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'Farmscape' offers straight from the ground organic produce with over 300 people who help build and maintain this organic ecosystem. USA TODAY
This is the fourth in USA TODAY's Savvy Small Business series that looks at companies getting noticed for their industry innovation.
Rachel Bailin wants the next Los Angeles mayor to end dependence on foreign soil, balance the budget with equitable fertilizer, and appoint a compostmaster general.
Her company, Farmscape, builds and maintains gardens throughout the heavily urbanized landscape of Los Angeles. Farmscape's specialty is finding ways to grow produce amid the skyscrapers, traffic and smog. Employees use creative planting techniques — think rooftop gardens and front yard farms — to bring fresh produce to area residents.
The urban farming company is trying out a new marketing technique — Farmscape is running for mayor as a write-in candidate. Its mission statement? "Turn the city back into a farm, one yard at a time."
"I have to warn you, we're not ahead in the polls," said Bailin, media manager.
Despite slim chances of winning, the company is trying to bring awareness to the idea that refarming the city is an acceptable platform on which to run.
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The company is small, with 12 employees, and everyone is close. Chief Executive Officer Jesse DuBois met the other founders in college. After graduation, a few friends moved to Los Angeles to create an urban farming company. DuBois, who was planning to move to the city to try screenwriting, got the call.
"Everyone has a different connection of some kind, someone's high school friend or someone's post-college girlfriend," DuBois said.
The founders gathered in 2008 to see if they could bring their passion for fresh, healthy food to Los Angeles' concrete jungle. The timing wasn't perfect. The company started in the midst of the Great Recession, when organic local food wasn't as trendy as it is now, Bailin says.
"It felt daunting, even presumptuous, to propose a different way of doing things. Farms are enormous; gardens are small," DuBois said. "One of the bigger challenges for us was holding fast to our belief that gardening could be a valuable component of the food supply."
Despite the hardship, they found some interest, and word continued to spread. Farmscape has created more than 300 gardens and maintains 150 of them on a weekly basis.
An urban garden doesn't come cheap. A 4-by-12-foot raised bed installation costs $1,350, and customers install two to four boxes, on average. If you want someone to maintain your garden, plan to pay another $65 a week, but Farmscape says the experience is worth it.
"I'm sure, pound-for-pound, we're more expensive than the farmers market, but what people get with us is they have absolute knowledge of where their food is coming from," said Weston Westenborg, Farmscape's lead farmer.
Every season, Westenborg creates a crop catalog that he e-mails to members. They decide what they want, then e-mail their personal farmers an order. The farmers plant the selected plants. If you opt for weekly maintenance, the farmer will harvest plants and look for bugs, too.
Janine Brownstone, a retired social worker, doesn't have any complaints — except that her house is too close to the beach to grow all the vegetables she wants. Brownstone currently has two raised beds and plans to add more within the next year.
"We tried to grow crops on our own and failed miserably," Brownstone said. She and her husband pay for the weekly service and look forward to the harvests.
"They put a basket on my back step; it's like the elves come and bring me food," Brownstone said. The last harvest had enough vegetables for more than a weeks' worth of salads, and "broccoli for days."
Bill Maynard, vice president of the American Community Gardening Association, said that while urban farming isn't a new concept, "everybody is putting a different twist on it, which is fine; any way that people can eat more vegetables is a good thing."
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Chuck Duffie, a writer, had his entire front yard turned into a garden. The space has 14 raised 4-by-4 beds arranged in a tier.
An entire bed is devoted to edible flowers, after his 9-year-old daughter, Nara, asked their personal farmer, Todd Lininger, if there was such thing. Lininger researched and found some.
The family picked their favorites, then had them planted.
"This 9-year-old girl will walk outside pick a flower and eat, it's hilarious," Duffie said.
Lininger isn't your average gardener. He's a friend, and in some ways, a teacher for the family. The Duffies homeschool their daughters. Lininger created a curriculum that combines gardening, science and nutrition for the girls to utilize their outdoor classroom. Duffie plans to offer the curriculum and garden to other families in the homeschool network once they get started.
"There's that community philosophy behind urban garden," Duffie said. "Once we get this rolling, we'll invite others to join in."
The company doesn't just do home gardens. Farmscape created a flourishing ecosystem on the roof of the 13-story Jonathan Club — bees and butterflies make the trip up now. Japanese restaurant N/Naka relies on a Farmscape garden to provide hard-to-find organic Japanese vegetables and herbs. The company is also looking into offering live walls in the future.
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Anise seed livens up Jeffrey's one-pan tilapia tacos with mole sauce.
Ina makes mulled wine, a winter classic, to serve her guests after dinner.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (409 votes).
In short: 4th time I have taken part - and it just gets better and more enjoyable each time!Date of review: May 24, 2012
In short: see you next year Date of review: May 24, 2012
In short: In short fantastic but challenging marathonIn full: This was my second marathon and being in the Lake District I expected a few hills! The weather was amazing, the lake was like a mirror and the scenery was amazing. Crowds were fantastic and it was so well organised.I did find it tough with a nice little hill at mile 7 but for every up there is a down. I would certainly recommend it to anyone. Well done Brathay!Date of review: May 23, 2012
In short: Great scenery, atmosphere and marshalls but don't underestimate the hills.Date of review: May 23, 2012
In short: This marathon is just the best with the friendliest marshalls and a fantastic atmosphereDate of review: May 23, 2012
In short: Beautiful scenery and fantastic weather this year to boot In full: This marathon is truly beautiful and a lovely atmosphere. It is hilly but not as bad as I remembered it the friendly atmosphere more than compensates for this. Had a great run til mile 17 when my knee went off track!!! still completed but 18 mins slower than I wanted, hey ho will have to try again!!Date of review: May 23, 2012
In short: Favourite marathon so far......In full: Not just a race but an occasion. Brilliant carnival atmosphere at the hall for supporters to be kept entertained. The inspiration of the 10 in 10ers. Amacing scenary - particular on the first rolling half. And if carlsberg made supportive and friendly marshalls then they were at this event - brilliant. Thankyou.Date of review: May 22, 2012
In short: Best to ignore the watch and enjoy the beautiful scenes.In full: I ran this last year and it was the hardest race I'd ever encountered; had the hobble the last six miles. Notwithstanding the pain, this is one of most beautiful race routes I'd ever encountered that I had to come back this year.The organisation of the race is excellent, the atmosphere brilliant and the whole family of runners (elite to complete beginners) were all welcomed.The race route was fantastic and the beauty of the the Lake District was there to be admired in near-tranquillity. The peace was broken by a delightful crowd at Newby Bridge; their cheers adding more bounce to otherwise tired legs. I was slightly better prepared this year and with a bit more respect for the course, beat last year's time. A fantastic day out and not just for the runners. There was plenty to do for none runners. My family went off on a fun mini-day trip and were back in good time to enjoy the entertainment at the Brathay estate and cheer my wearily legs in.I would definitely recommended this event.Date of review: May 22, 2012
In short: Beautiful, friendly, well-organisedIn full: This was my first marathon. I enjoyed every minute of it. I'll be back! Date of review: May 22, 2012
In short: Well organised race in a stunning location with some added hillsIn full: This was my fourth marathon and the smallest field. I had the chance to run without crowding (after the first mile or so) and completed in a PB time despite the hills. There was a fantastic atmosphere in the towns and more than enough scenery outside the towns that the miles (well 20 of them) flowed past. Yes it was hard work but there was always the thought taht there 18 people out on the course running it for the 10th time (respect to them). Would I do it again? Just try and stop me, I'll even try and get club mates to join me.Date of review: May 22, 2012
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In reading Amity Shlaes' marvelous biography of Calvin Coolidge, I was struck by a brief poem written by Coolidge's son, Calvin Jr., during his father's stint as vice president to Warren Harding.
Coolidge was having a hard time adapting to life in Washington, ridiculed for a variety of things, and struggling to remain supportive of an administration which, as Shlaes puts it, boasted "a temperament wilder than his own." As one glimpse into these matters, Coolidge's close friend, Frank Stearns, had sent him a letter expressing his sympathies. "It makes me a little sick at heart that you should not get more comfort out of your success," Stearns wrote. A sample of Coolidge's reply: "I do not think you have any comprehension of what people do to me."
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Lal was an android, constructed by Data in 2366 with a newly-developed submicron matrix transfer technology. Using his own positronic brain as a template, Data created Lal for two purposes – to attempt to re-create the work of his "father", Noonian Soong; and to experience the act of procreation, and of having a family. Data chose the name for his offspring from the Hindi word meaning "beloved". By 2368, Starfleet had come to recognize that Lal was the offspring, and this was reflected in the crew manifest database file for Data.
Originally genderless and possessing a very basic humanoid appearance, Lal was allowed to choose its own gender and appearance. After narrowing the choices to four – an Andorian female, a Klingon male, and a Human male and female – Lal chose the Human female form. Data wanted her to learn about "being Human", and entered her in the ship's school. Unfortunately, other children were afraid of her. As a result, Data decided that allowing Lal to work in Ten Forward would give her more valuable insight into Human social interaction. Unexpectedly, Lal began to improve on her father's original specifications, soon becoming able to use verbal contractions and even, eventually, to feel emotions.
However, Starfleet was interested in separating Lal from her father for purposes of study, and when she was only a few weeks old, Vice admiral Anthony Haftel ordered Data to transfer Lal to the Daystrom Institute annex on Galor IV. According to the admiral, she was capable of more than sixty trillion calculations per second.
The situation caused Lal distress, and while speaking with Deanna Troi, she began to feel emotional anxiety. Upon running diagnostics, Data identified the problem as a symptom of a cascade failure in her neural net, and, with the assistance of Admiral Haftel, attempted to repair the damage. Despite their best efforts, the effect was irreparable, and Lal's neural net failed, causing her to shut down permanently. As a final act, Data transferred Lal's memories and experiences into his own brain, ensuring a part of her would live on. (TNG: "The Offspring"; TNG: "Conundrum", remastered)
Interestingly, the symptoms of Lal's shutdown achieved something Data had been trying to achieve for many years: basic Human emotions. It would be five more years before Data would achieve the same results in himself, and this he only did with a new chip from his "father". He, too, suffered from a neural net failure, but recovered and was able to function normally afterwards, even able to toggle the ability to feel emotion on and off at will. (TNG: "Brothers"; Star Trek Generations)
Understandably, Lal remained in Data's thoughts for many years after. During his experimentation with painting, Data painted a portrait of Lal, which he later showed to Juliana Tainer – essentially, Lal's 'grandmother' – when she visited the USS Enterprise-D in 2370. (TNG: "Inheritance")
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According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 258), the painting of Lal was based on a publicity photo which was reworked using a computer paint program by scenic artist Wendy Drapanas.
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In the short story "The Embrace of Cold Architects" by David R. George III (collected in the Star Trek: Myriad Universes anthology Shattered Light), Lal's creation was delayed after Data missed a vital scientific conference until the return of the Borg, allowing Picard to 'distract' the Borg by focusing on Lal and the long-term implications of her existence after he became Locutus of Borg, allowing Riker time to give the order to destroy his Borg cube and kill Locutus before the Borg could find and adapt to their attack. Lal's subsequent breakdown was then averted by the intervention of Doctor Noonien Soong when he 'summoned' Data to him, Soong's expertise allowing him to repair the damage to Lal's neural net. With the information of how to create stable androids, the Federation began creation of a new race of android soldiers intended to fight the Borg, but Data is able to destroy their prototypes.
In the novel Cold Equations: The Persistence of Memory, it is revealed that Lal's remains are kept at the Daystrom Institute, along with the remains of her 'uncles'; Soong's three original prototypes, B-4, and Lore. She is briefly stolen by the Breen, but is recovered thanks to the Enterprise-E and Doctor Soong – still alive after transferring his mind into an android body – who subsequently manages to restore Data. Data then resolves to find the mysterious immortal known as Flint – based on reports that Flint was responsible for reactivating Juliana Tainer after her positronic net shut down, hoping that Flint will be able to help him restore his daughter.
Although stated in the episode (TNG: "The Offspring") that Lal means beloved in Hindi (a derivative word of Persian and Urdu), it does not. Lal actually means 'red', in the Indo-Iranian context. However in the Indian context, it means child or beloved. The context in the episode is correct.
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Nicolas, from France.
I tried to put my new m1a on my Guild M20 ( http://www.guildguitars.com/index.ph...view/GAD-M201/ ) , and ... impossible, the sound-hole seem to be too small for this pickup. I can read in the manual that 3,5" is the minimum, mine is 3,58 (center).
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I have just purchased an old guitar which has an original duet pickup (at least it is not a Duet 11). Does anyone have a copy of the manual, as it is different to the manual available on this site? I am particularly interested in:
1. the action of the battery LED - mine comes on for a while after the jack is inserted, then goes out - the 2 batteries seem to have about 50% power left.
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Jonathan T. D. Neil, editor-at-large for ArtReview magazine, executive editor at The Drawing Center in New York, and co-founder of the private curatorial firm, Boyd Level LLC., will visit Claremont Graduate University (CGU) on Monday, Feb. 4 to give a talk titled "Crisis of Value: The Art Market Between Discourse and Money."
The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Burkle 16.
Neil's talk, sponsored by CGU's Drucker School of Management and Sotheby's Institute of Art, is the first of what will be a series of lectures at CGU on art and art markets.
CGU and Sotheby's Institute have partnered to create a new master's degree program in art business. The program, which launches in the fall, will prepare students for careers in the international art markets.
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Paying for College? Don't Start With Your 529s
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- What's the best way to pay for college? (Assuming you're in the happy state of having some choices, that is.)
Most families with a child in college this fall have already paid for the current semester, often choosing from a variety of accounts: ordinary taxable investments with a brokerage or fund company, tax-free 529 plans , and plain old bank savings. Soon, they'll be preparing for the next semester's bills, then the ones after that.
So what's the best strategy for pulling money from these various sources?
For many, the first impulse is to start with the 529 accounts, but that's not necessarily best.
These state-sponsored plans are designed for college expenses, and contributions and investment gains are tax free if used for tuition and other approved expenses. Because the government imposes stiff penalties on withdrawals used for anything else, it is indeed best to empty your 529s before your child graduates.
But families should look closely at all their college accounts before tapping their 529s. College spending takes place over a relatively short period, four to six years, typically, so the key goal is to avoid having to pull money from an account full of volatile holdings such as stocks during a market downturn.
While 529s can contain stocks and often do, smart investors reduce the stock exposure gradually as the college years approach, favoring safety over returns . Target-date funds, a common 529 option, do this automatically. If your 529s are light on stocks, they are relatively safe holdings that will provide about the same amount of money anytime during the four college years regardless of how the markets behave.
That makes the 529 a great fallback to tap when other, more volatile holdings have taken a dip. If the 529 were large enough to pay for, say, two or three semesters, it could be held in reserve until the student's junior or senior year, and used earlier only if it was a bad time to tap other assets.
Bank savings and other cash holdings can be treated the same way, because they're not likely to lose value during the college years.
Many families, of course, also plan to tap taxable investments such as stocks or bonds, or mutual funds holding them.
Stocks are volatile. Because the main U.S. stock indexes have been rising smartly, it's tempting to continue holding stocks to benefit from any gains over the next few years. But it's pretty risky to keep money in stocks if you'll need it in the next year or two; downturns often last longer than that.


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1st Sgt. Stephen A. Swails of Company F believed the Army had not honored its obligations regarding his pay. While white first sergeants were receiving $20 per month, Swails was receiving only $7. In this letter, he asked to be mustered out of the Army.
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A few months ago we reported that Blu Dot, a Minneapolis based design firm planned to plant their signature chairs around New York City, and to use GPS technology to see what would happen to them. Would people grab them? Would they adopt them into their homes? Would they sit on them? Using a combination of GPS technology and covert surveillance, Blu Dot found out.
"The key to this idea was involvement," Michael Hart, founder of Mono, said. "Not just them taking the chairs, but the whole community with this notion of an experiment and 'Where will the chairs go?'"
The design firm hired video company Supermarche to document the entire operation – complete with code names, hidden video cameras, and treetop perches where they would videotape unsuspecting people interacting with the chairs. Some chairs were sat in, others were nabbed, others were adopted in homes. The videographers found that colorful chairs were snatched up more quickly, while plain chairs were considered institutionalized and therefore sat in, but not taken as often.
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For those short on bedroom space but sufficiently flush with cash, the French company behind BedUp ($3,800 and up) has a novel solution: A bed that lowers to whatever height above the floor you want, then rises to the ceiling during your waking hours. Marrying the bed and the elevator is a genius solution for apartment dwellers, says David Zax in Technology Review, especially those of us "unable to think of Murphy beds as anything other than devices for sight gag."
Hours after he was sworn in on Friday, President Trump signed an executive order making it his administration's official policy "to seek the prompt repeal" of the Affordable Care Act, though he can't repeal it without a bill from Congress. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said the order's goal is "minimizing the economic burden" of "ObamaCare," giving the Health and Human Service Department and other federal agencies authority to try and ease the "fiscal burden" the law purportedly places on states, health care companies, and individuals. A Fox News poll on Thursday found that 50 percent of Americans view ObamaCare favorably and 46 unfavorably, a notable improvement in the law's standing from previous Fox News surveys.
Trump "has been told that he needs to comply with the law," Timothy Jost, an emeritus professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, tells CNN, "but is directing the agencies to begin taking steps towards reducing regulatory requirements and giving more discretion to the states." Priebus also issued a memo telling all executive agencies to freeze pending regulations and delay enacting ones already approved. Such memoranda are pretty common for incoming administrations — former President Barack Obama's chief of staff issued a similar one in 2009.
Right after his inauguration, featuring a speech that scorched the do-nothing politicians in Washington, Trump had officially nominated his Cabinet choices in an office just off the Senate floor, surrounded by congressional leaders from both parties. It involved a lot of pen-swapping awkward jokes about who likes which Cabinet nominee. Watch below. Peter Weber
The Trump White House has already toned down the Melania Trump jewelry hawking in her official bio
When WhiteHouse.gov abruptly switched over from the Obama administration to the Trump administration on Friday afternoon, President Trump's biography immediately popped up, with a technically correct and very Trumpian recounting of his business career and presidential victory. First lady Melania Trump's biography touted her modeling career — including her "major layouts" in "the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Allure, Vogue, Self, Glamour, Vanity Fair, and Elle" — plus her "numerous television commercials and television programs" ("including co-hosting The View with Barbara Walters") and her own business acumen.
"Melania is also a successful entrepreneur," the bio says. "In April 2010, Melania Trump launched her own jewelry collection, 'Melania™ Timepieces & Jewelry,' on QVC" — or at least it originally included that plug, according to The Washington Post. By Friday night, Melania Trump's bio just said that "in April 2010, Melania Trump launched her own jewelry collection." The Post gives some context: "It is not uncommon for the White House to note the accomplishments of the first lady in her official biography, but Trump's decision to include a detailed list of her media appearances and branded retail goods is unusual."
In any case, QVC told The Washington Post it no longer carries Trump's jewelry. Trump's biography also notes that her "penchant and passion for the arts, architecture, design, fashion, and beauty... can only be surpassed by her dedication to helping others, and her generosity has been noted." Her focus as first lady will be "issue impacting women and children," the bio concludes, "and she has focused her platform as first lady on the problem of cyber bullying among our youth." You can read more about Melania Trump and her life and work at WhiteHouse.gov. Peter Weber
At the Freedom Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C., on Friday night, President Trump and first lady Melania Trump took the stage for their first dance to the song "My Way," made famous by the late Frank Sinatra and written by Paul Anka based on a French song by Claude François and Jacques Revaux. Trump had refused to rehearse the dance, CNN reports, and he set it up by talking about his victory in the presidential race, promising action and not talk, and marveling that the rain only poured once he was done with his inaugural speech. "My Way" was performed by a trio of vocalists:
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, came out halfway through — the Pences looked like they had rehearsed, or like dancing together — and Trump's children came out for the end of the song. Sinatra's daughter, Nancy Sinatra, wasn't necessarily impressed with Trump's selection for his first dance, saying on Twitter, "Just remember the first line of the song." Though, honestly, Anka's opening lyrics — "And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain" — is no less inappropriate an inauguration song than The Rolling Stones' "Heart of Stone." Peter Weber
Donald Trump played a lot of different songs during his presidential campaign — from the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" to the Puccini aria "Nessun Dorma" — but rival Hilary Clinton was known mostly for one song, Rachel Platten's "Fight Song." So of course, at Donald Trump's first inaugural ball, the Freedom Ball, the group The Piano Guys played "Fight Song," as part of a medley with the hymn "Amazing Grace." The ball's other performances were mostly vocal jazz standards and show tunes, starting with the Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht song "Mack the Knife," about a serial killer.
Poaching Clinton's trademark campaign anthem could be seen as a fig leaf, or something closer to the presumed message of "You Can't Always Get What You Want." To be fair, the "Fight Song"-"Amazing Grace" mash-up is one of the novelty group's hits. You can watch their video of it below. Peter Weber
Washington, D.C., interim Police Chief Peter Newsham said Friday evening that police had arrested 217 people for rioting during a day of Inauguration Day protests throughout the city, demonstrating against President Trump. A "very small percentage" of the thousands of protesters were violent, he said, though that faction caused "significant damage" along a number of blocks. Protesters blocked several security checkpoints, and a group of "black bloc" anticapitalist, antifascist activists threw rocks and bricks at police, smashed windows, set a handful of trash cans and a limousine ablaze. Police responded with chemical spray and flash-bang or stun grenades.
"It's a little jarring when you're in a peaceful march with drumming and chanting and the next thing you know flash bangs are going off around you," Daniel Hultquist, a protester from Rhode Island, told The Washington Post. "People that throw rocks and bricks are undermining the cause." As people got out of work, anti-Trump protesters also gathered in cities around the country, including Nashville, San Francisco, Austin, Atlanta, Portland, and Seattle. You can see the burning limo in the Inauguration Day roundup from The Associated Press' Julie Pace below. Peter Weber
After confirming Defense Secretary James Mattis on Friday evening, 98-1, the Senate approved the nomination of former retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly as secretary of homeland security, 88-11. Kelly, who retired last year as head of the U.S. Southern Command, will take over a department with more than 240,000 employees who oversee everything from border security to protecting the president and America's electrical grid. Among Kelly's most controversial items on his roster of duties will be carrying out Trump's orders on immigration and building a Mexico-U.S. border wall.
Trump said at a luncheon after his inauguration that Mattis and Kelly were straight from "central casting," pointing specifically to his new defense secretary. "If I'm doing a movie, I'd pick you, Gen. Mattis," he said. Trump reportedly took looks into serious consideration when assembling his Cabinet. Peter Weber
Despite a beautiful sunrise over Washington, D.C., on election day, the skies turned cloudy with scattered light rain on Inauguration Day. Maybe that's why President Trump's inaugural crowd was notably smaller than former President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration — when he was also, to be fair, the first African American to be sworn in as president — and also Obama's crowd after he was re-elected in 2013. Also, maybe the weather is why CNN decided to show video of Obama's 2013 crowd and Trump's 2017 swearing-in side-by-side, without comment:
Other possibilities: Obama had more high-wattage star power at both inaugurations, and home-team advantage — only 4.1 percent of Washington, D.C., voted for Trump in the election (versus 91 percent for Hillary Clinton), versus Obama's 91 percent in 2012 and 92 percent in 2008. Clinton also won neighboring Maryland and Virginia. Trump, of course, won the Electoral College, which is why he is president. Peter Weber


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Two days ago, Democrat Eileen Game of Frostproof was fighting an uphill battle against a popular Republican incumbent to the Florida House, Rep. Mike Horner of Kissimmee for House District 42. She had little support from the Democratic Party of Florida. But Monday, Horner was tied to someone arrested for running a prostitution ring in Orlando. While not arrested, he immediately resigned from the Legislature and dropped out of his campaign for re-election. This morning, three workers and consultants from the Democratic… Read More »


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Debates of June 16th, 2008
House of Commons Hansard #113 of the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was quebec.
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3:05 p.m.
Rob Merrifield Yellowhead, AB
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present to the House, in both official languages, the ninth report of the Standing Committee on Finance in relation to Bill C-219, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (deduction for volunteer emergency service), with amendments.
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3:05 p.m.
Shawn Murphy Charlottetown, PE
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the following report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts: the 18th report, chapter 4, Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada of the May 2007 report of the Auditor General of Canada.
Human Resources, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities
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Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Dean Allison Niagara West—Glanbrook, ON
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the eighth report of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities entitled "Strengthening the Employment Insurance Premium Rate-Setting Process".
Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requests that the government table a comprehensive response to the report.
Government Operations and Estimates
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Routine Proceedings
June 16th, 2008 / 3:05 p.m.
Diane Marleau Sudbury, ON
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, a report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates entitled "Passport Canada: A Model to be Reviewed".
This is a report on the issuance of passports for Canadians across the country, in particular Canadians in regions who have no access to emergency passport services.
Bills of Exchange Act
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Libby Davies Vancouver East, BC
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-564, An Act to amend the Bills of Exchange Act (rights of bill holders).
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House today to introduce my private member's bill entitled, "An Act to amend the Bills of Exchange Act".
The bill would prevent the cashing of cheques by a cheque-cashing business when a cheque has been cancelled by the person who wrote it. This would put the onus on the cheque-cashing business to ensure any cheques it is cashing have not had a stop-payment put on them.
As currently worded, the Bills of Exchange Act allows businesses, such as Money Mart, to successfully sue the issuer of a cheque cashed by a third party, even when a stop-payment order has been issued. There are dozens of cases on record and the problem is rooted in the Bills of Exchange Act that dates back to the 1890s.
My bill today is a much needed amendment to this flawed and outdated piece of legislation. I hope all members of the House will support this bill so we can put an end to this injustice and protect the rights of consumers.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Corporate Social Responsibility of Mining Corporations Outside Canada Act
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Alexa McDonough Halifax, NS
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-565, An Act respecting Corporate Social Responsibility for the Activities of Canadian Mining Corporations in Developing Countries.
Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to table a private member's bill to ensure that Canadian companies involved in mining operations abroad conduct themselves in compliance with the International Bill of Rights and international law.
The bill would require Canadian companies to report on their mining activities to an impartial, independent ombudsperson responsible to develop guidelines on best practices. The ombudsperson would submit an annual report to the House of Parliament on the provisions and operations of this act.
This is to try to move forward the corporate social responsibility file that was the subject of extensive work by the international human rights committee and the foreign affairs committee before a series of national round tables came out with a consensus report urging the government to take action.
Fifteen months have passed and we have had no response from the government on this report. I challenge the Prime Minister, before he goes to the G-8 and admits that nothing has been done on this file, to support this bill.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Tobacco Act
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Judy Wasylycia-Leis Winnipeg North, MB
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-566, An Act to amend the Tobacco Act (cigarillos, cigars and pipe tobacco).
Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to present this bill to the House of Commons and recommend its serious consideration.
The bill would amend the Tobacco Act by closing the loophole that allows big tobacco to take advantage of young people by marketing products that are attractive, such as flavoured cigarillos that are sold individually on a cost effective basis and come without sufficient warning labels. We need changes to the Tobacco Act to close this loophole and ensure Canadians are protected to the maximum from this addictive product.
The bill would actually shut the door on flavoured tobacco products, would require cigarillos to be sold in packages of 20 instead of individually and it sets out warning label requirements as is now the case when it comes to cigarette products and packages.
I urge members to support this measure. I urge the government to take up this bill because these measures would discourage Canada's youth, the targets of these new products, from becoming smokers.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Pat Martin Winnipeg Centre, MB
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-567, An Act to amend the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985 (protection of the assets).
Mr. Speaker, I am proud to introduce this bill on behalf of many members of pension plans. This bill would ensure members have guaranteed representation on boards of trustees so that members and beneficiaries are represented on trustee boards, pension committees and pension councils.
It would also provide, and this is what we call the Enron clause, that not more than 10% of the total value of assets in a pension plan may be held in securities issued by the company where the employees work or by a corporation associated with the company.
It also would prevent pension plan administrators and beneficiaries from being restricted in the sale of the employer's securities unless the directors and officers of the employer are similarly limited and, in any event, for not more than year.
Finally, to ensure that pension benefits are adequately cared for, it would require that information that affects or is likely to affect the value of the security be provided to pension plan administrators at the same time as it is provided to anyone other than the directors, officers, managers, et cetera, to prevent insider trading problems.
This is very important legislation to ensure that what happened to Enron employees in the United States does not happen to employees working for Canadian firms in this country.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Animal Cruelty Legislation
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Marcel Proulx Hull—Aylmer, QC
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present a petition to strengthen the regulations for transporting animals. The petitioners are calling on the government to bring the Health of Animals Act in line with the findings of the European Union's Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Welfare.
In particular, they are calling for a reduction in the transport time for certain types of animals, and for assurance that these regulations will be enforced. They are also asking that these amendments be made as quickly as possible.
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Bob Mills Red Deer, AB
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present two separate petitions signed by the people of my riding of Red Deer.
The first petition is from citizens who are outraged with the violent beating of a 61-year-old apartment caretaker by repeat offender Leo Teskey.
Human Trafficking
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Bob Mills Red Deer, AB
Mr. Speaker, the second petition refers to the trafficking of women and children across international borders for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
The petitioners demand that Parliament pass tougher laws regarding repeat and violent offenders and continues to work to combat trafficking of people worldwide.
Citizenship and Immigration
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Chris Charlton Hamilton Mountain, ON
Mr. Speaker, I have three petitions today. The first one that I am pleased to table is a petition on behalf of hundreds of signatories in my riding of Hamilton Mountain who are concerned about the government's changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. The petitioners believe that these changes are deceptive, damaging and irreversible. They also do not believe that the changes will help to address the backlog of immigrants. Finally, they believe that the extraordinary power that this legislation gives to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration is dangerous and that it will deny Parliament its crucial role in setting immigration policy.
The petitioners, therefore, call on the Government of Canada to abandon the changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and to deal with the immigration backlog instead by increasing staffing at overseas visa offices, stopping the expansion of the temporary foreign workers category, and increasing Canada's immigration target to 1% of the Canadian population. It is a privilege to table this petition on their behalf.
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Chris Charlton Hamilton Mountain, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am also pleased to table a petition that arises out of my national campaign to fight for fairness for ordinary Canadians and in particular for seniors who were shortchanged by their government as a result of an error in calculating the rate of inflation. The government has acknowledged the mistake made by Statistics Canada but is refusing to take any remedial action.
The petitioners call upon Parliament to take full responsibility for this error which negatively impacted their incomes from 2001-06 and take the required steps to repay every Canadian who has been shortchanged by a government program because of the miscalculation of the CPI.
The petitions are signed by hundreds of people from my hometown of Hamilton as well as Sudbury, Richmond, Ottawa, Kamloops and Saskatoon. The petitioners are all people who have worked hard all their lives and have played by the rules and now are finding it harder and harder to make ends meet. All they are asking for is a little bit of fairness from their government.
Film Industry
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Chris Charlton Hamilton Mountain, ON
Mr. Speaker, finally, I am pleased to table a petition that is signed by residents of Ontario and British Columbia who are concerned about the role of the Minister of Canadian Heritage in promoting and defending Canadian cultural and artistic freedom. They believe that there should be no ability for the government, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, any office of government or government official to make subjective judgments concerning artistic content that limit the freedom of expression.
The petitioners call on Parliament to staunchly defend Canadian artistic and cultural expression, to rescind any provisions of Bill C-10 which allow the government to censor film and video production in Canada, and to ensure that the government has in place subjective and transparent guidelines that respect freedom of expression when delivering any program intended to support film and video production in Canada.
Canada Post Corporation
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Roy Cullen Etobicoke North, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to present a petition signed by a large number of people in the Toronto area who are very concerned about Canada Post policy to accelerate the installation of community mailboxes. They believe that Canada Post has not consulted very widely or fairly, that these community mailboxes create safety hazards, that they are often not accessible to seniors, that they are not accessible because of winter conditions, and that they create an environmental problem. They are asking that Canada Post reconsider this misguided policy.


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Casio's New EXILIM EX-TR50 Selfie-Cam
The next evolution of Casio's market leading selfie camera gets upgraded innards and a new look for the Autumn/Winter 2014 season
The next evolution of Casio's market leading selfie camera gets upgraded innards and a new look for the Autumn/Winter 2014 season
Terrie's Take is a selection of Japan-centric news collected and collated by long-time resident and media business professional Terrie Lloyd. AkihabaraNews is pleased to present Terrie's learned perspective; we all could use another take on the news - here's Terrie's:
AkihabaraNews' Editor Reno J. Tibke Talks Tech on The Kong Show Podcast
Though we're currently taking a break from producing our own podcasts, we do dispatch to spread the tech word on others!
This week an Indian company has found a way to get its energy saving tech into 20% of the computers manufactured here in Japan, and a Japanese firm has decided that, in addition to the allure of football and famous spicy chicken parts, Buffalo, NY is the place to set up a new shop for solar panel manufacturing!
Lotteria, one of the major Japanese burger chains, is going to release Tochigi Wagyu Hamburg Steak Burger, a premium thick Wagyu (beef produced in Japan) patty burger with strawberry sauce, on September 29.
The premium burger will be sold for 1,300 yen (About 13USD), and it comes with either salad, french fries, or drink of your choice.
Panasonic is going to release 3 new models of the 4K VIERA AX700 series on October 17.
They feature the latest HDMI 2.0 (4K/60p input), and support HDCP 2.2 (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection). They can connect to a 4K tuner and 4K recorder. There are 3 HDMI 2.0 input terminals, D4 and video input terminal.
Sony is going to release the headphone-style Walkman WS610 series (model: NW-WS615) on November 8.
NW-WS615 is suitable for use in sports activities. It is IPX5 waterproof so that you are even able to wear it when you swim in a pool.
In addition to listening to music saved on the Walkman, it enables you to listen wirelessly to music saved in different devices via a Bluetooth connection.
Today, Sony announced the release of the new non-Android NW-A10 Walkman from their Walkman A series, the world's smallest High-Resolution Audio digital music player. It will be released on November 8.
NW-A17 (64GB) - About 35,000 yen
NW-A16 (32GB) - About 25,000 yen
Murata Manufacturing recently unveiled a team of 10 robots called the Murata Cheerleaders, which dance in formation while balancing on top of balls.
The Murata Cheerleaders are Murata's fourth generation of robots, following the bicycle-riding MURATA BOY in 1991, the second MURATA BOY in 2005, and the unicycle-riding MURATA GIRL in 2008. All of these robots incorporate Murata's proprietary core technology.


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Label and tag on recalled Target children's two-piece pajama sets
Children's two-piece pajama sets
The children's cotton or cotton/fleece pajamas sets fail to meet the federal flammability standards for children's sleepwear, because they do not meet the tight-fitting sizing requirements. This poses a burn hazard to children.
Target; at (800) 440-0680, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or online at www.target.com and click on Product Recalls at the bottom of the page for more information.
About 560,000
This recall involves Target Circo and Xhilaration children's cotton or cotton/fleece two-piece pajama sets. They were sold in infant and toddler sizes 12M, 2T, 3T, 4T and 5T, and in girls and boys sizes XS, S, M, L and XL. There are a variety of colors and designs, including stars, dots, skulls, peace signs, cats, owls, footballs and camouflage. To see a complete list of item numbers included in this recall, visit the firm's website. The item number is located on a tag on the shirt's side seam and on the pants at the waist. A tag printed on the neck of the pajamas states "Circo" or "Xhilaration", "Wear snug-fitting not flame resistant" and the item number. The pajamas were also sold with a yellow hangtag that states, "For child's safety, garment should fit snugly. This garment is not flame resistant. Loose-fitting garment is more likely to catch fire."
None reported
Consumers should immediately take the recalled pajamas away from children and return them to any Target for a full refund.
Target stores nationwide and online at target.com from August 2012 through November 2012 for between $8 and $13.
Target Corp., of Minneapolis, Minn.
Makalot Garments Co. Ltd., of Taiwan
Vietnam and Cambodia
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Physical Description
Northern cardinals are medium-sized songbirds. Males are bright red except for a black mask on their face. Females are light brown or light greenish-brown, with reddish highlights and do not have a black mask (but parts of their face may be dark). Both males and females have thick, orange-red, cone-shaped bills, a long tail, and a distinctive crest of feathers on the top of their heads. Males are slightly larger than females. Males are 22.2 to 23.5 cm long whereas females are 20.9 to 21.6 cm long. The average weight of adult cardinals is 42 to 48 g. Immature cardinals are similar in appearance to females, but have a gray-black rather than orange-red bill.
There are 18 subspecies of Cardinalis cardinalis. The majority of these subspecies are distinguished based on the color of the face-mask in females. (Kielb, Swales, and Wolinski, 1992)


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Mount Pisgah among ROOST awards winners
LAKE PLACID – Saranac?Lake's Mount Pisgah Ski Center won the 2012 Destination Award at the annual meeting of the Lake Placid Convention and Visitors Bureau, otherwise known as the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism annual meeting last week at the Comfort Inn.
The 2012 Destination Product Award was presented to the Mount Pisgah Enhancement Project, a public-private partnership working to modernize facilities and increase the use of Mount Pisgah, which is run by the villlage of Saranac Lake. The project included the installation of a new, $800,000 T-bar lift, construction of a new race building, the addition of a paved, accessible nature trail around a pond and the building of several kilometers of trails for hiking, cross-country skiing and mountain biking.
"This project is a true public/private partnership, involving multiple parties who contribute in-kind services, funding, and expertise," said Justin Smith, chair of the LPCVB/ROOST board of directors. "The multi-use and multi-seasonal nature of the project makes it a valuable part of the area's infrastructure for both residents and for visiting families."
The Destination Product Award is given to a group or individual who has, through capital investment or public coordination, moved forward with a project (or projects) that positively affect the tourism-related infrastructure in Essex County.
"Saranac Lake gratefully accepts this recognition and salutes the volunteer organizations that helped earn it, namely, the Friends of Mt. Pisgah, and BETA, the Barkeater Trails Alliance," village Mayor Clyde Rabideau said in a press release. "Both groups provided volunteers and worked tirelessly to maximize the potential of our village's great skiing and hiking area."
Rabideau also recognized former Pisgah manager Matt Cook and Demong Designs, which designed the new cross-country ski trails at the mountain, for their work on the project. A local BOCES class also chipped in under the direction of Christian Whissler, using Mount Pisgah as a classroom.
The village recognized those involved with the project at its board meeting Monday night.
Other awards presented at the ROOST meeting last week include the Tourism Marketing Award, which is given to a group or individual who has produced or launched an innovative tourism marketing product or initiative. This year's recipient was the Champlain Area Trails, or CATS, for the successful implementation of a writing contest series as an innovative marketing approach.
The recipient of the 2012 Tourism Advocate Award was Moriah Economic Development Group, or the Moriah EDGe, a coalition of partners working on economic development strategies. To date, they have organized community-wide beautification efforts and created a series of events that include MoriahStock, a day-long music event.
"As the Destination Marketing Organization for Essex County, we are pleased to showcase the people and organizations who have made the greatest contributions toward achieving a sustainable tourism economy for our region," Smith said during the event. "I'm honored to celebrate the efforts of our industry's best."