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Debates of Oct. 24th, 2002
House of Commons Hansard #14 of the 37th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was accord.
- Privilege
- Points of Order
- The Environment
- Government Response to Petitions
- Competition Act
- Criminal Code
- Patent Act
- Income Tax Act
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
- Canada Business Corporations Act
- Committees of the House
- Foreign Affairs
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Supply
- Healthy Workplace Week
- Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal
- The Environment
- Governor General's Award
- Literacy Action Day
- Agriculture
- International Literacy Day
- Civets de la nature
- International Literacy Day
- Liberal Leadership Campaign
- United Nations Day
- Literacy Action Day
- The Environment
- Louis-Marie Gagné
- Literacy Action Day
- Louis Riel
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Child Pornography
- Kyoto Protocol
- Ethics
- National Defence
- Energy Conservation
- Taxation
- Health
- Persons with Disabilities
- Child Pornography
- École de médecine vétérinaire de Saint-Hyacinthe
- Canadian Wheat Board
- Agriculture
- Grain Transportation
- Correctional Service Canada
- International Aid
- Health
- Kyoto Protocol
- Presence in Gallery
- Business of the House
- Supply
- Points of Order
- Supply
Government Orders
1:45 p.m.
Western Arctic
Northwest Territories
Ethel Blondin-Andrew Secretary of State (Children and Youth)
Mr. Speaker, I come from a riding in an area of Canada that depends on cold weather. We are very challenged in terms of infrastructure, unlike my colleague from the Yukon whose communities, all except for one, are accessible by road. We do not have that kind of infrastructure. Most of our communities are isolated and we depend on a winter road structure.
With the melting of the permafrost, our winter road season is becoming shorter. It is a very difficult problem for the north. The north is probably most graphic in its illustration of how we are the repository of all things bad in terms of the environment, not because we do not have a beautiful environment, but because we are an area that is very vulnerable. We receive the persistent organic pollutants from around the world. The heavy metals from around the world wherever those industrialized countries are collect in the colder climate areas, that being northern Canada.
We could be compared to the canary in the mine when it comes to the environment. We are the warning sound. We are the warning bell, and very graphically so, for other parts of the world if things go wrong.
People can question how is it that Inuit mothers have pesticides or chemicals in their breast milk that they pass on to their children. How is it that many of our animals will be affected? For instance, if we have warmer climates, or if we have hot and cold climates that run up against one another, our animals will not be able to feed properly. The caribou depend on lichen. They can only get to lichen when there is light snow. If there is a melting of the snow and a freezing of the snow, they cannot get to their food. It affects the every essence of how people live traditionally in the north.
Having said that, many members will know that I am a huge fan and a proponent of oil and gas development in the north. I consider myself a friend of the industry but I am also a friend of the environment. I want to see a northern gas pipeline develop. I believe it is not a carbon intensive activity in the sense that oil would be. I believe it is less polluting than other sources and it is possible. I also think in my position as a northern representative that we can have both.
If we think we can have a clean environment without having a strategy and without setting a target like we have in Kyoto, it is impossible. There is a price to pay. We will not regain the cleanliness and the pureness of our environment no matter where we live in the world without a price. It is ridiculous to think that we will. It will cost money.
My colleague across the way talked about consumer behaviour. He belittled such aspects as making sure the clothes dryer is full. As in health care, the only way to really affect the health care of people is to change the behaviour of people. Consumer behaviour is a big part of what we do in terms of the environment as it would be with our health.
We have to change the way human beings behave. In some countries around the world recycling is a way of life. It is a consumer behaviour that has been endorsed and people do it. It was never thought of before. In some places we still struggle with it but if we have that kind of attitude, things will never change. It will cost money. It will take a bit of effort. It will take compromise but we need to care. What could be more important than the environment that our children and our grandchildren are going to live in? In my area it is absolutely important.
People generally accept what the intergovernmental panel on climate change and its more than 3,000 scientists from around the world have to say. People accept it when that panel says that most of the warming observed over the past 50 years is attributable to human activities; that human induced climate change will accelerate in the years ahead; and that extreme weather events will be more frequent and more severe due to climate change. They should accept it.
There are 17 national academies of science from around the world that have independently reviewed this work and endorsed its conclusions. I am sorry if some people do not like good science. Certainly I, and everyone in the House who has spoken, accept that there is an issue that merits action and of course the Government of Canada accepts it and has done so for many years.
Our elders in the Northwest Territories have been talking about climate change for years. It is not a new thing. It is not as abrupt and as comic as some people would refer to it as. This is a very serious issue and we all have a stake in it, including the members opposite.
It has been just over a decade that the rest of us have clued in basically. In the Northwest Territories we are feeling the effects of climate change on a daily basis with our warmer and somewhat shorter winters and our wetter and hotter summers. This does not sound like a bad thing but the north is built on the premise that it is cold. Special construction techniques have been used on all our infrastructure to accommodate the permafrost below the surface ensuring that it remains frozen.
I am sharing my time, Mr. Speaker, with the hon. member for Davenport and I am honoured to do so.
I am very enthusiastic on this issue and I am very resolved to supporting the Kyoto protocol, as are my premier and the people in the Northwest Territories. They too want a pipeline but we understand that we have to care about the environment as well.
Special construction techniques, as I have indicated, have been used on our infrastructure to accommodate the permafrost. Most people who have spoken do not know what frost heave is and how expensive it is. Most people do not understand, except for my colleague from Nunavut who lives with permafrost and has to deal with that sort of condition. The warmer temperatures are now beginning to slowly melt that permafrost. The repercussions of this phenomenon are obvious and expensive.
Because of the long commitment to action, when Canada ratifies the Kyoto protocol, we will not be starting from square one. Over the past few years the Government of Canada has built a record of consistent action on climate change. I want to take a few minutes to point out some of these actions now.
One of the most fundamental points that I have to make about these actions is that they usually are built around partnerships. They are not just Ottawa doing something all by itself. These are actions that are encouraging collaborative approaches to an issue that affects us all. These are actions that are bringing together partners in government, business, communities and more. Indeed a lot of the initial work involved collaboration to examine the issues and identify options for action even before Kyoto. There were many discussions where there was consensus and agreement. Some people have conveniently forgotten that.
For example, much of this work has taken place under the direction of ministers of energy and the environment from the Government of Canada and all the provinces and territories since 1993, including my territorial counterparts in the government of the Northwest Territories who have been actively participating at the table on this issue. These ministers generally have met annually and often more than that. Many of the provincial and territorial ministers have been included in Canada's delegations to international climate change meetings and conferences, including Kyoto in 1997. In fact, there has indeed been a great deal of time and money spent on climate change consultation since 1992. Ten years and $22.3 million has been spent on consultations with provinces alone.
That collaboration set the stage for broader partnerships such as the work of the national climate change task group. This group brought together the Government of Canada, the governments of the provinces and territories, industry and environmental groups. They have looked at climate change and related issues affecting specific sectors and affecting Canada in general. That task group consulted with stakeholders and developed the general report with recommendations.
In 1994-95 it took the report out for public consultation across Canada that led to a summary report. All this work, plus input from ongoing federal-provincial meetings, fed into Canada's action plan on climate change released in 1995. I say this because there are people sitting here now who are not aware of the history of this evolving process. It also helped to identify priorities for other efforts and investments.
There is so much more I could speak to. I have so many other notes, including the announced Government of Canada action plan, a $500 million five year initiative plan, a planned 2,000 targets and key sectors, including initiatives in transportation.
Let me finish by saying I unequivocally support the ratification of the Kyoto protocol with my northern counterparts and with all the people of the north. We know we will feel the effects of it, but we do not walk away from our intent to be progressive and to work on resource development.
Healthy Workplace Week
Statements By Members
October 24th, 2002 / 1:55 p.m.
Gurbax Malhi Bramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale, ON
Mr. Speaker, this is Healthy Workplace Week. Launched by Health Canada two years ago, this week is dedicated to increasing awareness of how important healthy workplaces are to the success of organizations.
This year's theme is healthy leadership, and the labour program of HRDC, along with other government and private organizations are the sponsors. The government is committed to building healthy workplaces and has many programs and services to support its employees.
We can all be leaders when it comes to promoting a healthy workplace. I encourage all members to get involved in Healthy Workplace Week, both here and in their constituencies.
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Peter Goldring Edmonton Centre-East, AB
Mr. Speaker, tomorrow evening on Friday, October 25, a prodigious event will take place at Queen Elizabeth Composite High School in Edmonton, the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee medal award ceremony.
Created to commemorate Her Majesty's 50 year reign, these distinctive medals will be presented in a celebration hosted by Principal Tony Rankel, along with the staff and students of the Queen Elizabeth Composite High School.
The Honourable Lieutenant Governor Lois E. Hole will attend this event to present medals to 40 extraordinary Canadians who, in their own way, have made a valuable and outstanding contribution to both community and country.
A special expression of gratitude is extended to Principal Rankel, the staff and the student body of the Queen Elizabeth Composite High School. Please join them in extending congratulations to these 40 remarkable Canadians.
The Environment
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Peter Adams Peterborough, ON
Mr. Speaker, the Kyoto accord is more than a rigid formula for the reduction of greenhouse emissions. It is a frame of reference for each of us in our daily lives. Humans in their billions are the cause of the changes in the atmosphere which are causing global warming. We humans, by small changes in our daily lives, can reduce those emissions dramatically.
It is my hope that the Kyoto process will encourage us all to think differently about how we live. This is not a matter of a reduced standard of living. It is about a change in the way we live. One aspect of this is increased use of public transportation. Many of our communities already have good but underused transit systems. Let us begin by using existing facilities to full capacity. Then let us increase that capacity so that Canadians can travel cheaply and conveniently by public transportation.
In southern Ontario, where highway gridlock and air pollution are features of everyday life, this means improved rail transit in and around the major cities, including VIA service to places like Peterborough.
Governor General's Award
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Jerry Pickard Chatham-Kent—Essex, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise to congratulate a constituent of mine, Megan Reid, of Leamington, who won the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case, an award saluting the accomplishments of contemporary women in advancement of women's equality.
Megan received the award for promoting positive body images for women and for her volunteer work organizing events and raising money for breast cancer research.
Ms. Reid is a remarkable volunteer in her community. Her work in her local student government and other school activities is a tribute to her desire to make a contribution to society and be a positive influence. She has a passion for justice and equality of the sexes that makes her a wonderful role model for her peers.
This award was instituted by the Governor General of Canada in 1979 to honour the 50th anniversary of the Persons Case and five Alberta women whose determination led to a landmark victory in the struggle of Canadian women for equality.
I congratulate Megan on an honour well deserved.
Literacy Action Day
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Irwin Cotler Mount Royal, QC
Mr. Speaker, as we welcome representative organizations to Parliament Hill for the annual Literacy Action Day, we are reminded of the theme that inspires this gathering, that literacy is for life.
Indeed, literacy engages and impacts upon every aspect of our individual lives. It is at the core of our early childhood learning, our personal development, our economic opportunity and our capacity to participate fully in all aspects of life and society, from individual and family literacy to workplace and political literacy. It is no less vital to us as a people, for in a knowledge based economy literacy has a crucial role to play in ensuring that Canada continues to be a productive, competitive and economically secure environment.
Regrettably, the final report of the International Adult Literacy Survey revealed that some 40% of Canadians between the ages of 16 and 65 have very low or limited levels of literacy, while 8 million Canadians, or 2 in 5 working age Canadians, do not even have the skills to contribute as full participants in our society and economy.
Accordingly, I am encouraged that the government's skills and learning agenda and the Speech from the Throne reaffirmed the government's commitment to knowledge as the engine of the new economy with the imperatives of literacy at its core.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Howard Hilstrom Selkirk—Interlake, MB
Mr. Speaker, thousands of western Canadian farmers do not have the basic human right to sell their own grain. They are forced to sell it to the Liberal imposed Canadian Wheat Board monopoly against their will. Quebec and Ontario farmers can sell their grain to whomever they want.
The Canadian Wheat Board minister has criminally convicted the following prairie farmers for selling their own wheat, some of whom are here in Ottawa today: Gary Brandt, Ron Duffy, Marcel Desrocher, Jim Chatenay, Rod Hanger, Martin Hall, Noel Hyslip, Ike Lanier, Mark Peterson, Jim Ness, Bill Moore, Rick Strankman, John Turcato and Darren Winczura.
Having already criminally prosecuted these prairie farmers, the Canadian Wheat Board minister is now going to physically throw them in an Alberta jail on October 31.
Why does he deny western Canadian prairie farmers the same opportunity given to farmers in the rest of the country?
International Literacy Day
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Mac Harb Ottawa Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to announce to the House that today is International Literacy Day.
Today, some 22% of Canadians face barriers because of problems with reading and writing, and 26% do not have the skills required to work in today's economy, the knowledge economy.
There is a direct correlation between literacy and health, economic growth, crime prevention and social cohesion.
Therefore, I invite all of my colleagues to join me in highlighting the importance of literacy and its contribution to Canada's development.
Civets de la nature
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Jean-Yves Roy Matapédia—Matane, QC
Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to a business in my riding that employs 12 persons and that has only been in existence for one year.
The Civets de la nature de Carleton, on Chaleur Bay, was recently been awarded two gold medals and two silver medals at the Masters européen de dégustation, an international culinary competition for fine preserves, held in Brussels.
The company, led by Michel Massouty, prepared a very creative menu quite typical of the region. This was not the first time that chef Christian Menant has won the award. He won honours at the Masters in 1999, when he lived in France.
It is worth noting that the award-winning food products almost never reached Brussels, because of long negotiations with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which refused to issue an export permit.
International Literacy Day
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Mauril Bélanger Ottawa—Vanier, ON
Mr. Speaker, I too would like to highlight International Literacy Day.
Once again this year nearly 100 adult learners, teachers and volunteers from literacy groups are on Parliament Hill to make us aware of the needs of people to combat illiteracy in this country. According to Statistics Canada, 22% of Canadians have difficulty reading simple text. It is simply unacceptable.
We must all work together to ensure that Canadians have the tools they need to be full participants in the social, economic and cultural life of our country, as well as in the age of information.
Canada is blessed with many extraordinarily talented writers, including Yann Martel, who won the Booker Prize this week for his book, Life of Pi . It is unfortunate that some Canadians do not read, it is tragic that some cannot read.
Let us all contribute to--
International Literacy Day
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
The Speaker
The hon. member for Fraser Valley.
Liberal Leadership Campaign
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Chuck Strahl Fraser Valley, BC
Mr. Speaker, on Wednesday the Prime Minister set loose the dogs of war. He has taken the leash off the cabinet ministers seeking to replace him and is allowing them to campaign for his job.
Being a cabinet minister is a fulltime position and a very heavy responsibility, but it is not, as the Prime Minister suggests, whether or not ministers can walk and chew gum at the same time. It is the fact that ministers angling for the leader's job are simply in a conflict of interest.
A few months ago the Prime Minister said that if ministers wanted to campaign, all they had to do was resign. He even fired his former finance minister when he refused to stop campaigning but apparently now those rules no longer apply. Why the double standard?
In the recent Canadian Alliance leadership race, our party led by example when the member for Okanagan--Coquihalla, the member for Macleod and the member for Calgary--Nose Hill all resigned their critic portfolios and other responsibilities so they could campaign fulltime for the leader's role.
It is clear that the right and honourable thing to do would be for those ministers to step down from their posts and campaign to their heart's content. To try to do two fulltime jobs at once does a disservice to their roles as ministers and an even greater disservice to the Canadian public.
United Nations Day
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Bernard Patry Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Mr. Speaker, today is United Nations Day. I am pleased to acknowledge the importance of this organization to Canada.
A founding member of the United Nations Organization, Canada has always been a strong champion of the system based on rules established when the UN Charter came into effect, on October 24, 1945.
We believed at the time, and still do, that multilateral cooperation is the safest way to ensure the safety and security of the world community in the long term.
Today, we look back on recent achievements—the summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg, the special session on children and the consensus achieved in Monterrey, Mexico—that have strengthened the partnership between developing countries and donor countries.
The potential for improvement has increased considerably under the leadership of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose ideas for a reform of the organization have earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.
The UN must be and will be at the heart of the international community's response to the challenges it faces today. Canada will continue to provide it with its steadfast support in this regard.
Literacy Action Day
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Wendy Lill Dartmouth, NS
Mr. Speaker, today is Literacy Action Day and I would like to welcome all of the literacy delegates who are here today to give us an important message.
We all know in the House as parliamentarians the importance of solid reading, writing and comprehension skills in the full process of democratic debate and in the knowledge based economy that we are all working in now.
Canada has one of the highest literacy rates in the world and yet, ironically, in a country that has produced award winning writers, such as Yann Martel, close to half of our citizenry may not be able to even read his novel.
The development of a larger, more skilled workforce is crucial to Canada's future economic success, as well as creating a culture that values lifelong learning.
Today I join with the literacy delegates and call on the government to ensure that making advancements on literacy is a policy and a budget priority.
The Environment
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Serge Cardin Sherbrooke, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Environmental Excellence Awards ceremony was held on October 22. These awards are presented jointly by the Fondation estrienne en environnement and the Conseil régional de l'environnement de l'Estrie. It is my great pleasure to name the recipients:
UPA Estrie and Rivers and Lakes Foundation of Canada, agriculture or forestry sector category; the municipality of Saint-Herménégilde, municipality, city or town category; Envirotel 3000 of Sherbrooke, small business category; Kruger of Bromptonville, large or medium size business category; Action Saint-François of Sherbrooke, environmental group, NGO or institution category; and Daniel Bergeron of Orford, personal contribution category.
Finally, the Centre universitaire de formation en environnement at University of Sherbrooke received the special recognition award.
All the residents of the region can enjoy a quality environment, thanks to the actions and dedication of all these people.
Our congratulations and thanks to all the men and women involved in conserving and improving the environment. Keep up the good work.


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Filmmakers are working on new projects that are being shown outside the island.
Filmmakers are working on new projects that are being shown outside the island.
Buena Vista Social Club founder shows no sign of slowing down after decades of playing Cuban music worldwide
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Láinez, Manuel Mujica
Manuel Mujica Láinez 1910–1984
Argentine novelist, short story writer, biographer, poet, critic, journalist, and essayist.
A prize-winning Argentine author, Mujica Láinez is noted for his elaborate, often fantastic narratives written in a richly elegant prose style. Bomarzo (1962), the novel for which he is best known to English-language readers, is a representative work: the life story of a sixteenth-century Italian duke is recounted several centuries later when he is "reincarnated" as the modern-day author Mujica Láinez. Although he has not attained the critical status of such Latin American writers as Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar, Mujica Láinez is praised as the author of unusual and striking works which achieve a high order of literary entertainment.
Mujica Láinez began his writing career with short stories, poems, historical romances, and biographies focusing on the history and people of Buenos Aires. The four novels of his "saga of Buenos Aires"—Los ídolos (1953), La casa (1954), Los viajeros (1955), and Invitados en El Paraíso (1957)—established him as an important Argentine author. Taken together, these works chronicle the decay of Argentina's wealthy elite as their society dissolves following the upheaval of the Second World War. The theme of decay is common to the novels of both Mujica Láinez and García Márquez. As George Schanzer has found, Mujica Láinez's De milagros y de melancholías (1968), the history of a fictional South American city, is similar to García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude in that both works follow a city into decay and in both works the characters and events are a combination of the realistic and the fantastic. A crucial difference between them, according to Schanzer, is that while One Hundred Years of Solitude is a work of serious social and political comment, Mujica Láinez's novel "is a parody of Latin American reality." Throughout Mujica Láinez's fiction, humor and irony play a central role.
Mujica Láinez's most popular and acclaimed novel, Bomarzo, is the fictional autobiography of a vengeful, alienated hunchback who was a member of the Italian nobility during the Renaissance. From the vantage point of the twentieth century, and with the benefit of such modern systems of knowledge as psychoanalysis, the duke is able to understand why a historical era that glorified human achievement, and that associated physical imperfections with spiritual flaws, rejected him. Critics have described the prose style of this work as colorful and brilliant. But while many applauded Mujica Láinez's evocation of the past and the skill with which he exposed the tensions and paradoxes of Renaissance thought, some charged that Bomarzo was not supported by any larger or more serious aim than that of telling a fascinating story.
Like Bomarzo, the recently translated El unicorno (1965; The Wandering Unicorn) features a twentieth-century narrator who recounts a story from the distant past, in this instance twelfth-century France, where magical powers and supernatural creatures are a reality. Critics were divided in their reception of this work. Some thought the book enjoyable and have described it in terms of fantasy or escapist literature. One re-viewer has observed that in this work Mujica Láinez neglected to confront the social and political themes which have distinguished much of contemporary Latin American fiction. Others found the book to be built solidly on eternal themes of love, death, and human isolation, praising its author once again for his writing skill and his ability to tell an engaging story.
Two more recent novels, Cecil (1972) and Sergio (1976), have entirely modern settings, though they are no less exemplary of Mujica Láinez's idiosyncratic subjects and techniques. Cecil is an autobiographical rendering of a period in Mujica Láinez's life. The title character is the author's English whippet, and the novel is told through a perspective that is a fusion of man and animal. Sergio is the story of a young boy whose great beauty makes him prey to both men and women. Throughout the narrative the author speaks directly to the reader, commenting on the conflict between pare beauty and a corrupt society. These two novels have been especially praised for their subtlety and ironic humor.
(See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 81-84, Vol. 112 [obituary].)
Robert Evett
[The Opera Society of Washington] climaxed a season distinguished by productions of virtually unknown Haydn and Massenet operas with the world premier of Bomarzo, a product of the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera and the Argentine poet and novelist Manuel Mujica Lainez.
Both text and music reflect a number of strong influences which have been assimilated with varying degrees of success. (p. 28)
The principal characters themselves are drawn from history. The dukes of Bomarzo were members of the house of Orsini—which, during the high Renaissance, was in fairly constant competition with the Medici, the Farnese and the Borgia for the papacy. During a couple of centuries, the Orsini contributed their fair share of saints to the Roman canon, but these people do not figure in the opera. The "Bomarzo" of the title, Pier Francesco Orsini, succeeded to the dukedom against considerable odds…. The opera endows the duke with formidable sexual problems, exacerbated by his hideous personal appearance and his poisonous involvement with his grandmother. The acting out of his fantasies involves an encounter with a nude courtesan who figures in orgiastic ballets so uninhibited that, a few days before the premiere, some of the ballerinas refused to dance. In the end, the duke dies, poisoned by his own astrologer, at the base of a statue called "The Mouth of Hell."
In spite of the historical basis of the material, it must have taken a great deal of effort on the part of Sr. Mujica Lainez to convert it into acceptable adult theatre. His technique has been to divide the literary drama into a set of short episodes, presented like movie flashbacks, in which the events are seen from the point of view of the Duke, and the symbols are drawn from the sculptures of the Bomarzo estate. What emerges is a disagreeable interior journey, a series of fifteen humiliating defeats in fifteen scenes, in which symbol and metaphor combine to convey the kind of existential horror and nausea one finds in an opera like Berg's Wozzeck. Bomarzo becomes the libretto of an Italian opera by an author who has read Freud, studied the best operas since Pelléas, and presumably seen a lot of Swedish movies. (pp. 28-9)
Robert Evett, "'Bomarzo', Si, 'Rigoletto', No," in The New Republic, Vol. 156, No. 23, June 10, 1967, pp. 28-9.∗
The figures chiseled out of Etruscan boulders include a 19-ft.-high elephant crushing a warrior in its trunk, a giant dismembering a man, a goddess with each pubic hair clearly delineated, and a 20-ft. satanic head whose mouth opens into a large chamber. These overwhelming creations are 50 miles north of Rome. It is known only that they were carved between 1555 and 1585 at the command of Duke Pier Francesco Orsini.
But are they part of a kinky Renaissance Disneyland for a bored nobleman or projections of a tortured soul? When he visited Bomarzo, Argentine Art Critic and Writer Manuel Mujica-Lainez opted for the latter. He had moreover, an odd feeling of having been there before—perhaps in another life.
Combining a scholar's passion for detail with a novelist's fertile imagination, Mujica-Lainez set about constructing from the few known facts a sumptuous fictional Doge's Palace of the mind. Like that famous seat of the Venetian Republic, whose ceiling, walls, and floors constitute a convulsion of visual splendor, Bomarzo's pages glitter with descriptions of processions, land and naval battles, landscapes, and courtesan's sultry rec room and a cabalist's murky study.
Mujica-Lainez conveys not only the well-known creative energies of the Renaissance but its less understood anxieties as well….
Mujica-Lainez focuses this aesthetic and religious conflict in the mind and body of...
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David Gallagher
Although the hero of "Bomarzo" is some 450 years old, the story he offers us is one, relatively speaking, of his youth, in the Renaissance as the hunchbacked Prince Pier Francesco Orsini, Duke of Bomarzo, who, having sustained a long, heroic and sometimes successful battle against impotence through two marriages, fought without distinction in the battle of Lepanto. The tone of the novel recalls Italo Svevo's "Confessions of Zeno." Mujica-Lainez shares Svevo's candidly endearing irony, and like Zeno, Bomarzo is able to bring to bear on his complexed Renaissance life the lessons of psychoanalysis that he has learnt, centuries later, in Buenos Aires. (p. 40)
The Freudian lessons acquired in Buenos Aires are not lost: the hero has killed his father in order to become him—to become the Duke of Bomarzo—but his life is tormented by the guilt his action has inspired. The fantasy of the hero's remarkable age is indeed a useful device to combine a contemporary account of a Renaissance life with the improving perspectives of a 20th-century education in psychoanalysis. Bomarzo is even aware, in retrospect, that the erect swords flourished at his wedding ceremony were boldly flamboyant, though useless, phallic symbols.
"Bomarzo" has been a best seller in Argentina, and it has earned extravagant praise from perhaps the finest Latin American writer, Jorge Luis Borges. It is as easy to speculate on its appeal as it is to imagine the sour reception it will have from many quarters. Is it not impudent, after all, that a writer from an underdeveloped country should be engaged in a reconstruction of the Italian Renaissance aristocracy instead of tackling the problems of his own people?...
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David William Foster
Although unlikely ever to be considered a great novel, Manuel Mujica Láinez's Bomarzo … has certainly been one of the most memorable—and unusual—works of Argentine fiction in recent years…. Through some feat of necromancy Orsini is able to tell his tale, complete with all the appropriate period accoutrements, while ensconced in his twentieth century study beneath his own gaze as painted by Lorenzo Lotto four hundred years before.
The painting is undoubtedly one of the central keys to the novel. The narrator comments ironically on the idealized Renaissance perfection the portrait exudes, a perfection of body that bore scant resemblance to the man's true physique. Orsini, in frank...
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George O. Schanzer
Since 1965, when Peñuelas noted "la ausencia de nombres hispanos en la extensa bibliografía del mito" [the absence of Spanish surnames in the extensive bibliography of myth], the subject of myths has been explored by Hispanic scholars, and comments on their use by Spanish American writers have become quite frequent. Usually such studies or remarks refer to the born narrators among the novelists of the "boom" who do not emphasize self-reflective structure in their works. The use of myths has been noted and studied in Carpentier and García Márquez, among others. This use has been largely overlooked in Manuel Mujica Láinez, especially in De milagros y de melancolías [Of Miracles and Melancholies], which has...
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Manuel Mujica Láinez, Argentine essayist, journalist, short story writer, and novelist, like Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar and other giants of contemporary Spanish American fiction, evokes a magic world of fantasy, managing to fuse the abstract with the real and to concretize the ephemeral and the absurd.
Mujica defines [Cecil] …, replete with picaresque humor and French and English interpolations, as "autobiografía novelesca." It takes place near Córdoba in a world partly peopled by ghosts and is narrated by his faithful companion, the English whippet Cecil. Through his love for his master, Cecil, who indulges in his own autobiographical recall, fuses with the writer's mind,...
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Richard A. ValdéS
Manuel Mujica Lainez is a very prolific Argentine author, perhaps best known for his novel Bomarzo…. Sergio is his fourteenth work published by Editorial Sudamericana. It is the story of a young man's introduction to love and the sexual life. Sergio, the protagonist, has the curse/blessing of being beautiful. His unusual attractiveness makes him prey for several men and women who try to force their affection on him…. The subtlety with which [the author] treats erotic subjects and motifs blends well with the humorous and sometimes satiric tone of the novel.
Throughout the novel the author speaks directly to the reader. In so doing he creates the...
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Anne Collins
One way to judge The Wandering Unicorn is as a 322-page-long evasion. Here is an Argentinian writer, Manuel Mujica Lainez, still living in Argentina under the military regime that invented that particularly 20th-century crime, the disappearance. But in this novel he is not accounting for the missing, or risking his neck in a land where storytellers are the only ones with half a chance of getting unreal reality across. Instead, Mujica Lainez is playing, wishing himself into the Middle Ages, among fairies and dragons, devils and angels, holy hermits and knights in the death throes of courtly love. We could judge him harshly, but we won't. In Mujica Lainez' case, wishful thinking is not so much an evasion as a...
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Paul Stuewe
The Wandering Unicorn is a myth-based fantasy of picaresque adventure in medieval Europe, and it is simply delightful: complexly delightful, actually, given the detailed tapestry of love, enchantment, and chivalric valour the author has so beautifully woven around the figure of the serpent-woman Melusine. I particularly enjoyed the tone of the narration, which manages to be simultaneously chatty, suggestive, and gnomic in a way that very few writers—Borges of course among them—can consistently control. It's a marvellous piece of work, and just the thing for anyone who finds Tolkien entertaining but less than adept at the delineation of character.
Paul Stuewe, in a...
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John Walker
To describe Manuel Mujica Lainez as a South American writer, as the dust jacket of The Wandering Unicorn does, is a misnomer which hardly does justice to Argentine literature or to Mujica Lainez. There was of course something of a boom in the fiction of that continent in the 1960s and 1970s, and names like Borges, García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, and Julio Cortázar became, if not exactly household names, at least well-known enough to figure in the book pages of the New York Times and other reputable publications. However, the only thing they have in common is geography, since a Colombian novel like García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude has little in common with Carlos...
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Anthony Burgess
Manuel Mujica Lainez's [The Wandering Unicorn] comes with an accolade from Borges. The great experimentalist is happy to see here a return to "the sense of destiny, of adventure with its hopes and fears, the tradition of Stevenson, Hugo and—why not?—Ariosto." The old magician has unerringly picked on the essential elements of this strange tale of a twelfth-century knight preparing to help rescue Jerusalem from the hordes of Saladin. It is a good read, like the two romantic spell-binders he mentions, and it has the frank magic of Orlando Furioso, as well as some of its wit and sexual candour. The heroine is a monster, half-human, half-serpent, immortal and no fool, who conceives an immortal lust for...
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Are You Reading?1/28/2008 12:53:00 pm
I don't have time for this. The pile of papers to mark is too big but I just read Clarence's post about Gary Stager and I can't help asking: "Gary. Are you reading edublogs or just talking about them? Have you seen any of this:"
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Dig in to each of those. Find the links to wikis, podcasts, buckets of links in del.icio.us, flickr, and don't forget to dig in to the outstanding work on display in The Scribe Post Hall Of Fame with contributions from more teachers than just I. Follow the links in blogrolls, get connected via twitter and find out of the daily innovations being made by teachers everywhere. I can't possibly list them all and, if you've looked, you can't possibly have missed them all. And don't overlook some of the excellent (and not so excellent) work done by students and published online as they work on Developing their Expert Voices. Their work is scattered far and wide across the net and aggregated here:
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America's #1 flute specialty house since 1983.
HornpipeComposer: HookPublisher: Emerson Wind EditionsInstrumentation: Flute/Piccolo and BassoonAn English composer and organist of the late 18th and early 19th century, he composed over 140 opus numbers and over 2,000 songs. This little Hornpipe is fun to play, and not too difficult. As it is so short, it can be played twice, with the second time being played faster. Also players can change places for the second time around, and this is a good encore piece.


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Skip to comments.Pelosi, top House Dems to dine with Obama
Posted on 05/08/2013 4:36:23 AM PDT by grimalkin
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Barack Obama has invited House Democratic leaders to dinner Wednesday at a hotel near the White House.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California will attend the private dinner, along with the No. 2 and No. 3 Democrats in the House, congressmen Steny Hoyer of Maryland and James Clyburn of South Carolina. The top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, Maryland's Chris Van Hollen, will be there, plus the chair of the House Democrat's campaign arm, Steve Israel of New York.
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The vultures gather.
why the hotel dinners?
WH kitchen staff been sequestered?
A gathering of our most contemptible enemies to pluck at the rotting carcass of America.
What will these miscreants discuss? How they've catered to the baby killing industry, or how they've pedestaled a gaggle of sodomites?
"...The vultures gather..."
Even vultures can get food poisoning at times....is there any hope?
Contingency planning. How funny that they choose to get together on the day testimony begins on Benghazi. This is like a sick soap opera.
Is Barry running scared? Will the liberal socialists stand beside him? Will they be able to divert attention from Benghazi? Will Hillary throw someone under the bus? Will the liberals be able to squeeze in a manufactured crisis before the zero hour.? Will Nancy save BarrY? Please watch the next episode of "Benghazi Me, Benghazi YoU" 11am CST.
Benghazi Defense strategy session....
(it will be the first time they've considered defending Benghazi.....well....at least their behavior in that regard....
Are they eating cake ???
You can bet on one thing. If there is any way that Steny Hoyer will get a chance to give Obama a rim job. Steny will be there.
They are waiting to hear the Benghazi testimony and then they are meeting to plot their response and smear campaign against the whistleblowers and to create their media talking points.
More than likely you have hit on the answer.
Will there be "food tasters" present?
Pig Night at the WH...
Wow...I thought the same thing.
Why a hotel? Easier for a "bug" sweep? Less likely to be bugged?
And, and after the Benghazi stuff?
Golly gee....ya' think there was a conspiracy or something goin' on.
so those dhimmicrats get to eat more of zer0's crap...
but they love it.
It would be wonderful if it was a "goodbye" resignation dinner after today. One can always hope, can't one?
I'll pick up the tab, of course.
The dinner topic will be how to implement Obamacare and the main course will be crow.
The idiot and chief is taking this to a hotel is because he knows there are those in the white house that is watching and listening to all of what these communist say so he is using a hotel for his criminal meetings.
OBozo be sweating.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that one. Methinks the subjects of Benghazi and with what to do about those "wayward" ones giving their testimony will get top billing for discussion. Time is short, the heat is on, and much plotting must be done.
Other Chicago criminals such as Al Capone had a penchant for having meetings in hotels as well.
I notice many believe this is related to the Benghazi hearings. Perhaps. I just don't thnk obama is that worried about it. They will dodge and weave and the media will help them. My guess is this is a strategy alignment for rest of his 2nd term and how to pick up seats next year and not focused on just Benghazi.
He's gonna give them an update before he Wags the Dog...
With Hillary playing the role of Judas Iscariot.
Let us hope that this is "The Feast of Balthazar" where the invisible hand writes their fate on the wall.
LOL Benghazi Barry
As always I'll take a contrarian approach here. IMHO a hotel (an hotel?) is *less* secure not more. Either from the standpoint of physical security *or* the walls having ears.
So why not the White Hut?
I think in DC it's all about power and it's all about appearances of power. If they go to dinner at the White Hut the congresscritters are being summoned to Barry's place and that puts them on a lower power rung. By meeting at a "neutral" location they are all on an equal footing.
To my political calculus this shows weakness (and is meant to show weakness) on the part of the boy president.
Let's hope escargot is on the menu, and all of them eat some:
They gotta plot together how to respond to Benghazi hearings today.
That would be a great photoshop idea. Take "The Last Supper" and photoshop Bambi and his pet RATS' heads on the participants.
maybe being out of the WH makes it easier to hide who comes and what is said and done
>What will these miscreants discuss?
While we are paying for their luxurious dinner and drinks, they will discuss other ways to separate us from our hard earned money.
Yep! They do a lot of meetings out of WH for exactly that reason!
the point of this is that his relationship with congressional dems isn't any better than his relationship with congressional republicans.
in fact, it may be worse. he treats congressional republicans like his enemy, but he treats congressional democrats like his servants.
Nancy, please don't let the mean Republicans impeach my lazy ass.
I might translate that as Obamuzzie's bunch having a "hang together or hang separately " moment?
I bet they're going to a hotel because there are probably reporting requirements for official White House events and also so that no guest list will be available.
It is very odd, and wastes money. It probably costs more to drive the POTUS to a hotel than to serve him in the WH. Obama keeps doing this, and I wonder why too.
How very Communist of them...!
Your sequester at work.
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Inside OpenFlow
Opportunity and disruption often go hand in hand. OpenFlow creates some distinct opportunities for commodity switch vendors to break into a market segment long dominated by bigger players with extensive feature support in their operating systems. It also creates opportunities for new vendors focused on network controllers, such as Big Switch Networks and Nicira Networks. Taking over the "brains" of the network means switch vendors excelling in low cost manufacturing can remove some of their R&D costs and zero in on hardware sales. But it's also disruptive, to IT and the networking status quo.
Ultimately, the success or failure of OpenFlow, and, more widely, software-defined networking depends on how well controllers integrate with switches and the breadth of availability of OpenFlow-capable switches. In this three-part report we'll provide a market and technology overview, then InformationWeek Reports managing director Art Wittmann weighs in on the effects the protocol may have on the currently dominant players in the "big switch" market. We'll close with a tutorial on OpenFlow.
So far, Cisco and Juniper have both been public supporters of OpenFlow, and Juniper has demonstrated support in some of its products. "The real question about OpenFlow is not if it provides additional capabilities in any one device but whether it can deliver those capabilities across a heterogeneous network," says Juniper's Dave Ward.
The industry excitement around OpenFlow may be exaggerated, and it may be premature. It may trigger major shakeups among networking vendors, bringing important new players onto the field and changing the way established suppliers do business. Only time will tell. OpenFlow does, however, hold the promise of transforming the way we design and control our networks, and that alone makes it worth our attention. (S3631011)
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Barry University's Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) is a student-run program that manages thousands of real dollars in real markets but has grown into a successful and well-rounded educational program. Students are buying real stocks, bonds and securities in markets all over the world while learning how to value financial assets. Barry students are also honing their portfolio management skills while giving back to the community by working with local high schools and teaching finance principles to local students. The program is currently working on plans to set up small scholarships as part of its earning allocation plan.
SMIF co-founders Raul Ballester '11 and Sean Cooney '12 began the project to shorten the 'knowing-doing' gap by getting Barry students to practice what they learned in the classroom and gain real-world experience at the same time.
Barry's Executive Committee of the Admiration as well as the university's Board of Trustees approved the initiative and decided to allocate $50,000 of the university endowment for the group to begin investing immediately.
The first crop of members conducted research, analyzed market data and created investment proposals. To ensure the program's continuity, business dean Dr. Tomislav Mandakovic was appointed to the SMIF board, while Dr. Stephen Morrell, professor of economics and finance, serves as the group's faculty advisor.
SMIF students also get invaluable face time with leading professionals in the financial industry by working closely with the advisory board. Alumni share their wealth of experience in a highly competitive profession that thrives on risks, rewards, innovative thinking and correctly predicting the future.
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On May 31, 2014, a Gulfstream IV crashed after an aborted takeoff at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts. It overran the runway, hitting approach lights and an antenna before stopping in a ravine outside the airport's perimeter. A post-impact fire killed all seven people on board: the two pilots, a flight attendant, and four passengers.
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The I-Cubs are struggling, going 3-7 in their last 10 games, and I really can't say I blame them. Because of illness and injury the Cubs have had to poach players from Iowa, and that will have an effect for sure. Travis Wood, Randy Wells, Welington Castillo, Tony Campana, and now Adrian Cardenas have all been called up at one point or another. Here's hoping for a better week.
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*If you haven't heard the news by now, the orange juice in your refrigerator may be contaminated with a fungicide that is used to kill "black spot" mold that grows on oranges.
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WNET is a proud partner of the Maker Party, an initiative hosted by Mozilla, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Writing Project in which people around the world meet up, learn to make things, and share what they've made online. This collection is designed to support the Maker Party by providing a one-stop shop of STEM and digital making resources that focus on the problem, technology, or process behind object creation.
Teachers can use the collection, which is categorized into design, how to (DIY), arts and crafts, robotics, and engineering subtopics, in conjunction with hands-on activities to further this initiative. Like the Maker Party, this collection is designed to encourage hands-on engagement in science, technology, engineering, math, and the arts.
Kid Designer: A Comfortable Cardboard Chair
Many people have never attempted to build their own furniture because they feel it would be too difficult or too expensive to make anything worthwhile. In this video segment from ZOOM, a yound designer named Nick demonstrates his process for designing and constructing attractive, sturdy chairs from cardboard.
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DIY: How to Make a Clown Face
In this video, Big Apple Circus clown Glen Heroy advises students on the development of their own clown faces. He discusses the important of research, knowing your own face, and makeup to the creation of a clown face.
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ZOOM | Pitch: Making Guitars
Vibrations are the basis for all sound. Controlling the frequency of sound-producing vibrations is the key to creating and playing musical instruments. In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, two cast members demonstrate how to make guitars out of boxes and rubber bands, as well as how the sounds these instruments make can be manipulated.
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Pitch: Water TromboneWhat can a drinking straw and a bottle full of water possibly tell us about how high and low notes are produced in musical instruments? In this segment adapted from ZOOM, a cast member demonstrates that the amount of air contained in an instrument determines the pitch of the sounds it makes. Try this for yourself! This video is available in both English and Spanish audio, along with corresponding closed captions.
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Once it's been read, there's often little more to do with the daily newspaper than to add it to that towering stack of recyclables we collect each week. In this video segment, however, the ZOOM cast demonstrates how innovative design can turn this otherwise flimsy material into a relatively solid piece of furniture.
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Under the auspices of The Gershman Y, the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival (PJFF)seeks to entertain, educate, and engage the Philadelphia cultural community by presenting films and programs that illuminate and explore Jewish values, culture, and history. Now embarking on its 32nd season, the critically acclaimed Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is the second longest running series of its kind in the United States and Philadelphias first film festival. The PJFF serves the Greater Philadelphia region by highlighting the diversity of the Jewish experience through independent feature films, documentaries, and shorts from around the globe.
The Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival has grown to encompass a two-week Fall Festival, taking place November 3rd through November 18th, 2013 at various venues throughout Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, a five-week Documentaries and Dialogue Series in the winter, and New Filmmakers Weekend, a program dedicated to recognizing the achievements of new and emerging filmmakers in the spring.
Exploring such important topics as contemporary Jewish life, Jewish heritage and identity, Jewish diaspora and assimilation, inter-faith marriage, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, terrorism, human rights, and post-Holocaust memories, our two-week Fall Festival (FF) offers film enthusiasts the opportunity to see the best of worldwide Jewish Independent Cinema.
One of PJFFs most successful and anticipated programs is Documentaries and Dialogue (D &D). D & D's mission is to present high-quality, compelling, and thought-provoking films that encourage honest and pluralistic discourse across borders, religions, and political affiliations. To accomplish this, the PJFF presents premiere documentary films each Monday night for five weeks, followed by an audience discussion led by the films director or an expert on the films content and themes. In a welcoming and inclusive environment, audience members engage the speaker and each other in dialogue that explores ideas and issues raised within the film. Audience members look forward to a fun and challenging discussion, eager to share and respond to unique viewpoints and perspectives.
PJFFs annual spring fundraiser, the New Filmmakers Weekend (NFW), will celebrate its 16th season April 20 and 21, 2013 at The Gershman Y. Three first-time feature film directors (one local, one national, and one international) will be honored with Awards of Excellence in Filmmaking. As the award-winning films are often very nuanced and personal, audiences enjoy the opportunity to speak one-on-one with the filmmakers and participate in post-film interviews and discussions.
Philadelphias vibrant film scene contributes to the cultural atmosphere of a city already known for its tremendous music, theater, and art offerings. The Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is honored to serve the Philadelphia cultural community and invites you to be a part of the action!