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Debates of Oct. 30th, 2001
House of Commons Hansard #105 of the 37th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was edc.
- Yukon Northern Affairs Program Devolution Transfer Agreement
- Government Response to Petitions
- Committees of the House
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Constitution of Canada
- Export Development Act
- Tobacco
- Prostate Cancer
- Communities in Bloom
- Jean-Marc Ouellet
- The Environment
- Terrorism
- E-Commerce
- Trade Disputes
- Aboriginal Youth Conference
- 1972 Election
- Fallen Heroes Fund
- Energy
- Délégation Générale du Québec in Paris
- Yukon
- Trade
- Immigration
- Terrorism
- National Security
- International Aid
- Immigration
- Finance
- Terrorism
- Lumber Industry
- The Economy
- Lumber Industry
- National Security
- National Defence
- Anti-Terrorism Legislation
- North American Security
- Health
- International Exchanges
- National Security
- Anti-Terrorism Legislation
- Airline Industry
- The Budget
- Lumber Industry
- Terrorism
- Presence in Gallery
- Points of Order
- Privilege
- Export Development Act
- Business of the House
- Export Development Act
- Committees of the House
- Hepatitis C
- Canada-Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
- Supply
- Export Development Act
Yukon Northern Affairs Program Devolution Transfer Agreement
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Kenora—Rainy River
Bob Nault Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the Yukon Northern Affairs Program Devolution Transfer Agreement.
Government Response to Petitions
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Halifax West
Nova Scotia
Geoff Regan Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8) I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to two petitions.
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
October 30th, 2001 / 10:05 a.m.
Peter Adams Peterborough, ON
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present the 34th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs regarding its order of reference from the House of Commons of June 12, 2001 concerning private members' business, and I should like to move concurrence at this time.
(Motion agreed to)
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Peter Adams Peterborough, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to present another petition from citizens of the greater Peterborough area who are concerned about kidney disease and kidney research.
They believe that it would be better if Canada's national institute,which does wonderful work on kidney research, include the word "kidney" in its title rather than having a relatively obscure academic title.
The petitioners call upon parliament to encourage the Canadian institutes of health research to explicitly include kidney research as one of the institutes in its system to be named the institute of kidney and urinary tract diseases.
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Halifax West
Nova Scotia
Geoff Regan Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, I would ask that all questions be allowed to stand.
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
The Deputy Speaker
Is that agreed?
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Some hon. members
Constitution of Canada
Government Orders
10:10 a.m.
Newfoundland & Labrador
Brian Tobin Minister of Industry
WHEREAS section 43 of the Constitution Act, 1982 provides that an amendment to the Constitution of Canada may be made by proclamation issued by the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada where so authorized by resolutions of the Senate and House of Commons and of the legislative assembly of each province to which the amendment applies;
NOW THEREFORE the House of Commons resolves that an amendment to the Constitution of Canada be authorized to be made by proclamation issued by Her Excellency the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada in accordance with the schedule hereto.
The Terms of Union of Newfoundland with Canada set out in the Schedule to the Newfoundland Act are amended by striking out the words "Province of Newfoundland" wherever they occur and substituting the words "Province of Newfoundland and Labrador".
Paragraph (g) of Term 33 of the Schedule to the Act is amended by striking out the word "Newfoundland" and substituting the words "the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador".
Term 38 of the Schedule to the Act is amended by striking out the words "Newfoundland veterans" wherever they occur and substituting the words "Newfoundland and Labrador veterans".
Term 42 of the Schedule to the Act is amended by striking out the words "Newfoundland merchant seamen" and "Newfoundland merchant seaman" wherever they occur and substituting the words "Newfoundland and Labrador merchant seamen" and "Newfoundland and Labrador merchant seaman", respectively.
Subsection (2) of Term 46 of the Schedule to the Act is amended by adding immediately after the word "Newfoundland" where it first occurs the words "and Labrador".
- This Amendment may be cited as the Constitution Amendment, [year of proclamation] (Newfoundland and Labrador).
Mr. Speaker, today I am pleased to be joined by my colleague, the member for Labrador, and to note as well the presence in the gallery of the House of Commons of the minister of intergovernmental affairs of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Hon. Tom Lush, for what I believe is an important and historic resolution.
Today I have the pleasure of introducing a resolution to authorize a bilateral amendment to term 1 of the terms of union of Newfoundland with Canada. The amendment would change the name of the province to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Newfoundland became part of Canada on March 31, 1949, with the Newfoundland Act which ratified the terms of union between Newfoundland and Canada.
The government of Newfoundland and Labrador has taken many steps over time, beginning with the passage of the Labrador Act in 1964, to recognize the reality that Labrador is a vital part of the province. The Labrador Act provided for the official recognition of Labrador in the provincial coat of arms, on government stationery and in government publications.
While this was an important measure, the name of the province provided for in the terms of union with Canada remains the province of Newfoundland. That name does not reflect by itself the fundamental reality of my home province, which includes both Newfoundland and Labrador.
Indeed, it is a unique province in the sense that so much a part of the history, the reality, the culture, the songs and the tradition of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador is separated by the Atlantic Ocean and the Strait of Belle Isle.
Many of our citizens, small in number but so dynamic, have never fully felt their contribution and their presence reflected fully in the governance of my home province or in its official name.
In April 1992 the Newfoundland house of assembly unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the provincial government to take the necessary steps to change the name of the province to Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Newfoundland and Labrador throne speech of March 20, 1996, called upon the provincial government to take the necessary action to change the name of the province.
I was very honoured as the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador on April 29, 1999, to rise in the Newfoundland house of assembly and to seek and receive the unanimous adoption of a resolution authorizing the Governor General to issue a proclamation to amend term 1 of the terms of union to reflect the new name of the province to that of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The government then asked the Government of Canada to take appropriate measures at the federal level to effect a constitutional amendment. Our role and our responsibility now, as parliamentarians, is to consider the proposed amendment at the national level and to decide whether to approve it.
It is the longstanding practice of the Government of Canada to take positive action in response to provincial requests for bilateral amendments to the constitution.
Once proclaimed, this will be the seventh bilateral amendment to the constitution to have successfully completed the amending formula. This shows that progress on modernizing and improving the Canadian federation can be made, and that our constitution continues to evolve in a range of areas.
As I have indicated on several occasions, the Government of Canada supports the amendment which provides a tangible way for us to formally recognize the contribution of Labrador and of Labradorians.
Changing the name of the province is an importance symbolic recognition of Labrador's status as a full and vital part of Canada's easternmost province, with its own unique geography, history and culture. It is about respect for Labrador and its inhabitants as essential contributors to my home province and to its rich and diverse cultural heritage.
The proposed constitutional amendment will also reflect Labradorians' understandable desire that this reality be reflected officially in the province's name.
What is at issue here is not a border, but a symbolic gesture for Newfoundland and Labrador citizens.
Section 43 of the Constitution Act, 1982 provides for an amendment to Canada's constitution in relation to any provision that applies to one or more but not all provinces. Such an amendment can be made by proclamation issued by the Governor General under the great seal of Canada where authorized by resolutions of the Senate, the House of Commons and the legislative assembly of each province to which the amendment applies.
I am joined today by the member for Labrador, and I believe by all members on both sides from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, in asking the House to give consideration to this request.
In deferring to the member for Labrador, with whom I want to split my time, I would ask the House to give the member time to finish his remarks. I also want to note that we have consulted with members of the opposition. I specifically want to note that we have consulted with members of the Bloc Quebecois. Indeed, I have consulted with the government of Quebec on behalf of the Government of Canada, as has the government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In anticipation, I would like to thank all members from all parties but notably colleagues from Quebec on both sides of the House for the spirit in which this resolution request is being received and I anticipate and hope the manner in which it shall be voted. This is an important day for all citizens of Newfoundland and Labrador but no more important for any than those of Labrador.
I will now cede my place to the member for Labrador who has worked very hard on the resolution.
Constitution of Canada
Government Orders
10:15 a.m.
The Deputy Speaker
The Chair would seek some guidance. The House will respond yea or nay to the request for consent, but it might be helpful to all of us if we had some indication as to the length of time the member for Labrador might take in this intervention. Possibly the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader might be helpful?
Constitution of Canada
Government Orders
10:15 a.m.
Geoff Regan Halifax West, NS
Mr. Speaker, what we are requesting is that the member for Labrador be able to speak for 10 minutes.
Constitution of Canada
Government Orders
10:15 a.m.
The Deputy Speaker
The House has heard the request from the Minister of Industry. Is there consent?
Constitution of Canada
Government Orders
10:15 a.m.
Some hon. members
Constitution of Canada
Government Orders
10:15 a.m.
Lawrence O'Brien Labrador, NL
Mr. Speaker, my thanks go to my colleague, the Minister of Industry and regional minister, and to all members of this great and honourable House. I am the very first Labrador-born member of parliament in this great Chamber and I am indeed very proud to serve in this Chamber with my colleagues and of course to serve the people who put me here, the people of Labrador.
For as long as I have been involved in political life, and especially since becoming member of parliament for Labrador, I have always had certain goals in mind. One of these goals has been to drive home the point that Labrador has unique needs and challenges.
Labrador has enormous geography, enormous potential and an enormous role to play in this country. Labrador also has a very strong identity. No one could ever deny that.
Many years ago Mrs. Elizabeth Goudie wrote in her autobiography, Woman of Labrador , that the name Labrador went deep within her being. All of us who read that phrase knew exactly what she meant. We knew it when we adopted the blue, white and green Labrador flag. Even though the constitution until now did not recognize our name, we knew who we were. There has never been any doubt in our minds that we are Labradorians.
There are many things that other Canadians and even Newfoundlanders do not know about Labrador.
Labrador is two and a half times the size of Newfoundland. Labrador is larger than the other 31 ridings of Atlantic Canada put together. It is one of the largest ridings in Canada.
Ever since I was elected I have been trying hard to educate my colleagues in parliament. I even have the Prime Minister saying Labrador these days, which I am very proud of.
I look at a member here who had a great time in Labrador. This past summer I had the honour of hosting my Atlantic Liberal colleagues along the south coast of Labrador and a very noteworthy time was had. We had a great time, absolutely phenomenal, down in Battle Harbour and along the straits of Labrador.
Labrador has some of the richest history in Canada: the 9,000 year aboriginal pre-history in evidence at Point Amour, Ramah and Rattler's Bight; the remains of the Basque whaling premises at Red Bay and throughout southern Labrador; the historic sites of Hopedale, Hebron and Battle Harbour; the stories of the trappers of North West River, the Hudson's Bay Company; and the Moravian church at Makkovik and the Grand Falls "Bottle". We are only now beginning to tell our story to the world.
Our people came from all over: the Innu and Inuit inhabitants whose ancestors were there when European cities were still swamps; the settlers who came from England, Ireland, Scotland, the Channel Islands, Canada and Newfoundland to build new lives in the freedom of Labrador; the Metis, whose heritage goes back to the blending of these traditions centuries ago; and the skilled and energetic people who helped build the modern industrial Labrador in our interior resource towns.
Our unique settlement patterns and our distinct history have given us our identity. We have maintained a deep and even spiritual attachment to our land. Centuries of isolation and crossing of cultures have led to a distinct Labrador spirit. We treasure that spirit, that attachment and that identity.
The latest chapter of our history is the great military and industrial development in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Wabush, Labrador City and Churchill Falls, which contributes greatly to the provincial and national economies.
With developments such as Voisey's Bay and the Trans-Labrador highway, we will continue to make our place in Canada.
Unfortunately over the years these developments have not always been in the best interests of Labradorians. We have been too often overlooked and forgotten. Our people and our land have not been respected. Our needs were often ignored. Our identity was denied.
We should never again have to feel that someone else is taking our mineral and energy wealth, our fisheries and forest resources and even our name away from us. In its own way, this symbolic change in our constitution will recognize Labrador and help ensure that we will never again be forgotten.
There are still some who believe and will say that Labrador is just a part of Newfoundland. They fail or refuse to recognize our special character and our unique place. However, when we see the broad expanse of Lake Melville, nearly as large as Prince Edward Island, stretching through the horizon, when we stand at the bottom of the Saglek Fjord with 3,000 foot cliffs towering overhead, when 25,000 caribou come streaming over a barren hill in back of Double Mer, when we drive across the seemingly endless iron hills of the interior, a landscape that inspired the Group of Seven, or when we find an arrowhead or chip that was left by our aboriginal forefathers 5,000 years ago, it is hard to accept that this is just another part of Newfoundland.
Our land and our people make us unique, not better, just unique. Our identity, just like that of Newfoundland, Quebec, Nunavut or Alberta, is worthy of celebrating and recognizing.
We are recognizing that Labrador is not a mere appendage of Newfoundland but that we have our own traditions and our own identity. We are recognizing that the Strait of Belle Isle, where I was born in a small community called L'Anse-au-Loup, sets us apart even as the constitutional evolution of Canada has brought Labrador and Newfoundland together.
We as a parliament recognized Quebec's distinct character in 1995 through a resolution and we recognized New Brunswick's bilingual character in 1993 through a constitutional amendment, and so today we are recognizing the dual geography and dual nature of Canada's newest province. There is nothing divisive about this. It is common practice throughout the world.
What is divisive is to gloss over and deny the differences and distinctions between us instead of celebrating and recognizing them. In fact the use of the name Newfoundland and Labrador goes back many centuries, to 1763 when Labrador and Newfoundland were first placed under the same government. It was in official use through the 19th and 20th centuries. Everyone, at least in Labrador, knew that the name Newfoundland, proud as it is, applied only to the large island off our southern shore.
Even during the debate that led to Confederation in 1949 there was some discussion of making Labrador part of the name of the new province. It was not done at the time. However, over the years the words Newfoundland and Labrador became more common and more widely used, if only unofficially. That usage was not uniform, however. Labrador was too often included where expedient and excluded the rest of the time. That will change starting today.
Our founding document as a society and as a government will no longer try to tell us that we do not exist. The oversight from 1949 will be corrected and the constitution will at last recognize the identity, history and culture of Labrador. I would like to thank the industry minister who as premier put the resolution through the House of Assembly and who as minister today introduced it in the House. Hopefully we will be beyond this in very short order.
Thirty years ago an elder in Cartwright, on the southeast coast of Labrador, told Lawrence and Laura Jackson "I guess you'd have to live here a lifetime--always with that left-out feeling--to know what it feels like to be included in something".
I have known that left out feeling. I think almost every true blooded son and daughter of Labrador has known that feeling. Our land was too often the subject of colonial and economic power plays. Our people were too often ignored. The attitudes and mindsets have prevailed too long that Labrador is only recognized for what there is to be gained from megaprojects, from resource extraction, from development by and for the benefit of other people. In other circumstances, when it is time to put back into Labrador or to realize our unique challenges and needs, it seems to be "how quickly they forget".
It is a small thing, a simple thing, but from today on there will never again be any reason for forgetting.
The introduction of the name Labrador into the constitution is not compensation for the wrongs of the past and it is not a magic pill that will prevent them in the future. It is not an end in itself. What it is, though, is one step on the road that sees Labrador gaining pride of place.
We will soon have aboriginal self-government in Labrador and with it greater self-reliance. Our community and economic leaders are taking a more active role in development and policy and in making sure our best interests are represented.
A new generation of entrepreneurs and promoters are doing things in Labrador that I could never have imagined 30 years ago. People are more active than they have ever been and have common visions that they are working toward.
Recognizing Labrador in the constitution says that our time has arrived, that we are here and we exist as a community and a region and that we are willing to contribute to our province and our country, just as we have always done.
We are often quiet in Labrador. That does not mean we are complacent. We have certain needs and certain demands. We want equality and dignity in public life. We want fairness and justice in our economic and social development. We want recognition and respect from our fellow citizens.
In our own way we have achieved a milestone today. There are many more to come.
I hope that I can count on the support not only of Labradorians but of Newfoundlanders and all members of parliament in making sure that Labrador, even if we do have second billing in the provincial name, should never have to make do with second best.
We have taken one small step today. We have many more to go. The road ahead will be difficult, it will be exciting and it will be challenging. We do not always know where it may lead us. I lay down a challenge to my colleagues and my friends, both in the House and beyond, a challenge to support us, to work with us and to join us on that road.
Constitution of Canada
Government Orders
10:30 a.m.
The Deputy Speaker
For a moment I thought maybe we were leading to an amendment that would state "the province of Labrador and Newfoundland".
Constitution of Canada
Government Orders
10:30 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
Scott Reid Lanark—Carleton, ON
Mr. Speaker, I thank both my colleagues for their eloquent speeches on the subject. I will begin my remarks by saying how strongly I agree with the notion of providing for the symbolic recognition of Labrador's role in Newfoundland and its place within Newfoundland.
This encapsulates a spirit that is important in the country, a spirit of recognizing that just as Canada is a country of regions our provinces are provinces of regions and have a great deal of diversity and heterogeneity. In this respect they need to reflect the fact that they are not homogeneous wholes.
The fact that in the past this country and other countries have sometimes failed to achieve that recognition is demonstrated by the fact that in some provinces of Canada and some subnational jurisdictions of other countries we have seen the rise of separatist movements.
In Canada northern New Brunswick at one time had a separatist movement. There was a partitionist movement in Quebec at one point. There was a movement for an independent northern Ontario and at one point there was a movement for Labrador to become a separate province.
This kind of recognition, while only symbolic, is nonetheless important. Symbols are important as are the practical policies a government must undertake to promote the inclusion of parts of a province that are not part of a regional metropolis.
The inclusion of Labrador in the name of Newfoundland and Labrador strikes me as a wise move. It has already happened in many respects in Newfoundland's policy on an unofficial basis. For example, licence plates from Newfoundland say Newfoundland and Labrador.
Labrador is a unique part of Canada in a number of important respects. It is not only an area of enormous size and extraordinary beauty. In some respects it is both the oldest and the newest part of Canada. According to archeological evidence it was settled by the Innu at least 7,000 years and possibly 9,000 years ago. In the north it was settled by the Inuit about 4,000 years ago.
Labrador is the first part of the North American mainland that was visited by Europeans. I would seek the indulgence of the House to read into the record the first description of Labrador ever recorded in print.
This is from the Graenlendinga Saga , the saga written to record the discovery of Greenland by Erik the Red and then of Labrador and Newfoundland by his son, Leif Eriksson. It describes their departure from what they called Helluland, which we now believe to be Baffin Island:
They returned to their ship and put to sea, and sighted a second land. Once again they sailed right up to it and cast anchor, lowered a boat and went ashore. This country was flat and wooded, with white sandy beaches wherever they went; and the land sloped gently down to the sea.
Based on this description and on the subsequent description of Vinland, scholars believe this is a description of southern Labrador. This is the area which has subsequently been settled and has become a fishing area. Northern Labrador is a great deal more rugged. It is possible that the description of Helluland is a description of northern Labrador. Helluland means the land of large rocks.
Labrador is in some respects also the newest part of Canada. Landsat Island in particular, an island off the coast of northern Labrador, is the most recently discovered part of Canada. It was discovered in 1976 by Dr. Frank Hall Sr. of the hydrographic service. At that time it was under the ministry of energy, mines and resources. He discovered the island while surveying in a helicopter off the coast of Labrador.
I have spoken to Frank Hall Sr. and he told me a fascinating story about the moment of discovery. He was strapped into a harness and lowered from a helicopter down to the island. This was quite a frozen island and it was completely covered with ice. As he was lowered out of the helicopter a polar bear took a swat at him. The bear was on the highest point on the island and it was hard for him to see because it was white. Hall yanked at the cable and got himself hauled up. He said he very nearly became the first person to end his life on Landsat Island.
Based on the experience he suggested the island be named polar island. However the name Landsat Island was given to it because the island had first been spotted by the Landsat satellite, something which was regarded as quite an accomplishment.
I can still remember listening to the radio as a small boy and hearing with some excitement, because I had dreams of being an explorer when I grew up, of the discovery of the new island off Canada's east coast. It was a discovery of practical importance to Canada because it allowed Canada to expand its territorial waters quite substantially. It was quite a remarkable accomplishment.
I have an other connection with Frank Hall if I might indulge the House in pointing it out. I am good friends with his son, and his daughter-in-law works as my office manager.
I will turn from this to another question the hon. minister raised in his comments, a question which has been raised in recent newspaper reports regarding the reaction of the Parti Quebecois and Bloc Quebecois to the proposed constitutional amendment. This relates to the Quebec-Newfoundland boundary dispute over the sovereignty of Labrador.
I will quote from the commentary that was given by those two parties. Marie Barrette, spokesperson for Quebec intergovernmental affairs minister Joseph Facal, said the amendment was purely cosmetic because there would be no change to the borders. She therefore indicated the Quebec government would have no opposition to it.
The Bloc Quebecois intergovernmental affairs critic stated in an interview that since the amendment had no legal consequence it did not keep them from sleeping at night.
This leads me to believe there is an underlying statement being made to the effect that because the amendment does not affect some sort of legitimate claim of the province of Quebec to the territory there is no objection.
I will review the history of the boundary dispute to make the point that the underlying thesis is incorrect. There is no question that all the territory currently designated as Labrador is entirely and unquestionably constitutionally protected as part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and that no one else has any claim to it.
The history of the territorial dispute stems back to unclear draftsmanship in the original definition of the boundaries of Labrador. There was no question that the original European settlers of Labrador were to be under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland. They settled along the coast. The description of the area they would inhabit and which would be under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland was that it was an area of coastline extending from Cape Chidley in the north to Blanc-Sablon in the south. Those two points were not in question. What was in question was what was meant by coast.
A dispute developed between the governments of Canada and Newfoundland, which at the time was not part of Canada. The Government of Canada claimed that the term coast meant a one mile wide strip of land along salt water. The government of Newfoundland argued it should be the entire watershed draining into the Atlantic.
The dispute was eventually sent to the privy council in London. The privy council made a decision in 1927 delineating the boundary substantially in Newfoundland's favour. The entire watershed flowing into the Atlantic Ocean would be considered part of the territory of Newfoundland.
This continued to a certain point in the south from which a line was drawn due east to a point directly north of Blanc-Sablon. This was then joined by a direct north-south boundary line drawn north from Blanc-Sablon.
There was some question at the time as to why the straight line was drawn. It took some of the upper watershed of several rivers that flowed into the Gulf of St. Lawrence and placed it within Newfoundland territory, in particular the Little Mecatina River which would not have fitted with the earlier description.
One could dispute whether that was a wise addition or change to the original formula. Whatever the case, the boundary was agreed to by both parties. It was written into the Constitution of Canada when Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada and it is not subject to any form of dispute. There is no legal argument that any of the territory is not clearly and distinctly a constitutionally protected territory of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
I say this not merely based on my own reading of the facts. I say it based on the authority of the government of Quebec which produced in 1970 and 1971 a detailed study on all the boundaries of Quebec.
I am talking here about the commission studying the territorial integrity of Quebec.
Document 3.2 of the study dealing with "La Frontière du Labrador" states that while Quebec might have had a claim at some point in the past the privy council decision put it absolutely and unquestionably to rest.
The report acknowledges that there is no constitutional way that Quebec could have any claim to any part of the territory of Labrador. I think that also reflects the will of the people of Labrador.
In 1927 there were very few settlers in the interior. That has changed. The interior is no longer an uninhabited area, uninhabited from a European point of view, because it always had aboriginal elements of living and hunting.
People who live in Labrador express no interest in becoming a part of Quebec. When there is such a clear indication of popular sentiment reflected so clearly by constitutionally entrenched legal rules, no question can be disputed.
I turn finally to some closing comments, with regard to Labrador and the character of the place.
Labrador is an extraordinarily large area geographically. My colleague, the hon. member for Labrador, made this point in his comments. If we think of this from a European perspective, Labrador is larger than any of the countries in Europe, with the exception of Ukraine and Russia.
It is full of not only extraordinary scenic beauty, but also mineral wealth and rivers, some which have been tapped for hydro and some have not. They all are appreciated by the people who draw resources from them.
In some respects, Labrador is to the east coast of North America what Alaska is to the west coast of North America: a vast northern land of almost unimaginable wealth, extraordinary beauty and an extraordinary challenge for all of us.
To get a sense of what would characterize Labrador the best, I contacted my friend, John McGrath, who was the Reform Party candidate in a byelection in Labrador in 1996. He now resides in my constituency and will be well known to the current member for Labrador. I asked him what best expresses, in a nutshell, the character of Labrador. He suggested to me that I ought to consult the Ode to Labrador , by Dr. Harry Padden of Northwest River.
The Ode to Labrador reads in part as follows:
Dear land of mountains, woods and snow... God's noble gift to us below... Thy proud resources waiting still, Their splendid task will soon fulfill, Obedient to thy Maker's will... We love to climb thy mountains steep... And paddle on the waters deep... Our snowshoes scar thy trackless plains, We seek no cities streets nor lanes, We are thy sons while life remains, Labrador, our Labrador.


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Many felines develop fears or phobias during their lifetime that may begin to cause problems for their owners. For example, some cats will become afraid of people or other animals and will exhibit unwanted behavior in these situations. Common signs of fear include cowering, pulling the ears back, hiding or possibly becoming aggressive and hissing.
Fears typically develop during what veterinarians refer to as the socialization period, according to VCA Animal Hospitals. This period occurs between the ages of 3 to 9 weeks. It's extremely important that the cat is exposed to a number of different people, animals and situations and has positive experiences during this time, as negative interactions or the lack of proper exposure may lead to the development of fears and phobias later on.
However, some owners may have obtained their cat after the socialization stage has passed or the behavior may have another cause. In these cases, intervention will be necessary if the owner wants to change the cat's behavior. Veterinarians may be able to suggest a behavior modification program that the owner can undertake in order to train the feline to conquer its fears.
Behavior modification typically includes using food rewards in order to encourage cats to have positive associations with the stimuli in question, slowly building up the feline's confidence before reintroducing the person, animal or object that originally made the cat nervous or fearful.


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Topic: How to find and remove duplicates
Let`s say I have a file with a list of names and some of them appear multiple times.
How do I find and remove duplicates from that list?
I know that I have to read the file, create a array, do each_line, compare results and delete if there`s a match.
Just can`t quite grasp how to do that last part.
Would appreciate any guidance.


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This is a fun party look as this model has her hair set to a medium length and coloured pink. The hair is straight and comes down a touch longer that chin level. Across on the forehead, the fringe is styled to the eyebrows.The hair is cut to a medium length.Adding a little touch of colour to your hair such as this pink shade,


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Charles Howard King
Charles Howard King passed away April 25, 2013 at the age of 87, following a brief illness. Born July 3, 19 25 , near Pleasanton , IA he was currently a resident of Gulf Shores, Alabama .
He was preceded in death by his parents Clyde and Golda King, sister Florence Brown and niece Kay Brown.
He is survived by his wife, Jan Loynachan King; daughter-in-law Kim King of Cedar Rapids, IA; daughter Renee' Jones (Stephen E.) of Gulf Shores, AL; grandsons David King and Ryan King of Cedar Rapids, IA, and grandson Samuel Washington of Gulf Shores, AL and many longtime friends.
Charlie grew up in Leon, Iowa, graduated high school there in 1943 and travelled as a trombone player in the Jack Cole Band for a short time before being drafted into the U.S. Army at the outbreak of World War II. He served from 1943 -1947 in France , Germany and Austria in the Cavalry and Armored Division.
Following his discharge from the Army, Charlie was elected as County Auditor of Decatur County, Iowa at the age of 20, too young to vote for himself in the election. He attended Drake University , was inducted as a member of the Order of the Coif, and received his law degree in 1953.
He enjoyed a long career as an attorney in Marshalltown , Iowa , serving seven years of it as County Attorney . Following his retirement from practice, he served as a Judicial Magistrate in Cerro Gordo County , Iowa . He was a former member of the Iowa State Bar Association, Marshalltown Optimist Club, where he also served as a past president, American Legion, Elmwood Country Club, All Vets Golf Course and a lifetime member of the VFW.
Charlie was an avid golfer scoring five hole-in-one certificates. He also enjoyed strumming his guitar, learning new songs over many decades and putting together quite a repertoire with which he enjoyed entertaining friends and family. A love of playing pool began in his teen years and carried through his life. In his later years could be found playing regularly at After Ours in Gulf Shores .
A Celebration of Life service was held Monday at 2 p.m. at Pine Rest Funeral Home in Foley , AL .
In lieu of flowers, the family requested memorials to be directed to the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo, located at 1204 Gulf Shores Pkwy , Gulf Shores , AL 36542 , the United Services Organization, or Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Research.


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Mrs. Flinger: A work in progress
UPDATE TO Mrs. Flinger October 16, 2015
Because the Universe has a wicked sense of humor, after this delcaration, my blog threw up all over my last upgrade.
So I'm starting over using Craft. Turning 40 and kid entering Jr High next year, sometimes it's just time for a change. These archives will still exist in the way the last child goes off to college and their room is the same for 20 years, but it's just time to move forward.
The "DOG SPIRIT" Oct 25, 2012
I wrote this super cheesy post back in 2003 about how I thought I had the "Dog Spirit." You know the one where a pregnant 28 year old fanes poetic about her free spirit that is about to be leashed to years of diapers and saying, "Do Not Take Off Your Clothes In Public." (I assume this includes the teenage and college years.)
It's not a new theme in my life: Traveling. It's not something that just sort of showed up one day in my head where I said, "HEY! Let's go somewhere!" No, the more I analyze (and by god I analyze) my desire, nay, need to get off the continent as frequently as possible, I realize it started early in my childhood, right down to how poorly I do travel and how often I crave it.
I remember my first solo plane ride. I was seven? Eight? (Mom, help me out here.) I went to Dallas (from Houston Hobby) to visit some family friends. I was going to see a girl of my dad's best friend, someone that I got along well with. I remember being freaked out, not that I was traveling on a plane alone or hundreds of miles from my family, but who I might be seated next to. I still have this same anxiety today.
Anyway, my mom sent me some mail that arrived during my stay. I remember starting to miss her and I remember getting the letter. Judy handed me something and said, "This is from your mom. Arrived in the mail today." I have no idea what the note said, something of insignificance, but at the end my Mom signed it, "Love ya, Mom."
I remember that sign off. THAT is the thing I remember from that letter. The casual "Love Ya" after a note that smelled like home. I remember crying at that note and I remember Judy (and her daughter Heather, my friend) wondering why I kept reading it if I was just going to cry. But clearly they didn't really know me yet.
This is what I think of now when I travel. There are two truths to my travels: 1. I am the mother now and send the "love ya's" to my children to their email boxes which utterly blows my seven year old mind and 2. I've been traveling for a very very very long time.
Thus, and so, in conclusion, and such, I can picture myself at seven, or twenty-seven, going somewhere, anywhere, with my head out the window and my spirit soaring. My dog spirit, as I wrote, is still very much alive; two children and eleven ten years later.
Live in the pause. Or, hello, I'm in London. Or, crying over eggs is cool. Sep 27, 2012
Hello! Salutations! How are you, anyhow?
It's been a while and I've missed you all.
I'm in England this week. It's funny, in a "I guess you had to be there" sort of way, but I spoke up to the Taxi Driver this morning in a British accent without realizing it. In fact, I accidentally spelled REALISING it just now until spell check let me know I'm a bloody american.
Acclimation is my middle name.
(Look, I'm already using words with more than two syllables! And correctly pronouncing my adverbs! And spelling favourite with a flamboyant 'u'! And over-using exclamations! Right, I said Acclimation, not Exclamation.)
I'm sitting in an office with people whos' faces I recognize from business meetings. I'm getting IMs from my colleagues in Germany. I'm down right full of myself with near-accomplished-pride until I cry at breakfast because MYGODIAMSOBLOODYTIRED.
In truth, I do not travel well, although I love it more than a fabulous cup'o'tea or a chocolate eclair. Or even french wine.
There are at least 501 places I want to visit before I am too old to sleep on cruddy hotel pillows or navigate the tube or sit on long flights without getting an embolism. Five-hundred-and-one, y'all. I'm not even kidding: I've counted.
The truth is, while I write love notes about countries or experiences or amazing-technologically-advanced-doors, there is not at least one time I do not break down in tears over something as ridiculous as rubbery eggs, because my heavens a girl can only travel so much in three days on no sleep without some sort of nervous breakdown….. Over eggs.
At least the palace was especially lovely yesterday. As was that English beer. And the bridge. And that lovely meal.. and the people .. and …….
See? I'm doing it already.
(I'll post some photos later as I am on a tight deadline and I've already taken an entire FOUR AND A HALF MINUTES to write this post and I'm fairly sure it will take another thirty seconds or so to hit publish.)
(Once I stop typing.)
(I heard the quote, "Live in the pause" on a podcast just now and decided I should take five and a half minutes to write down something about my day. And I picked the rubbery eggs story? I swear I'll do better tomorrow.)
(But seriously, y'all. Rubber bloody scrambled eggs. Seriously! I should write a letter.)
Firsts and lasts Sep 04, 2012
#Life#The Flinger Family#Baby O#Those Little People
I always heard moms talk about their school aged kids. School aged! My god they seemed so old.
Until today when I watched my 6 month old and his 3 year old sister get on a bus for school.
No, I swear. Isn't he still 6 months old? Isn't she still the feisty three year old that coined the term, "You think two was terrible, you ain't seen nothin' yet."
The thing is: You all think the same thing, don't you. I know I do when I see your children climbing on to busses. "Wasn't he just a preemie? Wasn't her mom just pregnant with her? OHMYGOD where has the time gone?'
This is an occupational hazard of blogging for 7, no, NINE years? What the hell, people. Did we even have blogs in 2003? Oh, yes we did mothercrackers. We did.
Anyway, my needless reminiscing aside, you've been here through the pregnancy of my first, the postpartum depression, the miscarriages, the early birth of the second, the NICU, and the pleasantly dull but life-altering years after. And now? Now they are, what did you call it? School aged. Yes. That.
*She thought he was just another one of her dolls *
*I think just after this picture she pinched his nose to make sure he was still breathing. Or some other reason that I can't remember that probably had to do with nothing about noses at all. *
*Of course I did.*
*The Bigger One starting pre-school. Just the first in a long line of "holycrap my baby is going to [fill in year here]" *
*Another shot of the two of them shortly before one of them began screaming for something or other. I forget. *
*This is what I saw looking out of the bus window at me. THIS KID. Gah. *
*Gravity is so last year. Incidentally, we do this a lot to our children. Apparently. *
*LB goes to Kindergarten. Gah. Gah. *
*LB goes to first and O goes to preschool. Tripple Gah.*
*Watching his sister get on the bus he asks, "do they have seatbelts?" He's quite concerned about this.*
*portrait of a second-grader *
*WHO THE HELL ARE THESE CHILDREN?! See also: holycrap. See also: GAH GAH GAHHHH. See also: Kindergarten and Third. THIRD PEOPLE.*
I didn't cry once, not a single tear, until the bus driver turned to me after my baby got on the bus and turns to be through the window with a thumbs up, "We got him."
And then I bawled. Choking-type cries. The type that comes from the toes of your heart. The kind that you'd mock if it was anyone else but you.
So they went to school together. In the careful care of his older sister, my children took their first real step away from home today in a most literal and figurative sense. I saw my baby get on the bus with his sister, and the memories of photos and time and snapshots of life flashed before me. Didn't we just bring them home a few days ago? I'm so cliche it hurts.
*Go forth, little dude. Go forth **
*Thanks to Greg for the analogy*
50 Shades of Seattle Aug 29, 2012
"Oh, you're from Seattle? You're so lucky!"
This is coming from the Delta ticketing agent in Detroit. It's been raining for weeks and it's the end of June.
"Yes, I suppose, why?"
"Have you ever read fifty shades of Gray? Christian is from Seattle!"
I roll my eyes and try to be patient when I explain, in very slow words, "He. Is. Not. Real."
Someone asked me once if I'd ever been to Forks. You know, where the Vampires live?
I usually reply with something not-at-all snarky like, "no, generally I hang with werewolves."
Endings and Beginnings Aug 27, 2012
Friday was our last day at the pre-school we've been attending for five years. No, our child hasn't failed pre-school four years running. This school provide pre-K from 3-5 and Kindergarten for 6 yr olds. Both of our children have been at this school.
There are other families in the same boat and I see them at the little concerts and plays. They watch their children with a camera and compare the same production to the previous four. There are four of us families, no, five, and our children have grown up together. And Friday was the very last day we will go to this school.
I picked this school one day, which I remember vividly, when my daughter was two. We were looking at options because I was going to drive her to Canada and drop her off to live with a flock of geese and she was going to write terrible poetry about me to her therapist in a few years if we didn't find a solution to our "situation."
That "situation" was that I thought I could do the whole "stay at home" good mom thing and turns out, at six months pregnant with my second, I was deep in to "no way in hellfire." It turns out I probably could have stuck it out and managed somewhat (as this video proved) but I had already reached out to this preschool on that dreadful day of desperation.
I won't tell you the details of the tens of schools we visited, but I will tell you that this one school we went, set in a small farm house, was "the one." They always say you'll just know and we both knew. The teacher was my savior that day. The school was a perfect fit. The acre of outdoor play would possibly fulfill my daughter's energy requirements after living in our tiny condo.
It fit us all. And it fit other families a lot like us. So we've made friends at this school, invited other friends to join the school, visited at every mother-living-hour-long concert/production (with video!). My children have best friends from this school and I do as well. In a small, but significant way, this school really did save us. It gave me hope on that one hopeless day in the trenches of a two year old with a pregnant belly. It continued to nurture our family as the children grew in to actual people. And then, Friday, we said good-bye.
I think I'm more choked up about this then the fact my youngest is about to start Kindergarten at public school next week.
No, wait. That kills me, too.
Though the Truth May Vary Aug 20, 2012
We are watching our parents age. Haven't they always been the same age? So why are they deteriorating before our eyes now? Why do phone calls include doctor results and stories from forever ago? Of regret? Of routine?
When did I become the mom and for the love of god please tell the children their real mother is coming home soon.
Who owns this house? The big one with the barn and the garden overgrown with weeds and the busted old chicken coupe? Not us, not me, no way.
I've been listening to stories through music. They're called lyrics. Maybe you pay attention to them or maybe, like most people I talk to, you just hum along and think, "what a lovely tune."
While I will not claim to be magically artistic, there's a huge chunk of my left brain that gets a little melancholy for the arts; music, poetry, a really good travel book. So when a tune catches my ear, the first thing I do is look up the lyrics. (In the old days we used to look on the tape covers. ON PAPER. Or in the really old days, when yours truly was coming of age, we looked on the back of the VINYL covers. Dear god but we did.)
This nice little diddy is as depressing as an Indy Documentary. I love the tune but oh, did it spark some reflection from somewhere deep within.
I'm reminded of seasons; of change, of constant shifting. I was 12 the first time I asked my mother about letting my childhood best friend go. "Friends are always flowing in and out of your life, hon." I didn't like it. Not one bit. And without sounding too Dr. Seusian, I did sit down and write a poem in my journal.
I've been melancholy for a very long time.
I'm reminded that I am not the person I was when I was 12, although there are pieces of her inside. She is more like the foundation buried under all these other years of wear and wisdom. But I am also reminded that we can get lost to ourselves. I remember an old boss, years ago, talking about his divorce. "We just lived our lives on this road and one day we turned around and said, 'Who are you?'" I was 25 and a young professional at the time I heard this. Eleven years can be a long trek and suddenly I woke up and looked in the mirror one day and asked, "Who are you?"
My person will morph over time like those friends my Mom said would float in and out of life. I will be a version of myself, a friend, and then another and another. Over time I will be a variety of people; the business woman, the mother, the self-assured granny, the meek and uncertain college girl, the housewife, the feminist.
We all lose ourselves to time. "Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in." - Thoreau.
In some ways I am both parts, she who is scared and lost and he who is standing by her side. I am both reaching out for a hand and offering one to myself. Former versions of me are there and future versions are waiting patiently. I am the only one who can find my way.
"Though the truth may vary, this ship will carry our bodies safely to shore." - Of Monsters and Men.
Postcards Aug 15, 2012
Some kids collect stamps. I don't know who these kids are but I think they're all about 102 nowadays. When I was a kid, way back in the early eighties, I collected cabbage patch kids.
Yea… that…
Somewhere around puberty I switched from wrinkly-butt dolls to postcards. I think this is where the first parts of who I am today began to show. This was the very beginning of a small fire that would grow steadily over the years.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
My Uncle travelled a lot for work. He went to exotic places like: Turkey! and Istanbul! and Egypt! I asked him to send me a postcard from every place he visited. I hold these postcards sacredly in a book marked, "Places I Will Go."
I have made it to, possibly, two fistfuls of those places.
"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world." ― Mary Anne Radmacher
In college I sat on the floor in the house of girls I lived with reading the Atlas. Some college kids read the paper, others read their text-books. Back before the Internet was in every house, we used to read things on paper. PAPER, y'all. Remember paper? Anyway, we would be gathered in the living room, the four of us, each doing something different. Nearly always I would be the one spread on the floor with some sort of map, planning a lifetime's worth of travels.
My roommate was also a traveling soul. She braved Europe just after college in the traditional "Backpack Across Europe" tour that every 22 year old should go on. I did not join her, though I ached to do so. I made a vow to myself that I would travel all of Europe when I had the money. The money was always the next corner away. "When I get this job.. when I pay off this debt.. when I own my car.. when the baby is older…" In essence, Life got in the way of Living.
The summer I did not take the Europe trip, I made a necklace of hemp (GO GO HIPPIE!) and placed a single charm on it: A globe. I wore this necklace until it frayed. Six years it stayed around my neck cultivating a nervous habit of spinning the globe subconsciously. I remember someone asking me once at my third summer beyond "that one that was not Europe" what my globe meant. "It's a reminder," I said twisting it in a circle, "that I will travel the world."
We've talked about this "giving up of yourself for the good of now." It's been the topic of conversation for many years. I know Laura Ingram would say this. I know Billy Graham would. I know someone might write a song about it. Maybe they did.
I've said before that once you become a mother, your own personal aspirations need to be set aside. And I've done this. I'm proud to have done so. But a new way of thinking is bubbling and I'm wondering if maybe, maybe maybe, children can grow and flourish in my own happiness. That maybe, maybe maybe, the children can be just as excited about going to Germany as I am, or to England or Holland or Bhutan. And maybe, maybe maybe, if I'm in a place of happiness and not feeling like I've placed my own self on a shelf, maybe (maybe? maybe?) the children will grow in to that happiness. Perhaps, even, if I dare to say so, the children will cultivate an appreciation for how hard it is to find that happiness and when you find it, and I hope they find it, how necessary it is to grasp it with both hands and never let it go. My hope for them, if I can dare to dream, is to never have the need to spin the globe of wishes.
"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it." ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
The forgotten ones Aug 07, 2012
#Life#The Flinger Family#Baby O
"Don't let them see me!" "Does the door lock?" "Don't let anyone in."
My son has yelled this in anxiety during many many wardrobe changes. He wears a rash guard in the pool so nobody can see his "boobies." He hides his tummy from close friends because, "They will laugh at me."
I do not know where he gets this stuff.
No, really.
We're not overly sensitive about nudity at our house. The children have grown up talking to me while I get dressed, asking questions about my body and me willingly answering. I started the "private parts are yours" discussion so early on, it would just be part of their knowledge and never an actual subject to discuss. The children shower together, brother and sister, and we figure they'll let us know when it's too weird to do so. I realize this could be any day now. And I'm ready for it. I'm ok with it.
But why my son is so worried about people laughing at his body, I don't know. We don't laugh at him. I ask him who does and he says, "nobody but they might."
Granted, as a middle-class-woman of white-skinny-bitches age, I have plenty of my own body issues. Sure, I obsess and count calories (sometimes) and workout (used to) and try to eat well (most days.) And sure I beat myself up about this as often as a 17 year old thinks about sex. But why on earth would my five year old son ask me if his legs are fat? I don't say a single thing to him about my body. I try, purposefully, to shield the children from any negative body image talk. I'm hyper sensitive to this fact.
So why the troubled five year old boy wondering if people will think he's legs are fat or his belly is big or laugh at him with his shirt off?
He. Is. FIVE.
And this has been going on for at least a year or more.
We focus so often on our daughters. We worry about their body image. We try to tell them to be healthy and not worry about their body. "You can be so many sizes and still be ok," I've always said to my young daughter. She's tall, lanky, skinny, and ridiculously pretty. (And I'm not just being biased here.) She's blessed with the features of "where the hell did you come from" and "you resemble Jennifer Anniston but your hair isn't colored." In the summer she is a golden brown, healthy, happy, thin, strong, blonde hair blue eyed girl.
I envy her some days. Ok, most days. Also, though, I am proud of my body for producing something so lovely because I know I've spent ages wondering what it was doing to me.
But my son, my wonderfully strong, agile, healthy, golden son is asking if his legs are fat? My brain wasn't ready for that.
Suddenly it's not just our daughters but also our sons. Suddenly I am telling them both how to have a healthy life: eat well and move your body and you won't have to worry. Take care of your body because it's the only one you'll have. Treat yourself kindly because you have to haul yourself around for the rest of your life.
Sometimes I take my own advice.
I hope they take my advice so much more often.
This is the focus now. My children tell me how many grams of sugar is in their decision and they tell me if they haven't moved enough today. My son is stupidly talented at ball sports (also: not from my genes) and runs faster than most children in his school. One day we'll have a hard conversation about not being the most agile. One day we'll have a hard discussion about not begin the fastest basketball player. One day we'll talk about the missed pitches, the tackle, the fumble, the missed three point shot.
But for now, I do what I can, and that is this: Move. Eat Well. Love your family and friends. Get enough sleep. Drink enough water. Tell those whom you love that you do so and treat yourself well. And one day, no, every day, you will be thankful you did.
M-EE-Tup Best(ish) practices Jul 25, 2012
So I'm talking tomorrow night at the inaugural meeting for the EE Seattle Meet Up. And, if you follow me on twitter, you'll realize I've been doing nothing but coding-OMG-coding-HEADBANG for weeks now.This is also why you see a distinct lack of conversation about the latest Bachelorette (TEAM JEFF) or why all the freakin' adorable stories of my children remain largely untold. Not to worry, I promise to bring up a variety of daily babble soon enough.
In the mean time, I have a confession: I'm speaking on the "Best (some # here) Tips for a Friendly Back-End in ExpressionEngine" and I'm not sure I'm qualified to give BEST TIPS. I mean, sure, after 8 years of working with EE I have some good tips. I have some experiences that I can share that I've learnt from. But BEST TIPS?
Dang, yo, that's a lot of pressure.
So I'm doing what I do: Asking the community to offer YOUR best tips. See, I learnt in graduate school that you can never ever ever definitively make a statement unless you have researched the bejewels out of it. So in order for me to make a statement like "BEST TIPS" I need to do some research.
Consider yourself my subject.
What do you consider best practices for helping your back-end administrator or your website built with EE? Do you use any plugins or go all native? Do you have strong opinions about what tools should be available?
I spoke about this (a bit) last week on the EE podcast but I'd like to get a wider perspective than just re-peating my own blahblahblah. So if you have any tips, I'd gladly include them in my talk. Oh, and give me your twitter handle for credit.
And, just for those of you who don't give a bunny's ear about code: LOOK! TEH KUTZ!
A bit o' house cleanin' and a new design Jul 16, 2012
This is wildly late in coming but I've update this site. In between children and life and work and events and family and maybe squeezing in one or two days of yoga a week ... you know the story, I started this revamp about six months ago and finally, slowly, painfully finished it.
I know we tend not to blog as much these days now that twitter is built in to our OS and Facebook includes our dog, our parents and our dog's parents, but I hope to keep updating this space with writing, code, tales of travel or discovery. That last bit didn't make the cut in the header but it's valuable non-the-less and a process and result of the other three.
I also plan to give full run-on sentences in mass quantities. There's something else to look forward to.
For about a year now my RSS feed has been broken. A YEEAARRR. So while I don't update daily (anymore), I do update. And now I even have an RSS feed you can subscribe to (again).
A brief update
I'm happily working on several fabulous projects for the automotive industry using HTML5 / CSS3 / JS. It's something I both love and am good at. Let me expand: you know how you can be good in that way you know you have much to learn but some days feel like you even teach someone something? Like that.
I recently spoke about this on the ExpressionEngine Podcast.
Feel free to take a listen. It was an absolute joy to speak with Lea and Emily.
I also have a teeny tiny place-holder website for my company. Hopefully I'll post some portfolio updates soon. Let me expand: soon in that way that isn't next Christmas.
In the mean time, merry christmas, happy summer and whatever day it is. I've lost track.


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This is the first constitution of the state of Texas. Ratified by Texas citizens and the U.S. Congress in 1845, it was modified in 1861 to transfer allegiance to the Confederacy. After the Civil War, Texas was required to write a new constitution before it could be readmitted to the United States.
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As I'm working and learning about multiday, cold fermentation I think I've been running into this a bit. The dough has been making really nice pizza, but it doesn't look like what I see in some of the videos. Mine has been somewhat moist, requires a bit of extra flour, stretches very easily, almost too easily, by gravity and has a tendency to stick to the peel. I haven't had tearing problems and as I've said other places, these CF doughs have allowed me to make skins without using a roller for the first time.In my first batch I used ADY that wasn't proofed, rose at room temp for 12 hours (did not double), balled and in the fridge for 3 days, then room temp for 2 hours before making skins. It was a fast moving dough. Barely lift it off the counter and it was stretching out.
That does not sound overfermented to me, or even close. It does sound like your hydration figure is way up in the 70s or so, which for my tastes (and apparently your tastes, too) is ridiculous.
Hydration has been at 65% for these batches. Once I see how this batch works out I will have to play with the hydration.


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Edited by RobTheRook', 26 April 2013 - 09:28 AM.
GoG Extcy vs Dangerous Power G3 Spec R
Posted 26 April 2013 - 09:27 AM
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Posted 26 April 2013 - 01:38 PM
The extcy is probably the best sub 300 gun. Unless you buy used.
Posted 26 April 2013 - 03:47 PM
Posted 27 April 2013 - 09:35 AM
Solution to this would be to man up and play semi.
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Posted 27 April 2013 - 03:17 PM
the G3 Spec-R is basically a G4 SE. It has alittle more agressive milling,a two piece barrel, nicer packaging and better colors combinations. I vote G3 Spec-R
If you are going to play speedball and use ramping the g3 board isn't the best for it. It ramps just fine, but it doesn't use the normal psp 3 shot style that basically every other board with ramping does. So in a snap shooting battle one trigger pull with a g3 fires one ball, but with the extcy one pull fires three. There's lots of hate for the g3 board, but I don't know why other than the ramping.
Solution to this would be to man up and play semi.
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Posted 28 April 2013 - 10:57 AM
The G3 spec R is essentially the exact same gun as the G4. I have 2 G4s and I think they are great. I bought them used for a song and they have never let me down. They are super fast, very easy to maintain and program, and have great features. Honestly there is very little difference between the G4 and the extcy. I believe the G4 has a slightly higher max rof but that's it. The GoG is a little cheaper and it comes with a nice case, but I hate the plastic body it has. The G4 also has a lever lock feed neck and a lever lock ASA which is a little nicer than the GoG's. You will be happy with either gun, they are both great.
It has a plastic body kit on it. But the frame on the Extcy is metal.
Posted 28 April 2013 - 05:04 PM
Posted 28 April 2013 - 05:59 PM
No not at all. The Extcy is smoother, quieter and has better efficiency I will give it that but besides that it lacks the lusters with cheap replacements that only look good on paper. The asa is a piece of garbage,the feedneck would refuse to fit my friends pinokio no matter what we tried, the trigger only has two adjustments and is plastic with no bearings what so ever,the body is plastic, its heavy, ion threaded, the board is confusing and eats batteries and the regulator is not fully user serviceable and the G4 is faster.
My friend has an extcy, my other friend has a G4, which I assume shoots the same as a G3 spec r, and the excty beats it in every category-maintenance, sound signature, smoothness and efficiency.
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Thanks largely to President Sall's leadership, there is a chance that this will be their last conversation on the conflict. After his election last spring, the president immediately opened the door to negotiations with the Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC), the insurgency rebel group. The State Department's Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Embassy Dakar, and the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) seized this opportunity. In October, CSO deployed Jim Bullington, a retired U.S. ambassador with significant Africa experience. In February, he was joined by Sue Ford Patrick, a retired Foreign Service officer, who is his deputy.
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