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Do you find your enthusiasm for kiting leads you to encourage others to take it up when they ask you about the sport? If so, did you ever regret doing so?
We're kiting at the Thermalito Afterbay Sunday; upper teens/big kites; a woman windsurfer frustrated the wind wasn't blowing enough to get on the water came over while we were taking a break to ask about kiting. Where do we recommend for lessons? How hard is it to learn? And what about the kitemares?
We assured her that with proper lessons, kiting is relatively safe; shared info, advantages, etc. Later on, a kiter unfamiliar with the site kited out across the small bay from the launch and into the main channel and back. I noticed he was cutting close to the point with a tree on it as he headed back into the bay, and he was raising his kite up to miss the tree. I went into the channel, turned around and saw his kite spinning in the wind off the treetop. He misjudged a branch sticking out that grabbed a line as he went by, and that caused an immediate turn of the kite into a spiral that lifted him out of the water so fast he couldn't get to his QR before landing on the woman windsurfer's car, indenting the hood and roof and scraping the paint. The kiter was thankfully not seriously injured.
Lessons (re-)learned:
1. Be careful letting your enthusiasm for kiting lead to encouraging others.
2. Watch out for stray branches from trees or brush along the shoreline catching a line: they can be deadly.


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bankruptcy is the least of the problems facing Rock Racing (RIP) - stay tuned, I'm sure.
Rock & Republic files for bankruptcy protection
The Culver City designer of pricey denim and other apparel says reorganization will 'alleviate balance sheet burdens.' - By Andrea Chang
Rock & Republic, the fashion brand known for its pricey designer denim and other apparel, said Thursday that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The Culver City company, whose products are sold in upscale department stores such as Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom as well as specialty retailers and its own free-standing stores, said the filing would ease pressure on its balance sheet. Day-to-day operations are expected to continue.
"The Chapter 11 filing is a strategic action that will alleviate balance sheet burdens and enable us to adopt the financial and operational initiatives needed to support the brand's growth needs," said Geoffrey D. Lurie, the privately held company's newly named chief restructuring officer. "We are confident that this is the right move for Rock & Republic."
Lurie added that the company was exploring "financial relationships" and would sharpen its focus to emphasize its core apparel and footwear businesses.
Rock & Republic was founded in 2002 by Chief Executive Michael Ball and has become known for its edgy and sexy clothing, including premium jeans priced at $200 or more.
The bankruptcy petition was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York. The company said it had obtained a commitment for a line of credit from CIT Group/Commercial Services Inc.
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Opening Set for New Library Branch in Western Sioux Falls
The Grand Opening has been set for the Siouxland Libraries' newest branch.
The opening ceremony for the Prairie View Branch Library at West 26th Street and South Discovery Avenue, in western Sioux Falls, will be held at 11:30am on Tuesday, August 6.
Branch Librarian Krystal Pederson says Prairie View has a collection of 30,000 books, DVDs, CDs and magazines.
It also features public meeting rooms, a drive-through materials return and automated material handling.
Pederson says the new branch is a perfect addition to Discovery Elementary School and Memorial Middle School.
The opening on August 6 will start with a concert by Phil Baker at 10:30am between the library and Discovery Elementary, and the ribbon-cutting for the Prairie View Branch Library begins at 11:30 a.m.
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I try my hardest not to waste food. Whenever I have stale bread, I pulverize it in my food processor, store the crumbs in the freezer, and voila, fresh bread crumbs when I need them. I save the rinds from hard cheeses and add them to the pot of soup or polenta that I'm stirring up. When I accumulate enough chicken wing tips, necks and backbones, I make chicken stock. When we lived in our previous house, we used to "compost" all our fruit and vegetable scraps by burying them in various unused spots in our backyard. Unfortunately, the yard in our current house is too small and we can't afford to leave parts unplanted like we did in our previous place. Luckily, San Francisco has a great compost program and will pick up all food waste (as well as used dinner napkins, waxed coated paper containers like milk cartons, pizza boxes) from the residents.
Every baker has a "kitchen sink" cookie where they add all the half used bags of chocolate, fruit and nuts accumulated over time. And who hasn't turned overripe bananas into banana bread or muffins? So when I had some cranberries, pumpkin puree, and sugared almonds left over from Thanksgiving, I had the perfect recipe to use them up – a pumpkin upside-down cake with a cranberry topping from Emily Luchetti, executive pastry chef at Farallon restaurant in downtown San Francisco and James Beard nominated cookbook author.
I love all things pumpkin but the cranberry and nut topping really transforms this simple cake into a superstar. I love the tartness of the cranberries with the sweet brown sugar topping and the fragrant cinnamon spiced pumpkin cake. The recipe calls for pecans but I used both pecans and some sugared almond slices I had leftover from another dessert. I don't think the sliced almonds worked in this case. Coarsely chopped or slivered almonds would have been much better. In any case, it felt good to use up what I had in the refrigerator and the results were quite good.
Pumpkin Upside-Down Cake with Cranberry Pecan Topping
(from "A Passion for Dessert" by Emily Luchetti)
1/2 lb (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
2 cups cranberries
4 ounces (1 cups) pecans, toasted and coarsely chopped
Cake batter:
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
2 large eggs
1 cup pumpkin puree
1/3 cup vegetable oil
Preheat oven to 350F. Line the bottom of a 9-inch square baking pan with parchment paper. Butter the parchment and sides of the pan.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add brown sugar and whisk until sugar dissolves and mixture is smooth. Pour into the bottom of your prepared pan.
In a bowl, combine cranberries and pecans. Sprinkle the cranberries and pecans evenly over the brown sugar mixture in your pan. Set aside while you make the batter.
Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk eggs, pumpkin, and oil. Add flour mixture and stir until just combined. Carefully pour batter over the cranberry pecan topping and gently spread the batter evenly.
Bake until a cake tester comes out clean, about 35-40 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes. Then invert cake onto a serving platter and carefully remove the parchment paper. Allow to cool completely before serving.
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The Swings needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 56 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
'The Swings' need their name to stand out from the crowd. Like they do! As well as the cash, we'll send the winner an exclusive mix of our best tracks. Getting some great ideas guys but a lot are a bit too American. How about a more 'English' vibe? Whatever that is?
The Swings
The Swings play leftfield, electro/acoustic music. It's inventive, unusual, unpretentious and fun. We need our name designing (don't necessarily need a logo as such, but open to ideas) so it reflects our music and will stand out on T-shirts, buttons etc. We are changing our name from Mr and Mrs Swing so need a new logo.
- The design needs to include the name 'The Swings'
- It could (but not too precious about) keep a little of the vibe of our previous incarnation, Mr and Mrs Swing, but should be distinctively different. Have a look at http://www.mr-and-mrs-swing.com
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Do you want to make a difference in people's lives? Have a few hours to spare? The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) needs you!
Look below for ways to help people with hearing loss. HLAA relies heavily on people just like you to help extend its influence by reaching people with hearing loss and their friends, families and co-workers in communities all across the United States. According to the National Institutes of Health's Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NICDC), 48 million people in the United States have hearing loss. HLAA needs your help connecting with them.
For more information contact us at email@example.com
Here are just a few ways to get involved:
Lend your time and skills to the national HLAA office in Bethesda, Maryland
- Assist with various office tasks, such as answering phones, copying, filing etc.
- Respond to inquiries
- Conduct research for the Advocacy department
- Computer systems, network support, software support
Participate in the HLAA Walk4Hearing
- Distribute goodies
- Help with Walk day signage
- Assist with registration
- Assist in organizing set up and/ or clean up
- Tracking legislation related to issue of importance to people with hearing loss
- Survey development and analysis of topics of importance to people with hearing loss
- Research for federal regulatory matters
- Writing projects
- Reviewing the Advocacy Section of the HLAA website
Chapter Support
- Database entry
- Assist with Chapter Manual
- Updating Chapter Policies
- Updating Chapter information files
Volunteer at the HLAA Convention
- Be a greeter
- Assist with registration
- Guide registrants to their destination
- Distribute and gather performance surveys
- Post signs
Represent HLAA at events that draw groups of people.
- And much more! Tell us what you are good at and we'll find something for you.


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Dates for your diary if you're a Stewart Park Farmers' Market fan!
Capturing the glamour and excitement that accompanied the release of a new film at one of Middlesbrough's cinemas in the 1950s, Fifties Films, Frocks and Frills is coming to the Dorman Museum!
An occasion to dress up and escape reality Hollywood style.
Enjoy photographs, original fashions and lots more as you take a nostalgic journey back in time.
FREE event.
The Dorman Museum has an extensive collection of items from the fantastic to the fabulous, from natural history and geology to social history and Victorian arts and craft. The museum is interesting and fun for all ages and abilities with 8 galleries and 3 exhibition spaces meaning there's something for everyone, including plenty of hands-on activities, objects and children's trails.
Children can experience life in a bomb shelter, investigate the history of Middlesbrough, explore the natural world or come face to face with ancient civilisations.
The Nelson Room, featuring the Thomas Hudson Nelson collection of birds and eggs, showcases over 100 mounted bird specimens in the gallery, and unchanged since the exhibit was first installed in the early 1900s.
Dorman Museum is proud to have the largest public collection of Christopher Dresser pieces in the world, in their brand new Dresser Gallery. A forward-thinking pioneer, Dresser embraced early industrialisation and the benefits it could provide to manufacturing. While his contemporaries, including William Morris, rejected both mass production and modernity, Dresser saw the opportunity to use new methods of production to create items which were affordable and practical but still attractive. Not limiting his talents to designing just one type of product, Dresser produced designs for everything from teapots to chairs, a huge variety of which are on display in the museum's gallery, and many of which look surprisingly up-to-date even today.
During his time in Middlesbrough, Dresser also established the Linthorpe Pottery.
The Linthorpe Pottery was established in 1879 and sat within a square formed by Burlam Road, Roman Road, Oxford Road and Thornfield Road, in Linthorpe. At a time when many were out of work, it was a strong source of employment in the area, and took on both men and women, who worked in separate rooms. The pottery produced thousands of items, from mantelpiece clocks to vases, often in a beautiful brightly coloured style. It was the first pottery in the country to use gas-fired kilns which gave a freedom to experiment with glazes, meaning the colours of the pottery produced were unique to Linthorpe. In 1884/5 Linthorpe Art Pottery won medals at two international exhibitions, as well as a gold medal and Diploma of Merit at an exhibition at Alexandra Palace, London, where Princess Alexandra purchased a turquoise Linthorpe Pottery vase, which vastly increased the popularity of the wares.
Despite this popularity, the Linthorpe Pottery only operated for approximately ten years. Today the pieces are highly collectible, and Dorman Museum is proud to have amassed an impressive collection. It contains around 1,060 items, representing around 465 of the 2,350 different designs thought to have been produced during the pottery's ten year history.
Regular holiday events mean the Dorman Museum is a great day out all year round, and a changing exhibition programme will encourage you to visit again and again.
Fully accessible and FREE.
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Tuesday-Sunday - 10.30am - 3:30pm
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dkiesow needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 31 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Looking to get a 2d graphic we provide redesigned into a simple 3d motion graphic.
We are redesigning our video branding - and just need to turn our graphic icon into a spinning 3d logo for use in lower thirds on videos. Reference files for the logo are here:
Those are the full rez layered graphics - you can leave the cursor arrow off for the motion graphic. The videos will be around 400x300px - so the final size of the spinning ball could be around 100px when we are finsihed with it.
You can see a version of our video player - and accompnaying bumpers at http://media.nashuatelegraph.com/castfire.html
- Take our red "T" logo and make it a 3d motion graphic. Provide a video file appropriate for use in Apple Motion and/or Final Cut pro. The graphic should simply spin slowly clockwise like a globe. The cursor arrow can be left off the final design - it is not needed for this particular use.
- Do not want the logo redesigned - colors or fonts changed or other stylistic changes. Just change 2d to 3d with motion.


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Mom ensures home cooking never far for Perez
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ballplayers endure slumps. Mothers never do. Maritza Perez is proof of the latter.
Giants outfielder Juan Perez smiles broadly, his face exuding pride and affection, as he speaks of the unqualified love that his mother showers upon him.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ballplayers endure slumps. Mothers never do. Maritza Perez is proof of the latter.
Giants outfielder Juan Perez smiles broadly, his face exuding pride and affection, as he speaks of the unqualified love that his mother showers upon him.
Maritza Perez's maternal instinct becomes especially sharp when she ponders what Juan does at mealtimes. When the Giants play at home, they have a cook in the clubhouse to prepare special dishes. On the road, they receive enough meal money to sustain them from city to city. Her 27-year-old son has nutritional advice available upon request wherever he goes.
But those basic questions that tug at all mothers' hearts, besides "Are you happy?", still prompt Maritza's concern: What did you eat today? Are you still hungry?
"She always worries about me and how I'm eating," said the 5-foot-11, 185-pound Perez, whose thickly muscled physique puts to rest any doubts about his sustenance. "That's the main thing she worries about, [my] eating right."
While growing up, Perez trained for his profession by immersing himself in baseball as much as possible. He was in the perfect environment for that as a resident of the Bronx, one of New York City's five boroughs. Perez frequently practiced at fields situated literally in the shadows of old Yankee Stadium, believing that he would perform inside that grandest of ballparks someday.
Perez not only fulfilled that dream during an Interleague series late last September, but he also made the experience a memorable one. Last Sept. 22, after the Yankees staged a tremendous pregame farewell to reliever Mariano Rivera, Perez thrilled dozens of relatives and friends watching from the stands by throwing out Robinson Cano at home plate in the eighth inning to preserve San Francisco's 2-1 lead.
But to get there, Perez needed to grow strong. To grow strong, he needed to eat. Maritza made sure he got plenty of what he needed, even after the Giants selected him in the 13th round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft.
Perez was too busy practicing baseball as a youth to learn to cook. So once he left home and joined the Giants' Minor League system to toil in places such as Augusta, Ga., and Richmond, Va., Maritza urgently conveyed basic cooking tips to her grateful son. He would not go hungry, even if he were thousands of miles away. The telephone became as invaluable a tool as a spatula, and vice versa.
"She taught me how to cook rice," Perez recalled. "She taught me how to cook beans. Even any kind of meat."
Even if Juan seemed to be developing as much in the kitchen as he was in the outfield, Maritza needed to be sure. She was his mother, and parents worry for a living, like baseball managers. So in 2009, when Juan played for the Giants' Class A Augusta affiliate, Maritza prepared a meal or two or three and drove to North Carolina when the GreenJackets played there.
Not just to see her precious son, but to bring him that delicious food.
To make sure he had enough to eat.
Maritza made similar trips when her son played for Double-A Richmond and the team traveled to New Britain or Trenton, within driving distance of the Bronx.
Maritza also cared about Juan's moral nourishment. She intended to raise an honest son.
Juan's attitude complicated matters.
"When I was little, I was a little hardheaded at school," he said.
Yet whenever something happened, he wanted his mom to get the story straight from him, even if that meant admitting a mistake.
"Whenever I did something wrong, I used to go to her and tell her what I did before the big trouble came in from school -- 'Mom, this is what I did,'" Perez said.
Therefore, Maritza knew that her son was on the right path, the one she had intended for him while she was raising not just Juan, but also his three sisters.
"When I was little," Perez recalled, "she always said I was her little king."
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Haft-Baked Ideas, and follow him on Twitter at @sfgiantsbeat.


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Having established several communities in the northeastern United
States throughout the last quarter of the 18th century, the Shakers
began moving south in the early 19th century. They arrived in
Kentucky by 1805, and quickly began to convert local citizens.
At its peak, Pleasant Hill was one of the largest Shaker communities
and by the mid-1850s was home to approximately 600 Shakers occupying
250 building and almost 2800 acres of land. Unlike many Shaker
communities, the architecture of Pleasant Hill was strongly influenced
by one individual, Micajah Burnett, who came to the society with
his parents in 1809 at age 17. Six years later, he began laying
out the village and providing the community with a meetinghouse,
dwellings, barns, and craft shops. Burnett utilized whatever materials
were readily available to him, specifically rock, clay, and wood.
While adhering to architecture and layout guidelines prescribed
by the Mount Lebanon ministry, Burnett was
also heavily influenced by the popular Federal style, as were
many Shaker builders. Focusing on the maximization of area and
a minimization of cutting and supports, Burnett effectively created
buildings with vast open spaces. The multiple Family Dwellings
at Pleasant Hill are perfect examples of his approach with their
particularly deep cellars and broad attics, living arrangements
designed to be conducive to efficient domestic economy.
Despite the Shaker community's achievements, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution took a heavy toll on the Shakers in Pleasant Hill. The community dissolved in 1910, although some Shakers continued to live there. In 1961, a group of concerned central Kentucky citizens incorporated as a non-profit educational entity to begin the restoration process of the remaining Pleasant Hill buildings. Now known as the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, it is the largest restored Shaker community with 2,800 acres of farmland and a magnificent collection of Kentucky Shaker architecture.
Today known as Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Shakertown
at Pleasant Hill Historic District is a National Historic
located at 3501 Lexington Rd. (US 68) in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
The community is open daily from 10:00am to 5:00pm; from November
through March some exhibition buildings are closed and tour hours
and ticket prices are also reduced (closed December 24 & 25).
For more information call 1-800-734-5611 or visit the website.
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House of Commons Hansard #137 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was refugees.
House of Commons Hansard #137 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was refugees.
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National DefenceRoutine Proceedings
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Central Nova Nova Scotia
Peter MacKay ConservativeMinister of National Defence
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour, pursuant to section 96 of the Statutes of Canada, 1998, C35, to table before the House, in both official languages, the second independent review by the Hon. Patrick J. LeSage, CM, OOnt, QC, of the provisions and operations of Bill C-25, An Act to amend the National Defence Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
I also have the honour to table, in both official languages, a second document entitled, "Comments of the Minister of National Defence on the Report of the Second Independent Review Authority regarding Bills C-25 and C-60".
Government Response to PetitionsRoutine Proceedings
June 8th, 2012 / 12:05 p.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre Saskatchewan
Tom Lukiwski ConservativeParliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to two petitions.
HealthCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings
12:05 p.m.
Joy Smith Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul, MB
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the ninth report of the Standing Committee on Health, entitled, "Drug Supply in Canada: A Multi-Stakeholder Responsibility".
Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requests that the government table a comprehensive response to the report.
Fisheries and OceansPetitionsRoutine Proceedings
12:05 p.m.
Philip Toone NDP Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC
Mr. Speaker, I want to point out that more than 400 Quebeckers have signed this petition from the Fédération québécoise pour le saumon atlantique, against the changes to the Fisheries Act, and in particular against the elimination of section 35, which protects fish habitats.
Since the depletion of fish stocks in the 1990s, people in the Gaspé and Magdalen Islands are very aware of the fact that we must protect all elements of the ecosystem to achieve sustainable development.
Questions on the Order PaperRoutine Proceedings
12:05 p.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre Saskatchewan
Tom Lukiwski ConservativeParliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, Question No. 609 will be answered today.
Question No. 609Questions on the Order PaperRoutine Proceedings
12:05 p.m.
Anne Minh-Thu Quach NDP Beauharnois—Salaberry, QC
With respect to drug regulation and approval: (a) does the 2012 Economic Action Plan provide for decreases or increases in the financial and human resources allocated to (i) drug approval services, (ii) regulatory activities to evaluate and monitor the safety, efficacy and quality of drugs before and after they enter the marketplace, (iii) activities related to the review of submissions by drug manufacturers for market authorization and post-market changes, (iv) activities related to enforcing compliance with existing regulations, including those concerning clinical trials, drug manufacturing and the reporting of adverse drug reactions, (v) activities of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, (vi) services such as the Patent Register, Drug Product Database, Notice of Compliance, and Progressive Licensing Project, (vii) various areas of Health Canada such as the Marketed Health Products Directorate, Therapeutic Products Directorate, Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate, and the Veterinary Drugs Directorate; (b) for each of the programs and directorates listed in (a), (i) what is the estimated extent of the decreases or increases in human or financial resources, (ii) are positions expected to be cut and, if so, how many will be eliminated; (c) was a value-for-money assessment conducted for the drug approval process; and (d) what is the government's financial allocation plan regarding drug regulation?
Question No. 609Questions on the Order PaperRoutine Proceedings
12:05 p.m.
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Leona Aglukkaq ConservativeMinister of Health and Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
Mr. Speaker, the 2012 economic action plan proposes changes that will give Canadians quicker access to drugs that have gone through Health Canada's rigorous scientific drug review process. This new proposed approach will not impact the safety and efficacy of drugs in Canada. All drug submissions to Health Canada will continue to be subject to rigorous safety, efficacy, and quality assessments prior to approval.
With respect to the questions (a) to (d) above, and subject to parliamentary approval of any required legislation, with regard to (a)(i), (a)(ii), (a)(iii) and (a)(iv) there will be no impact.
With regard to (a)(v), for the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board, PMPRB, there are no changes planned for the price review process. By 2014-15, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board's financial resources and human resources will have been decreased, as explained below.
First, the special purpose allotment to be used for external costs of public hearings will be reduced by $630,000 from a budget of $3.1 million. To date the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board has not used the full amount in any given year. Any unused funds at the end of the fiscal year are returned to the consolidated revenue fund. The reduction of $630,000 will not limit the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board's ability to conduct hearings.
Second, funding of studies on non-patented prescription drug prices will be reduced by $374,000, including three positions. This may not necessarily result in layoffs of employees, owing to potential vacancies and internal budget re-allocations. The PMPRB will retain capacity to undertake research, including on non-patented prescription drug prices if required, through the national prescription drug utilization system program.
With regard to (a)(vi), patent register, drug product database, notice of compliance and the progressive licensing project will not be impacted.
With regard to (a)(vii), the therapeutic products directorate will be impacted, as described below in the responses to (b)(i) and (b)(ii).
With regard to (b)(i), the proposed removal of the requirement for a regulatory amendment to schedule F and maintaining the list of prescription drugs administratively would result in the following decreases in financial resources: $32,000 for 2012-13; $270,700 for 2013-14; and $388,400 for 2014-15 and ongoing.
With regard to (b)(ii), there will be a reduction of four positions in the therapeutic products directorate from 2013-14 and ongoing.
With regard to (c), there was no value-for-money assessment conducted for the drug approval process as there were no reductions in this area.
With regard to (d), as per the above, the 2012 economic action plan had no direct impact on drug regulation, with the exception of proposed changes to the Food and Drugs Act for schedule F.
With respect to the government's financial allocation plan regarding drug regulation, Health Canada updated its cost recovery fees for drug review and approval of drugs in April 2011. These fees were increased to reflect rising costs and will increase annually by 2% to help ensure that sufficient resources are available to support these activities.
Revenues from revised fees will provide stable, long-term funding for Health Canada's core regulatory activities, including efficient drug product reviews, enhanced drug safety monitoring and inspections. Revenues have also been invested in hiring new scientific experts, replacing antiquated IT systems and improving business processes and systems.
Questions Passed as Orders for ReturnsRoutine Proceedings
12:10 p.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre Saskatchewan
Tom Lukiwski ConservativeParliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, if Questions Nos. 613, 616 and 619 could be made orders for returns, these returns would be tabled immediately.
Questions Passed as Orders for ReturnsRoutine Proceedings
12:10 p.m.
The Speaker Conservative Andrew Scheer
Is that agreed?
Questions Passed as Orders for ReturnsRoutine Proceedings
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Question No. 613Questions Passed as Orders for ReturnsRoutine Proceedings
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Matthew Kellway NDP Beaches—East York, ON
With regard to the government response to Chapter 2 of the 2012 Spring Report of the Auditor General: (a) when did the departments of Public Works and Government Services (PWGSC), National Defence (DND), and Industry Canada provide their final responses to the Office of the Auditor General (OAG); (b) when did PWGSC and DND inform the OAG that they disagreed with the conclusions of Paragraphs 2.80 and 2.81 of the report; (c) was the disagreement with those two paragraphs approved by the Minister; (d) if this disagreement was not approved by the Minister, who were the officials who approved this response; (e) what was the rationale for disagreement; and (f) how was this disagreement communicated to the OAG?
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Matthew Kellway NDP Beaches—East York, ON
With regard to formal communications received by the government of Canada from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) regarding the Joint Strike Fighter/F-35 program: (a) what were the dates of all formal communications received from DoD regarding project costs and/or overruns; (b) what was the content of the communications; (c) who in the government received these communications; (d) were Ministers informed of these communications; (e) was the Prime Minister informed of these communications; (f) if not, why not; (g) if yes, how were these messages given to Ministers and on what date; and (h) what actions were taken in response to these communications?
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Wayne Marston NDP Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, ON
With regard to the budget for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev) from fiscal years 2009-2010 to 2014-2015, what is: (a) the total budget for each year; (b) the amount disbursed for each year, by program and initiative; (c) the amount of lapsed funding, by program and standard object; and (d) the number of budgeted full time equivalents versus the number of employed full time equivalents?
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Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
Mr. Speaker, I ask that the remaining questions be allowed to stand.
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The Speaker Conservative Andrew Scheer
Is that agreed?
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Some hon. members
The House resumed consideration of the motion that Bill C-31, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, the Marine Transportation Security Act and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Act, be read the third time and passed.
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The Acting Speaker Conservative Bruce Stanton
When the House last left the debate on the bill, the hon. member for Newton—North Delta had eight and a half minutes remaining for her speech, and of course the requisite time for questions and comments.
The hon. member for Newton—North Delta.
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Jinny Sims NDP Newton—North Delta, BC
Mr. Speaker, I finished off by talking about the mandatory detention of bona fide refugees just because of the way they arrived here in Canada and the impact that would have on children. I want to expand on that a little bit.
I talked earlier about the emotional and the social costs, but we also have to look at the financial burden that the Canadian public would have to pay, because to keep people, legitimate refugees once they arrive and have gone through identification and security checks, in a provincial prison will be a costly matter. The last time I looked at those numbers, we were looking at anywhere from $60,000 to $80,000 a year to keep somebody in a provincial jail.
Besides that, we have to look at the human cost. Here we would not only be fiscally irresponsible and break UN conventions, conventions to which we are signatories, but we would also be fiscally irresponsible at a time of restraint, and it would be a cruel way to treat some of the world's most vulnerable people when they arrive on our shores.
I have heard a lot about how the bill will punish smugglers. I look on the bill as the "punishing refugees bill", because that is what it does. Under the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, we already have $1 million in fines and life imprisonment for smugglers. If we really want to go after smugglers, we have to work with the international community and get to the source. It is my belief that all these smugglers we are supposedly going to catch will not be on the ship or boat when it arrives.
The current detention and security check system that we already have actually led to charges being laid against some of the people on the boat that arrived from Sri Lanka, but over 90% of the people who arrived on that boat were accepted by Canada as legitimate asylum seekers. However, under this legislation, we would be putting them in prison, and that just makes no sense to me.
There is another aspect we have to look at. We all know the importance of family. All of us like to have our family around us. We can imagine refugees arriving here after running away and putting their lives at risk to get to this new country where they will seek protection. Their number one goal will be to have their family members join them also . Sometimes it will be a mother who might have been able to run away with only two of her kids and might have had to leave a kid behind. Sometimes the whole family remains behind, and only one person escapes.
In those cases, under this legislation, once again we have a two-tiered system that would prohibit legitimate asylum seekers from applying to have their families join them here. They would not have any travel documents. That again goes against the UN convention.
We are not talking about going away on cruises and things like that. For example, if somebody gets here, they might have some family just over the border in the U.S. and they might be able to go there and meet them. If they have arrived here from Mexico, maybe they cannot go back to Mexico but some of their family can get into Guatemala, and they could meet with them there. In these cases, we would once again be limiting and denying some very fundamental rights to people.
This five years of forced separation, by the way, is before they can apply. We know, given the way processing goes in this country right now, two or three or four years could be added to that. We can imagine the impact that kind of separation would have on families.
Once again it would not just be the mental torture that the families would suffer in knowing that their children and other family members were in danger; it would also be the social impact.
There would also be health care costs. Just imagine the impacts it will have on health care. Not only do we keep people in prison for up to a year, but now we will keep them separated from their families.
The impacts cannot be underestimated. We had witness after witness tell us about the impacts of incarceration on children and on adults. Every one of them said that it interferes with the settlement of families and becoming productive, and we heard as well about the costs to health care that I just raised.
Also, we are concerned about biometrics. We are not concerned that biometrics will be used in two areas, fingerprinting and digital photos. Rather, what we are absolutely concerned about is that the committee has not had a chance to study the privacy impact assessment. That is very important for all of us. Obviously, these reforms are not clearly consistent with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
At this time I have an amendment.
I move, seconded by the member for Saint-Lambert:
That the motion be amended by deleting all of the words after the word "That" and substituting the following: this House decline to give third reading to Bill C-31, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, the Marine Transportation Security Act and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Act, because it:
(a) gives significant powers to the Minister that could be exercised in an arbitrary manner, including the power to designate so-called "safe" countries without independent advice;
(b) violates international conventions to which Canada is signatory by providing mechanisms for the Government to indiscriminately designate and subsequently imprison bone fide refugees—including children—for up to one year;
(c) undermines best practices in refugee settlement by imposing, on some refugees, five years of forced separation from families;
(d) adopts a biometrics programme for temporary resident visas without adequate parliamentary scrutiny of the privacy risks; and
(e) is not clearly consistent with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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The Acting Speaker Conservative Bruce Stanton
The amendment is admissible.
Questions and comments. The hon. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
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St. Catharines Ontario
Rick Dykstra ConservativeParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Mr. Speaker, I certainly respect the member's position and her speech this morning on Bill C-31. Of course, I disagree with just about everything she had in there.
However, there were two amendments that the government moved, and I would thank her and the other members on the committee from the NDP and from the Liberal Party for agreeing and voting unanimously in favour of both amendments that the government passed. While we heard a lot of opposition to the bill today, there was a faint hope within the context of the bill, and we did see some support.
This leads me to believe that once the bill is passed and we have moved forward, a number of members from both the Liberal Party and the NDP who will see the light of day and see that this is in fact the right bill. Bill C-31 is the right legislation in terms of reforming our refugee system.
The member spoke for a couple of moments on designated safe countries. It should be made very clear that the transparency about the method and scope of how safe countries would be designated is now in the bill. It was not in the prvious bill, Bill C-11, but it is in the current bill now.
Most importantly, the member spoke at great length about the issue of children and that a decision would be made for those under 16 years of age. That is an addition to the bill that did not exist under Bill C-11. I know she was not here back when we were talking about this issue, but when the government passed legislation on the issue of sexual consent of a minor, we moved the age from 14 to 16. I would like the member to comment on why her party argued so vehemently against raising the age of consent to 16, yet today she says that 16-year-olds are not in a position to make the types of decisions that she is talking about.


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* Protesters demand end to Bani Walid violence
* Militiamen have shelled Bani Walid for several days
* Many militia fighters are from rival town Misrata
* Conflicting reports over fate of Gaddafi spokesman, son (Adds Benghazi TV station incident)
By Ali Shuaib
TRIPOLI, Oct 21 (Reuters) - About 500 protesters broke into the grounds of Libya's parliament building on Sunday to demand an end to violence in Bani Walid, a former stronghold of the late Muammar Gaddafi that is being shelled by militiamen from a rival town.
Militias, many from Misrata and aligned with the Defence Ministry, have been shelling the hilltop town of 70,000 people for several days. State news agency LANA said on Sunday that 22 people had been killed and 200 wounded in the fighting.
"We are here to demand the government find a peaceful solution for the tribal war that is happening in Bani Walid," protester Nasser Ehdein said.
Libya's new rulers have held elections but have struggled to impose their authority on a country awash with weapons a year after Gaddafi was killed and the fighting in Bani Walid underscored how tenuous their control remains.
In a country where rumours abound, there were also conflicting reports over the weekend about the fate of Gaddafi's son Khamis and that of the late autocrat's former spokesman.
In Tripoli, an unarmed group of male and female protesters forced their way past security guards at the gates of the grounds of the parliament buildings, chanting "There is no God but God, and President (Mohammed) Magarief is God's enemy."
Security forces fired rounds into the air as they held their positions at the doors of the building, while elected members of the General National Congress met inside.
Ehdein said most of the protesters were residents of Tripoli who had family in or hailed from Bani Walid.
This is the second time protesters have broken into the grounds of the assembly since it took power in the summer.
The first time was on Oct. 4 when a group of protesters who believed their town was underrepresented in a proposed Libyan government stormed the assembly as it prepared to scrutinise the prime minister-elect's nominations.
In the port city of Benghazi anger boiled over on Sunday night where about 400 unarmed but angry protesters stormed the grounds of private Libyan satellite channel Libya al-Ahrar.
The protesters demanded that the channel air photographic evidence that Gaddafi's son Khamis had been killed in battle. Libyan officials had announced he had been killed in fighting in Bani Walid but that has not been confirmed.
Demonstrators said they were furious over what they deemed a false rumour, saying it had helped fuel violence in Bani Walid and stir up tribal enmity.
Bani Walid was one of the towns that remained loyal to Gaddafi the longest. It remains isolated from the rest of Libya and former rebels say there are still pockets of support for the old government there.
In Bani Walid itself, 140 km (86 miles) south of Tripoli, militia leader Abdelkarim Ghomaid said fighting was in full swing.
"The shelling is coming from all sides," he said by phone.
A Bani Walid resident said by phone: "Fighting is continuing today. There is smoke rising over certain parts of the city."
Outside Bani Walid, hundreds of vehicles lined up in the village of Weshtata, 80 km (50 miles) from Tripoli, waiting to be checked by government forces as families fled the fighting.
"We are escaping the danger of the rockets, the shrapnel, and the deaths inside. There hasn't been electricity for days," said one man who had his family in a pick-up truck.
A feud between Misrata and Bani Walid was inflamed by the death of rebel Omran Shaban after he was detained for two months in Bani Walid. Shaban, from Misrata, was the man who found Gaddafi hiding in a drain pipe in Sirte on Oct. 20, 2011.
Libya's congress ordered the Defence and Interior Ministries to find those responsible for abducting Shaban and suspected of torturing him. It gave Bani Walid a deadline to hand them over.
Hundreds of families have fled the fighting in Bani Walid to Tarhouna, some 80 km away, where a statement from the prime minister's office on Saturday said militias had captured former Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim.
However, in an audio clip posted on Facebook, a person purporting to be Ibrahim, who held news conferences in Tripoli during the war, dismissed news of his arrest.
There was no independent verification of the authenticity or timing of the Facebook post, dated Oct. 20.
Some officials said Gaddafi's son Khamis had been captured in Bani Walid and died after being taken to Misrata. But there was no official written statement from the government on this, as with previous captures of former Gaddafi-era figures.
On Sunday, Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur said on his official Twitter account that the announcement of Ibrahim's arrest and Khamis's death was made without confirmation of the news.
Khamis was reported dead on at least three separate occasions during last year's conflict. A Syrian-based television station that supported Gaddafi said he had been killed in fighting southeast of Tripoli on Aug. 29, 2011. (Additional reporting by Hadeel al-Shalchi, Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Reuters Television; Editing by Alison Williams and Andrew Osborn)


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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The legal wrangling over the troubled crime drama "Black Water Transit" has taken another turn, with the film's backer quietly settling a $3.1 million lawsuit brought by a producer on the eve of trial.
Ascendant Pictures and principal Chris Roberts filed suit in February 2008 against David Bergstein's Capitol Films and other entities for breach of contract, claiming Bergstein kicked him off the indie project without paying agreed-upon producers' fees.
"Ascendant got cut off at the knees and wasn't able to do anything," said Glen Rothstein, the company's attorney. "They basically told us to take our ball and go home."
A trial in the case had been scheduled to begin Monday, but Bergstein personally negotiated a settlement with Ascendant lawyers during the holidays, and a request for dismissal of the case was filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Bergstein, whose banner is now Pangea Media Group, did not respond to requests for comment. Rothstein would not reveal the value of the settlement. Sources said Bergstein agreed to pay Ascendant a substantial sum but less than $1 million.
The settlement is the latest strange turn for "Transit," a noirish thriller set in post-Katrina New Orleans directed by Tony Kaye ("American History X") and starring Stephen Dorff and Laurence Fishburne. Bergstein unveiled the project at Cannes in 2007, but it has not been released and instead has spawned a stack of litigation.
The indie impresario is said to have rejected delivery of the film because he considered it unreleasable. He sought to recoup the film's budget, said to have ballooned to $48 million, from completion bond company CineFinance. That disputed was settled. The film's insurance carrier, US Specialty Insurance, later sued Capitol, asking a court to rule that it wasn't required to cover any losses on the film.
Last month, Bergstein's Westwood-based shingle sued insurance broker Aon for $20 million to recover losses incurred on the film. Bergstein argues in that case that Aon negligently sold Capitol a policy that did not cover injuries of an "essential element" during preproduction and that Capitol lost millions when star Samuel L. Jackson had to drop out of the film because of a back problem (he was replaced with Fishburne).
Capitol also was sued in November by New York hedge fund D. B. Zwirn, which provided Bergstein and partner Ron Tutor with the money for their movies from 2004-07 and demanded reimbursement for about $120 million that was used to acquire Capitol, ThinkFilm and other entities.
On Wednesday, a day before the request for dismissal of the Ascendant case was filed, Capitol was sued by print advertising house XL Laboratories for $50,000 in unpaid fees. In that complaint, XL alleges, among other things, that Capitol engaged its services without making it aware of four pending federal court cases against the company.


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On Twitter, Christa reminds me that the beauty pageant is a long-running Southern institution. Without speculating about why that is, I think it makes the explanation for why Miss USA has become so politically significant in the conservative community pretty simply: it's a function of the further blurring between political and cultural signifiers for the right.
Obviously there's going to be some overlap between the two in any cohort (says the liberal who listens to punk rock, watches The Daily Show, etc.), but what's interesting about folks like Pipes and Malkin is how they find it impossible to view any form of cultural expression through any lens other than the ideological purity detector. It's easy to criticize, but mostly it just makes me feel bad for them; I can't imagine how much more narrow and impoverished my life would be if I reflexively rejected any form of cultural expression that didn't conform to my own worldview.
UPDATE: Via Dara, beauty pageants have apparently been declining in popularity for decades.
Theory: As beauty pageants became less popular in the north, conservatives started identifying them even more closely with the values of Real America, which in turn alienated more non-conservative fans and contestants, which then in turn made pageants into even more of a conservative shibboleth, etc.
You know what other recent historical trend fits that shape? Conservative orthodoxy in general.


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Kathie Lee Gifford says there will be a "revolt" at NBC if the powers that be allow Matt Lauer to leave the "Today" show, telling TMZ ... she'll do whatever it takes to keep him around.
Kathie Lee was leaving Rockefeller Center in NYC Monday morning when she made it clear -- she thinks Matt has been unfairly demonized in the media in the wake of Ann Curry's firing.
Kathie tells us, she wanted to buy a full page ad in an NYC newspaper defending her longtime co-worker, but Matt talked her out of it.
Bottom line, if Lauer ever gets ousted ... Kathie no happy.


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philipmcnamara necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Shine (http://www.shineppp.com)
We are a one person consultancy, with a few helpers, and we need your help. We have a good idea of what we want to create in our website, but we need a great designer to come on board and hand draw our world for us. We work with lots of different types of companies, and we want you to help us to represent them in a cool drawing. This drawing will then be made into Flash, and we want to get an Flash animator to flash it up for us. However, we need you first.
target audience is government, corporations, small businesses around England.
I need a beautiful illustration created that I can then flash up at a later stage. This project requires 6 illustrations to be created, that is quite detailed, and technical.
three dimensional image of a town/city from above - this is the index page, and you see the whole world from this angle. there are 5 parts to this town
1. Home - represented by the sun.
2. City Hall
3. Big Corporation (big buildings)
4. Small mom and pop buildings (represented by cool buildings)
5 River running through the whole thing (Winning Bids)
This job is to do MAIN ILLUSTRATION ONLY - not the flash animation. However, if you can also do the flash animations too, then even better. (more money for you)
I would really suggest you do a super simple hand sketch at first, and show us that - we need to know you "get" the kind of image we want to show. We dont want sharp, structural lines for the buildings, we want cool, quirky designs. Have a look at the attachement - this is the kind of thing we're trying to achieve. Its the globe on the right of the picture. We're looking for more colours, more green areas, more life (not just big city blocks)


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Despite a 2-year-old pledge by more than a dozen major food companies to advertise healthier foods to children, about two-thirds of those companies' ads remain for products of low nutritional quality, according to a study released Monday.
The report, released a day before the Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies are set to suggest nutritional standards for foods marketed to kids, concluded that the industry's effort at self-regulation has failed. Ads for sugary cereals, fast food and sweet snacks made up more than 70% of the total studied.
"We cannot win the battle against childhood obesity as long as we continue to allow industry to bombard children with ads for foods that they really shouldn't eat very often," said Dale Kunkel of the University of Arizona, lead researcher of the report, which was commissioned by the advocacy organization Children Now.
"Other countries have already put a stop to this type of commercial exploitation, and it's time for the U.S. to act more responsibly to protect the health of the nation's children," Kunkel said.
Industry officials, however, said that their efforts are working and that the landscape for children's advertising is changing. They said the two years since the initiative began is not enough time to measure change.
In 2006, the Council of Better Business Bureaus established the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative as a self-regulation plan. Companies taking part agree to devote at least half of their advertising toward children to promote "healthier or better-for-you" foods or to include messages encouraging good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.
Sixteen companies now take part, including Kellogg Co., Kraft Foods Inc., Coca-Cola Co., McDonald's Corp., ConAgra Foods Inc., General Mills, Burger King Corp., and PepsiCo.
Kunkel's study, funded by the California Endowment, a private health foundation, looked at 139 children's broadcast and cable programs in February, March and April. The researchers examined 534 food and beverage ads that ran during, before or directly following the programs, 381 of them from companies taking part in the initiative.
Products were categorized using a Department of Health and Human Services plan for "go" foods, which can be eaten almost any time; "slow" foods, which have moderate nutritional value and could be consumed several times a week; and "whoa" foods, which should be eaten only occasionally.
The report found that 68.5% of ads by companies taking part in the initiative were for foods in the "whoa" category; 31% were for products in the "slow" category; and that less than 1% of the ads were for foods in the "go" category.
By comparison, in 2005, 84% of the foods marketed to children were in the "whoa" category, the report said.
Susan Davison, a Kraft spokeswoman, said her company believes the initiative is working. Because of it, she said, "most of the major children's food marketers now use science-based nutrition standards to determine what products are advertised to children."
As one of the positive changes, she added, "Kraft Foods has stopped advertising many well-known, beloved products to kids such as Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies."
Elaine Kolish, director of the initiative, said that dozens of products have been reformulated to improve their nutritional profile, such as reduction in the sugar content of cereals.
And, she said, in a survey of ads last year, 83% were for products that were "at least a good source of a nutrient" such as calcium or Vitamin E, or contained a half-serving of items federal government authorities encourage children to eat.


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Clicktostart necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
The Transition Team
I am a web designer - not a graphic designer. My client had a local small town designer take a run at their logo concept for the Transition Team and failed. We are looking for a professional looking production of the concept of someone moving from a too-large house to a smaller home. Client likes the concept of a road being in the logo - however, this version attached looks like a river and the smaller house would naturally be smaller... because it is farther away. So it does not even convey the idea of downsizing.
The target market is senior citizens who are not ready for the nursing home but their family home is too big. The Transition Team is a couple of real estate agents ( a married couple) with an established presence under remax. They have been in the business for more than 10 years.
Working with a team of businesses, they provide evaluation of needs, packing, selling of extra furniture, moving, unpacking and every other service needed - cleaning, yard work, painting, insurance - that make the move easy and smooth... theyeven take pictures of the curio cabinets to know where to put the knick-knacks and dishes after the move, how to set up the bedside tables.
They are a very caring couple and see this need as their existing clients age.
I have attached the ugly concept. You may diverge from it as inspired but keep in mind: simple, downsizing concept. The colours do not need to be the blue and red - those are the remax colours though.
Client is attached to the idea of the scaled down house (eg a two-storey to a bungalow, a big house to a little house - not the same house large and then small) and a road - but the road needs to actually look like a road if used. Oh - and we don't want to look like a moving company!
This will be used in print format so I will need a vector version for scaling.
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Susanne Van Leer "Van" Nolde, 82, a longtime teacher at Chestnut Hill Academy, died April 17 at her home in Wyndmoor.
Ms. Nolde, who began her teaching career at CHA in 1953, taught English and history in the Lower and Middle schools for more than five decades before retiring in 2007. She received the academy's Headmaster's Award in 1989 for "exceptional service to the school."
For several years in the 1960s, she worked as a reading specialist at the Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential in Wyndmoor and was interested in addressing reading problems faced by persons with dyslexia.
A lifelong resident of Wyndmoor, Ms. Nolde was raised on a part of the former Jarden Estate, named for her grandfather, Walter H. Jarden. She attended Germantown Friends School and earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Delaware. She completed graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
She was an active equestrian and a fox-hunting enthusiast for many years. She owned and raced horses and was a regular rider in Fairmount Park.
She is survived by her sister, Fredericka Berger, of College Park, Md. – WF


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|I am a widow living only a few miles from Williamsburg. I manage a small farm, have a large family and one slave. Although I own corn and tobacco fields, I do not make enough money from these crops to take care of my family. Thus, twice each week, I take milk, fresh churned butter, eggs, and fruits and vegetables from my garden to the market square in Williamsburg to sell. I leave early in the morning while it is still dark. It takes me an hour to reach Williamsburg. At the end of the day, I return home with the produce I didn't sell.
|I am a slave from Carter's Grove Plantation. I am hired to work in the gardens at the Governor's Palace because I am highly regarded for my knowledge of gardening. My wife and children live on the plantation. On Saturday night, I travel eight miles to the plantation so that I can spend Sunday with my family. There I cultivate a garden plot to supply vegetables so that my wife and children will have more food than just the rations given to them. I also find time to rest and enjoy myself with kinfolk, neighbors and friends. On Sunday evening, I travel back to the Governor's Palace.
|I am a storeowner in Williamsburg. Yesterday, I traveled to the port of Yorktown where an imported shipment of goods for my store arrived from England. The shipment was removed from the ship and I'm taking these goods to my store. My customers will like the new earthenware, glass, skillets, silverware, soap, coffee, tools, and fabrics that they can purchase for ready money. I will have the Virginia Gazette print advertisements listing these imported goods. While I am away from my store, my indentured servant will make room on the shelves for these goods.
|I am an elected member of the House of Burgesses. I travel to Williamsburg twice a year during the Publick Times. I will attend the General Assembly with other elected burgesses at the Capitol to vote on colonial laws for the colony of Virginia. At times we engage in rather heated debates. I will stay at the Raleigh Tavern where I will find good food, drink and lodging for myself and my personal slave. When business is finished for the day, some of my fellow burgesses, who are also staying at the Raleigh, will join me in sharing stories late into the night. In a few weeks I will return home to my family.


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House of the Week: Mountain Home on Lake Tahoe
Who will win WSJ's House of the Week:the French chateau in Houston, the mountain home on Lake Tahoe, the British accent in Virginia, or the Beverly Hills modern? WSJ's Stephanos Chen has the answer. Photo: Vance Fox.
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"If you have been waiting on the sidelines, now is the time to engage, because there's no turning back," according to "Achieving Spatial Coordination through BIM—A Guide for Specialty Contractors." This landmark document was released in early November for contractors who want to implement building information modeling (BIM) practices and technologies in their firms.
BIM is a process of digitally representating a building's physical and functional characteristics, and it aids in decision-making for a construction project throughout its life cycle.
This guide is the product of two years of intense work by three trade associations—the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA), the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors National Association (SMACNA), and the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA)—and an industry task force of nearly three dozen experts, including member contractors who are highly knowledgeable of BIM. Of course, the construction organizations had been grappling with BIM individually for some time before they began to collaborate on a standard definition of spatial coordination through 3-D modeling.
With or without BIM, the construction spatial coordination process should be a cooperative effort between the owner, design professionals, general contractor or construction manager, and trade contractors. The purpose is to integrate physical objects, components and systems into the architectural spaces allocated in the contract documents. This is a very important process for mechanical, electrical, sheet metal, plumbing, HVAC, and sprinkler/fire protection contractors who, as the guide notes, are "on the business end of project design and fitment issues" and understand that the traditional expectations and practices surrounding spatial coordination have been costly and laden with risk.
Any failure of the spatial coordination process can lead to serious problems. The CEOs of MCAA (John R. Gentille), SMACNA (Vincent R. Sandusky) and NECA (John M. Grau) contributed to an article in ENR, which explains it this way: "Those visionary MEP contractors who embraced BIM early discovered an important change in the rules: a lone capable contractor can no longer carry the team. In fact, it's just the opposite. Success indicators for projects that require BIM are benchmarked by the contributions of the weakest construction team member. Consider the fallout when a contractor who fails to participate in the spatial coordination process has to install their systems in spaces that an MEP contractor who did participate reasonably expects to be available for field fabrication. The work of the coordination team is up in smoke, and a total re-design is required. RFIs and change orders are generated and the unbudgeted costs mount. Everyone loses."
MEP contractors can benefit greatly from BIM because it reveals the full complexity of a building and its systems in ways no other methods can—from different perspectives in three dimensions. However, because BIM involves new ideas and methods and an array of stakeholders of varying skills, it can also be risky for contractors who are not up to speed on the concept. And, even worse, a contractor who bungles BIM where it is required can disrupt the entire project.
Given these concerns, NECA, MCAA and SMACNA went beyond defining spatial coordination in the BIM environment. Even though the full definition they developed was accepted and embedded inside the 2012 Version 2 release of the National BIM Standard, our trade associations were moved by a larger underlying issue. They knew they had to provide a means to improve the performance of our least experienced contractors and the quality of their contributions on BIM projects.
And that is the purpose of the guide. It's not a software instruction manual. It's a "take this into consideration" set of guidelines that addresses how MEP contractors can best incorporate leading-edge technologies and workflows into the spatial coordination aspect of their projects. It's information that is essential for making BIM-related business decisions.
You can download the guide from http://necanet.org/neca-store/publications. (It's free for NECA, MCAA and SMACNA members.) The rapid proliferation of BIM suggests that you should get the guide right now and begin reviewing it immediately.
According to Pike Research, which provides in-depth analysis of global clean-technology issues, the BIM technology market stood at $1.8 billion in May 2012. This figure is expected to surge by more than 250 percent to reach $6.5 billion by 2020. If you're not up on BIM, you're holding yourself back, and you're not helping your industry move forward. BIM is big and powerful, and it's not going away. However, those MEP contractors who fail to adopt it appropriately just might.
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Phil Mickelson is in position for a first US Open title after the finishing the third day one shot in the lead after another eventful day at Merion.
The 43-year-old five-time runner-up shot 70 to finish one under, though he will be expecting a hotly contested final round on Sunday from the likes of Luke Donald and Charl Schwartzel.
The Englishman bogeyed the 17th and double bogeyed the 18th to drop back to one under after looking in form for much of his 71, though he insisted he felt good and was confident of challenging Mickelson, despite his late slip on Saturday.
"I should have done better," said Donald, who is looking to become the first Englishman to win the US Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970.
"It was disappointing but I'll take the positives out of today, a really solid 16 holes of golf that I played and I'm only two back."
South African Schwartzel was another, of many, to drop shots on the last two holes in a decent round of 69 that left him level and one off the lead.
Four birdies early in the round would have had the 28-year-old pleased with how solid he was looking until the 17th and 18th, but there is plenty of encouragement for him going into Sunday's play.
Conditions at Merion are expected to be testing on Sunday, though will not be as extreme as we have seen since Thursday, where the damage was done for many of the players.
Lee Westwood ended on six over after a promising round of 69 and will be hoping for similar on Sunday to push further up the leader board, though fellow Briton Rory McIllroy was not able to make a similar recovery.
The champion from 2011 could not find his best form in shooting a 75, with seven bogeys in all and only two birdies.
McIllroy was joined on eight over by American Jason Dufner, whose four bogeys from the first five holes meant his day was unlikely to be a happy one and he finished on 73.
US Open leaderboard after day three:
-1: Mickelson (US) Level: Mahan (US), Schwartzel (SA), Stricker (US) +1: Rose (Eng), Donald (Eng), Horschel (US) +2: Day (Aus)
Others: +6: Westwood (Eng) +8: McIlroy (NI) Dufner (USA)


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First time on a switch kite ever! Been flying Core kites last 4years and on Core riot Xr2 all season. Just demoed the Core GTS2 last week in 12-18 mph and 20-30mph. I am not a switch team rider or rider for anyone else but me. Just love kiting. Hope this review helps. Please ask questions.
I am 185 dry ride a 135x42 shinn monk and 5'2 surfboard.
First test October 3rd at Sherman island between 4:30pm-7:10pm. See ikitesurf graph archive
First off lowend is incredible yesterday was a max high tide at end of flood and plenty of power, sweet low end. 10m will be my biggest nitro2 for sure. Wind was averaging 14-16 Mph and only dipped a couple times really low and only struggled when wind dropped once for 5-10 minutes down to 11mph. this kite kite pulls effortlessly upwind in light air, very impressive.
Build quality: really nicely finished kite. Obvious attention to detail and quality control. One pump is excellent, big pump valve works very well, bridle material is the best available sleeved with line guides instead of pulleys and same bridle line as
Core kites. In the air the canopy looks super tight and flawless no obvious wrinkles, super clean tight canopy.
In the Air: 21.5m lines on Core sensor bar 52cm width. 18.5m front lines from Y split to kite and 3m from chicken loop to Y split. This going to be really bare minimum on front line length any shorter and you will find the won't turn well and the
LE will distort. This is because of the bridle. If the Y is too close to the kite it will pull the main pulley to close to midline and grossly affects handling. This happens on Core kites as well as any kite with this type of bridle to a degree. Anyway, kite flew well on this setup, but will add 1.5m to front lines to see if the handling feels better, which it felt good anyway, I just want to see if there is an improvement. The core XR2 turning speed and tun radius is faster/tighter with the correct distance from Y split to kite. If it is to short the wingtip flaps just a little on the xr2 from LE flattens too much, I think it makes the kite handle a little different. looping with out proper line tuning can affect the handling So be careful how you tune your setup for each kite you fly.
Stability: Insanely awesome, nice job Bill Hansen!! Kite is so stable, no front or back stall. Even in this light wind let go of the bar with 40cm throw and kite doesn't nothing weird and will fly itself and does seem to veer off in either direction.
Power is very linear, "NOT" on/off. Ride at the kite and it just floats with you. Kite Loop it and nice float if lines slack. Stability is terrific! I was worried that LE diameter would make it less stable and this is not the case.
Turning/bar pressure: moderately fast on the nitro2 , Xr2 and GTS2 are faster and repond faster. The nitro2 is precise and really powered turns. Turns are more powerful than both Cores, but the GTS loop is more powerful and easier because rips so fast and throws you. Nice turning characteristics, not super fast but good and not twitchy at all. It has a medium sized turn radius so the loop is powerful. powered turns help build apparent wind in light wind like last night. Really stellar control and bar feedback. Started off on light bar setting then moved forward one to middle setting.
On light rear setting there is nice feedback and pressure, core xr2 and GTS2 are lighter. I like moderately heavy pressure for kite loops and turn stability so you feel the kite really easy. All 3 kites have this the nitro2 is a little heavier. All kites have excellent feedback
Middle setting is perfect for me and has more pressure, more linear steering feedback and
wingtip more stable. And if wind is really weird I would put the line on heavier bar pressure as this will stablize wingtip even more. The Core GTS2 was like that as well. Much better stability overall with rear line connected on heavy pressure...less torque on the wing tip and less
depower = stability and less flare and wobble as I call it.
Jumping: pretty sweet for light wind on a 10m @ 185lbs. The xr2 had only a little more float for light wind jumping, but not much. Easy to jump, good feel easy to redirect and glide forward. Will need more wind for proper jump test.
Kite loop: as I said powered turns! This= fun kite loop even in light air.
Anyway loops very nice, but need more wind for real test.
Pop: Core GTS2 is better, but at the sacrifice of lowend jumping and hangtime. Nitro and XR2 have similar pop in light air. GTS is specialist as Pop machine. Probably the average rider won't use pop to there full advantage anyway so not a loss in the nitro. I am sure the pop will be better in heavier wind on nitro2.


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Hibiscus Rum Cooler Recipe
This pitcher drink is tart and cooling.
Notes: We used Tazo Passion tea for this punch, but you can use whatever hibiscus tea you like, or make your own from dried hibiscus flowers. To make simple syrup, combine 1 cup water with 1 cup sugar in a small saucepan and heat over medium heat, stirring constantly, until sugar is dissolved. Cool before using. Simple syrup will keep in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
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- Yield:makes about 1 1/2 quarts, serving 6
- Active time: 8 minutes
- Total time:8 minutes
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- 1 cup loosely packed mint leaves (about 30 leaves)
- 4 tablespoons simple syrup (see note)
- 1/2 cup juice from about 4 lemons
- 4 1/2 cups brewed hibiscus tea, cooled (see note)
- 1 cup aged rum such as Flor de Caña
- 1/2 cup chilled club soda
- 6 mint sprigs (optional garnish)
Place mint leaves and simple syrup in bottom of a lidded pitcher. Juice lemons and add lemon juice, cooled hibiscus tea, and rum to pitcher. Add 1 cup ice, stir and cover. Continue to step 2, or refrigerate for up to 6 hours.
When ready to serve, add club soda, stir gently, and pour into ice-filled serving glasses. Garnish with mint sprigs if desired.
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All of us have attitudes. Some of them accord with reality and serve us well throughout the course of our lives. Others are out of alignment with reality and cause us problems. Tibetan Buddhist practice isn't just sitting in silent meditation, it's developing fresh attitudes that align our minds with reality. Attitudes need adjusting, just like a spinal column that has been knocked out of alignment. In this book, B. Alan Wallace explains a fundamental type of Buddhist mental training which is designed to shift our attitudes so that our minds become pure wellsprings of joy instead of murky pools of problems, anxieties, fleeting pleasures, hopes, and frustrations. Wallace shows us the way to develop attitudes that unveil our full capacity for spiritual awakening.
The author draws on his thirty-year training in Buddhism, physics, the cognitive sciences, and comparative religion to challenge readers to reappraise many of their assumptions about the nature of the mind and physical world. By explicitly addressing many practical and theoretical issues that uniquely face us in the modern world, Wallace brings this centuries-old practice into the twenty-first century.
"Readers who put the advice this book contains into practice may indeed transform their minds and achieve a sense of inner peace, the key to greater peace and happiness within and in the world at large." —His Holiness the Dalai Lama
"Alan Wallace, one of the great Western Buddhist thinkers of our day, has written an extraordinary book! Buddhism with an Attitude is written not only with great intelligence, but also in an accessible and readable style that helps us apply the principles in daily life." —Howard C. Cutler, MD, coauthor with H.H. the Dalai Lama of The Art of Happiness
"This book places you into a new domain where the world actually becomes the meditation hall. . . . A book to guide both beginners and seasoned meditators, a book to be read reread and studied." —Buddhist Peace Fellowship
"Dr. Wallace's versatility in the cognitive sciences offers a unique amplification for our understanding of such topics as primordial wisdom, consciousness, meditative stabilization, and bringing adversity onto the path of liberation. Through Seven-Point Mind Training, Wallace shows us the way to develop attitudes that unveil our capacity for spiritual awaking." —Branches of Light


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January 5, 2011
Off With A Bang
It's finally ours! We've partially moved into our new house, actually we're camping in it while we have some work done. We're tackling the things that it's easier to do when you've not yet moved into a house. So, we're putting in hardwood floors upstairs and then having all the floors refinished, a new tankless water heater and recirculator and a radiant barrier. There are more things on our list, but they can come later.
Right now it's loud and noisy. There are hammers banging, carpet tack strips being pulled up and the plumbers yelling back and forth from the attic to the second floor. Our dog is having a grand time running back and forth trying to see what everyone is doing, that is until the plumbers started drilling a large hole in the attic. Now, she's on high alert for any new sounds of potential disaster.
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- 1 teaspoon whole white peppercorns
- 1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
- 1 teaspoon coriander seeds
- 2 tablespoons sea salt
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 1-pound salmon fillet, skin on
- 1 cup chopped fresh dill, divided
- 2 tablespoons honey mustard
- 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar
- 3 tablespoons grapeseed oil or canola oil
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Mini pumpernickel or brioche toasts
- Dill sprigs
Recipe Preparation
For gravlax:
Heat all peppercorns and coriander seeds in small skillet over medium-high heat until spices are fragrant and seeds jump slightly, shaking skillet frequently, about 2 minutes. Crush spices in mortar with pestle or transfer to work surface, cover with kitchen towel (not terry cloth), and crush with mallet or bottom of heavy pan. Transfer spices to small bowl. Mix in salt and sugar.
Using small sharp knife, poke 12 small holes through skin of salmon. Rub 1/3 of spice mixture over skin. Sprinkle 1/3 cup chopped dill in bottom of 7x7x2-inch or 8x8x2-inch glass baking dish. Place salmon, skin side down, atop dill. Rub remaining spice mixture into top of salmon. Press 2/3 cup chopped dill onto salmon. Cover with plastic wrap, pressing directly onto fish. Place plate or another pan atop plastic. Place heavy cans on plate. Refrigerate 2 to 3 days.
For sauce:
Whisk mustard and vinegar in small bowl to blend. Gradually whisk in oil. Stir in chopped dill and salt. Season with ground black pepper. DO AHEAD Sauce can be made 3 days ahead. Cover and chill.
Scrape spices and dill off both sides of salmon (some spice mixture will remain). Using knife with long thin blade, thinly slice salmon diagonally at 45-degree angle from top of fillet toward skin.
Arrange toasts on platter; top with salmon slices, sauce, and dill sprigs.


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