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Joseph Samual Cox/Evan MillerPosted Thursday, November 3, 2011, at 10:52 AM
I like the blog that Bonnie did last. It makes me think of people gone from our lives here on this Earth, but with us always in Spirit.
This Birth/Death shows that there is always a "Silver Lining", or, when "One Door Closes, Another Door Opens". There are a multitude of sayings that describe that type of situation.
I loved my Grandfather immensely. I know you're supposed to, but I truly did. I remember BBQing at their house in Nampa, Him and I going to KFC to get a "Bucket O chicken" and then coming home to shuck corn. I can still picture the corn silk stuck to my fingers and watching it float in the air with the sunlight sparkling off it. He was a quiet man, and I just loved him. Simply, Quietly. Just as he was, Simple and Quiet.
Losing him would have been so much more difficult, though I didn't see it at the time, without the joy of having Evan. Evan was my second born child. My daughter has passed shortly after her birth, which is something you never really leave behind you. That kind of event changes who you were, instantly.
As a child, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have told you "A Mommy" I wanted 4 children, and that is what I have. 3 Living here with me.
Evan was never meant to fill the loss of my daughter, but I did long to have him fill the empty spot in my arms. I had a beautiful nursery, just waiting for a baby. There were times I would sit in there and be overcome with sorrow, but when my oldest son was carried into that room the first time, it became a place of Love and Happiness.
I know that all Mother's love their children (in a perfect world) ... but I will say that my life REVOLVED around Evan and his smiles and giggles. My husband and I tried to make sure he was strong minded and unafraid to speak his mind. (sometimes now, I cringe at what he's not afraid to say) We tried to make sure he was physically able to do whatever he needed/wanted to do, and again, unafraid of doing it. (at times I cringed knowing we had to go to the hospital) I wanted him to be kind and gentle, and strong and firm when a situation called for it. (sometimes My heart wants to explode when I see his amazingly strong hands touch a baby with the softness of a butterfly) We raised him to be loyal and never fail to be where he was needed, even if it meant giving up on something else. I have seen him demand all of these things by his simply "being".
I was a strict disciplinarian ...looking back I think too much so. But one of my absolute wishes for my children was for them to be honest and upright. I never have been regretful at the way they have become adults.
I have seen such tenderness in that tough man, that it takes my breath away. Such giving and thoughtfullness and love for his own little family. Such Loyalty. Every good thing I wish that people to have, is possessed in my son's soul.
What would I change from the past? Not really anything, though just once I would have loved to lay my son in my Grandfather's lap, and see his pride. But really, I feel it. My son will be a grandfather one day, and his grandchildren will crawl up in his lap and cherish those moments of laughter and joy.
I have some of my Grandfather's old Wool Woolrich plaid shirt/jackets, so I still get my hugs too. I was wearing one once out at a branding on a real cold day. I was standing with my back to the fire, and my shirt (his shirt) and my hair actually got singed! That shirt had a black sooty looking spot for awhile, but it's gone now, though I never wash it (afraid of hurting it) .... it's a good as new I guess, somehow. Maybe he too care of it for me. I think of him every time I put one of those on.
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Thank you Ardie & Linda.
Ardie those are some memories huh?
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 1:59 PM
I didn't get the opportunity to know my grandparents but my children had wonderful grandparents in their Dad's parents. Your story reminds me how happy their Grandpa was to have a new grandchild to spoil. He had given up hope of having another grandchild around; it had been 14 years since the youngest had been born. We lived across the street from my in-laws which, at times, seemed too close, but I always knew that my children had the BEST Grandparents!
-- Posted by Snoshu2000 on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 1:33 PM
Another nice family story! I had forgotten about you being in labor. I remember going over to Granddad's house to invite him to pizza with me, mom, Casey (who was 1 yr old) and Anneke that night. He said no, that he had already eaten. He passed during the hour or so that we were gone. When we got back to the house, mom noticed the lights were off in granddad's house across the street and it was getting pretty dark. She went over to check on him while I went in their house with the kids. Poor mom was alone when she found him in his recliner. Granddad's goal was to stick around long enough to take care of Grandma. When she passed, just weeks before he did, he was ready to go. They were awesome grandparents and we have an awesome family.
-- Posted by Ardie on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 1:01 PM
Katie, Trust me, there will be a blog on my KTLM also. You just keep watching
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 12:04 PM
I think sometimes you write just to make people cry.
-- Posted by ktlm on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 11:38 AM
Grandparents are sooooo important in our lives. I never knew my dad's parents and rarely got to see my mom's. But I loved the fact of big families.
Dad had lots of shirts when he died. Last year, Mom told everyone to pick a few out to have. I took several and ended up having a lap quilt made for Mom with some of them and now we are having Christmas stockings made with parts of the other shirts. He loved Christmas so and everytime we see that stocking we will remember how excited he got on Christmas.
One great=granchild was born just two days after Dad passed away. My niece Andrea had a dream that Zane and Dad met each other as he was leaving this world and Zane was coming to ours.
Such love and memories make us wealthy in a lasting sort of way.
-- Posted by KH Gal on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 11:24 AM
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Posted on 01/12/2013 1:06:22 PM PST by Olog-hai
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that a lone gunman wasnt solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a shoddy piece of craftsmanship.
Kennedy and his sister, Rory, spoke about their family Friday night while being interviewed in front of an audience by Charlie Rose at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas. The event comes as a year of observances begins for the 50th anniversary of the presidents death.
Their uncle was killed on Nov. 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade through Dallas. Five years later, their father was assassinated in a Los Angeles hotel while celebrating his win in the California Democratic presidential primary.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his father spent a year trying to come to grips with his brothers death, reading the work of Greek philosophers, Catholic scholars, Henry David Thoreau, poets and others trying to figure out kind of the existential implications of why a just God would allow injustice to happen of the magnitude he was seeing.
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A man or woman trying to figure why God would allow a event in their lives never understood God in the first place. God had nothing to do with the death of JFK. It was the evil deeds of men that killed JFK.
There was a time, about when I first moved here, where an avowed communist like Charlie Rose would know better than to come to Dallas. Sadly, Dallas County has been overrun with illegals, minorities, sodomites, union thugs and leftists -- just the type that finds evil scum such as this Rose jerk heroic. This is not the good Dallas of the past that I recall so fondly. Fortunately, the core of Dallas is surrounded by good, Christian Conservative counties where true Texas values still prevail. And gun ownership by the right kind of people is high!
50th anniversary! How many of y'all feel old?
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***Raising my hand***
I was just under voting age when Kennedy ran in 1960 so I didn't have the opportunity to vote against him. Nevertheless, I campaigned and worked hard to get Richard Nixon elected. Nixon had not yet gone soft was still a fearless fighter against the commies. It's now clear that the presidential election was stolen by Jack Kennedy and his corrupt crowd -- his booze-running father and the Chicago machine. The Nixon of 1968 was far from the reliable Conservative of eight years earlier.
A good follow-up question for Charles Rose to ask could have been "How did your family feel about a 'search for god' by the men on the ground who were left to fight without air cover during the Bay of Pigs"?
Well, I was out of diapers when JFK was killed. I remember Bobby's death though. I learned in elementary what "brain death" meant. I prayed hard too. Oh, well. You grow up fast in the South!
On the show, "Gilmore Girls", Rory was the daughter's name, but it was shortened from Lorelai.
I'm sorry but there's not going to be any praise from me about Johnny Kennedy and his corrupt clan. Sure, he may have lowered taxes but that doesn't begin to offset the evil he allowed to flourish on his watch.
We may never know the real truth, since law enforcement in Texas decided to parade around the assassin, for the cameras, allowing the assassin to be assassinated.
Ya just knew anything else coming out of this event was incompetent, convoluted and compromised.
We may never know the real truth, since law enforcement in Texas decided to parade around the assassin, for the cameras, allowing the assassin to be assassinated.
Ya just knew anything else coming out of this event was incompetent, convoluted and compromised.
Agreed. Actually, Kennedy was too busy making out with 2 or 3 women every day to pay much attention to his job. As you say, he stole the election from Nixon with the Chicago Machine, which his gangster father had been involved with. He gave us the Bay of Pigs, ensured the loss of Vietnam by assassinating our ally there, and caved repeatedly to Kruschev.
And he chose LBJ to be his VP so he could also steal the Texas votes.
That, of course, gave us LBJ and the Great Society, which put our deficits on steroids and built a huge welfare class permanently on the Democrat plantation, finishing the work that FDR had begun.
It was a hugely crucial election and I wonder how different things would have been had the election not be stolen
Yeah, I've always thought of him as a hip Jimmy Carter with a hot wife.
To accept the Warren Commission's conclusions of a single unaided assassin, you have to accept the concept of BOTH Oswald and Ruby being lone nuts.
Of course what I state here is purely speculative but I'll go ahead and envision what would (or more accurately, could have happened) had the Kennedy crooked clan not stolen the pivotal 1960 presidential election:
If I remember correctly, Ethel was pregnant with Rory when RFK was murdered. She never met her dad.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that a lone gunman wasnt solely responsible... [he] and his sister, Rory, spoke about their family Friday night while being interviewed in front of an audience by Charlie Rose at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas. The event comes as a year of observances begins for the 50th anniversary of the presidents death.Carlos Marcello's also been dead for years.
Well said!
Me too, until about two years ago when I met a woman named Rory. Seems like names have a tendency to go from masculine to feminine, but not the other way around. Leslie used to be a man's name. Also Carol. And then there's Hillary.
Well she does look like a man in drag if that helps.
And it's just a huge coincidence that both were involved with the Mob.
Yes! A terrible president.
I also have seriously thought about that, and I truly believe that the 1960s counter-culture would never have happened.
E.g., Executive Order 10988, allowing the unionization of the federal work force.
Will this pink-eyed clan ever stop waving the bloody shirt?
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"It was so fun. It was a blast," said Franklin, still gushing after just two hours of sleep. After a night of bumper cars and dancing to the music video game DDR, she and her best girlfriend got air brush tattoos … of dolphins.
After four gold medals at the London Olympics, Franklin still is waiting for someone to shake her awake from what she calls a Hannah Montana life. Normal high school kid during the week, perhaps a Hollywood red carpet on the weekend.
Franklin, 17, finishes classes at Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colo. this week then graduates May 20. Ten days later, Franklin will be on the big screen when the official film of the London Games debuts in U.S. movie theaters. FIRST: The Story of the London 2012 Olympic Games features the journeys of 12 first-time Olympians from all over the globe as they prepare for and compete in the London Games.
MORE: Franklin, U.S. athletes featured in film
Though crazy busy, Franklin has been able to catch a little bit of another documentary of sorts -- Ryan Lochte's E! reality show, What Would Ryan Lochte Do?
"It's so Ryan. He's such an incredible, incredible guy," Franklin said. "He loves to relax and have fun. It's so him to be so laid back and not have a care in the world. I love that about him. Some of the things they do on the show are absolutely hilarious. I always get a kick out of when his sisters are giving him dating advice.
"I love Ryan to death. From what I've seen, the show shows him as someone who likes to have fun but someone who is an incredibly hard worker once they get in the pool."
Just like Franklin, though the type of fun she likes to have is much more G-rated.
Her hard work in the pool continues with a busy summer schedule: the final Grand Prix event of the season in Santa Clara the end of May, followed by nationals in Indianapolis the end of June, then the world championships in Barcelona a month later. On Aug. 23, she leaves for California-Berkeley where she will swim the next two seasons before likely going pro in advance of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
"I'm so excited," Franklin said about college. "It's scary because it's such a big unknown. I just found out who my roommate is. I literally can't wait because I'm so excited."
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WARMINSTER TWP., Pa. - A former Philadelphia sportscaster who claimed he was going to bat for charity actually kept the money, according to prosecutors.
Don Tollefson was slapped with a number of theft charges on Tuesday. The accused didn't say anything as he was led into the Bucks County Courthouse.
Prosecutors said there are more than 100 victims, including some from Berks County and the Lehigh Valley.
While they don't know the motive, prosecutors said they do know each case started the same way.
"They're usually tied to a sporting event," said Ryan Hyde, Bucks County assistant district attorney and lead prosecutor on the case."I think the charitable solicitation in this particular case is that he would state for 'x' number of dollars, half of those dollars to be split between his charities and half to another charity."
Prosecutors said the only person who pocketed the money was Tollefson. A well-known Philadelphia sportscaster, he used his celebrity status to emcee and host charitable events or sell sports trip packages.
Tollefson promised half the money would go to charities like the Salvation Army or Special Olympics of Pennsylvania.
"Mr. Tollefson then would not provide any of those benefits and certainly would not provide half of the funds promised to the organization," added Hyde.
Investigators started looking into the bogus trips last October after being approached at a memorial run for slain Plymouth Township police Ofc. Brad Fox, according to court documents.
"There were people at that event who approached Warminster police after the sporting event that they had bought tickets to," said Hyde. "They never received the tickets."
In court, Tollefson told the judge that he was surviving on Social Security and disability. He also told the judge that he is in a treatment program, having been sober for 131 days.
That was the only time Tollefson spoke. Prosecutors alleged Tollefson stole more than $100,000 from more than 100 people.
"We've had victims from New Jersey, from Philadelphia, all of the surrounding counties," said Hyde. "From Lehigh County, I believe we've heard from some people in Berks County. It's generally a very wide swath."
If charged with the maximum for each offense, Tollefson could spend the next 44 years in prison, prosecutors said.
Warminster police are also asking for any other victims to call them at 215-343-0100 or 215-672-1000.
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The Lions (29-19) and the Red Raiders (41-18) were tied 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth, when Texas Tech first baseman Eric Gutierrez came through with a walk-off RBI single.
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Editor's Note: This article is part of a monthly series on the history of Webster City, written by local historian, Nancy Kayser
It needed the approval of three governmental agencies and the head office of the railroad company to begin the project. But it was the Depression-era workers who moved the mountain with hand shovels in December 1933 to begin constructing the railroad underpass on Webster City's Second Street.
City officials had tried for some time to persuade the state highway commission to build an underpass under the Northwestern Railroad tracks to eliminate the rail crossing on the heavily traveled federal Highway 20 and to finish paving into the business district. State funding was limited and their request was always put on hold.
Shortly after his election, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his alphabet programs to ease the plight of unemployed workers. One of those programs was the Civil Works Administration which began in November 1933 and ended in March 1934. State and city officials were advised, before the formal implementation of the CWA program, to have their projects ready for submission, approval and funding.
At their June 19, 1933 meeting, the city council formally requested the state highway commission to continue paving Highway 20 and to construct the railroad underpass. The construction would need an okay from the state highway commission and the state and federal CWA offices. It also required the railroad company to finance and build the underpass.
On Aug. 7, 1933, the Freeman Journal and the Webster City Freeman announced "while there was no official announcement, an authoritative source had informed them the underpass and paving project was approved."
Ten million dollars of CWA money was allocated to Iowa. After review and approval from city, state and federal officials, 283 projects in 62 counties received the go-ahead in late August 1933. Two local projects the railroad underpass with paving at $60,000 and paving on Superior Street at $25,000 gained approval. It was expected work would start in the fall of 1933. All projects had to be completed by Feb. 15, 1934.
Workers on the Webster City projects were to be selected first from those registered with the local unemployment office. Their pay of fifty cents an hour for a thirty-hour workweek would take them off the relief rolls and bring a "flood of gold" to the city according to the Freeman Journal in their Nov. 29, 1933 issue. An estimated 60 men were needed to start the digging in mid-December.
One-half worked the morning shift, one-half the afternoon shift in a six-day workweek. A weekly paycheck for 30 hours labor at 50 cents an hour amounted to $15, enough to provide basic purchases of food, heating and housing, with perhaps a bit left over for clothing.
Svenson Studio of Webster City documented the excavation. His photos show the workers digging the underpass with hand shovels, and pickaxes, using wheelbarrows to haul the dirt away as the project began. Later pictures show the dirt being thrown into small trucks as the workers removed the hill from Superior to the White Fox Road. Newspaper reports suggest the work began in mid-to late-December 1933.
The railroad brought in a massive machine to re-lay the track ties. Engineers came to make surveys for driving piles into the ground to support the track as the earth was removed.
Once the CWA workers had tunneled under the tracks, the state highway commission let the bids for paving the newly dug section on Highway 20. The Northwestern Railroad was responsible for building and paying for the underpass structure. All of this work would start in the Spring of 1934.
By mid-February 1934, the CWA workers had completed the digging. Their job was complete and they were transferred to other city CWA projects.
By the fall of 1934, Webster City gained, thanks to Depression era government programs, a safe and grand looking portal to its downtown business district as motorists came into the city by means of federal Highway 20.
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In her upcoming book Blood Pressure Down: The 10-Step Plan to Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Weeks Without Prescription Drugs, registered dietitian Dr. Janet Bond Brill offers tips on lowering your blood pressure naturally. We asked her to help ID some of the �salt shockers� that are hiding in your diet, and could be raising your BP. Where is most of the sodium coming from in our daily diets? If you think it�s the salt shaker, think again. A whopping 80 percent comes from sodium-soaked processed and restaurant foods. In an effort to help Americans pinpoint where the salt is hiding, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that ten unsuspecting food types account for 44 percent of the salt�we eat�every day, the "salty 10." Many of these foods do not taste salty so can be deceiving. So here are the top six saltiest foods to be aware of and some less salty swaps to substitute: 1. Breads and rolls. Although each slice of bread may not seem to be high in sodium, the fact that we eat so many servings a day makes this unsuspecting food our number one source of sodium overload. Healthy substitutions:�Try purchasing low sodium varieties of bread. Check the labels and buy brands labeled either �low sodium��140 mg or less per serving�or �no sodium��less than 5 mg per serving. Food for Life Ezekiel breads tend to be lower on the salt scale. Try their Low Sodium Sprouted Wheat Bread�delicious and zero sodium! 2. Cold cuts and meats. Just a measly 2 ounces (or 6 really thin slices) of deli meat can contain almost half of your entire daily sodium limit. Different brands can have drastically different amounts so here is where being a label sleuth really pays off. Healthy substitutions:�Try purchasing low sodium varieties of deli meats. Boar�s Head has an entire all-natural line, which contains much less sodium than their traditional counterparts. Just be sure to check the label as even the reduced versions of deli meat can still pack a sodium wallop. Try their All Natural Cap-Off Top Round Oven Roasted Beef�delicious and just 140 mg sodium per 2 ounce serving! 3. Pizza. Pizza is basically comprised of salty bread topped with salty tomato sauce, coated with gobs of fatty, salty cheese (and high salt meats such as pepperoni). In fact, a single slice of pizza can contain 1000 mg of sodium (over half of your daily sodium limit). Healthy substitutions:�Make pizza a special occasion meal. Order it with less cheese and vegetable topping. Better yet, try making your own pizza at home. The sauce and cheese is where much of the sodium lies, so make your own sauce using low sodium brands of tomatoes. Add healthy vegetable toppings such as roasted garlic, eggplant and caramelized onions. Top with just a touch of flavorful cheese to add taste 4. Poultry. While most people don�t think of chicken, for example, as a high sodium food, they can actually be quite deceived. It is common practice in the poultry industry to inject raw chicken meat with salt to enhance the flavor�termed �enhancing� or �plumping.� The amount of sodium in poultry will vary depending on the preparation methods, so once again it is important to question purveyors and read labels. Healthy substitutions:�Fresh, natural chicken contains just 73 mg sodium per 4 ounce serving. Look for �fresh� poultry products without added sodium. Foster Farms, a California-based poultry producer sells fresh chicken with nothing in it except chicken! 5. Soup. Just one cup of canned soup can contain almost 1000 mg of sodium (and who eats just one cup?). Most commercial soups are simply salt water in a can or a bowl off the menu. This is because food manufacturers and restaurateurs use sodium to both preserve the foods and enhance the food�s flavor and texture. Healthy substitutions:�Your best bet is to check the labels and search for the lowest sodium brand of soup you find palatable. Pacific Natural Foods Light Sodium Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato soup is made with roasted vegetables�which up the flavor factor without salt�and clocks in at a sodium content of 360 mg per cup. For even lower sodium soups, try making them at home suing fresh herbs and spices to flavor the soup, allowing you to adjust the sodium content downward. Indian curry seasonings combine sweet and savory spices that bring a delicious taste to your table without the salt! 6. Sandwiches. Commercial sandwiches, especially those found at fast food locales, tend to contain massive amounts of sodium. For example, a single fast food burger can pack in close to 1000 mg of sodium. Garnish that burger with a pickle and you up the sodium content an additional 1250 mg. Healthy substitutions:�Try cutting down on your sandwich intake; maybe order half a sandwich with a salad. Better yet, make your own sandwich at home using lower sodium bread stuffed with lower sodium fillers such as roasted almond butter�see recipe below) and sliced bananas. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:�JANET BRILL, PhD, RD, LDN,�is a nationally recognized expert in cardiovascular disease prevention and the author of�Cholesterol Down�and�Prevent a Second Heart Attack.�She has been a nutritionist in private practice for many years.�For more information about Dr. Janet Brill, visit�drjanet.com. Brought to you by: Spry Living


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Louisville Slugger® OneX Fastpitch softball bat
The bat's barrel can separate from the handle during use and strike people nearby.
Hillerich & Bradsby at (800) 282-2287 from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or online at www.slugger.com and click on Recall for more information.
About 13,000
The recalled bats include all OneX style bats. The composite bat has a white and grey shell with blue and yellow lettering. "Louisville Slugger oneX" appears twice on the barrel, in yellow in one place and in blue lettering on the other side. The "X" is yellow in both places.
Approximately170 bat handle separations have been reported to the company. The company is aware of one report of a barrel from a broken bat hitting a player in the shin.
Consumers should immediately stop using the bat and contact Hillerich & Bradsby for a free replacement bat and the choice of an additional free item.
The bats were sold nationwide at sporting goods, other retail stores and distributed to college amateur competitive softball teams from approximately May 2012 through February 2013 for about $350.
Hillerich & Bradsby Co. of Louisville, Ky.
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This time, Hamline made sure the shutout stayed intact. Nicole Jones kicked out 29 shots as Hamline's women's hockey team finished off its first MIAC sweep under second-year coach Steve DeBus with a solid 5-0 win over Augsburg at Augsburg Arena Saturday afternoon. Jordan Verleye led the offense with two goals while Sam Berger, Jessica Kraus and Jackie Brigl added singles as the Pipers recorded their largest margin of victory in a conference game since a 5-0 win over St. Catherine's in 2007.
As she did Friday, Berger opened the scoring, connecting for her third tally of the season 11 minutes into the game. Verleye, who also scored in Friday's 3-1 win, added a pair of netters in the second period to make it 3-0. Late in the third period, Kraus and Brigl scored 100 seconds apart to put the game out of reach. Jones took care of the rest for the Pipers, who have lost just once in their last seven games and are now 6-7-2 overall on the season, 2-5-1 in the MIAC. The Pipers came close to recording a double shutout of the Auggies. On Friday, Sarah Schneekloth lost her bid for a shutout with 1.5 seconds left in the game.
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Debates of June 2nd, 1995
House of Commons Hansard #210 of the 35th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was languages.
- Farm Improvement And Marketing Co-Operatives Loans Act
- Aids
- Recognition Of Same Sex Spouses
- National Awareness Week
- Child Support
- Environment
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Violence Against Children
- Sharing Of Federal Debt
- Health
- Health Care Reform
- Ontario Election
- Sharing Of Federal Debt
- Aboriginal Nations
- Infrastructure
- Transportation
- Atlantic Fishery
- Bosnia
- Agusta
- Bosnia
- Human Rights
- Department Of Justice
- Justice
- Foreign Affairs
- Youth Services Canada
- Canadian Wheat Board
- The Environment
- Upper Nicola Band
- Forest Fires
- Irving Whale
- Immigration
- Alzheimer's Registry
- Point Of Order
- Government Response To Petitions
- Environment
- Bill C-89
- Bill S-7
- Environment
- National House Of Canada Act .Brev
- Petitions
- Questions On The Order Paper
- Farm Improvement And Marketing Co-Operative Loans Act
- Buffalo And Fort Erie Public Bridge Company Act
- Official Languages
Statements By Members
10:55 a.m.
Charles Caccia Davenport, ON
Mr. Speaker, recently the United States Senate passed legislation allowing oil and gas development on the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd in the Alaskan wildlife refuge. This action contravenes a 1987 agreement recognizing Canadian and American joint responsibility to protect the habitat of the Porcupine caribou herd and the Gwich'in people who depend on it.
I urge the government to ensure both the continuation of the U.S. government's commitment and the right of the Gwich'in people to their traditional food source and longstanding way of life. We owe this action to our aboriginal people.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Statements By Members
10:55 a.m.
Herb Dhaliwal Vancouver South, BC
Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to inform the House that the appeal challenging the wearing of turbans by Sikh RCMP officers has been summarily dismissed in the unanimous decision made by the Federal Court of Appeal in Calgary.
The measure of a strong and just society is its ability to weave our differences into the fabric of our national identity. The dismissal of this challenge has once again proven that Canada is a strong and just society.
These decisions reaffirm that the wearing of articles of faith by a Sikh police officer in no way impedes their ability to perform their duties with impartiality and fairness.
Let this decision be a wake up call for the Reform Party. Its opposition to Sikhs in the RCMP is out of line with the Canadian legal tradition and demonstrates an intolerance to cultural diversity. When will the Reform Party realize the 1930s are over? It is 1995 and the time has come for it to support the religious freedom of all Canadians.
Violence Against Children
Statements By Members
10:55 a.m.
Paul Szabo Mississauga South, ON
Mr. Speaker, each year over 225,000 Canadian children are abused. According to the committee on sexual offences against children and youth, 53 per cent of females and 31 per cent of males have been victims of one or more unwanted sexual acts.
Approximately four in five of those incidents happened to victims when they were children or youths, and one-third of all assaults against children occurred within the family. In addition, at least one million children in Canada have witnessed violence by their fathers against their mothers.
Children who witness violence by one parent against another are often considered children at risk by child welfare authorities because of the lasting emotional and psychological consequences for the child. In many cases the children grow up to be abusive themselves, thus perpetuating the cycle of violence.
I appeal to all levels of government and to all Canadians and organizations that we must do a better job related to violence against children.
Sharing Of Federal Debt
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Pierre Brien Témiscamingue, QC
Mr. Speaker, the sovereignists have always maintained that a sovereign Quebec will negotiate sharing the federal debt with the Government of Canada on an equitable basis. A study conducted by the Institut national de la recherche scientifique and released yesterday shows that a sovereign Quebec's share of the federal debt would have to be reduced by $24 billion on account of the fact that, over the years, Quebec has paid more than it has received from the federal government. The INRS study concludes that a sovereign Quebec should therefore be responsible for 17.4 per cent of the federal debt.
It is important to note that in the present federal system, Quebecers currently assume 23 per cent of the federal debt with the $30 billion in taxes that they pay each year to the federal government. Hence the INRS conclusion that the total debt burden of a sovereign Quebec would amount to 103 per cent of GDP, as compared to 108 per cent for Canada at the present time.
According to the INRS study, a sovereign Quebec would therefore have a lower debt level than Canada now has.
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Philip Mayfield Cariboo—Chilcotin, BC
Mr. Speaker, the time has come to give Canadians freedom of choice in health care.
Every year Canadian taxpayers put tens of billions of dollars into health care premiums to pay for our medicare. Yet many of these same Canadians make the conscious decision to drop out of the conventional health care system, choosing alternate forms of health care.
One of my constituents, Mrs. Margaret Wiens, recently wrote to me: "A change in the way we deliver health care is long overdue. It is discriminatory to only cover and recognize conventional drugs. I and hundreds of thousands of others in Canada faithfully pay our medical premiums, and therefore we should have freedom to choose our preferred type of treatment".
I am confident that Canadians are capable of making intelligent decisions on how they will care for their bodies. It is time for the government to share this confidence. The Canada Health Act must be changed to return to Canadians the freedom of medical choice they are calling for.
Health Care Reform
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Robert Bertrand Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle, QC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the PQ government refused to support an opposition motion on health care reform. It read as follows: "That this Assembly support the proposal by the Leader of the Bloc Quebecois, Lucien Bouchard, to broaden the scope of the ongoing consultations on health care reform in Quebec".
This failure of the PQ government to accede to this legitimate request by their separatist friend and partner clearly shows that the coalition in Quebec City has two faces. They are partners for promoting sovereignty but when it comes to health, they are on opposite sides of the issue.
Does this contemptuous rejection of their Bloc friend's proposal a sign that, this time, the PQ will not let him dictate a new "virage" or change in direction?
Ontario Election
Statements By Members
June 2nd, 1995 / 11:05 a.m.
Mac Harb Ottawa Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, ten good reasons to vote Liberal in Ontario:
(1) With the Liberals you know you are always safe.
(2) Bob Rae and the NDP have done enough damage.
(3) The Liberals always care.
(4) Mike Harris is harmful to your health with his foolish tax proposals.
(5) In one way or another, if you are a single mom, youth, middle class, senior, or own a small business, you can be certain that Harris is after your pocketbook.
(6) You could not sleep at night knowing that there are Tories in Ontario.
(7) If you are injured, disabled, sick, or looking for your annual check up, Harris will be waiting for you to add salt to your wounds and do more damage to you.
(8) You have fooled with the Tories federally and with the jacuzzi socialists provincially and you were badly wounded.
(9) In the blink of a eye, Tories will suck the blood and money out of the most vulnerable in Ontario.
(10) With the Liberals, you will not take a chance. Your satisfaction will be guaranteed.
Sharing Of Federal Debt
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Eleni Bakopanos Saint-Denis, QC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Quebec minister responsible for restructuring released the findings of another study. According to the minister, the results of that study, which focused on the proportion of the national debt that would have to be assumed by an independent Quebec, are very positive.
Of course these results are positive. Do you think for a moment that the Quebec minister "responsible for propaganda" would have agreed to release a study which would not serve the separatist cause of the PQ government?
Rather than continuing to spend Quebec taxpayers' money with impunity, in an attempt to give some credibility to a project which does not have any, the PQ government should concentrate its efforts on job creation and economic recovery.
Otherwise, at the rate it is spending public money, there will soon be nothing left but the debt to share in the PQ and BQ kingdom.
Aboriginal Nations
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
André Caron Jonquière, QC
Mr. Speaker, we were very disappointed by the editorial of free lance writer Gilbert Oskaboose in The First Perspective magazine.
His disparaging remarks on Quebecers and sovereignist leaders do not in any way reflect the feelings expressed by the First Nations chiefs and members with whom we meet as part of our work. Our differences of opinions usually do not keep us from having civilized discussions. Unfortunately, the tone used by the editorialist does not reflect the respectful attitude which we are used to in our contacts with members of the First Nations.
Quebecers, including a sovereignist government which was the first one in Canada to recognize the existence of aboriginal nations, have, for a long time, been more open minded toward these people than Canadians have in general.
The Bloc Quebecois hopes that aboriginal leaders will denounce the comments made by Mr. Oskaboose, so as to promote, on both sides, the open-mindedness which will lead to agreements such as the ones which were recently signed by Quebec and the Crees and which will foster peace and co-operation between our peoples.
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Ken Epp Elk Island, AB
Mr. Speaker, we have been down this road before: Liberal, Tory, same old story.
If the minister of public works is not too busy pork barrelling or designing a statue of himself for his memorial parkway he might want to take a Sunday drive down the scenic 104 highway, where he will find a message on a billboard unveiled today by the Reform Party and concerned citizens of Wentworth Valley.
Up until this point the minister has refused to listen to the people. Maybe this message will get through to him. Diversion of $26 million so that the minister can buy votes in his riding is simply unacceptable behaviour, and taxpayers are not going to take it any more. Nova Scotians and all Canadians are sick and tired of the despicable political practices of the Conservatives and now the Liberals, especially of the minister from Cape Breton.
What does the sign say to the minister? It says "$26 million is highway robbery. Give it back to highway 104".
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Stan Keyes Hamilton West, ON
Mr. Speaker, today is national transportation day and next week is national transportation week in Canada.
Organizations have scheduled a variety of transportation related activities and seminars in major cities around the country, including Hamilton, Ontario, where the ninth annual international Great Lakes-St. Lawrence mayors conference will discuss, among other matters, transportation issues.
The theme of national transportation week is "Careers in Transportation: Opportunities, Training, Skills". As the Minister of Transport has said, the coming century will bring new pressure to increase Canada's productivity. This pressure will have an enormous impact on the skilled professionals who design, build, operate, and maintain our transportation system.
Today's dedicated transportation workers are expected to be skilled in technology, management, administration, and public relations. As we pay tribute to the skilled and dedicated people who keep our transportation system running, we must also ensure that those who succeed them have new skills needed for the 21st century.
I also want to congratulate Mr. Geoffrey Elliot, the national transportation person of the year. Without his timeless efforts Canadians would not have the many benefits resulting from the recent open skies agreement with the United States.
Atlantic Fishery
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Francis Leblanc Cape Breton Highlands—Canso, NS
Mr. Speaker, the snow crab fishery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has emerged as one of the real success stories in the Atlantic fishery.
This year it will generate more than $275 million in economic benefits in a few short weeks. Success presents a tough policy challenge for the minister of fisheries, who has to set the rules for managing this resource. He must ensure that (a) the snow crab stock is not overfished; (b) the number allowed to fish this resource can make a reasonable return; and (c) the economic benefits from this common property resource are shared equitably.
Determining how many fishermen can participate in the snow crab fishery and what the size of their individual quotas should be has proven to be among the thorniest aspects of reconciling these policy objectives. This year the minister has adopted a novel and ingenious approach for dealing with this difficult problem. He has allocated a portion of the total allowable catch of snow crab to a number of fishermen's associations and has challenged them to find a way to fish their allocation safely and responsibly and to share the benefits fairly among those who do not have regular snow crab licences.
The fishermen are rising to the challenge. They have formed companies and worked out harvesting and processing strategies to share the benefits of this temporary allocation.
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Gilles Duceppe Laurier—Sainte-Marie, QC
Mr. Speaker, a week after the latest escalation in the conflict in Bosnia, when 370 peacekeepers, including 55 Canadians, were taken hostage by Serbian forces, there has been a flurry of statements and meetings which failed to produce any concrete results leading to the release of the hostages. This morning, the International Red Cross said that the Bosnian Serbs told them they would release the hostages unconditionally, either today or tomorrow.
Could the Deputy Prime Minister confirm the statement by the Red Cross that the Bosnian Serbs will release the 370 peacekeepers who are being kept hostage sometime during the next few hours, although Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said yesterday that no hostages could be released without guarantees that all air strikes would be suspended?
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Hamilton East
Sheila Copps Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment
Mr. Speaker, we received communications mentioning that a few hostages might be released today, but at 11.13 a.m., we were unable to confirm whether that was the case.
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Gilles Duceppe Laurier—Sainte-Marie, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Defence confirmed yesterday that Canada was negotiating with the Bosnian Serbs to allow a rotation of the 45 Canadian peacekeepers being held hostage at their observation post. Meanwhile, in Europe the Minister of Foreign Affairs was saying, with Canada's allies, that there would be no negotiations with the Serbs regarding the hostages.
That being said, who speaks for the Canadian government? Is it the Minister of Foreign Affairs or is it the Minister of National Defence, who said that conducting negotiations would be tantamount to saying the Bosnian Serbs have the right to take hostages? Who is telling the truth?


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You can create and deploy Flex applications using only the open source Flex framework. For a more productive development experience, you can use Adobe Flash Builder software, a powerful, Eclipse™ based IDE that is commercially available. For a more productive, higher performing approach to connecting Flex applications to back-end services, you can use BlazeDS, a free, open source Java™ solution. BlazeDS includes both Action Message Format (AMF), which provides binary, serialized data transport, and Flex messaging services, which offer real-time data push. LiveCycle Data Services ES2 can deliver large-scale data services and data push and offers model-driven development support.
There are many ways you can learn and get started using Flex. You can learn on your own using the many resources in the Adobe Developer Connection, including a free, online video-based training. There are many books and online instructional courses available through Adobe partners. You can attend an eSeminar to get an overview or participate in a formal, instructor-led course offered by an Adobe training partner either on-site or off-site.
Flash Builder is a professional-grade, Eclipse based development tool that enables intelligent coding; interactive step-through debugging; and visual design of the user interface layout, appearance, and behavior of rich Internet applications (RIAs) for mobile, web, and desktop. You can import assets from Adobe Creative Suite® software or entire projects from Adobe Flash Catalyst® into Flash Builder, making it easy for designers and developers to work together in parallel. Flash Builder is licensed on a per-seat developer basis. You can download a 60-day free trial of Flash Builder to get started.
Flash Builder 4.6 Standard
Flash Builder 4.6 Standard is a productive, Eclipse based development tool that enables intelligent coding; interactive step-through debugging; and visual design of the user interface layout, appearance, and behavior of mobile, web, and desktop applications built using ActionScript® and Flex. Key features include:
Flash Builder 4.6 Premium
Use Flash Builder 4.6 Premium to create business-critical applications. It offers all the powerful features included in Flash Builder Standard, plus powerful testing tools including memory and performance profilers to help investigate memory use and analyze where applications are spending time; automated functional testing support for regression testing; and the Network Monitor, which provides a detailed audit trail of all data passed between the local Flex application and the back end, assisting with debugging and performance tuning. The Premium edition also includes a free copy of Adobe ColdFusion® Builder™ 2 software.
Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP
Use Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP Standard or Premium edition to rapidly build expressive mobile, web, and desktop PHP-based Flex applications. In addition to all the great new features included in Flash Builder 4.5, Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP adds a deeply integrated copy of Zend Studio 8, a professional-grade PHP IDE, providing an optimized Flex/PHP development experience.
BlazeDS enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real time to Flex and Adobe AIR® applications for more responsive RIA experiences. Previously available only as part of LiveCycle Data Services ES2, the technologies included in BlazeDS and the AMF protocol specification are being contributed to open source under Lesser General Public License (LGPL) v3.
Yes, enterprise support for BlazeDS is available via subscription offerings, similar to those offered by companies that have built business models around open source software. Subscriptions include access to trusted, certified builds; patches; warranties; and enterprise support for business-critical applications. See the BlazeDS FAQ for complete details.
The Open Source Flex SDK contains most of the components of the Adobe® Flex® SDK (for example, the compilers, framework, and debuggers) but does not include anything that is not open source like the Adobe Flash® Player and Adobe AIR® runtimes or the advanced font encoding libraries. The Open Source Flex SDK can be used to create Flex applications in whatever fashion the Mozilla Public License (MPL Version 1.1) allows. This package is entirely covered under the MPL, including its binaries. Adobe Flash Builder™ (formerly Adobe Flex Builder) software, the Eclipse™ based IDE, is not available under open source.
The Open Source Flex SDK contains everything needed to create a functional Flex application, including the ActionScript® and MXML language compilers and the Flex framework. The free Adobe Flex SDK contains everything in the Open Source Flex SDK plus additional components that enhance the Flex application creation process such as advanced font encoders, tools for packaging Adobe AIR applications, and Adobe Flash Player. These components are not open source but are made freely available by Adobe.
The Open Source Flex SDK is available under the open source MPL Version 1.1. This empowers both open source and commercial developers to extend the Flex framework to suit their needs and to contribute to the evolution of the Flex framework.
Concurrent with the release of Flex 3 on February 25, 2008, the Open Source Flex SDK was released under the open source MPL.
Members of the current Flex SDK development, QA, and product teams are full-time contributors to this open source project. Adobe continues to invest heavily in the ongoing framework and language evolution.
The Flex language and framework are key elements of many Adobe products that help designers and developers create next-generation rich Internet applications (RIAs) for use online and on the desktop. A number of Adobe products, including Flash Builder and the Adobe Creative Suite® family of products, will make it easy to target the Flash Player and AIR runtimes leveraging the Flex SDK. In addition, several Adobe products are being built using Flex, including Adobe Media Player software and the Photoshop.com online service. We also believe that other ISVs, Adobe partners, and members of the open source community are planning to deliver design and development tools that allow developers to leverage the Flex SDK.
Web and desktop developers using Flex can now directly discuss ideas and proposals with project committers, submit code through the open bug tracking system, or contribute enhancements directly to the Flex project. Over time, Adobe also plans to introduce new subprojects that extend the core Flex project.
You do not need to release source code for your Flex application. You are, however, required to release any source code modifications made to the ActionScript source files provided as part of the Open Source Flex SDK. These modifications must be released under the MPL. This obligation does not extend to other files created by you, even if they are combined into a single executable or bytecode file. For a complete explanation of your rights and obligations under the MPL, consult a legal professional.
Under the terms of the MPL, open source project owners can use Flex to develop parts of their applications, extend it and contribute to the community, or incorporate some or all of the SDK itself into their projects, provided they comply with the terms of the MPL.
Adobe has previously contributed source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation under the Tamarin project. Developers using the Tamarin project can use the Open Source Flex SDK as a compiler and debugger.
No. Adobe is currently sponsoring and hosting the Flex project infrastructure, including the open bug database, source control system, and project planning forums.
The fastest, easiest way to get started is to use Flash Builder. Flash Builder 4.6 has an integrated set of getting started capabilities that will guide you through your first Flex application. Alternatively, you can download the free Flex 4.6 SDK, which includes the Flex framework, compilers, and debuggers, enabling you to develop Flex applications using an IDE of your choice.
No. When you install Flash Builder, you automatically get the Flex SDK and everything you need to start building Flex applications without installing the Flex SDK.
Yes. There are no deployment licensing costs associated with Flex. Using only the free Flex SDK, you can build and deploy Flex applications for free. For a more productive development experience, you may also want to use Flash Builder 4.6. You can try Flash Builder 4.6 Premium for 60 days at no charge. Using open source BlazeDS, you can leverage high-speed, binary data transfer and real-time data push.
No, you can build Flex applications using only the free Flex SDK or the open source Flex SDK. However, most developers will find it more productive to use Flash Builder to build applications.
Both Flex 4.6 and Flash Builder 4.6 provide full support for building and deploying mobile Flex and ActionScript applications for Android, Blackberry Tablet OS, iPhone, and iPad.
Yes. There are multiple apps created with Flex that are available today, both paid and free, in all three outlets. In addition, many of these apps are also available in the Barnes and Noble Nook store and the Amazon Android app store.
Based on what is widely available in the market today for the tablets and operating systems we support, you can take advantage of most device capabilities. When AIR supports native extensions, you can take advantage of existing native libraries and additional device capabilities.
In most cases, the performance of a Flex application will be comparable to that of native apps.
Because each platform and device type has different capabilities, screen size, and resolution, modifications will be required to support individual platforms. Using a common code library, you can make the necessary changes to your Flex code, enabling approximately 70% of your code to be reused across application platforms and devices.
Yes, you can download a 60-day trial version of Flash Builder 4.6 Premium and start building applications today. At the end of the 60-day trial, you can purchase a license and obtain a serial number to continue using Flash Builder.
Flash Builder 4.6 is available in Chinese Simplified, English, French, German, Japanese, and Russian. Flash Builder 4.6 runs on both Microsoft® Windows® and Mac OS. For detailed information, see the Flash Builder 4.6 system requirements.
Note: The responses below are examples only and might not apply to your particular situation. They are not intended to be legal advice. In all cases, the Mozilla Public License and the Adobe Flex SDK License shall be considered definitive. You must consult a lawyer for a full understanding of your rights and obligations under these licenses
Adobe is using MPL Version 1.1 to govern the use of the Open Source Flex SDK source code. This license is used by many open source projects that need to balance the needs of the open source community and commercial software vendors. MPL and its derivatives (Eclipse Public License and Common Public License) are used by many well-known open source projects with both thriving open source communities and significant commercial users.
The Open Source Flex SDK may be redistributed in accordance with the MPL. The free Adobe Flex SDK may also be redistributed but requires the acceptance of a redistribution agreement. If you would like to redistribute only the open source SDK, your end users may download a package from Adobe that will add the freely available (but closed source) portions to the SDK.
Yes, you are allowed to redistribute the Open Source Flex SDK source code, provided you do so under the terms of the MPL.
Yes. You may use the word "Flex" in your name if you are using only the Open Source Flex SDK. If you are using the free Adobe Flex SDK, you will need to abide by the Adobe trademark guidelines. "Flex" is a trademark owned by Adobe Systems Incorporated for use only with commercial applications distributed by Adobe.
Yes. Apps created with Flex and bundled for iOS are standard iOS applications consisting only of Objective-C Bytecode. By converting the Flex application to Objective-C Bytecode there is no longer a dependency on the ActionScript Virtual Machine. The process of converting an application to native Objective-C Bytecode is one employed by numerous other technologies.
Flash Builder Standard is free for all eligible education customers. Students, faculty, and staff can get serial numbers to activate downloadable trial versions by registering on the registration site. During registration, you will be prompted to upload a copy of your student, faculty ID, or employee ID, or you can upload a letter on institutional letterhead proving your current affiliation with an educational institution. Once validated, you will be emailed a free educational serial number for Flash Builder Standard. It may take up to two weeks after the request for you to receive the serial numbers.
One of the following documents must be uploaded during registration to prove eligibility:
A scanned copy of any of these documents should be uploaded on the Flex Registration site. The scanned copy should be formatted as a GIF or PDF file.
If you are a faculty or staff member and you want to get Flash Builder for multiple machines in your lab, you can request up to 30 serial numbers in a single request on the registration site. If you need more than 30 serial numbers, you should submit multiple requests.
No, Flash Builder Standard for education is no longer available as a boxed copy.
No, Platinum Maintenance and Support or upgrade plans are only available for purchase by customers who have purchased a full license of Flash Builder Premium. Education customers can purchase Flash Builder Premium starting at US$299.
Yes. Your renewal terms allow you to continue to renew Platinum Maintenance and Support based on your initial purchase. Platinum Support is not sold separately.
Flex installation support is available for free. For technical support beyond installation issues, both developer and technical support is available for purchase. These plans include single-incident and annual unlimited-incident support. Additional information is available at the North America support or UK support page.
Complimentary installation support is available. Developer or Technical Support plans for issues beyond installation support are available for purchase. Additional information is available at the North America support or UK support page.
Both Flash and Flex applications are rendered in the browser using Adobe Flash Player software and on the desktop using the Adobe AIR runtime. Flex applications and Flash applications are both compiled into bytecode that is interpreted by the Adobe runtimes.
Flash Professional is the leading authoring tool for web developers, multimedia professionals, animators, and videographers who want to create interactive content.
Developers may find it difficult to use the Flash Professional tool to create applications. Flex provides developers who know traditional programming technologies like Java, PHP, Ajax, and .NET with an easy-to-learn application framework to create RIAs. In addition, developers can embed rich media elements inside a Flex application.
Applications developed with Flex 2, Flex 3, and Flex 4 all require Flash Player 9. Applications built with Flex 4.6 require Flash Player 10.
Yes, developers using Flash Builder can easily import custom Flex components developed with Flash Professional.
The Flex SDK includes the latest version of the Debug Flash Player for Linux® along with a command-line debugger.
Yes. Flex and Ajax technology continue to complement each other, and the included FABridge helps you integrate rich Flex components with Ajax applications. The FABridge is a small, unobtrusive library of code included in the free Flex 3 SDK that you can insert into a Flex application, a Flex component, or an empty SWF file to expose it to scripting in the browser. You can learn more about the FABridge and integration with Ajax in the Flex documentation.
Flash and Flex technology can augment Ajax to overcome chronic browser limitations in offline data access, audio/video, vector graphics, high-performance data exchange, and message-based publish/subscribe applications. In addition, LiveCycle Data Services ES2 lets you connect both Flex and Ajax-based RIAs with LiveCycle document and process services for richer interfaces that smoothly integrate with business processes.
Ajax Data Services, available with LiveCycle Data Services ES2, brings synchronous publish/subscribe messaging, cross-domain data access, advanced data management, and offline data access to Ajax-style applications. BlazeDS can also be used with Ajax applications using Flash Player as an interface.
LiveCycle Data Services (formerly Flex Data Services) enables you to:
To learn more about LiveCycle Data Services and the benefits of building Flex applications that smoothly integrate with other LiveCycle solution components to create groundbreaking customer engagement applications, visit the LiveCycle Data Services ES2 page.
The following outlines the new features in Flex 4.5 and 4.6.
Touch-enabled, optimized, and density-aware mobile components
Other mobile capabilities
New components
Spark DataGrid
Spark form
Spark image
Spark Module and ModuleLoader
Improved Spark capabilities
Native localization capabilities
RSL improvements
You can download the Flash Builder 4.6 trial from the Flash Builder trial download page.
Flash Builder is a multiplatform product, enabling you to use the same serial number for both Windows and Mac OS. If you need either the Mac OS or Windows installer, you can visit the Adobe trial download center and download both installers. Simply enter your Flash Builder serial number when you run the installer.
Yes. The free Flex SDK provides a Java API that allows you to call the compiler directly from your code instead of needing to call the command-line tools. You may redistribute the free Flex SDK with your application provided you have signed a free redistribution agreement.
Visit the open source Flex SDK page to get all the details on the open source Flex SDK project.
A new SiteCatalyst Extension for Flash Builder is available. The SiteCatalyst Extension for Flash Builder enables developers to quickly and visually instrument tracking in their existing workflows. Developers can create and implement easy-to-use analytics libraries in their Flex applications. Learn more about the extension or download it now.


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Looking at my schedule for April and May, I was excited to find out that the USS Cleveland would be coming to Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu as part of Pacific Partnership 2011. U.S. Embassy Port Moresby covers both of those nations, as well as the Solomon Islands, and I had been asked to help support Cleveland's visit. Last year, I was part of the embassy team that traveled with Pacific Partnership 2010 (PP2010) to Rabaul in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain province. My predecessor Kim Strollo, who now works for the U.S. Embassy in Rome, described working with Pacific Partnership as one of the best parts of her job, and she was right.
Pacific Partnership is an annual humanitarian assistance mission that has been sponsored by the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The mission first came together in the wake of the devastating tsunami that hit Indonesia in 2004. Key to the mission is fostering relationships with local officials, especially those engaged in disaster response and relief, and better preparing for earthquakes, tsunamis, and cyclones. The effort includes medical and dental treatment, as well as construction and engineering projects for schools and hospitals. This year, in addition to Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, Pacific Partnership visits Tonga, Timor-Leste, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Regardless of where it is held, Pacific Partnership events draw quite a lot of attention. In Vanuatu, people formed a line that was a quarter mile long, and it doubled back almost as far! Despite the long line, everyone waited patiently for the opportunity to see a doctor or dentist. That's because health services in the Pacific are rudimentary, even in urban areas. In remote areas, the problems of delivering and maintaining health care infrastructure, and supplies are an even bigger problem. Hence, one of U.S. Embassy Port Moresby's top priorities is advancing public health.
Some of the most common health problems are HIV/AIDS (Papua New Guinea has the highest rate of infection in the Pacific), malaria, tuberculosis, and diabetes. Maternal health is also a major issue. The figures are concerning. According to the Papua New Guinea Department of Health, 773 women out of 100,000 die giving birth. This places Papua New Guinea just behind Afghanistan as the nation with the worst health conditions in the Asia Pacific region. Conditions in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu are equally challenging.
But back to Vanuatu. The USS Cleveland arrived off Espiritu Santo on April 28. Ambassador Teddy Taylor and I arrived in Luganville, the main city on Espirito Santo, the same day. The one-hour flight from Vanuatu's capital Port Vila gave us amazing views of the coral reefs and azure waters below. The weather was sunny and breezy, and later muggy with temperatures in the 90s (Fahrenheit). While the rays of the sun burned down intensely, the breeze was most welcome, especially riding in the back of the Pacific Partnership trucks that drove us around. I was pleasantly surprised with the good conditions of the roads. The U.S. government funded the $65 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant to Vanuatu that made construction of the East Coast Road in Santo and a ring road around the island of Efate, home to capital city Port Vila, possible. The grant has already made a big contribution to the local economy, enabling people in remote areas to get their produce to market and gain better access to health care, and educational and employment opportunities.
The Cleveland -- the flagship for PP2011 -- housed the command staff, the crew, representatives from non-government organizations, sailors, soldiers, marines, and airmen from each of the partner nations participating in PP2011. Representatives from Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, and the United States were participating in the mission. Pacific Partnership seeks to work with as many potential sources of assistance as possible.
New Zealand played a major role this year. Its vessel, the HMNZS Canterbury, was also moored in Espiritu Santo. While the mission objectives in odd-numbered years do not include surgery, the New Zealand Defence Force's surgical team and ni-Vanuatu medical professionals were hard at work. Nevertheless, the medical procedures are truly team efforts. For example, to save the life of an injured tourist, New Zealand surgeons stabilized the patient in a ni-Vanuatu hospital, an American doctor then kept the patient stable while flying to the hospital in a French New Caledonian helicopter off the Canterbury, as an Australian general practitioner coordinated all of the resources.
Strengthening civil society is also an important aspect of the mission. The Seabees worked extremely well with the Vanuatu Mobile Force and local apprentices. The group built water catchments, classrooms, and new bathrooms for three of the schools.
Toward the end of the Tongan portion of Pacific Partnership, Captain Jesse Wilson, commodore of PP2011, shifted his command and a portion of his staff to Canterbury to have a first-hand look at operations. This was notable, as it was the first time that a U.S. naval afloat command shifted its pennant to a New Zealand ship. The New Zealanders hosted us for an onboard reception, and they really know how to throw a party. While a band performed foot-tapping rock-n-roll numbers, waiters (crew members) dressed in white passed around delectable bites that included New Zealand lamb and salmon. Naturally, I was not averse to partaking in some of New Zealand's Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc wines, recognized among the best in the world. For the Pacific Partnership team, the reception represented a well-deserved break.
In 10 days, the multinational and multi-service Pacific Partnership team engaged local leaders, treated 6,068 medical patients, including 25 surgeries by the NZDF surgical team; 676 dental patients; cared for 118 animals; completed four engineering projects, including school buildings, bathrooms, and a water catchment system; and engaged in 13 community service projects. More than 1,600 host nationals came to these events, during which they and representatives from the partner nations spent over 3,100 contact hours exchanging methods, skills and ideas.
It was certainly an exciting trip that enabled me to participate in actions that had a real impact on people's lives. It does not get any better than that!


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Topic: Rails' connection to database
I am wondering how does Rails create connections to the database? If a 1000 users connect to a Rails site, are a 1000 Oracle sessions opened? How are these Oracle sessions closed?
The way I understood from books and online sites is that there is one connection that Rails makes when the server starts up. When users connect to the site, queries are executed over that connection. If FastCGI is setup, then multiple FastCGI servers can be opened so that multiple user requests can be handled over the Oracle connection(s). Is that correct?
I'm running into a problem where every time a user connects to the Rails site an Oracle session is started. The session remains in an "inactive" state until user needs something from the database. Even if these Oracle sessions remain idle, they are not closed. Do I need to tell Oracle to close the Oracle session if the user's browsing session is finished? How is this done? I'm trying to understand how Rails makes the connection in order to fix the problem.
If the Oracle session is not closed, then I'm not sure how multiple users can connect to a Rails site that has limited Oracle sessions.
Thanks for any help!
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LINGUIST List 20.1718
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Calls: Phonology, Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition/USA
Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssa
LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3!
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Full Title: Second Language Phonology 2010
Short Title: CASPSLP2010
Date: 04-Feb-2010 - 06-Feb-2010
Location: Gainesville, FL, USA
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Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonetics;
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The second bi-annual CASPSLP conference (the first was held in Minnesota in
2008) showcases approaches to and findings from the study of second language
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acquisition of Spanish phonology by English speakers to the acquisition of
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