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Huntonly was the next group. Steve Johnson, Tom Bateman, and Jason Mills showed up for their turn on the screaming rios. The weather was bad the first morning with thunderstorms and rain. With the bad weather came quiet birds and the ones we did hear wouldn't cooperate. That afternoon we set up and called; heard a few and even had one close but never sealed the deal.
On the second morning, I set up where I knew birds where roosting. The birds were supposed to be back in the brush about 100 yards from our set up. The storm had changed that and at first gobble I realized that they had moved; even worse they had watched us set up. I decided to stay put. Five long beards flew down way early. I could see them strutting but it was too dark to tell their size at 60 yards and too early to shoot. We watched them strut and listened to them gobble for about fifteen minutes. Finally three of them walked straight away with one staying in the field strutting.
Ten more minutes and the three came back . Once the three made it back they all got together and slowly walked in to where I had been calling. Tom Bateman took his bird with a great shot. The other birds walked off and I tried to bring them back in but they followed hens away. Just when I thought we would get up and see about finding another bird for Steve I heard gobbles to our left. Within two minutes I could see two big strutters coming down the road. Long story short Steve got both birds in one shot. Three fine long beard down in five minutes. As we were taking these birds Jason had taken a great bird with Jimmy about three miles away. A couple days later Jason got a nice bobcat with the hounds and got to experience brush country first hand. A great group of guys that I enjoyed hunting with very much.
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Praying Mantis Named After Al Gore Among 19 New Species Identified
A new praying mantis species named after Al Gore is one of 19 new species identified in an extensive study of museum specimens and tropical forests of Central and South America.
The series of new species discoveries was made by Gavin Svenson, curator of invertebrate zoology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Svenson described the new mantis species and published a revision to the mantis genus Liturgusa in the journal ZooKeys. The 19 newly identified species triples the diversity of the Liturgusa group.
"This group, the Neotropical bark mantises, are incredibly fast runners that live on the trunks and branches of trees," Svenson said. "This violates the common perception of praying mantises being slow and methodical hunters."
The mantises Svenson describes are masters of camouflage, expertly adopting the visual appearance of bark and moss and lichen. The insects also take evasive action when needed, darting to the opposite end of a tree when they detect an approaching predator.
"This is an amazing behavior for an insect because it shows that they are not only relying on camouflage like most insects but are constantly monitoring their environment and taking action to run and hide," Svenson said. "In addition, some species leap off the tree trunk to avoid capture and play dead after fluttering down to the forest floor since none of the species are strong fliers."
These bark mantises are active hunters, opting to pursue prey rather than lying in wait for an ambush, Svenson observed.
Additionally, this newly described group of bark mantises do not exhibit the cannibalistic traits of their brethren. The findings shed light on the previously unknown diversity of bark mantises and suggests there are many more species to discover, Svenson said.
"Based on this study, we can predict that mantis groups with similar habitat specialization in Africa, Asia and Australia will also be far more diverse than what is currently known," said Svenson. "Many of these groups have never been studied other than by the scientists that originally described some of the species, which in some cases is more than 100 years ago. This is exciting because enormous potential exists for advancing our understanding of praying mantis diversity just by looking within our existing museum collections and conducting a few field expeditions."
One of the new species, Liturgusa algorei, is named after former US Vice President Al Gore to honor his environmental activism and climate change awareness campaigns.


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Heroix Corporation and Aelita Software both recently announced the addition of support for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 to their product lines. Both companies' announcements followed Microsoft's recent release of ISA Server 2000.
Heroix added support to its RoboMon product—a popular network monitoring and management solution that helps detect and correct problems in products such as Microsoft Exchange, IIS, SQL Server, and Terminal Services, as well as Citrix, Oracle, Lotus Notes/Domino, Cisco hardware, and more.
"Heroix's ISA Server solution provides our customers with the ability to monitor for and prevent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and other risks that plague today's eBusinesses," said Scott Krentzman, vice president of Marketing and Strategic Relationships for Heroix.
Heroix said that RoboMon collects information from ISA Server logs, and that users will be able to monitor for specific conditions that might indicate that an intrusion is under way. RoboMon can then notify administrators of the situation. The RoboMon ISA Server module costs $595. Detailed information about the product is available on the company's Web site.
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"Our strategy is to create a true network intelligence center that provides visibility into all areas of network operations to support better decision making and improved security," said Ratmir Timashev, president and CEO of Aelita Software. "Our support for ISA Server demonstrates our commitment to extending this intelligence to Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server applications that are key to network security and performance."
Aelita said EventAdmin collects proxy and firewall log information from ISA Server to provide more than 60 reports about its activity. Similar to RoboMon in its monitoring features, you can configure EventAdmin to automatically notify administrators of specific events as they occur on the server. EventAdmin pricing starts at $325 per managed server and $20 per managed workstation.


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Jackson enlisted in Stand Up to Cancer campaign
The six-year-old research group Stand Up To Cancer is featuring Samuel L. Jackson in its "In Play" campaign. The effort's goal is to increase awareness about childhood cancers, as well as stressing the importance of seeing pediatric oncologists for childhood cancers and supporting pediatric cancer research.
The campaign, being done in tandem with the St. Baldrick's Foundation, features four of the charity's Honored Kids—patients who have or have had cancer. The introductory video shows kids at a playground, placing children as patients in the context of normality.
"Samuel L. Jackson is a powerful actor and has played some seriously tough guys. It seems very fitting that we have someone with his level of intensity and power speaking out against childhood cancers, which are seriously tough diseases," Kathleen Ruddy, chief executive officer of the St. Baldrick's Foundation, said in a statement about Jackson's PSA.
The PSA keeps Jackson's hard-edged image at bay, but he adds a playful twist to his persona in the behind-the-scenes video, in which, arms crossed, he says, "I'm kicking childhood cancer's butt."
Jackson's PSA is part of a larger connection between Stand Up to Cancer and St. Baldrick's.The two groups created what they call a "Dream Team" focused on childhood cancer research. The team draws on researchers from seven institutions, including the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the National Cancer Institute and the University of British Columbia. Stand Up To Cancer and St. Baldrick's bankrolled the Dream Team with a $14.5 million grant that will be distributed over four years.
There are also Dream Teams for conditions including breast cancer, pancreatic cancer and research that targets PI3K women's cancers, among others.
Several organizations have chipped in money to support Stand Up's initiatives, including MasterCard, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Genentech and GlaxoSmithKline.
The campaign also reveals personal connections. Nancy Goodman, a member of the joint scientific advisory committee, whose son, Jacob, died of cancer, explains in a video that even kids who survive have treatments that can leave them with "terrible illnesses. Cognitive impairments. Neurological deficiencies… it's not a way to live a life."


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After watching last night's Oscars, one thing is clear: the show is played out.
Everybody agrees. Nikki Finke's take on the Academy Awards was absolutely brutal: "Is the show over yet? It's dragged on almost 2 1/2-hours. Kill me now." And I couldn't help but laugh at Finke's take on Oprah Winfrey winning the humanitarian award: "Barf to Oprah Winfrey, the most insufferable hypocrite in Hollywood — and that's saying a LOT." Right on the money, Nikki. Over at The Washington Post, Hank Steuver wrote, "Buoyed by a nostalgic notion that a silent movie is totally where it's at, Sunday night's 84th annual Academy Awards telecast on ABC turned into a dull exercise in the ol' Hollywood self-salute, a sentimental journey, as if the industry was performing CPR on a business model that is vanishing before everyone's eyes."
The truth is that the biggest problem last night wasn't just the movies (which nobody had seen) or the unbelievable arrogance of the Hollywood crowd (which is on full display annually). The problem is that if you're going to do an entertainment show, it should entertain – it shouldn't be elevator music. It should have something unexpected. The Oscars are formulaic. We know that people are competing for an award, and that we're announcing the winners. The question is how to excite people between the awards. The answer is, put somebody up there where anything can happen.
By far the best moment of the night last night was Sacha Baron Cohen's infiltration of the red carpet as the title character from his new movie, The Dictator:
Love it. As he dumped the ashes, in case you missed it, Cohen said "If someone asks who you are wearing, you will say Kim Jong Il."
Now, here's the deal. Everybody knows Cohen can be wildly offensive and disgusting. That's the way he rolls. And the Academy would have to keep their eye on him at all times, with the bleep button ready to go. But he also doesn't buy into the notion that Hollywood is sacred, and that the red carpet is holy ground. He is willing to poke sacred cows. And he's not boring.
Plus, can the Oscars truly say that they're afraid of him being offensive? They're already offensive, opening with a prolonged man-on-man kiss between botoxed Billy Crystal and the everybody-knows-he's-straight George Clooney. Or how about Crystal in blackface in the opening? Or how about his jokes about Republican presidential candidates?
The Oscars is constantly offending people. But they're doing it in the most boring possible way. Why not at least add the risk factor? Why not go all the way? At the very least, it'll boost the ratings and keep people from nodding off. Plus, it would be hysterical to see Ali G show up to present Meryl Streep with her latest undeserved award. Tell me you wouldn't watch. Go ahead. Try it.


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Historicizing the Poverty Narrative
"Poor people often know about possibilities for social change even when they lack the social power or resistant community to effect those changes. Reading poverty narratives oppositionally means allowing that poor people shape and are shaped by textual realities and that they have valuable knowledge about this process and about national culture as a whole."
Rooted in poverty
1. Contextualize socio-economic landscape
2. Connecting Blood Sports to Atwood's "Shadow Side" of Debt
3. Placing Lullabies for Little Criminals and Blood Sports in Conversation: Evaluating Text as Poverty Narratives
Roxanne Rimstead
"Poverty exists in relation to affluence"
"Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth"
Margaret Atwood
Crash Course in Capitalism
"An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state" -Oxford Dictionary
"People are poverty stricken if their income (even if adequate for survival) falls radically [below] that of the community. They cannot wholly escape therefore, the judgement of the larger community that they are indecent. They are degraded... in the literal sense, they live outside the grades or categories which the community regards as acceptable," (John Kenneth Galbraith, 'The Affluent Society').
"All societies at all times [share] the capacity to not see what we do not wish to see" _______
Discursive marginalization
"Symbolic violence...blaming, naming or erasing the poor, constructed them as inherently inferior and thus naturally outside of the community, the state, the nation, and even cultural representation itself."
Political philosophy where power is distributed based on achievement
Logic of meritocracy: "admire the rich... denounce the poor"
"[The] Downtown Eastside community is a convergence of the spatial processes of social polarization ... [and] growing socio-economic and spatial divide between the "haves" and "have-nots"," (Smith).
1995*: 25%
2013: 15%
Vancouver poverty rate
*Blood sports took place in 1993-98
National Average:
2013: 9%
- "Entire neighbourhoods were marked as undesirable and their inhabitants marginalized by discourses of cleanliness and practices of civic order that constructed them as abject populations to be spatially segregated and contained. Montreal in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did not escape such discourses, as similar forms of spatial exclusion were enacted through various forms of urban legislation, policing, and charity that sought to manage, reduce, and redress the poor, the transient, and the unhomed in the nation's most important and rapidly growing industrial city at the time" (Beneventi 264)
"'I'll help you with rent and food and bills and all you have to do is one itty- bitty thing.' 'What?' 'I want you to be good. […] You listen to me when I tell you what to do. No arguing. No debates. No whining." (78)
"He felt uncomfortable touching her, like he was fondling a really expensive vase that he'd have to pay for if he broke." (120)
Evaluating Text as Poverty Narrative VIA RIMSTEAD'S LENS
GOAL 1: To bring a number of previously excluded or devalued narratives into the range of critical perception beside better known [typical] literature on poverty
→ Lack of linear plot/ending – challenges ending of Lullabies for Little Criminals
→ Unsettles and destabilizes readers
→ Modes of telling: epistolary, transcription of film, perspectival changes
Evaluating Text as Poverty Narrative VIA RIMSTEAD'S LENS
GOAL 1: To bring a number of previously excluded or devalued narratives into the range of critical perception beside better known [typical] literature on poverty
→ "Montreal is seen through the eyes of a neglected, abused, and exploited child inevitably drawn into the vortex of prostitution and drug addiction," (Beneventi 268).
→ Unsettles reader by normalizing child's voice within inherent struggle
→ Privileged position as reader
Evaluating Text as Poverty Narrative VIA RIMSTEAD'S LENS
GOAL 2: To know more about how we construct poor subjects textually and socially
→ "We'd go out to a club or restaurant where you had to know which fork to use and Jer would use the right one and I'd think, Man, if Mom saw that, she would cream. We could be doing the dirtiest, filthiest things in private, and she wouldn't care. Jer knew how to act in public. He knew how to talk to waiters, how to pick a wine, and how to chat while we waited to get the Jag out of valet parking." (168)
Evaluating Text as Poverty Narrative VIA RIMSTEAD'S LENS
GOAL 2: To know more about how we construct poor subjects textually and socially
→ "When she is picked up for vagrancy by the police in St. Louis Square and sent to family services, she feels as though she were trapped in formaldehyde, like 'one of the little fetuses in jars in the chemistry lab at our school.' Baby continually inhabits spaces of physical and psychological entrapment," (Beneventi 269)
Evaluating Text as Poverty Narrative VIA RIMSTEAD'S LENS
GOAL 3: To ask why certain images of the poor are invested with greater or lesser cultural power and how they acquire meaning and power over time
• Cognitive Distance (RE: Rimstead)
→ "Forget him. His daddy's a janitor at Wal-Mart. No one's going to put a biker hit on us for killing him." (215)
→ Intimately dismissive
Evaluating Text as Poverty Narrative VIA RIMSTEAD'S LENS
GOAL 4: To find methods of understanding poor people as more than mere objects of study entrapped in other peoples images - but also as speaking subjects, agents of cultural change, and concrete beings who live and feel social boundaries and material constraints.
• "'Come around here, you've got to see this,' Paulie said. 'It's like she's mainlining.' The nurse beside her stiffened. We'd had to disclose about Paulie being in Narcotics Anonymous. I think we freaked some of the staff. The whole week we were in the hospital, they acted like we were going to break out the rigs and turn our room into a shooting gallery." (5)
Popular early Canadian poverty narratives
"the boys grew up dirty and sad, spikey also, like grass beside the railroad tracks."
"A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others."
Other forms of media take notice
"The songs spoke of dreams, but in dreams tricks were played on you: you reached for a rose and you were handed a dirty diaper."
Important Works of the Last 25 Years: Non-Fiction
"Class knowledge comes from experience and story, history and memory, and from the urgency of witnessing."
"All those years of living completely in the present make chronology difficult for them. They often can't tell you if the event they are describing occurred last year, or five days ago. Everything is completely arbitrary; there is no emotional sequence"
"You're being taught to tell us, preach to us, how to fix our problems," Mom says, "instead of asking us, the real experts.... Don't tell me how to fix my problem – first we need to find a common ground....We need to find a common language."
Important Works of the Last 25 Years: Fiction
"She thought that poverty was like a sickness you put to sleep inside you, and it didn't hurt too much as long as you didn't move. You grew used to it, you ended up not paying much attention to it as long as you stayed tucked awa
with it in the dark."
"If I keep going to school next year like Ma and Pa and Sophie say they want me to, the reader will cost 16 cents, and no one else in the family has gone that far in school yet, so we'll have to buy an new one. I do like school, but the books and scribblers are so expensive."
Important Works of
the Last 25 Years:
"During one game [the fans] broke into a ridiculous war chant whenever I stepped onto the ice … When I scored, the ice was littered with plastic Indian dolls … A cartoon in one of the papers showed me in a hockey helmet festooned with eagle feathers, holding a war lance instead of a hockey stick."
Definition of Debt
1. Sin or trespass
2. Something owed: Obligation
3. A state of owing
The common-law action for the recovery of money
Atwood's definition of debt: Debt is a "human construct", which "magnifies both voracious human desire and ferocious human fear" (Atwood 2)
Atwood states that the constant circle of debt related to sinful activities such as excessive overspending or sinful acts related directly to religion
Debts are not necessarily about owing money, but are sometimes a metaphor for sin
Religion and debt are almost exclusively intertwined, since the word "debt"is placed straight into the United Church's version of the Lord's Prayer
"Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors...The word 'debt'-blunt and to the point-was well fitted to the plain, grape-juice-drinking United Church" (Atwood 44)
The Shadow Side
Atwood explains that the "Shadow Side" is reserved for people who do not pay their debts
There are different solutions for these people, such as going to jail ("paying for their crimes"), debtors prison, paying their debt to society
However, revenge is sometimes taken out upon these people
Death and debt are connected, as sometimes debt will only constitute for blood (Atwood 149)
Atwood gives an excellent example of a debt being paid in blood, using Shakespeare's
The Merchant of Venice
This is also an example of a negative
Debt and Sin
The Creditor and The Debtor
The Merchant of Venice
The play's plot is focused primarily around the borrowing and owing of money
Shylock is the creditor, being a Jew and a money lender, he has very little political or social power.
However, Shylock uses his role of creditor to
gain power and authority
over Antonio (the wealthy Christian merchant) by demanding a "pound of flesh" as payback
Being in the position of Creditor brings forth immense power, as being the debtor is a form of "slavery" (Atwood )
Final Themes of Atwood's Text
Debt is not just attributed to financial matters, but is an "imaginative construct" formed by human society (Atwood 203)
The relationship between the creditor and the debtor is just as important as the debt itself
Also gives the creditor extreme power over the debtor
Since debt is a "mental construct", how society thinks about it
"changes how it works"
(Atwood 203)
By exploring themes of indebtedness and socio-economic mobility, our group seeks to illustrate how the material permeates societal and personal connections on more than an economic level.
Class-Based analysis of poverty:
Process of analyzing poverty conditions within an area or group through the examination of social classes, as well as the mobility between these classes. It provides an analysis of poverty based completely in class structures, versus other types of analysis (such as racial or geographic).
What, if anything, is problematic about the video we just watched in terms of Canadian Nation identity?
"remnants of a nation except that there were too many of them for a remnant" (Gallant 273).
Poverty Exists in relation to Affluence
"People are poverty stricken in their income (even if adequate for survival) falls radically [below] that of the community. They cannot have what the larger community regards as the minimum necessary for decency; and they cannot wholly escape therefore, the judgement of the larger community that they are indecent. They are degraded ... in the literal sense, they live outside the grades or categories which the community regards as acceptable"
John Kenneth Galbraith,
The Affluent Society
"all societies at all times [share] the capacity of not seeing what we do not wish to see"
a political philosophy where power is distributed based on achievement
logic of meritocracy: "admire the rich...denounce the poor"
Discursive Marginalization
"symbolic violence ... blaming, naming or erasing the poor, constructed them as inherently inferior and this naturally outside of the community, the state, the nation and even cultural representation
"when we fail to question stereotypes, dominant discourse, and textual conventions of portraying the poor we may be complicit in the symbolic violence that normalizes the exclusion of the poor in 'market society'"
The situation of the poor becomes naturalized when we don't question these
"Knowing the Poor"
A Case Study in Textual Reality Construction
by: Bryan Green
We must become better readers of poverty and be wary of the covert ways in which the reality of the poor is being constructed in ways that benefit the non-poor (Canadian Government, affluent society)
Impose documented reality upon situated reality
The non-poor do this to achieve "closure over lived reality" - distancing themselves from blame
Becoming Better Readers of Poverty
DO develop more emancipatory ways of reading about poverty (not oppressive)
DO read critically - liberate the poor (and non-poor) to think with opposition about the poor's place in society
DON'T be part of the nation problem by failing to read the poor's voices - or reading pseudo-voices (covert government constructions)
The Poverty Narrative
We Must:
Begin interrogating these images from a politically engaged perspective
Also consider gender, ethnicity, nation in addition to poverty and class
"Firebug brought his pliers to the needle in Tom's nipple. Tom felt a tug, and then blood ran down his chest like tears, warm, warm and absorbing." (186)
Poverty Narrative: Definition
Any text that includes stories by or about the poor that explains the complexity of everyday experiences in order to recover previously silenced voices
"When the poor speak out as remnants of nation, national unity itself seems frayed or non-existent, and the relational logic between the poor and the wealthy nation is more apparent."
Definition (cont.)
• Liberates the poor to think oppositionally about their place in society
• Creates sites where identity is constructed and negotiated instead of merely reflected.
• Acts against the nation's attempt to erase the poor from the public view or control them in terms of their movement or labour power
Discussion Topic:
Can anyone think of specific examples within our nation where we have attempted to erase the poor from public view or control them in terms of their movement or labour power?
Poor Identified as Either:
External Others
Projection that 'real poverty' only exists elsewhere
i.e. the 'Third World' or the 'Old Country'
Internal Others
Contain them in safely manageable ghettoized or stigmatized spaces
Fix them with insults, degrading paradigms, stereotypes or euphemisms
i.e. 'white trash'
: 1st person narrative
Many poverty narratives:
Depict people who feel nationless and alone:
An absence larger, caring community
Lack a more inclusive national image
Must identify themselves in relation to other forms of community
Consider Baby
Main GOals:
1. Bring previously excluded or devalued narratives to forefront alongside well-known literature on poverty
2. Examine how we construct poor subjects textually and socially
3. Consider why certain images of the poor carry greater cultural power than others
4. Find methods of understanding the poor as more than mere objects of study
No one secret to poverty
No overarching theory
Do not overgeneralize or impose a "top-down" analytical structure of the poor
Trade and Industry
Supply and Demand
More Income,
more consumption
Social Inequality
"Poverty is not an accident; it is not a by-product. It is an inherent and crucial feature of a society whose economic structure is grounded in class and exploitation. The Pivotal idea is that there are powerful and privileged actors who have an active interest in maintaining poverty. It is not just that poverty is an unfortunate consequence of their material interests, it is an essential condition for he realizing of their interests. To put it bluntly, capitalists and other exploiting classes benefit from poverty."
- Wright, "Interrogating Inequality: The Class Analysis
of Poverty"
Marx: Class as a determinant of social inequality
Believed the rise of capitalism created two classes:
those who control the
economic system or the means of production
those who must sell their
labour for wages
In order to exist, capitalism must create patterns of unequal relations between these two classes - thereby placing social inequality as a natural result of these relations
two of the barriers that prevent workers from recognizing the adverse effects of exploitation and acting upon them
1. Justifying the economic system, thereby creating these social relations and the inequalities that result
people who control the means of production (and get wealthy in the process of doing so) have power because they are more motivated, intelligent, and creative than those who don't control the structures of the economy.
2. The Structural embodiments of capitalist ideology
governmental actions such as laws, regulations, policies and other forms of ruling that maintain these class-related relations
Weber: Class, Status, and Party as Determinants of Social Inequality
Status as it comes from sources other than class, such as educational credentials, race, gender, language, religion, and place of residence
This status is associated with differences in access to economic, political and social resources as well as influence. In a competitive society, these sources of status can be used to exclude others from obtaining these resources.
Neo-Marxism and Poverty
The four common views about the causes of poverty in capitalist societies
Placing the blame on the poor
who is poor within Canada?
1. Does anyone have any alternative arguments about whether or not Blood Sports or Lullabies for Little Criminals fulfills Rimstead's goals of a poverty narrative? We exhibited ways that they do speak to these goals, but are there also ways that either text does not fit the criteria?
2. Since the mid 1990s, income inequality in Canada has been rising. With this growing gap between people of wealth and people in poverty, do you think the poverty narrative has the power to eradicate stigmas and give voice to the marginalized? If so, to what extent?
1. Poverty as a result of inherent individual characteristics
(genetics or low IQ)
2. Poverty as the by-product of contingent individual
characteristics (low motivation, poor work habits, and
3. Poverty as a by-product of social causes
4. Poverty is a result of the inherent properties of the social
Poverty Rate:
the percentage of individuals whose income falls below the pre-tax Low Income Cut-Offs (LICOs).
Depth of Poverty:
the degree to which, on average, the income of low-income individuals falls below the Statistics Canada pre-tax LICO lines
Low Income/Wage Gap:
especially high in British Columbia, which has the highest low-income/wage gaps and the second-highest poverty rates in the country
The "culture of poverty" a perception that reflects the first two Neo-Marxist views about the causes of poverty in capitalist societies - placing the cause of poverty on the individual.
In a more modern sense, many neoliberals also support this notion as they would claim the fault is of the individual under the current so-called "free" economic environment.
The imposition of neoliberal economic policies (cutting taxes to the wealthy, reduction of fiscal and business regulations, shredding of the social safety net, etc.) make this stance difficult to swallow.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. -- The search is on for a man who attempted to abduct a 14-year-old girl on Friday in Jefferson County.
Investigators have released a sketch of the suspect who has a very distinctive look, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said.
The 14-year-old girl told investigators she was walking southbound on Sheridan Boulevard near West 60th Avenue when a man in a silver SUV started following her. She said it might have been a Honda or a Chevrolet.
The girl said she was near the bus stop at West 53rd Avenue when the driver stopped and tried to force her into the vehicle. She was able to fight him off and ran. Her school bus driver then called authorities.
She described the man as Hispanic, about 5-foot-3, with dark, medium-length hair. He was wearing a gray T-shirt, gray jeans and glasses.
The sketch shows the suspect with a distinctive haircut. He appears to have a half-shaven head.
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I love the look of tempera paint and have always wanted to learn to make my own. The real thing is so much more vibrant and seems to have a glow that you can't get from the stuff you buy in a tube. This weeks prompt at Sugar Frosted Goodness is "Chicken" and that somehow inspired me to paint a chicken using plain egg yokes. Two friends remarked independently that it was a cruel joke. I assure you that I will not show this to any chickens.
After painting in the background and comb with acrylic paint, I used the bright yellow yoke straight out of the egg for the lighter areas of the chicken. It is pretty sticky, I globbed it on thick for the first layer, then regretted that I didn't take my time and build up a lot of thin layers to prevent cracking and to give the finished piece more depth. I definitely intend to try this again.
While my first thick layer was drying, I settled in with a cup of tea and a book. A few minutes later I heard a curious scraping sound…..
Yes, my cat licked off a good part of the tail. Fortunately for him, I was able to repair it pretty easily. When that dried I added another layer using a yoke with a bit of red paint added. I also tried adding a bit of turmeric. It didn't really dissolve but I like the sprinkles in the tail.
Finally I added some green to the bottom of the background and some white highlights to the feathers. I don't know how permanent this painting will be. It may all flake off next week, but right now the yoke is solid and glossy like a layer of glass.
This would be a really fun thing to do with kids. There is always the threat of salmonella with raw eggs, but I bet the yolk of an egg over easy would work perfectly.


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There are a few things you need to manage your property that will make your job easier. You could employ a rental management company to do this for you but you are usually paying 20% of your rental for this and it's something you can easily do yourself if taught how.
Expected costs associated with self management
An alarm system is essential for peace of mind with your vacation rental. I have extensive experience with installation of a wireless cellular based system that can not be beat. It monitors for fire, carbon dioxide, burglary, freezing conditions, thermostat settings etc. I also like to install video cameras on the exterior of the house which provides you with a visual if someone were to case your house or try to vandalize it. It also allows you to make sure that your rental is not being used by party groups who may have not been up front about the number of guests they planned on having at the property. If you have a pool, it is advisable to have a camera trained on the pool for liability purposes.
If you are wondering which alarm company to go with, I recommend the cellular based as opposed to internet or phone line based systems.


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The hydrology of the Pacific Northwest (PNW) is particularly sensitive to changes in climate because seasonal runoff is dominated by snowmelt from cool season mountain snowpack, and temperature changes impact the balance of precipitation falling as rain and snow. Based on results from 39 global simulations performed for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4), PNW temperatures are projected to increase an average of approximately 0.3°C per decade over the 21st century, while changes in annual mean precipitation are projected to be modest, with a projected increase of 1% by the 2020s and 2% by the 2040s.
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This course explores conflict, insecurity and collaboration in relation to scarcity, poor quality, and variability of freshwater resources. Students will examine disputes and conflict over access to fresh water resources and rivers, including dam construction.
A special focus will be on how conflict over transboundary freshwater resources has fostered peace building through cooperative co-management. Throughout the course, mechanisms and instruments will be introduced to assist the resolution and prevention of water-related conflict and insecurity including: international law; institutional arrangements; governance and policy reform; and involvement of civil society organizations.


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GRS 600, 800, 900; GRC 600, 800, 900, 1200; GRP 600, 800, 900, 1200; GRM 600, 800, 900, 1200; GRE 600, 800, 900, 1200: These wheel-mounted mobile vibrating sieves were originally designed for screening, transferring and removing iron from glaze but are also used for the separation of solids for many different kinds of slurries. Its compact size makes the machine perfect for direct use on the discharge lines.
The GRE version envisages the use of an electric iron-remover. The GRM and GRP trolley sieves envisage the use of Neodymium magnetic bars, which are very effective, light and easy to clean manually. The GRS sieve has a tank with re-launch pump which is used to screen the product returned from the belt scraper and from the "overflow" before putting it back in the service tank of the application unit.


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Oh how nice it was to visit there with you, Janet! I haven't been able to get away at all this summer to do much more than weddings, funerals, baptisms, birthdays and illnesses. Seriously. All kinda "responsibility things."ReplyDelete
I so yearn for the sound of waves and to relax with a book in the shade!
I love your hair, btw. And those houses - just WOW, can you imagine a wrap around pillar portico like that one? NICE!
Happy images from a lovely summer break. The first photo is my favourite and yes, your hair is super!ReplyDelete
Have a nice day!
Beautiful way to end the summer! Amazing houses! And your look lovely, especially on the boardwalk.ReplyDelete
It looks like that area would be beautiful any time of year! What a gorgeous day you had! You are pretty gorgeous yourself...love your hair!ReplyDelete
This looks like the perfect way to refresh and relax. Love those beautiful homes, too. I would do the same thing, imagine I was living there! I like the last picture of you esp., with your cute haircut and dress.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful place to refresh and renew, Janet! The beach looks so peaceful. I bet it was not so free of people just a couple of weeks ago before school started. You picked a wonderful time to go.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful get-a-way! Your photos are beautiful! Glad you enjoy this relaxing time with your family.ReplyDelete
That ocean breeze looks nice! I love the bikes too!ReplyDelete
Hi Janet! So lovely to SEE YOU! I believe we've crossed paths before! Give me the ocean any time, anywhere! Those homes on the shore, what a gift to have the means to enjoy such a place! But the sound of the sea, that's for anybody to enjoy.ReplyDelete
Are ya loving these last days of summer? I went back to teach about a week earlier than normal, and I'm in my third week of teaching. The wind is here, the temps cooler, and it's time for sweaters now.
Thank you kindly for coming to visit and leaving a comment! Anita
Wonderful pictures.ReplyDelete
My dear Janet, these are truly very beautiful photographs, so relaxing ... the Ocean is majestic and it looks even more blue than the Mediterranean which I'm accustomed to, our waters are clearer, maybe because our sea is less deep.ReplyDelete
And those buildings, so graceful and elegant, I wonder what a lovely view from their windows ...!
Thank you so very much for your pictures and words, I hope your soul is going to get better quite soon, take care
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Just beautiful!!! My husband and I spent the Labor Day week in Ocean City, NJ. Love being at the beach when it's not crowded.ReplyDelete
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What a wonderful way to spend such a glorious weekend! Allenhurst is just beautiful. I think hubby and I need to take a drive over. Have a wonderful day!ReplyDelete
what a wonderful way to say farewell to summer. Thank you for sharing and for linking up to the Thursday Favorite Things Bog Hop. xoReplyDelete
Great pictures of a lovely area. There is so much more to the Jersey shore than people see on TV.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Watch: The Time Louis C.K. Thought Jimmy Fallon Died
He didn't die.
How would you react if you learned Jimmy Fallon died? Would you be scared? Because Louis C.K. would not. Last night on the Tonight Show, C.K. told the story of having his last appearance on Fallon cancelled and assuming it meant that Jimmy died. It's funny because Fallon didn't die. He had a baby. The circle of life in one late-night clip.


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GCHQ, Britain's secret organisation for the interception of electronic communications, recorded conversations between the bombers on their mobile phones as they made their way towards the town to plant their device.
The BBC's Panorama programme has established that the calls contained enough clues to raise the alarm that a major operation was under way. If GCHQ had been actively monitoring the calls live – as Special Branch says it had requested – it is possible the attack could have been stopped.
The intercepts could also have played a crucial role in bringing the bombers to justice after the attack, but sources told Panorama that not one of the transcripts was ever disclosed to the investigating police.The bombing, on Aug 15, 1998, was carried out by the Real IRA, a dissident group opposed to the peace process.
Twenty-nine people and two unborn children died in what was the largest single attack of the Troubles. The BBC investigation found that GCHQ intercepted the terrorists' mobile phone calls on the day they planted the bomb. What is not clear is whether GCHQ's monitoring staff were listening to the exchanges as they happened – or whether the conversations were recorded automatically, without anyone listening.
Ray White, a former assistant chief constable of the Northern Ireland Police Service, told the BBC that the Special Branch officer responsible for requesting GCHQ's assistance was "adamant" he had asked for "live" monitoring "primarily for the purpose of triggering a pre-arranged surveillance plan" to stop an attack.
The programme, presented by the reporter John Ware and to be broadcast tomorrow night, says that if GCHQ's officers were listening, there were clues in the exchanges they intercepted which should have made them realise they were hearing the prelude to a terror attack. Among other signs, GCHQ recorded the bombers as they received a call from a known Real IRA commander who was suspected of involvement in a string of terrorist attacks.
One senior source said that transcripts were sent to Special Branch in Belfast "within hours" of the bombing. Special Branch sources, however, say they were not briefed until three to four days after the attack. The Special Branch sources say that, within 24 hours of their meeting with GCHQ, they gave a verbal briefing to a senior police
officer investigating the mass murder, giving information "sanitised" by GCHQ. But there is no record in the CID log of a substantial briefing from Special Branch until three and a half weeks after the blast.
Even then, the detectives received the names of only some main suspects. They did not get any of the details they needed to help build a case against those suspects. Facts as basic as that the bombers had used mobile phones and that GCHQ had their numbers and recorded their calls, were withheld.
As a consequence, the detectives trying to identify the terrorists spent nine months trawling 6.4 million phone records, to identify 22 suspects' phones used to plan Omagh and four other bombings. Although that laborious effort proved which mobiles had been used for Omagh, investigators needed evidence of exactly who had been using those phones at the time of the attack before they could prosecute. They did not have that evidence.
But, claims Mr Ware, GCHQ had recordings that could have been used to identify at least one of the voices of the men in the two cars used to plant the bomb. GCHQ's recordings would not have been admissible as evidence in court, but had the information they contained been passed on within hours, or even days, of the attack, it might well have led detectives to other evidence that could have been used to convict the perpetrators.
In response to Panorama's findings, Michael Gallagher, the chairman of Omagh Support and Self Help Group, told Mr Ware: "We have been demanding a public inquiry since 2002 into the abysmal failure of the police inquiries. In all conscience the Government can no longer resist this." Neither the Government nor GCHQ will confirm or deny the monitoring operation.


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As most of my friends know, I have always been a very heavy dreamer. Sometimes when I describe a particular dream sequence they look at me as if I'm crazy.
How can I blame them? If I could film my dreams, either they would fascinate people or someone would lock me up and throw away the key.
My dreams are almost never violent, but are often filled with suspense. They have a fluidity of motion and structure that is rarely found in narrative film unless, of course, you consider animation.
As increasing advances in technology help animators, the fertility of their imaginations gets unleashed in ways I find utterly fascinating. Some have managed to create dreamscapes as bizarre and amazing as some of my dreams. Consider, for a moment, David O'Reilly's vision of hell (a one-minute-long sequence which the 27-year-old artist recently described as "just playing around").
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During the recent San Francisco International Film Festival, two animated shorts stood so far above the others in terms of imagination, structure, and artistic brilliance that I was left speechless by their cinematic beauty.
In Plume, a primeval winged man who falls to earth and is robbed of freedom by his alter egos finds redemption by casting off his former existence. As these three menacing creatures attack the winged man to get his feathers, the viewer watches a well-muscled, anatomically correct puppet being manipulated with remarkable skill. In the following video clip, filmmaker Barry JC Purves describes how working with a puppet challenged and inspired him to bring his artistic vision to life.
Once he has been stripped of his feathers, the man discovers a new medium -- water -- in which he can survive and thrive. With a fantastic original score by Nicolas Martin, Plume has to be seen to be believed. Here's Purves giving more detail about his creative process during a lecture to filmmaking students.
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Another animator to experiment with using puppets in water is Andrew Huang, whose 20-minute short entitled Solipsist recently won the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival award for best experimental short. Huang (who graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Fine Art and Animation) currently works in Los Angeles as a commercial and video music director.
A multi-talented powerhouse, Huang also wrote the music and engineered the sound design for Solipsist (which I strongly advise readers to watch in full-screen mode).
Once you've peeled your brains up off the floor, watch The Making of Solipsist:
Not everyone enjoys their dreams, nor can they always remember their dreams. Some people work so hard to dissect and interpret their dreams that they miss out on one of the grandest artistic adventures in life.
A former roommate (whose favorite drug was PCP) insisted that he could decide what he would dream about before he went to bed. He totally misunderstood what dreams can offer.
While some describe the phenomenon of dreaming as akin to what happens when your brain tries to defragment its hard drive, I prefer to think of my dreams as an internal version of the Aurora borealis; a private edition of the Northern Lights that awaits within my head. Dreaming (at least for me) takes me through a magical, mystical portal to uncharted dimensions filled with color, action, and the most raucous (and occasionally grandiose) type of cinematic experience.
If you're looking to be genuinely shocked and awed, all you need to do is lie back, put your head on the pillow, and let go. On a really good night, it's the greatest show on Earth.
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Lemon Anise Biscotti
"With the growing popularity of gourmet coffees, cappuccino and espresso," Carrie Sherrill notes in Forestville, Wisconsin, "I'm finding lots of people enjoy these classic Italian dipping cookies."
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Bake: 40 min. + cooling
Makes3 dozen
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 2 teaspoons aniseed, crushed
- In a small bowl, beat eggs and sugar for 2 minutes or until thickened. Add oil and extracts; mix well. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; beat into egg mixture. Beat in lemon peel and aniseed.
- Divide dough in half. On a lightly floured surface, shape each portion into a 12-in. x 2-in. rectangle. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Flatten to 1/2-in. thickness.
- Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until golden and tops begin to crack. Carefully remove to wire racks; cool for 5 minutes.
- Transfer to a cutting board; cut with a serrated knife into scant 3/4-in. slices. Place cut side down on ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 5 minutes. Turn and bake 5-7 minutes longer or until firm and golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool. Store in an airtight container.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 66 calories, 2g fat (0 saturated fat), 12mg cholesterol, 48mg sodium, 11g carbohydrate (6g sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1/2 starch, 1/2 fat.
Originally published as Lemon-Anise Biscotti in Light & Tasty December/January 2007
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Jul 26, 2016
I recommend soaking your hands with water to make the dough easier to handle, as it is very sticky. For half of them, I sliced the biscotti a little thinner and diagonal rather than crosswise as shown in the picture, for a slightly longer cookie; I prefer this and it may even help make the biscotti harder and crunchier, as they're supposed to be.These are by NO means a bland cookie - they are packed with intense lemon and anise flavor that could knock the socks off your typical store-bought biscotti! Great recipe, and lovely with a cup of tea in the morning.
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I just wrote about retailers getting on the pricing intelligence bandwagon, based on a recent RIS (Retail Info Systems) Survey, Pricing Intelligence Goes To War. As retailers gird their loins, i.e. ramp up their pricing skill sets, they're increasingly using (or planning to use) sophisticated tools for dynamic, real-time pricing. That is to say, information provided in easily consumable formats, that enables them to flow it into their merchandising and marketing solutions, in real-time. Here are some more takeaways from that survey on issues relating to competition, and the retailers' thoughts about selection and use of pricing intelligence solutions…
Effect of Dynamic Pricing
Respondents said the number one impact dynamic pricing has on their retail business is on profit margins. They gave profit margins a 4.0 rating out of a maximum of five. Other impacts were customer satisfaction (3.9), sales (3.9), competitive advantage (3.8), conversions (3.7), and brand image 3.6.
The survey observed that, "since most price changes are reductions intended to stimulate sales or meet competitive pressures, the result will be a squeeze on profit margins," adding, Inevitably, this will become a source of tension between the merchandising and marketing departments, and a motivating force to implement closer collaboration between the departments. (more on that in a minute).
The question of price change frequency is another critical question all retailers will have to address. It is clear that retail has entered the world of daily price changes, with 26.7% saying their price changes should be made daily; and another 26.7% saying (changes should be made) "in real-time with no limit on the number of changes". 10% reported that they make price changes at least once per day, 10% do it every two to four hours, and 6.7% do it every hour. Only 13.3% said they do it weekly, and 3.3% said monthly, "(neither of which) can be considered dynamic pricing in the Internet age," according to RIS.
An interesting take on the price-change process is whether price changes be manual or automated. According to study data, the vast majority of retailers (71%) believe a hybrid of automated technology and manual price changes is the best way to manage. 12.9% said manual with one executive in charge; 6.5% thought it should be fully automated; and 3.2% said "manual with multiple executives in charge.
Who Should Manage Pricing Intelligence?
Another angle on the use of pricing intelligence is to give more balanced power between merchandising and marketing departments. RIS notes that merchandisers control assortments, purchase products and are incentivized to maximize margins. On the other hand, the marketing department sets prices, which also makes sense because marketing is responsible for sales and brand management (of which price image is a large part).
Today, just 10% of retailers say dynamic pricing is managed by a combination of both the merchandising and marketing departments… Pricing is so essential to sales efforts and brand image that it is logical that marketing would want a seat at the pricing table. In the age of dynamic pricing, leading retailers will be smart to give it to them, says RIS.
Bottom Line For Your Bottom Line:
Use of sophisticated pricing intelligence tools makes it easy to use the information, and also sharply increases the speed that the information can be used.
Here's what retailers indicated they believe are most important attributes to use when setting parameters for using their dynamic pricing tools:
73.3% Competitive Pressure
53.3% Average margin must be achieved to ensure profitability of each product as well as across the product line.
50% Geographic location. There is no reason to abandon localized pricing in the digital world, although it has to be done with more sophistication since websites create a new level of customer transparency. Used properly, there are actually new opportunities to get even more granular with local pricing.
46.7% Supply of product – under-supply offers the opportunity to raise prices to drive up profit margin and over-supply offers motivation to lower prices to move slow movers more quickly.
46.7% Time – timing is everything in successful comedy and in dynamic pricing.
43.3% Basement price – there has to be an absolute low price and it has to be set in stone.
40% Ceiling price – setting an upper price is also essential to avoid customer dissatisfaction.
36.7% Managing attributes by channel -- not high on the priority list when creating a dynamic pricing strategy.
33.3% Market Share
33.3% Customer segment
26.7% Inventory turn
23.3% Loss leader
Remember that pricing intelligence solutions not only help see where you can price competitively by lowering your prices, but to see where you may be priced too low, and can raise your prices; there's the whole subject of using your price intelligence to be aware of your competitors' assortment -- and set prices accordingly; and much more.


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The development of physics has answered many questions of early philosophers, but has also raised new questions reflecting on the basic metaphysical and epistemological questions posed by physics. Thus giving the student a knowledge of the historic and philosophical background, which gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering.
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If you're looking for ideas for your next dive trip then our list of ScubaEarth's Featured Destinations for April is a great place to get inspired. Click on the title of any destination to get top tips on dive sites, marine life and diver reviews.
This cold water destination offers plentiful opportunities for dry suit and ice diving. Spring is fish spawning season followed by warmer months between May-September. The underwater landscape includes hundreds of sites, from shallow to deep and bustling dive hubs to secret spots; expect to find Pike, Carp, Trout, Perch, Catfish and even Seahorses. Check out the picturesque sunken forests of Bavarian mountain lakes, the World War II bunker at Dorniermole Friedrichsafen, the Baltic Sea and the submerged structures of the former open cast mine at Kreidesee Hemmoor. At Lake Constance 'Devil's Table' and the Jura wreck offer a treat for experienced divers. Above water, Germany is well known for food, drink and local festivals to liven up post-dive entertainment.
A fairly new diving destination, East Timor sits between Australia and Indonesia. Offering year-round diving (dry season June-October) it biodiverse corals and plenty of must-see residents including dolphins, turtles, nudibranch, pipefish, seahorses, whales and dugongs. Visit Atauro Island for renowned visibility and spectacular sites including Franks Crack and an impressive wall that's full of life. Secret Spot/Sacred Garden offers the chance to dive from the shore and see sharks, lobsters and large clams. East Timor has a friendly culture – check out the local markets and stunning views from the mountains, plus, if you're visiting during April, look out for the "Carnival de Timor".
With more than 2,000 kilometres/1200 miles of coastline, Oman enjoys good conditions all year-round. With dramatic drop-offs, pristine reefs are home to an abundance of colourful corals, turtles, moray eels, barracuda, octopus, squid, cuttlefish, crocodile fish and lionfish. Between June and October, lucky divers may even spot a whale shark or dolphins passing by. Clive Rock is the only place to see carpet soft coral, whilst Junn Island's currents make it a popular choice for drift dives. The Aquarium is one of the most rewarding dive sites to visit but with strong currents, PADI Underwater Navigators will enjoy the challenge. On night dives, try switching off your dive light to see a mesmerising display of phosphorescence. Take time out to enjoy treks and off-road dessert excursions too!
With 30 marine reserves and year-round diving, New Zealand is breath-takingly diverse, from Port Pegasus's seals, sea lions and seahorses, or Goat Island's topography, from rocky shores to underwater cliffs and sandy flats. Between June and November, migrating humpback whales pass by, whilst January to March sees hatchling Turtles emerge on sandy beaches. Keep a look out for the wobbegong shark, giant crayfish, sperm whale and dusky dolphin, as well as species only seen in New Zealand or Australia, including Moki, Tarahiki, Yellow Moray, Blue Mao Mao and Lord Howe Coral Fish. The popular wrecks of warship HMNZS Canterbury and Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior are a true penetration opportunity for PADI Wreck Divers. Back on the surface make sure you check out the locally-led Maori adventures and Waitangi Treaty Grounds.
Thailand is a top destination for macro life as well as plenty of reef critters including banded sea snakes, parrotfish, sweetlips and frogfish, but Manta Rays and Whale Sharks are known to stop by too. The best times to visit are May to September (Gulf of Thailand) and October to April (Andaman Sea). The islands of Koh Tao, Koh Phangan and Koh Samui offer spectacular pinnacles, whilst in Phuket you can dive with elephants (the underwater statues of Siam Bay that is!). Those seeking adventure should dive the HTMS Chang – the biggest wreck in Thailand (100m), as well as the stunning caves, caverns and swim throughs in Ko Ha and Elephant's Head Rock. Make sure you save time to experience Thailand's friendly culture too – including the famous nightlife and beautiful temples.
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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman & Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848, by Martin Dugard is a thoughtful study of these four West Point cadets who served together in this war, only to face each other during the Civil War. This is a well-organized and highly readable book.


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Third party fundraising allows individual supporters to hold their own benefit event for Rose Haven where proceeds, or in-kind donations, go directly to help our nonprofit. These are not events sponsored by Rose Haven, but rather activities inspired and executed by friends of our non-profit helping us meet the needs of our women and children. We are impressed with the creativity each event brings, and are grateful for the donations, both cash and in-kind, that help us execute our mission.
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Invite your girlfriends over for cocktails and appetizers. Your guests must bring new underwear for our women and children to get in the door!
- Shared Proceeds Days
Local businesses have shared a portion of proceeds from a day or week of business. If you have a favorite haunt, ask if they would be interested in hosting an event for us.
- Mardi Bra Celebrations
If there is one item Rose Haven is always in need of, it is bras, especially in larger sizes. Host a Mardi Bra party and invite your friends to bring donated bra's before they start the celebration!
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Do something daring, difficult or zany for Rose Haven and ask your friends and family to support your efforts. One of Rose Haven's friends hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mexican border, through the state of California to Ashland Oregon, approximately 1726.8 miles, in honor of our women and children!
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Welcome to Tribal Dance of Long Island & Caravan Connection!
Tribal Dance Long Island & Caravan Connection New York is a Cultural & Performing Arts Studio dedicated to Celebrating Life through Culture, Music, Dance, Art, Personal Empowerment and Creative Whimsy. Focused on World Arts such as Middle Eastern Belly Dance & Drumming, Tribal Fusion Belly Dance, Bollywood & Indian Dance, Reiki Healing Arts, Henna Tattoos, American Classic Burlesque, Various Performance Art and Local Artists & Authors, TDLI is a hub of artistic, intellectual, esoteric & cultural Art centered on the concept of "Tribe", or Community.
TDLI is home to Dance Companies " Wandering Earth", "Metal East", Student Showcase Troupe, "The Mystic Sisters" and Drum Ensemble, "Raq Tabla" and is a major contributor to Arts Education through seminars, workshops, performances and appearances throughout New York and the Tri-State Area.


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Bobbi Brown BB Cream Review and Swatches
What? Bobbi Brown has a BB Cream?
Word. Bobbi Brown BB Cream SPF 35 PA +++ was released a while back ago in Asia (about May 2010 or so?). I suspect this Summer Bobbi might release it stateside.
Crossing my toes, legs, fingers..etc…etc…!
Interestingly enough both Bobbi's Tinted Moisturizer and MAC's Beauty Balm have very similiar ingredients with a few changes here and there.
How two products with such similiar ingredients work in completely different ways fascinates me but facts is facts they do.
One thing that deserves mentioning is I believe Bobbi's BB Cream was originally released in Japan not Korea. I always find Japanese BB Creams very different from Korean ones and that reflects in the Bobbi Brown BB Cream formula. They just prove less creamier and pigmented.
I got this particular version from Malaysia but you can rest assured the formula pretty much remains standard throughout Asia and and probably within the US as well upon release here.
It comes in three shades which are extra light, light, and fair. Hopefully the release in the US includes some sort of medium color however I find the product runs sheerer and adjusts well so you might just be able to find a match here. The light color is a creamy beige with yellow undertone. The color fit my skin perfectly.
The main properties of the product are brightening dull skin, moisturizing, reducing dark spots and discolorations, boosting collagen, preventing fine lines and wrinkles, and reducing redness while protecting skin with an SPF 35.
A quick glance at the box doesn't display a ton of anti-aging ingredients but there are a good deal of plant extracts that are good for your skin.
The formula is a medium thickness that's not too creamy and not too thin. The creamy texture has a soft buttery texture that blends into skin easily without looking greasy or oily. It offers a very nice hydrating finish thanks to the water base of the product. I find it wears like a second skin without fading or oxidizing. It's so incredibly comfortable and luxurious feeling, like a drink of water for my skin.
Coverage is sheerer but manages to ease dullness incredibly well, conceal smaller problems, and create a smooth, flawless, healthy complexion. I love how my skin just glows when I have this on.
Overall, Bobbi Brown's BB Cream isn't a traditional Korean BB Cream by any means but it takes things to a very new and exciting level in the BB Cream category. The water base has such a smooth, creamy feel that melds so beautifully well with skin creating a healthy, flawless look that's very natural and oh so fresh. It surprises me that MAC's version was such a terrible fail yet Bobbi Brown's version with many of the same ingredients proves a huge success for me. How odd!
It's funny as when I originally tried this I disliked it immensely but as I used it daily I loved it more and more…so don't write it off should you purchase. Continue using it, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised how it sneaks into your daily regime!
Love this!
I look forward to its release here in the US.
Very Muse Approved for purchase.
I paid RM150 which is about mmm $48 bucks USD? I imagine it'll be about the same price once it reaches counters here.
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By Brian Josephs, Complex Sports
Metta World Peace is a naturally funny/weird dude, so of course having him tell the weather is instantly YouTube-worthy material. Only World Peace would find it reasonable to attempt to do yoga stretches while telling the temperatures.
World Peace teammates' names appear on the weather map, which gives him a chance to tell Earl Clark to stop wearing a thong and fart on Darius Morris' name. Nice.
The best part of the video is when the daily forecast shows up at the end and World Peace simply walks off and says "Just read. If you can't read, go to school."
Another World Peace real talk moment here, folks.
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Stan Tracey (piano), Mark Armstrong (trumpet), Sam Mayne (alto), Mornington Lockett (tenor sax), Simon Allen (tenor sax), Alistair White (Trombone), Andrew Cleyndert (bass), Clark Tracey (drums)
Herts Jazz's patron, Stan Tracey CBE returns with his his mighty octet to open our new season. The first ever recipient of a "Jazz Ivor" at the Novello Awards ceremony earlier this year, and performing at the Umbria Jazz Festival in July, Stan is still as strong as ever. His octet ensemble has been around since the early Seventies and tonight features the best musicians on the current scene.
October 14th -
David Newton (piano), Alec Dankworth (bass), Clark Tracey (drums)
The trio that recorded "Victim Of Circumstance" on Linn Records, still David's best seller, are back in action at Herts Jazz. A hugely popular performer, David is dripping with awards for Best Pianist, so we're hoping for another huge turnout to hear one of Europe's best musicians up close for a night of superlative piano.
October 21st -
The premiere of our special seasonal features of college musicians deserving wider recognition.
The first set is from Birmingham Conservatoire, coached by Clark Tracey earlier this year.
The BCU Sextet
Jack Dring (trumpet), Robbie Fearon (tenor sax), Alan Gilbert (guitar), Andy Woodhead
(piano), Stuart Barker (bass), Nathan England-
The second set features someone who we recently heard with the late Abram Wilson and knocked us out with his incredibly stylish approach.
Reuben James Trio
Reuben James (piano), Alex Davis (bass), Moses Boyd (drums)
October 28th -
Jim Mullen (guitar), Don Weller (tenor sax), Steve Melling (piano), Andrew Cleyndert (bass), Dave Barry (drums)
Two giants of the jazz scene unite in a rare collaboration, joined by a world class rhythm section. Jim Mullen is widely regarded as the leading exponent of jazz guitar in this country and Don Weller has been a unique and powerful presence for decades. Together they represent a veritable tour de force of this music and really should not be missed.
November 4th -
Alan Barnes (saxes), Nigel Price (guitar), Barry Green (piano), Adam King (bass), Clark Tracey (drums)
Continuing this bumper season of jazz stars, we've asked the magnificent Alan Barnes to put together a special line up for tonight. Alan is a multi award winning multi saxophonist with a reputation for quality and diversity. As ever, he has chosen a band of highly skilled musicians to accompany him this evening.
November 11th -
Andrea Vicari (piano), Mornington Lockett (tenor sax), Dorian Lockett (bass), Clark Tracey (drums)
First reaching prominence with Julian Arguelles, Art Farmer and Eddie Henderson on the London scene of the Eighties, Andrea rose to greater heights nationally with her "Suburban Gorillas" project in the Nineties, featuring her much praised compositions. Now professor of Jazz Piano at Trinity College of Music, she is one of the best jazz pianists around, having performed with most of the British greats.
November 18th -
Tim Lapthorn (piano), Bobby Wellins (tenor sax), Arnie Somogyi (bass), Stephen Keogh (drums)
Previously seen at the club as a sideman, Tim is on tour with this fantastic line up, with the legendary Bobby Wellins up front, performing material from their new release "Transport". Tim has forged a reputation as one of the UK's most highly respected piano players with his harmonic, soulful yet spacious approach to the instrument with his many influences ranging from Debussy to D'Angelo.
*November 25th -
Gary Smulyan, Alex Garnett, Pete Lukas (baritone saxes), Andrea Pozza (piano), Dominic Howles (bass), Matt Home (drums)
Led by an incredible musician, New Yorker Gary Smulyan (winner of 2011 Downbeat "Best Baritone" and 2011 Jazz Times "Best Baritone" awards), this unique band is on tour in the UK and also features two of our finest baritone exponents, Garnett and Lukas. The sextet is enhanced by the great Italian pianist Andrea Pozza, who has performed alongside George Coleman, Steve Grossman and Phil Woods to name a few.
December 2nd -
The second in our series of college bands. The first set features an amazingly talented young alto player, leading a great line up, all from the Birmingham Conservatoire.
Chris Young Quartet
Chris Young (alto sax), Elliot Galvin (piano), Dan Casimir (bass), Euan Palmer (drums)
The second set showcases a gifted young guitarist many of you will have heard at last year's festival, a local musician now studying at Leeds College of Music.
Michael De Souza Trio
Michael De Souza (guitar), Tom Wheatley (bass), Harry Pope (drums)
December 9th -
Christine Tobin (vocals), Phil Robson (guitar), Dave Whitford (bass), Clark Tracey (drums)
Christine is one of the most idiosyncratic jazz vocalists on the scene. Originally from Dublin, since arriving in London she has performed alongside such greats as Kenny Wheeler, Billy Childs, Billy Hart, Mike Gibbs and Django Bates. With seven CDs under her own name, she has travelled globally, delivering her unique brand of jazz to critical acclaim, making her an outstanding performer in her own right.
*December 16th -
Simon Spillett (tenor sax), Mark Nightingale (trombone), Tony Kofi (saxes), Dick Pearce (trumpet), Steve Melling (piano), Simon Thorpe (bass), Clark Tracey (drums)
This year's stocking fillers promise a night of seriously festive hard core jazz! Possibly the best Xmas jazz night in the land, expect some unannounced headliners to drop in to add to the proceedings. Thanks for a great year and keep supporting Herts Jazz!
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Horace Mann Board of Directors Announces Retirement of CEO Louis Lower
CFO Peter Heckman Named CEO
Oct 06, 2010, 04:05 ET
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Oct 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of Horace Mann Educators Corporation (NYSE : HMN ) today announced the retirement of President and Chief Executive Officer Louis Lower and accepted his resignation from his positions with the company, including his seat on the Board, effective immediately.
Lower had been placed on a leave of absence by the Board on September 9, 2010, following his sentencing in Florida on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence (DUI) with property damage or personal injury. The Board said that it concluded its investigation of all the facts and, with Lower's retirement and resignations, has ended its consideration of any further disciplinary action in the matter. "During his 10 years as CEO of Horace Mann, Mr. Lower made many valuable contributions to the community and the company, one of which was the recruitment and development of an excellent management team that is fully capable of taking the company forward," said Gabriel Shaheen, Chairman of the Board of Horace Mann Educators Corporation.
The Board appointed Chief Financial Officer, Peter Heckman, who had been serving as the interim CEO since September 9, as the new President and CEO and elected him to the Board.
"Peter Heckman is the right person to lead this Company," said Shaheen. "He has played a major role in the leadership of Horace Mann since 2000 and knows our operations, our strategies and our people better than anyone else. Our company remains strong and is well focused on achieving our goals," added Shaheen.
"Horace Mann is a great company, with clear direction and committed employees and agents," said Peter Heckman, President and CEO. "I'm confident that we have the right strategies and an experienced management team in place to execute those strategies."
In a related action, the company announced that Dwayne Hallman, Senior Vice President, Finance, was appointed Chief Financial Officer. Hallman joined Horace Mann in his current position in 2003 and has over 25 years experience in the insurance industry.
Horace Mann -- the largest national multiline insurance company focusing on educators' financial needs -- provides auto and homeowners insurance, retirement annuities, life insurance and other financial solutions. Founded by Educators for Educators® in 1945, the company is headquartered in Springfield, Ill. For more information, visit www.horacemann.com.
Statements included in this news release that are not historical in nature are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. Horace Mann is not under any obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Please refer to the company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2010 and the company's past and future filings and reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for information concerning the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements.
Peter Heckman
Peter Heckman, 65, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Horace Mann Educators Corporation. Heckman joined Horace Mann in 2000. He began his insurance career at Allstate Insurance Company in 1972 where he held a variety of financial management, strategic planning and marketing positions. His most recent position was as Vice President, Finance and Planning, of Allstate Life Insurance Company. Heckman earned bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from Northwestern University.
Dwayne Hallman
Dwayne Hallman, 48, joined Horace Mann in January 2003 as Senior Vice President, Finance. From September 2000 to December 2002, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Acceptance Insurance Companies, where he was responsible for financial reporting, investor relations, the treasury and investment management functions and property-casualty operations. From July 1995 to August 2000, he served as Vice President, Finance and Treasurer at Highlands Insurance Group. He served as Vice President and Controller of Ranger Insurance Company from 1988 to 1995. From 1984 to 1988, Hallman was associated with KPMG Peat Marwick, specializing in its insurance industry practice.
SOURCE Horace Mann Educators Corporation