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This morning a long Metro ride to Ecole Militaire from Reuilly-Diderot for the Rodin Museum. A few stops in, a guy with an electric guitar and an amplifier gets on and stands near the door. At first I groaned inwardly, remembering the surly accordion player who got on my car on the Metro two days ago. I was riding from south-east Paris to the Pompideau, sitting for most of the ride across from an old Eastern European woman who was wearing a black wool winter jacket with a caul over her head on a damp muggy day. She sat facing the floor of the car with a scared look on her face, whispering prayers, her hands clasping a rosary tight in her lap pushing her large breasts together.
A man of about 40 got on with an accordion and pushed numbers on a Casio until he got a samba beat and began to play a polka on a red tortoise-shell Vox accordion. No one was in the mood for happy accordion music at 7 in the morning, and when everyone turned their backs to him, he slammed the Casio off and walked up and down the crowded subway car with one hand extended while the other continued to play his accordion. When everyone (including me) ignored him, he stopped playing mid-song and went back to his machine and angrily shut it off, staring sullenly at us until we reached the next station—where he got off to, no doubt, get the same reception in the next car.
Anyway, this guitarist had a beat box too and began playing "Rawhide," which I thought was an interesting choice for the Paris Metro. Nothing fancy, but each note clearly and precisely defined, with a nice attack and some tremolo added to each note to give it a little extra bounce and depth. I was sitting across from him on one of those fold-out seats in the landing of the car and an elegant businessman, cradling a briefcase, was standing next to me and also faced the guitarist, and a young Japanese girl sat across from us.
I struggled to know what I should do—to look up would be to acknowledge his presence—I would get involved, which I wasn't sure I wanted to do remembering the accordion player's insolence when I wouldn't give him any change. But it felt odd not to look at him. I liked what he was playing, I liked his fingerwork, I was curious to see who this guy was, playing "Rawhide" in a subway car in the Paris Metro.
First I looked at his shoes (black Keds, hi-tops), his slacks (black pegged jeans), his shirt (soft reddish-brown, plaid), then his guitar (a vintage black Stratocaster), and then his right hand. He was holding a white plastic pick loosely between his thumb and forefinger. His fingernails were long and trimmed, solid. He held the guitar tight against his body and slowly rocked back and forth and side to side as he played.
When he saw me watching his fingers, he palmed the pick and began to fingerpick, playing freestyle. His fingers moved from string to string, precisely attacking each note and leaving it reverberating when his fingers went on to the next string. Then my eyes moved up the neck to his left hand. His fingernails were rounded and short. He drummed his fingertips onto the strings, his fingers striking the strings against the fretboard the way a piano-player hammers the keys with varying delicacy and force, their touch determining the amount of vibrato and clarity in each note.
I shot a glance up to his face. He wasn't looking at his fingers, but vaguely off at the floor, just as I was a moment before. He had short blonde hair, a clean-shaven face. Young, a little weathered, but clean and bright-faced. His reddish-brown shirt was freshly pressed.
He was playing out of his imagination and never seemed to be pushing himself, or attempting to play outside of what his fingers could actually accomplish—the notes were precise with lots of air and space around them, his fingers and body language relaxed. I could feel the force of his concentration—effortless and originating from somewhere deep inside him. Or perhaps he was gathering it from the air around his head, listening to the notes before and after they appeared and disappeared, replaced by whatever came next, listening and playing at the same time. Between the melody lines, when he was waiting for the beat to come around again, he rested the palm of his right hand on the soundboard, then flipped the pick back between his fingers, darting out a final flurry of angular, off-kilter endnotes.
As the last note of "Rawhide" reverberated, he bent over and programmed the beat box to begin a song I immediately identified as "Samba Pa Ti." He looked up and when he realized I was smiling, he rested his hand on the pick-guard, and palmed the pick and began playing with his fingertips, his index finger playing a counterpoint to the melody he was picking out with his third and fourth fingers. Then he began hammering a counter-melody with the fingers of his left hand, simultaneously extending and bending the notes and dropping in unexpected and discordant notes around the melody line, using these to launch short and then longer runs and fills around the simple slow melody, all the while completely relaxed, unforced, playing well within his limits. In my peripheral vision I could see that the businessman and the young Japanese girl were looking up and watching him, too.
Then in a gentle way he began to ascend away from the melody entirely, soaring above it, overlaying a brace of crisp notes in the air, the descending notes guttural, reverberating like stones dropped in a deep well, the upper register bright and glistening with vibrato, the two progressions finally coming together in a single note that he maintained longer than anyone could possibly imagine, until he raised it and sharpened it higher and higher and higher until he hit a pitch that was like the ice of a thousand windows shattering into gold.
of a restless mind where I hold what few answers I have near.
we had hoped for, the not-quite-here and not-yet-dead.
Think I care what is shouted in the street?
its self-portrait in silver ribbons, how cold it is.
I'm an example of the apprenticeship program that Allen [Ginsberg] ran while he was here. It was a course that you could sign up for, you got credit for it, and met alone with Allen once a week for three hours. Some of the time was spent looking at your own work as a poet and giving you one-on-one instruction. And some of it was secretarial work: you actually were an apprentice, you did the work of a poet.
But I want to talk about the apprenticeship program in a way that is not about sentimentality or nostalgia, or as something that happened in a circumscribed period of time and is no longer active in my life. As Allen said in that William Buckley clip, being a poet is grounded in a consciousness. And in that one-on-one instruction I learned how to ground that consciousness—for myself and others. I learned from him the way a baby bird learns from its parents how to fly—through observation and practice. He showed me how to do things that I always knew were possible but I'd never actually seen anyone live them out or practice them—what they actually looked like in action. In fact, most people told me that these ways of living were unrealistic—like giving all of your extra money away, like dedicating your life to the service of others. He showed me how these practices actually work.
When I came to Boulder in '79, as a 25-year-old, the problems I had as a poet were basically three. The first was that I was more or less ignorant of my poetic lineage and tradition. I was technically unread. The second problem was that my poetry was awful and, in addition, it was false, which made it even worse. And, three, I was socially inept. [Laughter] I was socially retarded in the sense of someone who was not behaving at their chronological age, emotionally, and living in a way that wasn't congruent with what they knew and believed.
So, how did Allen deal with those three problems? The first was easy. He gave me assignments. He told me what I needed to read in order to be a poet. The second problem with my poetry was that I had fallen in love with the poetry of William Butler Yeats as a teenager: I thought he was the greatest poet—and still do—of all time. The problem was, I was a 25 year-old kid writing as if I was, you know, William Butler Yeats. But I didn't have the wealth of experience or depth of insight to pull it off, so it was a false persona—false to my actual experience. So Allen gave me assignments to write from my own experience: What did I remember? What did I see? What did I feel? And when that wasn't working, he would make me face a white wall and take a poem of mine and ask me: "What did you actually see that gave you these thoughts? What was the color of the sky? Where were your hands when you thought this? What color dress was she wearing?" Precise details. His idea was that I needed to learn how to transcribe my own sense impressions, what actually occurred previous to my thoughts about what happened. Third, he sensed that I had a reservoir of emotions that I had frozen; I had squelched them in many ways; I was afraid of exposing them. And so I tended to be a body that carried my brain from room to room—I dealt with everything intellectually. So he began asking me questions that I could only answer from my heart. And by answering out of my heart over and over again—the actual, literal experience of honestly answering out of my heart—he gave me my self.
The other side of the apprenticeship was the work part. I was an expert at that. That sort of made up for my social ineptness and ignorance. I could type really fast, work really hard, I never missed an appointment or deadline. And I was totally attentive to Allen. He would send me on errands that he would do if he had the time, so I was occupied with a poet's errands, I did a poet's work. I went to the library, researched Milton, scanned his poetry: what rhythms did Milton use? Are there any contemporary first-person accounts of Blake singing his poems? And social and political investigations, rabblerousing, networking, phone calls, letter writing, building a community of poets. I learned that that's what a poet did, as much or equal to the writing of their poems.
The benefit of this is that I realized that I had my ideas about how to become a poet all wrong. I thought that to become a poet what you did was create a significant body of work and then you were acknowledged for that and people would consider you a poet. They would sort of give you that title. And that's how you made it. But it became clear to me that to be a poet is something completely opposite of that, that I had it completely upside down. To become a poet, you have to be a poet in every moment of your life. Like this moment, right this second, how it is for me now. That's how the apprenticeship continues in my life, how it's always present. It's not like you can "make it new," like [Ezra] Pound said—because it's always new. The apprenticeship never ends. Every second is always just the latest installment, and no one can anticipate what's about to happen, so you look at it as if you don't know, and you pay attention to what you see and you take note of it and declare it. That's the job of the poet—whether they're reading a poem or writing a poem or having a conversation or just observing what's going on above or beyond and behind what appears to be happening—to experience epiphanies, which my friend Jonathan Gill explained to me comes from the Greek for epi or the highest—and phanos—sight. That's the job of the poet, to experience the highest vision, to experience all of the possible epiphanies in any moment. And then you try to capture some of that excitement in words and gather it into a poem.
So as a poet, every moment, whether driving your car or shopping at the supermarket, sitting next to your friends at a reading like this—whatever you're doing, you could be the only poet in that moment! It could all be up to you! And if your being a poet is grounded in a consciousness, there's never an off switch. There's no down time. You are a poet. And, if you're a poet, you write poems out of those experiences that seem to capture something you were looking for, to preserve it and present it to others who may find some consolation in your being able to put into words what they've been experiencing themselves. Whatever it is, your poem can never be more than your ability to experience whatever you experience. It's obvious—it can't be anything more than that. And if you can stay in that state of consciousness and write a poem while still in it, then your poem will be a series of revelations and insights, like footsteps in the sand, or a path through the woods. And as they follow you, you and the reader will share that state of consciousness, at least for a moment, and you can make others become poets for a moment, too.
What I've thought about the last couple of days is that the reason Allen was so unafraid of public relations and getting the word out about his work and being and manifesting as a poet was because he thought his poetry was medicine. It was education. If you think of your work as medicine—medicine that people need—as a living example of what it is that they can be, then you want as many people as possible to experience that. And so any kind of self-consciousness about promoting and advertising yourself and work disappears. Poetry in this sense has a higher purpose, and promoting and advertising yourself merely become tools for getting the medicine to as many people as possible before you expire.
And when I thought about the apprentices I've kept up with, in addition to all being accomplished poets, one is working to preserve the ecological habitat of the Mississippi River. One works for Disability Services at CU and runs a virtual Museum of American Poetics on the web and is a blues guitarist. Joe [Richey] is an investigative reporter, involved in local politics, and an international emissary for poetry and politics, going to Central and South America when he's not playing in a Buddhist rock band. One person writes children's books for gay and lesbian families. Another poet is teaching meditation in the prisons and translating Buddhist poetry from the Korean and writing a biography of Tilopa in verse. And then there's whatever it is I do—my interest in improvisation and recording oral wisdom traditions. So: ecological understanding and sensitivity, working with the disadvantaged and socially and culturally isolated, the blues, preserving the American poetical lineage, investigating the government, working in local government, an interest in Buddhist rock-and-roll, teaching meditation, Buddhist poetry and oral wisdom traditions, an attempt to broaden acceptance and understanding of the gay and lesbian community, and improvisation.… Sound like anybody we know? [Laughter] In many ways, I think of Allen as a firebrand, as a burning bush, and when he died, little sparks of him flew out everywhere and set a lot of ground fires.
When Allen died it was the last teaching he gave to people who were actually paying attention, because he was not afraid, not grasping. It wasn't like it was a good thing, but he was kind of relieved and relaxed when he got the news that he was terminally ill, because of the way he lived his life. There was no off switch. He lived his life fully. He checked every box. So when it came time to die, it was like, "Okay, I did it." It was his last important teaching to his students—how to constantly be aware of your death so you can decide how to live the rest of your life. And my death will be the end of my apprenticeship, too.
So blessings to everyone for coming here tonight. Thanks for celebrating this poem and this poet and, uh, I wish you luck.


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Australian High Optical Power Gravitational Wave Research Facility
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Gravity Discovery Centre
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Swinburne OzSTAR Supercomputing Facility
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The United States Marks Half a Million COVID-19 Deaths
An inconceivable loss.
Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg walks among thousands of white flags planted in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19 in October 2020.Patrick Semansky/AP
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The United States' COVID-19 death toll has surpassed 500,000, a staggering milestone.
"People decades from now are gonna be talking about this as a terribly historic milestone in the history of this country, to have these many people to have died from a respiratory-borne infection," Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a CNN interview Monday morning. "It really is a terrible situation that we've been through, and that we're still going through."
It's nearly impossible to conceive of the loss of half a million Americans. The virus has killed one in 670 people across the country. In places like New York City, the number is closer to one in 295. President Biden will hold a memorial ceremony this evening and will order flags on federal property to fly at half staff for five days.
COVID-19 infection rates in the US have fallen dramatically since their January peak, and more than 13 percent of the country's population has received at least one vaccine dose. Still, public health officials are urging the public not to let their guard down. At a White House COVID-19 response team press briefing this afternoon, Fauci reiterated that people should continue wearing masks because of the possibility that people who have been vaccinated could still be infected and spread the disease asymptomatically.
"There will be things that you will not be able to do because the burden of virus in society will be very high," he said. "We are still at an unacceptably high baseline level with the seven-day average being quite high."
It was a little less than a year ago that then-President Trump declared that the coronavirus was "going to disappear." Lockdowns in New York City, one of the initial epicenters, began in mid-March 2020. Since then, the world as we knew it has disappeared.
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Spotify Listeners Love ASCAP Songwriters
It's December, which means a plethora of year-end music lists rolling in throughout the month. First up? Streaming giant Spotify, which released its year-end stats earlier this week. ASCAP songwriters contributed to the Top 9 songs on Spotify's "Top Tracks of 2017," clear proof that our members write the hits listeners want to hear over and over again.
Congratulations to these phenomenal songwriters on another stellar year!
Top Songs on Spotify's "Top Tracks of 2017" List
1.	"Shape of You" performed by Ed Sheeran
(ASCAP songwriters: Kandi Burruss, Tameka Cottle, Steve Mac)
2.	"Despacito (Remix)" performed by Luis Fonsi (feat. Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber
(ASCAP songwriters: Justin Bieber, Daddy Yankee, Poo Bear)
3.	"Despacito" performed by Luis Fonsi (feat. Daddy Yankee)
(ASCAP songwriter: Daddy Yankee)
4.	"Something Just Like This" performed by The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
(ASCAP songwriters: Coldplay, Drew Taggart)
5.	"I'm the One" performed by DJ Khaled (feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne)
(ASCAP songwriters: Justin Bieber, Poo Bear, Quavo)
6.	"HUMBLE." performed by Kendrick Lamar
(ASCAP songwriters: Kendrick Lamar, Mike WiLL Made-It)
7.	"It Ain't Me" performed by Kygo (feat. Selena Gomez)
(ASCAP songwriter: Selena Gomez)
8.	"Unforgettable" performed by French Montana (feat. Swae Lee)
(ASCAP songwriters: French Montana, Jeremih, The Weeknd)
9.	"That's What I Like" performed by Bruno Mars
(ASCAP songwriters: Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Ray Charles McCullough, Jeremy Reeves)


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Are You Shouting into the Void? The Evolution of Blogging (and Why It Matters)
August 22, 2019 by Gabrielle Shaiman
The internet has come a long way since LiveJournal and Blogger. But in the early 2000s, these sites brought blogging to the mainstream. Back then, the idea was simple: to share an online journal with interested readers. And the internet was interested. By 2006, there were 50 million blogs on the internet. And while the desire to connect with individual readers still motivates bloggers today, blogging has evolved into something much greater than that.
The Early Days of Blogging for Business
Very quickly, businesses realized that they could use content like blogs to build their brand and attract new customers. Content marketing is not a new concept. America was introduced to it back in the 1700s when Benjamin Franklin published "Poor Richard's Almanack" as a way of promoting his printing business. But by the 21st century, we had computers. Even more than that, we had Google.
As Google grew to become the gatekeeper of the internet, users were given a way to search for—and find—specific content. Today, we have a slew of content available at our fingertips which we rely on for news, information, and entertainment. But with so much content available to us, how can brands stand out from the crowd?
In the early days of digital content marketing, the answer was simple: keywords. Until the late 2000s, Google's algorithms for indexing the internet were heavily based on keywords. By including these keywords — or specific search phrases — in your content, your website could rank on the top results pages for those keywords. But soon, everyone and their mother was keyword stuffing their content to beat the system, and Google had to crack down.
Today, Content Marketing is All About Quality
These days, SEO (search engine optimization) is much more complex. Yes, keywords are still important. But Google relies on numerous other factors to rank content on the web. Their goal is to bring quality content to readers and consumers, not to please marketers. They grade web content based on Expertise, Authority, and Trustworthiness (coined as E-A-T in a Google algorithm update released in August 2018). Now, in order to be rewarded with a #1 ranking on Google, marketers must nurture their online presence to be seen by both Google and their readers as representative of these three characteristics.
How do we do this as marketers? It goes beyond just a blog post. We are now challenged to produce valuable content and robust digital footprints for our clients to portray their brands in the best light possible. With so much digital content available—and so much of it clickbait—the only way to cut through the noise is to post content that educates, entertains, or otherwise provides the reader with real value. This is one of the reasons TrustWorkz is shifting our clients' blog strategies to lengthier, higher-quality blog posts and finding ways to produce meaningful content that our clients' customers will value and trust (such as FAQ pages, testimonials, and case studies).
It's important for marketers to remember the root of content marketing, which is connecting with our audience. Readers are looking for unique, personalized content that stands out from the crowd. For local businesses, this means creating content that is hyper-local and taps into what's important to their community. If we remember these core concepts and produce content that our readers truly value, ranking #1 on Google will come more naturally.
If your website is not showing up on the first page of Google for important keywords, contact us. We'll develop a personalized strategy for your business to improve its digital footprint and increase both website traffic and foot traffic.
Filed Under: Blog, Blogging, Content Marketing, Uncategorized
About Gabrielle Shaiman
Hey! I'm Gabrielle (but a lot of people call me Gaby). I'm the President here at TrustWorkz where I get to help small businesses grow. Outside of the digital marketing world, I'm usually catching live music, hiking, playing with other people's dogs, or traveling.


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Legislative Summary of Bill C-243: An Act respecting the development of a national maternity assistance program strategy
Mayra Perez-Leclerc, Legal and Social Affairs Division
Publication No. 42-1-C243-E
Revised on: 2019-06-21
Any substantive changes in this Legislative Summary that have been made since the preceding issue are indicated in bold print.
1.1 Existing Measures to Support Pregnant and Nursing Employees Working in a Hazardous Environment
1.1.1 The Right to "Cease to Perform Job" and Maternity‑Related Reassignment and Leave
1.1.2 Relevant Employment Insurance Benefits
1.1.3 Quebec's Safe Maternity Experience Program
1.2 Related Federal Government Initiatives
2 Description and Analysis
2.1 Preamble
2.2 National Maternity Assistance Program
Appendix ‑ Description and Analysis of Clauses 5 to 7 of Bill C‑243, As Written Before Their Deletion From the Bill
Bill C‑243, An Act respecting the development of a national maternity assistance program strategy (short title: National Maternity Assistance Program Strategy Act), was introduced in the House of Commons on 26 February 2016 by Mark Gerretsen, Member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands, and given first reading the same day.1 Bill C‑243 provides for the development and implementation of a national maternity assistance program strategy, which is to be informed by consultations. The stated objective of this program strategy is "support[ing] women who are unable to work due to pregnancy and whose employer is unable to accommodate them by providing reassignment."
According to Mr. Gerretsen, Bill C‑243 was inspired by one of his constituents, Melodie Ballard, a welder by profession who suffered "serious financial hardship" and "significant personal distress" when the hazardous nature of her work and her employer's inability to accommodate her pregnancy‑related needs led her to temporarily withdraw from the workforce2.
Bill C‑2433 received second reading and was referred to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA) on 26 October 2016.4 On 3 May 2017, HUMA reported the bill to the House of Commons with various amendments related to the national maternity assistance program strategy. The committee also removed all provisions and references with respect to the Employment Insurance Act (EI Act),5 such as the amendment to the EI Act to allow a pregnant claimant to begin using her maternity benefits 15 weeks before her expected date of delivery (anticipated "confinement") if her employment duties or functions posed a risk to her health or to that of her unborn child and her employer was unable to accommodate her.6 A description and analysis of the clauses deleted at committee stage can be found in the appendix to this Legislative Summary.
In the meantime, the Speaker of the House of Commons ruled on 6 December 2016 that the bill, as it then stood, needed to be accompanied by a royal recommendation7 before it could receive third reading in the House of Commons. The ruling explained:
Bill C‑243 does not impose any new charge on the public treasury but creates a new set of conditions, relating to the safety of their workplace for their pregnancy, under which pregnant women could have access to benefits related to their pregnancy from as early as 15 weeks before the birth of their child. … [T]he Chair is not convinced that the current act allows spending under the circumstances, in the manner, and for the purposes [the sponsor] proposes. This being a circumstance not yet envisioned in the Employment Insurance Act, it infringes on the terms and conditions of the initial royal recommendation that accompanied that act and therefore requires now a new royal recommendation. This remains the case, even if the total amount of benefits stays the same.8
In light of HUMA's amendments, however, the Speaker ruled on 29 May 2017 that Bill C‑243, as amended, no longer required a royal recommendation.9 The bill was passed by the House of Commons, with HUMA's amendments, on 14 June 2017, and received first reading in the Senate on the same day.
The bill received second reading in the Senate on 24 October 2018 and was referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology (SOCI) on that day. Although SOCI reported the bill without amendments on 7 December 2018, it made observations regarding the nature of the consultations to be conducted. Specifically, SOCI suggested that, given the text of the bill's preamble, consultations to develop a national maternity assistance program strategy should not be restricted to pregnant employees but should also extend to nursing employees.10
Bill C‑243 was last debated at third reading stage in the Senate on 11 April 2019; however, it is expected to die on the Order Paper when the 42nd Parliament is dissolved prior to the 2019 federal election.
A pregnant or nursing employee in a federally regulated business or industry may "cease to perform her job" in accordance with Part II of the Canada Labour Code11 if she believes that her current job functions may pose a risk to her health or to that of her unborn or nursing child. However, she is required to consult a qualified medical practitioner12 as soon as possible to establish the nature of the risk and, if applicable, obtain a medical certificate.
During this period of non‑performance, the employer may reassign the pregnant or nursing employee to another job that does not pose a health risk. Regardless of whether the employee is reassigned, she is deemed to continue to hold her original position, which also means that her wages and benefits do not change. If the medical practitioner confirms that there is a risk, the employee may no longer "cease to perform her job" under this special provision. She must then refer to the current collective agreement or to Part III of the Code, as the case may be.13
Under Part III of the Code, a pregnant or nursing employee may request that her job functions be modified or that she be reassigned to another position. However, this request, which may be made from the beginning of the pregnancy to the end of the 24th week following the birth, must be accompanied by a medical certificate establishing the expected duration of the risk and the activities or conditions to avoid.
The employee is entitled to a leave of absence with pay at her regular rate of wages until the employer modifies her job functions, reassigns her to another position, or informs her in writing that it is not reasonably practicable to do either. Where reasonably practicable, the employer is required to modify the employee's job functions or reassign her, with the same wages and benefits attached to her original position. However, where the employer is unable to provide accommodation, the pregnant or nursing employee can take an unpaid leave of absence for the duration of the risk as indicated on the medical certificate.14 During this time, she may be eligible for some compensation under the current collective agreement, the EI Act or the employer's private insurance plan. 15
Similar to the federal context, certain provincial and territorial legislation provides for an explicit duty to accommodate pregnant and nursing employees. These provisions are particularly common in relation to workplaces where women may be exposed to radiation or harmful substances.16 Exceptionally, as explained in greater detail below, occupational health and safety legislation in Quebec allows pregnant and nursing employees to take a precautionary leave of absence and be paid income replacement benefits where there are workplace‑related health risks and the employer is unable to provide accommodation.17
While not all jurisdictions afford this kind of protection to pregnant and nursing employees under their occupational health and safety legislation or employment standards legislation, the Canadian Human Rights Act, along with human rights legislation enacted in all provinces and territories, prohibits discrimination related to pregnancy, either explicitly or as an element of the ground of "sex" or "gender," within several contexts. This, in turn, imposes a duty on the employer to accommodate up to the point of undue hardship.18
In Canada, outside the province of Quebec, temporary financial assistance for pregnant and nursing workers is provided primarily through maternity benefits established in accordance with the EI Act. To be eligible for EI maternity benefits, women must meet the following criteria:
the claimant must be employed in insurable employment and have paid EI premiums;
the claimant must be unable to work because she is pregnant or has recently given birth;
the claimant's normal weekly earnings have been reduced by more than 40% because of pregnancy or childbirth; and
the claimant must have accumulated at least 600 hours of insurable employment during the qualifying period (the qualifying period being the shorter of the 52‑week period immediately before the start date of the EI period, or the period since the start of a previous EI period if this period started during the last 52 weeks).19
Maternity benefits are provided for a maximum of 15 weeks. At the time of the introduction of Bill C‑243, claimants could receive maternity benefits as of the eighth week before the expected date of delivery. With the coming into force of Division 11 of Part 4 of Bill C‑44, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 22, 2017, and other measures, on 3 December 2017, the standard changed to 12 weeks before the expected date of delivery. Maternity benefits must end by 17 weeks after the expected or actual date of delivery, whichever is later.20
In addition, although neither pregnancy nor childbirth is considered an illness, a woman who experiences complications with respect to either may request and be entitled to EI sickness benefits. For example, a pregnancy that ends within the first 19 weeks is considered an illness for the purposes of the EI Act.21
New mothers may also be eligible for EI parental benefits, which could only be received for a maximum of 35 weeks at the time of the introduction of Bill C‑243. With the coming into force of Division 11 of Part 4 of Bill C‑44, however, a second option for claiming parental benefits became available, namely, 61 weeks of benefits at a lower benefit rate.22
While the exact amount of the benefits for a specific applicant cannot be determined before the application has been processed, the basic rate for calculating EI benefits in most cases (except for the extended parental benefits option) is 55% of a person's average insurable weekly earnings, up to a maximum amount. When Bill C‑243 was introduced, the maximum yearly insurable earnings amount was $50,800, which was equivalent to a maximum of $537 per week.23
While receiving these EI benefits, an employee may be entitled to corresponding job‑protected leaves of absence (namely, maternity, parental and sick leaves) granted in accordance with the Code.24
In Canada, Quebec is the only jurisdiction to offer wage replacement for provincially regulated employees during the period of preventive withdrawal connected with pregnancy and childbirth. Under Quebec's Act Respecting Occupational Health and Safety (OHS Act), a pregnant or nursing employee may request to be reassigned to other duties when she has obtained a medical certificate stating that her "working conditions may be physically dangerous to her unborn child or to herself by reason of her pregnancy" or that her "working conditions involve risks for the child she is breast‑feeding." If, however, reassignment is not possible, the pregnant or nursing employee has the right to take a precautionary leave of absence and receive income replacement benefits during this time.25
Income replacement benefits are provided by Quebec's Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CNESST) in accordance with the Safe Maternity Experience program, which has its basis in the OHS Act. Under the program, a worker on preventive withdrawal is entitled to full remuneration for the first five working days after stopping work, and to 90% of her net salary thereafter for the days that she would normally have worked were it not for the health or safety risk, up to a maximum insurable salary. When Bill C‑243 was introduced, the maximum insurable salary was set at $71,500. These benefits are in addition to maternity and other benefits provided to new parents by the Québec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP).
Income replacement benefits under Quebec's Safe Maternity Experience program are payable until:
the beginning of the work reassignment;
the cessation of the hazard that justified the preventive withdrawal;
the fourth week preceding the week of the expected date of delivery if the worker is eligible for benefits under the QPIP; or
the end of the nursing period.
Employees who are not eligible for the QPIP will continue to receive income replacement benefits from CNESST until the date of delivery, if a request is made.
The following employees, however, are not eligible to receive income replacement benefits under Quebec's Safe Maternity Experience program: women working outside the province of Quebec, women working for an employer that does not have an establishment in Quebec, employees of businesses under federal jurisdiction, unincorporated self‑employed workers, domestic help working for an individual, students in training, and volunteer workers.26
Budget 2017 proposed a series of measures to expand EI benefits in order to offer more flexibility to families, indicating that "[e]very Canadian family is different ‑ and has different needs when it comes to how they manage work and family responsibilities." 27 Notably, Budget 2017 proposed to amend the EI Act to allow women to claim EI maternity benefits up to 12 weeks – instead of eight weeks – before their date of delivery, if they so choose. Budget 2017 also proposed introducing a second option for claiming EI parental benefits.28 These changes were enacted upon the coming into force of Division 11 of Part 4 of Bill C‑44, on 3 December 2017, as mentioned in section 1.1.2 of this Legislative Summary. Corresponding amendments to the Code were also made at this time.
In the fall of 2016, the federal government conducted consultations with Canadians to seek their views on making certain EI special benefits, including maternity benefits, more flexible and inclusive. Among those who responded, 64% supported the approach of allowing women to access earlier EI maternity benefits where there are work‑related health and safety risks and the employer is unable to provide accommodation, even if this would result in fewer weeks of benefits post‑birth. In addition, 56% of participants indicated that they would like the federal government to raise awareness of this issue and encourage employers to modify workplace tasks or conditions where reasonably feasible.29
The preamble to Bill C‑243 sets out the legislation's justification. Using the principle of gender equity as its basis, the preamble indicates that pregnancy should not act as a barrier to full participation in the workforce, adversely impact a woman's employment, inflict financial hardship, or compromise the pursuit of her chosen career. Further, the preamble indicates that, in 2014, women represented 47.3% of the labour force, up from 45.7% in 1999 and 37.1% in 1976, with more women currently participating in skilled trades and other non‑traditional occupations that have potentially hazardous work environments.
While the preamble acknowledges Quebec's Safe Maternity Experience program, it also indicates that Canada, unlike other jurisdictions, lacks a "long‑term comprehensive national strategy" to accommodate pregnant and nursing employees in the workplace and to financially support them if they are unable to work.
Clause 1 establishes the short title of Bill C‑243, namely, the National Maternity Assistance Program Strategy Act.
Clause 2 specifies that the minister referred to in the bill is the Minister of Employment and Social Development.
Clause 3 requires the minister, in collaboration with other federal ministers, to conduct consultations on the development of a strategy to implement a national maternity assistance program, which would have as its objective supporting women who are unable to work by reason of their pregnancy and whose employer cannot accommodate them. Representatives of the provincial and territorial governments responsible for employment, along with other relevant stakeholders, are invited to participate in the consultations.
Further, the consultations should include an assessment of the following:
the current demand for a national maternity assistance program;
the adequacy of the current federal and provincial programs for pregnant women;
the financial costs, the potential social and economic benefits, and the legal, constitutional or jurisdictional implications associated with the implementation of a national maternity assistance program; and
the different types of workplaces in Canada and the impact of a national maternity assistance program on workplace gender equality (this stipulation was added by HUMA at committee stage).
Consultations must be held within a year after Bill C‑243 comes into force.
Clause 4 provides that, within three years after Bill C‑243 comes into force, the minister must table a report before each House of Parliament setting out the conclusions of the consultations. This report must be posted by the minister on the departmental website within 30 days after it is tabled. Prior to its amendment by HUMA at committee stage, clause 4 required the minister to table the report within two years of the coming‑into‑force date.
Initial commentary, which included references to the amendments to the EI Act found in the first reading version, suggested that Bill C‑243 received the support of various trade organizations, including Canada's Building Trades Unions (CBTU), the Canadian Welding Association (CWA) and the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum.30 In a news release, CBTU welcomed measures to increase the flexibility of EI maternity benefits and to develop a national maternity assistance program strategy, emphasizing their significance for women with careers in the skilled trades.31 Similarly, the CWA praised the bill as "proactive" and "beneficial to both the workers and to industry," explaining that, while welding is a profession subject to occupational health and safety standards, there may be certain working conditions within the skilled trades that would require early access to EI maternity benefits.32
Bill C‑243 also received support from women's advocacy organizations, such as the National Council of Women of Canada; the Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology (CCWESTT); the Canadian Federation of University Women; and the Office to Advance Women Apprentices.33 CCWESTT endorsed the bill with the caveat that "this should be the first step towards a more comprehensive system and national strategy to ensure that women who want to have a family and remain active in the workplace can do it in a safe manner and without discrimination." CCWESTT further explained that maternity is one of the barriers that women, especially those in underrepresented workplaces, encounter daily.34
However, initial commentary also suggested that there were some reservations with regards to the provisions in the first reading version of the bill that sought to shift the time period associated with the EI maternity benefit entitlement of pregnant workers (explained in the appendix to this Legislative Summary), and concerns about potential negative repercussions of these changes on workplace measures.
Senior officials from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), for example, cautioned that allowing all 15 weeks of EI maternity benefits to be taken before the expected date of delivery could lead to an income support gap for women whose children arrive late. They also indicated that this measure would deviate from one of the policy objectives of EI maternity benefits, namely, providing mothers with paid leave to recuperate after childbirth.35 UNICEF Canada also cautioned that curtailing post‑birth maternity assistance would not be in the best interests of children, indicating that "[m]aximizing time at home with a newborn child in the first year of life is an important part of the bonding and child development process." 36
Finally, with respect to workplace measures, senior officials from ESDC also pointed out that providing wage replacement during the period of preventive withdrawal could implicitly signal to employers a reduced onus with respect to occupational health and safety issues.37 Representatives from the Canadian Human Rights Commission similarly cautioned about the risk of having employers treat a future program as "an opportunity, a justification or loophole to avoid accommodating an employee," unless an employer's human rights obligations to accommodate and support an employee's needs related to pregnancy are reflected in the legislation.38
* Notice: For clarity of exposition, the legislative proposals set out in the bill described in this Legislative Summary are stated as if they had already been adopted or were in force. It is important to note, however, that bills may be amended during their consideration by the House of Commons and Senate, and have no force or effect unless and until they are passed by both houses of Parliament, receive Royal Assent, and come into force. [ Return to text ]
Bill C‑243, An Act respecting the development of a national maternity assistance program strategy, 1st Session, 42nd Parliament. See also House of Commons, Debates (534 kB, 82 pages), 1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 26 February 2016, p. 1454. [ Return to text ]
House of Commons, Debates (535 KB, 82 pages), 1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 17 May 2016, pp. 3504–3506. [ Return to text ]
Bill C‑243, An Act respecting the development of a national maternity assistance program strategy and amending the Employment Insurance Act (maternity benefits), 1st Session, 42nd Parliament (first reading version, 26 February 2016). [ Return to text ]
House of Commons, Debates (393 kB, 60 pages), 1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 26 October 2016, pp. 6169–6170.[ Return to text ]
Employment Insurance Act, S.C. 1996, c. 23 [EI Act]. [ Return to text ]
House of Commons, Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities [HUMA], Bill C‑243, An Act respecting the development of a national maternity assistance program strategy and amending the Employment Insurance Act (maternity benefits), Sixth Report, 1st Session, 42nd Parliament. [ Return to text ]
House of Commons, "Royal Recommendation for a Bill," Compendium of Procedure. [ Return to text ]
House of Commons, Debates (567 kB, 86 pages), 1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 6 December 2016, p. 7687. [ Return to text ]
House of Commons, Debates (763 kB, 120 pages), 1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 29 May 2017, p. 11559. [ Return to text ]
Senate, Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology [SOCI], Thirty‑first Report, 1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 7 December 2018. [ Return to text ]
Canada Labour Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. L‑2. [ Return to text ]
The term "qualified medical practitioner" will be changed to "health care practitioner" once the relevant provisions from the Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2, come into force. These provisions are expected to come into force on 1 September 2019; see Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2, S.C. 2018, c. 27, s. 534(1); Government of Canada, Order in Council P.C. 2019‑0602, 31 May 2019; and Employment and Social Development Canada, Labour Program: Current and future legislative and regulatory changes – Summary. [ Return to text ]
Canada Labour Code, s. 132. See also Government of Canada, Information on Occupational Health and Safety – Pamphlet 5: Pregnant and nursing employees; and Government of Canada, Information on Occupational Health and Safety – Pamphlet 1: Summary of Part II of the Canada Labour Code. [ Return to text ]
Canada Labour Code, ss. 204–205. See also Government of Canada, Information on labour standards – Publication 5: Maternity-related reassignment and leave, maternity leave and parental leave, Part III of the Canada Labour Code (Labour standards); and Government of Canada, Information on labour standards #1: Summary of Part III of the Canada Labour Code. [ Return to text ]
Government of Canada, Information on Occupational Health and Safety – Pamphlet 5: Pregnant and nursing employees. [ Return to text ]
See, for example, Northwest Territories, Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, NWT Reg 039‑2015, ss. 315 and 345; and Nunavut, Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, NWT Reg 039‑2015, ss. 315 and 345; and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, Nu Reg 003‑2016, ss. 315 and 345. [ Return to text ]
Quebec, Act Respecting Occupational Health and Safety, CQLR, c. S‑2.1, ss. 40–48. [ Return to text ]
Canadian Human Rights Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. H‑6, s. 3 [CHRA].
Regarding provincial and territorial human rights legislation, see, for example, Alberta, Alberta Human Rights Act, RSA 2000, c. A‑25.5, s. 44(2); and Northwest Territories, Human Rights Act, SNWT 2002, c. 18, s. 5(2).
For the purpose of the CHRA, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has defined the term "undue hardship" as existing when factors such as safety, health or cost make the employer's burden too high. See Canadian Human Rights Commission, Pregnancy and Human Rights in the Workplace: A Guide for Employers (228 kB, 18 pages), 2010. [ Return to text ]
Government of Canada, Employment Insurance maternity and parental benefits; and Government of Canada, Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles: Chapter 12 – Maternity benefits. [ Return to text ]
EI Act, ss. 12(3)(a), 22(2), 152.04(2) and 152.14(1)(a). See also Bill C‑44, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 22, 2017 and other measures, 1st Session, 42nd Parliament (S.C. 2017, c. 20), ss. 234 and 244(1). [ Return to text ]
Government of Canada, Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles: Chapter 12 – Section 3. See also Employment Insurance Regulations, SOR/96‑332, s. 40(5). [ Return to text ]
EI Act, ss. 12(3)(b), 23 and 152.05. See also Bill C‑44, ss. 231, 235 and 245.
For additional information about EI parental benefits, see Government of Canada, Employment Insurance maternity and parental benefits; and Government of Canada, Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles: Chapter 13 – Parental benefits. [ Return to text ]
Government of Canada, EI Maternity and Parental Benefits: How much you could receive; and Government of Canada, EI Sickness Benefit – How much could you receive. See also Government of Canada, EI premium rates and maximums. [ Return to text ]
Canada Labour Code, ss. 206, 206.1 and 239. [ Return to text ]
Act Respecting Occupational Health and Safety, ss. 40–48. [ Return to text ]
Government of Quebec, "Becoming a Parent: For a Safe Maternity Experience program," Services Québec – Citoyens; and Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, Salaire maximum assurable : annuel et hebdomadaire [available in French only]. See also Government of Quebec, "About the Plan," Québec Parental Insurance Plan; and Government of Quebec, "What is the Québec Parental Insurance Plan?," Québec Parental Insurance Plan; and Government of Quebec, "Becoming a Parent: Québec Parental Insurance Plan," Services Québec – Citoyens. [ Return to text ]
Government of Canada, Building a Strong Middle Class, Budget 2017, 22 March 2017, p. 63. [ Return to text ]
Ibid. [ Return to text ]
Government of Canada, Executive summary: Employment Insurance Special Benefits online consultations. See also Employment and Social Development Canada, "Consulting with Canadians to introduce more flexible and inclusive support for parents and family caregivers," News release, 6 October 2016. [ Return to text ]
Kelsey Curtis, "Trade groups endorse maternal leave proposal," Kingston Whig‑Standard, 27 April 2016. See also Mark Gerretsen, Member of Parliament, Kingston and the Islands, Bill C‑243. [ Return to text ]
Canada's Building Trades Unions, "Canada's Building Trades Unions and Build Together pleased to support Bill C‑243," News release, 17 May 2016. [ Return to text ]
Canadian Welding Association, "CWA applauds vote on Bill C‑243," News release, 28 October 2016 (accessed 28 June 2017). [ Return to text ]
Curtis (2016). See also Gerretsen, "Endorsements," Bill C‑243 (accessed 28 June 2017). [ Return to text ]
Gerretsen, "Endorsements," Bill C‑243 (accessed 28 June 2017). [ Return to text ]
HUMA, Evidence, 1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 23 March 2017, 1225 (Mr. Andrew Brown, Executive Director, Employment Insurance Policy, Skills and Employment Branch, Department of Employment and Social Development). [ Return to text ]
UNICEF Canada, A UNICEF Canada Submission Regarding Bill C‑243, The National Maternity Assistance Program Strategy Act (1.16 MB, 9 pages), March 2017, p. 3. [ Return to text ]
HUMA (2017), 1230 (Brown). [ Return to text ]
SOCI, Evidence, 1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 8 November 2018 (Ms. Monette Maillet, Deputy Executive Director and Senior General Counsel, Canadian Human Rights Commission). [ Return to text ]
Appendix - Description and Analysis of Clauses 5 to 7 of Bill C‑243, As Written Before Their Deletion From the Bill
This section contains a description and analysis of clauses 5 to 7 of Bill C‑243, An Act respecting the development of a national maternity assistance program strategy, as they read in the first reading version of the bill.1 These provisions were deleted from the bill by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities in its 3 May 2017 report to the House of Commons.2
National Maternity Assistance Program
Clause 5 provides that, within three years of the tabling of the first report, and subsequently every three years, the minister must prepare a report setting out his or her conclusions and recommendations with respect to the national maternity assistance program strategy. This report must be tabled before each House of Parliament within 15 sitting days of its completion. The report must be posted by the minister on the departmental website within 30 days after it is tabled.
Employment Insurance Act
Clauses 6 and 7 of Bill C‑243 amend the Employment Insurance Act by adding sections 22(2.1) and 152.04(2.1) to allow for the shifting of the time period associated with the maternity benefit entitlement of pregnant workers, including those who are self‑employed. Specifically, under new sections 22(2.1) and 152.04(2.1), the weeks for which maternity benefits may be paid can be shifted if:
the pregnant worker has obtained a medical doctor's certificate attesting to her inability to perform her employment duties because these may pose a risk to her health or to that of her unborn child; and
in the case of an employee, her employer is unable to modify her job functions or assign her to another job or, in the case of a self‑employed worker, she is unable to modify her job functions.
In accordance with new sections 22(2.1) and 152.04(2.1), if the above‑noted conditions are met, the weeks for which maternity benefits may be paid can be shifted to begin 15 weeks before the expected date of delivery. The end date associated with the payment of maternity benefits remains unchanged at 17 weeks after the expected or actual date of delivery, whichever is later.
House of Commons, Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities, Bill C‑243, An Act respecting the development of a national maternity assistance program strategy and amending the Employment Insurance Act (maternity benefits), Sixth Report, 1st Session, 42nd Parliament. [ Return to text ]


A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds.
Ten-year-old Cam, possessor of a photographic memory, and her friend Eric investigate what seems to be a brief appearance of U.F.O.s.
Cam uses her photographic memory to identify the person who stole a valuable autographed baseball.
Fifth-grader Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help find a pickpocket at the circus.
A fifth-grader uses her photographic memory, her mother, and her friend Eric to find a missing reel of a monster film they go to see.
Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to solve a monkey-smuggling mystery at the city zoo.
Fifth grader sleuth Cam Jansen and her friend Eric combine wits to solve the disappearance of a young French girl.
When Cam Jansen and her friend Eric uncover a mystery while selling fudge door-to-door to raise money for the local library, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil a crime.
Cam uses her photographic memory to catch a thief disguised as a ghost.
Cam investigates when a thief steals her mother's video camera and a tape containing footage of a big scary snake.
While visiting Aunt Molly at a fancy downtown hotel, Cam uses her photographic memory to help one of the guests find her stolen luggage and pet cat, and to catch the thief.
When a woman's poodle disappears during a boat ride around the city, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
When Cam's grandparents are robbed on their way to her parents' surprise birthday party, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
When a thief takes the box office money at the school play, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
On her first day of fifth grade, Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help the police find a car thief. Includes a memory game.
Cam Jansen, with Eric at her side, helps solve the mystery of what happened to Mr. Day's tennis trophy.
It's Valentine's Day, and Cam is at school when she learns her mother is about to give birth.
Cam and her friend Danny help solve the mystery of a stolen pearl necklace when the governor comes to visit their school for the dedication of the new library.
Cam Jansen battles a famous children's mystery writer to see who can solve the case of the stolen car.
On Green Day, Cam and her classmates discuss ways to protect the environment, but when money collected for the school's new skylights disappears, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
29) Cam Jansen and the basketball mystery	, Cam Jansen mysteries. Main series 29.
When Cam and her father go to a talent show at the local senior center, Cam's help is needed to find out who stole a wedding cake from the delivery truck.
Cam Jansen and her photographic memory help her friend's grandfather retrieve his missing bag with an important graduation gift in it.
While at the airport waiting for her father to pick up his best friend from childhood, Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help a distressed father find his missing daughter.
While Cam's Aunt Molly is competing in a comedy contest, the expensive plate the winner will receive disappears and Cam and Eric set out to find it before the contest's over.


Erika Blikman is involved with photography, and Kyoko Inatome makes inflatable objects. Their joint project, 'Binnenstebuiten/Inside Out', consisted of two workshops. The first, the Circle workshop, was a brainstorming session in which participants expressed their individuality in a collage. During the next, the Balloon workshop, each participant made their own work of art on a large white balloon with a diameter of 130 cm. Sitting inside such a balloon brings many associations: house, womb, shelter, globe… Erika photographed the participants while they were at work. The results are extremely varied. The balloons were displayed inside out, providing a view of each artist's inner home. Simultaneously, one could see each individual's outer side in the photo portraits.


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GAMMELSÆTER & MARHAUG - Higgs Boson LP
Edition of 700 copies, duotone artwork on inner & outer sleeves
Runhild Gammelsæter and Lasse Marhaug are two Norwegian musicians/sound artists. Both started in the early 1990s music underground and have worked in many constellations with a wide range of collaborators.
Despite knowing each other for a long time, Gammelsæter and Marhaug's first collaborative work was the "Quantum Entanglement" LP in 2014. The album ignited a collective spark that both wanted to pursue further. Still, other commitments got in the way, and the project lay dormant until Stephen O'Malley, and Greg Anderson invited them to open for Sunn O))) for a special gig in the St. James Church of Culture in Oslo in the autumn of 2019. The two gathered for a long series of rehearsals, and after the successful performance, it was clear that it was time to start working on new compositions and recordings. That process initiated in late 2019 and continued to early 2021, encompassing before and after the world went through the lockdown. The result of this long development to be heard accumulated upon their new album "Higgs Boson" on Ideologic Organ Music.
Throughout the profound process of creating "Higgs Boson", Gammelsæter and Marhaug drew inspiration from various subjects and artists. For Marhaug, it was concepts informed by the structuralist experimental cinema of Japanese directors Takashi Ito and Toshio Matsumoto, futurist worlds of French comic book artists Philippe Druillet and Jean Moebius Giraud, landscape photography of Fay Godwin, Kåre Kivijärvi, and Tamiko Nishimura, amongst others.
It became a metaphysical juxtaposition involving Gammelsaeter's research and lyrical ideas based on several seemingly unrelated principles. A process of association inspired by "the Glass Bead Game" by Herman Hesse. The discovery of the Higgs Boson as a confirmation of the physical universe. The work of Ernst Schrödinger on the uncertainty principle. The four forces of physics. The Force. Helplessness under armed forces - as the war sailors in World War II. The influence of magic as expressed in tarot.
Gammelsæter experiments with a boundary involving the thresholds amongst various states of focus and legibility by forensic experimentation with techniques such as exclusive expression of consonants, syllabic repetition, retrograde text vocalisations and multi-lingual layering. Her vocal inspirational sources include Sidsel Endresen, Diamanda Galas, Natacha Atlas, the choral works of Rachmaninov, and the bands Carcass and Grave.


Ideal for popping on and zipping up this winter, this long-sleeve Lucas Zip Up Hoody is an absolute must-have for your little one's wardrobe!
5 months ago Bought as a birthday gift for a Viking crazy 6 year old. Fabric is a nice warm weight and super soft. We usually go for an applique design hoody, but the design on this one is really fun.


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Svetlana Anatolyevna Kazanina (; born 31 October 1971 in Taldykorgan, Kazakh SSR) is a Kazakhstani heptathlete.

Achievements

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1971 births
Living people
People from Taldykorgan
Kazakhstani heptathletes
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Kazakhstan
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for Kazakhstan
Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
Kazakhstani people of Russian descent

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        Auth::login($user = User::create([
            'name' => $request->name,
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I would like to save more data (like user Date of Birth) as User details  in another table while Registering User. I would like to maintain one to one relationship with User table and User details table.
Actually I would like to attache something with this event(new Registered($user));. So that I can save data to another Table along with registration. How can I do that ?
Where can I get the code of this new Registered($user) ?

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Got this sent in (thanks SK) and wanted to make sure and post on up about the short film The Oak Park Story which is a documentary about a predominantly Cambodian and Latino community in Oakland who joined forces to sue the slumlord of their apartment complex and which'll be premiering at SFIAAFF next month.
The Oak Park Story (22 min, 2010), the new documentary that captures the lives of a predominantly Southeast Asian and Latino community in an Oakland slum, will premiere at the 2010 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The film is directed, edited, co-produced and co-written by Valerie Soe and co-produced and co-written by Russell Jeung, both of whom are professors of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University.
The film screens alongside Curtis Choy's documentary about the late great Filipino Al Robles, Manilatown Is In The Heart.
The Oak Park Story (2010, 22 min.) recounts the struggles of three very different families who find themselves together in a run-down slum in Oakland, CA. Khlot Ry arrived first from Cambodia, where she and her granddaughters had fled forced labor camps and invading Vietnamese soldiers. A few years later, Felix and Hortensia Jimenez brought their family across the Mexican-U.S. border without documents, where Felix struggled to earn a living as a day laborer. At the same time, Dan Schmitz left the comforts of his white, middle class upbringing in the suburbs and moved into the apartment directly across from the Jimenez family.
Together, these three households encountered daily life in America's underclass. Parents raised their children amidst drug dealing, gang violence and prostitution right in their parking lot. Yet their worst problem was their Stanford-educated landlord, who raised rents even when El Nino rains flooded their units. Interviews, home video footage, and photographs from the tenants depict their daily lived experiences in the 1980s and 1990s.
Facing unsanitary housing conditions that led to the hospitalization of several children, 44 households of Oak Park banded together to sue and eventually won a landmark settlement, against their landlord. Despite the victory, this too brought about some surprising, unintended consequences.
The Oak Park Story concludes nearly ten years after winning the lawsuit. What have the children at Oak Park learned from their parents' organizing? How did the lawsuit impact the lives of the undocumented workers, the refugee families, and the other working poor living there? What ongoing social conditions do they continue to face?
Where: Sundance Kabuki Cinema, 1881 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
When: March 14, 2010 at 2:00 pm and March 15, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Tickets are available at the SFIAAFF website.
Labels: APA, API, Asian, Asian American, Film


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The following email from Elder Martin Onyoni contains our schedule for our visit in Kenya. We will leave on Monday, July 19, at 9:30 pm from the Atlanta airport for Nairobi, Kenya. We will spend the first week of our trip in Kenya with Elder Martin. We will be busy traveling to many parts of Kenya.
The next week we will travel to Tanzania and spend 7 days with the church there. Five men from Zambia who are deeply interested in the PBC will meet us there and we look forward to meeting these brethren and studying the doctrine and practice of the PBC with these men. There are four brethren in the First PBC of Tanzania who carry a burden to preach the gospel. They will be with us each day as we study together. It is my prayer that soon some of these men will be ready to be ordained to the full work of the ministry.
While I am in Tanzania, I hope to spend some time with Elder Obey's children. All the reports I get about them are so encouraging.
If you did not get a copy of Elder Vernon Johnson's recent update on the PBC in Africa, please let me know and I will be glad to send this to you. His update will give you some idea about how many doors God is opening in Africa. Brother Vernon already has plans to visit different countries in east Africa in Oct. of 2010 and January of 2011. He is getting requests every week to send study materials to so many places in Africa where people are learning about the PBC. He is such a blessing to this work.
I am so thankful that Elders Paul Blair and Charles Kitchens and a young brother Austin Wouters from Zions Rest will be with me on this trip. We hope to return to the states on August 3.
Greetings in the Mighty name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I that the Lord for every remembrance of you, your time and sacrifice and your faithfulness for the cause of Christ. I hope your families and the church you serve are doing well in the Lord.
All of the Lord's people here are looking forward with joy towards your visit, and we keep you in our prayers and that the Lord may bless your presence here in Africa. And it is our prayer that the Lord may also bless our forthcoming meetings and that you may be of a great benefit to the Lord's people here.
As your coming is becoming closer, below is the proposed itinerary of your visit in Kenya. Any correction, suggestion or comment concerning this proposed itinerary is welcome.
Wed 21st July 2010: Arrive at Nairobi at 6:15 am. Drive straight to Nairobi PB Fellowship. Worship services starts at 10 am at Nairobi PB Fellowship. Drive to Naivasha after worship services. Worship Services in the afternoon at Naivasha PB Fellowship. Spend a night at a Hotel in Naivasha.
Thur 22nd July 2010 : Depart Naivasha for Kisii. Afternoon worship services at Omogonchoro Fellowship ( near Kisii town ). Head to the hotel for rest after worship services.
Sat 24th July 2010 : Drive to Kisumu PB fellowship for a worship service.
Sunday 25th July 2010 : Morning Session: Joint Fellowship at Bombure PBC ( Churches to attend: First PBC of Kisii- Kenya, Entanda PBC, Kiorina PBC, and Bombure PBC, host church) Afternoon Session : Worship service at Nyarenda PBC.
Monday 26th July 2010 : Depart Kisii for Nairobi to catch a flight at 10pm to Dar. Drive from Kisii to Nairobi.
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I am alive, I swear it. For proof I offer photographs of trout lilies taken on a recent walk, which would be difficult to do if I were posting from beyond the grave.
Those of you who know me will know how inordinately happy I was to find these, and in profusion too, all over the floor of a local woodlot. To me, the blooming of the first trout lilies is the best and surest sign that spring is really here; plus, they're pretty.
Trout lilies fascinate me. They can propogate either reproductively or through runners. For the first two years, all a new trout lily does is grow a root; in the third year, a single small brown-and-green splotchy leaf will appear aboveground.
A couple years after that, it'll manage to grow two leaves; around year seven or eight, the trout lily will produce its gorgeous yellow flower. Even in the best sites, only about 35% of trout lilies will be of flowering age at any given time. All of which is to say that while there is nothing illegal about picking trout lilies, it's not a spectacular idea since it won't be replaced for at least seven years.
Rumour has it that trout lilies have emetic properties and were used by First Nations as a contraceptive. They are also, apparently, edible–but for god's sake, please don't.
They grow thickest and soonest at the base of substantial tree trunks because the microclimate is a bit warmer, so if you're hunting for trout lily, look at the base of old trees (or on gentle sun-facing slopes). Trout lilies like moist, relatively open hardwood forests with plenty of leaf litter; they'll bloom in the GTA from about mid-April through part of May (so if you want to see them, get out there in the next two or three weeks). Because they are so fragile–taking so long to grow and having such specific site requirements–they are easily out-competed in more open environments by tougher and more vigorous annual flowers. In the shade of deciduous trees and on ground perpetually carpeted by decomposing leaves, they can grow and flower–but only until the trees bud and leaf, at which point the shade kills them off.
They look so fragile and delicate, but it is that very fragility which enables them to thrive in environments where stronger plants can't grow.
I wasn't able to find any art or folklore related to the trout lily, but if any of you know of some, let me know and I'll add it. Otherwise, I'll keep looking.
If you're interested in the biology of Trout Lilies, I recommend reading a fascinating study entitled "14C transfer between the spring ephemeral Erythronium americanum and sugar maple saplings via arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in natural stands." The study found that nutrients acquired by early blooming Trout Lilies found there way into nearby Sugar Maples. The nutrients were transferred via soil organisms called mycorrhizae which attach to the roots of both the ephemerals and the forest trees. This gives the maples an extra boost in the spring for their own growth. The study suggested that there might also be a reverse process in the fall but were not able to confirm it. The study was published in the July 2002 edition of Oecologia, vol. 132, no. 2, pp. 181-187. Authors Lerat et al.


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A Christmas present from Lemolo
Michael C. Moore
michael.moore@kitsapsun.com
Meagan Grandall's got a little something from Lemolo to put under your Christmas tree.
The Poulsbo-based singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist, who goes (along with drummer Adrian Centoni) by the band moniker of Lemolo, has been posting videos at http://lemolomusic.com from a 2016 concert at St. Mark's Cathedral in Seattle.
The series — "Cathedrals XV: Live at St. Mark's Cathedral" — will see a new video up each Friday during December. In a note on Lemolo's Facebook page, Grandall called the St. Mark's concert "the most memorable show I have ever played," and added, "I can't wait to share special moments of it with you each week."
But that's not all. Grandall promised a free download of a "special winter song" just before Christmas.
The second video of the series, posted Dec. 8, is a performance of the song "White Flag:"
Lemolo completed a West Coast tour in September and October, and are at work on a third CD, the follow-up to 2015's critically acclaimed "Red Right Return."
— MM