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If you've applied for a job recently, you've probably looked over that 8½ x 11" summary of your career more times than you can count — and tweaked it just as often — in pursuit of the perfect resume.
But before you add another bullet point, consider this: It's not always about what you add in — the best changes you can make may lie in what you take out.
The average resume is chock-full of sorely outdated, essentially meaningless phrases that take up valuable space on the page. Eliminate them, and you'll come off as a better, more substantial candidate — and your resume won't smack of that same generic, mind-numbing quality found on everyone else's.
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Every word — yes, every word — on that page should be working hard to highlight your talents and skills. If it's not, it shouldn't be on there. So grab a red pen, and banish these words from your resume for good.
Career objective
My first few resumes had a statement like this emblazoned top and center: "Career objective: To obtain a position as a (insert job title here) that leverages my skills and experience as well as provides a challenging environment that promotes growth."
Yawn. This is not only boring, it's ineffective (and sounds a little juvenile, to boot). The top of your resume is prime real estate, and it needs to grab a hiring manager's attention with a list of your top accomplishments, not a summary of what you hope to get out of your next position.
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You can be "experienced" in something after you've done it once — or every day for the past 10 years. So drop this nebulous term and be specific. If, for example, you're a Client Report Specialist, using a phrase such as "Experienced in developing client reports" is both vague and redundant. But sharing that you "Created five customized weekly reports to analyze repeat client sales activity" — now that gives the reader a better idea of where exactly this so-called experience lies, with some actual results attached.
Also eliminate: seasoned, well-versed
Team player
If you've ever created an online dating profile, you know that you don't just say that you're nice and funny — you craft a fun, witty profile that shows it. Same goes for your resume: It's much more effective to list activities or accomplishments that portray your good qualities in action than to simply claim to have them.
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Instead of "team player," say "Led project team of 10 to develop a new system for distributing reports that reduced the time for managers to receive reports by 25 percent." Using a specific example, you show what you can actually accomplish. But simply labeling yourself with a quality? Not so much.
Also eliminate: people person, customer-focused
While resumes are meant to highlight your best attributes, some personality traits are better left to the hiring manager to decide upon for herself. There is a difference between appropriately and accurately describing your work skills and just tooting your own horn. Plus, even the most introverted wallflower will claim to be "dynamic" on a piece of paper because, well, why not? When it comes to resumes, keep the content quantifiable, show tangible results and successes, and wait until the interview to show off your "dynamism," "enthusiasm," or "energy."
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Also eliminate: energetic, enthusiastic
References available upon request
All this phrase really does is take up valuable space. If a company wants to hire you, they will ask you for references — and they will assume that you have them. There's no need to address the obvious (and doing so might even make you look a little presumptuous!). Use the space to give more details about your talents and accomplishments instead.
In a crummy job market with a record number of people applying for the same positions, it takes more than a list of desirable-sounding qualities to warrant an interview. Specific examples pack a punch, whereas anything too dependent on a list of buzzwords will sound just like everyone else's cookie-cutter resume. So, give your resume a good once-over, and make sure every word on that page is working hard for you.
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I am a synthesizer man. I love machines that go PING! And I adore babes on synths …. twisting knobs, patching chords and pressing keys with their shiny red nails …. especially Suzanne Ciani. She's a rare electronic musician guru and genius.
She uses every synth made by humanoids, especially the Synclavier which was the world's most powerful and most expensive synth/sampler/workstation from the late 70′s through the mid 90′s, made by New England Digital.
Synclavier System…
Synclavier's base price started around US$200,000. The system was expandable to infinity and costs would reach tens of millions of dollars. In 1985, Synclavier could sample at rate of 150-KHz, 16-bit, stereo. It's mainframe was super-computer UNIX system. Other features included: light-pen for touch screen, lots of red-lit buttons, blinking lights, large LED screen, hard disk recorders, waveform software, multiple i/o's, synth oscillators (FM), optical re-write laser disk storage, slip differential, oozie, ammunition, stealth power, radar, sonar, one round knob, and more.
As a matter of fact, NASA used Synclavier systems, because it was THE most advanced and powerful super-computer in the world at that time (1980′s) ….. to launch space-shuttles, not music careers!
Read specs of Synclavier here.
Artists/producers who used Synclavier:
- Trevor Horn
- Sting
- Phil Collins
- Lauri Anderson
- Frank Zappa
- Peter Gabriel
- Herbie Hancock
- John Tesh
- Depeche Mode
- Thompson Twins
- Tears For Fears
- Michael Jackson (Bad album was 90% Synclavier sounds)
- Grace Jones (the entire Slave To The Rhythm LP)
- Frankie Goes To Hollywood
- and countless of other big names
Oscar-winner sound-designer Gary Rydstorm (Skywalker Sound, Lucas Entertainment, Pixar) used (and still uses) the Synclavier in making epic sound effects for movies such as Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report and all the unforgettable T-Rex sounds in Jurassic park.
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University Health Insurance Plan (UHIP)
The UHIP office has drop-in hours from Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. Appointments will be scheduled outside of these hours if necessary. If you wish to schedule an appointment, please email email@example.com with the subject heading "Appointment Request".
The University Health Insurance Plan is a mandatory health insurance plan for all international and exchange students enrolled in an Ontario university. UHIP helps to cover the cost of hospital and medical services you may need to maintain your health while in Canada. You are automatically enrolled in UHIP, and the coverage charge will be listed on ROSI, your student account.
Everything you need to know about UHIP is available online at www.uhip.ca.
This section of the website provides additional information specifically for international students at the University of Toronto. Please note that our UHIP office does not provide or administer coverage for post-doctoral fellows or visiting scholars.
Notice of disclosure
In order to facilitate UHIP coverage, the University has provided Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, the insurance provider, with your name, student number, mailing address, email address and date of birth. This is a mandatory procedure required for admittance to the University. If you have any questions regarding the security of these records or other concerns pertaining to your personal data, please contact the UHIP office. Additional information may be found on the Sun Life website.
If you are a degree-earning international student, then you will be automatically enrolled in UHIP for the twelve-month period running from September 1 to August 31 of the current academic year.
If you are an exchange student or a visiting international student you will be automatically enrolled in UHIP for the duration of the period for which you are attending the University.
Get your UHIP card online
You need to show your UHIP card and carry a claim form every time you use health care services, so print yours today. Register online, print your card and carry it with you.
- Step 1: Register online
- Visit mysunlife.ca and click register.
- Enter your date of birth as day/month/year.
- Select Canada as your country of residence and enter your postal code.
- Click on health/dental benefits.
- Step 2: Enter your details
- Your contract/policy number is 050150.
- Your member ID is U+ your student number (example: U1000123321).
- Click next.
- Step 3: Get your registration code
- Click on need a registration code. If your email address is on file, a code will be emailed to you.
- Open the email from Sun Life containing your registration code.
- Step 4: Print your UHIP card
- Return to mysunlife.ca.
- Enter your registration code and click next.
- Create a password and select a security question. Click next.
- Print your UHIP card.
If your account is locked or suspended, contact Sun Life Insurance at 1-866-500-8447.
Visit Student Health Network to locate a clinic or health care provider near you.
If you need assistance contact the UHIP Office at 416-978-0290 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Returning Canadians and the OHIP waiting period
If you are a new permanent resident or a returning Canadian citizen, you can purchase UHIP for the three-month waiting period before your Ontario Health Insurance Program (OHIP) coverage becomes effective.
The steps to do this are:
- Apply for OHIP at any Service Ontario Centre. You will need to have a number of documents with you to prove your eligibility for OHIP. Please refer to the Service Ontario website for a list of required documents and the OHIP application form.
- Bring the "Transaction Record" from OHIP to the UHIP office at your U of T campus.
The UHIP charge will appear on your ROSI account in 2–3 weeks.
Dependent Enrolment
UHIP coverage may also be extended to your eligible dependent family member(s). A spouse or common-law partner (including same-sex spouse or common-law partner) and/ or children are considered eligible dependents. Other family members (e.g. siblings or parents) are not eligible for UHIP coverage.
Unlike students, dependents are not automatically enrolled in UHIP. You are required to enrol your dependent family member(s) within 30 days of their arrival in Canada. You must be enrolled in UHIP in order to enrol your eligible dependents.
To enrol your eligible dependent(s), you are required to book an appointment with the UHIP office on the St. George campus. For your convenience, you may book an appointment online. Please follow the instructions to your right to book your appointment.
Extending UHIP for Dependents
UHIP coverage for dependents must be renewed within 30 days of expiry. New UHIP coverage will be applicable until August 31st. UHIP coverage must be continuous — provided dependents remain in Canada — and if current UHIP coverage has expired, please make an appointment with the UHIP office.
Important Notice for Spouses of International Students
Health and Wellness will no longer be accepting new clients who are student spouses. Student dependents currently enrolled with Health and Wellness will no longer have access to clinical services effective January 1, 2017 and will be provided an alternative in the local community. To find an alternative clinic or doctor, please visit the UHIP website.
Booking an Appointment: Step-by-Step Instructions
- Step 1
Login to the booking system using your UTORid and password.
- Step 2
- Go to "Your Dependents" and click "Add a New Dependent".
- You must input and save your dependent's information before booking an appointment.
- Step 3
- Go to "Your UHIP Applications".
- To create a new application, click the "New UHIP Application" button. Please note: If you have already created an application for your dependent(s), you may go directly to "Your UHIP Appointments" to book an appointment.
- Select the name(s) of the dependent(s) you would like to enrol during your appointment.
- Click "Submit" to go to the appointment page.
- Step 4
- Select an available appointment time.
- Once selected, a confirmation email will be sent to your inbox.
- Go to "Your UHIP Appointments" to view your bookings.
- For your convenience, only one adult member of your family is required to attend the enrolment meeting. Please bring the following documents to your appointment: the dependent's passport, the student's TCard and method of payment (debit / credit)
- Step 5
- Should you need to cancel your appointment, go to "Your UHIP Appointments" and click "Your Booking". The system will prompt you to cancel your appointment.
- To schedule a new appointment, click "Book Appointment".
Summary of UHIP coverage
UHIP will pay up to $1,000,000 a year to each plan member (you and your registered dependents) for the cost of eligible medically necessary health services and medical treatments. This may include:
- Hospital and physician services
- Surgery – including the administration of anesthetics
- Ambulance
- Diagnostic laboratory and X-ray services
- Counselling and Psychological services
- Gynecological exams
- Pregnancy related health care (prenatal and postnatal), even if pregnancy began before arrival in Ontario
Visit the UHIP website for details and a complete list of services and treatments covered.
Services not covered by UHIP
The following medical services are not covered by UHIP:
- Prescription drugs*
- Routine eye exams for persons between the ages of 20–65*
- Dental care services*
- Physiotherapy
- Eyeglasses, frames and contact lenses
- Acupuncture
- Chiropractic services
- Medical examinations and tests required for immigration purposes or third party cosmetic surgery
- Preparation of records, reports, certificates and communications
- Services not covered under OHIP at the time that the services are rendered
*Most students – not including international exchange students – are automatically enrolled in a "Supplementary Health Plan" which may cover several of the items mentioned above.
Visit the UHIP website for additional information on services and treatments that are not covered.
Supplementary health insurance plans
Supplementary health insurance plans provide you with additional coverage for services that are not covered under UHIP (or OHIP). There is no overlap of coverage between UHIP and supplementary health insurance. Supplementary insurance plans are separate from UHIP.
Whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student, domestic or international, you will most likely be enrolled in a supplementary health plan. Premiums for the plans will be charged automatically to your student account on ROSI.
Visit the following sites for further information regarding supplementary health plans:
- Undergraduate students
Full-Time Undergraduate Students (St. George and UTM)
U of T Students' Union (UTSU)
12 Hart House Circle
416-978-4911, ext. 227
Email: email@example.com
Full-Time Undergraduate Students (UTSC)
Scarborough Campus Students' Union (SCSU)
1265 Military Trail, Room SL-108
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Part-Time Undergraduate Students (St. George, UTM and UTSC)
Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS)
100 St. George Street
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 1089
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Graduate students
All University of Toronto Graduate Students
Graduate Students' Union (GSU)
16 Bancroft Street
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Teaching Assistants (TAs)
Teaching Assistants have additional coverage through CUPE 3902. For more information, please contact the union directly:
Downtown Office:
180 Bloor St West, Suite 803
UTM Office:
Room 2111, South Building
UTSC Office:
Room 335, Bladen Building
- Graduate Assistants (GAs) at OISE
Graduate Assistants at OISE have additional coverage through CUPE 3907. For more information, please contact the union directly:
252 Bloor Street West, Room 8-104
Note: Fees for these benefits are automatically deducted from your employment income.
Travel insurance
If you are travelling outside of Canada, you will need to purchase private travel insurance to maintain your coverage. UHIP provides minimal out-of-country coverage which is not sufficient to cover medical expenses when travelling outside of Canada.
Additionally, UHIP will only provide coverage for emergency services in another Canadian province up to the same level of coverage as provided in Ontario.
Travel insurance options
Please note that while the Centre for International Experience and the University of Toronto encourage you to get additional coverage when travelling outside of Canada, we leave it solely up to you to decide what is sufficient coverage. Listed below are a few companies that are popular with students. This list is given for your convenience only and is not intended as a recommendation of any company or service. Please review policies carefully.
Ingle International Travel Insurance
Travel Cuts — 187 College St. location, 416-979-2406
American Express — 100 Front St. West #133, 416-363-3883
The above travel insurance plans can be purchased in addition to UHIP coverage.
Full-time graduate students
All full-time graduate students enrolled in their GSU student supplementary plan have 60 days of travel insurance with the option to purchase more coverage. For more information on these benefits please refer to the section on supplementary plans.
Accessing health care
How to use your health insurance
All eligible Canadian residents and registered international students must present valid proof of health care coverage before receiving medical services. When you visit a medical service provider you will have to present your UHIP card. If you are visiting a preferred provider (i.e., a provider that accepts UHIP), they will record your information and bill Sun Life, the insurance provider, directly towards medical consultation fees.
Making a claim
Important note: Some health care providers may charge the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) rate – a significantly higher rate than UHIP or OHIP. You will be reimbursed the UHIP rate only. It is important to speak with the health care provider beforehand about medical rates.
Health care at U of T
The University of Toronto health clinics provide registered students with health care services similar to those offered by a family doctor, including counselling and psychiatric services.
- St. George Campus
U of T Health & Wellness
214 College Street, 2nd Floor
Koffler Student Services Centre
Phone: 416-978-8030
Note: U of T students with dependents enrolled with UHIP can access healthcare in the local community. To find a local clinic or doctor, please visit the UHIP website.
- University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Health and Counselling Centre
Room 1123, South building
3359 Mississauga Road North
Phone: 905-828-5255
- University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)
Health and Wellness Centre
Room SL-270 1265 Military Trail
Telephone: 416-287-7065
Email: email@example.com
Additional health services at U of T
All registered students at the University of Toronto have access to the following services and centres. Note that UHIP or OHIP coverage is required for the sports medicine clinics.
- David L. MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic
David L. MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic
U of T Athletic Centre
55 Harbord St. (southeast corner of Spadina Rd. and Harbord St.)
Phone: 416-978-4678
- The Sports Clinic
The Sports Clinic
Recreation, Athletics and Wellness Centre (UTM)
3359 Mississauga Road North
Phone: 905-820-9292
- U of T Sexual Education & Peer Counselling Centre
U of T Sexual Education & Peer Counselling Centre
Room 101-102
91 St. George Street
Counselling Line: 416-978-8732
Administrative Line: 416-978-3100
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Preferred health care network
A preferred health care provider (a provider that accepts UHIP) will bill Sun Life directly for any health or medical expenses. This means you will not have to pay upfront for services covered under UHIP. On the other hand, health care providers who do not accept UHIP may charge you upfront for hospital or medical services. To guarantee coverage it is important to visit a preferred provider.
To find a preferred health care provider, visit the International Health Care Network. This online search tool is designed to find a preferred network provider closest to you. You may easily register using your email address and UHIP policy number (050150).
For your convenience, below is a list of preferred hospitals near the University of Toronto campus. Please refer to the UHIP website for a complete list of preferred hospitals in Ontario.
- University Health Network
Toronto General Hospital
200 Elizabeth St.
Toronto, ON
Toronto Western Hospital
399 Bathurst St.
Toronto, ON
Princess Margaret Hospital
610 University Ave.
Toronto, ON
- Rouge Valley Health System
Centenary Site
2867 Ellesmere Rd.
Toronto, ON
- The Scarborough Hospital
General Division
3050 Lawrence Avenue East
Scarborough, ON
Grace Division
3030 Birchmount Avenue
Scarborough, ON
- Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids)
Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids)
555 University Avenue
Toronto, ON
- Mount Sinai Hospital
600 University Avenue
Toronto, ON
- St. Michael's Hospital
30 Bond Street
Toronto, ON
Health care for children
All UHIP members, including children, are eligible to seek health care services at any walk-in clinic and/or hospital in Ontario. If you want to have a pediatrician provide health care services for your child, please refer to the following list of locations:
- Non-emergency services
Bay College Medical & Lockwood Diagnostic
790 Bay St., Suite 108
This clinic accepts UHIP.
MedVisit: Doctor's Housecall Service
Doctors are available for house calls 7 days a week, from 8:00 am until midnight.
Patients who are not covered by OHIP are required to pay cash.
UHIP members must submit a claim form (see below) to be reimbursed for the cost of the visit. Please note that there is a $12.50 non-refundable administrative charge for each visit.
- Emergency or urgent services
Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids)
24-hour Emergency Department. Usually accepts UHIP.
As with all hospitals in Toronto, patients who come into the emergency department are triaged upon arrival (i.e., prioritized in order of urgency). This means that your child will be seen based on the immediacy of his or her needs and not in order of arrival. This is true no matter how you arrive at the hospital – even if you come by ambulance, you will still be triaged upon arrival in the Emergency Department. The more seriously ill or hurt your child is, the faster he or she will be treated. If it is a busy time and your child's need is not urgent, you and your child may have to wait hours to see a doctor in the emergency department.
Children's After Hours Clinic
235 Danforth Avenue, Suite 100 (between the Broadview and Chester subway stations)
Monday to Friday: 6 – 9 p.m.
Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Appointments are not required.
This clinic is for urgently sick children. If your child is too sick to wait until a regular walk-in clinic or family doctor's office is open, but is not sick enough to be seen quickly in an emergency department, this may be a good option for you.
The clinic does not accept UHIP. UHIP members should pay the fees at the clinic and then submit a claim form (see below) for reimbursement.
For your convenience, some of the most commonly used UHIP forms are listed below. If you are unsure which form is appropriate for you, please contact the UHIP Office.
- UHIP Claim Form
In the event that you are billed for medical expenses covered under UHIP, you must submit a claim form directly to Sun Life. Please refer to the Accessing Health Care Services page for more information.
- Pre-Approved Health Care Plan Form
If you are a member of a Pre-Approved Health Care Plan, you are eligible for UHIP exemption. You must submit your completed form to the UHIP office.
- Pre-Approved Health Care Plan Form (OHIP)
If you are a member of the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), you are eligible for UHIP exemption.
If you are a returning Canadian, you are eligible for UHIP coverage during the OHIP waiting period. Completed forms must be submitted to the UHIP office.
- UHIP Exemption Form
If you are covered by a health plan not listed under UHIP's Pre-Approved Health Care Plans, you may apply for an exemption directly to Sun Life.
- Off-Campus Status Refund Form (PEY, Co-Op, SEP)
If you will be off campus through participation in a PEY, Co-Op placement or Student Exchange Program (SEP), you may be eligible for an off-campus status refund. You must submit your completed form to the UHIP office.
- Off-Campus Status Exemption Form (SGS)
If you are student enrolled in the School of Graduates Studies (SGS), you may be eligible for an off-campus status exemption. You must submit your completed form to the UHIP office.
UHIP Exemption
UHIP is mandatory for all international students. You are required to be enrolled in UHIP unless you are provided an exemption.
Pre-approved health care plans:
You are eligible for an exemption if you receive coverage from one of the following Pre-Approved Health Care Plans:
- Canadian International Development Agency Health Care Plan
- Canadian Bureau for International Education Health Care Plan
- Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan
- International Council for Canadian Studies Plan
- National Insurance Office for Social Insurance Abroad (Norway)
- World University Service of Canada Plan
- Embassy of Kuwait
- Interim Federal Health Care Plan
- Health Economic Administration, HELFO Abroad
- Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau - GWL
- Libyan Plan
- Schlumberger Plan
- Fletcher Allen
- Guard.me Canada csf plan for the Canadian Bureau for International Education (This plan is approved for exemption to UHIP effective July 1, 2013 for the 2013-2014 academic year only)
To receive an exemption, you must visit the UHIP office with the appropriate Pre-Approved Health Care Plan Form and proof of your health coverage. The refund for your UHIP premium will be adjusted on your ROSI account. All pre-approved exemption requests must be initiated as soon as possible. Applications will not be accepted after the refund deadline. Please see the UHIP Refund section below for more information.
Non pre-approved plans:
All international students are required to join UHIP, unless covered by a pre-approved plan. If you receive coverage from a health plan that is not listed above, you may apply for an exemption directly to Sun Life. However, please be aware that it is extremely difficult to obtain an exemption from UHIP. All non-pre-approved exemption requests must be initiated no more than 30 days after you are enrolled in UHIP.
To apply for exemption, you will need to fill out and submit a UHIP Exemption Form. This form, along with all required documents, must be sent directly to Sun Life:
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada
PO Box 4097, Station A
Toronto, Ontario M5W 2Z5
Telephone: 1- 877-250-UHIP (8447)
Email: email@example.com
Please see the UHIP website for more information.
UHIP refund
Eligibility for a partial UHIP refund
You may be eligible for a partial refund of your UHIP premium if you meet the following conditions:
- you become eligible for OHIP * or
- you receive a UHIP exemption or
- you withdraw from your undergraduate / graduate program or
- you complete your academic program or
- you have dependents who have left Canada.
If you are eligible for a refund, you must apply for it as early as possible. Timing is very important and will affect the amount of refund you receive (see UHIP Refund Deadline below).
* Note: If you obtain OHIP coverage after the refund application deadline, you may still apply for a partial UHIP refund. Please note however, that your refund amount will be pro-rated to the date that your refund application is submitted to the UHIP office.
UHIP refund deadline
Refund applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until February 28. Refund applications will not be accepted from March 1 to August 31.
If you are eligible for a refund, you must apply for it as early as possible. You are financially responsible for every month in which you have active UHIP coverage. Refunds will not be made retroactively.
For example:
- if you submit your refund application in October, you will be charged $114.00 for two months of UHIP coverage.
- if you submit your refund application in February, you will be charged $342.00 for six months of UHIP coverage.
Please note: if you apply on the 1st of the month, you will still be charged the full monthly premium.
To apply for a refund, you must visit the UHIP office with your relevant documentation. Your application for a refund must be made by the deadline in order to be considered for any refund of your UHIP premium.
International students who have recently changed their legal status in Canada from "international student" to "permanent resident" must ensure that their legal status with the University of Toronto is updated. If your international student status is not updated, a UHIP coverage charge will be added to your account each academic year.
For more information, visit the UHIP site. You may also contact the UHIP office with any questions.


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Multiplexes weigh in on showing "Bully"
Will the unrated documentary "Bully" be coming to a theater near you?
It depends on which multiplex you live near.
Earlier in the week, the Weinstein Company announced that it would release the company distributing Lee Hirsch's documentary, featuring five families affected by bullying, without a rating instead of the R upheld in the appeal process by the Motion Picture Association of America.
Thursday morning, Cinemark Theatres issued a statement saying "Cinemark has a long history of not playing unrated films and we do not think it is appropriate to undermine the system by arbitrarily applying our own rating to this movie."


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Alum Career Network - CANE
What is CANE?
CANE is a network of CSB/SJU alums willing to share information with current students and alums about a variety of topics including major, career options, graduate school, and volunteer experiences. These alums may also be able to share information about internship/job opportunities at various companies/organizations. Set up an information interview or job shadow to learn more!
How can I access CANE?
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The former Heat center vehemently denies the conversation John Salley relayed in last week's introductory "John Salley Story Corner." Great start!
If you missed it, Salley basically said Seikaly couldn't understand why any player would want to go deep into the playoffs because you only get paid through April. Seikaly told the Miami New Times this:
I love John and his sense of humor but if anyone knows John Salley they know he is full of shit 90 percent of the time. I consider John Salley a friend, good at self promotion and a great storyteller."
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Best Madonna accent: Tom Ford
I spoke to him at the Spirit Awards on Friday night. Of course I was secretly hoping for a rejection. Instead, he couldn't have been lovelier. Like, really, really lovely. Very enthusiastic, great energy, gracious, and articulate. And the same affectation as Madonna. They are American. And they speak with this... accent. Like British but not really. And his excuse, if you can call it that, is that he's "lived in Europe for so long" which is probably Madonna's excuse, and it can be argued that it's a valid one too, only we don't let her get away with anything.
Consider it the other way around. Happens all the time. A British person moves to America, over time the British accent starts to fade. We never find anything wrong with that. Why is it so detestable the other way around?
As for Tom Ford at the Oscars, well, he was impeccable, naturally, and totally enamoured with SJP on the carpet. They passed the 2nd photo wall together and ended up chatting right in front of us for a while, leaving that wet blanket she married to linger behind them. Where he belongs.
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Thanksgiving didn't begin as a holiday to celebrate mindless overeating and endless football.
When the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians sat down together for the first Thanksgiving all those turkeys ago, they were following their healthiest instincts -- sharing a meal as a way to develop harmony and trust.
Are you hungry for a healthier, happier, more meaningful day? Do you want to carve out some new rituals so that at the end of the meal, you're feeling blessed and grateful instead of overstuffed and undernourished? Good! I have some ideas to share:
Sense your stressors: Listen to your body, especially your gut, seat of great wisdom. If thinking about Turkey Day makes you feel tense and weary, your body is speaking the truth: Something is wrong. Sit calmly and meditate upon where your stress is coming from. Painful memories? Future fears? Stay in the moment; and when you open your eyes, give yourself permission to be bold, take action and make a few changes.
Go over the guest list: If you can eliminate toxic people from the table, do it. If you're stuck with Uncle Bob insisting on more troops in Afghanistan, see Thanksgiving as an opportunity to practice acceptance, kindness and compassion. If necessary, use pumpkin-colored place cards to keep your least favorite folks far, far away.
Take time for recreation and reflection: No matter how busy you are this Thanksgiving Day, I want you to squeeze in 30-60 minutes just for yourself ... to take a walk or ride your bike, and then retreat to a quiet corner where you can still your mind, listen to your breath and focus inward.
Exercising your body and calming your mind are a one-two holiday punch that will transform your Thanksgiving into that special day you're hoping for. You'll burn calories but even better, you'll find your center, and from that place of strength and balance, you can meet all the challenges of the day with a clear mind and an energized body.
Be a conscious cook: No one is forcing you to cook a traditional Thanksgiving Day meal with heart-stopping amounts of butter, sugar and saturated fats. Make 2012 the year you open up to lighter, healthier recipes that depend on broths, purees, herbs, fresh vegetables, fruits, whole grains and nuts. Think like a Wampanoag.
Here's what I know: if you cook with love and choose tasty, fresh ingredients, your family and friends will not be disappointed. If you sense rebellion, keep a chocolate chip pecan pie at the ready.
Be a conscious eater: The average American consumes 3,000 calories and 229 grams of fat at their Thanksgiving meal. You're not average. You're you. You're smart. Decide on a self-reminder -- tugging your ear, pinching your cheek -- to keep you focused on modest portions of all your favorites. Chew slowly. Before you take seconds, ask yourself this: am I hungry? Touch your belly. Is it full? Touch your heart. Is it full?
Lower your expectations: Repeat after me: I am not Martha Stewart. You don't need handmade candle-and-cranberry centerpieces and four different flavors of homemade pie to make your Thanksgiving special. Lighten your load by asking family and friends to bring side dishes, dessert or even table decorations.
Hosting Thanksgiving Dinner isn't a competitive sport. Keep your menu simple and your smile serene. Accept the day as it unfolds. When you hear a glass break or a guest snarl, breathe deeply and bring your awareness back to what really matters.
Create a ritual: To shift the mood in the room, welcome your crowd with a clink of your glass. Then ask your guests to turn off their cell phones.
Before you eat, dim the lights, light a candle and pass it around so everyone at your table can say who or what they're thankful for. Allow someone to pass without speaking, but keep the candle moving and the spirit rising.
Does this sound too corny? Get over it. This is what a transformed Thanksgiving feels like.
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For more than a century, Saskatoon was minding its own business in the middle of nowhere, a blue-collar Canadian town whose residents prided themselves on their hardiness and sense of shared identity. And then the money started pouring in.
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FROM THE AIR, Saskatoon looks like a postage stamp, a tiny patch of color on a vast brown envelope. The largest city in Saskatchewan, a province in Western Canada that covers some 250,000 square miles of prairie, Saskatoon has long represented the kind of nice-enough backwater settlement where the locals smile at you for no reason and the kids leave home at the earliest opportunity.
From the ground, too, Saskatoon seems a perfectly run-of-the-mill North American enclave. A river flows languidly through the city center. A couple of old-school movie theaters keep the locals entertained. There's a casual bar called Flint that everybody seems to hit sooner or later. And if you need a new suit, you buy one from Atch & Co., owned by Saskatoon's mayor, Don Atchison.
That's how Saskatoon has been for as long as anyone can remember. But walk its streets today, and you catch glimpses of something new emerging. On Broadway, across from the beer-and-shot joint Bud's, you'll find Weczeria, a swanky French eatery where the wine list has featured a "Bordeaux-inspired" red at $175 a pop. Nearby is The James Hotel, a boutique establishment whose "luxurious and progressive" lounge is invariably jammed with patrons who appear to have been plucked out of Brooklyn.
The James opened in late 2011, roughly five years after the onset of what has been dubbed the "Saskaboom"—a period of double-digit growth that has left this blue-collar city with the feel, if not quite the look, of a miniature, chillier Dubai. Saskatoon is now the fastest-growing city in Canada, the type of place where Asian business execs snap up farmland and the local art center has Picassos on the walls. "High-net-worth people keep coming through here, looking for things to invest in," says Grant Kook, president and CEO of the Golden Opportunities Fund, a local venture capital firm. It's a comment that a decade ago might have been taken for sarcasm.
The reason for Saskatoon's rapid rise in fortune can be summed up in two words: buried treasure. Saskatchewan has been pumping oil from the ground for more than five decades, but over the past five years production has spiked, thanks to new drilling technologies. Today, the province sells more oil to the U.S. than Kuwait does. Furthermore, it's the world's No. 1 producer of potash—a key fertilizer component that's in ever-increasing demand in China and India—and No. 2 in uranium. As the commercial hub of the province, Saskatoon has benefited mightily from the increased exploitation of these resources, as evidenced by the glistening Porsche dealership that opened here last year.
It's heady stuff in a city where traditionally the bigwigs were the ones toting hockey sticks and everyone else cheered them on. But there's also a sense of bemusement—something reminiscent of the vaguely alarmed look in the eyes of a lottery winner beaming from behind a giant check. Sudden wealth has a way of shaking up a person's values and sense of self; the same could hold true for a city. "Having to call ahead for a reservation," says Saskatoon-born real estate developer Curtis Olson, trying to put his finger on the post-boom changes, "is not the sort of thing that a lot of people here are used to doing."
One night during dinner service at the tapas spot Duck Duck Goose, a middle-aged woman from the working-class suburb of Martensville can be heard bemoaning the downside of the upswing. "A few years ago, housing [prices] doubled," she says. "I remember when you used to be able to buy houses here with credit cards." The woman's daughter, a corkscrew-haired blonde in her early 20s, chimes in with a recollection of a recent night out at a new restaurant called The Hollows: "It was filled with hipsters, and I figured that we weren't welcome there."
Olson, who wears designer jeans, snazzy boots and well-tailored sports jackets, is familiar with such sentiments. "I like the change, but there are some people who don't," he says. "For them, there's a feeling that the city is not theirs anymore. They're seeing new faces, and the deck is being shuffled. There is some turbulence."
WHILE PEOPLE HAVE INHABITED the Saskatoon area for more than 8,000 years, the modern city didn't take shape until the 1880s. It was founded by a group of moral refugees—Methodists looking to escape booze-sodden Toronto. By the early 1900s, though, this temperance colony had transformed into "Hub City," a focal point of agricultural trade and rowdy drinking sessions. This marked the first of Saskatoon's many boom periods, which have invariably been followed by busts (there was a big one in the late 1990s, when oil prices went into free fall).
Through the ups and downs, Saskatoon's identity stayed more or less the same. Reliance on agriculture diminished and the population grew, but the city remained a place that favored those who were able to make do with little, who squirreled away their nickels—a fact that is a source of pride as much as it is an economic reality. "There weren't a lot of million-dollar houses five years ago," says Paul Leier, co-owner of Cavalier Enterprises, the parent company of The James Hotel, "and there wasn't a Porsche dealership either." What Leier doesn't say is that these improvements have brought with them a kind of economic relativity, one that sheds a harsh light on the gulf between the city's haves and have-nots.
Dan Canfield, proprietor of the music shop Village Guitar & Amp, caters to well-heeled customers who enjoy making like Jimmy Page on the weekends. But things were very different when he first arrived from Toronto, back in 2004. "I would be driving around this depressed Saskatoon and wonder what the heck I was doing here," he says. "A year later, I saw it getting busier. I sensed something happening. A year after that, you could smell the money in the air. I felt as though anybody with half a brain could come here and do something entrepreneurial."
While Canfield certainly doesn't mean his comment to be snide, it still points to a shift in attitudes here. After all, if anybody with half a brain can succeed in Saskatoon, people who fail to do so—those who, say, are being squeezed by rising real estate prices rather than enriched by them—must be deficient in some way. According to the Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership, the city has one of the worst income gaps of any Canadian urban center.
Reminders of Saskatoon's spiraling affluence are everywhere you turn. One elementary school pickup point often looks like a luxury car dealership. A cluster of chic condos is going up downtown. There's a surging technological park, Innovation Place, filled with enterprises financed by locally sourced venture capital. In the Riversdale district, Curtis Olson has developed The Two Twenty, a "co-working facility" whose tenants (an architect, a software writer, a publisher, a guy who remixes music) pick up bottles of aged balsamic vinegar and artisanal jewelry at Lifestyles by Darrell Bell.
Conventional wisdom states that this kind of transformation is a good thing, a mark of true and lasting progress. After all, Riversdale, home to Olson's hip commercial building, used to be so sketchy that cabbies would refuse to go there. "Drivers figured they would have problems here," says a bearded barista in the coffee shop below the offices. "That's changed."
AS SASKATOON'S SKYLINE rises, so too does a sense of optimism. "We are such a young city, we're going to go up," says Christie Peters, a chef and co-owner of The Hollows (and former Vancouverite). "I still feel like we're at the beginning of something. This is the best time." Sitting in her restaurant, Peters says this as waiters scurry past bearing trays of oxtail ravioli and steelhead trout, bound for a long table loaded with businessmen enjoying a wine-fueled blowout on the company card.
A few days later, 800 Saskatoon socialites congregate at the city's art complex, the Mendel Art Gallery, for an annual fundraiser. They're being served samplers from The Hollows and wild-boar canapés from Weczeria. The affable owners of local distillery Lucky Bastard mix gin and tonics. Abstract images flicker on one of the walls as a Sonic Youth–style indie rock band rips it up onstage. The manager of Duck Duck Goose, a young, slender guy named Aman Saleh, watches from the edge of the dance floor. "Isn't this great?" he asks.
It is great, undeniably, but there's also an undercurrent of tension here. The Mendel, it turns out, has been at the center of a bitter dispute, one rooted in Saskatoon's burst of good fortune.
A few years ago the Mendel board of trustees announced plans to expand and, in conjunction with the city council, decided to relocate the Mendel to ritzy River Landing, a $93 million project that would also include changing the name of the 49-year-old institution to the Art Gallery of Saskatchewan. Camille Mitchell, a granddaughter of gallery founder Fred Mendel, was furious. "By basically stealing the paintings of the Mendel Gallery and stripping the Mendel name," she told a local newspaper, "[the board] has a great way to get more money in their pockets."
Adding insult to Mitchell's injury, in 2011 the city council voted to change the name again—to the Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan—as a gesture of gratitude to the Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation. A philanthropic venture bankrolled by property development dollars, the Remai Foundation is underwriting a large part of the Mendel's move; it's also given the gallery 405 Picasso linocuts valued at $20 million.
In helping lead a movement to save the existing gallery, Mitchell is doubtless on something of a quest to preserve her family honor, but her criticism of the project can be seen as part of a wider conflict, too. For all its recent gains, Saskatoon has also lost something—its identity, perhaps, maybe even its way—or at least this is the view of a small and hitherto silent minority. It took the Mendel controversy to bring things to a head, but the traditionalists finally squared off with the progressives, and the response of the majority of Saskatoon's residents was resounding. They shrugged, sipped their designer coffee and got on with the business of doing all right for themselves.
As for whether Saskatoon has changed irrevocably, nobody knows. Eric Howe, an economist at the University of Saskatchewan, believes the city may rediscover itself sooner than anyone imagines—specifically, at any time between now and 2019. Howe is a believer in a kind of economic determinism: As surely as night follows day, the thinking goes, boom times will be followed by busts. "They always are," Howe says. "They always are."
MICHAEL KAPLAN is a writer in New York City. While in Saskatoon, he lingered in Village Guitar & Amp longer than was absolutely necessary.
That was a great article! Saskatoon is a fantastic city, and as someone who came to Saskatchewan to live, it is so nice to hear visitor's experiences that do not conform with the stereotypical view of the prairies as being lacking in culture and a boring province. However, Regina is a city that has also had some very drastic changes, and as capitol of the province, I would love to hear your view! Consider for your next trip?
As a Saskatoon lifer who has experienced living in small and large centers throughout North America, I'm incredibly offended by your condescending attitude towards Saskatoon, its people and its history. You seem to have limited your exploration of this city to interviewing 3 or 4 people who think of themselves as quite sophisticated in comparison to the rest of us "blue collars". The city has been steadily growing in fits and starts just like ALL North American cities since the early 1900's and will likely continue to do so, regardless of the fickle economic trends of the mining industry. As a professional I resent the implication that "sophisticated" people, businesses and lifestyles are new to Saskatoon ( "a few old-school movie theatres'?!) and think it offensive that you also poo-poo the agriculture industry. Without it, you don't eat and communities would never have formed. In future, consider your audience before "dissing" us.
Good Day Michael,
I've lived in Saskatoon since 1997 and I just want to say you captured the situation in Saskatoon quite well. It has been a a roller coaster ride of growing pains and triumphs. We face new challenges never seen before with an economic boom that has lifted so many young, entrepreneurial spirits, but also gentrified long term residents who have been left behind and left out. Thank you very much for the time and effort it took to create this wonderful article. Keep up the good work!
P.S. Where are you living now? Considering a move perhaps!
The author has accurately captured much of what is going on in Saskatoon though the emphasis was on the glitter. The huge income gap was alluded to but not explored. He suggests those not benefiting from the boom are 'deficient.' I understand when the James Hotel was developed out of a former apartment block, a number of people, including seniors on fixed-incomes, lost affordable housing. Are they 'deficient'?
Also, the debate about the new art gallery is more complex than a battle between 'conservationists' and 'progressives.' There are many issues around the Remai Art Gallery that go beyond whether people support a new art gallery or not.
That said, an interesting article.
Interesting article, but there is a reason that resource booms in Saskatchewan are followed by busts. A reason which has nothing to do with "economic determinism." Resource industries are extremely labour intensive in their investment phase and extremely capital intensive in their operations phase. The current boom is being caused by resource investment, but it will be followed by operation. At that time, resource employment can be expected to numerically fall. That will cause the bust.
I am sincerely grateful, Michael, for your brilliant article!
I grew up near Saskatoon, went to Vancouver Island for a couple of years and then a few years in the Alberta oilfields before I moved back to Saskatoon. I travel a lot but have never seen anything quite like the Saskatoon that your article described so well. These days I tell people (and I believe that it's true!) that Saskatoon is the new Calgary, with the difference that this once sleepy little town won't have the advantage of growing as slowly as Calgary did!
Hi there,
It is refreshing hearing the challenges of Saskatoon instead of the west vs. the east or lumped into a provincial issue. I live here, in Saskatoon, and am an entrepreneur as well. As I visit my clients I hear stories about a more relaxed but yet respectively hard working people. The chagallenges today are definately caused by these " gaps" in economy, finance, age and technology.
For example, in Saskatoon, the older population worked to save retirement funds but it doesn't cover as much now as it did then. And the people today are working longer and harder but are not all able to save retirement funds and spend more to get ahead. And with the poverty and financial gaps, there is very little middle ground growth creating a struggle for both ends of the people in Saskatoon.
Thank you for your talent in presenting the true struggles of Saskatoon even better than the writers and jouralists here have done! I hope you enjoy future success for and with other cities.
Michael, this was fascinating. Born and raised in Stoon, I left after graduation from U of S for one simple reason: lack of opportunity in the world of theatre. Would love to know if and how that has changed…?
Also you didn't mention the extraordinary University, a huge part of the city. I know, I know, you can't discuss everything, but it's important. Kudos to Camille for her battle–my Mother was a local artist with paintings in the Mendel, the only proper name for the Gallery, and my Dad spent years in its Camera Club. Thank you for the update! I don't get "home" much any more….VJ


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If you listen carefully, you can almost hear the whistle blowing. Union Pacific, the nation's largest railroad, is getting ready to barrel down the tracks.
With oil prices up, trucks are proving increasingly weak competition. With demand for commodities booming, there's plenty for Union Pacific to haul across its 33,000 miles of track. And the company has been cutting costs and preparing to raise prices.
As the economy picks up, there may be no stopping this train. Earnings per share are likely to come in at about $6.50 this year, up from $5.43 in 2010, says Lisa Dong, a portfolio manager and analyst at the Westwood Holdings Group in Dallas, which added to its position in Union Pacific in the third quarter. Dong sees the stock (ticker: UNP) at $117 by year end, up more than 25%. Within three years, she says, the shares could approach $140.
The company already is delivering the goods. It posted double-digit revenue gains throughout its freight operations in the third quarter, including a 36% jump in the automotive segment. Union Pacific is now closing the books on what CEO James Young tells Barron's will be "one of the greatest years in our company's history."
BASED IN OMAHA, Union Pacific dates back to 1862, when it and the Central Pacific were charged by President Abraham Lincoln with constructing the nation's first transcontinental railroad. These days, the company has a market value of about $46 billion and runs some 1,000 trains across its tracks every day, guided by increasingly high-tech logistics systems. The trains are getting longer, too—sometimes as long as two miles.
Union Pacific carries everything from coal and fertilizer to clothing and cars. All told, it has "the most compelling commodity mix and the best pricing opportunity on its book of business," says Jon A. Langenfeld, an analyst at investment firm Robert W. Baird.
In an industry that now can raise prices well in excess of inflation, Union Pacific has an added advantage: Over the next few years it is due to renegotiate long-term contracts amounting to 12% of its 2010 revenue.
The company is increasingly efficient, too. Union Pacific took advantage of the economic meltdown to sharply reduce costs and to "prove that costs are more variable than people thought," says Dong of Westwood Holdings. The company cut about 11,000 workers, or 21% of its staff, helping trim operating expenses to a record-low 68.2% of sales in the third quarter, down from 76% in all of 2009. Executives have set a target of 65% to 67% by 2015.
Moves like that have made Union Pacific a formidable competitor in the consolidating group of publicly traded railroads. (Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway (BRK/A) bought Burlington-Northern Santa Fe for $26.4 billion in February 2010). Union Pacific has a projected long-term earnings growth rate of 15%, second among U.S. railroads only to Kansas City Southern (KSU).
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Union Pacific is reaping the benefits of rising oil prices, the boom in commodities and a long cost-cutting drive. The stock could climb 50% in three years.
The next sign of the company's performance will come on Jan. 20, when it reports fourth-quarter earnings. Though the company did well in 2009's last three months, earnings per share are still seen rising 35%, to $1.46.
Some say that the terrific performance is already reflected in Union Pacific stock, up 42% in the past 12 months. But the shares still trade at just 14.4 times year-ahead earnings, not bad at all, given the railroad's projected earnings growth and well off the five-year-average price/earnings ratio of 17.7. It looks as if there's still room for the shares to run.
YOUNG IS CAUTIOUS about the economic outlook, but he does see business trends moving in the right direction. He detects much more bullishness among customers than he did a year ago, and he has even begun to selectively hire.
He sees the greatest opportunity in "intermodal" transportation, or moving goods between shipping ports and inland destinations. It is here that Union Pacific and other railroads are grabbing market share from trucks, long the leaders in domestic freight. Union Pacific's own intermodal business jumped 34% in the third quarter. With oil breaching $90 a barrel, that trend shows no signs of slowing.
"We've got good momentum, and we're investing for growth," says Young, who this year is plowing some $3.2 billion into new tracks and other projects. Meanwhile, he expects to continue boosting the dividend—it now yields 1.6%—and share buybacks.
Investors, all aboard.
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Union Pacific has become much more efficient. Combined with rising demand for its services, that's led to strong earnings growth.
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Streetballer Troy Jackson, brother of Mark Jackson, dies at 35
Troy "Escalade" Jackson, who played basketball at Louisville from 1996-98 but is better known as a streetball player with the AND1 Mixtape Tour, died in his sleep early Sunday morning while in Los Angeles for All-Star Weekend. He was the younger brother of former NBA player and ESPN analyst Mark Jackson.
The cause of death of the 6-foot-10, 400-pound Jackson is not yet known. He was 35.
"He traveled all around the world and touched so many lives," Mark Jackson told The New York Post. "He will be greatly missed. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. God is still good."
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Royal Canin Veterinary Diet canine Calorie Control CC HIGH FIBER
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Feeding guideline:
A 50lb dog should be fed 709kcal or 3 cups for weight loss. For fibre-responsive diseases, 1,289kcal or 5 1/2 cups
Calorie Content
Contains 2876 kilocalories/kilogram or 232 kilocalories per cup ME (metabolizable energy) on an as fed basis (calculated).
Chicken meal, corn, cellulose fiber, wheat, wheat gluten, pea fiber, corn gluten, rice hulls, natural flavors, chicken fat, beet pulp, salmon oil, potassium chloride, L-tyrosine, soybean oil, psyllium husk, calcium carbonate, sodium tripolyphosphate, choline chloride, salt, vitamins [DL-alpha tocopherol (source of vitamin E), L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), niacin, biotin, riboflavin (vitamin B2), D-calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin B12 supplement, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, folic acid], taurine, minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, sodium selenite, calcium iodate], L-lysine, L-carnitine, DL-methionine, marigold extract, green tea polyphenols, preserved with natural mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract and citric acid.
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein (min) 26%
Crude Fat (min) 7.5%
Crude Fiber (max) 17.1%
Moisture (max) 10%
Nutrition Statement
ROYAL CANIN Veterinary Diet canine CALORIE CONTROL CC 26 HIGH FIBER and ROYAL CANIN Veterinary Diet canine CALORIE CONTROL CC HIGH FIBER diets are intended for intermittent or supplemental feeding as part of a veterinary-supervised weight loss program.
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First ingredient is a named meat product
Insufficient meat content, low quality and controversial fillers
This product is a veterinary diet, indicated for weight loss or fibre-responsive diseases. In the former case, we would note that it is not necessary to feed low quality fillers to achieve weight loss and there are far better foods available for this purpose. In the latter case, our comments relate solely to our opinion of the ingredients used in this product and cannot replace medical advice relating to disease management. We do note that the product is not nutritionally adequate for, nor intended for anything other than short term use.
The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product, in meal form. It is the sole meat ingredient in the food. The remainder of the product is a series of low quality filler ingredients.
Corn is a low quality grain in dog food products, that is difficult to digest and commonly associated with food allergy problems. Corn Gluten Meal is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that bit of the corn leftover after most of the nutritious bits have been removed. Wheat suffers similar comments, being considered by many to be the number one cause of food allergy problems in dog food. In gluten form is a similarly stripped down grain fragment as corn gluten meal. Pea fiber and the hulls of rice are pure filler, as are the husks of psyllium seeds. The product contains a very high amount of nutritionless fillers.
Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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SEATTLE (AP) — The number of oil tankers in Washington state waters could increase almost sevenfold under a proposal by a Canadian pipeline company to expand the amount of crude oil it sends to the Pacific Coast.
Kinder Morgan Canada filed a formal application with Canadian regulators earlier this month to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline that carries crude oil from Alberta's oil sands to the Vancouver, B.C. area.
Under the proposal, up to 34 tankers a month would be loaded with oil at a terminal outside Vancouver, then generally travel through Haro Strait east of San Juan Island and the Strait of Juan de Fuca for export to markets in Asia and the U.S. That's up from about five tankers a month now.
The $5.4 billion expansion project would nearly triple pipeline capacity from about 300,000 to 890,000 barrels of crude oil a day to meet customer demand. Much of that future cargo will likely be diluted bitumen from Canada's oil sands.
Environmental groups in the U.S. and Canada oppose the project, saying it would put communities and natural resources at risk. They say more tanker traffic raises the potential for a major oil spill or leaks.
"Putting more vessels on the water creates tremendous new risks, and risks we're not really prepared to deal with adequately," said Bruce Wishart, a policy adviser with the Washington Environmental Council. "We don't want to see more of this product moving across our waters."
The company says it has been responsibly loading tankers and barges from the Westridge terminal for decades without incident.
Michael Davies, senior director of marine development for Kinder Morgan Canada, said in a statement the company has "clearly heard and understood the concerns raised about tanker traffic."
He added: "We have been safely loading vessels for more than 50 years and have recommended further enhancements to marine safety and spill response in our Application to ensure the local level of care and safety is well above global shipping standards."
If approved, the expansion is expected to be operational in late 2017. The pipeline is operated by Kinder Morgan Canada and owned by Houston-based Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP.
About 6,000 large commercial vessels transit Canadian and U.S. waters toward Vancouver or Washington ports each year.
Two other proposed projects also are expected to increase cargo vessel traffic in the Salish Sea region. They include the Gateway Pacific coal-export terminal proposed at Cherry Point, which could add up to 487 cargo ships a year, and the proposed expansion at Deltaport at Roberts Bank in Delta, B.C.
Meanwhile, officials in Washington state are trying to anticipate how those proposals could change vessel traffic in north Puget Sound and what that means for spill risks. The Puget Sound Partnership, the Makah Nation and others are working with researchers at George Washington University to study different risk scenarios.
"For more than two decades we've had a great track record of maritime safety and we want to continue that success," said Todd Hass with the Puget Sound Partnership. "In the face of a number projects that could add hundreds of vessels arriving in the system, we want to make sure we anticipate the changes that might occur and plan."
Some marine officials say increased vessels can be managed.
"Safeguards are in place. They may have to be tweaked. Some folks think it's a heavily congested waterway. There aren't many vessels out there," said John Veentjer, a former Coast Guard officer who heads the Puget Sound Harbor Safety Committee.
"If those projects were to be built, there would be more vessels. Can we manage those numbers? Sure," he said. "I think it's going to take some additional vessel traffic management effort, but it's not something out of our reach."
Fred Felleman, Northwest consultant for Friends of the Earth, said Canadian officials haven't done enough to ensure they can adequately respond to spills in waters it shares with the U.S.
"They haven't taken enough steps to prevent and respond to the size of a spill such traffic would generate," he said.
Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, manager of the Department of Ecology's spills preparedness section, said various efforts are underway to identify and align spill preparedness standards between the U.S. and Canada.
When the state updated its contingency plan last year, it required the industry to include response equipment to locate oil in the water column. That was in response to some emerging proposals, such as the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, she said.
"There's work to be done, but we're not completely unprepared," she said.


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Lady Cougars Roll Past Harris-Stowe
COLUMBIA - The 15th-ranked Lady Cougar basketball team defeated visiting Harris-Stowe State University 83-55 Wednesday in their final home game of the 2012-13 regular season.
With the win, Columbia improves to 23-6 overall and 16-1 in American Midwest Conference (AMC) play.
The Lady Cougars used their first half lead to their advantage as their shooting fell cold in the second half.
Despite shooting just 28 percent from the field, Columbia held the visiting Hornets to just seven field goals in the final 20 minutes of play and outrebounded Harris-Stowe 55-36 on their way to victory.
Heather English and Lily Abreu each chipped in a team high 15 points while Tierney Seifert also finished in double figures with 10 points.
Brooke Godsey grabbed a game high 10 rebounds in the win while Abreu and Seifert each dished out four assists.
Columbia will wrap up the regular season on Saturday afternoon at AMC rival and 22nd-ranked William Woods University.
The Lady Cougars won the first meeting between the two teams, 85-64, back on January 26th in Columbia. Tip-off is set for 2:00 p.m. in Fulton, Mo.


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Steve Watson
December 30, 2011
Last night MSNBC host Chris Matthews spent a large portion of his Hardball program attempting to destroy Ron Paul's presidential campaign.
In an embarrassing display of partisanship and outright bias, Matthews poked into every avenue he could in an attempt to paint Paul up as a delusional, paranoid, racist conspiracy theorist. Any non discerning viewers may well have gone away believing Paul was Satan himself when Matthews was finished.
After every sorry attempt to defame Paul, Matthews turned to his bewildered looking guests for reassurance that Paul was indeed a demon sent from the depths of hell to destroy humanity and plunge the planet into eternal darkness.
Watch the segment below:
After dredging up the already thoroughly debunked "racist" newsletters non-issue (Matthews loves injecting phony race talking points into his programming) Matthews switched tack to the latest media driven smear attempt against Paul, namely that he endorses deluded "conspiracy theories".
Quoting the neo-con insider James Kirchick, who wrote a vicious piece in the New York Times yesterday, Matthews went on to suggest that Ron Paul not only endorses 9/11 truth, but is a fully fledged truther himself.
Paul has never even addressed the issue of 9/11 truth, but what is more troubling is that fact that Matthews equates the absolute fact that the US government had intelligence ahead of time of the 9/11 plot – an issue Paul is clearly aware of – with the idea that "George Bush was pushing some sort of button that blew up the World Trade Center."
Matthews chastised Paul for "not repudiating" theories about 9/11 when given a chance. In reality, Paul said that he is far too focused on other issues to attempt to answer questions about 9/11 truth.
Matthews then went on the attack again, stating "Ron Paul is also a repeated guest on the radio show of Alex Jones" before playing a clip of the Congressman speaking to Jones recently about the alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
Matthews highlighted the fact that Paul suggested that the incident could have been a "propaganda stunt" perpetrated by the Obama administration, yet failed to explain that this this assertion was first made by retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, whose source for making the claim was an FBI insider.
Indeed, far from being an out-there conspiracy theory, the New York Times itself entertained the notion that the incident was potentially a propaganda stunt, reporting how the dubious nature of the plot caused "a wave of puzzlement and skepticism from some foreign leaders and outside experts."
Anyone who spends more than five minutes looking into these ridiculous assertions made by Matthews and others against Ron Paul, will quickly discover that the Congressman is not the deluded paranoid, and the reality is quite the opposite. Matthews and his ilk operate in a world of lies and spin, and their output has one aim only – to forward their own deluded agenda.
Matthews routinely urges his viewers to believe that anyone who is skeptical of, or expresses disdain toward, anything the government does is psychologically insane.
He has admitted himself that he analyzes politics "from a Marxist perspective" and that his idol is Communist ideologue Saul Alinsky. In other words, he is an extreme left wing radical and routinely goes after anyone who does not share his outright Communist views.
Ron Paul, on the other hand, is concerned with keeping the federal government in check, protecting liberty, upholding the Constitution, ending unauthorized wars and the occupation of foreign nations, healing the economy and restoring sound money. Which of these agendas sounds deluded to you?
Related: Establishment Media Crucifies Ron Paul On Every Front
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I actually watched this live. Ohh how I wish someone would... punch him in his sell out mouth. How can these bastards sleep at night? I could never do what he was doing on his show and live with myself.


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How do I construct a Dispatch table?
Say you have a graph (network) consisting of
n vertices in a loop:
In[1] := rules =
With[{n = 1000},
Table[ToString@i -> ToString@Mod[i + 1, n],
{i, 0, n - 1}]];
You want to traverse the graph by applying these rewrite rules to an initial vertex. You can perform a single step with
i /. rules but this is doing a linear search over
rules trying to find the
Rule with a lhs that matches the expression
i. So applying the rules many times is slow:
In[2] := Nest[# /. rules &, 0, 10000] // AbsoluteTiming
Out[2] = {1.7880482, 0}
Dispatch allows us to precompute a hash table that turns the linear lookup into a constant-time lookup:
In[3] := dispatch = Dispatch[rules];
Applying the dispatch table many times obtains the same answer orders of magnitude faster:
In[4] := Nest[# /. dispatch &, 0, 10000] // AbsoluteTiming
Out[4] = {0.0550031, 0}
When is this advisable?
- You are doing many rewrites with the same set of rewrite rules, and
- The set of rewrite rules contains at least 30 rules with constant lhs patterns, i.e. composed only from symbols, sequences and literals.
How does it work?
It just builds a hash table with the constant patterns as keys.
Are there alternative methods?
The most effective general approach is to rewrite the rules in another language. In particular, languages of the ML family (SML, OCaml and F#) have very efficient pattern match compilers and garbage collectors so they are able to rewrite terms much faster than Mathematica's general purpose rewriter does.


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The top Crowne Plaza Hotel London is in the City, beside Blackfriars Bridge and in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral. Smart rooms are given extra cudos by having Giorgio Locatelli's Michelin-starred Refettorio restaurant on site. With a City Thameslink rail station across the road, it also has direct links to both Gatwick and Luton airports, as well as Kings Cross St Pancras.
Also serving the City, but with more affordable rates, Crowne Plaza Hotel Shoreditch is a short walk from Liverpool Street Station. It's located on a busy main road but offers limited guest parking. This part of town is synonymous with cool, with hip bars in the old warehouse streets of Hoxton and hip boutiques on Brick Lane, should you prefer not to spend your whole trip working.
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On December 8, 2009, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued an Open Government Directive requiring Federal agencies to take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation and collaboration set forth by the President in his first executive action.
This webpage is a part of EEOC's response to that directive. We will detail our work in responding to the Directive's requirements, and in meeting the Directive's deadlines for action. We will go a step further, and provide easy access to the many ways in which EEOC is already operating in an open, transparent way. Finally, we will provide tools for you to talk to us about the information we're providing and the work we're doing.
The Directive instructs each agency to publish online high-value data sets in an open format that is platform independent, machine-readable, and free of restrictions on its use. EEOC has published several such data sets through Data.gov, and will continue to add to the collection.
EEOC has a wide range of data and information already available on our website and elsewhere, some in machine-readable form, much of it in user-friendly, human-readable form.
The Open Government Directive requires each agency to develop an Open Government Plan that details how the agency will incorporate the principles of transparency, participation and collaboration into its core mission objectives. Version 3.0 of the agency's Open Government Plan is now available for review and comment
The Open Government Directive calls on the Federal Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer to create an Open Government Dashboard to measure progress and impact. EEOC has submitted our initial Dashboard report.
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SA22 - IBIS Slave/Master Interface Adapter
The SA22 is an IBIS interface adapter with one IBIS slave interface or one IBIS master interface.
Technical Data
- IBIS master or slave on front connector
- External 24V power supply on front connector for IBIS signal level (only for master)
- Standard IBIS data rate (1200 bit/s) up to standard UART data rate (up to 9600 bit/s)
- Serial TTL Interface on 10-pin SA-Adapter connector
- As a piggy-back board directly on a carrier board
- Via ribbon cable
Peripheral Connections
Via front panel on a shielded 9-pin D-Sub receptacle connector
Electrical Specifications
- Isolation voltage:
- 1500V DC or 1000V AC between isolated side and digital side
- Supply voltage/power consumption:
- Digital side +5V (-3%/+5%), 20mA max.
- Isolated side +24V (-30%/+25%), 1.5A max (short circuit)
- MTBF: 3,071,624 @ 40°C according to IEC/TR 62380 (RDF 2000)
Mechanical Specifications
- Dimensions: 32mm x 42mm
- Weight:
- 16g (Slave)
- 18g (Master)
Environmental Specifications
- Temperature range (operation):
- Airflow: min. 10m³/h
- Temperature range (storage): -40..+85°C
- Relative humidity (operation): max. 95% non-condensing
- Relative humidity (storage): max. 95% non-condensing
- Altitude: -300m to + 3,000m
- Shock: 15g/11ms
- Bump: 10g/16ms
- Vibration (sinusoidal): 2g/10..150Hz
PCB manufactured with a flammability rating of 94V-0 by UL recognized manufacturers
Tested according to EN 50121-3-2 (table 5), EN 55011 (radio disturbance), EN 61000-4-2 (ESD), EN 61000-4-4 (burst), EN61000-4-5 (surge)
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In 1978, Pingo Canadian Landmark was identified as a Natural Site of Canadian Significance and was proposed for official status under the National Landmark Program. National Landmarks were originally envisioned to protect specific natural features considered to be outstanding, exceptional, unique, or rare to this country. These natural features would typically be isolated entities and of scientific interest.
Although the program was never implemented, the proposed landmark was included in the Western Arctic (Inuvialuit) Claims Settlement Act, also known as the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (IFA). The IFA stipulated that Pingo Canadian Landmark was to be managed under the National Parks Act in consultation with the Inuvialuit Land Administration and the people of Tuktoyaktuk as a joint management regime (Section 7(73)).
Since the early 1990's, Parks Canada and the Inuvialuit have been working to fulfill the requirement of the IFA, first through the work of the Pingo Joint Management Committee and, since 1998, through the activities of the Pingo Working Group. Both groups have worked towards the development of Pingo Canadian Landmark. The current Pingo Working Group includes members from the Tuktoyaktuk Hunters and Trappers Committee, Tuktoyaktuk Community Corporation, Inuvialuit Land Administration, Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, Tuktoyaktuk Elder's Committee and Parks Canada. Pingo Canadian Landmark is cooperatively managed by Parks Canada and the above organizations.