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Debates of March 11th, 2010
House of Commons Hansard #7 of the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was women.
- Question Period
- Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act
- National Office for Fire and Emergency Response Statistics Act
- Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act
- Tanning Equipment Warning (Cancer Risks) Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Resumption of debate on Address in Reply
- Olympic Athletes
- Azeri Community
- Jacques Hétu
- Ukrainian Voice
- Taxation
- Volunteerism
- Delta Community Leader
- Jasey-Jay Anderson
- The Budget
- Collège Jean-Eudes Football Team
- The Budget
- Persons with Disabilities
- Earthquakes
- Haiti
- Earthquakes
- Earthquake Victims
- Afghanistan
- Government Spending
- Telecommunications
- Justice
- Status of Women
- Taxation
- Haiti
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Government Spending
- Persons with Disabilities
- The Budget
- Telecommunications
- Scientific Research
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Burma
- Haiti
- Employment Insurance
- Rights & Democracy
- The Budget
- Business of the House
- Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply
- Protection of Insignia of Military Orders, Decorations and Medals Act
Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon
Chuck Strahl Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-3, An Act to promote gender equity in Indian registration by responding to the Court of Appeal for British Columbia decision in McIvor v. Canada (Registrar of Indian and Northern Affairs).
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
National Office for Fire and Emergency Response Statistics Act
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Don Davies Vancouver Kingsway, BC
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-495, An Act to amend the Statistics Act (National Office for Fire and Emergency Response Statistics).
Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to introduce a bill that would create a national office for fire and emergency response statistics.
This office would build a database to compile fire and emergency response statistics from across the country. These statistics would be a valuable and much needed source of information that could help our firefighters and policymakers analyze data to keep our communities safer.
Last year I met with Gord Ditchburn, president of the Vancouver Fire Fighters' Union, and Chris Coleman from that union's government and public affairs committee. They told me that Canada does not track fire statistics and they were missing this important tool to help them do their jobs, keeping Canadians and firefighters safe.
Just yesterday my colleague from Ottawa Centre and I met with Ottawa firefighters John Sobey and Rob Collins. They, too, told us about their need for a comprehensive source of information on fire damage, fire deaths and emergency response times in Canada.
I am proud to rise in this House today to propose legislation that would fulfill this sound and needed request.
There are many other things that the government could and should be doing to support firefighters. We should implement a public safety officer compensation benefit for the families of fallen police and firefighters. We should include firefighter safety considerations in the national building code. We should expand our fire database to eventually include comprehensive information on all aspects of firefighting that could be shared from Nova Scotia to British Columbia.
Finally, this bill is one important component of what firefighters have been calling for. I urge all members of this House to join with me in supporting our firefighters. Support this bill and give firefighters access to the information they need to keep us all safe.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Fin Donnelly New Westminster—Coquitlam, BC
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-496, An Act to change the name of the electoral district of New Westminster--Coquitlam.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a piece of legislation that is of concern to the people in my riding.
Nestled between the Fraser River and the Pacific Ocean, with the beautiful coast mountains as the backdrop, my riding includes three distinct communities, New Westminster, Coquitlam and Port Moody.
When the riding name was updated in 2006, only two of these communities were recognized. Port Moody's name was not included in the title, and as a distinct and important part of my riding I am hoping that the House will consent to correct that. This is the aim of this piece of legislation.
I am very proud of my riding and I would ask that all members of the House lend their support to this bill.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Tanning Equipment Warning (Cancer Risks) Act
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
James Bezan Selkirk—Interlake, MB
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-497, An Act warning Canadians of the cancer risks of using tanning equipment.
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Surrey North for seconding my bill that would create an act warning Canadians of the cancer risks of using tanning equipment.
Her family and my family all too well know the dangers and risks of skin cancer, in particular melanoma, and I have been wanting to bring this bill forward to draw everyone's attention to the dangers of using tanning equipment.
Last summer the World Health Organization, under the advice of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, made the recommendation to move tanning equipment to the highest cancer risk category and is now calling tanning beds carcinogenic to humans.
Young people are most at risk and so the bill would develop warning labels and increase signage in tanning salons to ensure that people could see these risk factors, know that there is a chance of getting skin cancer, as well as other premature aging and other issues associated with the use of tanning equipment.
More importantly, we must ensure that the youth of our country are not unnecessarily using these devices. Research has shown that if one starts tanning before the age of 30 in artificial tanning beds that one's risk of cancer increases 75%.
Therefore, these are huge risk factors and we need to ensure that we are doing everything we can from a standpoint of consumer awareness, and this bill would make that happen.
I look forward to everyone's support.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Firearms Registry
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Christiane Gagnon Québec, QC
Mr. Speaker, today I am presenting a petition signed by 726 of my constituents, who are calling for Parliament to reject Bill C-391, which would abolish the firearms registry. These 726 people, like the majority of Quebeckers—women's groups, police chiefs, survivors of the Polytechnique and Dawson massacres—all agree that the registry should be maintained and that it is an important tool for crime prevention.
Three unanimous motions adopted by the Quebec National Assembly called for the registry to be maintained in its entirety. A majority of women and children who are killed by firearms are killed by long guns. Therefore, it is important to preserve this firearms registry, which is consulted over 10,000 times a day by police officers.
This government must listen to the consensus in Quebec once and for all.
Victims of Crime
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Gurbax Malhi Bramalea—Gore—Malton, ON
Mr. Speaker, I would like today to present petitions on behalf of my constituents who have been victims of violent crimes by young offenders.
In support of the family of 15-year-old Baden Willcocks who was murdered on June 19, 2009, the petitioners call upon Parliament to implement the necessary changes to the Young Offenders Act for the benefit of the victims' families whose lives have been destroyed by violent crimes committed by young offenders.
Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Thomas Mulcair Outremont, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am presenting a petition calling on the Government of Canada to restore funding to the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences.
The petitioners want the government to know that interruptions in funding for climate sciences may cause experts to leave Canada and some research groups to be shut down. It takes decades to develop such groups, and their disappearance would not only negate the important investments of time and money made in the past but would also be wasteful if ongoing research projects could not run their course. Furthermore, the loss of Canadian expertise in climate science would decrease our ability to predict climate change and to adapt, all in the middle of the warmest winter in history in many areas of Canada.
The Conservative government must not send us back to the times of Galileo, when scientific dogma was imposed by the authorities.
Animal Welfare
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Maurice Vellacott Saskatoon—Wanuskewin, SK
Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions. The first is from 100 people in Saskatchewan calling on the federal government to support a universal declaration on animal welfare.
The second petition is a bit related with 90 petitioners in total. They want the federal government to amend the animal transport regulations under Canada's Health of Animals Act to reduce transport time for pigs, poultry, horses, calves, lambs, cattle, sheep and goats.
Aviation Safety
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Don Davies Vancouver Kingsway, BC
Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to present. First, I rise to present a petition signed by individuals from all across the country calling on the government to initiate a judicial inquiry into the state of aviation safety in Canada. They note that the government is intent on reducing aviation oversight and cutting back on inspections.
The government has failed to protect whistleblowers who report unsafe practices and the government is putting financial considerations ahead of the safety of aviation workers and the travelling public. These individuals call on the government to stop ignoring its responsibilities and to do its job to keep Canadians safe. I am honoured to rise today to present their call for action.
Animal Welfare
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Don Davies Vancouver Kingsway, BC
Mr. Speaker, the second petition is signed by residents of Vancouver Kingsway urging government support for a universal declaration on animal welfare. This declaration calls for states to take all appropriate steps to prevent cruelty to animals and to reduce their suffering. It calls for the development of standards for animal welfare governing the treatment of farm animals, companion animals, animals in scientific research, and animals in recreational uses and wildlife.
It recognizes the scientific consensus that animals are sentient, have the capacity to have feelings, to experience suffering and pleasure. I spoke in support of the declaration on animal welfare when it was before the House last year and I am pleased to rise again on this important subject to present this petition on behalf of my constituents and prevent cruelty toward all animals.
Canadian Forces
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Bruce Stanton Simcoe North, ON
Mr. Speaker, I have a petition from approximately 70 constituents in my riding. They are seeking through their petition to have our Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan come home as soon as possible and indeed, as they say in the petition, immediately. They cite a number of concerns which I will leave for the government's consideration.
Air Passenger Bill of Rights
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Jim Maloway Elmwood—Transcona, MB
Mr. Speaker, my petition has dozens of signatures calling on Parliament to adopt Canada's first air passenger bill of rights. In fact, Bill C-310 would provide compensation to airline passengers flying with all Canadian carriers, including charters, anywhere they fly in the world. The bill would include measures on compensation for overbooked flights, cancelled flights and unreasonable tarmac delays. The bill would deal with late and misplaced baggage. It would deal with all-inclusive pricing by airline companies in their advertising.
It is inspired by the European Union law where overbookings have dropped significantly in Europe in the last five years. Air Canada is already operating under these European laws for its flights to Europe, so the question is why should Air Canada customers receive better treatment in Europe than they do in Canada?
The bill would ensure that passengers are kept informed of flight changes, whether there are delays or cancellations. The new rules have to be posted at the airport. Airlines must inform passengers of their rights and the process to file for compensation. The bill is not meant to punish the airlines. If they follow the rules, they will not have to pay one dollar in compensation to travellers.
The petitioners call on the government to support Bill C-310 which would introduce Canada's first air passenger bill of rights.
Animal Welfare
Routine Proceedings
10:15 a.m.
Ray Boughen Palliser, SK
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present petitions on behalf of two ridings. I would like to table these petitions today on behalf of the constituents of my riding of Palliser and on behalf of the constituents of the riding of Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre.
The petitioners note that one billion people around the world rely on animals for their livelihood and many other rely on animals for their companionship. They feel it is important that animals be considered during relief efforts and emergency planning. They call on the Government of Canada to support a universal declaration on animal welfare. I am pleased to table these petitions on their behalf.
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
March 11th, 2010 / 10:15 a.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre
Tom Lukiwski Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, I ask that all questions be allowed to stand.
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:15 a.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
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I did play Spore and I was very disappointed. I was angry, actually, because the things that are so cool about evolution were not present. Playing Spore was like expecting an excellent new baseball game and instead it was a soccer game. The worst part is, that real evolution would make a great game!
The real problem with Spore was that Maxis and EA advertised it as being about evolution, and bragged about it being a real science video game. However, anyone who knows about evolution knows that isn't true. The problem is that so many people do not know how evolution actually works, and could easily be confused by the version of "evolution" presented in Spore.
Science journalist John Bohannon assembled a team of scientists to give Spore a report card on all the subjects its claimed to present. You can see this report card here: http://scienceguild.org/wiki/index.php?title=Spore You can read John's review of Spore in Science Magazine, here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/322/5901/531.3.full
Why am I writing about it? Because science can be explained by playing games, but only when the core of the science must be used to win the game. For example, a game about evolution should require the player to overcome that fact that random events may wipe out your offspring at any moment. That would be exciting and teach real science. I am writing about this because we (learning technology folks) are still struggling with this concept. I believe we have learned the theory: we know we want a game that requires the player to use real science to win. The struggling is coming from the question, how do we make that game? Working closely with the scientist, or having the scientist be the game writer is the answer. For examples, see Metablast, Cellcraft and Surge (and Immune Attack, of course).


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Round 3
Xiaoxia Li (CHN) vs. Ariel Hsing (USA) 11-4, 9-11, 11-6, 6-11, 11-8, 11-9
Speaking to HSING, 16, after ger game: "It was fantastic, you were amazing. The first game you started slow and then you were so amazing after that. Well done."
On how HSING played: "Nothing short of phenomenal, she was amazing. I played (table tennis) with her when she was nine, she's gotten so much better, she's playing with the world's best."
On HSING's game: "It would've been quite an upset (if Ariel had won). She's clearly got a great career ahead of her. It was a very close match with one of the best players in the world."
On HSING's future as a table tennis player: "She's gotten herself up to top level and to do that at 16 (years old) means she's got the potential to be as good as anyone."
"I've known her for seven years and she was looking forward to getting into the Olympics, she was very excited about that. Getting through to the third round and just continuing improving, she's great."
On how he met HSING: "My friend Warren BUFFETT (USA) got to play with her about seven years ago and we've rooted for her ever since then."
"Warren BUFFETT had a 75th birthday and he decided we should be beaten at various things, so they took us to play ping-pong with a nine-year-old who turned out to be Ariel."
On his predictions for the women's singles gold medal:"Anyone who beats Ariel is probably pretty good (laughs)."
On how many points he has won off HSING: "Zero, seriously. My service is actually illegal so I did get one (point) with an illegal serve, so that doesn't count, I don't think."
On whether he plays table tennis: "Yeah, in a casual way, I've never really played in competition, just with friends. Ariel and I have done some exhibitions but if I get any points it's only because she's let me."
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On how he supports HSING: "Just with encouragement. She's a really good student at the same time as she's playing ping-pong."
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Westerners think of Kung fu as martial arts, skilled fighting where as gong fu is a quiet peaceful way of brewing tea.
Yet both are things that anyone who is good at it must study for a long time it takes training and patience. So, maybe it's not a coincidence they have such similar names.
Are the words related in Mandarin? (I ask about Mandarin because my husband has been studying it for a few years, he can't drink tea because caffeine makes him way too hyper, but he's curious about what I'm doing and sometimes tries to translates the tea packages I have lying around.)
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Just for fun, online crowdfunding platform Kickstarter this week put 323 (and counting) food and drink establishments for which it has helped raise money on a map of the United States. It's a pretty impressive map. Why so many restaurants?
"It started with just a handful; I think now we're up to over 500 restaurant projects that have happened on the site," Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler told Eater.com earlier this month. "I really think of them as being the perfect project because they are, obviously, so community-based, largely by physical location, but not always."
Four Ohio food businesses and one brewery made the map, including two businesses in Columbus: The Kitchen, the participatory dining experience in German Village, raised more than $45,000 during its 2013 campaign. Seventh Son Brewing Co., the craft brewery in Italian Village, raised more than $28,500 in 2012. The others were: Cute Little Cake Shop in Strongsville, Better Bit of Butter Cookies in South Euclid and pierogi maker Babushka's Kitchen in Independence.


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Tesla: 100% Market Share in Silicon Valley
You could argue that what I am about to present is the equivalent of saying, "I've never seen a non- Apple(AAPL) tablet out in the wild, so therefore..." -- and you would be right. But people are still justifying this kind of reasoning as one factor to consider when predicting the success of this or that gadget, operating system, etc.
So because this is the case in other cases, you will have to indulge me for committing this sin in this case now. The opportunity is simply too rich.
Tesla started delivering its all-electric Model S luxury sedan to consumers in the middle of 2012. By all accounts it appears to have delivered at least approximately 3,000 of them by year's end, and for 2013 the company has guided to 20,000 cars.
On the one hand, that's a whole lot of cars. On the other hand, it's like spitting into the ocean. There are over 300 million people in this country, and there are over 15 million cars sold per year in the U.S. Even at 15,000 cars per year, Tesla would constitute only 0.1% of the U.S. new car market. Obviously, an even smaller percentage of the cumulative stock of cars on the roads.
Here's the thing, though: This is still very early days for Tesla. It's like judging the prospects of the iPhone based on how many people bought the iPhone on that first day in June 2007. It told us nothing about the iPhone's success two, four or six years hence. It's hard to believe now, but for the iPhone's first year in the market, it was not considered to have had a meaningful quantitative impact in the market.
In the early days, a new product can sometimes take root in a very uneven pattern, geographically speaking. The Tesla Model S is an excellent example. There are multiple reasons for this:
1. Tesla's Year-End 'Mad Dash'
Tesla had hoped to build 5,000 cars by year's end. Over the summer and fall of 2012, it became clear that it simply took an extra month to pull all the parts and manufacturing processes. Therefore, to maximize the probability of delivering at least half as many as cars -- 2,500 -- by year-end, Tesla focused on first delivering cars to people living as close to the factory as possible. Those would be the people who pick up at the factory, and where delivery otherwise can take place inside the San Francisco Bay area.
Yes, I know, Tesla still made some deliveries to other geographies, and some people -- such as some from Los Angeles -- picked up the car at the factory themselves. But Tesla focused on maximizing deliveries by Dec. 31, and that meant focusing disproportionately on people living within an hour or two away, driving-wise.


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Sugar Grove Area News in Brief
Benefit for Dubs
The "Sister's in Spirit" Bible Study Group would like to thank all those who so generously donated or made contributions to help with the benefit last weekend for Duane "Dubs" Morningstar.
World Day of Prayer
The 2014 World Day of Prayer Service for the Sugar Grove community will be on Friday, March 7, at the Hessel Valley Lutheran Church. Area churches come together and take part in this annual service.
Portions of the service will be provided by the Chandlers Valley United Methodist Church , the Mission Covenant Church, the Hessel Valley Lutheran Church, The First Presbyterian Church of Sugar Grove, the Sugar Grove United Methodist Church, and the Sugar Grove Free Methodist Church.
Book Club
The Sugar Grove Library Book Club meeting had a special guest on Monday evening. They experienced a Skype session with a most charming and intriguing author, Dan Hetch. He was engaging, humorous and absolutely thrilled that we wanted to talk about his book with him.
The next Book Club Meeting will be held March 31st. The book chosen is Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. You have over four full weeks to obtain a copy of the book and join the Sugar Grove Book Club. For more information, stop in the Sugar Grove Free Library.
Community Lunches
The Community Lunches in the area continue to be well attended. All lunches begin at 11:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend any or all of the area Community lunches. Each month lunch is held on the 1st Friday of the month at the Mission Covenant Church at the corner of Matthews Run and Jackson Run Road. On the 2nd Thursday of each month at the Sugar Grove United Methodist Church located at the corner of Race Street and Jamestown Street in the center of town. On the 3rd Wednesday of the month at the Hessel Valley Lutheran Church located in Chandlers Valley. Everyone is invited to attend.
WCSD Schedule
There will be no school for any employees for students on Monday, March 10. This is an energy day.
Murder Under
the Big Top
Eisenhower Knight-time Players will present their 4th annual dinner theatre, Thursday and Friday, March 14 and 15. Due to continued construction at EHMS, the dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Praise Fellowship Church in Russell.
This year's performance, "Murder Under the Big Top" is a murder mystery written by the director, Mary Passinger. Audience members will have a chance to question suspects and guess who the killer is.
The dinner portion will consist of good healthy carnival food including sausage sandwiches with peppers and onions, meatball subs, or beef on weck sandwiches. In addition guests may choose curly fries with or without cheese or one of the Knight-time Players famous baked potatoes with toppings.
The feast will be finished off by a choice of funnel cakes or apple dumplings. Dinners include salad, entrees, dessert, and drinks, as well as popcorn and peanuts.
Tickets are available through the main office of EHMS (757-8878), from any cast member or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. Tickets are limited and will not be available at the door. Be sure to buy your ticket early. Only $15 for the entire evening.
Broadway Delights
Eisenhower High School Senior Choir officers Sharon Harrington, Kirsten Beardsley, Brooke Stanton and Kearsten Maine are planning for the choir's upcoming "Broadway Delights". This is always a popular event with the general public. This year the event will be on Saturday, March 8, at Praise Fellowship Coffeehouse with shows at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
This biennial event features Broadway songs sung by Senior Choir, Reflections, soloists and small ensembles with a guest appearance by the EMHS Jazz Ensemble. Coffee and gourmet desserts will be served. A limited number of $6 tickets are left and can be purchased in advance by calling the Eisenhower school at 757-8878 ext. 2055.
Registration 2014-15
Registration is now open at the Imaginative Preschool of the Sugar Grove Free Methodist Church for the 2014-15 school year. The preschool has been in operation for more than 25 years and is a wonderful way to start off any child's education. For more information on class sizes and schedules, feel free to contact director/teacher, Mrs. Julie Harrington at (814) 489-3105.
Mr. EHS
The Annual Mr. EHS 2014 Contest will be held on Tuesday, March 4, at 7 p.m. The event is always highly entertaining. The cost will be $5 and this year it will be held in the EMHS gymnasium. Good Luck to this year's contestants Seniors: Bryce Garris, Tre Frank, Jacob Hoffman, Timmy Lange, Ricky Zortman and Juniors: Ben Harvey, Jarrett Johnson, Drew Myer, and Chris Sanders.
EHS Trap
The EMHS Trap mandatory safety meeting will be held Saturday, March 1, at 1 p.m. downstairs at the Sugar Grove AMVETS. Reminder, first-year team members must attend this meeting. All other previous members must attend either this meeting or the one that was held Feb. 26. For more information or questions, team members can contact Coach Carl Black.
SGES Sixth
Grade Honors
The Sugar Grove Elementary School recently held an Honor Roll Breakfast for the 6th grade students that were awarded the status of Honor Roll and Merit Roll for the 6-week grading period. The students and their parents enjoyed the presentation of certificates and breakfast together. Congratulations to SGES Merit Roll Students, Thomas Baran , Dakota Chase , Lilly Darling , Logan Greene , Logan Jaquay , Michelle Kingsley and Mattison Wallin . Honor Roll students are Max Caudill , Cassie Gourley , Ashley Hall , Nevaeh Hamilton , Alex Roberts , Trystan Sandak , Destiny Snook , Catelyn Thompson , Emiley Wheeler and Aubrey Younger.


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The 1968-S Lincoln Cent is really common in circulated grades all the way up to MS66 grades. In MS66 condition it is not as common but there are plenty of examples out there to meet the demand. Examples that are really high end MS66 are much more difficult to locate. In MS67 condition it is scarce with less than a hundred examples known. There are a few examples that are really nice for this date that almost look proof-like but those are the diamonds in the rough and worth keeping an eye out for, as they tend to bring similar prices to non proof-like coins from this issue.


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by Anton Shilov
Intel Corp.'s new fabrication process for RF-enabled system-on-chip devices may finally open the door for the world's largest supplier of microprocessors to the market of smartphones.
Intel Corp. has been trying to enter the market of chips for smartphones and other handheld devices for years. The first attempt involved ARM-based Intel Xscale chips; the second attempt was focused around low-power x86 Atom products and system-on-chips (SoCs). Without much luck in the latter case. Partly this happened because x86 processors consumer a lot of power, partly because smartphone vendors demand very high integration; in particular, they want baseband controllers inside the main SoCs. Intel's new 32nm SoC process allows installing radio frequency (RF) units into the company's future system-on-chips.
Intel engineers have developed a new version of 32nm HKMG process technologies – initially created for CPUs – to make SoCs, particularly those requiring low power and RF/mobile communications. A full array of features has been added, including a triple-transistor architecture with high frequency performance, low leakage power and good noise performance, and high breakdown power amplifier transistors. The latter is needed for CMOS power amplifiers in integrated radio applications such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX, cellular, and GPS. The process provides noise isolation through deep-n-well and high resistivity substrates, and includes high quality inductors, resistors, and varactors.
Intel has already licensed baseband technologies from Nokia Corp. As a result, the company's breed of SoCs aimed at small devices, including the code-named Medfield SoC, may now be made with RF units included.
Intel described this new technology at the 2010 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits this week.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (222 votes).
In short: Superb race - same again next year please!In full: Lovely race - tough hills - great tech T Shirt this time - many thanks - fab marshalls!Date of review: January 26, 2011
In short: A good course, great marshalls, a challange, and 1st race next year.In full: Loved this course, had its ups and downs. The final uphill though, done me in. Not enough, as for me to finish on the home straight, and get a better than expected time. Well done to all the marshalls, and a great tee-shirt to add. See you 2012Date of review: January 26, 2011
In short: I still ache .........In full: A great event. Technical tee shirt a triumph. Organisation 100%. Last hill on second lap did for me. 1 year older than last year and finished 1 second slower. Must remember to train harder next time (NEXT TIME? I must be bonkers). Excellent preparation for London.Date of review: January 26, 2011
In short: All perfect best marshalled race and well organisedDate of review: January 26, 2011
In short: fantastic organisation. Tough hills and windIn full: Fantastic signage, marshalls, support. Toilets - no queue??? (Must have gone too early?) Loved technical t shirt - actualy something I can use. (Nice t collect before race as managed to get small size)Only downside no shower so visted fitness first in peterborough before meeting friends for well deserved sunday lunchDate of review: January 23, 2011
In short: Well done the organisersIn full: Good race that was well organised. Lots of marshalls and hey were very encouraging. Bit windy in places but the rain held off. The hill near the end was a bit of a bugger though.Date of review: January 23, 2011
In short: well organised, great raceIn full: Its a bit elity - I did 12 minute miles and I was 3rd to last. They were taking the signs down as I was running past them! But a great race - 2nd time I've done this race and its tough but a goody.Date of review: January 23, 2011
In short: once again a were well organised race, with plenty of happy runnersIn full: good parking, well marshalled. good facilities at the school with secure baggage. excellent refreshments at the village hall. a nearly traffic free two lap route, a few undulations not hills (and i train in the fens of ely)technical t-shirt which actually fitted.and a PB - nuff said!!Date of review: January 23, 2011
In short: Great marathon training run and superbly organised...In full: To keep things simle there is nothing you can fault about the race, route or organisation. Flawless effort from every single marshll, the Race Director must be proud. Well worth the weekend away from Devon for this one as part of my prep for the Brighton marathon.Thank you, see you next year!Date of review: January 25, 2010
In short: fabulously encouraging marshalls, great organisation, hot dogs to die for :)In full: This is the furthest I've ever run so I was pleased to simply complete the distance. The hills were challenging to say the least but the marshalls were absolutely brilliant - extremely encouraging and friendly. The post-run refreshments deserve a mention too - top hot dogs and bacon butties and Proper Tea from a Teapot. Thank you to the whole team who organised the race, it ran like clockwork, which is more than I can say for my legs.....Date of review: January 24, 2010
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Oh, the voices in my head! Make them stop! "I'm not qualified." "That's a silly idea." "Life is hard enough." "Maybe I don't have what it takes."
In these financially turbulent times, it's a good idea to surround ourselves with positive, uplifting words to drown out our inner nag. Meet artist Valentina Ramos.
After 15 years working as a graphic designer, Valentina Ramos started to create other arts and crafts. From these creations, Valentina Design was born: her world of fantasies and dreams; where her uplifting drawings and designs took shape.
In her Miami studio, this Venezuelan artist spent countless happy hours playing with her paints and her Rapidograph Pens. She enjoys working with different materials, but black ink is one of the mediums you will always find in her original prints, paintings and drawings. Her love for artworks with little intricate details are a signature of her own drawing style.
The best part? Her prints are only $15. I'll take 2, thanks.


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When I stepped out of the car, I felt as if I had stepped into a furnace; the heat from the Paraguayan sun was intense. I was amazed to see a large group of people already waiting for a ceremony to begin. My colleagues and I arrived to join them in the inauguration of new facilities for small farmers in the communities of San Vicente and Jejui in northeastern Paraguay. The U.S. government had partnered with the government of Paraguay and contributed funds and technical support to build the facilities through a program called the Northern Zone Initiative (IZN).
The IZN is part of a U.S. Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay program dedicated to preventing conflict and stabilizing the at-risk northern region of Paraguay. Funded through Section 1207, the project aims to bolster economic security by increasing employment and household income, focusing assistance on Paraguay's large population of small farmers.
Paraguay has two primary agricultural models. One is a large and mechanized system modeled to create exports. The other comprises small subsistence farmers who have little formal training or access to technology. The IZN program helps these small farmers reap some of the benefits of the larger industrial model. The program brings them together to market their crops as a group to command higher prices and gives them access to a new processing facility, a warehouse with farm equipment, and office space to increase their efficiency. The slideshow above shows a number of these new facilities in both San Vicente and Jejui.
The United States and Paraguayan governments have been partners in the IZN program since 2009, with the United States contributing funds and technical support, and Paraguay providing additional funds and in-kind contributions. Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo appointed the Ministers of Governance, Agriculture, and Commerce and Industry to work with U.S. Ambassador Liliana Ayalde on the program, which seeks to strengthen regional law enforcement and local governance in addition to agriculture and economic security.
In San Vicente and Jejui and throughout the northern zone, communities came together to prepare project proposals, negotiate which projects would best meet their needs, and work with technicians to construct the facilities and learn how to maintain them. The communities' involvement at every stage ensured that the projects funded were the ones most important to them and helped to safeguard long-lasting benefits.
At the inaugural ceremony in San Vicente, residents turned out in force to celebrate the project's completion. People started to applaud and cheer as the cover was lifted from the dedicatory plaque. The people of San Vicente had built something together, improving their lives through greater harvest and income, and contributing to the economic stability of their community.
John in the U.S.A. writes:
We need just about every type of agricultural model – farming is a noble and honorable profession that should be encouraged globally – including western nations – from small to large – we need it all – many mouths to feed and bellies to fill – who knows, that hungry child out there – when they are no longer hungry- may revolutionize the world – Keep up the work of good – good work.
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It is exciting to see the U.S. involved in the improvement of Paraguayan agricultural infrastructure. When sustainable economic opportunities are created to measurably contribute to the local economy, violence and other conflicts become less desirable and less common. The State Department is astute to recognize this connection and to help institute the IZN program with the intent of increasing security and bolstering Paraguayan local economies. Helping Paraguay build a solid economic foundation is in the geopolitical interest of the region, the Paraguayan nation, and of the U.S.
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Hi.I would like to know if there is a thread that we can see the actors that did some porno videos...gay or noy gay.
And actors not gay that are doing gays mvies now...
Pls if there is a thread like that tell me here ...tks
Would like to know ´´who is Dan Anderson´´?
He was a porn actors ?
Is that really Thomas Jane's dick? If so, omg. I am addicted to Hung (HBO series) just because of that guy haha.
No, his ex-wife, Patricia Arquette, said that he is definitely not hung like that. HBO uses these prosthetic cocks a lot.
Thank you very much, I know what I'll be watching this weekend
A few screencaps of Jamey Sheridan from The Simian Line. I don't know why this movie's not in widescreen. If it was, you'd be able to see more of Jamey's yummy ass. What stupid filmmakers finally get Jamey naked and then not show anything? Bollocks.
That looks like a young Cindy Crawford. The bathtub pic with him looking up, yeah wish that was me in his spot or me in Cindy's spot lol
Yeah, that's her, lucky bitch!
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Here you are sir, as requested. It's a scene of him in "Basically Becca".
According to IMDB, he hasn't acted in a few years, though he was active for a long time. I assume - based on nothing - that he went to Hollywood for a legit career, decided there was no harm in baring his butt for cable flix while hoping for better work, and then eventually got caught up in his wife's enthusiasm for porn. Now his marriage is over and so apparently is his showbiz career. How he had fun and doesn't regret any of it.
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Interesting in some of the massage pics, it looks like she is rimming Dan. I'd kill for a video of that.
Thank you for the above.. though I have seen it before its still a turn on! below would be the full version of the screen caps above.
(just need to fast forward to the good bits lol) http://xxxbunker.com/3352509
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Yeah, not famous, but that guy has a great mushroom cock head.
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Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jim Beaver and Ben Kingsley didn't show up. There's a "no hotlinking" sign on them.
BTW, Chris Bauer (Andy Bellefleur) FINALLY showed his butt on the Season 5 premiere of True Blood last night. I'll try to post some pictures today if someone else doesn't do it. I've heard good things about it, apparently he's been to the gym a lot since last season.
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Chris Bauer (Andy Bellefleur) on True Blood Season 5, Ep 1. I luurrrv him...


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The Sword does not fuss around with art or atmosphere on Apocryphon. For the most part, the new LP from Austin's premier thrash masters is ball-busting party metal beamed in from the days when metal was essentially just exceptionally loud blues rock.
Things do turn slightly darker midway through the album, around the time "Excreator" starts shouting "You are nothing!" at you to the sounds of a more antagonistic chug. But generally it's Zep and Sabbath essentials injected with Southern swagger — pure denim jacket fist-pump music. They're exceptionally good at this sort of thing.
The almost comically metal-monikered Eagle Claw and Gypsyhawk open Thursday's show.


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The real star of "Picasso and Marie-Therese: L'Amour Fou" (at Gagosian) is a film cllip lasting no more than five seconds. It's on a loop. And on it we see the young Marie-Therese of the title. Incandescently blonde, dressed in a vaguely erotic black coat, Marie-There fixes her hair for a minute. The film begins again. We study this Picasso in motion, this woman who is herself with and without him, and see how little and how much the artist "invented" her. In the film clip, we see the emulsions of time on the strip itself, but the woman is alive in a way that is purely herself–observed, and observing. The story is well known: Picasso was in his middle forties, unhappy in an unhappy marriage, when he met the teenaged girl as she came out of the Metro one afternoon, and her life, and Picasso's, changed forever. Marie-Therese did not know who she was yet, but she was enough of a self for Picasso's narcissism to know he'd found a living metaphor about female desire, and himself. It was, from the first, less of an affair than an arrangement based on mutual need, and desire, and exploitation. Over the years, Marie-Therese's Slavic features appeared in work after work, generally disguised as herself. Watching the film clip after taking in the beautiful, still but always visually moving objects Picasso created to commemorate Marie-Therese and, especially, his feelings about her, I was reminded of a woman I knew once, with similar Slavic features, who gave herself to artists who memorialized her short life without knowing they were, at the time.
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Released: May 4th, 1970
Label: Polydor
Side one
1. "Ain't She Sweet" (Ager/Yellen) (vocal: John Lennon) – 2:10
2. "Cry for a Shadow" (George Harrison/John Lennon) (instrumental) – 2:22
3. "Let's Dance" (Lee) (by Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers) – 2:32
4. "My Bonnie" (traditional) – 2:06
5. "Take Some Insurance On Me, Baby" (Hall/Singleton) – 2:52
6. "What'd I Say" (Ray Charles) (by Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers) – 2:37
Side two
1. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Bernie, Casey, Pinkard) – 2:03
2. "When the Saints Go Marching In" (traditional) – 3:19
3. "Ruby Baby" (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) (by Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers) – 2:48
4. "Why" (Compton/Sheridan) – 2:55
5. "Nobody's Child" (traditional) – 3:52
6. "Ya Ya" (Dorsey/Robinson) (by Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers) – 2:48
In the Beginning (Circa 1960) is the first consolidated American packaging of the 1962 German album by Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers (also known as The Beatles with Pete Best) called My Bonnie. It was recorded at Hamburg in 1961. This album was originally released as The Beatles' First in Germany in 1964 and in the United Kingdom in 1967. Previous American releases of this material in LP form was split in 1964 between MGM Records and Atco Records. Polydor Records established its United States branch in 1969 which explains why this package was released much later in The Beatles' history. Most of the tracks feature vocals by Sheridan. All subsequent releases of Sheridan/Beatles/Beat Brothers material are simply repackages of the same tracks. This album is available in a slightly altered CD by Polydor without the inaccurate (Circa 1960) subtitle and with both parts of "Ya Ya". Only part one of that track was released on this LP.
Triva: In the Beginning (Circa 1960) is also the only Beatles album available for download on the iTunes Store.


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Matt,Chocolate and mozz is a fantastic idea. I am thinking a Stromboli with raspberries and this cheese would be a great pairing. The photo is a little dark, how did you use the cheese exactly.
Sorry for the lousy iphone photo.
It is not sweet at all.
No problem.It's savory? That is really surprising and a pretty cool idea! Do you know how he is adding in the coco into the mozz?
Can you elaborate on this a little more. Is it like burrata but instead of cream in the center it's chocolate? Or is it chocolate whipped with mozzarella?
Is the mozz being made from milk or curds?


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Ichiyo, Higuchi
Higuchi Ichiyo 1872-1896
(Pseudonym of Higuchi Natsuko) Japanese novelist and short story writer.
Higuchi is considered the first major woman writer of Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912). Her literary focus on the role of women in Japanese society, and in particular on the lives of the poor, represented a departure from most Japanese literature of her time, which focused on traditional gender roles in aristocratic society.
Biographical Information
Higuchi was born into a middle-class family in Tokyo. Although she was an excellent student, girls commonly received limited formal education in nineteenth-century Japan, and at the age of 11 her parents removed her from school. In 1886, when she was 14, she convinced her parents to allow her to study poetry at a private school. Her father's death in 1889 left Higuchi, the best-educated member of her family, responsible for their support. Wanting to write professionally, she solicited advice and assistance from the popular journalist and editor Nakarai Tosui. Higuchi's first published stories, "Yamizakura" ("Flowers at Dusk") and "Wakarejimo" ("The Last Frost of Spring") appeared in the literary magazine Musashino, edited by Tosui, in 1892. Ongoing financial hardship influenced Higuchi's writing: in her fiction she examined themes of poverty, social class, women's roles, and societal expectations. Higuchi earned fame as a writer but not financial security. She died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four.
Major Works
Higuchi's third published story, "Umoregi" (1892; "A Buried Life") explores the motivation of a potter dedicated to perfecting his craft. This story appeared in the prestigious literary journal Miyako no hana and was favorably reviewed by the critic and editor Hoshino Tenchi. He solicited further stories from Higuchi for his magazine Bungakkai (The World of Literature), including "Yuki no Hi" (1893; "A Snowy Day"), which examines the consequences of a relationship between a student and her teacher. Her most highly regarded work, the novel Takekurabe (Child's Play), appeared serially in Bungakkai in 1895 and 1896. This coming-of-age novel examines the limited choices facing a group of self-sufficient adolescents living on the streets of a city's licensed "pleasure quarter." Subsequent works included the stories "Yuku Kumo" (1895; "Passing Clouds") and "Wakare-Michi" (1896; "Separate Ways") and the novels Nigorie (1895; Troubled Waters), and Jusan'ya (1895; The Thirteenth Night). "Separate Ways" treats a poor woman who contemplates abandoning the drudgery of work as a laundress and seamstress to become the mistress of a wealthy man. While she regrets relinquishing her self-respect and ending longtime friendships with people who disapprove of her choice, she cannot resist the material comforts and financial security that will accompany life as a kept woman. Troubled Waters examines with insight and compassion the life of a young prostitute. The Thirteenth Night focuses on the social conventions that impede a young woman seeking to escape from an abusive marriage. Higuchi's diary, published after her death, describes in her lyrical prose style the motivation and inspiration for many of her works.
Critical Reception
Higuchi received much critical and popular attention during her brief career, which she believed was at least partly due to the fact that she was a professional author at a time when few women published regularly. The favorable review of "A Buried Life" by Tenchi lead to Higuchi's recruitment into Japanese literary society, and the distinguished author and critic Mori Ogai hailed Growing Up as a literary masterpiece. Modern critics consider Higuchi an important pivotal writer in Japanese literature. They acknowledge that while her prose style adhered to classical Japanese literary characteristics of lyricism, allusiveness, and elaborate wordplay, her works nevertheless exhibit a distinctly modern sensibility. Hailed during her lifetime as "the last woman writer of old Japan," she has been regarded since her death as the first modern Japanese woman writer.
Principal Works
"Yamizakura" ["Flowers at Dusk"] (short story) 1892
"Wakarejimo" ["The Last Frost of Spring"] (short story) 1892
"Umoregi" ["A Buried Life"; also translated as "In Obscurity"] (short story) 1892
"Yuki no Hi" ["A Snowy Day"] (short story) 1893
Takekurabe [Child's Play; also translated as Growing Up, Teenagers Vying for Tops, and They Compare Heights] (novel) 1896
"Yuku Kumo" ["Passing Clouds"] (short story) 1895
Nigorie [Troubled Waters; also translated as In the Gutter, and Muddy Bay] (novel) 1895
Jusan'ya [The Thirteenth Night] (novel) 1895
"Wakare-Michi" ["Separate Ways"; also translated as "The Parting of the Ways"] (short story) 1896
Hisako Tanaka (essay date 1956)
SOURCE: "Higuchi Ichiyo," in Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. XII, Nos. 3-4, October, 1956-January, 1957, pp. 3-26.
[In the following essay, Tanaka discusses the relationships between events recorded in Higuchi's diary and themes in her short stories and novels.]
With the beginning of the Meiji era Japan entered upon a new epoch of her history. The sudden impact of Western ideas made itself felt in many phases of life, and it took quite a time until the people had adjusted themselves to the changes which the restoration had brought to the nation.
This early Meiji era gave to Japan a woman writer, Higuchi Ichiyō (with her personal name called Natsu), who, during the short span of her life from 1872 to 1896, created a genre of stories which is unique in Japanese literature. Her life was full of suffering, part of which was shared by fellow men of her time. However, much of the agony she had to go through was personal in nature. The latter part of her life was constantly threatened by extreme financial insecurity. The gossip of her friends forced her to give up her friendship with her teacher, Nakarai Tōsui. She had to struggle to keep alive, and to fight to conquer her passion, but because of all difficulties with which she had to contend she could write the stories for which she has become famous.
Ichiyō's own miseries had opened her eyes to see the pain of others. The people of the lower strata of society, women and children of the down-town sections of the capital are her heroes. She had so many things in common with the less privileged people that it was easy for her to understand what was going on in their hearts.
Her name will be remembered for her short novels, such as Takekurabe (Comparing Heights), Nigorie (The Muddy Bay), and Jūsanya (The Thirteenth Night), and also for her remarkable diary. In her lifetime she kept a diary without any intention of publishing it. There she expressed her uninhibited self and faithfully recorded the delicate shadings of her maiden heart. Although she tended to be rather subjective in her diary, it proves to be a valuable document, because it reflects, in part, the literary trend of her time. It furnishes important keys to unlock her outwardly reserved personality and provides clues to understand the process by which some of her literary works had been created.
In this brief study of Higuchi Ichiyō, I shall merely try to sketch her life adhering closely to her diary and briefly to touch upon her literary products, which are delicately interwoven with the mosaic of her own strenuous life.
Ichiyō wrote in her diary in the fall of 1895:
Since the time I was a child of seven, I have had in my mind an ambition to write, and the fact that I am writing now is nothing more than a partial realization of my long cherished dreams.…
Earlier in August, 1893, she had already written:
Since the time I was about nine years old, I began to feel resentful over the fact that I might end by being a mediocrity, and day in and day out, I used to yearn to excel others by a segment of a black bamboo.…
She certainly was an extraordinary individual for a woman of the middle Meiji period. Elementary schools were first organized in Tōkyō in 1873, when Ichiyō was about one year old, but in her days an education for women, at best, was intended for nothing more than making good wives and wise mothers. Although her parents came from the present Yamanashi prefecture, she was born in Tōkyō. While the metropolis was still called Edo, her ambitious parents had left their native place to attain the rank of samurai in the capital. Their ambition was realized just a year before the restoration of Meiji and, regrettably enough, soon their hard sought and newly attained rank was reduced to a mere name. However, as a daughter of a samurai, a fact in which she took considerable pride, Ichiyō received a strict family education after the fashion of the Confucian teachings. Under the new political regime, her father held a post in the metropolitan government, and with her two brothers and two sisters she had a relatively happy childhood.
Ichiyō was a bright child. Her father boasted about her, and her teachers preferred her to all other pupils. About her early interest in reading, she wrote in her diary:
From the age of seven I was fond of illustrated story books, and I used to indulge in them forgetting all about playing with a ball or a battledore. Among the story books, what I liked best were biographies of great men and heroes. The deeds of chivalrous and righteous men seemed to penetrate deep into my mind, and I used to be thrilled over anything that was gallant and brilliant.
Her heroic outlook on life, which is often exhibited in her diary, must have had its roots in such yearnings for heroes in her childhood. As a result of her persistant habit of reading under insufficient light, she became very nearsighted. Before she reached her twelfth birthday, she completed six years of elementary school with highest honors. However, because of her mother's opposition, she had to discontinue school, although, Ichiyō said, it nearly meant death for her. Complying with her mother's wish, she began to pursue the ordinary routine of practicing sewing and other domestic arts, but she did not give up her nightly habit of sitting at her desk. Her father bought her an anthology of waka and other texts for her to read, and with a private tutor she studied waka for about half a year. In contrast to Ichiyō's mother, her father, who was well versed in the Chinese classics, was very much interested in giving his promising daughter a further education. Finally, in August, 1886, when she was fourteen years old, he made an arrangement through his friend for her to enter a private school called Hagi-no-ya operated by Nakajima Utako, where Ichiyō received instruction in waka and classic Japanese literature. In this school, she was trained in the orthodox school of waka called Keienha, or Kagawa Kageki's school, which adhered closely to the style of the Kokinshū.
Although her style of waka was rather outmoded, Utako was quite influential among society people, and young ladies from noble families were sent to Hagi-no-ya mainly to cultivate their taste for poetry. Among these gorgeously attired young ladies, the small statured, extremely nearsighted and thin-haired Ichiyō in her simple clothes could not be impressive. Soon she found friendship there with two other girls who happened to be daughters of commoners, and the three of them together, in a rather comical vein, called themselves Heimin-gumi (commoners' clique). Of course, Ichiyō was a daughter of a samurai, but it all goes to show that the kind of distinction her father enjoyed was nothing to compare with the standing of those who were sending their daughters to Hagi-no-ya in lacquered carriages.
If not in anything else, Ichiyō certainly excelled others in her studies. At this school she met Tanabe Tatsuko, later Miyake Kaho, a daughter of Tanabe Taiichi, who was a diplomat and a great functionary of Japan. These two stood out from others in their lessons. In January, 1887, Ichiyō began to write her diary, and an entry was made of a ceremonial first meeting of the year held in February. On a grand occasion such as that, girls vied with one another in the exquisiteness of their kimonos and accessories. Naturally Ichiyō, from the modest family of a minor government official, could not think of competing with them. It was enough of a blessing perhaps for her to be able to continue her studies there, and already in her teens she learned to take a detached attitude toward such vanity of life. She wrote on 19 February of that year:
Although I was terribly ashamed, I found my old clothes more precious than their damask and brocade, for I found in mine the unfathomable benevolence of my parents and was thoroughly pleased with them.
It must have been a harsh lesson to learn for the girl of fifteen, that there existed the high and the low in society, and that some could afford to adorn themselves sumptuously while others, through no fault of their own, had to do without the beautiful. However, Ichiyō found a compensating sense of value in the spiritual side of life, and although outwardly she might have appeared shabby, she possessed a proud heart which yielded to none.
When she was seventeen, she had to face a grave reality, her father's death. All of a sudden the family lost its sole support. Ichiyō's eldest brother had died, too, and her second brother had already established a family of his own; so Ichiyō was left with the obligation to look after her mother and her younger sister. Her father's death had occurred following his failure in some business enterprise; the widow and the two immature girls were, consequently, left in a helpless situation without means of support. For a while they went to live with Ichiyō's brother, but this arrangement did not work out satisfactorily, for the widow and her son constantly disagreed. In May of 1898, Ichiyō went to live with her teacher Utako at Hagi-no-ya. However, the family problems remained unsolved. Finally, in September she found a house for rent in Hongō, in which she started on the hard journey to maintain the household with her mother and sister. The family had no source of income except whatever the aged woman and the two girls could produce. All they could do was occasional sewing and washing which they took in from their neighbors and acquaintances. Her teacher Utako promised to find her a teaching position at a girls' school where she might teach waka or calligraphy, but, probably due to Ichiyō's insufficient formal education and her immature age, no such position was available for her.
About this time, she began seriously to consider writing novels. In 1877 her friend Tanabe Tatsuko, four years senior of Ichiyō, wrote her first novel Yabu no Uguisu after the fashion of Tōsei Shosei Katagi (Scenes from Modern Student Life) by Tsubouchi Shōyō. Tatsuko not only won popularity through this novel, but also was amply rewarded financially for her manuscript. Ichiyō, therefore, wished to follow the path of her friend. She turned to writing as a means of supporting her family.
The diary she had begun to write in January, 1887, was discontinued in April of the same year. Four years later, she started writing it again, this time with all seriousness, and she continued it until July, 1896, four months before her death. The day when she resumed her diary, 15 April, 1891, was an unforgettable day for her. Introduced by her sister's friend, she formally called upon Nakarai Tōsui with the purpose of asking for his guidance in writing. In her diary she wrote:
As I am not yet accustomed to this sort of situation, my ears burned and lips became dry. I couldn't think of words and I didn't know what to say. All I could do was just to bow repeatedly. How foolish I must have appeared! I am ashamed of myself.…
Tōsui, born in 1860, was then a journalist and a popular novelist in his early thirties, who was connected with the Tōkyō Asahi Newspaper. While new writers equipped with the European technique of realistic writing had begun to establish their place among the critical readers of the time, Tōsui and others were gradually losing their ground.
When Ichiyō decided to be tutored by Tōsui, she was hardly aware of such a trend in her time. Until then her literary training consisted mainly in the study of waka and some classics. Professor Shioda has observed that, if she had read more of the literature of her time, and if she had been familiar with the general literary trend, she would not have chosen Tōsui, who belonged to the category of gesakusha (imaginative writers), as her teacher. However, her need was urgent, and just as her friend Tatsuko had the backing of Tsubouchi Shōyō for her first novel, Ichiyō felt the need of someone who could guide her in her new venture. She had no connection with anyone in literary circles. Just then, the individual who happened to come into her vista was Tōsui, and she immediately sought his aid without much reflection.
When she called on him again about a week after their first meeting, he commented on her story which she had left with him. He said that is was too long to be printed in the newspaper, and he further advised her to make her style more colloquial because hers was too classic.
She wrote of her second impression of him as follows:
A person who is likable the first time may not necessarily be so the second time. However, in his case, I felt much more intimate toward him today than I did the last time, and I thought of him as a most unusual individual.…
Near the end of the same month, he sent her a letter telling her to come to see him. On the day of that visit, after giving her general instructions and hints for writing novels, he had this to tell her:
Today I have something I'd like to tell you. It is nothing else but that I am not quite an old man yet. Besides you are a young lady just coming of age. I find it extremely difficult to associate with you.… Therefore I have thought up a device. It is this. When I see you, I am going to think of you as a young man, a close friend or comrade whom I have been associating with all along, and I will carry on our discussion on that basis. Similarly, on your part, rather than to think of me as a man, you must consider me as a girl in your own circle and treat me accordingly.
She herself had not been altogether free from such concerns, and, upon hearing this, she wrote that her face burned like fire and she didn't even know what to do with her hands. She was filled with embarrassment.
It was an extremely naive and unnatural device Tōsui had worked out, but in the Meiji twenties, it was exceptionally rare for a girl to meet a man in the manner Ichiyō had done. Her primary concern was to sell her manuscripts for the livelihood of her family. Her only hope, at a time like this, was to enlist the help of Tōsui who was connected with the influential newspaper. In order to accomplish her goal, she could not be hesitant about her means.
About this time, she commenced her frequent visits to the Ueno library to read modem and classic literature, and plunged into the serious struggle of producing creative writing of her own.
On 7 October of the same year she wrote:
In the afternoon I sat at my desk and, somehow or other, I was engaged in writing. However, for various reasons I got disgusted. I have already torn up my manuscripts about ten times. It is really strange that I haven't even completed a story … I can't go on like this forever, and so I start writing anew thinking up another plot; but none is good enough. Every time I read famous tales and novels, both ancient and modern, I become distressed over my own writing, and finally I begin to feel like giving up. However, perverse as I am, I can't give it up quite so easily, and presumptuously enough I have started writing again. I must, by all means, complete it by day after tomorrow. I feel that I will die if I don't finish it. If people wish to laugh at my faint heart, let them laugh!
In the meantime, the financial situation of the family was not improving at all. Besides her desk work, Ichiyō and her sister had to sew for others for their living. However, at times she took rather a light and graceful attitude toward her poverty. For instance, she was even in the mood to compose waka allegorizing the patch work (hagi) on her kimono she had just finished sewing with the bush clover (hagi) in the field, and fortunately at times her brush flowed more smoothly than at other times. She wrote on the 27th of the same month:
As of tonight my brush has begun to flow at my will, and I have worked till later than usual. I went to bed at one o'clock.
The following entry which she made in the following month reveals her mind at that time:
It has been nearly one year since I began writing novels. I have published none yet, and none satisfies me. My mother and sister blame me repeatedly by saying that I am weak minded and always retrospective.… Even though I write for our livelihood, what is poorly done would seem poor to anyone's eyes. Once I have claimed myself a writer, I would dare not write anything that may be thrown into a waste basket after being read once, as is the case with the majority of writers. People today are frivolous, and what is welcomed today may be discarded tomorrow in a world like this, but if I appeal to the genuine feeling of the people, and if I depict genuine feeling, even if it may be a fictitious writing by Ichiyō, how could it be without value? I do not desire a brocade gown nor am I after a stately mansion. How could I ever stain my name which I wish to leave behind for a thousand years for the sake of temporary gain? I will rewrite even a short story three times, and then I will ask the world to pass judgment. In spite of that, should my efforts be lost as a mere waste of paper and brush, still I would take it as heaven's decree.
Although she was then an insignificant and obscure individual, she certainly entertained high aspirations. As one reads in her diary, one frequently encounters such spirited enthusiasm. Throughout the adversities of her life, it was this tenacious and unyielding spirit which sustained her.
Ichiyō welcomed the New Year in 1892 in a cheerful mood. On 14 February, she completed a story manuscript, having stayed up practically all night, and she felt extremely relieved as if a heavy load was off her shoulders. This was the manuscript of "Yamizakura" ("Cherry Blossoms in a Moonless Night"), which was read and somewhat retouched by Tōsui, before it was published in March in the first volume of Musashino, a literary magazine put out by him for his circle of young writers. This was the first story of hers to be published and for which she used her pen name Ichiyō for the first time. In the subsequent issues of Musashino a few of her early works were also printed. "Yamizakura" was a naive story of love between childhood friends, and like other stories she wrote in the early stage of her career it was rather crude. Her plots tended to be fanciful and unnatural, and she adhered to a classic style.
However, in these sorrowful love stories, it is discernable that she was, in one way or another, casting the shadow of her own suppressed self. Since the day she first met her teacher Tōsui, she was impressed with his manliness and generous heart. As the days passed, her tender passion toward him began to grow. Tōsui, being only a popular writer, naturally was limited in his capacity, beyond a certain degree, to coach Ichiyō in the art of story writing. But Tōsui exerted an immeasurable influence upon the heart of Ichiyō, sensitive and single-minded as she was, for, ever since the time of...
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Donald Keene (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "Higuchi Ichiyō," in Dawn to the West, Japanese Literature of the Modern Era: Fiction, Vol. 1, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984, pp. 165-85.
[In this following excerpt, Keene chronicles Higuchi's literary career, discussing her influences and the critical reception of her work.]
During the six centuries after the composition of Izayoi Nikki in 1280 hardly a single work by a woman left its imprint on Japanese literature. It is true that the court ladies continued to compose imitations of Heian tanka and fiction until well into the fifteenth century, and in the Tokugawa period a few women enjoyed reputations for their tanka, haiku, and even poetry in...
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Margaret Mitsutani (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: "Higuchi Ichiyō: A Literature of Her Own," in Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 1985, pp. 53-66.
[In the following excerpt, Mitsutani examines Higuchi's place as a woman writer in Meiji period (1868-1912) literature and examines the evolution of her literary style.]
At the close of his small book on one of the masterpieces of Heian literature, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, Arthur Waley mentions Higuchi Ichiyō, drawing an analogy between her position in the literature of the Meiji era, and that of women writers such as Sei Shonagon and Murasaki Shikibu in the literature of Heian, approximately a thousand years before Ichiyō...
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Yoshiko Enomoto (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Breaking Out of Despair: Higuchi Ichiyō and Charlotte Brontë," in Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1987, pp. 251-63.
[In the following essay, Enomoto explores parallels as well as differences between the lives and works of Higuchi Ichiyō and Charlotte Brontë, maintaining that both were motivated by a "sense of powerlessness and loneliness" as women writers.]
This article will explore the striking similarities and differences between the lives and works of Higuchi Ichiyō and Charlotte Brontë, two leading women novelists of the nineteenth century. Ichiyō was often called "Brontë" by a contemporary Japanese critic, Hirata Tokuboku, and his...
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Further Reading
Danly, Robert Lyons. In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo, a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981, 335 p.
Critical biography focusing on Higuchi's short stories and diary. Danly maintains the importance of examining "the experiences and preoccupations out of which great literature grows.… If any writer gave her life the shape and meaning of a work of art it was Ichiyō—this was a central purpose of the diaries." The volume includes annotated translations of nine stories selected by Danly as representative.
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Skip to comments.Jeb Bush in 2016? Not Too Early for Chatter
Posted on 11/23/2012 5:16:22 PM PST by WilliamIII
CORAL GABLES, Fla. Now that the Obama and Romney campaigns have closed their headquarters in Chicago and Boston, the attention of the political world is shifting to an office suite tucked behind the colonnades of the Biltmore Hotel complex here.
The suite is where former Gov. Jeb Bush manages his consulting business, his education foundation and, now, the (very) early decision-making process for a possible presidential run in 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
As I told my friend on November 7th.. I would not vote for Jeb Bush if he were the Messiah. We got into a huge fight and needless to say she is no longer my friend,
Hell to the no.
Forget it, but then I say this about all of them right about now. I'm in no mood and I'm highly suspicious of anyone willing to jump into this viper pit. Why would they want to do it after observing what happened to all the Republicans in the primaries and then Romney in the general? FORGET IT!!!
not interested
Actually, there is such a fellow: about 8 years ago my son did a highschool mini camp to experience the US military. A descendent, also named Calvin Coolidge was in charge.Really nice guy.
Gee the New York Times encouraging Jeb Bush to run. Seems like a trustworthy source for conservatives.
Sums up my reaction. Screw RINO Jeb!
There are much much much mucho mucho mucho better Latino candidistas than this sorry arse RINO.
Par examplar, Marcosio Rubirubiosio!
Siempre conservatorre mi amigo.
Never. He let Terri Schiavo be assassinated in his state.
Not a single word about policy.
Enough of this RINO crap. For the 2016 GOP candidate, I nominate the M134 Minigun.
I would take a descendant of Silent Cal over a Dynasty.
This is the Rhino in the living room that everybody is ignoring.
Repubs will run a young half black/half Latino transvestite
that will travel around throwing out condoms and ebt cards, cry on Oprah to show they care. Thats what it looks like to me.
As Jesse Jackson said, "Keep out, the Bushes". Go away, especially the liberal, one world, open border CONSERVATIVE ? GO AWAY BUSH !
In a way Jeb running could be a good thing. Why? Because when the ventual nominee beats him in the primary they can turn to the country and credibly say they're not just a repeat of W, not just another Bush. That in fact, they took on and defeated the Bushes and they're ready to move forward with something new.
the same thing helped Obama in 2008. By beating the Clintons he credibly presented himself as something new and not just a rehash of the 90s.
I hope Jeb does run because his defeat will finally let the GOP put the Bushes behind them and move forward with something new.
True, they have a history of winning the WH. They also have a history of then screwing things up so bad that the Dems win 2 more terms. Also have a history of leading the country into huge recessions that ruin the GOP for years to come. Also have a history of appointing "unknowns" to the SC who end up betraying conservatives in the worst way possible. See Souter being the decisive vote upholding Roe v Wade and Roberts being the decisive vote upholding Obamacare/
I'll pass
The question for us FReepers is whether or not FR will have a JebBushTruthfile, JimRob will loudly proclaim that he'd never endorse such a RINO, and then after he gets the nomination, FR/JimRob endorses the CINO.
What does anyone see in Jeb Bush that makes them think he could turn this country around? I just don't see that in him. I saw it in Mitt Romney and to me I think Romney would be much better and have a much better chance of pulling this country out of it's death spiral. He is a proven business and financial leader. He was a successful governor of a state that led the nation in education. He balanced his budgets and worked across the isle to get things done. Jeb Bush's Florida on the other hand, still can't carry out elections in an orderly and legal way without having lawsuits over missing ballot boxes and 100+ turnout in various counties. Florida's election system and it's personnel are disgraces. Jeb Bush??? That doesn't even get my engine to lukewarm. Someone better has to emerge and maybe Romney will give it another go, or Sarah Palin, etc.. Someone must rise to the challenge.
Versus Hilary Clinton.
To be followed by George P. Bush versus Chelsea Clinton.
To be followed by Michelle Obama versus some relative of the Bushes.
No thank you to Jeb.
I agree with you. Hispanics love Jeb. And that might be enough to win all those battleground states, especially Florida.
RINO File.
BTW, if Jebbie B. runs for POTUS and then loses, IT WILL TRULY BE 'BUSH'S FAULT.'
The GOP-e just doesn't want my vote.
Hispanics could care less about Jeb or little Jorge. They are and ever will be democrats.
"Republican bigwigs announce the anointing of Jeb Bush, and CBS now projects Hillary Clinton (or insert any democrat name) as the winner of the 2016 election!"
Stay out da Bushes!!
Hey may want to check out cryogenics .
It's gonna be at least 100 years before he has a chance.
That is true, actually the last 2!!
The smoke-filled room has moved to semi-secret meetings of money men, four years before the election. The primaries are only for show.
We're doomed.
Under no circumstance will I vote for Jeb Bush, or any other Bush. No royal families. Sorry, you Bush's got your share already.
Jeb bush refused to save the life of Terri Schiavo. I will never forget.
All he did was ask the judge to stop the murder. When the judge refused, Jeb curled up on the floor and sucked his thumb.
I'm interested in the idea, though I have to be honest I'm not sure how much help I could be.
I think I'd be far closer to silent Cal than most -- the sad thing is that people are so dumbed-down/hyped-up they can't think straight on this simple question: what is the legitimate role of federal government as defined by the Constitution? (i.e. "what is the federal government authorized?")
{Look at how many people think the President can "create"/"destroy" jobs; or make laws; or how many think "the Constitution is what the Supreme Court says it is"; or how many people think that inflation is caused by companies; or how many people think that we have a national constitution?}
No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
Never Ever will I vote for a Bush. We don't want a royal family. The Kennedy family was enough.
Unless the Repubs change their nomination process, the liberal media will greatly influence their candidate selection.
No, no a thousand, million, BILLION times NO.
Do you realize that the last time the winning Republican ticket did not include Nixon or a Bush was when H.Hoover won in 1933?
I find that to be an astonishing fact and struggle to come up with an explanation for it. I would say it proves that only hard right wingers can win but the Bushes were really RINOS with that "kinder and gentler conservatism" that brought tax hikes and out of control spending, between the two of course.
1928, not 1933.
Maybe he could takd his old lady and run for President of Mexico!!!
He should leave and quit poluting the US!
Yeah, I fell for some of the Romney as the candidate who can best win stuff because I figured that Romney would win over middle of the road voters in swing states.
But Romney got completely defined as an old rich and out of touch guy quickly. So the middle took the young, hip Obama. And I also think the middle has moved left on social issues.
Whoever we nominate in 2016, I want them to be under the age of 48. I think our only chance is to find a younger, articulate person that will appeal to a new generation. Certainly not Jeb.
Frankly, I think Coolidge is grossly underrated.
Reading through the replies on this thread, I have only this observation:
Four years ago, we were saying the same things about Mitt Romney. And in the end, most of those who were doing the big talking surrendered.
Voting for the "R" was more important than conservatism. Will we learn, or will we never leave the Grand Old Plantation?
My apology for the error and thank you for the correction. Sure would be good to get that 88(will be) year old monkey off our backs in 2016.
But if we have to win with a Bush I will take it.The Repubs are sooooo lost right now.
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