Rhoda Fox Graves and Assemblymen John Black and Fred Porter, members of the state legislature from this region. It is understood that prominent state officials favor the move.
"A precedent for such a consolidation was the creation of Bronx County in 1913. That the change was desired was shown thru a state referendum, with a special act of the legislature making it official. It is said that such would be the procedure in the current case."
Do you suppose that Harrietstown town Councilman Ron Keough, a former supervisor, was behind this move. I know he's been on that board for a long time, but 1935? However, he had a vested interest in that area because his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Keough, owned the very nice Keough Motor Lodge (telephone 891-1970) where the Best Western is located today Hey, you never know.


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By NICOLE HUTCHESON
Published April 19, 2007
LARGO - The city of Largo has agreed to pay nearly $94,000 for a mistake it made a year ago.
That's when Largo officials gave Rose and Michael Brown a permit to build a 2,000-square-foot garage in the back yard of their home at 2860 Vernon Ter.
But the size of the garage exceeded what city rules would normally allow, so Tuesday night city commissioners voted to pay to take down the garage and restore the Browns' property.
Officials issued a permit for the building in April 2006. By May, the Browns' neighbors began complaining to the city's community development office that the steel beams going into the ground for the garage were as high as some of their two-story homes.
On May 15, community development director Mike Staffopoulos halted work on the project.
"It was an error by the city of Largo," Staffopoulos said. "We didn't perform a capability review prior to giving the permit."
The Browns could not be reached for comment Wednesday, and their lawyer, Aubrey O. Dicus Jr., did not return calls from the Times.
Shortly after Staffopoulos' decision, the Browns sought legal counsel. In June, the Browns gave the city three options to rectify the situation: allow them to continue with construction, construct an alternate building with some compensation by the city or let the city compensate them for stopping the project.
The settlement both parties agreed on stipulates that the city must take down the structure, reimburse the Browns for cost of labor and materials on the project and restore their back yard. The city also will pay their legal fees.
The price tag is $93,821. Funds will be used from the city's risk fund to pay for the project.
At Tuesday's meeting, commissioners unanimously approved the settlement, but questioned whether safeguards had been put in place to prevent any similar mistakes from happening in the future.
"I assume when we figured out how this happened, we put something in place to ensure it never happened again?" City Commissioner Gigi Arntzen said.
Since the incident, Staffopoulos said the community development department requires senior level staff to sign off on permits for larger projects.
Mayor Pat Gerard said she was satisfied with the department's extra level of precaution.
"I feel good that he's got it under control and put a procedure in place where it has to go up a couple levels before it goes out the door," Gerard said. "We really do need to be looking at those things closer."
Nicole Hutcheson can be reached at email@example.com or 727 445-4162.
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