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The populations of seven species of rare water birds have recovered significantly in Cambodia's Tonle Sap lake due to a program that employs former hunters as park rangers, conservationists said Thursday.
A report by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society found the populations have increased by as much as 20 times for some of the species since 2001, when the program started.
The findings mark a "success story" in efforts to protect the bird colonies from poachers, said Noeu Bonheur, the Cambodian Environment Ministry's deputy director of the Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve.
"It is definitely exciting news that we should be proud of," he said.
His office and the WCS have worked together for several years on a conservation project at Prek Toal, a flooded region on the northwestern edge of the Tonle Sap.
The lake is Southeast Asia's largest freshwater reservoir, which can expand to 4,630 square miles at the peak of the rainy season and recede to about 1,160 square miles in the dry season. It is rich in biodiversity and provides a breeding ground for many species of birds and fish.
The WCS report, released earlier this week, said the Prek Toal bird colonies hold the largest — and in some cases the only — breeding populations in Southeast Asia of the seven globally threatened large water bird species.
15,000 more birds
The species are the spot-billed pelican, milky stork, painted stork, lesser adjutant, greater adjutant, black-headed ibis and the Oriental darter. There were over 20,000 birds in 2007, compared to 5,000 in 2001, the report said.
All seven species are listed as "threatened or near-threatened" by the World Conservation Union, Tom Clements, a WCS technical adviser in Cambodia, said in an e-mail Thursday.
"Prek Toal is the most important large water bird breeding colony in Southeast Asia. In some cases, Prek Toal supports up to 30 percent of the global population," Clements said.
When the colonies there were discovered in the late 1990s, they were threatened with extinction as a result of villagers' rampant harvesting of eggs and chicks, the report said.
But during the past seven years, a colony protection and monitoring program has resulted in a gradual decline in poaching incidents, allowing the birds to stage "remarkable comebacks," the WCS said.
The program employs some 30 park rangers, many of whom are former poachers, who work in shifts around the clock to monitor the bird populations.
"The approach was extremely effective," Clements said.
He said some of the hunters who were not employed did try to collect the birds' eggs and chicks in the early years of the project, "but since 2004 this threat has effectively ceased."


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Tehran, 29 July (AKI) – Sixteen Iranians who converted from Islam to Christianity were arrested on Tuesday in Malakshahr, on the outskirts of the central Iranian city of Isfahan.
The six women, eight men and two adolescents who were arrested were assisting in a conversion ceremony and baptism of three new members of the church at a private house that had been transformed into an evangelical church.
The owners of the home, an elderly couple, were allegedly beaten up before they were locked up in an unmarked lorry.
In April, 10 Christian converts were arrested in Shiraz.
The official evangelical churches in Isfahan received orders not to allow any Muslims to attend their ceremonies and not to facilitate in any way the conversions.
Iranian law does not stipulate any punishment for those who convert from Islam to other faiths, even if the converts are subject to repression.
A few months ago, the government presented a bill which is currently being discussed in parliament, to include in the penal code the crime of "Ertedad" which is the act of abandoning the Muslim faith.
If the parliament does approve the law, the punishment for abandoning Islam will be the death penalty.
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Astorino taps sheriff as running mate versus Cuomo
Republican announces Chemung County sheriff
The Republican candidate for governor has selected an upstate New York sheriff to be his running mate.
Rob Astorino announced Tuesday that Chemung County Sheriff Christopher Moss is his pick to run for lieutenant governor.
The selection could help Astorino appeal to conservatives and voters in rural New York.
The 46-year-old Moss joined the sheriff's office in 1989 and has been sheriff since 2006. He is an outspoken critic of the tougher gun laws championed last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Moss is African-American and leads the state's sheriffs association.
Astorino is now Westchester County executive. Republicans are gathering this week in Westchester County to nominate candidates for the fall elections.
Cuomo, a Democrat, is expected to announce his running mate soon. Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy decided not to run.


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MAC Staunchly Stylish Pro Longwear Lip PencilMAC Staunchly Stylish Pro Longwear Lip Pencil ($19.50) is a soft, rosy-beige long-wearing and transfer-proof lip pencil with a creamy, "fluid-like" texture that glides to the lips with rich, saturated color.
Lip liner is one of those things that I neglect to use every day, even though I prefer the look of my lips with lip liner. I suppose it's mainly a convenience thing - I like a simple daily routine, and most of the time I just apply what I find is necessary. I do love lip liner though, especially MAC Lip Pencils. It's pretty much the major brand I use, with Oak, Stripdown and Subculture being my go-to shades. I became curious about their Pro Longwear line of lip pencils that launched late last year, as often times I only apply my liner in the morning and it's gone within a couple of hours, so finding a lip liner that will last me for several hours would be wonderful!
The formula of these pencils are pretty nice. They are no doubt creamy and glide easily across the lips. The liner doesn't tug or pull at the lips - just smooth sailing. They dry down to a budge-proof matte finish.
Alone on the lips, the pencil makes my lips look dry and crackled, as the formula really "clings" to the lips. So, I wouldn't wear it on it's own (or this shade anyway). I like wearing it as a base for my lipstick, or simply applied lightly on the outline of my lips and blended in. I don't find it to be drying when combined with another lip product. I also notice that when it's on my lips, it feels the slightest bit tacky - kind of similar to some formulas of long-wearing lipsticks.. dry, but somewhat sticky? Very minor, though.
MAC doesn't give a length of time that these lip pencils should last, but I find that it holds up really well throughout the day. It holds up well after my morning coffee, and partly goes away with a meal (which typically would be completely gone). If I don't eat or drink, it doesn't budge. It's hands down the longest wearing lip pencil I own.
Staunchly Sylish applied to the outline of my lips
Staunchly Stylish applied all over my lips
MAC Lovelorn Lipstick applied on top
After eating a meal
Despite that minor flaw, I'm overall really satisfied with this lip liner and I would try additional shades in the future. Nice n Spicy looks like a nice (very similar) every day shade. For swatches of all of the shades of MAC Pro Longwear Lip Liners, check out Karlasugar.
*This post will be updated later with swatches.
The Round-UpPros:
- Glides easily across the lips without tugging.
- A good shade for daily wear - pairs well with most of my everyday natural pink and nude lipsticks.
- Doesn't dry out my lips (although Temptalia found them to be drying - I didnt. Results will vary.)
- Long-lasting - lasts longer than any other lip liners I own.
- Looks a bit dry on the lips when worn alone.
- I'm not sure what ingredient it is, but I get a very mild allergic reaction to this lip liner. I can't tell when I'm wearing other products, but when I'm wearing it alone, I can feel a light burn/tingle.
- It's a bit expensive for a lip liner. A standard MAC lip liner costs $15 and contains more product than the Pro Longwear Lip Liner which is $19.50.


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Here in Puerto Rico we usually run behind the rest of the Nation, in implementing technology advances and good ideas, by about 5 to 7 years. Just this month and due to the elections, a local TV channel just started experimenting with teleportation. Few years ago that was tested in the USA. It is a catchy marketing technology.
Back then my SEO and marketing friends immediately started to see the next "future" for marketing and, of course, porn: teleportation for meetings, events, and SEO Conferences.
Keep these terms in mind: Teleportnication, Teleportnography => Teleportnicación, Teleportnografía
PS: Mobile apps for that, too? Probably there are some out there now or in the near future (with the right equipment in place) Portnography, anyone?


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My voting station is in SRB Tung Hua and all the hype about indelible ink (or rather the delible nature of the ink) has made it the central topic in my mind.
I flew back to Sibu to vote in the GE13 (13th General Elections) yesterday and I'm flying back to KL later. I had changed my address here coz I think the Opposition has a good chance in my constituency. There's three (3) candidates for the 212 – Sibu seat – DAP, BN and an Independent.
Ling took a video of me this morning letting off a fireworks rocket – I guess that much tells you which party I voted for. 😉
(For those unfamiliar with Malaysian politics, DAP's logo is a rocket taking off)
I don't even know Oscar Ling, the DAP candidate for my constituency – I wanted to vote for change, so I voted for the party instead of the candidate.
I went to the voting station and got assigned a number. I was asked which hand I write in (I'm right handed) so I got the indelible ink painted on my left hand. It's done on the opposite index finger.
I took the slip into the voting booth…
…and promptly put my left index print beside the DAP logo. -_-
Indelible ink has been on my mind all the while and I thought the new rules is to mark for the party you're voting for using the ink. That doesn't make sense at all coz:
- Voting is supposed to be anonymous and having your fingerprint there isn't anonymous
- They wouldn't have asked you for the *opposite* finger you write with if you're meant to mark it
- There are writing implements there, just like past elections
I somehow looked past all that and for some robotic reason put my thumbprint (or index print rather) for the DAP candidate.
Mom: Idiot! You're like a first time voter, being so blur.
Me: I thought that was the new rules instead of putting an X.
It's okay though, I asked and old people have used their thumbprints or just put a single dot using a pen on the candidate they want to vote for in the past and it's *confirmed* counted. It's all good. 🙂
…and on the subject of the ink, it's not really that indelible. I'll say it's hard to remove, but after a shower and two hand washes, it has faded. I'm sure a dedicated person can totally remove it.
Obligatory GE13 photo: Giving the finger to show where my support lies. 😉
I have blue ink all over the tissues and other stuff I touch when in contact with oil or water e.g. during lunch!
Update: 212 Sibu is won by DAP! The other major urban seat 211 (Lanang) was also taken by DAP with over 8,000 votes! 😀
Unfortunately, the smaller rural areas didn't swing due to lack of education and Internet access. This, I believe, will change in the future.


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Young Marlins starters inspiring each other
Led by Fernandez, rotation putting up stretch of impressive numbers
MIAMI -- Rarely has a loss looked as good as the defeat Nathan Eovaldi took against the Indians on Sunday. The right-hander took a hard-luck loss after allowing just one run in seven innings.
Although the outcome was disappointing, Eovaldi simply added yet another chapter to what has been a tremendous run for the Marlins' starting rotation. Since June 16, Miami's starters rank third in the Majors with a 2.79 ERA.
In a rotation stocked with young arms succeeding so early, Marlins manager Mike Redmond believes the five pitchers bring out the best in each other.
"That's created a great competition between all those starting pitchers," Redmond said. "They're all so young, so talented. It's great that they can push each other. It's great that maybe one of them wants a little bit more notoriety than the other. I like that. I like those guys to want to one-up each other. That's good."
All-Star rookie Jose Fernandez is the standard bearer in Miami's young rotation. The 21-year-old has struck out 27 batters in his past two outings, fanning 13 Pirates in eight innings on July 28 and 14 Indians in eight innings on Friday. He leads all qualified rookie starting pitchers with a 2.54 ERA, a 1.01 WHIP, a 3.9 WAR and 138 strikeouts in 127 2/3 innings.
Former Marlins manager Jack McKeon believes Fernandez is the team's best pitching prospect during his 10-year relationship with the franchise.
"The guy's mature," McKeon said. "He's been through the mill. He's a gamer. He's a fighter. He's a competitor. He reminds you of an old timer. The guy that was really dedicated. The [Bob] Gibsons, them kind of guys. They took this game seriously and went out there and said, 'Hey, I want to show them I'm good.'"
Henderson Alvarez was not far behind Fernandez in July. Since making his season debut on July 4 after missing the first three months with right shoulder inflammation, Alvarez has shined. He owns a 2.61 ERA in six starts.
Alvarez has been especially impressive in his four most recent starts, sporting a 1.33 ERA and a 1.04 WHIP in 27 innings. His scoreless-innings streak of 18 ended in his most recent outing, a win against the Mets on Wednesday.
"He doesn't want everyone talking about [Fernandez] and Eovaldi and all these guys," Redmond said. "He wants them talking about him, too. And that's great."
Pitching coach Chuck Hernandez has enjoyed working with Alvarez after the Venezuelan-born hurler's long absence. Hernandez believes pitching in the World Baseball Classic was too much for Alvarez to handle so early in the season.
"It was kind of a setback for him in Spring Training," Hernandez said. "I think it pushed him harder than he needed to be pushed and was ready to be pushed, so that's what led to some soreness, some time off. And now we're getting him back to seeing who he is. I'm learning a lot about him."
Fernandez is the only member of the current rotation that has held his spot since Opening Day. Alvarez, Jacob Turner, Eovaldi and Tom Koehler have since worked their way into the five-man grouping.
Turner spent the season's first two months at Triple-A New Orleans after struggling with his control during Spring Training. However, he has been solid since joining Miami, recording nine quality starts and a 2.68 ERA in 77 1/3 innings.
"He's got a great pitching IQ," Hernandez said in June. "That's what I've learned. He don't talk much. He don't waste a whole lot of words. But when we sit down with the catchers before the game, we go through the lineup real quick and try to establish what we want to do. He's really impressed me. You don't get that a lot from young guys."
Like Turner, Eovaldi has also demonstrated consistency with eight quality starts in nine outings. With a fastball that reached 100 mph in his most recent start, improved work on his other pitches could spell even more success for Eovaldi.
"He's done a great job, and he's got a great arm," Redmond said. "A power arm. His offspeed breaking pitches are still a work in progress, but he's got a fastball that can get anybody out. When he's down in the zone, he can dominate a lineup."
Said Hernandez: "We're still trying to work on command and making sure we're sticking balls in areas we need to."
Even Koehler, who is experiencing an up-and-down season, has joined the fun in recent days. The right-hander outdueled Mets ace Matt Harvey with six scoreless innings in a win on Thursday, stranding several runners on base to preserve the shutout.
Redmond has been particularly impressed with Koehler's maturity and his ability to fight through adversity on the mound.
"He's done a nice job, a really nice job," Redmond said. "He's strong out there."
Former Marlins third baseman Mike Lowell believes Miami has a good thing going with its current starting rotation at a great bargain.
"When you mention those four names, that's pretty good stuff and pretty young and pretty cheap," Lowell said. "I think the hardest thing to find in the game right now is cheap, good, young pitching. The Marlins have a group that has the ability to be really good for a while. How that pans out, we don't know. But the pieces are there."
In a season that has gained its second wind after a dismal 13-41 start, Miami's starting pitching has been the difference. Fernandez, who has seen the best and worst with the Marlins this season, is encouraged by rotation's growth.
"It feels nice," Fernandez said. "Everybody's working hard to get better. It's amazing that everybody's going out there and doing a great job and giving the team a chance to win. That's what matters. That's what's important."


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Gina Carano's MMA career may soon switch from neutral to go.
Three months after the popular fighter was forced to withdraw from "Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum" at the behest of her personal doctor, sources close to negotiations tell MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that she is targeted to fight at an as-yet-unannounced Strikeforce event scheduled for Dec. 17. An opponent has yet to be determined.
A city and venue have yet to be announced for the event, though as MMAjunkie.com earlier reported, a lightweight title match between champ Gilbert Melendez and Jorge Masvidal is also expected to take place.
One source said Melendez vs. Masvidal will take main event status.
In early August, Carano was cleared by her doctor to resume training, though its unclear whether she's currently in camp.
Carano (7-1 MMA, 0-1 SF) made an appearance this past July at Comic-Con – a yearly fan convention on comic books, video games and movies – to promote the upcoming action-thriller "Haywire."
The fighter filmed the movie, which is directed by Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh, this past fall alongside actors Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas and Antonio Banderas. Carano has a starring role in the flick.
Carano, 29, has not fought since August 2009, when she took the first loss of her professional career in a bout against Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos for the then-vacant Strikeforce women's featherweight title. The fight, which headlined "Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg," peaked with 856,000 viewers on Showtime while the event averaged 576,000. Both were Strikeforce-Showtime records at the time.
For the latest on Strikeforce in December, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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At their regular meeting on Tuesday, April 17, Ranson City Council members unanimously approved proposals some two years in the making, enacting a new zoning code and Comprehensive Plan designed to guide growth and redevelopment for decades to come.
"There was never any doubt these measures would pass into law," said Ranson Mayor A. David Hamill. "That's because, from the beginning, we involved everybody – property owners, business people, developers and elected officials from both Ranson and Charles Town. We all had a hand in turning our ideas into plans and ordinances. By making them law, we're signaling to our partners in the federal agencies that funded the planning and to those considering investment in our region that we're ready for a new era."
Ranson attracted $6 million in grants and loans from three federal agencies — the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) – and contracted with an international team of consultants. With the EPA money, the planning partners designed proposals for repurposing six brownfield sites into future locations for new businesses. HUD funding provided resources for a rezoning approach to guide smarter growth and redevelopment. And the DOT grant enabled the redesign of a key corridor into a connective boulevard and plans for the transformation of historic Charles Washington Hall in Charles Town into a commuter center, strengthening links between regional rail and regional residents. HUD BEDI funds will assist in the redevelopment of the former Kidde Foundry.
In a series of meetings with community members, staff and officials – including those in neighboring Charles Town – the separate planning efforts were interwoven into a comprehensive strategy. To the federally funded planning projects, the City of Ranson added a revamp of its Comprehensive Plan to bring it into compliance with the new plans and zoning code.
"The whole became greater than the sum of the parts," said Mayor Hamill.
Each step in the process was documented on this website, unfolding through the posts preceding this one. So citizens, officials and future community investors had open access to follow the progress from beginning until final passage of the proposals on April 17.
Finalized versions of the adopted documents can be found here.


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Focusky Software Co., Ltd. one of the world's leading providers of digital software, is coming up with the best alternative for making presentations. Focusky is regarded as the best PowerPoint alternative which offers its customers the infinite possibilities to create several unique kinds of presentation to address its customers need from mind mapping design to video presentation, online presentations to service displays, PPT to video converter and the list goes on. This shows the credibility of this software that is making it an alternative.
Since its first launch was in 2010, Focusky Software Co., Ltd. has paid much effort in creating presentation tools for all users across the world. It is aiming to provide the best alternative to PowerPoint, enabling everyone to create engaging presentation much easier. The factors that are actually making it different from the other presentation tools include the following points:
The unique benefits of Focusky when compare it to PowerPoint or Prezi:
1. Animation Editor:
There is a built-in Animation Editor which provides powerful editing functions. People can edit the presentation in the ways they like and share ideas freely. With the animation editor, people can add the entrance and exit effect. If they want to stress the content, they can add the emphasize effect. Most surprisingly, users can add the action path to direct the object to move in the fixed path.
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There are countless animated resources which are very useful for creating engaging dynamic presentations. It includes the roles, swf, and others.
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Different form the PowerPoint, Focusky enables users to insert video into the background of presentation to make it more attractive with dynamic scene. It can help presenters to catch the attention of audiences at the first sight.
Depending upon the advantages, it seems to be an excellent alternative for PowerPoint. It is based merely on the user that what he wants from the tool in making the presentation, whereas, Focucky is providing all the unique components that can make the presentations better, and can assist the user to make effective changing in the presentation by editing it that makes it way too easier to use this software.
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For more about this software, please visit Focusky Homepage.


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USMMA Coach "O" Invitational
@ U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point, N.Y.
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 50 degrees
Kings Point, N.Y. - Freshman Chris Herbst (Baiting Hollow, N.Y./Riverhead) won the 110-meter High Hurdles in a season and personal best 15.35 at the Men's and Women's Outdoor Track Coach "O" Invitational in Kings Point, N.Y. on Saturday, April 14th. Chris also Triple Jumped 13.39-meters (43' 11 1/2") to place 6th. These marks improve his ECAC qualifying times in both events. In his third event, he placed 7th in the 400-meter Intermediate Hurdles in a season best 57.89. Chris moves to #8 on the All-Time 110-meter hurdles list.
Juniors Reggie Routier (Freeport, N.Y./Freeport) and Reuben Hairston (Freeport, N.Y./Freeport) placed 3rd and 5th, respectively, in the Triple Jump with season best jumps of 13.92-meters (45' 9 1/2") and 13.43-meters (44' 3/4"). Both improved on their previous ECAC qualifying marks. Reggie moves to #3 on the All-Time list.
Other notable performances:
4x400-meter Relay: Kensley Norian, Jermaine Carter, Jason Chin Chitty, Akil Williams, 3rd place, 3:21.13, season best and ECAC qualifying improvement.
High Jump: Akil Williams, 2nd place, 1.97-meter (6'6")
Shot Put: Chris Okolie, 5th place, 13.22-meters (43' 4 1/2"), season best, #10 on All-Time list.
Discus: Alex Rubino, 5th place, 39.91-meters (130' 11"), season best, personal best, #9 on All-Time list.
4x100-meter Relay: Jason Chin Chitty, Azell Green, Reuben Hairston, Kensley Norian, 5th place, 43.54.


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Jackson reaping rewards of aggression on basepaths
NEW YORK -- Give Austin Jackson credit: When it was suggested to him that he looks more aggressive on the basepaths in recent days, he was aggressive with a quick retort.
"I think it's just more excitement, being happy that I got a hit," Jackson said with a smile.
He is definitely hitting for better contact. Thursday marked his third consecutive multihit game after going a month and a half without two such efforts in a row. Just as impressive, though, has been the way he has attacked the basepaths on his hits.
Jackson saw second base from the outset in the 14th inning on Wednesday before aggressively taking third on Torii Hunter's ensuing flyout to right. He stretched out a triple to left-center, his first triple since July 10, on Thursday, then dared New York's Curtis Granderson to try to throw him out on a two-out ground ball to left-center on Friday night.
Eventually, he admitted that he's looking for extra bases out of the box rather than simply reacting.
"Really, I think I'm trying to be aggressive on a ball in the gap or down the line," he said. "I'm trying to go around first with the intent to get to second."


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It's a pilgrimage!
Earlier this year, I discovered that a fantastic Disney resource lives right here in our little college town. Kim is a Disney Vacation Planner, and I wanted to find out what that was like, and she was gracious enough to spend some time and answer some questions for us.
Just Off Main Street can highly recommend Kim's services in planning your next Disney vacation, find her at kimbowers.offtoneverland.com or on Facebook.
Tell us about yourself:
My name is Kim Bowers, I'm 43, married to my husband Tom for 20 years and have two kids. I grew up in Atlanta, went to school at the University of Georgia and graduated in 1991 with an Early Childhood Education degree.
Tell us about your job:
I provide fee-free booking and planning services for anyone planning a Disney vacation. My clients come to me because they are overwhelmed by the number of decisions that must be made when planning a trip to Walt Disney World, and they have a thousand questions! Which resort to choose? What time of year is best? etc.. I can help you plan your Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise, or any other Disney destination vacation.
I get to know them and what they want, and help them get the very best rates on the package that is just right for them. Then I help them plan out their itinerary. Going to Walt Disney World is not just another vacation – it's a pilgrimage! People want everything to be magical – and they appreciate the insider guidance. I have several clients who come back to me because they know I stay up to date on everything, and I can fill them in about new attractions and make sure they get the best price. I've been doing this for 4 years now.
How did you get started?
After planning several trips for my family and friends, I realized I had a vast (some might say ridiculous) amount of knowledge and a knack for planning. Somehow I had become a walking travel guide! I just knew I could do the job. My background is in teaching preschool, which involves a lot of planning and of course, understanding kids, so I draw on those experiences a lot too. I loved the idea of having a profession that would keep me connected to Walt Disney World. I turned to the Internet to find out how I could become a travel agent and found Off To Neverland Travel. I applied, interviewed, and was hired as an independent contractor.
So, this isn't a Disney company?
No. Off To Neverland Travel is an Earmarked agency. That means we are Authorized Disney Travel Planners. That affords us access to the very latest news resources and training. We book directly with Disney, and add our own special services at no extra charge.
Planning Disney vacations for my clients is a lot of fun because I put myself in their shoes and try to anticipate what they will need to know. So in my mind, I go to WDW a lot! And helping people make happy memories is very gratifying. I love to hear from my clients after they travel that my advice and guidance really made their trip run smoothly, or that a character meal I suggested was a highlight of their trip, and so on. It may sound corny but it is an honor to help families make memories that will last a lifetime.(Ed's Note: It's not corny, it's kind of awesome)
One of my favorite things about my job is a service we provide called reservation monitoring. This is something that won't happen if you book online or by calling Disney's reservation line. Once a client books with me, I watch all the discounts that come along. And when one comes up that matches, I apply the savings or offer an upgrade. I can't ever promise it will happen, but it does quite a bit. It's not often you get a phone call from someone saying "Guess what you are going to save money!" So, it's fun to do that!
Do you book other theme park vacations?
Honestly, I will but I prefer not to because other companies do not instill me with the confidence Disney does that my guests will be blown away by an all-round superior experience.(Ed's Note: So true)
How many times a year do you visit the parks?
I visit 2-3 times a year for vacations or meetings (And no – I don't get to go for free! )
What are your favorite places to visit when at Walt Disney World?
My favorite resorts are Disney's Pop Century Resort because of the low price and the over-the-top Disney theme and service; and Disney's Polynesian Resort for the tropical ambiance and location (right on the monorail, and you can see Cinderella Castle from the pool!).(Ed's Note: Allow to me add the Polynesian's great themeing, and the luau is my second favorite meal at Disney.)
I really like EPCOT, and its relatively relaxed pace. And there are so many neat little nooks and crannies to be found – especially in the World Showcase. I notice something new to me every time I visit. EPCOT is also home to Soarin', my favorite attraction.
Crystal Palace for breakfast with Winnie the Pooh and friends is my whole family's favorite place to eat. My husband calls it the epicenter of the happiest place on earth.
Do you have any advice for guests planning their Disney meals?
I can't eat wheat, so normally it's difficult for me to eat out. But at Walt Disney World, I have almost as many meal and snack options as everyone else and I don't have to worry because the Disney chefs come out and speak to me personally and they are very knowledgeable and accommodating. They make a gluten-free brownie at Pop Century and several other restaurants that is even better than the regular kind. They also stock cookies and other goodies I, and others with wheat allergies, can enjoy while my family is having their treats. To me that is a very big deal!
Do you have a favorite place in the parks off the beaten path?
This won't be off the beaten path for long because it is very new and people are just discovering it. You could easily spend a day in Magic Kingdom Park and not even know about this. "The Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom" is an interactive game that takes you all over the park on a self guided quest with mysterious maps and magical playing cards to save the park from the Disney villains. My 10-year-old son and I tried it out in May of this year, and he loved it. The technology is very impressive. They have holographic-looking characters popping up in shop windows and such, and you can actually cast spells that make things happen. It's very cool. (Interesting link about testing the experience)
What's your favorite Disney movie?
My favorite classic Disney movie is Cinderella. It was my first theater movie when I was a kid. My mother had to drag me out because I laughed to hard at the mice! They are still my favorite part of the movie!
Tell us something no one knows about Disney from an insider's perspective:
A Disney vacation can actually be relaxing, and you don't have to go home exhausted ! There are many places to enjoy peace and quiet at Disney World! A lot of people make the mistake of cramming in so much activity they forget to relax. I try to help people find that balance so they go home refreshed.
Is there a Disney experience you've never done, but want to?
Aulani , the new resort in Hawaii is on my "someday" list!
Tell us about some of your most magical experiences helping plan a Disney vacation:
I've had the pleasure of working with several families whose Disney vacation is a celebration of life in the wake of a very difficult time. Hospice patients, cancer survivors, and others have come to me and said, "…life has been really hard this year. And we just need to get away, have a fun time making happy memories together," or "We just realized that life is too short to put this off any longer."
I handle all the little details so they can just go down there and enjoy. It really is an honor to help a family have a fun, relaxing, healing experience like that. And I can't think of a better place for them to do that than Walt Disney World.
Many, many thanks to Kim for sharing. I can't wait to call her to book our next trip!


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Hi, welcome to my personal website. I am head of the GESIS Panel and deputy head of the department Survey Design and Methodology at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (my website at GESIS). My research interests focus on methods of empirical research in the social sciences (esp. meta-analysis and survey methodology), family sociology, juvenile delinquency and educational sociology. Over the last years, I also developed an interest in medical sociology.
In summary, this book provides insight into some of the R packages available for conducting a meta-analysis. This book seems appropriate for someone who has a basic understanding of meta-analytic methods or who is planning to use the book in conjunction with other books that center on the methodological aspects of meta-analysis. Therefore, this book does not present a complete treatment for those who intend to learn meta-analysis for first time. Finally, publishing a book that heavily relies on particular software is always a challenging task since the life-cycle of software can be very short. According to the book's preface, the authors finished working on the book in December 2012. From today's perspective the metafor package (the most recent version of which is version 1.9-4, published on July 7, 2014) by Viechtbauer (2010) exceeds the packages meta (Schwarzer, 2014) and rmeta (Lumley, 2012) as a general purpose package for conducting a typical meta-analysis. Indeed, metafor also provides advanced functions for estimating multivariate and multilevel meta-analyses.


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My name is Jon Burton, I work in the contracts department of GGAT. I normally spend a fair amount of time out in the field, dealing directly with clients, carrying out watching briefs, evaluations, and on occassions full scale excavations.
Most of this week I've been working on post excavation reports, related to watching briefs carried out in the Glamorgan and Gwent area. These include watching briefs carried out in the Caerleon area, related to the line of a former roman road, and another watching brief in the Port Talbot area along the line of a new road scheme which, has uncovered a number of features related to former industrial activity.
Today I had hoped to continue with the writing up of a small watching brief, carried out this week in Cowbridge. However, another fieldwork project has come up in Merthyr which, requires cover next week, and so now I'll have to produce a risk assessment, and gather some background information in preparation for this new work.


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Looking Back at 2012: The "State of the Media: The Social Media Report 2012" was jointly released by Nielsen and NM Incite, in December 2012 and breaks down new data on how social media is impacting consumer behavior, advertising, marketing, social TV, mobile, social care and more...
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Good commentary and discussion... Attribution models of ALL TYPES have built in points of failure, redundancies and inconsistencies. One of the comments below points out the primary reason social media is not credited with enough purchase activity, perhaps rightly or wrongly depending on what you are trying to sell. If my daughter tweets that she is in the market for a car, and i respond to her tweets with my own recommending a dealer located close to her. She will go to the dealer's website and pick a car. When she buys that car, the dealer's website is credited with the sale attribution. When she is surveyed, she will respond that "Friends and Family" was her source of greatest influence. Neither of which credits Twitter with any attribution.
Thanks Paul! I would imagine so, in terms of the digital download world, there are out-of-the-box tools that can pretty much track and calculate ROI exactly.
Ha, I just didn't want anyone to think I was that Alexander. :-)
Some good pointsAlexander. I totally agree about Automotive being difficult to measure. I was in the Online Dating and Yellow Pages world for a few years - way easier to track and measure real ROI.
BTW, I didn't realize when I put in the @ it linked to Twitter.. Sorry about that.
There are also technical reasons why social media may be undercounted including:
Yes, I agree there are many other factors and it's a very messy equation, just throwing that out there, that the article did not take that into consideration. Regardless of the tracking method they use, this has been heavily studied and those that crunch numbers are larger companies are still going to take that data into consideration.
The entire point of Forrester's research, social isn't driving sales. Direct visits, organic search, PPC, E-mail marketing, etc. are pushing it. Granted, the entire E-commerce approach is much different in the automotive retail industry and much more difficult to measure than a digital download (simple). Very few people go to a dealer website and actually purchase online. They look, detail their potential purchase and then come in to the dealership, so you're right, it's hard to quantify unless you have a decent CRM in place with contributing, cooperative sales people (indicating which marketing method brough the customer into the dealership for purchase).
BTW, you're linkback to my name was someone else.
@Alexander, in regards to your links. (Converting at less than 1%).
After reading these articles, I would suggest that this "study" is pretty much wrong. These guys are using "clickstream" data for these stats (meaning using cookies to track where a user was directly before making a purchase) - This is a problem because they do not look at the proper amount of data to really measure social media influence on purchasing. For example, If @ralphpaglia told me his mobile phone was the best purchase he ever made and shared a pic on Twitter - I may decide to check it out and buy it for myself. However, I would (more than likely) visit Google, search for the phone and then visit the site where I would make the purchase. According to clickstream data, Google would have been the driving site behind my purchase, when in fact it was Twitter.
Furthermore, I would suggest that these "researchers" needed to add a new metric to measure how the brands included in the study used social networking sites. Are they posting about a product, but not properly linking; are they ensuring that it is easy for their customers to make the leap directly from a social site to the business' product areas, etc.
All in all, it's messy data and their findings are somewhat skewed to say the least. Just my two cents..
I should have included this piece of information in my post: Social Media ROI: 14 Formulas to Measure Social Media Benefits.
I guess they skipped the part on Social Media converting at a clip of 1%. Although, I see their little form for their own lead purposes and sorting the pages pop-ups occur for sharing (yuck). I did find the toilet % data amusing.
There is so much data, facts and infographic style charts in this presentation that i recommend you click on the "Four Arrows" icon in the lower right of the player to go full screen... The larger view makes it a lot easier to read the numbers and descriptions of data presented.
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Bahá'ís throughout the world gather this evening and tomorrow within the First Day of the Month of `Asmá [Names]
"Double Sonnet in Honour of the Feast of 'Asmá [Names]"
Greatness, the gulf of differences between
Recipients of names and the manifestation of the same
In full blown vain imagining; objective oversight's the flame,
At least the spark any given second. A constant stream,
The crown of transformation comes in time to weave
A gravity within the press of what is never really seen.
Within a name resides a hidden thread that only seems
The confirmation both of life and being—in bas relief
Or so The Buddha warned—that holds a lethal trust. Between the name
And its receipt abide the seeds of pernicious doubt and protestation,
Manifest but without form, no timely attestation,
More an emanation than anything in revelation. In every atom reigns
The distance and sweet velocities of change. The many tools
Of blind belief in Adam's gift seek rest somewhere within reach of fools
Embracing blasphemy in luminous dichotomies, dilemma's
Punctuation marks' delusions born of natural sedition. Litanies–
The beads of faith and understanding–are crystals of epiphany
Drawn from rich deposits deep within the endgames of enigma
And paradox serving providence and the farce of perpetual plebiscites;
Their greatest honour, servitude in service
To unnatural homeostasis between justice and integrity, yearning
And the One for Whom all yearning stems to transcendental heights
Born in mortal time of He from Whom all virtues flow.
And when denial and prayer are in arrears,
When needs and resignation outweigh a sum of means;
Words gone bankrupt erupt and deeds are stripped of fat and lean,
As hopelessness finds redemption in an average skein of years,
With all that overwhelms the truth at sunrise
In redemption in the simple phrase, "I'm still alive."


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The British Medical Association (BMA) is the professional body to which the vast majority of British doctors belong. It is based in Tavistock Square in central London. It owns the "British Medical Journal", one of the world's more prestigious medical journals.
It was established by the amalgamation of several regional medical associations, of which the original was probably the one from Worcester, and dates from around 1860.
It has a complex representational structure which allows doctors to be represented both by the geographical area in which they work, and by the various craft committees. The craft committees comprise (in alphabetical order):
- Central Consultants and Specialists Committee
- General Practice Committee
- Junior Doctors Committee
- Medical Academic Staff Committee
- Medical Ethics Committee
- Medical Students Committee
- Public Health Medicine and Community Health Committees.
- Staff and Associate Specialists Committee
The BMA has sole negotiating rights for national Terms and Conditions of Service for doctors working in the National Health Service (NHS).
The BMA also carries out professional activities including supporting public health initiatives such as a ban on smoking in public places, responding on behalf of doctors to consultations by national public bodies and the Government, and promoting the views and reputation of doctors in different arenas.
The BMA holds an Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) where delegates from throughout the country and across craft disciplines meet to set BMA policy for the forthcoming year. The last ARM was held in Belfast in June 2006 and the next will take place in Torquay in the summer of 2007.
The BMA Council is the highest political body within the BMA and nominally runs the organisation's policy wing in accordance with ARM decisions (although each craft committee retains significant independent authority). The Council is elected directly by BMA members under rules designed to guarantee representation to each differing craft area. At each ARM the members of council elect a chairman and vice-chairman.
The current chairman of council (subsequently referred to as "The Chairman of the BMA") is Dr James Johnson, a consultant surgeon in vascular and general surgery in Cheshire. The vice chairman is Dr Sam Everington a GP from London. Both were re-elected for a further one year term in 2006. However, while Dr Everington was elected unopposed, Dr Johnson faced a challenge from Dr George Rae, a GP from Newcastle and Dr Sati Ariyanayagam, a consultant and freelance GP from the London area. Dr Johnson won the contest by 20 – 13 – 1.
The BMA is not responsible for registering doctors for practice in the United Kingdom; this role is carried out by the General Medical Council. Membership of the BMA is voluntary.
The Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) is another professional body in the UK specifically designed for senior hospital doctors.
On the 7th of July 2005, one of the bombings on the London Transport system was on a Bus in Tavistock Square in central London, very close to the headquarters of the BMA. Doctors from within the building were some of the first to provide emergency medical assistance to those involved.
Medical Students Committee (MSC)
This is one of the major craft committees of the British Medical Assoication. It is responsible for the dissemination of the views of medical students throughout the UK. It has representatives from every medical school and meets up (usually in London) four times a year to discuss the major issues affecting medical students at that time.
Each medical school has two centrally elected representatives - the Medical Student Committee Representative and the Intra-School Committee representative. The former works on national policy issues, and the latter works locally, at grassroot, to ind out what the key issues are for medical students.
Some of the more recent issues tackled have been
- Bullying in medical schools
- Dyslexia guidance
- Financial concerns for medical students (Top Up Fees Campaign)
- Medical Applications for junior house officer jobs
- Social equality and increasing participation in medical school
- Changing medical education
- Fitness to Practice issues
Some of the key documents they have produced are
- Medicine in the 21st Century
- Insiders Guide to Medical Schools
- Medical School Charter
- How to deal with bullying
The committee also elects Chairs and Deputy Chairs each year. The recent leaders of this committee have been:
- 2006 / 2007 - Emily Rigby (Bristol University)
- 2005 / 2006 - Kirsty Lloyd (Leicester University)
- 2003 / 2005 - Leigh Bissett (University of East Anglia)
- 2001 / 2003 - Jennie Ceichan (University of Edinburgh)
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This Fourth of July, some environmentalists are ditching the traditional red, white and blue patriotic fireworks display in favor of a greener option. The environmental pollution caused by fireworks has been a concern for several years, but the smoke in the air is even more potent this year in La Jolla, CA. An environmentalist group is suing the city in an effort to stop the fireworks display, which is of particular concern because it takes place near one of the most biologically important marine areas in California. The court hearing was set to take place today.
Fireworks contain toxic heavy metals that are linked, not only to air and water pollution, but also to cancer and respiratory problems. And this does not just affect the La Jolla community. Many people around the country will celebrate with fireworks this Independence Day, despite the potential harm to personal and environmental health.
If reading this doesn't make you want to do away with the fireworks altogether, perhaps you should look into other, more eco-friendly options. This list of creative ways to celebrate the Fourth of July bypasses the typical fireworks display in favor of more educational ways to mark the day's importance, like visiting a local cemetery in honor of war veterans or throwing a patriotic-themed potluck party. If you must insist on lighting some fireworks, consider the nitrogen-rich variety, which produce less toxic fumes and smoke..


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VANCOUVER — About once a week, fifteen-year-old Julia walks the two blocks from her Vancouver high school to Hot Shots Sun Studio for a dose of UV rays.
"I enjoy it," says the teen.
For Julia , it's a simple pleasure. She likes the warm glow it gives her skin and the way it makes her feel.
Julia says her mother, a medical doctor, first took her for an indoor tan at the age of 14 before a family spring break vacation to Hawaii.
"In that case, it was about preparing to go away, getting a base tan," says Julia.
A base tan is a gradual buildup of colour many vacationers believe protects the skin from sunburn brought on by sudden, long hours of exposure to tropical rays.
Julia returned to the salon after her holiday to "maintain" and a year later is a regular user.
It's not heroin, or alcohol she is using, but if health authorities have their way, British Columbia will soon introduce legislation making it illegal for Julia and other teens to indulge.
It may be a pale prom this year.
Steve Gilroy, executive director of the Joint Canadian Tanning Association and owner of a Kelowna, B.C., tanning salon, says teens make up less than five per cent of the province's tanning salon users, but prom and spring break bring an annual bump in business.
B.C. Health Minister Michael de Jong is studying a report from the Indoor Tanning Working Group, which heard from health and industry stakeholders last fall, before making recommendations on new regulations.
The report was commissioned by the province after the Union of B.C. Municipalities passed a resolution at the end of September calling for regulation of tanning beds.
It is Health Canada's position that there is "no safe way to tan." Tanning beds give off concentrated doses of UVA — as much as five times the strength of the sun at midday and studies show a significant dose-response correlation between tanning bed exposure in youth and skin cancers.
The BC Cancer Agency and the Canadian Pediatric Association, the Canadian Medical Association and the Canadian Dermatology Association all support a legislated ban on teens using artificial tanning beds.
"To be blunt, there is no safe level of exposure to UV rays," says Dr. David McLean, head of cancer prevention at the BC Cancer Agency and a professor in the department of dermatology at the University of British Columbia.
The age at which skin is exposed, whether in a tanning bed or outdoors, is a factor in later development of skin cancers, says McLean.
"It takes time to develop cancer and it is the cumulative amount of ultraviolet light that is the major factor. The higher the dose early on, the greater the risk of developing cancer later."
Public health advocate and melanoma survivor, Linda Jeaurond, 51, says her two daughters used tanning beds as teens: They argued that their friends were doing it, they needed the protective base tan and, hey, there was no law against it.
"I could reinforce with them that smoking and drinking was bad because it's illegal. They said 'Mom, tanning is legal, it can't be that bad.' "
Besides, tanned girls look better.
Jeaurond got it: she too had tried to colour-match her peers as a teen.
During Jeaurond's childhood in Northern Ireland, she felt no pressure to tan. Wintry pale skin is typical of the Irish, and Jeaurond never gave her milky colouring a second thought.
She was a teenager when her family immigrated to Canada.
Jeaurond landed in a new world, and a peer group with its own peculiar conventions, values and behaviours. She was teased. "When I got here I learned that I had skin like raw chicken," she says.
Jeaurond tried to tan because she wanted to fit in. "Desperate" to look like her peers, she took Keratin pills that turned her palms and knees bright orange, and tried lying out in the sun, but her skin would only burn or freckle.
It was unsafe sun behaviour, and her physicians have cited those teen attempts at tanning as the source of the melanoma that appeared on her arm five years ago.
She was lucky to catch the small mole early (it "jabbed" and "itched," but showed none of the visual irregularities associated with melanoma). Her daughters both stopped using tanning beds after their mother's diagnosis.
Jeaurond's quest for burnished beauty reflects a 20th century esthetic that equates tanned skin with health, vigour and attractiveness. Women in the 19th century went to great lengths to shield their complexions from the sun: parasols, gloves, wide-brimmed hats offered protection.
Translucent skin was associated with the aristocracy — freckled or swarthy skin reflected a working-class status.
This esthetic was commonly reflected in art — Botocelli's Venus is white as marble, although the common skin tone in Italy is olive; and Jesus was typically depicted as white-skinned in European art. In Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara visits Rhett Butler in jail to try to seduce him into giving her $300 she desperately needs to pay taxes on her plantation, Tara.
She almost has him fooled that all is well and that Tara has returned to its prewar glory — until he raises her hand to kiss it, sees the freckles, and drops it in horror.
"You've been working with those hands," Butler says.
In the 20th century, as work migrated indoors, the trend began to reverse. Coco Chanel is credited as starting the bronzed fad after returning with a tan from a trip to the French Riviera in the 1920s.
When Danish physician Niels Finsen discovered phototherapy in the late 1800s, sunlight gained a reputation as a tonic.
Phototherapy used exposure to daylight or specific wavelengths of light to treat psoriasis, acne and alopecia and rickets, a disease caused by vitamin D deficiency.
Attitudes continued to evolve as vacationing, sunbathing and outdoor activities like golf and cycling came to represent leisure, affluence and good health.
As early as 1907, French dermatologists were connecting the dots between skin cancers among outdoor workers and sun exposure, and by 1930 UV radiation was recognized as a carcinogen by the U.S. government.
Even as evidence of the harmful effects of exposure to UV rays became clear, sun tanning's positive associations with relaxation, wealth and leisure have been difficult to change.
A 1987 study of California sunbathers showed that tanners were less concerned with health than the appearance of health.
Some tanning bed users, like 21-year-old Amber Harkousha, a salon associate at Hot Shots, are willing to trade options on their future health for the benefits a warm tanning bed provides today.
Harkousha was diagnosed with polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis when she was a young child.
The disease causes crippling joint inflammation and pain. "At the age of 15 I couldn't walk, brush my hair or teeth," she says. Heat pads have always helped ease the pain.
Like Julia, Harkousha started using tanning salons in her early teens.
She now tans at least once a week, for 15 minutes.
Harkousha says the warmth provides her with comfort that is both physical and emotional.
"I don't worry about skin cancer," she says. "For me, living every day of my life now without pain from my arthritis is more important than to worry about the future."
Tracy Marchischuk, founder of Hot Shots, has certification from Smart Tan Canada — a voluntary professional association — and says she supports industry regulation.
Although she would prefer to have parental consent legislation rather than an all-out ban on teen tanning, she says a ban will not have a significant effect on her business.
"Less than five per cent of my clientele is in their teens," she says. Of those, most come with their mothers, who are also clients.
"Our policy here is to advocate parental involvement. If I don't know their moms, there is a dialogue. I have turned clients away."
What happens then is a concern, says Marchischuk, who believes that safe tanning is possible in a controlled environment, but not necessarily in an uncontrolled environment, whether it's the beach or an improperly managed tanning bed.
"I know if I turn a teen away from here for whatever reason, people are going to go somewhere else, up the street to that fly-by-night booth."
Marchischuk uses Fitzpatrick skin typing, a classification scale, to evaluate a clients' skin. She will not take a Type 1 that is genetically predisposed to burning as a client. (To evaluate your own skin, go to www.dermatology.ca).
In 2009, in Britain, a fair-skinned 14-year-old named Kirsty McRae spent 19 minutes in a coin-operated tanning bed and suffered first-degree burns on over 70 per cent of her body.
Following her high-profile case and the World Health Organization's 2009 designation of tanning beds as a Class 1 carcinogen (like smoking or asbestos) Britain brought in legislation banning minors from using them.
In Canada, Nova Scotia has already banned teen tanning and a bylaw banning the practice goes into effect in several municipalities around Victoria this spring. New Brunswick has voluntary measures in place to limit teen tanning.
The BC Cancer Agency's McLean is advocating for an all-out ban on teen tanning — and no argument about proms, personal image, base tans or managed tanning will sway him.
"A base tan gives you the protection of about the same as a Number 4 sunscreen," says McLean, "but it also damages your skin."
McLean says he sees girls as young as 13 in his office that tan indoors, primarily because of peer pressure. He also advocates using a minimum of Number 60 sunscreen, and applying it in triple layers. "People generally apply too little."
Kylie Nabata, a 17-year-old Grade 12 student at North Vancouver's Handsworth secondary school is working to raise awareness and promote a tan-free grad.
Handsworth is competing with other schools across British Columbia to get as many students as possible to pledge to go tan-free for grad.
"It's not a bad thing to want to look nice," says Nabata. "A lot of kids see celebrities and models with gorgeous golden skin and think that's what looks nice."
Pale skin has made at least one high-profile appearance on the red carpet: Angelina Jolie's leg poking out of her black Valentino gown was ghostly, and was admired enough to get its own Twitter handle.
Nabata said Handsworth has tan-free grad volunteers from every part of the student body of different ethnicities, and looks, trying to get the message out that it's also nice to look natural.
Steve Gilroy of the Joint Canadian Tanning Association, says he believes the proposed ban goes too far, but that regulations like warning signs, proper certification of tanning bed operators and parental consent are appropriate.
As for teen tanner Julia, she says she doesn't feel "educated enough on the issues to comment" on whether tanning in a UV bed is safe. But as with most teenagers, the threat of future problems pales in comparison to the pleasure of the present moment.
Unless there is a ban in place, she plans to keep tanning.


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The Chicken Rice Shop is a chain of Halal restaurants that has outlets all over Malaysia today. It's a quick service restaurant that popularized traditional Hainanese chicken rice years ago. Today, they serve steamed, roasted, honey barbequed or braised chicken as part of their signature dishes. In addition to chicken rice, they also serve an array of vegetable dishes, noodles, fish balls, beef stew and much more. There are even a variety of set meals to choose from!
The Chicken Rice Shop outlets are all very standardized—it'll be hard to miss them, with their iconic red and yellow signage as well as walls indoors. There are comfortable regular dining tables as well as booth seats in the restaurants. The Jusco AU2 outlet is big and spacious, with a comfortable little outside section as well.
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Looking to pump out some optic blasts for less than a Ulysses S. Grant? Cosplay craftsman Peter Sorensen has written this tutorial for creating replicas of Scott Summers' famous eyewear.
According to Sorensen, "I wanted something that could light up at the push of a switch but would still allow me to see (as these would be mostly used at parties or in the occasional video)." So while these shades won't fire concussive beams, you can wear them without crashing into stuff. Immunity to plasma blasts is not guaranteed. Read more at Lounge Geeks.