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March 18, 2016 08:34 ET
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 18, 2016) - Prime Minister's Office
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that he will recommend the appointment of seven new Senators to the Governor General. The new, independent Senators will fill two vacancies in Manitoba, three in Ontario, and two in Quebec.
The following are the individuals who will be recommended for appointment to the Senate:
Over the last three months, the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments undertook broad consultations in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec - and provided the Prime Minister with a number of non-binding recommendations. From that pool of candidates, the Prime Minister selected the seven new Senators he will recommend to the Governor General.
The Prime Minister also announced today that he intends to appoint V. Peter Harder as Government Representative in the Senate. Mr. Harder will act as the Government's Representative in the Senate in order to facilitate the introduction and consideration of Government legislation, and would be sworn in as a Privy Councillor.
The new independent Senators will be expected to make a significant contribution to the work of the Senate, and to contribute to the ultimate goal that ensures a high standard of integrity, collaboration, and non-partisanship.
"The Government is today taking further concrete steps to follow through on its commitment to reform the Senate, restore public trust, and bring an end to partisanship in the appointments process."
Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
"The Senate appointments I have announced today will help advance the important objective to transform the Senate into a less partisan and more independent institution that can perform its fundamental roles in the legislative process more effectively-including the representation of regional and minority interests-by removing the element of partisanship, and ensuring that the interests of Canadians are placed before political allegiances."
- Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
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Raymonde Gagné
Born in Manitoba, Ms. Gagné has worked in the field of education for over 35 years. Notably, she was President of Université Saint-Boniface (USB) from 2003-2014. During this time, she directed the efforts to change the institution's status from college to university. She also spearheaded an $18 million fundraising campaign -- the largest in the institution's history - for the construction of a new health sciences building, to expand research capacity and increase the scholarship and bursary program.
Prior to her tenure as President, she served as Director of New Programs, Director of the Community College and of the Continuing Education Division of USB, as well as Professor in Business Administration.
Prior to her arrival at USB, she worked as a high school teacher, a principal, and as a consultant in regional and industrial expansion in New Brunswick. She is a member of the Order of Canada, the Order of Manitoba, and a recipient of the Prix Riel.
She contributes to numerous organizations and boards within Manitoba and across the country. She served as President of the Association des universités de la francophonie canadienne from 2005-2009, was a member of the Advisory Committee on Official Languages for the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada from 2007-2009, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Consortium national de formation en santé, which she co-chaired from 2009-2014.
As President of USB, Ms. Gagné was a member of the Council of Presidents of Universities of Manitoba and was elected Chair in 2012. She was also a member of the Senate of the University of Manitoba.
Justice Murray Sinclair
Justice Sinclair has served the justice system in Manitoba for over 25 years. He was the first Aboriginal Judge appointed in Manitoba, and only the second in Canada.
He has served as Co-Chair of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry in Manitoba and as Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). As head of the TRC, he participated in hundreds of hearings across Canada that culminated in the issuance of the TRC's report in 2015. He also oversaw an active multi-million dollar fundraising program to support various TRC events and activities, and to allow survivors to travel to attend TRC events.
Justice Sinclair has been invited to speak throughout Canada, the United States, and internationally, including the Cambridge Lectures in England (for members of the judiciary of various Commonwealth courts).
He has served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Manitoba. He is also very active within his profession and his community, and has won numerous awards, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Manitoba Bar Association's Equality Award (2001), and its Distinguished Service Award (2016). Justice Sinclair has received Honorary Doctorates from eight Canadian universities.
V. Peter Harder
Mr. Harder spent 29 years in the federal public service, including an impressive 16 years as Deputy Minister, which included heading the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Solicitor General, Public Security, and the Treasury Board Secretariat. As Deputy Minister, he oversaw the legislative process of countless bills and has appeared before standing committees of the House of Commons and the Senate.
From 2003-2007, he served as Personal Representative of the Prime Minister (Sherpa) to three G8 Summits. He is an expert on Canada-China relations and was elected President of the China-Canada Business Council in 2008.
He is active in his community and is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Public Service Outstanding Achievement Award and the United Way Community Builder Award.
He chaired the United Church of Canada Foundation and the Commonwealth Games Foundation. He has provided his time to several organizations and is currently involved with the National Arts Centre, the Glenn Gould Foundation, the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, and the Advisory Committee on the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. He was also the Royal Bank visiting Chair on Women and Work at Carleton University.
Frances Lankin
Ms. Lankin spent more than 10 years as the CEO of United Way Toronto. She also served as a provincial Minister and Legislator within the Government of Ontario for 11 years (1990-2001).
Furthermore, she has contributed to a number of diverse government bodies and initiatives, including the Security Intelligence Review Committee, the Blue Ribbon Committee on Federal Grants and Contributions, and is Co-Commissioner of the Commission for the Reform of Social Assistance in Ontario.
She is currently Chair of the National NewsMedia Council, Board Director for Hydro One, and Board Director and Chair of the Social Responsibility Committee for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission, and has extensive previous experience as a former volunteer on several boards.
She is a Member of the Order of Canada and has received Honorary Doctorates from Queen's University, Ryerson University, and Nipissing University.
Ratna Omidvar
Ms. Omidvar has a long history of service since her arrival in Canada from Iran. She is experienced in issues that surround immigration, multiculturalism, diversity, citizenship, integration, and minority rights.
Currently, she is the founding Executive Director and Adjunct Professor of the Global Diversity and Migration Exchange at the Ted Rogers School of Management, at Ryerson University. She was Executive Director and President of Maytree from 1998 to 2014. During that time, she founded the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council and DiverseCity on Board, both of which have been replicated nationally and internationally to deal with the integration and inclusion of immigrants into the workforce and the community.
Ms. Omidvar is currently Chair of Lifeline Syria. She is also a Director of the Centre for Mental Health and Addiction (CAMH), The Environics Institute, and Samara. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario, and is one of the few Canadians to have received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of German-Canadian relations.
She was recognized in 2010 by the Globe and Mail as one of Canada's top nation-builders of the decade, and has an Honorary Doctorate from York University. She was named to the inaugural Global Diversity List sponsored by The Economist magazine in 2015 as one of the Top 10 Diversity Champions worldwide.
Chantal Petitclerc
Ms. Petitclerc is both an internationally famous athlete and a caring woman. At age 13, she lost the use of her legs in an accident. She managed to overcome adversity and numerous obstacles to become an undisputed leader in the sports world.
Her gold medals from the Paralympic, Olympic, and Commonwealth games, the numerous awards and recognition she has received, and her appointment as Chef de Mission for the Canadian team at the Rio Paralympic Games all bear witness to this triumph.
Her many achievements and her personal journey have shaped her into a leading speaker who is recognized nation-wide. She has been Défi sportif AlterGo's spokesperson for 17 years, and is the Ambassador for the international organization Right to Play.
Through her unflagging message highlighting the contribution of disabled persons to our society, she is playing a definitive role in furthering the development of a more inclusive society. Through her involvement, she is motivating those with limitations to overcome and achieve their full potential.
Through her various experiences, Chantal has also gained a good knowledge of the unique characteristics of the various communities, as well as of decision-making processes at the national level. Moreover, having a functional limitation herself, she has an excellent understanding of the needs of various minorities, and desires to get involved to make their concerns heard.
Ms. Petitclerc is a Companion of the Order of Canada and Knight of the Ordre du Québec. She was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's athlete of the year, and was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She also has four Honorary Doctorates. In addition, Chantal offers a dynamic contribution and unique expertise from her membership on a number of committees and boards.
André Pratte
Mr. Pratte's career in journalism has spanned 37 years, 14 of which he spent as editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper La Presse.
Throughout his career, he has been required to demonstrate independence and impartiality. As an editor, he expressed opinions based on facts, principles, and reasoning rather than prejudice, partisanship, or interests. He became very well known in Quebec and the rest of Canada for his strong positions, which clearly conferred on him a role as a leader and public influencer.
He holds a political science degree and has covered Canadian politics for most of his career, including three years on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Having headed the politics desks of La Presse, he has an excellent knowledge of the Canadian Constitution and the legislative process. Further, through his work, he has gained knowledge in a number of fields, including the practice of federalism in Canada and around the world, public finance, energy, the environment, health systems management, Canadian foreign policy, human rights, and the situation of Canada's cultural and religious minorities.
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The two most revenue-generating days in ecommerce are quickly approaching, and retailers should be doing everything in their power to ensure that their website will provide visitors with an exceptional user experience this Black Friday, Cyber Monday.
That might sound intimidating and complex, given all the possibilities, but it really isn't.
Instead, today we're going to examine how to target shoppers who know exactly what they want to make their experience as smooth as possible with an often-overlooked feature of your website …
On-Site Search: An Undervalued Tool
Search is a critical element of all websites. Unfortunately, it's also often undervalued and overlooked. For a big-picture examination of the topic, check out Ecommerce Site Search: Best Practices and What to Look For in a Solution.
It's definitely not the sexiest of tools, but on-site search can do amazing things if properly utilized.
Consider these on-site search statistics:
- 80% of consumers will abandon a site after a poor search experience.
- 8 second or less is all the time you have to help someone find what they want
- Consumers expect internal search engines to know what they're looking for; however, 85% of searches don't return what the user sought
Also, consider some benefits of properly utilizing on-site search:
- People who search are more likely to purchase because they are shopping with intent, compared to those who use standard navigation
- People who perform a site search are twice as likely to convert
This tool is perfect because it draws the people who are looking for a specific item in mind and are ready to make a purchase. All you have to do is show them where it is, and get out of the way. You can't afford to neglect it.
Don't stop here …
Keep reading to find out about how to improve on-site search this holiday.
But, if you want to go even deeper, we've built the ultimate Black Friday, Cyber Monday Toolbox. Everything you need to unwrap the magic of the Shopify Plus platform and make this holiday season your most profitable ever.
Visitors Communicate through On-Site Search
Think of this scenario: a person walks into a retail store looking for a specific TV and they ask the salesperson where to find the TV in the store. The salesperson doesn't know where that TV is so they respond, "Sorry, but we don't carry that product," or, "Sorry, I don't know where that product is."
Chances are, the person will walk out of the store and go to another store that carries TVs and the sale is lost. Not to mention, you'd fire that salesperson on the spot.
A search bar is a communication tool — the equivalent to a salesperson in a retail store taking the visitor to the product they want to see. Often, shoppers use the search bar to help them find items they're looking for quickly, instead of wasting time scrolling through dozens of category pages browsing.
If you wouldn't put up with a salesperson who doesn't know where the TV is for one customer who comes in and asks …
Then you can imagine how important the onsite search bar is in the shopper's journey on your website. Just like in a retail store, a website must provide the shopper with the information they are looking for, in a timely, and accurate manner.
On-Site Search Tip 1: Enhanced Autocomplete
When you type a word into the Google search bar, chances are the results displayed are very accurate. Almost too accurate. These types of search conglomerates (i.e., Amazon, Walmart, Target, and eBay) have spoiled today's online shoppers, as people expect the same experience and accuracy with every search bar.
Because they're conditioned to such snappy responses and results, online shoppers leave quickly if the website does not provide them with the product they type into the search bar within a couple of attempts.
Chances are you don't have a huge team of developers (or as many resources as Google) that can create a perfect search on your website. But don't worry, there are tools out there, like enhanced autocomplete, that can provide your website with the type of search experience shoppers expect … without breaking the bank.
Enhanced autocomplete refers to a powerful machine learning algorithm that learns from and adapts to a shopper's search behavior over time. When a group of products have equal relevance in a shopper's search results, the "best performing" product (the product that gets clicked most often by everyone else) will be promoted to the top of the search results.
Nextopia has been pioneering on-site search and enhanced autocomplete since 1999. Our powerful on-site search platform has been built on the real-time feedback given to us from our 2,000+ ecommerce customers.
I am a partner marketing coordinator at Nextopia, and work alongside our team of ecommerce experts, customer success, and developers, in creating relevant content that retailers will find useful for their online stores. Enhanced autocomplete is a powerful tool that has many possibilities that retailers may not know about, and we're here to help them find it.
(1) Enhanced Autocomplete to Promote Popular Products
When you type "whey" into Tiger Fitness's search bar, their most popular "whey" product is displayed. The algorithm displayed this product because, over time, it learned through user behavior that this product converts the most.
Retailers can further enhance their UX through enhanced autocomplete, by giving site visitors additional avenues to consider. For example, including popular category pages, popular searches, thumbnail photos, and product matches (like Tiger Fitness did) will provide meaningful information to shoppers.
(2) Enhanced Autocomplete for Similar SKUs
Enhanced autocomplete can work wonders for websites with similar SKUs. Jollyes, one of the largest pet food superstore chains in the UK, was having search issues as a result of their large catalog.
When site visitors typed "dog food" into the search bar, thousands of products would be displayed in the results, but would not necessarily be associated with the exact keyword.
The search plug-in that they were using had just the basic autocomplete functionalities and would bring up all products that had "dog" in it, and separate products that had "food" in it. The visitor would get frustrated seeing "fish food" in the results.
After implementing an enhanced autocomplete solution, Jollyes saw great results. Their revenue increased by 60 percent and their conversions through search increased 39 percent.
"Since implementing Nextopia (the enhanced autocomplete provider), we have received no complaints regarding the search results, something which was all too frequent prior to the implementation."
Gavin Trimble, Jollyes' Ecommerce Manager
(3) Enhanced Autocomplete in Unconventional Ways
There are many ways retailers can use enhanced autocomplete to their advantage. Retailers can include informative content such as blogs, shipping information, how to's, videos, recipes, promotional banners, and landing pages in the autocomplete results.
Pro Tip
Include a "Black Friday Sales" or "Cyber Monday Sales" banner in your autocomplete results. Once those eager Black Friday, Cyber Monday consumers visit your website and use the search bar, they can immediately be directed to the Black Friday, Cyber Monday sales page.
Pro Tip
If it's too early in the holiday shopping season, and you don't have a Black Friday - Cyber Monday sales page yet, create an option for shoppers to sign up to your email list to get notifications of your latest deals. Or create a Black Friday, Cyber Monday countdown! See Tiger Fitness' example below.
On-Site Search Tip 2: Mobile Site Search
The 2016 holiday shopping season had a clear indication: mobile commerce isn't slowing down.
According to Adobe, mobile commerce generated $1.07 billion (US) from Cyber Monday in 2016, a 34 percent increase year-over-year (YoY), and accounted for 47 percent of visits to retail websites. Mobile was already booming days earlier on Thanksgiving Day, with 57 percent of site visits and 40 percent of sales happening over phones and tablets.
What's even more interesting are the 2016 Black Friday numbers: the first day to generate more than a billion dollars in online sales from mobile commerce.
According to Adobe Insights, the $1.2 billion USD spent through M-commerce was an increase of 33 percent from the year before! Even Walmart reported that mobile traffic comprised of more than 70 percent of their Black Friday shopping.
It's apparent that an increasing amount of consumers are using their smartphones to make purchases – and that will only continue. Retailers must optimize their websites for mobile to ensure that the increasing amount of consumers using mobile devices to shop online have a seamless experience across all devices.
Today's Consumers Value Speed & Accuracy
Since many people use their smartphone to shop because of convenience (while on public transit, waiting in line, etc.), they value speed and accuracy.
If you've invested in a search tool for your desktop website, make sure it's optimized for mobile ecommerce as well. You definitely want all of the same search, navigation and merchandising tools to work especially well on smartphones, as people have less screen space (and patience) than shopping on a desktop.
Include On-Site Search on Every Page of Your Mobile Site
It's quite annoying having to click around looking for a product on a small screen. That's why the search bar needs to be easily accessible on every single page of your mobile site, to enhance the user's shopping experience, and making sure that they can find what they're looking for easily.
Pro Tip
Add your "Black Friday Sales" landing page in your mobile site's search bar, so that consumers can quickly browse through your Black Friday sales while they are standing in line waiting for the physical store to open.
On-Site Search Tip 3: Merchandising
When you walk into a traditional brick and mortar store, products are displayed and strategically placed in order to catch the consumer's eye. Retailers use various merchandising techniques to entice consumers to make a purchase in store.
Online merchandising is not much different than traditional merchandising – as you can use many of the same tactics on your ecommerce store. Below are our favorite techniques that can greatly enhance the UX on your ecommerce site.
(1) Redirects – Provide Other Calls to Action
If you happen to be out of an item, or you don't carry the exact product that a consumer is searching for, rather than sending them to the "no results found" page, use it as an opportunity to provide other calls to action or promote similar products to save the sale. If you direct a consumer to a "no results found" page with no prompt to continue shopping, chances are they will leave your site right away and search somewhere else.
Watchit.com uses this technique when consumers search for "Rolex" watches, as they don't carry this brand. The consumer gets redirected to the "Tissot" brand page, as it is a similar product to Rolex.
Also take this opportunity to create redirect rules for popular "non-product" queries (i.e. contact information, locations, return policy, size chart, etc.). Even though this may not lead to a direct conversion, it will provide a better user experience for returning (or future) shoppers. This will help prevent your site visitors leaving to go search on a competitor's site.
(2) Synonyms – Powerful and Last Forever
Not every person visiting your site uses the same language – especially if you sell internationally. By properly configuring synonyms into your site search, you'll not only be able to quickly drive revenue, but you'll also be able to ensure that your customers can always find exactly what they're searching for, regardless of what they search.
Through advanced search tools, retailers have the ability to set up "synonym redirects", which will automatically direct customers to products they typed into the search bar, regardless of the product name.
For example, if you run a furniture store and none of your products have the keyword "sofa" in them, you can manually set up a redirect so that every search for "sofa" goes to the results page for "couch." If you didn't have the redirect set up, the person that typed in "sofa" would be directed to a "no results found" page, which doesn't provide a positive user experience (especially since your site carries the product of interest).
Synonyms are one of the easiest and most important tools to take advantage of. They're powerful, easy to set up, and last forever.
(3) Promotional Banners
Instead of only showing your Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales banner on the homepage, make the promotional banner visible throughout your entire site by adding it to every page of your website. This makes the sale page easily accessible, no matter where the consumer is on your website.
There are many tools out there that allow you to create promotional banners on the fly, and link them to any page of your website. For example, Nextopia's intelligent site search platform provides all of the merchandising tools mentioned in this article.
Pro Tip
Include the banners in the autocomplete results as well to further enhance the user experience.
Final Thoughts
These next few weeks are going to be crucial for you to ensure that your Shopify Plus site is ready for the influx of traffic coming this November. While these onsite search tips sound simple and straightforward, implementing them to your site will make all the difference to take care of shoppers with high intent.
The shopper knows what they want to buy — and they're giving you a shot to provide it to them. Don't get careless now.
About the Author
Michelle Seges is a Partner Marketing Coordinator at Nextopia, a leader in ecommerce on-site search and navigation. She follows more puppies than humans on Instagram and currently resides in Toronto.
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Sykes and Vermeulen Strike Positive Superpole Blows
March 3, 2010
Kawasaki Racing Team riders Tom Sykes and Chris Vermeulen will start of the third and fourth row respectively for Sunday's 22-lap World Superbike Championship races in Australia.
After finishing 12th and 15th fastest in the first qualifying session on Friday, today's second qualifying saw Vermeulen seventh fastest, and Sykes 13th.
Combined qualifying times placed Chris eighth and Tom 15th, each easily inside Superpole qualification. It was an astoundingly close combined qualifying timesheet, however, as Chris's pre-Superpole performance saw him only 0.345 seconds from the quickest of all, and Tom only 0.651 away from top ranking.
Both Tom and Chris made it through two periods of Superpole, only missing out on the final part. After Superpole was completed Tom was placed 12th on the grid; Chris one row behind after ending up 14th quickest.
Tom Sykes: "The bike has felt consistent doing those 1'32s in qualifying and Superpole, which is nice. We changed a couple of things and certainly we could have squeezed a little more out of the package on the softer tires. We are starting on the third row of the grid, which I think compared to where things were at last year, we are certainly working in a good direction. We have some thinking to do tonight because we got a lot of new information today. That is certainly going to give us a better indication of which direction to go in tomorrow, depending on the weather conditions."
Chris Vermeulen: "We have come forward a long way, and today was the first time I had ever had the chance to use a qualifier. We ran one in the first of the Superpole sessions and it worked reasonably well.
We went out again and made a couple of mistakes on the other qualifier, then used a soft race tire after that. My early split times were improved, but we had a small problem with the bike and we couldn't complete that quick lap. Top seven or eight is possible tomorrow, but I do not know who is doing what with their tires, and there will be a lot of guys in there. We still have to decide on a final tire choice, it just depends on the weather."
Race 1
1 Leon Haslam Suzuki GSX-R1000
2 Michel Fabrizio Ducati 1098R
3 Noriyuki Haga Ducati 1098R
4 Jonathan Rea Honda CBR1000RR
5 Max Biaggi Aprilia RSV4 1000 F.
6 Sylvain Guintoli Suzuki GSX-R1000
7 Carlos Checa Ducati 1098R
8 Jakub Smrz Ducati 1098R
9 Troy Corser BMW S1000 RR
10 Lorenzo Lanzi Ducati 1098R
13 Tom Sykes Kawasaki ZX 10R
DNF Chris Vermeulen Kawasaki ZX 10R
Race 2
1 Carlos Checa Ducati 1098R
2 Leon Haslam Suzuki GSX-R1000
3 Michel Fabrizio Ducati 1098R
4 Sylvain Guintoli Suzuki GSX-R1000
5 Noriyuki Haga Ducati 1098R
6 Jonathan Rea Honda CBR1000RR
7 Troy Corser BMW S1000 RR
8 Max Biaggi Aprilia RSV4 1000 F.
9 Cal Crutchlow Yamaha YZF R1
10 James Toseland Yamaha YZF R1
DNF Tom Sykes Kawasaki ZX 10R
DNF Chris Vermeulen Kawasaki ZX 10R
1 Leon Haslam Suzuki GSX-R1000 45
2 Michel Fabrizio Ducati 1098R 36
3 Carlos Checa Ducati 1098R 34
4 Noriyuki Haga Ducati 1098R 27
5 Sylvain Guintoli Suzuki GSX-R1000 23
6 Jonathan Rea Honda CBR1000RR 23
7 Max Biaggi Aprilia RSV4 1000 F. 19
8 Troy Corser BMW S1000 RR 16
9 Leon Camier Aprilia RSV4 1000 F. 10
10 Lorenzo Lanzi Ducati 1098R 9
16 Tom Sykes Kawasaki ZX 10R 3


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Wave of medical police state refugees to flee California if SB 277 signed into law … Gov. Brown to declare war on children … no child safe
'California will be the origin of America's first wave of medical police state refugees fleeing medical tyranny if Gov. Jerry Brown signs SB 277 into law.
SB 277 is California's pharma-funded vaccine assault on all parents and children. It would eliminate all personal belief exemptions and force nearly all children in California to be forcibly injected with vaccines that are knowingly manufactured with neurotoxic substances such as mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and MSG.
If he signs the law, Gov. Brown will be declaring medical genocide against children whose genetic makeup causes them to have extremely heightened risks to vaccine injury. No child will be safe in California, and the state will cement its position as the first real-life medical police state in America, where risks of a medical civil war skyrocket.'
Read more: Wave of medical police state refugees to flee California if SB 277 signed into law … Gov. Brown to declare war on children … no child safe
Israel to 'anti-vaxxers': No vaccination, no child support
'When United Torah Judaism inked its coalition agreement with Likud on April 29, party members triumphantly hailed the reversal of a slew of legislative measures implemented by arch-nemesis Yair Lapid, including an increase in monthly child allowances — but it came with one caveat.
Under the terms of the coalition deal, which appointed party member Yaakov Litzman deputy health minister, "the National Insurance law will be amended, such that child allowances will not be given in cases where a parent refuses to vaccinate their child."'
Read more: Israel to 'anti-vaxxers': No vaccination, no child support
Street Democracy writes:
The Police State Medical society has arrived.
We are being controlled by legions of faceless, nameless bureaucrats intent with a fanatical commitment to rage war against the 'free' minds of this world.
They are waging a war with vaccines that is a war on our 'immune system' as Big Pharma does not want healthy people, and the agenda is to dose us down, create the subdued pacified minds walk in amongst our societies.
We are a 'calamitous' wilful arrogance based on our knowledge of vaccines and Big Pharma.
I am guilty of this also. How are we to be, when we are not medically trained, but the trust has been diminshed with online knowledge seeping through to enlighten us about vaccines?
However, too many children are getting autisim and many babies are dying soon after these vaccines sink their venom into the childs skin. It cannot be ignored!
The medical state police know this, and use moral panic techniques to emotionally blackmail us into vaccinating our children despite our instincts screaming at us not too.
Now we have a plethora of draconian medical rules, morally depraved principles and unclean wisdom being thrown at us in every angle.
It is in effect the corporate rape of our natural immune system, one we need to protect.
Like a frenzied silence raging over our heads, creeping in a medical 'cote 'd'etat' which is evil in print, evil on medicines to drug our children with 'evil' injections, without us fully knowing what is in those injections, and the long term effects and whether they are actually needed!
Our society is a democracy of legalised oppression, a democracy of controlled oligarchy and corporate powers that are like trespassing authors of the hideous kind.
We cannot allow the stance of tolerance to allow strangers to profit by vaccinating our children.
By Debbie Simmons-Street Democracy.


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Conductors Carlos Kalmar and Jaap van Zweden will replace Esa-Pekka Salonen next month on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's subscription series. Salonen has withdrawn for personal reasons, according to an orchestra spokeswoman.
Kalmar, principal conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival, will take over concerts April 15-20 marking the CSO's annual collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. The program will remain as previously announced, featuring a new ballet by Hubbard Street resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo set to music by CSO resident composer Mason Bates. These concerts will represent Kalmar's subscription debut.


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A Sectional
Model of Slone's Grist Mill's New Water Wheel
Slone's Grist Mill is in the background below the bridge over mill stream.
This is the first thing visitors will see as you enter the historical areas
of the park. The mill race will carry water under the bridge and into an
elevated sluice box to the top of the water wheel.
In the sectional models: The water wheel arm is the board that runs from
the curve of the water wheel to the right. Behind the water wheel arm is
the rim board, and behind that is the cant board. The treaded metal rod
ends hold the arms or spokes of the water wheel to the bucket sections.
On the left is the end section of the rim board that is lap joined behind
each arm. To the right of that is the cant board and to the right behind
the metal rim plate is both cant and rim boards. The rim plate covers the
sandwich layers of the cant and rim boards and hold in place the front bucket
board. Between the side boards are the water wheel buckets. They consist
of of the front and bottom boards. The rim plates would cover both sides
of the wheel. On tradational water wheel the rim plates would be made out
of wood screwed down rather than being bolted through the side rims.
Added in place in this model is some of the interior drum boards that
form the inner soling of the water wheel. The drum boards hold in place
the bottom bucket board and keep the water in the buckets. The treaded rod
on both ends holds the arms together with the rim sections. Above the bolt
is the thiner felloe board that covers the outside of the watter wheel.
On the left is the outer thinner felloe board that goes between each
arm. Inside of the felloe board are the thicker rim board and the cant board.
The cant board has the mortise slots that hold the two pieces of each water
wheel bucket, the front and the bottom that are also lap jointed together.
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Laces, a ladies-only sneaker boutique based in New York, is launching a t-shirt line for women. You can catch a sneak peak of the collection next Wednesday at the Laces Clothing Line Launch Party at Chelsea Market.
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The Built for BlackBerry 10 sports tracking application, CascaRun, has received an update this week and with it brings some additional language enhancements as well as a tweak for users running OS 10.2.1 who were experiencing issues.
For those of you that like to track your sports activities CascaRun is the perfect way to do so whether you are into running, cycling, hiking etc. The app is priced at $3.99 but you get what you pay for and CascaRun does a fantastic job.
Available for all BlackBerry 10 smartphones it's encouraging as always to see an update so quick from a BlackBerry 10 app that we've had pretty much since then beginning of BB10. Nice work Mr Developer.
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- Fixed possible GPS connection/disconnection issues with OS10.2.1
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Medical Equipment – What You Can Get Out Of It
Prevention is indeed better than cure. The earlier you know about your health condition, the faster you get the cure of it or mitigate the effects of the illness. Few samples of medical diagnostic equipment include pulse oximetry, BP monitoring equipment, medical thermometers, among others. You can have these at home. Checking your blood pressure now and then is ideal especially for those who have been working, stressed out or lack of sleep. So, do take into consideration the benefits of having this equipment at home. Of course, they are not in one way or the other can be a replacement for a doctor's diagnosis. It is always advisable to pay a visit to your doctor.


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Dancing with the Stars
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And the winner is...Tonight, we find out if Melissa Rycroft, Gilles Marini or Shawn Johnson takes home Season 8's coveted mirror-ball trophy after they each perform a final dance. Then the three of them must endure being roasted by comedian Jeffrey Ross. In addition, Lady Gaga performs, and a winner of the professional dancer contest is chosen. In the end, the "replacement," the formerly little-known Frenchman or the young Olympian gets to add Dancing with the Stars champion to his or her résumé. — Jennifer Sankowski
American Idol
8 pm/ET Fox
It wasn't okeydokey for Gokey last week. Oh Danny boy put forth a sterling effort this season, his magnetic charm and husky vocals carrying him to the Top 3. But three's company, and despite his knockout delivery of "You Are So Beautiful," a record-setting 88 million votes didn't turn his way. So that takes us to tonight's penultimate episode, the final performance edition featuring the Top 2. In one corner: front-runner Adam Lambert, with his high-registered Plant-esque wail and Presley swagger. In the other: Kris Allen, a dark horse with strong giddyup, evidenced by his intoxicating spin on Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine," perhaps one of Season 8's best performances. — Dean Maurer
The Mentalist
9 pm/ET CBS
After his turn as the dark and dubious lead character in The Guardian, Simon Baker has found success as the charming and complex Patrick Jane. And as the first season of the crime drama comes to a close, Jane may get the chance to capture his nemesis, Red John. A girl is murdered, her twin sister is abducted, and the case seems to point to Red John, but Lisbon has reason to believe that the killer is also orchestrating a trap to lure Jane. — Bill Ecklund
9:01 pm/ET Fox
Disney might own the High School Musical franchise, but Fox has... the glee club. Snicker at this nerdiness if you will, but creator Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck), adds no small amount of edge (lower-key than on Nip/Tuck — this isn't FX) as he introduces us to William McKinley High's ensemble, New Directions. In the pilot, club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) even gets a jock to join his nerds. Of course, he must use subterfuge to do it. Glee is scheduled to begin its regular run in the fall. — Paul Droesch
9 pm/ET CW
Prom night turns out to be a revelatory, life-changing event for some of West Beverly's teens as Season 1 ends. Adrianna goes into labor and finds herself with more than just Navid for support when Brenda shows up at the hospital. At the after-party, Annie reacts in a surprising manner to Naomi's accusations about Liam and storms off to do something she's sure to regret. And tempers continue to run high when Dixon and Ethan come to blows over Silver. Now that's a season finale! — Rhoda Charles
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Riyadh: The leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have welcomed a proposal from the Saudi king for a Gulf Union.
Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who is the current chairman of the GCC, had made the proposal at a session of the GCC supreme council Monday in Riyadh.
A statement issued by the GCC secretariat Tuesday said: "The leaders have given directives to the ministerial council to form a specialised body that will be mandated to study the proposal in all its aspects."


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While everyone in the media been debating the many juicy storylines in online streaming services–such as the Netflix price hike and their new content licensing deals, or Hulu's possible sale to Google or other suitors and new ad formats like Ad Swap–and what these stories might mean for the future of premium online video content, Hollywood's been busy with some experiments and plans of their own. And they range from the clever and unique to the downright stupid.
Paramount Streams Transformers 3 Direct To Customers
Let's start with the good. Paramount's summer blockbuster, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, was recently released on DVD and Blu-Ray. And just for kicks, the studio decided to try an experiment. So the film is also streaming online directly on the Paramount website.
Customers can go there and pay $3.99 ($4.99 for HD quality) to stream Transformers: Dark of the Moon to their laptop or computer (other devices, like an iPhone, are not permitted). Once they pay, users will have 48 hours to watch the film. The HD version, which will be powered by Microsoft Silverlight, will only work on Windows machines.
I really, really like this idea. I'm not sure why more studios don't try this. Paramount called it a "toe dip," but I'd be interested in seeing a more committed jump into the fray.
It works for consumers, because you can get the film when you want, and the prices are very comparable to DVD rental services or online streaming services like Vudu. But it also works for Paramount, because it cuts out the middle man. Why let Netflix, Hulu, HBO, or any other distribution company eat into the profits when the studio can host the film on their own and keep every penny?
This is also probably the kind of thing Netflix doesn't want to see. As we've said several times in recent weeks, Netflix's future depends on their ability to consistently score great content agreements. But if the studios start keeping their own content for themselves, Netflix might find the cupboards bare.
I'll be curious to see how this "toe dip" experiment works out, and if there's enough consumer response to justify more similar tests.
Universal Charges Arm & Leg For Tower Heist
But at least one studio is still living in the dark ages, even as they try to appear like they're on the cutting edge of streaming distribution.
It's Universal, and for their upcoming action comedy, Tower Heist, starring Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller, they've partnered with Comcast to give subscribers a chance to stream the film to their home on the very day it's released in theaters!!
OMG, right? Who wants to spend the gas money, popcorn and soda money, and deal with the noisy crowds at the movie theater when you could just stay home and stream the thing, right? This is just the greatest idea in the history of great ideas!
Except for the price, which is such a poor decision it renders the entire experiment completely moot. That's because the price will be $60 (technically $59.99). That's right, Universal believes that watching movies at home the same day they're released in theaters is such a benefit to consumers that they'll be willing to pay 6 times the price for the privilege. Give me a break.
Maybe I could see $15… or $20, sure. I'm willing to accept a premium for the perk of being in my own home. But not $60. Let's not also forget that at home, I'm very likely to have an inferior experience in picture and sound (yes, I know home theaters have come a long way, but they still can't accurately recreate the big-screen experience).
It's also a poor choice, as others have already pointed out, because the movie seems destined to flop. I don't have any specific data on it, but I'm pretty sure it's been 15 years or so since a movie starring Eddie Murphy appealed to moviegoers. The big "pay a higher price to watch the film at home on opening night" experiment should, instead, be done on a sure-fire tent-pole film like Dark Knight Rises or something–where you know demand will be high. Not an obscure action comedy with two of action-comedy's least dependable stars. Oh, what's that, you say? Alan Alda's in it, and it's directed by Brett Ratner? Yeah, like I was saying…
So of course no one will pay for this. And of course… Universal will then probably claim turn around with their shoulders shrugged and say, "See, I told you direct-to-customer online movie streaming would never work."
If you're curious to know whether Tower Heist is for you, why not check out the trailer, where you can hear such hilarious lines as "That's it, I'm not talking to you for the rest of the robbery!" Zing!
It's a shortsighted shame, if you ask me.
The Future Of Online Streaming Movies?
I think we can expect to see more and more self-streaming from Hollywood. The price points will vary, as will the specifics. But at the end of the day, it's a way to keep more revenue in their own pockets rather than sharing it will middle men. This is the same exact reason we've seen Netflix & Hulu start getting into the content-creation game–why pay out for content rights when you can create it yourself and own 100% of the revenue?
There's also the question of whether consumers are really ready to leave the movie theater experience behind. Some obviously are, as evidenced by the rise in services like Netflix or Vudu. But others might take more convincing. Which is why these are experiments. No one in Hollywood is ready to shutter theater doors and go all streaming. But they just might be warming to the idea of giving consumers more options.


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* Alpha-adrenergic agents (Alphagan, Iopidine) reduce the production of eye fluid while increasing its outflow rate.
Downside: The most common side-effects are burning or itching of the eye, browache, headache, a slight raising of the upper lids, dry eye/mouth/nose, light sensitivity, dizziness, mild sedation, fatigue and depression.
* Beta-blockers have been the mainstay of glaucoma treatment for most of the 20 years following their launching in the late 1970s. They lower eye pressure by reducing aqueous production. Despite their eroding popularity due to the arrival of the newer prostaglandin analogues (see below), these agents are still commonly prescribed for OHT and glaucoma.
Downside: Beta-blockers as eyedrops can cause the same systemic adverse effects as if taken orally. The most common side-effects involving the eye include superficial punctate keratitis (scattered pinpoints of corneal inflammation), corneal numbness and visual disturbances
(J Am Optom Assoc, 1985; 56: 108-12; Am J Ophthalmol, 1979; 88: 739-43).
Beta-blockers are either non-specific (targetting both beta-1 and -2 receptors) or specific (targetting either beta-1 or -2 receptors). Non-specific drops such as timolol (Timoptic, Betimol), levobunolol (Betagen) and carteolol (Ocupress) are generally thought to be more effective in lowering IOP than specific beta-blockers such as betaxolol (Betoptic). However, the latter cause fewer systemic side-effects.
Beta-blocker eyedrops, as with all other ophthalmic drops, enter the body via tear ducts that connect with the nasal cavity. This enables the drug to bypass the liver and directly enter the body's circulation. Consequently, a significant amount of drug is absorbed - a typical dose (one drop of 0.5 per cent timolol solution in each eye) is as potent as a 10-mg oral dose for treating hypertension and angina (Ophthalmology, 1984; 91: 1361-3).
It's well known that beta-blockers come with an extensive list of side-effects - some of which may be lethal. A review of nearly 550 reports of adverse reactions with timolol, sent to the National Registry for Drug-Induced Ocular Side Effects, found that half of these were linked to systemic reactions affecting the heart, lungs, central nervous system, digestion and skin (Ophthalmology, 1980; 87: 447-50).
Cardiovascular effects range from arrhythmias (heart-rate disturbances) to full-blown congestive heart failure (Clin Physiol Funct Imaging, 2002; 22: 271-8; Acta Anaesthesiol Scand, 1996; 40: 379-81; Am J Hosp Pharm, 1981; 38: 699-701).
Ironically, these drugs, which are supposed to help high blood pressure, cause disturbances in blood-fat levels, which could be a risk factor for heart disease. Several studies have shown how beta-blockers altered the ratio of low-density lipoprotein (LDL, the 'bad' cholesterol) to high-density lipoprotein (HDL, the 'good' cholesterol).
A study of postmenopausal women with either eye hypertension or glaucoma found that those treated with timolol had significant decreases in HDL cholesterol, while total (and LDL) cholesterols were increased (J Glaucoma, 1999; 8: 388-95).
Respiratory problems are also a common complication of beta-blockers, particularly in those with a history of lung disease. One case report described a 67-year-old man with stable chronic obstructive lung disease going into respiratory arrest just 30 minutes after receiving his first dose of timolol (Chest, 1983; 84: 640-1). Another report told of a 74-year-old long-term asthmatic who developed a severe - and fatal - attack of asthma several hours after taking timolol (Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Zasshi, 1990; 28: 156-9).


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"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should", Jeff Goldblum quipped in Jurassic Park 20 years ago. Some people might say that the Agile movement is guilty of the same hubris. It is true that the unexpected consequences of an Agile development community are being felt both upstream in the PMO and with requirements engineers as well as downstream in the build, test and release teams.
The short, sharp, shock of iterative development means that there is continuous incremental, improvement in business systems. But are IT systems able to accommodate one part of the lifecycle marching to its own cadence?
Continuous delivery is one response to this problem. Depending on the complexity, churn in function and usability, churn in code, dependability of the development team, quality of the test bed and every other parameter that indicates (or mitigates) risk, more or less automation of the delivery process is possible.
Of course not every step in the delivery process can be automated. It is not uncommon for platform variances between DEV, TEST, DEVOPS and OPS to require intervention from release engineers. But we should try to eliminate those variances so we can eliminate human intervention. Testing and deployment platforms should not be different and the easy availability of virtualized and cloud environments means they can be stood up cheaply and in an automated manner, so there is no excuse any more.
The aim is to speed up deployment, improve time-to-value and ultimately reduce costs and increase revenues.
The DevOps movement is the champion of automating the release management process making it possible to push projects through, even faster, all the way through from development to production.
However, now is the time to step back and consider what policies, processes and procedures our software development should follow? Do we dive into all that is new and shiny or hold back and rely upon what is traditional and safe. For some organizations continuous delivery may not be appropriate for their development projects. Rather than saving on costs, it could lead to excessive rework, fixing problems that should not have occurred in the first place.
Pushing all projects to production automatically can mean running risks in testing and release because we lose human oversight. Release automation cannot solve all the issues.
To get the best out of continuous delivery and Agile, DEV teams have to set out how far through the development process each project should be automated. For projects that are not user-focused or that have no impact on users, steps like testing and UAT can be more automated through to production, and potentially even into the production environment itself.
For those applications that are high visibility and revenue generating, the continuous delivery method may be in place across development and testing but stop at UAT and release. From there, each of these individual projects may join part of a release train where multiple different releases are linked together to be put into production. These release trains can themselves be automated so that rework and downtime is reduced as well from the implementation and production side.
The main point to make here is that there is no "one size fits all" rule that fits each potential release. Agile by its nature leads to more individualised release projects coming through to production, and each of these can be graded to see how far the release process can be automated and how tight the controls are applied. Continuous delivery represents a potential to streamline processes and reduce costs. However, it has to reflect the reality of how agile works within the organisation as a whole.
In the end though, Mr. Goldblum also remarked, "God help us! We're in the hands of the engineers!" By having the oversight of the whole process, we can ensure that the value created by agile is felt across the software engineering process, as well as the widerbusiness.


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Pre- and post vacation measures were compared in six areas: job satisfaction, job involvement (measured as central life interest and as valued self), organizational commitment, turnover intention, and life satisfaction. Responses obtained from 128 employees in technical, administrative, clerical, and service positions one week prior to and one week following their vacations indicate that the vacation had a significant overall effect on the variables studied, even with sex, education, income, and occupational prestige included as covariates. Specifically, job involvement-central life interest decreased and both life satisfaction and turnover intention increased. The results of hierarchical regression analyses indicated that vacation satisfaction and an interaction term involving the prevacation mea- sure and vacation satisfaction increased the predictability of the postvacation measure by seven percent in two cases-life satisfaction and job satisfaction. Length of vacation did not contribute significantly to the prediction of any of the postvacation variables. The decrease in job involvement-central life interest was discussed in terms of the relative salience of work and non- work domains and the allocation of psychological resources. Overall, the results Were viewed as supporting an open-systems model of organizational behavior, but also as underscoring the need for further research on vacations and theft effects on work and nonwork variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Inspired by sports legend Peter Gammons and his Boston Globe Diamond Notes column from the heyday of the Boston Red Sox, this is the first in a regular ongoing series of posts. These posts will catalog quick impressions on how the individual consumer impact and influence on brand marketing and larger sustainable projects.
* Sears – Caught a new commercial from Sears this weekend during my regular Sunday Meet the Press viewing. Focused on the RAD program responsible appliance disposal within EPA standards. Sears uses the generation gap and "hip" language in the piece. Interesting service, but not sure when "rad" was still part of the lexicon of youth.
* The consumer's role in energy consumption is becoming higher profile. Check out this short piece from the BBJ. It's you and I that will be more in control vs. the utilities, and they have a large enough financial interest to start really listening.
* High speed rails – Post-State of the Union President Obama was in Tampa talking about his plan. I've seen an uptick in the coverage on these trains, like this piece from this month's Wired. I'm getting flashbacks to Singles and the lunch meeting between Campbell Scott and Tom Skerritt – "if we give them good coffee…" Individual consumer choice will drive success or failure of these systems. Having experienced European rail systems, I'm all for this as long as its affordable.


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Smile (Avril Lavigne song)
|Single by Avril Lavigne
|from the album Goodbye Lullaby
|April 11, 2011
|2010; Maratone Studios, (Stockholm, Sweden)
|Pop punk
|Avril Lavigne singles chronology
|Music video
|"Smile" on YouTube
"Smile" is a song by Canadian recording artist Avril Lavigne from her fourth studio album, Goodbye Lullaby (2011). It was co-written by Lavigne, Max Martin and Shellback and produced by Martin and Shellback. "Smile" was released on April 11, 2011 by RCA Records as the second single from the album to Australian radio stations and then on May 17 in the United States contemporary hit radio. Upon its release, the song received critical acclaim from music critics, who described the track as a "sassy and catchy pop song".[1] It has charted inside the top-thirty on the Australian, Japanese and New Zealand charts, in addition to being certified by the recording industry associations of Australia and the United States. A music video directed by Shane Drake was filmed in April 2011 and released on May 20. By November 2014, the music video had reached 100 million views on Vevo.
- 1 Background
- 2 Composition
- 3 Critical reception
- 4 Chart performance
- 5 Live performances
- 6 Music video
- 7 Track listing
- 8 Credits and personnel
- 9 Charts and certifications
- 10 Release history
- 11 Awards
- 12 References
- 13 External links
"Smile" was written by Lavigne along with its producers, Max Martin and Shellback.[1] It was recorded at Maratone Studios in Stockholm, Sweden.[2] "Smile" pays tribute to the special someone who was able to win her heart and put a grin on her face.[1] Backed up by a punchy drum rhythm and electric guitars, Lavigne offers even more reasons why most normal guys would run in the other direction, then praises her guy for sticking around.[1] Lavigne asked her fans via Twitter what the next single from Goodbye Lullaby should be, giving the choices between "Push" and "Smile".[3] Lavigne confirmed that "Smile" was to be the second single from the album though reports suggest Lavigne was fighting for a "Push" release. The singer's record label, RCA Records, announced that "Smile" will be sent out to Polish radio in April, with the same expected to happen in other territories such as Canada, New Zealand, Asia, and the UK.[4] She posted photos to her Twitter of the set of the music video, filmed on April 21, 2011.
Due to the many uses of profanity in the song, different clean edits have been released. The official clean edit which is played on most radio stations replaces "Crazy bitch" with "Crazy chick", removes "Shit", and replaces "You're fucking crazy" with "You like it crazy". Another edit is the same, but instead of removing "You don't really give a shit", it is replaced with "You don't really give it up." Finally, the iTunes edit completely blanks out all profanity, as well as "Blacked out". Some radio stations and music channels also remove "What did you put in my drink?"
A 30 second sample of the chorus of Avril Lavigne's "Smile" from Goodbye Lullaby.
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"Smile" is an up-tempo pop punk[5] song, with a frenzied drum beats, electric guitars and acoustic guitars. Lyrically, the song talks about the way of paying tribute to the special someone who was able to win her heart and put a grin on her face.[1]
Critical reception[edit]
"Smile" has received critical acclaim. Nadine Cheung from AOL Music said positively: "The new song represents Lavigne's best qualities as a pop star, while the tune incorporates talk-singing as well as the bold melodic choruses for which the 26-year-old is known."[6] Andy Greenwald from Entertainment Weekly said that: "The sassy 'Smile,' with its talk of doctored drinks and blackout tattoos, restore Avril to her rightful place ahead of Katy Perry and Ke$ha."[7] Scott Shelter from Pop Crunch was largely positive, rating it 9 stars (out of 10), saying that: "'Smile' is yet another catchy pop song from Lavigne, who's been scoring hits for nearly a decade now, far longer than most would have predicted when she hit the scene as a spunky teen with songs like 'Complicated' and 'Sk8er Boi.'"[1] Another positive reaction came from Lewis Corner editor of Digital Spy, who rated it four stars out of five.[8] He commented that in the lyrics, she still maintaining her teen-brat persona rather worryingly at the age of 26", while naming the chorus "electric guitar-driven power-pop".[8] He concluded that the song is "another effortlessly catchy soft-rock chant-along that is a welcome return to form".[8] Josh Langhoff from PopMatters was more mixed, saying that: "More problematic is "Smile" and its bold pro-roofie stance."[9] Marcus Gilmer from The A.V. Club was positive, saying that: "Lavigne exhibits some of the old spunk on 'Smile', dropping a litany of curse words and asserting her right to be 'a crazy bitch' who does 'what I want when I feel like it.'"[10] Robert Everett-Green from The Globe and Mail said that: "Smile would have us believe that Lavigne is still ready to be really bad and kiss the wrong guy and maybe not even wash her hair for a day."[11] Jon Pareles from The New York Times commented that: "In 'Smile,' she slings four-letter words through a tale of rock craziness and love at first sight."[12]
Margaret Wappler from Los Angeles Times explains that "On 'Smile,' Lavigne celebrates black-out nights, possibly with her ex-husband Deryck Whibley, the kind that result in a new tattoo. She proudly calls herself crazy and out of control, before leading into a chorus that's all gushy about love. It's the little girl fantasizing in the quiet moments after a grown woman's excesses. And you better not have a problem with her wanting it both ways.[13] Al Fox from BBC Music said that: "the spiky, unstable Smile, shoehorns in more needless swear words than a week's worth of late-night Hollyoaks."[14] Dan Weiss from The Washington Post commented that "'Smile' is the only other Lullaby tune where she fully savors her role as the estranged divorcee godmother of the Keshaverse."[15] Chris DeLine from Culture Bully called the song the only other on Goodbye Lullaby that matches the energy of "What the Hell", but opined that it still "pales in comparison" because "the album is largely forgettable".[16]
Chart performance[edit]
After officially being released as a single, "Smile" debuted on the Australian Singles Chart and New Zealand Singles Chart. In Australia, it debuted at number forty-two on 2 May 2011 and has peaked at number 25.[17] The song has sold over 100,000 units of digital copies in the Australia. In New Zealand, the song debuted at thirty-three on 25 April 2011 and peaked at number thirty. In the United States, the song debuted at 94 on the Billboard Hot 100 the charting week of July 16, 2011,[18] rising to number sixty-eight in its fifth week. The song has sold over 500,000 units of digital copies in the United States. The song peaked at 189 on the UK Singles Chart[19] after her Britain's Got Talent performance, then fell out of the chart the next week, making it her lowest charting single to date in the United Kingdom. It was never released on radio in the United Kingdom, Germany and some other European countries.
Live performances[edit]
Lavigne performed the song, while promoting the album, on Walmart Soundcheck,[20] on "2DayFM",[21] and also on T4.[22] Lavigne has performed the song on the German show Schlag den Raab on 4 June 2011.[23] The song was also recorded on Lavigne's concert on the aol.com website, to the AOL Sessions, with no release date announced yet. Lavigne performed a medley of the song and her previous single "What the Hell" on the British show Britain's Got Talent on June 1, and at the America's Got Talent 6th session on July 13.[24]
She then flew to Japan to perform the song at TV Asahi's weekly music program, Music Station, on February 3, 2012.[25]
Music video[edit]
The music video was shot on April 21, 2011, and was directed by Shane Drake. Lavigne uploaded videos on her YouTube account of the set of the video. On May 16, she posted a video titled "Ready, Set, Smile!".[26] On May 17, she posted another video, titled "Smile & Style".[27] On May 18, she posted the third video, titled "Graffiti Guitar", and the fourth video, "Avril Lavigne - "Smile" Behind the Scenes" was viewed more than 120,000 times in less than 24 hours. Lavigne premiered the music video on May 18, 2011 on her VEVO account.
—Shane Drake (director), Smile (Behind the Scenes)[22]
The video begins with Lavigne in a white room. She shakes a can of spray paint, and sprays a smiling face on the camera. Lavigne decorates the walls around her with The Black Star Tour posters, and various miscellaneous words and designs. She plugs a red electric guitar into an amplifier, and begins to sing the first verse. She makes her way outside into New York City. Lavigne walks over to people looking upset or distressed, and takes a piece of a broken heart represented by glass lying by them. When she takes the piece, they begin to smile. The video switches between those locations; Lavigne in the white room and in the city, the same theme recurring throughout the duration of the video.[28]
Jeff Lapointe from MTV News was positive and says that "Lavigne is back to her heavy mascara and punk-like teenage look on a studio set which she decorated herself with color spray bombs, posters and a few props."[29] Lapointe also says that the video is "energetic and love struck."[29] Jamie Peck from MTV Buzzworthly commented that Lavigne is "learning to deal with things in a more grown-up fashion."[28] Robbie Daw from Idolator wrote that "she's a foul-mouthed pop tart with a heart of gold!."[30] Daw perceived that "those couple-breaking-up-at-a-cafe references to Debbie Gibson's 1988 "Foolish Beat" video."[30] A positive response came from Billboard's writer Jon Blistein, who says that "It's simple, sweet, and unlike 'What the Hell', wonderfully void of blatant product placement."[31] The website Terra was mixed, saying that Lavigne is stuck in the year 2000 in the video and that "she is still trying to play dress-up like she did back when "Complicated" made her peak."[32]
Track listing[edit]
- Digital download[33]
- "Smile" (radio edit) – 3:29
- UK digital download / CD single[34]
- "Smile" – 3:29
- "What the Hell" (Bimbo Jones Remix) – 4:10
- "Smile" (music video) – 3:36
Credits and personnel[edit]
- Lead Vocals - Avril Lavigne
- Songwriting – Avril Lavigne, Max Martin, Shellback
- Production and recording – Max Martin, Shellback
- Engineering – Michael Ilbert
- Mixing – Serban Ghenea
- Mix engineer – John Hanes
- Assistant mix engineer – Tim Roberts
- Drums, guitar and bass – Shellback
- Keyboards – Max Martin
Credits adapted from Smile CD single liner notes.[35]
Charts and certifications[edit]
Year-end charts[edit]
Release history[edit]
|11 April 2011
|Radio airplay
|Sony Music
|6 May 2011
|Digital download
|United States[67]
|17 May 2011
|Contemporary hit radio
|RCA Records
|3 June 2011
|CD single
|Sony Music
|United Kingdom[34]
|3 July 2011
|Digital download
|RCA Records
|Awards ceremony
|Best Alternative Video
|MuchMusic Video Awards
|International Video Of The Year by a Canadian
|100.000.000 views
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- ^ Weiss, Dan (9 March 2011). "The Lost Youth of Avril Lavigne". The Washington Post. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
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External links[edit]
- 2011 singles
- Avril Lavigne songs
- RCA Records singles
- Songs written by Avril Lavigne
- Songs written by Max Martin
- Songs written by Shellback (record producer)
- Song recordings produced by Max Martin
- Song recordings produced by Shellback (record producer)
- Music videos directed by Shane Drake
- Sony Music Entertainment singles


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Architect Jack Lionel Warner, principal of The Warner Group, and Los Angeles designer Barbara Barry paired up to create a light-filled house atop a hill in Montecito, California. "The objective was to make a strong residence—contemporary but timeless," says Warner. Above: A Barry-designed leather-covered ottoman sits before walnut shelves that frame the views from the master bath. Kallista tub.
"I wanted to look forward, not backward," architect Thomas Roszak says of his design for his own modern steel-and-glass residence on Chicago's North Shore. Above: The master bath. Warm elements such as cherry floors "add just enough softness to the otherwise hard-edged lines of the rest of the machine." Varenna drawers.
Designer Ed Tuttle worked with Adrian and Bebe Zecha to create a private residence within the couple's Amanpuri resort on Phuket, Thailand. "Its roots are really developed from the Ayutthaya period of architecture," Tuttle says. Above: "The tub in the master bath is surrounded by maka, a tropical hardwood similar to teak," says Tuttle.
"As a landscape abstraction, it has no expression of façade; rather, it's a series of slope extensions,"Antoine Predock says of a Colorado house he designed. Tucked into the northeast corner of the house, the master bath looks onto a grove of aspens.
Italian architectJames Cavagnari and his American wife, interior designer Erin Quiros, renovated a residence dating back to 1700 on the Aeolian island of Salina. "We wanted to frame the sea as if it were the protagonist in a minimalist film," Quiros says. Above: "The plaster is unique to the island," notes Cavagnari. "The calce, or lime, in it absorbs light in a remarkable way. It feels like chalk." "The tub is the central point of the master bath," says Quiros, who oriented it to take in a view of the local church's steeple.
The Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain Hotel & Spa, in Manama, has 23 secluded units along the Persian Gulf. Above: A master bath. The ceiling faucet of the Kohler tub has the effect of a rain shower.
Steve Wynn's Encore, created by DeRuyter O. Butler and Glen Ashworth, of Butler/Ashworth Architects, is the newest of the developer's collection of Las Vegas properties. A duplex bath features floor-to-ceiling windows and Greek marble. Kravet leather on vanity. Maya Romanoff wallcovering.
Seeking to preserve and update the house they commissioned from Richard Barancik in 1953, Chicagoans Howard and Doris Conant hired Margaret McCurry, of Tigerman McCurry Architects. With its picture window, skylight and natural materials, the new master bath has an indoor-outdoor feel. Ann Sacks tub. LeFroy Brooks.
"It's a juxtaposition of old and new," Peter Silling says of Schloss Velden, the historic castle on Lake Wörth in Velden, Austria, and its new addition, whose interiors he designed. Black marble, custom-ordered for the suite, adds a mirrorlike reflection to the bath.
On a scenic reservoir of the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, Ted Flato, of the architectural firm Lake/Flato, designed a 6,000-square-foot modern village—three guesthouses and a main house—for his clients that appears to float on water. Above: Beyond the glass wall of the master bath is a private Japanese garden courtyard. Rich Ipe flooring gives the serene space a warm tone, as does the custom, amber-hued, egg-shaped resin tub that glows from fiber-optic lighting beneath. A series of photographs by Ed Ruscha is on the wall.
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CONNELL - An inmate injured at the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell remains on a respirator nearly a month later, according to his family.
Video from the prison shows Anthony Turner, 42, and Andre S. Cook, 27, talking, reportedly about a football game. Then Turner threw a single punch and Cook fell to the ground, said Maria Peterson, spokeswoman for the Washington State Department of Corrections.
The Connell Police Department is investigating. In the meantime, Turner remains in segregation 23 hours a day, Peterson said.
Cook is in the intensive care unit at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland, where he was placed in an induced coma by doctors because of severe head injuries, said his family.
After the assault he was found unconscious by prison officials. At the hospital he opens his eyes but does not appear to focus on or recognize people, said his sister Courtney Cook.
Doctors have not determined whether he will suffer any permanent brain damage, she said. But she believes he slowly is getting better.
The Department of Corrections classifies Andre Cook as being on medical furlough, Peterson said. But it is interested in putting him on extraordinary medical placement, which is the state's version of compassionate release, said Barb Curtis, the Department of Corrections utilization and nursing services administrator.
The Cook family is concerned that would leave Andre Cook without medical coverage for his injuries, but Curtis said the change will not be made unless medical care is available. For inmates without resources, that means partnering with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.
The Cook family already is making medical decisions, but would have more freedom, Curtis said. The Department of Corrections would continue to act as a resource, providing support, for instance, if he is transferred to another medical facility, she said.
Under extraordinary medical placements, inmates can be recalled to prison if they recover before the time they were due to be released, she said.
Arrangements are being made to transfer Andre Cook to a long-term care home in Seattle, where he will be closer to family members, his sister said. But that cannot happen until there are assurances that he has medical coverage, she said.
Andre Cook's release date now is in January, after serving time since May for violating a protection order and a burglary in Thurston County, Peterson said. He was in a medium-custody unit at the time of the fight.
Turner has had previous infractions for fighting, disruptive behavior, strong-arming and intimidating, according to Coyote Ridge officials. He has been in prison since November 2009 for a King County residential burglary and is due to be released in December 2013, said the state. He also was in prison from 1991 to 2001.
Although Connell police are investigating the incident, the Department of Corrections also has held a hearing. Turner lost 270 days of good time credit, the maximum penalty the department can assess, Peterson said. He also lost two years of weight-lifting privileges, she said.


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What is Sokol?
Sokol, a Czech organization that began in Prague, Bohemia, in 1862 and was brought to this country by Czechs, is an educational organization dedicated to the physical, mental, and cultural advancement of its members and the children who use its gymnasiums. It is based upon the theory that only physically fit, mentally alert, and culturally well-developed citizens can form a healthy, strong nation. The organization was founded by Dr. Miroslav Tyrš, a teacher in the physical education institute of Jan Malypetr in Prague, who modeled his institution on the physical education of ancient Greece. His cofounder was Jindrich Feugner. The word sokol means "falcon." The first Sokol in the United States was formed in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1865, the first in Texas in Ennis in 1908. By 1909 Sokol units had been organized in Shiner, Hallettsville, and Granger. Others followed in Waco, Dallas, Fort Worth, Penelope, Guy, Seaton, Buckholts, Houston, Crosby, Rowena, Galveston, Corpus Christi, Placedo, Floresville, San Antonio, and East Bernard. Many units disbanded during the Great Depression. In 1930 there were fourteen. In 1985 units were located in Corpus Christi, Dallas, Ennis, Fort Worth, Houston, and West. Modern gymnasiums are the trademark of Sokol, and gymnastics is part of the Sokol philosophy of mixing mental, moral, cultural, and physical training. At the end of 1984, Sokol members older than seventeen numbered 1,086 in the southern district, which includes Texas and Oklahoma and is the fourth largest of the six districts in the United States.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Clinton Machann and James W. Mendl, Krásná Amerika: A Study of the Texas Czechs, 1851–1939 (Austin: Eakin Press, 1983). Mollie Emma Stasney, The Czechs in Texas (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1938).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.
Sylvia J. Laznovsky, "SOKOL," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pls01), accessed October 07, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
What is the American Sokol Organization?
The first Sokol unit was founded on February 14, 1865, in St. Louis, Missouri by three men:
Within a few years Sokol units were formed in Chicago, New York, Baltimore, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cedar Rapids, Omaha, etc. Since then they have expanded from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Rio Grande. This was the age of heavy immigration. The newcomers imbued with the spirit of reawakening in the old homeland brought with them the fire, ideals and culture of a new age. They found the freedom and democracy of this country to be fertile soil for their efforts. As the settlers pushed out to virgin land or moved to urban areas in need of their varied skills they took their Sokol, fraternal organizations, choral, theatrical and cultural ideals with them. Next to the building of their own homes, they ached for community centers where they could carry on the many-sided training of their young. This they did out of their own hard earned resources. They instinctively felt that in this way they were repaying at least in part their debt of gratitude. By 1879 they had their first competitions in New York with 19 competitors from 7 units. As the American Sokol grew so did the participation at its Slets in 1893, 194 competitors from 24 units-368 children, 300 men and 275 women in mass calisthenics. 1925 saw 617 men, 320 women competing and 1,382 men and women, 170 junior boys, 264 junior girls and 491 children in the mass calisthenics. In 1961 there were 2,253 participating in the Slet. They came from all parts of the country and carried home with them inspiration to carry on their Sokol activities. The most surprising thing about the early units up to 1878 is that they were organized and grew spontaneously. There was no drive or concentrated effort to form new units. This speaks volumes for the high mental caliber and ability of our forefathers.
American Sokol Today
Well into its second century, American Sokol remains an organization dedicated to the physical, mental, and cultural advancement of its members, the youth and adults that attend its programs, and the local communities we serve. The mission of the American Sokol is to provide fitness and community for individuals and families through physical, educational, cultural and social programs. There are currently 35 American Sokol units, or clubs, operating in North America. For 145 years in the United States, American Sokol has been shaping the lives of Olympians, Diplomats, Artists, Athletes, and most importantly, the families in the communities in which we serve.
"Ask not what you can get from your country, but what you can do for it. I appreciate the part the American Sokol Movement has played in establishing physical fitness and good sportsmanship as major objectives of recreation, education and our way of life. In years to come, I hope American Sokol's example will inspire millions more to join in this pursuit of excellence." – President John F. Kennedy
"No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical fitness; it is a part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition, ready to serve his state at a moment's notice. Finally what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. Why even in the 13rocess of thinking, in which the use of the body seems to be reduced to a minimum, it is a matter of common knowledge that grave mistakes may often be traced to bad health." – Socrates
"Gymnastics as well as music should receive careful attention in childhood and continue through life. I believe that the teachers of both have in view chiefly the improvement of the soul." – Plato
What does KHB stand for?
The initials of Karel Havlicek Borovsky a Czech writer, poet, political journalist, publisher. He advocated ideas like universal suffrage (right to vote) and Czech national independence. Our Ennis unit is named for him.
What is the Sokol motto?
A healthy mind in a strong body.
What is the saying at the end of every class?
The instructor calls out, "Nazdar!" which is the Czech word for "To Success!" The students then answer, "Zdar!" which means simply, "Success!"
What is a Slet?
A Sokol gymnastics meet. Our Southern District (Texas and Oklahoma) has a slet every June. The American Sokol hosts a national slet every 4 years.
Is there a gymnastic class for all ages?
Classes are available for ages 3 & up
What are the requirements to become a member?
Applicants must be age 17 or older and an American citizen.
Is the pool open to the public?
Tyrš pool is a members only pool. Must be a member of Sokol Ennis to swim.
Why do we have to pay a fee to use the pool?
A fee is charged to help pay for the upkeep of the pool. All members do not utilize the use of the pool; therefore, when you join the Sokol that fee is not included.
What do the membership dues contribute to?
Membership dues contribute to the programs, activities, and publications of Sokol Ennis, Southern District, and American Sokol (national).