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Cancer evolution, mathmatical modeling, cancer genomics, treatment response, cancer stem cells
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Dr. Franziska Michor is an Associate Professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health – as well as the Principal Investigator of the NIH's Physical Science-Oncology Center located at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Michor obtained her undergraduate in mathematics and molecular biology from the University of Vienna, Austria, medical biotechnology at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy, as well as her PhD from the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Afterwards, she was awarded a junior fellowship from the Harvard Society of Fellows. From 2007 until 2010, she was an Assistant Professor in the Computational Biology Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. In 2010, she moved to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Michor has been the recipient of the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize of the Society for the Study of Evolution, a Gerstner Young Investigator Award, and a Leon Levy Young Investigator Award. Dr. Michor's laboratory investigates the evolutionary dynamics of cancer initiation, progression, response to therapy, and emergence of resistance.
Recent Awards
- Gerstner Young Investigator Award, 2010
- Leon Levy Young Investigator Award, 2009
- Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASCINA) Award, 2008
- Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize, Society for the Study of Evolution, 2007
- Junior Fellowship, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 2005-2008
- Harold M. Wintraub Graduate Student Award, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, 2004
- Austrian Mathematical Society Prize for paper titled, The Mathematics of Planetary Movement, 2000
ResearchCancer evolution, mathmatical modeling, cancer genomics, treatment response, cancer stem cells
The research of our lab focuses on the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. Cancer emerges due to an evolutionary process in somatic tissue. The fundamental laws of evolution can best be formulated as exact mathematical equations. Therefore, the process of cancer initiation and progression is amenable to mathematical investigation. Current areas of research include cancer stem cells, evolution of drug resistance, and the dynamics of metastasis formation.
Select Publications
- Michor F, Hughes TP, Iwasa Y, Branford S, Shah NP, Sawyers CL, Nowak MA (2005) Dynamics of chronic myeloid leukemia. Nature 435, 1267-1270.
- Dingli D, Michor F (2006) Successful therapy must eradicate cancer stem cells. Stem Cells 24, 2603-2610
- Michor F, Iwasa Y, Nowak MA (2006) The age incidence of chronic myeloid leukemia can be explained by a one-mutation model. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A103, 14931-14934.
- Michor F (2007) CML blast crisis arises from progenitors. Stem Cells 25, 1114-1118.
- Michor F (2007) The long-term response to imatinib treatment of CML. British Journal of Cancer 96, 679-680.
- Michor F (2008) Mathematical models of cancer stem cells. J Clin Oncol 26, 2854-2861.
- Foo J, Michor F (2009) Evolution of resistance to targeted anti-cancer therapy during continuous and pulsed administration strategies. PLoS Computational Biology 5, e1000557.
- Haeno H, Levine RL, Gilliland DG, Michor F (2009) The cell of origin of hematopoietic malignancies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A106, 16616-16621.
- Foo J, Drummond MW, Clarkson B, Holyoke T, Michor F (2009) Eradication of chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells: a novel mathematical model predicts no therapeutic benefit of adding G-CSF to imatinib. PLoS Computational Biology 5, e10000503.
- De Vargas Roditi L, Michor F (2010) Evolutionary dynamics of BRCA1 alterations in breast tumorigenesis. J Theor Biol 273, 207-215.
- Leder K, Holland EC, Michor F (2010) The therapeutic implications of plasticity of the cancer stem cell phenotype. PLoS ONE 5, e14366.
- Michor F, Polyak K (2010) The origins and implications of intratumor heterogeneity. Cancer Prevention Research 3, 1361-1364.
- Stephan-Otto Attolini C*, Cheng Y-K*, Beroukhim R, Getz G, Abdel-Wahab O, Levine RL, Mellinghoff IK, Michor F (2010) A novel mathematical framework to determine the temporal sequence of somatic genetic events in cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107, 17604-17609. * Equal contribution.
- Danielson LS, Menendez S, Stephan-Otto Attolini C, Guijarro MV, Bisogna M, Wei J, Socci ND, Levine DA, Michor F, Hernando E (2010) A differentiation-based miRNA signature identifies leiomyosarcoma as a mesenchymal stem cell-related malignancy. Am J Pathol 177, 908-917.
- Riester M*, Stephan-Otto Attolini C*, Downey RJ, Singer S, Michor F (2010) A differentiation-based phylogeny of cancer subtypes.PLoS Computational Biology 6, e1000777. *Equal contribution.
- Park SY, Gonen M, Kim HJ, Michor F*, Polyak K* (2010) Cellular and genetic diversity in the progression of in situ human breast carcinomas to an invasive phenotype. Jour Clin Invest 120, 636-644. * Equal contribution.
- De S, Michor F (2011) DNA replication timing and long-range DNA interactions predict mutational landscapes of cancer genomes. Nature Biotechnology 29, 1103-1108.
- Michor F, Liphardt J, Ferrari M, Widom J (2011) What does physics have to do with cancer? Nature Reviews Cancer11, 657-670.
- Tang M, Gonen M, Quintas-Cardama A, Cortes J, Kantarjian H, Field C, Hughes TP, Branford S, Michor F (2011) Dynamics of chronic myeloid leukemia response to long-term targeted therapy reveal treatment effects on leukemic stem cells. Blood 118, 1622-1631.
- Chmielecki J, Foo J, Oxnard GR, Hutchinson K, Ohashi K, Somwar R, Wang L, Amato KR, Arcila M, Sos ML, Socci ND, Viale A, de Stanchina E, Ginsberg MS, Thomas RK, Kris MG, Inoue A, Ladanyi M, Miller VA, Michor F, Pao W (2011) Optimization of dosing for EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer with evolutionary cancer modeling. Science Translational Medicine 3, 90ra59.
- De S, Michor F (2011) DNA secondary structures and epigenetic determinants of cancer genome evolution. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 18, 950-955.
- Durrett R, Foo J, Leder K, Mayberry J, Michor F (2011) Intratumor heterogeneity in evolutionary models of tumor progression. Genetics 188, 461-477.
- Klinakis A, Lobry C, Abdel-Wahab O, Oh P, Haeno H, Buonamici S, van de Walle I, Cathelin S, Trimarchi T, Araldi E, Liu C, Ibrahim S, Beran M, Zavadil J, Efstratiadis A, Taghon T, Michor F, Levine RL, Aifantis A (2011) A novel tumor suppressor function for the Notch pathway in myeloid leukemia. Nature 473, 230-233.
- Iwasa Y, Michor F (2011) Evolutionary dynamics of intratumor heterogeneity. PLoS ONE 6, e17866. Foo J*, Leder K*, Michor F (2010) Stochastic dynamics of cancer initiation. Physical Biology 8, 015002. * Equal contribution.
- Haeno H*, Gonen M*, Davis MB, Herman JM, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Michor F (2012) Computational modeling of pancreatic cancer progression reveals dynamics of growth and dissemination and suggests optimum treatment strategies.Cell 148, 362-375.
- Liu, Lin, BS
- Zhao, Rui, BS, MS
- Haeno, Hiroshi, PhD
- Riester, Markus, PhD
- Podlaha, Ondrej, PhD
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A man was robbed at Shady Side on Saturday. He was approached by three men, who demanded that the victim turn over his phone his wallet and his pin number. The man complied and later contacted police while looking up the location of his iPhone through its GPS system.
Through the use of GPS technology the police were able to determine the last few stops of the criminals as well as determine their exact location. The police were then able to arrest the three suspects at a local gas station. The suspects were identified as: Bryant Rather, Brent Ray Potter, Myron Knox Jr., all age 22. The men are currently being held in police custody after being found in a gray SUV with all of the victims items.
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iHerb Customer Reviews
Savings of: $39.31 (32% off)
Terrible new product
Posted by Reviewer1996421 on Dec 28, 2013
Have been told that the complete Stevia product was in the past mixed and put together by one person who has left his company,and did not reveal the formular that he was using in the past.Recieved a 5lb bage on the 24th of December.My wife and I have been drinking the same coffee and using NuStevia for 5 or 6 years. This new stuff is terrible.No sweet taste at all and the price went sky high. Can't understand why the new product wasn't tried out and confirmed before it was pushed out to the public. Buyer Beware!!!!!
must be all maltodextrin :/ pretty sure they left the stevia out of mine
Posted by Reviewer2034836 on Jan 23, 2014
I have been buying this for a couple of years now and the one I just received is just AWFUL. NO TASTE at all, not sweet, nothing. 5lb and 60 bucks down the drain. I will not make that mistake again. I am not sure what NuNatural has done to this but it is ruined.....I just got this order Jan. 2014
Forced scarcity
Posted by Reviewer1510247 on Nov 02, 2013
Price has skyrocketed over the last few months. For the longest time I paid about $45 per 5lb bag from iHerb. Five pound bags no longer available, except at the NuNaturals website, and at an outrageous price (over $1 an oz). Suspect, in light of Stevia becoming more widely popular, NuNaturals is forcing the price way up by fabricating scarcity. The Stevia plant is no more scarce now then it has been in the past. No legitimate reason for the price to have doubled in the last year. Do not buy from NuNaturals.
Not good at all!!!!!
Posted by Reviewer1582339 on May 20, 2014
I have used nunaturals stevia for 5 years and have loved it. I would not even consider the price if the product was the same. But it is not sweet. I have to use 4 times the amount and it is still not sweet. I have always loved that is was not bitter and that remains the same. Why spend the money though if it does not sweeten. That is the purpose of buying stevia is to sweeten. I would definitely stay away until they improve the quality. Bring back the good stuff.
NuNaturals Nw Formula
Posted by Reviewer2503621 on Sep 16, 2014
I agree with most everyone, I talked w/ NUNatural directly and they have a new formula. After being a loyal custom for 4 years I have moved to Now Foods Stevia and even though it is expensive the product is MUCH sweeter and WAY more concentrated. Man, I should be getting paid to write this, I am being a fantastic endorser for business but unfortunately I am not and wanted to share incase someone is as addicted to Stevia and life dependent on it as I am.
Beware: this product has been reformulated!
Posted by Reviewer1730440 on Jan 22, 2014
I have loved Nunaturals for years, and was terribly disappointed when I opened my new bag of 5 lb NuNaturals to find that you need 2-3 times as much of the stuff and it tastes awful, like the cheap bitter stevia we all avoid. Bait and switch NuNaturals! Shame on you. I'm now on the search for the best stevia on the market now that it's clearly not NuNaturals. Blech. Wish I didn't have to give it one star.
New batch in 2014 is very bitter and no taste
Posted by Reviewer1083438 on Feb 05, 2014
I have been using this 5 lb products for over six years. The new bag I purchased in January 2014 looks different in both color and texture. When I make tea and coffee using the same amount as I always did, I was shocked that the sweetness was much weaker and made the beverage very bitter. I tasted the powder with my finger and the extract itself was bitter. I am sorry this product has changed its characteristics. I have been ordering it for so long and really enjoyed it. I have since ordered it from another supplier and will not continue this bag. It is indeed a waste in every aspect. Hope the company can review the quality of this product. I strongly suggest new users to buy small quantity to ensure you like the new taste before you commit to the huge bag.
What Happened????
Posted by Reviewer1347463 on Feb 11, 2014
I have been buying this product for years and it was the best stevia out there and very cost friendly. All of a sudden it was gone for ages and then a few bags showed up but what's in those bags is HORRIBLE!!! It is no longer sweet! I've used twice the amount I used to use to "sweeten" something and it's still not sweet and it deadens the flavor of what you are trying to sweeten. The price, when it's available had more than doubled and that for an inferior product. I thought maybe it was me, but I see at least one other review with the same issue. Guess the search is on again because, unless the old formula comes back, this is a waste.
Posted by Reviewer1283341 on Feb 06, 2010
I didn't realize I was not ordering pure stevia. Pure stevia is green, I now know. Not a pleasant order. The multidextros killed my purpose for getting stevia. I needed to be more informed, or better yet, your add should have warned a newbe like me that I was not getting pure stevia. Now I have 5 pounds of white stuff that I do not know what to do with.
Sweet deal!
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Best deal on Stevia!
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Muffy Davis won her second gold medal of the London 2012 Paralympic Games on Friday.
BRANDS HATCH, England – American cyclists Marianna "Muffy" Davis (Sun Valley, Idaho) and Monica Bascio (Ridgewood, N.J.) each collected their second road cycling medals of these Games after finishing first and second in today's individual H 1-3 road race from Brand's Hatch.
Davis finished her Friday action with a time of 1:41.34 while Davis crossed the line at 1:42.07. Great Britain's Rachel Morris was third with a time of 1:43.08.
This is Davis' second gold medal of the London Games and Bascio's second silver. Davis won the individual H 1-2 time trial and Bascio finished took silver in the H3 time trial, both of those races were on Wednesday.
The 1-2 finish by the Americans today now takes the overall U.S. road cycling medal total to 11, second only to Germany who currently has 12. The U.S. also picked up an additional five medals at the track cycling competition earlier in the Games.
Davis and Bascio both had hopes of medaling in today's event and knew they would have to work together if they were going to reach their goals.
"It was awesome. It was a hard course, six laps, we were tired, but fortunately [Monica and I] had to work together and it worked out well. Our goal was two on the podium today, so we got it," said Davis of the 48km race.
Bascio was also pleased with how the race went and was extremely proud to land on the medal stand with her teammate.
"I couldn't be prouder. I'm so happy to be on a team with Muffy, she works so dang hard all season, and really just shows the field what it's like to be elite," said Bascio.
Today's race marked the end of Bascio's events in London which now allows her a few days to unwind before heading home, but Davis still has one more race to go, tomorrow's mixed H1-4 team relay, another event she hopes to medal in.
"I have one more race, the relay (mixed H1-4 team relay) tomorrow, so after the third (medal) then I'll celebrate. But I've still got to focus and work, still one more race to go," said Davis.


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The 2012 season was always going to be one packed with drama.
Expansion was moving major schools to new conferences. High-profile coaches were making debuts.
The early national championship picture was shaped by three of the sport's blue bloods.
Alabama was seeking its third title in four years. LSU was looking for redemption after last year's flop in the Bowl Championship Series title game. Southern California was looking to get back to the top of the mountain after its probation ended, and Matt Barkley was expected to be the school's latest quarterback to win the Heisman Trophy.
In the end, the only one to make it through without a loss was Notre Dame, which started as an afterthought after so many years in obscurity.
MORE: Handing out grades for every team
The season produced names we had never heard, such as Johnny Manziel and Jordan Lynch. There was the return to prominence of old masters Bill Snyder and Urban Meyer.
There were firings, injuries and tears.
Here's a look back at the highs and lows of the last three months.
Best game
Alabama vs. Georgia: The Crimson Tide could have this category all to themselves with their other classics against LSU and Texas A&M. The former game left quarterback AJ McCarron crying after he led a comeback win. The loss to the Aggies nearly cost him and his team a trip to the title game. However, the best was last with Alabama's ground attack and McCarron's long touchdown pass to Amari Cooper rallying the team in the second half, while the Bulldogs finished 5 yards short in a bid to knock off the defending champs in a 32-28 loss in the Southeastern Conference title game. Other memorable games include West Virginia's shootout with Baylor that ended with 133 points scored, North Carolina State's last-minute defeat of Florida State and Notre Dame's goal-line stand in overtime that held off Stanford.
Heartwarming moments
Marcus Lattimore's injury: It was difficult seeing the South Carolina running back suffer a major knee injury for the second consecutive season. The scene afterward with Tennessee players joining South Carolina teammates around Lattimore as he was carted off the field showed the respect the running back has among opponents.
Penn State senior day: The senior class that stuck together after the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal and devastating NCAA probation was honored at Beaver Stadium while wearing the number of injured leader Michael Mauti. The Nittany Lions outlasted Wisconsin in overtime to finish an emotional season 8-4.
Best conference debut
Fresno State: Yes, Texas A&M showed it was SEC-worthy. The Aggies, however, were just third in their division. The Bulldogs, under first-year coach Tim DeRuyter, earned a share of the Mountain West title with their only loss in the league coming at Boise State. Derek Carr emerged as a standout quarterback, throwing for 36 TDs.
Biggest disappointment
Southern California: There were so many to choose from in this category. Arkansas didn't make a bowl after starting in the top 10. Michigan State lost five conference games by 13 total points. Virginia Tech waited until its final play to extend its bowl streak to 20 seasons. Auburn went winless in the SEC and fired coach Gene Chizik. But the award goes to the Trojans, who were thinking national title or bust when the season started. Instead, they lost five games, including one to rival UCLA that meant they didn't even win their Pac-12 division. With two more years of NCAA scholarship reductions, Lane Kiffin might not be long for the job.
Top coaching performance
Brian Kelly, Notre Dame: Bill O'Brien can be proud of his season at Penn State. Will Muschamp revived Florida in his second year. David Shaw won a Pac-12 title at Stanford without Andrew Luck. Dave Doeren led Northern Illinois to a BCS bowl bid. Kelly wins the honor for leading the Irish unscathed through a tough schedule behind a defense that took three years to build into an elite unit. He also molded redshirt freshman quarterback Everett Golson into the leader of an offense efficient enough to win 12 games, even if some were a little closer than expected.
Filling shoes award
Kevin Hogan, Stanford: Joe Southwick led Boise State to 10 victories after replacing Kellen Moore, who won 50 games in his four seasons. Nick Florence followed Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III and threw 31 touchdown passes and guided the Bears to seven wins, including a defeat of Kansas State. Hogan gets the nod as the second of two starters used by the Cardinal after the loss of Andrew Luck. He led the team to wins against four ranked opponents in its last four games to secure the school's first Rose Bowl bid since 2000.
Disappointing finishes
Geno Smith, West Virginia: It was a meteoric rise for the Mountaineers quarterback, who became the Heisman Trophy front-runner after a September of five wins and 24 touchdowns without an interception. WVU followed the start with five losses in a row, and Smith was off the national radar even though his numbers were worthy of more attention.
Denard Robinson, Michigan: The senior's career wasn't supposed to end with him exclusively as a ballcarrier. That's what happened in Robinson's final two games after he suffered an arm injury against Nebraska. A bright spot was the Wolverines got an early look at next year's starter, Devin Gardner, which should pay dividends.
Breakout star
Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M: It didn't appear Manziel would end up with the quarterback job after an offseason arrest. Instead, his unconventional play, the cool nickname (Johnny Football) and some impressive victories made him a household name and left SEC defenses wondering how to defend him the next three seasons. Not far behind was Jordan Lynch, who in his first year at quarterback took Northern Illinois to the Orange Bowl. On the defensive side, Anthony Barr switched from offense to linebacker and immediately became a dominant force for UCLA. He finished the regular season with a national-best 13½ sacks, including a memorable hit that injured Matt Barkley's shoulder and knocked him out of USC's game against Notre Dame.
Troubling trend
Short coaching tenures: The reservoir of goodwill in college football is getting smaller and smaller. Chizik's firing at Auburn came less than two years after a national title. Ellis Johnson landed a plum job at Southern Mississippi and was removed after one winless season. Colorado let go of Jon Embree after two seasons. Derek Dooley and Skip Holtz lasted three years, respectively, at Tennessee and South Florida. Danny Hope won his last three games and took Purdue to its second consecutive bowl in his fourth season. It wasn't enough to keep his job. The concept of a real opportunity to rebuild a program is long gone. With the money and pressure, it's win or else start looking for work.
PHOTOS: College football coaching carousel
Worst injury situation
Maryland quarterbacks: Projected starter C.J. Brown tore up a knee in preseason practice. That left true freshman Perry Hills as the man in the opener. He tore a knee ligament, and backup Devon Burns was lost for the season with a foot injury. Caleb Rowe then took over, and he, of course, had the same knee injury as Brown and Hills. This happened all before the end of October. Maryland was forced go with linebacker Shawn Petty in the final four games. All things considered, Petty played well with six touchdown passes and two interceptions. But the Terps lost their last six games and finished 4-8.
Underrated team of the year
Syracuse: The Orange quietly went 7-5 with all five of their losses coming to bowl teams. One reason Syracuse stayed below the radar was a 2-4 start that included a one-point loss to Northwestern and close games against USC and Rutgers. Things turned around in the second half behind the play of quarterback Ryan Nassib. The Orange dealt Louisville its first loss and won at Missouri to secure a bowl bid on the penultimate weekend of the season. Not to be overlooked were strong seasons by Mid-American Conference schools Ball State and Bowling Green and Arkansas State's season-ending seven-game winning streak that led to the outright Sun Belt title.
Top impact transfer
Cody Green, Tulsa: After two seasons at Nebraska, the quarterback was an immediate star for the Golden Hurricane, passing for 2,499 yards and 17 touchdowns and leading the team to the Conference USA title. The award might have gone to Oklahoma wide receiver Jalen Saunders, who had 53 receptions for 766 yards. The junior, however, missed the first four games of the season while awaiting clearance from the NCAA. Also worth noting are strong seasons by three running backs: USC's Silas Redd, San Jose State's De'Leon Eskridge and Temple's Montel Harris. Among the transfers who didn't bear immediate fruit were three quarterbacks: Wisconsin's Danny O'Brien, Kansas' Dayne Crist and Colorado's Connor Wood.


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Serge Marcil Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry
Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House today to open the debate on the amended version of Bill C-15, An Act to amend the Lobbyists Registration Act. This version differs only slightly from that passed March 18.
The Senate made only one amendment to correct an inconsistency discovered in an amendment passed by the House at third reading.
The hon. member for Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot moved the original amendment during debate at third reading. I understand that he supports without reservation the change recommended by the Senate.
Obviously, the Minister of Industry considers this amendment appropriate under the circumstances.
The Senate's amendment and the original amendment moved at third reading are fully within the meaning of Bill C-15, which is to create a lobbyists registration system that works well now and that will work even better in the future. It is about creating a more transparent lobbyists registration system that is easier to enforce and that continues to earn the trust of Canadians.
The House has every reason to approve the version amended by the Senate. Rapid adoption of the bill means it will be able to receive royal assent and be implemented.
Before addressing the substance of the amendment made by the Senate, allow me to take a moment to remind the hon. members of the context for today's debate.
As my hon. colleagues from all sides of this House will recall, the review that led to Bill C-15 was a lengthy and comprehensive one.
While the original lobbying legislation dates back to 1989, parliamentarians and the public were concerned that it might not go far enough to allow a thorough public scrutiny of lobbying. In response to these concerns, our party promised improvements to the lobbying regime during the 1993 election campaign.
We delivered on our promise. Our government introduced a bill to review the Lobbyists Registration Act, which Parliament passed, and a new act came into force in 1996. This act resulting in the development of the code of conduct for lobbyists and led us to work tirelessly to ensure the efficiency of the new system.
This work has met with success. Gone are the public concerns, which were commonplace ten years ago, about agreements entered into behind closed doors. Why? Because the Lobbyists Registration Act and the system supporting it have brought a high level of transparency to the situation.
A balance has been struck between four principles: first, free and open access to the government is an important matter of public policy; second, lobbying public office holders is a legitimate activity; third, concerning transparency, public office holders and the public must be able to know who is trying to influence the government; and fourth, with respect to efficiency, a registration system for paid lobbyists must not hinder free and open access to the government.
That having been said, enforcement of legislation normally reveals what improvements are necessary. That is what happened with the Lobbyists Registration Act.
In 2001, the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology reviewed both the system and the act. It tabled its report, in which it recommended that the government make a number of changes and take a closer look at certain questions.
The government has followed up on these recommendations, consulted further and produced Bill C-15.
In addition to the usual housekeeping and technical amendments designed to correct minor drafting errors, the bill has three main components.
First, it contains a clearer definition of lobbying.
Second, it simplifies and standardizes registration requirements for all categories of lobbyists and strengthens the applicable cancellation requirements.
Third, it establishes more meaningful enforcement powers.
Neither the House or the Senate standing committees put forward amendments to the substantive elements of Bill C-15.
There were discussions and debates on specific points, but at the end of the day, parliamentarians from both Houses agreed that Bill C-15 would solve some key issues effectively.
Nonetheless, during debate at third reading, the hon. member for Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot put forward an amendment to increase the amount of information required from lobbyists. More specifically, it amended subsection 7(1) and added sub-paragraph 7(3)( h. 3). Under this sub-paragraph, lobbyists who are former public office holders would have to describe their former duties as part of the registration process.
As the hon. member himself later admitted, this amendment included an unintended loophole. It required information only from corporate lobbyists and lobbyists working for not-for-profit organizations. Consultant lobbyists, who provide lobbying services under contract to companies, organizations, or other clients, were not required to provide the same information.
It is clear that this amendment is inconsistent with the pervasive theme of Bill C-15, which is the equal and transparent application of registration requirements to all lobbyists. Having seen this loophole, the hon. member wrote to the Senate Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament to ask that this omission be corrected. The committee made the correction as requested and the Senate accepted the amendment, which is the only change that was made to the version passed by the House in March.
Essentially, what we have before us is a significant administrative correction we have every reason to accept. It makes absolutely no change in the major thrust of the law, but merely adds one additional detail in the interests of uniformity and greater transparency.
As a result, Bill C-15 as amended will enable us to take one more step toward being able to meet Canadians' growing expectations as far as ethical issues are concerned. It will be compatible with the other steps taken by our government, such as increasing the number of auditor general reports, departmental measures broadening the internal audit procedures, and the adoption of a more comprehensive code governing the conduct of holders of public office.
This bill constitutes one more means of keeping the promise made by the Prime Minister when he revealed his eight-point ethics plan last June. It falls in line with the measures aimed at introducing a guide for ministers of state and parliamentary secretaries in connection with ethical and other issues, as well as with the new rules governing interactions between ministers and crown agencies.
The Senate has asked us to make one minor change to a bill we have already passed once. It is a reasonable change, and one we should approve. We will thus be able to implement the improvements proposed in Bill C-15 to the Lobbyists Registration Act. We will be able to make a system that is working well now work still better in future.
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Canadian Alliance
Ken Epp Elk Island, AB
Madam Speaker, I am honoured to stand and represent not only the people of my riding but, I believe, people across Canada when we address issues of such interest to the Canadian taxpayer and also to those who are looking for integrity in all the different aspects of the governing process.
Over the years I have been a member of Parliament, I have watched with interest things which have to do with the ethics counsellor, the registration of lobbyists and other related items. If the government can be accused of anything, it can be accused of making timid steps in the right direction but not really getting into the nitty-gritty of what is required.
When we are dealing with lobbyists, we are dealing with basically three kinds of people: those who come here and simply look for change in government policies, social policies, tax policies or whatever; those who come here as individuals representing organizations that are lobbying for change in legislation; and finally, individuals and businesses whose jobs are to lobby to get government contracts. I think the latter of these three groups probably present most Canadians with the largest concern.
When we look at things like buying helicopters for the armed forces or buying computers for all the different government departments, we are talking big bucks, large amounts of money. It is important that the process by which those contracts are let is very open and transparent.
I am in favour of the Lobbyists Registration Act per se. I believe it is a good thing that members, if they engage in these activities, are required to disclose that information and that it be made available. As a matter of fact, in the almost 10 years that I have been here, the accessibility to such lists has been improved vastly by the introduction of the Internet and the great amount of connectivity of Canadians in that mode of communication.
As we know, it is possible to click on an Internet site, the ethics counsellor's website for example, from anywhere in the world and find out who is registered as a lobbyist. Of course the Lobbyists Registration Act spells out who needs to be registered. It also spells out what information needs to be disclosed. Then when we click on the website and ask for that search, we can find out who is currently lobbying the government to get a contract, to sell it huge amounts of computers or whatever item is being bid on.
We spoke in previous readings of this bill, prior to sending it to committee and also in second reading, about the different problems inherent in the lobbyists registration. We must always remember a very important background, and that is disclosure has but one purpose and that purpose is to prevent behaviour which is unethical or illegal. Just the disclosure itself does not justify it. People cannot say that because they have disclosed they now have a licence to do anything they want. It still must be within the law and be within a very high level of ethics.
I compare this, for example, to a person who walks into a store and in plain sight of a clerk steals something off the shelf. That person cannot claim that because an employee of the store saw him or her do it, it is therefore not theft. It is theft regardless of whether it was seen. The same thing is true with registration. It provides disclosure but does not give a licence to engage in whatever behaviour is required to get the contract.
We must remember that the purpose and the principle of disclosure is to prevent behaviour which is unethical. In other words, hopefully people will know that what they do will be made public, that they will not get away with it and, therefore, they will not do it. I think that is the basis of the whole Lobbyists Registration Act and the public disclosure of the lists.
When this bill was finally completed earlier this year at third reading in the House, it was sent off to our unaccountable Senate. I know the rules of the House do not permit me in any way to speak disparagingly of the other place and I--
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The Acting Speaker (Ms. Bakopanos)
I apologize to the hon. member for interrupting, but on a point of order the hon. member for St. John's West.
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Progressive Conservative
Loyola Hearn St. John's West, NL
Madam Speaker, I apologize to my colleague for interrupting while he is in full flight but he will have lots of time. I will not take very long.
I wish to inform the Chair that there have been consultations among the parties and I believe you would find unanimous consent for the following motion. I move:
That the membership of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs be modified as follows:
Gerald Keddy for Rick Borotsik
And that Rick Borotsik and Gary Schellenberger be added to the list of associate members;
And that Gerald Keddy be removed from the list of associate members.
(Motion agreed to)
The House resumed consideration of the motion in relation to the amendment made by the Senate to Bill C-15, an act to amend the Lobbyists Registration Act.
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Canadian Alliance
Ken Epp Elk Island, AB
Madam Speaker, I do not mind that interruption at all because it helps the people in the party over at the other end of the House try to unscramble its egg.
I would like to proceed with my talk. The bill as passed was then sent over to the other place. I know a number of the senators over there and I have no need at all to question whether they are dedicated or hard-working. I know a number of them work probably much harder than some members of this House. Therefore that is not an issue.
However I really must take every opportunity where we get something back from the Senate, whether it is a bill that is initiated there or whether it is a bill that it has looked at and then sent back here with a revision. I always have to ask this, and continue to review with anybody who will listen. In today's modern age how can we, being a so-called democratic society, justify a whole House of legislators who control what happens in our country without them also being elected? This is an issue which I can never forget to talk about when we deal with something that comes back from the Senate.
I appreciate its work. I happen to agree with the amendment it has sent back on this occasion. It actually did some work which should have been done over here, recognized a shortcoming and sent back the bill with an amendment to fix up that shortcoming. That is great, but that is a specific issue. It was doing its job. It can also do its job and do it better if it had the legitimacy of elected office and accountability to the people that it purports to represent.
The Senate has sent back an amendment and I sincerely wish it would have come back from an elected Senate. However it came back from an hon. House over there trying to do its work and hopefully improving this legislation. I do not know whether the parliamentary secretary, when he gave his little speech, outlined this for whomever was listening, but the Senate amendment basically adds one line. It says that if the individual, who is acting as a lobbyist and who is registering, has been a former public office holder, then he must also disclose in the registration the offices that were held.
As an example, not very long ago I met a former Liberal member of Parliament. He happens to be a lobbyist now. He gets a very fine salary from a large corporation. His job is to come over here and talk to the Liberal cabinet ministers whom he knows intimately, and I mean that in the general sense of the term. He was a member of the Liberal Party and worked with it. Consequently he has the ear of the minister. When the corporation, which he represents, wants to get a government contract, he can walk into the minister's office and the minister will greet him with a "Hi" and use his first name. They are immediately on friendly terms because they have been colleagues.
I do not know about you, Madam Speaker, but I find something just a little offensive about that. Very frankly, whether the person who shows up in the minister's office knows him well or does not know him or her at all, should be irrelevant to who gets the contract. The contract should be based upon very rigid criteria that are written into the contract. Those are the terms to be met and those are the conditions. When the contract is let, companies should bid on it and it should be evaluated objectively as possible to see which contract gives taxpayers the best buy for the money. Whether it is computers or helicopters or vehicles for the government fleet or whatever, there should be a careful cost benefit analysis to see if we are getting the correct return for the money.
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An hon. member
That is the case now.
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Canadian Alliance
Ken Epp Elk Island, AB
Madam Speaker, a member across the way seems to have an ant under his shirt collar.
I hasten to add that it should have nothing to do with whether or not a person can somehow try to influence the minister toward a contract for a particular company. That is a given to me.
All the bill requires at this stage is that there be registration. The amendment from the Senate would require that the member of Parliament state in his registration that he has been a member of Parliament. I have not looked at the details. I think this would be due to regulation, but I wish the Senate would have explicitly said that especially if the lobbyist had been a member of the current government. If that were the case, then there would be a tighter relationship. It would warrant more rigid scrutiny by taxpayers and others accessing the website and the lists in terms of watching what the person did.
There is another disadvantage in this whole lobbyists registration thing. I cannot understand why the members of the government do not understand this. I would think it would be really wise of them not to accept interventions by lobbyists on these things.
Let us say that five bids were submitted and that the best bid was selected, the best value for the dollar on behalf of the taxpayer. Let us say also that it happened to be the company that was represented by the previous MP. Even though it may be legitimate, it would look suspicious and thereby would reduce the honour in which the whole process was held.
It would have been a lot better had there been no representation. It would have been an objective evaluation and the choices would have been made in order to get the taxpayer the best buy for the dollar. There would have been not even the appearance of interference on a friendly, person to person basis by having the best lobbyist.
This leads us to the next issue which is whether there is a process and a place for lobbyists? I hold that there is. I used to think not. Back when I was first elected, I thought there should be no lobbyists. I thought, who needs them? Members of Parliament should listen to their constituents and they should represent in the House what their constituents desire and that should be it.
I had my eyes opened when I became a member of Parliament and realized that we debate many bills and motions in the House, even some with respect to building laws and acts of Parliament in which there are many aspects. Communication is very important. It is valuable to members of Parliament to get a representation from some industrial group, perhaps on behalf of the forestry companies. If each company were to come here individually, we would never get our work done. For them to meet together and to boil it down to their five most important issues and then to visit the members of Parliament and communicate that, would be useful.
Not long ago the firefighters came to Ottawa for their lobbyist day, as they call it. I welcomed them. I like to hear from them and find out what the issues are in terms of the tax act, the Canada pension plan and other areas where we make rules that determine their livelihood and well-being after they retire, if they are not hurt or killed in action. We are making those rules. It is valuable for me to receive a representation from them as a group.
It is also totally useful that they should register as lobbyists. People would know that the firefighters association had a lobbyist. They would know who the person was who tries to bend the ears of legislators. I do not think there is anything wrong with that and it is useful to a degree.
It becomes very offensive when the government succumbs to pressure on a personal basis from an in-house lobbyist who used to be a member of the very department that the person is now lobbying. That happens. From time to time we hear of this. A high level employee, a person very high up in the hierarchy in--
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John Bryden Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot, ON
Madam Speaker, on a point of order, the member for Elk Island seems to be going on indefinitely. Is there no limit on the time he has to speak?
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The Acting Speaker (Ms. Bakopanos)
No, the hon. member has unlimited time to speak.
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Canadian Alliance
Ken Epp Elk Island, AB
Madam Speaker, it is interesting to know that in this particular instance we are not limited to one minute, or 10, 20 or 40 minutes. I could speak for the rest of the day, if I so chose. If all goes well, I should be completed my speech before the end of the day which will give someone else an opportunity to speak.
Let me get back to the thread of my thoughts. Lobbyists have to register under the bill. The Senate has sent back an amendment which forces them to disclose one more additional piece of information and it is a very important disclosure. It is the area in which they served in a department.
I do not believe it is acceptable for a deputy minister, a previous minister or even a member of Parliament, but specifically a deputy minister of a department to retire from government and then get a job with a business firm that will be lobbying to get a contract in the very department in which he or she had served. Disclosure is one thing, but it is not acceptable and I would like the Lobbyists Registration Act to actually prohibit that activity. In other words, it is like the person in the store, it is not just whether or not we know what is happening, but to actually prohibit the activity per se.
I wish the Senate had done its job and brought in some important amendments of that nature instead of this little housekeeping one which increases the disclosure. However I think we are better off by a small degree in this area than we were 10 years ago with what has happened with lobbyists registration and the work our party is trying to accomplish. We are trying to get a truly independent ethics commissioner, not one that is appointed by the government but one that is truly independent as is the Auditor General for example. I would like to see that strengthened even more to the point where Canadians will once again be able to say "We trust our government. We know it is doing the best that it can and all is well in the House".
Workplace Training
Statements By Members
June 3rd, 2003 / 1:55 p.m.
Janko Peric Cambridge, ON
Madam Speaker, three companies in my riding of Cambridge representing the industrial manufacturing, service hospitality and small business sectors were recently recognized for their excellence in workplace training and development.
Canadian General Tower, Cambridge Memorial Hospital and McDonald-Green exemplify the very best in supporting and encouraging a highly skilled workforce. All three companies strive for career related and skill oriented programs guaranteeing the development of a highly adaptive workforce necessary in today's competitive economy.
I join all members in congratulating Canadian General Tower, Cambridge Memorial Hospital and McDonald-Green for their vision, leadership and resolve in producing a skilled workforce.
Child Pornography
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Art Hanger Calgary Northeast, AB
Madam Speaker, the Liberals have put Canada on the map again, this time as a haven for child pornography. ECPAT, the world's largest organization to prevent child sexual exploitation, says that Canada is an international embarrassment. Why?
The Liberals have refused to consider raising the age of consent to 16 and have refused to fund operation snowball, Canada's cross-country effort to arrest child pornographers. They appoint judges who consistently throw out verdicts against child pornographers. They stall a sexual offender registry until a tragedy suddenly motivates them. They write a new bill making it legal to have sex with children, as long as there is no position of trust, and legal to have child porn if there is a public good.
With all this evidence about the unwillingness of the Liberals to protect children from sexual exploitation, Canadians would be in their right to ask what is the government's real agenda? The only thing we know for sure, it is not protecting our children.
Batteries Électriques Gagnon
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Massimo Pacetti Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
Madam Speaker, on May 3, Batteries Électriques Gagnon, which has its head office in my riding of Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, held a gala evening to celebrate its 50th anniversary, and also to highlight the excellent work done by the many employees over the years who contributed so much to the success of this jewel of Quebec's car and truck after-sales sector. Fifty years in business would have been impossible were it not for the ever-present spirit of cooperation and understanding that exists within the company.
I would like to congratulate and pay tribute to the two company founders, André and Claude Gagnon, members of the great Gagnon family. I would also like to thank them for their involvement in my riding of Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel and wish them the best for the continued prosperity and success of their wonderful business.
International Coffee Organization
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Andy Scott Fredericton, NB
Madam Speaker, the coffee industry is in crisis resulting in extreme hardship for coffee producers and workers in Africa, Latin America and Asia. In the hardest hit areas, people are starving to death as a result of the crisis. The root of the problem is overproduction fostered by World Bank policies and the marketing of low quality product.
Without a strong multilateral body such as the International Coffee Organization, producers have no protection. When supply exceeds demand, prices crash.
In 1992 the former prime minister decided to discontinue Canada's membership in the ICO, thus helping to reduce the effectiveness of the organization.
Canada's voice in the ICO would make a difference. We could be part of the solution to the crisis facing millions of African farmers. I urge the Minister of Foreign Affairs to have Canada rejoin the ICO.


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MOHALL Virginia "Ginger" Gates, 85, of Mohall and Mouse River Park, died Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at a Mohall nursing home.
Ginger was born Oct. 29, 1927, in Graceville, Minn., a daughter of Rienhart and Anna Louise (Butt) Krenz. At the age of 2, she moved with her family to North Dakota. She attended Grover Township School and graduated from Mohall High School in 1945. She attended the North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, and Minot State.
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Ginger was preceded in death by her parents; husband; three children; brother, Paul Krenz; and sister, Jackie Vanvig.
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For many, the Holy Spirit is unknown and misunderstood.Â
The Holy Spirit
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
5/20/2013 (3 years ago)
Published in Year of Faith
Keywords: year of faith, sunday homilies, father james farfaglia, pentecost, baptism, , confirmation, prayer, spirituality, gift of the holy spirit, fruits of the holy spirit
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - Today, the Easter season reaches its culmination with the Solemnity of Pentecost.Â
Pentecost was a feast day for the Jewish people. On this day, many Jews were known to have made a special pilgrimage to the temple in Jerusalem. At first, the feast was celebrated as a day of thanksgiving for the harvest and subsequently it also became a commemoration of the Ten Commandments that were given by God to Moses. Pentecost was celebrated fifty days after the Passover.Â
Jesus' return to his Father makes it possible for God to come to us in a way more active and more powerful than before. Only the second person of the Blessed Trinity became incarnate. Thus everyone was able to see Jesus.
The Holy Spirit can only be experienced by those who are believers.
Jesus now lives and rules through the Catholic Church, which the Holy Spirit brings to life. From the Church, through the power of the Holy Spirit, Christ brings every believer to a new existence, to deeper intimacy and directs our deeds and our journey to eternal life.
"And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them" (Acts 2: 2-3).
Too often when we speak about the Holy Spirit, many people assume that some rather deeply emotional and visible experience needs to take place. Too many people think that they have not experienced the power of the Holy Spirit unless they have been made to fall on the ground or to begin speaking a strange language.Â
For many, the Holy Spirit is unknown and misunderstood.Â
Although it is true that the Holy Spirit can make his presence known through external signs and special gifts for the sake of unbelievers (1 Corinthians 12: 4-11), our personal Pentecost begins with the Sacrament of Baptism and is made deeper through the Sacrament of Confirmation.Â
Too much emphasis on special and private experiences can cloud, confuse and distort the way the Holy Spirit lives in us through the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation.Â
Through the Sacrament of Baptism, Original Sin is washed away and we become temples of the Holy Spirit, children of God and living members of the Church.Â
Through the Sacrament of Confirmation, baptismal grace comes to completion. It is through this sacrament that we are bound more perfectly to the Church and endowed with a special strength of the Holy Spirit to fulfill those promises made at Baptism.
Through these sacraments, the Holy Spirit enlightens us with ten special gifts.
The three gifts that we receive at our Baptism are faith, hope and charity.
The seven gifts we receive at our Confirmation are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord.
We need to remember that through these sacraments we have received an amazing treasure of gifts. It is through our daily spiritual life that these gifts allow us to persevere on our journey to eternity and allow us to be effective and courageous witnesses of the Gospel.
The gift of faith allows us to see the invisible in the visible world. Hope gives us the ability to trust in God who is our Father. Charity provides us with the grace that we need to love God above all things and to love our neighbor just as Jesus loves us.
Wisdom detaches us from the things of this world and causes us to desire only the things of Heaven. The gift of understanding helps us to penetrate the truths of our Catholic Faith. Counsel enables us to see and choose correctly those actions that will help us give glory to God and ensure our own eternal salvation.
Fortitude gives us the strength to overcome those obstacles and difficulties that present themselves during our sojourn on earth.Â
The gift of knowledge shows us the path to follow and alerts us to the dangers that we must avoid in order to attain eternal life in Heaven.Â
Piety enlightens us with a tender and filial confidence in God and allows us to joyfully embrace all that pertains to our discipleship with Christ.Â
Finally, the gift of fear of the Lord fills us with a deep respect for God and makes us dread anything that may offend him.
On this Pentecost Sunday we need to open our hearts to the action of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Many times the gifts that we have already received through Baptism and Confirmation have not become fully effective in our lives because our sins, inclinations and attachments are blocking the action of grace in our souls.Â
Sin, inclinations and attachments are like bad cholesterol.
Whatever may be holding us back from an intimate relationship with God must be uprooted from our lives so that we can fully live the new life that Jesus has gained for us through the Paschal Mystery.
We need to leave behind our attachments to worldly desires. We need to avoid all those sinful attitudes and actions that give Satan a grip on our lives.
On this Pentecost Sunday we need to renew our decision to always walk with the Lord.Â
This continual struggle to love the Lord and do his will is not an easy task.Â
However, the Holy Spirit not only assists us in this struggle, he is always there to renew our daily efforts.Â
In order that the gifts that we have received through Baptism and Confirmation can be effective and transforming, it is necessary that we have a mature spiritual life.
We need to cultivate daily moments of silence. We need to set aside time for meditation or contemplative prayer. Moreover, in order to ensure our success in doing this, we need to regulate our daily lives with tireless discipline so that we may carry out the duties and routines of our daily existence in an orderly manner.
Along with the wonderful gifts that the Holy Spirit has given to us through the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation, we need also to remember the fruits of the Holy Spirit that we experience as consequences of the gifts.
The fruits are signs or manifestations of his presence in our soul.
Saint Paul enumerates these fruits of the Holy Spirit as charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control and chastity (Galatians 5: 22).
Certainly, as we read this list, we can see how beautiful our lives can be when we allow the action of the Holy Spirit to permeate our entire being.Â
Father James Farfaglia is a contributing writer for Catholic Online You can visit him on the web at www.fatherjames.org and listen to the audio podcast of this Sunday homily.
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The consideration of Jesus' baptism, gives us an opportunity to remember our own baptism. If you do not know the date of your own baptism, it is a good idea to go through your personal files and find out when it occurred. CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic ... continue reading
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It is not accidental that the Bible, from beginning to the end, uses marriage as a metaphor and a symbol to reveal the plan of God for the whole human race. Marriage was God's plan from the beginning as we see in the first book of Genesis. Throughout the Old ... continue reading
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"A sower went out to sow. And, as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep, and when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered for ... continue reading
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Bashing the Adirondack Club and Resort developers
This Guest Commentary is a reaction to last week's front-page headline by the Adirondack Daily Enterprise about property foreclosures and the Adirondack Club and Resort. This piece contained errors which were later noted, but was it an unfair attempt to cast the developers in a negative light? In my opinion, the piece went on to imply that the developers are unable to finance the project. This wasn't just factually incorrect. It seemed personal, and a correction does not undo the perception that has been cast.
So why did the article run that Saturday? Was it just coincidence that the ADE staff was researching this article at the very same time that local project opponents were emailing the same information over to the ADE staff? Editor Peter Crowley called me to say that it was, in fact, coincidence, and I take him at his word. It certainly was not helpful that ACR investors were meeting with lead developer Tom Lawson that very weekend.
Facts were mixed up, but it also appears to me that the ADE does not recognize the distinct difference between the ACR project developers and the ACR investors. While reporter Jess Collier defends her position in reporting the foreclosure of Tom Lawson's private residence in her blog, that fact has absolutely no bearing on the ultimate success or failure of the ACR. Private investment funds and EB-5 monies will be available to finance this project once the frivolous appeal is thrown out by New York state. Tom Lawson and Mike Foxman are not the major investors, and they have never implied that they were. However, as the developers, they have already poured millions of dollars into this project with zero return on investment. That is the real news here. Why should it take eight years and counting to bring some much-needed economic development to Tupper Lake through a project deemed acceptable by the Adirondack Park Agency? And why are there still opponents with narrow agendas trying to derail this opportunity?
Why have some lost sight of the big picture? Without more state aid, the Tupper Lake Central School District could face extreme layoffs with deep cuts to sports and the arts, and the district may even consider selling off the Civic Center. The ADE article "Dire warnings for Tupper Lake school budget future" (Feb. 5) could have noted that the increased property tax base created by the ACR would have a significant positive impact on our school's budget. Depending upon the final ACR buildout value of between $350 million and $581 million, the local school district would benefit from total ACR tax payments from $5.4 million to $11.2 million. That's significant news. Regardless if you believe any of the future projections of the ACR or not, our county, town, village and school leaders support the ACR.
While the ADE went to great detail to note the status of each property owned by the Lawsons, why did they not go further to "connect the dots" and also explain why? The "why" is simple: The Lawsons are "all in" on the promise of seeing the ACR start and succeed. Over the years, they have invested in this village from one end of the business district to the other to help set the stage for a thriving commercial environment. You can certainly fault them for being overly optimistic. Never expecting this process to drag out into a decade-long process, they have become cash poor while holding dozens of Tupper Lake properties and other real estate holdings. Many of the buildings they own have tenants who are not required to pay rent. I am the treasurer for the Adirondack Public Observatory. We have an office at the 95 Park St. storefront that Tom and Susan own. We have not paid rent for three years, which allows the APO to spend scarce funds on other expenses. This is just one example of kindness that reflects the true character of a couple that is portrayed as tax cheats. There are many other examples, but they apparently don't make for good press.
Does anyone like to see their name plastered in the newspaper with their personal business exposed for all to see? Of course not. Was this "news" or something else? There are vocal local detractors. While they get personal in attacking Tom and Susan Lawson, I have to ask them to point out where they have invested in Tupper Lake. It's easy to snipe while sitting in the cheap seats. How about getting into the game?
For those who say it's not getting personal, consider this. At the same time that the Enterprise was receiving an opposition email pushing foreclosure information, another email was circulating around, suggesting that those against the project "make on offer" on the Lawson's property, and it ended with a hurtful anti-Semitic remark. Susan Lawson is Jewish, as is Michael Foxman. Would the Adirondack Council sign on to tactics like this? I think not. So why would Protect the Adirondacks and the Sierra Club be involved with people who do? It's time to ask them that question. Now there's some real news.
Mark Moeller lives in Tupper Lake, is president and CEO of CBNA Insurance Agency Inc., and is spokesman for Tupper Lake Business Community Inc.


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Mobility 101: Surviving The 'BYOD' Revolution
Information security teams are scrambling to protect roving users connecting to the corporate network via personal devices outside IT's control. Seems like mission impossible, but we have no choice. Smartphones have gone from being a high-end corporate perk to a wildly successful consumer product. IDC expects total smartphone sales in 2011 to reach 472 million across the globe, rising to 982 million in 2015. A recent study by Nielsen found that 55% of new handset sales in the United States are now smartphones, up from 34% a year ago. During that same period, RIM's share of U.S. smartphone sales has fallen to 21%, while Android sits at 38% and Apple iOS at 27%. And don't forget tablets: Caris & Co. predicts that sales of Apple's iPad, the dominant option in this market, will grow from 14 million in 2010 to 36 million in 2011.
Meanwhile, our InformationWeek 2011 End User Device Management Survey of 511 business technology professionals found that organizations are warming up to the idea of welcoming consumer-centric technologies such as the iPad onto their networks. Some 42% identified their organizational approach as either "accepting" or "proactive," while 23% ranked themselves "neutral"; the remaining 35% still peg their posture as "resistant" or "strict."
Good luck with that stance once the business realizes how much money could be saved by letting employees buy their own devices and data plans, not to mention the productivity gains.
The scenario: Your company's new CMO just called. She wants to use her iPhone to get her corporate email. Could you send someone up to help configure it? Oh, and by the way, her assistant has an Android phone, and he'll need mail access set up as well.
Now, the two smartphone platforms have different profiles relative to malware, both can make use of open Wi-Fi hotspots--and both will store sensitive product information. A flat-out "no" won't win you any friends, but just granting access with no controls and exposing corporate information to loss or theft will put you in an even worse position. We need a middle ground. In this Strategy report, we'll lay out the seven areas you must address in your mobility policy. We'll also discuss how to identify potential vulnerabilities, investigate your management and security options, and get a plan together--before you find your back against the wall. (S3410911)
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Unlike Christmas and most other major family gatherings, something about Easter screams "take it easy" to me.
I went to Honeybaked Ham. That's my entire contribution. (good Friday was another story - worked my ass off today with seared scallops with a ginger lime beurre blanc and cilantro remolata).
As far as Sunday, I'm off the hook. My bride is making some potato salad and green bean casserole. We'll have some dippy things for apps - and that's it.
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Ibuse, Masuji
Masuji Ibuse 1898–
Japanese novelist and short story writer.
Ibuse's works have enjoyed popularity and critical approbation in Japan and elsewhere. Black Rain, considered his masterpiece, elegizes the citizens of Hiroshima in the aftermath of the 1945 atomic bombing.
Robert Jay Lifton
Kuroi Ame (Black Rain) marks a new dimension in "A-bomb literature." A portrayal of the intrusion of the atomic bomb into the ordinary rhythms of a small farming village, its special blend of "the usual" and "the unprecedented" enables it to transmute that experience into significant artistic form. The violence and conflict surrounding the bomb are illuminated by means of a leisurely chronicle of seemingly inconsequential everyday events, in the manner (as one critic put it) of "an old-fashioned family novel." (p. 543)
As a survivor of holocaust Shigematsu does not believe that any record, least of all his diary, can convey what really happened ("Not even a thousandth of what I really saw is described in it"), but he persists in recording small details as well as large scenes…. However he demeans his own efforts, he sees value in the information as such: "The style of my writing is bad realism. But facts are facts." Carrying out one's responsibility to history is the only way to recover meaning and vitality….
In this sense one can understand the novel as depicting the gradual individual movement, however hesitant and incomplete, toward mastery of the A-bomb experience. Shigematsu's initial psychic stance is that of numbing: at the time of the bomb, as we have observed; and shortly afterward, when people's insistence upon talking to him about bomb horrors results in his being "drawn into those actual feelings" and experiencing "an unpleasant form of fear" which makes him "feel like running away."… Caught in the dilemma of trying to conceal the unconcealable, he can react only by "fuming" (puripuri). But as the book proceeds the urge to "run away" is replaced by a determination to stand fast and record everything….
[Shigematsu moves] away from denial toward transcendence. His form of transcendence is a combination of incessant recording and continuing attention to the obligations of a family head in a Japanese village—always against a background of the timelessness of everyday rituals and of nature's perpetual re-creation of life and beauty (his wife refers to his eager inspections of his carp pond as "acts of homage"). And the sense of timelessness is stylistically reinforced by the multiple layers of flashback made possible by the intricate use of diaries. (p. 551)
Not that the A-bomb is "defeated."… But what has been demonstrated is that one can undergo the survivor's ordeal with honor and dignity; through records one can achieve that most difficult level of expression, authentic protest.
The book's ending is enigmatic. Shigematsu's diary told earlier of a bad omen in the form of a "white rainbow" seen by the factory chief during the worst days of the bomb, just prior to the Emperor's surrender...
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John Bester
[Black Rain] is woven from many different strands. Given such a theme, a lesser author might—to borrow a metaphor from music—have produced no more than a steady, discordant fortissimo. In Black Rain, we have a subtle polyphony. That is not simply to say that Ibuse weaves together, around a central theme, the stories of several different people. More important, he creates an interplay between varying moods and between his main and secondary themes. It is from this interplay, rather than from the significance of its theme, that the work derives its value as literature. (p. 6)
Against its basic theme, the work creates many contrasts. These serve to give the work variety; they are also, I feel, the essence of its success as art. It is the distillation of these conflicting elements that gives it its depth—its beauty, even. A typical example is the way the author invariably balances the horrors he describes with the wry humor for which he has long been famous. At times, the effect this creates is quite indescribable; indeed, until one has become attuned to the characteristic flavor of the work it is sometimes difficult, almost, to accept the humor as really intended. In the same way Ibuse, with infinite nostalgia, sets against the violent destruction of the city the beauty of the Japanese countryside and the ancient customs of its people. Against the mighty, brutal purposes of state, he lays the small, human preoccupations and foibles. Against the threat of universal destruction, he sets a love for, and sense of wonder at life in all its forms. Significantly, it is often at the points in the narrative where one feels these contrasts most strongly—where humor and horror, gentleness and violence come into sharpest conflict—that there occur those moving human vignettes that linger so strongly in the memory after one has finished reading.
It is a truism that the...
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Clive Jordan
Black Rain, by Masuji Ibuse, does more than convey the horror of what it meant to be at Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. It makes the event a tragedy with the entire Japanese civilian population as its hero—but a tragedy without heroic postures, because the only possible ambition, confronted with the monstrous fact of the Bomb, is survival.
This is a 'documentary' novel, in the sense that it incorporates genuine factual material about the explosion and that some of its characters are drawn from life—including the middle-class businessman, Shigematsu Shizuma, whose journal of the holocaust provides the bulk of the narrative. But this is more than an immensely skilful reconstruction job. The documentation has an essential function in the finely imagined plot—to rebut the charge, years later, that Shizuma's niece has radiation sickness and so cannot marry. Great ingenuity is used (on the whole successfully) to keep Shizuma moving around the shattered city. The detail and nature of the documentation develop with the needs of the plot, as the girl's true condition emerges and the narrator casts off restraint.
Shizuma is no cypher but a living character, humble, decent, uncomplaining, whose reticence makes the Bomb's obscene rending of the everyday fabric stand out in sharper relief. He clings stoically to what survives of the old values, raising carp and hoping for the future. This novel, with its subtle ironies and noble, unsentimental pity, is a reminder of the strengths of Japanese fiction. (p. 193)
Clive Jordan, "D-503's Diary," in New Statesman (© 1970 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), Vol. 79, No. 2030, February 6, 1970, pp. 192-93.∗
Henry Tube
[Ibuse's] documentary novel Black Rain describes in unemphatic detail the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima, his own birthplace. The book, drawing extensively on eyewitness accounts, seems to belong to that Japanese fictional tradition … of sticking close to life, except of course, that the subject is so monstrous as to be scarcely recognisable as life, but rather to be the sort of lurid nightmare one expects from surrealism or science fiction.
If one could think of the event as not having happened, I doubt whether the novel would be worth reading except by those who like tales of horror without much imagination in the telling. As it is, imagination is the one thing which would be quite out of place and Mr Ibuse has most wisely put it to bed, leaving the appalling to speak for itself and contenting himself with the delicate business of arrangement and construction. I would recommend Black Rain to every reader, even the squeamish, and above all to our beloved leaders, of whatever nationality…. (pp. 341, 343)
Henry Tube, "Made in Japan," in The Spectator (© 1970 by The Spectator; reprinted by permission of The Spectator), Vol. 224, No. 7394, March 14, 1970, pp. 341, 343.∗
John Bester
The work of Masuji Ibuse is an acquired taste; not in the sense that it is difficult to enjoy on first reading, but in the sense that extensive acquaintance with it deepens one's pleasure and understanding of its art….
The range of themes, as the ten stories in [Lieutenant Lookeast and Other Stories] show, is wide. (p. 7)
Despite the variety of themes, the stories share certain characteristics of technique and manner. There is the absence of extended descriptive passages, of "fine writing" for its own sake. Characters and physical settings are sketched in with a few details that are concrete and particular. Around them, there is space. The effect is to give the characters...
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The Times Literary Supplement
One might suppose that the Hiroshima holocaust had been so well documented … that nothing new could be said. But Masuji Ibuse is not a mere producer of documentary. He is a novelist, and a considerable one; and in Black Rain he has achieved, from eyewitness accounts and journals and with his own skilful gifts of construction and vivid sympathy, one of the finest postwar Japanese novels we have seen in this country.
The outer framework of the book is the determination of the elderly Shigematsu to prove that his niece and ward, Yasuko, escaped—contrary to rumour—the after-effects of the atomic bomb, its "black rain" and radiation disease. If he is unsuccessful, her chances of marrying will...
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Janet Burroway
Masuji Ibuse, the author of Black Rain, writes of rural Japan in a style that can only be described by paradox: it is richly dry, profoundly diffident. The excellent short stories of Lieutenant Lookeast conform to no Western expectations of the tale. There is conflict but no resolution, sometimes a beginning but rarely an end. They are not 'slice-of-life', because they deal not with revealing routine but with crisis, which may be the humiliating sexuality of a cow, the madness of a veteran, the imprisonment of a salamander or the trials of a mild policeman in a violent village. In English short stories these crises would most likely be 'turning points'; in Ibuse they simply pass out of range, usually...
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The Times Literary Supplement
To appreciate [Lieutenant Lookeast] fully it is necessary to have some knowledge of the background of Japanese modes of life and thought. Moreover, several of these pieces are not so much short stories in the accepted sense as character or descriptive sketches, evoking people, an atmosphere and a place. Looked at in this light, however, they have a brilliance and humour which is frequently memorable.
The title story, written in 1950, describes the peculiar behaviour in a postwar Japanese village of a former lieutenant of the Imperial Japanese Army and tells of the ironic circumstances in which he lost his sanity in Malaya during the Second World War. The writing is satirical, at times biting,...
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J. Thomas Rimer
The novel Kuroi Ame (Black Rain) was written in 1966 by the highly respected author Ibuse Masuji…. It might be expected that, for a man whose tastes and attitudes were formed in the earlier part of this century, his literary style and philosophical outlook would remain somewhat more traditional than those of younger authors. Such, in certain ways at least, is the case; yet Ibuse was among the first major writers to face up to the meaning of the word "victim," in the largest sense, for in Black Rain, he was able to treat the horrors of atomic war—the bombing of Hiroshima—in an artistic way. For such purposes, he required a certain objectivity toward his theme. This he provided by giving himself a...
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