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Seeds of the project were sown in the Swedish Pavilion at Hannover Messe earlier this month. The energy plant has been designed to adapt food and beverage producers to more environmental friendly and financially affordable technologies. Such projects aim towards helping manufacturers minimize their environmental impact and maximize profitability. Pilot projects of the energy assessment in USA have shown reduction in carbon emissions from food and beverage manufacturing and it also cut energy cost by around 15% to 25%.

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Galen Strawson
Professor — DPhil, Oxford 1983
- E-mail: email@example.com
- Phone: 512-471-6776
- Office: WAG 219
- Office Hours: TH 2pm to 4pm
- Campus Mail Code: C3500
philosophy of mind, metaphysics, moral psychology, Locke, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche
Professor Strawson taught at the University of Oxford from 1979-2000, where he was a Fellow of Jesus College. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK from 2001–2012, and and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center from 2004-2007. He has held visiting research positions at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra (1993, 2012); the University of Copenhagen (2003, 2011); Princeton University, where he was a Council of the Humanities Old Dominion Fellow (2011); and the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (2012). He has taught as a Visiting Professor at NYU (1997), Rutgers University (2000), MIT (2010) and Princeton (2011). He is the author of Freedom and Belief (Oxford 1986, 2nd edition 2010), The Secret Connexion: Realism, Causation and David Hume (Oxford 1989), Mental Reality (MIT Press 1994, 2nd edition 2009), Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics (Oxford, 2009),The Evident Connexion: Mind, Self and David Hume (Oxford, 2011, revised paperback edition 2013), Locke on personal identity (Princeton 2011, revised paperback edition 2014). He is principal author of Consciousness and its Place in Nature, ed. A. Freeman (Imprint Academic, 2006). A selection of his philosophical papers, Real Materialism and Other Essays, was published in 2008 (Oxford).
PHL 382 • Pers Identity/Consciousness
41475 • Spring 2020
Meets TH 12:30PM-3:30PM WAG 310
TITLE: Topics in Metaphysics: Mind, Self, and Categorial Monism
Graduate Standing and Consent of Graduate Advisor or instructor required.
Course Description
Develop and assess a version of categorial monism; address questions about the mind/self/ person/subject of experience and about panpsychist views both inside and outside categorial monist framework. (Categorial monism is the view that there's only one fundamental metaphysical/ ontological category; it's compatible with but doesn't imply either thing monism (i.e. there is only one thing) or stuff monism (i.e. there is only one kind of fundamental stuff); it's equally compatible with thing pluralism (e.g. atomism) and stuff pluralism (e.g. Cartesian stuff dualism). Keith Campbell is a categorial monist, also early Moore and Russell, also Whitehead (also arguably David Lewis). John Heil is a categorial dualist. E. J. Lowe is a categorial pluralist (author of The Four-Category Ontology).
Grading Policy
one term paper (up to 20 pages) relating to one of course topics, due by end of semester [90%]
one in-class presentation [10%]
one end-of-semester presentation of draft term paper [0%]
various, Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism, William Seager ed. 2019
Samuel Alexander, Space, Time and Deity 1920-4
Keith Campbell, Metaphysics 1976, Abstract Particulars 1990
Sam Coleman, 'Panpsychism and Neutral Monism: How to Make up One's Mind' 2016
Durant Drake, Mind and its Place in Nature 1925
Herbert Feigl, 'The "mental" and the "physical"' 1958/1967
Philip Goff, Consciousness and Fundamental Reality 2017, Galileo's Error 2019
Charles Hartshorne, Whitehead's Philosophy: Selected Essays 1935–70 1972
John Heil, The Universe As We Find It 2012, Appearance in Reality 2020
John Heil, The Universe As We Find It 2012, Appearance in Reality 2020
David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature (1.4.6 & Appendix) 1739–40
William James, Principles of Psychology (ch. 10) 1890
Fraser MacBride, "The Particular-Universal Distinction: A Dogma of Metaphysics?" 2005
Alois Riehl, Principles of Critical Philosophy 1887
Luke Roelofs, Combining Minds: How to Think about Composite Subjectivity 2019
Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Matter 1927, My Philosophical Development 1959
Moritz Schlick, General Theory of Knowledge 1918/1925A. Strong A Theory of Knowledge 1923
G.F. Stout Manual of Psychology 1899
C.C. Williams 'Naturalism and the Nature of Things' 1944, 'Universals and Existents', 1959
C.D. Broad The Mind and its Place in Nature 1925
This seminar satisfies the M&E requirement
PHL 382 • The Subject Of Experience
42020 • Spring 2019
Meets TH 4:30PM-7:30PM WAG 310
Graduate Standing and Consent of Graduate Advisor or instructor required.
Course Description
A general survey of questions raised by the notions of the subject of experience, the self, and the person. The course will be centered in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, extending into epistemology, social psychology, moral psychology, and ethics.
Central questions. What is a subject of experience? Is there such a thing as 'the self'? Review of the ideas of Descartes, Locke, Hume (all three standardly misunderstood). William James on the self. The question of self-knowledge (questions about introspection, immediate acquaintance, the 'situationist' data, the injunction to 'know yourself', the structure of self-consciousness—role of embodiment, role of 'the other'). Other possible topics: The 'narrative' conception of the self. Indian views. The structure of consciousness. Kant on the self. Relevance of data from psychopathology.
Grading Policy:
Term paper (up to 20 pages) relating to one of the topics covered 90%; one in-class presentation 10%
Illustrative selection of authors: A. Coliva, B. Dainton, A. Damasio, D. Dennett, R. Descartes, B. Gertler, D. Hume, W. James, D. Kahneman, J. Locke, A. MacIntyre, I. Murdoch, F. Nietzsche, D. Parfit, M. Proust, B. Russell, M. Schechtman, S. Shoemaker, G. Strawson, C. Taylor, D. Velleman, S. Wolf, D. Zahavi, P. Zimbardo.
This seminar satisfies the M&E requirement
PHL 384F • First-Year Seminar
42265 • Fall 2018
Meets TH 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 310
This seminar is restricted to first year graduate students in Philosophy.
Topics of central concern in analytic philosophy, with a focus on philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and metaphysics.
To be determined
Grading Policy
two 20-minute presentations from weekly readings (required but not letter-graded); one 18-20 page term paper
PHL 396W • Dissertation Seminar
42300 • Fall 2018
Meets W 12:00PM-3:00PM WAG 310
PHL 382 • How Things Hang Together
42220 • Spring 2018
Meets W 12:00PM-3:00PM WAG 310
Graduate Standing and Consent of Graduate Advisor or instructor required.
Course Description
'Matter, Motion and Figure, are but one thing, individable in its Nature …. Nature is altogether Material' (Margaret Cavendish 1664)
In this course we plan to consider the prospects of various forms of (among other things)
thing monism aka existence monism (sc there is only one thing—Parmenides, Spinoza, 'blobjectivists' Horgan and Potrč, Samuel Alexander, a cloud of idealists, and various leading present-day cosmologists)
stuff monism (sc there is only one fundamental kind of stuff)
including e.g.
materialism/physicalism in leading post-1950s sense of 'materialism' and 'physicalism'
materialism/physicalism in leading pre-1950s sense of materialism' and 'physicalism'
neutral monism
panpsychist monism including Whitehead physicalist panpsychist monism
We propose to examine the prospects for identity metaphysics, which questions the fundamentality of ontological distinctions that other forms of metaphysics treat as fundamental. In one strong form identity metaphysics holds that [1] the distinctions between the notions substance object quality property process state event are metaphysically superficial, so too [2] the distinctions between the notions energy laws of nature force causation power, so too [3] the distinction between these two sets of notions.
Questions concerning the explanatory significance or intelligibility of various metaphysical or methodological proposals may occasionally arise.
background course book: Bertrand Russell 1927 An Outline of Philosophy (UK title) Philosophy (USA title) pdf available from GS
[metaphysics, philosophy of mind, history of philosophy requirements]
This seminar satisfies the M & E requirement
PHL 610QB • Probs Of Knowledge & Valuation
42400-42410 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM WAG 302
Description (one to three paragraph description of course content):
This course focuses on questions in metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of mind. It begins with some general introductory remarks, some basic philosophical terms and methods of philosophical analysis. It goes on to consider some issues in 'early modern philosophy' in the writings of Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, together with some present-day treatments of these issues: issues concerning knowledge and scepticism, the relation between mind and body, the nature of color, color words, and color concepts, personal identity and the self. These lead to questions about agency and responsibility, and free will, these lead in turn to a consideration of 'situationism' and cognitive biases and illusions, and even, perhaps, to the question of the meaning of life
List of Proposed Texts /Readings (N/A, TBD, and Course Packet are not acceptable responses):
no course book [readings drawn from the following] Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics), Descartes (Meditations 1, 2, 6), Elizabeth of Bohemia (letters), Locke (Essay 2.27, 4.3.6), Hume (Treatise 1.4.6 and Appendix, Enquiry §8), Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals), Emerson (Essays), Nietzsche (passim), William James (Principles of Psychology vol 1); A. Camus, P. & P. Churchland, D. Davidson, D. Dennett, J. Doris, H. Frankfurt, F. Jackson, D. Kahneman, C. McGinn, I. Murdoch, T. Nagel, D. Parfit, G. Ryle, M. Schechtman, J. Smart, G. Strawson, J. Searle, R. Taylor, M. Tye, G. Watson, B. Williams, L. Wittgenstein, S. Wolf, V. Woolf
Grading Policy:
(1) section attendance and participation: 10%
(2) mid-term exam: 25%
(3) in-class final exam: 25%
(4) 7-8 page paper: 40%
PHL 384F • First-Year Seminar
42570 • Fall 2016
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM WAG 310
Michelle Montague and Galen Strawson
This seminar is restricted to first year gradraduate students.
Course Description
In this course we'll consider some topics that are of central concern in analytic philosophy today, focusing on philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and metaphysics.
Grading Policy
2 presentations, 10% each
18-20 page paper, 80%.
Readings will be drawn from the following list (provisional):
René Descartes Works and commentators (e.g. Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Marleen Rozemond)
John Locke Essay and commentators (e.g. Catharine Cockburn, Galen Strawson)
Franz BrentanoPsychology from an Empirical Standpoint
William James The Principles of Psychology
Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis
Gottlob Frege 'On Sense and Reference'
Bertrand Russell 'On Denoting'
P. F. Strawson 'On Referring'
K. Donnellan 'Reference and Definite Descriptions'
Saul Kripke Naming and Necessity
A. E. Eddington The Nature of the The Physical World
Bertrand Russell The Analysis of Mind, The Analysis of Matter
Iris Murdoch The Sovereignty of Good
Gareth Evans The Varieties of Reference
David Lewis 'New work for a theory of universals'
Fred Dretske Explaining Behaviour
Thomas Nagel The View From Nowhere
PHL 323M • Philosophy Of Mind
41655 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM GDC 2.502
This course is an introduction to some of the central issues in the philosophy of mind. The fundamental question is simple: What is mind? Among the more specific questions that will be considered are the following: What is consciousness? Is mind-body dualism defensible? Is physicalism (everything is physical) defensible? Is panpsychism (everything is mental) defensible? Are 'behaviorist' or 'functionalist' theories of mind defensible? What is the relation between consciousness and matter (mind and body)? What is it to be a subject of experience? Is there such a thing as 'the self'? What is a person (what makes a person the same person at different times)? What sort of knowledge do we have of other minds? (Is seeing the color red the same for all of us, and can we know this?) What sort of knowledge do we have of our own minds? To what extent are we subject to cognitive biases and illusions? What is the will? Do we have free will? How can mental states be about things? What are memory, perception, imagination, intentional action, 'intentionality'?
PHL 382 • Metaphysics And Mind
41740 • Fall 2015
Meets W 6:30PM-9:30PM WAG 312
Graduate standing and consent of Graduate Advisor or instructor required.
Course Description
This course will consider address questions and topics on the following list: —what is the mental? —what is the physical? —what is naturalism? —the prospects for monism, dualism, pluralism, when it comes to giving a general account of the nature of concrete reality. —the prospects for thing monism (view that there is only one entity) and stuff monism (view that there is only one fundamental kind of stuff). —is neutral monism (stuff-monist position) a possible position when it comes to giving an adequate account of the relation between the mental and the non-mental (the experiential and the non-experiential)? —is property dualism a possible position (is it a coherent position)? —what is a subject of experience? —the nature of subjectivity. —the nature of consciousness, conscious experience. —does all conscious awareness essentially involve awareness of that very awareness? —what are the fundamental types (the highest-level determinables) of conscious experience (is there only sensory-emotional phenomenology? is there also cognitive phenomenology? is there also irreducible evaluative phenomenology?) —the prospects for panpsychism (view that all that exist are subjects of experience and experience) —the prospects for panexperientialism (view that all that exists is experience, experientiality) — what follows for naturalistic philosophy of mind from the fact that physics only tells us about structural (logico-mathematically characterizable) features of reality, not about non-structural qualitative/intrinsic features? —what is the distinction between structure and quality? —the metaphysics of intentionality —mental causation
1 term paper (90 per cent); 1 class presentation (10 per cent)
Consciousness in the Physlcal World: Perspectives on Russellioan monism, ed. T. Alter and Y. Nagasawa (Oxford)
PHL 610QA • Probs Of Knowledge & Valuation
42810-42820 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM PAR 201
Description (one to three paragraph description of course content):
This course examines epistemological issues as they arise intertwined with metaphysical issues in the philosophy of mind: including, centrally, the (so-called) mind-body problem. It moves on to questions about persons and personal identity. These lead in turn to issues of agency and responsibility, and from there to central questions in ethics about (for example) the relative importance of consequences and goals, duties, virtues; even, perhaps, about the meaning of life
List of Proposed Texts /Readings:
[from the following] Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics), Descartes (Meditations 2 and 6), Elizabeth of Bohemia (letters), Locke (Essay 2.27, 4.3.6), Hume (Treatise 1.4.6 and Appendix, Enquiry §8), Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals), Emerson (Essays), Nietzsche (passim), William James (from Principles of Psychology vol 1); A. Camus, P. & P. Churchland, D. Davidson, D. Dennett, J. Doris, H. Frankfurt, F. Jackson, D. Kahneman, C. McGinn, I. Murdoch, T. Nagel, D. Parfit, G. Ryle, M. Schechtman, J. Smart, G. Strawson, J. Searle, R. Taylor, M. Tye, G. Watson, B. Williams, L. Wittgenstein, S. Wolf, V. Woolf
Proposed Grading Policy:
One 6-7 page paper: 40%
Mid-term Exam: 30%
In-class Final Exam: 30%
PHL 387 • The Situated Self
43520 • Spring 2014
Meets TH 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 312
Title: The Situated Self
Graduate standing and consent of graduate adviser or instructor required.
Course Description
The question to be addressed is Socrates' question: how should we live? More particular questions are likely to include the following: (1) Should we expect a (non-trivial) single answer to Socrates' question? (2) What is the proper place and scope of the notion of character in ethics? (3) What is the place and scope of the notion of the self in metaphysics and ethics? (4) What is the place of the notion of narrative in ethics—in moral psychology and psychology in general? (5) How should we react to the situationist data in social psychology? (6) What is the scope of intentional action in human mental activity (ethical or not)? (7) Correlatively, to what extent is human mental activity best understood as passive, fundamentally a matter of reactivity? (8) How do answers to questions (5), (6) and (7) bear on the question of moral responsibility?
Term paper (up to 20 pages) relating to one of the topics covered 80%, due around 12 December; two in-class presentations 10% each
[illustrative selection] Aristotle, B. Dainton, D. Dennett, J. Doris, H. Frankfurt, Alasdair MacIntyre, R. Moran, F. Nietzsche, D. Parfit, M. Schechtman, S. Shoemaker, G. Strawson, C. Taylor, D. Velleman, G. Watson
This course satisfies the Ethics requirement.
PHL 610QB • Probs Of Knowledge & Valuation
42595-42605 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM WAG 302
The aim of this semester is to introduce topics in epistemology and metaphysics, initially through the works of two major philosophers, Ren� Descartes (f. 1640) and David Hume (f. 1745). They will serve to introduce two main themes: the nature of knowledge and skepticism; and the nature of the human mind and action.
Descartes is known for two highly influential ideas. His skepticism arises from his reflection that we might be deceived by an "evil demon" who makes it seem as if our ordinary world exists whereas in reality there is nothing. Although Descartes hoped to defuse skepticism, it has lived on, inspiring not only generations of philosophers, but also leaving its mark in such movies as Matrix and Solaris.
Descartes' dualism is his view that mind and body are entirely distinct. This view has been supported by religious thinkers, by many philosophers impressed by the distinctive character of consciousness, and by some defenders of free will.
Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is famous for supposedly arguing for a form of skepticism that Descartes did not explicitly consider: skepticism about whether the future will resemble the past. His discussion of this issue is closely intertwined with a remarkable theory of causation, a theory which led him to hold that an action can be free, and so can merit praise or blame, even though it is causally determined. We will also discuss some aspects of Hume's philosophy of religion, notably his section on miracles, and his presentation of the problem of evil.
PHL 301L • Early Modern Philosophy
42190-42200 • Fall 2012
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM GAR 1.126
(also listed as CTI 310)
An introduction to the philosophical achievements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, concentrating on such figures as Descartes, Hume, and Kant.
PHL 384F • First-Year Seminar
42730 • Fall 2012
Meets TH 6:30PM-9:30PM WAG 312
Graduate Standing and Consent of Graduate Advisor or instructor required.
Course Description
Topics in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind
Various articles or book excerpts including Frankfurt, G. E. Moore, Nagel, Parfit.
Term paper relating to one of the topics covered 80%, due around 12 December, two in-class presentations 10% each


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A motorist in New Canaan, Conn., called police after spotting a woman stopped at an intersection in the driver's seat of her car with her eyes closed. When officers arrived, they found Stefanie Warner-Grise, 50, "unable to answer basic questions," according to the arrest report. They "detected an odor of vanilla coming from her breath (and) her speech was slurred. In addition, several bottles of pure vanilla extract were located inside the vehicle." The Hour reported Warner-Grise failed field sobriety tests and she was charged with driving under the influence of vanilla extract. The Food and Drug Administration requires that pure vanilla extract must be at least 35 percent alcohol, which makes it 70 proof.
Hair Of The Dog
In a whole new twist on stomach pumping, doctors in Quang Tri, Vietnam, saved Nguyen Van Nhat's life by transfusing 15 cans of beer into his stomach. As Dr. Le Van Lam explained, alcohol contains both methanol and ethanol, and the liver breaks down ethanol first. After a person stops drinking, the stomach and intestines continue to release alcohol into the bloodstream and levels continue to rise. In Nhat's case, upon arrival at the hospital, his blood methanol level was 1,119 times higher than the appropriate limit. Doctors administered one can of beer every hour to slow down his metabolizing of methanol, which gave them time to perform dialysis. Nhat spent three weeks in the hospital.
Names In The News
During a program on ITV Westcountry in the United Kingdom about how police forces are suffering under budget cuts, an officer got more attention for his name than for his opinions about the budget. PC Rob Banks has undoubtedly heard clever remarks about his name all his life, reported Plymouth Live, but Twitter users found it newly hilarious.
Try The Decaf
Officers in Madison, Wis., were called to a home by a male resident who went on a spree of destruction when he thought his wife had destroyed his prized collection of action figures. Madison Police Chief Mike Koval wrote that officers arrived to find an ax buried in the windshield of a car. The man explained to them he had overreacted and used the log-splitting ax to chop up a TV, TV stand, laptop computer and other items in the house before going outside to attack his car, chopping off both side mirrors and breaking out the windshield. He admitted that he had also been drinking too much. He was charged with disorderly conduct and felony damage to property.
The Entrepreneurial Spirit
A man from Nice, France, has received a four-month suspended sentence for a clever plot he hatched. The man, known only as Adel, removed a PlayStation 4 from a supermarket shelf and took it to the produce aisle, where he weighed it and printed out a price sticker for fruit. Then he used the self-checkout line to pay and left the store after paying only $10. The PlayStation retails for $389. Adel sold the gaming system for $114 to buy a train ticket. The next day, he tried the same scheme, but police caught him in the act. He will only have to serve his sentence if he re-offends.
Least Competent Criminals
— Alexander Goldinsky had a bright idea for collecting some cash. While working as an independent contractor at a Woodbridge, N.J., business, Goldinsky scattered some ice on the floor in the company's kitchen area. Then he arranged himself on the floor as if he had slipped and fallen. He waited to be discovered, and, all the while, the security cameras were rolling. He was arrested on charges of insurance fraud and theft by deception, after the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office said Goldinsky filed a false insurance claim for an ambulance ride and treatment at a local hospital.
— For David Rodriguez, it was his disguise of choice that tripped him up as he robbed a 7-Eleven store in Fort Myers, Fla. Rodriguez donned a gray hoodie and a wig before approaching the counter at the store, showing a gun and demanding cash. When officers arrived, they received a detailed description: "additional witness information" led them to a nearby apartment. Inside they found Rodriguez, and "in plain view, a gray hooded sweater, several wigs and a large amount of wadded up cash." Rodriguez was charged with robbery with a firearm.
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Residents of Hilgermissen in northwestern Germany voted decisively against naming the community's streets. Currently, addresses are a house number and the name of one of the former villages that combined to create Hilgermissen in the 1970s. Officials had hoped that street names would ease the jobs of emergency services and delivery drivers, but 60 percent of the 2,200 citizens rejected the council's plan.
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Mexican artist Pedro Reyes collects weapons and transforms them into objects that create life instead of destroying it.
While the 200 countries committed to the Paris Agreement meet in Madrid, Puerto Rico occupies first place as the country most affected by natural disasters in the world.
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Mexican artist Pedro Reyes collects weapons and transforms them into objects that create life instead of destroying it.
El artista mexicano Pedro Reyes recolecta armas y las transforma en objetos que en vez de destruir, crean. Y hay mucho más que palas...
While the 200 countries committed to the Paris Agreement meet in Madrid, Puerto Rico occupies first place as the country most affected by natural disasters in the world.
Mientras los 200 países del Acuerdo de París se reúnen en Madrid, Puerto Rico ocupa el primer puesto de un dramático ranking.
The Brazilian President accused the actor and other environmental groups of funding the fire in the Amazon in order to raise funds.
El presidente de Brasil acusó el pasado viernes a la estrella de Hollywood y a otros grupos ecologistas de financiar la quema del Amazonas con el objetivo de recaudar fondos.
The Vatican qualifies the jungle devastation as an "ecologic sin" and compromises to work close to indigenous communities on preserving Amazon regions from destruction.
El Vaticano califica la destrucción de la selva de "pecado ecológico" y se compromete a trabajar con las comunidades indígenas contra el expolio, el asesinato y la devastación.
Hurricane Dorian cause serious damage in the Bahamas. These are the 5 things you need to know about the independent country.
With hurricane season around the corner, your pets will rely on you for safety. Do you have everything they need?
For the last three weeks, The Amazon has been on fire. These are five things you need to know about what is happening in Brazil.
The development of agriculture in Puerto Rico has been one of the biggest challenges in the country for decades. Today, it is an opportunity for the Island's recovery.
El desarrollo de la agricultura en Puerto Rico ha sido uno de los más grandes retos del país durante décadas. Hoy en día, es una oportunidad para la recuperación de la Isla.
It's Friday night and you order a pizza - in an attempt to save the world, you recycle the box. Guess what?
Es viernes por la tarde y pides una pizza - en tu lucha por salvar al mundo, reciclas la caja. Adivina que...
In the U.S., 30 to 40 percent of the food supply is wasted. A new app looks to change that trend.
A firm in Chile won the prize for best innovation in Latin America.
These forests are of vital importance, sheltering the butterflies throughout the winter.
The project sets a low-emissions zone to help protect the health and wellbeing of its citizens.
With the last eruption that occurred in June and the current activity of the volcano, authorities are preparing for the worst.
Ranchers and representatives of NGOs met in Paraguay to discuss solutions for sustainable food production.
The Mexican Sustainability Forestry Council is questioning the environmental benefits of current government actions.
This agreement will help promote collaboration between the two countries in environmental technologies.
With a gift of 2 million seeds and a $500,000 research grant from Starbucks, coffee growers in Puerto Rico look to the future of rebuilding the island's coffee industry.
The movement opposing the memorial claims that the government is pushing aside necessary investigative measures to determine why exactly the building collapsed.


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Things aren't uniformly positive when it comes to blurred lines. Blurriness is often linked to a lack of clarity and standards that are more amorphous than workable.
In the realm of California's special education programs, though, a universe primarily marked by blurred lines is something that progressively more parents and educators are embracing.
What we mean in today's blog post by that descriptor is a special ed environment that blends in maximally with general classroom activity rather than being separate from it. A recent in-depth article addressing changing California special education teaching credentials refers to a long-time "static classroom" occupied only by designated special ed students. Their teachers are often viewed "as a bit of an island in the school community."
That isolation is something that will likely be disappearing to a material degree in California schools. A new focus embraces inclusivity and a unified student body to the maximum degree possible. The logical belief is that all students benefit from a shared atmosphere rather than a cloistered one that emphasizes differences.
That approach largely informs special ed credentialing requirements for California teachers that are slated to take effect next year. The new learning dictates spotlight an emphasis on all teachers having a greater understanding of and ability to connect with every student demographic. The above article cites a key goal that teachers have "a common trunk of knowledge to pull from" that will enable them to optimally assist students "with and without learning disabilities."
The educational training for special ed teachers will of course continue to focus heavily on giving them the tools that will promote the best outcomes for their special education students.
Thankfully, it is being increasingly recognized that those outcomes are most salutary when they are achieved in a widely inclusive classroom environment.
Parents in the central California coastal area with special education-linked concerns can turn for guidance and strong legal representation to a proven Santa Cruz attorney who practices solely in that distinct legal sphere.


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The Disney Wonder is a ship that is distinguished for its sophisticated design and modern innovation. Along with its sister ship, the Disney Magic, the Disney Wonder was specially constructed with families in mind, combining sleek style with a splash of fun. Today, it is one of the most revered and recognizable ocean liners in the world, inspiring awe wherever it pulls into port. The interior of the Disney Wonder reflects all the majesty and enigmatic beauty of the seas, with its swirling wave patterns, marble accents and touches of Venetian glass adding brilliance to the Art Nouveau décor. A bronze statue of Ariel from the classic animated Disney film The Little Mermaid greets Guests in the lobby—an installment designed by Disney Imagineers to evoke a feeling of adventure.
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The Environment Agency (EA) has revealed that £18m-worth of tax was avoided by operators misdescribing waste last year.
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In an interview with MRW, EA deputy director for waste regulation Nicky Cunningham said the agency would soon be issuing a report on tax evasion.
"We investigated misdescription of waste last year, and we found 63 cases that were referred to HMRC for follow-up. These cases accounted for something like 630,000 tonnes of waste which had been misdescribed.
"That's £18m-worth of tax evaded. It is significant."
Cunningham added there was a "one-to-ten ratio" in terms of the time taken tracking down tax avoiders and the benefit to the public purse.
"If you want to operate and cut corners at one end or carry out downright criminality at the other end of the spectrum, then there is a profit to be made. It's largely done through landfill tax evasion.
"We work with HMRC very closely. In fact, we have reciprocal secondment arrangements because landfill tax is a complex area, and so is waste regulation. Sharing our respective knowledge base really helps."
Landfill tax evasion has also been identified as a major problem in other parts of the UK.
Willie Wilson, waste crime manager for the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, told MRW: "[The waste sector] is a cash-rich environment and there is opportunity for tax evasion through misclassification of waste.
"There is a significant tax burden in terms of the standard rate of landfill tax. If you can change the identifying features of the material through falsification or some agreement, you can avoid that.
Derek Williamson, head of the enforcement branch Northern Ireland Environment Agency, told MRW that misclassification of waste as one of his biggest challenges.
"It is exceptionally difficult to get any coherent detail understanding around this. There are so many layers involved in waste movements and shipments.
"From waste producers to carriers, hauliers and transport, waste brokers, MRFs and so on – there are many veneers of legitimacy around a lot of the regulated and unregulated business. It is very resource-intensive to uncover."
Figures released in November 2016 revealed a 13 million tonne gap between the amount of material going to landfill according to the EA and the amount according to HMRC landfill tax receipts.
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Booksmart is a 2019 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Olivia Wilde (in her directorial debut), from a screenplay by the writing team of Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, and Katie Silberman. It stars Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Will Forte, Lisa Kudrow, and Jason Sudeikis, and follows two graduating high school girls who set out to finally break the rules and party on their last day of classes. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay act as executive producers.
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2019-06-11 22:51 [p.28973]
Mr. Speaker, I am surprised that the hon. member for Saskatoon—Grasswood, in describing this bill, which is about the restoration of indigenous treaty rights around rejecting the idea of superboards, among other details, has raised the issue of oil and gas, the need for development, and demonstrations in Calgary in favour of oil and gas.
We have a lot of discussion in this place about the need to recognize a climate emergency. I wonder if my hon. colleague has any particular notion of when we should stop expanding oil and gas, and how quickly we need to phase out oil and gas in order to avoid catastrophic impacts from the climate crisis.
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Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands)
2019-06-10 11:46 [p.28785]
Mr. Speaker, it is a great honour to speak today during the final hour of debate after several years of work on a bill that is important to the world's whales.
I am particularly honoured to rise this morning because we are at the point that most members in this place appear ready to see this legislation pass. The legislation was first brought forward in the last few days of the Senate sitting of 2015. It has been, to put it mildly, a long haul.
The hon. member just raised concerns, and I think all concerns by my colleagues in this place are legitimate. However, it is important for anyone watching this debate to recognize that the bill is based on science.
Many scientists testified as to why it is critical that we stop keeping cetaceans in captivity. We understand why. They are obviously not akin to livestock, for instance. Cetaceans require the ocean. They require the space. They require acoustic communication over long distances. The scientists who testified before the committee who made the case so strongly made it based on science.
Yes, Canadians care. Yes, the school children who wrote to us in the thousands were not moved by the science; they were moved because they see movies and nature films and they understand that whales, dolphins and porpoises are of a different character than other animals.
I would reassure my friend that we could not just substitute the name for another species. Bill S-203 is firmly tied to the Fisheries Act. I do not think we would find any horses in the wild in the ocean. We have tied it down legislatively in such a way that others should not worry that there will be a creeping effect.
In the time remaining, I want to say how grateful I am for the non-partisan spirit. It has been my entire honour to be the sponsor of this legislation in the House. I am enormously grateful to my colleagues.
I mentioned the scientists. Let me thank Dr. Visser, who testified at committee, coming in by Skype from New Zealand in the days right after the Christchurch killings. It was an emotional time for everyone. I would also like to thank Dr. Naomi Rose, and from Dalhousie University, Dr. Hal Whitehead. Phil Demers, a former whale trainer at Marineland, offered excellent real-life testimony as to the cruelty of keeping whales in captivity.
Certainly Senator Wilfred Moore and Senator Murray Sinclair have done an enormous amount to help. So too has the government representative in the Senate, Senator Harder.
I also want to thank the Minister of Fisheries and his predecessor for taking companion elements in Bill S-203 and embedding them in Bill C-68. Bill C-68, the reform of the Fisheries Act, remains before the Senate.
I want to take a moment to urge all colleagues in the other place to move Bill C-68 through. I also urge everyone here, if there are amendments, to move Bill C-68 through, because the Fisheries Act is critically important on many scores, as well as being companion legislation to Bill S-203.
Again, in a non-partisan spirit, I want to thank the hon. member for Port Moody—Coquitlam, who we will miss in this place, and the hon. member for Skeena—Bulkley Valley. I also want to mention his constituent, Ben Korving, who put forward the legislation regarding zero-waste packaging. I pledge, as leader of the Green Party, to take on Ben Korving's motion and make sure that it does not die in this place, because those members made a sacrifice to allow Bill S-203 to pass before we rise at the end of June.
I also want to thank the hon. member for Beaches—East York, a Liberal, and my friend from Courtenay—Alberni, who was gracious in his praise earlier.
Everyone pulled together on this. The member for Charlottetown, the parliamentary secretary, helped enormously.
I would once again like to thank my Bloc Québécois colleague, the member for Repentigny.
I know that there were Conservative colleagues who did what they could.
I cannot tell members how important this legislation is. I will close with a few words that we have not heard in this place before. They are from the book of Job. They are found in chapter 41, verse 1.
Behold, Behemoth,which I made as I made you;...He is the first of the works of God;...Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhookor press down his tongue with a cord?Can you put a rope in his noseor pierce his jaw with a hook?...Will traders bargain over him?Will they divide him up among the merchants?...On earth there is not his like,...He sees everything that is high;he is king over all the sons of pride.
To everyone in this place, let us think for a moment. We behold Leviathan. He belongs in the wild. He will never again be placed in a swimming pool in this country.
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2019-06-06 10:30 [p.28664]
Mr. Speaker, I am enormously grateful that my friend from Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan chose to put some focus on the media bailout, because I was not able to get in on the debate when that was before the House squarely.
I voted against the Conservative motion last night. My vote might be considered to be support for the approach of the government in its entirety. Unfortunately, the Conservative motion included deleting tax treatment for energy efficient vehicles, probably inadvertently, in a series of amendments that were about the media bailout.
I am concerned about the media bailout. The media does need support. We need independent journalism. I would have been more impressed with a commitment that zero government dollars would go to advertising in digital platforms and would concentrate government advertising in the newspapers that were struggling.
I would also be more impressed if the group that was deciding who got the money did not include recipients of the funding. One reason I could not vote for the Conservative motion on its own was it singled out Unifor. Sun Media is sitting on it. The point, as made as journalist, Andrew Potter, is this. Why would the recipients of the funding form the group to decide who gets the funding?
Those are my concerns. The are not full-on opposition to the government's approach, but I would like to see it tweaked.
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Paul Manly (Nanaimo—Ladysmith)
2019-06-06 16:08 [p.28714]
Madam Speaker, I support this bill. I think that there could be improvements, and I know that the Green Party requested some amendments, including expungement. We have a lot of people in this country who have criminal records based on simple possession. It has ruined a lot of good people's lives and opportunities, and it creates problems for people who want to cross the border.
I think expungement is the best solution. Finding a way to make it very affordable for people to have their records removed so that they can carry on with their lives and not carry this with them for the rest of their days is very important as well.
I would ask the hon. member whether she think that the bill is good enough as it is to support it. What changes would she make otherwise?
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Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands)
2019-06-04 21:37 [p.28552]
Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of concerns about the pardons and the way they are structured in the bill. One thing I tried to do at committee, which was based on advice from a number of witnesses, is this. There is a condition that a pardon cannot proceed until the sentence has been fulfilled or the fine has been paid. The people who are the most marginalized would be those very people who cannot afford to pay the fine so the pardon becomes out of reach. I do not know if we can pursue this at this stage. I tried to at committee.
However, I would like the hon. parliamentary secretary's thoughts on whether we can deal with this so that the people who are in the greatest need of having the pardon applied are able to get a job to pay the fine to have this limitation removed.
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2019-06-03 20:50 [p.28464]
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo and all members in this place for speeding up the passage of Bill C-92. I would have had a chance to make a speech tonight, and I stopped myself, because it is more important that we get this bill through.
I have some of the same misgivings as my friend. I put forward 28 amendments in clause by clause in an attempt to take up some of the recommendations of Dr. Cindy Blackstock and the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society, the Carrier Sekani Family Services and others who testified at committee, but it is important that we pass it.
I was present this morning for the very moving presentation of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Tina Fontaine's grandmother was there. I am sure that my friend from Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo recalls that Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said that she could feel that her granddaughter's spirit was with us. One of the key recommendations from the inquiry is that safe shelter for indigenous young people must be available 24 hours a day, because Tina sought help, and the doors were closed.
I know it is a 1,200-page report. We cannot have read all of it. I know I have not, but I hope everyone in this place, in Tina's memory, will commit at least that no first nation child, no child in this country, should go without protection, regardless of the time of night.
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2019-05-14 11:07 [p.27733]
Madam Speaker, I certainly agree that there is a lot of misinformation. Unfortunately, as much as I am very fond of the member for Calgary Shepard, much of what was in his speech was alarmingly not about the Canada-Madagascar treaty. However, I will indulge that lapse in relevance to point out that the fact that gas prices in B.C. today are high has nothing to do with the carbon tax, as any analyst will tell us. It has to do with refinery capacity.
We used to have four refineries in Burnaby. We are now down to one. It was Chevron. It is now Parkland. It closed down for repairs last year. It is now back up to 92% production. The reality is that even if the government built the Kinder Morgan expansion, it would undermine access to the fuel the refinery needs. That refinery cannot process solid bitumen. The expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline is for 100% solid bitumen for export. It is diluted to get it through the pipeline. It is called dilbit. Dilbit cannot be used in our refinery. Therefore, it is a refinery-capacity issue. It has nothing to do with pipelines. We would do better if we processed more Alberta product in Canada for use by Canadians instead of pretending that there is a market in other countries.
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2019-05-14 12:36 [p.27743]
Mr. Speaker, I was so pleased to hear my colleague from Battle River—Crowfoot citing the very last report from our late and much-missed Auditor General, Mr. Ferguson, which took aim at the preferential treatment CRA gives. On a basis of empirical data, studying everything the CRA does, the Auditor General audited and found that when an average Canadian owes CRA a little money, CRA goes after that person and goes after that person for interest. However, CRA gives fat cats with offshore tax accounts extra time, saying it is a complicated, offshore situation.
In fact, as the hon. member pointed out, only for the wealthiest do CRA officials voluntarily offer to have interest charges waived on money owed. My daughter, who is a university student, was audited last year on her income tax to verify the textbooks she bought and to provide receipts again. It is a very disturbing reality that CRA officials would prefer to go after people who cannot afford to hire lawyers than to tackle the tax avoidance displayed in the Panama papers. We are the only country that has not gone after the offshore accounts revealed by the Panama papers.
My dear friend from Battle River—Crowfoot and I do not always agree on things. We do love each other, but we do not always agree on things. On this occasion, I celebrate his speech.
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2019-05-14 15:37 [p.27770]
Mr. Speaker, to my dear friend, the member of Parliament for Sydney—Victoria, as a Caper myself from Margaree, I remember his first political action as the hon. member for Sydney—Victoria, which was very green. It was fighting the Point Aconi coal-fired power plant that was going to suck the water out of the farms on Boularderie Island, which it did. However, that was when I first came across the hon. member for Sydney—Victoria. As members have heard, his actions as a member of Parliament have continued to be green.
We worked on the Sydney tar ponds issue. I well remember, as some members would, that in the spring of 2001, right around this time of year, which was before 9/11 and so protesters were allowed to sit right by the members' entrance, I was there on a hunger strike. I thought two or three days and Allan Rock would crack. I never thought I would have to be on a hunger strike for 17 days to get the commitment to clean up the Sydney tar ponds. However, the hon. member for Sydney—Victoria, who had been a member of Parliament for something like six months, came outside and talked to me. He said, "Geez, this place. I don't know if I'm ever going to figure out how to make this place work so I can get things done. I knew how to work when I was home on the farm."
I do not know if the hon. member remembers those conversations, but he certainly did figure out how to get things done. From that early first time of being elected, I think in the fall of 2000, until today, he has gotten a lot done. We did not always agree on the way we should clean up the Sydney tar ponds, but we sure did make a big improvement.
My hon. colleague for Cape Breton—Canso is a cousin to my sister-in-law. It is all very cozy at home. I want to put it on the record, as leader of the Green Party, to certify and satisfy some of the earlier questions. This may not be in Hansard, but in the annals of Hinterland Who's Who members will find the hon. members for Cape Breton—Canso and Sydney—Victoria for their daring midnight rescue of the beaver in the middle of Wellington Street and getting it down to the water.
The hon. member for Sydney—Victoria first flashed across our TV screens in Cape Breton many years ago, as this handsome young farmer speaking on behalf of chicken farmers everywhere and, with a great big smile, saying, "Get cracking". It was a good ad, and here he is all these years later.
The hon. member for Sydney—Victoria has accomplished a great deal, and I will really miss him around here, assuming I can get re-elected. He is a dear friend, a solid citizen and a wonderful family man. In the language of Gaelic in Cape Breton, go raibh maith agat; in the language of the Mi'kmaq, wela'lin; and a good dose of Dutch, dank u wel.
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seconded by the member for Windsor—Tecumseh, moved that the bill be read the third time and passed.
She said: Madam Speaker, I thank those members who are applauding this historic day. I speak for myself and for many Canadians from coast to coast to coast when I say we are very grateful for the assistance of the hon. Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the assistance of the hon. Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the assistance of their parliamentary secretaries in assisting this bill to get through this place after its long, long, long gestation in the Senate. We are extremely grateful for that support to expedite the passage of this bill so that it can receive royal assent before this House adjourns for the summer and the election.
I am only going to canvass briefly the elements of the bill; I think we are all very familiar with it.
It was started in the Senate, where it was sponsored by an absolutely terrific Canadian who would make the case that we should change mandatory retirement at age 75 for members of the Senate.
Senator Wilfred Moore of Nova Scotia brought this bill forward in 2015. On his retirement, it was taken up by another magnificent and inspiring leader within this country, former jurist Senator Murray Sinclair. All of their work and all of the witnesses in the long hearings before the Senate made the same point over and over again: In the 21st century, we simply know better than to think cetaceans belong in captivity. We can no longer pretend that the entertainment value of these magnificent, sentient creatures in swimming pools anywhere in Canada is acceptable.
Parallel to our efforts on Bill S-203 is a very good bill, Bill C-68, from the former minister of fisheries, the hon. member for Beauséjour. It is is currently before the Senate, and we certainly hope will pass soon. To him, I once again want to underline my deep thanks for all of his work as minister of fisheries.
Bill C-68, would make it illegal to take a cetacean into captivity in Canadian waters. Bill S-203, finishes that piece and makes it comprehensive by adding that we will not breed cetaceans in captivity, nor will we buy cetaceans from other countries and keep them in captivity.
We are listening to the science and taking the appropriate actions.
I want to thank other people who have played a significant role in seeing this largely non-partisan effort, supported by thousands and thousands of Canadians, come to this point.
I want to thank the hon. members for Courtenay—Alberni, New Westminster—Burnaby, Beaches—East York and Pontiac; the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard; the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard; the members for West Nova, Avalon, and Charlottetown, and the member for Repentigny from the Bloc Québécois. There was help from members on all sides of the House, including the party that did not support the bill; there are individual members of that party who were very helpful.
The NGO community has been very helpful in assisting the process by networking with good scientists and also making sure the community of Canadians concerned with cetaceans received assistance. That community includes Animal Justice and its spectacular lawyer, Camille Labchuk; the Humane Society of Canada; Humane Society International; Ontario Captive Animal Watch; Animal Alliance of Canada; World Animal Protection; and The Whale Sanctuary Project. Assistance also came from scientists Dr. Lori Marino; Dr. Ingrid Visser, who testified by video link all the way from New Zealand; Dr. Naomi Rose; Dr. Hal Whitehead, of Dalhousie University; and Phil Demers.
All of these scientists, NGOs, individual elected Canadians and those from the unelected other place worked diligently and did their homework with one aim only: to end a practice that we all know is wrong.
It is a great honour for me to have overseen this private members' bill. It is a great honour.
I am surprised by the tremendous support that this bill has received across Canada. At this time, I would like to say just one thing: thank you.
I thank everyone involved and am in their debt, as are our wonderful free whales. Although it was certainly an accident of fate and Parliament that the bill was brought forward by Senator Wilfred Moore, I will say once more "Free Willy".
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Madam Speaker, having had a chance to look at my list, I am mortified that I had not said the correct riding of someone who played a huge role, and that is the hon. member for Port Moody—Coquitlam. I want to ensure that is on the record.
The science increasingly tells us that it constitutes cruelty to animals to take these cetaceans and keep them in confined spaces. They communicate as families. They communicate as communities. They use language. The communication requires space and range. They are creatures that travel enormous distances. Part of the health of the animal requires being able to function in community.
We saw it in the wild this summer when one of the members of our southern resident killer whale population gave birth to a calf that died almost immediately. The mother of that whale pushed her calf through the water on her nose, keeping it above the water, although dead, for an astonishing 17-day period of mourning.
It is certainly not possible to imagine that these creatures could live in swimming pools. The science is clear.
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2019-05-10 13:42 [p.27649]
Madam Speaker, it is a difficult thing. When this bill came forward, two facilities in Canada held cetaceans in captivity. Vancouver Aquarium quite rightly made a decision voluntarily, which was very controversial within decisions made by the Vancouver city council, that it would no longer hold cetaceans in captivity. However, Marineland has taken a different approach, which is to fight the bill tooth and nail.
I hope Marineland can adjust its business model. It is a fantastic tourist attraction. It is in a perfect location. I am not a marketer, but if I were, I would suggest it talk to the people at Cirque du Soleil. I would suggest it convert that swimming pool for whales, which is a cruel living condition, to brilliant acrobats dressed as mermaids, cavorting on trapezes up and down, and attracting crowds like they have never seen before. Then we can all say with big smiles on our faces: "Everyone loves Marineland".
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2019-05-10 13:43 [p.27649]
Madam Speaker, to my dear friend from Niagara Falls, I would say that Bill C-68 is a terrific piece of legislation. It does ban the taking of whales from Canadian waters, but it does not speak to the pith, substance and core of this bill, which is that people cannot continue to hold them in captivity, cannot breed them for captivity and cannot keep whales in captivity.
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2019-05-09 10:39 [p.27553]
Mr. Speaker, in the interest of brevity, I will only say that I agree with most of what the hon. member just said. As a footnote, New Zealand has very strong policies in place for preserving the Maori language. It has reserved places in the House of Commons for Maori representatives, and thanks to proportional representation, it now has an equivalent number of Maori representatives in its Parliament to the proportion of Maori in the general population.
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Through extensive testing that I have done, it is clear that Google has taken and "anti-SEO" approach to their algorithm. Due to this, they have creating a filter which will remove heavily optimized sites from the SERPs. Google's reliance on PageRankâ"¢ to grade the authority of pages has led to the wholesale trading and buying of links with the primary purpose of influencing rankings on Google rather than for natural linking reasons. But what did Google really expect would happen when they released their Toolbar with the PageRank information included?
Obviously, they didn't expect the rash of link popularity companies to sprout up overnight and fill its index with spam links in attempt to manipulate their algorithm. In some instances, webmasters would not link to sites unless they thought it would benefit them for Google.
Optimizing your site for Google consisted mainly of ensuring your page had your primary search phrase placed in all appropriate places on your page (the "on page" factors) and that your keyword phrase was inserted in the anchor text of your incoming links (the "off page" factors).
This update was an attempt to penalize sites that were "too relevant". However, it is clear that Google's new criteria for punishing highly optimized sites is not across the board, but for only major terms that are likely to be manipulated.
Because of their Toolbar, their search results, and Google AdWords, Google has a comprehensive list of commercial terms that are most often searched for. When you couple that information with the amount of money they are willing to pay per click through AdWords, Google has a gold mine of information.
With the above in mind, we have come to the following conclusions:
- As we reported earlier, Google is trying to force webmasters to use AdWords. By removing them from the SERPs just before the holiday shopping rush starts online, this forces them to use AdWords or be out.
- It has been stated that Google is trying to separate their results into non-commercial and commercial. Commercial results will be AdWords and non-commercial the natural listings, primarily used for research purposes. While many search results look as if this is what is occuring, it is highly unlikely that the search algorithm is that good to determine what is a commercial or non-commercial site. If Google does this, all webmasters need to do is setup an "information only" site with links to their commercial site.
- Google has added anti-SEO technology which effects frequently searched and frequently optimized for keyword phrases. Whenever a user enters such a keyword phrase into Google, this technology drops pages that were overly optimized from the results.
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Your overall strategy should be encompassing everything we have suggested over the years. However, if you have had a signifcant drop in the rankings, the following is highly recommended:
- Slightly "de-optimize" your sites. If you have full control over any links, you should redo the anchor text and remove the keyword phrase from the anchor text, and instead, work it into the body text surrounding the anchor text and place the keyword phrase in the Title of that page, but only if it makes logical sense to do so. This will help you with the current algorithm, but remember it can change again in the future.
- If you have many sites that you control, separate them into subgroups, and if they are on the same server, now is the time to get a new server with a different IP block.
- Do a keyword density analysis on the top ten sites that appear in the SERPs and then model your site after those results.
Despite all the growing theories about this update, there is no great conspiracy theory. Google is attempting to redress the balance by trying to eradicate obvious search engine manipulation from their most competitive results. It is clear that the new algorithm is not doing this properly, but as it occurred last year, they made a major patch to their update the day after Thanksgiving. With the number of datacenters that have been cycled through daily, it is clear that Google is retooling this algorithm. If they do follow the same pattern as last year, we should see a revised update go live on the system by noon Pacific time tomorrow.