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Hockey Canada defends Doan, denies he said slur
CTV.ca News Staff
Published Thursday, May 3, 2007 10:00PM EDT
Last Updated Friday, May 18, 2012 6:10PM EDT
Hockey Canada President Bob Nicholson delivered a passionate defence of Shane Doan on Thursday to a House of Commons committee, describing him as a devout Christian who finds it difficult to even curse.
"You should get to know Shane Doan," said Nicholson.
"You can talk to all of his teammates that have played with him. He says 'fudge' a lot if he gets upset. He's a Christian and a person that I am proud to know."
Nicholson and other Hockey Canada officials met with the House of Commons' Official Languages Committee to defend their decision to appoint Doan as captain of the Canadian world championship team.
Doan, a right-winger for the Phoenix Coyotes who allegedly made derogatory remarks toward a French-Canadian NHL linesman, volunteered to step down on Wednesday as team captain over the controversy.
"Shane Doan is a person who has represented our country eight times," Nicholson said.
"We are 100 per cent behind Shane Doan."
The National Hockey League has cleared Doan of any "wrongdoing" in the matter and Nicholson said he should be free to represent Canada on the national team.
"There is no question those words were said on the ice," Nicholson told the committee.
"The National Hockey League's investigation clearly shows that that was stated, but it also clearly shows that they felt that it wasn't Shane Doan."
But Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe said even the controversy should still have prevented Doan from being named captain.
"When someone robs a bank he's presumed innocent until proven guilty -- but I don't know many people who'd name them bank manager while the trial's still on," Duceppe said.
"They want to name him captain even before the verdict comes in. It makes no sense. It's an insult to Quebecers."
That sentiment was earlier expressed by committee member Luc Malo, another Bloc MP.
"Why don't you follow the logical suggestion of Mr. Doan himself and give the 'C' to someone else?" he asked officials.
Doan has said he was trying to pacify goalie Curtis Joseph after a loss to the Canadiens in 2005 when linesman Michel Cormier thought he heard Doan utter "F---ing French. Did a great job."
However, Doan maintained he said "Four French referees in Montreal, Cuje, figure it out.''
Doan has sued one Liberal parliamentarian for defamation, claiming he has been falsely accused of making anti-French comments.
The case against Denis Coderre is still before the courts, and Coderre has counter-sued.
Last month, linesman Michel Cormier testified in a court that he was skating next to Doan when he heard the slur.
Nicholson said there is no doubt the words were spoken on the ice, but that the NHL investigation "clearly shows that they felt that it wasn't Shane Doan" who made the remark.
The Hockey Canada president said Doan and his family have been very upset by the allegations.
"We're taking Shane Doan, his wife, his mom and dad, his four kids through an allegation that could have been dictated by someone else,'' Nicholson said.
Rene Marcil of Hockey Canada also defended Doan, saying French Canada is well-represented within the organization.
He maintained the controversy surrounding Doan's appointment is an unnecessary distraction to the national hockey team, which is currently competing in Russia.
"I think this should have ended quite some time ago," Marcil said in French.
"This is another event that is upsetting the concentration of our team."
"I don't see, therefore, why we can't work with Shane Doan," Marcil said.
However, the House of Commons committee members said that it is their duty to discuss the allegations for all Canadians.
"The puck is on the ice and now we don't know where to send it. The whole situation has lead to uncertainty and now we are trying to figure out how to solve it," said a representative.
"There are taxpayers who want to be able to identify with Team Canada," said another representative from the committee.
With files from the Canadian Press
Hockey officials to explain Doan's captaincy
Team Canada captain Doan 'disrespectful': Bloc
Hockey Canada chief Bob Nicholson makes his way to appear before the Commons Official languages committee on Thursday May 3, 2007. (CP / Fred Chartrand)


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As much of the nation deals with the effects of opioid addiction and overuse, some states are attempting to hold the makers of these drugs accountable. Once again, Purdue Pharma, the company behind OxyContin and other opioid painkillers, finds itself in the crosshairs of allegations that it has continued to contribute to this epidemic by deceiving patients and physicians about the safety and efficacy of these drugs.
The latest legal action comes from New Hampshire, where Deputy Attorney General Ann Rice filed a lawsuit [PDF] this week in Merrimack County (NH) Superior Court against Purdue, alleging multiple violations of New Hampshire consumer protection statutes, Medicaid fraud, unjust enrichment, negligent misrepresentation, and creating a public nuisance.
Purdue launched OxyContin in the mid-1990s, and one of the primary selling points of the new painkiller was that a single dose of Oxy lasted 12 hours, "providing smooth and sustained pain control all day and all night," per the company's own marketing materials. The hope presented by the drug was that people with chronic pain could now use an opioid with lower risk for abuse or addiction.
But there were numerous problems with this claim of long-lasting effectiveness. Early testing of the drug found that about half of the test subjects (women recovering from abdominal surgery) reported a full loss of effectiveness before the end of the 12 hours.
A later trial on cancer patients had to be redesigned after test subjects dropped out because they found OxyContin to be ineffective in managing their pain. The revised study allowed patients to take supplemental "rescue" medication between their doses of OxyContin. Yet another study on cancer patients found that 95% of those in the test group had resorted to taking a secondary painkiller at some point during the trial.
What's more, the FDA official who led the review of OxyContin left the agency to go work for Purdue shortly after the drug's 1996 release.
In spite of all this early evidence that OxyContin may not be able to live up to its promise of 12-hour relief, Purdue launched the drug with that claim at the heart of its selling points.
The state alleges that Purdue's aggressive marketing — and constant assurances of safety — created a "cadre of doctors" who look for reasons to prescribe opioids, and an "even broader cohort of patients who expected and required" these drugs.
In May 2007, Purdue and three of its top executives entered guilty pleas [PDF] for illegally marketing OxyContin as less addictive, and less likely to lead to abuse than other pain medications. That same week, the company reached a $19.5 million settlement with 26 states, closing the book on allegations that Purdue had encouraged doctors to overprescribe Oxy. New Hampshire was not part of that 2007 settlement.
In response to these guilty pleas and settlements, Purdue pledged that it would no longer claim OxyContin's likelihood of abuse is any different from other Schedule II painkillers. However, the New Hampshire lawsuit contends that Purdue has continued to deceptively market OxyContin in the years since.
According to the state, Purdue allowed its former misleading claims about OxyContin safety and addiction risks to go unchallenged, and some of these statements remained on company-sponsored websites for years after the company pled guilty to the federal charges.
"To convince New Hampshire prescribers and patients that opioids are safe, Purdue has continued to deceptively minimize and fail to disclose the risks of long-term opioid use, particularly the risk of addiction," claims the lawsuit, arguing that the company's misrepresentations resulted in the "dangerously misleading impressions" that patients can use opioids without a heightened risk of addiction; that signs of addiction are really signs of undertreatment; that there are tests that can adequately identify patients with a genuine high risk for addiction, but that even these patients could still be treated with opioids; that doctors could continue to increase patients' opioid dosages without increasing the risk to the patient; and that Purdue's drugs are less likely to result in addiction than other opioids.
The state claims that when Purdue sales reps made sales calls to New Hampshire doctors, they regularly omitted "any discussion of the risk of addiction from long-term use of opioids." And those reps that did bring up the topic made claims that the state says were debunked in the 2007 DOJ investigation: That the extended-release formulation of OxyContin provides a steady, smooth dose of the medication without "peaks and valleys" associated with other medications. The lawsuit points out that Purdue's own training documents show that this description of the drug is "problematic," but contends that the sales force persisted.
Purdue also continued to promote, through websites like PartnersInPain.com — which was launched in the lead-up to the launch of OxyContin and taken offline at some point in 2016 — the idea that chronic pain is not being adequately treated. Though described in its literature as "an alliance of patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers dedicated to pain management and advocacy," the state alleges that Partners In Pain, which only revealed its connection to Purdue in the footer of the website, was really just a way for the drug company to communicate its pseudoaddiction talking points.
With regard to the "12-hour" assertion that the state says is still vital to OxyContin's marketing, the lawsuit argues that just because a drug has been approved for 12-hour dosing doesn't mean it will actually last that long.
To get that 12-hour dosing approval from the FDA, Purdue merely had to show that at least half of the drug trial's test subjects actually experienced that relief. That means that as many as half the other patients will not experience the full 12 hours. But the state contends that OxyContin's marketing, and its sales pitches to physicians, plugged the drug as a simple and safe twice-a-day solution for chronic pain.
Former sales reps for the company told New Hampshire investigators that physicians complained to Purdue about patients who were not getting the full promised relief from the drug, and that it was a common occurrence for doctors to tell their patients on Oxy to take the drug more frequently than every 12 hours.
Rather than change its marketing to reflect that the drug could wear off long before the promised 12 hours, the state says that Purdue instead recommended that doctors increase the dosage amount of OxyContin. That way, the patient gets more of the painkiller, but the drug is still meeting the 12-hour marketing claim.
OxyContin's extended-release structure meant that a single pill contained a large amount of medication that was intended to be doled out over the 12-hour time period. As addiction and abuse of the drug began to take hold, users realized they could easily crush an Oxy pill to get the full dosage immediately, whether it was through ingestion, snorting, or injection.
In 2010, Purdue reformulated OxyContin in a more tamper-resistant version, and New Hampshire says that reps for the company sold the "abuse-deterrent" (AD) iteration of the drug using false claims like that it couldn't be crushed and snorted, or that it actually prevents abuse of Oxy.
But New Hampshire points out that this reformulation does nothing to curb abuse from patients who simply take more pills than they should, which is by far the most common form of opioid abuse.
For all of its promotion of patient screening, Purdue is allegedly failing to notify law enforcement about doctors and pharmacies whose prescribing and dispensing behaviors send up red flags.
While Purdue has insisted that it cuts off relations with these physicians, the state says that doesn't really matter when those doctors are still allowed to write prescriptions for OxyContin.
The New Hampshire lawsuit comes shortly after Ohio filed similar claims against Purdue and several other opioid producers for their alleged mis-marketing of these highly addictive drugs.
New Hampshire is far from the only state dealing with high levels of opioid abuse and addiction, but the Granite State was recently thrust into the opioid spotlight by President Trump.
According to transcripts of a call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Trump declared that "I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den," which was taken as a double insult by some in the state, as Trump actually lost New Hampshire by a narrow margin in the general election.


[media-credit id=2 align="alignnone" width="300″] [/media-credit]On Friday, Aug. 26, thousands of students and members of the surrounding community descended upon Weber State University to attend the seventh annual Block Party. WSU students encountered more than 100 booths set up by WSU's various departments, clubs and organizations. At the end of the day, students could also attend the fourth annual WSU Foam Party that took place in Stewart Bell Tower Plaza from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
This Foam Party event had the highest attendance WSU has ever had at a school event besides sports games; more than 6,000 people were in attendance, making for a busy WSU campus.
The psychedelic 1960s theme this year for WSU's Block Party and Foam Party made for '60s-style costumes as well as dance moves.
"We got the moves like Jagger," said Bryan Fillmore, a WSU student who attended the Foam Party.
Students in attendance could participate in various genres of dance music, as well as watch a magician and lights that reflected on the foam, making it look colored.
"Between the lights, the riotously funny magician, and the concrete-pounding music, people couldn't help but have a good time," said Alex Gerrish, a WSU student majoring in music who was in attendance at the party.
Some students, though, weren't as enthusiastic about the party.
Regardless of the theme, one thing students can plan on is the legacy of foam being integrated yearly.
"This was one of the most infectious parties I've ever been to," Gerrish said.


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American Psycho: An Elite Exposed in an Exit Speech
If you would like to see just how sick the American elite really is – how morally depraved, how intellectually diseased, how addicted to the taste of human flesh, the scent of human blood, and the sight of human suffering – then you need go no further than the speech given by Mitt Romney to the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 7, 2008.
Now you might say that Mitt Romney is old news. After all, this was the very speech where he declared he was quitting the presidential race. He's toast, he's over, the fork has been stuck into his well-roasted hide; who cares what he says? This is of course the witless "horse-race" view that dominates political discourse in America: who's up, who's down, who's getting the column inches, who's on TV? But in reality, the American elite – or the Establishment, or the power structure, call it what you will (as long as you don't call it what it really is: the ruling class) – is like an iceberg: most of its vast bulk exists unseen, it plows on beneath the surface, unperturbed by the media storms that rage around the small bit of exposed material at the summit.
Mitt Romney is an immensely wealthy, well-connected man, a former governor of the state of Massachusetts, born and bred in an extensive web of privilege and power. His defeat in a presidential campaign changes none of that. He will simply submerge – for a time – back into those depths where the real business of the elite is largely done. Thus his words to the conservative activists remain a highly relevant indication of the mindset that holds sway over the world's most powerful nation. They show the barbarism, hatemongering and bloodlust that are considered perfectly acceptable in the polite company of our rulers and their sycophants.
Indeed, the most remarkable thing about Romney's speech is that there is nothing remarkable about it; it is entirely typical of the kind of red meat that many leading lights of American society routinely throw to the slavering rightwing faithful. It takes a strong effort to wrench your mind free from the media-besotted mentality that regards such a speech as "normal" (even if you disagree with it), and see it for the debased, bestial raving that it really is.
The smoldering core of Romney's vomitous offering can perhaps be found in his passing remarks on Europe. Again, in one sense, this was just a crowd-pleasing throwaway: a good Eurobash always gets the CPAC froth flowing. But in a deeper sense, it cuts right to the corroded heart of the matter, right down to the vicious, primitive, genocidal racism that has shaped and driven so many of the policies of Western elites for centuries. In the midst of a long diatribe about liberal "attacks" on "American culture," Romney pauses for a glance across the Atlantic, to evoke a hideous nightmare that could soon be America's future:
Europe -- Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That's the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life, and eroded morality.
By "demographic disaster," Romney simply means that there are more non-white people in Europe than there used to be. To Romney and his fellow elites, this fact in itself constitutes a genuine "disaster." Although the population of Europe is still overwhelmingly white (much more so than the population of the United States), even the smallest dilution of racial purity across the continent is to be lamented, decried – and rolled back. Here of course Romney is channeling fearmongers like Martin Amis, Mark Steyn, and Christopher Hitchens, whose trembly sexual panic in the face of hot-blooded, fast-breeding darkies would be comical, if it were not so sinister – and so useful to the warmakers and global dominationists in the ruling elite.
Romney makes the sexual and racial subtext abundantly clear in his remarks about Europe's loss of religious faith, eroded morality, etc. The Euros are plainly too busy having abortions and watching porn to do their duty by the race and breed bigger families kept under strict religious discipline. And thus the shabby denizens of an alien faith are breeding like rats in the cellarage of Western Civilization, gnawing away at the foundations and conquering it from within. The fact that "Muslims" are substituted for "Jews" in these formulations and implications of Hitchens, Amis, Romney, et al, does not lessen the precision with which their diatribes mirror those that saturated Germany (and many other nations) in the first four decades of the 20th century. For the elites, there is always a dark, sexually potent "other" out there, whose overwhelming threat to white supremacy can only be overcome by….giving the elites more and more power.
Oddly enough, there has been a demographic disaster in Europe -- but it has nothing to do with virile Muslim men and their fertile females. It is never mentioned by Romney and his elitist ilk -- because it is the result of their own philosophy, their own policies, and their own desires. We speak of course of the demographic collapse in Russia, where the population is dwindling while death rates remain almost twice as high as in the United States and Western Europe. The Russian people are still reeling from the catastrophic "shock therapy" inflicted on them by Boris Yeltsin's "Chicago School" market fundamentalists. (The harrowing story is well-told in Naomi Klein's study of "disaster capitalism," The Shock Doctrine.)
The Western elites were very glad to watch the Russian people sink to their knees, die off in droves and suffer in poverty, chaos and fear -- as long as a juicy slice of Russia's oil, mineral and industrial wealth was in the offing. The West's sudden distaste for Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin has nothing to do with his egregious crackdowns on civil freedoms. Putin's depredations are hardly less egregious than those of Yeltin, who actually sent in troops and tanks to destroy the democratically elected parliament 1993, then ran roughshod over every vestige of law in harnessing the entire power of the state -- and the private sector as well - to ensure a victory in his re-election bid in 1996. After that, he laid open the entire economy to the rapacious looting of his corporate cronies and their Western allies. It is the fact that Putin has taken much of this loot off the table for Westerners -- and given it to his own cronies -- that has provoked the West's new-found concern for the rights and well-being of the Russian people.
In his swan song, Romney makes it clear that he and his elites want to continue pressing their "shock therapy" on the American people as well, rolling back the very mild attempts in the past to ameliorate, slightly, some of the worst excesses and inequities of unhinged corporate greed. In fact, Romney identifies these tepid measures as dire threats to "American culture" itself:
The threat to our culture comes from within. In the 1960s, there were welfare programs that created a culture of poverty in our country. Now, some people think we won that battle when we reformed welfare. But the liberals haven't given up. At every turn, they tried to substitute government largess for individual responsibility. They fight to strip work requirements from welfare, to put more people on Medicaid, and remove more and more people from having to pay any income tax whatsoever. Dependency is death to initiative, risk-taking and opportunity. Dependency is culture killing. It's a drug. We've got to fight it like the poison it is.
The ignorance -- and inhumanity - of this statement is breathtaking. Think of it: there was no poverty in the United States until "liberals" came along in the 1960s and "created" it with their welfare programs. (Before this "culture of poverty" was created, apparently, the few poor people in America just died off discreetly, like Russians, instead of hanging around a bit longer on government handouts, the way they do now, the shiftless, no-good wretches. Oh yeah, and they breed a lot too, more than white folks.) And even though Bill Clinton (uncredited here, of course, but the elite are well aware of his sterling services) finally drove the stake through the welfare program, these evildoers will still not rest. Just look at what they want to do: "put more people on Medicaid," and "remove more and more people from having to pay any income tax whatsoever." (Wait a minute; I thought red-meat-chomping CPACkers were in favor of people paying no taxes. I guess that only applies to the right sort of people.)
All of this -- especially the stuff about "risk-taking" and "dependency" on government largess -- is pretty rich coming from an avatar of a ruling class that is glutted with pampered heirs of wealth and power who, like Romney, begin their totally risk-free careers at the very top of the ladder, and who are continually fattened with no-bid contracts, kickbacks, tax breaks, subsidies, war profits and myriad other forms of "government largess." But beyond the transparent hypocrisy – and the ludicrous pretense that the "liberals" in today's Democratic Party pose some kind of genuine threat to this cornucopia – Romney's blast is a perfect encapsulation of the elite's hatred for the rabble they use as cannon fodder and cash cows. Let them get sick, let them die, let them languish in poverty, let them lose their homes, let them work three jobs to make ends meet – but by God don't you ever do anything, anything at all, to change the system that produces these chronic inequities and keeps the pampered elite in clover. That's evil. That's "poison." And it won't be allowed.
The speech goes on and on in this way; reading it is like wading through the sewage pipe of an abattoir. China and India and other Asian nations pose a challenge that must be confronted and beaten down. Why? Because they may "pass us by as the economic superpower, just as we passed England and France during the last century." And we must stop the yellow devils, because "the prosperity and security of our children and grandchildren depend on us." Apparently, it is not possible for Asian nations and the United States to be secure and prosperous at the same time; "our children" can only prosper at the expense of others. This too is transparently ludicrous, even nonsensical, if taken literally. Of course, ordinary Asians and Americans could be prosperous at the same time. What Romney really means is that the American elite cannot exert dominance and gorge itself in the manner to which it has become accustomed if other nations are secure and prosperous in their own right.
And that is where the "War on Terror" – the linchpin of Romney's speech, and the justification he offers for folding his campaign – comes in. The Terror War is simply an extension of the long-held goal of the American elite (and their British "junior partners") to maintain and extend their dominion over the world's natural resources and political arrangements – and the exorbitant profits this dominion produces. There is ample evidence in the historical record of the Anglo-American elite's abiding – and quite open – anxieties on this score, going back for generations. Literally millions of people all over the world have been sacrificed to these ambitions and anxieties, which have not abated but grow more frantic and acute with each passing year.
And thus the climax of Romney's peroration: a frantic blithering about "evil and radical jihad" and "the inevitable military ambitions of China" and the burning need to "raise military spending to 4 percent of our GDP" and overriding imperative to keep the Terror War raging, particularly on its central front in Iraq. None of this is remotely connected to the actual wellbeing, security and prosperity of the American people; quite the opposite. It is, however, absolutely vital to the preservation of the elite's power, privilege, self-image and status. And as they demonstrate day after day, they don't care how many people must die or suffer for this.
This is moral psychosis on a monumental scale. It is the complete and utter repudiation of every civilized ideal, of every fragment of enlightenment wrenched from the blood-drenched slagheap of human history. Yet it passes for normality in our political discourse.

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Hofesh Shechter Company, Melbourne Festival, October 13.
SUN finds Hofesh Shechter in a jocund mood, or what passes for it. The title implies warmth and light. Facsimile sheep wander and gambol. Every now and again a woman leaps up from the front row of the auditorium to utter a brief, piercing scream and then sits right back down again. One of Irving Berlin's most swoon-worthy songs keeps punctuating Shechter's thumping score and I swear there is twerking too, for just a moment (although not to Berlin).
Hofesh Shechter's Sun. Photo: Leah Robertson
Of course where there is sun there is shadow. The announcement at Sun's outset that "everything will be just fine" is contradicted at every turn and the apparently playful takes on a sinister light. The Berlin song is Let's Face the Music and Dance; the sheep are occasionally joined by a wolf. There's even a snippet of Wagner in the score, an acid touch from the Israeli-born choreographer. African colonialism gets a moment too, along with flashes of contemporary urban behaviour. If Sun has a theme it is this: lambs to the slaughter.
The imagery is obvious, heavy-handed and in the case of the sheep, tediously over-extended. Shechter's surrealist collage pulls together an eclectic range of references to political and social oppression but there's no real weight there. Ideas clearly important to Shechter have a trivial air. And if I could institute a ban on strenuous fake laughing in dance works it would take place from this instant.
It's a different story with the dance itself, which forms a fast-flowing, often turbulent river on which this other material bobs about. As with his breakout hit Political Mother (2010), Shechter finds power and purpose in the group although it is rare to see any physical contact. He understands that togetherness and separateness co-exist inextricably and from this fact much of life's tumult emerges.
Sun, which is having its world premiere at the Melbourne Festival, is performed almost entirely in unison, the movement often rooted to the spot or covering little ground. Gestures are forceful and highly eloquent and there is frequent repetition, within a section of dance and within the overall structure. All this is done to a loud, foursquare beat – the kind of firm, regular beat that speaks to the blood.
Ritual and history are embedded in Shechter's choreography. Fragments of folk and social dance from all sorts of places flicker and are then integrated back into the whole, although sometimes, as near the end of Sun, they harden into something less benign. The dance and these superb dancers tell the story.
By the way, the offer of ear plugs at Sun is unnecessary as the music really isn't that loud. It could have been much more over-powering, something I very much wished for Sun as a whole.
Following its world premiere season in Melbourne, Sun has its European premiere in Luxembourg (October 25-26), its UK premiere in London (October 30-November 3), its US premiere in New York (November 14-16) and other European dates to mid-March.
This review first appeared in The Australian on October 15.
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A few weeks ago, we talked a bit about the former Bierman's restaurant, and since that time, I've received several notes with yet more information and memories on that business that I want to share today.
He added that he had worked for Ed Shelly at the Tremont as a teenager. "It was my first job," he recalled. John, thanks so much for sharing all of those details!
Reader Ted Schaefer also recalled the fire, which he dated at Nov. 23, 1977. He also added that the name change from Bierman's to Tremont took place in 1966 or earlier, because there are postcards of Tremont for that year.
Jim, how nice to hear that recipe is still in use!
My brother-in-law extraordinaire Mike Smith helped me pinpoint the location, noting that it was VERY near where he and my mother worked together at York Composition in the late 1970s/early 1980s.
And possibly my favorite reply about Bierman's came from Kendra Bierman, who wrote, "This restaurant is also near and dear to my heart, but for another reason. The owner of the restaurant was my great-grandfather. While I never got to experience the wonderful ice cream or oysters, I have heard stories from my grandfather about when he worked at the restaurant. I wish that I could answer the question as to what the recipes were but sadly they seem to have disappeared into the past. It's incredible to hear how my family's restaurant influenced people. Thank you so much for writing this article." Kendra, thank you so much for reaching out and letting us know that you saw it!


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Generous German support for development
Posted by admin | Jul 5, 2013 | General News
André Scholz, (left) Chargé d'Affairs of the Embassy of Germany and Andries Leevi Hungamo, Permanent Secretary of the National Planning Commission, shortly after it was announced a new agreement has been reached between Germany and Namibia for further development financing of some N$320 million.
Namibia and Germany signed a new financial co-operation agreement totalling Euro24,8 million (approximately N$320 million) for supporting the governments development agenda. At the end of June, Mr. André Scholz, Chargé d'Affairs of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to Namibia, and Mr. Andries Leevi Hungamo Permanent Secretary of the National Planning Commission, signed a financial co-operation agreement and reaffirmed that the main objectives of Namibian–German co-operation are to support the government in its efforts to reduce poverty and unemployment, to improve the population's overall living conditions and to strengthen the country's infrastructure, as well as to foster economic development. Thus all funding will be expended according to the core fields of Namibia's "Vision 2030" and the fourth National Development Plan.
The inter-governmental agreement signed, totalling grants worth Euro 24,8 million has three funding components. The first is to support to the health sector to eradicate Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and maintain medical equipment. The second is for the construction of access roads to adapt to flooding in the north and the thirds is for community-based development for targetted regions.
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Ronaldo 'insulted' by South Korean player in World Cup loss
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Portugal's coach Fernando Santos greets Cristiano Ronaldo as he leaves the pitch during their World Cup Group H match against South Korea at the Education City Stadium in Al-Rayyan on Friday. (AFP)
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The 37-year-old skipper looked miffed and ambled off slowly when his number went up in the 65th minute
"He was angry with the player from Korea and everyone saw that," Santos said
DOHA: Cristiano Ronaldo was "insulted" by a South Korean player as he was substituted during Portugal's 2-1 World Cup defeat on Friday, coach Fernando Santos said.
The 37-year-old skipper looked miffed and ambled off slowly when his number went up in the 65th minute.
Santos denied that was because he was upset at being hooked.
"He was angry with the player from Korea and everyone saw that," Santos said after his side topped Group H despite conceding in injury time to fall to defeat for the first time in Qatar.
"The player was insulting him, telling him to go away (get off the pitch) so that's why he was angry and everyone saw that.
"I saw the interaction with the Korean player and have no doubt about it."
Becoming irritated by the line of questioning, Santos added: "He (the Korean player) was not aggressive, he was verbally aggressive.
"He was speaking in English to Cristiano and Cristiano said, 'Well, perhaps he did not have a good day.'"
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Als Schwanzprämie oder Mausschwanzprämie wird eine traditionelle Prämie bezeichnet, die für das Fangen von Mäusen bzw. vor allem von Wühlmäusen und der mit ihnen verwandten Bisamratten ausgelobt wird. Es handelt sich dabei um eine finanzielle Vergütung, die für jedes gefangene und getötete Tier gezahlt wird.

Verbreitung
Der früher weit verbreitete Brauch war in jüngerer Zeit noch an vielen Orten in Südbaden und der Schweiz anzutreffen. Auslober war bzw. ist meist die jeweilige Gemeinde. Der Nachweis erfolgt traditionell durch Vorlegen des abgeschnittenen Mausschwanzes. Die Beseitigung des restlichen toten Tieres obliegt in der Regel dem Mäusejäger.

Für Mäuse ist diese Tradition nur noch in zwei Orten in Baden-Württemberg sowie in verschiedenen Regionen in der Schweiz bekannt. Jedoch gibt es in Deutschland und den Niederlanden noch zahlreiche Bisamfänger, die in staatlichem Auftrag, vor allem in Gebieten mit Deichbauten, die Bisamratte bejagen.

Wühlmäuse als Schädlinge

In Teilen Europas werden aus der Säugetiere-Unterfamilie der Wühlmäuse (Arvicolinae) vor allem die sogenannten Großen Wühlmäuse von der Art Arvicola terrestris, auch Ostschermaus oder kurz Schermaus genannt, als Schädlinge angesehen. Dies gilt insbesondere auch für den Raum Südbaden und die Schweiz, die früher von regelrechten Mäuse- und auch Rattenplagen heimgesucht wurden. Das sonstige Verbreitungsgebiet der Ostschermaus umfasst große Teile der Paläarktis und reicht von Großbritannien bis zur Lena in Sibirien.

Ostschermäuse fressen unter anderem Blumenzwiebeln, Gemüse und Rüben sowie die Wurzeln von Gras, Klee und sogar Obstbäumen. Sie richten vor allem durch Wurzelfraß in Obstplantagen und Baumschulen sowie in Gemüsekulturen wirtschaftlich relevante Schäden an. Die Erdhaufen, die sie beim Graben unterirdischer Gänge in landwirtschaftlich genutzten Wiesen nach oben befördern, haben insbesondere in Alm- und Berglagen ebenfalls schädigende Auswirkungen. So setzen die Erdhaufen den Messerklingen von Motormähern zu, mit denen das Gras auf Alm- und Bergwiesen heute meist gemäht wird: Die Schneiden werden schneller stumpf und müssen geschliffen werden. Vor allem können die Mäuse aber eine ganze Heuernte vernichten; der pulverisierte Aushub ihrer Gänge kann den Geschmack des Futters derart verschlechtern, dass die Rinder es nicht fressen. Solche Debakel sollen früher manchen Bauern schon die Existenz gekostet haben. Außerdem können Bitterstoffe, die mit dem Erdreich ins Heu gelangen, leicht die Milch der Kühe ungenießbar machen – und ebenso den aus ihr gewonnenen Käse.

Das Schadenspotenzial von Wühlmäusen gilt als nahezu unbegrenzt. Auf einer Fläche von einem Hektar, was nur wenig mehr als einem Fußballfeld entspricht, können bis zu 1000 Exemplare hausen. Durch Erdhaufen und eingestürzte Gänge können solche Flächen dann schnell in einen "Sturzacker" verwandelt werden, auf denen beispielsweise heutige Rasenmähertraktoren kaum mehr vorankommen.

Auch die Bisamratte gehört zur Familie der Wühlmäuse. Eigentlich in Nordamerika heimisch, wurde sie nach 1905 in Böhmen und anderen Orts zur Pelzgewinnung angesiedelt oder entkam aus Pelztierfarmen. Innerhalb kurzer Zeit hat sie sich über große Teile Asiens und Europas ausgebreitet, 1939 wurde die Gesamtbevölkerung der Tiere für Mitteleuropa auf 10 Millionen geschätzt. Als die ersten Schäden an Dämmen, Kanälen und Deichanlagen infolge der Wühltätigkeit von Bisamratten bekannt wurden, wurden Gesetze zur Bekämpfung der Ratte erlassen. Bereits am 26. Juli 1913 wurde in Österreich-Ungarn die erste Verfügung erteilt, ein Jahr später für das Königreich Böhmen; mit einem Gesetz vom 2. Februar 1926 in Deutschland. Staatliche Stellen mit ausdrücklich dafür angestellten Bisamjägern wurden mit der rücksichtslosen Bekämpfung beauftragt, jede Hege oder Zucht wurde verboten. Anfangs mussten dafür nicht unbedingt extra Fangprämien gezahlt werden, die etwa 20 cm langen Schwänze also nicht abgeliefert werden; der Wert des Pelzes war Anreiz genug, die erbeuteten Tiere gehören dem Erleger.

Schon in den 1930er Jahren bis lange nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war Bisam einer der wichtigsten Artikel der Pelzbranche. Obwohl die Schwanzprämie nur 3 Mark betrug, gab es 1992 allein im nordrheinwestfälischen Wasserverband Obere Lippe noch 340 ehrenamtliche Bisamfänger. Gegen Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts begann die Pelzmode das Bisamfell zu vernachlässigen, auch stiegen die Gerberlöhne im Rahmen der allgemeinen Lohnsteigerungen so sehr an, dass sich die Verwertung in Europa kaum mehr lohnte, der Ankaufspreis für ein sehr gutes Fell lag 2009 unter 3 €. In den letzten Jahren wurden deshalb in Deutschland und den Niederlanden vermehrt Bisamfänger gesucht. Obwohl der schöne Pelz sehr gute Trageeigenschaften hat, werden die Kadaver der Ratten weiterhin meist mitsamt dem Fell entsorgt. Die Fänger erhalten als Anreiz immer noch nach Ablieferung der Schwänze eine Schwanzprämie, im Jahr 2009 waren dies im Wasserverband Obere Lippe 5,20 €.

Die Zahlung von Prämien pro abgelieferten Tier wirkt jedoch unter Umständen kontraproduktiv, da der Einlieferer womöglich kein Interesse daran hat, die Tiere auszurotten und sich damit einer Verdienstquelle zu berauben. Diese Hypothese wird auch als Kobra-Effekt bezeichnet. Die Bezeichnung bezieht sich auf ein angebliches Ereignis in Britisch-Indien, wo die Anzahl der Schlangen nicht gemindert wurde, da die Bevölkerung dazu übergegangen sein soll, Kobras zu züchten, um weiterhin von der Prämie zu profitieren.

Traditionelle Mäusejagd in Baden-Württemberg und der Schweiz
In Baden, Württemberg und der Schweiz wurde die Mäusejagd traditionell durch Privatpersonen als Hobbyjäger ausgeübt, oft auch von Kindern und Jugendlichen; wozu die von den jeweiligen Gemeinden ausgelobten Schwanzprämien einen Anreiz boten und so den Zuverdienst eines Taschengelds (in der Schweiz Sackgeld genannt) ermöglichten. In der Schweiz kann die prämienbelobte Mäusebekämpfung unter anderem bereits für das Jahr 1911 in der Gemeinde Saanen im Kanton Bern nachgewiesen werden. Damals gab es dort eine erste Mäuseplage und es wurde als Gegenmaßnahme eine "Schwanzprämie" eingeführt. Die im heutigen Chalet-Ort Saanen bis in die Gegenwart praktizierte Gepflogenheit diente als Vorlage für eine entsprechende Ratefrage in einer 2005 ausgestrahlten Folge der Fernseh-Comedyreihe Genial daneben – Die Comedy Arena.

Die Mäusejager setzen heute meistens Wühlmausfallen in Form von Tötungsfallen ein. Dabei handelt es sich vor allem um mechanische Schlagfallen, bei denen beim Auslösen der Falle das Rückgrat der Tiere gebrochen wird, was in den meisten Fällen zum sofortigen Tod führt. Hierzu gehören unter anderem Schlagfallen aus dickem Federstahl, die großen Sicherheitsnadeln ähneln (siehe Bild) und am Eingang der unterirdischen Maus-Gänge eingegraben werden. Sobald die Tiere herauskommen und dabei den Spannring berühren, schnellen die Fallen infolge der starken Federwirkung zusammen und brechen ihnen das Genick. Die getöteten Tiere werden dann von den Mäusejägern entsorgt, nachdem sie zuvor den relativ dünnen Schwanz abgeschnitten haben. Die Mausschwänze dienen als späterer Nachweis zur Auszahlung der Prämie und werden entsprechend gesammelt.

Einige, jedoch weniger werdende, Schweizer Gemeinden bezahlen noch immer eine Schwanzprämie von meist einem Franken pro Mäuseschwanz. Dazu gehören zum Beispiel das im Kanton Bern gelegene Bergdorf Lauenen, wo 2003 insgesamt knapp 3300 Mausschwänze mit jeweils einem Franken vergütet wurden, und die St. Galler Gemeinde Sennwald, wo gegen Ende der 2000er-Jahre pro Jahr rund 4000 bis 5000 Mausschwänze bei der Gemeinde abgegeben wurden. In Langenbruck im Kanton Basel-Landschaft wurde die Schwanzprämie Mitte der 2000er-Jahre sogar wieder eingeführt – weil sie "alle im Tal ausrichten", wie es dazu bei der Gemeinde hieß. Indes wurde die Mausschwanzprämie in der 1500-Einwohner-Gemeinde Ersigen im Kanton Bern zum Ende des Jahres 2009 aufgehoben. Zuvor gab es dort einen Franken pro Schwanz – im Schnitt wurden beim Wegmeister der Gemeinde bis zu 2000 solcher Schwänze abgegeben, womit sich vor allem Landwirte ein Taschengeld bzw. Sackgeld dazuverdienten.

In Deutschland wurde zuletzt nur noch im südbadischen Hohentengen am Hochrhein eine sogenannte "Mausschwanzprämie" gezahlt, die mindestens seit den 1940er-Jahren bekannt ist. Das Gemeindeamt entrichtet dort gegenwärtig (2011/2012) gemäß Beschluss des Gemeinderats einen Betrag in Höhe von 50 Cent pro totes Tier. Dabei sind besonders Wühlmäuse im Visier der noch aktiven, meist älteren Mäusejäger, welche für die von ihnen als Nachweis für ihr Fangergebnis abgelieferten Mausschwänze teils eine Jahresprämie zwischen 50 und 100 Euro erzielen. Außerdem wurde im Jahre 2012 im württembergischen Notzingen die Mausschwanzprämie (50 Cent) wieder reaktiviert.

Heute erfolgt die allgemeine Bekämpfung von Nagetieren wie Wühlmäuse und insbesondere Schermäuse hauptsächlich durch verschiedene Schädlingsbekämpfungsmittel, dabei vor allem durch Vergiften mit chemischen Mitteln wie Rodentizid.

Tierschutz
In der Schweiz und auch in Deutschland kritisieren Tierschützer mittlerweile die immer noch von einigen Gemeinden ausgelobte Schwanzprämie und fordern ein Ende des Brauchs, wie zum Beispiel 2010 die Schweizer Stiftung für das Tier im Recht (TIR) und der Schweizer Tierschutz (STS). "Da Laien am Werk sind – oft Kinder –[,] ist nicht sichergestellt, dass die Mäuse nicht leiden müssen", sagte Andreas Rüttimann von der Stiftung TIR und forderte: "Die Gemeinden sollten den Brauch einstellen und Experten ans Werk lassen." Und Eva Waiblinger, Nager-Expertin beim Schweizer Tierschutz, bezweifelte, "dass die Mäusejäger die Schermäuse wirksam dezimieren können".

Der Schweizerische Bauernverband (SBV) verteidigte indes die Praxis und begründete dies auch damit, dass die Nager auf den Feldern riesige Schäden anrichteten. "Man kann die Fallen kaum falsch stellen: Schnappt sie zu, ist die Maus in der Regel sofort tot", so der Bauernverbands-Sprecher Matthias Singer. Auch seitens der traditionellen Mäusejäger wurde die Kritik zurückgewiesen und zudem darauf verwiesen, dass bei den von ihnen verwendeten Schlagfallen im Unterschied zum Vergiften die Mäuse sofort tot sind.

Literatur und Medien
Sachbücher
 Reinhard K. Sprenger: Die Schwanzprämie. In: Reinhard K. Sprenger: Der dressierte Bürger. Warum wir weniger Staat und mehr Selbstvertrauen brauchen. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37759-4, S. 71–72 (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google Buchsuche).
 Wolfhard Klein: Der Mäusefänger. In: Wolfhard Klein: Mausetod! Die Kulturgeschichte der Mausefalle. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4319-0, S. 120–128.

Printmedien
 Corinne Buchser: Mäusefänger. Der Jäger im Untergrund, In: WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, Nr. 34/2005, 25. August 2005("Je nach Gemeinde erhält [der Mäusefänger] Flückiger zwischen einem und zwei Franken fünfzig pro Mäuseschwanz.").
 Sebastian Stoll (epd): Schädlingsbekämpfung. In Südbaden bringt die "Mausschwanzprämie" 50 Cent, In: Die Welt, 13. März 2012.
 Skandal: Hohentengen schweigt Wühlmäuse tot, In: Südwest Presse, 14. März 2012.
 Hohentengen: Mäuse für Mäuse, In: FAZ, 20. März 2012.

Online-Magazine und E-Paper
 Spiegel Online: Joachim Hoelzgen: Mäusealarm. Schweizer Bergdorf lockt mit Schwanzprämie, 25. Juni 2004.
 Süddeutsche Zeitung, Mobile Ausgabe: Ein Anruf bei … Josef Schanz, Hobbyjäger in Hohentengen, wo er für jeden Mäuseschwanz Geld kassiert, 22. März 2012.

Hörfunk
 SWR4 Baden-Württemberg: Mäuse für Mäuse – Die Mausschwanzprämie in Hohentengen, Beitrag im Hörfunkmagazin Am Nachmittag, 23. Februar 2012, 13:00 Uhr(mp3 in der SWR Mediathek).
 Deutschlandradio: In Südbaden gibt's noch eine Mausschwanzprämie, Beitrag im Hörfunkprogramm DRadio Wissen, 22. März 2012, 07:25 Uhr.

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Local News: CTC establishes Junior Shakespeare Acting Company Training Program
Posted by: Staffon 2016/8/19 8:10:00 4798 reads . Classical Theatre Company will expand its Shakespeare Outreach Program in the Fall of 2016 by establishing a Junior Shakespeare Acting Company. Hearkening back to the children's acting companies of Shakespeare's day, this company will accept children from ages 10-13 for an intensive acting and performance training program in Shakespeare. The program will include vocal training, training in stage combat and movement, and performances of scenes from Shakespeare. Ultimately the Junior Company will work on plays written by Jonson, Lyly, Beaumont and Fletcher and other great Elizabethan playwrights specifically for the child players, some of whom went on to create the roles of children and young women in Shakespeare's company
Shakespeare Outreach Program founder and director, Rutherford Cravens will continue to head up the program for students older than 13. The Shakespeare Outreach Junior Company will be led by longtime educator and Shakespeare expert, Kate Pogue. Mrs. Pogue is a playwright, librettist and theatre director. She received an undergraduate degree in theatre from Northwestern and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota. For ten years she was Artistic Director of both Opera to Go and The Shakespeare by the Book Festival, for which she directed numerous productions. Her book Shakespeare's Friends was published in January 2006 by Praeger and a companion volume, Shakespeare's Family, came out in June 2008. Her most recent Shakespeare books involve his training and include Shakespeare's Figures of Speech (2010) and Shakespeare's Education (2012). Her most recent project involved directing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in the original pronunciation and taking the performance to the Edinbutgh Fringe Festival. She is a judge annually for the English Speaking Union high school Shakespeare competition. She is recently retired from the University of Houston Downtown where she recently directed Much Ado About Nothing. In 2011 she received the Outstanding Adjunct Professor award.
Ms. Cameron Wright will be the lead teacher for the program. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Theatre from the University of New Hampshire and began performing in film and television and on stage in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Film and television credits include Miss Congeniality 2, Midnight Run, Cherry 200, Tales from the Darkside, and The Turn of the Screw. Ms. Wright's favorite Shakespearean roles include Thaisa in Pericles, Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (at the Globe Theatre in Los Angeles) and Gertrude (in a Las Vegas Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet). She appeared at the Odyssey Theatre in Hunger and Thirst as well as the U.S. Premiere of John Godber's SHAKERS in the role of Adele for the US/UK festival. She continued her studies with Stella Adler and at the London Academy of Music And Dramatic Arts. Returning to Nevada, she began pursuing a Master's Degree in Education at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas while artist in residence at a local private school. There she worked with the fifth grade team to direct the students in works of Shakespeare for performance and competition. Before moving to Houston in 2015, Ms. Wright spent six years teaching theatre at The Alexander Dawson School where her passion for kids performing Shakespeare was encouraged and the program grew.
Fall classes will take place at the Classical Theatre Company on ten Saturday mornings from October 1 – December 4, 2016
(taking off on Thanksgiving week).
Admission is by interview and audition on Sunday, September 18, 2016.
For more information email Kate Pogue at or call 713-963-9665
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CTC establishes Junior Shakespeare Acting Company Training Program
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