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I'm thrilled with the result and hope she cooks half as good as I think she looks!
Sorry again, lol. I should have clarified that when I say three centered arch, I mean it to describe an arch with the 3 centers as described in that diagram. This seems to be the classic and standard 3 centered arch in masonry, and when the term is used this is what it is understood to mean. When laid out as described this type of three centered arch will be dependent only on the base width and the resulting height will be very near d/3.4 .


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About the Author: Ralph Falzone serves as the Director of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Regional Office Abu Dhabi.
With funding provided by the U.S. State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), the University of Michigan-Dearborn's College of Engineering and Computer Science and its partner, the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), held a training workshop for women working in the science and engineering fields. The workshop, "Association Building and International Research Collaboration for MENA Women in Science and Engineering," held in Abu Dhabi May 3-4, 2010, "was designed to help women from the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region expand their collaborative efforts with their regional colleagues as well as foster partnerships with counterparts in the United States." Read more about the workshop here.
Representing MEPI, I had the opportunity to speak on two of the panels at the event. We discussed the many challenges MENA women must overcome in order to create organizations that enable them to achieve their maximum potential as scientists and engineers. These challenges include the lack of not-for-profit legal frameworks in many MENA countries, the difficulties in obtaining funding, and like the United States, the need for better promotion of critical thinking and science literacy in primary and secondary schools. The creation of more effective women's organizations will foster a better support system to help women be successful in a traditionally male-dominated field, as well as facilitate the collaboration necessary to match pressing research issues with the proper resources.
The proportion of women who are entering the fields of science and engineering is sharply increasing in the Middle East, and in many areas, exceeds that of the United States. Soon, 40 percent of the science and engineering jobs in the UAE will be filled by women, and in many ministries across the region, 70 percent or more of the scientists are women. This workshop reinforced the need for women, not only in the Middle East region, but throughout the world, to have the necessary tools to succeed in the fields of science and technology that will help solve the problems of today and tomorrow. Workshops, such as this most recent one in Abu Dhabi, are critical in fostering the partnerships that will ensure both continued scientific progress and progress for women in the workplace.
This workshop built on the success of the groundbreaking 2007 International Conference of Science, Technology and Engineering in Kuwait that brought together 270 women scientists from 18 Arab countries and Turkey, and a 31-member U.S. delegation of women leaders. The conference galvanized a large number of regional activities, including this one.

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Florida wants more engineers and scientists. Would-be poets, actors and anthropologists? Not so much. A state task force has recommended lowering university tuition for STEM majors while charging more in humanities and social sciences, reports the Sun Sentinel.
It usually costs more to offer science and engineering classes, but it's worth it, says Dale Brill, who chaired the task force for Gov. Rick Scott.
Florida used to pay 75 percent of the cost of educating students in public colleges and universities, but that's dropped to less than 50 percent in recent years because of the weak economy, reports the Sun Sentinel.


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Hampshire's Biodiversity
Biodiversity includes all plants and animals on the land and in wetlands, rivers and seas. Our quality of life depends on this diversity of nature:
biodiversity is fundamental to the complex web of life
we depend on biodiversity for food, medicines and the raw materials for building and industry
plants assist with vital processes such as flood control, filtering wastewater and cleaning pollutants from the air
we enjoy and benefit greatly from contact with the natural world.
The conservation of biodiversity is at the heart of a sustainable future for Hampshire. Action is required to prevent loss of wildlife habitat and ensure that land management practices maintain the ecological value of the land. Hampshire County Council plays a key role in the conservation of Hampshire's biodiversity.
The Nature of Hampshire
Hampshire has a remarkably varied landscape and a great diversity of habitats from ancient woodlands and wildflower meadows, to heathlands and chalk streams, to river valleys and coastal habitats. Hampshire also includes the New Forest – the greatest area of semi wilderness left in lowland England. These habitats support an impressive array of wild plants and animals. Hampshire has the greatest diversity of species of any county in England.
Britain's most valuable wildlife habitats – designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) and protected by law – cover 14.5% of the county, about twice the national average. A further 9.1% of Hampshire is covered by county Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINCs). Outside these specially recognised areas much of Hampshire's rural landscape, and many urban areas, are also rich in biodiversity.
However, many wildlife areas have been replaced by built development or become degraded through changes in land management, and many species have declined or disappeared. The State of Hampshire's Biodiversity (2006) shows that the rate of loss is now much reduced. Many measures are now in place to help ensure that biodiversity is not only protected, but maintained and restored.


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I was told that the gravitational force for hours orients the mass in the dough ball downward toward its base. And, if you use the base (which is denser and heavier) as the garnished face, then the baked dough may experience a minute loss of puff, depending on the temperature of the oven. Moreover, since the base seems to be denser than the face, it may be less susceptible to tears.
EatItalian.com had the rare opportunity to document a Neapolitan pizza training class given by Master Pizzaiolo, Roberto Caporuscio of Keste' Pizzeria & Vino in NYC and Peppe Starita from world famous Pizzeria Starita in Naples, Italy. Learn how to make 'real' Neapolitan dough, fresh mozzarella and techniques handed down from generations. Watch part 1 of this training series.http://www.eatitalian.com/feature/67044/neapolitan-pizza-making-masters
I've been maintaining an awareness of face positioning for quite some now-
I was just wondering if anyone had any issues in understanding what they are saying?I'm Italian and I live in the states but I can't really understand what language they are speaking?Can anyone subtitle the video, please ...I really wonder what "ammaccare" means ... does anyone knows?
ammaccareto dentto bruisefrom my 2001 Collins Gem Dizionario Inglese
I struggled with framing the question because, as you pointed out, either way one is apply pressure to the face, however, you in fact interpreted the question correctly -- the on whether to flip the face while stretching. Thanks for the link, I will give it a shot tonight!
I've never seen anyone make the dough balls before tearing them off before... interesting. but what happens if they need to add/remove some dough to make it the proper weight?
They don't. They have been doing it for so long they know how much they need, it's not exact every time but they are usually within a couple grams of each other. Pasquale Makishima has a video dementrating this balling technique and he weighs each one after and they are all close to each other in weight and some the exact same. This technique is used for speed. Some places in Naples are making hundreds and some close to a thousand pizzas a day. If they had to cut, weigh, add, subtract each dough ball they would be balling all day.
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Scarlet Ibis
The Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) is a species of ibis that inhabits tropical South America and also Trinidad and Tobago. It is the national bird of Trinidad and is featured on the Trinidad and Tobago coat of arms along with Tobago's national bird, the Rufous-vented Chachalaca.
Adults are 56–61 cm long and weigh 650g. They are completely scarlet, except for black wing-tips. They nest in trees, laying two to four eggs. Their diet is fish, frogs, reptiles and crustaceans. A juvenile Scarlet Ibis is grey and white; as it grows the ingestion of red crabs in the tropical swamps gradually produces the characteristic scarlet plumage.
The life span of Scarlet Ibis is approximately 15 years in the wild and 20 years in captivity.
This species is very closely related to the American White Ibis and is sometimes considered conspecific with it.
While the species may have occurred as a natural vagrant in southern Florida in the late 1800s, all recent reports of the species in North America have been of introduced or escaped birds. Eggs from Trinidad were placed in White Ibis nests in Hialeah Park in 1962, and the resulting population hybridised with the native ibis, producing "pink ibises" that are still occasionally seen.
At Bronx zoo, NY
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- BirdLife International (2008). Eudocimus ruber. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 05 November 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- Linblad, Jan. 1966. Journey to red birds. Trans. by Gwynne Vevers. Reprint: Collins, London. 1969.
- Zahl, Paul A. 1954. Coro-Coro: The World of the Scarlet Ibis. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis / New York.


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The U.S. team achieved two top-10 placings on Tuesday during the opening day of the 3rd WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Ankara, Turkey. The event runs through Thursday, Dec. 18.
David and Judith Turgeon (Amston, Conn.), competing in the 2nd Pairs division, went straight to finals and finished ninth.
David Turgeon, also competing in the 1st Master division, made the first cut but was eliminated in the second round of 13. Turgeon finished 10th overall.
In the individual Junior divisions, Lilian Angel (Orange, Calif.) and Matt Dunlap (Hermiston, Ore.) were both eliminated in the preliminary rounds, both finishing in the top 25 in large divisions.
Competition resumes on Wednesday. The daily schedule for the world championships is as follows:
Tuesday, Dec. 16
In Action...
Lilian Angel (Orange, Calif.) - Junior Female
Matthew Dunlap (Hermiston, Ore.) - Junior Male
David Turgeon (Amston, Conn.) - 1st Master Male
David Turgeon & Judith Turgeon (Amston, Conn.) - 2nd Pair
Wednesday, Dec. 17
In Action...
Kimberly Fritzsche (Owosso, Mich.) - 1st Senior Female
Muhammad Chishti (Carlsbad, Calif.) - 1st Senior Male
Muhammad Chishti & Lilian Angel - 1st Pair
Noreen Thackrey (Fresno, Calif.) - 2nd Master Female
Reggie Ubiadas (Simi Valley, Calif.) - 2nd Master Male
David Turgeon, Ron Southwick (Fort Worth, Texas), Garth Cooley (Indianapolis, Ind.) - 2nd Team Male
Barbara Brand (Fremont, Calif.), Tara Zielinski (Sacramento, Calif.), Anacleta Thorne (Elk Grove, Calif.) - 2nd Team Female
Thursday, Dec. 18
In Action...
Aline Salzberg (Chatsworth, Calif.) - 2nd Senior Female
Jim Null (Banks, Ore.) - 2nd Senior Male
Dure Chang (Anchorage, Alaska) - 1st Master Female
Madison Motoyasu (Santa Clarita, Calif.), Mariel Calinog (Granada Hills, Calif.), Maisey Calinog (Granada Hills, Calif.) - 1st Team Female
Jason Hwang (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Matthew Dunlap, Henry Darnell (Lawndale, Calif.) - 1st Team Male


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At Amtrak, our employees, our programs and our suppliers reflect the nation we serve. Our diverse and inclusive behavior creates a work environment where everyone adds value and contributes to our business. Our comprehensive diversity and inclusion strategy for recruiting, welcoming and onboarding, engaging, developing and promoting apply to all Amtrak employees including, minorities, women, people with disabilities and the LGBT community across all generations.
Amtrak recognizes the importance of diverse and inclusive behavior that empowers employees to reach their full potential. We are committed to fostering an environment where diverse ideas, backgrounds and perspectives thrive, and we are committed to protecting the rights of all individuals.
By embracing diverse people and diverse styles, we demonstrate our respect for each other. Every year Amtrak celebrates Black History Month, Women's History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month and National Disability Employment Awareness Month to name a few. Our aim is to recognize as well as celebrate our multicultural, multigenerational and diverse workplace.
In 2014, Amtrak launched three microsites targeting multicultural travelers — DescubreNorteAmerica.com, a bilingual site for Hispanic consumers; MyBlackJourney.com for African American consumers; and AmtrakRideWithPride.com for the LGBT community. These microsites are culturally focused travel sites that speak to the unique languages of our customers.
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With this policy, we aim to create an elevated awareness of the company's commitment to accommodate persons with disabilities and to provide additional procedural guidance to employees who seek a workplace accommodation.
Creating an inclusive environment not only makes for a better work environment it helps us best serve and understand our customers. Every day, we seek to develop new skills; knowledge and abilities to drive growth and innovation to help us maximize our business results. We work together to foster collegial, collaborative and supportive relationships with one another to achieve our shared goals and deliver results.
In keeping with Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) principles, employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, status as a veteran or other protected status. We also take affirmative action to advance opportunities for minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and covered veterans.
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Hey Group,
This has been nagging me for a while and it seems if I try to keep light controllers & heavy models, there would be a better way to do this. I just don't see a huge benefit to this approach, I want to hear others thoughts, or if this is proper. I find myself doing all of it in the controller rather than creating an extra model method.
lets say I have a Movie model. I want to mark my movies as "available"
Currently I have a controller method called "mark_as_available"
def mark_as_available
movie = Movie.find(params[:id])
movie.available = true
if movie.save!
flash[:notice] = "Movie has been set as available."
How could I clean this up and put it in the Movie model rather than the controller? I'm assuming I could create a method called "mark_as_available" and simply call it like this...
def mark_as_available
movie = Movie.find(params[:id])
if movie.mark_as_available
flash[:notice] = "Movie has been set as available."
def mark_as_available
self.available = true
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Ghosh, Amitav
Amitav Ghosh 1956-
Indian novelist, essayist, and nonfiction writer.
The following entry presents an overview of Ghosh's career through 2001. For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Volume 44.
Ghosh is a popular and highly respected Indian author. In his novels and essays, he draws heavily upon the character, traditions, and dichotomies of his native land, yet Ghosh's protagonists and themes often extend beyond India's actual boundaries, most notably toward the Middle East and Great Britain. Through this discourse, Ghosh's works expose the cross-cultural ties between India and its former colonial ruler as well as with its kindred neighbors. Ghosh has been hailed by critics as one of a new generation of cosmopolitan Indian intellectuals writing in English who are forging a contemporary literary metier.
Biographical Information
Ghosh was born on July 11, 1956, in Calcutta, India, to Shailendra Chandra, a diplomat, and Ansali Ghosh, a homemaker. He traveled frequently in his youth, living in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Sri Lanka, Iran, and India. Ghosh attended Delhi University and received his B.A. with honors in history in 1976 and his M.A. in sociology in 1978. In 1978, he began studies at Oxford University in social anthropology. While at Oxford, Ghosh studied archives of documents from twelfth-century Egypt and was granted a scholarship that allowed him to travel to a small Egyptian village in 1980 to further his research. The village was located in the delta of the Nile River and Ghosh lived among the fellaheen, or Egyptian peasants. He graduated from Oxford earning a Ph.D. in social anthropology in 1982. From 1983 to 1987, Ghosh worked in the Department of Sociology at Delhi University. In 1986, Ghosh's first English-language novel, The Circle of Reason, was published and was awarded France's Prix Medici Etrangère. In 1988 and 1990, Ghosh returned to the Egyptian village he visited previously to continue his research. His third book, In an Antique Land (1992)—which is both a travel-memoir and a historical study—resulted from Ghosh's continuing interest in twelfth-century Egyptian culture. Ghosh has won numerous awards, including the Annual Prize from the Indian Academy of Letters in 1990. In 2001, Ghosh declined a nomination for a regional Commonwealth Writers Prize. Ghosh has served as a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Virginia, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and American University in Cairo. Ghosh has also held the title of distinguished professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Queens College, City University of New York, and has worked as a contributing writer to Indian Express, Granta, and New Republic.
Major Works
The majority of Ghosh's writing focuses on exploring geographical and social boundaries. His first novel, The Circle of Reason, is a complex tale of a young Indian boy, Alu, and his adventures in India and abroad. The novel was inspired by Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Alu becomes an apprentice weaver and, after a tragic event, flees across the ocean to the Middle East, eventually traveling to North Africa. In his travels, Alu encounters a myriad of eccentric characters of varied nationalities. It is in this atmosphere that Ghosh provides commentary on the nomadic proclivities of southern Asian and Middle Eastern societies. The work is divided into three sections, comprising the three main phases of Alu's life. Each of these phases also parallels a trio of concepts—reason, passion, and death—characteristic of ancient Indian literature and philosophy. In The Shadow Lines (1988), Ghosh juxtaposes the lives of two different yet intertwined families—one Indian and one English—to question the boundaries between their cultural and geographical settings. The title alludes to the blurring of the lines between nations and families, as well as the blurred lines within one's own self-identity. Ghosh depicts the characters of the novel as caught between two worlds, and the struggle to come to terms with both their present lives as well as their past forms the core of the narrative. In an Antique Land is based on the historical and anthropological research that Ghosh conducted in Egypt during the 1980s. In the twelfth century, Jewish settlers in and around Cairo were reluctant to discard written documents for fear that the name of God might be contained within and they would therefore be desecrated if the paper was soiled. The synagogue created a geniza, or cellar, where people could dispose of written material without fear of desecration. For seven centuries, local Jews deposited everything from shopping lists, letters, religious texts, and legal documents into the Cairo Geniza. At the end of the nineteenth century, Western scholars discovered the geniza, appropriated its contents, and its wealth of history was divided among the Western scholarly communities. While studying at Oxford, Ghosh discovered records of these documents and noticed a reference to a slave named Bomma. Ghosh traveled to Egypt in an effort to uncover more information about the slave and the time period in which he lived. In an Antique Land recounts both Ghosh's research and his experiences while living in a small Egyptian village. His descriptions of his adjustment to the rural Egyptian way of life, and the curiosity with which his neighbors viewed him, form a large portion of the work. The Calcutta Chromosome (1996) is a science-fiction thriller set in three different time periods—late nineteenth century, 1995, and the near future—and three different locales—Calcutta, London, and New York. The mystery novel centers around the research for a cure for malaria. The narrative switches back and forth between time periods, revealing more and more clues to the puzzle. In The Glass Palace (2001), Ghosh revisits his recurring themes of displacement and the examination of boundaries. The novel begins with a young Indian boy, Raj, who witnesses the expulsion of the Burmese royal family by the British. The story follows both the forced exile of the royal family in India as seen through the eyes of Dolly, their loyal maid, and Raj's adolescence and success in capital ventures. As a prosperous young businessman, Raj travels to India and asks Dolly to marry him. She accepts and they move to Burma together. The novel recounts the lives of their family as they struggle to define their place in the world. One of their sons, Arjun, enlists in the British Army and transforms his lifestyle with an almost zealous energy—by eating taboo foods, dressing in Western style, and speaking British slang. He believes that, by becoming like the English, he is making himself a more ideal specimen of man. His blind faith in the British Empire quickly dissolves during the Japanese invasion of Malaya. Arjun discovers that, as an Indian, he has become a pawn to be used by the Empire, and he eventually rediscovers the beauty in the Indian ideology and culture.
Critical Reception
The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, The Calcutta Chromosome, and The Glass Palace all received sharply mixed assessments from reviewers. Some critics argued that the narratives—particularly in Ghosh's first two novels—lacked unity and suffered from the presence of too many characters and distracting digressions. Nevertheless, Ghosh has received overwhelmingly positive reviews for his arresting language and original prose style. Several critics have commented on the similarities between Ghosh's narrative style and traditional Indian and Arabic folk tales. Ghosh's work has also been favorably compared to the work of fellow Indian expatriate writer Salman Rushdie. The critical response to his nonfiction work In an Antique Land has been largely positive. Commentators have found his anthropologic comparisons between twelfth- and twentieth-century Egyptians to be interesting, well-researched, and thought provoking. His descriptions of his social interactions with the Egyptian villagers have also been commended for their insight and wit. Critics have noted Ghosh's strong affinity for the people and places he writes about and have argued that his empathy adds a warm, almost protective personality to his work.
Principal Works
The Circle of Reason (novel) 1986
The Shadow Lines (novel) 1988
In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (nonfiction) 1992
The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium, and Discovery (novel) 1996
Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma (essays) 1998
Countdown (nonfiction) 1999
The Glass Palace (novel) 2001
Maria Couto (review date 28 October 1988)
SOURCE: "Threads and Shards," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4465, October 28, 1988, p. 1212.
[In the following excerpt, Couto praises Ghosh's characterization and storytelling abilities in The Shadow Lines.]
In his first novel, Circle of Reason, Amitav Ghosh wove a complex pattern of histories connecting lives in rural Bengal and remote Al Ghazira with a linguistic verve and technique clearly influenced by Midnight's Children yet without that book's power and impetus. In Shadow Lines, Ghosh has found his own distinctive voice—polished and profound. A narrative of three generations—the narrator's Bengali family in pre-Partition Dhaka and...
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Verlyn Klinkenborg (review date 7–14 August 1989)
SOURCE: "Life on the Edge," in New Republic, Vol. 201, No. 6, August 7–14, 1989, pp. 37–39.
[In the following positive review, Klinkenborg expresses admiration for Ghosh's ability to capture the essence of human emotions and relationships in The Shadow Lines.]
Halfway through Amitav Ghosh's new novel, The Shadow Lines, the narrator says, "I no longer existed, but as a chronicle." That is a striking statement, a testament of personal extinction before one's story, the tacit confession of every omniscient narrator. In this novel, it implies the ability to repose on language as if it were a hammock, to trust the way its weave keeps one's haunches off...
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G. R. Taneja (review date Spring 1991)
SOURCE: A review of The Shadow Lines, in World Literature Today, Vol. 65, No. 2, Spring, 1991, p. 365.
[In the following review, Taneja offers a positive assessment of The Shadow Lines, complimenting Ghosh's ability to create a non-chronological yet cohesive story.]
The new Indian English fiction of the eighties is free from the self-consciousness, shallow idealism, and sentimentalism that characterized the work of the older generation of novelists such as Raja Rao, R. K. Narayan, or Mulk Raj Anand, who started writing in the thirties. The fiction of the eighties takes a maturer view of Indian reality. There is freshness and vitality, and the writers...
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Stephen Howe (review date 2 October 1992)
SOURCE: "Sea Changes," in New Statesman & Society, Vol. 5, No. 222, October 2, 1992, pp. 48–49.
[In the following review, Howe offers a positive assessment of In an Antique Land.]
For most of recorded history, cultures, civilisations, and economies are better defined by oceans than by land masses. Until very recently the sea connected where mountains and deserts divided.
Historians learned from Fernand Braudel in the 1950s to think of the Mediterranean world as a unity. Soon after wards, the notion of an Atlantic world took hold: first an Atlantic "from above"; but increasingly, in the reconstructions of Marcus Rediker, Peter Linebaugh,...
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Ahdaf Soueif (review date 15 January 1993)
SOURCE: "Intimately Egyptian," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4685, January 15, 1993, p. 7.
[In the following mixed review, Soueif argues that, although In an Antique Land is an admirable attempt at recreating the past, the book seems incomplete.]
It is a habit of certain traditional Jewish (and indeed Islamic) communities to preserve everything they have ever written. Special chambers are used for this, and the aim is to protect any written form of the name of God from inadvertent mistreatment. Such a chamber (a "Geniza") was attached to the Synagogue of Ben Ezra in old Cairo; members of the city's Jewish community from well before the tenth century...
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Robert Irwin (review date 28 March 1993)
SOURCE: "Out of the Dustbin of History," in Washington Post Book World, Vol. XXII, No. 13, March 28, 1993, p. 6.
[In the following positive review, Irwin compliments Ghosh's technique of comparing and contrasting present-day and twelfth-century Egypt in In an Antique Land.]
About a quarter of the way in to this curious book [In an Antique Land] (a mixture of history, travelogue, social anthropology and personal memoir), Amitav Ghosh has occasion to remark that "it is not easy, after all, to see oneself sitting down to leaf through a collection of eight-hundred-year-old documents, written in a colloquial dialect of medieval Arabic, transcribed in the Hebrew...
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Pico Iyer (review date 11 April 1993)
SOURCE: "The Nile of Time," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, April 11, 1993, pp. 2, 11.
[In the following review, Iyer offers a positive assessment of In an Antique Land, particularly praising Ghosh's descriptions of his experiences in Egypt.]
Modern Egypt is in part a swirl of Mexican restaurants and chador boutiques and guides speaking Japanese. But in its alleyways and souks, and all around the villages in the countryside, Egypt still clops to a surprisingly ancient rhythm: boys wandering through mazes of mud-colored houses, date-palms under washed-out skies as in every other 19th-Century English print, women carrying baskets of vegetables on their...
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Clifford Geertz (review date 23–30 August 1993)
SOURCE: "A Passage to India," in New Republic, Vol. 209, Nos. 8–9, August 23–30, 1993, pp. 38–41.
[In the following review of In an Antique Land, Geertz praises Ghosh's ability to capture the social interactions and dynamics of the people, past and present, of the Persian Gulf.]
The world, by now, is fairly well cut up into distinct pieces, stretches of space with borders around them and inhabitants within them. People move about a good deal, and some may change their residence and become inhabitants of some other piece. Nor are the pieces themselves entirely fixed; they can merge, divide, swallow one another up, or, like the Soviet Union, just...
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Jonathan M. Elukin (review date Winter 1994)
SOURCE: "Cairene Treasures," in American Scholar, Vol. 63, No. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 137–40.
[In the following positive review, Elukin argues that aside from Ghosh's occasional political diatribe against Western imperialism, In an Antique Land is an otherwise thought-provoking and well-written undertaking.]
Like the Cairo Geniza, the wellspring of this seductive book, In an Antique Land, Amitav Ghosh's scholarly memoir is a treasure of interconnected historical ironies. The thriving Jewish community of medieval Cairo deposited many of its documents in the Geniza—a kind of cellar in the synagogue—in order to avoid inadvertently desecrating the...
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James Clifford (review date 24 March 1994)
SOURCE: "Looking for Bomma," in London Review of Books, Vol. 6, No. 6, March 24, 1994, pp. 26–27.
[In the following review of In an Antique Land, Clifford explores the differences in religious tolerance, cultural exchange, and political attitudes between the Indian and Arabic societies of the twelfth century and the twentieth century.]
In his novel, The Shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh writes of an Indian family whose members cross and recross two geopolitical borders. One border joins and divides Calcutta and London, the other Calcutta and Dhaka. Toward the end of the book the narrator's failing grandmother prepares for a return visit to the city she...
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Bruce King (review date Spring 1994)
SOURCE: A review of In an Antique Land, in World Literature Today, Vol. 68, No. 2, Spring, 1994, p. 430.
[In the following positive review, King states that In an Antique Land is a skillful mixture of history, travelogue, fiction, and anthropology.]
Amitav Ghosh's novels The Circle of Reason and The Shadow Lines are somewhat difficult to place on the current literary map; they have an unusual perspective and cover unexpected territory. In an Antique Land fills in some of the picture of how Ghosh sees the world and, besides the interest of the book itself as social anthropology and what it tells us about Ghosh, might be a starting...
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Robert Dixon (essay date Spring 1996)
SOURCE: "'Travelling in the West': The Writing of Amitav Ghosh," in Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. 31, No. 1, Spring, 1996, pp. 3–24.
[In the following essay, Dixon examines The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, and In an Antique Land to demonstrate Ghosh's discontentment with the Western imperialism imposed on Arabic and Indian cultures.]
In the geography of human history no culture is an island. … In effect Tulunad was a region in the sense of the word desa, or the French pays—"country" is too loaded a term to use—an area … not "independent" but distinctive and singular, and...
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Phil Baker (review date 2 August 1996)
SOURCE: "Post-Colonial Pox," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4870, August 2, 1996, p. 23.
[In the following review, Baker offers a positive assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome.]
The existence of "research luck" has been often remarked; a serendipitous book almost leaps from the shelf, and fortuitous pieces of evidence obtrude themselves on the researcher in ways that seem almost supernatural. Scientific breakthroughs, too, have famously happened as happy accidents. These phenomena are given uniquely sinister treatment in The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh, an ingenious and bewitching novel which proposes a dark, secret history of malaria...
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Michael Hulse (review date 24 August 1996)
SOURCE: "Oh Death, Where Is Thy Bite?," in Spectator, Vol. 277, No. 8771, August 24, 1996, pp. 25–26.
[In the following review, Hulse offers a negative assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome, criticizing the characters' grating slang dialogue and the improbability of the plot.]
Immortality has not figured very prominently in literature since Swift's Struldbrugs, and Amitav Ghosh's donné ought by rights, in the age of genetic engineering, to have fired a fiction of unusual trajectory. His subject is malaria, and its transmission by the anopheles mosquito. What if the principle by which the disease is imprinted on the mosquito's target could be...
(The entire section is 611 words.)
Shirley Chew (review date 6 September 1996)
SOURCE: "The Story Bug," in New Statesman, Vol. 125, No. 4299, September 6, 1996, p. 47.
[In the following review, Chew offers a positive assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome.]
With its dazzling and haunting mix of science fiction, the history of malaria research, thriller, ghost story and postcolonial allegory, Amitav Ghosh's new novel is—like his previous work—wonderfully clever as well as a good read. Set in the not-too-distant future but covering in its sweep the 1880s and 1890s (crucial years in the medical history of malaria), The Calcutta Chromosome finds its driving force in the idea of research. Specialised knowledge carries the narrative, and...
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Sudeep Sen (review date Winter 1997)
SOURCE: A review of The Calcutta Chromosome, in World Literature Today, Vol. 71, No. 1, Winter, 1997, pp. 221–22.
[In the following review, Sen offers a positive assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome.]
The Calcutta Chromosome is Amitav Ghosh's fourth substantial work of prose. He has already written two novels, The Circle of Reason and The Shadow Lines, as well as a book of creative nonfiction, In an Antique Land, all of which have received widespread critical attention and praise. Those familiar with Ghosh's earlier work will at once recognize the macrocosmic links his latest work has with the earlier ones, not in terms of...
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Claire Panosian (review date 21 September 1997)
SOURCE: "Once Bitten," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, September 21, 1997, p. 13.
[In the following positive review, Panosian discusses the scientific aspects of The Calcutta Chromosome.]
"Murugan sat suddenly upright, the sweat pounding off his face, not sure whether he was still dreaming or awake. The net was buzzing with mosquitoes; he could see them dancing like motes, in the finger of light that bisected his bed. His whole body was aflame, covered with bites. He had been scratching himself furiously in his sleep; he could see blood on his fingernails, and on the sheets."
Blood, mosquitoes and malaria are all talismans imbued with...
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Amitava Kumar (essay date 29 September 1997)
SOURCE: "Rushdie's Children," in Nation, Vol. 265, No. 9, September 29, 1997, pp. 36–40.
[In the following essay, Kumar analyzes the reception to and importance of Indian writers who write in English, using Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome as his primary examples.]
"India: The Fiction Issue" sang the cover of The New Yorker at the newsstand run by a Gujarati man inside Penn Station. On the bright cover, topped with turmeric sunset hues, sat a stone Lord Ganesha browsing through a couple of books, the task made easier because He has more than two hands. And emerging from a thicket, dressed for a...
(The entire section is 2142 words.)
Tamsin Todd (review date 14 December 1997)
SOURCE: "Malarial Dreams," in Washington Post Book World, Vol. XXVII, No. 50, December 14, 1997, p. 7.
[In the following review, Todd offers a negative assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome, faulting the plot elements as underdeveloped and incohesive.]
Last summer, in a special Indian fiction issue of The New Yorker, Amitav Ghosh was one of 11 writers included in a group photo of leading Indian novelists. The label "Indian novelist," applied to Ghosh, is slightly misleading, since there's nothing distinctively Indian about Ghosh's writing.
Born in Calcutta and currently living in New York City, Ghosh tends toward the...
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Paul Rosenberg (review date 8 January 1998)
SOURCE: "Science-Fiction Novel Intrigues but Falls Short," in Christian Science Monitor, January 8, 1998, p. 12.
[In the following review, Rosenberg argues that although The Calcutta Chromosome is an excellent fiction novel, it fails as a science-fiction novel due to its lack of scientific concreteness.]
Amitav Ghosh is an Indian-born writer and anthropologist who writes "fabulist," or science fiction. He considers this genre part of the literary mainstream—one that encompasses such varied works as the 2,000-year-old Babylonian epic, Gilgamesh, replete with mythic elements, and the recent movie Groundhog Day, where time is severed from...
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Salil Tripathi (review date 30 July 1998)
SOURCE: "The Past is Now," in Far Eastern Economic Review, Vol. 61, No. 31, July 30, 1998, pp. 42–43.
[In the following review, Tripathi offers a positive assessment of Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma, and stresses the importance of historical Asian literature written by post-colonial Asian writers.]
In 1906, two years after succeeding his half-brother Norodom, King Sisowath of Cambodia went on an extensive visit to Marseilles, accompanied by the royal ballet troupe. France responded warmly to the charming dancers and the king's entourage. The dancers so enchanted sculptor Auguste Rodin that he travelled with them and drew evocative sketches of...
(The entire section is 1310 words.)
Taya Zinkin (review date June 1999)
SOURCE: A review of Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma, in Asian Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 2, June, 1999, pp. 230–31.
[In the following review of Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma, Zinkin commends Ghosh for his proficiency in portraying the strife and harsh living conditions in past and present-day Burma and Cambodia.]
Published in Delhi, this small book by Amitav Ghosh deserves to be available worldwide. Never before has this reviewer had the privilege of reviewing a travel book, if it can be so classified, of such evocative scholarship and empathy. The title, like the presentation and illustrated cover, is deceptive. There are three essays, two...
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Anjali Roy (essay date Fall 2000)
SOURCE: "Microstoria: Indian Nationalism's 'Little Stories' in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines," in Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. 35, No. 2, Fall, 2000, pp. 35–49.
[In the following essay, Roy uses The Shadow Lines as an example of how local ties and community history can supersede the ideal of nationalism.]
If imperialism is an "act of geographical violence through which virtually every space in the world is explored, charted, and finally brought under control," the primacy of the cartographic impulse in the anti-imperialist imagination is quite understandable. Cultures of resistance are seen to "reclaim, rename and remap the...
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Zarene Aslami (review date 4 February 2001)
SOURCE: "Questions of Authority: The Story of 3 Generations Living in the Shadow of Empire," in Chicago Tribune Books, Vol. 1154, No. 35, February 4, 2001, pp. 3, 7.
[In the following positive review, Aslami praises The Glass Palace and examines the characters' quests to discover their physical and moral boundaries in a post-colonial land.]
Amitav Ghosh's latest novel, The Glass Palace, begins with a sound. New and unintelligible, this sound comes surging across the plain into Mandalay, Burma, traveling up the banks of the Irrawaddy River, skidding across the western wall of the Mandalay Fort, and ultimately spreading confusion in the marketplace....
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Heather Hewett (review date 8 February 2001)
SOURCE: "The Persistence of Memory in Love and War," in Christian Science Monitor, February 8, 2001, p. 20.
[In the following positive review, Hewett compliments Ghosh's weaving of history and political turmoil into the lives of his characters in The Glass Palace.]
Amitav Ghosh's sweeping historical novel, The Glass Palace, begins with a young boy watching the British storm the Burmese royal fortress in 1885. Eleven-year-old Rajkumar, an impoverished orphan from India, sneaks into the forbidden palace and meets Dolly, a beautiful young court attendant. Amid the chaos of looting and violence, Dolly's face is permanently etched into Rajkumar's memory....
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Marina Budhos (review date 11 February 2001)
SOURCE: "Questions of Allegiance," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, February 11, 2001, p. 5.
[In the following review, Budhos offers a positive assessment of The Glass Palace.]
What an exciting time for Indian writing in English. Every month, it seems, another young Indian writer publishes a novel capturing the migratory pangs of the new Indian diaspora, an immigrant group that now ranges from dot-com engineers in Silicon Valley to taxi drivers in New York. In The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh has staked a different claim: turning the clock backward to examine a lesser-known, earlier Indian diaspora, and in doing so exploring the foundation of modern Indian...
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Pico Iyer (review date 8 March 2001)
SOURCE: "The Road from Mandalay," in New York Review of Books, Vol. XLVIII, March 8, 2001, pp. 28–31.
[In the following review of The Glass Palace, Iyer acknowledges that Ghosh's body of work draws attention to the oppressed Indian and Burmese people, but argues that Ghosh's political stance against the British is hypocritical in nature.]
Although the British formally left India more than half a century ago, their presence still sits at the center of that culture like a picture of Miss Havisham's lost fiancé. It has been tempting—too tempting, perhaps—to place all the Indian writers recently so conspicuous in the West on a spectrum represented at its...
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Further Reading
Barrett, David. "Collected Works." New Scientist 155, No. 2091 (19 July 1997): 48.
Barrett discusses a variety of novels, including Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome, that are considered science fiction, yet also exhibit aspects of other literary genres.
Brawarsky, Sandee. "Mortality, Mosquitoes, and Mystery." Lancet 348, No. 9043 (21 December 1996): 1717.
Brawarsky offers a positive assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome, complimenting the novel from a scientific standpoint.
Hayward, Helen. "Once a Golden Land." Times Literary Supplement, No. 5076 (14...
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Debates of Oct. 21st, 2002
House of Commons Hansard #11 of the 37th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was kimberley.
- Export and Import of Rough Diamonds Act
- Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport
- Terrorism
- YWCA Week Without Violence
- Royal 22nd Regiment
- Canadian Accredited Insurance Brokers
- Prairie Farmers
- Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case
- Fédération des agricultrices du Québec
- Communities in Bloom
- Terrorism
- Parliamentarians against Corruption
- Terrorism
- Highway Infrastructure
- Autism Month
- Member for Cardigan
- Biofuels
- Grain Transportation
- Women's History Month
- Kyoto Protocol
- Ethics
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Prairie Farmers
Statements by Members
October 21st, 2002 / 2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Garry Breitkreuz Yorkton—Melville, SK
Mr. Speaker, on Friday, October 4 the editorial board of the Ottawa Citizen said that the government should eliminate the Canadian Wheat Board or turn it over to the farmers themselves with membership entirely voluntary. I am quoting from the Ottawa Citizen editorial:
It is offensive that anyone is required to sell his production and skill to one buyer, namely the federal government, at the price it determines in secret. When the federal government defends the existence of the wheat board, it is defending the expropriation of farmers' property. Virtually no other profession in this nation--and that includes grain farmers in Ontario and Quebec--is forced to give up the efforts of its own production to a government monopoly. It's time we put to pasture the notion that farmers shouldn't be allowed to grow their business like any other.
All Canadians should be very concerned about the use of government force to expropriate private property from prairie farmers because next time, it might be the Liberals coming after their property.
Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Carolyn Bennett St. Paul's, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to rise in the House today to acknowledge the occasion of Michele Landsberg's receipt of the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case. Awarded annually to six Canadian women in recognition of their outstanding contribution to society, these awards commemorate the Famous Five, the women who fought to guarantee recognition of women as persons.
Passion, fearlessness and determination are all words used to describe Michele Landsberg as a writer, a speaker and a person. A resident of St. Paul's and a columnist for the Toronto Star , she works tirelessly to bring a human side to her columns and provides a strong voice for women and children both through her writing and in public. She works hard behind the scenes as well, volunteering her time as an advisor and an activist to feminist, anti-poverty and social justice endeavours.
I congratulate Ms. Landsberg, as well as the other five women who received this honour.
Fédération des agricultrices du Québec
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Diane Bourgeois Terrebonne—Blainville, QC
Mr. Speaker, this year, the Fédération des agricultrices du Québec is celebrating its 15th anniversary. In 1987 a group of women came together to develop a true community and meaningful professional strength in the evolution of agriculture in Quebec.
For the women involved, the challenge at hand was to have the agricultural sector recognize their invisible contributions. In 15 years, these women have established structures giving them access to power and ensuring their right to property. The actions by the women farmers of Quebec have led to significant changes and have eliminated the discriminatory clause that made the spouses of farmers ineligible for grants.
The Bloc Quebecois would like to publically thank the women farmers of Quebec, recognize their merits and encourage them in their work to affirm the place of women in agriculture.
Communities in Bloom
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Aileen Carroll Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to applaud the efforts of the city of Barrie which, along with the Parish of Saint Hellier, capital of the island of Jersey in Great Britain, took first place in the international challenge category of the 2002 Communities in Bloom competition. This competition is a national municipal beautification contest with a focus on flowers, landscaping, gardens and environmental awareness.
The city of Barrie entered 320 gardens, competing with gardens from Ireland, England and the United States. It was its first time competing in the international category. Many thanks to city of Barrie alderman Patricia Copeland, and Mona Boyd, the city's horticultural supervisor who supported the city's participation in this event.
Congratulations to the city of Barrie for its bloomin' success.
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Deborah Grey Edmonton North, AB
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay my respects to the victims of Bali's horrifying nightclub bombing. With close to 200 dead and over 300 wounded, the attack is the worst act of terror in Indonesia's history. It struck in the heart of an island that has been renowned as a vacationer's dream. On October 12 that dream turned to a nightmare.
Many of the people killed in the blast were young. Among them were travellers, surfers, rugby players and newlyweds. As we know, many of those killed in this incident were believed to be Australian. Our thoughts are with that country which has suffered such an enormous loss.
Four Canadians were injured in the blast. Mervin Popadynec, a Calgary rugby player and oil industry engineer, is still missing and presumed dead. Our hearts go out to his family, friends and teammates at this difficult time.
This bombing was a senseless act of terrorism targeted at the values of freedom and liberty.
On behalf of the Canadian Alliance, I offer our sincere condolences to the families of all the victims of this horrible tragedy.
Parliamentarians against Corruption
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Charles Caccia Davenport, ON
Mr. Speaker, for two and one-half days last week, parliamentarians from 60 countries gathered in this chamber to discuss ways and means to combat corruption. They formed the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption, an action oriented global network to help parliaments and parliamentarians in fighting corruption. Governments will benefit from this parliamentary initiative made possible by the determination and commitment of the member for St. Albert. He deserves applause and support.
The fact that 168 parliamentarians from all continents participated sends a clear signal to governments and business that corrupt practices are coming under close scrutiny and will be dealt with. The organization will meet again in two years to measure progress and adopt new measures to fight corruption in its many forms.
Congratulations to the hon. member for St. Albert.
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Bill Blaikie Winnipeg—Transcona, MB
Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my NDP colleagues, and I am sure I speak on behalf of all members here, I express our deepest sympathy to the people of Australia as they mourn the loss of so many of their fellow citizens in the senseless act of barbarism that took place in Bali and which also took the life of a fellow Canadian, Mervin Popadynec, from Wynyard, Saskatchewan.
We share the horror and sadness of Australia and of all others whose lives and families have been scarred by this act of meaningless violence, particularly, of course, the Popadynec family in Saskatchewan.
Let those of us who practise politics rededicate ourselves to finding political solutions to the world's problems. Let those who practise such terrorism be caught and brought to justice and let others who contemplate such violence cease and desist: They are a discredit to our common humanity.
Highway Infrastructure
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Robert Lanctôt Châteauguay, QC
Mr. Speaker, the residents of my riding and all of Montérégie are disappointed by the evasive comments made by the federal Minister of Transport regarding highway 30.
He recently announced that the agreement to extend would be ratified soon. However, we learned that he was still at the stage of all kinds of studies. When this government says soon, it most certainly does not mean soon, and that is disappointing.
Already, back in January 2001, the federal Minister of Transport said that highway 30 was a priority. Apparently the word priority does not mean anything for this government. In the end, all the federal Minister of Transport is trying to do is appease the people of Montérégie and put off indefinitely signing the memorandum of understanding with the Government of Quebec, which has been ready for a long time now.
The residents of Montérégie have been waiting for this highway for a long time now. The words soon and as soon as possible and priority no longer mean anything, and this is cannot go on. How long will it take for a priority to become a reality?
Autism Month
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Peter Adams Peterborough, ON
Mr. Speaker, October is Autism Month. Autism brings many challenges to children and families. Autism spectrum disorders appear at birth or very early in a child's development. They affect essential human behaviours such as social interaction, the ability to communicate ideas and feelings, imagination, and the establishment of relationships.
The Government of Canada is committed to improving the health and well-being of all Canadians and will continue to support efforts by provinces and territories to provide services for those affected by this disorder. Included in these initiatives are the federal disability strategy, the Centres of Excellence for Children's Well-Being, and the community action program for children. The government also supports the UN convention on the rights of the child.
We must continue to strive to support families and children of all ages, including those with disabilities such as autism. I wish to congratulate and thank the Peterborough chapter of the Autism Society for its fine, caring work.
Member for Cardigan
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Progressive Conservative
Rick Borotsik Brandon—Souris, MB
Mr. Speaker, despite allegations of corruption and political patronage, the Solicitor General has feebly maintained that the good people of Prince Edward Island have benefited from his patronage contracts. The Solicitor General would have us believe that the patronage contract to his brother, the patronage contract to the president of the P.E.I. Liberal Association and the patronage untendered contract to his personal friend are in the best interests of all. How can the benefit to a few be so advantageous to the P.E.I. masses?
It is the Solicitor General's blatant unethical behaviour that gives all politicians a black eye. When we put our names forward to the public, we are expected to fulfill our duties with the highest of integrity. Those who hold public office know that if something has any scent of impropriety it must not be done. The Solicitor General has not passed this litmus test. The Prime Minister must replace this minister right now and he must do it for the good of the government, for his party and for this country.
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
John Maloney Erie—Lincoln, ON
Mr. Speaker, Canada must develop a biofuel industry quickly and aggressively. Biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel offer us cleaner, greener, renewable energy resources.
We forget that fossil fuels have huge hidden environmental, medical and social costs. We fail to realize that the biofuel industry will stimulate the rural economy, creating employment and investment opportunities while helping farmers to diversify into new markets. Most important, the use of biofuels will help us reach our Kyoto commitments in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Canada's biofuel industry cannot go it alone. It needs support for greater innovation and infrastructure. I encourage the government to support new ethanol and biodiesel processing plants, establish renewable fuel content targets and reduce excise tax on biodiesel. I urge the government to lead the way by increasing the use of biofuels in federal government vehicle fleets.
This issue is of critical importance to Canadians. The government must respond now.
Grain Transportation
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Lynne Yelich Blackstrap, SK
Mr. Speaker, grain terminal workers at the Port of Vancouver have been locked out for eight weeks. The situation is becoming desperate for the transportation of this year's crop, which already has been doomed by summer drought.
Agreeing that the grain handling system is inefficient, many farmers feel the situation could be improved if transportation of grain becomes the responsibility of the buyer. This would remove some of the risk farmers face when moving their product by channels plagued by problems such as the grain workers lockout in Vancouver.
There are no winners and a lot of potential losers in this current dispute. Grain handlers were locked out on August 25. The government has done nothing to solve this two year dispute. No one benefits from strikes and lockouts when final offer selection arbitration is an option. I urge the government to intervene in this grain handlers dispute by compelling the parties to seek immediate third party arbitration.
Women's History Month
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Sarmite Bulte Parkdale—High Park, ON
Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to recognize that Women's History Month 2002 is celebrated during this month of October. This year the theme for Women's History Month is "Women and Sports--Champions Forever!".
In October 1992 the Government of Canada launched Women's History Month to encourage greater awareness of women's contributions to Canadian society and to recognize the achievements of women as a vital segment of our Canadian heritage.
In the Speech from the Throne the government stated that it will work with its partners to develop a national strategy for healthy living, physical activity and sport and will convene the first ever national summit on these issues in 2003.
Recently I decided to become physically healthy again. I quit smoking, and our colleague, the Minister of Health, took part this month in the CIBC Run for the Cure, to find a cure for breast cancer.
October is a great opportunity for all members to set an example, show leadership and become physically healthy again.
Kyoto Protocol
Oral Question Period
2:15 p.m.
Calgary Southwest
Canadian Alliance
Stephen Harper Leader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, today was supposed to be the day the government showed the provinces its implementation plan for the Kyoto accord, but there is still no plan and province after province is dropping its support.
The Ontario government has warned that for Ontario the accord will mean "huge job losses, a huge drag on the [economy] and billions of dollars in lost revenue".
Will the government now admit that it should not ratify Kyoto until it has a plan and until it has built consensus around that plan?
Kyoto Protocol
Oral Question Period
2:15 p.m.
David Anderson Minister of the Environment
Mr. Speaker, the delay in the meeting is so that we can take advantage of the consultations that are taking place.
It also allows us to take advantage of the very important work done by the Alberta government, which presented a paper only two or three days ago. In addition, the province of Quebec has made representations in the last few days which are very valuable to us as we assess what we should do on the 28th of this month.


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Demo Flow Trail Project Update
Since the completion of the Emma McCrary trail, MBOSC has been hard at work behind the scenes on the Demo Flow Trail project and we wanted to give folks an update on the status of the project and our plans for the summer and fall. We are starting a google group to keep people informed about this project. Visit https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mbosc-demo to sign up. If you haven't heard, our Own the Flow Ibis Ripley raffle raised $44,000 for the project! Thanks a bunch to Ibis Cycles and to all of you who donated. We estimate that this project will take at least $100,000 to complete, so if you, your company, or anyone you know would like to make a donation, or if you know of any grants we should pursue, please let us know.The club is working with CALFIRE to complete the environmental documentation and secure any necessary permits. We are making good progress and everything should be lined up to begin work this year.
We plan to begin construction in the fall once the rain starts again and we have moist soil to work with. Moist soil is going to be key for proper compaction of berms, rollers, and other features and keeping the trail solid during both the wet and dry months. We should have at least a couple of segments ready to ride by the spring.
Trail Construction Crew Leader Training
The Flow Trail Project will be a huge undertaking and will take lots of skilled and dedicated volunteers to make it a success. Due to the remote location we intend to conduct LARGE workdays and even work weekends where many volunteers will work on large portions of the trail at the same time. In order for this to work we need trained crew leaders who are all on the same page and can work together as a team to pull it off!
This summer we are conducting a trailwork and crew leader training series. If you are interested in making a significant contribution and being involved in helping lead this project we encourage you to attend these training events. However, if you don't want to lead a crew but want to learn more about trail construction feel free to attend! There will be both classroom sessions and field based exercises discussing trail design, construction, and volunteer management. We will hold evening classes both in Santa Cruz and the San Jose area and will hold field training sessions in Demo. Additionally, we will take field trips to the Emma McCrary trail and the Endor Flow Trail in Tamarancho up in Marin to gain understanding of flow trail design and construction.
Please sign up for the Crew Leader Training by sending email to email@example.com Crew Leaders should complete the series before being assigned to independently lead a trail construction crew on the Demo Flow Trail. You will receive a course binder and various materials at Class 1. Once you have completed the series at Class 5 you will be awarded a very special Crew Leader swag bag that will allow you to be dressed and equipped for leadership success!
Course Descriptions are below.
Class 1) Trail design overview This class will cover various topics on trail design for the Flow Trail as well as other types of trails, and includes designing for intended use, sustainability, soils, trail grade, features, and user safety. Also we will discuss how the design is laid out and marked, revised and finalized, and the crew leader's role in implementing the design.
Class 2) Trail construction overview This class will build on Class 1, and will focus again on how we will be building the Flow Trail but will also cover construction for other types of trails. Topics include construction standards and techniques, steps and sequence of construction including use of mechanized equipment, how crews work most efficiently, various tools used etc.
Class 3) Trail construction workshop This field session will be held in Soquel Demo Forest. We will take the information from Classes 1 & 2, and discuss and practice laying out trail segments, and practice various trail construction methods for different elements of the Flow Trail.
Class 4) Trail crew leadership Topics in this class will focus on the human element of working with volunteers, project managers, and the land manager. We will discuss workday schedule of events, respecting volunteer's time and effort, safety, following guidelines, working with different personality and body types, teaching vs. doing, the crew leader's role on a large workday, working together as a team with other crew leaders, etc.
Class 5) Trail crew workshop This field session will be held in Soquel Demo Forest. We will put the lessons from Classes 3 and 4 to work. Various scenarios will be enacted allowing crew leaders to practice leadership skills on a mock volunteer workday.
Field Trip 1) Emma McCrary Trail, Santa Cruz This field trip will bring crew leaders to certain focal points on this newly constructed multi-use trail and will discuss various issues related to trail user experience, trail design, construction and crew leadership.
Field Trip 2) Endor Flow Trail, Fairfax This field trip will bring crew leaders to certain focal points on this newly constructed purpose built Flow Trail and will discuss its unique design, professional mechanized construction blended with volunteer help, and challenges related to maintaining a Flow Trail after construction
Tentative Schedule of Classes (subject to change) below. Classes 1, 2, and 4 are indoors, evenings, 2 hours. Curriculum will be the same at both, hopefully most people can make one of the two dates for each class. The workshops and field trips are outdoors, weekends lasting about half a day:
Section A Santa Cruz) Evening classes will be held Wednesdays from 6 to 8pm in Santa Cruz at offices of Geo H. Wilson Inc. 250 Harvey West Blvd, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Workshops and Field Trips are Saturdays 9-3pm
Class 1: 7/31 Wednesday 6 to 8pm
Class 2: 8/14 Wednesday 6 to 8pm
Field Trip 1: 8/17 Saturday 9-3pm
Class 3: 8/24 Saturday 9-3pm
Field Trip 2: 11/9
Class 4: 9/11 Wednesday 6 to 8pm
Class 5: 9/28 Saturday 9-3pm
Section B South Bay) Evening classes will be held Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 in the South Bay. Workshops and Field Trips are Sundays 9-3pm
Class 1: 8/8 Thursday 6:30 to 8:30pm
Class 2: 8/22 Thursday 6:30 to 8:30pm (DATE CHANGED)
Field Trip 1: 8/25 Sunday 9-3pm
Class 3: 9/8 Sunday 9-3pm
Field Trip 2: 11/9
Class 4: 9/12 Thursday 6:30 to 8:30pm
Class 5: 9/22 Sunday 9-3pm
We may consider adding a Section C, or makeup sections if there is enough demand.
Please sign up for the Crew Leader Training by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject: Crew leader training
If you do not want to be a crew leader but would like to be notified of trailwork once we begin, please sign up to our email list by visiting https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mbosc-demo to sign up.
Thanks again for your support of this project!


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Debates of Sept. 23rd, 2011
House of Commons Hansard #19 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was detention.
- Question Period
- Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act
- Wallaceburg
- Childhood Cancer
- Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
- Onward Willow
- International Plowing Match
- International Day of the Girl
- Army Cadets
- Pat Burns
- Junction Shul
- Wireless Communications
- Circuit des couleurs Cross-country Race
- The Economy
- Joan Farley
- Volunteer Firefighters Tax Credit
- The People of Beauharnois—Salaberry
- Firearms Registry
- The Economy
- Pensions
- The Economy
- Search and Rescue
- Afghanistan
- National Defence
- Veterans Affairs
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Taxation
- Government Spending
- President of the Treasury Board
- Safe Streets and Communities Act
- The Environment
- Canadian Wheat Board
- Official Languages
- Foreign Affairs
- Employment
- Aboriginal Affairs
- The Economy
- Foreign Affairs
- Government Spending
- Libya
- Excise Tax Act
- Independent and Effective Office of the Veterans' Ombudsman Act
- Status of Women Canada Act
- Criminal Code
- Employment Insurance Act
- Senior Consumer Price Index Act
- Libya
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Privilege
- Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act
Army Cadets
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Colin Carrie Oshawa, ON
Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago two of Oshawa's finest cadets from the 1913 Ontario Regiment Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps, Adrian Francisco and Kyle Ryan, earned a tremendous honour by receiving their jump wings from the Canadian Forces parachutists course.
Adrian and Kyle were among the 47 cadets from across the country who were selected for the course which took place at CFB Trenton on Canada Day.
Over a five-week period, Adrian and Kyle learned the basics of parachuting and underwent several gruelling challenges, including hanging from the rafters in flight suits during flight instruction.
Kyle brought home top honours in the course and was named Canada's Most Outstanding Army Cadet and received the 2011 General Walsh Memorial Sword.
The focus, determination and discipline that Kyle and Adrian have demonstrated should serve as an inspiration to all of us. Their accomplishments are something all Canadians should admire.
I am honoured to stand before the House today and congratulate both Kyle and Adrian. They have represented the 1913 Army Cadet Corps with a tremendous amount of pride and honour.
Pat Burns
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Jacques Gourde Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, QC
Mr. Speaker, it is with pride and a heavy heart that Stanstead will officially open the Pat Burns Arena this weekend. We lost Pat Burns last November. Throughout his career he was one of the most popular coaches in the National Hockey League.
His fans cheered when he won the Stanley Cup and was named coach of the year. His fans were also there for him during his three bouts of cancer. Pat Burns said about the arena that the next Mario Lemieux or Sidney Crosby might come from Stanstead and play at the arena that bears his name.
I am sure that is true and that one day, he or she will win gold with Team Canada. It was a great privilege to have someone so determined and so passionate living in our community, and thanks to this arena, he will continue to have a positive influence on young people for a long time to come.
Junction Shul
Statements By Members
September 23rd, 2011 / 11:05 a.m.
Peggy Nash Parkdale—High Park, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honour the 100th anniversary of the Junction Shul in Parkdale—High Park. It was built in 1911 to house the Congregation Knesseth Israel. It is the oldest original synagogue in Toronto still in use today.
In the early 20th century, the founding families donated funds to purchase a parcel of land on Maria Street and built the synagogue with community donations of money, labour and materials. It quickly became the heart of the Jewish community.
The descendants of these original founders continue to care for the building and congregation, and through their generous donations and hard work, the Shul has been restored to its original condition.
This past weekend, old and new members of the congregation put together a joyful street festival and welcomed in the community to celebrate this local landmark.
On this historic anniversary, we celebrate more than a historic Toronto building: we honour a community at the heart of Canada's rich and diverse history.
Wireless Communications
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Chris Warkentin Peace River, AB
Mr. Speaker, a significant report released by the Convergence Consulting Group earlier this week held good news for Canadian consumers.
The report noted that more and more households are using cell phone services only. Why? Because wireless prices have come down dramatically due to greater competition, which is a direct result of the AWS spectrum auction conducted by our government in 2008.
In fact, the report indicated that new competition in the market has spurred price drops of almost 58% on voice and data plans. It has also led to a more diversified market, with new entrants forecasted to occupy 12% of the market by 2014, up from 5% today.
Decisions by our government have resulted in a wireless sector that offers more competition, greater choice and, most important of all, lower prices for consumers. These are decisions that we can be proud of.
Circuit des couleurs Cross-country Race
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Élaine Michaud Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, QC
Mr. Speaker, Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier is a riding marked by the dynamism of its people, who are very involved in their community.
This weekend, the first edition of the Circuit des couleurs, a cross-country event organized by the Cantons-Unis de Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, will be held.
I would like to mention the excellent work done by the Association des citoyens et citoyennes de Tewkesbury in organizing this event, which aims to highlight the cultural and natural heritage of the region.
This event will be an opportunity to meet the residents of Stoneham and Tewkesbury and also to admire the exceptional scenery in the valley of the Jacques-Cartier and the beautiful fall colours.
I invite everyone to come discover the recreational tourism services of the united townships and the studios of the region's artists who will be there. I look forward to seeing you there.
The Economy
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Robert Goguen Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB
Mr. Speaker, yesterday we had the privilege of welcoming British Prime Minister David Cameron to the House.
He reminded us all of the importance of Canada's economic leadership.
To quote Prime Minister Cameron:
In the last few years, Canada has got every major decision right....
Your economic leadership has helped the Canadian economy to weather the global storms far better than many of your international competitors.
But there was also an important message: the global economy is fragile and the time has come for countries to face fiscal challenges.
This is also the message that Canada, through our Minister of Finance, gave at the G20 meeting today.
Europe must take decisive action to resolve the debt problem in countries like Greece. Canada's experience and success in implementing the economic action plan serve as an important example for the entire international community.
Joan Farley
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Francis Scarpaleggia Lac-Saint-Louis, QC
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to the late Joan Farley, a remarkable woman whose vision and actions transformed Montreal's West Island community in profound and lasting ways for the benefit of thousands of children and adults with special needs and their families.
Joan was a pioneer. She sought respect and recognition for the rights of the intellectually handicapped and those experiencing mental health problems. Among the organizations Joan helped establish are the John F. Kennedy School, the Gary Taylor Centre, the West Island Association for the Intellectually Handicapped, Omega Community Resources, and the Lakeshore Vocational Projects Association, now known as the Centre de réadaptation de l'Ouest de Montréal.
In 1976 she founded West Island Citizen Advocacy, a group that advocates for the rights of people with special needs, creates one-on-one matches between special needs clients and volunteers, and provides supervised housing for people with mental health challenges.
In recognition of her contribution to building a better Canada, in 2004 Joan received the Order of Canada from then Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.
Joan will be greatly missed, but her memory and spirit will live on and inspire future generations of community activists and volunteers.
Volunteer Firefighters Tax Credit
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Scott Armstrong Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS
Mr. Speaker, our government and in fact all Canadians appreciate the tremendous service provided to us all by our first responders.
This year in budget 2011 we created a new non-refundable tax credit in the amount of $3,000 for certain volunteer firefighters, a well-deserved initiative by this Conservative government.
Fire chief Rob Simonds, the president of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs, said it best when he lauded this move by the Conservative government. He said:
The Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs (CAFC) commends the federal government for reintroducing a $3,000 tax credit for volunteer firefighters in the 2011 Federal Budget.
We would like to recognize the government for following through on its campaign commitment to pass this important initiative into law.
Our Minister of National Revenue travelled across the country all summer, promoting the awareness of many new and important tax credits which benefit all Canadians. While in Fort McMurray, I believe she said it best:
On behalf of the federal government and all Canadians, I want to thank you very much for your dedication and your selfless service. You are part of what makes Canada the best place in the world to live.
The People of Beauharnois—Salaberry
Statements By Members
11:15 a.m.
Anne Minh-Thu Quach Beauharnois—Salaberry, QC
Mr. Speaker, on July 18, a boat carrying a couple and their two children went down on Lake St. Francis, close to Sainte-Barbe.
Enormous waves overturned their boat. At about two o'clock in the morning, a young resident, Ève Davignon, heard yelling and alerted her father, Pierre Davignon. Pierre, with the help of a neighbour, Sébastien Frappier, managed to save the entire family from drowning.
The fire chief, Camille Pilon, and his colleagues also demonstrated courage and level-headedness. They did not hesitate to do everything necessary to help the two children, who were suffering from hypothermia.
On behalf of all the people of Beauharnois—Salaberry, I would like to commend everyone involved for their bravery. Thank you so much.
Firearms Registry
Statements By Members
11:15 a.m.
Bryan Hayes Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Mr. Speaker, yesterday marked one year since an important vote here in the House, a vote that took place on ending the ineffective and wasteful long gun registry.
How important was it? Let us ask the member for Ajax—Pickering, the member for Yukon or the member for Nipissing—Timiskaming, because those ridings were let down a year ago, let down by members of Parliament who listened to their Ottawa bosses instead of the people who sent them here, and now they are gone. They have been replaced with great Conservative members.
Canadians have given us a strong, stable majority government to implement our strong mandate, a mandate that includes eliminating the ineffective and wasteful long gun registry. I for one look forward to that vote.
The Economy
Oral Questions
11:15 a.m.
Thomas Mulcair Outremont, QC
Mr. Speaker, it took a visit from another Conservative for the Prime Minister to acknowledge, albeit reluctantly, the looming threat to the economy. We know that at the last minute the Prime Minister added a few lines to adjust his speech last night after David Cameron's warnings, the same warnings the NDP has been issuing for weeks now. Mouvement Desjardins has now added its own voice and its own warnings. If nothing is done, Canada will be hit by another recession, the second one under this Conservative government.
What is the Conservative government's plan for dealing with this potential crisis?
The Economy
Oral Questions
11:15 a.m.
Saint Boniface
Shelly Glover Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for his question. He mentioned the Prime Minister of England. I would like to quote him.
He said, and I quote:
In the last few years Canada has got every major decision right. Look at the facts. Not a single Canadian bank fell or faltered during the global banking crisis. Canada got to grips with its deficit and was running surpluses and paying down the debt before the recession, fixing the roof while the sun was shining. Your economic leadership has helped the Canadian economy to weather the global storms far better than many of your international competitors.
I repeat, as our Minister of Finance has: we have the next phase of Canada's economic action plan, which will continue us on the path of success.
The Economy
Oral Questions
11:15 a.m.
Thomas Mulcair Outremont, QC
Mr. Speaker, the government can no longer blame the Greeks and the eurozone for the economic problems here in Canada. That argument does not hold water. It is a diversionary tactic. The Conservatives have to take responsibility for their economic failure, their inability to capitalize on Canada's advantages. We have the fiscal capacity that others do not. We can invest in infrastructure, get an excellent return on our investment, strengthen employment and the economy and give ourselves a sound competitive advantage.
No private investor would pass up such an opportunity. Why is the government passing it up once again?
The Economy
Oral Questions
11:15 a.m.
Saint Boniface
Shelly Glover Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance
Mr. Speaker, I want to remind the House that we do have a plan to support jobs and to create some growth here in Canada. It is a plan that, unfortunately, the NDP and the Liberals voted against.
In fact, they voted against things like flowing $1 billion in federal funding to provinces and territories for infrastructure in 2011-12, helping manufacturers by extending the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years, renewing EI pilot projects to help the unemployed, extending work-sharing agreements to help protect jobs, and creating a hiring credit for small business to help create jobs.
They need get on side with us and help--
The Economy
Oral Questions
11:15 a.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
The hon. member for Outremont.


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Summaries of EU Legislation
Summaries of EU legislation: direct access to the main summaries page.
Creation of a Peace Facility for Africa
A financing scheme is set up by the European Union to strengthen the ability of the African Union to engage in peace support and peacekeeping operations in Africa
Decision 2003/3 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers of 11 December 2003 on the use of resources from the long-term development envelope of the ninth EDF for the creation of a Peace Facility for Africa [pdf].
The decision to create a Peace Facility for Africa follows a brief conferred by the Council at the session of 21 July 2003, in response to a request made by the African Union Summit (AU), which convened at Maputo on 4 - 12 July 2003.
The Decision allocated an initial amount of EUR 250 million to the Peace Facility for Africa for a period of three years from its date of entry into force.
The EUR 250 million came from the European Development Fund (EDF) under the Cotonou Agreement. Of this, EUR 126.4 million came from each African country's contribution of 1.5 % from its allocated envelope. The remaining EUR 123.6 million were transferred from unallocated resources (reserves) of the 9th EDF.
The Council of 11 April 2006 decided to extend this initiative for the period 2008 - 10 by allocating EUR 300 million under the Intra-ACP Indicative Programme of the 10th European Development Fund.
This amount can be used to finance costs incurred by African countries deploying their peace-keeping forces in one or more other African countries (cost of carrying troops, soldiers' living expenses, development of capabilities, etc.) but under no circumstances to cover military and arms expenditure.
The Peace Facility is based on the principle of African ownership. It supports African-led peacekeeping operations in Africa as well as capacity building for the emerging security structure of the African Union (AU). These operations are launched and implemented by the African Union's organisations and/or by sub-regional organisations. The African Union is required to play a key role in the decision-making process relating to these operations.
The AU's mission in Darfur/Sudan (AMIS) is the first to be supported by the Peace Facility for Africa following a decision in June 2004 for financing amounting to EUR 12 million.
Entry into force
Deadline for transposition in the Member States
Official Journal
Decision 2003/3
Decision No 2/2007 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers of 25 May 2007 allowing additional bilateral contributions, to be managed by the Commission, in support of the objectives of the African Peace Facility
Council Regulation (EC) No 617/2007 of 14 May 2007 on the implementation of the 10th European Development Fund under the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement [Official Journal L 152 of 13.6.2007].
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (354 votes).
In short: Good support and excellent marshalls/organisationIn full: This was the first time for me but not the last. It was my final event for 09 (Berlin half next year) as I am working abroad, hence late post, and I wasn't expecting much from myself tbh but managed to PB -1:54:59 despite only training on the flat roads in Amsterdam!! Excellent top in the goody bag as well. Well done to all.Date of review: December 9, 2009
Date of review: December 7, 2009
In short: If you only run one half then run this one - great goody bag!!!!Date of review: December 2, 2009
In short: Fantastic!Date of review: December 1, 2009
In short: Most enjoyable: well organised, wonderful country route and great goody bag.Date of review: December 1, 2009
Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: Top raceDate of review: November 29, 2009
In short: well organised race with pb potentialDate of review: November 26, 2009
In short: Excellent, well organised event. Certainly looking at doing it next yearDate of review: November 26, 2009
Date of review: November 25, 2009
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Wednesday, April 24 from 1:30 - 3:30pm
Delta College Ricker Center (see map)
A qualified Health Professional will facilitate an educational session on the topic of "Emotional Health – Self-Awareness and the Pursuit of Happiness".
Delta College's Ricker Center hosts a health clinic on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month.
With the cooperation of Synergy Medical Education Alliance, residents will conduct non-invasive assessments and prescribe needed medication. Individuals are then able to fill the approved prescriptions through the pharmacy at the GreenHouse Center of HOPE. Community Health Navigators will also assist individuals in applying for the Saginaw Health Plan or other services for which they may qualify.
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