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You first saw the look on the S/S 14 runways (see: Prabal Gurung, Rag & Bone, and DKNY), then on the red carpet (Kate Bosworth, Cate Blanchett, and Lupita Nyong'o), and finally on the streets of New York Fashion Week when every editor and blogger embraced the hue. If you're still not convinced you need an orange pout, today's story is sure to change your mind. From vibrant tangerine to subtle sherbert, there's a shade of orange for every style and skin tone. So keep reading to see how to incorporate one of the season's biggest beauty trends into your everyday repertoire.
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Though Benson's go-to is usually a smoky eye and nude lip, she clearly understands the power of a bold pout. The Pretty Little Liars star painted on a tangerine lip for a Grammy party, and the result was quite sexy, especially with Benson's choice of a Balenciaga leather jacket, A.L.C. black dress, and Manolo Blahnik's Tayler Leather d'Orsay Pumps ($735) in Yellow.
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Spring dressing at its finest: mismatched florals and an orange lip. Stein chose M.A.C.'s Lipstick ($16) in Morange, which seamlessly complemented her Zara top, ASOS skirt, and American Apparel clutch.
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When all else fails, team your orange lip with a complementary hue. The combination of Bazan's tangerine pout (she is wearing M.A.C.'s Lipstick ($16) in Morange) and cobalt blue dress makes for a striking and harmonious look.
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For the Tory Burch Rodeo Drive store opening, the Shameless actress selected Chanel's Rouge Allure Velvet Lip Colour ($35) in La Favorite, a coral-y hue that not only complimented her Tory Burch earrings, but also added a refreshing pop of color to her black and white dress—also by Tory Burch.
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Want to bring the It-color into day? Easy: just balance the bright hue—in Aldridge's case, Hourglass' Extreme Sheen High Shine Lip Gloss ($28) in Siren—with low-key pieces, like a vintage t-shirt and skinny jeans.
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We admire Nyong'o's willingness to experiment with bold makeup looks on the red carpet, especially when it comes to the season's most popular lip shade. For the 12 Years A Slave London premiere, the actress paired tangelo-hued lips with rosy cheeks and shimmering blue eyeshadow, which made for a radiant combination that's also perfect for a GNO.
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A little white dress by Cameo brings puts all the focus on—and actually helps brighten—Gonzalez's M.A.C. Lipstick ($16) in Morange
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Ester and Delilah, Australia Zoo's eighteen month old camels got a new home for Christmas! Now everyone can come and visit.
Ester and Delilah are now living in the Outback Orange Territory at Australia Zoo (across the way from Kids Zoo) in a ripper of an enclosure, complete not only with the camel necessities, but also you-beaut toys like barrels and balls!
When you come and meet the girls, you can tell them apart by Ester's distinctive, gorgeous curly coat. She is a real character and is guaranteed to be close on the heels of any keeper, hoping for that extra bit of attention. Delilah on the other hand is a real little lady. She is very gentle and trusting by nature and your heart will just melt when you see those beautiful dark eyes.
The lead up to having our camels on display, getting their enclosure ready and moving the girls, has been an exciting time at Australia Zoo. While Zoo Crew were busy preparing their new home, Ester and Delilah were out the back of the Zoo getting to know their keepers and learning tricks, like getting onto a horse float.
As you can imagine, getting two rather big babies into a small space like a horse float, so they could be moved to their new home, was not easy. Their keepers worked with them over several weeks, carefully and patiently teaching them, but when moving day finally arrived, the girls were led onto the float without a problem. We couldn't have been more proud of them!
Both girls were very excited when they were let out into their new home and really put on a turn, they went for an enthusiastic gallop around their yard.
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Today, Dec 5, is the fourth annual "Day of the Ninja." Celebrate by ordering a Ninja Burger -- delivered within 30 minutes or the delivery ninja commits ritual seppuku.
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Last week a commentor made the common observation that "Kids go up too fast nowadays" which made me cringe a bit.
While I'd agree that yes, children have sexuality thrown at them from every direction to the point that we see children having children (for the record, a bad thing) I'd also disagree and say that in fact nowadays children don't grow up fast enough--don't grow up at all in some cases.
With the invention of public education and the shift from farms to cities the 20th century presented a unique phenomenon: adolescence. It used to be that children were children then suddenly they were adults. You were bar or batmizvahed into adulthood either through religious ceremony, an apprenticeship or simply the expectation that you were now to provide for yourself as a man (or marry if you were a woman) but now we have this creature roaming amongst us called The Teenager, with a full-blown stage of growth dedicated to its preservation and contentment.
But it hasn't stopped there, you can see the creep that's occurring as we create new stages of human growth from preteens (or tweens) to catchy phrases like "Gen Y" or "Twenty-somethings." I can just picture my great-grandfather's face if he heard me referring to a 21 year-old male as anything but a . . . man.
You see the results of this shift in thinking everywhere. First we made age limits for drinking alcohol, then age limits for driving cars followed by age limits on getting jobs (even for something as simple as babysitting) followed by age requirements on car seats. If I didn't know better I'd say we're trying to make it illegal to grow up.
Over Christmas we watched the HBO docu-drama John Adams and dropped our jaws as the future president, John Quincey Adams, was apprenticed by his parents at age 14 to travel Europe as a private secretary. But by age 14 my own grandfather had left home and joined the military and by age 18 both my grandfathers were fighting the war in Europe--one already married to his 16 year-old sweetheart (they're still happily married today). Shocking, simply shocking.
Contrast that with the middle class Harry Potter/Twilight-loving, video game-playing, chauffeured child we have on our couches today. The one whose life is still managed by personal secretaries, coaches and pop culture, who sees no reason to get a job--even if the law allowed it--because he has an allowance and all his needs provided for. Many parents I know believe that teens shouldn't get jobs at all. Why? "Because teenagers only have this time once and they need to enjoy it."
Or if you wanted to be less anecdotal you could look at the numbers: consider the average age for marriage today compared to the rest of history--even for first marriages, which are starting to be viewed as a trial run (because we're not grown up enough to get it right the first time apparently). Look at the average age for having children, the average age for getting a driver's license, the average age for graduating from college (a four-year degree now takes a whopping six years to achieve), the number of adults living with parents in their 20's, the number of adults living with parents in their 30's, or the popularity of television shows and movies eulogizing childhood and youth, begging us to be "children at heart" (whatever that means?) and portraying adults as eternal adolescents, hanging out together and shunning the responsibilities that human beings used to have--until the 20th century and prosperity allowed them to forget them and just relax.
I guess some would ask "So what's the big deal? So what if people can be younger longer, isn't that a good thing?" To which I'd say. "Um . . . no."
What has all this extended childhood accomplished? What good has it done? It's only taught our children that the world revolves around them and that the rest of us are here for their pleasure. It's taught them that high school is the most important time of their lives (a terrifying thought) and to obsess about how they look and dress during this "critical" period to the point we have anorexia, bulimia, school shootings and all sorts of newly-invented teen traumas. It's allowed us to dumb things down and lower our expectations so that our children can get by with doing less while we hover and manipulate and obsess over their lives. It's caused us to worship youth and focus our attention and financial resources (i.e. spending your retirement savings on your children's education) on our children rather than teaching them to be responsible, to think of their elders or to respect age and wisdom as wiser cultures have done.
The Century of the Teenager only raised a generation of self-absorbed, pseudo-adults living at home, unmarried, dodging significant relationships in between their random couplings, playing video games into the morning hours and acting in all ways like twelve-year olds, craving entertainment and pleasure. They didn't label it the "Me Generation" for nothing and the situation is only sliding one direction on that slippery slope, folks.
So the question is: As a mother living in a world that glorifies eternal childhood and youth what can I do about it? Should I do anything about it? To be honest, there isn't much I can do--except within the walls of my own home. I can expect my children to pull their weight with the household chores, I can stop thinking of them as "children" and more as "adults in training." I can allow them privileges and responsibilities designed to help them become adults as soon as possible, I can speak with them about my expectations and reasons for why I do things, I can talk to them less as children and more as adults. I can teach them how to date, how to get a job, how to drive a car, how to shop at the store, how to balance a checkbook and manage their finances--and I can do this before they're 18 and expected to leave home. Or not leaving home, as the case may sadly be.
I suppose it comes down to this: Are we going to treat children as accessories to our vanity, cooing over them for twenty or thirty years in an effort to keep them dependent so we can vicariously relive our youths or are we going to treat them as individuals to whom we gave the gift of life accompanied by a responsibility to better the world? Because if we keep our offspring as children forever not only does it cripple them but we'll miss out on the chance of having an even fuller and deeper relationship with them--as adults.
Newt Gingrich (and I find myself chuckling that I'd actually reference him) had an article in Businessweek a year ago which I only now read after writing my own opinion on the matter titled Let's End Adolescence. You might find it interesting as well. Or irritating, depending on how you feel about what I've just said--but he's got more facts and figures than I do to back up what we both seem to say.
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This tutorial describes how to produce test-coverage metrics for C/C++ projects. We start by instrumenting an autotools build to produce
gcov output with
gcc; we then generate test coverage artifacts by running our test suite, and finally we explore our results using
We'd like to assess the quality of the existing test suite for each Product Strategy project. A measurement of test coverage will tell us what part of the project's code is "covered" or exercised by its tests. 50% is a start; 80% would be a good goal for a neglected project; one rarely encounters 100% test coverage, but we'd like to get as close as we can. Initially we'll use these findings to gain an overview of the test-quality of each project; ultimately these metrics will guide the improvement of our codebase, and enable us to monitor our progress using Jenkins and associated open-source tools.
A Three-Part Process in Several Steps
We'll enable test-coverage of a particular C/C++ project in a three-part process:
- enabling a special build
- running the tests
- studying the output
Our first step will be to enable a special build. Ultimately this just means adding a few flags to our
gcc invocation, but it never seems so straightforward with autotools projects 😉 . The Product Strategy Quality team has made available a set of files to facilitate this build–please check these out now if you'd like to follow along.
bzr co lp:coverage-tutorial
Inspecting this archive you'll find
gcov.m4: an
autoconfmacro which will check for relevant tools
Makefile.am.coverage, which includes our coverage-enabled
- an old revision of
- a copy of this tutorial
Before we start let's make sure we have
lcov installed.
lcov incoporates the GNU tool
gcov and produces pretty HTML reports of our coverage results.
sudo apt-get lcov
(Note that the Debian
lcov package includes
genhtml.) We're ready to begin.
1. Branch a project of interest
I heard you like testing, so for this example we'll test dbus-test-runner which is a runner which runs tests against the dbus messaging system. An old revision is included in our coverage-tutorial archive; if you want to start fresh (or on a different project), you would
bzr branch lp:dbus-test-runner
2. Install the
autoconf macro and invoke it
gcov.m4: here's where we're defining the compiler flags and checking for necessary tools. Let's put this file where
autoconf can find it.
Your project may already have a directory for
m4 macros:
$ grep AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR * configure.ac:AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
If you find such a directive, simply copy the
gcov.m4 file into the named directory. If not, create an
m4 directory and copy the
gcov.m4 file there–and don't forget to include a reference to the directory in the body of
configure.ac (it'll look like the
grep result above).
3. Massage
configure.ac to include our necessary coverage flags.
This is the essential move of our special build.
gcc supports coverage reporting with the addition of a few compiler flags. Here they are in the
gcov.m4 file:
# Remove all optimization flags from CFLAGS changequote({,}) CFLAGS=`echo "$CFLAGS" | $SED -e 's/-O[0-9]*//g'` changequote([,]) # Add the special gcc flags COVERAGE_CFLAGS="-O0 -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage" COVERAGE_CXXFLAGS="-O0 -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage" COVERAGE_LDFLAGS="-lgcov"
When the tests are run,
--fprofile-arcs produces a tally of the execution of each arc of the code–one
.gcda file for each source file. The
--ftest-coverage flag produces
.gcno files, which link an arc to a source line so that we can see which lines were touched. We'll watch these files being produced in a little bit; you can read about the flags at length in the GNU documentation. Note that we also remove optimization with the
-O0 flag to get more precise results.
Now here's the step which requires knowledge both of your code and little bit of
autoconf. We've included the flags above (in step 3), but we'll now need to edit our
configure.ac to make the flags available to our build. For dbus-test-runner the diff looks like this:
=== modified file configure.ac --- configure.ac 2010-12-08 02:35:12 +0000 +++ configure.ac 2011-12-06 21:42:04 +0000 @@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT ########################### +# gcov coverage reporting +########################### + +m4_include([m4/gcov.m4]) +AC_TDD_GCOV +AC_SUBST(COVERAGE_CFLAGS) +AC_SUBST(COVERAGE_CXXFLAGS) +AC_SUBST(COVERAGE_LDFLAGS) + +########################### # Files # ##########################
And then having added these flags to the build process, we need to actually actually add them to the build proper:
=== modified file src/Makefile.am --- src/Makefile.am 2009-12-07 21:00:43 +0000 +++ src/Makefile.am 2011-12-06 21:42:04 +0000 @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ dbus_test_runner_SOURCES = dbus-test-runner.c dbus_test_runner_CFLAGS = $(DBUS_TEST_RUNNER_CFLAGS) \ + $(COVERAGE_CFLAGS) \ -DDEFAULT_SESSION_CONF="\"$(datadir)/dbus-test-runner/session.conf\"" \ -Wall -Werror dbus_test_runner_LDADD = $(DBUS_TEST_RUNNER_LIBS) +dbus_test_runner_LDFLAGS = $(COVERAGE_LDFLAGS)
Here we risk running afoul of the autotools "ancient ones". This is an uncomplicated project–if you're not getting the results you want in the next step, I can recommend The Goat Book as a decent tutorial on how these macros work.
4. Verify that
--enable-gcov generates
.gcno files
Having enabled our special build with the
gcc compiler flags, let's verify that
autoconf is generating the
.gcno files we've asked for:
$ ./autogen.sh --enable-gcov ... $ find -name *.gcno ./src/dbus_test_runner-dbus-test-runner.gcno
If all goes well we'll find a
.gcno for each
.o file compiled. If not, then our flags aren't being respected–maybe something's wrong with our
configure.ac addition in step 3. It's important to have these checkpoints along the way to divide the autotools process into testable pieces.
5. Install
So now that we have the instrumentation we need, we'll use a special build to run the tests.
Copy Makefile.am.coverage into the top-level directory.
cp ../Makefile.am.coverage .
Inspection shows that this file defines some extra make targets to generate coverage results using
lcov. We'll alert automake to this by simply including the file–here's the diff for dbus-test-runner:
=== modified file Makefile.am --- Makefile.am 2009-04-23 21:19:56 +0000 +++ Makefile.am 2011-12-19 18:00:38 +0000 @@ -1,1 +1,3 @@ SUBDIRS = data src tests po + +include $(top_srcdir)/Makefile.am.coverage
6. Verify that make check generates
.gcda files
Now we'll actually run the tests.
$ make coverage-html ... $ find -name *.gcda ./src/dbus_test_runner-dbus-test-runner.gcda
Again these
.gcda files represent a tally of 'arcs' through the code. Note that we can generate these files not just while running tests, but also during normal execution–you can see the kinship with profiling.
lcov (via
gcov) has used these tallies with our
.gcno files to produce line-by-line results which we'll study in a moment. Here's what the test coverage looks like for dbus-test-runner:
Overall coverage rate: lines......: 78.8% (215 of 273 lines) functions..: 86.4% (19 of 22 functions) branches...: 61.2% (60 of 98 branches)
For a small project these figures show that we have a good test-suite to build on. We're curious about what we're missing, though, so we'll investigate below. Before you register a comment about "no coverage results", recognize that you may actually have zero code coverage. But at least you're able to measure it, riiight?
7. Have a look at the
lcov pages
lcov has produced a coverage-results directory at the top-level of our project; open index.html with a web browser and explore.
At a glance our line coverage is 78.8%, and our "test-coverage progress bar" is yellow. Be aware of the difference between the offered metrics:
- line coverage: how many lines have our tests touched
- function coverage: how many functions have our tests touched
- branch coverage: for the graph which describes all possible paths of control through this file–especially through conditionals, e.g.–what percentage has our tests touched
In our opinion the killer feature of the
lcov output is the source-file display, which shows which lines weren't touched by tests. Drill into the source directory to see the results for a particular file.
Here in
dbus-test-runner.c line 93 we've hit the line that tests the status of
G_IO_STATUS_NORMAL 61 times, but never taken the path in the line below, for which
G_IO_STATUS_NORMAL is false.
We've presented an introduction to test coverage, featuring the
gcc toolchain and autotools–as demonstrated with a set of utilities we've found useful here in the Quality group.
I hope it's obvious that this tutorial is just the beginning–not just of applying these methods to our code (we and you), but also of understanding what test coverage means to the improvement of Quality. Our team has witnessed that having an observable measure like the
lcov green bars encourages developers to increase test coverage. However while chasing into a particularly narrow corner of their code, our developers have produced some confounding results which have caused us to doubt the accuracy of the available tools–I hope that Thomas Voss will follow with a post on some of his findings in the future.
Regardless, test coverage will be an important metric for our group for the coming cycles, and the bars will continue to grow greener as Spring approaches. . . . Meanwhile I'll be interested to learn about your autotools/
gcc/coverage experiences:
- What
lcovalternatives have you tried?
- Which hallowed autotools rituals have I profaned in preparing this tutorial?
- What's the highest coverage percentage you've witnessed in a GPL project?


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Another Wednesday and another chance to ressurect chat. It sounds as if Sunday was fun. Maybe some people will show up this evening. I will pull the BobH excuse and get there on time and leave early. Hopefully others will be able to join in. Please come to chat. For those of you who may have forgotten, chat gets started around 9:30 PM for those of us on the east coast, 8:30 PM for those of you in Chicago and 9:30 in other parts of fly over country. I guess that means 6:30 PM on the left coast. If my calculations are correct everyone in NZ needs to join us at 1:30 PM Thursday and Australia at 11:30 AM on Thursday morning for those in Sydney and eastern Oz. It will be an ungodly 3:30 AM in Israel and Helsinki, 2:30 AM in Paris, and Berlin, and 1:30 AM in London. Of course it is all worth the sleep deprivation. Come in early and see who is here. Don't be late!!!!! (I hope I have the time changes down.If not, let me know!)
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By Cody Willard
Does your portfolio's current drawdown from its highs make you scared?
When you're running a fund, you keep track of what's called "The Drawdown," which simply measures how far from your fund's all-time high-water mark you are at any given time. If you have a lot of big "drawdowns" over time, it's indicative that your portfolio is rather volatile. A lot of investors and fund managers don't like to see volatility in the portfolio.
I've seen fund managers play all kinds of games with shorting options and hedging their positions to try to minimize volatility in their fund. I personally don't think it's wise to waste time measuring volatility, because I've owned stocks like Google and Apple and Facebook for the long-term as they have swung wildly over the years. But the profits in the portfolio over time is what I care most about. So much so that I don't even care measure the volatility in my own personal portfolio anymore.
For most investors and fund managers though, volatility creates and equates to fear. When their stocks get crushed and their portfolios show a big drawdown they get scared. Right here right now, with many formerly highflying momentum stocks like Splunk, FireEye and others down 50%-75% or more in the last three months, the drawdowns for anybody with exposure to those kinds of stocks is big and ugly.
A few months ago when the highflying momentum stocks were up at all-time highs, but were just starting to show some signs of cracking I wrote:
"I don't think the recent weakness in momentum stocks, biotechs and the markets in general, is indicative that the cycle has turned. More likely, I expect to see the bubble-blowing bull market recommence probably sometime this summer, after some continued near-term weakness in the markets finally creates some fear and some broad market panicky selling, and the bulls get worn down and start to run."
We're not quite to the summer yet, but the near-term weakness in the markets has the fear building and the bulls getting worn down.
All of which leads me to this question: Are you scared yet?
The bulls are definitely scared — and scarred, despite the broader indexes still being within a day's move of new all-time highs. Think about that for a moment. The indexes' own drawdowns are barely measurable from their recent all-time highs. Does that make you more scared or less? I'll guarantee any fund manager reading this article who has to measure their performance against the indexes for their benchmark is gulping right now, scared to think of the recent underperformance they now need to make up. I'm glad I'm not a fund manager anymore.
With some of my biggest positions like Facebook and Google down from their recent all-time highs, countered with a Sandisk and Calgon Carbon and others that have been setting new all-time highs, my own portfolio would probably show about a 5%-10% drawdown from its all-time highs earlier this year. But I'm not going to measure it, because it actually doesn't matter. I don't ever expect that my stock portfolio will constantly be at all-time highs. I accept that I will continue to need to use a playbook that accounts for both ups and downs in the markets and in individual stocks that I own.
In yesterday's Revolution Investing, I started a new basket of the best of the crashed high-growth momentum stocks, and am actively scaling into Yelp /quotes/zigman/9021597/delayed /quotes/nls/yelp YELP and a couple others that I highlighted there. I explained this new buy in a bit more detail including how I consider myself a venture capitalist on this stock, in response to a question on Scutify:
Before I go, I do want to know if you're scared right now. I know I've been scared before and proclaimed being terrified back in the summer of 2008 on TV, right before the markets crashed. Sometimes, being scared is correct and should be acted upon. So, there you go: Are you scared right now and if so, are you acting upon that fear? Let me know in the comments below or come join our discussion on the topic right now on Scutify. We are constantly updating the Scutify apps with new features, and it's the best stock market app out there. Click here to download the Scutify Android app or click here for the Scutify iPhone/iPad app.
PS. I wrote this five months ago: " I think an NQ short paired up with a BIDU long might be a good mid-term to long-term way to play China tech."
I just want to follow up on that today, as NQ Mobile /quotes/zigman/5032493/delayed /quotes/nls/nq NQ is down 25% today and is now less than half the price it was when I suggested shorting it. I'd probably look to declare victory as I cover the short-NQ part of the trade and hold on to the Baidu /quotes/zigman/97715/delayed /quotes/nls/bidu BIDU for the long-term.
Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch, posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com, which is not affiliated with MarketWatch, and is the largest shareholder in Scutify's parent company, Wall Street All-Stars. At time of publication, Cody was net long Apple, Google and Facebook. Follow Cody on Twitter at twitter.com/codywillard.
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Soft Bifocals: The Next Step in Slowing Myopia Progression?
By David A. Berntsen, OD, PHD, FAAO
Earlier this year, Refractive Focus columns have discussed studies in which attempts were made to slow myopia progression using bifocal spectacles and orthokeratology. The first ortho-k randomized clinical trial was just published and showed a 43-percent reduction in axial growth over two years (Cho and Cheung, 2012), confirming the 33-percent to 56-percent reductions previously reported by non-randomized studies (see Refractive Focus from February 2012). It has been suggested that orthokeratology may reduce axial eye growth due to peripheral myopic defocus induced by the change in corneal shape caused by ortho-k lenses (Kang and Swarbrick, 2011).
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Though there used to be concerns that soft contact lenses might result in "myopic creep," the results from a large, randomized clinical trial found no difference in myopia progression over three years between children wearing single vision spectacles and those wearing single vision soft contact lenses (Walline et al, 2008). Further work has also shown that children are just as successful at being fitted with soft contact lenses as teenagers are (Walline et al, 2007). Given that children are able to successfully wear soft contact lenses, it is no surprise that several studies have begun investigating whether optical designs that cause a myopic shift in peripheral defocus can slow the progression of myopia. Because contact lenses move with the eye, they are much preferred over spectacles for consistently delivering an optical treatment designed to influence defocus across the retina.
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Animal studies have demonstrated that retinal regions are able to respond to local defocus signals and that peripheral hyperopic defocus can accelerate eye growth (Smith, 2011). Recently published work in chicks not only provides support for lenses designed to reduce peripheral hyperopia, but also provides animal-based results supporting the study of concentric ring bifocal designs for myopia control (Liu and Wildsoet, 2012). In fact, early studies in children have utilized both lens designs (bifocals with peripheral plus power and concentric ring bifocal designs) to try to slow myopia progression.
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|TABLE 1 Percent Reduction in Myopia Progression in Studies Utilizing Soft Contact Lens Designs
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Two studies published in the peer-reviewed literature in 2011 utilized soft contact lenses designed to create myopic defocus. Sankaridurg et al (2011) reported a one-year study in which children were fitted with a center-distance soft contact lens that progressively increased in plus power up to a +2.00D add in the periphery. Single-vision-spectacle-wearing children matched for several factors including age, gender, and refractive error served as the control group. After one year, myopia progression in the group wearing the novel soft contact lenses was 0.29D (34 percent) less than that of the spectacle-wearing group, and eye elongation was 0.13mm (33 percent) less for the soft contact lens group. Though children in this study were not randomly assigned to one of the two groups, these data provide preliminary evidence that center-distance soft bifocal lens designs that increase in peripheral plus power warrant further investigation to determine whether such designs can be optimized to increase their efficacy.
Anstice and Phillips (2011) utilized a center-distance soft contact lens design in which concentric zones simultaneously created 2.00D of myopic defocus. In their study, one eye of each myopic child was randomly assigned to wear the concentric zone lens while the other eye wore a standard, single vision soft contact lens. After 10 months, the eyes wearing the concentric zone lens had progressed 0.25D less (37 percent) compared to the fellow eyes and had grown 0.11mm less (49 percent) compared to the fellow eyes. The lens design worn was switched between eyes for the next 10 months, during which time the eyes wearing the concentric zone contact lens again grew more slowly than did the fellow eyes wearing the single vision soft contact lens.
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These two studies, when combined with others recently presented at research meetings (Table 1), provide promising evidence supporting the continued investigation of soft bifocal contact lens designs in long-term clinical trials. Soft bifocal lenses and orthokeratology both show promise, and each lens type has advantages and disadvantages. Orthokeratology provides peripheral myopic defocus during all waking hours, whereas a soft lens provides this benefit only when it is being worn during the day; however, soft bifocal contact lens designs may be able to provide more peripheral myopic defocus than orthokeratology can for eyes that have low amounts of myopia (e.g., emerging myopic children).
There also is currently not a rapid and easy way for clinicians to measure peripheral refractive error and peripheral defocus to determine which bifocal lens design and add power provides the most favorable optical profile for a particular child, forcing a one-size-fits-all approach for most clinicians. While studies continue to investigate whether optical designs can be optimized to consistently slow myopia progression over multiple years, the currently available research provides us with useful information to aid us in educating our patients regarding what is known about the options currently available. CLS
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This is a guest post by Shauna, a psychologist, programmer, writer and blogger. This post appeared on her blog for Ada Lovelace Day 2011.
For Ada Lovelace day I thought I'd go back to my roots and write about a psychological scientist. Being as I am prone to digressions, I ended up writing about two – one historical, one current. We'll go chronologically.
Mary Whiton Calkins was born in the 1860s in Connecticut who studied classics and philosophy at Smith College. She took a job teaching Greek at Wellesley College after graduating, where by a combination of luck and talent she caught the eye of a psychology professor. He asked her to come teach psychology, but requested she spend a year studying it first. It was in this way that Calkins started taking classes at Harvard, and with William James himself among her tutors and mentors, it's maybe not surprising that her interest in the field grew. She spent the next two years taking classes at Harvard and doing research into dreams with collaborator Edmund Sanford. Though their research would soon be eclipsed by Sigmund Freud (who did acknowledge and cite their work), their discovery that dream content could be influenced by external stimuli is much in line with our current theories of dreams.
In 1891 she returned to Wellesley to teach, and established there an experimental psychology laboratory, the first of its kind at any women's college and only the twelfth in the United States. Over the next ten years, she trained hundreds of women in experimental psychology, putting out articles on subjects such as child development, aesthetics, and synesthesia. Hoping to continue her studies at Harvard, she also petitioned the university to become a graduate student, but the college did not allow female graduate students at the time and she was refused. Nevertheless, she continued to take classes, and three years later an unsanctioned committee of six Harvard professors awarded her an unofficial doctorate. Despite numerous petitions over the last 100+ years, Harvard has never awarded her an official one.
Calkins' biggest research contribution is probably her work on paired association, a memory technique that is still used today. My favorite work of hers, though, is Community of Ideas of Men and Women, an article she published in 1891 in Psychological Review in response to one Dr. Joseph Jastrow. Jastrow had looked at lists of words generated by women and men, and claimed then men showed greater variety in word choice. This, he said, was evidence for the "Variability Hypothesis" – the theory that men have a greater range of abilities than women, with more men than women falling at the high and low ends of any given spectrum. Calkins and her student Cordelia Nevins replicated Jastrow's study but not his results, and in their paper called into question the fundamental assumptions of his research:
[Jastrow et al] by the expression "masculine and feminine mental traits,' attempt a distinction between masculine and feminine intellect per se, and this seems to me futile and impossible, because of our entire inability to eliminate the effect of environment. Now the differences in the training and tradition of men and women begin with the earliest months of infancy and continue through life. Most of the preferences which have been substantiated by both experimenters, for instance that of women .for the surroundings of a home, are obviously cultivated interests… The question of the essential difference between masculine and feminine mind seems to me, therefore, untouched by such an investigation.
Unlike the good scientists of that era, the Variability Hypothesis is not dead and buried. You may remember back in 2005 a controversy breaking out when Harvard's then-president Larry Summers speculated in a speech that underrepresentation of women in science in general, and in tenured positions at top-tier universities such as Harvard in particular, might be due to innate differences between men and women. Specifically, he suggested that men have greater variability in mathematical ability than woman, leaving them overrepresented at the highest echelons (as well as in the lowest mathematical gutters.)
In response to this controversy, the Harvard psychology department set out to debate that claim on its merits. Summers' claims were defended by Steven Pinker, a well known linguist and evolutionary psychologist, who faced off against Elizabeth Spelke, a developmental psychologist whose done a great deal of research on gender differences in children. From the debate:
Let me take you on a whirlwind tour of 30 years of research in one powerpoint slide. From birth, babies perceive objects. They know where one object ends and the next one begins. They can't see objects as well as we can, but as they grow their object perception becomes richer and more differentiated.
Babies also start with rudimentary abilities to represent that an object continues to exist when it's out of view, and they hold onto those representations longer, and over more complicated kinds of changes, as they grow. Babies make basic inferences about object motion: inferences like, the force with which an object is hit determines the speed with which it moves. These inferences undergo regular developmental changes over the infancy period.
In each of these cases, there is systematic developmental change, and there's variability. Because of this variability, we can compare the abilities of male infants to females. Do we see sex differences? The research gives a clear answer to this question: We don't.
I recommend reading or watching the whole thing, and/or reading Spelke's more formal review of the literature in American Psychologist. I particularly like Spelke's point at the end, when she talks about the role of competition in science:
You've suggested, as a hypothesis, that because of sexual selection and also parental investment issues, men are selected to be more competitive, and women are selected to be more nurturant. Suppose that hypothesis is true… What makes for better motives in a scientist?
What kind of motives are more likely to lead to good science: Competitive motives, like the motive J. D. Watson described in The Double Helix, to get the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling did? Or nurturant motives of the kind that Doug Melton has described recently to explain why he's going into stem cell research: to find a cure for juvenile diabetes, which his children suffer from? I think it's anything but clear how motives from our past translate into modern contexts.
Calkins went on to teach psychology for forty more years and in 1918 became the first woman president of the American Psychological Association. Spelke continues her child development research as a professor of psychology at Harvard University.
Information on Mary Whiton Calkins was gathered from Feminist Voices, Webster's Women's Contributions page, and of course, Wikipedia.
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The Nissan Pathfinder was the first SUV produced by Nissan. When it was launched in 1986, Nissan ensured that it was an innovator in its category. With each successive generation of the Nissan Pathfinder, Nissan has stuck to this principle to ensure that each new vehicle is more powerful, capable, and versatile than the previous one, as well as other SUVs within its class. The Nissan Pathfinder is known for its reliability. Over the years, Nissan has improved the style of both the body and the interior to create a cleaner exterior appearance, and an upscale, yet functional interior.
For the 2005 model year, Nissan launched the third generation Pathfinder. This generation ends with the 2012 model year to make way for the introduction of the fourth generation in 2013. Yet again, the Nissan Pathfinder was completely redesigned in comparison to the second generation. It was built on a new platform and was fitted with a more powerful V-6 engine that gave an increase of 30 horsepower. As well as being more powerful, the third generation Nissan Pathfinder was larger and provided seating for seven instead of five. Since the Nissan Pathfinder grew in length and width, it was able to add a third-row seat.
The third generation Nissan Pathfinder was a four-door midsize SUV that came with a five-speed automatic transmission only in North America. Four different trim levels are available for the 2012 Nissan Pathfinder, which are the S, SV, Silver Edition, and LE. The Silver Edition was launched for the 2011 model year to mark the fact that the Nissan Pathfinder had been for sale for 25 years. The LE trim level can be fitted with a V-6 engine, or a 5.6-liter V-8 engine that provides 310 horsepower. All trim levels can be equipped with rear-wheel or all-wheel drive systems.
Nissan manufactured its first generation Pathfinder from 1986 to 1995. When it was initially launched in the U.S., the Nissan Pathfinder was available as a two-door compact SUV only. In 1990, the body changed to a four-door configuration, and the two-door style was discontinued. Both rear drive and four-wheel-drive configurations were available in both body styles. From 1986 to 1989, drivers could choose between a three-liter, V-6 engine and a 2.4-liter, four-cylinder engine. The transmission options included a three-speed automatic for the first year only and a five-speed manual transmission. The three-speed automatic was upgraded to a four-speed automatic in 1987. With the change to the four-door in 1990, the engine was modified to a V-6 to produce more power and torque with a more powerful four-cylinder engine.
When the second generation Pathfinder was launched in 1996, it was completely redesigned. Instead of being built as a body-on-frame, the new Nissan Pathfinder was produced using unibody construction. The exterior body was overhauled to give a more rounded styling. It also grew in size and moved to the midsize SUV class as a result. The second generation Nissan Pathfinder came as a four-door vehicle only and was in production until 2004.
The second generation's engine was also upgraded. It was fitted with a 3.3-liter V-6 that provided 168 horsepower and 196 lb-ft of torque. A four-speed automatic or five-speed manual transmission was available, as was either rear drive or part-time all-wheel drive. For the 2001 model year, the Nissan Pathfinder was refreshed and the engine was also upgraded to a 3.5-liter V-6 that produced 240 horsepower with the automatic transmission and 250 horsepower with the manual transmission.
2019 Nissan Pathfinder
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2018 Nissan Pathfinder
2017 Nissan Pathfinder
2016 Nissan Pathfinder
2015 Nissan Pathfinder
2014 Nissan Pathfinder
2013 Nissan Pathfinder
On the road for over 25 years, the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder is a well-known SUV, and for the launch of the latest model, Nissan has completely redesigned it.
2012 Nissan Pathfinder
To commemorate 25 years of the Pathfinder, Nissan created a Silver edition for 2011 and 2012. For this year, Nissan is adding a power moonroof and a DVD entertainment system as standard equipment to the Silver edition.
2011 Nissan Pathfinder
The 2011 Nissan Pathfinder is larger than ever, powered by a V-8 or V-6 engine with four-wheel or rear drive.
2010 Nissan Pathfinder
For 2010, the Pathfinder LE receives a standard moonroof and the LE-V8 gets standard navigation. Opt for the new LE-V8 Value Package and get a DVD player with seven-inch color monitor for backseat riders. A fresh Premium Journey Package for the SE includes 17-inch alloys, backup camera, roof rack crossbars, 10-speaker Bose audio, XM satellite radio, Bluetooth phone capability, and intelligent key.
2009 Nissan Pathfinder
The 2009 Nissan Pathfinder is a chunky, midsize sport utility vehicle that looks reassuringly sturdy.
2008 Nissan Pathfinder
The 2008 Nissan Pathfinder is a four-wheel-drive sport utility vehicle (SUV).
2007 Nissan Pathfinder
The 2007 Nissan Pathfinder provides s a midsize, seven-passenger SUV equipped with a 4.
2006 Nissan Pathfinder
The Nissan Pathfinder first hit the market back in 1986 as a rugged two-door SUV.
2005 Nissan Pathfinder
The Nissan Pathfinder is a sport utility vehicle (SUV) designed to offer a comfortable drive without sacrificing off-road capability.
2004 Nissan Pathfinder
The 2004 Nissan Pathfinder entered the market with minimal changes thank to its continuous adaption from birth.
2003 Nissan Pathfinder
2002 Nissan Pathfinder
The Nissan Pathfinder is all tough-guy exterior and comfort-plushness interior.
2001 Nissan Pathfinder
The 2001 Nissan Pathfinder has long been a highly regarded mainstay of the SUV market segment.
2000 Nissan Pathfinder
The 2000 Nissan Pathfinder results from a major revamp completed in the 1999 model year.
1999 Nissan Pathfinder
The 1999 Nissan Pathfinder is a worthy competitor to established SUV brands such as Land Cruiser and Jeep Cherokee.
1998 Nissan Pathfinder
The Nissan Pathfinder is a middle of the road sport utility vehicle (SUV) that does everything it is expected to do quite well.
1997 Nissan Pathfinder
The 1997 Nissan Pathfinder is a SUV that delivers all the things consumers look for in this type of vehicle.
1996 Nissan Pathfinder
The 1996 Nissan Pathfinder comes with one engine choice, two transmission choices, and five trim levels.
1995 Nissan Pathfinder
The 1995 Nissan Pathfinder is a suburban sport utility vehicle (SUV) with one engine choice, two transmission choices, and five models.


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I don't like to waste things.
Especially food.
So I came up with this idea so Chuck and Boy Wonder don't go hungry when we are out for longer than anticipated and I can not waste food….
Trail mix. Genius, right?
But seriously, what I do is I take the last pieces of crackers or raisins or whatever non-refrigerated thing comes down the pike, and I add it to this cool container.
Then I shake it up.
My kids think it's pretty awesome, and I'm wasting not and wanting not.
I keep it in my enormous purse and stuff cycles out (mostly) before it goes stale.
And if it goes stale? We go feed it to the ducks.
Go forth and snackify.


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Sovereign: Queen Elizabeth II (1952)
Governor-General: David Lloyd Johnston (2010)
Prime Minister: Justin Trudeau (2015)
Land area: 3,511,003 sq mi (9,093,507 sq km); total area: 3,855,102 sq mi (9,984,670 sq km)
Population (2014 est.): 34,834,841 (growth rate: 0.76%); birth rate: 10.29/1000; infant mortality rate: 4.71/1000; life expectancy: 81.67
Capital (2011 est.): Ottawa, Ontario, 1.208 million
Largest cities (metropolitan areas) (2011 est.): Toronto 5.573 million; Montreal 3.856 million; Vancouver 2.267 million; Calgary 1.216 million; OTTAWA (capital) 1.208 million; Edmonton 1.142 million
Monetary unit: Canadian dollar
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- Canada Wins the Right to Self-Government and Welcomes English-Speaking Immigrants
- French-Speaking Contigent Gains More Political Power
- Conservative Government Signs Free-Trade Pact with the United States
- Jean Chretien of the Liberal Party Comes to Power
- Marijuana and Gay Marriage Legalized
- Conservative Stephen Harper Becomes Prime Minister, Striving for a Blow Against Terrorism
- Fourth Election in Seven Years Expands Conservative Party's Hold
- Attack on Canada's Parliament
- Justin Trudeau Pulls Off Upset Election, Becomes Prime Minister Like His Father
Covering most of the northern part of the North American continent and with an area larger than that of the United States, Canada has an extremely varied topography. In the east, the mountainous maritime provinces have an irregular coastline on the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Atlantic. The St. Lawrence plain, covering most of southern Quebec and Ontario, and the interior continental plain, covering southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and most of Alberta, are the principal cultivable areas. They are separated by a forested plateau rising from Lakes Superior and Huron.
Westward toward the Pacific, most of British Columbia, the Yukon, and part of western Alberta are covered by parallel mountain ranges, including the Rockies. The Pacific border of the coast range is ragged with fjords and channels. The highest point in Canada is Mount Logan (19,850 ft; 6,050 m), which is in the Yukon. The two principal river systems are the Mackenzie and the St. Lawrence. The St. Lawrence, with its tributaries, is navigable for over 1,900 mi (3,058 km).
Canada is a federation of ten provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan) and three territories (Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut). Formally considered a constitutional monarchy, Canada is governed by its own House of Commons. While the governor-general is officially the representative of Queen Elizabeth II, in reality the governor-general acts only on the advice of the Canadian prime minister.
The first inhabitants of Canada were native Indian peoples, primarily the Inuit (Eskimo). The Norse explorer Leif Eriksson probably reached the shores of Canada (Labrador or Nova Scotia) in 1000, but the history of the white man in the country actually began in 1497, when John Cabot, an Italian in the service of Henry VII of England, reached Newfoundland or Nova Scotia. Canada was taken for France in 1534 by Jacques Cartier. The actual settlement of New France, as it was then called, began in 1604 at Port Royal in what is now Nova Scotia; in 1608, Quebec was founded. France's colonization efforts were not very successful, but French explorers by the end of the 17th century had penetrated beyond the Great Lakes to the western prairies and south along the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, the English Hudson's Bay Company had been established in 1670. Because of the valuable fisheries and fur trade, a conflict developed between the French and English; in 1713, Newfoundland, Hudson Bay, and Nova Scotia (Acadia) were lost to England. During the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), England extended its conquest, and the British general James Wolfe won his famous victory over Gen. Louis Montcalm outside Quebec on Sept. 13, 1759. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 gave England control.
Canada Wins the Right to Self-Government and Welcomes English-Speaking Immigrants
At that time the population of Canada was almost entirely French, but in the next few decades, thousands of British colonists emigrated to Canada from the British Isles and from the American colonies. In 1849, the right of Canada to self-government was recognized. By the British North America Act of 1867, the dominion of Canada was created through the confederation of Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. In 1869, Canada purchased from the Hudson's Bay Company the vast middle west (Rupert's Land) from which the provinces of Manitoba (1870), Alberta (1905), and Saskatchewan (1905) were later formed. In 1871, British Columbia joined the dominion, and in 1873, Prince Edward Island followed. The country was linked from coast to coast in 1885 by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
During the formative years between 1866 and 1896, the Conservative Party, led by Sir John A. Macdonald, governed the country, except during the years 1873–1878. In 1896, the Liberal Party took over and, under Sir Wilfrid Laurier, an eminent French Canadian, ruled until 1911. By the Statute of Westminster in 1931 the British dominions, including Canada, were formally declared to be partner nations with Britain, "equal in status, in no way subordinate to each other," and bound together only by allegiance to a common Crown.
Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province on March 31, 1949, following a plebiscite. Canada also includes three territories—the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories, and the newest territory, Nunavut. This new territory includes all of the Arctic north of the mainland, Norway having recognized Canadian sovereignty over the Sverdrup Islands in the Arctic in 1931.
The Liberal Party, led by William Lyon Mackenzie King, dominated Canadian politics from 1921 until 1957, when it was succeeded by the Progressive Conservatives. The Liberals, under the leadership of Lester B. Pearson, returned to power in 1963. Pearson remained prime minister until 1968, when he retired and was replaced by a former law professor, Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Trudeau maintained Canada's defensive alliance with the United States but began moving toward a more independent policy in world affairs.
French-Speaking Contigent Gains More Political Power
Faced with an increasingly violent separatist movement in the predominantly French province of Quebec, Trudeau introduced the Official Languages Bill, which encouraged bilingualism in the federal government; he also gave an economic portfolio to a French-speaking minister, Jean Chrétien. Both measures increased the power of French-speaking politicians in the federal government.
In 1976, the Parti Québécois (PQ) won the provincial Quebec elections, and René Lévesque became premier. The Quebec government passed Bill 101 in 1977, which established numerous rules promoting the French-speaking culture; for example, only French was to be used for commercial signs and for most public school instruction. Many of Bill 101's provisions have since been amended, striking more of a compromise; commercial signs, for example, may now be in French and English, provided that the French lettering is twice the size of the English. Quebec held a referendum in May 1980 on whether it should seek independence from Canada; it was defeated by 60% of the voters.
Resolving a dispute that had occupied Trudeau since the beginning of his tenure, Queen Elizabeth II signed the Constitution Act (also called the Canada Act) in Ottawa on April 17, 1982, thereby cutting the last legal tie between Canada and Britain. The constitution retains Queen Elizabeth as queen of Canada and keeps Canada's membership in the Commonwealth. This constitution was accepted by every province except Quebec.
Conservative Government Signs Free-Trade Pact with the United States
In the national election on Sept. 4, 1984, the Progressive Conservative Party scored an overwhelming victory, fundamentally changing the country's political landscape. The Conservatives, led by Brian Mulroney, won the highest political majority in Canadian history. The dominant foreign issue was a free-trade pact with the United States, a treaty bitterly opposed by the Liberal and New Democratic parties. The conflict led to elections in Nov. 1988 that solidly reelected Mulroney and gave him a mandate to proceed with the agreement.
The issue of separatist sentiments in French-speaking Quebec flared up again in 1990 with the failure of the Meech Lake Accord. The accord was designed to bring Quebec into the constitution while easing its residents' fear of losing their identity within the English-speaking majority by giving it status as a "distinct society."
Jean Chretien of the Liberal Party Comes to Power
The economy continued to be mired in a long recession that many blamed on the free-trade agreement. Brian Mulroney's popularity continued to decline, causing him to resign before the next election. In June 1993 the governing Progressive Conservative Party chose Defense Minister Kim Campbell as its leader, making her the first female prime minister in Canadian history. The national election in Oct. 1993 resulted in the reemergence of the Liberal Party and the installation of Jean Chrétien as prime minister.
The Quebec referendum on secession in Oct. 1995 yielded a narrow rejection of the proposal, and separatists vowed to try again. Since then, however, the Quebec Liberal Party has replaced the Bloc Québecois as the ruling party.
On April 1, 1999, the Northwest Territories were officially divided to create a new territory in the east that would be governed by Canada's Inuits, who make up 85% of the area's population.
In July 2000, Stockwell Day of the new right-wing Canadian Alliance Party unexpectedly emerged as the leader of Canada's opposition. In Nov. 2000 elections, however, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of the Liberal Party won a landslide victory for a third five-year term. After the election, the conservatives rapidly lost steam.
Marijuana and Gay Marriage Legalized
In recent years, Canada has introduced some of the world's most liberal social policies. Medical marijuana for the terminally or chronically ill was legalized in 2001; the country began legally dispensing marijuana by prescription in July 2003. In 2003, Ontario and British Columbia legalized same-sex marriage, and more provinces and territories followed in 2004. In July 2005, Canada legalized gay marriage throughout the country, becoming one of four nations (along with Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain) to do so.
Canada sent 2,000 soldiers to help fight the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, but its relations with the United States were strained when it refused to join Washington's coalition supporting the war in Iraq.
Conservative Stephen Harper Becomes Prime Minister, Striving for a Blow Against Terrorism
In Dec. 2003, Chrétien stepped down and handed the prime ministership to the new leader of Canada's Liberal Party, former finance minister Paul Martin. Chrétien had announced in 2002 that he would not seek a fourth term—conflict between Chrétien and Martin had divided and weakened the Liberal Party in recent years. In June 2004, Martin was reelected prime minister, but the Liberal Party lost its majority in parliament, which it had dominated for 11 years. In 2005, a scandal involving the misappropriation of government funds by the Liberal Party threatened the stability of Martin's government. Martin himself was not implicated in the scandal, but his predecessor came under fire. In Jan. 2006 parliamentary elections, Conservatives won 36% of the vote, ending twelve years of Liberal rule. Conservative leader Stephen Harper became prime minister in February. In June 2006, police arrested 17 suspected Islamist terrorists in Toronto and are believed to have foiled a major terrorist attack on the country. In November, Prime Minister Harper succeeded in passing a motion to recognize Quebec as "a nation within a united Canada."
In February 2007, Canada's Supreme Court struck down a law that permitted foreign terrorism suspects to be detained indefinitely without charges while waiting for deportation. "The overarching principle of fundamental justice that applies here is this: before the state can detain people for significant periods of time, it must accord them a fair judicial process," said Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.
Prime Minister Harper was reelected in October 2008 in elections that were held a year ahead of schedule. His Conservative Party defeated the Liberal Party, 37.6% to 26.2.%. The Conservatives, however, failed to win a majority in the House of Commons and will form a minority government, the third in four years.
In December 2008, in an unprecedented move, Prime Minister Harper suspended Parliament to avoid a no-confidence vote. If the vote had passed, which was likely since two opposition parties joined to form a coalition, Liberal Party leader, Stephane Dion, would have become Prime Minister. Harper created further controversy later in the month, when he quietly appointed 18 Conservatives to Canada's unelected Senate, breaking his promise not to name additional members to Parliament until it became an elected body.
Fourth Election in Seven Years Expands Conservative Party's Hold
In the May 2, 2011 federal election, the Conservative Party won a parliamentary majority by a slim 39.6% of the vote. The New Democrats became the official opposition after the centrist Liberals lose more than half their seats. Bloc Québécois, Quebec's separatist party, was nearly eliminated entirely from Parliament, losing 90% of its seats.
The election shifted the political landscape in Canada. For seven years no party had the majority in the House of Commons. The election was a big victory for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who won a clear mandate for his conservative party. The swing toward the conservative party was a sign that the Liberals' base has decreased in size. This is partly because immigrants, who in the past represented a huge part of that base, have shifted to a more conservative viewpoint.
Attack on Canada's Parliament
A Canadian soldier was shot and killed while guarding the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada's capital on Oct. 22, 2014. Nearby, gunfire erupted inside the Parliament building. A gunman, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, was killed as police rushed to evacuate and secure the building. Initially, police searched for at least two more possible gunmen, but came to believe that Zehaf-Bibeau, age 32, acted alone. Zehaf-Bibeau had a criminal record and had been recently designated a high-risk traveler by the Canadian government.
It was the second assault on a member of Canada's armed forces in three days. On Oct. 20, a car struck two people, one in uniform. Police chased Martin Rouleau-Coulture, the driver of the car, who was shot and killed after a confrontation. Authorities suspected that the two incidents could be linked to Canada's support of the campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS).
Justin Trudeau Pulls Off Upset Election, Becomes Prime Minister Like His Father
Justin Trudeau during a visit to Washington, D.C., 2013
Source: AP Photo/Susan Walsh
In Oct. 2015 parliamentary elections, Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party pulled off an upset, stunning Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party. The Liberal Party took 39.5% of the vote, 184 out of 338 seats, while Harper's Conservative Party took 31.9% of the vote, or 99 seats. Election observers viewed the outcome as a result of a public that had grown tried of Harper's heavy-handed conservative focus during his nine year reign.
Trudeau succeeded Harper as prime minister 47 years after Pierre Elliott Trudeau, his father, held the office. The 43 year-old Trudeau also became the country's second-youngest prime minister and the first to follow a parent into the position.
See also Encyclopedia: Canada .
U.S. State Dept. Country Notes: Canada
Statistics Canada www.statcan.ca/ .
See also Canada Day and other Canadian holidays .


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Evon Tay, a graphic designer who has just graduated from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) School of Art, Design and Media started a DIY Lifestyle Challenge as her final year project. But even after graduation, Evon has not put the project to rest. Find out why.
About DIY Lifestyle Challenge
DIY Lifestyle Challenge is a project looking at a series of alternative and sustainable lifestyle choices that urban dwellers can do on a daily basis.
Evon hopes to encourage people to be mindful and take responsibility about the way we live, and to cultivate a culture of self-reliance and creativity, so that our city can become greener, more vibrant and awesome.
She shared that she observed how Singaporeans live in a capitalistic and consumption-driven city, where people slog long hours to earn money, but eventually splurge them away by buying stuffs (that they might not necessarily need) in the name of "retail therapy". To Evon, this is a vicious cycle which is both wasteful and depressing. Hence, she wanted to introduce an alternative way of living.
She started this project about a year ago and she hopes to be able to continue doing it for as long as she can, and that more Singaporeans can join in the fun and be part of a growing DIY community in Singapore.
The project has a website and a Facebook page.
More about Evon
Evon shared that she started making things purely because she did not have much money to buy things. She shared that whenever her best friends had their birthdays, she would jokingly make a paper mache version of whatever expensive items on their wishlist. The habit had since grown on her and she realised she enjoyed doing it as there is a satisfaction of seeing simple everyday materials being transformed into something cool/weird/funny.
Her view on the Maker scene in Singapore
Evon felt that there is a recent revival of appreciation for artisanal handcrafted work in general but she was not sure if that translates to an increase in the trend to make things. She felt that Singaporeans are practical people who would not like to waste time on things which they deemed to be not "productive" or useful. Making things from scratch is unfortunately one of them. She felt that in Singapore, the focus in life had always been on academic success, so making things or other creative activity would only be counted as a hobby. She felt this should be relooked at.
Her advice
To budding Makers, her word of advice is to keep learning and experimenting with new techniques and materials, and if the by-products turn out wrong, they could always be given away in the next Secret Santa gift exchange. Hohoho…
[Evon invites contributions and collaborations from anyone who wants their stuffs to be seen in the next issue of her zine, Adventures in DIY #2. If you are interested, email to email@example.com. Do not forget to catch Evon at her Singapore Mini Maker Faire 2012 booth on 4 & 5 August and her presentation on 5 August. She would be showcasing her zines, hand-printed linocut stickers, hand-sewn and silkscreened bags and more!]


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Introduction: The Beginners Guide to Content Marketing
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Hi, I'm Ezra Firestone, and welcome to Shopify Ecommerce University. Now, this is the premiere place on the planet to get information about how to build, scale and grow your Ecommerce business.
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I also have a marketing blog where I share my research, I share what's been working for me in my businesses with people like you. It's my passion, it's what I like to do. My motto in business, my motto in life, is serve the world unselfishly, and profit. Because I believe that's really the only way that you can profit, in the fullest sense of the word anyway, is if you're serving other people.
So, you can only give from your own surplus, so I have to have this knowledge and experience in order to give it to you, and luckily Shopify has provided us with this platform where I can share whats been working for me, in my businesses, with you. So, thank you so much for taking the time to watch these videos and I hope that you get value from them.


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News just in - Sonic CD is coming to Windows Phone (we already knew that), but we've got a confirmed date of November 14th. Those of you who have been eagerly awaiting any official announcement can now rejoice with the title coming to both Windows Phone 7 and 8.
We previously interviewed SEGA, the makers of Sonic CD, which is a refreshed version of the classic game. Back then we were being bombarded with requests for more information on a possible release date, but were unfortunately unable to provide such details.
Thanks to a new photo published on the Sonic the Hedgehog Facebook account, November 14th can now be marked on the calendar.
Source: Facebook (Sonic the Hedgehog); thanks, Franco, for the tip!