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by Amy LaniganThursday, May 16th, 2013
Responsive Web Design (RWD). The digital industry is buzzing about it. Our clients are asking whether to invest in it. And Fluid is at the forefront of it.
In order to get you answers I sat down with Steve Reichgut, Fluid's Director of Engineering. He is a respected industry leader in RWD. Steve and his team live and breathe cutting-edge technology. They're smart about when to, and when not to, apply it.
My top three take-aways:
1. This isn't just about technology: Responsive Web Design with a "Big R" is about ensuring that the user experience responds effectively on multiple devices in multiple contexts. This broader concept can be implemented in many different ways.
2. RWD is not an all or nothing decision: The question 'Should I use Responsive Web Design or not?' is probably the wrong question to be asking.
3. Thinking through support for RWD is essential: Content updating challenges that currently exist between marketing and tech teams get amplified with RWD. Trade-offs between cutting-edge and desire for control are inevitable.
Now on to the interview…
[Amy] What is Responsive Web Design?
[Steve] In it's purest definition, the "Big R" RWD, is about ensuring that what the user is experiencing responds effectively on the device they are using in whatever context they are in. This can be achieved in a lot of different ways.
RWD though is usually used as a technical term. It is literally using three things to build a responsive experience: a grid system, media queries to determine viewport size and flexible images that size appropriately.
[Amy] What's the best thing about RWD?
[Steve] The best thing is the whole idea that the user gets an optimal experience no matter where they are coming from. RWD gives the user a great, seamless experience.
[Amy] What's the biggest challenge?
[Steve] Determining how it's going to be supported operationally. RWD doesn't create new problems, it amplifies the ones you already have. Who's going to make changes? And who's going to make sure the changes render right on all devices?
The other challenge is that people are combining the "Big R" definition of RWD with a specific technical solution. So they end up asking "Do I do RWD or not?"
[Amy] Is "Do I do RWD or not?" the wrong question to be asking?


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Sacred promises and instruments of greed
Title | Sacred promises and instruments of greed: Spirit world : the story of the mi'kmaq |
Author(s) | R. Johnstone, F. Ledwell, J. Sark, B. Pollard, K. Baglole, Vision TV, Mi'kmaq Pictures Inc |
Date | 2003 |
Abstract | In spite of centuries of unspeakable hurt and indignities inflicted upon them, the Mi'kmaq are still here, and have survived with their indomitable spirit intact. They have taken the Government of Canada to court to enforce the terms of their treaties - and they have won. This program shows how the terms of their treaties have always been sacred to the Mi'kmaq, but have always been used as instruments of greed by the dominant culture. |
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Idealistic Studies
Idealistic Studies | |
Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | Ideal. Stud. |
Discipline | Philosophy |
Language | English |
Edited by | Gary E. Overvold |
Publication details | |
Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (United States) |
Publication history | 1971–present |
Frequency | Triannually |
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ISSN | 0046-8541 (print) 2153-8239 (web) |
OCLC number | 1786353 |
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Idealistic Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal for the publication of studies of idealistic themes. Both historical and contemporary statements of idealistic argumentation are published, as are also historico-philosophical studies of idealism. The journal was established in 1972 by Robert N. Beck with the assistance of the Clark University philosophy department. While it initially focused on American personalism and post-Kantian idealism, the journal's mission has broadened to include other topics, including historically earlier expressions as well as developments of the late 19th to mid-20th century. The journal has become a venue for a number of philosophical movements that share Idealism in their genealogies, including phenomenology, neo-Kantianism, historicism, hermeneutics, life philosophy, existentialism, and pragmatism. The journal is published by the Philosophy Documentation Center and the current editor-in-chief is Gary E. Overvold.
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2003 bmw z4 will not start and EML light is on
My 2003 bmw z4 will not start. No clicking or any noise
EML dash light is on. Have installed new battery.
EML dash light is on. Have installed new battery.
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You might try the other key (if you have more than one) It seems like it could be the drive away protection, called EWS. If it is, the car will require realignment at a shop that has a GT-1 or Autologic, mere mortals cant do this realignment in the comfort of their own garage, it takes special tools.


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After having #dembabies, Mariah Carey is back to her music grind. The 41 year-old mother of two has gotten to work on her upcoming, untiled studio album. With many producers and writers itching for credits on her album, Mariah has decided to work with one of her favorite producers again, Jermaine Dupri!
The two longtime friends posted pictures of themselves enjoying themselves, while working hard at laying down tracks in the studio. We're sure they've been cooking up some musical magic. Hopefully her first single will drop really soon! *does a happy dance*
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The Biggest Loser is the Nanny State
The recently concluded reality TV show, The Biggest Loser, contains some surprising lessons for public policy. Of all the reality television shows bombarding us, The Biggest Loser best combines entertainment with the spectacle of social stratification. Particularly this season, where families compete in teams, we, the viewers, get the chance to confirm commonly held views about obese people. And those views are scathing and overwhelmingly directed at the actions (or inaction) of individual fat people. We believe fat people are that way through lack of control, through the poor choices they make, through their own fault.
And The Biggest Loser contestants fulfil our expectations.
Out of sixteen contestants, all of working age, only five appear to be in full-time employment: two hairdressers, a truckie in the mines, a teacher and a shop manager. The remaining eleven claim no job or only a part-time one: at KFC, doing the grounds for a bowling club, marriage celebrant, DJ. From the limited biographical information made available, only one, teacher Jodie Moon, has tertiary qualifications.
Moreover, only two contestants live in a capital city-in the very southern suburbs of Sydney-and everybody else lives in regional NSW and Queensland, overwhelmingly in the cheaper end of the housing market.
These are average Australians, doing average sorts of jobs, extraordinary only for agreeing to participate in The Biggest Loser.
Yet, because of their ordinariness, The Biggest Loser contestants confirm the general community stereotype of a strong link between low income and unwholesome activities. More affluent viewers, even if they are themselves part of the 65 percent of overweight Australians, can look at The Biggest Loser contestants and project all the negative attitudes they carry about the poor, the uneducated and the obese.
It is without doubt that there is a strong association between lower socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity. The academic literature from both Australia and any other industrialised country you can name highlights this relationship. Similarly, an extensive body of research documents a lack of impulse control across a wide range of indicators from those in the lowest SES groupings. The poor and disadvantaged are more likely to smoke, to experience violence, to gamble. They are less likely to postpone immediate consumption for greater consumption later, in other words, they do not save. From health research, to economics, from education to family studies, the academic literature is clear: the poor engage in a range of behaviours that hurt them.
What is less clear is what, if anything, we can do about it. The Biggest Loser approach is to offer a massive financial incentive in the form of $100,000 of prize money to lose weight, plus substantial amounts of personal training and a fair dose of new-age group therapy support. And for the contestants, it works. Nine weeks into the competition, the competition leader lost 47.5kg, or 37 per cent of his starting body weight. Even the relative laggard of the competition lost 39.1kg, or 26 per cent of her starting body weight. It is even possible that the biggest contestant, Damien, will have lost over 100kg in four months by the time of the finale. These are life-changing weight losses. Damien cried in the third week when he was able to do up his shoelaces for the first time in years.
Locking every obese person up in a reality TV show for months on end is not a public policy option, even if it is one of the very few approaches that clearly works. For this is one of the dirty secrets of obesity-there is little evidence that most of the usual solutions to the 'obesity epidemic' will result in a reduction in obesity. And answering the 'what works' question presupposes that government has either a responsibility or a desire to act on obesity. And that debate is far from clear-cut either.
The first episode of The Biggest Loser took the cameras into the homes of the contestants. We saw what they ate in a typical week and viewers saw the results when the personal trainers had to live with 'their' families and eat their food. All four ultra-fit and lean trainers gained weight, with Karate expert Tiffany gaining 4.6kg in seven days eating and drinking her way with the Duncans. No viewer could walk away thinking the lifestyles of the contestants was anything other than destructive to their health, and as became clear, their relationships and every aspect of their lives.
Anti-obesity campaigners have in recent years stepped up their calls for ever-increasing regulatory interventions to address the impending calamity of obesity. Their solutions-increased urban density and less cars, taxes on fast food and soft drink, banning TV ads for some foods for children, more and different labeling of packaged goods-are presented in the abstract and are often theoretically rather than experientially based. To the limited extent that these interventions have been tried, the results are less than encouraging. Finland banned TV advertising of food to children but had no appreciable change in childhood obesity, New York requires extensive fast food labelling, again without a change in either obesity rates or average portion size.
The Biggest Loser brings alive, in graphic detail, what it takes to become morbidly obese. The contestants eat and drink a monumental amount. They rarely move off their couches. What becomes apparent though is how aware they are of their behaviour. They know they are overweight, they know they are unhealthy. They have the information, but they make poor choices. What The Biggest Loser might have to teach us is why the fashionable coercive policy positions put forward by anti-obesity campaigners are seldom effective.
Poverty-The Challenors
The Challenors are big blokes, the biggest, Damien, weighed in at 234.4kg, while the smallest Joe, still tipped the scales at 139.8kg. Their combined starting weight was 698.4kg, a colossal weight for just four people. Of all the families, the Challenors best personify the public's perception of fat people. None of the four has a full-time job and the youngest member, Nathaniel (142kg at only 18 years of age) works at KFC. They live in regional Australia. The Challenors appear to fit most of the characteristics of a family from Australia's underclass-poor, obese, and dysfunctional.
Yet their wives and kids are not noticeably overweight. Moreover, while the three brothers and their nephew are presented as a family in the unreal world of reality TV, in actuality, they do not live near each other and they are the only one in their domestic families who is obese.
The rest of their families manage to live in the same suburb, eat the same family meals-though not the same volume-and face the same socioeconomic challenges, yet they do not get fat.
This flies in the face of much of the obesity industry's proposed solutions to Australia's supposed weight problem. The built environment could have as many bike paths, footpaths and neighbourhood shops, yet Damien would still heave himself into his van and drive to the bakery for a mid-morning snack.
And boy can the Challenors eat. We are shown the vast portions and sheer volume of food consumed by these men. Damien's daily bakery run resulted in sausage rolls, buns and slice-all for him and every day. At a family barbeque the enormous plates cannot even hold the steaks and pasta salads Damien serves himself. Meanwhile, at home, there are bars of chocolate to while away the hours in front of the TV and video games, Damien's nominated hobbies.
The Challenors inhabit the regions described as an obesogenic environment, with supposedly poor access to fresh food, a plethora of chain fast-food outlets and limited outdoor recreation. This is regional Australia where there is no alternative to running one car per adult and no option to ride a bike to a local shop. Inner city experts decry this sort of suburbia as inherently unhealthy and in need of bike paths and farmers markets and council planning bans on fast food outlets. Yet the Challenors get most of their calories from the local small business bakery, supermarket confectionery and alcohol. What it took to change the lifestyles of Challenors evicted from the house was a change in their attitude, not a change in the built environment. In a later episode, we see Damien at the beach with his kids, a beach that has always been nearby yet never previously used, and we see Nathaniel working out with a personal trainer in the park.
Diet-The Moons
The diets of the women in the Moon family are characterised by emotional eating, including lots of chocolate and Tim Tams. Their stories involve failing relationships, overcoming breast cancer, and turning to food for comfort. As a result, these mothers are unable to play actively with their children.
The obesity campaigners have clear prescriptions for such women. For example, the Obesity Policy Coalition asserted in its submission to the National Preventative Health Taskforce that 'the restriction of marketing of junk food to children is a powerful, cost effective strategy.' This implicitly assumes that mothers must be unable to raise their children without such interventions.
Moves to introduce traffic-light labelling, where some foods are designated as 'unhealthy' and receive a red light because of their nutritional profile, are targeted at women like the Moons, who are the primary food shoppers for their families.
Yet Kellie Moon knows what she is doing when she adds a carton of cream to a pre-packaged creamy pasta sauce. And Jodie Moon carefully decants her kilos of chocolate and sweets to glass jars to hide the number of packets and the nutrition information. Additional labeling of packaged goods has not been effective in any jurisdiction it has been introduced. As the Moon women prove, people know exactly what they are eating, they know they are making bad choices and they make them anyway.
Alcohol-The Duncans
The Duncan family admit to being heavy drinkers. Meg Duncan, a truck driver in the underground mines shows us her life of getting home from a shift, plopping down on the sofa in front of the TV, three steps away from the beer fridge she has set up in the living room. In a normal week, Meg drinks five stubbies on workdays and 24 on the weekend. Sister Sarah-Jayne reckons food is only 'good for soaking up the alcohol before the next bottle' as she downs up to 25 shots to fall asleep. All four Duncans consume alcohol at levels in excess of healthy guidelines.
Moreover, when the Duncans aren't drinking to excess they are lubricating themselves with soft drinks and flavoured milk, both extremely high in calories.
This is a family who would pay heavily were higher alcohol and soft drink taxes to be introduced. Many would argue this would be a good thing, with recent reports suggesting two thirds of Australians think something needs to be done to curtail our alcohol-soaked culture.
Yet of the four families, the Duncans also had the greatest workforce attachment. The three sisters hold full-time jobs and Jarrod's greenskeeper role is regular, if not full-time, employment. Moreover, the Duncans displayed none of the anti-social behaviour or violence that is often at the root of calls for higher taxes to curb alcohol consumption.
Portion Sizes - The Westrens
The Westrens, from the NSW central coast, appear relatively affluent, with a history of family sailing. Yet mid fifties parents Craig and Sharlene, and their son Leigh and his girlfriend Lara, are clearly overweight. While Leigh and Lara have moved out of home and consume vast quantities of fast food, ice-cream and chocolate, parents Craig and Charlene have home-cooked roasts with old favourite desserts such a golden syrup dumplings (a family favourite when I was growing up too).
At a family barbeque, we see Craig eating a massive platter including a mashed-potato sandwich, while breakfast is mountains of bacon.
And Craig is up-front about his dislike of vegetables, even though he knows they are good for him. In fact, when he is eliminated from the house he is thankful because he gets to stop being force fed huge amounts of greenery.
The Westrens have portion control issues-they just eat too much. However, there is no public policy intervention that could improve their diets. They do not eat large amounts of processed food; instead, it is high fat food, home-cooked from scratch.
If taxes and labels and bans will not solve obesity then what actions will be effective, and should government care? Answering these questions is not merely a question of which side of the interventionist or libertarian line you belong to. The feelings of revulsion towards the morbidly obese felt by those not afflicted straddle the ideological divide. Very few people see the very fat as ill, and The Biggest Loser in its own way reinforces this. The contestants are seen to lose weight quickly and in very large amounts through their own actions. What we do not see, in the filtered prism of reality TV, is the counselling, the dieticians, the medics and the support that transforms most, but not all, of the contestants into people who believe they can be successful, in weight loss and in other areas of their life.
Yet, increasingly, the medical research shows that once a person becomes morbidly obese, the range of co-morbidities diminishes the likelihood of successful weight loss. Diabetes, high cholesterol, circulatory problems, the list is long. The morbidly obese are ill. But they are not, in a lifetime healthcare sense, expensive. The little publicised truth is the obese, like smokers, are cheaper on the budget than the healthy-weight non-smokers. Healthy-weight people live longer so they have more old-age health problems, draw pensions for longer and live in aged care facilities for longer. It is true that obesity, like smoking, is correlated with a range of cancers and other diseases, however, these diseases tend to kill the obese before they have the opportunity to require the usual expensive medical interventions of old age such as ophthalmology, hip replacements and post-stroke care.
So, if the obese are not the cause of higher taxes or health insurance premiums, what is the rationale for public policy interventions? It is no more rational to attempt to 'solve' obesity on the grounds of self-harm, than it is to refuse to treat sports injuries. Both groups engage in behaviours that caused harm, both need medical intervention, yet there are no calls to ban middle-aged men from riding bicycles despite clear evidence it results in accidents, heart attacks, sprains and breaks.
What we can see from The Biggest Loser is that obesity is not caused by the absence of traffic light labelling but is the result of personal choices. What is required to tackle it, therefore, is behaviour modification, not nanny-state regulation.
There may be another reason to intervene though, and it is far more complex and controversial than justifying coercive action for misplaced financial reasons. As the contestants in The Biggest Loser show, and research supports, there is a group of low income, poorly educated, socially excluded people, sometimes with mental health problems, who engage in a range of destructive behaviours, of which obesity and particularly morbid obesity is one. For the group at the bottom, who in multiple ways find contemporary society beyond their skills to manage, early intervention to deliver robust life skills and educational attainment is the necessary intervention, not ill-founded coercive headline grabbers.


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*Your personal information, along with all deposits and payments for accommodation are securely passed through to our partner, Château Beauvallon, who will fulfill your reservation and take payment in accordance with the policies set out below. *Your credit card statement will show the charge as coming from Club Lespri Tremblant.
The heated indoor pool, gym and the outdoor are available until 11: 00 pm daily. Please note the outdoor hot tub will be closed from November 4th to November 22nd ,2012 for annual maintenance. The outdoor pool will be closed until June 21st 2013 inclusively.
Please note complimentary coffee, juice, muffins and fruits are available to all our guests in the morning at our self-service area near the front desk. Guests can help themselves and return to their suite.
Our restaurant is available for dinner only and the operation hours are from 5: 30 pm to 22: 00 pm. The restaurant will be open Thursday to Saturday from December 1st to December 20th and open 7 days a week from December 21st 2012 to January 6th 2013. From January 7th to March 31st it will open 5 days a week, Wednesday to Sunday. We recommend reservation prior to your stay with us by contacting us at 1-888-681-6611.
The bar will follow the same schedule as the restaurant but from 15: 00 pm to 23: 00 pm
Please note breakfast, lunch, coffee break and dinner remains available at all time for corporate groups. For more information on corporate events and group, please contact Mrs. Fanny Hayes at 1-888-600-2644
- Chateau Beauvallon requires that at least one guest per residence be 18 years old or older.
- Credit cards accepted: MasterCard, Visa
Year round (see exception*)
- A deposit representing the first night of lodging plus taxes is required at time of reservation.
- The balance (lodging and activities) will be taken 48 hours prior to your arrival.
Christmas holidays (December 20th, 2012 to January 6th, 2013):
- a deposit of 50% of the total stay is required at time of reservation;
- the balance (lodging and activities)will be taken 30 days prior to your arrival.
Year round (see exception*)
- For cancellations made 48 hours or more prior to arrival, the deposit will be refunded less a cancellation fee of 25$.
- For cancellations made less than 48 hours prior to arrival or if there is a no-show, the entire value of the stay will be forfeited.
Christmas holidays (December 20th, 2012 to January 6th, 2013).
- For cancellations made 30 days or more prior to arrival, the deposit will be refunded less a cancellation fee of 25$.
- For cancellations made 29 days or less prior to arrival or if there is a no-show, the entire value of the stay will be forfeited.
Rates are based on double occupancy in a 1bedroom suite, quadruple occupancy in a 2bedroom suite and six adults in a 3bedroom suite. Extra person charge: $25.00 plus taxes per night per adult, $10.00 plus taxes per night per child age 11 to 17. There is no extra charge for children 10 years old and under.
-Rates are subject to 5% GST, 9.5% PST, 5% Beauvallon Royalty fee and $2 per night Quebec lodging tax. Beauvallon administration fee of $15.00 per reservation.
At your arrival for registration, present this confirmation directly at the reception desk of the Château Beauvallon.
We are located at 6385 Montée Ryan, Mont-Tremblant, Qc, J8E 1S5.
If you are using a GPS or Google map, you must enter exactly the text 6385, Montée Ryan, Mont-Tremblant. Anything else may send you to the wrong place.
Take exit 119, Montée Ryan, off Route 117 North. Turn right at the traffic light onto Montée Ryan. We are located at 6385 Montée Ryan, 1 km passed the first roundabout. Our entrance is on your left.
Check-in Time: 4:00 PM
Check-out Time: 11:00 AM
- Free outdoor parking. Valet service available.
All Units are non-smoking. If a guest smokes in a unit, a minimum cleaning fee of $100 will be added to the guest's account.
-Pets are not allowed at Château Beauvallon.
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The wait is over! That is unless you have Time Warner or AT&T U-Verse, but I have Cox so the wait is over for me. I, like a few others, decided to stay at home and out of the rain and watch the Spring Training game between the Padres and the Kansas City Royals this past St. Patricks Day on the new Fox Sports San Diego channel.
It's good to see baseball back. As you know, I caught a few games in person out in Arizona a few weeks back, but sometimes it's nice to just grab a beer out of the fridge, not have to sell a kidney to pay for it, sit on your comfy couch and watch some good 'ol baseball in the comfort and quiet of your own home.
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No time out for spring hockey
Officials concerned, but won't regulate the 'Wild West' sport
Despite nagging concerns over the proliferation and expense of spring hockey, Hockey Canada is not about to intervene and regulate the multi-million-dollar cottage industry -- yet.
"That's one of the things we have to consider... if we can affect the future growth (of spring hockey) in a positive way," said Hockey Canada vice-president of hockey development, Paul Carson, from his Calgary office. "It's an open-ended question."
Carson was responding to an in-depth look into spring hockey by the Free Press, published Saturday, which cited parents who routinely pay $10,000 to $20,000 for their children to play on tournament-based teams from April to early July. That includes the cost of travelling to tournaments across the country and major U.S. cities. Combined with the basic costs of minor winter hockey -- and with the evolution of minor hockey into a 12-month-a-year activity for some elite players -- a growing number of parents feel obligated to fund an activity where spending has escalated, driven by competitiveness and desire.
The phenomenon of spring hockey has resulted, in large part, from a growing number of Manitoba parents who don't believe the traditional Manitoba Hockey/Winnipeg Minor Hockey is developing the elite players between the ages of eight and 13.
To date, Hockey Canada -- and by extension, Hockey Manitoba -- has allowed the expansion of spring hockey, provided tryouts and practices don't interfere with minor-hockey team activities. However, spring hockey remains unregulated. There are no guidelines or regional boundaries on forming teams. There are no disciplinary overseers.
"It's the Wild West," one Winnipeg parent said.
Carson was cautious not to disparage spring hockey. "Nobody is twisting anybody's arm," he said.
But the Hockey Canada official questioned whether all parents understood the potential ramifications of a system where the rules are... well, where there are no rules.
"I'm not sure if parents are aware they're throwing away their rights as a hockey parent for any sanctions," he said, noting parents should have clarity on questions such as insurance and possible disciplinary procedures. "People are so in a hurry to get their kids on the ice with a select group of players, they might not ask some of these questions."
At the same time, Carson said costs associated with spring hockey -- in which Winnipeg teams travel to tournaments across North America -- may prove prohibitive for parents with limited incomes.
"The biggest concern I have is the risk far outweighs the reward when it involves selling the dream," Carson said. "I worry about burnout. I worry about families spending themselves beyond their means just to keep up."
Carson cited studies by Jim Parcels, co-author of the recently released book, Selling the Dream: How Hockey Parents and Their Kids are Paying the Price for Our National Obsession (Viking), which crunch the numbers on not just the excessive costs, but the razor-thin odds of any Canadian kid playing professional hockey. "A lot of parents don't feel the numbers apply to them," Carson said. "But the dream is the dream."
Winnipeg-based sports psychologist Cal Botterill is also leery of the trend of 12-month hockey for pre-teens (both on- and off-ice training) and teens, arguing a mix of activities will provide children with a "bigger athletic base."
Botterill noted his daughter, Jennifer, a former longtime national women's hockey team member and winner of three Olympic gold medals, was a provincial champion in five sports in high school: ringette, soccer, volleyball, badminton and basketball.
Botterill's son, Jason, now assistant general manager with the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins, was the only Canadian player in history to win three consecutive world junior gold medals. Jason played spring hockey only one year during his youth in Winnipeg, largely because he was injured during the winter.
However, Botterill acknowledged that the minor-hockey world of today, with so many societal and monetary pressures to succeed at the sport in a hockey-mad country, is a different and far more competitive animal than formerly.
"It's like the lottery," he said of many parents' investment in the sport. "They're afraid not to do it. The biggest motive is losing out... when they think what they have (in winter hockey) is not the best."
For example, Botterill said parents, especially in Canada, are oversold on the importance of the Western Hockey League draft, though a college career might prove a better long-term option, given the long odds of playing professionally via either route.
Ultimately, however, Botterill said the danger, given the prestigious place hockey holds in Canadian culture, is parents who become too consumed by their competitive nature -- and nurture, for that matter.
"We get in trouble when we start getting too ambitious for other people, including kids," he cautioned. "When you get too ambitious... they can feel pressure somehow, some way. Sometimes that gets disruptive."
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Computer software that is not an integral part of the related hardware is classified as an intangible asset and is stated at cost less accumulated amortisation. Amortisation is charged on a straight line basis over periods from three to five years.
Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost or deemed cost less accumulated depreciation and impairment losses. Certain items of property, which had been revalued to fair value on or prior to 31 January 2004, the date of transition to IFRS, are measured on the basis of deemed cost, being the revalued amount at the date of that revaluation.
Maintenance and repair costs are expensed as incurred while major renewal and improvement costs are capitalised.
Depreciation is provided on freehold and long leasehold retail premises over an estimated useful life not exceeding 50 years. Long leaseholds relate to leases that have an original and unexpired lease term of greater than 25 years. Freehold land is not depreciated.
Depreciation on other fixed assets is provided on a straight line basis at the following annual rates:
Plant, machinery and vehicles – 10%, 20%, 33⅓% ,
Shopfronts, fixtures and fittings – rates up to 33⅓%.
Short leasehold – over the life of the lease.
Where the renewal of a lease is reasonably assured, the depreciation period for shopfronts, fixtures and fittings may exceed the remaining lease term.
Where appropriate, provision is made on assets that have a recoverable amount less than book value. Potentially impaired assets are identified by reviewing the cash contribution of individual stores where trading since the initial opening of the store has reached a mature stage. Where such stores deliver a low or negative cash contribution, the related store assets are considered for impairment by reference to the higher of net realisable value and value in use. Additionally, provision is made against property, plant and equipment relating to stores planned for closure. Where quantifiable, the discounted cost of decommissioning assets installed in leasehold premises is included in the cost of the assets and appropriate decommissioning provisions are recognised.
Inventories represent raw materials and goods held for resale and are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value. Cost is determined using average cost and includes overheads directly related to bringing inventory to its present location and condition. These include relevant warehousing, distribution and certain buying, security and data processing costs. Net realisable value represents estimated selling price less all estimated costs of completion and costs to be incurred in marketing, selling and distribution. Provision is made for obsolete, slow moving or defective items.
Where vendor contributions are received in respect of identifiable promotional events, these are matched against the costs of these promotions. Vendor contributions which are received as general contributions and not against specific promotional events are allocated against inventories.
Trade and other receivables are stated at their nominal amount less an allowance for potential losses, which equates to their fair value.
Assets held under finance leases are leases where substantially all the risks and rewards of the asset have passed to the Group. All other leases are defined as operating leases.
Where operating leases include clauses in respect of predetermined rent increases, those rents are charged to the income statement on a straight line basis over the lease term, including any construction period or other rental holiday. Other rentals paid under operating leases are charged to the income statement as incurred. Premiums paid to acquire short leasehold properties and inducements to enter into a lease are recognised over the lease term. Amounts payable in respect of contingent rents are recognised in the period to which the sales relate.
Tax on the profit or loss for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the income statement except to the extent that it relates to items recognised directly in equity, in which case the related tax impact is recognised in equity.
Current tax is the expected tax payable on the taxable income for the year, using tax rates enacted or substantively enacted at the balance sheet date, and any adjustment to tax payable in respect of previous years.
Accruals for tax contingencies are made based on judgements and estimates in relation to tax audit issues and exposures. Amounts accrued are based on management's interpretation of country-specific tax law and the likelihood of settlement. Tax benefits are not recognised unless the tax positions are probable of being sustained. Once considered to be probable, each material tax benefit is reviewed to assess whether a provision should be taken against full recognition of the benefit on the basis of potential settlement through negotiation and/or litigation. All such provisions are included in creditors due within one year, although there is uncertainty regarding the exact timing of the agreement and settlement of outstanding positions. Any recorded exposure to interest and penalties on tax liabilities is provided for in the tax charge.
Deferred taxation is provided on all temporary differences arising between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their carrying values for financial reporting purposes. Deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that future taxable profit will be available against which temporary differences can be utilised. Tax rates enacted or substantively enacted at the balance sheet date are used to determine deferred tax.
No temporary differences are recognised in respect of:
deferred tax in respect of the initial recognition of goodwill;
additional tax which would arise if profits of overseas subsidiaries were distributed to the extent that they would probably not reverse in the foreseeable future; and
the initial recognition of assets or liabilities that affect neither accounting nor taxable profit other than in a business combination.
The Group operates a defined contribution pension scheme in the UK and sponsors a defined contribution 401(k) retirement savings plan in the US. Contributions made by the Group to these pension arrangements are charged to the income statement as incurred.
The Group also operates a defined benefit pension scheme (the "Group Scheme") in the UK which ceased to admit new employees from April 2004.
The Group Scheme, covering two of the executive directors and participating eligible employees in the UK, provides benefits based on members' salaries at retirement. The Group Scheme's assets are held by the trustees and are completely separate from those of the Group. The pension cost is assessed in accordance with the advice of independent qualified actuaries.
Actuarial gains or losses are accounted for in the statement of recognised income and expense in the period in which they arise.
The full service cost of pension provisions relating to the period is charged to administrative expenses in the income statement. The net of the expected return on the Group Scheme's assets and the interest element of the increase in the present value of the Group Scheme's liabilities is credited to finance income in the income statement.
The difference between the market value of the assets of the Group Scheme and the present value of accrued pension liabilities is shown as an asset or liability on the balance sheet. The difference between the expected return on assets and that actually achieved is recognised in the statement of recognised income and expense along with any differences that may arise from experience or assumption changes.
Where appropriate, supplementary pensions and life assurance benefits for UK directors and senior executives were until 5 April 2006 provided through the Signet Group Funded Unapproved Retirement Benefits Scheme (''FURBS'') and were charged to the income statement as incurred. No further contributions are paid into the FURBS and in substitution a supplement is paid directly to the members.
Derivative financial instruments are recognised at fair value. The gain or loss on remeasurement to fair value is recognised immediately in the income statement. However, where derivatives qualify for hedge accounting, recognition of any resultant gain or loss depends upon the nature of the item being hedged.
Changes in the fair value of financial instruments that are designated and are effective as hedges of future cash flows are recognised directly in equity through the statement of recognised income and expense. Any ineffective portion of the gain or loss is recognised immediately in the income statement. For cash flow hedges that result in the recognition of a non-financial asset or liability, amounts previously deferred in equity are included in the measurement of the asset or liability. For cash flow hedges that result in the recognition of a financial asset or liability, amounts previously recognised in equity are recognised in the income statement in the same period in which the hedged item affects net profit or loss. The Group applies the hedge accounting provisions of IAS 39 as they relate to forward currency and commodity contracts in order to minimise future volatility.
The Group took the exemption not to restate the 29 January 2005 closing position for IAS 32 'Financial instruments: disclosure and presentation' and IAS 39 'Financial instruments: recognition and measurement'. As a result, the 29 January 2005 closing position is presented on the previously existing UK GAAP basis.
In that comparative period, other than the following exceptions, all financial assets and financial liabilities were carried at cost (amortised as appropriate) less, in the case of financial assets, provision for any permanent diminution in value. Gains and losses on forward foreign exchange contracts treated as hedging instruments were not recognised in the income statement. On recognition of the hedged transaction the unrecognised gains and losses arising on the instrument were recognised, either in the income statement or combined into the carrying value of the associated asset or liability.
In the 52 week period to 29 January 2005 closing position, hedging instruments were not recognised. From 30 January 2005 the hedging instruments are brought on to the balance sheet in accordance with the current period policy. In subsequent periods, hedging instruments are accounted for separately in the balance sheet. Gains and losses are included in profit for the period when the hedged transaction occurs having first recorded the hedging instrument in equity (to the extent effective). The cash flow statement is unaffected by this change in accounting policy.
The following adjustments were therefore made as at the beginning of the period ended 28 January 2006 with the net adjustment to net assets, after tax, taken through the statement of recognised income and expense:
$m | |
Liabilities – Current liabilities | |
Commodity contract classified within trade and other payables | 1.1 |
Equity – Capital and reserves attributable to equity shareholders | |
Cash flow hedging reserve | 1.1 |
Cash and cash equivalents comprise money market deposits and amounts placed with external fund managers with an original maturity of three months or less, and are carried at cost which approximates to fair value.
Borrowings comprise interest bearing bank loans, private placement loan notes, and bank overdrafts and are recorded at the proceeds received net of any transaction costs incurred. Interest bearing borrowings are stated at amortised cost with any difference between cost and redemption value being recognised in the income statement over the period of the borrowings on an effective interest basis.
A charge to income is recognised in respect of the fair values of outstanding employee share options, measured at grant level. For the LTIP, options granted are valued using a Black-Scholes option pricing model. The fair values of all other options have been calculated using a Black-Scholes model up to 29 January 2005 and a binomial valuation model thereafter. These are charged to the income statement over the relevant option vesting periods, the expense recognised being adjusted to reflect the Group's estimate of the number of shares that will eventually vest. The optional transitional arrangements, which allow companies to apply IFRS 2 fully retrospectively to all options granted but not fully vested at the relevant reporting date, have been used.
For equity-settled transactions, the charge to the income statement is credited back to total equity.
The cost of the cash and share award elements of the LTIP is charged to the income statement evenly over the period from the award date to vesting, based on the level of award that is expected to be achieved. A liability equal to the portion of goods or services received is recognised at the current fair value determined at each balance sheet date for cash settled schemes.
A provision is recognised in the balance sheet when the Group has a present legal or constructive obligation as a result of a past event, and it is probable that an outflow of economic benefits will be required to settle the obligation. If the effect is material, provisions are determined by discounting the expected future cash flows at a pre-tax rate that reflects current market assessments of the time value of money and, where appropriate, the risks specific to the liability. Provision is made for future net lease obligations in respect of onerous leases of vacant, partially vacant or sublet properties.
When new shares are issued, they are recorded in share capital at their par value. The excess of the issue price over the par value is recorded in the share premium reserve.
The cost of own shares purchased to satisfy the exercise of employee share options is deducted from total equity and the proceeds of their onward transfer are credited to total equity.
Dividends are provided for in the period in which they are formally approved.
At the date of preparation of the financial statements, the following Standards and Interpretations, which have not been applied in the financial statements, were in issue but not yet effective:
IFRS 8 'Operating Segments' was issued in November 2006. It requires the identification of operating segments based on internal reporting to the chief operating decision maker and extends the scope and disclosure requirements of IAS 14 'Segmental Reporting'. It is effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2009. The Group is currently reviewing the impact that the adoption of IFRS 8 would have on its financial statements.
A revised IAS 23 'Borrowing costs' was issued in March 2007. It requires entities to capitalise any borrowing costs relating to assets that take a substantial period of time to prepare for use, rather than immediately recognising such costs as an expense. The revised Standard is effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2009 and will be applied prospectively from that date. The adoption of these amendments is not expected to have a significant effect upon the net results or net assets of the Group.
A revised IAS 1 'Presentation of Financial Statements' was issued in September 2007. It revises the presentation of non-owner changes in equity and introduces a statement of comprehensive income. It is effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2009. The adoption of these amendments will not have a significant impact upon the net results, net assets or disclosures of the Group.
IFRS 8 'Operating Segments' was endorsed by the EU during 2007. The revised IAS 23 'Borrowing Costs' and IAS 1 'Presentation of Financial Statements' have not yet been endorsed by the EU.
The following IFRIC interpretations have been issued but have not yet been adopted by the Group IFRIC 12 'Service Concession Arrangements', IFRIC 13 'Customer Loyalty Programmes' and IFRIC 14 'IAS 19 – The Limit on a Defined Benefit Asset, Minimum Funding requirements and their interaction. None of these interpretations have been endorsed by the EU and none are expected to have a significant impact upon adoption.


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Tuesday 21 May
In the News: First crane egg in the western UK in four centuries
What's the World's Favourite Species?
Find out here.Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Chordata |
Class | Reptilia |
Order | Squamata |
Family | Colubridae |
Genus | Boiga (1) |
Ranawana's golden cat snake is the sixth Boiga species to be discovered that is endemic to Sri Lanka (2). Members of this genus are commonly known as 'cat snakes' or 'cat-eyed snakes', and are typically thin, long-bodied snakes with large heads and large eyes, varying greatly in colour and pattern (3). This mildly venomous species (2) is yellowish-orange, darker above and paler below, flecked with intermittent dark scales on the upper surface.
TopVery little is known about the biology of Ranawana's golden cat snake, other than that, like other cat snakes, it is nocturnal (5). Cat snakes are primarily arboreal, nocturnal snakes that prey on various species of lizards, birds and rodents (3). Boiga species are oviparous (egg-laying) (3).
TopKnown from Gannoruwa Forest in Kandy District, Central Province, Sri Lanka (2) (4).
TopNothing is recorded on this species' habitat.
TopClassified as Data Deficient (DD) on the IUCN Red List 2007 (1).
TopThe threats to this species are unknown, but it is thought that they may be threatened by habitat destruction and pesticide use (1).
TopThere are currently no conservation measures targeting this species.
TopMore »Related species
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