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I love the Right-wing echo chamber and their peanut gallery. Of course, extreme partisanship and gross ideology leaves all involved less intelligent and prone to drooling, half-formed mouth utterances; but what counts as "discourse" by populist Conservatives, and their supplicants, rises above mere mediocrity and to the level of performance art.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
The Peanut Gallery Speaks: A Video of a 29 Year Old Barack Obama Surfaces; Conspiranoid Conservatives Go Crazy
I love the Right-wing echo chamber and their peanut gallery. Of course, extreme partisanship and gross ideology leaves all involved less intelligent and prone to drooling, half-formed mouth utterances; but what counts as "discourse" by populist Conservatives, and their supplicants, rises above mere mediocrity and to the level of performance art.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Disposable History: Tweeting World War Two; Tweeting The Middle Passage and Slavery; Losing Ourselves
I am a bit ambivalent about "tweeting" World War 2...
Friday Fun: Pastor Manning Channels God and Curses Herman Cain and His Daughters
Hat tip to Cnu of Subrealism for sending this link to me.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Pew Survey Reveals that the Public's Belief in American Exceptionalism is on the Wane: It is All Barack Obama's Fault!
The public has lost faith in the idea of American Exceptionalism. You know this is all Barack Obama's fault. Don't you?
He travels around the world on "apology tours." He refuses to wear an American flag pin on his lapel. Obama was born outside of the American cultural and political tradition and has a deep dislike for this country. In fact, we have long suspected that he isn't even a U.S. citizen. Michelle Obama, the First Lady, did not have pride in America for most of her adult life (as is her selfish way, she only became proud of this great country when her husband was elected president, the nerve of that woman!). Obama even believes that Americans are "lazy." Horatio Alger and the Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves.
And now, the President's lack of faith in American exceptionalism has infected the country's young people. It isn't surprising that those befouled liberals who have been brainwashed in college classrooms by Communist Socialist Fascist Maoist professors believe that America is not a special and exceptional nation. But, the very idea that "real Americans" would believe such a thing, is truly revelatory of the cultural rot which is holding this great nation back at the most inopportune of times, just as the Red Chinese conquer the world.
Seriously folks, what I offer in mocking jest will be the Right-wing talking points of the week when the findings from the Pew survey on American and Western European values trickles down and out to the mouth-breathing, Fox News, talk radio, chattering classes, and then is disseminated to their unwashed masses and Tea Party GOP supplicants.
American exceptionalism is a true lie. It does a good amount of political work in creating a sense of nationalism, legitimating government rule, and providing the fuel for those moments when "we the people" must rally around the flag in defense of the Common Good. A belief in American Exceptionalism, and its auxiliary premise that the United States is a "shining city on the hill" is a great story to play with, to inspire, and to use as a goal and barometer for achieving the best of what we can, and should be, as a nation.
However, as Dick Gregory sharply alluded to in regards to Bill Clinton, he who was our first "black president," it's okay to pretend that a cardboard box is your house, just don't try to use it as your address.
In all, American exceptionalism illuminates as much as it blinds.
For example, a certain generation is unwilling to admit that their understanding of America's role in the world, and the uniqueness of our singular destiny, is a function of a very particular arrangement of circumstances, power, and resources. Those are conditions which do not necessarily hold in the present. One of the key elements in the cultural crisis which is the United States at the nadir of Empire, is that the trope of American exceptionalism has become a cudgel to beat down cosmopolitanism, pragmatism, and creative solutions to challenging public policy dilemmas.
Here, the cultish personality of the Republican Party, and populist conservatism at large, clings to a dead corpse, a type of American exceptionalism that ceases to be valid or real in the present: it is a fetish, a magical totem that has lost its Ju-Ju. Instead of using the ideal of American exceptionalism to inspire ourselves to improve (for example, this country now ranks behind France in terms of inter-generational class mobility), it is now a tool for political chauvinists and bullies.
Feelings trump facts. Sentimentality fuels nostalgia. Nostalgia, a hopeful and inaccurate yearning for, and dreaming of the past, drives contemporary Conservatism. This willful misremembering and misperception of the past fuels the American partisan divide in the year 2012.
Conflicting views on American exceptionalism are central to this story.
The full report, The American-Western European Values Gap, can be found here. A particularly relevant section follows:
About half of Americans (49%) and Germans (47%) agree with the statement, "Our people are not perfect, but our culture is superior to others;" 44% in Spain share this view. In Britain and France, only about a third or fewer (32% and 27%, respectively) think their culture is better than others.
While opinions about cultural superiority have remained relatively stable over the years in the four Western European countries surveyed, Americans are now far less likely to say that their culture is better than others; six-in-ten Americans held this belief in 2002 and 55% did so in 2007. Belief in cultural superiority has declined
among Americans across age, gender and education groups.
As in past surveys, older Americans remain far more inclined than younger ones to believe that their culture is better than others. Six-in-ten Americans ages 50 or older share this view, while 34% disagree; those younger than 30 hold the opposite view, with just 37% saying American culture is superior and 61% saying it is not. Opinions are more divided among those ages 30 to 49; 44% in this group see American culture as superior and 50% do not.
Similar age gaps are not as common in the Western European countries surveyed, with the exception of Spain, where majorities of older respondents, but not among younger ones, also think their culture is better than others; 55% of those ages 50 or older say this is the case, compared with 34% of those ages 30 to 49 and 39% of those younger than 30.
As is the case on other measures, opinions about cultural superiority vary considerably by educational attainment. In the four Western European countries and in the U.S., those who did not graduate from college are more likely than those who did to agree that their culture is superior, even if their people are not perfect.
For example, Germans with less education are twice as likely as those with a college degree to believe their culture is superior (50% vs. 25%); double-digit differences are also present in France (20 percentage points), Spain (18 points) and Britain (11 points), while a less pronounced gap is evident in the U.S. (9 points).
Finally, among Americans and Germans, political conservative are especially likely to believe their culture is superior to others. In the U.S., 63% of conservatives take this view, compared with 45% of moderates and just 34% of liberals. Similarly, a majority (55%) of right-wing Germans see their culture as superior, while 47% of moderates and 34% of those on the political left agree.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Malleability of Truth? Capturing the Friedmans and Jerry Sandusky's Adventures in Pedophilia
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Is This Guy Just Another Dumb Black Man or What? Herman Cain's Refined Embrace of Ignorance
Gots all this stuff twirlin' about in my head.
Political Hermeneutics: A Letter From People of Color (the 99th Percentile) to the OWS Movement
My rebuttal is predictable and direct: race and racial ideologies are no sideshow in American politics; how can they possibly be peripheral to OWS?
This is especially true as OWS works to define its movement culture, and to make sure that parallel efforts such as Occupy the 'Hood are included within their broader agenda.
Some have accused the Occupy Wall Street Movement of being the product of grumpy angst by generally entitled and privileged white folks who are upset that they are now getting a bum deal. In all, from this perspective, OWS is a version of the white privilege temper tantrum performed on a national scale.
In turn, this assertion leads to the following question: where were the OWS folks when black and brown people were catching hell for decades, as globalization and deindustrialization ravaged our communities, and punched upward mobility and wealth accrual in the gut?
These are fair questions that need to be addressed...and answered by OWS and its advocates. The following is an effort to further that discussion.
On occasion, I work through the hermeneutics of political "texts" that I find online or in print. The following open letter, which is now circulating around the black blogosphere, is quite provocative as it raises many questions that are more than worthy of no small amount of critical engagement.
As is my habit, comments follow in brackets and in bold.
[The branding of the OWS movement has been very effective. Who could reasonably agree with such a stark divide where the 1 percent (them) is doing amazingly well, and the 99% (the rest of us) are doing so poorly during the Great Recession.
However, this slogan hides more than it reveals.
For example, the biggest divides in wealth inequality, the ownership of financial instruments, and those who benefited the most from the Bush era tax cuts begins at the top 10 percent of earners. Moreover, if you want to see where the real action is in terms of America's kleptocracy, one should focus their attention on the top 1/10 of 1 percent of earners who are recording unbelievable gains while the American workforce in mass has seen its wages stagnate for the last 40 years.
When we use the language of the 1 percent, how do differences of race play into this narrative. The top 1 percent of black and brown folks are doing less well than their equivalents in White America. Does this complement the narrative? Or does it complicate it, because while the black and brown elite may be doing much less well than their white peers, both are still invested in the status quo...or are they?]
You suckers thought that you were so special, ennit? You thought that your heineys were just that much better and softer and more supple than all those poor people of color, huh? There was never any discussion of the "99%" for the past 400 years while Native lands were stolen, Native people were exterminated, black folks were enslaved, Latinos were gerrymandered, Japanese people were placed in internment camps or Arabs were sexually groped, fondled and heavily-petted at airports. No problem, right?
[Yes and no. Wealth accrual and inter-generational transfers of resources in this country have for centuries been racialized. As professionals in sociology, political science, and economics have repeatedly observed, race in America is also a story of wealth--who had it, had access to it, and could pass it down--and then reproduce its benefits for themselves and their descendants.
Scholars such as Joe Feagin, Manning Marable, Ira Katznelson, Eric Williams, Omi and Winant, Oliver and Shapiro, and others have done a wonderful job of tracing out these contours. White folks, both native born and immigrants knew this game. To not participate in it would have been morally and ethically sound (perhaps), but ill-advised in terms of crude self-interest. Who the hell is going to run away from free money?
Whiteness involves being an active signer to what Charles Mills smartly describes as the Racial Contract (or for whites in mass, at the very least being tacit beneficiaries of it). Once you make the bargain those "inconveniences" of history become just that, facts and incongruities to be avoided lest too much uncertainty (and responsibility spawned by introspection) occur.]
There was never any discussion of the fundamental imbalance of power on this continent and inherent unfairness of the trickle-up economics for the past few centuries as the aforementioned groups were only seen as a source of labor for powerful white male interests. Not a word.
Because you thought you were special. You were immune to that. That little issue didn't involve you.
[Always be careful whenever you insert "never." There were many folks, across the color line, who understood the damnable imbalances of power in this country, especially as they overlap with gender, race, class, and other types of identities. Taken in total these disparities reveal the naked lie that is the American creed of upward mobility and the Horatio Alger myth.
Folks often want to deploy the "they were products of their time defense." Avoid it. Run away from it. The premise is absurd and weak.
Whiteness does involve being special. Historically, it was the cultivation of white mediocrity and the prize for European "ethnics" assimilating into "Americanness." Part of that bargain was to distance oneself from black people, and to look askance at, as well as socially distance oneself from, most people of color. European immigrants deeply--and others as well to this day--understood that to be "White" pays a material, financial, emotional, and psychic wage.
Whiteness is special: it got you low interest loans; it got you the G.I. Bill; it got you a job in a factory with a living wage; it got your kids into college and good high schools; it got you membership in a privileged class.
White folks knew exactly what they were buying into. Do not remove or take away their agency.
There is a reason that white Americans have on average 2 dollars for every 10 cents that blacks and Latinos possess: the State was invested in subsidizing their enrichment and advancement. The wages come with a natural defense as well, where the beneficiaries of White privilege can proudly announce that "their family never owned slaves" or "my grandparents were immigrants."
Guilt free. Hands clean.]
Now, you see that these powerful white males do not care about you either. Now you see that they will—just like they did to "us," all people of color in this country—extrapolate every single ounce of energy, money and value out of you, your kids, your wife, your mistress.
[We need to ask hard questions here. Historically, elites have not treated their social lessors well. More specifically, Europeans were barbaric to each other across lines of class--in the work houses, in the factories, with indentured servitude--long before they got to the New World and discovered the "blessings" of African labor, chattel slavery, and genocide of indigenous peoples.
We need to define terms. Who are the "powerful?" Who is "white?" How does gender play into this--do not let white women, as beneficiaries of Whiteness and white supremacy too, off the hook so easily.
Here is another challenge. The global power elite numbers only a few thousand. Do they even care about race? They are transnational. Their concern is Capital and finance. Most certainly, race and these other issues of identity and in-group superiority may matter for the middle managers and other lowly administrators in this game. But, do you think that those who are really moving the pieces on the chessboard are at all concerned with such parochial and local interests as race, gender, and sexuality?]
After they do that, they will throw you away, fire you, lay you off, send your job to Mexico or India or someplace else where they can do exactly the same thing to those poor schmucks. Only they'll do it for much less money. Now, you're beginning to see that and so you started to call yourself the so-called "99%," because you realize that you're not so special at all.
[This is old school for black and brown folks. Hell, listen to classic rap song The Message. We were on to this con game decades ago.
When White America gets a cold, black and brown Americans get the flu. But, what of poor rural whites? What of those folks in the rust belt? On the 'res? How can we work together with them, to find common class interests across the lines of white identity and the wages of Whiteness? Where historically most members of the white poor and working classes have chosen racial affinity over class alliances with people of color?]
Stupid white people.
[The masses are asses. Are white folks any more or less stupid than any other group because of their "skin color?" No.
But, Whiteness does encourage a type of willful historical ignorance, myopia, blind denial, and short shortsightedness. Whiteness has paid white people as a group--for the most part--a type of psychic wage from group belonging. This has come at a moral and ethical cost. Most folks, not because they are White, but because they are lazy, dim witted, and painfully human (and comfortable on the sidelines of history) will not be self-reflective enough to work through the ledger sheet of race and their soul's debit; what is the blood on their hands from the benefits of "benign," "colorblind," white supremacy in the Age of Obama.
In fact, there are still white folks who believe silly fantasies such as this School House Rock video about Ellis Island, the melting pot, and European immigration. There are others who are race traitors, and as such, know the score. The latter have always been with us and on the right side of history. They are down like John Brown. Real warriors.
The question becomes how to move the lazy and settled middle.]
The punch line though? You were always part of the 99%.
[Yes and no again. In absolute terms they were not elites. But, they could feel superior and special by signing restrictive housing covenants; joining the KKK; becoming cops so they could beat a colored, a Mexican, a Chinaman, or an Injun; lynching negroes; and rioting against efforts at school integration in and around Boston.
The system needs to maintain the appearance, and historically for whites, of upward mobility. The system also needs the appearance of inclusion in order to make those who have bought into it psychically invested in the merits of their own hard work, because of course those other people can't succeed because they are "lazy," "un-American," or have "bad culture."
Remember: Success is easy in America. But, only if you work hard enough for it.]
Those powerful white interests love you as much as they love me. Which is to say that they love you about as much a man loves a pregnancy scare from a one-night stand. None. Zero. Idiots.
[Is this the money shot? Sorry, I couldn't resist...]
The bad news: You're not special and unfortunately you're just now beginning to realize that. The good news: well hell, at least you're beginning to realize it now. But those are the two reasons that people of color have not joined this movement en masse: #1 We cannot believe that you were so stupid to not know that you weren't special and that these powerful white male interests were just using you, and #2 we want to make sure that you gullible sheep will not, as soon as those powerful white male interests try to buy you off with giving your job back with the little benefits and 401k, forget about all of us poor people of color who have been suffering for years.
[Those white folks who are race traitors, critical thinkers, and visionaries who see globally and were long onto the neoliberal con game will get you. But again, most people are profoundly mediocre. Do not forget your audience: Whiteness is profoundly ahistorical; it is literally without history. To ask most White Americans to think about structures, institutions, and power, is a challenge, because to be white, is to be the quintessential individual.
In all, to get the privileged "I" to think structurally is quite difficult, if not impossible, in the long run. Some of them are coming around. I would not hold my breath waiting for the others as it may take an even bigger system shock than the Great Recession to wake them up. But by then, it may be too late.]
We are the faces at the bottom of the well, the very bottom of the 99%.
We are the 99th percentile. The bottom.
[Who is "we?" Who is "the bottom?" Please clarify your terms. Do these cohorts include people of color who are part of the elite? Be mindful of assuming a sense of linked fate or group affinity. These assumptions can lead one to misunderstand how class interests can overcome race, gender, or other assumed intra-group markers of affinity.]
We're attracted to the movement, but we need assurance that you're not gonna just up and leave and get tricked again, like you did before.
Now the invitation: we will join you. We are attracted to this movement. We want to join you. The truth is that we need this movement at least as much as you do. The truth is that we want to make something very serious and very permanent happen for the betterment of all poor and middle-class Americans—Native, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Arab, everybody! The truth is that you have always been our brothers and sisters—you just didn't know it. But we need to know that you're serious. And what we mean by "serious" is that you aren't going to back to thinking that you're part of the 1% again and forget about us. You are not. We are in this together, whether you, my white brothers and sisters, choose to acknowledge it or not. We're waiting.
So what's it gonna be?
[I will let these paragraphs stand on their own. To reiterate the author's claims, please tell me, what is it going to be?]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Watching the Vietnam War in HD: General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Vietnamese Officer was "Right"--He was Also "Wrong"
If you are not watching the History Channel's miniseries event "Vietnam in HD," you are truly missing out. The World War Two HD series was unsettling because the original black and white footage was "colorized." This made the events seem more real. The Vietnam War is closer to the present in terms of decades. Ironically, the high definition enhancement makes the events seem surreal.
Friday, November 11, 2011
We Were Always "Men": A Wealth of Dignity in the Civil War Era Photographs of African American Soldiers
He Lives to Rape History: Herman Cain Yearns For the Good Old Days of Jim Crow and "Small Government"
Herman Cain on the stump in Kalamazoo, Michigan. So very sad.
It is a small world. I lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan for a year. There, I would far too often enjoy the lovely evening of a 5 dollar movie, some jazz at the Union, and then a few beers at Burdicks.
My night out on the town would cost me less than 20 dollars.
Kalamazoo was a sad, but dignified place. It was a once prosperous community with beautiful homes from the Gilded Age. Like so many cities across the Rust Belt, Kalamazoo went downhill because of deindustrialization and other changes in the economy that were to the disadvantage of the American worker.
As a measure for comparison, I had an apartment in "the 'Zoo" that cost me about 600 dollars a month including utilities. The same apartment would have easily cost, at a minimum, 2,000 dollars a month in Chicago. Alas, given how inter-generational wealth transfers are to the disadvantage of folks of color, if I had parents to hit up I would have purchased that palatial domicile in a second if afforded the opportunity.
Thus, to hear Herb Cornbread Cain preach the neoliberal, small government, gospel to folks in a community that has been destroyed, precisely by such a civil religion, is more than a little bit off-putting. I shake my head as folks cheer his policies. But, I vomit in my mouth to hear him--once more, as he always does--rape history.
[Do the math. If Herman Cain's pappy walked off the farm in the early 1940s at (let's guess) 20 years old, his parents may have been--and his grandparents most certainly were--born as slaves. How did the free market and the "American Dream" of deregulation help them? Are his supporters that dim? Or are the masses just generally asses?]
It is not only because I am a student of history that I find his allusion to the glory days of Jim Crow, sharecropping, and racialized debt peonage offensive. Rather, it is my common sense.
How can any person, of any reasonable sense, conjure up a story about the evils of "big government," and a racist labor market, as a means of talking about the Horatio Alger myth of the "good old days" relative to blacks in the Jim and Jane Crow South during the 1940s?
I rarely, if ever, use profanity. I will break that rule today: Cain is huffing bullshit as he relays a story that is designed to please the mouth-breathing, upright walking, White conservative populists who are his base; there is no way that even Herman Cain can believe such a noxious fiction. Utterly impossible.
Herman Cain, race minstrel extraordinaire, is truly a performance artist: there are few if any other explanations for his Koch brother funded Bojangles routine.
Folks, he is slouching far past Gomorrah. As a professional Herman Cain watcher, I predict that he is soon about to go somewhere which will leave you shocked--but not at all surprised.
Herman Cain's, "slavery was good for black folks moment," is not too far ahead. You are now forewarned. Be prepared. And do set your clocks by that prediction.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Poetic Violence in Motion: Goodbye Uncle Smokin' Joe Frazier, Do Travel Well
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The Online Chronicles of an "Angry Black Man" in the Age of Obama: Why is Black Genius So Threatening to Some White Folks?
Writing online is a type of archiving. It is also a type of performance.
What follows is a bit of critical self-reflection, breaking kayfabe, and thinking aloud in public.
I always take a moment to step back whenever I write something on these Internets that riles folks up. When doing so, I ask myself the following: "Okay, if I didn't know the author, what impression would he leave me with?" "What are his politics?" "What 'type' of black man is he?"
He seems pretty reasonable to me, if at times a little provocative and playful. But crazy? Mean? Unreasonable? Not interested in "dialogue?" I just don't see it.
Thus, I am always surprised by the response of some folks to my online work, that in their eyes I am somehow "angry," or "upset." Black folks know that figure, "the angry black man" quite well--he is us, we are at times him. White folks know him too: he looms large in the American political and cultural subconscious, where instead of a 3 dimensional being, this angry black man is a bogeyman caricature, all huff and puff, irrational and rageful towards those innocent white folks who did him no harm.
Of course, there is much to be upset about in this world. And in America, much of this ugliness has worked itself out along lines of race.
Given that clear, plain on its face reality, I nevertheless remain surprised by the power that the very idea of the angry black man holds for so many. Intellectually, I get that white folks, and Whiteness at large, does not want to be forced to confront the righteousness of black anger. Why? Because to do so would force "uncomfortable" conversations about justice, one's personal relationship to white supremacy--and of course their investment in the normality of Whiteness with its White looks, White ways of thinking, White ways of knowing, and White ways of being.
For many, to take ownership over such a fact is the very definition of cognitive dissonance.
America is a country without a history. America has no memory of anything earlier than what happened last week. The historical myopia of Whiteness is no small part of that national personality trait, what is in all, a very bad habit.
I often smile when I read comments by readers who think that I am an angry black man. I am not. Life is too short to overly obsess over the curious ways of white folks. What I struggle and work towards is a holistic type of personhood; I simply want the freedom to be, to integrate every part of my self.
And yes, my blackness, and particular experiences as a working class black man of a certain age, a ghetto nerd, sensualist, reader, and citizen born in the post-Civil Rights moment at the time of hip hop's birth, is a significant part of my full humanity.
Because I love black people, and respect our accomplishments in the face of unimaginable obstacles in these United States, I am at peace, even while I see that there is much work still to be done. Because I understand how black folks helped to save American democracy from its own malformed, retarded, bigotry, I am made quite proud.
Back in the day we used to call that "knowledge of self." At present, I just call it a certain peace of mind.
When I wrote my open letter of sorts to the readers of the Daily Kos about liberal racism, Brother Akbar's words on the need to fully integrate one's self; to not have to ask permission from white folks to speak; to not need white approval when we want to sing our own "heroes" and "sheroes"; and to be unapologetic about demanding that democracy live up to its promises and potential, were echoing in my memory.
Black confidence, black pride, and black self-confidence is scary to many (if not most) white folks. For all of my reflection and research on the topic I do not know why. Of course, I intellectually "get" the ways that race, power, and structures intersect, and how "in-group" identity is normalized. But on a personal and emotional level, how can a people who have so much, who in essence run the world, be so easily upset by black folk's most simple, basic, human needs?
Ultimately, when we refuse to ask permission, we become angry black men and angry black women.
Why is this?
Please, teach me something on these matters. I am eager to sit back, listen, and learn.
What Ever Happened to Shame? Malcolm X Versus Proud Pregnant Black Teens
Hat tip to Rippa on this one. You do have to love Brother Denzel.
A provocative post.
What ever happened to shame? And wasn't shame a good thing when she kept our teen girls from posing bellies-exposed and taking pictures of what should be their private shame and circulating it online?
Please forgive me my old school respectable negro politics. Do pardon my pun, is this what radical sexual autonomy has "birthed?" Where did we go wrong as a people?
Or is this some type of co-parenting adaptive strategy among the underclasses where young women coordinate their pregnancies in order to be in an opportune position to share resources?
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Navigating White Privilege and Liberal Racism: 10 Tips for Blogging While Black on the Daily Kos (and Other Predominantly White Spaces Too)
As demonstrated by hundreds of comments, it would appear that I am the object of no small amount of upset by some readers of the Daily Kos.
...a selection of uprates...well, my hr stands,I am still unconvinced: the presentation and the racialist undertones still make this post inappropriate for a progressive blog...sure, I am not African American, I may not be able to follow your perspective as an African American, but Dailykos has community standards and I still feel, you haven't met them...but in time with more posts you will probably understand what a progressive blog is really about... progressiveness is looking into the future, not getting hung up by the past!


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A taste of Edwardian times
Press Release
9 March 2004
To celebrate the opening of its major exhibition The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires the National Gallery of Australia will launch a cookbook, Elegant Sufficiency: A taste of Edwardian times. Mr Alan Saunders, host of Radio National's The Comfort Zone will officially launch the book at 3pm on Thursday 11 March 2004 in the Gallery's Sculpture Garden.
Elegant Sufficiency offers a window to a world of both traditional and exotic delights from the Edwardian kitchen. These range from Cornish Pasties, English Apple Pies, Anna Pavlovas and Mulligatawny Soup; to Crème Princesse, Scotch Eggs, Bakewell Tart and Scottish Parliament Biscuits. Some recipes are little changed from Edwardian times, but most have a contemporary edge to take full advantage of all that 21st century technology has to offer. Include among the collection of 60 recipes are annotated reproductions of the superb paintings included in the Edwardians exhibition. Each recipe is illustrated by exquisite colour photography and accompanied by short extracts from historical sources.
Authors Claudia Hyles and Ron Ramsey both work at the Gallery. Claudia is an Administrative & Projects Assistant. She has worked in international art galleries and museums and has cooked in many parts of the world. She is the author of Lunching with Style and and the Answer is a Pineapple. Ron is Assistant Director, Access and has a keen interest in food and art of the Edwardian era. He studied cooking at William Angliss, Melbourne, and in Florence and London.
Food stylist Jane Hann has been a freelance food writer and food stylist for more than 12 years. Sydney-based photographer Alan Benson specialises in food, travel and architecture and is also a fully-qualified chef.
Elegant Sufficiency will be available from the NGA Shop at the National Gallery of Australia, case-bound $39.95 or from ngashop.com.au. The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires will be shown at the National Gallery of Australia 12 March – 15 June 2004 and at the Art Gallery of South Australia 9 July – 12 September 2004.
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This question isn't as silly as it might sound at first. Unlike the orange and yellow pigments that are present in a leaf all summer (but are revealed only when green chlorophyll starts to break down and fade), the red pigments, anthocyanins, aren't produced until autumn.
It takes a significant amount of energy to produce anthocyanins, however — and at a time when the tree most needs to conserve it. This fact led plant physiologists to wonder what advantage red leaves must confer to make the investment worthwhile.
Researchers found that in some tree species, anthocyanins act much like a sunscreen. While chlorophyll is breaking down and photosynthesis is slowing, a plant's ability to absorb light diminishes, and excess light can damage its leaves.
Anthocyanins protect those leaves, letting the tree extend the period of time during which it can make and store nutrients. In addition, more recent studies have confirmed that when anthocyanin production is genetically blocked, leaves become vulnerable to sunlight, slowing transport of nutrients to the tree's roots.
But not all trees turn equally red. So what accounts for these vast differences in anthocyanin levels? Again, nutrients play a role. In 2003, researchers found that nutrient-poor leaves, particularly those low in nitrogen, may trigger early and more intense red color in sugar maples (Acer saccharum).
So, vibrantly red leaves may be a sign that the tree — just like humans and other animals at this time of year — is attempting to prolong its summer activities and squirrel away those last few morsels of food for the approaching winter.


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Directions to Prince of Lillies - HeraklionAddress: Karteros, Heraklion, Greece
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Directions to Prince of Lillies - Heraklion
By Bus from Iraklion, take Nr. 7 Bus Amnissos. The bus stops opposite from the hotel (next to the bakery) By Car: From the highway, take the exit Amnissos, turn left, then turn left again on the main street of Amnissos / Karteros. Prince of Lillies is about 1 km on your right side. (After the small church you will see the wind mill) The parking is at the left side of the hotel. Old national road from Iraklion - Chersonissos. First city is Karteros, 300m after the Shell gas station on your left hand.


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The Canyon View Junior High FCCLA Club held a Dutch oven cook-off recently.
Winners were: in the judges choice division: the team of Krystal Richardson, Meran Allred and Brook Anderson took first place; Megan Allred, Savanna Hansen and Chalet Hooley was the team chosen as second place; and in third place, the team of Tyrell Clements, Tice Guymon and Tanner Ewell.
The best main dish division was won by the team of Kennedy Kemple and Kielie Ivie.
Emily Owens won first place in the best dessert division.
In the best complete meal division, Bailey Tucker and Alyssa Boren won first place.
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Elder Taylor Behling returned home July 25 after faithfully serving in the Michigan Detroit Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is the son of Lisa and the late Loran Behling of Ferron.
Elder Behling will be speaking on Aug. 19 at 9 a.m. at the Ferron Stake Center.


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How much Arctic sea ice did you melt today?
November 7, 2016, 5:37 a.m. by Michael d'Estries
New study puts a cold, hard number on individual actions.
(Un) Happy Earth Overshoot Day
August 9, 2016, 9:37 a.m. by Karl Burkart
It's the day we go into 'nature debt,' utilizing more than the year's supply of water, forest and agricultural resources.
The huge carbon footprint of cement (and what we can do about it)
January 27, 2016, 8:15 a.m. by Sami Grover
Cement manufacturing contributes 5 percent of global carbon emissions. But what if it could become part of the solution?
Can more intensive agriculture cut emissions?
January 13, 2016, 3:22 p.m. by Sami Grover
When you grow more food per acre, it makes room for more forests. At least that's what one group of researchers is proposing.
Carbon dioxide could soon be transformed back into liquid fuel
December 28, 2015, 4:06 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
What if we could turn our fuel emissions back into fuel?
U.S. Christmas decorations use more energy than many nations do in a year
December 28, 2015, 6:13 a.m. by Bryan Nelson
Christmas is the season for many things, including a ridiculous carbon footprint.
All our gains in energy efficiency have been wiped out by increases in house size
November 18, 2015, 6:11 a.m. by Lloyd Alter
There are a number of reasons our houses are getting bigger, and it's a real problem.
Worldbeing wearable tracks your carbon footprint
November 9, 2015, 10:01 a.m. by Starre Vartan
I have no idea what my carbon footprint is. Do you know yours? This bracelet could help.
Could the carbon bubble ruin your retirement?
May 14, 2015, 10 a.m. by Sami Grover
Remember the subprime mortgage bubble? The carbon bubble might be our next $6 trillion nightmare.
What is carbon insetting?
January 26, 2015, 12:52 p.m. by Sami Grover
From tree planting to better forms of farming, a growing number of businesses are investing in carbon reduction within their own supply chains.
Whirlpool introduces the smart washer and dryer
January 6, 2015, 7:11 a.m. by Lloyd Alter
If any appliances in your house should be smart, it should be the big energy hogs like the washer and dryer.
Leonardo DiCaprio narrates new short film 'CARBON'
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Actor warns of a 'catastrophic warming of the planet' if carbon pricing is not enforced to curb the emissions of the fossil fuel industry.


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Guys, shsssssssssssssss, we're going to the super bowl, keep it down, we don't want the 49ers to be upset at us.
Football has been very, very good to us.
Even though 2013-2015 were 3 losing season's, we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!! & NE
Let's make it 5 in 2016 so we can be on a LINE all by ourselves again!!!
***Stat provided by "Schloss22"***
god they are looking for anything to motivate them
Apologize to Melo 5
well after all the **** the niners talked before that game im glad the giants were loud in celebrating the nfc championship w. freaking vernon davis was handing out invitations to his 49ers nfc championship celebration party all week leading up to that game. i hate the niners want this W
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Customer Reviews - United Kingdom
Brilliant app and easy to use
Great product, easy to use and some nice additional features.
I have yet to find an application that is so inclusive and helpful.
The real question is .... Can you afford not to buy this app? And the answer is ... NO. GOLF SHOT GPS IS SIMPLY THE BEST!
I just spent $400 on a range finder laser and this GPS app is 10 times better!!! Worth every penny!!! Accurate GPS, statistics kept and analyzed for you, helps with my yardage and club selection....best of all, tells me what part of my game I need to work on...it's improved my game by 4 shots per round already!!!
Just an awesome piece of kit, takes away the guess work helping you to 'commit' to the shot. Was very cynical about buying it, glad I did!.... my mate was right, I didn't regret it!
If you want a decent GPS and Save money look no further!! This app is up there with all the top golf GPS' on the market.
Great for distance finding and also for recording scores and calculating handicap. Wouldn't be without it on the golf course
Best golf App on the market and comparable with expensive dedicated GPS units. Couldn't recommend more.
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This app is the best app I have ever seen plus I have no reason to have to spend money on a sky caddy as this does the job just aswell plus more with no yearly subscription you will save yourself a fortune
Very good app but the scorecard does not appear when you rotate the phone....please bring this back on the next update.
Best golf app ever
Best golf app ever
Scorecard on rotate is set but no longer works! Tried deleting and reinstalling app without success. It's a hassle without, so please fix ASAP.
However, please bring back rotate for scorecard in next update. Why did you remove that feature?
I really love this app. It has taken me a couple of rounds to get accustomed to it but I wouldn't want to play without it now. It has replaced my Bushnell rangefinder. The only downside, I guess, is where temporary greens are in use.
Bargain price and brilliantly designed with quality, accurate software.
Since upgrade you can't rotate for scorecard
Great app. Make sure you download course at home via wifi, otherwise if you do it at the course, the 3G download will eat your battery life and it won't last the course.
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National Child Safety Expert, Alison Rhodes, "The Safety Mom," is one
of the country's leading child safety authorities, providing tips and advice to
parents on a broad range of issues facing all children - newborns to teens.
Now that Punxsutawney Phil has declared six more weeks of winter and it seems that we're destined to have several more play dates inside, it's a good time to take a look around your house and make sure it's safe for toddlers.
The Invisible Hazards
Since it's been such a cold winter, many of us have had our windows sealed tight for quite some time. As a result, carbon monoxide and/or radon gasses can build up and reach dangerous levels in your home. We have all read the tragic stories of families who have succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning, unaware of what was happening. CO2 detectors are as important to have in your home as smoke alarms. These should be placed near the sleeping areas in your house and one on each floor. It is especially important if you have a playroom in your basement near your boiler or heating room as this is where the carbon monoxide originates. CO2 detectors can be purchased at most hardware stores or Home Depot. Radon, while not an immediate threat, over lifetime exposure is the second leading cause of cancer after smoking. This is something that can only be tested by a professional. Generally speaking, newer homes and those with finished basements have an increased risk for elevated radon levels. A home inspector or environmental testing company can do the test for you.
Gathering Around The Fire - Safely
There's nothing cozier than a roaring fire on a cold day but with kids running around it could be a recipe for disaster. If you have a gas fireplace be sure that it requires a key to turn the gas on and then keep the key in a safe place away from the kids. Install a hearth guard that softens the blow should your child hit their head on it. You can now by hearth guards that actually look like a cushion and come in a variety of colors. If you have a grate around your fireplace make sure it is secured to the wall. This is easily accomplished with a hook and screw.
Ensuring a Safe Sleep For Your Infant
It's a natural inclination to bundle your infant up during the winter but be sure to not overheat them. The rate of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) increases in the colder months. There are, however, some things that parents can do to reduce the risk:
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HELPER- Our loving father, grandfather and friend, Johnny Thomas Kosmack, age 77, passed away peacefully Dec. 24, 2012 surrounded by his family at home in Helper.
He was born Dec. 9, 1935 in Bowie, Colo. to Anton Paul and Anna Sodja Kosmack.
Funeral service was Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, 10 a.m. Mitchell Funeral Home. Family received friends Friday evening from 6-7 p.m. at Mitchell's and Saturday one hour prior to service. Interment, Mt. View Cemetery, Helper. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are welcome daily and may share memories of Johnny online at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net.


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Debates of May 17th, 2012
House of Commons Hansard #126 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was refugees.
- Question Period
- Supplementary Estimates (A), 2012–13
- Government Response to Petitions
- Committees of the House
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act
- Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act
- Cyberbullying
- Fort Témiscamingue Obadjiwan
- Child Pornography
- St. Basil-the-Great College School
- Summer in the Park Festival
- The Budget
- Medical Imaging Team Day
- Employment Insurance
- Memorial Cup
- Leader of the New Democratic Party
- Sri Lanka
- Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
- International Day Against Homophobia
- Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
- Employment Insurance
- Canadian National Resources Limited
- Confidentiality of Information
- The Economy
- Employment Insurance
- Pensions
- Employment Insurance
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Veterans Affairs
- National Defence
- Health
- National Defence
- Democratic Reform
- G20 Summit
- Canadian Heritage
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Justice
- Natural Resources
- Employment Insurance
- Veterans Affairs
- Tourism Industry
- Air Transportation
- The Environment
- Presence in Gallery
- Points of Order
- Business of the House
- Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act
- Groundwater Contamination
- Official Languages
- The Environment
- Infrastructure
Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
St. Catharines
Rick Dykstra Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Mr. Speaker, I have a question with regard to the designated countries of origin.
The NDP members are either choosing to misrepresent the clause and the interpretation of it or they are purposely misleading individuals who are trying to get a better understanding of Bill C-31.
Many countries use the principle. Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland are all counties that use designated countries of origin. Most important, there are quantitative and qualitative reviews that will automatically kick in when a country reaches the threshold of being designated a country. It does not happen automatically. The review includes ministry officials and other ministries i terms of input.
Why does the member continue to misrepresent exactly what is in this bill in terms of the designated country of origin?
Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Sadia Groguhé Saint-Lambert, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would simply like to say that we unanimously agreed on a refugee bill that contained a measure whereby a panel of experts was to sit to address this matter of establishing a safe country list.
I would like to remind this House that now, under Bill C-31, only the minister has this discretionary power to establish a safe country list. That is neither democratic nor normal.
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Scott Armstrong Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS
Mr. Speaker, as a teacher I know full well the impact that cyberbullying has on our children. In my riding, several children have suffered so badly that they have tragically taken their lives as a result of bullying.
I wish to congratulate Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie on his innovative legislation that combats cyberbullying. His legislation will create a legal definition for cyberbullying. It forces school boards to educate and discipline their students. It dictates fines and community service to those who are guilty of cyberbullying. It empowers judges to order restrictions on the use of electronic devices, including the power to confiscate them if it is deemed needed. It also recognizes that parents have a role in the prevention of cyberbullying and holds parents legally responsible if their children are guilty of cyberbullying.
Cyberbullying is a plague upon our nation. I congratulate Jamie Baillie on taking strong action to stand up to it.
Fort Témiscamingue Obadjiwan
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Christine Moore Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
Mr. Speaker, once again, the Conservative government's thoughtless cuts prove that it does not care about the regions.
For example, Parks Canada's Fort Témiscamingue Obadjiwan is a tourist destination in my riding. Over 8,000 people visit every year, generating significant spinoffs for the region's tourism industry. The Témiscamingue community contributed over $500,000 to the creation of the visitor information centre, but the government's cuts will shorten the summer season and put an end to guided tours. Five jobs are in danger.
A major development project involving tourism stakeholders in both Ontario and Quebec is underway at Lake Timiskaming. Fort Témiscamingue is supposed to be the centrepiece of the initiative. These cuts will have a devastating impact on our region, which has diversified its economic activities but which has been abandoned now that the investments have been made.
Our region is trying to keep its head above water, but the government could not care less about our efforts and is slashing our economic resources.
Child Pornography
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Stella Ambler Mississauga South, ON
Mr. Speaker, the RCMP and the Kids' Internet Safety Alliance estimate there are more than 2 million pornographic pictures and movies, involving 50,000 different children worldwide, that can be found on the Internet. The vast majority of this vile material involves young children, some as young as two or three years old. Only 2,500 of these children have been identified and rescued.
As many as 200,000 men in Canada are regularly trading, selling and producing child pornography. One out of three men who possess child pornography are child abusers.
This is a community safety issue of the highest priority. Sadly, Canadian police were only able to arrest 513 people in 2010 for child pornography offences. Why? Because they hide behind the Internet and make themselves anonymous.
It is the duty of the House to ensure that law enforcement has the legal tools it needs to find and prosecute these offenders, to make the Internet a safer place and to protect our children.
St. Basil-the-Great College School
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Judy Sgro York West, ON
Mr. Speaker, as the hon. member of Parliament for York West, I am incredibly pleased to recognize the past and present faculty and students of St. Basil-the-Great College School in Toronto as they commemorate their 50th anniversary.
For half a century, St. Basil-the-Great College School has been shaping young minds by transforming children into productive and contributing members of our society. At the same time, the school has become an essential part of the surrounding neighbourhood by demonstrating the cardinal virtues of charity, family and community betterment.
As part of the 50th anniversary celebrations, alumni will come together next week to compare notes, share life stories and to demonstrate how education and their faith have helped make them who they are today.
I look forward to hearing those inspirational stories. I would again congratulate the school on 50 years of making a difference.
Summer in the Park Festival
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Jay Aspin Nipissing—Timiskaming, ON
Mr. Speaker, today I want to recognize the continued success of the Summer in the Park Festival in my riding of Nipissing—Timiskaming.
This year the North Bay waterfront will be visited by thousands when world-famous acts such as Meat Loaf and Marianas Trench take to the stage alongside regional musicians. Local performers also get to step in the spotlight when they participate in the Northern Ontario Open Country Singing Contest.
With so much to do, it is not surprising that Summer in the Park has been named as one of the top 100 festivals in Ontario. Summer in the Park takes place in early August in the beautiful Goulet Golden Mile, named in honour of former North Bay mayor Bruce Goulet. Bruce celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday and is truly a model citizen.
I am very proud of our summer festival and encourage all my fellow members and all Canadians to attend and enjoy the festival in beautiful Nipissing—Timiskaming.
The Budget
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Claude Patry Jonquière—Alma, QC
Mr. Speaker, as a member of Parliament, it is my duty here today to denounce Bill C-38 as an affront to democracy.
This bill shows contempt for Canadians. Logically, this bill should be divided into six separate parts and each of those parts should be studied in a parliamentary committee.
Worse still, this bill further reinforces Canadians' distrust, as they no longer have any confidence in the Conservative government.
As parliamentarians, are we going to be forced to ask people to take to the streets to defend democracy? I am beginning to wonder if that is the only solution.
Is there not some way for us to work together in a positive manner, regardless of our political affiliation, in order to get results for Canadians and communities, and to make more compassionate decisions that reflect the wishes of the people we represent?
Arrogance always has its price. If the government goes ahead with Bill C-38, Canadians will remember in 2015.
Medical Imaging Team Day
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Patricia Davidson Sarnia—Lambton, ON
Mr. Speaker, as a former medical radiation technologist, I am honoured to stand before members today and call attention to the inaugural Medical Imaging Team Day event taking place on Parliament Hill. Medical Imaging Team Day has been established to recognize the contribution that the imaging team, comprised of physicians, physicists, sonographers and technologists, makes to the Canadian health care system.
Today I salute the following groups that are taking part in Medical Imaging Team Day: the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists, the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine, the Canadian Association of Radiologists, the Canadian Interventional Radiology Association, the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists and the Canadian Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers. I thank these groups for their vital contributions to Canadian health care.
Employment Insurance
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Dick Harris Cariboo—Prince George, BC
Mr. Speaker, I am happy to announce that at last night's vote, my private member's Bill C-316 passed its third reading and is on its way to the Senate.
This legislation would change the provisions in the Employment Insurance Act that would allow convicted offenders to receive extensions to their EI qualifying and benefit periods that were not available to honest, hard-working Canadians. Bill C-316 would change the law so that people found guilty of crimes would no longer have their qualifying or benefit periods extended by their time spent in jail and no longer give them preferential treatment over honest, hard-working Canadians.
I thank my colleagues for supporting this bill and seeing it pass so we can continue to support Canadians who work hard and obey the law.
Memorial Cup
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Guy Caron Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC
Mr. Speaker, I stand before the members as a man who has been humbled, following a wager I had with the member for Saint John, whose riding is represented by the Sea Dogs. The Sea Dogs won fair and square and swept l'Océanic de Rimouski in four games.
Therefore, I wish to congratulate the Sea Dogs for an excellent season and wish them good luck representing the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League at the Memorial Cup starting very soon in Shawinigan.
So again, congratulations to the Saint John Sea Dogs and best of luck at the Memorial Cup.
I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Rimouski Océanic on their fantastic season. Most experts expected the Océanic to finish last or second-last in their division. After eliminating Val-d'Or, Blainville-Boisbriand and Halifax, the Océanic made it to the league finals, which is an amazing feat.
I would also like to commend the hard work of three 20-year-old players who now have to leave the team: Alex Belzile of Saint-Éloi, team captain Jean-Philippe Mathieu and Pier-Luc Pelletier. I would also like to thank all the 19-year-old players and the European players who will not be returning. I extend special thanks to the general manager, Philippe Boucher, his assistant, Yannick Dumais, and the head coach, Serge Beausoleil. I would like to thank them all for treating us to some great hockey this season. Thanks again.
Go, Nics, go!
Leader of the New Democratic Party
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2:10 p.m.
Jacques Gourde Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, QC
Mr. Speaker, the leader of the NDP is trying to mislead Canadians and concoct an economic policy that would be bad for Canada's provinces and bad for employment.
The leader of the NDP is fixated on development of our natural resources. He even goes so far as to say that our natural resources have a disease.
According to him, developing natural resources such as fossil fuels in the western provinces is bad for employment in Quebec. The leader of the NDP is wrong. Canada's natural resources are giving us a unique opportunity to create thousands of jobs and generate billions of dollars that will translate into economic prosperity across the country.
The NDP and its leader are just making things up and trying to divide the country in order to make political gains.
It is totally irresponsible.
Sri Lanka
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2:10 p.m.
Rathika Sitsabaiesan Scarborough—Rouge River, ON
Mr. Speaker, May 19 marks the third anniversary of the end of the armed conflict of the Sri Lankan civil war. The 26-year conflict saw the death of an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 people, and thousands more were displaced from their homes. Many of the displaced, like my family and many of my constituents, fled the country to seek safety in great countries like Canada.
Humanitarian organizations continue their work in postwar Sri Lanka, providing emergency medical relief for the internally displaced. Reports of continuing abductions and torture, systemic lack of basic security for women, increasing lack of freedom of information, illegal settlement of the northern areas and a lack of religious and linguistic freedoms for minorities are ongoing.
The victims on both sides of this conflict have waited too long for justice. On the anniversary of the end of the civil war, New Democrats call upon this government and the world to take firm action to hold Sri Lanka to account and push for an independent inquiry into the allegations that war crimes and crimes against humanity took place during this time of conflict.
Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Greg Rickford Kenora, ON
Mr. Speaker, the leader of the NDP was completely wrong when he called northern Ontario's energy industry and the jobs it has created a "disease". Northern Ontario is a vital part of both Ontario's and Canada's economy. Mining in the Ring of Fire, a growing forest industry and the creation of thousands of new jobs are by no means a disease.
Just as they were silenced from supporting the end of Canada's long gun registry, NDP members from northern Ontario must now accept the demeaning message by their leader for our region. The work their constituents are proud to do is not a disease.
The NDP leader's ill-informed position is dangerous, divisive and downright wrong. We are proud of the work we do in northern Ontario and of our future. I would say to the leader of the NDP that what we do in northern Ontario is not a disease.
International Day Against Homophobia
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May 17th, 2012 / 2:10 p.m.
Justin Trudeau Papineau, QC
Mr. Speaker, each year on May 17, we recognize the International Day Against Homophobia to end discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Here in Canada, under Liberal governments, we have seen the decriminalization of same-sex relationships, the legalization of same-sex marriage and the inclusion of sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Rights Act.
But we must not rest on our laurels. Homophobia is still too prevalent, and many gay and lesbian youth are still victims of bullying and discrimination, too often leading to tragic consequences. Days like today give our young people hope that it does indeed get better.
We must continue to fight this form of discrimination here and around the world, especially in countries like Uganda, Nigeria and Russia, which have recently implemented homophobic and discriminatory policies.
Today, the Liberal caucus honours those who have fought tirelessly to secure the rights of the LGBTQ community by fighting homophobia here in Canada and around the world.


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The retailer's m-commerce site availability improves in the index for the week ending Feb. 9, helping the retailer move from No. 13 to No. 4 in the index of 30 mobile commerce sites.
Being available has its perks. At least, that is, when it comes to mobile site performance. HSN Inc.'s mobile site climbed nine spots in the Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index for the week ending Feb. 9 to move into fourth place in the index of 30 mobile e-retailers. Much of the improvement had to do with what the index calls availability, which refers to the mobile home page rendering properly.
"In this week's mobile commerce index results, a big winner was HSN," says Ken Harker, senior consultant at Keynote. In the index for the week ending Feb. 2, Harker says HSN's mobile site suffered inconsistent availability and occasional time-out errors—which is when a web page fails to load completely. HSN typically requires two redirections to get to the mobile site when a consumer types in the desktop site URL, Harker says. All of the time-outs the previous week happened on one of the two redirections, he says. This week those redirects, which require a call to the server, did not product any time-outs, leading HSN to load its mobile home page successfully 100% of the time in Keynote's tests.
Still, Harker cautions that redirections add an extra layer of complexity to a mobile web page and can lead to more opportunities for errors and performance slowdowns. "Although HSN's availability improved this week, those redirections remain in the page design and could be an issue again in the future," Harker says. To maximize mobile performance retailers should limit their redirects, he says.
HSN did not immediately respond to a request for comment about its mobile site performance.
Toolfetch.com topped the Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index for the week ending Feb 9. Its load time was 2.37 seconds and its success rate was 99.67% for a score of 968. Its mobile home page contains seven elements weighing 63 kilobytes. Sears Holdings Corp. came in second with a load time of 2.66 seconds and a success rate of 99.38% for a score of 954. Its mobile home page contains seven elements weighing 62 kilobytes.
Two of the 30 retailers on the index offer responsive web design sites, which use a single code base and responsive techniques to adapt to the size of the device the consumer is using. This saves a retailer having to build separate sites for desktops, tablets, smartphones and other devices. Fab.com, one of those responsive sites, came in at No. 22 with a load time of 11.44 seconds and a success rate of 99.82% for a score of 703. Fathead.com LLC, the other responsive site, came in at No. 29 with a load time of 17.33 seconds and a success rate of 99.12% for a score of 454.
The average load time for all 30 retailers was 7.68 seconds, the average success rate was 99.07% and the average score was 766.
Click here then click on Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index Part 1 and Part 2 to view complete results for all 30 retailers on the index. Keynote measures, exclusively for Internet Retailer, 30 standalone m-commerce sites optimized for smartphones and two responsive design sites, which are single sites that render content in ways that fit the screen size of a device, including desktop PCs, tablets, smartphones and smart TVs. For the index, Keynote measures the smartphone versions of the responsive sites.
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Meet warnings with firm, multinational response.
The more bizarre North Korea's behavior becomes — and it is growing more bizarre by the week — the harder it is to explain, or possibly to contain.
Today, if events go as expected, the North Koreans will launch at least one missile, possibly in the direction of Japan, which is preparing to shoot it down. That's a recurring scenario, but the rapid escalation of provocations in recent weeks is out of the ordinary even by Korean standards.
OPPOSING VIEW: Sanctions don't work on North Korea
Since conducting a nuclear test in February, Kim Jong Un's regime has said that it is scrapping the Korean War armistice, declared a "state of war" with South Korea, cut off the military hotline between the two countries, shut down the jointly operated Kaesong industrial park at great expense to itself, said it would restart nuclear weapons production, and issued a string of threats against the South and the U.S. On Tuesday, it told foreigners to leave the South to avoid "thermonuclear war."
Given the North's bombastic history, it's easy — and largely appropriate — to dismiss the threats as posturing. The near-universal analysis is that Kim, who succeeded his father only 15 months ago and is believed to be just 29, is playing to a domestic audience, particularly the generals who could unseat him. Or that he is testing South Korea's new president, Park Geun Hye, standard procedure after a change of power. Or that he is trying to intimidate the U.S. into giving him desperately needed aid, an old game that has worked before. Or all three. It's guesswork, which is the problem.
Certainly Kim's threats to attack the U.S. are hollow. He lacks both the missile and nuclear technology to make them credible. He also presumably knows — because everyone does — that he can't win a war with South Korea, which the U.S. is treaty-bound to defend and where 28,000 American troops are posted.
But there's plenty of reason to believe that Kim might blunder into a conflict, either through an unprecedented provocation or simply by repeating an old one.
When North Korea sank a South Korean warship in 2010, killing 46 sailors, the South showed remarkable restraint. That won't happen again. Park won election last year by promising swift retaliation for any such action, and she has repeated that vow since. It's not hard to imagine events spinning out of control from there, even to a nuclear level.
So far, the international response has been appropriately firm, low-key and multinational. The U.N. swiftly imposed new sanctions, and even China, Korea's protector, joined in. The U.S., South Korea and Japan have all demonstrated their resolve, most pointedly with B-2 bomber flights over the South. But all have been careful not to escalate.
What the U.S. and the international community must not do, however, is once again reward North Korea's behavior with new aid and loosened sanctions. That trap has been sprung repeatedly in the past, with the North failing to live up to promises to end its nuclear and missile programs. Since then, North Korean progress on both programs has raised the stakes. If Kim wants relief, he needs to begin with unilateral steps toward de-escalation.
The good news is that for all Kim's bluster, there is not yet any sign of troop movements, and returning visitors report that Kim's antics are not being reported to his repressed citizenry. Both are indications that the crisis might run its course.
The missing element is a face-saving off ramp for the young dictator. No one really knows what that will take, but giving in to his provocations would be no more productive than rewarding a teenager's temper tantrum. One way or another, he'll have to learn that he can't have his way.


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