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MISSION STATEMENT: Montana State University, the state's land-grant institution, educates students, creates knowledge and art, and serves communities by integrating learning, discovery and engagement.
Montana State University is as remarkable as its setting. Created as a land-grant institution, it is a welcoming, adventurous community of students, faculty and staff distinguished by its commitment to address the world's greatest challenges. The university energizes individuals to discover and pursue their aspirations. It inspires people to engage with the university to improve the human prospect through excellence in education, research, creativity and civic responsibility.
Degrees offered: associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees
Student/faculty ratio: 17:1
Established: 1893
Record Enrollment 14,660
Record Research Expenditures $112.3 million
Goldwater Scholars (math & science)
Ranked nationally among the top 20 universities
MSU set a research record of $112.3 million in 2012
MSU students participated in service-learning project in Morrocco.
Designing Our Community won an award for support of Native American students.
LEED Silver Certified Gaines Hall
EXCEL: Teaching & Learning
Professional Exam Pass Rates Professional exams are an objective measure of how MSU graduates stack up against their peers nationally.
- Business Acumen College of Business seniors consistently score around the 90th percentile on the Major Field Test-Business, a standardized assessment of business knowledge and problem solving administered to business seniors across the country in more than 600 institutions.
- Nursing Knowledge Over the past five years nursing students have maintained a cumulative pass rate of approximately 90 percent on the N-CLEX, the licensure exam for nursing.
- Delivering Dietitians Health and human development students have a 88 percent first-time pass rate on the exam for registered dietitians.
- Well-rounded Educators Education students outscored their contemporaries on 14 out of 15 Praxis II, the required test for teaching licensure.
- Engineering Advantage MSU engineering students who take the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam consistently exceed the national average by 10 percentage points.
- Pre-med Success MSU students' acceptance rates to health professions schools far exceed national averages. The cumulative acceptance rate of MSU students into health professions school from 2009 to 2011 was 68 percent-a 60 percent acceptance rate to medical school, 75 percent acceptance rate to dental school, and 89 percent acceptance rate to physician assistant school-depending on the profession, national acceptance rates range from 36 percent to 46 percent.
Scholarship and Prestige MSU students and faculty are nationally and internationally recognized as leaders in their disciplines.
- Scholarships and Awards The quality of education at MSU has enabled many students to compete successfully for prestigious scholarships, grants and placement in top-tier graduate programs. In the past year, MSU students earned National Science Foundation, Boren and Fulbright fellowships; and Marshall, Rhodes and Goldwater scholarships.
- Respected Expertise MSU faculty, staff and administrators have been tapped for a variety of regional, national, White House and international advisory boards and committees. From financial to ecological, MSU personnel are leaders in their disciplines and share their expertise with students.
- Students' Choice In fall 2012, MSU welcomed a record 14,660 students. MSU saw increases in freshman, Native American, veteran, out-of-state and Gallatin College students. In addition, out of the 205 recipients of the 2012-13 Montana University System Honors Scholarship, 126 enrolled at MSU. The institution with the second most recipients had less than half that number.
- Academic Reputation MSU is ranked in the top tier of U.S. News & World Report's list of the nation's best universities. Rankings are based on several key measures of quality, including academic reputation, graduation and retention rates, and student/faculty ratios.
Competitive Edge When MSU students compete and succeed regionally and nationally, it provides even further recognition that the university's academic programs are among the best in the country.
- Top Designs Graphic design students regularly earn top honors in the Society of Publication Designers Student Design Contest. Over the past seven years, seven graphic design seniors have placed in the top 10 at the annual national design contest.
- Construction Achievements For a fifth time in 10 years, a team of College of Engineering students won first place for their ability to estimate a multimillion dollar project and produce a real-world bid in the heavy civil engineering category of the Associated Schools of Construction.
- Model Diplomacy An MSU team placed second at the Rocky Mountain Regional Model Arab League, a diplomatic simulation of the real-world Arab League based on the format of the Model United Nations. The MSU team advanced to the national competition, where members won two of 10 outstanding delegate awards, five of 10 honorable mentions, as well as outstanding chair.
- Academic and Athletic Success The MSU Bobcat athletes captured the Big Sky Conference Presidents' Cup for the 2011-2012 academic year. The award is based on overall athletics success, team grade point averages, graduation rates and All-Conference performers with at least a 3.0 GPA.
INNOVATE: Research & Discovery
Carnegie Class Based on the classification system of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, MSU is one of just three institutions out of 4,600 in the nation that maintains "very high research activity"-the highest level in the classification of research activity-yet is also predominantly undergraduate in terms of its student population. This combination means that undergraduates at MSU have access to high-level research projects that are reserved for graduate students at many other institutions.
Research Record MSU recently set a research expenditure record-$112.3 million-surpassing its old record by nearly $3 million. Top research departments included immunology, chemistry and biochemistry, transportation, physics, and land resources and environmental sciences; and much of the funding came from the National Institutes of Health, Departments of Energy, Defense and Agriculture, and private sources.
Licensed and Patented MSU research has led to significant discoveries that are changing the world. MSU holds more than 200 active technology licenses. In addition, 87 patents and 14 plant variety certificates have been issued for MSU discoveries with many more pending.
SERVE: Outreach & Engagement
Community Engagement Classification MSU earned The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's engagement classification. The designation recognizes commitment to teaching that encourages volunteer service in communities and spreading of knowledge that benefits the public.
National Award for Engagement MSU recently won the annual C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. The annual award recognizes a four-year public university that embraces outreach and community engagement and comes with a $20,000 prize. The award was won largely thanks to the efforts of MSU's Engineers Without Borders chapter to bring clean water to Kenya.
Record Generosity MSU and the Bozeman community continued their winning streak and set a new record for donations in the 2012 "Can the Griz" food drive. The food drive is coordinated by the MSU office of Activities and Engagement and the Gallatin Valley Food Bank and netted 68,515 pounds of food and approximately $29,000 for the food bank.
Service Learning Projects Through courses, clubs and organized events, students participate in many local, national and international service learning projects that enable them to apply their education while strengthening communities.
- Nursing students provide education and basic care in underserved communities in Montana and South America.
- Architecture students build straw-bale houses to create sustainable housing and improve living conditions in Kenya.
- Towne's Harvest Garden, a student-operated vegetable garden, donates thousands of pounds of fresh food to the local food bank.
- Accounting students assist low-income individuals with tax filings.
CONNECT: Access & Inclusion
Access in the Big Sky MSU and the Montana University System were featured in a profile on MSNBC entitled "In Montana, small changes spur nation's biggest jump in college graduates." The profile highlighted efforts being made at MSU and across the state to help students stay in school and graduate, which has effectively increased "the proportion of its population with college degrees faster than any other state," according to the article.
Native American Success Designing Our Community, an MSU engineering program that aims to recruit and retain Native American students, was honored by the College Board as a regional winner for the CollegeKeys Compact Innovation Awards. MSU's percentage of Native American graduates is one of the highest among engineering programs in the United States.
Veterans Resources A new Veterans Support Center, located in the Strand Union Building, provides space for speakers, seminars, resources and support services to assist approximately 500 student veterans in their transition to higher education. MSU is consistently designated a "Military Friendly Schools" by G.I. Jobs magazine.
Advocacy for Access MSU's president testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on higher-education tax incentives and the need for tax reform. Citing increases in key financial measures and larger debt loads, President Cruzado encouraged the committee to reduce complexity so students and their families can better utilize the programs.
College Completion Option Montana State Online has launched a new online degree completion program in liberal studies. The program helps students who have some college credit and would like to finish their degree online.
Support to Advance MSU's McNair Scholars Program received a five-year, $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help support undergraduates who are minorities or first-generation/lower-income college students in their preparation for going on to graduate school.
CONSERVE: Stewardship & Sustainibility
Freshman 15 MSU's "Freshman 15" initiative encourages students to be fiscally and academically responsible by taking 15 credits each semester so they can graduate in four years. At MSU, there is no cost for additional credits after a student pays for the first 12 hours. This equates to an $816 per semester savings for a Montana student.
Fiscally Savvy MSU launched a new Office of Financial Education that focuses on financial literacy and is integrated into advising and career services counseling. The program aims to reduce debt and educate students so they can make smart choices and develop solid financial habits.
Montana Made Nearly a quarter of the food MSU's University Food Services buys each year comes from farmers and producers in the state.
Improving Education and Efficiency MSU's efficiency efforts to date have resulted in a 3 percent reduction in electricity and natural gas use since 2007, despite the growth of campus by nearly 234,000 square feet. Testing of geothermal-based heating and cooling on campus is also allowing mechanical and industrial engineering students to work with a technology that will play an increasingly important role in how homes and workplaces are heated.
Environmental Excellence MSU was named one of the "Sustainable 16," a group of 16 colleges and universities exemplifying excellence in environmental academics in the first-ever March Madness Tournament for Environmental Studies.
Based on the Carnegie Classification, MSU is one of only 108 colleges and universities in the nation (out of more than 4,600) that maintain "very high research activity." Of those 108, only 51 are also classified by Carnegie as having significant commitment to community engagement. And of those, MSU is the only institution whose Carnegie enrollment profile is "very high undergraduate." This means that MSU students have unique access to cutting-edge research and creative opportunities—and to an engaging educational experience that fully integrates learning, discovery and service.
Learn more about MSU
Student-Built Satellite
An MSU satellite built by students has been in orbit for more than a year, exceeding expectations. The satellite launched on a NASA rocket and was named HRBE (Hiscock Radiation Belt Explorer) to honor the late William A. Hiscock for his influential role in physics at MSU. HRBE was built in the Space Science Engineering Laboratory (pictured below) and has circled the Earth more than 7,200 times, transmitting scientific data with each pass. HRBE's success has led to the production of new satellites slated to launch between 2014 and 2016.
Located just 90 miles from Yellowstone National Park, MSU leads the nation in research related to the park and is widely known as University of the Yellowstone™. A recent project, focused on Yellowstone and other national parks, was the first of its kind and examined population density and land use changes in the ecosystems around U.S. national parks. Ecology professor Andrew Hansen and lead author Cory Davis published their findings in "Ecological Applications," a journal published by the Ecological Society of America.
Everest Expedition
The Everest Education Expedition represented a seamless integration of learning, research and outreach. MSU geology professor Dave Lageson, graduate student Travis Corthouts (pictured below), and a team of The North Face global athletes, led by Conrad Anker, a Bozeman resident, traveled to Mount Everest to study glacial ecology and other research areas. During their trip, the team collected data and shared their adventure and scientific research with more than 1,000 students in classrooms across Montana.
Bozeman has long been a fishing mecca and is famous for its blue ribbon trout streams. Aside from location, MSU houses scholars in ecology, biology and literature. MSU's reputation as Trout U is bolstered by MSU library's preeminent collection of Trout and Salmonid materials which is composed of a growing collection of over 7,200 volumes including sixty years of MSU's research on fish and fisheries as well as a broad range of other resources, including 5,000+ pieces of correspondence in the Nick Lyons Ephemera collection and the recently acquired papers of Dr. Robert Behnke. In addition to the academic expertise featured in the magazine, MSU has been ranked No. 1 in the country for an education near trout streams by Fly Rod & Reel magazine.


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Skip to comments.China mourns death of engineer of Liaoning aircraft(after watching landing,51 yr old had hrt attack)
Posted on 11/25/2012 9:03:49 PM PST by DeaconBenjaminEdited on 11/25/2012 10:11:05 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
China's government is mourning a key engineer behind its aircraft carrier programme who died of a heart attack after witnessing the first landing of a plane on the ship.
For whom? ;)
Beijing flu?
"Shenyang Aircraft head dies in China's first carrier landing"
Every day I become more and more appalled at the way news headlines are written.
"Suspected heart attack" must be code for "You have failed the Politburo!"
He was so impressed with them he keeled over and died.
He allowed himself a capitalistic thought, and then was smitten by communist conscience and croaked.
"Chinas government is mourning a key engineer behind its aircraft carrier programme who died of a heart attack after witnessing the first landing of a plane on the ship."
I'm glad that he had least got to see it land (or so they say). I imagine failure would have been the end of his career and the end of his nice life as he knew it. He probably had a fleeting moment of "Yippie - my life will be okay...."
Guess the pattern was full—shouldn't have done the fly-by.
Thrilled to death.
Guess the pattern was full—shouldn't have done the fly-by.
In practice, China is one of the more capitalistic nations around. They just can't call it that, lest they fail to "save face" for being so anti-capitalist for so long.
"This is the happiest day of my life!" *thud*
We're conservatives, we pay our own way.
Times are tough on a lot of us, but if you've got a job, really, $5 a month? You're going to miss that? How about turning off the lights when you leave the room? How about dropping the thermostat a degree while you're not at home? How about skipping that fancy pants coffee twice a month?
All we're asking for is $5 a month. Get out that wallet, input your Debit/Credit card #, set up a monthly and forget about it.
If this ham-n-egger can be a dollar a day guy, you can pony up $0.17 a day. Seventeen cents a day for all the time you spend on FR?
Cerainly, a bargain at twice the price, don't you agree?
You'll feel much better about your time on FR.
Confucius say man who watch flatop landing flatline.
Chinese food is mostly fried, isn't it? In a wok, but still fried.
My father said putting his F-4 on the deck was the most terrified he ever was.
If it's a naval aircraft is the restroon the head?
I have 242 traps in that beast ......best AC i ever flew though
The head died; what about the rest of his body? On life support?
Plus...free self-installation toolkit!
His body will continue to work for the Party until they say it can retire.
"Shenyang Aircraft head dies in China's first carrier landing"
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We also had to add the actual first paragraph of the article; then added and attributed Associated Press in the source space and finally, we had to excerpt the rest of the Associated Press article.
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Good job, not to razz on this poster but I have seen a slew of new articles that had misleading titles, most aimed at creating some form of "pull" to get attention. Recent one was about the moon being destroyed which was far from the truth.
let it be known that we want the truth, not the liberal method of creating anger, fear, suspicion, hate or sympathy. Just the facts. Ther will be times when we need to stir up anger, but only when its needed.
This was probably more of a case of "thank heavens it worked/didn't crash", and the relief that he *wasn't* going to be executed for failure was so great the guy's heart stopped.
He would be alive today if only the rich had paid their fair share for universal healthcare.
It's hard enough with a little cross-wind on land. I can't imagine trying to set down on a big bobber. Here's to ya.
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Skip to comments.Obama's official inauguration will be private
Posted on 12/06/2012 12:42:37 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Because next year's inauguration falls on a Sunday, President Obama will hold only a small, private swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20, and will hold a big public redo the next day.
The Inaugural Committee announced Thursday that activities will last three days: a day of service on Saturday, the small private ceremony on Sunday, and the public swearing-in, parade and balls on Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
He wants to give George Soros a big, wet one.
The less I see and hear from him, the better.
And I bet in the Public venue, he won't say "so help me God"...
Ah, yes...three days of partying on the public $$$
How the hell can you get officially sworn in to a public office in private ????
A day of service? What the heck is that?
Every republican should boycott his inauguration and party... but they will kiss his muslim arse until their lips bleed.
BY LAW, if January 20th (Inauguration Day) lands on a Sunday, the president in sworn in privately....and then publicly on the following day...January 21.
BY LAW, if January 20th (Inauguration Day) lands on a Sunday, the president is sworn in privately....and then publicly on the following day...January 21.
Probably volunteer work.
someone should remind Chief Justice Roberts to bring his Koran
Don't want video of his hand on Koran....
Public version next day will be fake cover, over a dictionary....
MLK Day
Soros is his sugerdaddy.
The official part of the oath is given to Roberts himself. It's important that the public know about it, but not necessary they see it. The assurance that he's not lying is supposed to be not the publicity but the fact that it is taken on the Bible.
By the way, why the hell do we still have oaths? No one believes in them anymore. Read Hamlet or something else old and they're swearing to something every other page. That was for a society of status and religion. We have neither, much.
Now we are a society of contract. You can take me to court to enforce promises, but mostly I can break my word when I feel like it. Unless I'm in court, because the law id pretentious, of getting married, because children are important and fighting over crappy collections of nicknacks is bothersome.
Will John Roberts french kiss him this time, now that they're best pals?
He doesn't want folks in 'merica to see he swears on a Quran.
Yep, just like last time it was done over a second time behind closed doors. Transparency, uh huh.
Why? So he can be sworn in on the Koran?
It's also the day of the AFC and NFC championship games so he probably does not want to be upstaged.
One can hope...maybe to redeem him self Roberts will slip some cuffs on him?
A day of volunteer work?
Sucha deal, a day of work and then a 4 million dollar
vacation. Not bad for an activist.
The same way he got sworn in the last time. The first oath was rendered invalid because of Roberts' (deliberate, I think) botched delivery of the oath. So Obama was sworn in again, in private. No video or audio of the second swearing in were provided, as far as I know.
We are so screwed.
When the Communist, Benghazi-Coward Obama is installed as the titular head of the Obamanation Regime on January 20, 2013, the only question remaining will be "When will the Obama Regime achieve Absolute Power over the United States of America?"
I'll be doing what I did last inauguraton. Ignoring all radio and TV. FR and TheBlaze only.
[Will John Roberts french kiss him this time...]
I don't think so, I heard he got a bad case of trench mouth from the last time.
. . . and in the private swearing in, I wonder if he will omit the words, "protect and defend the Constitution". It will certainly give him an out in his second term.
I wish it was nonexistent.....sigh :)
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Summer vacations are filled with sunshine, salt water and sand castles. However, sand castles have been taken to another level. A bucket and a shovel will no longer do the trick to construct sand castles – or sand sculptures – like the ones in this article.
In fact, using only sand and water, sand sculptors or "carvers" shovel, stack and carve a sculpture to compete in sand sculpting competitions across the world. The competitions run from July 2013 until the same time next year, and they are everywhere from Florida to Taiwan.
Don't feel like competing? The events are just as entertaining for spectators, too. You can watch the experts build sand sculptors from the ground up – literally. The use butter knives, drinking straws and other tools to make their masterpieces.
If the masterpieces are deemed special enough to preserve, they are sprayed with a solution of water and glue. Then, the sculptures can be seen by travelers for months or even years.
Now, tell us – would you visit a sand sculpture competition? Leave a comment below, write on our Facebook page or Tweet us. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Don't expect to see fitness improvements if you train at the same level, doing the same routine, week in, week out. If you want to become fitter and stronger, follow these tips in the weeks and months ahead
The physiological adaptations that increase your speed happen during recovery, not training. Leg-searing rides and runs put your body under great physical stress. To cope with that kind of pressure your body strengthens itself by building more muscle fibres and boosting its aerobic engine. Push yourself to your limits twice or three times a week but ease off between hard sessions.
Like a golfer's swing or a runner's stride, a cyclist's pedal stroke, bike-handling skills and cadence (revolutions per minute) become more efficient with practice. Do this cadence drill to get a jump-start: warm up for 10 minutes on a turbo trainer. Spin using only the right leg for 30 seconds, gradually increasing cadence. Repeat with the left leg for 30 seconds. Then put both legs into action at a cadence of 90 to 100 revolutions per minute. Repeat, this time with 60 seconds of single-leg spinning per side. Perform the sequence three times.
Many fitness gains are made through neuromuscular adaptations. When you're really challenging yourself, your muscles are sending messages to your brain, which takes note of the new experience, realises that something extra is needed and recruits more muscle fibres for the job. Focus on your speed if you always climb; hit the hills if you're more at home on the flat.
Plyometrics - explosive jumping and hopping exercises - help your muscles to reach maximum strength quickly. Researchers found that just one month of plyometric training twice a week can increase power endurance by 17 per cent. After a few weeks of general training, do star jumps twice a week. Stand straight, then bend your legs and form a crouch position. Swiftly jump up and open your arms and legs in midair to create a star shape. As you land, bend your knees until your hands can touch the floor on either side of your feet. Do one or two sets of eight to 12 reps.
Keep a training log and you'll almost certainly become a better triathlete. Write down the usual statistics, such as drills performed, distance swum, your run routes and mileages, time spent cycling, terrain covered and average speed, as well as how you felt during a session. When you notice your statistics or mood dipping, take a day off to allow your body and mind a breather.
"Train lots" is good advice, but "have structure" is better. Spend three weeks building your training load and intensity, extending your long runs, rides and hard efforts each week until you feel spent. Then scale back during week four. Your body will compensate for the hard effort and you'll start the next four-week cycle much stronger.
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How to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle
By Michelle May, M.D.
If your commitment to eat right and exercise always seems to lose its steam, you're not alone!
Ask yourself these questions:
- Do you think about food and eating more than you think you should?
- Do you feel guilty when you eat certain foods?
- Do you have trouble passing up tempting food even if you aren't hungry?
- Do you often eat when you are bored, stressed, sad, lonely, or angry?
- Do you often feel too full when you're finished eating?
- Do you fluctuate between dieting and eating too much?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you've probably discovered that dieting hasn't solved the problem. In fact, for many people restrictive dieting leads to feelings of deprivation, cravings, overeating, guilt, and more overeating. I call it the eat-repent-repeat cycle. (To learn more about how the eat-repent-repeat cycle develops, read chapter one of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat.)
The only way to break your eat-repent-repeat cycle is to let go of the idea that a diet will solve your problems. The solution comes from learning to listen to (and trust!) the expert within.
During the New Year, New You Retreat at the beautiful Red Mountain Resort I'll guide you through the process of learning how to eat what you love fearlessly and love what you eat mindfully. Join us December 27 - January 1st for this all-inclusive mindful eating, vibrant living retreat and get your 2013 off to a fabulous new start!
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Michelle May, M.D. is a recovered yoyo dieter and the founder of the Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Workshops and the award-winning author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle.
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by HoodooMan » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:56 pm
by swerb » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:31 pm
by furls » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:10 pm
by HoodooMan » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:28 pm
Furls wrote:What is up with all the "LeBron hate"?That dude is only 21 years old and in his 3rd NBA season. Hell, Jordan didn't lead the Bulls to their first title until he was 27 and in his 7th NBA season. Jesus, cut LBJ some slack.... I mean, he is pretty good and stuff.Mike
by yargs7 » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:17 pm
by HoodooMan » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:16 pm
yargs7 wrote:Expecting Lebron to be at the same level as Jordan, Kobe, or even Dwayne Wade at this point is ridiculous.
by steviedifranco » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:15 am
by HoodooMan » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:40 am
steviedifranco wrote:And whats this garbage about Wade being better than LeBron? Thats just crap. What do Kobe and Wade have in common? They both had Shaq when they were on good teams. Is that just by chance?
by consigliere » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:52 am
by furls » Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:00 am
For how many years are Cleveland fans going to go with the "The kid just turned 2_ card"? And what are the odds that when all's said & done that "The Kid just turned 2_" echoes "Tim Couch is not the problem. Get him a supporting cast, and he'll be fine"?
So if Z averaged 3 more pts and 2 more rebounds a game this year, Lebron would have Wade's killer instinct?
by yargs7 » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:42 pm
by consigliere » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:23 pm
by HoodooMan » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:30 pm
Furls wrote:I cannot think of a single out of high school kid that has made as much a difference as fast as he has.
are you seriously trying to compare Z to shaq?
He is a phenomenal team player and I while I would like to see him take the decisive shot more readily; I would not change the team player aspect of his game. That is EXACTLY what makes him better than Dominique Wilkins was at any point in his career.
by HoodooMan » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:36 pm
Consigliere wrote:Right now, I take Kobe over Lebron......but they are the top 2 guys in the game.
by furls » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:35 pm
I can. Amare Stoudemire.
by jdrake10 » Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:11 pm
by HoodooMan » Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:23 am
Furls wrote:Please try to compare apples to apples
Whether or not he is the best player in the NBA or the next MJ is debatable, but what is not is that he is among the truly elite players in the NBA and he is in his 3rd year. Look at who you are comparing him to, McGrady, Carter, Kobe, Wade, and Garnett.... i wouldnt think any of those was an insult.
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Sphyraena barracuda, commonly known as great barracuda, inhabit nearly all warm seas (Blaber 1997). They are found in the tropical regions of the Indo-Pacific, and Atlantic oceans, with an absence only from the Eastern Pacific (Lieske and Myers 1999).They have been found in the Red Sea and as far as the Bermudas in the Western Atlantic. They have been seen as far north as Massachusetts (Beebe and Tee-Van 1933).


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Intel Corp., the world's No. 1 maker of x86 central processing units, late on Monday officially unveiled a family of its microprocessors that feature four processing engines. About one and a half year after the company first introduced its dual-core microprocessors, the firm goes on with quad-core chips in a bid to demonstrate excellence of its technologies and further stimulate software makers to create programs that take advantage of many cores.
"Today's announcement ushers in another new era in computing. The capabilities of quad-core microprocessors will bring new possibilities for science, entertainment, and business. I'm incredibly proud of what Intel's employees have achieved with these new products," said Paul Otellini, president and chief executive of Intel.
On Monday Intel introduced four Intel Xeon 5300-series processors with clock-speeds ranging from 1.60GHz to 2.66GHz, 8MB of level two cache (4MB of unified L2 cache per two cores), processor system bus (PSB) speeds of 1066MHz or 1333MHz frequencies and power consumption of 80W or 120W. The new chips are priced from $455 to $1172 in 1000-unit quantities and will be available in servers from leading manufacturers shortly.
Additionally, Intel officially released its new Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor for desktops that also contains four processing cores, operates at 2.66GHz, has 1066MHz PSB and carries 8MB cache. The new microprocessor has similar price tag compared to other "Extreme"-series processors: $999 in 1000-unit quantities.
Intel also announced that in the first quarter of 2007 it would launch two more quad-core Xeon processors: a low voltage version for ultra-dense deployments with thermal design power (TDP) of only 50W and a processor designed for single socket workstations and servers. Besides, the company confirmed plans to offer a mainstream quad-core processor for desktops starting in the first quarter of next year under the brand name Intel Core 2 Quad processor.
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Andy Serkis, famous for his roles as Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings' and King Kong in the 2005 film, 'King Kong' comes in to talk to our reporter Jo Parkerson.
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Public Accounts Committee on May 8th, 2012
Evidence of meeting #43 for Public Accounts in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was going.
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8:50 a.m.
The Chair David Christopherson
I now call this 43rd meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts of the House of Commons to order.
Colleagues will know that we had planned to have our Auditor General with us today. You'll know from the e-mail I sent to you and the news release that he had a relatively minor medical emergency that needed to be dealt with. He's going to make himself available as early as Thursday, but of course that's at the pleasure of the committee.
We have quite a bit of business in front of us. We have remnants of the 2011 fall report that we postponed to accommodate the F-35 meeting. We need to reschedule that one and get it back on track.
We have not yet prioritized our chapters from the spring 2012 report, other than chapter 2, on the F-35, which of course we've been focusing on. So we need to work on that.
We have a couple of outstanding motions in front of us. The thing we need to decide right now is how we want to proceed. Again, I'm a little hesitant, because after we lost the steering committee, the easy way to do this was lost.
I have fretted, again, over this notion of what I was going to do when all hands went up, and—we're back into this—who got to control the floor.
I have to tell you, with nobody doing anything and the government putting their hands up, it's all the same to me. I've said this to you before. Twice I've asked for assistance. I've asked for it privately. I've asked publicly. Nobody's taken me up on it, so I'm still left with this impossible situation.
In the absence of a clear rule, I'll let a couple of people speak. But I'm not going to take motions. I just want to give you an opportunity. As I said to you before, it's an impossible situation. You all throw your hands up at once. Whoever gets the floor first has a bearing. The people watching may not see it, but we all know here that inside politics, it matters a whole lot.
Here is my thinking, at this point. With a clear majority, the government always maintains the ability to deny an opposition motion and/or to carry their own motion. The opposition, by themselves, cannot force this committee to do anything. They don't have the votes. The government has 100% built-in control. No one can do anything without the agreement of the government. Conversely, the government can do anything they want, whether the opposition likes it or not, assuming they follow the usual rules of procedure.
With that in mind, all other things being equal, and given that this is an oversight committee whose sole purpose is to watch the books, hopefully in as non-partisan a fashion as possible, I'm going to try to bring some kind of fairness. Again, for those who may disagree, I am willing to host a meeting, private or public, to talk about a different way to approach this. But in the absence of that, I am going to go to the official opposition, then to the Liberals, and then to the government.
I am going to listen to interventions, probably from the government, if they want to make a different argument. But bear in mind that just winning isn't good enough in terms of winning the floor. We don't have a process that's fair. I'm trying to be as fair-minded as I can be, recognizing the mandate of this committee and that ultimately we're accountable to the public. We're the public accounts committee.
That's the way I'm going to proceed. I invite members to meet with me to talk about a different approach, but that's what I'm going to do.
I will now take any interventions. I will not accept any motions during these interventions, because my intent right now is to give the floor to the official opposition, at which time they will have the full right to the floor.
Right now I'm going to give people an opportunity to give me a little input into that decision, particularly from the government, since they would likely have the greatest difficulty with this. With that understanding, I'm willing to hear from Mr. Saxton.
8:50 a.m.
Andrew Saxton North Vancouver, BC
Thank you, Chair.
First of all, I'd just like to point out that I've been on this committee for three and a half years. My colleague Mr. Kramp has been on this committee a lot longer than that, as have you. Because of that, you know full well, Chair, that committee business historically, traditionally, has always been done in camera. It's not just something that this committee has practised; it's something that all committees have practised, in fact.
Therefore, yesterday when I received your agenda, which says "Committee Business", "Televised", this is absolutely unprecedented. It is absolutely unusual for this committee—any committee, for that matter. It's got nothing to do with openness or not being open, because we've exercised openness on many occasions on this committee. As you've seen recently, we've even gone against practice, at times, to be open. This is a matter of your setting a very wrong precedent, in my opinion, and you're going down a very slippery slope.
This is committee business. If you want to change the rules of all committees, that's something that should be taken up perhaps in a different forum. But what you have done here, Chair—because it was your decision—is to start a precedent that goes counter and against anything that's ever happened in the public accounts committee, to my knowledge, certainly in the three and a half years that I've been on the committee. I'm sure Mr. Kramp would join me in saying that this is an unprecedented move. I understand where you're going, but I think it's a very slippery slope you have decided to go down.
I'd like to share my time with Mr. Kramp. I'm sure he has a few things he'd like to say on this subject as well.
8:55 a.m.
The Chair David Christopherson
Of course.
Mr. Kramp, you have the floor, sir.
8:55 a.m.
Daryl Kramp Prince Edward—Hastings, ON
Thank you, Chair.
With the greatest of respect to the chair, I do agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Saxton, as you would expect. This isn't a question, quite frankly, of who goes first; I think we all understand the realities and the implications of such. But I take great umbrage with the chair unilaterally making the decision that totally changes the direction this committee has generally worked with, as Mr. Saxton has stated.
To use the argument or the discussion point that the government has control because they have more members, well, whether a government has more members or the opposition has more members.... I've sat on a committee that was obviously on the other side of the coin. I've sat in the position where we have been the government, and the opposition have had more members. It was reversed.
To suggest that from this point, because the government has more members they take the back seat all the time is arbitrary, I do believe, and I honestly believe in my heart that it's an abuse of the chair's privilege. It's an abuse of the chair's responsibilities. I do see it as a direct partisan move, with the greatest respect to the chair. I can understand why the opposition wish to go that route. I understand the discussions that take place among all the opposition. It's a clear-cut strategy, and it is unfortunate, because as we move through an event like this and the subsequent examinations, this sets a precedent that I'm concerned will potentially be challenged through the House procedures--I don't know--as we move forward. I would hope that we would never get to that.
I suppose I can sum it up with a very simple word: I'm disappointed. I really am. I think this now takes the obvious politicization of this committee.... Now the chair has, willingly or not, knowingly or not--and I'll try to be deliberately vague here out of consideration for my past history with the chair--led us into an abuse of the work of the committee.
We saw that once before, in a previous chair. We've had some marvellous chairs, we really have--and no umbrage, again, toward this chair--but we saw where all of a sudden it became a one-sided coin. I do understand the dilemma the chair finds himself in with regard to having to pass judgment on whose hand is up first and that kind of thing. I understand there's an ongoing challenge to deal with that, and I do agree with the chair that we should have a process. It would certainly take that off the shoulders of the chair. But with the chair's ruling on an interim way forward until we come to that agreement, I think it is partisan, and I state that, once again, with respect. To arbitrarily just put the government to the back of the bus, and that's the way it's going to be.... Even if there were rotation, even if there were other members....
We saw what happened the last time. This is the process the opposition and the chair followed. Mr. Saxton's hand obviously was up first in the last meeting, and the chair arbitrarily ruled that no, the opposition parties are going to go ahead. Then Mr. Saxton was afforded the opportunity.
Now we're saying the same thing again. What we're doing now is we're building upon a wrong and making more wrongs, and I feel the direction of the committee has been hampered. I would certainly hope that we can in the very near future find a way we can move out of this uncomfortable situation, because now we are politicizing this committee. At the very least, moving forward there should be and could be an alternate, one versus the other--the government side, the opposition side; the opposition side, the government side--whatever way we do move forward. I think the chair sees where I'm going on this.
But to just say that because you have a majority on the committee your concerns and rights aren't going to be respected, we'll just throw you at the back of the bus....
I'll close now by saying I am disappointed, and I wish the chair would reconsider.
8:55 a.m.
The Chair David Christopherson
Go ahead, Mr. Saxton. Get it all on the table.
8:55 a.m.
Andrew Saxton North Vancouver, BC
I just wanted to add that I know the chair would like to be fair--he says that he would like to be fair, and I take him at his word. You have had this dilemma for some time now, and the last time you decided to choose the opposition first. So I think the only way to be fair now is to allow the government to go first, and until we come up with a better system, you alternate who goes first. I think that's the only way to be fair.
Otherwise, as Mr. Kramp says, you're throwing us to the back of the bus, and you know that's not going to last. It's just totally unfair.
9 a.m.
The Chair David Christopherson
Okay, let me throw a couple of things out in response.
Let me deal with the last point first. In terms of alternating, that was one of my suggestions. I said we could rotate who goes first, but nobody took me up on that. To offer that up as an alternative to a decision I had to make in the absence of any alternatives being offered up by anyone is patently unfair. I'm open to the idea of alternating. Ideally it would be nice if we could come to an agreement, rather than having the majority decide what's going to be fair from their perspective only.
Next, let me just say that the issue of recognizing first and being in camera or public are two different things. The issue of who I see first plays almost—not quite, but almost—as big a role when we're in camera. Whoever's first gets a chance to command the floor, because when you have the floor you have the right to make motions. By making motions you can command and control the floor. By virtue of doing that, you de facto control the agenda. So it matters, whether we're in camera or we're in public, who has the floor and who gets the floor. That's why we're always so scrupulous about taking a list of who speaks, trying to make sure the order is accurate, and doing the best we can to be fair with the time allocation. So that's a separate issue.
With regard to the issue we are dealing with right now, for every single F-35 meeting I have, as chair, received requests from media saying "We would like to be there for that meeting. We would like to broadcast or record the entire proceedings. May we have your permission to come in?" Sometimes there are requests from representatives of three, four, or five mainstream TV media in particular, and they have all the equipment. That means we would have all these crews walking around here while the committee was trying to do its business.
So it's a lot easier, it seems to me, for us, and surely a lot easier for the media, if we just agree to flip the switch and we throw the cameras on that are in here. I can't say to the media, "No, you can't come, because the committee members don't want you", and I'm not sure that there's any one of you here that would want to lead that charge, although you're welcome to. So I have two choices. I can allow the media to come in with their cameras and equipment and crews, or we can take advantage of the fact that we have installed the television cameras. That's been my rule of thumb.
There have been one or two occasions when the issue was so big that before the media even bothered to call, I looked to see if the meeting would be televised, because it was just that obvious. Some of those things are at the discretion of the committee chair. I've tried to be particularly careful around the F-35 because it's so politically explosive, and we all know that substantive issues can morph into procedural issues really quickly, and procedural issues can take over a meeting, as they are doing now.
So there is the issue of whether we are in camera or not.
The other thing I want to mention is that at one of the meetings in the last few weeks when we dealt with committee business, every one of us, I'm going to say to you, was expecting the government would move to go in camera, and it didn't happen. Everybody on the committee agreed to stay in public, and we did the entire committee planning. Most of it—I believe all of it, but certainly most of it—was on the F-35.
So who am I to presume what the will of this committee is when it's dealing with further organizing around the issue of the F-35, when the unanimous decision, in the absence of any motion to go in camera, was the decision of this committee? If I went in camera someone could easily say, "Wait a minute. What gives you the right to unilaterally decide this one is going to be in camera when we as a committee chose, by unanimous consent, to do all that business in public? Who are you, Chair, to do that?"
I'm ready to accept when I'm wrong. I'll take my lumps, and I make my mistakes as everybody else does. But I want colleagues to know....
Oh, the other thing I want to say is that I have not had one word—and you can put down any religious document you want and I'll put hands all over it—of discussion with any opposition member about how things are going to proceed and how there's going to be some kind of trap set for the government. That doesn't happen when I'm in the chair. And they can vouch for me. Any time you see me talking to the opposition members, it's about procedural things that are already known, or they're asking me a detail. It's no different from when Mr. Kramp or Mr. Saxton approaches me in the House.
So there are no deals. I'm not going to destroy my opportunity to try to continue to bring the respect that this committee needs. I'm not going to put that in jeopardy by playing monkey games, especially in a majority House, where the government wins ten times out of ten. It's far more important to me that this committee and my chairing be respected as being fair and non-partisan, as much as humanly possible in this arena, recognizing that I am a partisan.
So I'm open to further thoughts, but that's how we got where we are. That's been my thinking as we've moved forward. I'm in the hands of the committee, as always.
Mr. McKay.
9:05 a.m.
John McKay Scarborough—Guildwood, ON
Thank you, Chair.
As you know, I'm not a regular member of this committee. I'm substituting for Mr. Byrne, who, I'm sure everyone will be pleased to know, is recovering from pneumonia. He may be not present for a while. So I've not been privy to all the machinations, shall we say, with respect to this committee and its setting of the agenda.
I don't disagree with Mr. Saxton's observation that most committee agenda-setting is done in camera. I don't dispute that. I've been here 14 years, and that's generally true.
It ceases to be in camera when there's a sense that there's an unfairness that has happened, or may happen, or could happen. So the working presumption of being in camera--i.e., there's some give and take, everybody gets a little something, opposition parties get to direct some part of the agenda--all of that is a working presumption of a steering committee. That presumption seems to have gone out the window here. It appears to have gone out the window because of an enthusiasm, particularly on the part of the government, to not have the deliberations of the committee with respect to the F-35 any more public than they absolutely have to be.
As a consequence, the deliberations with respect to the direction and agenda of this committee are, at the opposition's desire, in public and on television thus far. I just thought that there is an irony in the name of this standing committee. It is the public accounts committee. Generally speaking, public should be preferenced over private, because it is one of the very few opportunities members of the opposition have to actually ask real questions and potentially get real answers with respect to issues such as the F-35.
I'm here to move Mr. Byrne's motion on the F-35, and I'm just flipping through it--actual statement of operational requirements, full life-cycle analysis, bid evaluation criteria. All of that is stuff the public is interested in. Why there would be such a resistance.... If there's anything that is in a nature of a secretive aspect to any of this stuff and that imperils national security in any way, I'm sure any witness will bring that to the clerk's or your attention, sir, and say that on this item, or this item within this item, the committee should not be studying it in public and possibly no one outside of the Privy Council should be studying it.
Working on the presumption that a public accounts committee is first and foremost public, my sense of it is that motions and even this discussion need to take place in public. Your ruling is correct.
I would say finally that this entire matter can be resolved in a heartbeat, if in fact Mr. Saxton on behalf of the government simply allows the motions that the opposition wish to put forward to take place in public and the votes to take place in public. It's pretty simple that way.
Thank you for that opportunity.
9:10 a.m.
The Chair David Christopherson
Thank you.
I apologize, Monsieur Ravignat, I should have gone to you first, as I'd outlined earlier. You now have the floor, sir.
May 8th, 2012 / 9:10 a.m.
Mathieu Ravignat Pontiac, QC
That's okay.
I was listening very carefully to what my colleagues were saying on the other side. To a certain extent I would be sympathetic to what they were saying, provided we were in an ideal situation. The reality is that this public accounts committee is not functioning like the public accounts committee did in the past. There's very little goodwill to proceed with the important oversight function we have. The subcommittee, which could be the place where we would create some form of consensus around witnesses heard and the agenda, has been abolished by my Conservative colleagues.
If we were in that ideal situation, then of course it would be normal to have our procedures to decide on the agenda and so forth in camera. The reality is that it's not normal, which begs the need to make public what the opposition is proposing and to have the government or other members of the committee deliberate on this issue as well as share their opinion. I think Canadians have a right to know that there has been a request to hear from certain witnesses and that this request has been denied, for whatever reasons.
So I think I'd like to come back. Obviously I sympathize with the chair's situation. I think it's untenable to play the gunslinger approach in trying to get the floor. It's an unacceptable way of proceeding. I think I speak for my other opposition colleagues that we're clearly willing to speak with the Conservatives, with the government side, to talk about how we could get out of this impasse, maybe reconstituting a subcommittee, so we could go forward with a more consensus-based approach with regard to the length of debates and the witnesses we want to hear from.
Canadians have a right to know there are people around the table who want to hear from people like the minister, Peter MacKay, on F-35s; Julian Fantino, obviously, the associate minister; and the public works minister. The debate was such in the last few weeks that it begs that we bring these people forward. We're far more uncertain as to what went on than we were before, and the only way to clarify this for Canadians is to continue this debate and call the proper witnesses.
I also would like to add that procedure can be used as a weapon to silence debate. This government has had a poor record since May 2 in that regard, in using procedural process to close debate.
I forgot to mention that I should probably share my time with Mr. Allen, as Mr. Saxton did with Mr. Kramp.
9:10 a.m.
The Chair David Christopherson
Very well.
Mr. Allen.
9:10 a.m.
Malcolm Allen Welland, ON
Thank you, Chair.
Let me start by talking about this idea, which was in place last fall when I returned to this committee, of how quickly one gets one's hand up and whether one competes or not. If you go back and look at the record, you will see that the government side probably won that race 80% of the time, if not more. It became very apparent to me, as the lead of the opposition side at that time, that it was a futile attempt to out-race Mr. Saxton, for a couple of reasons. One is that I had two surgeries on my right shoulder many years ago, and it doesn't really work all that well, and he's much younger than I am and much faster, so I wouldn't have won the gunslinger race anyhow. I say that somewhat facetiously, but I wouldn't have. It's kind of not funny. But I could have called the procedural piece and said, "Chair, Mr. Saxton's hand was up before you gavelled the meeting to order; he's now out of order." You cannot get the attention of the chair before the chair is actually in the chair, which happens when he gavels the meeting to order. But I didn't pull that stunt because I felt we could probably work this out.
The reason we're at this point now, as Mr. Ravignat clearly pointed out, is that there were issues with the steering committee. I do not lay the blame solely at the feet of the government for that, but there is a way this needs to be resolved. The chair has asked for some form of intervention from us to try to figure this out, and we have not been helpful in resolving that. We need to do that on a go-forward basis. The public accounts committee will not end at the end of the F-35 hearings. It will continue on until the end of this Parliament, and we need to find a way to make it work.
Let me restate what I stated about a week and a half ago, about whether this side has ever approached the chair because he's in our caucus. I stated unequivocally then, and I stand by it now, that I have never, nor would I ever, nor do I intend to in the future approach the chair to try to help me get recognition at this committee. I don't do that for two reasons. One is out of respect for the chair, regardless of who the person is who sits in it. Let me personalize it. I have known this chair for about 30 years, from a previous life, not when he was in government but indeed when we belonged to the same union. For those who have been in a union and who understand what the hard stick is, if I even made an attempt, the hard stick would have come down on top of me and it wouldn't have felt very pleasurable. I understand there's no reason to do that, and the chair wouldn't tolerate it. So let me state that clearly for the public to know that it has never happened from this side, from New Democrats on the opposition side, nor do we intend to do that on a go-forward basis.
Clearly, there is an issue around the F-35. It's a very public issue. The government acquiesced and decided to stay in public. If folks had been betting on the last time we stayed in public on a witness list, and the bets were that you would not stay in public, that you wanted to go in camera, all of those who had bet that way would have lost. Now you want to go in camera even though we still have that to discuss. That's it, the dilemma.
The other side of it is clearly in the G-8, where we wrote, as an opposition, a major dissenting report. We clearly had issues. You can see our trepidation about going in camera when our experiences are not joyous when it comes to the government's will to decide to go forward or not go forward. We wanted to go forward; you didn't, so we did not. You can see how we on this side are looking at you and saying we still wish to go forward. What happens if we go in camera and you decide you do not?
You extended the olive branch at the beginning. I would suggest that you continue to extend it, at least on the F-35, to deal with this and get it back on the rails as far as the witness list is concerned and what we intend to do with that piece, since you started down that road. On the other pieces, I think you need to decide where you want to go and how you do that as a process. I think if we end up having a sense of actually being back on track working as a whole committee, we may find indeed that we're able to continue forward in a manner where there is trust on both sides, and we may actually start working on some reports where perhaps there is less political fire, because there's a lot at this one—I understand that—and the committee would get back to kind of a regular routine.
I would point out one statistic to the folks on this committee. I said it once before, but maybe not at committee. When you check the chart of who has the most in camera meetings, it's us. Part of that's by necessity, because we write a lot of reports; it's not just because we're secretive. Somehow we have to find a way to be less apparently secretive. That's hard, and I don't suggest it's not.
I look to my colleagues to try to help that process. I hope you will consider continuing, at least for the F-35s, to show willingness to actually get to the bottom of what happened with this project, and do it in a public manner. I think it would suit the government better, but again it's their decision to make to keep it open rather than closed, for all the apparent reasons of the political pieces that fall into that. Regardless of what you do behind closed doors, will anybody believe you? I don't know.
At this point, on the believability around the F-35 file—and it's just that file the committee is looking at—I don't think you have a lot of trust on that one, folks. So I suggest you try to keep it open.
At the end of the day, I recognize the reality of seven versus four and how that vote can turn out. But I offer my comments and we'll see where it takes us.
Thanks, Chair.
9:20 a.m.
The Chair David Christopherson
Thank you, Mr. Allen.
I have first-time speakers and second-time speakers. I'll complete the first-time speakers.
Mr. Shipley, you have the floor, sir.
9:20 a.m.
Bev Shipley Lambton—Kent—Middlesex, ON
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
First of all, you've sort of laid out a couple of things. One is the issue around first to speak, and the second one is.... I have to tell you, as colleagues, I wasn't sure what was happening when I read the agenda, which indicated "televised". Mr. Chair, I think your words were, "Well, it's just easier to flip the switch and have the televisions on".
I would never be, and I don't think we should ever be, concerned about the work the media goes through to come to a public meeting. That's their job. If they choose to come, then they come. The meetings are public, and they can do that in any of the meetings. In fact, I'm on the international trade committee, and if they choose to come to those public meetings, they can bring all their equipment, and that's what they do.
I am concerned that we have taken a significant step to televise something that has been, in my history on this committee, limited to when the Auditor General comes, or when we do estimates and the ministers come. That is pretty much when we televise. We know that ahead or we're told ahead, and in this particular case it came out in the agenda. As has been mentioned, it is a direction where we as a committee are going down the wrong road when we can just say we'll just flip the switch and we'll televise the whole thing, taking away from the responsibility of the media to come and report public meetings.
All of the dialogue in an open public meeting is in the blues for anyone to read.
I also sat on this committee when we were in a minority government. I'm not sure where the big surprise is. In the committees I've been on over my six years here, committee business has always been done in camera. We made some exceptions the other day, and obviously they may or may not have been the right ones, but we decided we would just move ahead with some committee business.
Here we are now going back to what has been the standard and the norm for committees when you sit down, because you're talking sometimes about finances, the organization of who is going to come and when they're going to come, and who is going to be here whenever. I think that's a bit like the business meeting at home with your own business. That is what we should be doing.
So when we televise that.... Mr. Ravignat had said that this committee had always functioned well. I can tell you, Mr. Ravignat, that before you got on it, in the last session, it did not function well. It functioned well when we had the.... Chairs make a difference in how it's run.
Sir, I'm not taking a shot, but don't let yourself get in the position where the last chair of this—in fact I think you agreed with us—was making arbitrary decisions and making arbitrary comments without consulting and following the committee. You cannot have someone making unilateral decisions, and that's what happens when we get into this predicament.
Parliament has been asked to have a four-hour discussion and debate on Wednesday night on the Department of National Defence. As you mentioned, it would be nice to have Minister Peter MacKay, Mr. Fantino, and maybe Chris Alexander. All those folks are going to be there. It's going to be a great opportunity for all of us, quite honestly, to ask questions and for people who wouldn't normally get the opportunity here to have their opportunity in those four hours.
I think it is going to be a process that gives us an opportunity to follow. As Mr. Allen said, maybe we can be less secretive. I agree that much of that is because of the number of reports. If you go back to the number of reports we've been able to run through in this committee, in fact we're almost caught up. We're looking at an agenda here to deal with the reports of the Auditor General. There are six of them, and we've been asked to now start to prioritize them. Those are always committee business. We will decide how we're going to move forward with that, and then the other ones.
The other reason we're in camera is to follow the routine that has been there, which from my experience is that of committee business.
Mr. Chair, in a word of encouragement to you, and also a few critical words I must say, I would ask that we start to move back to doing committee business in camera, as it has traditionally been done. Let's move ahead so we can not only resolve the F-35 one, but also start to put together the agenda for the 2012 spring reports.
Thank you very much.
9:25 a.m.
The Chair David Christopherson
Thank you very much.
Just so we don't get too far off track, again I want to emphasize that there are two separate issues. I can see how the government, giving it some due here, would look at it and say, "Televised, in public, committee business? That's not the way we normally do things," and leap to the conclusion that there's something untoward going on. I can at least see the pieces that you pulled together to get there.
I need to emphasize this, and I ask especially the government members to listen. In the past, it was debatable whether we were going in camera. That's what the race was about. Originally the race was about the government getting the floor right after I gaveled the meeting, because they wanted to place an in camera motion. Politically, we all know that the quicker you do that, the better.
But it does suggest that we do not have a rule that all committee business is automatically in camera. Given that it's the public accounts, it seems to me the default position would be that we are in public unless and until a motion is moved to go in camera. No one has ever questioned that. When we've been in an open public session, and there's a race to get the floor, when the government does get the floor, they move to go in camera.
There's no debate on that motion. We have a vote, the government wins, we clear the room, and then we do our business. But it was debatable whether we needed a motion. We do not have a rule that all committee business is automatically done in camera. The only thing that stands close to that, where there are no exceptions, is report writing. That we do in camera for obvious reasons, and that serves us and the public very well, particularly when we can find unanimity around a report, because that has impact.
The second thing is on the cameras. If you take what I just said and remove the TV question, the only difference here is that the media—as in every other meeting we've had on the F-35—advised me that they wanted to cover this meeting, and therefore they would have brought in their crews. And as in every other F-35 meeting up until now, I've said at that point, and only at that point.... There have been a few exceptions in the past, and nobody from the government questioned me when I made those decisions, when it was so obvious that it needed to be televised—just so obvious—but not very often. I don't do that. It's not my role.
But when the media says they want to come and they're going to have these crews here, I have said in the past, "Just flip the switch." As you can see, that's what we're doing now. The only difference on that piece of paper is that it says the word "televised". That's just a courtesy so that members know to wear their prettiest ties, that they're going to be on TV. Other than that, nothing is different about the procedure.
Had I not had the cameras in there, and had the call of this meeting not been on the notice paper, then we would have had those very same camera crews in here and doing what they do. It seems to me that all we're doing is making life difficult if we say we're not going to flip the switch and we're not going to use the built-in camera system to cover committees in this room, which is what it's designed for. No, we're going to keep those turned off, and we're going to force the media to come in here and drag their portable cameras and drag their crews in and do the whole thing. We've seen what that looks like in here.
They are two separate issues. I would urge the government members, in particular, to please respect and acknowledge that they are two different things. I did not, by virtue of what you've received, make a unilateral decision that we're going to do this in public and that we're going to have the glare of the cameras, whether the government likes it or not. That's not where we are. That's not what I did.
I have explained myself on the TV side, I've explained myself on the opening of this meeting, and I remain accountable for all my actions and all my decisions.
Mr. Hayes, you now have the floor, sir.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (Sept. 22, 2009) – The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, ranked second in the world, opened the NORCECA Continental Championship with a 25-18, 25-10, 25-13 victory over Mexico in Pool B on Tuesday afternoon at the event being held at Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
Team USA continues pool play on Wednesday against No. 5 Cuba at 6 p.m. (3 p.m. Pacific Time), followed by a match against No. 30 Costa Rica on Thursday at 6 p.m. (3 p.m. Pacific Time). The tournament concludes Sept. 27 after the quarterfinal round on Sept. 25 and semifinals/classifications on Sept. 26.
The NORCECA Continental Championship winner qualifies for the 2009 FIVB Grand Champions Cup to be held Nov. 10-15 in Japan. Each of the four continental champions earns a spot into the FIVB Grand Champions Cup, along with host Japan and one wild card team.
The U.S. rallied from a 15-13 deficit in the opening set by scoring 12 of the final 15 points for a 25-18 victory. Team USA continued the momentum in the second set by taking a commanding 17-3 advantage in working to the 25-10 victory. Mexico led 6-4 early in the third set with four unanswered points, but a 5-0 run ignited the Americans to a 9-6 edge as they went on to win 25-13.
"Mexico played a strong first set and we didn't perform up to our level, but then we settled down and I hope we can build from the last two sets and play better tomorrow and the rest of the tournament," U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) said.
Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa) paced the U.S. offense with 11 points, including 10 kills on 19 attacks and just one error to go with a block. Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) added 10 points on the strength of nine kills on 18 attacks and a block. Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) chipped in eight kills on 12 attacks and one block for nine points. Christa Harmotto (Aliquippa, Pa.) contributed six kills on eight attacks and an ace for seven points. Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio) pocketed five points, all on kills off 12 attacks, in a reserve role. Lindsey Berg (Honolulu, Hawaii) scored three aces and a block to match Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) with four points. Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.) each tallied two points in the victory.
Berg set the USA offense with 13 assists on 54 set attempts, while Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.) added four assists in limited action in all three sets. Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) produced a team-leading nine digs while having eight excellent service receptions on 13 attempts. Barboza added six digs and four excellent receptions. Larson had seven excellent receptions on eight attempts to go with five digs.
McCutcheon started Berg at setter, Metcalf at opposite, Bown and Harmotto at middle blocker and Barboza and Pressey at outside hitter. Sykora was the libero for the match. Fawcett subbed into the match all three sets as part of double-switches with Thompson. Larson came off the bench in the first set and started the final two sets. Scott-Arruda started the final set in place of Bown, who subbed back into the match in the third set.
Team USA won all three scoring categories with advantages of 5-1 in blocks, 6-1 in aces and 43-25 in kills. The Americans converted 43 of 82 attacks into points for a 52.4 kill percent. Further, the U.S. held a .439 hitting efficiency with only seven hitting errors. Team USA limited Mexico to a 25.5 kill percent and held a sizeable 27-16 dig advantage. The U.S. also took advantage of 21 Mexico errors to its own 14.
Olivia Meza and Cecilia Rios each had eight points for Mexico.
"To play against a team like USA was a motivation for our players who enjoyed the experience of competing against a great team," Mexico Head Coach Samuel Cibrian said. "We paid the price of playing with a very young team against an opponent bigger in size and experience."
For the NORCECA Continental Championship, the U.S. is grouped in Pool B with defending champion Cuba, Mexico and Costa Rica. Historically, this year's Pool B participants have ruled the NORCECA Continental Championship with all 20 previous titles. Cuba (1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2007) has won the event 13 times, while the United States (1981, 1983, 2001, 2003, 2005) has won the championship five times and Mexico twice (1969, 1971). Further, USA and Cuba have played against each other in 16 of the last 17 finals.
USA and Mexico traded the first eight points of the opening set before Mexico gained a two-point cushion at 5-4. The U.S. earned the lead at 7-6 following a Pressey kill, only to have Mexico regain the advantage at 9-8. Metcalf turned in a kill as part of a 4-0 spurt by the U.S. to take a 12-10 lead. However, Mexico built a 15-13 advantage by scoring five of the next six points. The U.S. responded with a 4-0 run with kills coming from Harmotto and Metcalf and a block from Bown to go up 17-15. Fawcett provided a kill immediately after entering the match and a Metcalf kill to lift the U.S. in front 19-16. Larson chipped in a block between a Mexico service error and attack error to extend the U.S. advantage to 22-17. Team USA scored the final three points of the set at 25-18 with a kill and ace by Bown leading to several set points.
Harmotto tallied two kills after Barboza led the second set with a spike to give the U.S. a 3-0 cushion. After a Mexico point, Barboza gave the U.S. the serve back with a kill and Berg took over at the service line with three consecutive aces after a Metcalf kill to push the gap to 9-1. Metcalf contributed a kill and block to lift the U.S. in front 11-2. After Mexico's third point of the set, U.S. cruised out to a 17-3 advantage with six unanswered points with two kills from Larson, a Harmotto ace and three Mexico attack errors. Mexico scored consecutive points at 18-6, but could not score on its serve the rest of the set. Fawcett provided two kills down the stretch as the U.S. won 25-10.
The U.S. secured an early 4-2 lead in the third set with three straight kills coming from Larson, Metcalf and Scott-Arruda. However, Mexico turned the tide with four straight points to obtain a 6-4 margin. The Americans answered with five consecutive points started by back-to-back kills from Larson, a Harmotto kill and two Mexico errors at 9-6. Harmotto and Fawcett collected back-to-back kills to push the U.S. advantage to 12-7. Leading 14-9 in the third set, the U.S. gained complete control at 19-9 with five straight points that included two kills by Barboza around a Bown ace. Mexico stopped the bleeding with consecutive points and traded rallies to 21-13. However, the Americans scored the final four points of the set at 25-13 with kills from Larson and Metcalf followed by two Mexico errors.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for 2009 NORCECA Continental Championship
# - Name (Pos, Ht, Hometown, College)
1 - Nicole Fawcett (OPP, 6-4, Zanesfield, Ohio, Penn State)
2 - Danielle Scott-Arruda (MB, 6-2, Baton Rouge, La., Long Beach State)
3 - Angie Pressey (OH, 5-8, Lake Mary, Fla., California-Berkeley)
4 - Lindsey Berg (S, 5-8, Honolulu, Hawaii, Minnesota)
5 - Stacy Sykora (L, 5-10, Burleson, Texas, Texas A&M)
6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-6, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
10 - Kristin Richards (OH, 6-1, Orem, Utah, Stanford)
11 - Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
12 - Nancy Metcalf (OPP, 6-1, Hull, Iowa, Nebraska)
13 - Elisha Thomas (MB, 6-3, Grass Valley, Calif., Long Beach State)
16 - Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, Aliquippa, Pa., Penn State)
18 - Courtney Thompson (S, 5-7, Kent, Wash., Washington)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.), Tom Pestolesi (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Team Leader/Manager: Carl McGown
2009 NORCECA Continental Championship Schedule
Pool A: Canada, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago
Pool B: Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, United States
Pool A Round Robin
Sept. 22: Canada vs. Dominican Republic, 6 p.m. (Match 3)
Sept. 22: Puerto Rico vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 8 p.m. (Match 4)
Sept. 23: Dominican Republic vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 4 p.m. (Match 6)
Sept. 23: Canada vs. Puerto Rico, 8 p.m. (Match 8)
Sept. 24: Canada vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 2 p.m. (Match 9)
Sept. 24: Puerto Rico vs. Dominican Republic, 8 p.m. (Match 12)
Pool B Round Robin
Sept. 22: USA def. Mexico 25-18, 25-10, 25-13 (Match 1)
Sept. 22: Cuba vs. Costa Rica, 4 p.m. (Match 2)
Sept. 23: Costa Rica vs. Mexico, 2 p.m. (Match 5)
Sept. 23: USA vs. Cuba, 6 p.m. (Match 7)
Sept. 24: Cuba vs. Mexico, 4 p.m. (Match 10)
Sept. 24: USA vs. Costa Rica, 6 p.m. (Match 11)
Sept. 25: 2nd Pool B vs. 3rd Pool A, 6 p.m. (Match 13)
Sept. 25: 2nd Pool A vs. 3rd Pool B, 8 p.m. (Match 14)
Classification 5/8
Sept. 26: 4th Pool A vs. Loser Match 13 or 14, 2 p.m. (Match 15)
Sept. 26: 4th Pool B vs. Loser Match 13 or 14, 4 p.m. (Match 16)
Sept. 26: 1st Pool A vs. Winner Match 13 or 14, 6 p.m. (Match 17)
Sept. 26: 1st Pool B vs. Winner Match 13 or 14, 8 p.m. (Match 18)
Classification 7/8
Sept. 27: Loser Match 15 vs. Loser Match 16, 2 p.m. (Match 19)
Classification 5/6
Sept. 27: Winner Match 15 vs. Winner Match 16, 4 p.m. (Match 20)
Bronze-Medal Match
Sept. 27: Loser Match 17 vs. Loser Match 18, 6 p.m. (Match 21)
Gold-Medal Match
Sept. 27: Winner Match 17 vs. Winner Match 18, 8 p.m. (Match 22)


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