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15 Future Shop and Best Buy stores closing in Canada, including Surrey location
The Best Buy in South Surrey is one of 15 stores being shut down by Best Buy Canada Ltd.
Today (January 31), the Burnaby-based subsidiary of U.S.-based Best Buy Co. Inc. announced it is permanently closing eight Future Shop and seven Best Buy big box stores across Canada. An estimated 900 people will reportedly lose their jobs.
A news release from the company called the move the "first phase of a long-term transformational strategy to optimize the company's retail footprint across the country".
In B.C., Best Buy stores in Queensborough, Nanaimo, Victoria, and Langford (Westshore Town Centre) are also closing "immediately". The Future Shop store in West Kelowna is going out of business.
Best Buy Canada says it plans to open new Future Shop small-concept "web stores" and Best Buy Mobile locations over the next three years. The company notes it still has over 120 Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores and over 140 Future Shop locations in Canada.
"Employees affected by the Best Buy and Future Shop store closures will receive severance support as well as access to employee assistance programs and career transition support. Hiring priority will also be offered to previous employees across the country affected by today's announcement," the release states.
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Jan 31, 2013 at 3:15pm
happens when the average Canadian doesnt have enough money to spend on consumer goods. Harper can talk all he wants about the strong Canadian dollar but if that dollar isn't in the pockets of 99% of the public, it doesn't matter.
Wages have not gone up much in the past 30 yrs so at some time people run out of money. They have leveraged as much as they can from their baby boomer houses and their kids don't have jobs which pay enough so the time has arrived.
Press releases may talk about how consumer confidence is doing so well but if you go to the malls not many people have bags in their hands.
Ray I
Jan 31, 2013 at 5:56pm
s has absolutely nothing to do with harper or the economy (which is ticking along better than almost any other). It is because they can't compete with online retailers. Canadians are tired of paying 25% - 50% markups for their electronics. Internet shopping just let Canadians know how badly these stores were taking advantage of their ignorance.
Face Reallity You Commie
Jan 31, 2013 at 6:43pm
E.A.F....perhaps you should leave your Communist beliefs in the Toilet. In fact, Best Buy closures have nothing to do with Miniumum wage laws or whatever dependency you have have on the government. Yout typical left wing rhetoric never fails to shake my head.
The hard cold reality is that Consumer buying patterns have changed and more people are buying their electronic good through online purchases at a cheaper price (Amazon, eBay, Tiger Direct, NewEgg).
The latest Best Buy closures etc are not part of a government conspiracy to starve the masses so the right wing capitalist pigs can get fat off their spoils. It's a simple case of SUPPLY AND DEMAND. Businesses that fail to respond to the demand and prices that consumers want will eventually fail and close down. It's a tricky formula. But this is big reason why some business are successful and some become part of the history books.
Jan 31, 2013 at 6:50pm
I have to agree with Ray..Online is the way to shop.This is where my daughters did all their shopping and shipping was free.No postage to pay..They ordered Christmas presents and had them shipped to their friends and receivers.....My boots from my daughter came through the internet too...Aldo.I was in line at Christmas time mailing cards and the hold up was not people purchasing stamps it was mail and parcel pick-up.Beyond the Rack..Beyond the Rack...and more beyond the rack boxes...all Internet shoppers..makes you wonder.
Jan 31, 2013 at 7:16pm
I'm sure the fact that the two brands have been competing with one another, coupled with Future Shop's legendarily poor customer service, has been a significant factor in this. Real estate costs no doubt played a role as well – the press release actually describes the stores as closing "as a result of the current real-estate optimization plan".
Jan 31, 2013 at 9:28pm
On-lines beats Brick & Mortar Stores every day all day.
Better Service & Better Prices.
The way these Corporations treat Employees is a travesty, no notice of closure if your lucky you get 1 week per year of service as severance.
Employees are viewed as Servant under Employment & Common Law as well as Subservient Sheep by the Corporate Board.
Don't be a Sheep work on your own as a Consultant and/or start your own business and employ the Sheep :)
Jan 31, 2013 at 11:55pm
Sure it's cheaper to shop online, but the average consumer is unaware of the hellish work environments that employees endure at distribution warehouses. The big online companies remain faceless and no one even notices the poor working conditions and low pay that warehouse workers are subjugated to in order for the consumer to get a great online deal.
Lee L.
Feb 1, 2013 at 10:05am
It's not that "they can't compete with other retailers". Best Buy in Canada is cant compete with Best Buy in the USA. The reasons are not that clear but..
Prices in the USA are noticeably lower despite a dollar at PAR.
Canadian Border Service does not have the staffing to collect all the sales tax on every cross border purchase so... you often save the HST shopping in the USA.
Lastly, the retail staff in the USA provide a far better experience to their clients ( LIKE ME!!). Canadian retail managers need to up their game and train their staff to know something, and provide a helpful friendly experience. Otherwise.. why would you want to pay more to shop here?
As far as Best Buy and Future Shop go ( both BEST BUY companies), their staff are the most useless and unhelpful hourly workers ANYWHERE.
I've wandered around 2 Best Buy stores and a big Future Shop store and not been approached by any staff. I was browsing for at least half an hour. During that time, I saw staff doing inventory, chatting with each other, phoning friends ...but nobody was helping me look select TVs or computers.
When I talked to one of the staff, I asked him if they were on commission. I expected him to answer no, but he said yes they were. Then why do they ignore the customers? He explained that they only get the commission if they make above a certain level of sales, and that level many believe is too hard to achieve so they just hang about and collect the hourly wage portion of the compensation.
It's very bad management.
Feb 1, 2013 at 12:49pm
I have to agree that online shopping is the future. I am 70 years old and do much of my shopping online. Just bought a computer from Dell who have no stores and provide excellent service. In most cases the shipping is free. Do not have to travel from home, fight the crowds and pay for transportation/parking. I really do feel sorry for the people that have lost their jobs, however 40 years ago we were told that computers would make people lose jobs, but they have also created many more. By the way, I have done some shopping at the Future Shop and have always found the employees to be more then helpful.
Edward Thomas Jones III
Feb 1, 2013 at 5:47pm
Web shopping is the future. My son buys all electronics online. Obama will save these retailers though. He is the greatest president since Carter.


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I've been seeing my boyfriend for 10 months and living with him and his 12-year-old daughter for half that time. He broke up with his daughter's mother after she became addicted to coke and then meth. She has been in and out of jail and has a massive number of possessions, loads of which are still here: furniture, little picture frames, small decorative pieces, jewelry boxes full of random junk (earrings, magazine clippings, makeup, little figurines, candy wrappers). When I moved in, I spent days boxing up many of her possessions, but she claims to live in a tiny apartment, won't divulge where, and refuses to take a single box. She even freaks out at the mention of getting rid of her dumb garden gnomes (which she stole from someone's yard while high). If my boyfriend tried to make her take her things, she'd have a huge meltdown, putting their daughter in the middle, and he's submissive to her because of that. I'd put everything in storage, but we don't have the extra money. My boyfriend's getting exasperated about this, and I'm thinking I should just drop it. I hate living among all of her things, but I love him so much that I don't seem to have a choice. — Smothered
You're a hard lady to buy a housewarming gift for, as they don't make plaques that say, "Home is where the heart-shaped jewelry box full of your boyfriend's daughter's mother's candy wrappers is."
It's no small thing, having to wake up every day in some other woman's two-bedroom junk drawer. But like many women, you seem to prioritize your relationship over your feelings and well-being.
There are compromises to be made in any romantic partnership, but being gnawingly miserable in order to be happy doesn't end well, assuming you weren't looking to live resentfully ever after. Healthy compromise involves expressing your feelings and together figuring out solutions that work for both of you, not keeping your feelings to yourself until clutter control suggestions like "put random stuff in pretty baskets" give way to thoughts like "commit arson."
There is a way to turn this situation positive — without lighting a match or opening your front door and yelling, "Yard sale!" Use this as your training ground for developing healthier conflict resolution. To bring up how you're feeling, open with the good stuff — how much you appreciate him and your life together — and then tell him that you're unhappy living in a house that constantly reminds you of his ex. Let him know that you understand his concern for protecting his daughter but that the solution isn't submitting to emotional blackmail; it's talking to his daughter in advance about what you're doing and why and maybe scheduling a sleepaway for her on the day the trash hits the fan (or, more prudently, the storage unit).
Tempting as it must be to "store" his ex's things in a landfill, it's safest to proceed with the expectation that she'll sue him for that and claim that the bud vase that was under the bed came from the Qing dynasty and not free, with a Wednesday wax job, from the carwash. As for your not having the "extra" money for storage, tending to your feelings, as well as your boyfriend's, may mean that you both go without lattes or do odd jobs so you stop living as a second-class citizen to two stolen garden gnomes, 17 partially filled shampoo bottles and all the rest.
University of Chicago law professor Lior Strahilevitz said that the law typically regards a situation like you've described as "gratuitous bailment," legalese for a person's temporarily holding someone else's property without benefit or compensation. He suggests that your boyfriend
send several e-mails and texts and leave phone messages telling the ex that she needs to pick up her possessions from the storage facility "within a reasonable amount of time." (What that would be varies by jurisdiction.) I suggest that you also photograph her stuff and document all the steps you take. According to Strahilevitz, your boyfriend would be wise to hang on to small valuables, like photos and fine jewelry, which aren't a menace to store. But, he says, "donating or disposing of the furniture and junk after a few months in which emails and calls… asking her to remove the property were ignored probably would not constitute gross negligence," a scary legal term that merely describes being really careless with someone's property.
Although, at the moment, one woman's trash is another woman's trash, the prognosis looks good for that "another woman" no longer being you. Personally, I'm picturing the winning bidder on "Storage Wars" dreaming of abandoned art treasure in her unit and finding it — from Rodin's little-known "garden gnome sitting on a toilet" period.
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Beomeo Temple Neighborhood by Parent. Beomeo Temple is a Buddhist temple in Cheongnyong-dong, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, South Korea. Built on the slopes of Geumjeongsan, it is one of the country's leading urban temples. It was constructed in 678 during the reign of Silla.. Distance from Beomeosa: 2.4km NWW, 9 pictures.
Guseo-dong Neighborhood by Parent. A residential area a couple of train stations north of the PNU.. Distance from Beomeosa: 2.7km S, 27 pictures.
Jangjeon-dong Neighborhood by Parent. Jangjeondong is a district nearby the north gate of Busan National.. Distance from Beomeosa: 3.8km S, 31 pictures.
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Enter the Hertz Furniture "We Are Teachers" Sweepstakes and Win a Complete Classroom Makeover
Hertz Furniture has announced its newest sweepstakes on the popular teacher website, We Are Teachers. The contest offers one lucky teacher the opportunity to win a complete classroom makeover and create the classroom they have always dreamed of. (Read More)
Feb 18, 2013
Winner of the Hertz Furniture "I Love My School Librarian" Contest Announced
Hertz Furniture, has declared Maria Tristan, a librarian at Dr. Palmira Mendiola Elementary School in La Joya ISD, the winner of its "I Love My School Librarian" contest. (Read More)
Jun 04, 2012
Hertz Furniture Honors an Exceptional School Secretary, the Winner of their Super Secretary Sweepstakes
Hertz Furniture announced the winner of the "Super School Secretary Sweepstakes" to celebrate the achievements of a one-of-a-kind school secretary. Kim Salle, secretary at San Jose's Discovery Charter School receives the honor. (Read More)
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Hertz Furniture is sponsoring a sweepstakes to honor a special school secretary in the "Super School Secretary Sweepstakes." The leading office furniture and school furniture supplier invites teachers, principals, staff members, and parents to nominate an outstanding school secretary in their school system. (Read More)
Feb 01, 2012
Hertz Furniture Announces Winner of Taking the Lead Contest
Hertz Furniture announced the winner of its recent "Taking the Lead" contest. The contest's goal was to honor a leading school principal. The winner is Mr. George Fiore, Headmaster of the STEM Academy, located in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. (Read More)
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Hertz Furniture, leading school furniture supplier, wants to remind the educational community that their unique contest to honor a leading school principal is in its last week. (Read More)
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Ant behavior reveals possibilities for humans
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InnovationSpace teaching assistant and graduate researcher Dan Wandrey reports on the work of Ph.D. biology student Adrian Smith, who studies chemical communication among desert-dwelling ants.
Social insects, such as ants, bees and wasps, rely heavily on chemical signals to communicate. Smith is part of a team that analyzed how ants use hydrocarbon readings as a measure of fertility and mating honesty.
Among the most efficient insects in nature, the social structures and behaviors of ants reveal incredible possibilities for humans, from organizational design to resource management and sustainability.


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Posted on September 26, 2013 | | Categories: FTP
Right out of the box, most operating systems come with a built-in File Transfer Protocol (FTP) tool that makes it possible to transfer large files between people, computers and servers. It accomplishes the key goal, which is to deliver the file from one place to another. However, too many organizations' philosophy has been that as long as the files were getting where they needed to go, standard FTP was good enough. That was especially true when they were transferring files internally.
The truth is that FTP alone has never been good enough, because too much information (file data, user names, passwords, etc.) is vulnerable to hackers and it only takes fairly rudimentary hacking skills to steal it. Now with increased pressure to protect sensitive data coming from regulators and consumers, it's urgent that companies implement a more secure file transfer method.
Take a look at this short video to hear Bob Luebbe, Linoma Software's [now HelpSystems] Chief Architect, talk about the dangers of standard FTP.
At the end of this video, Bob mentions the value of clustering and load balancing to promote high active-active availability. Since this video was produced, we've also added these features to GoAnywhere MFT.


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Based on an earlier poll, we already know that plenty of you will be heading out to shop on Black Friday. Major polls listed in our Black Friday survival guide indicate that the number of people heading out overall could be higher than in previous years. That having been said, I'm curious to know about what people are willing to endure to get the deal they really want. So, my question is: how long are you willing to wait in line for Black Friday deals?
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SSRIs are a type of medicine that can restore the balance of certain brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. This may help relieve physical and emotional symptoms of PMS. SSRIs are also used to treat
anxiety, menopause
hot flashes, and
chronic pain.
SSRIs are often the first-choice
medicine for treating severe
premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and
premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) symptoms,
including depression, anxiety, irritability, anger, mood swings, breast
tenderness, bloating, headache, and joint and muscle pain.
many women, SSRI medicine need only be taken during the premenstrual phase,
generally 2 weeks before the start of menstrual bleeding.
SSRIs may help relieve the emotional and physical PMS and PMDD symptoms.1 SSRI therapy can bring relief within a few days of starting
this medicine.
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Call your doctor if you have:
Common side effects of this medicine include:
FDA advisories. The U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) has issued:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug
Reference is not available in all systems.)
You can take a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
(SSRI) by mouth every day of the month. Or you can take an SSRI daily between
the day you ovulate and the start of your period (usually about 2
SSRI treatment is not recommended if you have a seizure disorder or a
history of
mania (including
bipolar disorder). These conditions can be made worse
by an SSRI.
SSRIs make
bleeding more likely in the upper gastrointestinal tract (stomach and
esophagus). Taking SSRIs with NSAIDs (such as Advil or Aleve) makes bleeding
even more likely. Taking medicines that control acid in the stomach may
As with any medicine,
some medicines can adversely interact with an SSRI. Before you try an
SSRI, discuss your medicine and
dietary supplement use with your doctor.
When you are taking an SSRI continuously, never stop taking it abruptly. The long-term use of an SSRI should be tapered off
slowly and only under the supervision of a doctor. Abruptly
stopping SSRI medicines can cause flu-like symptoms, headaches, nervousness,
anxiety, or insomnia.
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Women who use this medicine during pregnancy have a slightly higher chance of having a baby with birth defects. If you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant, you and your doctor must weigh the risks of using this medicine against the risks of not treating your condition.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
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Google VP Marissa Mayer told a crowd in New York City last night that she doesn't believe in burnout.
Even though as Google's 20th employee she was regularly pulling all-nighters and working 130 hours a week, she says she never got tired of it, reports Joseph Walker at WSJ's FINS.
"People say, 'there's only 168 hours in a week, how can you do it?' Well, if you're strategic about when you shower and sleeping under your desk, it can be done," she told Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Josh Tyrangiel. "I don't really believe in burnout. A lot of people work really hard for decades and decades, like Winston Churchill and Einstein. ...
"Burnout is about resentment. It's about knowing what matters to you so much that if you don't get it that you're resentful."
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Good Afternoon everyone. I'm back with some of my favourite beauty products I've tried since my Fall Beauty Haul. I hope you like the products and find some you can incorporate into your own beauty routine.
1.Benefit Cosmetics: Browvo! Conditioning Primer – Nutrient Rich Primer for Fuller-Looking Brows – (1.0 mL) – http://www.sephora.ca – $36.00 CAN
This wasn't a product I went out and bought, but I received the full-sized product with a coupon code from Sephora. Its a product part of Benefit's recently revamped brow line since brows have become a big deal these past two-years where makeup is concerned.
I haven't used this product long, only a week, but I wanted to include it in the Beauty Haul. So far I enjoy the product and it makes my brows feel soft. You don't have to wear other brow products on top of it. If you want, you can wear Browvo alone. Basically, Browvo's a pen and you squeeze some of the conditioning product out. There is a soft rubber comb you can use to brush it on your eyebrows.
The biggest feature I think of this is product, is that it is conditioning so if you have sparse brows, this makes them appear "fuller, thicker, and healthier." Browvo is a "nutrient rich" conditioning formula with "keratin" and "soy proteins." These ingredients are known to help brows appear fuller.
For women who have either over-plucked their own brows or gone to places to have their brows waxed and had them waxed and shaped too thin for a long time, Browvo is fantastic product for you to try out. Also if you find the pencil or gel you are filling in your brows with doesn't last, Browvo is a brow primer and will aid you in keeping your brow makeup in place.
My brows have always been on the fuller side so even though my brows feel nice when I put Browvo on, it's not a product I would purchase because I don't think its a product marketed to me but to women who have sparser brows. If I needed primer on my brows I would use my usual face primer which is POREfessional primer from Benefit.
2. Benefit Cosmetics: ka-Brow- Cream Gel Eyebrow Colour with Brush (1.0 g) -www.sephora.ca – $30.00 CAN
On a different makeup order, I received a full-sized sample of Benefit's of ka-Brow. I've been using it a few weeks and its a great product actually. Ka-Brow is a cream gel product you use to fill in your eyebrows, instead of a pencil or other brow products. I've never used a gel product on my eyebrows, so I was eager to try ka-Brow out.
The lid comes of this product and you pull off the brush as well, to dip it into the brow gel container which is on the bottom of the product as you can see. It can be difficult to tell at first, how much of the gel you need to use to fill in your eyebrows. I found a little ka-Brow goes a long way. The brush is tiny and it's easy to fill in your brow more naturally, with tiny strokes. Or to make your brows look more defined by using thicker swipes of ka-Brow on your eye brows.
The product promises to "fill," "sculpt," and "define brows." You can build it from a "natural" look to a more "dramatic" one quite easily with ka-Brow as I mentioned. Ka-brow is also Waterproof and lasts 24 Hours.
I had never considered using a gel product such as ka-Brow to fill in my brows.I am quite happy to use a brow pencil which is soft but not too soft. I find despite using ka- Brow, I require Benefit's blond brow gel over top to set the product.
I'm undecided about using ka-Brow over a pencil such as an Anastasia Brow Pencil I'd been using before trying this product. Ka-Brow can accidentally be put on quite too thick and I don't know how long it lasts compared to a brow pencil. A good brow pencil such as one from Anastasia, lasts me three-months. So I'll see if this product lasts another couple of months.
There is nothing wrong with ka-Brow. It works well, and I chose the shade o1 Platinum for blonds and the colour is perfect; however, it's up to you what products you prefer to use on your eyebrows and how much you can afford to spend on a brow product for how long it lasts. I haven't decided if I like this product enough to buy it again.
3. L'Oreal Butterfly INTENZA Waterproof Mascara – Blackest Black 381 – (2.0 mL) – http://www.ulta.com – $8.99 US ( Also bought at Shopper's Drug Mart for $8.99 CAN)
I admit, I'm a mascara junky. Out of all the products I use, mascara is the one I change the most often. My last one from Make Up Forever, I ended up loving in the end, except that the brush which covered every tiny lash, made mascara go all over my eye area and the mascara didn't appear to have such a volumizing effect as I was hoping for. So for over top, I bought this L'Oreal mascara from Shoppers Drug Mart and it worked extremely well to use over top the Make Up Forever Mascara and fill out my eyelashes.
I find myself consistently going back to L'Oreal mascaras because they reliably, time and again, have well priced mascaras which do the same job as most mascaras in the $30.oo to $40.00 range.
For L'Oreal you are only paying around $10 CAN for their mascara. It's a shame when you buy an expensive mascara and hate it. But if you don't like a cheaper mascara it isn't such a big deal if it doesn't work out. The only difference I can say between say L'Oreal mascaras and expensive mascaras such as Dior, is that mascaras such as Dior, have fantastic black or brown colour pigment.
However, I do tend to receive many beauty samples, especially in mascara. I will try out a new mascaras a sample from a more expensive brand, and put the L'Oreal over top to set a non-waterproof mascara (because it runs under my eyes) and to add a little extra volume if needed. I completely recommend this L'Oreal mascara and many other kinds of L'Oreal mascara, as long as the mascara is waterproolipf.
4. Make Up Forever: Artist Plexi Gloss – 209 Fuschsia Pink (Opaque) – (7 mL) – http://www.sephora.ca – $24.00 CAN
Lately, I find myself becoming more interested in lip products.For most of my twenties, lip gloss or lipstick in a light pink was fine for going out or during the day. Now I find I enjoy wearing a bit of colour on my lips because you can wear a bold lip and wear hardly any other makeup than a bit of mascara, eyeliner, and concealer.
Usually, I like to wear makeup but every once and a while, if I'm just running quick errands and than going home, I don't feel like putting all the effort into doing my full makeup routine. My pet peeve about lipsticks and glosses is in a way, the same way I feel about mascaras: I hate when I buy a more expensive lipstick or gloss and it comes off right away, the first time you have a glass of water. Also, I hate that many lip glosses can be sticky.
This is not the case with Make Up Forever's Artist Plexi-Gloss. It's super amazing stuff and you can buy it many colours in a high shine finish or in a shimmer finish. The colour I bought was a Fuchsia Pink and it's amazing. I'm not huge on bright red lipstick as you know, but this is my trade off. I love wearing this bright shade some days, and it stays on incredibly well through drinking, eating, and whatever else you're doing. I'm so pleased by how long the colour lasts.
Besides the brilliant colours this Artist Plexi-Gloss has an artist designed foam applicator (a"superflex" tip) which is amazing for applying the gloss and having "precision and control," while doing it. As well, I enjoy that the Plexi-Gloss is shiny but not super shiny such as many sticky lip glosses or moisturizing lipsticks. Plexi-Gloss is more akin to lipstick with shine, the colour is so intense. I highly recommend this lip product; it is most certainly worth the $24.00 CAN.
5. LANEIGE: Multiberry Yogurt Repairing Mask – (2.7 Oz) – http://www.sephora.ca – $33.00 CAN
I've hardly ever had a problem with dry skin in my entire life. My problem has always been oily skin. Being a couple of years into my thirties, I find my skin is changing a bit. It has become more dry. The chilly -25 degrees Celsius weather we are experiencing in Alberta, Canada isn't helping my dry skin either.
Having had troubles with many skin products in the past, I'm always hesitant about different face masks and other brands of skincare. But I've been so pleased with a newer brand to Sephora called Laneige. I've tried a couple small one or two day samples of their products. But also with my Sephora points, bought a large sample of Laneige's Multiberry Yogurt Repairing Mask.
It smells wonderful, a bit as yogurt of course, but also as strawberries. The sample I received which was (0.6 fl.oz), lasted two-months and I've been used this moisturizing mask every two-days as directed. This Yogurt Repairing Mask is put it on after using your toner. You leave the mask on for five to ten minutes and then gently rinse it off your face with lukewarm water. After you can apply any other creams or your moisturizers you use to your face.
I wake the next morning after using this Yogurt Repairing Mask and my skin feels soft and hydrated. It's not dry as my skin has often been feeling lately. I did go and purchase this from Sephora, it was highly worth it.
Laneige's Multiberry Yogurt Repairing Mask delivers "nutrition" and "antioxidants" deep into skin. It is formulated to "remove dead skin" from the surface of your face. Its unique "fermented yogurt" formula provides "anti-irritation" benefits to the skin. Not to mention, I've never once broken out after using this mask the next day or any days after. I'm excited to maybe try other products from Laneige's skin care line. I most definitively recommend this mask and I think for how long the product lasts, the price is reasonable.
Please stay tuned for Part Two of my Winter 2016/2017 Beauty Haul!
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Wolves are pretty
Those vampires with their pasty faces and Walmart wigs vs the healthy natural beauty of the wolves – based purely on aesthetics, I am of the lupine persuasion.
These are members of the pulchritudinous Quileute Nation out and about Vancouver recently– young BooBoo Stewart with a new haircut, Chaske Spencer and the rarely seen and very beautiful Tinsel Korey. She's stunning.
BooBoo spent a few days working on set before heading out again after shooting the large wolf gathering scenes last week around the fire during which "Bella" hears the tale of Taha Aki and the Third Wife.
Also, oh la, Alex Meraz who doesn't seem to be capable of taking a bad photo. I mean really, it's like a photo shoot every time.
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After playing coy for months about their engagement (only revealing the rumors were true in late March), lovebirds Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Matone have then proceeded to play coy about the final details of their nuptials for months. Back in March, it was a maybe a romantic getaway wedding in St. Barth's. Then later, insiders suggested the wedding might actually be on Cape Cod as soon as this month. Heck, some people even thought the two had actually gotten married already!
Well, the good news is, we've finally got all the details. The bad news is that Martone has confirmed the ceremony's happening later than anyone had thought, apparently because of Jacobs' busy schedule (we blame Madonna). The official date is now in August, which as everyone knows is typically a maddeningly busy week for designers here in New York, since Fashion Week kicks off September 10th. How Jacobs' schedule will be calmer then, we're not entirely sure, so we'd predict early August.
The wedding is, indeed, going to take place in Cape Cod--specifically, Provincetown, Mass., where Jacobs' business partner, Robert Duffy, owns a summer house. In a classic example of good timing, Martone opted to reveal all the final arrangements at a party for New York's gay pride celebrations at the Standard Hotel.


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Photo taken by Jennifer Hopkins, who has suffered with depression and anxiety for around 11 years. She also cares for her husband who is bipolar. They live in Greater Manchester, UK.
About this photo: Sometimes it is hard and it feels like your world is turned upside-down. When I feel at my worst, I feel as though I'm spiralling downwards and can't get myself back up. This photo really relates to me… the beautiful world is out there, but things aren't as they should be and I struggle to see it.
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Unheard Voices: A Call to Action for our Veterans
Wednesday, February 20
6 pm to 8 pm
SURC Pit
Have a talent that you'd like to show off in front of a crowd? The Center for Leadership and Community Engagement (CLCE) is looking for musical talents and performers of all types for its upcoming event, Unheard Voices. This is a perfect way to share your talent with the community while also supporting a great cause!
Unheard Voices hosts benefit concerts, coffee nights, and open mic nights to raise awareness for important causes while also showcasing local talents. This quarter's concert will honor of our country's veterans and benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, a national non-profit organization that provides programs and services to assist injured veterans.
For questions or more information, contact the CLCE by calling (509) 963-1850, emailing email@example.com ("ATTN Unheard Voices" in the subject line) or visiting the CLCE office in SURC 256. Ask for Jeanette Genson.
To learn more about the Wounded Warrior Project, visit www.woundedwarriorproject.org.


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I am trying to add my own list of rules to use in Opera's native ad blocker on a Windows 7 desktop PC. This is a small local list I created personally (not a remote subscription like EasyList). I created a local blank file called Custom List.txt in Notepad, and added my own rules such as:
However, each time I try to import the file to Opera, I get this error:
What do I need to add to the file so that Opera can parse it currently? Do I need to add any special headers?Import failed: Parse error. Try again
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Decorate for the holidays with a festive banner! It's a great holiday banner to decorate any room. Peel and stick the pre-cut felt shapes and string along a satin ribbon. Includes everything you'll need to get started: pre-cut and sticky felt shapes, satin ribbon, easy to follow instructions and one shape already decorated for you!
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One of the real reasons that I made the trek up to Brimfield last week was to meet up with fellow design bloggers under the Daily Basics tent for a "tweet-up". One of the major sponsors of this event was… Benjamin Moore .
You may wonder what in the world do Benjamin Moore and the Brimfield antiques show have in common? Well… the event was a fabulous cross-pollination of antiques, paint, fabric and design friends who love it all… and like to tweet about it.
Here is the uber-talented designer Lucianna Samu showing us how to transform antique furniture with a coat (or 2) of paint and fabulous fabric . The Daily Basics has posted a great video on You Tube of Lucianna at work:
Lucky for us…Benjamin Moore chose this event to announce the late September launch of their new line of full-spectrum paint : "Color Stories". The range will include 240 new luscious full-spectrum colors and be available in their premium Aura line. And what, you may ask, is "full-spectrum" ? There will be lots more pigment per can and a wider range of pigments (5-7) used for each color which yield a more complex and luminous result. Black pigment is completely absent from this line…imagine a gorgeous range of complex grays…all mixed without the addition of black! The color samples will also be actual paint on paper, rather than printed.
I can't wait to sample these grays.
And these oranges
and these greens.
Look for the online launch of Color Stories on September 30….on a screen near you.


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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Getting Local Before You Make the Trip
If your ancestors lived just five miles down the road you wouldn't need any preparation. Just go and see what it looks like and then continue on with the process of discovery. If your ancestors lived more than fifty miles away then a good deal of preparation will save you a lot of heartbreak.
Here are some suggestions to help you "get local" before leaving home. Searching for these items will be nearly as fulfilling as making the trip.
1) Discover the lay of the land
Find as many maps as possible of the town you'll be visiting. Look for historical maps as well as a good current road map. Use the maps to get a feel for the lay of the land. Check the historical maps for old cemeteries and old businesses such as mills or blacksmith shops. Perhaps these buildings, or remnants of them, will still be standing.
2) Locate the cemeteries before you go
The old maps should have helped you locate the old cemeteries in town. Don't presume that these will be easy to find using a current map. Pull up the Bird's Eye view on Bing Maps or Google Earth and see if you can locate the cemetery today. If you have a hard time locating it with these tools then you will likely have trouble in person too. Call ahead to the local town or regional government offices and see if you can find a cemetery supervisor who can give you exact directions.
3) Put your preservation hat on
Pretend that you are preservationist bent on saving old houses. Where would you look to find information on the old houses that are still standing? Most governments have some form of tracking system. By tapping into this resource you can identify which houses in town were standing at the time your ancestors lived there. Wouldn't it be wonderful to get a photo of yourself standing in front of a home that your ancestors would have known and seen as well? Better yet, perhaps your ancestor's home is still standing. In Massachusetts you can access the Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS) to obtain this information. In other states the information is often found online at the state historic preservation office website.
4) Play tourist
Do play the role of tourist and search for tourism materials related to the town or region that you will be visiting. You may be able to locate museums or historical sites that you didn't know existed. Be sure to check for events that will happen at the time you will be visiting. It's fun to take part in a community activity and get a chance to mingle with the locals.
Be sure to check the internet for the local historical society. You might need to write a letter or call to get in touch with them. Many local historical societies are very small. That can translate as limited visiting hours or a small core staff of volunteers. Don't let that deter you. The local historical society should be a high priority if you can make arrangements in advance to meet with them. These are the folks who typically know more about the town than anyone else and can tell you which old-timers have lived in town the longest and are worth a visit.
6) Make a Contact List
This is a critical item for every research trip or ancestral home visit. Make a list of the local public places you will want to visit such as the library, town hall, historical society, churches, etc. Include on your list their addresses, phone numbers and hours of operation. Preparation such as this will mean smooth sailing during your trip and will let you quickly change gears should some place be unexpectedly closed.
Let these six suggestions help you "get local" before you leave town. It will help enjoy the journey and the eventual in-person trip all the more!
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Marian, as one who spent 15 years traveling from Alaska and Washington to research in South Carolina I have two more suggestions:ReplyDelete
1. As much as you can, identify specific records you want to locate down to the film number and page or book number or case number and the specific repository where they should be located.
2.I would also contact those repositories ahead of time to determine the rules and procedures, hours of operation, etc. There is nothing more frustrating than getting to a repository only to find that they are closed for some reason or don't have the information you think they do.
With today's modern technology, two things that I would add are:ReplyDelete
1. Track down everything I can using Google Earth and get GPS coordinates for the places I want to visit. I can then plug them into my car GPS and no matter how the roads of changes, it helps me get to where I am going within a few feet. This is especially useful in rural cemeteries that are often times not visible from the road. If you really get into this, I created an Excel spreadsheet of genealogical sites and their coordinates that interest me from all over the US that I then uploaded to my car GPS so whenever I am in the area with time to kill, I can find out what is nearby and set that as my destination.
2. I upload the folder containing all the information I have on the family I am researching onto a program like Dropbox so that it is in the "cloud." No matter how much information I think I will need and bring, I always want for more so I literally bring it all. Then it is accessible from any computer with internet access or a smart phone. Dropbox is also useful for exchanging large amounts of genealogy data quickly and free (up to 2GB at a time) with newly found cousins. On a side note with smart phones, there are also lots of genealogy apps for smart phones so if you have an ancestry account, you can access that from a smart phone as well while standing out in the middle of nowhere as long as you get a cellphone signal.
You couldn't have posted this at a better time. I just started putting together a research plan for a location I hope to visit at some point in the future. My goal is to pre-plan all the places I want to visit so I'm prepared if I get an unexpected opportunity to go.ReplyDelete
For international travel (and I'll include Hawaii here) set up appointments at all repositories. That way you ensure that the person you need to speak with will be there, and that the archive will be open. I've found that in Europe there are countless unknown holidays and reasons to close archives, and the priest/archivist/librarian who is the expert might be on vacation or out of town for that one day you decided to visit. Also, when you have an appointment you can send them paperwork ahead of time, and it gives them time to mull over what materials might be pertinent to your search. When you get there, they may have already pulled everything out on a table for you, too, saving time!ReplyDelete
If you don't have success with a local historical society (there isn't one, or it isn't open), the reference librarian at the local public library often can be helpful. I posted about the help I received from reference librarians at Not Quite Tombstone Tuesday. I don't know if I would have been able to find this cemetery without help of the local reference librarian.ReplyDelete
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RaceDay begins at noon, and goes until 2PM Eastern Time. NASCAR Countdown begins at 1PM and goes until 2PM. This puts one hour of overlap between the two programs. One hour where the "official" TV network pre-race show overlaps with the established NASCAR TV partner who has been broadcasting for years. How interesting.
SPEED is betting that fans already know RaceDay, and they will choose to "hang" with the popular show. ESPN is betting that as the "new kids in town" they will bring the many viewers without digital cable directly to Countdown. Many cable systems require a digital upgrade to view SPEED, where ESPN is considered part of most "basic cable" packages.
On-the-air however, it should be interesting. RaceDay reporter Wendy Venturini will be live in the NASCAR garage on national TV while ESPN is also live with their reporters in the same area, looking for the same stories and interviews. Did I mention this should be interesting?
There is no other situation like this for ESPN, and it is going to be interesting to see how long they put up with it. ESPN has the exclusive TV rights to the race itself once their broadcast begins at 2PM, but NASCAR is the "referee" for the pre-race portions of any live TV program.
So, this gives viewers a choice. ESPN puts its best foot forward with Suzy Kolber, and SPEED returns the popular John Roberts. Fans can tune-into ESPN for a fresh perspective, and as a relief from the horrible Countdown To Green show offered by TNT. For ESPN, its an absolutely clean slate.
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- bevo said...
There is no question; RaceDay. What has ESPN done so far to make anyone believe they are capable of putting on a good pre-race show?
ESPN is betting that as the "new kids in town" they will bring the many viewers without digital cable directly to Countdown. Many cable systems require a digital upgrade to view SPEED, where ESPN is considered part of most "basic cable" packages.
All the more reason to go with DirecTV.
- July 28, 2007 at 10:56 PM
- projectpappy09 said...
Countdown, so i don't have to change the channel at 2:00.
- July 29, 2007 at 12:15 AM
- Tripp said...
Speed. Kolber/Daugherty/Musburger vs. Roberts/Spencer/Wallace? It's not even a fair fight.
I am curious why Speed went head to head. I don't recall them going right up to race time with RaceDay before.
- July 29, 2007 at 1:38 AM
- Anonymous said...
No Contest !
I'll watch ESPN entirely, grateful for the respite from the SPEED Sideshow, homespun, country mentality. Thank goodness for an attempt at professionalism that does not automatically presume that every listener enjoys the brainless, politically insensitive Spencer and the pathetically hyper-active Wallace. Poor John Roberts is often relegated to being a babysitter.
ESPN has to be a better offering and I am grateful to have the opportunity to choose what I will watch.
- July 29, 2007 at 4:05 AM
- Anonymous said...
I'm watching Race Day.
Nothing about ESPN's Busch series coverage has in any way given reason to believe that their coverage might be better than the excellent Race Day.
- July 29, 2007 at 8:42 AM
- Anonymous said...
I'll have to wait until your article tomorrow to see how ESPN does. I wouldn't risk leaving Raceday for a moment to check it out.
- July 29, 2007 at 8:57 AM
- Anonymous said...
A very smart insider type person has told me that ESPN would never let Speed have a NASCAR show on while ESPN had one on. This post is a lie.
- July 29, 2007 at 4:22 PM
- Richard in N.C. said...
Sunday checked NASCAR NOW, saw Erik the Butcher, turned to SPEED until 2:00. Checked ESPN about 2:00 and the first words out of Brent Mushbagger's mouth in essence were "don't know, don't care" when he said NASCAR came to Indy "sometime in the 1990's." AHH the quality of ESPN NOW.
- July 29, 2007 at 6:24 PM