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Status symbols
You might think you go on holiday to be treated like royalty. But Alain de Botton argues that true happiness only comes in realising how insignificant we really are
Saturday 06 March 2004
It's sometimes easy to think that the fierce class divisions that once dominated British life have been overcome. Nowadays, most of us tend to buy the same sort of clothes, eat the same kind of food and talk in accents that don't neatly betray membership of any particular socio-economic group. But there is one area of life which remains stubbornly, defiantly status-bound, an area where we are immediately and often brutally reminded of just which bracket we belong to: travel.
It's sometimes easy to think that the fierce class divisions that once dominated British life have been overcome. Nowadays, most of us tend to buy the same sort of clothes, eat the same kind of food and talk in accents that don't neatly betray membership of any particular socio-economic group. But there is one area of life which remains stubbornly, defiantly status-bound, an area where we are immediately and often brutally reminded of just which bracket we belong to: travel.
Marxist language may be on the wane, but airlines refer unambiguously to the existence of "classes" - each with its allotted privileges and hardships. One might argue that rank permeates travel to an extent unprecedented in other areas of life. It is through the prism of travel that we are particularly well-placed to observe the infinitely subtle workings of the status system.
Sociologists have observed that we work hard and try to achieve for two reasons: money and status. Status is perhaps the more interesting of the two motivations, for it is rooted in our emotional lives. The word status, deriving from the Latin statum, refers in a narrow sense to one's legal or professional standing within a group (ie married, a lieutenant, etc), but in the broader - and here more relevant - sense, it alludes to one's value and importance in the eyes of the world. One could say that we seek status because we want to feel "loved"; increasingly, travel firms strive as much to show us that we are loved, as to offer a more comfortable material experience.
How might the word "love", generally used only in relation to what we would want from a parent or a romantic partner, be applied to something we might want from and be offered by the travel industry? Perhaps we could define love, in its familial, sexual and travelling forms, as a kind of respect - a sensitivity by one person to another's existence. When we feel this love our presence is noted; our name registered; our views acknowledged; our needs met. And under such care, we flourish.
There may be differences between the romantic and status forms of love - the latter has no sexual dimension, it cannot end in marriage and those who offer it usually bear secondary motives - and yet the beloved in the status field will, just like romantic lovers, enjoy comfort under the benevolent gaze of others.
It is common to describe a person who holds an important position in society as a "somebody" and their inverse as a "nobody" - nonsensical terms, for we are all by necessity individuals with identities and equal claims on existence. But such words are apt in conveying the variations in the quality of treatment meted out to different groups of travellers. Those without status remain unseen, they are treated brusquely and are made to queue for hours.
By contrast, what separates British Airways World Traveller from the World Traveller Plus cabin has little to do with material benefits, and much to do with signs of love. The cabin staff are a little more attentive; the trays are not thrown down onto the tables but gently lowered; there are heated towels and a few more magazines.
Hotels, too, are aware of how much they can seduce their customers by appeasing their status anxieties rather than by making them materially more comfortable. Chocolates on the pillow at night, a polite manner at the reception desk, a bowl of fruit on arrival: these things do not cost much and make very little difference to one's physical well-being, but they have a vital role to play in making us feel valued and important. Far from home, on another continent, lonely and jet-lagged, we are liable to respond with childish gratitude to someone who manages to get our name right and lays down a chocolate for us on the bed to help send us to sleep.
No wonder the travel industry spends so much money sending staff on training courses to remind them to treat their customers with "love", for nothing more quickly ruins a stay in a hotel, or a journey with an airline, than the kind of rudeness that concierges and cabin staff occasionally excel at. To listen to the complaints of travellers, what often irks isn't so much the hiccup itself but the way it ispresented - usually with an insolent stare and an infuriating shrug of the shoulders.
Ideally, we wouldn't care so much about how we are treated. It wouldn't make any difference whether the man at the car rental desk was surly or polite in handing us the keys, and whether the maid barged into our room or knocked sweetly. Unfortunately though, how we feel about ourselves depends to a large degree on how others seem to feel about us.
The world's politeness promotes a feeling of being valuable. Our "ego" or self-conception could be pictured as a leaking balloon, forever requiring external love to remain inflated and vulnerable to the smallest pinpricks of neglect. There is something sobering and absurd in the extent to which we are cheered by the attentions of others and damaged by their disregard. Our mood may blacken because a waiter has greeted us distractedly and our calls to the front desk have been left unanswered. And we are capable of finding life worth living because someone has remembered our name and sent us a fruit basket.
It is often observed that our ability to be satisfied with certain kinds of travel experience keeps diminishing because our expectation of what constitutes "a good holiday" keeps being raised. Our grandparents knew how to be happy with a week away in a modest resort by the sea, where they would be served bad food, sleep in institutional bungalows and spend their evenings forcing themselves to laugh at the offerings of fifth-rate comedians.
But nowadays the travel status race means that we are liable to consider ourselves severely lacking if we do not manage to take at least three foreign holidays a year; if we have never gone skiing or on a safari; if we don't know Thailand and Bondi beach; if we don't have a favourite restaurant in Athens or don't know our way around the back streets of San Francisco. The kind of holidays that would have been inconceivable a few decades ago are now consumed routinely and with little apparent appreciation. The paradox is that modern travellers, blessed with choices far outstripping those imaginable by their ancestors, demonstrate a remarkable capacity to feel dissatisfied with their lot.
These feelings of deprivation may not look so peculiar once we consider the psychology behind the way we quantify satisfaction. Our sense of an appropriate level for anything - the quality of a hotel room or timeshare apartment, for example - is never decided independently. It is based on a comparing our condition with that of a reference group of people we consider to be our equals.
We cannot appreciate what we have in isolation, or judge it against the lives of our grandparents. We cannot be impressed by how smart our holidays are in historical terms. We will take ourselves to be fortunate only when we have as much as, or more than, the people we grow up with, work alongside, have as friends and identify with in the public realm.
If everyone we know is allowed only to take a week of holiday off a year and spends it in draughty bungalows by a concrete shoreline, then such holidays will seem normal - far from glamorous perhaps, but not fertile ground for a sense of envy or aspiration. But if we are used to taking an annual break in a clean and friendly three-star French hotel, but learn through ill-advised attendance at a school reunion that some of our old friends (there is no stronger reference group) are now the proud owners of farmhouses in the Dordogne, we may never again revisit our French hotel without a violent sense of misfortune.
The psychologist William James once wrote a fascinating essay on happiness and possessions. He explained that humiliation does not always result from not having things, but is more commonly the result of wanting something to boost our sense of worth only to find that we can't afford it. Our aspirations determine what we will interpret as "luxury" and "normal".
What we understand to be normal is therefore critical in determining our chance of travelling happily. Few things rival the torment of the person who once tasted the pleasures of First Class travel, and is now - because of some fall in status - relegated to economy.
We are frequently made aware of the status side of travel when encountering the "travel snob": that uncomfortable character who seems to place vast importance on where and how people travel, someone who may turn away from us if we reveal that we've been camping this year and have no idea what an Aman hotel is.
The word "snobbery" came into use for the first time in England during the 1820s. It was said to have derived from the habit of many Oxford and Cambridge colleges of writing sine nobilitate (without nobility) or "s.nob" next to the names of ordinary students on examination lists in order to distinguish them from their aristocratic peers. In the word's earliest days, a snob was someone without high status, but it quickly assumed its modern and almost diametrically opposed meaning: someone offended by a lack of high status in others. The distinctive mark of the travel snob is an insistence on a flawless equation between how special you are and where you travel to.
The company of travel snobs has the power to enrage and unnerve because we sense how little our true personality will be able to govern their behaviour towards us. We may be endowed with the wisdom of Solomon and have the resourcefulness and intelligence of Odysseus, but if we are unable to wield the socially-recognised badges of our travel destinations, our existence will remain a matter of raw indifference to them.
Of course, it is always tempting to laugh at those afflicted by urgent cravings for status symbols. We mock those who vaunt the top hotels they have visited, but before ridiculing these types it would perhaps be fairer to wonder about the wider context in which their "showing off" takes place. Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they live for establishing a situation where respect has become dependent on a Babylonian lifestyle. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of manic addiction to luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma.
For many of us, travelling is a chance to get away from worries about status. By leaving behind our offices and homes, we can rediscover a part of ourselves that isn't concerned with the pecking order.
It's partly for this reason that the prospect of a holiday is liable to persuade even the most downcast person that life is worth living. Aside from love, few events are anticipated more eagerly, nor form the subject of more complex or enriching reveries, than holidays. They offer us perhaps our best chance of achieving happiness - the way that we choose to spend them embodies, if only unwittingly, an understanding of what life might ideally be about. During the long working weeks, we can be sustained by our dreams of going somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with better weather, more interesting customs and inspiring landscapes - and where it seems we stand a chance of finally being happy.
Unfortunately the reality of travel seldom matches the daydreams. One reason stems from the perplexing fact that when we look at pictures of places we want to go and see (and imagine how happy we would be if only we were there), we are prone to forget one crucial thing: that we will have to take ourselves along with us. That is, we won't just be in India/South Africa/Australia/Prague/Peru in a direct, unmediated way, we'll be there with ourselves, still imprisoned in our own bodies and minds.
I remember a trip to Normandy a few years ago. I looked forward to it for months, I anticipated a beautiful hotel on the beach (as pictured in a glossy brochure called France for Fun). Unfortunately, I found I had brought something along that risked clouding my appreciation of my surroundings: my entire mind. I was travelling not only with the aesthetic lobe that had planned the journey and agreed to pay for it, but also with the part committed to anxiety, boredom, melancholy, self-disgust and financial alarm.
At home, as my eyes had panned over the photographs of Normandy, I had felt oblivious to anything besides their contents. I had simply been in the pictures, at one with their elements. I had imagined an agenda-less, neutral observer; pure consciousness. But worries, regrets, memories and anticipations were to prove constant companions on the Normandy trip, acting like panes of distorting glass between my self and the world.
On the first morning, for several hours, during a swim in a bay followed by a rest on the sand, I no longer saw my location for I was blinded by a catastrophic anticipation of my professional future. In one scenario, an editor to whom I was beholden became so intransigent in his attitude towards my employment ("I'm not a charity, am I?", he asked), that when I was tapped lightly on the shoulder by my wife and asked whether I might like a towel, I narrowly avoided answering, with tears in my eyes: "Please take pity on me."
Even when undistracted by anxieties, anticipations of the future diverted me from a sincere involvement with the present. From home, I had imagined that my journey would immerse me in a handful of immobile (and contented) moments, but in reality, my mind could not rest at any single point, however pleasing, without turning to ask: "What next?"
This said, there are certain kinds of trips that may once and for all cure anxieties about status. I'm thinking of those journeys we make to parts of the world like deserts, glaciers, oceans and rain forests, that are so huge and impressive that they put into perspective all the day-to-day worries about our standing. A fine remedy for all our anxieties about our insignificance may be to travel through the gigantic spaces of the world.
For example, deserts (I'm imagining a trip I once made to the Egyptian desert around Aswan) speak of the folly of giving up our peace of mind for the unstable rewards of earthly power. In beholding the ruined palaces of the Egyptian pharaohs we may feel our anxieties about our achievements - or lack of them - slacken. What will it matter if we have not succeeded in the eyes of others, if there are no monuments or processions in our honour and if no one smiled at us at the reception desk of the hotel? Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us can matter.
Big open spaces bid us to surrender our strivings and our images of perfection and fulfilment. They remind us that we cannot defy time and that we are the playthings of forces of destruction which can at best be kept at bay but never vanquished. We may enjoy local victories, a few years in which we are able to impose a degree of order upon the chaos, but everything is ultimately fated to crumble back into dust. If this prospect has a power to console, it is perhaps because the greater part of our anxieties stems from an exaggerated sense of the importance of our projects and concerns. We are tortured by our ideals, and by a punishingly high-minded sense of the gravity of what we are doing.
Whatever differences exist between people, they are nothing next to the differences between the most powerful humans and the great deserts, high mountains, glaciers and oceans of the world. There are natural phenomena so large as to make the variations between any two people seem mockingly small. By spending time in vast spaces, a sense of our insignificance in the social hierarchy can be subsumed in a consoling sense of the insignificance of all humans within the cosmos. We can overcome a feeling of unimportance not by making ourselves more important but by recognizing the relative unimportance of everyone. Our concern with who is a few millimetres taller than us or better off than us can give way to an awe for things a thousand million times larger than us.
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Learning that fun exists elsewhere than the couch
Like most guys of my gender, I'm a real sports nut.
On a typical weekend, I will surround myself with greasy snack-related foods, park my pasty body on the couch in our den and spend countless hours watching professional sports on TV, even if the only thing being broadcast is lawn darts or, worse, curling.
That's just the kind of masculine sports fanatic I am. But this past weekend, in a sincere effort to broaden my horizons, I skipped sports on TV and tried something radically different, by which I mean leaving the house to watch live sporting events in person.
You should never try this on your own, so I was accompanied on these excursions by my buddy, Bob.
The first live sporting activity involved the two of us bravely driving across the city, on Friday night, in the snow, to watch Bob's youngest daughter, Linnea, a Grade 8 student at St. Mary's Academy, compete in a basketball tournament.
En route to the game, I helped Bob engage in some "active parenting," wherein we used our years of sports experience to pass on helpful basketball tips to Linnea, who has always been a fierce competitor, in the sense that, years ago, when her father and I were in a barbecuing contest, she threatened to bite the members of a rival team.
So, as we dished up advice (Me: "You should shoot at the basket." Bob: "Yes, shoot at the hoop."), she was able to give us a look of pity mixed with contempt -- veteran parents will know the look I'm talking about -- and politely explained she did not need guidance from clueless old dweebs who were probably around when James Naismith nailed up the first peach baskets in 1891.
The game itself was incredibly exciting, even though Linnea's plucky team lost to another team whose name I did not catch. The girls threw themselves into the game in the sense that they literally threw themselves into the game.
If, for example, the ball came loose and began rolling along the floor, girls from both sides, with no regard for personal safety, catapulted themselves through the air, then crashed onto the hardwood floor and fought for the ball in a squirming, tangled mass of flailing limbs of the type you normally only see in Saturday-morning cartoons.
Despite the fact they were not being paid millions of dollars and there weren't thousands of shrieking fans in the stands, these girls gave everything they had.
Which brings us to the Jets' NHL season-opening game Saturday afternoon, which was the next live sporting event Bob and I courageously attended.
Although the Jets were spanked 4-1 by Ottawa, I do not wish to say anything overtly negative about their effort, largely because I don't want legions of rabid Jets fans to descend on my house with torches and pitchforks, or, even more likely, those inflatable ThunderStix they whap together to terrify opposing players during games.
Other than the game itself, it was an incredibly thrilling afternoon. If I had to choose one word to describe the experience, that word would be: loud. Between fans hungering for post-lockout hockey and the new state-of-the-art sound system at the MTS Centre, you could not hear yourself think, which made for interesting conversations:
Me: "Nice save, eh?"
Bob: "What?"
Me: "NICE SAVE, EH?"
Bob: "What?"
In the end, Bob and I were forced to develop a complicated series of primitive hand gestures to communicate whose turn it was to get up out of their seat and go get the next round of beers. It made us feel very alive. We even got cool 3D posters, which seemed more lifelike than some of the players.
But the central point I am trying to make, as a reformed couch potato, is that I now finally realize nothing beats watching sports in person. In fact, I'm hoping Bob and I can go to another game soon. Because those girls really give 110 per cent.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 21, 2013 A2
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I have no need for these because I tend to memorize the page I'm on, just flip around until I find my page again, or drop in a random receipt or something. I do this even when I have perfectly cute bookmarks around, so this doesn't work. But these look really nice. Much better than little sticky sign here tags too. (via The Well-Appointed Desk)
Moar Apples!
Lately, one basin of fruit including some apples hasn't been enough, so we have been buying a bunch of apples, and some other fruit too. Enough to fill 2 medium stainless steel bowls! (Also I seem to have lost the ability to talk or write about anything but apple.)
Leaf told me that she couldn't trust my taste in apples because I seem to be liking everything, but you know, the other day, I got some grocery store apples (organic Fuji and Honeycrisp) both of which are on my yum list, and they just didn't measure up! They were crispy and cool, so satisfied that part for me, but the flavors just weren't the same. Yut and I both thought they were sweet but insipid. Blandy bland. I still ate mine up because I didn't care, it was apple, but it definitely wasn't as good as the ones at the farmers' market where they claim that they were tree-ripened and recently picked. Also, I was reading this Orange Pippin site where they talk about apple varieties and users review them and whatnot and lots of people say that Golden Delicious is a perfectly fine apple picked tree-ripened east of the Mississippi. So I may just be in the wrong place to get a really good Golden Delicious. (What, you don't go looking for websites about apples??? :p)
I wish there was a way to tell at a grocery store if the apples are going to be good, but it seems very iffy, because I have gotten good apples at the grocery store before, it's just not a guaranteed thing. Actually this may be why I'm not generally a fan of apples. This is the first year I've really gotten a lot of apples since my parents used to take us apple picking in the fall time — mostly Red Delicious and Golden Delicious. Back then, I vaguely thought Golden were better than Red Delicious I think, but I don't remember loving apple. Leaf maybe remembers better than I do.
So I guess if you know for a fact that the apples are good quality, organic, tree-ripened, brought directly from a farm, then my apple advice holds! Otherwise even the best apples can be boring!
Good apples I have eaten this year: Mutsu (Crispin), Pippin, Honeycrisp, Fuji, Cameo, McIntosh, Jonagold, Empire, Gala.
Bad apples I have eaten this year: Golden Delicious, Honeycrisp, Fuji
Oh and by the way, this advice holds for Asian pears too. I have had really yummy Asian pears from the farmers' market (most recently Shinko and Niitaka varieties), but also really blah Asian pears from the Asian grocery, even the premium ones. I do believe there's a difference! Of course, your mileage may vary and I suppose there may be confirmation bias going on. But that's what I think. :)
I've been craving fruit a lot lately. Actually smoothies too, but fruit more. And most recently, it's apples — which is great cos they're in season. But not all apples are the same!
I prefer apples to be super crisp, and sweet. Tart is ok, but sweet is better. So, in case you're looking for a high quality apple, I have apple advice! I've eaten more apples this year than I have in the last like five.
Good apples: Fuji, Honeycrisp, Empire, Gala, Mutsu (Crispin)
Bad apples: Red Delicious, Golden Delicious
You know why they're bad apples? Because they're not crisp. They're more… mealy? Like you can practically make applesauce just by biting into it. So if you don't care for crispy apples, then no worries, Red and Golden Delicious might be perfectly lovely for you. But if your taste in apples is similar to mine, then the other ones will be better. That is all. Yum apples!
That fruit bowl by the way, is fruit for two people for a week. Lately I have been obsessed by fruit so we buy a bunch every Saturday at the farmers' market. It used to be that we would buy like 6 fruit (say 2 pluots and 4 peaches or whatever) but now that would last 2-3 days and in fact, even that fruit bowl, we had to stop by the farmers' market yesterday to supplement with two more apples. I have an apple problem. IT'S MADNESS, MADNESS I TELL YOU. Alas the recent apples were Golden Delicious and even though they were picked the day before, they weren't crisp enough. Also, I don't insist on buying fruit at the farmers' market, although I suppose I do sort of prefer it, but in this case, we just happened to be going by one so we stopped.
Edited to add Mutsu apples to the Good list! Cos we went to the farmers' market and bought: grapes (Thompson?), 2 types of pluots (Dapple Dandy and Flavor Grenade), peach (Summerset?), Asian pear (Nijiseiki?), and of course apples (Mutsu, Fuji, Gala, Honeycrisp, I think — they were out of Empire and I didn't bother with anything that wasn't supposed to be super crispy, not even Jonagold). It's not as much as it sounds because sometimes with organic apples, they are small. But oh so delicious. :)
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The other day we had some pizza. When I got to the crust, I thought yum, this is good crust! Then I thought, mmm I'm really in the mood for bread and peanut butter. So this happened. It was good! But you know, this is Trader Joe's creamy peanut butter and I'm not sure I'm loving it. It is nice and creamy and stays creamy but I feel like I want more peanut taste? Am I nuts? (Har har) Maybe I should buy the salted version.
Although I keep hearing that Laura Scudder makes the best peanut butter, so we might have to try that — except I've never actually seen it in a store before, possibly because we've taken to shopping primarily at the farmers' market and Trader Joe's, but still. Wow that was a ridiculously run-on sentence.
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Irish Green Ink
Leaf and I got another bottle of ink! She says I have a problem, but I don't think I'm completely alone — we're enablers for each other. Maybe me more than Leaf but still! :)
This is Montblanc Irish Green. The lightings a little yellow because I took the photo at night. But it's basically a beautiful green. Writes well, reasonably flowy, some shading, well behaved; I really don't have anything bad to say about it. I suppose if you want sheen on your ink, or permanence, it's not the one for that, but otherwise, nice ink. Nice bottle too!
We got it at Fahrney's Pens. If you're ever in DC, and you want some Montblanc ink, Fahrney's is the place to go. They have every color for a reasonable price. Also, just going into the store is nice. Lots of pens, lots of inks! They were having a small pen show at their store the day after we went, but we weren't in DC so we didn't go. Just as well, we would've probably picked up more stuff. :)


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My friend Nadia wanted to try and sew her first dress and I offered to help her. She liked the Shakira pattern but she decided she wanted to make it sleeveless and without a collar & buttons. She bought this beautiful fabric at a market near Paris. And the black bias gives it a Chinese feel.
(on the pictures Nadia is wearing the dress with a black tee-shirt under it)
Feb 25, 2010, 12.23 PMby quiltingmick
The dress looks fantastic on her! Well done!
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Holmes on Holmes: You have to sacrifice
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Santonio Holmes
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his foot rehabilitation and support for Sanchez
during the Jets' mandatory minicamp.
Holmes was directed by the Jets to take a pay cut during the offseason, giving up $3.5 million of his base salary to remain with the team. He will make $7.5 million instead this season.
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"As far as taking the pay cut," Holmes said, "it's what we all do in our profession in order to sustain a long-term career in one place. You have to be willing to sacrifice for the team and for the better not just for yourself."
As for the team, Holmes said he has been trying to teach some of the younger receivers while he isn't able to get into the game himself. The Jets' receivers, as Rex Ryan noted in his Wednesday morning press conference, have dropped more balls than they've caught.
"It's been a struggle," Holmes said. "It's been something that we as receivers really rely on is catching the ball."
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He said Hill wasn't a complete receiver coming out of an option offense at Georgia Tech, and that it involved a lot of study to get to the next level. He added that the Jets would, "continue to build him as if he's the next Megatron."
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Minister forces Service to comply
The Danish Immigration Service has been forced to change its report to the Ombudsman.
Until yesterday, the Danish Immigration Service maintained that two weeks of work in another EU country allowed Danes to bring their foreign spouses to Denmark.
In its original report to the Ombudsman the Service writes: "It is therefore normally a condition that there has been employment of at least a couple of weeks and for a minimum of 10-12 hours each week."
Minister changes guidelines
That was the direct opposite of Minister for Integration Birthe Rønn Hornbech's views. She has forced the Immigration Service to remove the guidelines from its home page.
In an interview yesterday, Hornbech said that there are no guidelines suggesting that a couple of weeks' residence and work in Sweden or another EU country allows family reunions.
"We have told them (Ed: the Immigration Service) that that is not the legal view. We have been saying the same thing all along at the ministry. The Immigration Service has never said anything about six weeks or ten months," the minister said in an interview with TV2 News.
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The report to the Ombudsman was sent on September 1. In an addendum sent today, the Immigration Service has chosen to adjust its report after the minister said yesterday that she did not agree with the Service's evaluation of the length of work required in another EU country.
In concrete terms, the Service has removed its evaluation of the length of time that must be worked in another EU country in order to be allowed to bring a foreign spouse into Denmark.
"In continuation of the Immigration Service's submission of a final report on family reunions for Danish citizens under EU law, we would like to point out that at the end of the day on September 1, after the final report was sent to the Parliamentary Ombudsman – after instructions from the Integration Ministry – that we have changed the content of our home page back to the text that existed prior to a change on July 9, 2008 regarding family reunions for Danish citizens according to EU law," the Service says of the change.
Clarification: In a previous article on this page, we wrote that the Immigration Service disagreed with the Minister for Integration. This was incorrect. The Service was only at odds with the minister until yesterday.
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DURHAM -- Parliament Hill is reeling with the news of Whitby-Oshawa MP and former finance minister Jim Flaherty's death Thursday afternoon.
Durham MP Erin O'Toole was in the House of Commons, moments away from the start of question period, when news broke that Mr. Flaherty had fallen ill. Shortly after paramedics were called to Mr. Flaherty's Ottawa home, reports poured in that he suffered a heart attack and died.
"We're all in shock here ... The entire House was in an absolute state of shock," said Mr. O'Toole.
The House of Commons in Ottawa was suspended for the day and Queen's Park in Toronto took a recess in tribute to the long-serving politician.
Mr. O'Toole, in his first term in Ottawa, said Mr. Flaherty was a mentor to him.
"One word sums up Jim Flaherty, and that's passion. He was passionate for Canada, passionate for Ontario, passionate for Durham Region and passionate for his family and friends," said Mr. O'Toole.
Mr. Flaherty devoted his life to public service, sacrificing family time and his health, Mr. O'Toole said.
Just three weeks ago, Mr. Flaherty announced he was resigning from the federal cabinet and returning to the private sector. It was a decision he made with his family earlier this year, according to a statement issued March 18.
"It's hard to believe that he passed away like this," said Mr. O'Toole. "Particularly at a time when we were all hoping he could spend time with family ... We have to remember the incredible impact he had."
First elected to the House of Commons when the Tories took power in 2006, Mr. Flaherty was re-elected in 2008 and 2011. He was appointed Canada's minister of finance in 2006 and also served as minister responsible for the Greater Toronto Area. Mr. O'Toole said Mr. Flaherty didn't just balance the budget as finance minister, but played a key role in the creation of the Abilities Centre and UOIT.
Simcoe North MP Bruce Stanton says."It has sent a whole pall through this place," Mr. Stanton said from Ottawa Thursday afternoon. "People are pretty shaken up by it. It was so completely unexpected."
Mr. Flaherty, who resigned as finance minister a few weeks ago, died suddenly at his condominium in downtown Ottawa Thursday.
His family issued a statement, saying their "beloved husband and father passed away peacefully today in Ottawa."
Question period was halted and MPs put aside partisan politics as they dealt with news of Mr. Flaherty's death, Mr. Stanton added.
"Even though he was a colleague that was on one side of the political fence, when things like this happen it instantly breaks down those political barriers and people are more like human beings ought to be," he said.
Barrie MP Patrick Brown said he was stunned by Mr. Flaherty's death.
"He was a remarkable finance minister during one of the worst global recessions. Under his leadership Canada became the envy of the industrialized world," Mr. Brown said today.
"Jim was a dear friend. I considered him both a friend and mentor."
Mr. Flaherty had been in ill health for some time, though that was not cited as a reason for his stepping aside from cabinet earlier this year.
"Jim was always a kind of a guy who never really let the politics get in the way of his human touch," Mr. Stanton said. "He'd smile and he was a kind personality. You could tell through the body language right away.
"He was a kind and gentle man, and very thoughtful and intelligent and dedicated to the task at hand, whatever that might have been," he added.
The Ontario legislature had a 20-minute recess out of respect for Mr. Flaherty and his wife Christine Elliott, an MPP.
"He had a certain humanity about him that was obvious right at the first instance," Mr. Stanton said. "He would always lend you an ear if you had something to share with him."
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Dennis and I have created an oasis in which you will feel peaceful and relaxed. We are both Massage Therapists and everything here is created to make you feel comfortable and welcome. We both like to travel and want to be on the road a lot in 2014. We enjoy Yoga, the Outdoors, Gardening, Animals, Meditating and love to spend time with our two Aussie Shephards & our Friends.
If we are not traveling, we stay in our RV on the big driveway or in our Portland House. Our massage studio and office are in the remodeled garages and are accessed by separate entrances. We may use these spaces and the half-bath in the laundry room space as well. Of course we are very mindful and respectful of your privacy.
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