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New finishes, extra-long planks reign supreme at Surfaces
February 10, 2014,
Posted Date:
Mallory Cruise-McGrath
New finishes, extra-long planks reign supreme at Surfaces
[Las Vegas]
The hardwood industry continues to grow and thrive, made evident by the bounty of new product launches, line extensions and merchandising displays that debuted at Surfaces here last month. Suppliers and customers alike expressed upbeat attitudes and positive
outlooks for 2014
Despite the ongoing price increases plaguing the hardwood market, the category remains a popular product with customers.
According to Dick Quinlan, senior director of hardwood at Mohawk Industries, there are two key trends for this year. "One, retailers and customers appreciate a durable, easy to clean and easy maintain floor. And, two, there has been an expansion in the opportunity for visuals and textures such as wire-brush. Designs that were once dominant in one market are now growing in popularity in other markets. Markets are diversifying. We're also seeing wider and longer boards on the engineered side," he explained.
The growing wood market has even allowed companies to expand their product offerings to include wood. For instance, one new player to the market, Quick-Step announced the introduction of its new program, Q-Wood, at Surfaces this year. "The hardwood industry grew last year and we're projecting similar growth this year as well. People still want wood floors," said Harry Bogner, senior vice president of hardwood at Unilin.
Pinnacle Interior Elements also had a lot to talk about at this year's Surfaces. The International Trade Commission's (ITC) investigation into imported engineered woods from China a few years ago and the years-long recession created a notably rough road for the company. But it took the time to refocus and has now rebranded and reinvested in new product, a new logo and a new marketing initiative.
Pinnacle showed its Grand Reserve product which is a four millimeter product on a sawn face 7 ½ inch wide and feet long. Grand Reserve features a sculpted surface with character marks.
"We feel good about what we're bringing to the market. We met with our key distributors and retailers who loved the products," said Brenda Cashion, vice president of operations at Pinnacle Interior Elements.
Wood goes big
While advancements to finishes and sophisticated color palettes were key, longer and wider planks in fact drove a good bit of the new product here.
Armstrong has been focusing on providing floors that are as wide as 5 inches, according to Milton Goodwin, vice president of product, which has become popular amongst customers.
Launching this spring, Armstrong's Premium line features traditional planks of 2 ¼ inch wide, 3 ¼ wide, as well as 5 inch wide, and will be available in both low gloss and high gloss as well and solid and engineered constructions.
"As solid prices go up, people may turn to engineered. But, I believe people still want hardwood floors," said Goodwin. "Customers continue to ask for wide plank floors at a competitive price. We are noticing trends towards low gloss and oil finished looks, handscrapes are still popular and 5 inch wide floors have also become popular."
Mohawk's Artiquity product features planks up to 7 inches wide and 6 feet long. One major advantage with Artiquity is its locking system, allowing for easy installation. "Textured, character floors with locking systems continue to grow. We've received a strong response from the retail community," said Quinlan.
Soft launched in the third quarter of 2013, Mannington's Maison boasts planks up to 7 feet long in random widths. "Maison sales have just skyrocketed. We will continue to build on the Maison line in the spring," said Dan Natkin, director of wood and laminate business at Mannington.
Home Legend introduced 14 new hardwood SKUs at Surfaces this year with a focus on wider planks. "Five inch wide is considered the staple now," explained Jamann Stepp, vice president of sales and marketing at Home Legend.
USFloors' Castle Combe Grande boasted 9-foot 2-inch long planks. It is an extension of the popular Castle Combe Collection introduced a few years ago.
Performance Finishes
A big focus at Surfaces this year was finishes. Between oil finishes, finishes that mimic the look of oil floors and performance enhancing finishes, wood products this year will be enhanced by a variety of finishes.
USFloors' Castle Combe Grande in fact features an oil finish. "We're not afraid to take a leap and try new things," noted Gary Keeble, product and marketing manager at USFloors. "An oil finish is a niche opportunity for retailers to sell products."
Mohawk's American Retreat, first launched three years ago in basic oak, was expanded to include the company's branded ArmorMax finish for increased durability. According to Mohawk, ArmorMax is five times tougher than other finishes in the market.
"The customer is focused on durability. With ArmorMax we tapped into the easy to clean and durability features. With American Retreat we're bringing to the customer a new wire-brushed product in a 5 inch wide tongue and groove installation with a finish that is five times tougher than other finishes out there," said Quinlan at Mohawk.
The new Q-Wood line features the Opulux Performance Enhance Finish, allowing for matte look finish and scratch resistant floors. "If the floor gets scratched, it can be wiped clean and the floor looks like new," said Bogner at Unilin.
New species, unique designs
The addition of new species to existing lines also trended here. For instance, Armstrong added two new species to its popular American Scrape line — walnut and cherry with planks that are 6 inch wide.
"We also placed a strong focus on enhancing our color palette as well as introducing new, darker colors. We want to lead with what we bring. Our focus will remain on wide width for the remainder of the year," said Goodwin at Armstrong.
Mannington introduced its new Pacaya Mesquite product from its Antigua collection which utilizes trees grown in Central America. Pacaya Mesquite offers a great green story as the sap found in the trees adds to the beauty and unique visual of the floor.
"Pacaya Mesquite comes in long boards and contemporary colors — grays, chalky whites, blondes. This particular product also takes stains very well," said Natkin at Mannington.
Nature Flooring showcased its French Oak product in a solid construction at Surfaces. "We're focusing on introducing three and four millimeter wearlayers in finished and unfinished profiles in 3 inch to 12 inch wide planks," explained George Tammany, director of business development at Nature Flooring.
On hand was also the company's Antique collection, which features a unique fuming technique, appealing to the design trend towards antique, rustic visuals. "We will custom make any floor from stock to any customer's specifications," Tammany added.
Home Legend also launched different species with new handscraped products in acacia, birch and Brazilian cherry.
Hallmark's new Moderno line features a two millimeter sliced face product with boards up to 7 feet long and 6 inches wide. "Moderno is the next generation of our Alta Vista line. It's geared towards the builder and remodel sectors," said Mark Casper, western regional manager at Hallmark Hardwoods.
Also focusing on the popular trend towards rustic visuals, Hallmark's Organic line of solid and engineered flooring utilizes reclaimed barn wood and features the companies NuOil finish.
HomerWood took unique design to a new level with its new products. New HomerWood products utilize open flames to create a caramelized, burned look to the floor.
"Our new smoked product uses a new tool by our Amish craftsmen to offer a time worn white wash visual. Each plank is unique and different. We're placing an emphasis on premium products done by hand," explained Wendy Wescoat, marketing manager at HomerWood.
New alternatives
Alternative wood suppliers have been working hard to introduce new products that allow the product to take on new design visuals. And, industry executives have said, with advancements in new printing technology, bamboo and cork can now be made to look like any other flooring products.
For example, USFloors introduced its Muse Strand at Surfaces, a new collection of engineered locking strand woven bamboo on an HDF core. Launching in the fall, Muse features 8 visuals on a 5" x 72" x ½" plank.
USFloors showcased their digitally enhanced Natural Cork Collection at Surfaces this year. For cork, hardwood looks have become more mainstream, said Keeble at USFloors.
"We hesitated to digitally print on cork because we wanted to wait until the clarity was just right. For our digitally enhanced cork collection, we built off of our Castle Combe hardwood line," he said.
New printing technology has allowed cork products to take on a much more natural look. "There are a lot of intrinsic advantages with cork. Also, digital printing allows you to have up to 20 different visuals. Cork is going to have a big year this year," Keeble said.
Bamboo Hardwoods debuted a new strand woven wire-brushed product with a multilayer core board. The multilayer core board enhances the durability of the floor, a big draw amongst consumers as durability has become a big factor in flooring purchases.
According to David Keegan, COO of Bamboo Hardwoods, traffic was up at his company's booth. "Customers were very optimistic and they're less price centric. They asked about the floor first, then the price. Customers are also more focused on quality," he said
Armstrong focused on providing floors with different gloss levels.
Hallmark's Organic collection
Mannington's Pacaya Mesquite
from its new Antigua collection
USFloor's Castle Combe and Castle Combe Grande with extra wide and long planks.


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Debates of Nov. 1st, 2002
House of Commons Hansard #20 of the 37th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was treaties.
- Business of the House
- Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 2002
- Kyoto Protocol
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Pierre-Luc Bergeron and Xavier Fugère
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Raymonde Folco Laval West, QC
Mr. Speaker, recently Pierre-Luc Bergeron and Xavier Fugère were the first and second place winners respectively of the Laval chess league's junior chess tournament.
I would like to draw hon. members' attention to the courage and determination of these young residents of Laval. Their victories did not only involve skill on the chess board, they have also had major victories over illness.
Xavier Fugère has had a lengthy battle with Wilms' tumour and is now in total remission. Pierre-Luc Bergeron has recently survived a battle with flesh-eating disease.
These two miracle children are veterans of a lengthy battle with illness. They have come out of it with the patience and perseverance that are essential to being a champion.
I join with all the residents of Laval in congratulating Pierre-Luc Bergeron and Xavier Fugère on the great things they have accomplished, now that they have been given back their life. They are an example to us all.
Hazardous Materials
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11:05 a.m.
Pat Martin Winnipeg Centre, MB
Mr. Speaker, now more than ever we must recognize the need for advanced training in the handling and treatment of hazardous materials for our firefighters who are the first to respond to emergencies such as terrorist attacks.
The International Association of Fire Fighters in the United States has spent millions of dollars developing an excellent curriculum on hazardous materials and it is generously offering to share it with its Canadian counterparts free of charge. It is estimated that by using a train the trainer methodology this valuable life saving information could be distributed to every firefighter in Canada for as little as $500,000.
Our brave men and women, who are the first to respond to emergencies, put their lives at risk to save our lives. They deserve the best protection that we have to offer and sometimes that protection is information, training and knowledge. I urge the government to find the resources to fund the delivery of the IAFF HazMat training curriculum and to do it without delay.
René Lévesque
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11:10 a.m.
Yves Rocheleau Trois-Rivières, QC
Mr. Speaker, the former Premier of Quebec, René Lévesque, died on this day 15 years ago.
A symbol of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, René Lévesque was the incarnation, for a quarter century, of a nation's daring decision to affirm its existence and promote its identity through a series of reforms that modernized Quebec, socially, culturally, economically and politically.
Two parts of his legacy I would like to particularly emphasize are the nationalization of hydroelectric power culminating in the creation of Hydro-Québec, and the political reform that has made Quebec democracy a model for the world.
René Lévesque passed on his conviction of Quebec's nationhood and his pride in that nation to an entire people.
I pay tribute to the memory of this great democrat, to the courage, generosity and integrity that characterized his actions throughout his entire career, to build a modern Quebec with an awareness of its dimension as a nation with the potential to participate in the community of nations.
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11:10 a.m.
Progressive Conservative
Loyola Hearn St. John's West, NL
Mr. Speaker, on Monday, overlooking the harbour in St. John's, the Prime Minister is finally going to announce that the federal government will participate in funding the clean-up of St. John's Harbour.
This project has been on the agenda for several years. Finally, with the help and the great work done by: the ACAP group; the member for St. John's East, who has been an avid supporter; the three levels of government; and shall I say myself, the project is about to become a reality.
Despite the fact that the former Newfoundland minister constantly stated that funding for clean-up must come from regular infrastructure funding, it is on the record that our party suggested that a special project fund was needed. We are glad to see that the previous finance minister agreed and that the new Newfoundland minister supported this new direction.
It shows what cooperation can do. It is a good day for St. John's.
Diabetes Awareness Month
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11:10 a.m.
Lynn Myers Waterloo—Wellington, ON
Mr. Speaker, November is Canadian Diabetes Awareness Month. Since the discovery of insulin in the 1920s, at the University of Toronto by F.G. Banting and C.H. Best, Canada has been recognized as a world leader in the search for a cure for diabetes.
Today, Canada is once again on the leading edge of diabetes research. The Edmonton Protocol has the medical world abuzz as a possible new treatment for this terrible disease. Diabetes afflicts more than two million Canadians, both young and old.
During November a number of events, fundraisers and educational activities will be taking place to highlight the fact that diabetes is a major health care issue in Canada. Celebrations include World Diabetes Day which occurs on November 14 and marks the birthdate of Dr. Banting.
Hopefully one day soon Diabetes Awareness Month will be a thing of the past because by then we will have found a cure.
Arts and Culture
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11:10 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
Werner Schmidt Kelowna, BC
Mr. Speaker, every once in a while something extraordinary happens in this place. Such an event occurred Wednesday night of this week.
The rare event was an exciting musical expression of Serbian and Balkan music performed by the Teofilovic Twins. Their rendition of traditional Serbian and Balkan music helped participants to discover some of the mystery of the musical art of the Balkans. The twins have an extraordinary expression of music. They have solved the mystery of the second voice and found long lost harmonies of traditional singing. The twins have made recordings for national radio and television stations and were part of all the great spiritual and secular festivals and music gatherings in Serbia. The twins were the guests of the Speaker and performed in the Hall of Honour in this place.
I wish to take this opportunity to publicly thank the Speaker for his contribution to culture and art for parliamentarians and many other guests.
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November 1st, 2002 / 11:10 a.m.
Bryon Wilfert Oak Ridges, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise in the House to recognize the leadership that has been shown by Athletes CAN in developing its six point manifesto for sport in Canada.
Athletes CAN is a 10 year old organization representing national team athletes whose mission is to work with partners in leadership, advocacy and education to ensure a fair, responsive and supportive sport system for high performance athletes in Canada.
At its annual forum in Quebec City last month, it further refined its declaration, which was recently announced to the public. The manifesto calls for the federal government to invest in a comprehensive sports development program from playground to podium and beyond, for the provincial and territorial governments to increase sport and physical activity in schools, and for the creation of a national infrastructure program to assist in developing sport and recreational facilities.
The Government of Canada appreciates the dedication of our high performance athletes in their athletic achievements and congratulates them for the leadership that they continue to demonstrate in trying to improve the sport system in Canada.
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
John Reynolds West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast, BC
Mr. Speaker, for days now the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration has denied that he pulled any strings to give his friends at Everest a lucrative federal advertising contract.
Yesterday, however, a former executive director under the minister confirmed, yes, confirmed, that the allegation was true and that the minister did give his friends at Groupe Everest half a million dollars in federal contracts.
Why did the minister give his Everest friends a lucrative contract and then try to cover it up?
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Ralph Goodale Minister of Public Works and Government Services
Mr. Speaker, it was not and is not the prerogative of the secretary of state to decide. The matter came under the contracting procedures of the Department of Public Works and the choice with respect to the firm to be selected off the pre-qualified list was made by officials within the Department of Public Works.
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
John Reynolds West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast, BC
Mr. Speaker, as if rewarding friends was not bad enough, the minister compounded the wrong by trying to cover it up. Instead of owning up to his wrongdoing, the minister tried to discredit his former executive director. Fortunately Mr. Roger Farley would not be bullied by the minister and insisted that the allegations were true.
My question: Why does the minister not simply come clean and admit that he did get involved in this contract?
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Ralph Goodale Minister of Public Works and Government Services
Mr. Speaker, again let me explain the process here. This occurred a number of years ago under the process in place at that time. The department wishing to have a certain advertising service set up a requisition. That requisition, as is the normal case, included a suggestion, but it was not the prerogative of the requisitioning department to make the decision. The prerogative rested with the Department of Public Works and the officials in that department at that time.
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
John Reynolds West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast, BC
Mr. Speaker, no matter whose prerogative it was, there are e-mails out there that were denied. The minister insisted that Mr. Farley's e-mail was untrue. The minister's director of communications used even more creative language and told reporters to check with Mr. Farley. They did and Mr. Farley said exactly this, that he stood behind his e-mail which said that "The Secretary of State wants to hire Everest as the agency".
To clear this up, will the minister turn this over this afternoon to the ethics counsellor and tell him to talk to all sides and get to the bottom of this so that we do not spend another few weeks in Parliament going around contracts? To get to the bottom of it, that is what the ethics counsellor is for--
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
The Deputy Speaker
The hon. Minister of Public Works and Government Services.
Government Contracts
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11:15 a.m.
Ralph Goodale Minister of Public Works and Government Services
Mr. Speaker, the issue here is who had the authority to take the decision. Under the processes existing at that time the decision was taken by the Department of Public Works, not by the Department of Canadian Heritage, not by the secretary of state, but by the Department of Public Works. The officials who had the responsibility at that time exercised their judgment and made a choice, but it was their decision, not one resting with some other minister.
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
Dale Johnston Wetaskiwin, AB
Mr. Speaker, this is not the first time that the immigration minister has tried to convince us that he has no close ties to Groupe Everest. In May he admitted being a guest in a Groupe Everest luxury condo after denying it in an interview in 2000.
Given his history, it is not hard to understand that we do not believe what is going on here. We think this should be turned over to the ethics counsellor. We have a contradiction here between the minister and his top bureaucrat. Let us find out who is telling the truth.

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Damas, Léon-Gontran
Léon-Gontran Damas 1912–1978
French Guianese poet, nonfiction writer, essayist, editor, and short story writer.
The following entry provides an overview of Damas's career.
Best known for his poetry—particularly the collection Pigments (1937)—Damas was a co-founder of Negritude, a literary and philosophical movement begun in Paris during the early 1930s, which attacked European colonialism and racism and affirmed African traditions and Black identity. Damas's poetry features rhythms drawn from blues music, jazz, and the African drumbeat, and often addresses themes of alienation, loss, and racial persecution. In summarizing Damas's career, O. R. Dathorne stated that Damas "was a poet who fiercely believed in a cause, but he did not allow that cause to blunt his vision…. His poetry stresses not the collision of worlds but the manner in which humanity can triumph and overcome manmade obstacles."
Biographical Information
Damas was born in Cayenne, French Guiana, a French territory in South America. Raised in a middle-class, mulatto family, he was pressured by parents and teachers throughout his youth to accept French culture and customs. His antipathy toward assimilation emerged later as a major theme in his poetry, particularly Black-Label (1956). He attended elementary and secondary schools in Cayenne and in Fort-de-France, Martinique, before traveling to Paris in the early 1930s. There, he attended the Université de Paris, studying literature, oriental languages, history, law, economics, and ethnology. While in Paris, he associated himself with the Surrealist movement, publishing poems as early as 1934 in such prestigious French literary journals as Esprit; he also met Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor, with whom he founded Negritude and the short-lived journal L'étudiant noir. Damas published his first book, Pigments, in 1937. His second book, Retour de Guyane (1938), a nonfiction critique of French colonialism, developed out of an ethnographic study Damas conducted in 1934 on the Bush Negroes of French Guiana. After World War II, during which he was active in the French Resistance, Damas continued his research into African culture in the Caribbean and South America. From 1948 to 1951, Damas represented French Guiana in the French National Assembly, and beginning in 1966, he served as a representative for the Société Africaine de Culture in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He also taught modern and African literature at Federal City College and Howard University, both in Washington, D.C. At the time of his death in 1978, he was a Distinguished Professor of African Literature at Howard University.
Major Works
The chief concerns of Damas's poetry are racism, the problems of self-identity caused by the French colonial policy of assimilation, and the weaknesses of Western culture and society. Narrated in the first person by a character who assumes the role of a victim, the poems in Pigments constitute Damas's most vehement and direct treatment of his major themes. In such poems as "Ils sont venus ce soir" ("They Came That Night"), with its image of slave traders interrupting an African dance, Damas constructs a dichotomy between blacks and whites, maintaining that blacks are an exploited people and that whites are the exploiters who wish to rob blacks of their African identity. "Solde" ("Sell Out") addresses the discomfort and alienation Damas feels as a member of Western society, while "Hoquet" ("Hiccups") laments his bourgeois upbringing and "Réalité" ("Reality") expresses his shame for feeling culturally white. In "S.O.S." he suggests that the relationship between colonized blacks and colonizing whites is similar to that between the Jews and Nazis during the years surrounding World War II. In other poems Damas attacks Western religion as hypocritical and ridicules the double standard of French society, arguing that even though a black may act white, he is always considered a second-class citizen. In "Contre notre amour qui ne voulait rien d'autre," for instance, he comments on the use of Noah's curse of Ham in the Old Testament as a justification for the subjugation of blacks. Black-Label, Damas's only book-length poem, documents the musings and reminiscences of an exiled black during an evening spent drinking Black-Label. Concerned with self-contempt and "negro lackeyism," the poem addresses what J. M. Ita calls "the crippling effects of being brought up to despise what one is, and cannot help but be." Damas's love poems, collected in Graffiti (1952) and Névralgies (1966), focus on loss and lack of fulfillment. His book-length prose works include Retour de Guyane and Veillées noires (1943), a collection of folktales that combine elements from African, Amerindian, and European storytelling traditions. These tales treat such themes as the ability of the powerless to survive and the injustice of social orders based on race.
Critical Reception
Critics generally concur that Pigments is Damas's most enduring and engaging work; none of his subsequent writings, they argue, equal its intensity and urgency. Most commentators tend to focus on the stylistics of Damas's poetry, particularly his use of humor, musical rhythms, repetition, and unorthodox typography. Poems such as "Bientôt," for example, are wholly structured on a repetitive form which invokes a sense of circularity, completeness, and musical rhythm. Such techniques sometimes give his poetry the appearance of extreme simplicity, which, many critics argue, demonstrates Damas's skill in manipulating language to achieve complex effects. Regarding the humor in his verse, commentators note Damas's reversal of stereotypes and frequent use of puns. The title of "Nuit blanche" ("Sleepless Night"), for instance, is an untranslatable pun for "sleepless night" and "night spent with whites." Critics disagree, however, about the ultimate significance of Damas's poetry. While some contend that Damas is simply a poet of Negritude, others claim that his poetry transcends its immediate context and that his love poems in particular are racially anonymous.
Principal Works
∗Pigments (poetry) 1937
Retour de Guyane (nonfiction) 1938
†Veillées noires (short stories) 1943
Poètes d'expression française: 1900–1945 [editor] (poetry) 1947
Poèmes nègres sur des airs africains [African Songs of Love, War, Grief and Abuse] (poetry) 1948
Graffiti (poetry) 1952
Black-Label (poetry) 1956
Névralgies (poetry) 1966
Nouvelle somme de poésie du monde noir [editor] (poetry) 1966
Hommage à Jean Price-Mars [editor] (nonfiction) 1969
Pigments, Névralgies (poetry) 1972
∗A revised edition of this work was published in 1962.
†An enlarged version of this volume was published in 1972.
Merle Hodge (essay date 1967)
SOURCE: "Beyond Négritude: The Love Poems," Critical Perspectives on Léon-Gontran Damas, edited by Keith Q. Warner, Three Continents Press, 1988, pp. 119-45.
[Hodge is a Trinidadian educator, novelist, and critic. The following excerpt was drawn from her unpublished thesis, "The Writings of Léon Damas and Their Connection with the Négritude Movement in Literature," completed in 1967 at the University of London. Below, she examines the themes and tone of Damas's poetry, focusing on his work in Graffiti, Black-Label, and Névralgies, and remarks on the similarities between Damas and the French poet Jacques Prévert.]
[Graffiti] at first...
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J. M. Ita (essay date 1970)
SOURCE: "On Black Label," in Critical Perspectives on Léon-Gontran Damas, edited by Keith Q. Warner, Three Continents Press, 1988, pp. 111-14.
[Ita is a Nigerian educator and critic. In the following essay, which was originally published in the journal African Arts/Arts d'Afrique in 1970, he remarks on the themes of Black-Label and asserts that the poem has been largely misunderstood in the English-speaking world.]
Black Label has, in the English-speaking world, the reputation of being a crude glorification of blackness, and a rather unintelligent example of black racialism. This undeservedly bad reputation is based on the fact, that of the...
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Léon-Gontran Damas with Keith Warner (interview date July 1972)
SOURCE: An interview in Critical Perspectives on Léon-Gontran Damas, edited by Keith Q. Warner, Three Continents Press, 1988, pp. 23-8.
[Warner is a Trinidadian educator and critic. In the following interview, which was conducted in July 1972 and originally published in the journal Manna in 1973, Damas remarks on his career and the Négritude movement.]
[Warner]: Do you think that when you started writing you did so mainly out of the urge to be productive from a literary point of view, or rather out of the urge to convey a particular message? If message there was, did you think that poetry was the vehicle to convey it?
[Damas]: There...
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Keith Q. Warner (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "New Perspective on Léon-Gontran Damas," in Critical Perspectives on Léon-Gontran Damas, edited by Keith Q. Warner, Three Continents Press, 1988, pp. 87-98.
[In the following essay, which was originally published in the journal Black Images in 1973, Warner examines Damas's poetic techniques, particularly the poet's use of repetition, humor, and musical rhythm.]
It is perhaps unfortunate that the name of Léon Damas is so often linked with those of Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor. The result is nearly always to the disadvantage of the French Guyanese poet, whose output is, to be candid, not as voluminous as that of the other two illustrious...
(The entire section is 3613 words.)
E. A. Hurley (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "Pigments—A Dialogue with Self," in Critical Perspectives on Léon-Gontran Damas, edited by Keith Q. Warner, Three Continents Press, 1988, pp. 99-110.
[Hurley is a Barbadian educator and critic. In the following essay, which was originally published in the journal Black Images in 1974, he interprets Pigments as an internal dialogue.]
It is understandable that it has been the practice to identify Léon Damas, the author of Pigments, as one of the leaders, along with Césaire and Senghor, of the Négritude movement. It is beyond question that the orientation of his first collection of poetry, published in 1937, around the themes of...
(The entire section is 3959 words.)
Bridget Jones (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: "Léon Damas," in A Celebration of Black and African Writing, edited by Bruce King and Kolawole Ogungbesan, Ahmadu Bello University Press, 1975, pp. 60-73.
[Jones is an English-born Jamaican educator and critic. In the following essay, she provides an overview of Damas's career and works.]
Léon Damas has received less attention than Senghor and Césaire. Out of a less abundant literary output, a few protest poems from Pigments (1937) are too often all that he is known by. Since his brief parliamentary career which ended in 1951, he has avoided the controversies of active politics and remained an exile whose main commitment is to the cause of...
(The entire section is 5397 words.)
Daniel L. Racine (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "The Aesthetics of Léon-Gontran Damas," in Présence Africaine, Nos. 121 and 122, 1982, pp. 154-65.
[Racine is a Guadeloupean-born educator and critic. In the essay below, he discusses the style of Damas's poetry.]
What is meant by the "aesthetics of Léon-Gontran Damas" is, as one may guess, his art as a writer. This art is discernible in both his prose and his verse. Within the limits of this presentation, it is not possible to describe the talent of the brilliant essayist of Retour de Guyane, "Misère Noire" [Esprit (June 1, 1939)] or "89 et nous les Noirs" [Europe (May-August 1939)] nor to demonstrate the art of the griot-like...
(The entire section is 3043 words.)
Thomas H. Brown (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Filling in Reader Gaps in Poems by Léon-Gontran Damas," in French Literature Series, Vol. XIX, 1992, pp. 47-56.
[In the essay below, Brown analyzes two of Damas's poems: "Ils sont venus ce soir" and "Contre notre amour qui ne voulait rien d'autre."]
Black francophone writer, Léon-Gontran Damas, portrays in his poetry the sad results of black/white confrontations in his native French Guiana. Leaving spaces for reflection, gaps to be filled by a creative reader, Damas has developed an art of nonspecificity, a writing technique rich and provocative in powers of suggestion. Although Sartre identifies the intended reader of black francophone poetry as a black...
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Further Reading
Cook, Mercer. "The Poetry of Leon Damas." African Forum 2, No. 4 (Spring 1967): 129-32.
Reviews Névralgies, noting its continuities with Damas's earlier works and its implicit treatment of race.
Kennedy, Ellen Conroy. "Léon Damas." In The Negritude Poets: An Anthology of Translations from the French, edited by Ellen Conroy Kennedy, pp. 39-61. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989.
Presents a brief biographical and critical introduction to Damas along with fifteen poems from Pigments.
Kesteloot, Lilyan. "Léon...
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Debates of March 22nd, 1999
House of Commons Hansard #201 of the 36th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was crime.
- Business Of The House
- Government Services Act, 1999
- Youth Criminal Justice Act
- Oxfam
- Rocky Mountain House
- Girl Guides Of Canada
- Nunavik Rangers
- Nato
- Grain Industry
- Major Lionel Guy D'Artois
- Devco
- Norman Jewison
- Firearms
- World Water Day
- Premier Of Quebec
- Racial Discrimination
- Taxation
- Clarica
- Back To Work Legislation
- Building Contracts
- Canadian Embassy In Berlin
- Foreign Investment
- Building Contracts
- Employment Insurance
- Building Contracts
- Young Offenders Act
- The Economy
- Bill C-54
- Revenue Canada
- The Economy
- Back To Work Legislation
- Grain Industry
- Building Contracts
- Ethics Counsellor
- Research And Development
- Youth Criminal Justice Act
- Mirabel Airport
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Fisheries
- Water
- Youth Criminal Justice Act
- Medical Use Of Marijuana
- Presence In Gallery
- Order In Council Appointments
- Government Response To Petitions
- Committees Of The House
- Business Of The House
- Petitions
- Questions Passed As Orders For Returns
- Questions On The Order Paper
- Government Services Act, 1999
Youth Criminal Justice Act
Government Orders
1:50 p.m.
Peter Adams Peterborough, ON
Mr. Speaker, I simply want to say that we were very pleased to make the arrangement so the Leader of Opposition could speak.
Youth Criminal Justice Act
Government Orders
1:50 p.m.
John O'Reilly Victoria—Haliburton, ON
Mr. Speaker, I sit on a lot of committees with the member for Calgary Northeast. Ten plus twenty is thirty. The member is absolutely right. I am very glad he was able to work that out. That might have something to do with that stroke in intensity he was studying in Singapore. It takes a fair bit of time.
I go back to some of my personal experiences in court cases involving young offenders. It is a very serious thing to go into a prison to do a parole hearing. I appreciate that the simplistic approach applied by the Reform Party is well meaning. Some Reformers are very intelligent former Conservatives and Liberals. I know they cannot get elected out west except by running under Reform so I appreciate that they are doing that and I wish them well as long as it is not well in my riding.
I could talk about the young man who was hung by his heels at age 14 by his parents, who was sexually abused and beaten as a child, who was not taught values, who dropped out of school so he could run away and get away from everything. When he was arrested and incarcerated, he met people who deal with young offenders. They took him under their wing and taught him values he had not been taught before. He got away from his substance abuse and alcohol abuse. He got away from the abusive nature that surrounded him. Today he is a productive member of society.
I know that does not happen all the time and that the Reform Party does not want to talk about it, but the fact is the Young Offenders Act served a purpose that does not serve the purpose of Reform. Reformers cannot build unless they can teach everyone that everything is hate, hate, hate, punish, punish, punish.
The fact is that if we are to rehabilitate people, we do not do it by putting them in boot camps or by putting them in a caning camp or whatever the member wanted. We have to teach them values. We have to teach them the societal things expected of them. If young people are to be productive members of society, they have to be taught values. That simply is what changes people to be productive members of society and that protects society.
I was impressed with a criminal I met who was a musician. When money machines first came out and PINs had to be punched in which had a different tone to the pad, this man could stand behind someone making a withdrawal with their card and he could pick off their pin number because he had a musical ear. He could play any instrument. He was a very talented person. He would follow that person home, find an undetected way to break into their house and steal that card out of their wallet.
If the card is not in our wallets, we often think where did we leave it. We take a couple of days and think somebody else might have it, whatever. Just before midnight or just after 2 a.m. your bank account has been cleaned out by that person. The reason was not because he was a thief but because he was a heroin addict. How do we get a person like that into methadone treatment and let them put their talent to work in society? That same young man is now playing in a band and is very productive. These are a couple of examples the Reform Party cares to not notice.
When we talk about the Young Offenders Act and about rehabilitation, we talk about people who suddenly come into a society where values are taught and they offend only once. They do not become repeat offenders. Repeat offenders are a shame and there has to be a way to deal with them.
If we can save the majority of young offenders, which the Young Offenders Act did and which the Reform Party does not want to mention, we have done society a great justice. I believe Bill C-68 is a good start in changing the Young Offenders Act so we will have a youth criminal justice system that will stand the test of time.
Youth Criminal Justice Act
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
The Speaker
My colleague, you still have 10 minutes of questions and comments. I propose that we now go to Statements by Members and we will return after question period.
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Jean Augustine Etobicoke—Lakeshore, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate and to support OXFAM Canada and OXFAM Quebec as they launch OXFAM's international report "Education Now: Break the Cycle of Poverty".
The report focuses on the 125 million primary school age children in developing countries who are deprived of an education. Mass illiteracy has left them disadvantaged, vulnerable and impoverished. In over 20 developing countries more than 50% of the population, mainly women and girls, are unable to read or write. Universal primary education goals cannot be achieved.
OXFAM's campaign calls on governments to deploy debt relief measures to guarantee basic education targets in developing countries.
I call on all members to support OXFAM's activities in their ridings and to support OXFAM's campaign to eliminate global illiteracy.
Rocky Mountain House
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Bob Mills Red Deer, AB
Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to announce the bicentenary of Rocky Mountain House, a community in my riding. Its 6,000 people are commemorating the important role this town played in the development of western Canada. It was the base from which David Thompson explored the mountains to the west. By 1840, 2,000 people lived there when Fort Edmonton had only 12 permanent inhabitants.
As we celebrate the 125th anniversary of what is today the RCMP, we should recall the role the town played in this important event. Its lobbying helped convince the Government of Canada of the need to create a permanent police force in western Canada. That presence is an important part of western Canadian identity. Rocky Mountain House is also the site of Alberta's only national historic park, a generous gift from the late Mabel Brierley.
I know members of the House will want to join me in saluting its history and extending our best wishes to the people of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.
Girl Guides Of Canada
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
John McKay Scarborough East, ON
Mr. Speaker, I recently had the opportunity to attend the Girl Guides of Canada ceremony to present the prestigious Canada Cord to 14 Pathfinders in my riding of Scarborough East.
These 15 year old Pathfinders achieved this top award in 1998 through hard work and dedication, having fun and learning skills at the same time. To achieve the award Pathfinders completed challenges in a number of different areas.
I want to congratulate Nadia Bedok, Lauren Canzius, Julie Cushing, Lianne Easton, Katie Eley, Theresa Enright, Jaclyn Iantria, Melissa Kaye, Erin Kotva, Lisa Moore, Amanda Mykusz, Kimberley Rose, Janet Stephens and Heather Wing.
I extend my best wishes to all of them on their outstanding achievement for earning this highest honour, and I wish them continued success in the years to come.
Nunavik Rangers
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Guy St-Julien Abitibi, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Nunavik Rangers are a subgroup of the Canadian armed forces that has existed for at least 50 years and that was a strong presence at the New Year's avalanche in Kangiqsualujjuaq.
In 1994, the Junior Rangers, for boys and girls aged 12 to 18, was established in northern Quebec.
The 14 communities in Nunavik now have their Junior Rangers patrols. They are supported by the Canadian armed forces and by the senior Rangers. In the Rangers, young Inuit learn such skills as navigation, weapons safety, ancestral traditions and hunting.
The Canadian armed forces and Major Claude Archambault last week visited the village of Kangiqsualujjuaq with its mayor Maggie Emudluk to offer praise to the Rangers who participated in the rescue operations on January 1, 1999.
Nakuqmiik to the Nunavik Rangers.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
John Richardson Perth—Middlesex, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to rise in the House today to salute 40 Canadian forces engineers and other Canadian forces personnel who have just returned from Kumanovo in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
They were a part of NATO's deployment to that region and recently received NATO medals for their important contribution.
The Canadian forces engineers and other Canadian forces support personnel worked closely with French engineers to construct and renovate infrastructure such as medical facilities, showers and meal areas in order to enable the members of NATO's extraction force to perform their task.
The conditions in which they were working were very difficult and have been subject to consideration in the House. Once again members of the Canadian forces have shown their determination and professionalism.
Canadians can be proud of the job they have done. Their accomplishments in that region are an eloquent illustration of Canada's commitment to peace efforts in that troubled region.
Grain Industry
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Jake Hoeppner Portage—Lisgar, MB
Mr. Speaker, western grain farmers have experienced a difficult year with an income crisis and disruptions in key markets, and now with rotating strikes by PSAC workers in the grain weighing sector.
Strikers are back to work today but with no contract. There are no assurances they will not again bring grain movement to its knees.
The government has failed to enact final offer selection arbitration as recommended by Reform for five years. These recurring stoppages are killing agriculture and threatening small communities dependent on the industry.
Governments were told for years that these grain strikes were hurting the whole Canadian economy. The government must now enact legislation that will finally bring a solution to these work stoppages. Farmers can no longer afford these losses caused by government negligence.
Major Lionel Guy D'Artois
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Robert Bertrand Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to pay particular tribute to Major Lionel Guy D'Artois, a national hero, who became famous around the world during more than 30 years of service with the Canadian armed forces.
Major D'Artois passed away Monday in the veterans' hospital in St. Anne. He joined the army in 1934 as a member of the militia contingent of the University of Montreal where he was studying chemistry.
Major D'Artois enrolled as a private during the second world war. For his exploits on French soil, he received the highest military distinctions, including "la Croix de guerre avec palme" from the President of France.
I offer my most sincere condolences to the family.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Yves Rocheleau Trois-Rivières, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister of Canada must have been joking when he recently told world leaders gathered in Davos that the Canadian economy is no longer dependent on the country's natural resources.
Indeed, at the same time, his government was announcing that a large part of Devco's mining operations, on Cape Breton Island, would stop for good.
The reality is as follows: raw materials and their by-products still account for 35% of Canadian exports, which is more than for any other G-7 country. The transition from a resource based economy to a knowledge based economy has begun, but it is obviously not completed.
Devco is a perfect illustration of the Canadian government's inability to manage this industrial change. No economic diversification programs were implemented to provide alternatives for those who suddenly find themselves out of work.
The Canadian government must take responsibility for this failed economic transition. In the case of Devco, Ottawa must treat the communities affected with the dignity to which they are entitled.
Norman Jewison
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Carolyn Bennett St. Paul's, ON
Mr. Speaker, last night on the occasion of the 71st Academy Awards in Los Angeles, California, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Mr. Norman Jewison with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
Celebrated before the eyes of the world a Canadian was recognized for his lifelong commitment to film making.
Mr. Jewison made his debut in London, as a comedian and a screen writer for the BBC. In the fifties, he came back here to work with the CBC and then pursue an impressive career as a producer and director. Mr. Jewison is also the founder of the prestigious Canadian Film Centre, in Toronto.
With a total of 12 Oscars and 46 nominations for films such as The Russians are Coming , Fiddler on the Roof , A Soldier's Story , In the Heat of the Night and Moonstruck , he has taught us how important it is to choose stories worth telling and then tell them brilliantly.
I ask the House to join me in congratulating Mr. Jewison for his achievement of excellence and making Canada so proud.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Jay Hill Prince George—Peace River, BC
Mr. Speaker, I want to share with the House the frustration that one of my constituents has experienced with the new gun registry.
Louis Carew is the owner of CMP Sports in Fort Nelson, B.C. He writes about the hoops that he must now jump through just to continue to sell firearms, hoops that cost him 25% of his Christmas sales.
First, he orders a firearm and gets a reference number from the supplier who has to wait to get a number from the firearms department in Miramichi, New Brunswick.
Second, the government sends him a reference number in the mail.
Third, when he sells a firearm his customer needs a TAN number for which he is charged $25, and again there is another wait. This fee is charged for each new and used firearm purchased.
Fourth, the customer needs an FAC number that has gone up from $10 to $50 plus $200 to take a course. "The amount of government bureaucracy and the wait over the phone is unbearable", he concludes.
This debacle has cost taxpayers and businesses hundreds of millions of dollars. Would it not make more sense to invest these precious tax dollars in police officers?
World Water Day
Statements By Members
March 22nd, 1999 / 2:05 p.m.
Karen Redman Kitchener Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, today is World Water Day.
In 1993 the United Nations called upon all nations to promote the conservation and protection of water resources in a sustainable manner. For Canadians, freshwater has an important real and symbolic value. This is why in 1997 we participated in the Global Forum on Water Resources.
Nine per cent of the world's renewable freshwater is found within Canada. We must do everything we can to protect it. Freshwater sustains our life and health on a daily basis. It is a commodity worth preserving.
Our government is leading initiatives to restore, conserve and protect major Canadian watersheds. We are working on the prohibition of the bulk removal of water, including water for export. This is the first issue being addressed nationally as part of the federal freshwater strategy which is presently under development.
On this important day I would encourage all members of parliament to consider the growing global concerns for water quality and quantity.
World Water Day
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Bev Desjarlais Churchill, MB
Mr. Speaker, today, March 22, is World Water Day. Countries around the globe will remember that water is a precious resource essential to human life. Without safe drinkable water we cannot survive.
Unlike many countries, Canada is blessed with an abundance of freshwater. As a result we often take clean water for granted but Canada's waters are not endless.
On February 9, a New Democratic Party motion stated that the government should, in co-operation with the provinces, place an immediate moratorium on the export of bulk freshwater shipments and interbasin transfers. The House agreed to assert Canada's sovereign right to protect, preserve and conserve our freshwater resources for future generations. Today we should revisit how we use water in our homes and in our everyday lives. We must value and protect this vital resource.
In my riding communities such as Pukatawagan, God's Lake Narrows and Red Sucker Lake do not have running water in their homes. We must ensure that all Canadians benefit from our resources. Canada's water supply should not be diminished so that a few will profit.
On World Water Day, Canadians have much to be thankful for and to think about.


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An article in the May 14, 2012 New Yorker profiled Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor who examined the effect of disruptive technologies on large corporations. Here is an excerpt from the article about one of his first case studies:
"The first industry that Christensen studied was disk drives. He saw that the companies that made fourteen-inch drives for mainframe computers had been driven out of business by companies that made eight-inch drives for mini computers, and then the companies that made the eight-inch drives were driven out of business by companies that made 5.25-inch drives for PCs.
What was puzzling about this was that the eight-inch drives weren't as good as the fourteen-inch drives and the 5.25-inch drives were inferior to the eight-inch drives. In industry after industry, Christensen discovered, the new technologies that had brought the big, established companies to their knees weren't better or more advanced—they were actually worse. The new products were low-end, dumb, shoddy, and in almost every way inferior.
But the new products were usually cheaper and easier to use, and so people or companies who were not rich or sophisticated enough for the old ones started buying the new ones, and there were so many more of the regular people than there were of the rich, sophisticated people that the companies making the new products prospered. Christensen called these low-end products "disruptive technologies, 'because, rather than sustaining technological progress toward better performance, they disrupted it.'"
To repeat, here is the key insight of Christensen's research: "In industry after industry, Christensen discovered, the new technologies that had brought the big, established companies to their knees weren't better or more advanced—they were actually worse. The new products were low-end, dumb, shoddy, and in almost every way inferior. "
Christensen found that big successful companies typically saw no threat from inferior products with poor performance and so ignored them in favor of their existing high-end, high margin products. Why try to manufacture millions of 5.25 inch PC disk drives for just a few dollars profit when your much better eight-inch drives were already selling for hundreds each in the minicomputer market? But when the disruptive technologies became accepted – and improved – it was too late for the fat corporations living off legacy products.
Is there a lesson in this for new music? I think so. Let us assume that the tools used by traditional performing organizations – the concert hall, the expert players, the rock-star conductor and the traditional commissioned composer – all produce a much better product experience than the computer-generated MP3 realizations posted by Internet musicians and composers on-line. And the revenue coming from down-loadable music is certainly minimal. So if you are John C. Adams, for example, why would you undertake to realize your music for the on-line audience when the result will likely be less satisfactory and much less lucrative than writing a new score for the Los Angeles Philharmonic?
This, I submit, fits the classic Christensen pattern of a disruptive technology. The computer-realized music is perhaps less impressive than what is heard in the concert hall, but it is also very easy for the composer to get his music out there and very easy for millions to hear it. So, while new music realized electronically is perhaps inferior in quality, it is also low cost and widely available at a time when the traditional performing organizations are doing less and less with new music. Will our philharmonic orchestras perceive the disruptive effects of this technology and will they be able to stay on the cutting edge of music? Clayton Christensen would say no.
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LAKE SHETEK – Summer camp is a getaway for nearly every child who has the chance to go. Shetek Lutheran Ministries does its best so that every kid has that chance.
Shetek Lutheran Ministries has multiple fundraisers throughout the year in an effort to offset the price and make the experience more affordable. On Saturday, its quilt auction made its best attempt to do just that.
"This is our 27th annual quilt auction. This fundraiser is our biggest by far," said Marv Nysetvold, executive director.
This year, there were more 200 items donated that were auctioned off.
"There were more entries this year than I have ever seen," said Sara Banks, quilt committee member.
Kathy Peterson is in charge of the auction for the quilt committee.
"I have been doing this for five years now. Our donations start coming in in May. Synod churches donate the quilts and other items. Then, we have a measuring day where we size all of them so that they can be included in the program. We sort the quilts by category, then set them out for the public to view. Friday night we had a preview, and (Saturday) is the auction. A favorite quilt was chosen, and I'm excited to see how much it goes for," Peterson said.
"The variety of quilts is so interesting. It's fun to see what is going to be the hot item," said Wendy Meyer, one of the bidders at the auction.
To make things more exciting, the camp counselors are players in an auction game.
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Once that money was raised from the quilts, he had to go jump in the lake. The idea was that by the end of the auction, all of the counselors would be stuck in wet clothes.
The $40,000 amount was pinned to the back of Stephanie Hovda, the program director. Unfortunately, Hovda did not end up in the lake, but the fundraiser was still a success as it raised more than $23,000.
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In Cambodia, President Obama's final stop on his trip to Asia, the President met with the leaders of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) to deepen our ties with members of the key Asian multilateral organization.
ASEAN is the United States' fourth largest export market, and includes two of our treaty allies, one of our closest security partners, several emerging regional powers. Additionally, its nations are located along some of the world's most important trading routes and sea lines of communication.
While in Phnom Penh, President Obama also attended the East Asia Summit, a gathering of leaders from ASEAN as well as six other Asia-Pacific powers. The United States' economic and security future is inextricably linked to the region, and President Obama used the summit to explore with other Asia-Pacific leaders ways to enhance cooperation on the region's most pressing challenges, including energy, maritime security, non-proliferation, and humanitarian assistance and disaster response.
Before the Summit, President Obama held meetings with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan and Premier Wen Jiabao of China. For more information, you can view fact sheets of the U.S.-ASEAN Leaders Meeting and East Asia Summit Outcomes, as well as additional information about all of President Obama's stops on his trip to Asia. You can also check out photos of President Obama in Cambodia here.
Editor's Note: This entry first appeared on the White House Blog.