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Debates of Sept. 26th, 2005
House of Commons Hansard #125 of the 38th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was energy.
- Question Period
- Business of the House
- Vacancy
- Message from the Senate
- Agriculture
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- Thunder Bay Border Cats
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- Orleans Rebels
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- Simon Wiesenthal
- Gérin-Lajoie Doctrine
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Internet in Schools
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope
- Anthony Gordon, Leo Johnston, Brock Myrol and Peter Schiemann
- Gasoline Prices
- Chuck Cadman
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- Member for Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon
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- Question No. 153
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- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
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- Request for Emergency Debate
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Business of the House
11 a.m.
Mauril Bélanger Minister for Internal Trade
Mr. Speaker, let me wish you and all my hon. colleagues a good session.
Consultations have taken place with all the parties and, if you were to seek it, I believe that you would find unanimous consent for the following motion.
That on Tuesday, September 27, 2005, the hours of sitting and order of business shall be those of a Wednesday.
Business of the House
11 a.m.
The Speaker
Does the hon. Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons have the unanimous consent of the House to move this motion?
Business of the House
11 a.m.
Some hon. members
Business of the House
11 a.m.
The Speaker
The House has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
Business of the House
11 a.m.
Some hon. members
(Motion agreed to)
September 26th, 2005 / 11 a.m.
The Speaker
It is my duty to inform the House that a vacancy has occurred in the representation in the House of Commons for the electoral district of Surrey North in the province of British Columbia by reason of the death of our dear colleague, Mr. Chuck Cadman.
Pursuant to subsection 28(1) of the Parliament of Canada Act, I have addressed on Tuesday, July 19, 2005, a warrant to the Chief Electoral Officer for the issue of a writ for the election of a member to fill the vacancy.
Message from the Senate
11 a.m.
The Speaker
I have the honour to inform the House that a message has been received from the Senate informing this House that the Senate has passed Bill S-37, an act to amend the Criminal Code and the Cultural Property Export and Import Act, and Bill S-38, an act respecting the implementation of international trade commitments by Canada regarding spirit drinks of foreign countries, to which the concurrence of this House is desired.
Private Members' Business
11:05 a.m.
Leon Benoit Vegreville—Wainwright, AB
That, in the opinion of the House, the government should make available directly to farmers the 2% strychnine solution.
Mr. Speaker, it is encouraging that we start off this session of Parliament with an issue that is probably the most important issue we will deal with in this Parliament. The issue of controlling the Richardson's ground squirrel, which is commonly known as the gopher, is an important issue for some of my constituents and for many people in western Canada.
I have been pursuing this issue for many years. When I first brought it to the House many members laughed that such an issue would be brought before this place. The fact is that the Richardson's ground squirrel causes damage of up to $200 million a year in western Canada. We do not know the exact cost but $200 million is a rough estimate which seems to make sense when one considers the crop damage, the extra labour involved in trying to control the Richardson's ground squirrel with the limited and ineffective products that are available, the damage to equipment and machinery due to the holes and the mounds made by gophers, and the livestock that have to be put down because they broke their legs stepping into a gopher hole. In a bad year, $200 million is certainly a realistic number and it shows the importance of this issue.
Two hundred million dollars is a cost that farmers simply cannot stand to bear on top of the other increased costs that they have felt over the past months and years. Along with skyrocketing costs, prices of their crops have been declining steadily. The price of wheat, barley, canola, peas and all commodities are as low as I have ever seen them in the time I have been farming.
At the same time, due to a move made by the government in 1993, carried out over the last few years, a move that removed the only effective control of the Richardson's ground squirrel, farmers have been forced to bear this extra cost of possibly $200 million a year. That is a lot of money, and it is a serious problem.
I will just read my motion for the record. It is simple, direct and short.
That, in the opinion of the House, the government should make available directly to farmers the 2% strychnine solution.
I get a bit uncomfortable standing before the House knowing that Canadians are listening to us talk about using a poison to control gophers. Quite frankly, with the kind of damage that has been done, they have to be controlled in some fashion. The strychnine solution mixed by farmers themselves is the only effective product that could be made available. That is why it is important that we return this product to farmers.
Back in about 1997, I put forward two motions for the production of papers. The Department of Agriculture provided about 200 pages of information that was supposed to explain why it had removed this product from the market in the first place. Quite frankly, it was embarrassing and completely unacceptable. The reasons the government gave for removing this product were completely unconvincing, and that is putting it mildly.
There were a few complaints by a few animal rights people and a few complaints that non-targeted species had been poisoned, and particularly that the poison had been used illegally on neighbours' dogs and that type of thing. A lot of other substances could be used to poison a neighbour's dog if someone chose to do that. Since it is against the law to do that why do we not uphold the law instead of removing this product that is so important to farmers? That is the issue and that is the issue the government has not dealt with.
Just to show how unimportant agriculture is to the government I would like to point out that this issue is being spearheaded by the Minister of Health instead of the Minister of Agriculture. I understand that both departments are involved in making this decision but the Department of Agriculture has a lot more information on this product and on its importance than anyone else. It should have received the information from the Department of Health but there is not much there.
Last Thursday I received a backgrounder put out by the Department of Health on this product. Obviously my continual interventions on behalf of farmers are having an impact. What is in the backgrounder is embarrassing. No reasons were given for removing the product and no excuses for not returning it. The department acknowledges that it is the only truly effective product available to farmers but it makes two absolutely incorrect statements and one is false.
One statement is that there are two products available to farmers, one being a premix that is done by the municipalities. In fact, that has not been available over the past year.
The other statement is that there is a premix that is done in the Toronto area which is then shipped out west. This product is simply mixed with farmers' grain and then shipped back. It is extremely expensive. The department says that it is an effective product for control. If one were to talk to my neighbours and people across the Prairies they would hear that it is not effective. that it is extremely expensive and that it is impractical.
All farmers are asking for is to have this 2% strychnine solution returned to them so they can mix it with their own grain and effectively control this terrible pest that costs up to $200 million or more in a bad year. It should not be that difficult for the government to deliver on this. I certainly hope the government will be supporting the motion as we go along in the process to adopt the motion.
If the motion is passed, the issue will be given to the appropriate committee which I assume will be the agriculture committee as it is the committee that makes sense. It would deal with it, put legislation together and then have the legislation once again come before House and hopefully passed by the House. The farmers would then have this product returned to them, a product that would safely control the Richardson's ground squirrel, commonly called the gopher.
What has happened with this product simply demonstrates what happens all too often with this government. I hate to step in here right away sounding so critical of the government. I will acknowledge that over the past 100 years Liberal governments have provided some good government from time to time. They have not always provided bad government but unfortunately they have not provided good government over the past 12 years.
In its 12 year mandate the government has too often used the same knee-jerk type of reaction that it has used in the strychnine problem. This demonstrates part of the problem with the government. It simply made a decision based on input from fewer than a dozen people, according to the papers which I received under production of papers, who had complained about this product. It did no evaluation of the cost to farmers which is why I cannot give a definite number on the costs to farmers in terms of damage to crops, machinery damage, livestock having to be destroyed and that type of thing. A study has never been done. This demonstrates how the government operates. It cares so little for farmers that it has the health minister handling the issue instead of the agriculture minister and the agriculture department. I think I know the reason for that.
I would be willing to bet that if the agriculture department had put together this background information that was sent out last Thursday it would have come out supporting this motion. The government simply cannot admit that it has made a mistake so it made sure it went to the health department which knows nothing about the issue and does not really care about the issue. As a result it probably will not support the motion, although I sincerely hope this time it will do the right thing.
The government should keep in mind that a possible election will be called sometime over the next year if the Prime Minister honours his promise to call an election within a month of the Gomery report coming out. That is the only thing that seems to really cause the government to change its mind or at least to make statements on issues.
Unfortunately, so often those statements are not followed up on, but at least the government will make statements during the pre-election period that it otherwise would not. I am hoping that one of those statements will be that the government will return this product to the hands of farmers.
What I want to do now is tell farmers that they now have a chance to have some input on this issue. I will read for the House a small section of a backgrounder from the Health Department. It states, "Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency has re-evaluated the available data on strychnine and is inviting comment on the proposals for its continuing use".
First of all, if the agency has re-evaluated the available data, I want to see that data. I ask the health minister to table that data with the House. If the agency has done an evaluation and a study it only makes sense that the information should be provided to the House and to farmers across the country.
I will continue with the rest of the agency statement. The agency "is inviting comment on the proposals for its continuing use. The comment period begins on September 26, 2005, for a period of 60 days". Of course it is the wrong time of the year because harvest will be going on during October and probably still in early November this year, but the government has finally provided an opportunity for farmers to have direct input on this issue.
I encourage farmers right across western Canada in areas affected by this terrible plague of Richardson's ground squirrels, gophers, to write to the health minister and the agriculture minister and send copies to their local MPs. A copy to me would be wonderful, as I have been trying for years on their behalf to have this product returned. I encourage farmers to write in with their explanation of why this product is desperately needed. I encourage them to take part and to make sure they do it before the deadline of November 25 or 26.
I will be contacting farmers further on this issue to try to give them the information necessary for them to have input on returning this 2% strychnine solution so they can mix on their own, but I do want to read out for the record the agency address. It is: Pest Management Regulatory Agency, 2720 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0K9. The number A.L.6606D2 should be put on the letter as a reference number so the people receiving the letter will be able to ensure that the proposals make it directly to the appropriate people.
I strongly encourage farmers not only in my constituency but across western Canada to provide their input now. This will probably be their only chance and it has been a long time in coming. It has been much too slow.
It is interesting that the government has removed this product from the hands of farmers and yet it has given on at least three or four occasions now a special emergency registration for the product. Unfortunately, it has not been done in a fashion that is extremely helpful in that it requires someone else to premix this product for them. Anyone who has used this product knows that if the liquid strychnine is mixed ahead of time with the grain used as bait, the bait will not work. Gophers do not find it appealing and just will not eat it and, as a result, the control measure does not work.
Since the government has reinstated this emergency registration, why does it not do the right thing now and restore to farmers the 2% solution of strychnine? It was used effectively and safely for decades, for most of this past century, in fact. Problems were very rare. Occasionally the product was used illegally to poison neighbours' dogs and other things like that, but any other product could be used for that too. We should deal with that under the law and come down hard on people who use it illegally because that is not acceptable.
Why should our farmers not have this product which is so valuable to them, is very much needed and may save a cost of $200 million a year? Why should it be removed because of the actions of a very few people over the years? It should not. I encourage the government to do the right thing and return the 2% solution of strychnine to farmers to help save up to $200 million a year.
Private Members' Business
11:20 a.m.
Paul Szabo Mississauga South, ON
Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for raising this issue. It is certainly an important issue for our farmers, who need all the support that they can get given the recent history of the agricultural community.
The research also shows, as a result of a single test case in Saskatchewan, that seven to twelve million lethal doses of the strychnine were available for birds and mammals to eat, not just gophers. In addition, it was found that the carcasses of these birds and mammals were available to their own predators. These animals also died through eating the poison carcasses. It is estimated that in a single season of strychnine use in Saskatchewan some 6,000 strychnine-poisoned carcasses were available to predators.
With that as a starting point, I note that the motion calls for the 2% solution of fresh bait formulations, yet the government allows producers access to a ready-to-use concentrate of 0.4% strychnine baits, which are commercially available. These are as effective as the 2% strychnine concentrate and are safer to use. The governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan are supportive of these commercially available fresh strychnine products.
That is the research. It does show that there is a concern about other birds and mammals and there is also the assertion, agreed with by Alberta and Saskatchewan, that the 0.4% solution is as effective as the 2%. I wonder if the member would care to comment.
Private Members' Business
11:20 a.m.
Leon Benoit Vegreville—Wainwright, AB
Mr. Speaker, I think the member is unfortunately a victim of misinformation sent out by the health department. The 0.4% solution simply is not effective. Farmers know that. They have tried it. They have used it for the past several years. As well, it is premixed in Toronto so it is dry by the time it gets to the farmers and the gophers are not very interested in it.
Besides that, it has to be received at just the right time. There is a very narrow window in which gophers will eat this bait and it is effective at controlling them. It has to be received within a few days, in the early spring before the grass starts growing, because gophers will eat grass rather than the bait if it is not received at the right time.
So first of all, it is not effective, and second, anyone who has used this product knows that if the 2% solution is used instead of the 0.4%, which is not effective, gophers will normally find their way back down the hole and in fact their carcasses will not be available. Also, if bait stations are used, gophers will die within the bait stations and their carcasses will not be available.
As well, birds of prey will not eat a carcass. What they eat has to be moving or they simply will not eat it. If they do, can they eat enough to cause damage? Although I will admit it is not a real study that has been done, the resulting information seems to show that they simply could not eat enough to do damage and to kill them. Throughout all these decades in which farmers were using this 2% and even 5% solution of strychnine, the number of birds of prey in the country was continually increasing.
The problem outlined by the member is a problem which I think is only in the minds of those at Health Canada, unfortunately. If they had taken the time to really communicate with Agriculture Canada in an honest way and to communicate with the agriculture departments in the provinces, I think they would have found, in fact, that this is simply not the case. I am glad the member brought it up, but it is not a real problem. It is a perceived problem.
Private Members' Business
11:25 a.m.
Myron Thompson Wild Rose, AB
Mr. Speaker, I have a quick question for the member. I know his riding is similar to mine in many respects. I have travelled through the riding over the last two or three years. I have seen with my own eyes the devastation that gophers can cause to the crop of a farmer. I do not believe that members who do not support this idea of bringing the gopher population under control really understand the seriousness of the problem.
I doubt if the Liberal member who just spoke has ever walked through a grain field where gopher damage has occurred, but I would like to invite him out some time. I would take him through a trail, but he would probably fall in one because he would not know what he is looking at.
These people do not seem to understand the seriousness of this, so I would like the member to emphasize it just one more time. I know he sees it in his riding. I have seen it in mine. Farmers really hurt from these predators and we need to take it seriously and take it seriously now. Does the member believe the government is willing to support the seriousness of this problem, willing enough to do something about it?
Private Members' Business
11:25 a.m.
Leon Benoit Vegreville—Wainwright, AB
Mr. Speaker, I certainly would not have brought this issue before Parliament the number of times I have over the past nine years, or over whatever number of years I have been pursuing it, if it were not a problem that is extremely important to the people of western Canada and to my constituents.
It is an important problem, as anyone who has seen a field would know. On my own farm, I had about 60 acres of canola completely wiped out one year. That was 60 acres in an exceptional year when there was actually some money in canola and it was worth about $350 an acre.
That is the kind of hit farmers simply cannot afford to take. If we multiply that by tens of thousands of farmers, in a bad year it is probably well beyond the $200 million figure, although I cannot vouch for the complete accuracy of that figure. It is our best estimate. Nobody has done the study to determine it.
Private Members' Business
11:25 a.m.
West Nova
Nova Scotia
Robert Thibault Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health
Mr. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to welcome you and all hon. members back to Parliament.
I thank the member for Vegreville—Wainwright for bringing this forward.
I listened to the member for Wild Rose, who questioned whether government cares about this or understands the plight of farmers and the difficulty with the Richardson's ground squirrel. There is no doubt everybody understands that. Everybody wants to find a solution. The member for Vegreville—Wainwright proposes a 2% solution of strychnine. The government is working with the provincial government and the industry to find a 100% solution to this problem.
The member has requested that the government make available directly to farmers a 2% liquid concentrate of the pest control product strychnine, which farmers would mix with seed to produce a strychnine bait to control ground squirrels. The end result would be a bait containing approximately 0.4% strychnine.
However, ready-to-use 0.4% strychnine baits, which are effective and safer to use, are already available to Canadian farmers for that very purpose. In fact, since 2005, fresh, ready-to-use 0.4% strychnine bait products have also been commercially available in Canada. These recent registrations now provide farmers with the means by which they can readily access moist strychnine baits, comparable in freshness to bait mixed directly from concentrate.
The hon. member's motion relates to restrictions put in place in 1992 by Agriculture Canada, then Canada's regulatory body for pesticides. The restrictions limited the availability of strychnine products for ground squirrel control to ready-to-use bait formulations limited at up to 0.4% strychnine.
The ready-to-use baits provided for concentrations of strychnine that were very similar to, or sometimes even greater than, those found before 1993, in baits prepared by mixing the concentrated 2% strychnine solution with farm-available grain. Furthermore, the ready-to-use products were, and are still considered to be, safer to use.
I would like to remind the hon. member that the government moved to restrict the availability of strychnine liquid concentrate only to protect Canadians' health and safety and their environment from possible serious adverse effects of this dangerous poison. Strychnine has a very high level of acute toxicity and has been and continues to be implicated in poisonings of non-target animals, including dogs and wildlife.
Canada is not alone in having taken action on strychnine. All above ground use of strychnine has been prohibited in the United States since 1988. Furthermore, it is illegal to use strychnine for pest control in most European countries and it is prohibited by the Bern convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats.
The Richardson's ground squirrel has been considered to be the major mammalian pest impacting croplands, pastures and rangelands in western Canada over the past several decades, for which the control option of choice has remained strychnine treated food baits.
In the years following the restriction of strychnine products in 1992, issues were raised regarding the effectiveness of the ready-to-use strychnine baits for ground squirrel control. The government acted swiftly and responsibly to address farmers' concerns.
For several years from 1997 onward, Health Canada conducted an extensive analysis of the ready-to-use products marketed at that time to confirm that they met the level of strychnine guaranteed on the product label by the manufacturer, and as required by Health Canada, that is, 0.4% strychnine.
During the years 2001, 2002 and 2003, as was mentioned by the member from Vegreville—Wainwright, because provincial authorities were concerned with severe ground squirrel infestation in certain areas of Saskatchewan and Alberta, they requested and received emergency registrations of a concentrated 2% strychnine product to allow for the preparation of freshly baited 0.4% strychnine bait.
This emergency registration program allowed the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, under very strict provisions, to freshly prepare and distribute moist strychnine bait formulated from 2% liquid strychnine concentrate, providing farmers in those provinces with access to fresh bait for on farm use to control Richardson's ground squirrel.
These freshly prepared baits, which have been demonstrated to be more acceptable to ground squirrels, resulted in enhanced control.
I want to be perfectly clear that the recently registered fresh, ready to use 0.4% strychnine bait products provide farmers with the same type of product at the same concentration of strychnine that was used under the emergency registration programs of 2001, 2002 and 2003.
However, Health Canada has not restricted its involvement in the ground squirrel control program to pesticide issues. Risk reduction plays an important role in modern pesticide regulation and while the restriction of the use of certain pesticides is a means toward that end, so is the development of integrated pest management strategies to research alternative methods of control.
To that end, Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency has been facilitating an integrated pest management program in conjunction with the western provinces to address ground squirrel infestations.
Parties participating in the integrated pest management program include representatives from all levels of government, non-government organizations and the pesticide industry. This is the 100% solution.
Part of the objective of this program is to provide the use of alternatives to strychnine, including non-chemical methods of control, and the use of registered pest control products containing active ingredients other than strychnine.
Although in its early stages, the integrated pest management group has already presented preliminary research findings to Health Canada, which could eventually result in improved label directions that would increase pest control product efficiency without incurring additional environmental effects.
Another major activity in which Health Canada has been involved is the re-evaluation of strychnine, as was mentioned by the member. This falls under Health Canada's pesticide re-evaluation program, which is designed to ensure that the continuing acceptability of all pesticides registered in Canada before 1995 is examined using current scientific approaches.
Health Canada has released its findings on the strychnine re-evaluation and has invited comments from interested parties before finalizing its decision. I would join the member in inviting all concerned to participate in those discussions.
In closing, I want to assure the hon. member for Vegreville—Wainwright that Canadian farmers do have access to strychnine products that are equivalent to those shown to be effective under severe ground squirrel infestations.
Health Canada has and will continue to listen to, and act on the concerns of farmers. Health Canada will continue to explore Richardson's ground squirrel control strategies through an integrated pest management program, so that Canadian farmers will not be left without the tools they need to pursue their livelihood in a safe and practical manner.
Private Members' Business
11:35 a.m.
Leon Benoit Vegreville—Wainwright, AB
Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I would ask for unanimous consent to have a question period with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health who has just spoken. Some of the information I heard requires a follow-up with questions.
Private Members' Business
11:35 a.m.
The Acting Speaker (Mr. Marcel Proulx)
Does the hon. member have unanimous consent?


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The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death, and Leo, lonely and isolated, searches for something to sustain him. Eventually, he finds his answer when he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee father; hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles and Starla Whitehead; socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend, Chadworth Rutledge X; and an ever-widening circle whose liaisons will ripple across two decades-from 1960s counterculture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
The ties among them endure for years, surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, and Charleston's dark legacy of racism and class divisions. But the final test of friendship that brings them to San Francisco is something no one is prepared for. South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest; a long-awaited work from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.
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PAT CONROY is the bestselling author of The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, and My Losing Season. He lives in South Carolina.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:
The Mansion on the River
It was my father who called the city the Mansion on the River.
He was talking about Charleston, South Carolina, and he was a native son, peacock proud of a town so pretty it makes your eyes ache with pleasure just to walk down its spellbinding, narrow streets. Charleston was my father's ministry, his hobbyhorse, his quiet obsession, and the great love of his life. His bloodstream lit up my own with a passion for the city that I've never lost nor ever will. I'm Charleston-born, and bred. The city's two rivers, the Ashley and the Cooper, have ?ooded and shaped all the days of my life on this storied peninsula.
I carry the delicate porcelain beauty of Charleston like the hinged shell of some soft-tissued mollusk. My soul is peninsula-shaped and sun-hardened and river-swollen. The high tides of the city ?ood my consciousness each day, subject to the whims and harmonies of full moons rising out of the Atlantic. I grow calm when I see the ranks of palmetto trees pulling guard duty on the banks of Colonial Lake or hear the bells of St. Michael's calling cadence in the cicada-?lled trees along Meeting Street. Deep in my bones, I knew early that I was one of those incorrigible creatures known as Charlestonians. It comes to me as a surprising form of knowledge that my time in the city is more vocation than gift; it is my destiny, not my choice. I consider it a high privilege to be a native of one of the loveliest American cities, not a high-kicking, glossy, or lipsticked city, not a city with bells on its ?ngers or brightly painted toenails, but a ruf?ed, low-slung city, understated and tolerant of nothing mismade or ostentatious. Though Charleston feels a seersuckered, tuxedoed view of itself, it approves of restraint far more than vainglory.
As a boy, in my own backyard I could catch a basket of blue crabs, a string of ?ounder, a dozen red?sh, or a net full of white shrimp. All this I could do in a city enchanting enough to charm cobras out of baskets, one so corniced and ?ligreed and elaborate that it leaves strangers awed and natives self-satis?ed. In its shadows you can ?nd metalwork as delicate as lace and spiral staircases as elaborate as yachts. In the secrecy of its gardens you can discover jasmine and camellias and hundreds of other plants that look embroidered and stolen from the Garden of Eden for the sheer love of richness and the joy of stealing from the gods. In its kitchens, the stoves are lit up in happiness as the lamb is marinating in red wine sauce, vinaigrette is prepared for the salad, crabmeat is anointed with sherry, custards are baked in the oven, and buttermilk biscuits cool on the counter.
Because of its devotional, graceful attraction to food and gardens and architecture, Charleston stands for all the principles that make living well both a civic virtue and a standard. It is a rapturous, de?ning place to grow up. Everything I reveal to you now will be Charleston-shaped and Charleston-governed, and sometimes even Charleston-ruined. But it is my fault and not the city's that it came close to destroying me. Not everyone responds to beauty in the same way. Though Charleston can do much, it can't always improve on the strangeness of human behavior. But Charleston has a high tolerance for eccentricity and bemusement. There is a tastefulness in its gentility that comes from the knowledge that Charleston is a permanent dimple in the understated skyline, while the rest of us are only visitors.
My father was an immensely gifted science teacher who could make the beach at Sullivan's Island seem like a laboratory created for his own pleasures and devices. He could pick up a star?sh, or describe the last excruciating moments of an oyster's life on a ?at a hundred yards from where we stood. He made Christmas ornaments out of the braceletlike egg casings of whelks. In my mother's gardens he would show me where the ladybug disguised her eggs beneath the leaves of basil and arugula. In the Congaree Swamp, he discovered a new species of salamander that was named in his honor. There was no butter?y that drifted into our life he could not identify by sight. At night, he would take my brother, Steve, and I out into the boat to the middle of Charleston Harbor and make us memorize the constellations. He treated the stars as though they were love songs written to him by God. With such reverence he would point out Canis Major, the hound of Orion, the Hunter; or Cygnus, the Swan; or Andromeda, the Chained Lady; or Cassiopeia, the Lady in the Chair. My father turned the heavens into a fresh puzzlement of stars: "Ah, look at Jupiter tonight. And red Mars. And isn't Venus fresh on her throne?" A stargazer of the ?rst order, he squealed with pleasure on the moonless nights when the stars winked at him in some mysterious, soul- stirring graf?ti of ballet-footed light. He would clap his hands with irresistible joy on a cloudless night when he made every star in the sky a silver dollar in his pocket.
He was more North Star than father. His curiosity about the earth ennobled his every waking moment. His earth was billion-footed, with unseen worlds in every drop of water and every seedling and every blade of grass. The earth was so generous. It was this same earth that he prayed to because it was his synonym for God.
My mother is also a Charlestonian, but her personality strikes far darker harmonies than my father's did. She is God-haunted and pious in a city with enough church spires to have earned the name of the Holy City. She is a scholar of prodigious gifts, who once wrote a critique of Richard Ellman's biography of James Joyce for the New York Review of Books. For most of my life she was a high school principal, and her house felt something like the hallway of a well-run school. Among her students, she could run a ?ne line between fear and respect. There was not much horseplay or lollygagging about in one of Dr. Lindsay King's schools. I knew kids who were afraid of me just because she was my mother. She almost never wears makeup other than lipstick. Besides her wedding band, the only jewelry she owns is the string of pearls my father bought her for their honeymoon.
Singularly, without arti?ce or guile, my mother's world seemed disconsolate and tragic before she really knew how tragic life could be. Once she learned that no life could avoid the consequences of tragedy, she soft¬ened into an ascetic's acknowledgment of the illusory nature of life. She became a true believer in the rude awakening.
My older brother, Steve, was her favorite by far, but that seemed only natural to everyone, including me. Steve was blond and athletic and charismatic, and had a natural way about him that appealed to the higher instincts of adults. He could make my mother howl with laughter by telling her a story of one of his teachers or about something he had read in a book; I could not have made my mother smile if I had exchanged arm farts with the Pope in the Sistine Chapel. Because I hero-worshipped Steve, it never occurred to me to be jealous of him. He was both solicitous and protective of me; my natural shyness brought out an instinctive championing of me. The world of children terri?ed me, and I found it perilous as soon as I was exposed to it. Steve cleared a path for me until he died.
Now, looking back, I think the family suffered a collective nervous breakdown after we buried Steve. His sudden, inexplicable death sent me reeling into a downward spiral that would take me many years to ? ght my way out of and then back into the light. My bashfulness turned to morbidity. My alarm systems all froze up inside me. I went directly from a fearful childhood to a hopeless one without skipping a beat. It was not just the wordless awfulness of losing a brother that unmoored me but the realization that I had never bothered to make any other friends, rather had satis?ed myself by being absorbed into that wisecracking circle of girls and boys who found my brother so delicious that his tagalong brother was at least acceptable. After Steve's death, that circle abandoned me before the ?owers at his graveside had withered. Like Steve, they were bright and ?ashy children, and I always felt something like a toadstool placed outside the watch ?res of their mysteries and attractions.
So I began the Great Drift when Steve left my family forever. I found myself thoroughly unable to ful?ll my enhanced duties as an only child. I could not take a step without incurring my mother's helpless wrath over my raw un-Stephenness, her contempt for my not being blond and acrobatic and a Charleston boy to watch. It never occurred to me that my mother could hold against me my un?tness to transfer myself into the child she had relished and lost. For years, I sank into the unclear depths of myself, and learned with some surprise that their haunted explorations would both thrill and alarm me for the rest of my life. A measurable touch of madness was enough to send my fragile boyhood down the river, and it took some hard labor to get things right again. I could always feel a ?inty, unconquerable spirit staring out of the mangroves and the impenetrable rain forests inside me, a spirit who waited with a mineral patience for that day I was to claim myself back because of my own ? erce need of survival. In the worst of times, there was something that lived in isolation and commitment that would come at my bidding and stand beside me, shoulder-to-shoulder, when I decided to face the world on my own terms.
I turned out to be a late bloomer, which I long regretted. My parents suffered needlessly because it took me so long to ?nd my way to a place at their table. But I sighted the early signs of my recovery long before they did. My mother had given up on me at such an early age that a comeback was something she no longer even prayed for in her wildest dreams. Yet in my anonymous and underachieving high school career, I laid the foundation for a strong ?nish without my mother noticing that I was, at last, up to some good. I had built an impregnable castle of solitude for myself and then set out to bring that castle down, no matter how serious the collateral damage or who might get hurt.
I was eighteen years old and did not have a friend my own age. There wasn't a boy in Charleston who would think about inviting me to a party or to come out to spend the weekend at his family's beach house.
I planned for all that to change. I had decided to become the most interesting boy to ever grow up in Charleston, and I revealed this secret to my parents.
Outside my house in the languid summer air of my eighteenth year, I climbed the magnolia tree nearest to the Ashley River with the agility that constant practice had granted me. From its highest branches, I surveyed my city as it lay simmering in the hot-blooded saps of June while the sun began to set, reddening the vest of cirrus clouds that had gathered along the western horizon. In the other direction, I saw the city of rooftops and columns and gables that was my native land. What I had just promised my parents, I wanted very much for them and for myself. Yet I also wanted it for Charleston. I desired to turn myself into a worthy townsman of such a many-storied city.
Charleston has its own heartbeat and ?ngerprint, its own mug shots and photo ops and police lineups. It is a city of contrivance, of blueprints; devotion to pattern that is like a bent knee to the nature of beauty itself. I could feel my destiny forming in the leaves high above the city. Like Charleston, I had my alleyways that were dead ends and led to nowhere, but mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream. Looking down, I studied the layout of my city, the one that had taught me all the lures of attractiveness, yet made me suspicious of the showy or the makeshift. I turned to the stars and was about to make a bad throw of the dice and try to predict the future, but stopped myself in time.
A boy stopped in time, in a city of amber-colored life that possessed the glamour forbidden to a lesser angel.
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Introducing Internet Based Computer -Assisted Language Learning and WebQuests: FSL teaching, learning, and cultural experiences at the post-secondary level.
The purpose of this project is twofold. First, to offer my post-secondary, beginner French-as-a-Second-Language (FSL) learners the opportunity to take part in virtual cultural "exchanges" while working collaboratively with members of the target language group in an interactive, Internet Based-Computer Assisted Language Learning (IB-CALL) context using an Internet authoring tool known as a "WebQuest" as a means to increase exposure to French, to improve attitude towards FSL, and to enhance proficiency.
Second, to provide FSL educators, in other classrooms and language learning contexts, with a model and practical step-by-step guidelines that will allow them to use the Internet to plan, to develop, and to construct their own interactive, communicative, and intercultural language learning experiences according to students' needs and abilities.
Research studies show that intensive exposure to the target language makes French real for FSL learners, improves attitudes towards FSL, and enhances proficiency; that the best way to make French real is through face-to-face interaction with the target language group (Lapkin, Hart, & Swain, 1995; MacFarlane, 2001; Warden, Lapkin, Swain, & Hart, 1995). However, face-to-face interaction is not always possible, especially for post-secondary, beginner FSL learners, who wish to continue their core French studies and who do not have the opportunity to participate in exchange visits. In response to the Government of Canada's (2003) Action Plan for Official Languages, which has set an objective to double the number of young Canadians who are functional in their second official language by 2013, Lapkin (2003) inquires, "How could we achieve similar attitude change and enhance proficiency for all FSL students, including the vast majority who have no out-of-classroom contact with French?" (p. 7). One way is by means of IB-CALL and an Internet authoring tool, known as a "WebQuest".
The project aims to further research concerning IB-CALL design and development of L2 learning environments, and, more broadly, research on innovative pedagogical approaches related to second language acquisition. To this end, it may serve to enhance the professional development of L2 educators and, in turn, the revitalization and extension of FSL programs at all levels of education.
The method of my project, known as a "WebQuest", is a collaborative, student-centered, and inquiry-oriented activity, in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. "WebQuests" are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March.
Traditionally, "WebQuests" consist of a learner and a teacher section. The components of these sections, as well as steps involved in creating "WebQuests", will be detailed in my project. This will provide the necessary information for FSL educators, in other classrooms and language learning contexts, with practical step-by-step guidelines that will allow them to duplicate this activity.
Given the collaborative, communicative, student-centered, and inquiry-oriented nature of "WebQuests", the theoretical foundation used to ground the project will be a modified version of the conceptual framework for a multidimensional, four syllabus curriculum that was the outcome of the National Core French Study (NCFS), initiated in 1984 by H. H. Stern. The "WebQuest" will be developed with a Communicative/Experiential Syllabus, a Culture Syllabus, a Language Syllabus, and a General Language Syllabus.
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Today marks the 176th anniversary of the birth of noted naturalist John Burroughs (1837-1921), a canonical figure in American nature writing, friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and key voice in the early 20th-century nature study and conservation movements.
March Mammal Madness: Mancestor vs. Shrëwdinger
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This is it—the final matchup. We started with 32 potential names for our hypothetical placental ancestor. Now we're down to two: Mancestor and Shrëwdinger. Which will it be? It's your decision. Cast your vote now and give this creature a name!
New Models Predict Greener Arctic in Coming Decades
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Rising temperatures will lead to a massive "greening" of the Arctic by mid-century as a result of striking increases in plant cover, according to new research led by the American Museum of Natural History.


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Suez Canal crisis
This August 12, 1956, memorandum recounts a meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and other advisers about Egypt's takeover of the Suez Canal. The meeting dealt with how the United States should approach matters of international importance surrounding the takeover.
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Bruce Ring
IRON MOUNTAIN – Bruce Erland Ring, 83, lifelong resident of Iron Mountain, died Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, in his winter home in Arizona. His final battle was with influenza and pneumonia and it proved to be a battle he could not win.
He was born April 25, 1930, the fourth of seven children of Robert and Frances Ring. He was a 1949 graduate of Iron Mountain High School. He married Lois Verley of Quinnesec – one of five children of Ralph and Mildred Verley – Feb. 3, 1951. Together they had two children, Kathy Terese and Jeffrey Bruce.
Bruce worked for the Wisconsin-Michigan Power Co. until his retirement in 1988. He worked as a lineman, easment procurement agent and job coordinator. In addition to his work with the power company, Bruce spent several years as a Breitung Township constable.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert and Frances Ring; inlaws, Ralph and Brownie Verley; two brothers, Donald Ring and Robert Ring; and one sister, Arlene Ullrich.
He is survived by his wife, Lois; daughter, Kathy Meyers; son, Jeffrey (Karen) Ring; four grandchildren, Heather Ring, Jamie Ring, Joshua Ring and Ruthie Grace Ring.
He is also survived by three sisters, Dolly (John) Larson, Cynthia (Irving) Good, and Alice (Ray) Person.
His was a large extended family, making it impossible to mention all the relatives who were so important to Bruce. To mention one and possibly slight another is truly the fault of the author and not any intentional omission.
It is appropriate to make special mention of Gerald and Marilyn Hallman, who stood for Bruce and Lois at their wedding; together with Debbie (Person) Krokstrom, Kevin Kempf, Ray Person, William Ullrich, Jack Larson, Chuck and Susie Kempf, Norman and Evelyn Verley, David Verley, Della and Ron VanAlstine.
A memorial service will be held this spring and there will be further notice of the date.
Condolences to Lois may be sent to her through her daughter, Kathy, via e-mail at email@example.com. Cards can be sent via Kathy Meyers, W8079 S. U.S. 2/141, Space 23, Iron Mountain, MI 49801.
There will be peace in the valley for me dear Lord I pray;
There will be no sadness, no sorrow, no trouble I see;
There will be only peace in the valley for me.


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Topic: Running daemons - How & Where?
I'm new to RoR and have a project that requires a constant socket connection and all incoming messages to be saved to a file or db.
I thought having a daemon running would be the best way but so far I can't find how to set it up and where in the code structure they belong.
I have the daemon gem installed but can't find any information on how to integrate daemons into an existing project.


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Address:48, Wangfujing Ave, Dongcheng Dist, Beijing China. 100006
For over a decade, Victoria has been the leader in Yangtze cruising, because of the quality of the fleet, the outstanding service and innovative itineraries. All cabins on the premier ships have private balconies for viewing the spectacular Three Gorges scenery.
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Step into one of our 491 inviting guest rooms and suites, and escape the stresses of the day. Special, updated touches such as an ergonomic chair, generous work area and High Speed Internet Access—as well as our signature Sheraton Sweet Sleeper? Bed—will make you feel comfortable and relaxed.
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Xian, Shaanxi 710014
Ideally located alongside the Li River lies the five-star Sheraton Guilin Hotel. Guilin has been an inspiration to Chinese poets and artists throughout the centuries. Today, the hotel sits in the heart of this enchanting city. Retreat to the 430 guest rooms, including 19 suites. Make it a night in, with your favorite satellite TV shows, dinner ordered in and sending the day s adventures over email. Explore the city s famous limestone crags and deep caves, cruise the majestic Li River, or just hang out – by the pool, in the fitness center, or on the nearby golf course.
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Public Fishing Areas
Hugh M. Gillis PFA (Laurens County)
Telephone: 478-296-6192 or 912-685-6424
Hours: Open 7 days a week, sunrise to sunset.
For Google Map driving directions click here.
Fish Species: Largemouth bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, channel catfish, crappie.
Water: 109 acre lake.
Facilities: concrete boat ramp, fishing pier, restrooms, picnic tables, some facilities accessible to persons with disabilities.
Licensing: To help cover the costs of maintaining these great resources, visitors (ages 16-64) must have one of the following to access Public Fishing Areas except for Rocky Mountain PFA:
Directions from East Dublin: East on US Hwy 80 for 10 miles; left on Keens Crossing Road for 1.4 miles; PFA entrance on right.
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When you need a respite from power shopping, catch a movie at the AMC Potomac Mills 18 Theatres (with IMAX), grab a bite to eat at one of our 25 eateries or dine at The Cheesecake Factory, now open in our new restaurant plaza. Once you visit, you'll understand why Potomac Mills is one of the East Coast's premier shopping destinations!
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Need a weekend shopping getaway? The SpringHill Suites Potomac Mills Woodbridge offers spacious studio suites with separate living space with a sofa bed, work desk, microwave, refrigerator, flat-panel TV, and free wi-fi. Take a swim in our indoor pool, energize in our fitness center and ease into the evening with a beverage from our Market. The hotel is only 1/2 mile from Potomac Mills and close to many restaurants. The Shop & Stay package includes:
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Topic: Combine select, order and group clause with postgresql (pg gem)
I can't figure out the right syntax to use with order, group and select clause. The below one raises an error on Postgresql DB:
@operations = Operation.unscoped.includes(:client).order("clients.lastname").select("client_id, sum(total) as total").group("client_id")
The models are defined as follows:
class Client < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :operations, dependent: :destroy
default_scope order: 'clients.lastname'
class Operation < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :client
default_scope order: 'operations.value_date DESC'
It works on sqlite3 but fails on postgresql.
Any idea? Thank you.
Last edited by Javix (2012-10-25 03:28:38)


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Robert L. Dahl
FAIRMONT – Services for Robert L. Dahl, 82, of Fairmont, will be 2 p.m. Thursday, April 11, 2013, at Lakeview Funeral Home in Fairmont, with visitation from 12:30 p.m. until the time of services. Burial with full military honors will be 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 12, 2013, in St. Olaf Cemetery south of Grantsburg, Wis. A lunch at Bethany Lutheran Church will follow.
Robert passed peacefully into eternity Wednesday morning, March 27, 2013, at his home. Lakeview Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Fairmont is assisting the family with arrangements.
Robert LaVerne Dahl was born April 13, 1930, at his grandparents' home in Polk County, Wis., the son of Franz William and Elfie Eleanor (Fors) Dahl. Bob received his education in Grantsburg, Wis., and graduated from Grantsburg High School in 1948. On April 5, 1949, Bob enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served his country proudly on the USS Steinaker during the Korean War. On Feb. 6, 1953, Bob received his honorable discharge and returned home to Wisconsin. He attended UW-Madison for a semester, then transferred to Madison Vocational College. During the summers, he worked on the big boats at Superior as a Merchant Marine. After graduating as a radio-electronics-television technician in 1956, he moved to Boscobel, Wis., where he worked as a service technician for Haney's Appliances for 16 years. On June 14, 1957, Bob was united in marriage to Florence A. Peterson in Wisconsin, at the Trade Lake Baptist Church. Together, the couple made their home in Boscobel, where they were blessed with four children: Candace, Kevin, Patty and Diane. In 1973, Bob moved his family to Fairmont, Minn., and began working for 3M, where he soon became a maintenance supervisor. He would continue working there for the next 20 years, retiring in 1994. Bob was active in the Bethel Evangelical Free Church and willingly volunteered his skilled hands with building projects. In his spare time, Bob enjoyed reading, working on crossword puzzles, solitaire on the computer, bowling, and his skill as a handyman is well known. He looked forward to quiet time spent out on the lake fishing and his love of the outdoors included the joy of hunting. In 1988, he and Florence purchased a home on South Silver Lake and spent 16 wonderful years there. His greatest joy was being able to spend time with his children and grandchildren.
Left to cherish his memory is his wife of 55 years, Florence Dahl of Fairmont, Minn.; children, Candace (John) Schulz, Kevin (JoLynn S.) Dahl, Patty (Jay) Meacham, and Diane (Jeff) Wright; six grandchildren, Ben, Rebekah, Hannah, Daniel, Elisha, and Noah; two step-grandsons, Joshua and David; sisters, Marilyn Watrud, Carol (Jim) Dahl, and Mary Lou (Ivan) Marier; nine sisters-in-law; two brothers-in-law; as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.
Bob was preceded in death by his parents, F. William and Elfie Dahl; a grandson, Abraham (2004); and two brothers, Myrland Dahl and Gerald Dahl.


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William A. Kutner Sr.
William A. Kutner Sr., 92, died Saturday evening (Feb. 9, 2013) at the Chautauqua County Home in Dunkirk.
Born July 4, 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of the late Martin and Mary (Kmet) Kutner.
Dr. Kutner served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Philippine Campaign.
He graduated from the University of Detroit and Palmer College of Chiropractic. A Dunkirk resident since 1950, he was a practicing chiropractor for 43 years at his Central Avenue office. Dr. Kutner had been a resident of St. Columban's on the Lake for the past two and a half years.
Dr. Kutner had served as president and member of the Dunkirk School Board during construction of the new Dunkirk High School. He also had been a past member and president of the Dunkirk Rotary Club, a Sunday School teacher at First Presbyterian Church and a member of the Shriners. Professionally, he was a member and past president of the NYS Chiropractic Board as well as an examiner for NYS in National Chiropractic Board exams.
Dr. Kutner was family and people oriented His favorite expression was "Everybody's important."
Survivors include two sons, William (Linda) Kutner Jr. and Mark (Rita) Kutner; a daughter, Debbie ("Skip") Meno; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Dorothy; a son, David; five sisters and one brother.
Friends are invited to attend a remembrance gathering on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 16, at 2 p.m. at St. Columban's on the Lake, 2546 Lake Road, Silver Creek. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Columban's.
Arrangements by McGraw-Kowal Funeral Home.


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Blonde Short Faux Hawk
With thick frothy curls popping like party and towering like clouds, this hairstyle ends your quest for the real definition of badass, girl toy. Blonde is a liquid color that is solidified by the gloss that cover the hair from tip to tip. Here, the loose curls stand firmly and confidently like a celebrity walking the red carpet. Hair tongs would create such girly spirals, gel will tighten the body, and spritz will hold the curls place. Hairstyle by Harry Boobock.
Hairstyle by Harry Boobock.