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Congratulations to our BAFTA New Talent winners and nominees from Edinburgh College of Art. Last night, Nelson Carlos de los Santos picked up the prize for Best Experimental Film, with his mindblowing SHESAID HEWALKS HE SAID SHEWALKS, while Johanna Waegner got Best Documentary for the moving THE INNER SHAPE, and Anders Jendenfors won Best New Work with the splendid fly-on-the-wall CARLSSONS. Also nominated were Christina Alepi's IDEATION ROUTES V.2 in the Experimental category, Julian Krubasik's FLASHED in Drama, Ellie Lotan's FELIX and Amy Rose's KIRRAN AND THE HATCHMAKER in the Documentary strand (which consisted entirely of ECA films), and Jessica Cope's THE OWL HOUSE in the Animation section.
Seems like I teach in a pretty good course!

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December 17, 2008
HP Scitex expanded its family of large-format imaging solutions with the addition of the XP2300 Printer, a 3.2-m (10.5-ft) UV roll-to-roll UV inikjet printer designed specifically for the outdoor-signage market. The four-color printer is intended for billboards, building wraps, and other high-volume applications. It features ink consumption of 180 sq m/print out of a liter of ink at speeds up to 2508 sq ft/hr (233 sq m/hr) at 360 dpi. The XP2300 is equipped with 16 piezo printheads, each with 256 nozzles, for imaging onto uncoated PVC, self-adhesive vinyl, mesh, woven polyethylene, and other substrates commonly used in outdoor signage. Other features include an intergrated on-core collector that allows users to take off printed output while the press is running, an integrated automatic elevator that adjusts the height of printheads to ensure a constant distance between media and heads, and a multi-roll printing kit. The XP2300 also is equipped with a standard mesh kit that allows the system to print on those materials for building wraps, a shutters-control kit for controlling gloss level, a head-carriage-safety sensor, and more. The XP2300 uses GrandRip+ (Caldera) or SoftRIP (Wasatch) and accepts common file formats. HP Scitex, 3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304-1185, 650-857-1501, fax: 650-857-5518, Web: www.hp.com/go/graphic-arts.
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"Oh, there might have been," he said. "I stopped reading it after the third or fourth page. You were writing everything you know and hoping that the right answer was in there somewhere. That told me you were fishing and didn't know the answer."
Hurrumph...! End of discussion.
Which leads me to Mitt Romney, whom many people say is the Hollywood version of a president although he doesn't come close to resembling Michael Douglas, do you think? For one thing, Mitt's mechanics are bad, as when he begins to tell us everything he knows about everything. His head snaps to a fixed position, as his starched open collar white shirt remains motionless. For all of his good looks and studied body language, he's simply not there yet. But it's really what he says that casts him in a B movie. The dialogue is astonishingly weak.
Today, for example, appearing on the Today show, he gave President Obama an F. On everything. National security, foreign policy, leadership. He might have even accused Obama of being obese. I didn't get that far into the Talking Points Memo account. Somebody should mention to him that even though he is better looking than everyone else in the field, he will have to start making a little sense one of these days. Otherwise he will emerge as a handsome political hack to please all of those right-wing folks in Iowa. After that, he will discover that looks aren't everything.


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B-cell lymphoma
A type of cancer that forms in B cells (a type of immune system cell). B-cell lymphomas may be either indolent (slow-growing) or aggressive (fast-growing). Most B-cell lymphomas are non-Hodgkin lymphomas. There are many different types of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas. These include Burkitt lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, and mantle cell lymphoma. Prognosis and treatment depend on type and stage of the cancer.


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In our Sept/Oct 2013 issue, Imbibe contributor Joshua Bernstein paints an epic picture of craft beer in the U.S. right now with his state-by-state beer guide. This is an incredible time for craft beer in America, with an ever-growing cadre of breweries making amazing beers in every state of the union. Here, along with Bernstein's, we explore a few uniquely American beer styles, methods and ingredients that have emerged out of the U.S.'s impressively prolific craft beer movement.
Cream Ale
We took a look at the evolution of cream ales in our May/June 2013 issue, and they are at the top of our all-American beers list. Along with the "California Common" steam beers (see below), it's one of only two, truly home-grown styles of beer. Characterized by a relatively cool fermentation process and crisp, clean flavors that are reminiscent of a pale lager, cream ales have grown in popularity in recent years as breweries like Brooklyn's Sixpoint and Oregon's Pelican have chosen the style for their flagship brews.
What to Try:
New Glarus Spotted Cow
Pelican Kiwanda Cream Ale
Full Steam El Toro
Sixpoint Sweet Action
Steam Beer
Also known as California Common, steam beer has its roots in the gold rush of the mid-19th century. East Coast brewers chased the gold-hungry prospectors westward to the Golden State, figuring they'd be pretty thirsty after long days of treasure hunting. They weren't wrong about that, however, they were incorrect in assuming that the same yeasts that they brewed with in the cold Northeast would work in California's sunnier climes. Luckily for us, and for those parched gold diggers, the brewers successfully experimented with other yeasts. They discovered that if they cooled the boiling beer base on the roof of their breweries where the Pacific Ocean breezes blew, these yeasts could thrive and produce a delicious beer, known today as steam beer because of its propensity to, as Bernstein describes in his Complete Beer Course book, to "spray like Champagne when a keg was tapped." Does that make Anchor Steam the true Champagne of beers? Decide for yourself!
What to Try:
Anchor Steam Beer
Peekskill Hop Common
Cascadian Dark Ale
Also known as black IPA (aka India black ale), this horse of many colors has been making waves in the brewing community since 2010. Like the name suggests, this beer style has its roots in the Pacific Northwest and carries the distinct aroma of Northwest hop varieties (although other varieties may be used), which lend pine resin, citrus and coffee notes. CDAs are pitch black in appearance, but they're not at all heavy in body, with the weight of an IPA. Though the origins are much debated, beer geeks can agree that the many delicious expressions of this hybrid are not to be missed.
What to Try:
Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous
Victory Yakima Glory
Firestone Wookey Jack
White IPA
Like the Cascadian Dark, white IPAs represent a relatively new hybrid style of beer, credited in most circles to Bend, Oregon-based Deschutes Brewery and its Chainbreaker White IPA. First released in May of 2011, Chainbreaker combines the floral zippiness of an IPA with the epic drinkability of a great, cloudy-white wit beer, making it the ultimate summer beer. Just add sun and a lounge chair by the pool.
What to Try:
Deschutes Chainbreaker White IPA
Blue Point White IPA
Anchorage Galaxy White IPA
Double IPA
In his book, The Complete Beer Course, Bernstein describes double IPAs as "an IPA on steroids," meaning brewers add even more hops then they typically would to an already hop-driven IPA. The catch with this style is that more hops leads to more bitterness, which requires a fair amount of malty sweetness to balance things out. The result? A higher-alcohol beer that can, in the wrong hands, be undrinkable. However, when a brewer successfully brews a double IPA, greatness can happen. Russian River Brewing Company's Pliny the Elder is the classic example, but others are popping up all over the country.
What to Try:
Russian River Pliny the Elder
Alchemist Heady Topper
Bell's HopSlam
Florida Weisse
Over the last four years, the Florida craft beer scene has leapt from zilch to one that births its very own unique style, thanks in large part to passionate homebrewers turned commercial brewers like Jonathan Wakefield, the man behind J. Wakefield Brewing, which is due to open in December of 2013. Thanks to collaboration with Tampa's Cigar City Brewing, Wakefield's Berliner-style fruit beers—a style recently christened "Florida Weisse"—have already achieved a cult following on ratebeer.com, in particular for his very tart, dragon-and-passion fruit-based Berliner Weisse. As of now, it's nearly impossible to taste a Florida Weisse outside of the Sunshine State, but stay tuned—this burgeoning style on the cusp of greatness.
What to Try:
Funky Buddha Brewery
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Majestic SEO has announced the launch of new functionality 'Keyword Checker'. As from today you will be able to type a keyword into the Majestic SEO homepage instead of a URL. Also being launched is the 'Bulk Keyword Checker' function – allowing you to add hundreds or keywords and view on screen or export metrics as a CSV file.
If you have a Majestic SEO Subscription, – once live, the new tab will appear in between the 'Site Explorer' and 'Link Profile Fight' tabs.
What does the Keyword Checker Do?
Once you have searched for your keyword phrase or keywords, you will be able to see:
- The number of times the Keyword or Key Phrase was found InAnchor.
- The number of times the Keyword or Key Phrase was found InTitle.
- The number of times that the Keyword or Key Phrase was found InURL (only available for Phrase Matches).
- The number of times the Keyword or Key Phrase was found both InAnchor and InTitle.
The keyword checker will show phrase match and broad match data based on a dictionary generated from the Majestic SEO backlink indexes. Using the examples that Majestic are using on their announcement blog post, you can see the data for flight tickets, airline tickets and flight prices side by side below:
How useful is this data?
The ability to see how competitive key phrases are in Organic results is invaluable for SEOs. Data of this kind used to be available in some search engines but was removed. Majestic have said "we assume it was deemed too valuable for the general SEO public to have." As such, SEO's have relied on Paid Search keyword tools to benchmark and make an assessment of how competitive a phrase may be, or which phrase may be seen as the most 'important.
It is currently not possible to drill down into the information to see the actual domains that use the keywords but it is definitely on Majestic's Wishlist! However, Majestic have created a 'Volume Score' – a 1-100 scale for each phrase showing how often they believe any given phrase is searched for.
It is going to be interesting to see how this data can be used in conjunction with Paid search data to establish where to best use budgets for which keywords and where to blend channels effectively.
"By adding the ability to search by keyword, Majestic SEO has really signalled the start of a whole new era in its lifecycle. I think that people forget at times that in order to know where every link is on the internet, we first have to crawl the whole internet… not JUST the links. Storing the whole internet and trying to copy Google would not be a realistic business model, but we do want to open up this data to let our customers start to use it in different ways and for different things. I hope this is the start of that metamorphosis."
See the Majestic SEO Keyword Checker interface below – the number of keywords you can check at once depends on your subscription level. For more details – see the Majestic SEO Blog


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The last time I updated this, I owed $12,333.78 on the student loan. As of today, the current balance owed is $11,899.22! I am happy that it has fallen below the $12,000 mark!
I got paid a quarterly bonus and put most of it towards the student loan. Also, I have paid off the Home Depot Credit Card that had 0% for 12 months before the promotional period expired.
Ultimately, I'd like to pay off this student loan before the year is over, but that seems like a pretty hefty goal, so I'm going to go with 2 years, or 24 months to have it paid off.


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You might want to take a look at your egg cartons.
The Associated Press reports that 380 million eggs have been recalled, some packaged as recently as Aug. 17, from Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa.
The recall has been expanded from the initial 228 million eggs after increased cases of salmonella have been reported across four states, and possibly more.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the illnesses, and CDC epidemiologist Dr. Christopher Braden told the AP that no deaths have been reported.
Spikes in salmonella cases have been reported in at least nine states. California has reported 266 cases of the illness since June, with many suspected to be related to the contaminated eggs. Colorado has seen 28 cases over the summer, and Minnesota has tied at least seven cases of salmonella to eggs.
Other states reporting spikes in suspicious cases are Arizona, Illinois, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.
The Chicago Tribune's food blog, The Stew reports that an outbreak of salmonella in Niles, Ill. has been linked to pickles by the local health department, and other cases may be linked to the contaminated eggs.
Eggs from Write County Egg have been linked to salmonella cases in California, Colorado, Minnesota and North Carolina.
The outbreak began in May, according to the New York Times, and in June the number of cases rose from the historical average of 50 a week to 200.
The recall list for the contaminated eggs includes Albertson's eggs and Safeway's Lucerne's brand according to the Food and Drug Administration:
Eggs are packaged under the following brand names: Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph's, Boomsma's, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch Farms and Kemps.
Eggs are packed in varying sizes of cartons (6-egg cartons, dozen egg cartons, 18-egg cartons) with Julian dates ranging from 136 to 225 and plant numbers 1026, 1413 and 1946. Dates and codes can be found stamped on the end of the egg carton.
The plant number begins with the letter P and then the number. The Julian date follows the plant number, for example: P-1946 223.
The FDA has also posted picture examples of what to look for on the egg cartons.
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A bus in Miami carrying mostly elderly Jehovah's Witnesses accidentally crashed into an overpass too low to accommodate it. NBC's Craig Melvin reports.
Updated at 7:10 p.m. ET: A bus hit an overpass at Miami International Airport on Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring more than two dozen on board, officials said.
One person died at the scene and another at a hospital.
Three other passengers were listed in critical condition, NBCMiami.com reported. The bus was chartered by a Jehovah's Witness group headed to a church convention in West Palm Beach.
The bus, which officials described as "heightened" but not a double-decker as originally reported, hit the overpass going into the airport's arrivals section on Saturday morning, airport spokesman Greg Chin said. The bus was going about 20 mph when it clipped the roof entrance.
Chin said 32 people were on the bus, and all have some sort of injuries. Of them, 31 were transported, according to the police report. Most of the injured were able to walk away from the bus, a Miami-Dade dispatcher said.
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Crews assist at the scene of the bus accident at Miami International Airport on Saturday.
The arrival area remained blocked off by fire trucks and police cars Saturday morning.
Miami-Dade police Lt. Rosanna Cordero-Stutz said the bus is privately owned and typically used for tours. It was not immediately clear where the bus was headed, but Cordero-Stutz said the driver, 47-year-old Ramon Ferreiro of Miami, was unfamiliar with the area and did not intend to wind up at the airport.
Buses are supposed to travel through the departure area, not the arrival section, because it has a higher clearance for large vehicles, Chin said.
The overpass had a clearance of eight feet and six inches, while the bus was about nine feet tall.
The names of the victims were not immediately released.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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December 13, 2012 in Photo and Video (E)
[prMac.com] Wuhan, China - Pinssible Labs today is pleased to announce Padgram - Instagram Viewer for iPad 3.0, a major update to its photo app, which has become the preferred Instagram viewer for iPad. Listed in the Top 25 Photo & Video apps in the U.S. App Store, Padgram offers fast and simple tagging, browsing, and interaction with other users for a better social experience, plus spam-free Shoutouts. The update includes support for both portrait and landscape orientation and browsing by category as well as popularity, including: Nature, Pets, Girls, Kids, Food, Fashion, Cars, and Architecture.
The most important new feature in this update of Padgram is a redesigned browsing system based on categories in addition to popularity. Although browsing based on number of followers is common in Instagram and Instagram viewers, results are often skewed towards celebrities and businesses. Instead of browsing the most popular photos, users instead are browsing the photos of the most popular people or companies posting photos. With the addition of browsing by categories, Padgram can now more accurately reflect the interest in photos posted by a broad spectrum of typical Instagram users. Each category contains 100 users of the service, chosen by experts at Padgram. Users can contact Padgram to apply for inclusion in a category, and new categories will be added over time.
Previous versions of Padgram included support for operation in landscape orientation only. Receiving many user requests for the addition of portrait orientation, version 3.0 now incorporates this feature. Portrait mode is particularly valuable for iPad mini users, who typically hold their iDevice in portrait orientation.
Padgram Feature Highlights:
Explore Interesting Photos
* NEW browse photos by Category: Nature, Pets, Girls, Kids, Food, Fashion, Cars, and Architecture
* Browse the photos you followed or liked
* Browse in a Map View, check out photos around the world
* Swiping Mode is enabled when viewing photos in full size, allowing users to easily swipe from one photo to another
* Search by tag or user name; contextual suggestions are given as you type
* Subscribe to any tag you are interested in
Vivid Liking and Commenting
* 1-tap or 2-tap to like photos
* 1-tap to tag a photo with a batch of popular tags
* Integrated Emoji keyboard with over 500 Emoji symbols
* Type any user's name in comments can immediately @ the user and start replying
* Tap on any comment to copy or delete it
Extensive Sharing Options
* Share photos to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Pocket and Sina Weibo
* Send photos via email or save to Camera Roll
* Print and send a photo as postcard
Check and Promote Profiles
* 1-tap to check out a user's photos, following's and followed-by info
* Follow or unfollow people
* Promote yourself or others with a beautiful collage, which is made of user's most liked photos
Beautiful Layout and Blistering Speed
* NEW support for both portrait and landscape orientation
* Optimized for Retina display
* Stacked layout makes it easy to return to where you were
* Named "the fastest Instagram iPad app" by users
Padgram 3.0 augments the social experience of Instagram viewing on the iPad. The user is presented with a grid of photos in whichever group he or she searches, whether it be Followed, Subscriptions, Likes, or Popular photos. The grid uses the entirety of the iPad's large screen, allowing for clear and vivid shots of each picture sized reasonably. To view just one picture, the user simply taps on the desired photo. A screen will then slide over, showing the photo's description, comments, and likes.
Here, the user is able to comment with just one tap on the "Add Comments" space. Along with the keyboard, Padgram also offers easy symbol use, so the user does not have to switch keyboards to add a common "at" symbol, hashtag, emoticon, etc. While a custom hashtag symbol on its own is available, the app also offers suggestions for popular tags.
Padgram's Searched feature is especially advanced in its suggestion technology. The app retains the user's searches, so that a user returning for the same search does not have to retype. The search feature also offers intelligent suggestions for user names or tags as users type, so they may choose one with just one simple click.
Sharing photos is easy with Padgram; it allows users to save and send pictures to email as well as the popular social networking sites Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Pocket, and Sina Weibo. The user's favorite pictures can be easily printed and sent as postcards.
The Promote (Shoutout) button selects six random photos a member has posted, and the app creates a visually pleasing collage. There are three photos in the top row and three in the bottom row, and each photo is tilted slightly, each overlapping two adjacent photos just a bit. This sophisticated design presents a sampling of the member's tastes and interests, and serves as a stylish image that is ideal for giving or requesting a Shoutout.
"We are always trying to be responsive to Padgram users' requests for new features," commented Paul Yan of Pinssible. "Support for portrait orientation and browsing by categories represent a major step in the evolution of Padgram."
Language Support:
* English and Chinese
Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad
* Requires iOS 4.3 or later
Pricing and Availability:
Padgram - Instagram Viewer for iPad 3.0 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photo & Video category.
Based in Wuhan, China, Pinssible Labs was founded by Paul Yan, Pilow Liu, and Wiki Zhao in 2012. Pinssible Labs, the development department of Wuhan Pinssible Netcom Science & Technology Co., Ltd. focuses on making photo apps. Their mission is to bring stunning UX to photo viewing and to help the user edit or socialize photos. Copyright (C) 2012 Wuhan Pinssible Netcom Science & Technology Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.


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Gordon Nixon
President & CEO
RBC Financial Group
The Immigrant Access Fund
Celebration Dinner
October 10, 2006
Thank you, Peter, for your kind words. It is an honour to be introduced by Peter Lougheed, who is not only one of Canada's greatest politicians and statesmen, but an extraordinary individual who has done so much for both Alberta and Canada. Peter is also a past director of RBC and is always available to show his support for our organization, which — Peter — we greatly appreciate.
I couldn't resist the invitation to visit Calgary, and show my support for the Immigrant Access Fund. I'd like to thank the IAF's staff, board and volunteers for the warm welcome they have shown me.
IAF provides small loans to internationally trained immigrants, so they can receive Canadian accreditation and training. IAF is helping immigrants help Canada, which is critical to our country's future growth and prosperity. The only challenge now is finding ways to make programs like IAF's even more available, and therefore more impactful.
Tonight, I want to talk about why this is so important and how we must significantly increase these efforts, and others, if Canada is going to have the necessary human resources to compete in today's global economy.
For the last two years or so, I've been speaking out about diversity and immigration as key drivers of Canada's prosperity. I want to be clear about what I mean by this, because many people believe this issue relates to current skilled labour shortages; some think it applies to our need to attract more professionals such as doctors, engineers and scientists; while others focus on the glass ceiling that many existing immigrants and visible minorities experience. I view the diversity and immigration imperative as all of the above.
My message is simple: people are the most important asset of both companies and countries. If Canada is to succeed in the global marketplace, we must turbo-charge our economy by leveraging the diversity of our current and future workforce. We must attract the right skills, the best minds, and the required resources, while more effectively utilizing our current human capital.
If we do, we will have an unrivalled advantage.
If we don't, we will face an uphill battle just to maintain our quality of life.
Now, I should tell you that I don't normally get a lot of feedback from colleagues when I speak about topics like economic policy or financial services reform. Maybe that's because no one wants to offer constructive criticism to their boss.
But this subject really strikes a chord. Across our organization, every time I talk about the issue, I get calls and emails from employees—and even clients—telling me how important this issue is to them and their families. I've heard some heartbreaking stories, and some inspiring ones too, but their comments always remind me about the different perspectives that various groups have with respect to the opportunities available in the workforce.
Attracting and integrating immigrants into our workforce is critical to our country's growth. It is essential to this city and this province.
Normally, I spend the first 5 or 6 minutes of my speeches making the business case that links diversity with prosperity… . laying the groundwork for why diversity can and should be Canada's competitive advantage.
In the interests of time, I'm going to fast-track that argument tonight, because all of you know that your city and province are facing some serious labour shortages. Depending on which economist you listen to — and we all know that you can rarely get agreement among economists — Calgary is facing a shortfall of as many as 90,000 workers over the next five years.
The Conference Board says that by 2025, the shortage across the province will be well through 300,000.
Alberta is at the cusp of a trend we're seeing nation-wide. Across the country, our workforce is aging and our birth rate has hit a record-low. This means our labour force will stop growing in about 10 years. Some people have called this a "demographic time bomb."
Clearly, we must rely on immigration to fill the pipeline and help fuel economic growth.
Our most pressing need is for skilled labourers, particularly in a region like Alberta. But we can't lose sight of the bigger picture. We must also attract the best and the brightest, and ensure that we develop:
Immigration is one of the only tools we have to help build our nation for the future: we owe it to our citizens and our children to get it right. We can't just sit and wait for people with the right skills to come to us.
Government, business and the not-for-profit sector have to look at immigration from a whole new angle.
Right now, we're suffering from short-term vision:
But we can no longer view immigration as a temporary employment agency. We need to start looking at immigration as a blueprint for nation-building, and we must find the right balance between social justice and economic need.
This wouldn't be a new approach for Canada.
If you think back to history class, you might remember Sir Clifford Sifton, who was a proud westerner and federal immigration minister in the Laurier years. Sifton was convinced that the west had huge economic potential and could contribute more to Canada's economy. He set out to attract people to the west and build what he called a "nation of good farmers". One of the tactics he used was looking at which other countries had experienced farmers, and opening immigration offices there.
Sifton had a grand vision for the country, and he followed through with policies and targeted programs.
And it worked. Some of you in this room are probably descendents of immigrants who arrived during the Sifton years.
Well, the world is more complex and we're not building a nation of good farmers any more.
So it's time to ask ourselves: What is our grand vision now? What do we want to be as a nation? What is our equivalent to Clifford Sifton's "nation of good farmers"?
I strongly believe that if we are going to succeed in a global economy, Canada must find its niches and specialize in those things that we do best — and quickly, because the rest of the world is already doing it.
We require a coordinated strategy for dealing with our labour challenges. We must do a better job of inventorying the skills we need, now and in the future. We must do a better job at developing the right policies and programs so that we can find the people who have these skills and make sure they choose Canada as their home. And we must also make sure that we have the programs and environment where the people we attract can live up to their potential.
For make no mistake, Canada is in a global war for talent. Right now, we are going head-to-head with virtually every developed country in the world, as well as developing powerhouses like China and India where we are even witnessing reverse migration. We must be a destination of choice for skilled immigrants and professionals or we will not succeed. And, if we don't provide the right opportunities, we will lose those people who have the best potential.
Canada's western provinces seem to be able to grow visionaries like Clifford Sifton, who was raised in Manitoba. You might not be aware that back in 1998, Manitoba became the first province to start setting its own targets to address population and labour needs. And they focused not just on attraction, but also on developing programs to retain and integrate newcomers as well. Over the years, most of the other provinces have adopted best practices from Manitoba.
This year alone, Manitoba will meet its target of 10,000 immigrants, and they expect to retain about 80 per cent of those people. That's a huge increase relative to the province's population of 1.2 million, and these newcomers will be critical to Manitoba's population and economic growth.
Canada welcomes about 240,000 immigrants to Canada every year. At this rate, with our aging workforce and low birth rate, this means our labour force will stop growing in about 10 years.
This is why RBC went on record last year, saying that Canada should raise its immigration targets. But just increasing our numbers won't solve our issues if we don't successfully integrate — in fact, it may severely compound other social issues.
No province knows this better than Alberta.
Calgary is a good example of what happens when, over a short time period, thousands of people pour into a city where infrastructure is already strained. Newcomers can't find affordable housing… there aren't enough doctors or hospitals…. parents have to bus their kids off to schools on the other side of town.
When people are not provided with the opportunity to maximize their potential, it not only leads to frustration, but also to poverty and social stresses in certain sectors of the community.
We can't just throw up our hands and hope the problems will go away. We need smart social planning to make sure that immigrants are properly welcomed, housed and educated; and they are integrated quickly into our workplaces, marketplaces and economy, so that they contribute to economic growth and enhance overall prosperity.
Unfortunately, recent immigrants to Canada are having a harder time adjusting than in previous generations. They may be better educated than those born in Canada, but many have not found jobs that match their skill levels, or are earning less than people born in Canada. According to Calgary Economic Development, up to one-half of employed immigrants who come to Alberta with post-secondary credentials are not fully utilizing their skills and experience in their jobs. Even worse, many are unemployed.
If you take that trend and multiply it Canada-wide, this is the worst kind of waste.
Last year, I asked our Economics department to quantify what it costs the Canadian economy.
Here's what we found:
If all foreign-born Canadians were fully employed, at their level of education and experience, earning equal pay to someone born in Canada, personal income would increase by $13 billion a year.
Just from leveraging the talent sitting in our own backyard, we could gain the equivalent of 400,000 more workers in a year. While it may not be realistic to expect full employment at maximum potential, it is still disturbing to think of that resource going to waste, especially when we are suffering labour shortages.
I've brought a short video to help make my case. This was produced by a non-profit organization we work with in Toronto.
Those were public service announcements produced by the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council. I've seen them several times now, and they never get easier to watch.
Our issues don't just revolve around new immigrants: we must also leverage the talent we already have right here in Canada now.
This should be easier for us to do than anyone else, because Canada is already closer to being a model economy when it comes to integrating immigrants than any other country in the world. We already have higher participation rates and lower unemployment rates for immigrants than many other countries.
We also have a more welcoming environment for immigrants. A recent poll by Leger Marketing said that about 7 out of 10 Canadians believe immigration is good for the country. That compares to just over 4 out of 10 people around the world who can say the same for their countries.
That's a great foundation to build upon.
As anyone in business will tell you, if you want to be successful, you should capitalize on your existing competitive advantages. Now, we need an adequate infrastructure to help both new Canadians and future immigrants maximize their potential.
We must foster language training programs, settlement programs, as well as mentoring and internship programs that provide Canadian work experience.
We urgently need programs related to recognition of foreign credentials and certification mechanisms, especially in professions and trades.
I am pleased that our federal government has just recently announced as a new priority an economic platform to enhance Canada's competitiveness that includes a focus on skills shortage, training and post-secondary education. The federal government plans to create a Foreign Credentials agency, and has committed increased funding for immigration settlement and incentives for apprenticeship programs.
The federal government is also extending its off-campus work program to more than 150,000 foreign students, who can now help fill labour gaps while they're at school and can stay in Canada for two years after graduation to work in their field as well.
Last month, the feds even opened special immigration offices in Calgary and Vancouver to help employers cut through the red-tape in hiring temporary foreign workers.
The provinces are also doing their part, and here's where Alberta is making great strides.
But while governments and NGOs have an important role to play, business has to pick up the ball as well. And so far, we've been dropping it.
By their own admission, many Canadian companies say that they:
I don't believe companies are doing this intentionally: but rather because of systemic challenges that all organizations face. Once businesses start to realize the opportunity in diversity, systemic challenges seem to disappear.
RBC has almost 70,000 employees around the world, and we set a high premium on diversity. I chair our Diversity Leadership Council, made up of senior leaders from across our businesses. As a matter of interest, this is the only committee at RBC other than my executive one that I sit on.
This Council sets our diversity strategy and goals.
We meet quarterly to make sure the talent pipeline is being filled with qualified candidates from diverse groups, as well as tracking our results.
Each of our businesses has diversity goals for women and visible minorities so we can measure our performance and hold people accountable, rather than just talking a good game.
Currently, 23 per cent of our workforce is comprised of visible minorities, with 38 per cent in management, and about 9 per cent in senior management. We want to do better, so we are focused on building diversity into our workforce. Long-term success is not about filling labour shortages — it is about strategically addressing labour requirements and maximizing labour potential.
I should mention that RBC has just sponsored a major piece of research with Catalyst Canada to examine the career advancement of visible minorities--the first survey of its kind in Canada, based on both employee and employer feedback. Last week, we called upon the CEOs of Canada's major corporations to take part, so we can get the clearest picture possible. I encourage you to look for the results later next year.
If I can emphasize just one point about RBC today, it is that we approach diversity not just from a social justice perspective, but as a business opportunity.
You might be interested to know that RBC has been working with the Calgary Immigrant Women's Association for a number of years, and we've hired 8 people through them this year alone. We're also starting to work with the Bowen Immigrant Works Program and the Calgary Catholic Immigrant Society to source new recruits as well. Every new Canadian we hire helps us build knowledge about our cultural markets — an increasingly important source of business for us.
RBC has about 11 million clients in Canada. Almost 15 per cent are new Canadians and visible minorities — and we expect much of our future growth to come from these cultural markets. That's why RBC recently developed a "Welcome to Canada" program, and we are busy developing products and services that newcomers urgently need in their first weeks and months here.
You might be interested to know that some of our employees here in town are even studying conversational Mandarin through the University of Calgary's continuing education program.
If businesses do a good job of attracting and integrating new immigrants and maximizing the value of diversity in their workforce, it is a win/win for the individual, for the business and ultimately for the country.
Well, this brings me to my conclusion.
I want to thank the Immigrant Access Fund for inviting me here tonight, and commend you for your leadership and foresight. You clearly realize that we must do more than open the door to new immigrants — we must make Canada the destination of choice for talented people with skills, energy and ambition. You are helping new Canadians realize their dreams and contribute to their fullest potential.
Unleashing the power of diversity and capitalizing on immigration should be one of Canada's best competitive advantages. This country was built on the backs of immigrants, and hopefully, their brains will help build our future. But let's not waste the potential.
There is no magic bullet. We need innovative government policies, an engaged business sector and organizations like the IAF doing their part, one person at a time.
And it is essential that Canadians understand what is at stake, because this may be the one issue that determines whether we move ahead or fall behind.
Thank you.


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1. Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
Amazing article from Adbusters on the counter-cultural void that is Hipsterdom.
2. The Vegan Collection
Affordable, sweatshop-fee, vegan shoes for men. The Vegan Collection is versatile – dress it up with a suit, or go with a pair of jeans. They're under $50, and 25% of profit goes to animal advocacy.
3. Hey Alaska, Stop Murdering Wolves!
As many Alaskans already learned via media reports, 14 one-month old wolf pups recently were killed by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in a practice known as "denning". Denning is the practice of killing wolves in or around their den, in this case by shooting them in the head. 14 adults were also killed. Please, as soon as possible, contact Alaska Governor Sarah Palin expressing your objections to this unethical and illegal decimation of Alaska's wolf population.
4. Green Depot
Perhaps an alternative to Home Depot (formerly known for it's use of old-growth timber, and now it rampant greenwashing – among other shady practices) can inspire people to consider the enviroment when making home repairs and adjustments. Green Depot promises to be a good steward…that is aside from those "eco-friendly" insect killers and wool rugs. Maybe the best solution is to just not buy anything new at all. Check out Build It Green in New York – an entirely recycled/thrift Depot-style, DIY store.
5. Vegan, Lesbian Hollywood Wedding!
Newlyweds and newly-vegans Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi got married and had a totally vegan wedding featuring a vegan red velvet cake by Sweet Lady Jane. How was I not invited?
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Gwyneth Paltrow recently turned stomachs when she appeared draped in fur and exotic skins in a campaign for Tod's. The strangest thing about it is that she surrounds herself with vegan and vegetarian friends and family including her very own vegetarian husband Chris Martin of Coldplay. Friend Stella McCartney is pissed, Moby is pissed, and I am pissed too. Vaginally and anally electrocuting a struggling fox until it is dead is the furthest thing from sexy. Hey Gwyneth, you might want to brutally bludgeon and stomp my dog, then turn him into a giant set of furry ear-plugs to block out all the shit you're gonna hear for doing this campaign.
7. AuH2O
New York's East Village is home to the recycled eco-boutique AuH2O. They even do custom alternations on the spot with no charge!
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8. Star Wars' Environmentalist Origin
Derrick Jensen is an amazing, truthful, and brilliant writer. But comedian? Who knew? Derrick files his grievances with the ineffectiveness of "non-violent civil disobedience" and many other the useless hoops activists jump through to change those who are destroying the planet.
9. Need a reason to boycott the Olympics? How about several reasons…?
10. Olympic Judo Medalist is Vegan. NBA star is Vegetarian.
I can't tell you how many times people insist that it is not possible to be a veg athlete. Who was the first NBA player to win championships with three different teams? If you said John Salley, then bravo. But you know what else John Salley is? A vegetarian. Also, Beijing 2008 Gold Medalist Ronda Rousey, who is the first US woman to win an Olympic medal in Judo, is a vegan. Click here to learn about other veg athletes.


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Inspired by vintage accessories, we came up with this cute Peter Pan collar. The pom poms are a favorite around here and add a fun touch. Not only is this a cute project, but it comes together quickly. You can easily use leftover fabric from the faux fur coat collar, as we did. In that tutorial, we drafted a custom collar to match a coat. In this one, we're giving you a free pattern, making it a much faster project.
Because this collar is tied on over a blouse, sweater, or jacket, it's quite adjustable and would make an adorable gift.
Download the pattern here or click the link at the bottom of this post.
Items Needed:
- 1/4 yard faux fur
- 1/4 yard lining
- 2 20" lengths of velvet rope, ribbon, braid, piping, cord, etc.
- needle
- thread
- tailor's chalk or fabric marker
- Trace the circle pattern using tailor's chalk or a fabric marker. Cut two circles. Because the pieces don't have seam allowance, snip only the fabric backing. Take care not to cut the fur.
- Hand baste along the circumference with 1/4" gathering stitch on wrong side and only nipping the backing fabric. Leave long thread tails.
- Knot the end of your two ropes and place knot inside the pom pom. Slowly pull the basting thread until it gathers around the rope. The knot should be inside the pom pom.
- Stitch through the base of the rope and knot the thread. The pom pom should be securely on the rope now.
- Cut one collar on fold each of lining and fur. Take care that the nap of the fur is correct. The fur should lie in the direction of the outside edge of the collar.
- Pin each of the ropes at the large circles on the collar, making sure that the length of the rope is on top of the collar. Baste into place.
- Pin collar and lining with right sides together. Change your stitch length to 3 and sew lining to fur. Leave a 3" opening at the upper collar back. Trim the seams to 1/4" excluding opening.
- Turn to right side. Tease any fur out of seams with a toothbrush or your fingers. Pin and then hand stitch the opening closed.
Now you have a fun new accessory for winter!


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I recently learned how to import my own gesso texture into Photoshop and paint with it (see previous post here for full image). Some of you Photoshop pros are now saying something like "well, duh", but for me it was a big step forward. It's also much easier than I thought it would be. I am working with Adobe CS4, so I don't know how closely the following applies with newer or older versions.
STEP ONE was to chose a gessoed masonite panel- the type I usually prepare for my oil and acrylic paintings. I took black acrylic paint and with a sponge, worked paint down into the textured surface. I wiped most of it back out with slightly damp paper towels so that the deep texture retained the paint but most of the high texture peaks were wiped clean. I then scanned this 8" x 10" panel on my flatbed scanner at 600 dpi.
detail of my gessoed texture
With this scan now open in Photoshop, I adjusted the levels to exaggerate the contrasts a bit, pushing the darks and lights further apart. Next, under the EDIT tab at the top of Photoshop, scroll down to DEFINE PATTERN and click it. A box will come up with a thumbnail of your new pattern and a prompt to name it. Click OK and your pattern is now saved in the textures section of your Brushes Palette. To paint with this new texture, simply open the brushes palette and check the texture box. Click the word TEXTURE and your current selected texture will show up. To the right of your texture thumbnail is a small arrow pointing down. Click it and the textures in this palette will pop open. Your newly scanned texture will be at the bottom of the list. Select it and you are ready to paint with it.
Things to keep in mind when painting with texture:
If you want your texture to echo exactly what you have scanned and mimic a real gessoed board, DO NOT CHANGE THE SCALE SLIDER after you begin to paint. If you do, the size of your texture will not be consistent across the canvas.
You can choose to paint either the highlights or the valleys of the texture by leaving it NORMAL or by selecting INVERT. Normal will paint the "high" points of the texture much as with drybrushing and if you select invert, the paint will fill in the low points of the texture and leave the high spots relatively paint free. I found this to be very effective when I wanted to "glaze the shadows" without killing my texture. Keep in mind that when switching back and forth between the two, it is easy to forget and you may end up painting your highlights in the depths and the shadows on the peaks of the texture. I decided that INVERT would be for darks and normal would be for lights, so I could keep it straight in my mind.
Also, the depth slider allows you to determine how prominent or subtle you want the texture to appear. I found I liked the texture depth at about 70-75%. Using the OTHER DYNAMICS setting in the brush palette also is incredibly useful in order to take full advantage of your Wacom tablet capabilities, as it allows for softness at the edge of brush strokes, but that is fodder for another post. I hope this makes sense. if you have any questions after having tried this out for size, just shoot me an email or comment.


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Barak, Ehud
Ehud Barak (ā´khōōd bäräk´), 1942–, Israeli military and political leader, prime minister of Israel (1999–2001). The son of East European immigrants in Palestine, he was born Ehud Brog, later adopting the Hebrew name Barak [lightning]. Barak began his military service in 1959, became a major general in 1982, and by 1991 had risen to become the youngest army chief of staff in Israeli history. Known for his bravery, Barak led two successful commando raids, one that stormed a hijacked Belgian airliner (1972), the other that destroyed a terrorist cell in Beirut (1976). As army head, he was instrumental in building a more streamlined and technologically advanced force. He retired in 1994 and that year joined the Labor party.
Barak began his political career (1995) as interior minister in the cabinet of Yitzhak Rabin, his military and political mentor, and was (1995–96) foreign minister under Shimon Peres. He assumed leadership of the Labor party in 1997, decisively defeated the Likud prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1999, and formed a seven-party coalition government; three right-of-center parties pulled out of the government in 2000. Like Rabin, another soldier turned prime minister, Barak advocated a strong, peace-seeking, and inclusive Israel (under his leadership Labor was renamed the One Israel party) and avowed a willingness to make concessions to the Palestinians and to Arab states if necessary for peace and security.
After the breakdown of negotiations with the Palestinians and the resumption of violence (Sept., 2000), as well as the splintering of his coalition, Barak resigned (Dec., 2000) to force an early election for prime minister in an attempt to regain public support, but in Feb., 2001, he was soundly defeated by Likud candidate Ariel Sharon. After his electoral rout, Barak bowed out of politics. In 2007 he made a comeback when he won the leadership of the Labor party and became defense minister under Ehud Olmert, espousing more hard-line approach to Palestinian relations. Barak continued in the post (2009–13) when a coalition led by Netanyahu and Likud took office, and in 2011 he split with more dovish members of the Labor party and formed the Independence party. He did not run in the 2013 elections.
See biography by I. Kfir (1999).


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A newly formed political consulting firm looks to aid libertarian candidates in their bids for office, and two members of the team have ties to Texas Rep. Ron Paul and his son, Rand Paul, a senator from Kentucky.
Liberty Torch Political Consulting, LLC, "aims to change the outcome of elections around the country and get more freedom-loving candidates elected to office than ever before," the firm said in a release. The team consists of seven individuals who have worked heavily with various past libertarian campaigns, including two with Paul family ties.
David Adams, who was the campaign manager for Rand Paul's 2010 Senate campaign and for Phil Moffett's 2011 campaign for governor of Kentucky, is the firm's strategy adviser. Jonathan Bydlak, who was the fundraising director for Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign, overseeing $35 million in contributions, is the fundraising adviser for the firm.
Liberty Torch's strategy is to ensure that "struggling libertarian political candidates and advocacy groups now have a chance to succeed in races where the establishment might otherwise prevail."
"We have learned important lessons in Kentucky for winning with solid candidates determined to bust up the ruling class of politicians," Adams said in a release. "Joining with these great people to form Liberty Torch and harness the power of the conservative movement is a no-brainer for me."
The firm will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and will offer services to "limited" candidates for political office nationwide, from the local to national level.
"Most importantly, [the firm's team members] get how politics works. Any prospective client would be lucky to have Liberty Torch working on their campaign," Bydlak said in a release.


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Ladies' night! All women admitted free! Reverse discrimination? Or just an attempt to attract the fairer sex to frequent places women might be less likely than men to frequent?
How about haircuts? Why do women usually pay so much more than men? Because they have more hair? Not since the Beatles took the pop world by storm.
And what about dry cleaning? Does it really cost more to clean a woman's blouse than a man's shirt?
Let's not even talk about bathing suits. Less is more (and costs more)—literally!!!
Most of us don't think twice about these disparities. They are just a fact of life; something that we are so used to that we don't stop to think twice about it.
Which is why this week's decision by the First Circuit of Appeals in Joyce v Town of Dennis raised a stink among duffers everywhere worse than my golf shoes (which my family have banned from the home and vehicle).
The facts in Joyce were, to say the least, pedestrian. Dennis, a tony town on Cape Cod, operates the Dennis Pines Golf Course, a municipal course. Like most courses, the Dennis links holds a series of tournaments for its members—some for men, others for women, and some mixed doubles.
But Elaine Joyce did not want to play just with the girls. She wanted to play with her father—and with the boys—in an early May 2007 tourney. When she tried to do so, the town's fathers turned her away. They said it would "not be fair" to the members "who may either desire or not desire to play in such a tournament." What were the members afraid of? That they might be beaten by a girl?
So what did Elaine Joyce do? She filed a charge of discrimination. The town then tried to assuage her, scheduling more women's tournaments. But Joyce was not deterred. She sued—and won.
Echoing language from the Supreme Court's famous decisions in Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, the First Circuit declared that such there was no such thing as "separate but equal" public accommodations. Rather, because the golf course was operated by the Town of Dennis, the Town was obligated to "integrate" the tournaments and let the women engage in match play with the men.
What's remarkable to this 20-plus handicapper is not the First Circuit's decision, but rather how readily we (or at least I) take the status quo for granted. It never (well almost never) would have occurred to me that there was anything wrong about separate tournaments for men and women. That's the way it's always been. Which maybe explains why whether at work or play, some times what's par for the course is really a triple bogey.
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People hate to wait. We don't like being placed on hold, or getting stuck in traffic, or standing in line at the bank or the supermarket. In the information age, when the speed at which data and information travel is measured in microseconds, our impatience is reaching unprecedented levels. According to engineers at Google, 40 percent of users abandon a website that takes more than three seconds to load. Even a quarter of a second of delay sends internet users to competing websites.
But for people who believe patience is a virtue and a positive attribute, suffering through a wait has an upside. According to Chicago Booth's Ayelet Fishbach, Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing, waiting may actually make people more patient. Fishbach is exploring why that is, and the reasoning behind it may help companies and consumers make better, more patient decisions.
Researchers have been studying patience for decades, and they commonly approach it by offering people the choice between a smaller reward soon or a larger reward later. Given the choice between $10 now or $15 a month from now, people often choose the smaller but immediate payoff, even though it makes them less well-off financially. Behavioral economists refer to this as intertemporal discounting—people tend to value things more in the present and discount their worth in the future. In one particularly famous study, published by psychologist Walter Mischel at Stanford in the early 1970s, researchers offered four-year-olds a marshmallow now, or two marshmallows if they waited for approximately 15 minutes. In that study, most children tried but failed to wait for two treats. The marshmallow study showed that kids who spent more time waiting had higher test scores and healthier body mass–index scores years later.
Researchers have also been looking at what can be done to increase patience. Richard H. Thaler, Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, among others, suggests that one thing that makes people particularly impatient is having an immediate wait. A wait that is farther off into the future is easier to bear, even if it is just as long. Psychologists call this the common difference effect—a person will probably choose to have one cookie right now rather than two in a week, but when offered one cookie in five weeks' time or two cookies in six weeks' time, he becomes much more patient. Thaler's research from 1981 indicates that people will also wait longer for larger rewards and demonstrates that increasing the value of a reward increases a person's willingness to wait patiently for a larger reward. Intuitively, that makes sense: more people will wait a month to get the latest version of the iPhone than will wait for the newest, just-released flash drive because there's more to be gained from waiting.
While Thaler continues to study the dynamics behind patience, Fishbach's research contains new thinking about how to increase it. She suggests that making people wait to make a decision can improve their patience because the process of waiting can make the reward for waiting seem more valuable.
Fishbach and Xianchi Dai, a former Booth postdoctoral student now at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, tested this hypothesis in a series of studies conducted in the United States, mainland China, and Hong Kong. In one study, the researchers invited participants to sign up to join a subject pool for online studies. In exchange for signing up, all participants were invited to enter one of two lotteries: one would pay out a $50 prize sooner, the other would pay out a $55 prize later. The researchers wanted to know whether participants would opt to try their luck for the larger but delayed prize if they were made to wait before making their choice.
Who will try for the larger prize?
The participants were divided into three groups, and what differed was the amount of time people in each group had to wait before potentially getting their prize. Researchers told the first group that they could win $50 in three days or $55 in 23 days. They told the second group they could win $50 in 30 days or $55 in 50 days. The third group, like the second, was told they could win $50 in 30 days or $55 in 50 days, but they had to wait before choosing a potential reward. Researchers contacted members of the third group 27 days later to ask for a decision, at which point the participants, like those in the first group, had to choose between waiting three days or 23 days to potentially receive a prize.
Fishbach and Dai found that in the first group only 31 percent of participants chose to wait for the larger reward. In the second group, for whom the lotteries were farther off, that number rose to 56 percent. But among people in the third group, who had been waiting several weeks to make their choice, 86 percent chose to wait for the larger reward. Even though they were making the same choice as people in the first group ($50 in three days or $55 in 23 days), the fact that they had been waiting to choose increased their patience.
People reacted similarly even if the reward was something other than money. Fishbach and Dai conducted similar studies using consumer products such as iPod shuffles and boxes of chocolate as rewards. Once again, people who had to wait before making a choice demonstrated more patience. And when asked how much they valued the prizes, people made to wait placed a higher monetary value on the iPods and chocolates than people spared the wait.
To explain this phenomenon, Fishbach employs a two-step logic: when people wait, it makes them place a higher value on what they're waiting for, and that higher value makes them more patient. They see more value in what they are waiting for because of a process psychologists call self-perception—we learn what we want and prefer by assessing our own behavior, much the same way we learn about others by observing how they behave. When we see people camping out to get the latest iPhone, we infer that the campers must find the iPhone valuable and worth waiting for. When we find ourselves waiting in that same line, we make a similar inference about ourselves, particularly when we are uncertain about the value of what we're waiting for. Fishbach theorizes that when people wait, their self-perceptions unconsciously raise the value of the object they're waiting for. And building on Thaler's insights, people become more patient when a larger payoff is involved.
The key point, therefore, is that waiting leads people to value the things they're waiting for more. This understanding can be useful knowledge for businesses. Financial advisers can use waiting to inspire people to save responsibly for retirement. If an investor has paperwork to fill out, it may be beneficial to have her hold off on making investment decisions until after she has completed it. It could also help to thank her for being patient, providing a gentle reminder that the investment is worth the wait. Then she may be more patient and may make more sensible choices.
Some companies already use waiting to entice customers. Apple, by announcing a product and making people wait for it, makes people excited to shop and willing to pay for the latest gadget. Celebrity chef Grant Achatz sells tickets to his restaurants, creating a system where people pay for their meal several months in advance. When people wait for their dining experience, they value the experience of eating at one of his restaurants more highly, enough that they pay several hundred dollars (or more) for a ticket. These strategies may be effective for other reasons as well, but they help reinforce Fishbach's research.
Better understanding the psychology could help customers, too, by improving their patience and, using related logic, helping them avoid overpaying. Fishbach's conclusions suggest that because self-perception generally happens automatically, if customers pay close attention to what they value, they may be less vulnerable to automatic influences. A person looking to buy a car can tame the influence of self-perception if she goes shopping with a plan. If she is determined to buy a basic car model, she may be less swayed by a salesman who makes her wait before pushing an upgraded model. It's something to ponder while waiting at the financial adviser's office, the dealership, or during that agonizing, four-second wait for a website to load.
Additional reading
Richard H. Thaler and Shlomo Benartzi, "Save More Tomorrow: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving," Journal of Political Economy, 2004.
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Yale University Press: 2008.
"Save More Tomorrow: A Simple Plan to Increase Retirement Saving," Capital Ideas, 2002.


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Professor's compositions connect students, faculty, and Portland community
March 04, 2013
Lewis & Clark students have no shortage of opportunities to enjoy music on- and off-campus, but Michael Johanson, assistant professor of music, amplifies educational experiences by sharing the genesis and realization of his own creative work with his students.
"It is important to me that my students face the considerable challenges inherent in the creative process with courage and with the right tools," Johanson said. "It is essential for students of composition to have models as they work to develop the many skills needed in the compositional process, and I strive to give them a sense of how the entire process unfolds through inviting them to experience and reflect on the music I create for performance both on- and off-campus."
Portland has a rich contemporary music scene, and Johanson strives to connect his students to it as often as possible. This spring, he has invited students and community members to attend several performances of his compositions throughout the city.
"I enjoy inviting fine musicians who have performed my music to campus to meet students and to perform their works," Johanson said. "I also enjoy arranging group outings to various concerts and events."
One recent concert has special meaning for Johanson. On Friday, March 1, his composition Fanfares and Elegies premiered at a concert of the Northwest Horn Orchestra. The work was written in memory of Johanson's colleague Franya Berkman, a music professor who lost a yearlong struggle with cancer in August.
"I was commissioned to write Fanfares and Elegies shortly before Franya's passing, and dealing with the loss of such a beloved friend and colleague seemed to consume my every thought around that time," Johanson said. "Franya was an amazing and beautiful individual in so many ways. She had a fierce passion for her loved ones and for her work as a multi-talented musician, scholar, and educator. Reflections on all of these characteristics and many more aspects of Franya's character found musical embodiment in the work."
Johanson's work will also be part of the March Music Moderne festival and the Lewis & Clark faculty ensemble's spring concert. All events are open to the public.
Upcoming performances:
- Free Marz Trio performing March After Stravinsky during March Music Moderne: March 8, 8 p.m.
- Friends of Rain, Lewis & Clark faculty new music ensemble, performing Bagatelle After Beethoven: March 16, 7:30 p.m.
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Welcome to the Startup School Wiki!
I have DV video of about 60% of Startup Day 2006 and will link it from here as I get it pieces posted -- Raines. Here's the patents session: and here's Paul Graham of Y Combinator ("The hardest lessons for startups to learn") followed by Catrina Fake of Flickr:
Please post MP3's of the talks. Thanks -- Amr
Live notes being posted every 10 to 15 minutes
Anyone know if the Kresge has WiFi - I see mention of SubEthaEdit etc, but it might be wise for that to be explicitly stated. I know Stanford has Wifi, but it's WEP keyed (or at least it was during my last visit)
Kresge has Wifi, but it is provided by Stanford which requires having your computer registered. Plus you must be directly affilitated with the university. Someone could without too much effort set up an open ap.
Hm, anyone able to bring an AP, or two?
Stanford Visiting Resources (is campus small enough that any of these are good? anyone know the area?) Ex-student's recommendations
Driving anyone know if caltrain is good? Yes, unusually for bay area transportation it is exactly on time. Get to Palo Alto 20 mins early to get from the station to main campus (walking or waiting for the shuttle).
Caltrain works pretty well. You can get to it from SFO via the BART, and there's a shuttle bus from the train station that takes you around campus, Marguerite but check the schedule since it doesn't run that often on weekends.
Looking for places to eat or things to do when you get there? Check out interesting locations on Flagr. Feel free to add some flags, if you know the area.
Add your url, name and email here so that everybody knows what you're up to.
ptufts.blogspot.com - My first notes and photos are going up tonight. More Monday. --Pat
messagr.com - Find like-minded people and chat to them instantly using Instant Messaging.
trackingshot.com - Automatically turn your photos and music into a cinematic experience. (Denis Bohm)
[http://www.angelfire.com/film/casale Casale] - The best place to be in the Berkeley area! Have been working on getting things ready for my trip to Italy.
HelpUsChoose.com - Help us decide what to work on this summer --Sam, Shay & Phu
Firefly Labs - Automatically monitor physical human behavior for wellness, medical, design, and safety purposes using our tiny computers called Fireflies. (Mik Lamming)
movescope.com - A smarter way to find a mover - by T Williams.
habitamos.com - The worlds first pay-per-click classifieds. Founded with less than $150,000, the website currently receive over 1 million unique visitors per month and growing at 30% per month. Julian Martinez from Madrid, Spain.
lendmonkey.com - A media trading community by Bryan Wood.
claimID - Manage your online identity. Fred Stutzman and Terrell Russell.
Guruza.com - Ask and answer questions live via chat. Put a price on your questions for extra incentive.
RunThere.com - A new running community/training log by Leo Hochberg
Ouranks - Websites ranked by human beings. - by MicroPat
Add to Any - The Add to Any button/link lets your visitors add your feed to any feedreader. - also by MicroPat
mysafetyprogram.com - Quickly and easily create a safety program for a small business; by Neal Lester.
Tejit -- Enabled with Tejit's mykrokozm, a blogger's conversation can be brought back from the distributed silos to the original blog which started the thread. Try it out (the service is in extreme alpha stage), would appreciate your thoughts. Cheers! indus the at symbol tejit.com
ObjectiveCLIPS.com -- easy expert systems development for the Macintosh. Todd Blanchard
PeachKit.com - Communication tool to help improve parent - teacher relationships. Wang Phan and Paul Thrasher
Feednut.com - Community based news reader focused on skimming through news instead of clicking.
Krugle.com - Search engine for software developers. John D. Mitchell
Bittercyclist.com - I'm bitter. I'm a cyclist. I was kindly invited to SS2006, and I managed to record the audio for most of the lectures, if anybody wants a copy. Also, if anyone has a good idea for either MakeMyMap.com or Yahoomazon.com feel free to email me. :)
tingoo.com - Bitter Cyclist, can you please post a zip to Sendspace and post a link here if possible? thx.
raines.com - I'm a non-bitter semi-cyclist, who recorded video for most (not all) of the lectures.
Gnafi.com - Keep your bookmarks in-sync between browsers..
Startuplay group for developers and engineers
If you want to coordinate with a group to go to the event together, post here.
UC Berkeley students, if you want to go as a group email me: keshavs at berkeley dot edu
Are there any other Canadians going? lemme know: jaxmckoy at gmail dot com
Are there any other Montrealers going? Get in touch at cmercier on google mail.
Are there any other San Diegans going? Please post on Google Groups's startupschool group.
I am going to be taking notes with SubEthaEdit, a collaborative group notetaking program. This worked very well in fall, and was a lot of fun too. If you want to get involved, just download the program. It is 30 day shareware for the newest version, and there is an older version you might be able to find that is completely free.
For those of you who attended Startup School last October in Cambridge, you will probably agree that Steve Wozniak gave an awesome talk. He is an inspiration for all of us and I would sure love to see him again at Stanford! If you don't know about Woz, check out his page on Wikipedia. Hint: Apple co-founder, invented the Apple II.
If you want to see Wozniak speak at Startup School Stanford 2006, please sign the petition!
Submit a question (or vote others up or down) for Caterina Fake, Flickr's co-founder, to answer during her talk.
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What sort of cross can be carved onto chest during this rite?
Would a traditional "cross of Christ" be ok?
There's no accurate description; He lays the Wand, etc., on the Altar, uses the Scourge on his buttocks, cuts a cross with the Daggar upon his breast & tightens the Chain of the Bell about his forehead, saying:
The traditional "Christian cross" shape is derived from the QBL Cross anyway isn't it?.


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Movie News: Carrie Fisher Confirms Princess Leia Is Returning to 'Star Wars'
Star Wars Episode VII: Carrie Fisher answered "Yes" to a question as to whether she would be reprising her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode VII. Commenting further, she imagines that her character today would be "elderly. She's in an intergalactic old folks' home," she said, laughing. "I just think she would be just like she was before, only slower and less inclined to be up for the big battle." Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill have also indicated they will be returning, though official confirmation has not yet been made. [Palm Beach Illustrated]
Young Lei Feng: The prospect of seeing a biopic about a revolutionary officially honored for his "selfless contributions to the Communist party" did not enchant potential moviegoers in two major Chinese cities. Reportedly, no tickets were sold to Young Lei Fung in Nanjing after its premiere Monday night, prompting the cancellation of planned screenings. "All four screenings hit zero at the box office," said one cinema staffer. "We are quite surprised, as generally you would sell some tickets for a movie one way or the other." [The Hollywood Reporter]
Frances Ha Trailer: Dancing! Playfighting! Paris! New York! David Bowie! All those elements coalesce in the first trailer for Frances Ha, an upcoming "comic fable" starring Greta Gerwig. She cowrote the film with Noah Baumbach, who directed, and it looks like an utterly lovely delight. The movie, shot in black and white, opens in limited release on May 17. [The Film Stage]
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Archive for Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Vietnam: Finding honor in unpopular war
November 11, 2008
Basehor It was an unpopular war in a strange, faraway land where warfare definitely wasn't the only hazard.
And Vietnam War veteran and Basehor native Fred Box remembers it well.
A self-proclaimed farm boy from Kansas, Box joined the Army right out of high school and fairly soon after shipped out to Vietnam.
"I joined the Army because I didn't want to put up any more hay or milk any more cows," he said. "When I came back from basic training, people asked me, 'Why do you want to fight in such an unpopular war?' I said, 'Because I couldn't find a popular war to fight in.'"
The darkness of the double-canopy jungles, swampy rice paddies and peasants living in cardboard houses greeted him in Vietnam.
Regular interaction with the villagers was part of his life in Vietnam, including going into one village that was not only stricken with leprosy, but an outbreak of the Bubonic plague. After the doctor he had gone with administered vaccines to the villagers, he remembers bathing in a creek with rubbing alcohol.
"It was such a backwards country," he said. "The Americans drank so much beer that they (the peasants) started to flatten out the cans and make their house out of those. You'd walk around and see Budweiser houses, or Coors or whatever it might be. The cities weren't too bad, but the countryside was all peasants."
One of his most memorable stories of combat was when he and his team of 25 Vietnamese Rangers and an interpreter stumbled onto a North Vietnamese camp. Although wounded, only he and the interpreter made it out alive.
But combat wasn't what scared him the most, Box said.
"The thing that scared me the most was the animals; those darn snakes," he said.
Bamboo Vipers were known as the two-step snake because after one bit somebody, they could walk two steps before the venom would start to take over their nervous system.
"I didn't know they had alligators down there and I was down in little swampy crossing a canal," he said, referring to the southern part of the country. "The alligators came up and got a Vietnamese private and we never did find him. From that day on I was more scared of the alligators crossing the canals than combat."
Coming home from Vietnam was a relief except there were no homecoming celebrations for the soldiers like there are today — in fact it was quite the opposite. Instead of a welcome home parade, Box said people burned the American flag while spitting on the soldiers and calling them baby killers.
"They used to make me so mad," he said. "I got into a fight every bar I went into. We didn't get a bit of glory."
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was also coming to light, and Box said he had it so bad that he would have screaming nightmares and developed a drinking problem. He said one day he looked in the mirror and asked God for help. He hasn't had a nightmare or a drink since.
In his four tours in Vietnam, he was wounded three times and received three Purple Hearts, among other medals. He carries a reminder of war around with him always in the form of shrapnel that remains in his body. The shrapnel still occasionally pushes through his skin and prevents him from passing through airport security.
After all his experiences during his 20 years in the Army, he said he would do it all over again.
"What people don't understand is somebody has to or we wouldn't be free in this country," he said.
Today, Box is the commander of the active Basehor Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 11499.
He takes on remodeling jobs, volunteers his time and skills, helps those who ask and just enjoys his life with his friends and family in his hometown.
"Life has been good to me, so I don't have any complaints," he said.
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Marysville, Kansas, September 10, 2009 — Vertical Tillage is a popular term heard today. The Landoll VTplus was developed with input from producers' issues on competitive tools they were using. Ability to anchor residue, shallow working depths, mixes more soil, better weed kill across the machine, and the ability to level small ruts left by the previous operation, are a few of the points that the Landoll VTplus was designed to address. The smooth blades allow the unit to work in wetter conditions when needed, and will stay sharper over time when compared to fluted blades typically found on competitive models.
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Dechen Norbu wrote:How do I run it, Kirt? When I click on it, it gives me the option to extract it with all allzip.
Btw, my OS is Windows 7.
There are many solutions but I'm trying to keep the solution as untechy as possible. This means that hopefully it is not a security issue.
The easiest way to get it running - assuming that Java is not totally locked down and that the jar file is also not locked down by default, is to right click on the jar icon (this also assumes that W7 is not toally different from Windows XP - I have seen some differences so hopefully this is not one of them) - this will bring up a list of actions - the one that you want is
"Open with >" - select that option and a list of programs will be displayed. Look for one that says "Java Platform". If that does not come up, do not select any other programs but go to the option at the bottom that says "Choose Program" and select the Java runtime (Java Platform) from that list.
If nothing comes up then we can still probably lanuch the jar file but it will take a little bit of work. I cannot put out a C# version (which will definitely run on your machine - again unless it's a security thing) this week. But I might be able to convert the application to a Windows native executable (maybe, maybe not, because of the 3rd party libraries it uses).
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