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The creamy white mosaic on our tray showcases the intricate juxtaposition of tiles cut from natural kabibe shells. The tilework is artfully cut and inlaid by hand to form the richly shaded tonal patterns, resulting in a distinctive display piece.
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This one is very good, it reminds me of medium-roasted Oolongs, very pleasant:
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This one is my favorite, even though its a bit less acessible: Its lighter fermented, more complex taste, more special character. Less than Oolong, even more than something totally unique. But since the taste and mouth-feel are more special, it might take some more getting used to:
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MORELIA, Mexico — Once we finished our meetings with representatives from Fedeicomisos Institiuidos en Relacion con la Agricultura (FIRA), the Mexican equivalent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we saw examples of the excellent results of WOCCU's partnership with the organization. Vertically-grown tomato vines filled greenhouses, orchids flourished in a fine mist and even the parking lot played a role, collecting rainwater for greenhouse use. I was joined by Mark Cifuentes, senior vice president of WOCCU Services Group, Luis Jara and Marco Alba Flores from WOCCU's development program in Mexico, all of whom were impressed with the results.
FIRA provides technical assistance to farmers throughout the country and partners with WOCCU's Cooperative Development Program here, one that addresses holistically both financial needs and market barriers for Mexico's rural farmers. The two organizations are collaborating to develop a "toolkit" to help credit unions reach rural individuals with appropriately tailored products and services that lead to sustainable results. Formerly, FIRA had a direct role in rural finance outreach and technical assistance to farmers' and producers' groups, but the organization now relies on entities like credit unions to perform those functions. To prepare, credit union and WOCCU program staff underwent four months of training on value chain network analysis, product supply chains and financing opportunities for credit unions in their efforts to serve farmers.
After our meetings, we toured the FIRA Morelia campus, one of five throughout Mexico. The campus sells high-yield varieties of commonly cultivated crops to farmers and complements the sale with agribusiness courses and training. Farmers need training to properly cultivate these new varieties for best results, so FIRA covers the whole production in their system in their training programs. Farmers learn greenhouse construction and innovative growing techniques that help increase their yields and their incomes.
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EOFF, Donovan F.
EOFF, Donovan F., 91, of Colerain, OH, died Thursday, March 21, 2013 at his home.
He was born December 3, 1921 in Toronto, OH a son of the late Ferdinand F. and Marian M. (McCoy) Eoff.
He was retired from the former Picoma Industries of Martins Ferry. He was a life time member of the Colerain V.F.W. Post #8848. Don was a veteran of WW II and Korean War serving as a Tsgt. in the U. S. Marine Corps where he was wounded during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife Mary Eleanor (Reese) Eoff.
Surviving are his son, Donovan F. (Enis) Eoff, Jr. of Colerain, OH; his daughter, Sherrie (Chuck) Eicholtz of Newcomerstown, OH; four grandchildren, Donovan F. Eoff, III, Nicole Wainscott, Marcy Eicholtz, and Dana (Jon) Freeman; and six great- grandchildren.
Friends will be received at the Heslop Funeral Home, 415 Walnut St., Martins Ferry, Sunday, 5-8 p.m., where services will be held Monday, March 25, 2013 at 10 a.m. with Rev. Dale Tornes officiating.
Burial follows in Holly Memorial Gardens, Pleasant Grove, OH.
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The vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is a rare species of porpoise. It is endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez). Estimates of the number of individuals alive range from 100 [2][3] to 300 [3]. The word "vaquita" is Spanish for little cow.
Other names include Cochito, Gulf of California Harbor Porpoise, Gulf of California Porpoise, Gulf Porpoise, Hafenschweinswal, and Marsouin du Golfe de Californie.
Physical description
The Vaquita has a classic porpoise shape (stocky and curved into a concave shape when viewed from the side). It is the smallest of the porpoises and thus amongst the smallest of all cetaceans. Individuals may grow up to 150 centimetres (4.92 ft) in length and weigh up to 50 kilograms (110.2 lb). They have large black eye rings and lip patches. The upper side of the body is medium to dark grey. The underside is off-white to light grey but the demarcation between the sides is indistinct. The flippers are proportionately larger than in other phocoenids and the fin is taller and more falcate. The skull is smaller and the rostrum is shorter and broader than in other members of the genus.
The vaquita lives in shallow, murky lagoons along the shoreline and is rarely seen in water much deeper than 30 meters; indeed, it can survive in lagoons so shallow that its back protrudes above the surface. Other characteristics of its habitat are strong tidal mixing, convection processes and high primary and secondary productivity.
There are very few records of the Vaquita in the wild. It appears to swim and feed in a leisurely manner, but is elusive and will avoid boats of any kind. It rises to breathe with a slow, forward-rolling movement that barely disturbs the surface of the water, and then disappears quickly, often for a long time. It has an indistinct blow, but makes a loud, sharp, puffing sound reminiscent of the Harbour Porpoise. On occasion it has been reported that the Vaquita has turned hostile towards humans and sometimes has been known to attack with brutality; using its hard skull as a weapon.
All of the 17 fish species found in vaquita stomachs can be classified as demersal and or benthic species inhabiting relatively shallow water in the upper Gulf of California, and it appears that the vaquita is a rather non-selective feeder on small fishes and squids in this zone.
Like other phocoenids, the Vaquita occurs singly or in small groups, usually from 1 - 3 individuals but as many as 8 - 10.
Most calving apparently occurs in the spring. Gestation is probably 10-11 months. Maximum observed life span was 21 years.
Vaquita have never been hunted directly. Indeed their continued existence was only confirmed by a dedicated survey in 1985. However it is known that the Vaquita population is declining, and that this is due to animals becoming trapped in gillnets intended for capturing another species endemic to the Gulf, the totoaba. CIRVA, the Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita, concluded in 2000 that between 39 and 84 individuals are killed each year by such gillnets. The Vaquita is listed by the IUCN and the Convention on International Trade in the Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in the most critical category at risk of extinction. In order to try to prevent extinction, the Mexican government has created a nature reserve covering the upper part of the Gulf of California and the Colorado River delta. CIRVA is recommending that this reserve be extended southwards to cover the full known area of the Vaquita's range and that trawlers be completely banned from the reserve area. Even if the number of Vaquita killed by fisheries is reduced to zero, concerns remain amongst conservationists. Use of chlorinated pesticides, reduced flow of freshwater from the Colorado River due to irrigation, and depression due to inbreeding[4] may also have a detrimental effect.
The Vaquita is one of the top 100 EDGE Species, meaning "Evolutionarily Distinct, Globally Endangered". Evolutionarily distinct animals have no close relatives and represent proportionally more of the tree of life than other species, meaning they are top priority for conservation campaigns.
On October 28, 2008 Canada, Mexico, and the United States, under the jurisdiction of the NAFTA environmental organization, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, launched the "North American Conservation Action Plan (NACAP) for the Vaquita (Phocoena sinus)." The NACAP is a strategy to support Mexico's efforts to recover the Vaquita, which is considered the world's most-endangered marine mammal. The U.S. government has listed the vaquita as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
- ^ Rojas-Bracho, L., Reeves, R.R., Jaramillo-Legorreta, A. & Taylor, B.L. (2008). Phocoena sinus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 march 2009. Database entry includes justification for why this species is critically endangered
- ^ Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, Carwardine, 1995, ISBN 0-7513-2781-6
- ^ a b Aquarium Passport Book, Aquarium of the Pacific 2005
- ^ Examining the risk of inbreeding depression in a naturally rare cetacean, the Vaquita, Taylor and Rojas-Bracho, Marine Mammal Science Vol 15. Pages 1004-1028.
- General references
- Preventing the extinction of a small population: Vaquita fishery mortality and mitigation strategies D'Agrosa, Lennert and Vidal. Conservational Biology vol 14. pages 1110-1119
- National Audubon Society: Guide to Marine Mammals of the World, Reeves et al. 2002, ISBN 0-375-41141-0
- Convention on Migratory Species


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Klíma, Ivan
Ivan Klíma 1931-
(Also rendered as Ivan Klima) Czech novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, critic, and children's writer.
The following entry presents an overview of Klíma's career through 2002. For more information on his life and works, see CLC, Volume 56.
Klíma belongs to the generation of Czech writers who lived through two totalitarian regimes—Nazism and communism. In his creative work, Klíma focuses heavily on autobiographical material, invoking images of the past with keenly observed realistic details. He frequently returns to his own experiences living under the two regimes and the overall moral questions they posed for humanity. Outspoken in his criticism of Czechoslovakia's communist government, Klíma was expelled from the Communist Party and his works were banned from publication following the suppression in 1968 of the Prague Spring reform movement. As a result, many of his works first appeared in typewritten volumes with homemade bindings—the so-called samizdat editions—or in German translation before being published in Czech. After the fall of communism in the late 1990s, the ban on Klíma's work was lifted and he has since enjoyed a resurgence of critical and popular attention within the Czech Republic and abroad.
Biographical Information
Klíma was born in Prague on September 14, 1931, to Ing Vilém and Marta Klíma. Although Klíma was baptized as a Catholic, his mother was Jewish, causing Klíma to be sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Bohemia by the Nazis in December 1941. Klíma spent three and a half years in the camp before he was released. After World War II, he attended secondary school in Prague, later studying Czech language and literature at Charles University. Klíma worked as an editor at the Ceskoslovensky Spisovatel publishing house from 1956 to 1963. On September 24, 1958, he married Helena Malá, a sociologist, with whom he has two children. From 1969 to 1970, Klíma served as deputy and editor-in-chief for Literarni noviny, the weekly publication of Czechoslovakia's Union of Writers. Klíma was in London en route to the University of Michigan for a one-year teaching appointment when Russia invaded Czechoslovakia in 1969. Klíma had the opportunity to live in exile like many other Czechoslovakian intellectuals but decided to return to his home country in the spring of 1970 to resist the Communist regime. His work was immediately banned by the government and he was placed under surveillance by the police. Klíma and a group of fellow writers, including Vaclav Havel, Ludvik Vaculik, Milan Uhde, and Pavel Kohout, began publishing their work in samizdat editions, privately copied works that were secretly distributed in small quantities. During this period, Klíma earned his living writing articles and essays for foreign publications. He also worked temporarily as a street cleaner in Prague in order to escape the confinement of his home and as a means to conduct research for his novel Láska a smetí (1987; Love and Garbage).
Major Works
Klíma's earliest fiction is collected in the short story volumes Bezvadný den (1960) and Milenci na jednu noc (1964; Lovers for a Day). His first novel, Hodina ticha (1963), concerns the futile attempts at organization by a group of Czech farmers upon discovering the government's plan to seize their land for collectivization. Klíma's first book to be translated into English, Lod' jménem Nadeje (1969; A Ship Named Hope), consists of two novellas that develop allegorical condemnations of communism and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In the title piece, the passengers of a cruise ship find themselves at the mercy of a malevolent crew member after the vessel strays off-course. The second novella, The Jury, depicts twelve jurors of a murder trial who are forced to render a verdict despite their discovery that the defendant has already been sentenced and executed. The stories in Má veselá jitra (1978; My Merry Mornings: Stories from Prague) revolve around characters who attempt to manipulate Czech bureaucracy. For example, in "A Christmas Conspiracy," Klíma relates the misadventures of an ostracized literary scholar who decides to sell fish on the black market but lacks the shrewdness necessary to make the venture profitable. Moje první lásky (1981; My First Loves) collects stories that describe the experiences of an unnamed youth during and immediately following World War II. The story "Miriam," which is set in German-occupied Prague, follows the narrator's attraction to a girl who works in a soup kitchen. The girl abruptly ends their friendship after the deportation of local Jews to Nazi death camps.
In Cekání na tmu, cekání na svetlo (1982; Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light), the protagonist, Pavel, tries to escape to the West when the Russians invade Czechoslovakia, but his attempt is unsuccessful and he is sent to prison. Fantasy interweaves with real events from Pavel's life as he dreams of the day when freedom will return to his country and he will be able to write again and direct his own film. Eventually, Pavel submits to the system and goes to work as a cameraman for the state-run television station. Unfortunately, he becomes alienated from both his friends—because of his capitulation—and from his employers—who are suspicious of his dissident past. The 1993 revised edition of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light explores Pavel's continuing feelings of isolation and confusion after the fall of communism in 1989. The novel Soudce z milosti (1986; Judge on Trial) recounts the story of a man named Adam Kindl. Told through third-person narration interspersed with the narrator's reminiscences, the novel follows Kindl's early life in a Nazi concentration camp. Kindl is later released from the camp and goes on to become a federal judge. He faces a professional crisis when he must preside over the trial of a lodger accused of gassing his landlady and her granddaughter. A steadfast opponent of the death penalty, Kindl must either abide by the wishes of the communist government or hold to his own principles and jeopardize his career.
Klíma's partly autobiographical novel Love and Garbage features a Czech writer whose work has been banned by the government. Although he has a dutiful wife and two children at home, the narrator cannot resist having an affair with a passionate sculptress named Daria. When Daria pressures the narrator to leave his wife, he abandons Daria and begins to work as a Prague street cleaner in order to forget her. His work as a street cleaner is never described, but instead acts as a symbol of degradation through menial labor and of the pervasiveness of human waste. Poslední stupen duvernosti (1996; The Ultimate Intimacy) relates the story of Daniel Vedra, a Protestant pastor who has just become married for the second time. Vedra recognizes that something is lacking from his marriage when a beautiful stranger attends his church to hear him preach. After Vedra begins a passionate relationship with the woman, his life begins to unravel, causing him to question all of his political and religious beliefs. Klíma employs a new prose technique in The Ultimate Intimacy, interspersing letters and diary entries throughout the action of the novel, which is set amid the social and economic upheaval of post-Communist Prague. Ani svatí ani andelé (1999; No Saints or Angels) follows a Czech dentist named Kristýna who has become obsessed with the shame of her father's communist past and has convinced herself that her life is a failure. Her daughter, Jana, is a teenage drug addict, who eventually frees herself from her addictions and tries to salvage her relationship with her mother.
In addition to his novels and short stories, Klíma has also written several plays and essay collections. His first play, Zámek (1964; The Castle), is a reinterpretation of Franz Kafka's novel Das Schloss. Zámek is a comedy that satirizes the Czech community of state-supported artists. The play Mistr (1967; The Master) constructs a mystery around a carpenter who delivers a coffin to a family despite their insistence that they did not order it. The essay collection The Spirit of Prague and Other Essays (1994) chronicles Klíma's experiences in a Nazi concentration camp and his later life in Czechoslovakia under the Communist regime. Klíma has additionally published O chlapci, ktery se nestal císlem (2000; This Is Not a Fairy Tale—It's Real), a children's book, and Velký vek chce mít tez velké mordy: zivot a dílo Karla Čapka (2001; Karel Čapek: Life and Work), a critical examination of the Czech author.
Critical Reception
Klíma's work was not widely known outside of Czechoslovakia during the 1960s. Since he became a dissident writer in the 1970s, Klíma's writings have received increased critical attention, particularly in Western Europe. Most reviews of Klíma's fiction have included a discussion of his role as a dissident and his decision to remain in Czechoslovakia under censorship rather than writing from exile. Several reviewers have noted that while the act of writing and publishing secretly during communism may have been political, Klíma's work does not have overtly political content. Instead, critics have commended Klíma for his continuing focus on individual lives and struggles. However, Scott Bradfield has commented that Klíma's preoccupation with personal issues can be a liability, stating that, "At his best, [Klíma] articulates how philosophical arguments are exemplified by human lives. And at his worst, his narratives tend to get mired in introspection; his characters tend to be swallowed up by their own rampant subjectivity." Many critics have continually lauded Klíma for his skillful use of black humor and satire to portray the effects of political and economic oppression on ordinary individuals. Peter Kemp has asserted that, "As an unbudgeably honest indicter of fraud and corruption, Klíma is exemplary. Where he starts to strike false notes is when he turns to what have before proved his fictional weak spots, mistresses and mysticism." Many commentators have noted the influence of Franz Kafka on Klíma's work, with some even arguing that his prose often includes deliberate homages to Kafka. While assessing Klíma's overall significance as a Czech writer, Mark Schapiro has stated that, "The very human nature of Klíma's work is precisely what makes it accessible, if not always lofty. His writing does not belong on the highest rungs of literary masterworks but in the realm of the vivid storyteller, the prober into human foibles."
Principal Works
Bezvadný den (short stories) 1960
Karel Čapek (essays) 1962; revised edition, 1965
Hodina ticha (novel) 1963
Milenci na jednu noc (short stories) 1964; revised as Lovers for a Day, 1999
Zámek [The Castle] (play) 1964
Mistr [The Master] (play) 1967
*Lod' jménem Nadeje [A Ship Named Hope] (novellas) 1969
Porota (play) 1969
Milostné léto [A Summer Affair] (novel) 1972
Hry (play) 1975
Má veselá jitra [My Merry Mornings:...
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SOURCE: Enright, D. J. "Czech Mates." New York Review of Books 36, no. 8 (18 May 1989): 37-9.
[In the following excerpt, Enright asserts that readers are likely to empathize with the narrator of My First Loves, though notes that some readers may be irritated by him at the same time.]
Ivan Klíma's My First Loves relates to much the same time-span as I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal, and the second of its four linked stories features a wise old violinist, formerly a waiter and a major-domo who once served the Austrian Emperor with a glass of wine at a banquet in Vienna. He tells the young narrator that people shouldn't look down on...
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Ivan Klíma and Philip Roth (interview date 12 April 1990)
SOURCE: Klíma, Ivan, and Philip Roth. "A Conversation in Prague." New York Review of Books 37, no. 6 (12 April 1990): 14-22.
[In the following interview, Klíma discusses the political situation in Czechoslovakia and its effects on the literature of the country.]
Born in Prague in 1931, Ivan Klíma has undergone what Jan Kott calls a "European education": during his adult years as a novelist, critic, and playwright his work was suppressed in Czechoslovakia by the Communist authorities (and his family members harried and punished right along with him), while during his early years, as a Jewish child, he was transported, with his parents, to the Terezin...
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Peter Z. Schubert (review date spring 1991)
SOURCE: Schubert, Peter Z. Review of Love and Garbage, by Ivan Klíma. World Literature Today 65, no. 2 (spring 1991): 325.
[In the following review, Schubert discusses the publishing history of Love and Garbage and argues that the book's enthusiastic critical reception was well deserved.]
In countries other than Czecho-Slovakia, writers who have not achieved popularity with the reading public rely on other jobs to make a living. In Czecho-Slovakia, however, the most popular authors work in other occupations. The president, ministers, and ambassadors, for instance, can hardly find time to continue with their literary careers, which they pursued for...
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Anna Shapiro (review date 19 May 1991)
SOURCE: Shapiro, Anna. "Garbage to Garbage, Dust to Dust." Los Angeles Times Book Review (19 May 1991): 3, 10.
[In the following review, Shapiro notes a definite American influence in Klíma's Love and Garbage and in Felix Roziner's A Certain Finkelmeyer.]
It is odd enough that two novels about Jewish writers living under the thumb of Soviet censorship, each with a wife and two children and a beloved mistress, should appear in this country at the same time, but a more surprising similarity is that both are so strikingly removed in tone from what one thinks of as characteristically Eastern European.
The chilling humor of a Milan Kundera or...
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Stanislaw Baranczak (review date 29 July 1991)
SOURCE: Baranczak, Stanislaw. "Life Is Elsewhere." New Republic 205, no. 5 (29 July 1991): 36-9.
[In the following review, Baranczak compares and contrasts Love and Garbage with Milan Kundera's Immortality.]
There must be something wrong with me or with the fiction of Central Europe, if these two very different books by two very different authors, each one of them hailed as the crowning achievement of a leading representative of the cutting-edge section of that cutting-edge area of contemporary literature that Central European fiction supposedly is, leave me each with the feeling that there is no edge to do any cutting.
Love and...
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Peter Kemp (review date 25 October 1991)
SOURCE: Kemp, Peter. "Evident Absurdity." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4621 (25 October 1991): 20.
[In the following review, Kemp evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Judge on Trial, noting that the novel "takes you into an atmosphere of choking oppressiveness."]
An acrid smell wafts from the pages of Judge on Trial—that of gas. Two characters mentioned in the book gas themselves. A disturbed young man tries to do the same for himself and his mistress. Her husband, about to preside over the trial of someone accused of gassing an old woman and her granddaughter, is a Jew who spent his wartime years in the shadow of the gas chambers....
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Carole Angier (review date 13 December 1991)
SOURCE: Angier, Carole. "The Old Adam." New Statesman and Society 4, no. 181 (13 December 1991): 37.
[In the following review, Angier examines the bleakness of Klíma's world view in Judge on Trial.]
Ivan Klíma's superb stories, My First Loves, were published here in 1986. Since then we've had two knife-like novels, A Summer Affair and Love and Garbage, cutting deeply into his twin subjects of politics and love. And now Judge on Trial, which has been considered his masterpiece since it appeared in samizdat form in Czechoslovakia in 1978. It cuts still more deeply, and widely, into the same two diseases; it shows step by step, how...
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Neal Ascherson (review date 19 December 1991)
SOURCE: Ascherson, Neal. "Heartlessness." London Review of Books 13, no. 24 (19 December 1991): 17.
[In the following review, Ascherson argues that Love and Garbage displays Klíma's literary talents more effectively than Judge on Trial.]
The war was finished—and so was the regime of occupation. Its most hated representatives had either fled or wound up in prison while their victims had been proclaimed martyrs. But all that concerned just a tiny section of the population: most of the people had not died, fled or gone to gaol, but merely gone on with their lives. Overnight, they had entered a world which commended actions that yesterday's...
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Carole Angier (review date 2 October 1992)
SOURCE: Angier, Carole. "Jobs' Worth." New Statesman and Society 5, no. 222 (2 October 1992): 42.
[In the following review, Angier lauds Klíma's use of humour, evocation of mystery, and examination of society in My Golden Trades, commenting on the influence of Franz Kafka on Klíma's writing.]
Over every Czech writer hangs the shade of Kafka: his voice and his greatness. In My Golden Trades, Ivan Klíma invokes Kafka for the first time (I think) in his writing. Like everything else in this collection, that is perfectly judged. For here Klíma joins Kafka, at least for me. He turns a similar grave and penetrating gaze on to a paranoid society; he...
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James Naughton (review date 16 October 1992)
SOURCE: Naughton, James. "Recycling the Stories." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4672 (16 October 1992): 24.
[In the following review, Naughton discusses the themes and sense of place in My Golden Trades.]
It is bold, even in a volume as pleasant to read as this [My Golden Trades], to cite, several times in one story, the eternal verities of Ecclesiastes and to assert that, as well as using up "most of our fuel, our non-ferrous metals, our drinking water, our clean air; we've used up our stories as well," "there is nothing new to add." Ivan Klíma is admirable in eschewing pseudo-literary violent sensation, and in advocating the values of...
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Dennis Drabelle (review date 18 April 1993)
SOURCE: Drabelle, Dennis. "Hard Decisions." Washington Post Book World (18 April 1993): 6.
[In the following review, Drabelle concludes that, despite a slow beginning, Judge on Trial is a passionate and compelling novel which serves as a culmination of Klíma's work thus far.]
Questions of loyalty have long preoccupied Czech novelist Ivan Klima. His newly translated novel, Judge on Trial, weaves them into a complex pattern that sums up nearly all his work. It's not allegiance to superficial symbols like flags or anthems that engages him—and certainly not to the shibboleths mouthed by the former communist establishment. Rather, the Klima protagonist...
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Peter Filkins (review date summer 1993)
SOURCE: Filkins, Peter. "The Way They Lived." Partisan Review 60, no. 3 (summer 1993): 487-93.
[In the following excerpt, Filkins derides the lack of narrative progression in Love and Garbage.]
Halfway through Ivan Klíma's Love and Garbage, the narrator exclaims, "I am not going back and I am not going forward, I am standing in a void, I am standing between two fields, at the meeting point of two calls which intersect each other, I am nailed to the cross, how can I move?" Though this refers specifically to the narrator's inability to choose between his psychiatrist wife Lida and his sculptress lover Daria, it's also a lament about the stasis of life in...
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Karen von Kunes (review date autumn 1994)
SOURCE: von Kunes, Karen. Review of Judge on Trial, by Ivan Klíma. World Literature Today 68, no. 4 (autumn 1994): 848.
[In the following review, von Kunes asserts that Judge on Trial is a culmination of the ideas and thematic material found in Klíma's previous work.]
Those who are familiar with Ivan Klíma's writings can recognize Judge on Trial, in one form or another, in the author's previous works. Ambitious in its depths, the novel is a quest for truth and justice, freedom and loyalty. The story, which begins after the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, is multileveled, with numerous flashbacks and reminiscences.
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Peter Sherwood (review date 18 November 1994)
SOURCE: Sherwood, Peter. "The Other Europe." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4781 (18 November 1994): 21.
[In the following review, Sherwood examines the bleak themes and outlook of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light.]
It is now five years since those faces on the television screen, ecstatic as the Berlin Wall fell and as the party men took their final curtain. Not all that has followed in the Europe can be explained in terms of the re-emergence of age-old fault-lines; in particular, the radical political changes achieved without armed conflict in the north and west of the region have been too readily seen as proof of an organic return to the body of...
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Adam Zamoyski (review date 10 December 1994)
SOURCE: Zamoyski, Adam. "Bearing Witness to the Truth." Spectator 273, no. 8683 (10 December 1994): 43.
[In the following review, Zamoyski praises Klíma's skill with prose and narrative in The Spirit of Prague and Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light.]
Ivan Klima has had quite a life. He was eight years old when the war began to impinge on his Prague childhood, restricting his movements in the city, banning him from school, forbidding him from going to the cinema—though he challenged the Gestapo on that one when Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came to town. He describes these things in The Spirit of Prague and Other Essays as...
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B. R. Bradbrook (review date spring 1995)
SOURCE: Bradbrook, B. R. Review of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, by Ivan Klíma. World Literature Today 69, no. 2 (spring 1995): 395.
[In the following review, Bradbrook explores how the fall of Communism affected the protagonist in Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light.]
"In our literature now we have too many Joyces," declared the Czech poet Miroslav Holub in an interview in London in March 1995. Although Ivan Klíma's novel Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light does not quite fall into this category, its layered structure of time and place, together with the interweaving of the single episodes, is reminiscent of Joyce;...
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Gabriele Annan (review date 20 April 1995)
SOURCE: Annan, Gabriele. "Broken Blossoms." New York Review of Books 42, no. 7 (20 April 1995): 15-16.
[In the following review, Annan focuses on the pessimistic outlook, cynicism, and sense of disillusionment that pervades Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light.]
A short time before the Velvet Revolution a peaceful demonstration marches through Prague with banners calling for LESS SMOKE, MORE AIR. The police are ready with their truncheons and water cannon; Pavel is standing ready with his television camera and the van with the State Television logo on it. "The clash would be as absurd as all the others before it," he thinks,
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Peter Z. Schubert (review date summer 1995)
SOURCE: Schubert, Peter Z. Review of My Golden Trades, by Ivan Klíma. World Literature Today 69, no. 3 (summer 1995): 609.
[In the following review, Schubert notes that My Golden Trades is well worth reading, despite what he contends to be a flawed translation.]
The latest addition to the extensive list of Ivan Klíma's publications in English, the novel Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light has just been favorably reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. Even before this special attention, however, Klíma undoubtedly was one of the most frequently translated and most popular Czech writers. Although his latest...
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B. R. Bradbrook (review date summer 1995)
SOURCE: Bradbrook, B. R. Review of The Spirit of Prague and Other Essays, by Ivan Klíma. World Literature Today 69, no. 3 (summer 1995): 610.
[In the following review, Bradbrook evaluates the essays in The Spirit of Prague, providing brief summaries of the major thematic material, including Klíma's childhood, his opinions regarding dissident writers, and the history of Prague.]
"In themselves, extreme experiences do not open the way to wisdom," says Ivan Klíma in one of his essays in the collection The Spirit of Prague, which in fact contains much wisdom resulting precisely from the extreme experiences the author had to endure. Muses may be...
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Peter Sherwood (review date 31 October 1997)
SOURCE: Sherwood, Peter. "A Czech Intellectual." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4935 (31 October 1997): 26.
[In the following review, Sherwood offers a negative assessment of The Ultimate Intimacy, commenting that the novel overindulges in "simplistic nostalgia."]
The latest in a long line of serious Klíma professionals, Daniel Vedra is a Protestant pastor with the familiar melancholy air and ascetic strain, whose journey through the past twenty years of Czech(oslovak) history The Ultimate Intimacy strives to show as a Calvary of the decent Czech intellectual. The stations of his cross have the definitive articles of his faith: the Charter...
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David Irvine (review date 3 January 1998)
SOURCE: Irvine, David. "The Old Story Served Fresh." Spectator 280, no. 8839 (3 January 1998): 28-9.
[In the following review, Irvine maintains that Klíma undertakes a powerful examination of the nature of love in The Ultimate Intimacy.]
In his novel, Love and Garbage, Klima's narrator says on the subject of writing:
I still believe that literature has something in common with hope … I am not greatly attracted to books whose authors merely portray the hopelessness of our existence, despairing of man, of our conditions, despairing over poverty and riches, over the finiteness of life and the transience of feelings. A...
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Scott Bradfield (review date 25 January 1998)
SOURCE: Bradfield, Scott. "Freefall." Los Angeles Times Book Review (25 January 1998): 8.
[In the following review, Bradfield criticizes The Ultimate Intimacy, arguing that the novel is too long and often repetitive.]
In Ivan Klíma's new novel The Ultimate Intimacy, the Communist-free Czech Republic is finally ready to catch up with the fast-track modern world. Skinheads are advocating capital punishment in Prague streets. The health-care system has been privatized into a shambles. And now that freedom of religion is available to everyone, nobody wants to worship anything but money. It's a perilously liberated world in which the old walls are coming...
(The entire section is 790 words.)
Ivan Klíma and Rob Trucks (interview date May 1998)
SOURCE: Klíma, Ivan, and Rob Trucks. "A Conversation with Ivan Klíma." New England Review 20, no. 2 (spring 1999): 77-87.
[In the following interview, Klíma discusses his body of work, his major themes, and his opinions on Czech literature.]
NOTE: The writings of sixty-six-year-old Ivan Klíma were banned in his native Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia) following the Prague Spring of 1968. Unlike fellow Czech prose artists Milan Kundera and Josef Skvorecky, Klíma chose not to emigrate. He remained in Prague where his writings were only available through samizdat, a network of writers who distributed typed copies of...
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Ivan Klíma and Mark Schapiro (interview date 17 May 1999)
SOURCE: Klíma, Ivan, and Mark Schapiro. "Fading Czech Velvet." Nation 268, no. 18 (17 May 1999): 38-41.
[In the following interview, Klíma discusses how Czech literature has changed since the political reconstruction of the country.]
As I'm driven to the home of Ivan Klima, one of the Czech Republic's most internationally respected writers, the hand of fate slips in beside me in the taxi. Heading into the remote, hilly outskirts of Prague 4, I fumble to show the driver my scrawled address, but he tells me I needn't bother: He used to live right next door to Klima. They were neighbors almost two decades ago.
Has he read any of Klima's books? The...
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Jonathan Levi (review date 5 September 1999)
SOURCE: Levi, Jonathan. "The Poetry of Waiting." Los Angeles Times Book Review (5 September 1999): 2.
[In the following review, Levi examines the stories in Lovers for a Day, commenting that Klíma's earliest stories are the strongest in the collection.]
Waiting. In a century that has given birth to more utopias and more graves than any other, is there a word that describes better the state of man? Is there a more active word to describe man's activity (perhaps, following Beckett, man's only activity) or man's hope?
The Czech writer Ivan Klíma is best known in this country for his novel Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light,...
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Alan Brownjohn (review date 10 September 1999)
SOURCE: Brownjohn, Alan. "Love after the Revolution." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5032 (10 September 1999): 21.
[In the following review, Brownjohn traces Klíma's portrayal of love throughout the stories in Lovers for a Day.]
These twelve short stories about love and lovers are selected from two collections representing quite distinct periods in Ivan Klíma's work. Neither book has been published in Britain, and Lovers for a Day thus provides a most welcome addition to the substantial number of remarkable novels already available in translation; several of which, like A Summer Affair, are addressed to the same favourite theme.
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B. R. Bradbrook (review date summer 2000)
SOURCE: Bradbrook, B. R. Review of No Saints or Angels, by Ivan Klíma. World Literature Today 74, no. 3 (summer 2000): 670.
[In the following review, Bradbrook lauds the interior monologue and narrative structure of No Saints or Angels.]
The effect of Ivan Klíma's traumatic childhood experience under the Nazis often appears in his writings as a tone of gloom. In his latest novel, No Saints or Angels, the gloom has intensified into a serious concern and a search for the causes of unhappiness in human relations. A decade after the fall of communism in Klíma's homeland, the destructive legacy of the odious regime still upsets indirectly the balance of...
(The entire section is 483 words.)
Nick Laird (review date 26 October 2001)
SOURCE: Laird, Nick. "The Apparatchik's Daughter." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5143 (26 October 2001): 21.
[In the following review, Laird contends that the use of a female narrator in No Saints or Angels adds to the book's clever and engaging plot.]
In a letter to the Editor of the New York Review of Books (July 21, 1988), Czeslaw Milosz upbraided Al Alvarez for a positive and respectful review of his Collected Poems, complaining that Alvarez shoehorned his poetry into an outdated mode of thinking about Eastern European writing as being essentially a reactive art, an exact and opposite impulse to the pressures of oppression....
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E. J. Czerwinski (review date spring 2002)
SOURCE: Czerwinski, E. J. Review of No Saints or Angels, by Ivan Klíma. World Literature Today 76, no. 2 (spring 2002): 221.
[In the following review, Czerwinski praises No Saints or Angels as one of Klíma's strongest and compelling works, but faults the translation for its confusing melding of British English and modern slang.]
Like good wine, Ivan Klíma improves with age. During the sixties and seventies his works seemed guided by a heavy hand and a censor's steady gaze. As the political climate became more oppressive, his writings acquired an air of freedom. His latest novel [No Saints or Angels] (perhaps more accurately translated as...
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Further Reading
Allen, Brooke. "Silence, Exile, Cunning." New Criterion 18, no. 3 (November 1999): 60-5.
Allen argues that Lovers for a Day exhibits the continuity of Klíma's writing throughout his career.
Bradbrook, B. R. Review of Velký vek chce mít tez velké mordy: zivot a dílo Karla Čapka, by Ivan Klíma. World Literature Today 76, nos. 3-4 (summer-autumn 2002): 144-45.
Bradbrook commends Klíma's critical study of Czech author Karel Čapek in Velký vek chce mít tez velké mordy: zivot a dílo Karla Čapka, noting that "apart from the Czech title, there is not much to criticize in...
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Bank of America is Flush With Capital: Analyst
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Bank of America (BAC) looks like a solid growth and income play, according to Atlantic Equities analyst Richard Staite.
Staite rates Bank of America "Overweight," with a $12 price target and on Wednesday said in a report that "BAC already met its Basel III capital requirements in Q3 thus putting it in a strong position to return capital to shareholders." The analyst called the company "our top pick among U.S. banks."
Bank of America is currently paying a nominal quarterly dividend of a penny a share, and did not seek Federal Reserve approval to buy back shares when the regulatory conducted its last round of annual stress tests. Staite estimates that after the 2013 stress tests in March, the company will be approved to pay out $2.086 billion in dividends in 2013, with the dividend yield jumping to 1.8%.
While a dividend yield of 1.8% is not particularly impressive, considering that JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is already paying out 30 cents a quarter, translating to a dividend yield of 2.81%, based on Wednesday's closing price of $42.77, it's quite a significant jump for Bank of America. And state expects the company's annual dividends to jump to $3.864 billion in 2014, for a dividend yield of 3.4%, matching his yield estimate for JPMorgan Chase for that year.
Bank of America certainly has its challenges, mainly springing from its purchase of Countrywide Financial in 2008, with $25.5 billion in unresolved mortgage claims as of Sept. 30. The company also has a long-running dispute with Fannie Mae (FNMA) over putback claims, that has for the most part kept BAC from selling newly originated mortgage loans to the government-sponsored giant.
The company's earnings have been weak, with operating returns ranging from 0.06% to 1.08% over the past five quarters, according to Thomson Reuters Bank Insight, but as the company's capital has solidified, the shares have recovered quite a bit of what they lost during 2011.
According to Staite, Bank of America "now has a 9.0% Basel III ratio meaning that it has effectively met it full Basel III requirements. In comparison JPM currently has a $27bn deficit and
Staite estimates that by the end of 2014, "JPM will eliminate its deficit but by this stage BAC will have amassed $29bn in surplus equity."
The analyst expects Bank of America to be approved to repurchase $4 billion worth of common shares during 2013, with buybacks increasing to $10 billion in 2014, which will "shrink BAC's shares outstanding by around 10% which provides part of the explanation for why our 2014 EPS estimates are 25% above consensus." The consensus among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters is for Bank of America to earn 97 cents a share in 2013, with EPS increasing by 29% in 2014 to $1.25.


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Debates of March 29th, 2001
House of Commons Hansard #39 of the 37th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was benefits.
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1:45 p.m.
Yves Rocheleau Trois-Rivières, QC
Madam Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I will say a few words on this important but incomplete bill which obviously does not answer the needs of workers in Quebec and Canada in terms of improving on the Axworthy reform.
As the member for Joliette said, we have been discussing the issue of employment insurance, formerly unemployment insurance, reform for ages. We have been discussing it since the days of Mr. Axworthy, who was replaced by the current Minister for International Trade, who was himself replaced by Mr. Dingwall, then by Mr. Doug Young, and finally by the incredible current Minister of Human Resources Development who had some problems we are all familiar with. Thus it is not the first time that members opposite are proposing major changes. They already did that with the disastrous impact we are all too familiar with.
In a riding like Trois-Rivières, in 1989 83% of workers were eligible for unemployment insurance benefits in the unhappy event that they lost their jobs because they contributed to the UI fund. Now only 34% of those who contribute to the EI fund qualify. This is what this government has managed to do. It is a scandal we are faced with daily.
This means that the Mauricie, which includes the ridings of Trois-Rivières, Champlain and Saint-Maurice, the Prime Minister's riding, is being short-changed by tens of millions of dollars in funds that could have been invested to keep the economy going.
It is a bit ironic to hear the member for Saint-Maurice, the Prime Minister, with all the problems he is experiencing with the Auberge Grand-Mère, say that it was to maintain and create jobs that he invested there and that consequently he is entitled to get his money back. We know that he was involved in some of the administrative measures taken by his own government, which have deprived our region of hundreds of millions of dollars since 1994. Therefore it is indecent on his part to say such irresponsible things, which show a lack of respect and contempt for the workers of his own riding.
There are some very serious omissions in this reform, as we can see from what happened to the surplus in the employment insurance fund. We know that in less than 10 years the surplus has grown to the point where it now stands at $35 billion. The government had maintained the 1997 decision to abolish the program for older worker adjustment, better known as POWA. This program was the result of cutbacks to a more generous program, work adjustment training or WAT. This program was designed specifically for the workers in the Canadian textile industry which fell victim to decisions made in Ottawa concerning a foreign trade deal with countries less developed than ours whereby we would exchange wheat for textiles. This measure affected the economy in Quebec where 70% of the textiles were produced in those days.
There was a program specifically created for the closing of textile plants, and it was known as WAT. It was designed for all textile workers. The program was fundamentally changed and became the program for older worker adjustment, POWA, which was more universal but had more stringent rules. In 1997 the federal government had too much on its plate in its fight against the deficit on the backs of poor people, so it decided to completely abolish POWA without any reservations and any further compensation.
Today, despite the $35 billion surplus, we still have to live with the same administrative decision. When plants close, sometimes ruthlessly or for external reasons of non- profitability compared to foreign competition or management negligence, workers are footing the bill and those who are 55 years of age and over are not receiving any compensation.
In Trois-Rivières this has had the following result: the Tripaq plant, despite considerable assistance from the Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec, which should be recognized, that did everything in its power to save it, had to close its doors for objective reasons. The federal government totally washed its hands of the matter. However much we appeal to the government as we do on other issues, it was useless, I am thinking of my colleague from Drummond who on the issue of the Celanese plant had some people come here to show their frustration and express their hope of being able to rely on public funds they themselves contributed to, it was useless.
I want to remind the House that the federal government has no money in the EI fund. It is $35 billion that belongs to workers and employers. Today the federal government wants to maintain the rates it talked about during its totally demagogic election campaign because the Bloc courageously opposed this before the campaign. It wants to maintain control as if this was its own money, and this is totally indecent.
If members were to ask workers and business people if they wanted POWA to be reintroduced, with all the financial help and social solidarity this program entailed, I am sure that they would agree to have substantial help provided to older workers who lose their jobs.
In a riding like Trois-Rivières this can be devastating. Despite all its promises and all its billions of dollars, the federal government's lack of concern and understanding is quite shameful. What we are talking about here is a hidden tax, a special tax paid by workers earning $39,000 or less. With only 34% instead of 83% of the people getting benefits, this is a misappropriation of funds.
We will keep on criticizing the federal government for not spending public funds most effectively, for not showing more compassion to fathers, mothers and children facing hard times, and for not strengthening the social fabric.
When we go from 83% to 34% women working part time and seasonal workers are hard hit. I thought it was shameful and totally immoral for the federal government to stop talking about seasonal jobs and start talking about seasonal workers. These workers are full time workers who unfortunately have seasonal jobs. This is something we should remind the people in charge of the EI system and their minister of. We have to adapt the system to the realities these workers are facing.
Also, this legislation goes after the students. They have summer jobs and pay EI premiums, and yet they know they will never be able to collect any benefit.
The lack of concern of the federal government applies also to the POWA file, as I mentioned, but in view of the government's surplus it also applies to an issue that has to do with the pulp and paper industry, the existence of which I am pleased to mention today. I am referring to the integrated centre for pulp and paper technology, a natural field for the Saint Maurice valley, which is vital to how we have traditionally defined ourselves.
There is a plan to merge the research centre of the Université du Québec in Trois-Rivières with the Centre for Pulp and Paper Technology at the cégep de Trois-Rivières. The Quebec government has already announced its intention to be financially involved in this project, pledging tens of millions of dollars. It is a $85 million to $100 million project.
Hopefully this afternoon the minister of finance of Quebec is going to reaffirm her intention to support this project. However the federal government is stalling. The infamous Canada Foundation for Innovation, set up by the current Minister of Finance with $1.3 billion of taxpayer money, has so far said no.
To this day nobody in this government has cared to make up for this seemingly totally arbitrary decision. This project, which is a top priority in Quebec, does not even register on Canada's radar screen.
This issue is the perfect illustration of our two solitudes. It reflects two different ways of seeing things. It shows that our priorities are very seldom the same. Hopefully Quebecers will understand that they have no future in this country, and that it is only when we are masters of our own destiny once and for all that we will be able to work within a true partnership between Quebec and Canada.
Employment Insurance Act
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Robert Lanctôt Châteauguay, QC
Madam Speaker, I rise to express my opposition to Bill C-2.
My colleagues presented many aspects of the legislation that show that the government has no respect for employees as well as employers by not addressing their problems.
This legislation is hurting workers by refusing to address urgent situations and to correct the deficiencies of the current act.
What the Bloc Quebecois is asking for is clear. The measures the Bloc Quebecois is asking for are meant to correct flaws in the plan by taking into account the day to day condition of workers and a labour market that keeps changing, with students who have to combine a job and studying and an increasing number of independent workers. These two groups are not taken into account in the bill, but they will have to be soon.
It is the duty of the federal government to address the issue right away so that these two groups of workers are included just like other workers already covered by the plan.
The Bloc Quebecois is asking the federal government to respond to the hopes of workers, to further improve the EI plan and to eliminate discrimination in EI requirements.
We have to abolish the definition of labour force, because it penalizes directly the young and women in that they have to work a total of 910 hours in 52 weeks to qualify.
A women who re-enters the labour market after two years is considered a new entrant and not a member of the labour market. What a shame.
The same is true of young people who are also considered new entrants, because they are in their first job. This same definition allows certain workers to be eligible for the same plan with no more than 420 hours accumulated.
The self-employed have been completely forgotten. It might even be said that this segment does not exist at all, or worse, is not worth the bother to the government. Self-employed workers represented 12% of the total workforce in 1976. They represented 18% in 1999. The government cannot deny this segment of the population which now represents one worker in five. The figure is huge.
We must absolutely not forget that this sector of workers is growing. The federal government must, right now, include these workers fully in the employment insurance plan.
Another group penalized by this bill is that of young people. It creates a dichotomy in that students must go to school as well as work in order to survive and in the hopes of finding well paid work. However the standards in this bill give them no help at all.
The latest census in 1996 reported over 2.8 million full time students. According to the monitoring and assessment report one million individuals earned less than $2,000 and were therefore entitled to a refund.
However, only 40% of these people applied for a refund and 42% of them were under 25 years of age. In short, 2.6 million students are being taxed to study. Young people—
Employment Insurance Act
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
The Speaker
I am sorry to interrupt the hon. member, but it is 2 p.m. and we must proceed to statements by members. He will have five and a half minutes to complete his remarks after oral question period.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Rodger Cuzner Bras D'Or—Cape Breton, NS
Mr. Speaker, it is indeed a pleasure to stand in the House and share with all members information on a truly unique event taking place in my constituency this weekend. The 12th annual Vince Ryan Old Timers Hockey Tournament is being held in Cape Breton beginning today and will see 125 teams from across Canada and the United States converge on my community.
The tournament's namesake, Vince Ryan, was recognized throughout Cape Breton and indeed the Atlantic provinces as a skilled athlete, a fierce competitor and a man who held high a sense of fair play and sportsmanship.
Upward of 2,000 players will compete in the spirit of fellowship in the country's national winter pastime in what has become one of Atlantic Canada's premier adult recreational sporting events.
I thank Duddy Ryan, the entire Ryan family, Ritchie Warren and his committed group of volunteers for ensuring that this annual event continues to be a highlight of our Cape Breton winters. I wish them all the very best in this week's tournament.
Auditor General
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
John Williams St. Albert, AB
Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, March 31, Denis Desautels, the Auditor General of Canada, will retire after 10 years of dedicated service as an officer of parliament. I rise today to acknowledge his contribution as one of Canada's most dedicated and trusted public servants.
He has served our country well. As members of parliament our integrity is often questioned in the House, but his integrity is beyond question. He has been our conscience and our watchdog. When he speaks, the nation listens.
Many of his reports have highlighted the problems of waste and mismanagement in government and the need for transparency and openness in government. At times he fundamentally disagreed with government and held his ground, but they all speak amply of his dedication to improving the service Canadians receive from their government.
On behalf of all members of parliament and senators, I thank the auditor general. We wish him a happy retirement or a new career, but whatever the future holds and wherever it may take him, he goes with the best wishes of all in the House and indeed of all Canadians whom he has served so well.
F. R. Crawley
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Peter Adams Peterborough, ON
Mr. Speaker, this is Oscar week and the 25th anniversary of Canada's first academy award for a documentary film The Man Who Skied Down Everest .
This was won by F. R. Budge Crawley who in his acceptance speech said:
Thank you...for this American award for a Canadian film about a Japanese...who skied down a mountain in Nepal.
Crawley Films received hundreds of awards for its thousands of films and TV shows. It was a springboard for stars with names like Bujold, Davis, Greene, Grierson, Little, Pinsent and Plummer.
The late Budge Crawley was a pioneer cameraman, director and producer. He received an honorary degree from Trent University and was a member of the Order of Canada. His work, including much Arctic footage, now forms the Crawley Collection in the National Archives.
He was recognized for his Oscar in the House of Commons on March 30, 1976. We honour him again today.
Figure Skating
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Sophia Leung Vancouver Kingsway, BC
Mr. Speaker, last week the World Figure Skating Championships were held in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Over 200 athletes from 55 countries and 540 volunteers participated in this global event which took place from March 19 to March 25. The federal government provided financial support of $250,000 through the hosting of major sporting events in Canada program.
Special thanks to the minister for amateur sport for his presence and support for this unique project in B.C. He, Senator Joyce Fairbairn and I worked together as a Liberal team to help promote B.C. and Canada to the world.
I extend congratulations to everyone involved in this successful event.
Student Achievement In Brome—Missisquoi
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Denis Paradis Brome—Missisquoi, QC
Mr. Speaker, if I may, I would like to salute nine young students from Brome—Missisquoi for distinguished achievements over the past year.
Mélissa Arbour, of Magog, Joël Brault, of Cowansville, and Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, of Bedford, received the Governor General's History Medal for the Millennium.
Isabelle Fontaine, of the Canton of Magog, and Adam Hooper, of Sutton, received the Governor General's Academic Medal.
Marie-Ève DuGrenier and Kim Desrochers, of Farnham, Joanie Beauséjour and Michelle Campbell, of Bedford, came away with honours from the Bell Science Fair Eastern Township regional finals.
Congratulations to these young people. They must be proud of their accomplishments. I admire their determination, creativity and desire to excel. A future full of promise is before them.
On behalf of the people of Brome—Missisquoi, I to tell them know how proud we are of their success.
Grants And Contributions
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Gary Lunn Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC
Mr. Speaker, the summit of the Americas takes place in Quebec City in three weeks, bringing together heads of state from 34 nations to discuss a number of issues including the creation of a free trade agreement for the Americas.
A parallel people's summit is being organized around the same time to protest the summit of the Americas. Groups who are participating in the people's summit include the Council of Canadians, Canadian Auto Workers and our very own NDP members of parliament, as well as many others.
What I find very disturbing is that some groups are advocating that people should break the law. They are very public in their intentions to train activists in the skills of civil disobedience.
What is even more disturbing is that these groups, through the people's summit, are being funded by our federal government. The Prime Minister has handed out $300,000 to these organizations. It is appalling that the government would spend taxpayer money to support people who intend to break the law.
Aboriginal Achievement Awards
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Nancy Karetak-Lindell Nunavut, NU
Mr. Speaker, two Nunavummiut, Mariano Aupilardjuk of Rankin Inlet and Zacharias Kunuk of Igloolik, are recipients of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation 2001 awards.
Both Mariano Aupilardjuk and Zacharias Kunuk are well known for their work in promoting Inuit culture within Nunavut and throughout the world.
Mariano Aupilardjuk is a teacher of Inuit traditional knowledge, a great performer known for his drum dancing and song writing and for the beautiful carvings he makes.
Zacharias Kunuk co-founded the first independent Inuit film company, Isuma Productions of Igloolik. He has just completed his own feature length movie, made in Igloolik and performed by local actors and actresses.
I know their families and friends are very proud of the two recipients. I wish to extend my congratulations to Mariano Aupilardjuk and Zacharias Kunuk.
Salon Du Livre De L'Outaouais
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Christiane Gagnon Québec, QC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday marked the opening of the 22nd Salon du livre de l'Outaouais, at the Palais des congrès de Hull. The theme this year is "Lire aux éclats", which alludes to the great joy of reading.
The book fair runs for five days and will feature panel discussions, meet-the-authors, literary games, literary receptions, book-signings, interviews, and books, books and still more books, as well as hours of delightful readings.
This international event is the work of a remarkable team of people who have devoted their time, energy and passion to it for some months. Congratulations to them, and thank you.
Particular mention needs to be made of the generous contribution of Estelle Desfossés, chairman of the board of the Salon du livre de l'Outaouais, who is also the committee co-ordinator for the Bloc Quebecois.
We wish the Salon du livre de l'Outaouais every success.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Steve Mahoney Mississauga West, ON
Mr. Speaker, the citizenship and immigration committee is hearing witnesses on Bill C-11 to help rewrite the Immigration Act for the first time in 25 years. It deals with issues such as visitor visas, landed immigrant status, permanent residency and refugee determination.
We want to hear from as many Canadians as possible. Our plan was to travel to Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and London, Ontario to hear people's concerns. Schedules were laid out, but the Canadian Alliance says it will not go. Instead we will be relegated to hearing people who can get to Ottawa and to teleconferencing.
The Canadian Alliance now wants to hijack committees the same way it has hijacked parliament. Canadians are fed up with these tactics. Instead of listening to concerns from across the country, the Canadian Alliance would rather throw mud and destroy parliament. It is doing a disservice to the country.
National War Museum
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Roy H. Bailey Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Mr. Speaker, veterans and friends of the war museum from across Canada have raised millions of dollars toward the building of the new national war museum. They were told that it would be built in Rockcliffe to complement the aviation museum and the new military cemetery.
In 1998 when the federal government announced a new $70 million war museum there was great joy. Today it appears the location will be changed to LeBreton Flats. The original joy has now turned to bitter disappointment.
Why does the government feel that it has a right to change the original location without any consultation whatsoever with those who have donated so generously?
If this move takes place without total agreement from the loyal supporters of the war museum, it will be a national betrayal. Who will benefit from the property that was originally reserved for the war museum? Certainly not the vets.
Organized Crime
Statements By Members
March 29th, 2001 / 2:10 p.m.
Carole-Marie Allard Laval East, QC
Mr. Speaker, since opposition members are silent on the important events taking place in the country, I would like to draw the attention of this House to the impressive job done by our police forces to fight organized crime.
By launching Operation Printemps 2001, police forces have destabilized criminal motorcycle gangs. In all, over 200 searches were conducted and 125 arrests were made, this following an investigation that lasted over two years. Let us acknowledge the remarkable work done by our police officers.
The message sent to criminal gangs is clear: criminal activities will not be tolerated in Canada. Our government is very concerned about the activities of criminal gangs. Our communities must not live in fear.
The commitments made during the last election campaign are clear. This week's operation shows more than ever that our government is on the right track.
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Bev Desjarlais Churchill, MB
Mr. Speaker, the new Liberal government is only four months old and already we see that what the Liberals said during the election has nothing to do with their actions once elected. There is a long list of broken promises, from scrapping the GST and eliminating child poverty to an independent ethics counsellor.
What are Liberal members doing that they never talked about during the election? They never said a word about toll roads, but now the transport minister cannot wait for Canadians to start paying to use their own highways.
Another example is airport fees. It already costs an arm and a leg to fly. Now the Liberal government is letting airports jack up landing fees, taking even more money out of the pockets of travellers. The transport minister states that people voted for this when they voted in the Liberals. I wonder why the red book did not say a word about it.
Toll roads and airport fees would not be necessary if the Liberal government adequately funded infrastructure. Canadians expect their taxes to fund public infrastructure. They should not have to pay even more in the form of road tolls and landing fees.
The government has the money and it should commit the necessary funding for our highways and infrastructure. That is what Canadians deserve, not more Liberal neglect.


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Stress Management Health Center
Walnuts Reduce Stress
Oct. 6, 2010 -- Regularly eating a handful of walnuts can affect the blood pressure response to stress, according to a new study.
"People who show an exaggerated biological response to stress are at higher risk of heart disease," study author Sheila G. West, PhD, of Pennsylvania State University, says in a news release. "We wanted to find out if omega 3-fatty acids from plant sources would blunt cardiovascular responses to stress."
Her team of researchers studied 22 healthy adults with elevated levels of LDL or bad cholesterol. The participants were provided all their meals and snacks during three separate dietary interventions lasting six weeks each.
Diets included an "average" American diet without nuts, a second diet that included 1.3 ounces of walnuts (about 18 walnut halves) and a tablespoon of walnut oil substituted for some of the fat and protein in the average American diet, and a third diet that included walnuts, walnut oil, and 1.5 tablespoons of flaxseed oil. The three diets were matched for calories and were specifically designed so that no weight loss or gain occurred in any participant.
At the end of every diet trial, each adult had his or her stress levels raised in two ways: by being asked to give a speech and by having one foot immersed in ice cold water. During both tests, researchers measured blood pressure readings in the participants.
The result: Including walnuts and walnut oil in the diet lowered both resting blood pressure and blood pressure responses to stress by two to three points.
Walnuts Reduce Stress
"This is the first study to show that walnuts and walnut oil reduce blood pressure during stress," West says. "This is important because we can't avoid all the stressors in our daily lives." The study, she says "shows that a dietary change could help our bodies better respond to stress."
Some of the participants also underwent a vascular ultrasound examination to measure artery dilation. The results showed that adding flaxseed oil to the walnut diet significantly improved this test of vascular health. The researchers have previously shown that adding flax to walnuts also lowered C-reactive protein levels, indicating an anti-inflammatory effect that West says could reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.