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Incoming DPT students begin in summer semester, which is considered the last semester of the financial aid cycle. Therefore, new students must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for both 2015-16 and 2016-17. The 2015-16 FAFSA is based on 2014 income, and the 2016-17 FAFSA is based on 2015 income.
Complete the 2015-16 FAFSA immediately. If you completed a 2015-2016 FAFSA previously but did not include Emory as one of your schools at the end of the form, you should go to the FAFSA website to make a correction and add Emory. Complete the 2016-17 FAFSA as soon as you have your 2015 income information available. We encourage students to complete their 2015 tax return as soon as possible and use the tax return to answer the questions on the FAFSA.
The FAFSA is available on-line at www.fafsa.ed.gov. The school code for Emory is 001564.
The deadline to submit your financial aid documents is March 1, 2016 for incoming students. This is a target date and not a cut-off date, but students who complete their financial aid file later may miss out on some institutional funds. The deadline for returning students is May 1, 2016.
What Happens After I Apply For Financial Aid?
Once the university Office of Financial Aid receives your FAFSA information, they will begin to send you e-mails to let you know if other documents are required. About a third of all applicants will be asked to submit documentation of their income. Please respond promptly, but don't submit your tax documents if the Office of Financial Aid does not request them. Your financial aid file will be considered incomplete until all documents requested have been received.
How Will I Know What Kind of Financial Aid I am Awarded?
The Office of Financial Aid will review your applications for both Summer 2016 and for the Fall 2016/Spring 2017 academic year at about the same time, and they will send you separate award letters for both periods. This will happen approximately in April 2016. The award letters will be electronic and will not be sent in hardcopy.
By the time you are awarded, you will have access to Emory's student information system OPUS. You will be able to review and accept your awards on-line, and you will be given instructions to complete promissory notes for any student loans that you accept.
The Office of Financial Aid will send you yet another award letter for Summer 2017 sometime during the preceding semester. You do not need to complete a separate application because your eligibility will be based on your 2016-17 FAFSA.


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After a tornado left a 1.3 mile wide and 17 mile long trail of devastation through Moore, Okla., two area residents decided to join Operation Blessing International to offer relief.
Todd Boardman, of Jamestown, owner of Boardman Construction, and his son, Todd Jr., a 2006 graduate of Bethel Baptist Christian Academy, spent a week working to alleviate some of the destruction left in the wake of the May 20 twister.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, National Weather Service, the tornado touched down Southeast of Moore, and in less than 40 minutes had pummelled a highly populated area of the city. Two elementary schools, a middle school, a medical facility, a movie theatre and suburban areas were on the direct path of the tornado.
The National Weather Service reported the tornado an EF5, which is the strongest category of tornadoes measured. It packed a wallop, with winds reaching up to 210 miles per hour at certain points.
CNN reported that according to the state medical examiners office, the death toll reached at least 24 people, including nine children. Moore, where the Boardman's spent the majority of their week, was the hardest hit location.
The Boardmans began their 16.5-hour drive to Moore on June 5, and upon their arrival they noticed a strange smell and copious amounts of debris.
"We put our windows down as we came to the path of destruction, and the first thing we noticed was the smell – it was musty, very musty," said Todd Boardman. "We started to venture up and down the streets to look at the destruction the tornado had done. Some of the areas had trees down, shingles missing on houses and areas that had nothing left at all."
As the two continued exploring, they drove through an intersection that had a stop sign in the middle of the road, due to a traffic light not being operational. They also drove past Moore Medical Center, which they said was completely destroyed. A little further down the road they saw two men in matching yellow shirts who were with the Southern Baptist Convention, one of whom was a Chaplain.
"After a few stories they guided us up the street to where the school (Plaza Towers Elementary School) used to be," said Boardman. "The only thing left of the school was a 30-foot wall with the panther mascot painted on it. The rest of the school was a pile of rubble being scooped up and put into trucks. A fence around the property turned into a memorial for those killed in the school. It's a miracle that more were not killed or injured in the tornado."
The Boardmans continued driving around taking pictures until they arrived at the Southern Baptist Church where OBI partnered to house many volunteers. According to Boardman, the church property consisted of 80 acres of land, a large church building, a separate building housing an air-conditioned gym, commercial kitchen, locker rooms, a weight room, cafe and dining hall. The grounds also had a baseball and football stadium with lights, press box and large bleachers. All of this was situated by an Air Force base.
"A retired Navy head chef made good food for breakfast and dinner every day," said Boardman. " The guys slept in the gym on cots that were furnished, and the ladies had a separate area in the building. There were showers in the locker room, and a separate trailer with very nice clean showers was in the parking lot, which was provided by Southern Baptist Convention. The staff for these would greet you and ask you to join them in the chairs. They would ask you the events of the day and offer you a beverage from the cooler. Upon a shower opening up, a volunteer would clean the vanity and shower then offer you a clean towel and wash cloth – you can't beat southern hospitality."
After breakfast at 6:30 every day, the Boardman's and other volunteers would go to Highland Baptist Church where OBI set up their command center. There was a large R.V. for the staff to operate out of, and trailers full of tools and supplies.
"Groups of eight-10 would break up and select work orders," said Boardman. "Each day could be something different: chain saw work, raking, separating personal possessions, roof tarps, carrying furniture to the curb and always lending a listening ear to the many people we encountered.
"We worked for an 81-year-old lady whose insurance company canceled her policy two weeks before the tornado," continued Boardman. "She still works eight-hour shifts for pennies every day. She said she cries every time she comes back to the house. The bricks that got torn off the house whipped in the wind and were driven through the roof and the kitchen ceiling not far from where she was huddled."
The Boardmans also worked on a house for a young couple with eight children, six of whom were biological. Their roof was tarped, trees cut and the inside of the house was empty. The kids lived in filth, said Boardman.
"The mother shared with me that she had gotten the 3-year-old from the girl's mother when she was only 1," said Boardman. "She told us that the biological mother used to put her in the washing machine. After the 3-year-old had experienced the tornado, she said it sounded like the washing machine – it was heart wrenching."
On Sunday night Boardman and his son sat outside and watched a storm roll in. The locals told the Boardmans that they sit on their porch and watch tornadoes go by.
"Soon a tornado warning went up just southwest of us," said Boardman. "The clouds got dark and lightning flashed from as high as you could see all the way to the ground – it was great. I have always enjoyed watching storms. By the time it got to us it was after midnight and had died down. It was a beautiful light show."
According to Boardman, the best thing people can do to enjoy a relief trip is to leave their expectations at the door and be willing to do anything that they are asked to do.
"After supper we'd clean the floors, pick up trash or whatever was needed," said Boardman. "I served in the food line at supper, even after feeling drained from the 97-degree heat. I spotted my son, Todd Jr., picking up cigarette butts on the church grounds. You do things to serve others and not because you have to be asked. It is what makes your life richer."
Boardman said the time to say goodbye was hard, but that he planned to stay in touch with all the new friends he and Todd Jr. made. He even had the chance to visit his first grandchild in Indiana on their way back home.
"Life is great," said Boardman. "Go on and take an adventure."
OBI is a nonprofit humanitarian organization with a mission of demonstrating God's love by alleviating human need and suffering in the United States and around the world.
Beginning in 1978, OBI provides strategic relief in 23 countries on a daily basis. The organization implements programs that include hunger relief, clean water, orphan care, medical aid, disaster relief and community development.
According to Boardman, working with OBI was an amazing experience, which he'd definitely consider doing again. The organization made volunteering easy, fun and accessible to anyone who has the drive.
"It's not working to have, it's working to give," said Boardman.
For more information visit www.ob.org.

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ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, managed to maintain its lead on the market of discrete graphics adapters in Q3 2010, according to data recently released by Mercury Research. Even though both ATI and Nvidia Corp. enjoyed increase in sales of desktop standalone graphics cards, shipments of mobile discrete graphics chips collapsed.
The overall market of standalone graphics adapters - for desktops and notebooks - totaled 33.68 million units and was down 3.34% quarter-over-quarter in Q3 2010, according to Mercury. This is a big surprise as traditionally sales of graphics cards peak in the third quarter. Another interesting aspect of Q3 2010 was the fact that sales of mobile GPUs dropped below shipments of desktop graphics processors.
The Q3 2010 was clearly a good quarter for desktop standalone graphics adapters: the market grew 20% quarter-over-quarter to 18.7 million units. Given that during the quarter Nvidia Corp. released its GeForce GTS 450 and GTX 460 graphics boards and AMD reconsidered pricing of its offerings, it is not a huge surprise that the market got a boost. Since the Santa Clara, California-based designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) released more new products than competitor, its shipments increased by almost one third, whereas Sunnyvale, California-based designer of chips only experienced 11.2% growth, based on data recently revealed by Mercury Research.
On the other hand, due to weakening demand towards consumer-class notebooks in well-developed countries, shipments of GPUs for mobile computers collapsed by 22.77% sequentially. Given that Nvidia's mobile GPU lineup is not as competitive as AMD's, its appropriate sales dropped by whopping 33%. Shipments of ATI Mobility Radeon HD declined by 15%. Even though the situation on the market of mobile graphics chips remains uncertain, AMD is celebrating market share win despite of dropping sales.
"For the second consecutive quarter AMD is the market share leader in discrete graphics. In addition, AMD made further inroads in notebook discrete, capturing an additional 5.6% share points and surpassing 60% share in notebook discrete. This is a tremendous undertaking and demonstrates the strength of the DirectX 11 notebook discrete graphics product stack," a statement by AMD reads.
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MAKOTI The Three Affiliated Tribes are planning to break ground this spring for a refinery near Makoti, and will have full construction under way there this summer.
Thunder Butte Petroleum Services Inc. will be a clean fuels refinery to refine Bakken Formation crude oil.
Rich Mayer, CEO of the project, said the plans now are that the refinery would be capable of refining 20,000 barrels per day of Bakken Formation crude oil into diesel fuel, propane and naphtha products. Earlier the plans had been for 15,000 barrels per day to be refined.
Currently, the tribes are working on the intial phases of engineering and completing the financing, Mayer said.
The Tesoro Mandan Refinery at Mandan is North Dakota's only refinery but last week ground was broken for the Dakota Prairie Refinery, west of Dickinson. Other refinery projects proposed include one in the Trenton area.
The tribes began working on their refinery project about 10 years ago. The project has taken extensive time because of the various federal permits and other approvals the tribes are required for the project.
The refinery site is on the Fort Berthold Reservation. The site is off N.D. Highway 23 and near the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks.
This past October, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar visited Fort Berthold to announce the transfer of the 469 acres near Makoti into trust status. The proposed refinery will be on about 190 acres and the remaining acreage will be for feed production for the tribes' buffalo herd.


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Infineon Technologies AG officially announced spin off of its memory products business group. The new company named Qimonda will be fully independent of Infineon and will begin its operations starting from the 1st of May, 2006, a bit ahead of the original schedule. Eventually, the company will undergo initial public offering (IPO), which may allow Infineon to fully quit the unstable dynamic random access memory (DRAM) business.
Infineon Technologies AG and Qimonda AG will be two highly focused companies with clearly defined strategies, each providing its customers, employees, and investors with a clear company vision.
From May 1st, 2006, onwards, Qimonda will operate from a strong market position as a Top 4 DRAM company worldwide (according to Gartner Dataquest, February 2006) and will be fully equipped for further growth. The new company will have access to five 300mm manufacturing sites on three continents and will operate five major R&D facilities, including the R&D-center in
Qimonda, headquartered in
Meanwhile, Infineon will concentrate on the more stable markets and businesses. Already today, Infineon's logic business has leading market positions in segments such as automotive electronics, industrial electronics and power management, chip cards and cecurity ICs, radio-frequency solutions, platforms for mobile telecommunications and broadband communications. The company indicated that it will further focus on the aforementioned products.
"Through the strategic realignment, Infineon is significantly strengthening its competitive position. From May 1st onwards, both forceful players will operate in their own markets as industry leaders", said Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart, CEO of Infineon Technologies AG.
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Although Groupon's market position was already dreadful amongst rivals, which includes Google (GOOG) , Yahoo (YHOO) and Amazon(AMZN) , on the heels of the company's Q3 earnings results, investors have come to terms with their worst fear -- things are only going to get much worse.
Q3 Was Anything But Good
For a company mired in controversy for most of this year, including investigations by the SEC regarding its accounting and disclosures, Groupon's Q3 report failed to inspire any confidence that its business is sustainable.
For the period ending Sept. 30, Groupon reported a net loss of $3 million -- essentially breaking even on a per share basis. While this was a significant improvement from the $54 million loss of a year ago, it also represented a sequential decline. Even though adjusted earnings of 3 cents per share matched analysts' estimates, it was not enough to please investors.
Likewise, although Groupon grew revenue by 32% to $569 million, it fell 4% short of analysts' estimates of $591. Management said that continued weakness in Europe offset what has been a strong performance in North America. Consequently, gross billings were abysmal -- growing by only 5% year-over-year but also declining by 5% sequentially. This is the metric that indicates the total amount spent by consumers on Groupon's deals.
On the bright side, the company is expecting a slight uptick in performance for the fourth quarter -- forecasting revenue in the range of $625 to $675 million. Though the midpoint of the company's guidance was high enough to eclipse analysts' estimates of $634.9 million, this was not enough to prevent the stock from selling off nearly 16% immediately following the announcement -- falling as low as $3.30. Since then, the bleeding has not stopped as the shares have fallen another 20% to Tuesday's close of $2.63.
The Bottom Is Falling Out
Although the midpoint of Groupon's Q4 projections arrived much better than expectations, the company made no promises that operational improvements will be meaningful. But management did say that investors can expect better international performance as it works to improve (among other things) mobile support, personalization as well as improvements in its deals mix. But investors are beginning to wonder if these initiatives will matter. I just don't envision how.
It seems the bottom has started to fall out of what was once a very promising concept. For Groupon, growth of 81% in North America is just not enough to sustain a model standing on feeble fundamentals as evident by an almost 50% drop in free cash flow -- falling from almost $50 million in Q2 to $26.1 in the recent quarter.


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Skip to comments.Silent Coup?
Posted on 11/14/2012 1:19:36 PM PST by nevergore
Bear with me folks, I'm not a conspiracy nut but there has been a series of unusual happenings in the senior military officer staff.
Supposition: If you were a senior military commander and seriously concerned with the direction of the country; with upcoming presidential elections, how could you ensure the current administration loses?
First, Find like minded senior officers I knew well and respected. Meet with them and devise a plan.
Second, I would find information so damaging to the current President that he could not possibly be re-elected.
Third, I would confront him with the information and demand he throw the election (not resign or we would have President Biden)
To accomplish this I would need the help of the CIA....Oh looky there, a recent appointee and former General....
Ya'll can see were this is leading, we just lost three high ranking Generals, one the recent head of the CIA. They are General Allen, Petraus and Ham.
We watched Obama literally throw the first debate like a bought fighter in Atlantic City....Why? It wasn't altitude....
Then, perhaps Obama gained an upper hand. Information damaging to the conspirators.
We now have FBI Agents combing over homes for secret documents. We have outright character assasination of the Generals.....
Throw in Bengazi and we have a great novel in the making.....
Too many checks and balances in US.
Won't happen.
As plausible as anything I've heard so far. Damien lives.
think Clinton with gobs of Chinese money flowing into the WH, THEN WE WERE SPOON FED MONICA for two months......
It is clear that the truth will be concealed. The obamas and mugabes, the castros, and the stalins, all have used the same techiques. Just as we have no clue as to bo's performance in college, we have no real clue to what is going down now. These tyrannical bastards do as they please and get away with it. Chicago mob politics.
Seven Days in May?
I have been saying after too many years of researching Obama, that if it were written into a book or made into a movie, people would find it unbelievable. Yet, it is really happening and nothing seems to be able to stop it. Of course, God can and must have His reasons for Obama being allowed to continue. I'll continue to trust His judgement.
All I can say is -
If you're going to try to take down the king, you better to hell not miss.
There won't be a second chance.
Congress has abdicated so much power to the executive branch that we don't have checks and balances any more.
- 141% voter turnout in St. Lucie county.
- Absolutely NO votes for Romney in 59 Philadelphia precincts
Of course a coup is possible. We are a banana republic.
I posted something similar earlier today;
"....I suspect there is a much darker side...."
Maybe darker than you might think even.
Familiar with Ephesians 6:12?
If you have a Bible - read that verse.
"Too many checks and balances in US."
Not any more. We no longer have a Supreme Court to uphold the Constitution. We no longer have political parties willing to hold accountable their party's members. We no longer have the will of the people to enforce the rule of law. We have become a land of freevies and everyone is in it for themselves.
Can you name a single time recently whereby an action was kept in check and changed? I can't.
I think it's an autogolpe, meaning "self coup." This is when a legitimately elected (not saying that Obama was, just defining the term!) government takes over all of the rest of the government and proclaims executive power as the law of the land.
Eliminating enemies in the military is a big part of it, as is eliminating enemies in the judiciary.
Please add your literary perspective to the theory...
Does anyone think that Obama would be competent enough to operate a coup?
Regardless of the Pentagon...and whether they're "in" on it or not...there's already been a coup against Flyover Country by the Inside the Beltway Oligarchy. That's what the "election" was.
Be prepared to hear all about lots of voters staying home...now its..they came and voted but the touch screen vote didnt register...the Bipartisan Oligarchy would rather we all stew in that mess..than having us all bothered, and deciding to investigate, about all the voters voting who never voted...
Listening to descriptions of how Democrats got out their ground game with superior ability to bring those to the polls who normally would never go by the commentators on Fox election night..made me realize..what they actually have done is track names that HAVE NOT VOTED IN MANY, MANY elections cycles....and vote them.
A well-funded project, county-by-county..to examine the names signed in at at the polls..and going out to find those individuals..youll find they were never physically at he polls..or they themselves never filled out the absentee ballot....or their names in the death registers.
The very LAST thing the Bipartisan Oligarchy want or need is any semblance of Constitutional Federal Govmt or a clean vote.
Both those are up to We the People to cram it down their throats so hard in DC they will, someday, never do otherwise.
Absent a clean vote.....We the People are being taxed without representation..Ask George III how well that worked out!
Right now all that's happening in the US Military is the weeding out of the few troglodytes left with qualms about Posse Commitas....
Just like it.
Thanks for the definition, saves me from googling :^)
Could be, but explain Obama's first debate performance......
When you start looking through the glasses of conspiracy, many of the apparantly unrelated odd events start to make sense.
Nah...blackmail can and will always happen...we are not talking a violent overthrow....
Just a proverbial throw the fight or I'll release the info.....
Do you think he's actually the one running it? I think he's just a figurehead.
Yea...but my post was waaaay cooler :^)
Sorry Chief!
I suspect the real battle is between the intel community and POTUS.
Obama is attempting to throw the CIA under the bus for Benghazi. Spooks in the past have demonstrated interesting ways of getting even with the boss.
Sort of how the hardest person to fire in any company is the HR Manager. They know where all the bodies are buried.
I would like to know what happened to Major General Paul Vallely US Army (Retired)?
He was a major Obama critic and usually appeared as an analyst on Fox News.
I think the last time I read or heard anything about him he was holed up in Montana or out in the mid-west somewhere?
He's situated in an undisclosed location....
Checks and balances work when there are two opposing entities to an issue.
In our case, the judicial, ruling legislative, media and academia are all the same ilk.
That's why Oboma is trying to discredit and destroy all those who know what went down.
Oboma said if the political winds blow, he'd ALWAYS take the side of the muslims - and he did. The prisiners are now free, and the Americans are dead.
The question then becomes...do these guys have 'sacred honor' and will they exercise at the hearings to show they were blackmailed by the democrat party? Not just 0bama...the entire party. Because if they had something on 0bama would they not have a sworn duty to come forward with it?
What checks and balances? Rogue president stays for four years, cannot be removed as a matter of course like a comparable executive i.e. prime minister can be removed in parliamentary systems. Checks and balances? 67% opposed Obamacare. It was passed, signed. In Switzerland it would have been overturned by popular referendum that citizens can organize to overturn such monstrosities. Here it is approved by the highest court of the land. How many hundreds of executive orders has Obama issued and what are the checks on them? Checks on EPA? On FDA? Given where the country has been going, checks and balances are a fantasy, and some kind of archaic received wisdom.
Obama lied, the Ambassador died!
Now eliminate those who oppose you in the military command....
Obama is attempting to throw the CIA under the bus for Benghazi. Spooks in the past have demonstrated interesting ways of getting even with the boss.
Assuming that the actions against Petraeus are offensive moves by the regime, we should expect some counter move from the intelligence community in short time. Will we see an unexpected resignation soon? Or perhaps something else?
We don't grow that many bananas, maybe we are more of a watermelon republic or a cantaloupe republic, pineapple republic? Actually we are no longer any kind of republic, at least not the constitutional republic we were supposed to be.
No, but his handlers can. And he is more than willing to let someone else do his heavy lifting.
Corruption and dereliction is live and well. Too many ways to block a coup for it to succeed. Except election fraud.
He's definitely a figurehead or puppet. I doubt that he could even operate a coupe let alone a coup.
Too many of the Brass are political animals and unable to be able to forge a concerted effort by working with each other.
I agree that it's something more than "mere" incompetence.
BTW, according to a seemingly knowledgeable poster here, the prisoners were not just Libyans, but included some Iranians. This makes me wonder how many prisoners there were in total...but aside from that, I suspect that Obama had agreed with Ahmadinejad to spring his people (who I hope did not include the kidnapped nuclear scientists).
Obama wouldn't be so upset about incompetence, because everybody already knows he's a boob and nobody cares. There's something else he's trying to keep under wraps.
The brass has always been political....but their bond is tight in certain cliches...
Maybe..........the prisoner was OBL.
Too many checks and balances in US.
Wont happen.
The Founders thought different. That's why we have the 2nd amendment.
I don't think the US generals had gotten to the point of "coup" yet, and I don't think they ever would or had even thought of it. However, the fact that several of them were obviously concerned enough about what was going on at Benghazi to "criticize" him indirectly by wanting to rescue our forces was probably enough in his mind to brand them as disloyal - to him, since he's the only thing that counts in this country anymore.
I think they were intentionally removed, all in ways that impugned their character (spending too much money, having an affair, etc.) in order to make them less credible. I guess that's better than being shot, though.
The people I think should watch their backs are Broadwell and her father. I think Obama has threatened Petraeus do much that even though Petraeus called his bluff with his resignation (but too late, alas), he probably will be like a lamb in his "testimony." But Broadwell seems to be beyond his reach.
Watch for her to go to jail and possibly even be tried for treason for the "many classified documents" she had on her computer (she has a very high security clearance, btw). I think she's going to be the scapegoat, because the generals, gentlemen that they are, are going to knuckle under to Obama.
OBL probably really is dead because by that time he was sick and of little use to Al Qaeda and seems to have spent his days viewing porn in his lair, in between dialysis treatments.
Relatively speaking, there wasn't a lot of hysteria among the jihadis when he disappeared from the scene.
The dark side is that they all sat there and watch the murders, did nothing and then the supposed CIC got up and went to bed without a concern in the world. They wanted someone in Benghazi dead and watched while it happened to make sure that someone was dead. Question is, why?
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I think good pizza is a better drawing card than coal fired, or wood fired for that matter. There's a place here locally that I won't be going back to and it touts coal fired.
You basically have a large portion of the public that probably doesn't even know what a coal oven is, nor cares, then a smaller group of foodies that are aware of some of the more famous coal places who associate coal with potentially great pizza. Lastly, you've got your pizza obsessives, who know that it's just as easy to make bad pizza with a coal oven as any other.I'm with Tman1- nothing will market your pizza better than itself.
You know I have studied consumer mentality, marketing, and advertising. I actually studied from the retired president of marketing for Dennys and Pizza Hut, and product is definitely not the only factor to have success. Good marketing often makes decent food seem good.
If you don't know why you're making your decisions, stay out of the business. If you've never worked in a high-volume pizzeria, stay out of the business. For your own sake.


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So, President Barack Obama has defeated his challenger, Governor Mitt Romney.
Outside the sheer excitement over the neck-and-neck race, what exactly is at stake for us Filipinos in this US electoral exercise?
I say plenty. To begin with, it's the fact that the US elections are taking place. We have patterned our representative democracy after the US'. We see that the system works. Perhaps, we could learn more from this latest exercise in terms of how the elections were actually conducted. While it has been bitterly fought, note that both parties stuck it out on the basis of issues.
There was no personal mudslinging and no vote buying as well. Note, too, how the political parties operate. For many Americans, they are often born into their political party. They may cross-political lines later in their lives – but the point is that they have strong political parties owing to the fact that politics in the US is still issue-based. How I wish our politicians could learn from this.
Then, there are the few issues that divide the two presidential candidates. Here, I disagree with columnist Billie Esposo who emphatically wrote that there is a divide between Obama and Romney on the issue of Iran. Truth to tell, on the basis of public pronouncements, both candidates said the same thing about Iran – they would heighten efforts to isolate Iran in order to compel it to drop its ambitions to be a nuclear state. BOTH, though, have declared that a military strike is still an option. If there will be the use of force against Iran that could drag the world into a third world war, it is not because of differences between the two candidates but because of the consistent American policy – that the US will not hesitate to resort to unilateral force against what it perceives as threats to international peace. Unfortunately, the folly in this policy is that it goes against the UN Charter which provides that use of force can only be resorted to by way of self-defense or when authorized by the UN Security Council.
Where the few policy differences relevant to us here in the Philippines lie are in the fields of immigration, human rights, reproductive health, and yes, China.
President Obama has already issued an executive order halting the deportation of children of illegal aliens who have not been convicted of any crimes and have not attained the age of 30. Romney has pledged to make life hell for illegal aliens. Full stop. Obviously, this is the single most important issue for us because we are today the second largest ethnic group in the US, with presumably the second largest number of illegal aliens in the US. Here, a Romney presidency would have caused sleepless nights to many Filipinos in the US and here. Now we can all sleep soundly.
Next is the role of human rights in US foreign policy. Here, President Obama has denied us American military assistance until such time that the Aquino administration has addressed the culture of impunity brought about by thousands of cases of extralegal killings and enforced disappearances. Here, I'm sure the PNoy administration would prefer a Romney presidency because either way you look at it, Aquino needs the military assistance divorced from the issue of human rights. Aquino has referred to the issue of human rights violations as "left propaganda".
Then there's reproductive health. Here, the Philippine Catholic Church and their devotees would like to see a Romney presidency since he has vowed to put an end to all federal funding to artificial birth control, including abortions. In fact, he has gone on to state that he would want the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs, Wade, the landmark case that legitimized abortions in the US. Here, I am so sure that the CBCP, Tita De Villa and Jo Imbong are still praying for a miracle to bring about a Romney victory.
Finally, there is the issue of China. Obama has consistently said that the US interest in the West Philippine Sea is to safeguard freedom of navigation in area. This is why he has frustrated PNoy since he has said that he will not get involved with our intramurals with China. Romney, on the other hand, would probably be the friend that PNoy wants against China. The latter views China's recent economic and military rise as a threat to the United States. A Romney presidency would have been more aggressive against China. Let us hope now that a more aggressive stance is unnecessary with a new Chinese leader, as well.


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Stemen is Burlington's 'wealth of knowledge'
From leading the Boy Scouts years ago to delivering Meals on Wheels today, Delvin Stemen has been looking out for Burlington for nearly a generation.
Fifty years on the fire department, 45 years working with city infrastructure and even longer in the well-drilling business have earned him respect in the region.
"He's pretty special," Burlington Mayor Jerome Gruenberg said. "He's pretty much dedicated his life to things that go on in Burlington the people and the kids and making sure everything goes good."
"I don't think that there's anybody that can say bad about that man," added Tim Hoff, city council member. "He's just a real asset to the community."
Stemen mastered the intricacies of the water and sewer system during his years with the City of Burlington. At age 80, Stemen is still the one that city officials turn to when they want to know where water lines are or dates when work was done.
"He attends all the city council meetings, and many, many times we turn to him and say, "Delvin, what do you know about that?' He's just a wealth of knowledge," Gruenberg said.
Because the city is required by state health rules to have a certified water plant operator, Stemen has never completely retired. Burlington switched to water through the Northwest Area Water Supply project but still maintains its wells to sell water to oil-field companies and farmers.
Stemen reads the water plant meters each morning, takes water samples for testing and serves in a consulting capacity. He explained it takes time for new employees to earn the certification, and once they do, they often get job offers elsewhere, So he continues to help out and attends training conferences, as recently as last fall, to keep his certification current.
Burlington residents consider Stemen to be a fixture of their community, although he's not a lifelong resident. He came with his parents and six siblings to Burlington from the Jamestown area in 1942 when he was in the fourth grade. They settled into a small house with a lean-to and no indoor plumbing at the time. His father, Leo, was in the electrical trade, but when demand for services declined, he switched to drilling wells and servicing pumps and sewer systems.
Leo Stemen died in 1980, but the business went on with his son, Myron, taking over the septic end of the business and Delvin assuming the well-drilling jobs. They became well known around the region for work that was in high demand at one time. In his final years before retiring six years ago, Stemen largely serviced pumps.
Stemen worked his way into a city job the same way he is now gradually working himself out. In 1967, the city needed someone to check the chlorine tanks for its water system and change them out as needed. Stemen took the job for $20 a month.
Over time, State Health Department rules became increasingly stringent, requiring additional attention to the system.
"It got to be more and more, and the next thing you know, I got to be the city man," Stemen said. As the city's part-time water employee, Stemen maintained the water system, handled water hookups and turn-offs and flushed hydrants. Flushing hydrants reduced water pressure and was particularly incompatible with residents' laundry operations. Stemen wasn't the most popular guy in town.
"I finally concluded the only way to do it was to go out after midnight," he said. "I would flush the fire hydrants until 3 in the morning. Very few people were awake. Once in a while, I would get somebody in the shower."
Now Burlington has a large water tank that provides so much pressure that flushing hydrants is no longer an issue, he said.
"I didn't realize it then, but I was putting in some long hours," Stemen said, referring to his city and well drilling jobs. In addition, he was active in the Burlington Fire Department. In 2001, the Burlington Fire Department honored Stemen for 50 years of volunteer service.
Stemen said his father had owned a work truck that served double duty in hauling water to fires. His father later was instrumental in organizing the fire department in 1951 and was elected the first chief.
"We didn't have any turnout gear, no boots, no helmets, no coats," he said. "We fought fires with a pail of water and a gunnysack. … It was by the grace of God some of us didn't die."
He welcomes the changes since then. Stemen said he made a point to attend when the state began offering fire-fighting training. Those were small classes initially, but volunteer firefighters gradually caught on to the value, he said. The fire schools now draw hundreds of trainees.
The Burlington Fire Department was on the front line of the battle during the 2011 flood fight, which for Stemen brought back memories of 1969. He recalls the week-long, around-the-clock efforts when the Des Lacs River surged on that Easter Sunday in 1969. By the time they had it tamed, the Souris River raged.
"We were barely getting any sleep, and we started right back in again," Stemen said. Burlington also fought floods throughout the 1970s.
Stemen was station captain for the fire department when he retired after 50 years, which meant he handled the dispatching and paperwork but no longer attended fires.
He still enjoys keeping up with emergency responders in listening to the daily chatter on a law enforcement scanner. Stemen lived in the house that he grew up in until a torn rotator cuff some years ago helped him decide it was time for easier living in the senior apartment complex in Burlington.
Stemen is president of the Burlington Senior Citizens and coordinates and handles delivery of the Meals on Wheels program that provides meals three days a week at the center and to shut-ins.
One of his favorite past-times is listening to stories told by Burlington's older generation whose memories go back even further than his own. Having assisted in developing a history book for the town's 1983 centennial, his one regret is that more pages weren't available for even more stories.
Stemen often carried a camera over the years and developed a collection of Burlington slides and pictures.
Hoff said he didn't think viewing a bunch of old pictures would be very exciting until persuaded to attend a program featuring Stemen's collection. Hoff was amazed at the quality of photography and content.
"He's got a real history there," he said.
Stemen has seen Burlington change from a coal-mining town of 267 people to a bedroom community of more than 1,100 people. The number of mines had shrunk from 26 to one when he arrived in 1942, but he remembers Burlington having a grain elevator and several businesses. Stemen remembers the huge Spud Hall, where coal miners from the Burlington Project would store produce raised over the summer when laid off from the mines.
Stemen entered the Army in 1955, serving in Germany and stateside for two years, largely in clerical roles. He completed another two years with the Army Reserves, performing duties at the veterans hospital in Minot. He served two terms on the school board and has been a weather spotter in Burlington.
Hoff said Stemen is an asset not just for what he has done for Burlington but for his ability to recruit others to get even more done. Stemen enlisted him into his Boy Scout troop in the 1960s, persuaded him as a teenager to work for him in his well drilling business and recruited him and lots of others to join the fire department, he said.
"He's an absolutely great recruiter," Hoff said. "He's been an influence on a lot of people."
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Foreign Landscapes
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On Foreign Landscapes, his latest Fat Cat recording, composer and pianist Volker Bertelmann has retained a penchant for prepared piano, complete with ping pong balls! But he's also widened his palette to encompass other instruments. Nine of the release's twelve pieces feature a dozen additional musicians: members of the San Francisco-based Magik*Magik Orchestra. The group's strings and winds lend greater depth to Hauschka's sound world, often imparting a sense of cinematic sweep to the proceedings. The language of much of the material here is inspired by post-minimalism, and the motoric ostinati that populate pieces such as "Madeira" and "Union Square" are certainly abetted by the varieties of timbres and energetic performances contributed by the Magik*Magik players.
On one of the recording's most striking ensemble works, "Kamogawa," both arcing melodies and repeated oscillations are brought together in a particularly fetching arrangement. Led by a sepulchral ground played by the bass clarinet and accompanying figures played by pizzicato strings, the ensemble crackles with rhythmic vitality, building an engaging essay out of myriad interlocking repeated figures.
Elsewhere, as on "Mount Hood," Hauschka opts to place his piano front and center, combining a harmonic language of considerable lyricism with the percussive interjections of the instrument's prepared strings. It is a delicious juxtaposition – sometimes reminiscent of Cageian experiments and at others of a well-worn saloon piano pressed into service to play a 19th century salon piece. The resulting ambience allows for an exploration of Romanticism – but with a deconstructive sensibility and detachment that denudes the music of any overly sentimental residue.
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Geoghegan 2nd for Triton wrestlers
DES MOINES – The Iowa Central wrestling team came away with one runner-up showing in the NJCAA National tournament in Des Moines here Saturday.
The Tritons finished fifth as a team with 70.5 points.
Devin Geoghegan (157) was second after losing a tight 3-2 decision to Justin Cash of Rend Lake in the finals. In his Saturday semifinal Geoghegan beat Steve Dewitt of Harper in sudden victory.
Iowa Central's Brandon Bradney (197) lost the Tritons' only other semifinal match. He was pinned by Josh DaSiveira of Ellsworth.
Bradney placed sixth after two more losses in the tournament.
The Tritons added four more place finishes on the day.
Dillon Geoghegan (165) finished third after reeling off three victories on Saturday. Geoghegan defeated Scott Verner of Wester Wyoming 3-1.
In the consolation semifinals, Geoghegan beat Greg Gainey of Minnesota West 8-3. In the third place match, he beat Kris Schimek of Niagara County 7-2.
After losing in the quarterfinals, Geoghegan won four straight matches and finished 6-1 in the tournament.
Christopher Ballard (HWT) went 3-1 on Saturday and finished fourth. He lost in the third place match to Dequence Goodman of Lincoln.
Earlier in the day, he defeated Coltyn Pease of Rend Lake in suddend victory and Xavier Fisher of Colby, 2-0. In the consolation semifinals, Ballard earned a 6-3 decision over Alex Stockton of NIACC.
After falling in the opening round, Ballard won six matches before falling in the third place match.
Tristan Bundy (125) was eighth after two losses.


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Food Habits
Acanthaster planci prey on coral polyps. It digests its food by climbing onto its prey and extruding its stomach over the coral colony, releasing digestive enzymes to then absorb the liquified tissue. They feed solitarily at night and maintain a constant distance between themselves and other Acanthaster planci. Individual starfish feed on up to 13 square miles of coral per year. During times of food shortage, these animals can live on energy reserves for over six months at a time. However, a proliferation of this species can be detrimental to the survival of coral reefs. In recent years Acanthaster planci have reduced the colorful attraction of the Great Barrier Reef with its ravenous appetite (Johnson, 1996; "Cnidarians", 2000; Perrins and Middleton, 1985; Schmid, 1998; "Great Barrier Reef", 2000)


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Debates of May 27th, 2008
House of Commons Hansard #99 of the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was food.
- Question Period
- Information Commissioner
- Government Response to Petitions
- Canadian Wheat Board Act
- Committees of the House
- Canada Labour Code
- Prevention of Torture Act
- World Oceans Day
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
- Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
- Simon House
- Khilafat Jubilee
- Saint Vincent de Paul Social Club
- Asbestos
- International Remembrance Flame
- Sealing Industry
- Historic Sites
- Transcontinental Newspaper and Journalism Awards
- The Environment
- Sterling Hall School
- Budget Implementation Act, 2008
- Oceans
- Bill Reid Artwork Theft
- Bill C-505
- Manufacturing Industry
- Leadership Campaign Financing
- Foreign Affairs
- Airport Security
- Foreign Affairs
- Arctic Sovereignty
- Health
- Canada-United States Relations
- Public Safety
- Justice
- Fisheries and Oceans
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Code of Conduct
- Post-Secondary Education
- Health
- Foreign Affairs
- Inter-Parliamentary Union
- Taxation
- Presence in Gallery
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
- Points of Order
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
- Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
- Business of the House
- Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
- Ukrainian Famine and Genocide Memorial Day Act
Sealing Industry
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
The Deputy Speaker Bill Blaikie
The hon. member for Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles.
Historic Sites
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Daniel Petit Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC
Mr. Speaker, on Friday, May 23, I had the honour of inaugurating the first visit to the Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux National Historic Site of Canada in the heart of Quebec City. This site is of national historical importance because it was the seat of executive power for over 200 years.
The site is an important part of our country's history, and it is now open to the public for the first time since 1838. Visitors from all over will be able to walk around in what remains of the Saint-Louis forts and châteaux below the Dufferin terrace.
This year is the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City, a historic date for all of Canada and for North America. I invite everyone to come to Quebec to celebrate with us and walk where Champlain established the heart of political, cultural and social life. That was when we really began to become who we are today, regardless of what the separatist Bloc leader says or thinks.
Transcontinental Newspaper and Journalism Awards
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
France Bonsant Compton—Stanstead, QC
Mr. Speaker, on May 9, Transcontinental held its 10th annual Folios evening during which awards are given to newspapers and journalists that have excelled over the past year.
Of the more than 70 Transcontinental newspapers in Quebec and Ontario, Le Reflet du Lac from Memphrémagog won the award for weekly of the year.
This newspaper, based in Magog, was awarded second place by the jury for the quality of its website. Le Reflet du Lac also won second place for its contribution to the region's success.
These awards highlight the exemplary work of journalists Dany Jacques, Vincent Cliche and Patrick Trudeau in their coverage of local and regional events. I and my Eastern Township colleagues would like to congratulate Monique Côté, editor, and the rest of the Le Reflet du Lac team.
The Environment
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Carol Skelton Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar, SK
Mr. Speaker, who is reducing greenhouse gases and reducing pollution equal to one million fewer cars? With its balanced biofuel initiatives, the Conservative government is.
We are investing in cutting edge research that is leading the world in the development of next generation biofuel technologies, turning waste into cleaner-burning renewable fuels and retaining food for consumption.
Even with a U.S. record high corn ethanol production last year, corn exports actually increased. At the end of the year, there was a 10% corn surplus.
As for cost, corn accounts for less than 5% of the price of a box of cornflakes. Farmers can sell to a local biofuel market that creates jobs and gives them fair prices.
Canada is on the right track. While the NDP members have flip-flopped and turned their backs on farmers, the Conservatives' balanced biofuel policies are a triple win for Canada: good for our environment, good for farm families, and good for our economy.
Sterling Hall School
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Joe Volpe Eglinton—Lawrence, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the Sterling Hall School, situated in my riding of Eglinton—Lawrence.
On Friday, May 30, the school will be holding a Summer Olympics Day in conjunction with an event on Parliament Hill organized by the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, CAHPERD.
CAHPERD is a not for profit national organization dedicated to the promotion of a healthy and active lifestyle among children and youth. This year it is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Schools across Canada have been challenged to participate in events supporting physical education.
As a former teacher and coach, I can reaffirm the critical importance of engaging youth in physical activity that will create healthy adults.
I join all my colleagues in the House, I am sure, in wishing Sterling Hall School an enjoyable and successful physical education day.
I express congratulations to Sterling Hall on its leadership in the community.
Budget Implementation Act, 2008
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Rahim Jaffer Edmonton Strathcona, AB
Mr. Speaker, Canadians are surprised to learn the NDP is ready to play political games to prevent the passage of Bill C-50, the budget implementation bill, before the summer recess in June.
In doing so, the NDP is knowingly putting $1.5 billion in important federal funding at risk for Albertans. This includes $53 million over two years through the public transit capital trust and $43 million to Alberta to hire new front line police officers over the next five years. Additionally, it is threatening to delay the landmark tax-free savings account that would allow Canadians to save up to $5,000 every year tax free for life. These tactics prove that the NDP is out of touch with the priorities of Canadians.
I respectfully ask the NDP to let Parliament work, stop playing games and listen to Canadians. I ask the NDP to help pass Bill C-50 before the summer recess so Albertans and Canadians everywhere can benefit from better public transit, safer streets and lower taxes.
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Catherine Bell Vancouver Island North, BC
Mr. Speaker, Canada has been celebrating Oceans Day on June 8 for 16 years, but the UN has yet to officially recognize it. This is ironic because it was originally proposed at the UN's 1992 Earth Summit in Rio.
Today I introduced a motion calling on the Government of Canada to take the lead at the United Nations to formally recognize World Oceans Day. I would like to thank the members of the House for giving unanimous consent to my motion.
The world's oceans belong to all of us. By having the UN formally recognize June 8 as World Oceans Day, I believe we will help raise awareness about the vital role played by our oceans and the pressures placed on them. Oceans cover over two-thirds of the planet, with billions of people living on their shores. We rely on oceans for food and income. Close to $500 billion a year goes to the global economy, but 70% of commercially viable fisheries have collapsed or are at risk of collapse.
We must pay more attention to our oceans. World Oceans Day would provide a launch to do that.
Bill Reid Artwork Theft
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Joyce Murray Vancouver Quadra, BC
Mr. Speaker, Canadians in Vancouver Quadra and across the country are aghast at the theft from the Museum of Anthropology at UBC of gold artwork by the late Haida artist Bill Reid. The late Bill Reid, a native artist rooted in the Pacific northwest, is one of Canada's most important artists of the 20th century.
The 12 works by Reid displayed in the showcases included bracelets, brooches and cufflinks. It is their cultural value more than their monetary value that makes the disappearance of these works of art such a great loss.
Though the RCMP is conducting an investigation, it is still a very real possibility that this artwork could be lost forever. On behalf of my constituents and the people of Canada, I call on the government to match the $50,000 reward offered by the University of British Columbia for information leading to the intact recovery of these cultural treasures.
Bill C-505
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Pierre Paquette Joliette, QC
Mr. Speaker, I introduced Bill C-505 to exempt Quebec from the Canadian Multiculturalism Act and to specify that Quebeckers form a nation.
The report of the Bouchard-Taylor commission says, "The Canadian multiculturalism model does not appear to be well suited to conditions in Québec."
The federal government has adopted multiculturalism, which fragments Canadian society and denies the national character of Quebec. Quebec, on the other hand, has adopted a model that promotes interaction to enrich its culture and enhance the use of French, its only official language. The Bouchard-Taylor commission also recommends that French be the language of work in all sectors of activity in Quebec.
The Bloc Québécois introduced Bill C-505, which does not require the Constitution to be reopened and is in accordance with one of the recommendations of the Bouchard-Taylor commission. That is why I am calling on this Conservative government to put its words into action in recognizing the nation of Quebec and to support Bill C-505.
Manufacturing Industry
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Alan Tonks York South—Weston, ON
Mr. Speaker, during an exchange in this House between the Minister of Finance and my hon. colleague from Mississauga—Erindale, it was regrettable to hear the minister imply that a member from Toronto could not possibly understand issues related to the impending economic slowdown and matters related to industrial transformation. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Ontario, driven by its southern and southwestern regions, has the second largest manufacturing workforce on the continent.
Canadians expect much more reflection and action from Parliament. They expect investments to be made in the future of manufacturing, and a good place to begin would be the creation of green collar employment on what is still a solid labour and capital foundation.
I would like to suggest that the House, beginning with the Minister of Finance, should be reaching out for solutions to issues and resist the instinct to level insults against members from greater Toronto or parliamentarians from any region of our great country.
Leadership Campaign Financing
Statements by Members
2:15 p.m.
Daryl Kramp Prince Edward—Hastings, ON
Mr. Speaker, during the most recent Liberal leadership race, in order to help pay for the campaigns, the Liberal leader and other Liberal candidates were given millions of dollars in loans from wealthy and powerful individuals.
Under the Canada Elections Act, candidates can receive loans during a leadership race. However, these loans must be paid back within 18 months or they become illegal donations. The 18 month deadline is June 3.
Therefore, the former Liberal leadership candidates have exactly one week to pay back the millions of dollars in loans they took out from their elite backers for their leadership race.
This also means that Elections Canada has one week to decide if it will give the Liberal Party special treatment by extending the payback deadline.
Will the Liberal leadership contestants miss their loan repayment deadline, thereby ignoring contribution limits and breaking the law, or will Elections Canada give special treatment to the Liberal Party by extending the payback deadline?
Foreign Affairs
Oral Questions
May 27th, 2008 / 2:15 p.m.
Stéphane Dion Leader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, five hours before the foreign affairs minister resigned, the Prime Minister said, "I don't take this subject seriously". It is true that he did not take this subject seriously. This speaks volumes about the appalling lack of judgment of the Prime Minister.
Why was the Prime Minister more interested in protecting his protege than protecting the interests of Canadians?
Foreign Affairs
Oral Questions
2:15 p.m.
Peter Van Loan Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform
Mr. Speaker, the matter the Prime Minister was referring to was of course the issue of the private life of the member for Beauce, and the Prime Minister continues to be of the view, as does everyone in this government, that the member's private life is his own private life.
With regard to the breach of the rules, however, as soon as the Prime Minister was aware that a cabinet rule had been breached, the Prime Minister took action.
Foreign Affairs
Oral Questions
2:15 p.m.
Stéphane Dion Leader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, if the Prime Minister had not shown such an appalling lack of judgment, if the government had taken seriously the questions the opposition has been asking for weeks, the government would have found out long before yesterday that public documents were missing and where they were.
Will they now take this matter seriously and conduct the necessary investigations to see if other breaches of national security took place?
Foreign Affairs
Oral Questions
2:15 p.m.
Peter Van Loan Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform
Mr. Speaker, this was an error on the part of the hon. member for Beauce, who realized he had committed a very serious mistake, and his resignation has been accepted.


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Proving up
Effective June 17, 1887, Almanzo Wilder received a patent granting him title to 160 acres. This certificate demonstrates that Wilder and his wife Laura Ingalls, author of Little House on the Prairie, had "proved up" or built a house, improved the land, and lived on the land for five years. Homesteaders would often displayed the patent in their home to honor their hard work.
National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Land Management
Educational Resources
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