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Perfume – The Story Of a Murder
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) is born in undignified circumstances at the Paris fish market in 1738. At a very early age he realises he has a very refined sense of smell. After surviving the murderous working conditions of the tannery in his youth, Grenouille starts an apprenticeship at the perfumery of Baldini (Dustin Hoffman). He soon surpasses his master at the art of mixing scents, but they also become his obsession, an obsession that drives him away from human company. Possessed by the idea of preserving human aromas, he unscrupulously murders young women whose scent turns his head. The drama takes its course when Grenouille meets the beautiful Laura (Rachel Hurd-Wood), who for him has a supernatural kind of scent, on the way to the perfume metropolis, Grasse. While further unexplained murders occur, Laura's father, the merchant Richis (Alan Rickman), suspects that his daughter's life is also in great danger. A real cat-and-mouse game of close fatherly love and deadly passion begins…
Bernd Eichinger and Tom Tykwer have made a film adaptation of Patrick Süskind's gripping worldwide bestseller for Constantin Film. The script was written by Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger and Tom Tykwer. The film stars the 25 year-old British shooting star Ben Whishaw (My Brother Tom, Enduring Love), megastar and Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man, Meet The Fockers), Alan Rickman (Harry Potter, Die Hard) and new talent Rachel Hurd-Wood.
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This week is National Public Health Week.
Since 1995, the American Public Health Association has encouraged communities across the country to observe National Public Health Week (NPHW) each April.
The big push this year is to highlight prevention and wellness.
One major theme of the campaign is to encourage healthy eating and regular exercise for families. Making small, everyday changes can go a long way toward decreasing the risk of preventable death from causes such as heart disease, cancer and stroke, says the APHA.
Adding seeds to the diet in moderation is one way to boost vitamins and fiber, says nutrition expert Michelle Gorman, RD, of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona.
Gorman, who has served as a nutrition supervisor for the Chandler School District, encourages families to give these six seeds a try in recipes and for snacking: Continue reading


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reBOOT and PEACH Partner
July has seen the start of a new project involving reBOOT Canada, run under the supervision of PEACH Youth in Toronto. PEACH Youth is located in the Jane Finch community and focuses on at-risk youth through various programs. The new program is part of PEACH's Innovation Hub and will allow 10 participants all specially selected by PEACH to cut their teeth at computer repairs, computer refurbishment and selling computers. We expect great things of this project and will provide regular updates about it on our website and in the upcoming newsletters this fall.
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When your teenage son asks for "more of that spaghetti please," you know the recipe card should be treasured like a baby blanket in a cedar trunk.
In my life, that means it goes on my blog for safekeeping, at least until the Internet craze ends.
Baked spaghetti marinara with tiny pepperoni
1 pound ground sirloin or hamburger
1/4 cup finely diced white or yellow onion
1 teaspoon onion salt
2 cloves garlic, pressed OR 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
pepper to taste
2 eggs, beaten
1/3 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
1 pound spaghetti noodles
4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
2 (24 ounces each) jars marinara sauce
15-16 ounces tomato sauce
4 ounce package pepperoni minis
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cook ground sirloin in medium frying pan with diced onion, onion salt, garlic and pepper until no longer pink. Stir in 1 cup mini pepperoni.
- Boil spaghetti noodles until al dente. Reserve 1/4 cup pasta water. Drain.
- In a large bowl stir together eggs, Parmesan cheese and cooked spaghetti noodles.
- Spread thin layer of marinara in bottom of greased 13×9 pan. Top with noodle mixture.
- In a bowl, stir together pasta water, marinara and tomato sauce. Spread over noodles.
- Sprinkle cooked beef and pepperoni mixture onto sauce.
- Layer with mozzarella cheese and top with mini pepperoni.
- Cover with foil and bake 30 minutes. Uncover and bake until cheese is golden and pepperoni is crispy around the edges, 10-15 minutes.
- Remove from oven. Slice. Serve. Refrigerate leftovers.
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Make the most of your budget
Make the most of your budget
You don't need to be a billion dollar corporation to see a return on your AdWords budget. Learn how to make the most of your PPC budget with Google AdWords.
Savvy business owners know that nowadays, people don't just go online, they live online, and reach for the nearest device the moment they want to do or buy something. Being where these potential customers are means promoting your business online, but how do you know you have the money to advertise successfully?
Pay-per-click advertising like Google AdWords puts you in control of how much you want to spend, and where and how you spend it, meaning there are numerous ways you can make the most of any amount. All it takes is some planning and monitoring, and soon, you can have a strategy for maximizing your AdWords budget and connecting with a new, online audience.
So how do you make sure you're using your PPC budget wisely? Check out these helpful tips.
Try new strategies and campaigns continuously and, guided by data from AdWords and Analytics, keep making changes until your advertising is helping you meet your business goals.
Set your goals to set your budget
What do you hope to accomplish by advertising online? Do you want to draw more traffic to your website? Or get more phone calls from locals? Are you looking to build awareness of your business in a particular location, or among a certain customer demographic?
Being clear about your goals will help guide you through every step of building your AdWords campaign, including deciding how much you want to allocate to your overall PPC budget. When you know the results you want your money to accomplish, you can better ensure that your campaigns stay targeted and on track and that your AdWords budget is being used productively.
Connect your AdWords and Analytics accounts
The best way to ensure that your campaigns are staying targeted and on track is by collecting data on their success. While AdWords will tell you how many clicks and impressions you've received, Google Analytics, a free tool, shows you what customers do once they've clicked on your ad and arrived at your site.
For example, let's say you own a photography studio that provides both portrait and event services. You may have ads directing traffic toward a certain page (also called the "landing page"), which in this example is the home page of your studio website. But when you look at the Google Analytics data, you see that the majority of your visitors are immediately clicking to another page, say the "Services Offered" section of your site. This indicates that your customers find this second page more relevant to the ad they clicked on. By changing your ad's landing page to this preferred one – from the home page to the "Services Offered" page – your ads will be considered more relevant and you can raise your Quality Score and lower your average cost-per-click.
Or, Analytics could show you that visitors are immediately leaving your website after clicking on a particular ad, indicating that your keyword choice might not be as relevant to your business as you thought. Then you know that your budget would probably be better spent on different keywords.
For this reason, be sure to have Google Analytics installed on your website before you launch any campaigns. Just be sure to use the same email address for your AdWords and Analytics accounts so they can be easily linked together. Learn more about linking your accounts.
Stick to your budget
Determine your monthly PPC budget, and then, stick to it. AdWords lets you set a budget limit on a daily basis, and some days, it might seem like your daily cost is higher. Don't worry, and don't tinker with it. At Google, we analyze daily search traffic and on days when it's higher, AdWords will show your ads more frequently, and less frequently when traffic is down. This means your daily cost could vary by as much as 20 percent, but AdWords automatically averages your daily limit across the entire month to prevent your campaign from overspending.
Remember, too, that your AdWords budget limits are set at a campaign-level, so be sure to set a limit for each of your campaigns. Your overall goals should determine how much you spend on each campaign. If driving sales for a particular product is your top priority for the month, allocate more of your budget to that product's campaign.
Save the Display Network for later
If your budget is limited, you might do better to disable the Display Network at first. Display ads can reach a wide audience and drive high amounts of traffic to your site. However, conversions (ie., a product purchase, a user sign-up, whatever result you want from a website visitor) from display ads tend to be lower, and the competition for those ad spots are higher — meaning a lot of your AdWords budget could get eaten up for little return. Wait until you've seen success in search campaigns and refined your online marketing strategy, and then give the Display Network a try.
Target specific locations
If you have a local storefront that you want customers to visit, showing your ads half a country away could drain your PPC budget without getting you closer to your goal. Since AdWords lets you target people searching in specific geographic locations, you can choose to show your ads just in local areas to attract store visitors.
Or do your business goals include shipping nationally? Location targeting can also help. Start by targeting your campaigns to a few major metropolitan areas to determine where your customers are located, and which areas will require more of your budget to be competitive.
In either case, you'll want to use AdWords' metrics and Google Analytics to help you make the most of your budget. Analyze your data to see which targeted areas your site traffic is coming from, and in which areas those site visits are turning into business. You can then change your targeting or budget based on where you know your advertising is most likely to achieve success. This information can also help you to decide whether to create additional, specific campaigns for certain areas.
Target lower position ads
Most advertiser's first instinct is to try to get their ad into one of the top three positions in Google Search results. Remember, though, that ads that show in the fourth position or below still get traffic, and at a lower cost-per-click. And for some businesses and budgets, having an ad in a lower position can prove more beneficial and cost effective. Oftentimes, customers require more than an initial search before actually making a purchase. In such cases, a top-spot search ad may receive clicks, but won't necessarily lead to actual conversions, as the customer moves on to keep weighing their options. By being mindful of whether your customers are still researching or are ready to purchase, you'll have a better sense of what position your ad should compete against depending on the keywords you're bidding against.
Search for the unicorn keywords
We mean those seemingly "magical" keywords with a low average cost-per-click that lead to a high number of conversions. If you're working with a smaller budget, consider sticking to "long tail keywords," or keywords made up of three or more words. While these tend to have lower search volume and are less obvious, the fact that they're more specific means they may attract a more qualified customer — someone who is more sure of what they want, and therefore, that much more ready and likely to buy from, call, or visit your business. Luckily, AdWords includes a free tool that can help you find the perfect long-tail keywords for your campaign. You can learn all about how to use the Keyword Planner tool here.
Create specific campaigns
A common misstep that SMBs make when they first begin online marketing is creating only one campaign for their entire PPC budget (remember that budgets are set per campaign). This means that if your campaign is based on some high-competition keywords, your entire AdWords budget could be exhausted quickly before people can search using your other keywords — ones that could be more likely to bring you business.
The best practice is to separate your campaigns the same way that your website is divided into different pages for different product categories. Back to our photography studio example, you probably don't want to just run one campaign around "Portraits." Instead, your campaigns may look like this:
- Campaign: Wedding Portraits
- Campaign: School/Graduation Portraits
- Campaign: Events Photography
This way, you can commit different daily budgets to each of your campaigns, shifting your spending based on your business needs or goals. Plus, you'll be showing potential customers ads that are more specific to what they're searching for, and sending them to more relevant pages on your site.
Monitor & adjust
Don't just set your PPC budget and campaigns once and accept less-than-desired results. Even the online marketing experts set up campaigns based on their best, educated guesses, test for what works, and make adjustments. Try new strategies and campaigns continuously, and, guided by data from AdWords and Analytics, keep making changes until your advertising is helping you meet your business goals.
You don't need to be a big-spending corporation to see a return on your AdWords budget. With a little savvy, even a modest PPC budget can make a big impact. Just apply smart planning and continuous testing and tweaking, and your company can find that AdWords is a cost-effective way to make the most of the web and bring in new business.
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Recently concept mapping for me has taken a different turn. After 10+ years as a high school educator, I have begun a new challenge – graduate school. Now rather than using concept maps with my students to help them organize their thinking in active, cooperative ways, I am using this tool to guide my own understanding as a student in the classroom and as a researcher.
So to all new or relatively new graduate students out there - consider incorporating concept mapping into your life prior to planning your independent research. Try it! I believe you will find the initial investment worthwhile as you reap the benefits throughout your graduate career.


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As in-boxes swell to bursting with e-mails that may or may not be important -- in the flood of messages, who can tell? -- more and more people are finding this basic tool to be more of a burden than the groundbreaking productivity tool it once was.
The Dispatch app aims to help with that, giving users the ability to quickly and easily sort through the daily flood, and respond quickly to the e-mails that matter most. With an easy swiping interface, it lets you determine the fate of e-mail (delete, respond, archive, etc.), and also lets you use TextExpander snippets for questions that come up frequently.
It's made for the iPhone and iPod Touch, though it can be used on iPads (with some caveats). It works with e-mails accounts from Gmail, Google Apps, iCloud, AOL and Yahoo!, with expectations of working with Outlook in the future. It also integrates with over 20 other apps.
It has some limitations, which developer Clean Shaven Apps is up front about on their FAQ, but all in all it's super-helpful for wading through your daily deluge of e-mails.
Missed any of the previous Apps of the Week? View them here:
- Pocket -- saving Internet content
- Gneo -- to-do lists
- SwiftKey Keyboard -- typing/keyboard app
- Clockwork Tomato -- organization/time-tracking app
- Google Keep -- note-taking app
- Dragon Dictation dictation/transcription app
- Todoist to-do lists/task organization app
- Secret! encryption app
- WhatsApp Messenger -- smartphone messenger
- FolderSync document and file storage
- Cloud Print -- printer access app
- Tempo Smart Calendar -- scheduling app
- Penultimate -- note taking/sharing app
- EchoSign -- eSignature app
- Jump Desktop -- remote desktop app
- Tweetbot -- Twitter app
- Boxer -- email app
- PrintCentral -- digital document printing app
- Save2PDF -- PDF creation app
- PDF Expert -- PDF editing and management app
- Scout GPS -- navigation app
- Timesheet -- time tracking app
- Cloud On -- MS Office app
- Super Note -- note-taker and reminder app
- Air Display -- dual monitor app
- Stickyboard 2 -- iPad whiteboarding app
- Digits Calculator -- calculator app with editable calculations
- LogMeIn -- computer remote control app
- Chrometa 4.0 -- phone time and email capture app
- Scanner Pro -- scan-from-a-mobile-device app
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Buoyed by exit polls predicting a clear majority for the BJP-led NDA alliance, top BJP leaders will deliberate the party's post-poll strategy based on organisational feedback.
BJP president Rajnath Singh is likely to travel to Ahmedabad to meet Narendra Modi, and former party president Nitin Gadkari and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley are expected to join the discussion.
Modi had called on Rajnath Singh last week after campaigning concluded.
Gadkari, who met Modi on Monday, met senior party leader L K Advani and Singh separately here on Tuesday. Gadkari, sources said, is learnt to have highlighted the clean chit given to him by Income Tax authorities.
"There is a need for composite discussion on organisational and post-poll government formation situations," confided a source close to one of the top party leaders.
Earlier, Singh and Modi met top RSS leaders to exchange notes on the post-poll scenario. With BJP hoping to form the next government, party sources said top BJP leaders should make up their mind about who should be included in the government and fill any resultant vacancies in the organisation.
"All this is a hypothetical situation, but there is a need to forge some understanding about deployment of party leaders. Whether the party president should join the government and whether we need a new party president, these issues cannot be discussed in isolation. There needs to be a composite discussion," said a party source justifying the meeting of top party and RSS leaders.
Results for the Lok Sabha elections would be announced on Friday.
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Just south of the famous Las Vegas Strip, the Cancun Resort provides guests with all the fast-paced excitement of Vegas as well as a chance to step back, slow down, and relax poolside with a handcrafted drink while the kids enjoy the many on-site pools. A Mayan Pyramid with cascading waterfalls and enormous waterslides, a grand pool with poolside café, massage services, close proximity to the wonderful offerings of the Vegas strip including the dinner shows, theme parks, rollercoasters, concerts, casinos, clubs, exhilarating nightlife, unique museums, helicopter and hot air balloon rides as well as an enormous variety of shopping, dining, and stage attractions- all this and more is at the tips of your fingers when you stay at the Cancun.
Whether you're looking for an exciting family vacation full of Vegas trips and tanning poolside, a couple's retreat into top-rated restaurants and fine wine and dancing, or just a chance to experience all the wonder and excitement of Vegas without the noise keeping you up at night, the Cancun Resort- with its amazing location, wonderful amenities, and enormous villa- is the place to be!
This two-bedroom, two-bathroom villa is a spacious 985 sq. ft. and can accommodate up to 6 people. The master bedroom features a plush king-sized bed as well as a private bathroom fitted with a luxurious whirlpool jet tub, and the guest bedroom contains a cozy queen. Enjoy a homemade meal courtesy of the kitchen- contains coffee maker, microwave, oven, stove, dishwasher, cooking utensils, and fridge- around the elegantly-set dining table. After dinner, feel free to relax in your cozy living room for a late-night movie on the flat-screen TV (equipped with DVD player).
Before heading into bed, take a moment to step out onto your private balcony and enjoy the pulsing lights of nearby Vegas and the warm desert wind.
Other amenities provided for guests include:
- Queen sofa sleeper in living area
- Iron/ironing board
- Air conditioning and ceiling fans
- Second bathroom with shower/tub combination
- TaylorMade Golf Experience (2.2 miles away)
- Bass Pro Shops (1.7 miles)
- Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park (2.3 miles away)
- Silverton Casino (1.8 miles away)
- Las Vegas Premium Outlets (1.2 miles away)
- Lake Las Vegas for watersports and trail exploration (20.1 miles away)
- Clark County Wetlands Park (12.7 miles away)
- Mt. Charleston (46.8 miles away)
Best of all, McCarran International Airport is only 5.4 miles away so travel is as easy as can be!
This highly-rated Resort, just six miles south of the Strip, offers world-class service alongside amazing amenities such as: a Mayan pyramid playground with dazzling waterfalls and thrilling waterslides, a grand pool featuring a poolside café, a full-service spa with offerings like Therapeutic and Couples Massages, Prenatal and Foot Massages, Body Treatments and Wraps, Facials, Eye Treatments, and much, much more! Multiple pools and Jacuzzis, a Game Room and Activities Department which both kids and adults will fall in love with, and a state-of-the-art fitness center complete this five-star picture.
On-site dining options include a Bar and Cocktail Lounge as well as both a Poolside and Snack Bar. Restaurants abound nearby, but if you don't want to spend all your money on going out every room is equipped with a full kitchen!
Other amneities and services offered to guests include:
- WiFi throughout the Resort
- Concierge Services
- Caribe Resturant located on site
Just south of the famous Las Vegas Strip, the Cancun Resort is the perfect vantage point for local sightseeing and adventure as well as for rest and relaxation. Vegas is truly a city of non-stop fun, with offerings ranging from museum tours, amusement park rides, helicopter sight-seeing, and hot-air ballooning to theater performances, casino stops, and some of the best cuisine and shopping you've ever experienced. The kids will love the many parks, playgrounds, and basketball courts nearby, and adults will cheer over the proximity to Vegas's most alluring locations and casinos- the Bellagio is a few minutes' drive away! Grocery stores are close by, along with Laundromat and medical services.
Getting tired of the fast-paced city nights? No problem! Outdoorsy types feeling a bit out of place in the shining capital of entertainment will find their hearts soothed by a trip to the nearby Nevada countryside- peppered with lakes, trails, and mountains perfect for horseback riding, biking, hiking, jet skiing, mountain biking, golfing, and much, much more!
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- Fountains at Bellagio
- Fremont St. Experience
- Gameworks
- Gondola Rides at Venetian
- House of Blues
- M&M World
- Madame Tussauds
- Mirage Volcano
- Pharaoh's Pavilion Luxor
- Shark Reef Mandalay Bay
- Sirens of Treasure Island
- Stratosphere Tower
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- Minimum age requirement for check-in is 21 years of age.
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- Pets are not permitted and strictly enforced with the exception of Service Animals.
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A photo identification, credit card for $100 security deposit and a nightly rate of $25.00 plus tax resort fee will be required (cash is not an acceptable form of deposit).
Resort Fee includes WiFi, recreational facilities (pools with exciting waterslides, hot tubs and fitness center); covered parking (on availability), seasonal activities, business center computer/internet usage, and boarding pass printing.
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A social worker facing misconduct allegations has accused the General Social Care Council of trying to "smear" her name.
Jacinta Hofstetter told a conduct committee yesterday that the GSCC's investigation, the result of an anonymous complaint, had been "one-sided and biased".
In her statement, which took more than two hours to read, Hofstetter said: "There is a perceived bias of the GSCC towards employers and against employees and this investigation seems to reinforce these worries."
Smear claim
"The GSCC did everything they could to smear my name and ignore my evidence," she said.
Hofstetter, who qualified in 1994, was sacked for gross misconduct by Brent Council, north London, in August 2002 but later won undisclosed damages for unfair dismissal.
She is appearing before the committee on a range of charges including that she allegedly told a child that a permanent foster placement had been found for him without telling those who were caring for him.
Accused of rudeness
It is also alleged that she was rude and abusive to the person appointed to undertake her disciplinary investigation.
Another of the allegations is that she failed to inform Barnet Adoption Agency, which was assessing her and her husband as adopters, that she had been dismissed for gross misconduct.
Hofstetter said that she had not believed it had any impact on how she would care for a child, adding: "I did not think there was any connection between the two things."
Incorrect employment dates
She denies all the charges but admits she had provided incorrect employment dates on her CV by mistake.
Hofstetter said the allegations were malicious and the result of her complaining about "appalling standards" at Brent Council.
An allegation that Hofstetter failed to mention in her application to the GSCC her dismissal from Brent Council for gross misconduct was dropped in October 2008. However, the allegation that she gave an inaccurate account of her employment history at Brent Council in her application to the GSCC remained.
A further allegation that Hofstetter advised Child Three that a permanent foster placement had been found for him was dropped in October 2008. However allegations that she did not tell the children's home that she would inform the child that the placement had been found and that she did not update Child Three on progress of the placement both remained.
Hostetter denies all the allegations.
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Coming up with handmade gift ideas for grandparents can be a little bit tricky, especially if you want to get your kids involved in the making process. If grandparent gifts stump you like they do me, you'll love this list of DIY ideas from How Does She. The list includes ideas that you can make start to finish and ideas that your kids can help make, no matter what age they are. What they all have in common is that they're sweet, sentimental, and personal. Your basic 1-2-3 punch when it comes to grandparent gifts.
Need something to entertain the kiddos at Thanksgiving or your tree trimming party? Set up an ornament-making table! They'll love seeing their creations on your tree, and maybe you can sneak in a few minutes for grown up talk and a mugful of nog while they're crafting. Some of these kid-made ornaments may require more supervision than others, so choose the one that will work best for your kids.
Bust your stash to make these cute little house ornaments for your Christmas tree. Minki's Work Table made these sweet ornaments, and I love the clever way that she used an envelope as her house pattern. Her house ornaments are made from felt, but you could really use any medium or heavy weight fabric for these. Denim or corduroy would look nice for the house, especially if you choose cheery contrasting scraps to make the doors, windows, etc.
Can you believe it's time to plan for Thanksgiving? I'm still recovering from Halloween! Thanksgiving is just about three weeks away, and if you want a handmade tablescape, now is a good time to get started. Check out these beautiful Thanksgiving centerpieces to help get you started.
We've called my son The Little Prince since he was born, and I love the idea of a birthday crown that he can wear year after year. Kuka & Bubu designed this super simple felt crown with interchangeable numbers that would be simple to customize for your own kid's tastes. The back of the crown ties with ribbon, so you can resize it easily, and the numbers attach with Velcro. I think that the numbers from previous years would make super sweet keepsakes, too!
Turn an old glass jar into a cute Halloween decoration with this simple tutorial from Modern Parents Messy Kids. Alli Read More »
Turn an old pair of frames into 3D glasses that actually work! Julie Finn at Crafting a Green World shares how she and her girls made 3D glasses using run of the mill craft supplies. You might even have what you need in your crafty stash already!
Is your child going back to school in the next few weeks? Get organized, personalize his school supplies, and make that switch from summer to school fun with these free back to school printables!
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This recipe for whipped coconut and green tea moisturizer will blow your mind. Or at least, it blew my little mind.


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Stephen Colbert Knows What a Lightsaber Is, George Lucas
It was all a complete misunderstanding!
Stephen Colbert had a message for George Lucas last night, and oddly enough, it was the same message your mom angrily yelled at you in the minivan when you acted like The Phantom Menace was the first Star Wars movie ever made: I know what a lightsaber is, dammit!
In what must have been the most embarrassing moment in the Star Wars superfan's life, Colbert's use of the term laser sword before a Colbert interview was apparently mistaken by George Lucas as an adorable dadlike malapropism, rather than an insider-y reference to Lucas's use of the phrase in his original proto–Star Wars screenplay. The incident has been gnawing away at Colbert's psyche for years, but on the bright side, it was mighty decent of George to try to spare him the humiliation of saying the wrong word on air. "Poor bastard. Probably thinks we're talking about Star Trek. If he asks me about Captain Kirk, I'll just fake an asthma attack. Don't want to see him embarrass himself."


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Lasell Announces New Minor in Civic Engagement, Two New Math Majors
June 27, 2011
Starting in the Fall semester 2011, Lasell will offer a new minor, Leadership in Civic Engagement, which advances the College's academic mission of Connected Learning. Two new math majors will also be available in the Fall.
The minor consists of 18 credits and provides students with a focused, curriculum-based context for understanding, interacting with and working with community and other non-profit agencies to address social issues.
"We have now reached a critical tipping point where we have many students who will be excited and compelled by this minor, which could work very nicely with almost any major," said Professor Sharyn Lowenstein, Director of the College's Center for Community Based Learning.
The new minor sets Lasell apart from other community-engaged schools. According to Lowenstein, a recent national survey of engaged campuses showed that only 14 percent had either a minor or a major in civic engagement.
"We are definitely on the cutting edge," she added.
Through the requirements of the minor, students will complete approximately 150 hours of community service, take on a variety of leadership roles as part of their service experience, and reflect on their experiences. Through this minor, students have the opportunity to help Lasell deepen its partnerships within the broader community. The minor and the community-based internship requirement are administered through the Center for Community-Based Learning.
The College has also announced two new academic majors: Applied Mathematics with Elementary Education Concentration and Applied Mathematics with Secondary Education Concentration.


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Paleontologists can tell a lot from fossilised dinosaur bones. But in the same way that archaeologists would have us believe that pretty much every ancient structure was built as a "ritual site", there are some things that will always remain pure speculation when it comes to how dinosaurs actually lived. I like to think that dinosaur life was not just all killing and eating and being all ferocious and scary. I refuse to accept that there wasn't at least one dinosaur that didn't feel right unless it was slouching about in a pair of slingbacks.
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Duchess Kate & Prince William: Paralympics Opening Ceremony!
Duchess Kate and her husband Prince William are all smiles while attending the 2012 Paralympics Opening Ceremony at the Olympic Stadium on Wednesday (August 29) in London, England.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were joined by Will's grandmother Queen Elizabeth in the royal box at the ceremony.
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Meet the Shatleys - Jason, Missy, Brooke (14), Ben (12) and Baylee (7). Originally from Cameron (WI), but now living in Prairie Farm. Their children attend school in Barron. Jason is a dairy farmer and Missy is a registered nurse.
On December 26th, Missy was diagnosed with stage 2 cervical cancer. On January 8th, Brooke was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. Both Missy and Brooke are currently receiving treatment in Marshfield.
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Trying to improve the rankings of a site that offers very little value to its visitors is a short term strategy that is likely to come unstuck the first time Google carries out a manual review of the site.
Google has a philosophy and strives to become the perfect search engine.
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Wise words... in principle. But more often than not it's expertly SEO-optimized sites that rank well. The same sites that benefit from having thousands of low quality inbound links and thousands of keyword-heavy pages.
An example?
Try 'london hotel' on googe.co.uk. Top spot goes to a site that has 'Hotels in London Accommodation Cheap London Hotel' as the title case, 43,400 pages (most relevant to the UK and not specifically London) and 3,350 inbound links.
Want to see how good this site is?
I particularly love the breadcrumb link "Cheap Hotels in London Hotels" and the "London Hotel with FREE extras!!" tagline just before the "London Hotels" page name.
Under it are listed about a hundred links to hotel profile pages. The all have "London" in the link as half have "Hotel" too.
So, what should an SEO expert tell a client that wants promote his hotel in London? To spend time writing news, good quality content and useful tools?
I'm not sure about that.
Lawrence is right.
You could wait years for Google to recognise your "better website". Meanwhile, sites like the above dominate the rankings.
And just how many manual checks does Google do a year? Not very many by the looks of the serps that's for sure :-)
Welcome to the real world!
I still find search engines substandard. I would like to see directories of trusted sites, so that if I'm looking for something I have a reasonable amount of sites to choose from, rather than swamped with random results. Payback affiliate sites are quite useful in that manner, like quidco.
I dont think working with Google will ever work. There will always be websites trying to get to the top. However search is the best solution we have at the moment. I don't think directories are scalable enough to provide decent coverage and not be "gamed". DMOZ was supposed to be a human verified directory but its gone down the pan. There have been allegations of the DMOZ editors being paid to include links, allow spam etc.
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Lawrence the point is that if you want to compete with the current low quality high ranking sites you need to first create a better site and then when you aggressively build links your site is far more likely to pass a manual review.
Patrick, but we can't base an SEO strategy on the likelyhood of a manual review.
I appreciate what you are saying, also because that's Google's own mantra. And I think that strong SEO can be acheived via a well thought out information architecture (see cheapflights.co.uk and hotcourses.co.uk).
Even so, it's difficult to compete with sites like the one I mentioned above.
Google will not penalise cheaperthanhotels.co.uk because they are not doing anything wrong. And because its competitor - the hotel that has invested in quality - is getting a good position thanks to PPC.
Kaya, I would prefer both options. I only tried dmoz once or twice and could see it was useless. Same as wikipedia. Great idea but anyone can edit. What I mean is, if I am generally shopping I would prefer only to see the main reputable players. for instance argos, currys, and anyone else developing a reputation. I suppose the current best way is putting all the comparison sites, amazon and ebay in the same folder. If someone is paying to have their shop placed, I have a respected party vouching they are legit. Maybe they also tell them to be a certain standard too. Some of the 'checkouts' are ghastly. Froogle seemed ok at first, then got badly spammed, now its pretty good but a lot of the main players seem to have withdrawn. In the end, I want to compare prices from as many reputable sellers as possible. I would mostly prefer shopping away from organic searches.


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New York — "Nobody puts Hilly in the corner!"
I traced the yawp to a woman who had discovered that the line for the official release of Hillary Clinton's book, What Happened, was already stretching around the block. It was 6:20 a.m., nearly five hours before the signing was to begin. A woman across from me "Whoo!"-ed in agreement, and the elderly man with whom I had been talking Notre Dame football smiled. "This is so heartening," said a middle-aged woman who works as a freelance book editor. "We don't go down easy."
In the months leading up to its release, the primary criticism of the book has been that it serves only to reinforce Clinton supporters' belief that the 2016 election was robbed from them. And so it does — in fact, it broadcasts as fact speculations to which Clinton supporters have been clinging since November. People waiting in line were eager to share with me why they believe Clinton lost the election, but they were even more eager to learn why Clinton believes she lost. Alas, they won't get much help from her book on that front; it merely endorses any and every reason they have already come up with.
Everyone I spoke with agreed that Bernie Sanders's dark-horse campaign holds the lion's share of the blame, on the grounds that his quixotic "democratic" socialism pulled young would-be Clinton supporters away from the candidate's older base voters. Others pointed out that Clinton's lengthy term in the U.S. government led to her being painted as a swamp monster — both by Donald Trump, who promised to "Drain the Swamp," and, in more subtle digs, by President Obama. Another supporter lamented the media's failure to report on Clinton's supposed successes in health-care and prison reform, which yet another chalked up to "media bias."
These girls, part of the latter group, fell in love with Secretary Clinton, who they say embodied strength and stood as an inspirational figure in their adolescence. One of the NYU students told me that Secretary Clinton inspired her to seek political office someday, even though she grew up a Republican. While this side of the divide waved away attacks on candidate Clinton, those who knew a much more . . . political Clinton were less willing to dismiss them out of hand.
I was left unsure what the now-owners of What Happened are expecting to learn that they don't already believe.
And that's the closest I came to hearing anybody admit that Clinton was to blame in any way. Indeed, even the older Clinton supporters blamed the "geriatrics" who allegedly didn't vote for her instead of the candidate that led to their abstinence. Many excused her Wall Street speeches — Clinton apologizes only for their "bad optics" in the book — and most portrayed the emails as a joke. Others expressed frustration with the DNC, which they believed to be corrupt.
I was left unsure what the now-owners of What Happened are expecting to learn that they don't already believe. Speaking to the crowd, I was reminded of the way in which the modern world allows us all to see what we want to see. On Google Maps, Russians who look at the Crimean peninsula do not see a dark-gray dotted line, indicating a disputed border, but a solid black one, suggesting that Crimea is a part of Russia. This does not actually make Crimea part of Russia; it just reinforces the belief of the Russian people that their country controls the territory, even though users outside of Russia who look at Google Maps see quite the opposite. So it is with Clinton's tenacious fans, who are desperate to hear subjective narratives sold as objective truths, opinions recast as facts. Keeping people trapped in their own way of thinking became dangerously normal during the 2016 presidential campaign, and watching Clinton encourage precisely that with her book is making many Americans rightfully nervous.
From the moment I joined the line, I felt like a Clinton supporter must have in the days before the election, when she was dominating in the polls and a Trump presidency didn't even seem like a possibility. One fan told me she felt "high" when we entered the book-signing room, and several others cried or fanned themselves after departing the stage on which Clinton was seated. But even here, there was something ersatz about the experience. True to form, the event was mechanically impersonal. The book I would take home, for example, was not the book she signed while I was standing in front of her. That copy was simply passed down a line of aides to someone several spots ahead of me.
All in all, I was left feeling as if I had waited nine hours not for Clinton to sign my book, but for a chance to watch her sign a book, a chance to choke out what she meant to me, and maybe to shake her hand. For those who waited with me, this hollow charade was more than enough to temporarily dull the pain of a Clintonless world. But how long, I wonder, will it stay dulled?
— Philip H. Devoe is a Collegiate Network Fellow with National Review.


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How Wurqs is using diversity and inclusion to create a new space for everyone to learn and grow
Introducing our new monthly event series, Everybody Wurqs
Wurqs is being built with a very clear point of view about the future of work and careers in mind. We believe in great people over great talent, authenticity as well as achievement, and growth alongside grind. In this future, emotional intelligence and empathy become the primary skills sought by employers, yet they are the hardest to 'train'.
Building EQ and empathy only comes from spending more intentional time listening to and learning from a diverse range of people, yet we recognise that not only are opportunities to meet these people hard to come by, but safe spaces to have honest and non-judgemental conversations are also non-existent.
And that's why we've launched Everybody Wurqs. This monthly event series will provide an opportunity for anyone and everyone to build their EQ and empathy, by meeting new people and learning more about their perspectives and experiences. So what do these events look like?
First up, we find help you meet other attendees.
There is nothing worse than being placed in a room full of people and still not knowing how to open conversation. At every event we will do what we can to break down those social barriers with ways to break the ice. Unless you want to be on your own, it is our goal to ensure you aren't.
Next, we aim to inspire you with a radically unique personal story.
Everyone has their own story, but we believe it is those truly special stories that have the power to kickstart and ignite personal growth. For our launch event, we were delighted to welcome Emma Lawton, Creative Director at SPIXII to share her story. Emma was diagnosed with Parkinson's at just 29 years of age, and in such an accessible and light hearted way, told us about how her life and career has changed since her diagnosis.
Finally, we provide a forum for discussion about topics relating to the world of work and careers.
It is only the most progressive workplaces that create a culture, or even carve out dedicated time and space, that allows for open and honest conversations. We want to provide a safe place where everyone can be heard, and engage in dialogue to better understand the challenges and opportunities of building a career today.
These events are far from our end goal as a company, but our goal is to work out how to use technology to scale this innately personal experience. We want to ensure relationships and human beings stay front of mind in the world of work, and provide compelling and unique opportunities to share with and learn from the people around us.
For those of you in London, our next event is on the 23rd March at General Assembly Aldgate. Keep an eye on http://wurqs.com/events for details.
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FBI special agent in charge of the Memphis divisionMr. Ford was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminology from Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a Juris Doctorate degree from Rutgers School of Law in New Jersey. From 1982 to 1985, Mr. Ford served as a Special Agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation where he investigated a variety of violations including Violent Crime, Fugitives, Drugs, and Corruption.
Mr. Ford entered on duty with the FBI as a Special Agent in August 1985. Following New Agents training, he was assigned to the St. Louis Division, primarily working Violent Crime and Organized Crime matters. He also served on the SWAT Team where he participated in the execution of numerous high risk arrests, search warrants, and protective details.
In June 1989, Mr. Ford was transferred to the Newark Division where he investigated Drugs, Violent Crime, and Gang matters. During this time, he also served as Team Leader on the SWAT Team. In August 1998, he was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent on a drug squad. In January 2000, he was named the supervisor for the Public Corruption/Civil Rights squad. In August 2005, he was assigned as SSRA of the Red Bank Resident Agency, where he supervised all criminal matters.
In February 2006, Mr. Ford was assigned as a Team Leader in the Inspection Division at FBIHQ, where he served until August 2007. During this time, he participated in the auditing of all programs throughout the FBI.
In October 2007, Mr. Ford was designated as Assistant Special Agent in Charge in the Newark Division, first overseeing the Administrative Branch and later the Criminal Enterprise Branch.
In August 2010, Mr. Ford was promoted into the FBI's Senior Executive Service, where he served as an Inspector in the Inspection division. During this time, he served as Inspector-in-Charge of field office and FBIHQ inspections, as well as Shooting Incident Review Teams, audits, and special inquiries.
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An artist and dad who spends a significant amount of time traveling for work posted pictures recently of a sweet and creative way that he stays connected with his young daughter and son despite the distance.
For several years now, he has had his kids give him drawings to take with him on his business trips. Then he spends his downtime on the plane coloring in these pictures for them, creating adorably bizarre pieces of collaborative art to give them when he comes home…
He began with colored pencils as you can see in the pictures above, but has switched to mainly using his iPad. The pencilled pieces are clearly more artistically intriguing, but he switched mediums not just because the iPad is easier to wield on the plane, but also because his kids seemed to like the results better…and who are we to judge, right?
Illustrator draws faces, lets 4-year-old draw bodies, ends up with adorably weird art [14 pics]
Dad's funny, cute, and impossible portraits of his baby girl [9 pictures]
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I LOVE the new garden edging! It's going to be SO GOOD knowing the damn bark is going to stay on the gardens now!
Even if those bloody chickens come in, I don't think they will be raking the bark off now.
It annoys the hell outta me that we had to spend HUNDREDS of dollars to keep the chickens from messing up our yard. *sigh*
Moving on...
ABOVE: Look good eh? Stew toiled for hours getting it done yesterday. Today he is doing the lawns. Poor man never gets a rest!
ABOVE: I finally got my bedroom set finished late last night. Hand sewing all that binding on took me hours.
Apart from gardening, we don't have any firm plans for the day. Probably just relax and spend the day with the family.
Might be a bit boring for readers... sorry!
ABOVE: Steve built the screen at the end of the deck yesterday, and put two fences/gates at either side of the house. Today...
ABOVE: He's putting a fence across the back boundary. There is a VERY STEEP drop down to a gully below... a very long way down! The house owners have an almost 1 year old, so it had to be made safe for her.
ABOVE: The three imps. Keera is hiding cos she didn't want a photo with Archer, so is Dante... though I think he's picking his nose! Archer is just happy to be up there with them. Keera and Dante play together all the time and try to ignore Archer. Poor kid. I think S & B need to make a playmate for him! 😛😄


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Oakland Raiders P Shane Lechler (hamstring) was limited during practice Friday, Dec. 24. He is listed as questionable for Week 16 but is expected to play. He is not able to play, P Danny Baugher will handle the punting duties.
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Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable said Thursday, Dec. 23, that P Shane Lechler (hamstring) is improving, reports Jerry McDonald, of ANG Newspapers. "I feel good about it right now," Cable said. "How sure I am, we'll see tomorrow or Saturday. But I know he's improving and I feel good about it." Practice squad P Danny Baugher would be promoted to the active roster to play in Week 16 against the Indianapolis Colts if Lechler is inactive.
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Oakland Raiders P Shane Lechler (hamstring) is hopeful of playing in Week 16 against the Indianapolis Colts, reports Jerry McDonald, of ANG Newspapers. "You know I'm going to do my best to go this weekend," Lechler said. "I don't see why I wouldn't. I'm going to do everything I can, treatment-wise, to be able to go." Practice squad addition P Danny Baugher is ready to go if Lechler is unable to play.
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|Buccaneers | Working out four punters Tuesday
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Updating a previous item, Jim Flynn, of PewterReport.com, reports the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will work out free-agent Ps Danny Baugher (Broncos), Durant Brooks (Packers), Sam Paulescu (Redskins) and Ricky Schmitt (Raiders) Tuesday, Dec. 1.
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Denver Broncos head coach Mike Shanahan announced Tuesday, April 15, the team signed unrestricted free-agent P Danny Baugher (Bengals). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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The Cincinnati Bengals waived P Danny Baugher Thursday, April 3, after signing with the team as a free agent Feb. 5.
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The Cincinnati Bengals signed free-agent P Danny Baugher (Patriots) to a two-year deal Tuesday, Feb. 5. Baugher signed with the Bengals as a college free-agent out of Arizona in May, 2006, but was waived shortly after training camp began later that year. He was not with an NFL team during the 2007 season. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Brad Biggs, of the Chicago Sun-Times, reports unrestricted free-agent P Danny Baugher (Patriots) tried out for the Chicago Bears this week.
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ESPN.com reports free-agent P Danny Baugher (Patriots) has been charged with assaulting his father, Erle, at a fast-food parking lot Aug. 30, one day following his release from the New England Patriots. Baugher was drunk at the time and told police that he "was released by the New England Patriots (Aug. 29) and he was not handling it very well," according to a police report obtained by the Boston Herald. Baugher pleaded not guilty to assault and battery Aug. 30 in Hingham (Mass.) District Court. He was released on his own recognizance with the condition he refrain from domestic abuse. According to the police report, a spat between Baugher and his father inside a vehicle escalated to the point where Baugher punched his father in the face.
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Demand for trades across Canada in the Contstruction Sector
Below is an excellent article from Derek Sankey, Canwest News Service regarding the federal stimuls spending has created demand for trades in the construction sector.
Thanks to a better-than-expected recovery in the construction sector, federal stimulus spending and a recent surge in the housing market, forecasters say demand for workers in the skilled trades is strengthening in step with the post-recession economy.
"I characterize it as a soft landing," says George Gritziotis, executive director of the Construction Sector Council of Canada (CSC), who also cites the government's Home Renovation Tax Credit as a "potent measure" that provided a boost through the recession.
The unemployment rate in the construction sector hovered around 11 per cent last year and into 2010. But to put that in perspective, it hit close to 20 per cent in the early 1980s and '90s, and the average unemployment in construction since 1976 is 12 per cent.
"The one thing the recession didn't take away … is that people age, people retire and move on," says Gritziotis. "We can't take our eye off the prize, which is ensuring we keep encouraging people to come into the industry and look at careers."
The CSC's labour market research shows many trades in Canada — out of nearly 50 that are tracked — in which workers are considered "generally not available" or "not available and projects must stop or be delayed."
Electricians, construction managers, gas fitters, residential home builders, bricklayers, concrete finishers and carpenters are among those in greatest demand in its forecast for 2010 to 2018.
The intensity of demand for various trades varies by province. Industrial and resource-based trades dominate in Alberta and Saskatchewan. British Columbia is mixed but has been strong in the institutional and infrastructure fields.
Ontario has a mixed economy, but has strong demand for residential trades and on the infrastructure side. Newfoundland has also been strong with its major offshore oil and natural resource projects, utilities and mining, while Manitoba's strength is in its floodway and utility projects.
"The big challenge for Western Canada as projects come on stream is that they were relying on workers from Eastern Canada, particularly from Newfoundland, but those workers are busy," says Gritziotis.
Vancouver's recent tear of construction projects linked to the Olympics was an obvious boon, but demand across different trades has generally remained strong provincewide, fuelled by demand that's considered healthier than normal levels.
"In B.C., we've been lucky," says Rod Goy, acting dean of construction at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). "We've had six or seven years where things have been hot — real hot."
Even a more recent lull in that province is still considered healthy demand compared to ten years ago, he adds.
"We're cycling up and down on top of the mountain instead of down in the valley," says Goy.
With more people retiring, he's noticed a distinct lowering in the average age of today's apprentices. The starting age used to be around 28 years old, but that has fallen closer to 23 recently, he says.
"Because of our rapid growth, we led the way, but this trend was the same across Canada," Goy says.
A strong housing market nationwide has also boosted investment in tradespeople in that sector. The CSC estimates between 190,000 and 200,000 new housing starts in Canada for 2010, up from its initial forecast for the year.
In 2008, there were 1.2 million Canadians employed in the skilled trades, a number that took a slight hit during the recession in 2009 and fell to about 1.1 million workers, but has started to recover. Some workers left the industry to pursue other careers, while mortality and retirements also took a toll on the workforce.
Demographics across Canada will be hitting worker supply harder in the years to come. For example, in Alberta alone the CSC projects 25,600 retirements from 2010 to 2018, and there will be 23,700 new jobs created. However, only 25,700 new entrants will come into supply through training, leaving a deficit of about 24,000 workers.
"Those workers are going to have to come from other industries, other parts of the province … or foreign workers or the under-represented groups, which are women and Aboriginal groups," says Larry Rosia, dean of the School of Construction at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary.
Training institutions have been ramping up capacity in advance of what's expected to be sustained, strong demand for skilled tradespeople for at least the next decade. But when times are hot, it's also difficult to get instructors to train students.
BCIT has increased the number of classes in electrical from 45 to 115 in the last six years to try to meet current and future demand. Similar actions are being taken at technical schools across the country.
"One of our fears is that we may hit the same scenario we had prior to … 2008, where we had peak construction activity and facing shortages all over the country," says Gritziotis. "As the contractors go off into the sunset and retire, it will be an issue."


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Infrared Spectra. Free Download of FTIR Library
Download free infrared spectra library – FTIR Library (go to page bottom).
What are infrared spectra?
Infrared spectra are "fingerprints" of molecules. The same molecules have the same infrared spectra, different molecules have different infrared spectra.
Infrared spectra are used in analytical chemistry.
Typical infrared spectrum looks like this (Picture 1):
Infrared spectra are curves. The final infrared spectrum is a ratio of sample spectrum and air spectrum (background).
The X-axis (peak position) gives you information about the wavelenght and is usually presented in units called "cm-1" = wavenumbers (number of waves in 1 centimeter).
Typical wavenumber range by infrared spectrum is 4000-400 cm-1.
The Y-axis (peak intensity) gives you information about how much the sample absorbs the energy, the units are Transmittance (%T - …peaks go down) or Absorbance (logarithmic scale, peaks go up) units. Transmittance ranges from 0-100%. Absorbance ranges from 0 to infinity. We recommend to take in account absorbance values 0-1 or maximally 0-2. Although your software will show higher absorbance values, you should not trust to values higher than 2 absorbance units.
About the spectrum on picture 1 you can tell following:
The same spectrum in transmittance units looks like this (Picture 2):
You can collect your spectra by transmission techniques (KBr pellets, Nujol mulls, disposable cards, liquid cells, gas cells…) or reflection techniques (ATR, diffuse reflectance, specular reflectance…).
Transmission techniques are classical and will deliver the best quality spectrum, but they are time consuming.
Today 70-90% of new instruments are delivered together with an ATR (= attenuated total reflection) sampling unit. Collection by ATR technique does not require any sample preparation. Typical time of the spectrum collection by ATR together with sample adjustment and crystal cleaning is 2-5 minutes. The quality of the ATR spectrum is fully sufficient for sample identification - you should compare it with spectral libraries collected by the same technique – ATR spectral libraries. The ATR spectrum may have limitations if you look for trace impurities in your sample and in a few other very special cases.
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Glass or quartz cannot be used – their own absorption is too strong in IR region.
Typical ATR materials: ZnSe, Si, Diamond, Ge…
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The qualitative evaluation of infrared spectra can be by following two methods.
If an expert looks at the infrared spectrum, he is able to interpret it. This means, he can estimate what functional groups are present and in simple cases even establish the chemical composition of the compound.
In the above example, it is well known that the peak at 2968 cm-1 is the -CH3 peak and peak at 1774 cm-1 is the C=O peak. Further we can see peaks of aromates etc. If you show this spectrum to an expert on the field of infrared spectra of polymers who works with polycarbonates, he can identify a polycarbonate on the first look, because he remembers the spectrum shape. But he cannot easily identify spectra which he has never seen before.
Generally spectral interpretation is easily possible for simple compounds, but it is time consuming, expensive and generaly limited for more complicated compounds. Although computer programs have been developed for infrared spectra interpretation, this method is used relatively rarely.
Another widely used approach is spectral search – comparison of unknown spectra with many other spectra and calculation of the best "hit" = the most similar spectrum.
The main advantage is that spectral SEARCH is fast and can be used by less qualified personal.
To provide spectral search, you need a special software ("Search Software") which is usually a part of your instrument. The search software has a capability of comparing thousands of curves within seconds and suggest the most similar spectrum. The principle is similar as finger print search in forensic science. The identification is successfull only if the same spectrum is part of the library you compare with.
The absolute values of the hit quality are not so important. 100% would mean identical spectrum and 0% totally different spectrum (some software packages have different scaling of the hit value). In reality you never reach a hit with value 100%. Sometimes a hit with quality of 70% or even less can be correct. You must always do a visual comparison of the unknown spectrum with the library spectrum. It is you who must decide if the spectrum is identical, not the software.
Further you need collections of infrared spectra – "Infrared Spectral Library" or "Infrared Spectral Database".
Some spectroscopists create their own spectral libraries. This is usefull if you work with limited number of compounds, for example in QC laboratory of company manufacturing 100 products or if you want to study newly synthetized or very unique compounds which are not present in any commercial library.
If your application is unknown sample identification, if you study composition of competitive products and if you simply analyze many different sample kinds, it is usefull to buy a commercial infrared spectra library.
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One from the infrared spectra libraries provider is NICODOM Ltd. Nicodom offers over 140000 infrared spectra in over 80 libraries in 10 different digital formats.
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The choice of suitable spectral library is important and depends on your application. If your laboratory focuses on one compound type (e.g. pesticides, dyes, polymers…), you better choose a special library than the general one. Universities or forensic laboratories usually choose general libraries.
Nicodom Ltd. offers a free IR spectra library, click on the logo to go to their download section:
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