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Win it all, or lose it all… Giselle Landry is in Las Vegas to haul her wayward brother back home. But casino owner Luke Dalton is also looking for her brother, who has run off with his little sister. The two should join forces, but Luke is unaware that Giselle's brother is also fleeing his duties as the future alpha of the Landry werewolf pack—which includes his Were bride.The Landrys don't believe in Weres mating with humans, and Giselle is no exception. Though Luke is wealthy, gorgeous, and protective, Giselle can't let herself get close to him, even to solve their shared dilemma. But the tension wears away her resistance, and after a wild night with Luke, she is shocked to find she's fallen for him.But Luke still doesn't know Giselle's true identity. And once their siblings are found, Giselle must return to San Francisco. Can they overcome the odds—or will what happened in Vegas stay in Vegas?
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Werewolves Love Downton Abbey Too, by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Recently I was delighted to discover that Mr. Thatcher, the werewolf butler with a starring role in Werewolf in Los Vegas, shares my love of the BBC series Downton Abbey. I asked Mr. Thatcher if I could interview him about his fascination with the show and with humans in general. He graciously agreed.
VLT: Why does the Downton Abbey series appeal to you so much?
Mr. Thatcher: Elegance, my dear lady. Elegance. Ah, to have been in service as a butler at a time when grace and style were expected in every aspect of life! Nowadays we have artificial candles with batteries instead of pure beeswax tapers. Even on dining tables, mind you. Disgraceful!
VLT: Would you have preferred to work for a werewolf family back in the early part of the twentieth century or a human one?
Mr. Thatcher: A human family, of course. Humans have intrigued me since I was a lad in Hertfordshire. Sadly, I doubt that would have been possible in England at that time, or even now, for that matter. Our British packs are less open to allowing a pack member to work in a human household. It isn't done, you see. I had to move to America in order to obtain my post with the Dalton family.
VLT: That brings up an interesting point. I understand why you would watch television since you're so fond of humans, but how about the rest of the Thatcher pack in Hertfordshire? Does television interest them at all?
Mr. Thatcher: Distressingly, it does not. Television and film in general has portrayed werewolves in such a bad light that my pack members choose to boycott it entirely. If I still lived in Hertfordshire, I'd have to sneak into a human pub to watch Downton Abbey. My pack would not approve. Living in Las Vegas with a human family allows me much more freedom in that regard.
VLT: Tell me about your favorite character on the show.
Mr. Thatcher: Well, you know it has to be the butler, Carson. The part is played most admirably by Jim Carter and I am a true, if somewhat reserved, fan. A rather composed groupie, if you will. We are of an age, and I fancy we look something alike, as well. I have, um, sent him a letter.
VLT: Really? To congratulate him on his excellent job on the show?
Mr. Thatcher: Well, yes, that, and to . . . well, to request a photograph, perhaps with his signature.
VLT: How exciting? And has he responded?
Mr. Thatcher: Not as yet, but I feel sure that he will, now that the fourth season has been completed.
VLT: What will you do with the photograph when you get it?
Mr. Thatcher: Oh, I know exactly where it will go, right next to my framed photograph of Sir Michael Caine.
VLT: You have an autographed picture of Michael Caine?
Mr. Thatcher: Indeed I do, dear lady. In my opinion, no one can touch his portrayal of Batman's butler, Alfred Pennyworth. Superb acting.
VLT: Interesting! Any other fictional butlers you've admired over the years?
Mr. Thatcher: Several, although I only have one other photograph on my Butler Wall of Fame.
VLT: And who that might be?
Mr. Thatcher: Lurch.
VLT: From The Addams Family?
Mr. Thatcher: The very same. I identify with him as a butler, but also as a type of creature who receives very bad press on the whole. As do werewolves.
VLT: All the more reason for me to interview you today, Mr. Thatcher. It's been a pleasure, and I promise to give you really good press.
Mr. Thatcher: Thank you, dear lady. Anytime you wish to view an episode of Downton Abbey, do let me know. I have them all. In fact, I believe I'll start over with Season One this very evening. Elegance. Pure elegance!
10. Your local grocer is always out of filet mignon. Contrary to popular belief, werewolves no longer hunt for food. They get it at the store and they buy a LOT of steak.
9. Trader Joe's ditches the three-buck Chuck and stocks more pricey French wines. A werewolf likes to accompany his steak meal with a high-quality red, preferably from France.
8. Your curbside recycling program improves dramatically. Remember how you used to decipher those little triangles to figure out what goes in the bin and what doesn't? No more. Throw it all in. Werewolves are environmentalists who insist on comprehensive recycling in their neighborhood.
7. When an ambulance goes by, you hear an echoing howl. Werewolves would be embarrassed to admit this, but they can't help themselves. It's like when we hear somebody laugh, we laugh. When they hear that ambulance howl, they howl. Too funny!
6. An anonymous donor gives fifty trees to your local park. The trees are good for the environment and good for the werewolf. It gives him a more forested place to run at night.
5. Your dog refuses to go near that grove of trees in your local park. The inevitable side effect of having a werewolf in your park is that he will mark his territory by peeing on perimeter trees. Your dog is no fool.
4. Your cat spends more time staring out the window at night with her hair standing on end. True, cats do this a lot anyway, so this might be nothing. Or it could be that a werewolf is strolling through your front yard on the way to the park.
3. A cute guy at Starbucks is reading WEREWOLF IN LAS VEGAS. Another dead giveaway – he's drinking his espresso out of a recyclable Starbucks cup. A werewolf makes the eco-friendly choice whenever possible, unless it has to do with his ride.
2. The cute guy from Starbucks leaves and gets behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. Werewolves love their fancy cars. They just do. By this time you have enough clues to be reasonably sure you've spotted a werewolf. Follow him. If you're lucky he'll head for the park.
1. You find a neatly folded pile of clothes tucked under a tree in the park. Bingo! Before he shifts, a werewolf must remove his clothes. If you discover clothes flung around helter-skelter, that was not a werewolf disrobing. Human hanky-panky was probably involved. But if you come upon a carefully folded pile of clothes and care to hide behind a tree and wait, you might glimpse your friendly neighborhood werewolf returning from his run. Introduce yourself. He may not be of your species, but he reads, he recycles, and he drives a hot car. What more could you want?
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NATURAL EXPERIMENTS OF HISTORY. Edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson. viii + 278 pp. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. $29.95.
WHY AMERICA IS NOT A NEW ROME. Vaclav Smil. xii + 226 pp. The MIT Press, 2010. $24.95.
Natural Experiments of History and Why America Is Not a New Rome are concerned with comparisons, and with how—and how not—to make them. In the latter book, Vaclav Smil, the Czech-Canadian geographer and polymath, takes umbrage at the blithe comparisons that are often made between the modern United States and ancient Rome; he tries to convince readers that these are for the most part specious and ill-founded, because the differences between the two societies are so vast. In Natural Experiments of History, the book's contributors and its editors, Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, find the standard arguments for causation made by historians to be unsystematic and impressionistic. Arguing for more rigor in such analyses, they advocate the use of natural experiments and statistical methods.
Diamond and Robinson hope that scholars concerned with history will be on the lookout for natural experiments that lend themselves to more careful study of causation than historians typically prefer. No one can step back into history and change things, so controlled experiments of the sort that are routine in chemistry, physics and parts of biology remain out of reach. But now and again history happens to present opportunities in which, for example, two (or ideally more) societies that greatly resemble one another are in one case perturbed by some variable and in the other case not, and their subsequent histories diverge. Or societies with divergent initial conditions are perturbed by the same variable, and their subsequent histories converge. For instance, in 1950 North and South Korea were perhaps very much alike. Then geopolitics intervened and one was subsequently governed very differently from the other, and their economic fortunes followed quite different paths. One might reasonably conclude that their systems of government were responsible for their contrasting economic fortunes. This is the simple version, and few of those exist in something as notoriously untidy as human history.
The case studies in the book range from contemporary societies that keep written records from which abundant information can be obtained to nonliterate past societies that we know about only from archaeological excavations; geographically, they encompass many parts of the world, from tropical Africa to regions of Germany.
Patrick Kirch contends that methods of historical anthropology that borrow something from genetics and linguistics can help us understand why three different places that were all colonized by the early Polynesians and had similar cultures when first occupied—Mangaia, the Marquesas and Hawaii—have evolved so as to feature notably different political formats a few centuries later. The reason seems to lie mainly in their geography.
James Belich, the lone card-carrying historian in the book, examines what he calls "exploding Wests"—meaning rapidly developing frontiers of white settlement in the 19th century—in North America, Australia and New Zealand, with sidelong glances at Siberia and Argentina. Belich finds similar rhythms of boom and bust in them all, and broadly similar explanations for this pattern. His chapter lacks the statistical approach that is employed in the other chapters, and in methodological terms it is the most conventional as history. But it bristles with insight and is written with verve.
Stephen Haber explores the role of institutions and political culture in producing notably different banking systems in Brazil, Mexico and the United States. Then Diamond revisits the comparisons between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and among scores of Pacific islands, that he made a few years ago in his book Collapse, in which he also recommended the pursuit of natural experiments. Nathan Nunn, an economist, tries to show that the intensity of the slave trade in Africa over several centuries largely explains today's poverty on that continent and the geographic distribution of that poverty. Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer offer an explanation of the currently divergent fortunes of various parts of India based on their differing experiences of British rule. Daron Acemoglu and coauthors seek to explain the geography of economic development within 19th-century Germany by noting which regions Napoleon's troops occupied (and reformed) and which regions his army left alone. Kirch and Belich aside, the main goal in these chapters is to explain economic history, especially why some places are rich and some are poor—the question Diamond addressed in his 1997 book Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Many historians would reject these analyses, citing confounding variables and rival explanations. I found myself wondering, with respect to German economic history, whether it might just be that Napoleon accidentally chose to occupy parts of Germany that had lots of easily accessible coal and were well served by the transport highway of the Rhine river, and would therefore show faster economic growth after industrialization began around 1850. And it occurs to me that Nunn's arguments about the salience of the slave trade would have looked much less plausible in 1960, when Ghana and Nigeria (countries from which many people were sold into slavery) were among the richer parts of Africa.
But neither historians nor anyone else should harrumph at the methodological suggestions in this book. Historians like to make comparisons but have no clear methods for doing so. Natural experiments, although never as clear cut as well-designed ones in the laboratory, do offer insight and opportunities for stronger statements about causation than historians (and archaeologists) typically provide.
The editors write that the book is targeted at undergraduates as well as scholars. Undergraduates are likely to be at least as open to methodological experimentation as their elders. But few will have the patience to slog through the prose of most of these chapters. They can get the gist of the book's contribution from the prologue and afterword, which bear the stamp of Diamond's talent for simplicity and clarity.
In Why America Is Not a New Rome, Smil, for his part, aims to debunk a single, if commonplace, comparison that he finds lacks rigor. As he notes, breezy analogies between ancient Rome (sometimes the Republic, sometimes the Empire) and the United States seem especially popular these days, albeit more among journalists than among scholars. Very few people today have the classical education needed to appreciate the complexities of ancient Rome. Smil, not at all abashed about displaying what appears to be a solid command of Latin, wants to show that in many respects the comparison is absurd, even if on some levels it is useful.
To this end he offers the following sets of arguments. First, the terms in which the comparison is normally cast are factually erroneous. The United States is not an empire, properly speaking, whereas Rome (even for much of its Republican period) most certainly was one. The United States does not rule the world, and indeed its power today is largely illusory, clearly slipping and surely ephemeral. It has not been able to impose its will, or even win most of its wars, since 1945. Rome did not rule the "known world" even at the height of its empire. Romans knew about other large and powerful states in Persia, northern India and to a limited extent even China.
Second, in the most fundamental of matters ancient Rome and modern America are dramatically different. The United States is a far more innovative society and uses vastly greater quantities of energy than were needed in ancient Rome. Roman life expectancy was much shorter, Romans were far poorer, and economic inequality in ancient Rome was far greater. Here Smil is on firm ground, and in his discussions of energy, it is ground very familiar to him, as he has written several valuable books on energy and society. These matters of energy, economy and demography are fundamental, Smil insists, and vitiate almost all comparison between ancient Rome and the United States. This argument, which I accept fully, of course also vitiates comparisons (on these material variables) between all ancient societies and modern industrial ones.
Smil does not venture deeply into the swampier terrain of analogies based on unquantifiable matters such as public morality, civic virtue and so forth. Such matters usually feature prominently in Rome–America comparisons, especially when authors aim to show that contemporary Americans lack virtue and are therefore heading for a fall. Instead of providing quantitative data to show how different Rome and America are, Smil instead points out, again quite rightly, that one can find manifestations of pervasive corruption, selfish elites, divisive chasms between civil and military sectors of society, and so forth almost anywhere one cares to look. These are not features particular to Rome and America. Nor are monumental architecture and sprawling road systems.
These two books will help anyone think more carefully about the business of comparison. It is an irresistible way of thinking. Indeed at root, all knowledge, all judgment, all evaluation is comparative. The great French medievalist Marc Bloch maintained that all history is implicitly comparative history. We can't help making historical comparisons, yet we do not have a logical, accepted way to make them. Facile ones abound, partly because most of us are intellectually a bit lazy, and partly because (even if spurious) they can help convince one's listeners or readers. Next time you hear a proposed political course of action described as "another Munich," you might want to invite the speaker to have a look at one or both of these books.
J. R. McNeill is an environmental historian and University Professor at Georgetown University. His most recent book is Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (Cambridge University Press).
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Politico's Couric piece a Trojan horse
posted at 7:57 am on April 30, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
Let me state from the start that I enjoy Politico, the brash newcomer at the junction of journalism, New Media, and politics. However, they have hit bumps in the road since their inception in trying to parse the line between reporting and opinion, and today the wheels came off the wagon. Gebe Martinez initially appears to report on a purported brewing controversy between Katie Couric and Latinos, but it becomes apparent that Martinez is offering an opinion column on immigration policy using Couric as a dodge:
The Latino-led action against CBS comes at a critical time. The rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric, hate crimes against Latinos and election-year political pandering on immigration has caused Hispanic leaders to forcefully push back against the scapegoating that touches immigrants and various generations of Latinos.
NCLR, MALDEF and the National Hispanic Media Coalition now have websites aimed at correcting "inaccuracies" in the media. The CBS broadcast is serving as the latest example of unbalanced reporting.
In its written complaint to CBS, MALDEF cited a Texas comptroller's study noting economic benefits due to the presence of undocumented immigrants. MALDEF also maintained the CBS report exposes the woman "and implicitly leads her to believe that she is protected from deportation." And it portrayed birthright citizenship as "an unfair benefit to immigrants rather than a core principle" of constitutional law.
One gaping hole in the news story involved a hospital administrator's statement that the facility has "uncompensated care of over $200 million a year," which the reporter tied to emergency room care for non-citizens. But how is that known if the hospital does not verify citizenship or legal vs. illegal immigration status?
Civil rights leaders also contended Couric's broadcast was inconsistent, not just because of her brand as "America's sweetheart" but also because, in June, she is to receive the 2008 Alice Award, named for Alice Stokes Paul, the women's suffrage leader and author of the Equal Rights Amendment.
In fact, Martinez supplies one unsupported charge after another without providing any evidence to support his opinions. A rise in hate crimes against Latinos? An increase in anti-immigrant rhetoric from who — John McCain? Where is the reference? Where is the supporting data? Martinez scolds CBS for not vetting a hospital administrator's on-air statement for the same thing, a lack of supporting material, but Martinez never bothers to research the $200 million figure and its methodology, either to prove it false or true.
In fact, Couric really isn't the focus of Martinez' claim. It serves as a Trojan horse for Martinez' own political pet cause. He wants to grab readers by offering a little dish about Couric's already-teetering career as a news anchor to then spend most of his article arguing against the border-security lobby. This becomes obvious when the only immigration organizations Martinez chooses to contact in this article are MeCHA and the National Council of La Raza. That certainly screams "balance"!
If Martinez and Politico want to offer factless argument and invective, let them run it as an honest opinion column and quit hiding behind Katie Couric's skirts.
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You seem to be a bit off your feed lately in terms of focus. You're either blatantly peddling for McCain or wandering off in a wilderness of irrelevant topics.
BigD on April 30, 2008 at 8:16 AM
BigD on April 30, 2008 at 8:16 AM
Yeah, you're right. Not calling McCain names like some Kos Kid and peddling whatever other cheap lie/slur one can come up with is really just shilling for him.
Uh, I don't know if you've been reading Ed the last few days, but he's been calling McCain "presidential," "sticking to the issues," and "campaigning on the concepts of freedom and liberty" with absolutely no discernible evidence of any of the aforementioned.
Just ask the North Carolina GOP.
The Blog is supposed to be "Hot Air," not "Mists of Cheap Perfume."
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Yes, basil is sexy in a flashy, flimsy way, but give me rosemary over that floozy any day. It's got experience. It's seen the world. And it's got stamina - stick it in a casserole and it's still going strong eight hours later, after all your flimsy, leafy numbers are long gone.
What the hell am I talking about?.
I don't know what you are talking about..But that is the funniest description of Basil I've ever come across..
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Curry leaf is the sexiest herb! Good-looking, exotic, satisfying, complex, it has it all!
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i am looking for a lemon meringue pie recipe that uses ingredients i can produce on a smallholding.
that means no condensed milk, no cornstarch.
i remember mother making this with only eggs butter flour lemons and sugar (ok sugar has to be the exception, i know honey wont peak a meringue)
whats your recommended way to proceed?
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how can i make a lemon meringue pie using butter flour eggs sugar and lemons? i dont want corn/any starch to thicken, just egg yolk. and no tinned milk please. mum used to make it without those but its 20 years too late to ask her
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Welcome to the forum petia.ivanova.
All the recipes that I have found so far contain corn flour/corn starch but I will look in a few more books to see what I can find.
I presume that the cornflour stabilises the lemon mix so that it can be beked in the oven with the meringue on top of it .
edit ... I have just found this onn the internet , is this the sort of thing you are looking for ?
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petia, I don't have a recipe, but I'm sure this is possible - one of my old cookbooks has a recipe for apple meringue pie which just uses apples, sugar and separated eggs, plus pastry for the base.
Try looking at recipes for lemon tart or tarte au citron - they're usually based on a lemon-flavoured egg custard and are very like the base of a lemon meringue pie.
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petia.ivanova.3781 wrote:
i am looking for a lemon meringue pie recipe that uses ingredients i can produce on a smallholding.
that means no condensed milk, no cornstarch.
i remember mother making this with only eggs butter flour lemons and sugar (ok sugar has to be the exception, i know honey wont peak a meringue)
whats your recommended way to proceed?
The best filling for a lemon meringue pie is a lemon curd - using eggs, butter, lemons and sugar. You definitely don�t need condensed milk - however the addition of cornflour thickens the mix, stabilizing it. If you make your curd thicker by adding more egg yolks you shouldn't need the cornflour. The meringue in a lemon meringue pie does usually have cornflour to make it more malleable and soft - however it isn�t a necessity and you can omit the cornflour altogether - just make sure you really whip the meringue until it is stiff. Or you can make an Italian meringue � which is a little more complex but well worth it as the flavour and texture of the meringue is like nothing else.
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I am a lorry driver and I need some healthy alternatives for lunch I dont have access to a cooker so just cold food ideas. Quick and easy too coz Im usually to knackered to do much after 10 hours in a lorry Thanx for any ideas. Ann
I can imagine how tired you must feel after 10 hours of driving! I would be too. The best thing for you would not just be lunch but snacks too. When you�re driving it is really important to keep your energy up throughout the day, so make yourself a little �snack box� and fill it with plenty of nuts (unsalted), toasted seeds and dried fruit (you can get ready mixed packets in most supermarkets and service staions), fruit such as bananas, apples and grapes and plenty of water. Nuts are really high in energy and full of good fats which keep you going through the day � as well as fruits and of course water.
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Are nuts and dried fruit a good plan if you're driving all day? I love nuts - once I pop I can't usually stop - and it's amazing how the calories mount up. I'm not generally a calorie counter but it shocked me when I found out how many are in a bag of nuts! Dried fruit is very sugary, too, and sugar rushes/crashes while you're driving are not great.
I would have gone with fresh fruit for snacking while driving, rather than dried and nuts. Not so energy-dense and keeps you hydrated. Obviously harder to keep a stock in the cab if the weather's warm, and you'd need to take time every now and then to peel and cut some up and stick it in a box or pot so you don't need to peel oranges while you're driving.
My best driving snack is oatcakes. Not the most exciting, but I find they keep the blood sugar steady, which helps my concentration. I used to drive hundreds of miles in a day for work and a pack of oatcakes was a lifesaver.
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War without boundaries: Australia and the 'war against terrorism'
Curator's talk presented by Claire Baddeley on 20 March 2003 beside the exhibition
Welcome everyone to this introduction to the War Memorial's latest exhibition in the Special Exhibition's Gallery, War without boundaries: Australia and the 'war against terrorism, on display until the 31st August 2003.
First, I'll provide a general outline of the exhibition, its theme and aims, and then discuss a number of individual art works, items and objects in more detail.
This exhibition aims to communicate to visitors, in a number of ways, Australia's involvement in the 'war against terrorism'. The role and operations of the RAN in the Persian Gulf, the RAAF on the island military base of Diego Garcia and in the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, as well as SAS troops in Afghanistan feature prominently in the exhibition.
The exhibition also explores the historical context for Australia's involvement in the 'war against terrorism', the events surrounding and Australian responses to September 11 2001, as well as the contemporary military participation.
The exhibition consists of paintings, drawings, relics, photographs, uniforms and ephemera. Included are recent works by the official war artist, Peter Churcher. His SAS Afghanistan works have not been on public display before, nor has the newly acquired material from the Australian Defence Forces involved in the 'war against terrorism'.
I'll begin by looking at the introductory section of the exhibition – a brief history of Australia's involvement in conflict in the Middle East. Australia has had a military presence in the Middle East for many years. Australian peacekeepers, in particular, have been in the region for several decades. During the 1990s, the artist George Gittoes worked with the Australian Army and peacekeepers in the Middle East, in particular the Sinai, Palestine and Southern Lebanon. As an artist, Gittoes began his career as a photographer, working on colour holography, creating films, performance pieces and large scale environmental theatre pieces before creating his overtly political works, such as these drawings, which deal with elements of conflict and human suffering. In the Middle East, Gittoes documented the work of Australian United Nations Peacekeepers and Truce Observers. This can be seen in A Plea for Peacekeepers (1994), where Major Rick Modderman is shown engaged in conversation with Palestinian elders. The artist's ability to combine an exaggerated realism (evident in the distorted faces of the elders and enlarged hands of Modderman), with an insight into the physical and psychological impact of conflict, makes this a compelling image.
The impact of long term conflict in the Middle East is also evident in Gittoes' other work on display in this section of the exhibition, 105 year old woman, Southern Lebanon. Here, an elderly woman sits in front of a bullet riddled wall, head in a scarf. There is a strong sense that she has seen very little peace in her lifetime. At the same time, however, her long life and survival suggest that glimpses of hope are possible in regions of ongoing conflict.
Along with the peacekeepers in the Middle East, Australians have served with the United Nations Mine Clearing Unit (UNMCTT) in Afghanistan. The United Nations Mine Clearance Training Team worked with Afghan refugees in Pakistan and later Afghanistan, teaching the refugees to be aware of the danger of landmines and training them in mine clearance. In 1979, Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan and took control of the government. Ten years later, Russian troops withdrew and in 1992 the Soviet backed regime collapsed, to be taken over by the "holy warriors", the Mujahadeen. An Islamic government was then established and in 1994, another army, the Taliban, emerged to become a major force in Afghanistan.
Australians were involved in this troubled world region through mine clearing activities. The mines resulted in (and still do) the deaths of thousands of Afghans, particularly children. These mine awareness cloths were used as training accessories, developed to educate Afghan refugees about the identification of particular mine types, such as the POMZ-2 mine, or the effects of mines on people and even animals. The purple mine awareness cloth is particularly graphic in its rendering of the effects of handling a mine. The cloth, presenting a mine location scenario and damage to animals, is a series of small pictures, almost like a cartoon, its meaning and message easily conveyed to an Afghan population with a literacy rate of only 29.5%.
An important and unique perspective on the conflict in Afghanistan is expressed through the Afghan war rugs. War rugs, such as this one, were produced as a result of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1979. They were originally intended as souvenirs for Russian soldiers. As historical documents, the rugs provided a means of preserving the changing nature of Afghan culture and society, while generating a source of income. Many war rugs replace traditional flora, fauna and religious iconography with depicts of Soviet tanks, grenades, jets, helicopters and weapons, such as AK-47s.
This large Baluchi war rug is stylistically intricate with a complex and dense design layout. Military motifs, such as tanks, gun carriers, handguns and grenades are combined with Baluchi geometric medallions and plant forms. The Baluch were traditionally a group of rug weaving nomads occupying areas of Eastern Iran, western and northern Afghanistan and Western Turkestan. Today, many of the rug weavers have fled Afghanistan since the Taliban rule and make contemporary war rugs in refugee camps on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. The use of goat hair on the edge of the war rug also helps to identify it as a Baluchi rug. In this rug, the central field is dominated by stylised medallions and military motifs, while in the main border armoured cars and tanks alternate.
Moving from the introductory section of the exhibition, the next section explores a variety of responses to September 11 2001. The two newspaper front page headlines, from the Washington Post and New York Times present now familiar and infamous images of the World Trade Centre Twin Towers being hit by hijacked planes. The posters are 2 of twenty presented to the War Memorial by the United States Embassy entitled, Headlines of History. The aftermath, physical destruction and emotional impact of the terrorist attack on New York are also recorded in these two Reuters photographs. Such images, even for Australians not directly involved in the terrorist attacks, have evoked reactions of anger, sorrow, disbelief, fear and mourning.
These well know images are in contrast to the far more personal and unique responses of an Australian artist and photographer to the enormity of the terrorist attacks. Ben Butcher, a Melbourne artist and photographer was in the United States during September 2001. His photographs, range from a large double exposed panorama of New York shortly after the terrorist attacks, to seven smaller photos, capturing a variety of private and public responses he witnessed on the streets – overt patriotism, mourning, dissent and opposition to any further violence. The photos move away from the awesome spectacle of the physical destruction and the sensationalisation of the September 11 tragedy, presenting instead a reflective and nuanced perspective by a young Australian photographer.
In the wake of the events of September 11, the artist, Gordon Bennett, best know for his history paintings exploring representations of Aboriginal people, resumed painting a series of works, his Notes to Basquait, begun in 1998. Incorporating images and text inspired by the work of the American graffiti movement artist, Jean-Michel Basquait (1960-1988), this work from the series, Notes to Basquait (Orange) is complex and expressionistic. Basquait was best known for his collage like layering of word and image, colour and line. Bennett's work is similar, somewhat like a storyboard, incorporating random, but carefully selected elements, drawing together political, cultural and historical connections.
Notes to Basquait (Orange), Gordon Bennett
In this work, the remains of the World Trade Centre form a dark silhouetted background to the crumbling New York city. Overlaying this is a mixture of references and images – the Shamsa pattern used to adorn the Koran, the sacred scriptures of Islam and Islamic calligraphy. The grid-like structure behind the figure and the English words strewn across the surface of the painting are representative of "European rationality". Behind the multilayered body, with both classical forms (referring to white humans) and damaged limbs (referring to Aboriginal and marginalised humans) are set against a red crucifix, which in the artist's words, explores 'pain and anguish and a common humanity'. In the simplest terms, Bennett's work expresses the idea that was are all bound together and influenced by historical events such as September 11, whether white or black, living in Australia or the United States. At the same time, his work comments on the historical and moral impact of the clash of cultures- Western democracy vs. the more fundamentalist aspects of Islam that erupted in the wake of September 11.
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the United States formed the International Coalition against Terrorism. The Australian government was quick to announce its support for coalition operations in Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf and elsewhere. As a result, the Australian Navy, as part of a Multinational Interception Force (MIF) provided ships to operate in the Persian Gulf, enforcing United Nations sanctions against Iraq. The MIF operated by challenging and boarding ships suspected of carrying prohibited cargo, especially exports of oil from Iraq. This part of the exhibition begins with a section exploring the role of the RAN involved in the "war against terrorism". In the display case is amongst other things, part of the blue boarding party uniform worn by the Navy, various patches and a brassard from an officer on HMAS Kanimbla, one of the ships involved in sanctions against Iraq. In contrast to these material culture objects, the work of the official war artist, Peter Churcher, documents the individuals and day-to-day activities of the RAN in the Persian Gulf.
The RBS-70 afternoon watch, HMAS Kanimbla, Peter Churcher
Churcher arrived in Bahrain in February 2002 and during the first three weeks of his commission, experienced life aboard HMAS Kanimbla and Adelaide. The work, The RBS-70 afternoon watch, HMAS Kanimbla reveals his desire to accurately record the activities of the "afternoon watch" on board HMAS Kanimbla. Standing watch and being alert was an important part of the daily duties on Kanimbla and in this case, manning a surface to air missile launcher. The scene also reveals Churcher's fascination with the combination of the human and the technological requirements of modern warfare.
The combination of the human and the technological is also apparent in the work, Operations Room, HMAS Kanimbla. Here, Churcher as quietly observed naval officers monitoring and maintaining the radio and radar tracking devices for the whole Gulf area. Churcher noted of this work; "I was taken with the cramming together of people in the confined space with all the technological equipment creating an amazing composition".
Operations room, HMAS Kanimbla, Peter Churcher
Of all the works Churcher produced with the RAN, it is in his portraits that he reveals his skills as a realist painter. In works such as Stoker Emma Conway: the engine room, HMAS Kanimbla, an unassuming woman is imbued with a sense of dignity and presence traditionally reserved for the depiction of more senior naval staff. The work conveys the physical and emotional character of the sitter with a simplicity and directness. She was in a vital, behind-the-scenes position and was the only female who voluntarily worked as a stoker.
Stoker Emma Conway: the engine room, HMAS Kanimbla, Peter Churcher
The RAAF was involved in the "war against terrorism" in two ways. From November 2001 until May 2002, F/A-18s were based on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, now an American military base, providing logistic support to the SAS troops in Afghanistan. Peter Churcher spent two weeks on Diego Garcia, capturing the environment, tent life and images of the F/A-18s in compositions that evoke a strong sense of place and the military presence on the island. The work, The Australian Hornets (F/A-18s) out on the flightline, 7.30am, Diego Garcia, details the Australian planes on the main flightline, preparing for their next flight into Afghanistan. The aircraft are set against a tropical, cloud filled sky, palm trees and local vegetation. The juxtaposition of natural beauty and the sophisticated machinery of war are evident in this work.
The Australian Hornets (F/A-18s) out on the flightline, 7.30am, Diego Garcia, Peter Churcher
While on Diego Garcia, Churcher also witnessed and recorded the routine training activities of the RAAF pilots. Two fighter pilots involved in a 'scramble' are captured in this work, Two fighter pilots rigging up during a scramble, Diego Garcia. Their response to a warning call and subsequent preparation for aerial defence are evoked in this work, showing the pilots dressing in preparation for their tasks.
Peter Churcher
Later in 2002, Australians served with the RAAF in Kyrgyzstan, a land locked republic in central Asia, formally part of the Soviet Union. Two RAAF Boeing 707 refuelling aircraft were based at Manas airbase, near Bishkek, the country's capital. They were involved in air-to-air refuelling of coalition fighters, French and American aircraft. Items related to the RAAF's activities and presence in Kyrgyzstan such as this T-shirt of the 84th Wing detachment , RAAF, food ration packs called MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat) and this map used for planning missions within the RAAF area of operations , provide an insight into the role of the RAAF involved in the 'war against terrorism'.
The SAS involvement in the "war against terrorism" consisted of three successive deployments of 150 Special Forces troops, supporting the American operations against the Taliban and al Quaeda forces in Afghanistan. The SAS soldiers were based at an airfield in Southern Afghanistan, in Kandahar and the final rotation at Bagram, an airfield north of Kabul. Peter Churcher completed his commission as an official war artist in Afghanistan in September 2002. With members of the Army History Unit he flew to Kuwait and then to the Bagram airbase. There he captured the operations and activities of the SAS; the majestic dry mountain scenery, ruined adobe brick buildings, the Afghan people, American helicopters and planes, a US Hospital at the base, even the twisted remains of Russian military hardware.
At the same time, a number of Churcher's works reveal a desire to record some of the resourceful, lesser known SAS activities which took place at the Australian compound. Images such as Two SAS with "Simpson" the donkey, in the American compound, Bagram depict 2 SAS with 'Simpson', one of four donkeys kept on the base by the SAS. Donkeys were used to carry gear up the steep, mountainous terrain, untransversable by vehicles. Through his depiction of the soldiers casually dressed, Churcher was also able to evoke a sense of the heat, light and conditions encountered by the Australians at Bagram.
SAS sleeping quarters, Bagram airbase, Afghanistan also captures the troops engaged in routine activities. Here, surrounded by the paraphernalia of military life, such as weapons, uniforms and storage trunks, is glimpsed an intimate view of the SAS sleeping quarters. Of this work, Churcher noted; 'I was taken by the crowded and crammed feeling of the sleeping quarters that these men had been living in for the last six months…the personal effects of the soldiers were casually strewn together with their instruments of war'.
SAS sleeping quarters, Bagram airbase, Afghanistan, Peter Churcher
Churcher's rapid and spontaneous style, vividly capturing the scene before him is evident in another work, Neyamet: Two SAS paramedics with patient in American hospital, Bagram, Afghanistan. As part of the international coalition against terrorism, Australian SAS worked at the American hospital at the base. Access to this environment allowed Churcher to record the human impact of war. He noted that 'Neyamet was a five year old boy who received a serious ballistic wound to the head…[he] made a remarkable recovery and was a bright, bubbly addition to the ward. He was a particular favourite of the two Australian paramedics'.
Neyamet: two SAS paramedics with patient Neyamet in American hospital, Bagram, Afghanistan, US Colonel Post standing behind, Peter Churcher
During his 10 days with the SAS, Churcher also spent time at the US military base, Camp Doha, in Kuwait. While there, he observed and documented the behind the scenes activities of the SAS involved in operations supporting the troops in Afghanistan. In Computer "geek" in his office, Australian base, Kuwait, Churcher captures an informal portrait of a soldier in his room, surrounded by personal souvenirs collected in Kuwait. These include a sword in a leather scabbard on the right and a poster of Osama bin Laden on the left, used by Americans in the shooting range at Camp Doha, Kuwait. As in his earlier RAN and RAAF images, Churcher's portrait conveys something of the physical and psychological characteristics of his sitter. The ordinary, the unique and the intimate are combined in this portrait, reflecting the individuals behind the machinery and technology of the 'war against terrorism'.
Computer "geek'"in his office, Australian base, Kuwait, Peter Churcher
A similar, quietly observed portrait by Churcher was painted in the last few days prior to returning to Australia. In the New Rolex, a young soldier is depicted, having returned from a shopping trip to Kuwait City, proudly wearing a new watch. Of this work, Churcher wrote; 'Whilst deployed in Afghanistan, the soldiers were receiving a bonus loading to their regular pay, single men, such as this one, felt able to treat himself to a little extravagance, in this case, a new Rolex watch…'.
The new Rolex, Peter Churcher
To complete his official war artist's commission, Churcher painted Lieutenant Colonel Rowan Tink, Commander of the Australian SAS task group at Bagram air base from January to July 2002. Tink was awarded a Bronze Star by the US Government for his leadership in eliminating al Queda networks from their mountain eyries in south-eastern Afghanistan. Churcher painted Tink in Sydney at the end of 2002. In order to create a sense of the environment and conditions under which Tink operated as a Commander, Churcher depicts him in full uniform, set against the landscape surrounding the Bagram base in Afghanistan. Tink is depicted looking directly out at the viewer, his expression a mixture of pride, contemplation and resolve.
Lieutenant Colonel Rowan Tink, SAS , Peter Churcher
To compliment the work of official war artist Peter Churcher, a number of SAS items collected by the Army History Unit in Afghanistan and Kuwait, including a full uniform, are on display. These items include webbing and a number of Afghan propaganda flyers reputedly retrieved from the Tora Bora caves.
A differing perspective on the historical, political and social events currently occurring in Afghanistan are reflected in the most recent work of George Gittoes, a number of which were acquired by the War Memorial for this exhibition. In early 2002, Gittoes travelled to Afghanistan with the aid organisation, Medicins sans Frontieres, visiting much of the country, filming, photographing and drawing. While in Afghanistan he visited a camp for internally displaced persons, saw individuals disfigured by mines, witnessed the ancient game of buzkashi played with a team of horsemen and frequently observed the destruction wrought by years of tribal and religious fighting, the Soviet invasion and most recently the US presence in Afghanistan. His images of Afghanistan powerfully convey a country caught up in years of warfare.
In the painting, Pass, Gittoes depicts a young Mujahadeen soldier, approximately 16 years old, holding a gun, who has been involved in the destruction of a Soviet tank. Standing before a snow covered landscape, the Soviet tank, in particular, the elongated gun barrel forms the soldier's headdress. On the right of the soldier are a number of green flags, indicating the graves of Mujahadeen martyrs and soldiers who lost their lives during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Giottoes' interweaving of the closely observed and the symbolic is also evident in his drawings. In Masood, two Afghan men are depicted sitting on the street selling pornographic magazines and posters. An image of the late Northern Alliance leader, Ahmad Shah Massoud dominates the centre of the drawing. The drawing's deliberately distorted forms reveal something of the surreal flux of values in contemporary Afghanistan – the pornography symbolic of western attitudes towards women and consumerism , while the Masood poster reinforces the intense loyalty held towards a more traditional and militant leader in Afghanistan.
Given that the Australian SAS's involvement in Afghanistan as part of the International Coalition against Terrorism has only recently concluded and the situation regarding Australia's deployment of troops to Iraq highly contentious, it has been difficult to conclude this exhibition in an appropriate way. The exhibition, which is commemorative, documentary and now historical, while exploring a contemporary event, concludes in an open ended way with "Questions for the future". Photographs and text about the role of Australian weapons inspectors involved in UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission), lead into this final section of the exhibition. It is intended that there will be a changing display of photographs related to Australia's involvement in the current war against Iraq, to keep the exhibition as up to date as possible with current events.
With over 100 paintings, drawings, relics , photographs, uniforms and ephemera displayed in the exhibition, it represents a timely exploration of a contemporary event; Australia's ongoing involvement in the "war against terrorism".
Claire Baddeley
Curator of Art
Australian War Memorial


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Katimavik Cuts: Lawsuit May Be Coming Against Feds For Scrapping Trudeau-Era Youth Program's Funding
An Ontario woman is hoping to launch a class-action lawsuit against the federal government for pulling funding from the Trudeau-era youth program Katimavik.
"The Conservatives left 600 youth who had been selected to participate in the program in a lurch as well as the non-profit organizations who were looking forward to the volunteer hours," St. Catharines, Ont., resident Colleen Cleve told The Huffington Post Canada Friday.
Heritage Minister James Moore has said the $14 million price tag for the program wasn't justified, leading the Tories to cut funding in their March budget.
"Katimavik had a cost of over $28,000 per participant and a one-third dropout rate," Moore said in the House of Commons in April. "As Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, I have to make difficult decisions and easy decisions. Ending funding for Katimavik is one of the easiest decisions I have ever made."
That comment mobilized Katimavik's alumni and supporters who have led protests and started petitions and Facebook groups hoping that powerful testimony from former participants may make the the government recognize the value of the program.
Cleve's two children were supposed to join Katimavik this July and volunteer in different communities across the country, but their plans for the next six months were thrown into limbo by the government's decision.
Melanie, 20, a finishing student at Niagara College was lucky to get her old summer job back at MarineLand, her mother said. While her 17-year-old son Erik decided to go back to high school for an extra semester after missing application deadlines for college and university.
"I feel that because of the government's decision to (cut Katimavik's funding) my children are, I wouldn't say exactly wasting the next six months, but perhaps not using them in the best way that they possibly could," she told HuffPost.
Cleve, who openly admits she voted for the Conservative Party last May, said she won't make that mistake a second time. "I will never vote Conservative again," she said.
A legal assistant, Cleve has decided to channel her anger against the Tories into a class action lawsuit.
She believes she may have a breach of contract claim, since the federal government pulled out of a three-year funding agreement with Katimavik one year early.
But she knows she's unlikely to win.
"That's not my intention, my intention is to basically raise public awareness of what the government has done," she said. "So many people are not even aware of this program."
Katimavik's marketing and communications director Victoria Salvador told HuffPost the court challenge is unlikely to be successful because the contract includes a standard notice clause.
"The funding agreement did go until March 2013, but like all contracts there is always like a 90-day clause in them, so I'm not sure how much bite that is going to have," Salvador said.
"We were definitely not expecting the government to use the 90-day clause unless, you know, civil war or something of that nature (happened)," she added.
Katimavik is currently winding down operations for all projects affected by the cuts, although it is still hoping it can press forward without federal funding, Salvador said, noting several private partners have shown an interest in subsidizing the program.
NDP MP Charmaine Borg said she hopes public pressure will force the Conservatives to reverse their decision.
The young Quebec MP has introduced a motion, M-352, in the House of Commons calling on the government to restore Katimavik's funding and recognize the merits of the program, both for its young volunteers and for communities. Every day for more than a month, Borg has been placing testimonials from former Katimavik participants on the Heritage Minister's desk.
Moore hasn't approached her about them, but she's not dissuaded.
"This is a program that people really care about. It's not only about the kids, it's not only about the parents of the kids, it's about communities across the country, it's about national identity, it's about bilingualism, it's about helping people, it's about volunteerism, it's about all those things," she said.
Borg thinks the class action lawsuit is an example of how frustrated people are with the government's decision.
"If (Moore) feels that it wasn't fiscally responsible, and fiscally efficient, then maybe he can find ways to improve it, but he needs to wake up and realize that cutting the program on the fly without notice and not letting people go this summer is just unacceptable," she said.
The Conservative government, however, shows no sign it will be persuaded to change course.
"There is no basis for this claim," Moore's spokesman, James Maunder told HuffPost about the potential lawsuit.
"There are countless opportunities for youth to volunteer in every community across Canada. Ending Katimavik is a responsible decision that will save taxpayers money while allowing us to support more effective, more affordable youth programs," Maunder said.
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Katimavik offers young Canadians an exciting experience that incorporates learning and volunteer involvement. It is Canada's leading national youth volunteer-service program.During their 9 or 8 months with Katimavik, participants ages 17 to 21 live in three regions of Canada. They are involved in exciting volunteer projects in each community.You're 17 to 21? Apply for the Katimavik program and get ready for the experience of a lifetime! www.Katimavik.org
The Katimavik Spryfield and Halifax houses get together and hit the crowded streets of Halifax, marching, dancing and striking poses. All the while getting out the message: Get A Life! and get involved.
In January 2010 a group of Katimavik participants came to Maillardville, a neighborhood in Coquitlam, British Columbia, and did some cool stuff. I followed them around with my camera, documenting their experiences. This video tells thier story.
The government is calling the budget a plan for Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity. "In this budget, our Government is looking ahead not only over the next few years but also over the next generation," said Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. "The reforms we present today are substantial, responsible and necessary. They will ensure that all across government we are focused on enabling and sustaining Canada's long-term economic growth." However, while the budget does include many investments, it also make a number of cuts and changes that will save money. Here are some of the highlights. (File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)
The government is cutting spending by $5.2 billion on an ongoing basis, but it says it will not reach that total until 2014-2015. Ottawa says 70 per cent of these savings will come from "operational efficiencies." The planned reduction in spending is expected to result in the elimination of 19,200 public service jobs over a three-year period, 4.8 per cent of total federal employment. The government expects 7,200 of those positions to be eliminated through attrition. Six hundred executives positions are expected to be slashed. Roughly $900 million will be spent making these job cuts, on things such as severance and benefits. After 2014-2015, the public service cuts will save the federal government $5.23 billion per year.
The government is cutting the budget of Canada's national broadcaster by $115 million per year by 2014-2015. Currently, the CBC's total budget stands at roughly $1.1 billion per year, making for a cut of roughly 10 per cent.
The federal government is eliminating the penny. But prices won't necessarily be rounded. The cent will continue to be the smallest unit of sale and non-cash transactions, such as spending done with credit cards, will continue to be settled to the nearest cent. Existing pennies will continue to be legal tender for an indefinite period of time, but the Mint will stop producing new ones and distribution will cease in Fall 2012. If no pennies are available for a cash transaction, it will be rounded to the nearest five cent increment after GST/HST. The government says it currently costs 1.6 cent to manufacture a penny and that supplying them to the economy costs $11 million per year. (CP photo)
The government says it has no intention of building any new prisons, despite the passage of the omnibus crime bill that some experts suggests will increase the number of people incarcerated. The Tories plan to slash $295 million from Corrections Canada by 2014-2015. The RCMP will also receive major cuts, $195.2 million by 2014-2015. But the government will spend $9.6 million over three years to combat counterfeiting.
The government is moving to alter the current process for the environmental assessment of resource-based projects. It plans to move to one review for one project and to give these reviews a definite deadline. The change will affect the Northern Gateway pipeline. Additionally, the government wants to focus resources on reviewing the largest plans with the greatest potential for environmental impact. The federal government says it will do this while continuing to protect the environment. The government says this change is aimed at simplifying a complex system of reviews that imposes costly delays and deters investment. Canada's first near-urban national park will also be declared in the Rouge Valley in suburban Toronto. Other highlights include: - By 2014-2015, Environment Canada's budget will be reduced by $53.8 million per year. - $50 million will be spent over two years to protect species at risk.
The government is increasing the eligibility age for receiving Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income from 65 to 67. The change will be made starting on April 1, 2023 and will be fully implemented by January 2029. The government will also allow individuals to choose to defer payment for a maximum of five years starting in July 2013. If a person does defer, they will receive a larger adjusted pension than if they had begun collecting at 65. The government says it is making the changes primarily due to demographic shifts. The pending retirement of the Baby Boomers will increase the total cost of the program from $38 billion in 2011 to $108 billion in 2030.
The feds are planning to reduce Health Canada's budget by nearly $310 million per year by 2014-2015. Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada will consolidate many services, reducing what the government calls duplication, in order to achieve some of these savings. The government will also eliminate Assisted Human Reproduction, a group involved in the study of potential uses for stem cells. They also propose: - Expanding GST/HST and income tax breaks for health care services. - $51.2 million over two years to improve food safety. (Alamy photo)
The government is making an investment of more than $1 billion in science and technology. Canada currently lags behind other similar economies in terms of private sector investment in R&D and overall innovation, according to the government. Here are a few highlights of the spending: - $400 million to help increase venture capital investment by businesses. - $100 million for the Business Development Bank Of Canada for venture capital investment. - $110 million per year for the Industrial Research Assistance Program. - $105 million over two years help pay for innovation in the forestry sector. - $500 million over five years for the Canada Foundation for Innovations to pay for new competitions. Funding will start in 2014-15.
The government will revamp the immigration system by killing a backlog of 300,000 skilled foreign worker applicants by sending them their money and applications back. Up to $130 million will be spent refunding fees to skilled worker applicants who paid under outdated criteria. The feds are planning to improve the system for the recognition of foreign credentials The government will move to ensure businesses first look to domestic sources of labour before using the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. CORRECTION: A previous version of this story stated that the budget will kill a backlog of 460,000 skilled foreign worker applicants by sending them their money back. The actual number is 300,000. (pwenzel on Flickr)
The budget will implement the Beyond the Border security pact with the United States (The Action Plan on Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness and the Action Plan On Regulatory Cooperation). But the coming changes don't mean the Canada Borders Service Agency will escape cuts. The department's budget will be reduced by $143.4 million by 2014-2015 It will also seek to streamline for the process of bringing goods home from abroad by increasing the dollar amount exempted from tariffs for travellers. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
The budget seeks to continue the government's work to expand Canada's international trading relationships. "Our government is undertaking the most ambitious trade expansion plan in Canadian history," said Flaherty. In his speech, Flaherty also signals that, while the U.S. will remain our largest trading partner, Canada needs to open its export economy to emerging economies. China, India and the Trans-Pacific Partnership are mentioned by name. However, there will be cuts. The International Assistance Envelope, which includes the Canadian International Development Agency, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, the International Development Research Centre the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Natural Resources Canada, will be cut by $377.6 million by 2014-2015. Most of that money will come from The Canadian International Development Agency -- $319.2 million. Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada will be cut by $29.1 million. The federal government also plans to find $80 million in saving by selling official residences abroad. (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Prime Minister Stephen Harper March 2, 2012 in Ottawa -- Amos Ben Gershom/GPO via Getty Images)
The budget touts the government's progress in modernizing the Canadian Forces through major investment. However, the Defence budget is about to fall substantially. Some of this reduction will come from improvements in efficiency, but much will come from the end of the combat mission in Afghanistan. The cuts will amount to roughly $1.12 billion by 2014-2015. According to Armine Yalnizyan, of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, these cuts are over and above the roughly half a billion announced during a previous round of strategic review. The size of the military will not shrink but it won't grow either. The regular Canadian Forces will remain at 68,000 members and the reserve force at 27,000. Veterans Affairs will also be on the receiving end of cuts - $66.7 million by 2014-2015. The budget will also provide $5.2 billion for the Coast Guard over the next 11 years. (Canadian soldiers prepare to leave Kandahar military base in southern Afghanistan on July 17, 2011 -- ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images)
The government is eliminating the Trudeau-era youth program Katimavik, as The Huffington Post Canada first reported. The federal government says the program benefits a very small number at an excessive cost per person. (CP photo)
The budget reduces spending on Fisheries and Oceans by $79.3 million by 2014-2015 The department will undergo a substantial restructuring. Services will be consolidated and the size of its motor vehicle fleet will be cut. It will also focus less on research, relying more on academia. (AFP/Getty Images)
The government will spend $275 million over three years on First Nations education. The money is budgeted for the building and renovation of schools on reserves. Ottawa is also set to spend $27 million over two years on the Urban Aboriginal Strategy. $330.8 million will also be provided over two years to build and expand water infrastructure on reserves. (CP)
Coming changes to MP Pensions are not outlined in the budget. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said the changes he wants to make, increasing pension contributions by the MPs themselves and raising the age of eligibility will have to be discussed. (Alamy photo)
The government is making a number of changes to Employment Insurance (EI) it says are aimed at creating a more efficient program. -$387 million over two years for matching benefit amounts to wages in different local labour markets. Depending on the unemployment rate in the region, claimants will need between 14 and 22 weeks to qualify for EI. -$74 million over two years to help make sure claimants benefit from getting a job. EI claimants will be able to keep 50 per cent of their earnings without getting their benefits clawed back. - Limiting premium increases to no more than 5 cents per year. - $21 million over two years to improve the content and timeliness of information provided to job seekers. (Alamy photo)


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text: I recently picked up a hive in an old packing prate about 1'-6" wide 3' long and 1' deep, I was temped to just bring it home set it in it's spot and let it be, but figured that would probably just cause problems, but anyway, how should I go about making the bars? Should I try to modify the box in anyway that would make it easier to work? I have never even seen a top bar hive in person so I have no idea how you work them and go about this.


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2 Mated queens would be great. The sooner the better. lol
2 Mated queens would be great. The sooner the better. lol
I sent you a PM. We still have a few queens available. Actually we endeavor to produce queens year-'round, and, most seasons, are able to. Only during very cold winters, when drones are eliminated, does successful queen mating become difficult.
48 years - 50 hives - TF
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how early in the year will you have queens Joseph?
"It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!" Zapata
I am a small producer, but working to expand. I try to have a few queens, available, all year 'round, but I usually begin producing larger crops in mid March - early April.
48 years - 50 hives - TF
Joseph Clemens -- Website Under Constructioni
You can try Velbert on here or at http://www.vlwbeequeens.com/apps/profile/69696649/ He as some nice queens too.
Plant Hardiness Zone 6B, 5300 ft., Bee Zone A/B, Proverbs 24:13
Are you still looking for queens?
Just got back to the comp. I have 3 cut outs scheduled. Surely I should be lucky enough to get ONE! lol
Thanks for the replies.
hawaii sells queens year round I think!
Good to go with the Queen situation for now. Thanks for all the replies!
Yes. The cut outs and combines.


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1st 3 only for now. Too much a crap shoot after that. I think these 3 have a fairly good shot at being available. Long least likely of 3...just because of name. Always big on OL. I pleaded for Beatty a few years back. Beatty plus these 2 OL would likely cement a heck of a line for years to come. Eli and Wilson would be happy campers. Hunt could be one of those that other teams will look back and say "why did we pass this guy?"
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