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EDINBURGH, Scotland, December 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
41% increase to South of France and 30% increase in one-way searches to Turkey ahead of 21st December 2012*
Believers in the supernatural are flocking to two small villages - Bugarach in the South of France and Şirince in Turkey - as the end of the Mayan Calendar nears, reveals leading travel search site Skyscanner.
Dedicated followers believe the end of the world is nigh as the Mayan Calendar comes to an end on 21st December 2012, with some expecting the remote farming village of Bugarach to offer an escape. The plan: to catch a connecting flight of an altogether different kind, where in-flight re-runs of the film Alien are replaced with a much more realistic encounter.
Incredibly, searches for flights to the south of France are up 41% in the week before 21st December compared. And, with a 42% increase in searches from the UK alone, that's a good few British believers!
But France is not the only place to see a surge in visitors. Şirince, a village in the Turkish Izmir Province, is seeing one-way flight searches up 30%.
However, clearly not everyone believes that the end really is nigh. Across Europe, 22nd December looks set to be the busiest getaway day of the entire year, with Skyscanner seeing its highest volume of searches as families head home or get away for a break at Christmas.
Skyscanner's Victoria Bailie commented: "We were surprised to see how big an increase there has been in searches for flights to the South of France and to Izmir in Turkey leading up to the 21st December: the date of the Mayan Prophecy. Although the fact that we've seen the highest number of flight searches all year for flights on the following day suggests that not everyone is convinced the end of the world really is nigh."
For true Mayan Prophecy believers, one-way tickets to Perpignan, an hour's drive from Bugarach, in the week leading up to 21st December currently start at £483, leaving from Manchester. Alternatively, one-way flights to Izmir, an hour's drive away from Şirince, currently cost £283 from London Stansted.**
*Searches for 14-20th December compared with 7th-13th December
**Flight price correct as at 5th December, searched on Skyscanner travelling with Air France and Pegasus.
About Skyscanner
Skyscanner is a leading global travel search site providing instant online comparisons for millions of flights, from flights to Thailand to flights to USA as well as car hire and hotels. Founded in 2003 by three IT professionals, Gareth Williams, Barry Smith and Bonamy Grimes, Skyscanner is the no.1 travel search website in Europe and no.3 worldwide, receiving 30 million visits per month. The site is available in 30 languages and its suite of free mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry have been downloaded over 11 million times. The company employs close to 200 staff and has its global headquarters in Edinburgh, UK with Asia Pacific hub offices in Singapore and Beijing and future expansion planned to capatalise on huge global growth.
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5 day vacationPosted Nov 15, 2014
We stayed there for for 5 amazing and relaxing days. Our second day there they had a turtle release!!! We stayed in one of the one bedroom suites. Gorgeous, clean room with an amazing view. The staff was very helpful and kind. Our butler, Refugio, was the best!! He was very attentive to our needs and offered many times to make our stay comfortable in any way. Nestor and Diego were extremely helpful. They helped us get cabs and find great places to eat and visit downtown.
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My husband, one year-old daughter and I stayed at Sunset Plaza last week and had the best experience! From the staff to our room to the hotel pool and amenities, we could not have been happier. They truly have the most friendly and attentive staff I have ever experienced at any hotel. My highest recommendation!!! Thank you so much Sunset, Plaza and staff:) With love, Megan Michael and "Francisca"
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We had a terrific experience at sunset plaza on our honeymoon. Everyone there was always ready to help and were all incredibly accommodating. Great service, great food and drinks. Nice quiet atmosphere, mostly adults. The room service is great too for all inclusive packages, can't wait to come back someday!
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Nice. Modern. Perfect size and quiet.Posted Oct 7, 2014
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Cons: Improve workout facility with more room to do weights and more options
Staff were very friendly, they were very accommodating especially with the food preparation.
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Relaxing GetawayPosted Sep 28, 2014
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LCHF on Australia's Biggest Science Show!
Things are happening! The other day an excellent TV show aired about the benefits of LCHF-like food. This on Australia's biggest science show, Catalyst.
The show is not only about how LCHF may reduce appetite, produce weight loss without hunger or improve diabetes. It also goes into how this kind of food may help some top athletes to better performance.
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The show features professor Tim Noakes and professor Steve Phinney. Continue Reading →
The Soda Industry Suffers Historic Loss in the US
The soda industry in the U.S. suffered a historical loss the other day. For the first time, a soda tax is imposed!
Berkeley, California, became the first city to vote, with great majority, in favor of introducing a tax that will make sodas noticeably more expensive:
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This could be viewed as an insignificant event – Berkeley is a city of just 80,000 people, so who cares? But symbolically it's a big thing. Similar proposals have on some 20 occasions been voted down in different cities in the U.S., after huge economic countermeasures from the soda industry, in the form of advertising.
Just in little Berkeley, the soda industry spent around 2 million dollars on TV and other advertisements to oppose the proposal. That's almost $26 per person: during the Swedish election campaign in 2014, all the Swedish political parties combined spent $4.70 per person on advertisements. Per person, the soda industry spent five times more in Berkeley than all of the Swedish parties combined in an election year.
They must have bought up every single advertisement spot available. And yet they lost.
Now, experts think more cities in the U.S. will follow Berkeley's example. And Mexico has already introduced a soda tax.
Some people think that there should be no taxes on anything, not even tobacco. Personally I disagree, but what I think doesn't matter. What matters is that if we're ok with taxing tobacco for health reasons we should certainly tax soda too.
Could Drinking Milk Shorten Your Life?
A big new Swedish study on milk consumption has gained some attention. It suggests that people who drink a lot of milk live shorter lives on average, and perhaps in addition have an increased risk of bone fractures:
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Again, this is only based on statistics from questionnaires – i.e. an observational study. Thus it's by no means proof that milk shortens life. To know for sure, the theory has to be tested in intervention studies, which is much harder and vastly more expensive.
But the statistics from the study are still worth pondering. My conclusion is that it's wise to only drink milk regularly in larger quantities only as a child, not as an adult. Milk is very insulin stimulating, both through lactose, and through a special milk protein, which stimulates desirable growth in young children.
As an adult, it may be wiser to drink water on a regular basis and wine for festive occasions. As well as tea or coffee at your convenience.
Reducing milk consumption may also help to maintain a stable weight, by keeping insulin levels down. In particular, low-fat milk should be avoided. It could also be called white soda. Continue Reading →
"Looks Like The Medical Establishment Was Wrong About Fat"
Is natural fat bad for you? Hardly. Here's yet another fine article about the ongoing shift in scientific position regarding fat and carbohydrates:
Business Insider: Looks Like The Medical Establishment Was Wrong About Fat
The new dietary study they're referring to is this one. Continue Reading →
Carb-Loaded: the Best Low-Carb Movie Ever?
This might be the best low-carb movie ever. It's just been released and you can watch it online:
Back in August 2013 the readers of this blog (and its Swedish cousin) helped kickstart production of Carb-Loaded.
The creators, Lathe Poland and Eric Carlsen, have since done a terrific job of interviewing almost everyone in the low-carb community – like professor Tim Noakes, Gary Taubes et al (and me) – plus many other experts in food and nutrition, like Drs. David Katz, Marion Nestle and Yoni Freedhoff.
They've done loads of interviews, but that's not what's most impressive about this movie. What's most impressive is how funny it is. I've basically heard all the information covered before, but I still found myself sitting with a silly grin on my face through much of the movie.
There's some pretty impressive animation work lightening up the film too. But my favorite is the obnoxious doctor who sort of represents the conventional "wisdom" of our time. Reportedly the character was inspired by "dr Spaceman" in the TV series 30 Rock – if you've seen him you know what to expect.
Here's a sneak peek of Carb-Loaded:
Did you like that? Check out the whole movie online here:
If you'd rather order a physical DVD or Blu-Ray disc, or if you want to check out other Carb-Loaded merchandise (like T-shirts) have a look at their online store. I you'd like, you can use the coupon code "DIETDOCTOR" for a 25% discount.
What do you think about the movie?
Note: I have no financial interests in the video streaming or the merchandise above.
Major Fitness Company: Eat Butter, It's Good for You!
Eat butter! That's what Les Mill, one of the world's largest fitness companies, now recommends. They are behind fitness programs like BodyPump – and many others – that you'll probably find at your gym.
Les Mills: A lot better with butter
According to Les Mills, there are no scientific reasons to fear butter, this flawed idea has been a mistake from the very beginning.
Perhaps Les Mills doesn't reach as many as, for example, the cover of Time Magazine. But it's another sign that more and more people – even in the fitness world – are leaving the outdated fear of fat behind.
Do You Want to Watch the Excellent Obesity Documentary FED UP?
This spring I wrote about this exciting documentary, FED UP. Just from watching the trailer it was clear that this would be something extra. A documentary about the obesity epidemic, of highest quality, that doesn't just put the blame on a lack of calorie counting and willpower in sick people (something that's just sickening).
The documentary screened in theaters in the US during the summer and received consistently excellent reviews. It hasn't shown in Sweden, but a couple of days ago it was released on DVD and finally I had a chance to watch it.
The movie is excellent and goes further than other previous major productions. It completely dismisses the sugar industry's favorite idea that obesity just depends on calories. Instead, the blame is clearly put on the real culprit: sugar and addictive junk food.
Here's the movie's strengths… and its fatal weakness: Continue Reading →
Why Are We Fat? The Multimillion-Dollar Scientific Quest to Find Out
Why are more and more people fat? The conventional view that it's all about calories (eat less, run more) remains unproven and it doesn't work very well.
Gary Taubes and Peter Attia are on a quest for the answer to the question. Is it only about calories or is it just as much about the quality of the calories? Is it about carbohydrates and their hormonal effects?
The sad truth is that we don't know with certainty yet. At least not with enough certainty, so that all of those who are able to rethink, would be willing to accept the evidence. To really find the answer will be expensive, very expensive. This requires bigger and more carefully done studies than what have been done so far.
Fortunately, Taube's and Attia's non-profit organization NuSI has already acquired $40 million in donations and is trying to get an extra $190 million to finance the studies needed. Three big studies are already going on.
Read this excellent article about the quest for answers:
WIRED: Why Are We So Fat? The Multimillion-Dollar Scientific Quest to Find Out
Robert Lustig: The Man Who Believes Sugar is Poison
Here's a great new article about professor Robert Lustig's continued battle against sugar:
TheGuardian: Robert Lustig: the man who believes sugar is poison
And here's my video interview with Lustig from a few years ago on YouTube. Continue Reading →
Did Pfizer Conceal That Statins Can Cause Diabetes?
Cholesterol-lowering drugs, so called statins, may cause diabetes. This is nowadays well-known and is listed among side effects you're at risk for. But did pharmaceutical companies know this long before and try to keep it secret for as long as possible?
Thousands of people who have taken the drug and gotten diabetes have now sued Pfizer for keeping this a secret:
Reuters.com: Pfizer confronts surge of lawsuits over Lipitor
It will be interesting to see the result of the upcoming review, as Pfizer previously has had to pay record-high fraud fines for putting greed before patient safety.
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Population statistics of the migratory hilsa shad, Tenualosa ilisha, in Sindh, Pakistan
Article first published online: 24 DEC 2012
DOI: 10.1111/jai.12134
© 2012 Blackwell Verlag GmbH
Journal of Applied Ichthyology
Volume 29, Issue 5, pages 1091–1096, October 2013
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Panhwar, S. K. and Liu, Q. (2013), Population statistics of the migratory hilsa shad, Tenualosa ilisha, in Sindh, Pakistan. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 29: 1091–1096. doi: 10.1111/jai.12134
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Best 2006 chowhound tips while traveling
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I value this site especially while traveling and can get good food tips from local hounds. This year my travel was down, but two places that stood out were Smokejacks in Burlington VT, Embassy Samosa King and B&B Roti and the Blue City Hall chip truck in Toronto. Smokejacks is good quality new American using local ingredients with outdoor seating that allowed us to eat with our dog. Embassy Samosa King is a terrific suburban samosa place with samosas at 5 for a dollar! B&B Roti had excellent goat roti Guyanese style. The Chip truck has a superior french fries with gravy and chees curd (Poutine). All delicious and outstanding and thanks to dear chowhounds. Are there any tips this year that you've been thankful for?
Happy new year to all and blessed eating in 2007.
This website is always used as a resource when planning a vacation or even a business trip. My wife and I now really enjoy discovering new to us local places and cuisines we can't get here at home. We actually plan our days out to include dining at specific places, it becomes part of the vacation plans. Much more fun for us than randomly picking a new restaurant in a new city and hoping for the best.
I also love using Chouwhound when on a business trip. Having a new and excitin place to eat at the end of a long drive makes the trip much less painful.
I discovered this website when I was put in charge of finding our dinner restaurants for our trip to New York with my husband's parents in November. All three recommendations were stellar and it increased our enjoyment of Manhattan tremendously.
From Chowhound, I discovered Lao Lan Xang, a fantastic Laoation restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin. Not only did I have a great meal there last Sat. night, I learned that their 2nd location was actually opened for dinner on Christmas Eve...possibly the ONLY place in town, as far as I could tell, including the bars.
Otherwise, I think my MIL would have let us have some of the leftover wreath-shaped sub sandwich from the supermarket.
We got many good tips for London dining in October. The only bad meal was our own fault and we had been warned that they only did basics and not well. It was a case of being really tired and not wanting to exert much effort.
Local Dallas Chowhounds made a recent trip to Texas memorable. Chowhound is also great for discovering local places--especially those off the beaten path. When in Dallas, go to Sammy's for BBQ and Manny's for Tex-Mex. Both terrific.
We had the best pizza I've had in ages (my own homemade included) at Amelio's in Montreal, and I will soon try the blue chip truck in Toronto!
Citizen Cupcake in San Francisco, the Marshall Store and Club Mallard in Albany are a few of the great tips we got for San Francisco. Looking forward to trying some of the Palm Springs tips next week.
Also, House without a Key and Ted's Bakery on Oahu.
Chowhounds rock!
This was a year of long distance meal planning events for me and I truly don't know how I would have succeeded as well as I did, without the help of my fellow chowhounds.
From my laptop here in LA, I planned a post funeral lunch for 20 in Colt's Neck, NJ (ICavallini) where we were handled with tender loving care and beautiful food, a high school graduation dinner for 10 in Boston (Hammersly's Bistro-YAHOO!), a last minute 'impress the potential client' lunch for 8 in Chicago (Gibson's) as well as many, many good eats ideas from the Home Cooking board. I must add, that all events were crowd pleasers.
I feel the beauty of this site lies in its sense of community.
re: Dennis S
Aw, Dennis, thanks for the kind words. I actually got the crabcake tip from Marty L, so I can't take credit for that one. But that's what makes Chowhound great, these tips get passed around and shared for all to enjoy.
Happy Holidays!
You know, for a city as large as Los Angeles, even though it's still my "local" food board, I still have to travel over an hour sometimes to get to some of the destinations. I certainly would be lost in my neighborhood rut without it.
My tip: Use the search field. ;)
Yes, there've been many! I travel to ca. 3 conferences a year, and my favorite extracurricular activity is hunting down the good chow. Since I'm vegetarian, my hunting is a little more 'particular' than it would be for most. Got some great recommendations for a summer conference in NOLA and also some good tips for a fall conference in Anchorage (Moose's Tooth = wonderful pizza!).
It's also been instrumental locally, especially since I'm a recent transplant to the region. Finally, at long last, found a good Chinese restaurant here in Wilmington (Shanghai) that I never would have learned about otherwise, which has vastly improved the quality of my chow-ish life. Also for keeping up with the Philly scene -- I don't get to splurge for dining there much, but when I do, it's good to know a bit about what I'm up to beforehand.
My sincere gratitude and thanks go out to chowhound every time I eat a wonderful dumpling at Moon Palace in Chicago. I am now also the "go to" girl at work whenever someone is going somewhere--they always swear that I somehow know the great place wherever they may be going! Thanks chowhound.


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Become a subnetting Judi..
While setting up Office 365 I ran into an issue with the Active Directory Synchronization tool, at the configuration stage I was presented with the error "Set-CoexistenceConfiguration was unable to modify the source properties. See the event logs for more detailed information"
When looking in the Application event log there was a few messages about a MSQL "could not be found in the forest"
Two folders on a file server I administer had been created with a space at the end of the folder name.
If I tried to delete these folders I got the message "Could not find the item"
If I tried to view the security I got the message "The requested security information is either unavailable or can't be displayed"
From time to time the need arises to change a Windows product key, the below uses slmgr.vbs to change the Windows product key and activates Windows;
- Open an Administrative Command Prompt
- Enter the command slmgr.vbs /ipk <product key>
- Enter the command slmgr.vbs /ato
If you have a need to find the user accounts present on a linux computer via te shell the below command should help;
cat /etc/passwd | grep "/home" | cut -d: -f1
cat /etc/passwd | grep "/home" | cut -d: -f1
This will list all users on the computer that have a home directory, you could also run cat /etc/passwd to get more inforation and all kinds of system accounts
To find the version of SUSE or openSUSE and the service pack / patch level installed via the shell run the command;
cat /etc/SuSE-release
cat /etc/SuSE-release
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
Clients were unable to download updates from our internal WSUS server, the download failed with error 80244019 however the same clients could download the updates fine directly from Microsoft.
Recently I had a need for a tool that would easily allow me or our Service Desk to monitor the health of our XenApp farm, there are obviously commercial products for this but I just needed something simple and free so I created this PowerShell script.
I have been running this on XenApp 6.5.
The script shows,
- The total number of users logged onto the farm.
As part of a recent Microsoft SQL Server migration project I had a need to disabled and enable all of the Agent Jobs as various points, the below scripts did the job. This scripts have been tested on SQL 2005 to 2012
Disable All Jobs
UPDATE MSDB.dbo.sysjobs
SET Enabled = 0
WHERE Enabled = 1;
Enable All Jobs
UPDATE MSDB.dbo.sysjobs
SET Enabled = 1
WHERE Enabled = 0;
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2006 Lexus LS 430 Price Analysis
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Turning students into socially conscious entrepreneurs
As I've pointed out before, entrepreneurship is all the rage at Canada's universities. Barely a week goes by without a new announcement. This week, for example, York University announced the start of its LaunchYU campus-wide entrepreneurship program.
An announcement from last week, however, was of a somewhat different nature. On Nov. 6, the highly regarded J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, based in Montreal, launched a new $10-million initiative named RECODE. It too aims to encourage students to become entrepreneurs and innovators, but in this instance the focus is squarely on the social realm.
As the McConnell Foundation describes it, RECODE "is a call to social innovation – to redesign public institutions from the inside out; to disrupt business as usual; to found and grow new social enterprises; to create partnerships across institutional and sectoral boundaries – in short, to 'recode' our culture's operating systems in order to achieve a more just, sustainable and beautiful world."
RECODE is a collaborative effort of the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, with a strong campus component. Among its goals is to "provide opportunities for students to learn about (and experiment with) social innovation and entrepreneurship through experiential, cross-curricular and multi-disciplinary learning on campus, MOOCs and other online learning platforms, student clubs, conferences and competitions, exchanges and events."
Eighteen universities and colleges received funds in RECODE's first round. The universities are: University of Victoria, Royal Roads University, Memorial University, University of Guelph, École de technologie supérieure, OCAD University, Mount Royal University, Simon Fraser University, Ryerson University, University of British Columbia, University of New Brunswick, Wilfrid Laurier University and Concordia University.
UBC prepared its own press release for the announcement, noting that the university "is set to become a leading hub for social entrepreneurship and innovation focused on solving the world's toughest challenges." As part of this initiative, the university plans to develop a five-week "social venture boot-camp" as well as a "UBC Impact Seed Fund" to invest in the promising social ventures originating at UBC.
The university also, helpfully, provided a definition of "social enterprises":
They can take a variety of structures, including non-profits, for-profits, co-ops, partnerships and more. Like other businesses, social enterprises aim to be economically self-sustainable. They earn enough money to pay employees a fair wage, cover all of their expenses, and support the business' growth. But unlike other businesses, social enterprises have incorporated improving social, cultural, community or environmental outcomes into their business model. As their enterprises grow – so too do the benefits to society.
I first became aware of the McConnell Foundation through its support of community-service learning, or CSL, a model of experiential learning that combines classroom learning with volunteer work designed to achieve community goals and to instill in students a sense of civic engagement. As Margo Fryer (formerly of UBC) recounts in 2012, CSL "began emerging as a force in Canada about 10 years ago" when the McConnell Foundation awarded funds to 10 universities to build CSL programs. Because of that funding and its spin-off effects, there are now more than 30 colleges and universities in Canada with CSL programs.
Universities open their doors
Carleton University played host last Friday to the launch of this year's Open Doors, Open Knowledge series of events, which runs through much of November. Organized by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, the Open Doors initiative provides an opportunity for universities across Canada to throw open their doors "and shine a spotlight on the extraordinary things happening on campuses every day," said AUCC president Paul Davidson at the Carleton event.
Last year's Open Doors events focused on campuses' community engagement, while this year's events showcase universities' partnerships with the private sector, particularly small- and medium-sized businesses. Entrepreneurship is also in the spotlight this year, a point highlighted by Carleton president Roseann O'Reilly Runte at the launch event. She mentioned such initiatives as the 1125@Carleton "living laboratory" that connects university researchers with the community, both locally and globally, and the Carleton Entrepreneurs venture accelerator. Dr. Runte also noted that Carleton has launched more than 185 start-ups since 2010. Student entrepreneurship, in particular, is a rapidly growing trend at many universities.
This year, more than 40 universities are organizing events, including panel discussions, student showcases and innovation open houses for the public between Nov. 8 and Nov. 16.
This is the fourth year for Open Doors, Open Knowledge. The initiative has an interesting genesis: the first such event, in 2011, was held to celebrate the accomplishments of the Knowledge Infrastructure Program, or KIP. Announced by the federal government early in 2009 as part of its Economic Action Plan, KIP was intended to create jobs during the economic slowdown by upgrading university and college facilities and helping institutions to tackle long lists of deferred maintenance. Carleton's River Building, now a campus showcase and where this year's launch event took place, is a product of KIP funding. In total, Industry Canada approved $1.28 billion in KIP funding for projects at Canadian universities.
The Knowledge Infrastructure Program itself has an intriguing history. The groundwork can be traced back to a report released in 2000 by the Canadian Association of University Business Officers, entitled Point of No Return (PDF). That document highlighted the urgent need for major reinvestment in the physical plant and infrastructure of Canada's universities, and estimated that the amount of accumulated deferred maintenance on campuses totalled at least $3.6 billion at the time. The report formed the basis for advocacy efforts around the need for university infrastructure investment by all levels of government, and so when the federal government went looking for shovel-ready projects for its Economic Action Plan, AUCC was able to quickly respond with a long list from its member institutions. Universities are still reaping the benefits from those investments today.
A plan to double the number of Canadians winning international awards
The Nobel Prize awards season has just ended and Canada was shut out – although a McGill University graduate, U.S.-born researcher John O'Keefe, was named a co-winner in the physiology and medicine category. There was some speculation that Canadian Stephen Scherer might win in that category, but it was not to be – this time, at least.
Behind the scenes, a small group of university and research leaders is trying to improve Canada's international awards performance. University of Alberta President Indira Samarasekera made a passing reference to the initiative in a Globe and Mail opinion piece in early September, but other than that most Canadians are likely unaware of the effort.
As context, Dr. Samarasekera pointed out that it's been 20 years since a scientist working in Canada has been awarded a Nobel Prize in science (Bertram Brockhouse received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1994, Michael Smith in chemistry in 1993, and John Polanyi in chemistry in 1986). With this in mind, the heads of Canada's three main research funding agencies, as well as the Royal Society of Canada, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and other interested groups, have come together to ensure that, in their words, Canada's "extraordinary research record" receives the international attention it deserves. This concerted effort is being spearheaded by Governor General David Johnston and Howard Alper, chair of the Science, Technology and Innovation Council.
Drs. Johnston and Alper, in an article in the Globe and Mail in February 2013, said the aim is "to nominate more of our leading scholars and scientists for major awards and prizes, while renewing our approach to sharing and celebrating their findings." Their ambitious goal: to double the number of Canadian winners of international research awards by 2017.
In a recent interview, Dr. Alper explained to me how the initiative came about. The Governor General meets at least on an annual basis with STIC, and on his first meeting with the council a few years ago Dr. Johnston brought up the State of the Nation report published by STIC. The report noted that when it comes to the world's most distinguished awards – the Nobel Prize, the Wolf Prize and the Fields Medal, for example – Canada is being outperformed not just by the research powerhouses of the U.S., the U.K., France and Germany, but also by our more comparable peer, Australia (in the period from 1941 to 2008, Canadians received 19 of the top international awards in science, compared to 42 for Australia).
This led to "a thorough discussion of the issue" and the suggestion that this was something that the Governor General could take on, said Dr. Alper. "It's not political and it can add enormous value to pride and morale in the country. That was essentially the message." The committee was thus formed, with the Governor General as chair, under the name of the Enhancing Global Recognition for Canadian Research Excellence initiative.
The committee has developed an inventory of international research awards and how each prize committee works. For Nobel Prizes, for example, there are no "open" nominations – only those contacted by the Nobel committee can make nominations.* For some prizes, only former winners can nominate candidates. However, most other international awards/prizes are open to nominations from any source.
The committee also offers to support partner organizations in building "compelling dossiers" on candidates by providing external reviews of draft nominations to "position them for maximum success," said Dr. Alper. The secretariat "will take a look at them, critique them, beef them up and then think about how to network them through the various international forums."
The group has another component: a separate committee whose basic role is to act as talent scout to identify individuals who should be considered by the different stakeholders to nominate for prizes and awards. This canvassing committee is chaired by Dr. Alper. As part of this, Dr. Alper has been visiting university campuses to meet with executive heads to promote the initiative. "Without the university presidents taking leadership, making it a priority, this won't happen. They are pivotal in enhancing our success, and the success of their institution and their researchers."
The initiative started slowly, but is now ramping up. Noting that this will be a multi-year campaign, Dr. Alper said: "You don't go from being a star postdoc to being a Nobel Prize winner, but there is a path. This is about being really intentional over a long period of time to put Canadian candidates in places where they will be recognized for their phenomenal achievement." The first noteworthy successes, he said, came earlier this year when Nahum Sonenberg at McGill received the Wolf Prize in medicine, and a month ago with Ian Hacking at the University of Toronto taking the Balzan Prize in philosophy.
There was one other notable Canadian achievement but, alas, the committee couldn't take credit for it. It is a great story and one that Dr. Alper clearly enjoys telling.
At the committee's first meeting, the group discussed where to start and "we decided to start at the top with the Nobel Prize, and immediately Alice Munro's name came up," said Dr. Alper, who was asked by the committee to contact Ms. Munro to inquire whether anybody had nominated her. "So, I called her. I'd never met her, so I said, 'I'm sure you want to know why I'm calling. Let me spend five minutes to explain.' I explained our mission and objective, and she said, 'Nope, I have not been nominated for the Nobel Prize to my knowledge, and in fact I have never been nominated for any international award except the Man Booker Prize, which I got.'" They talked for 45 minutes, said Dr. Alper. "It was a great conversation."
Dr. Alper told Ms. Munro he was going to put together a small task force that included the president of Western University, where she had been a writer-in-residence, the dean of arts, and a professor of English literature who is a champion of her writing. "She said, 'oh, you must add my publisher!' and I did, and he was excited to take part. So we worked together and we were making great progress." This was in 2013, with the committee intending to submit the nomination by the January 2014 deadline for this year's prizes.
But then, in October 2013, lo and behold, the announcement came out that Ms. Munro had won the Nobel Prize for literature. "I wrote the group and said, 'we've been made redundant,'" said Dr. Alper, adding, "I'd love to take the credit, but it wasn't us." Dr. Alper has since learned who nominated her, but he was told this in confidence.
His final reflection on the matter: "The unexpected can happen. But you can't count on the unexpected."
*This is corrected from an earlier version, which had an error.
Advice to a daughter about staying safe on campus
This is a guest post by our regular contributor Rosanna Tamburri, co-author of our feature story, "Ending sexual violence on campus."
When University Affairs editor Peggy Berkowitz contacted me to co-write a story about campus sexual assault, I was out of town visiting a university my daughter was considering attending this fall. It was late spring, the weekend before convocation and the graduates had returned to pick up their gowns and mortarboards. Streamers were hung and there was an air of festivity.
It brought back happy memories of my own university years and I was excited for her. But, like any parent, I was apprehensive too. It was by chance that I met the head of campus security, who assured me of the school's good safety record and how few incidents of serious crime he encountered. And I didn't really doubt him but I also know that things go on behind closed doors that, for many reasons, aren't reported.
On the trip I asked my daughter if she or her friends had given any thought to campus safety or sexual assault policies when making their choices. "Not really," she said, although she told me an older friend who was already in her first year had shown her how the Blue Lamp system at that university worked. That's good, I said, but then told her most sexual assaults are committed by someone you know, not by someone lurking in the bushes, although that happens too.
I told her she should lock her residence room door at night, never leave her drink unattended and to know her limit when it comes to drinking. Then I was at a loss. I might as well have said "Just be careful" like my own mother did. And why should the onus be all on her, anyway?
Towards the end of the school year, she came home and said her high school biology teacher had spent the class talking about drinking and the meaning of consent and how one can negate the other. I feel as though I owe him a debt of gratitude and I think it's a shame that not all students could have heard what he had to say.
In researching the story on campus sexual assault, I spoke with people who were extremely committed to bringing this issue into the open and addressing it head on. But there were a few others who preferred not to answer questions or altogether ignored my requests for an interview. Meanwhile, in all the acceptance letters and welcome packages from universities that flooded our mailbox this past spring, there was little mention of what universities are doing to keep their campuses safe.
I know reputations are at risk. I know that each year universities are asked to do more to tackle mental illness, binge drinking, drug use and a host of other things that seem peripheral to their core mission. But surely this is too important to sweep under the rug or leave in the hands of student orientation committees as some institutions still inexplicably choose to do.
The one thing that puzzles me is why sexual assault has, until just recently, garnered so little attention given that women make up the majority of students at most campuses and in most disciplines. Maybe the best advice I can give my daughter is to defend her right to live and learn in a safe and respectful environment.
A new partnership between universities and colleges
There has always been a bit of friendly competition between Canada's universities and colleges. I recently read, for example, this quote from Paul Davidson, president of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (which, despite its name, represents Canada's universities and university degree-level colleges): "Over the last six years, more than twice as many net new jobs were created for university grads than for college and trades grads combined."
Not so fast! Linda A. Franklin, president and CEO of Colleges Ontario, wrote recently that many students "get the jobs that lead them to good careers after coming back to college and supplementing their university credential with a college one" (emphasis mine). Growing numbers of students and parents feel it is essential that higher education leads to career success, she said, and "that's why record numbers of students are choosing college."
This sort of jockeying for position is understandable and expected. However, the back-and-forth did get a bit heated about a year-and-a-half ago over the supposed "skills shortage" in Canada. But, I have noticed that for a while now the associations representing universities and colleges have been using more inclusive language in their pronouncements, stressing that all parts of Canada's postsecondary education sector have a role to play.
"Regardless of whether at a university, college, institute, polytechnic or cégep, there are many pathways to a great education and career," said Denise Amyot, president and CEO of Colleges and Institutes Canada, or CICan (previously known as the Association of Canadian Community Colleges). AUCC's Mr. Davidson, in the same speech to the Economic Club of Canada I quoted from above, echoed that sentiment, saying that Canada needs "all kinds of postsecondary graduates to build our economy and society – apprentices, colleges and polytechnics, and university."
There also is much interplay between the systems, a topic I explored in a blog post a couple of years back, "Where does college end and university begin?"
I bring all this up as background to an important agreement by AUCC and CICan "to deepen and enhance" their collaborative efforts in the interest of Canada's postsecondary students. According to a joint press release, this "framework for collaboration" signed in Calgary today by Ms. Amyot and Mr. Davidson "reflects the commitment of universities and colleges across the country to further enhance innovative programs and partnerships that offer Canadian students an effective continuum of choices leading to rewarding careers." The agreement also signals "new avenues for collaboration by AUCC and CICan in communications, member initiatives and policy dialogue." Together, AUCC and CICan represent 228 postsecondary institutions serving more than 2.5 million students.
The agreement seems, to me, an obvious recognition that Canada's postsecondary education sector is stronger when everybody works together. It also reflects the fact that postsecondary education doesn't happen in discrete silos and that there is already much collaboration between the different levels.
Mike Mahon, president of University of Lethbridge, and David Ross, president of SAIT Polytechnic, co-chaired a working group that laid the groundwork for today's agreement. Among other things, the framework commits the two associations to advance a set of principles among their member institutions. These include the development of more flexible pathways for students, more collaboration and a greater diversity of joint programs, increased recognition of students' prior learning, and the reduction of barriers to student mobility. The associations also commit to enhance the collection and sharing of institutional data, where appropriate, especially related to student transfers. It is a welcome initiative.
We once got along
It is easy to think that relations between the Canadian government and aboriginal peoples have always been bad, that the two sides have never gotten along. But, "the fact of the matter is that's not true. There was a time in our history when our relations were better," said Jim Miller, a professor of history and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Miller was speaking at the first Big Thinking lecture of the season on Parliament Hill last week, sponsored by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
In a foreshadow of the issues at play, University of Alberta professor Cindy Blackstock introduced Dr. Miller to the assembled guests and welcomed them to Parliament Hill, which she declared "un-ceded Algonquin land." Professor Blackstock is a board member of the federation and member of the Gitksan Nation.
In his talk, Dr. Miller posited that if we look back at when relations were better between Canada's First Nations and the early European arrivals, and more importantly when they began to deteriorate, that "can give us some clues to how we might be able to change things for the better in the future."
Dr. Miller noted that in the earliest period of this relationship, there was a great deal of cooperation between the two sides, particularly in the fur trade. What Europeans found, he said, "was that in order to prosecute the fur trade successfully, they needed the cooperation, support, labour and skills and knowledge of First Nations, who were of course very familiar with the territory."
The Natives responded to the Europeans by establishing what sociologists called fictive or ascribed kinship through rituals such as welcome ceremonies, gift exchanges, feasting and smoking the pipe. "This was the foundation of their relationship for the first century and a half after contact, not just in commerce but in diplomatic and military relations."
This relationship continued until the end of the War of 1812, but quickly fell apart after that, particularly after 1820 due to heavy immigration from Great Britain. The settlers wanted land to farm, and this began to interfere with the native way of life. "This is when things begin to go bad. This is when the First Nations are no longer perceived as a partner and an ally by the Europeans so much as an obstacle," said Dr. Miller. It is also at this time that natives became an object of "concern" by humanitarian Christian groups. This was "the leading edge of what becomes known as the policy of the bible and the plow," he continued, which goes on for roughly a century, "wreaking destruction everywhere."
These events "pave the way for the regime of tutelage, coercion and attempted assimilation. This is the beginning of the long period of our troubles." This was formalized in the Indian Act passed in 1876, in which natives were now seen as wards of the state rather than partners. Then came the final indignity of the residential schools, which led to spiritual destruction and "a great deal of emotional, physical and sexual abuse." It is a sad legacy, but one which shouldn't be unfamiliar to most Canadians.
On the positive side, Canada has recently begun "working our way out" of this legacy, said Dr. Miller. The first step came in the 1980s when some churches began to apologize for what their predecessors did in the residential schools. This was followed by a wrenching era of individual litigation by those who suffered, which eventually led to the negotiation of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, finalized in 2006 and implemented in 2007. Among other things, this agreement created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is now wrapping up its work.
One other thing that happened was the Prime Minister's apology to natives in 2008. "It was a very important step symbolically. Unfortunately it has not been followed up by meaningful action on many fields that require attention," said Dr. Miller.
Summing up, he said "we have to try to get back to an earlier, healthier type of relationship." It is not only the right thing to do, he said, but it is the practical thing to do because we do need each other again. For example, "if you're from British Columbia, and you're thinking of running a pipeline to the coast, you know that you need the cooperation of First Nations in order to carry it out." Particularly on environmental issues, "this is an area in which non-aboriginal Canadians can learn from first nations and other aboriginal Canadians, who have a relationship with the natural world."
Pressed by the audience at the Q&A session afterwards about how to proceed, Dr. Miller said one of the biggest obstacles is the distrust and suspicion that the aboriginal leadership has for the federal government. To dissipate that climate, we need to build "a succession of small achievements, small agreements which over time will begin to create confidence rather than suspicion." This requires the leadership of the federal government, he said. "We can't underestimate the difficulty of the challenge."
I must admit that my immediate reaction after the talk was: what, that's it? You have nothing more concrete to offer? But I think that's being unfair to Dr. Miller. It has taken us centuries to reach this point and there are surely no quick, easy fixes.
I did notice, however, that also last week former Prime Minister Paul Martin announced that a number of retired politicians and aboriginal leaders have joined together to form a non-profit group called Canadians for a New Partnership, aimed "at sparking a new national conversation among Canadians on aboriginal issues." Echoing the language of Dr. Miller, the new group declared that they stand united to remind Canadians of the moral and economic imperative to heal our "broken relationship" with Aboriginal peoples. It's a start.
A glance at Canada's postsecondary education standings
We're number one! According to the 2014 Education at a Glance report by the OECD, Canada has the highest percentage, among member countries, of adults aged 25-64 who have obtained a tertiary education – 53%. We've occupied that spot for some years now. The OECD average is 32%.
Some may be consoled by that number, claiming of our higher education system that we're doing darn good, thank you. On the other hand, as I've read in some online comments, others may lament: why the heck does everybody seem to have to go to university! The problem with this one statistic is that it obscures as much as it reveals.
As the OECD is quick to point out, Canada's high ranking is largely due to its high rates of college-based vocational education (what the OECD classifies as "tertiary-type B"). Canada ranks first among 34 OECD countries in the proportion of 25-64 year-olds with a college education (24%), but is tied for seventh place (with Korea and Denmark) in the proportion of adults with a university education (28%). And, looking at younger adults (aged 25 to 34) with a university degree in their pocket, Canada is tied for 17th place. So much for the canard that "everybody" seems to be going to university.
On another front, the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report for 2014-2015 ranked Canada 18th in the world in a general category of higher education and training, but 45th in terms of postsecondary enrolment rates specifically! I'd take that last statistic with more than a grain of salt. I'm not sure how they came up with that.
One other area in the OECD report where Canada is a leader is annual spending per student on tertiary education ($23,200 USD, compared to the OECD average of $14,000, placing us second of 37 countries). The report notes, meanwhile, that Canada ranks among the countries with the highest tuition fees.
In addition, the report reinforces that employment income, in all countries, increases with education. In 2011, adults in Canada with a university education earned approximately 60% more on average than adults with upper secondary education, while adults with a college education earned 13% more.
Also of passing interest, 73 percent of students with a higher education degree in Canada have a parent or parents with a higher education degree – indicating again that parental educational status is an important indicator of postsecondary education attendance.
In terms of "foundational skills," Canadian adults rank near the OECD average, while Canadian youth rank above average. As well:
- Canadian adults rank at the OECD average in literacy scores and below average in numeracy scores.
- Canadian 15-year-olds score significantly above the OECD average in mathematics, but between 2003 and 2012 their average mathematics scores deteriorated.
- The relationship between performance and socio-economic status in Canada is weaker than the average for OECD countries, indicating that the education system "is producing relatively equitable outcomes for students."
One final note: Canada's share of international students increased from 4.5% in 2000 to 4.9% in 2012. In real numbers, that works out to an additional 127,000 students for Canada compared to 2000. According to the OECD, Canada had roughly 221,000 international students attending our colleges and universities. (Note that this last number is for 2011, while most other countries are reporting data for 2012. Canada's numbers will be higher for 2012).
Canada is the sixth most popular destination country for international students, after the U.S., the U.K, Germany, France and Australia, in that order. More than 4.5 million students were enrolled in tertiary education outside their home country in 2012.
Canadian university leaders take the ice bucket challenge for ALS awareness, fundraising
This is a guest post, collated by our Digital Journalist Natalie Samson in Storify.
The ALS #IceBucketChallenge campaign has been making the social media rounds this summer. The campaign aims to raise research and treatment funds as well as general awareness around ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that leads progressive paralysation and has no known cause or cure.
The name pretty much says it all: folks who accept the challenge are expected to make a small donation to an ALS-related organization, pour a bucket of icy water over their heads, post a video of it online with a challenge to two or three other people. Those who opt out are expected to donate $100. It's caught on with celebrities, politicians, athletes and more recently with senior leaders at Canadian universities.
A few select facts for your back-to-school enjoyment
The beginning of August is too early for me to contemplate back-to-school activities – the summer goes by too quickly as it is – but it hasn't been too early for the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada to start its back-to-school messaging.
In anticipation of the return to classes in September, AUCC has put out another list of select facts about postsecondary education in Canada (you can download the full list here in PDF). The association put out a similar list last year with slightly different statistics.
New this year, citing the 2011 National Household Survey, AUCC notes that over their careers university graduates typically earn 50 percent more than other full-time workers without a university degree. As well, according to the Labour Force Survey, between May 2008 and May 2014, more than twice as many net new jobs were created for university graduates than for college and trades graduates combined (878,000 and 437,000 respectively).
In recent months AUCC has increasingly been extolling the merits of experiential learning, and on that front the association notes that more than half of all university undergraduates benefit from a co-op or internship experience before they graduate. The number of university students participating in co-op programs has grown by 25 percent in the past seven years.
On student debt, AUCC notes that reports on debt levels are often misleading. Most reports fail to mention the fact that 40 percent of university students today graduate debt-free. Of those with debt, 30 percent owe less than $12,000.
Now it's your turn: do you have a fast fact about Canadian postsecondary education you'd like to draw attention to? Use the comments function below, or tweet mentioning @Margin_Notes. Don't forget to cite your source!
Sessional instructors: what we know so far
Although the data on sessional faculty in Canada is frustratingly scant, the authors of a new report have made a valuable if tentative contribution to the debate by scouring what little information is available. Their preliminary analysis suggests that "many of the popular assumptions concerning the increasing use of part-time faculty may be incorrect." But, as with virtually all studies, they conclude with that near-universal refrain: "additional research is needed."
The report, The "Other" University Teachers: Non-Full-Time Instructors at Ontario Universities, was commissioned by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario and released on July 15. It is an Ontario-only report, but will have resonance across Canada.
The use of non-full-time university instructors is on the rise in many countries, raising concerns about their working conditions and the implications for educational quality. Nowhere is this more so than in the United States, where the use of contingent faculty is widespread and groups such as the New Faculty Majority fight to improve the working conditions for these instructors. The name of this latter organization is instructive, as it is widely reported that contingent or sessional instructors now make up considerably more than half of all university faculty in the U.S. and perhaps as much as 75 percent (the recent book, Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System, for example, claims the higher number).
What is the situation in Canada? No one really knows, because most universities don't release the data. This often forces the media in Canada to rely on anecdotal reports or, worse, rely on the U.S. data.
Into this breach have stepped the four authors of the new HEQCO report. With a bit of sleuthing of institutional websites and other data – and with some additional information from the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations – they were able to make at least a few observations.
The authors found that the ratio of sessional instructors to full-time faculty appears to be increasing at some universities while decreasing or remaining stable at others. They also note that the conditions of employment for non-full-time instructors vary by institution. Fees ranged from $5,584 to $7,665 per half course, which is much higher than the average rates for adjunct faculty in the U.S.
Looking at other data, they note that at 10 universities, sessional instructors are represented by the same association as full-time, tenure-stream faculty, while at another 10 there are separate unions or associations. And while sessional instructors have various benefits guaranteed under collective agreements, often including some form of job security related to seniority or promotion, the authors note that sessional instructors "do not have anything close to the level of security associated with tenure."
University Affairs, I should note, collected its own sampling of pay, benefits and work-related conditions of sessionals in our award-winning story, "Sessionals, up close," published in the February 2013 edition. We also have a handy chart of these conditions for sessionals (in PDF) on our website. Some of the data may be out of date, but it is still the best snapshot of the situation I've seen for Canada.
As for the balance between full-time, tenure-stream faculty and sessional instructors, the authors of the HEQCO report had even less to work with. At one university, the estimated share of courses taught by sessional instructors during the fall and winter terms was roughly 25 percent. Meanwhile, the collective agreements at four universities limit the ratio of courses taught by sessional instructors to between 15 percent and 35 percent. Thus the situation in Canada doesn't seem to be quite as dire as in the U.S.
In conclusion, the authors call for:
- A province-wide survey of sessional instructors to learn more about their background (academic and professional), employment situation and teaching load, as well as their perceptions and experiences.
- A more detailed study of institutional staffing patterns through the collection and analysis of data on employment trends at all Ontario universities; and
- A detailed analysis of staffing patterns within selected academic units at different Ontario universities and the implications of these patterns for educational quality and student success.
Let's hope they get it.


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