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ISSUE: FDA is notifying the public of new information about zolpidem, a widely prescribed insomnia drug. FDA recommends that the bedtime dose be lowered because new data show that blood levels in some patients may be high enough the morning after use to impair activities that require alertness, including driving. This announcement focuses on zolpidem products approved for bedtime use, which are marketed as generics and under the brand names Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar, and Zolpimist.
FDA is also reminding the public that all drugs taken for insomnia can impair driving and activities that require alertness the morning after use. Drowsiness is already listed as a common side effect in the drug labels of all insomnia drugs, along with warnings that patients may still feel drowsy the day after taking these products. Patients who take insomnia drugs can experience impairment of mental alertness the morning after use, even if they feel fully awake.
For zolpidem products, data show the risk for next-morning impairment is highest for patients taking the extended-release forms of these drugs (Ambien CR and generics). Women appear to be more susceptible to this risk because they eliminate zolpidem from their bodies more slowly than men. Because use of lower doses of zolpidem will result in lower blood levels in the morning, FDA is requiring the manufacturers of Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar, and Zolpimist to lower the recommended dose.
FDA is continuing to evaluate the risk of impaired mental alertness with other insomnia drugs, including over-the-counter (OTC) drugs available without a prescription. FDA prepared a list of questions and answers to provide an additional overview of this safety issue. See the FDA Drug Safety Communication for a Data Summary.
BACKGROUND: Zolpidem is a sedative-hypnotic (sleep) medicine used in adults for the treatment of insomnia. It is marketed as generics and under the brand-names Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar, Zolpimist, and Intermezzo.
RECOMMENDATION: FDA urges health care professionals to caution all patients (men and women) who use these products about the risks of next-morning impairment for activities that require complete mental alertness, including driving.
- The recommended dose of zolpidem for women should be lowered from 10 mg to 5 mg for immediate-release products (Ambien, Edluar, and Zolpimist) and from 12.5 mg to 6.25 mg for extended-release products (Ambien CR).
- For zolpidem and other insomnia drugs, prescribe the lowest dose that treats the patient's symptoms.
- Inform patients that impairment from sleep drugs can be present despite feeling fully awake.
- The recommended doses of Intermezzo, a lower dose zolpidem product approved for middle-of-the-night awakenings, are not changing. At the time of Intermezzo's approval in November 2011, the label already recommended a lower dosage for women than for men.
Healthcare professionals and patients are encouraged to report adverse events or side effects related to the use of these products to the FDA's MedWatch Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program:
- Complete and submit the report Online: www.fda.gov/MedWatch/report.htm
- Download form or call 1-800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre-addressed form, or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178


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| 14.9°C Belfast
Paul Weller is the latest act to be added to the bill for this year's Isle Of Wight Festival.
The former frontman of The Jam will appear as a special guest before headliners The Stone Roses.
The other headliners already announced for the first major festival of the summer are The Killers and Bon Jovi.
"Modfather" Weller said: "It's been a while since I've played the Isle Of Wight Festival and I'm excited to be playing it this year. It's a great way to kick off the summer."
John Giddings, the festival's promoter, said: "If you like music, you like Paul Weller - he is one of the greatest singer-songwriters this country has produced and we are proud to bring him to our small island off the south coast. We have plenty of pebbles on a beach for him."
Other acts added to the line-up are I Am Kloot, Kesha, Kodaline, Devlin, Little Angels, Willy Mason, Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel, Lawson, Ian Hunter and The Gypsy Queens.
Other acts previously announced are Jake Bugg, The Script, Bloc Party, Paloma Faith, The Maccabees, Emeli Sande, Ben Howard, Ellie Goulding, and Blondie.
The Isle of Wight Festival 2013 runs from June 13 to 16 at Seaclose Park, Newport.

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Closer look at A-League results so far this season
IT'S the halfway point of the 2012/13 A-League season, an ideal time to run the ruler over how each team is positioned for a run at the finals.
Central Coast Mariners
The Mariners can be pleased with their season so far.
The only thing missing in previous campaigns has been some flair and someone who can regularly score goals.
This season, however, in Tomas Rogic and Daniel McBreen, coach Graham Arnold may have found the X factors he was searching for.
Rogic has already shown how good he is, and he can get even better. McBreen has not had a better year, and if he keeps scoring, the Mariners are capable of taking the crown.
Adelaide United
The Reds have been the form team all season and carried on from their good work in the Asian Champions League.
But after two consecutive losses, coach John Kosmina will be hoping the form slump does not go on too long.
Adelaide is definitely a top-two outfit and has plenty of depth, but too many more defeats will harm its chances.
Melbourne Victory
They say cream always rises to the top and I don't think you can go past Ange Postecoglou and the Victory when it comes to potential grand final winners.
The only thing that would concern the Victory coach is the number of goals his team is conceding.
Postecoglou will be determined to prove he is still the man - I'm picking the Victory to be in the grand final if the coach gets the back four sorted.
Western Sydney Wanderers
The Wanderers have been the surprise packet of the season.
Tony Popovic has done a remarkable job in his first coaching role, and for his team to be sitting fourth at the halfway point of the season is testament to his coaching abilities.
But as it has done all season, the lack of goals will cost the new boys when it comes to the crunch.
The Wanderers can make the top six, but will need more goals.
Perth Glory
Coach Ian Ferguson has arguably the strongest squad in the A-League, with some of the finest players at his disposal.
But until the Glory sorts out its away-game problems, it cannot win the grand final.
I think the Glory will make it to the top six, but the travelling just might take its toll again.
Shane Smeltz scoring some goals would also help.
Newcastle Jets
Emile Heskey is the key to success or failure at Newcastle - on the pitch at least.
Fans will be hoping there are no more off-field dramas so the players can concentrate on moving the club back up to where it should be - in the top four.
The Jets should make the top six, but unless Heskey finds top gear then that's where it will end.
Brisbane Roar
I suppose it was always going to happen that after two years of unprecedented success under Ange Postecoglou, the Roar would struggle under a new coach.
But there has been something missing this time round and it isn't just the fact that Postecoglou has gone.
The Roar should make the top six, but further than that I am not sure.
Wellington Phoenix
With Paul Ifill injured the Phoenix might continue to struggle.
Down the years in the A-League, Wellington has relied on home form to get them through, but this season even fortress Westpac Stadium has not provided the solace for the Kiwis.
The only shining light in an otherwise dim season has been the goalscoring form of Jeremy Brockie.
Melbourne Heart
John Aloisi has not done a bad job in his first A-League coaching role, but don't expect his team to be featuring in finals football this season.
Aloisi''s team has been inconsistent for most of the campaign and too many times has drawn games it perhaps should have won.
Sydney FC
They say form is temporary and class is permanent, but sadly for Sky Blues fans, their "temporary" form slump has lasted for most of the season.
Alessandro Del Piero's arrival I think has had a detrimental effect on the team. Sydney is capable of making the top six, though I wouldn't hold my breath.


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Dust and Kármán Vortices by Canary Islands – June 23rd, 201321.0N 19.1W
Named after the engineer and fluid dynamicist Theodore von Kármán, in fluid dynamics, a Kármán vortex street is a repeating pattern of swirling vortices that are created when the flow of a fluid separates unsteadily as it moves around blunt bodies. Here, this phenomenon can be seen in the upper left quadrant, as spiralled cloud patterns southwest of the Canary Islands. In the lower left quadrant, dust can be seen blowing off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal.


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I have a need to modify large #'s of files.
I was thinking of how merging multiple files together (say from 3 different sources of the same file into a new 4th file) is a tedious task. I would have to inject one file, then inject another file on top of the 1st one.
Issue would become more profound if 2 files modified the same area. Patch files would break and kick out rejects.
The entire time I was thinking, how annoying... I can't use a patch file in a contextual manner. So I googled, and I found.
with a built in gui front-end providing examples of it's use provided here.
Capabilities to match based on fuzzy logic, the ability to derive a patch file from two side by side windows, and the ability to apply a fuzzy logic patch.
I was thinking, that's exactly what patch files need, a gui front end. If the match % is too low, we can go to the area in the file, and display the match(es).
In fact, a file could be loaded in the left window, and a dry-run output could be applied to the right window. Something diff needs really bad. area's that couldn't be matched properly could be left blank, and outputted to a window displaying what blocks of diff's could not be found/applied, match's could be highlighted in the window's kind of like kdiff3 does, using colors. Winmerge could use it's default yellow for matches in a "match-only mod".
I have some programming experience. I've never built an application from the ground up, but I have contributed to Dwarf Therapist, an opensource QT project; although my actual hands on programming is generally specific to an individual task. I think I might be able to do something with this and would like to source a copy of the code on my github and see what I/we can do with it.
Oh yeah. I think applying patches in reverse (as in starting @ EOF and working your way up) is a way better way to apply a patch file. Generally contextual doesn't care about line #'s. But... if the file is largely unchanged. The line #'s would match up vs injecting/deleting code to prior points and having to keep track of all that.
I know winmerge already has the capability to derive a patch file, but I think in this case, if a patch file could be derived between two files, and apply that patch to a 3rd file by opening it in the left pane, and clicking some sort of "compute patch" that asks for a previous derived patch file and applies it to the right pane would be a great feature of winmerge.
Ironically I'm more familiar with QT than the other IDE that I'm not even aware of, so I might be basing this on v3.
I'll post a github link once I get everything up and running.
So far [the source supplied for] winmerge v3 (QT) is just a skeleton ATM [so I switched to v2_14].
So I did host winmerge 2-14 on github and I was able to build it, but I ultimately decided to try a "concept" mockup in QT first.
https://github.com/thistleknot/winmerge ... its/master
I have another repository I'm "rebuilding" that for some reason I wasn't able to rebuild a working executable that has the google-diff-match-patch source files built in. I will put link up later. Having some minor issues with 4.8 to 5.3 ATM.
Bye the way. Google-diff-match-patch is based on QT 4.8. I do not know how big of an issue that is to port to VS 2008 and may be outside of my area of expertise (but... there are other versions of the code, google does a good job of porting their apps to a plethora of environments). If it comes to that point where I'm stuck, I'll reach out for help.


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Welcome to the St. Marys River BPAC Website!
What is the BPAC?
The St. Marys River Bi-National Public Advisory Council (BPAC) was created on November 13, 1988. It is a stakeholder's group, and members include citizens, property owners, tribes, elected officials, health units, municipal staff, and university staff from both Canada and the United States. BPAC was formed to assist government agencies that are responsible for preparing a Remedial Action Plan (RAP) for the St. Marys River Area of Concern (AOC). Specifically, BPAC informs the agencies about public views and opinions regarding the clean-up of the St. Marys River AOC and advocates for projects that achieve the restoration goals. BPAC is dedicated to ensuring that the river water quality and the ecosystem are improved and protected for all users of the river.
Where is the St. Marys River?
The St. Marys River is a 125 kilometre stretch of water that originates in Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior between Point Iroquois, Michigan and Gros Cap, Ontario and divides into two channels around St. Joseph Island to the east. The North Channel, or St. Joseph Channel, extends to Bruce Mines; the southern or Neebish Channel is the up bound shipping channel and extends to the De Tour Passage where it emerges into Lake Huron.


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Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
The Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program (WOSHTEP)
The Janitorial Safety Training Program is now available for small business owners and managers who need to train janitorial employees working alone or in small teams to clean buildings. The training materials include a training guide and focus on health and safety in the janitorial industry. The following topics are covered: Safety Orientation; Chemical Hazards; Electrical Hazards; Ergonomic Hazards; Injuries on the Job; Planning for Emergencies; Robberies and Assaults; and Slips and Falls.
The Janitorial Safety Training Program can help small business owners and managers:
- Prevent job injuries and illnesses;
- Lower workers' compensation costs;
- Reduce the number of days away form work and lost productivity; and
- Meet training requirements under California's occupational health and safety laws.
Materials are available to read or download in English and Spanish.
Click below to download the English Janitorial Safety Training Materials:
- Janitorial Safety Training Guide
- Chemical Hazards
- Electrical Hazards
- Ergonomic Hazards
- Injuries on the Job
- Planning for Emergencies
- Robberies and Assaults
- Safety Orientation
- Slips and Falls
Click below to download the Spanish Janitorial Safety Training Materials:
- Guía de Capacitación en Seguridad Para Conserjes
- Peligros Químicos
- Peligros Eléctricos
- Peligros Ergonómicos
- Lesiones Laborales
- Planes de Emergencia
- Asaltos y Agresiones
- Orientación de Seguridad
- Resbalones y Caídas
If you would like to request a copy of the materials, please send your request to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Contemporary Fine Art Photographs
Asaf Kliger
Photojournalist and art photographer Asaf Kliger captures documentary images with densely layered conceptual elements. In his series "The Time of Spectacle," Kliger uses long exposures to record the passage of time and spectacle at public events. In such images the audience is rendered invisible or indistinct, in contrast to the space and events around them. In Championship Football Match, 2 hours exposure Jerusalem Israel 2008 (2008), the soccer players and crowd are reduced to a blur, while the field assumes an indefinable energy and dynamism. "The single picture contains the time and memory and asks of the viewer to experience photography in a different manner than he's accustomed to," Kliger explains. "The selection of long exposure is made according to the type of the event, which for most people is a passive experience."


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Sources inside the government have confirmed that a General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont., is set to close.
It's unclear how many employees will lose their jobs, since this is part of a larger global restructuring plan, the sources said.
In a statement, Unifor, the union representing auto workers at the plant, said they have not heard "complete details of the overall announcement" but were told that no cars are set to be assembled at the plant past December 2019.
"Based on commitments made during 2016 contract negotiations, Unifor does not accept this announcement and is immediately calling on GM to live up to the spirit of that agreement," the statement reads.
The union said it would be holding talks with General Motors tomorrow.
"We have no news or comment tonight and won't be commenting to others on speculation," a spokesperson for GM said on Sunday.
The plant, a 45 minute drive east of Toronto, produces cars such as the Chevrolet Impala, the Cadillac XTS and the Buick Regal.
According to GM's website, the Oshawa Assembly Plant employs 2,522 workers with Unifor Local 222. Production began on Nov. 7, 1953. In the 1980s, the plant employed roughly 23,000 people.
Oshawa Mayor John Henry said he hopes the news is "just a rumour," and adds that he had not spoken to anyone from GM.
"It's going to affect the province, it's going to affect the region ... The auto industry's been a big part of the province of Ontario for over 100 years," Henry said.
Unifor national president Jerry Dias said in April that the Oshawa complex was headed for closure in June of this year. But he noted the former head of GM Canada, Steve Carlisle, was determined it wouldn't close on his watch.
Carlisle was moved that month to head Cadillac, the global automaker's luxury car division as part of a management rotation.
At the time of the transfer, Dias said Carlisle's appointment to head Cadillac would raise his profile and influence within GM's headquarters in Detroit, and that "would be a huge benefit for us."
The Oshawa operation became a talking point for U.S. President Donald Trump during Canada-U.S. trade negotiations, according to a Toronto Star report about an off-the-record aside during an interview with Bloomberg News over the summer.
"Every time we have a problem with a point, I just put up a picture of a Chevrolet Impala," the U.S. president was reported to have said.


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I've heard of at least three slight modifications of the standard concept of field:
meadow, which (according to this paper) is a commutative ring with unit equipped with a total unary operation $x^{−1}$, named inverse, that satisfies these additional equations: $(x^{−1})^{−1} = x$ and $x·(x·x^{−1}) = x$.
wheel - I heard of these in conversation, so I'm unsure of their exact definition. I believe they have a unary "inverse" operation like meadows, but I assume something is different about them.
neofield, which (according to this paper) appear to be fields, without the associativity of addition.
(I'm not going to count $\mathbb{F}_1$, I don't think it's relevant here - though I may be totally off about this). But only having these definitions, I still feel unsatisfied with the concepts. I don't feel like I understand what's going on with them, I don't know why any of these are natural things to look at, or what important theorems there are to be had about them (I mean, other than the ones in the papers I referenced, which I would hopefully understand after getting a better grounding).
So, can anyone...
provide better/more explanatory definitions for these structures, and also - as a proper category theory student - their morphisms (the papers I linked to don't state that, I think)
provide instructive examples of each structure (i.e. examples which are not also fields, demonstrating the differences)
provide whatever are considered to be "standard" references for any of these structures (a book studying them, or paper where they were first defined, etc.)
explain why we should look at these structures (I mean, beyond just curiosity about them) - where do they naturally arise, if anywhere?
explain which classic concepts/theorems about fields carry over to each structure (do they have a notion of algebraic elements? is there a Galois-like theory for them? etc.) and which don't
and if you have even more things to say about them - even better!


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Etymology : From the Late Latin name Bonifatius, which meant "good fate" from bonum "good" and fatum "fate"
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Our top moments of the week:
16. Best Reveal: Martha's not as naïve as she looks! The Americans finally addresses the elephant in the room when Martha lovingly tells her husband that he doesn't have to hide anything from her. "I even love your toupee," she says without missing a beat. "You know about that?" Clark asks. Guess Soviet wig technology wasn't all that in the '80s.
15. Best Reality Check: On Louie, comedian Louis C.K. hits it off with the charming but overweight Vanessa, but it's also clear he's not interested in her romantically. This prompts a raw and heartfelt monologue in which she reveals the double standard about weight, that it's the schlubby guys like him who won't give fat girls like her the time of day and that all she wants is "to hold hands with a nice guy." The unflinchingly honest declaration renders even Louis speechless for its bravery.
14. Worst Revelations The Blacklist finale unfortunately does not deliver any of the big answers that fans have been hoping for — such as Red's relationship to Liz — but in fact raises several more and makes the whole issue about her father even murkier than it was before. (Has no one thought of doing a cheek swab yet?!) In the end, all we know for sure is that one agent is dead, the diabolical Berlin is still on the loose, and Red has intriguing burn scars on his back. Argh! We're seeing "red."
13. Best Confession: Forget about Rayna's double proposal (who will she choose?!), the real cliff-hanger on Nashville is what will happen to Will now that he's finally come out of the closet. His engagement to Layla is off, obviously, but his tearful revelation — which was unknowingly caught on camera — will likely affect his career as well. Jeff Fordham may not be too pleased to have an openly gay musician anchoring his record label, but we're guessing this will be a goldmine for Will and Layla's reality show. Plus, we can't wait to see if Will gets a new (male) love interest in Season 3! (Sorry, Layla.)
12. Worst Silence: On Chicago Fire, moments after Severide and Shay patch up their differences and Casey proposes to Dawson, the entire team minus Chief Boden go inside a warehouse to put out a fire and do a search and rescue. After Boden unsuccessfully tries to call out on the radio to anyone from Firehouse 51, he hears some troubling static from the walkie talkie right before a huge explosion goes off inside the warehouse — possibly killing the entire group. Covered in ash and rubble and his own blood, Boden futilely calls out on the radio again as the screen cuts to black.
11. Best Exit: Reid will live to catch unsubs for another day on the Criminal Minds season finale, but another BAU member is done. Distraught that Reid took a bullet defending her, Blake reveals that she had accidentally called him Ethan because that was the name of her 9-year-old son who had died of an unnamed neurological disease. "He was ready to go, but I wasn't ready to say goodbye," she says. As Blake walks out of his apartment, Reid finds her credentials in his bag. Farewell, Blake. Now, who should replace her?
10. Worst Retribution: After learning that his estranged wife is moving to California with his daughter, Amaro finds a dangerous way to take out his pent-up frustration on Law & Order: SVU. In the final moments of the episode, he finds a recently acquitted sex offender at a local park taking photos of young boys. Amaro initially orders the man to stop, but after meeting resistance, he grabs the camera and starts beating the man to a pulp. When the police come, Amaro tries to tell them he's on the job and flashes his badge, but he's still arrested and handcuffed. At least he already knows his Miranda rights?
9. Best Cliff-Hangers: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. wraps up its Clairvoyant mystery in a neat little bow when Coulson annihilates Garrett with a laser. But, in true Marvel fashion, two bonus scenes at the end of the episode raise the stakes: Raina tells a mysterious (and creepy-looking) man that she's found his daughter — Skye! — and Coulson mindlessly carves the alien formula on a wall. Ruh-roh on both fronts.
8. Best Goodbye: After Hayley gives birth to her and Klaus' daughter on The Originals, it's decided that keeping her around is too risky, so the group concocts a plan for the witches to believe the baby was killed. In an emotional scene, a tearful Klaus kisses and hands over his firstborn, appropriately named Hope, to the one person he can trust to forever keep her safe: Rebekah, who gets the fresh start and family (and hopefully white picket fence) she has always dreamed of.
7. Best Fake-Out: Arrow pulls one hell of a bait-and-switch when Oliver suddenly professes his love for go-to IT gal Felicity. Alas, it's all a ruse to trick Slade into kidnapping Felicity, so she can administer the cure for Mirakuru and remove his superhuman strength. Sorry, Olicity fans, dreams don't really come true (yet).
6. Best Crossover: Once Upon a Time sends chills down our spines with the (albeit brief) introduction of Frozen's Elsa, who was previously locked up in Rumple's vault. Will the ice queen hold a grudge? We can't wait to find out! But the real question is: Who should play her? Paging Adele Dazeem.
5. Worst Waiting Game: On The Vampire Diaries season finale, the gang works to save the Other Side and also get rid of The Travelers. But after Bonnie figures out a way to get most of her friends safely back to life, the spell is stopped, leaving her and Damon stuck. As the two realize their fate, they wait, hand-in-hand, to be sucked into the atmosphere. (We're still betting they find their way back in the Season 6 premiere.)
4. Best Exit/Entrance: Sandra Oh's final episode of Grey's Anatomy serves as a love letter to Cristina Yang, complete with her and Meredith dancing it out one last time before she leaves for Zurich. But the big surprise of the episode comes from the reveal that the new head of cardiology (played by Kelly McCreary) was given up for adoption by Ellis Grey, making her Meredith's half-sister and the daughter of — dun, dun, dunnn — Webber! Welcome to the family ... we think?
3. Worst Cliff-Hanger: Beckett thought she found her Prince Charming, but someone burned the whole Castle to the ground! After filing Beckett's divorce papers from her Vegas wedding back in the day, Castle is racing to his Hamptons home for the wedding as a black SUV starts tailing him. Cut to Beckett getting a call and arriving on the scene to find his car engulfed in flames in a ditch! It's pretty safe to say Castle's alive, but who was chasing him?
2. Best Speech: Tyrion is used to being the butt of jokes on Game of Thrones, but suddenly he's being taken as seriously as any self-respecting Lannister should. During his regicide trial, the Imp lashes out at his sister and the gathered crowd. "I did not kill Joffrey but I wish that I had. Watching your vicious bastard die gave me more relief than a thousand lying whores," he says. "I wish I was the monster you think I am. I wish I had enough poison for the whole pack of you." To cap off his venomous diatribe, he demands a trial by combat because there's no such thing as a fair trial in King's Landing.
1. Worst Gift: Mad Men's Michael Ginsberg has always been a little off, but after working alongside Sterling Cooper & Partners' new computer for a few weeks, his cheese officially slides off his cracker. Annoyed by the machine's hum while working on a Saturday, Ginsberg decides that the computer is turning the SC&P employees gay. Although Ginsberg fails in his plan to stop the computer from winning — by having sex with Peggy — he returns to the office on Monday in much better spirits. He even presents Peggy a gift: his severed nipple, which he had cut off to allow the vibrations of the computer to move through him. Peggy is horrified and has Ginsberg wheeled off to the asylum. Perhaps we should have seen it coming from a guy who claimed two seasons ago to be from Mars.
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Anyone Can Blog (And So Can You!): How To Create Your Own Blog and More
Blogs (web logs) are continuing to change how ideas are expressed and exchanged. Wednesday, May 7th, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, the library will present a workshop on blogging. The workshop will be in the library's electronic classroom on the 5th floor of the library.
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Europe Week Ahead: The Fed, UK Budget
The latest FOMC meeting, the U.K.'s 2013 budget and new data on euro-zone growth will top the agenda next week. Dow Jones's Martin Essex and Nina Bains give us a rundown on what to expect and why it might take the shine off the recent rally in U.S. stocks.
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A pair of featherweight bouts have been added to the TUF 17 Finale card in April.
Cole Miller (18-7 MMA, 7-5 UFC) will face Bart Palaszewski (36-16 MMA, 1-2 UFC) and Daniel Pineda (17-9 MMA, 2-2 UFC) takes on Justin Lawrence (4-1 MMA 1-1 UFC). The Las Vegas Review-Journal on Monday reported the bouts, and UFC officials confirmed their inclusion on the card to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
The TUF 17 Finale takes place April 13 in Las Vegas. The main card airs on FX, while FUEL TV and Facebook will carry prelims.
Miller, a product of Season 5 of "The Ultimate Fighter," is in need of a win after dropping back-to-back fights and three of his past four. The American Top Team product returned to featherweight in 2012, but dropped a unanimous decision to Steven Siler at UFC on FX 2 in Australia. He followed that up with a split decision loss to Nam Phan at UFC on FOX 4 this past August. His most recent win came in August 2011, when he choked out T.J. O'Brien in Milwaukee.
Palaszewski is looking to break out of a two-fight skid of his own. In 2012, he dropped unanimous decisions to Hatsu Hioki at UFC 144 and Diego Nunes at UFC on FX 5. Prior to the back-to-back losses, he had won five out of six, including a "Knockout of the Night" win in his UFC debut against Tyson Griffin at UFC 137.
Pineda also owns a two-fight losing streak. After a fight-fight run of stoppages for Legacy Fighting Championhip, Pineda signed with the UFC and won back-to-back fights with first-round submissions of Pat Schilling and Mackens Semerzier just 43 days apart. But against Mike Brown this past May, he dropped a unanimous decision at UFC 146. He followed that up two months later with a knockout loss to Antonio Carvalho at UFC 149. But after four UFC fights in the first seven months of 2012, Pineda has been on the sideline since the loss to Carvalho.
Lawrence was one of the favorites to win "The Ultimate Fighter Live" and was the first overall pick after winning his way into the house. But he was upset by eventual winner Michael Chiesa in the quarterfinals. He went on to get a spot on the live finale, though, and picked up a rare double bonus with the "Knockout of the Night" against John Cofer as well as "Fight of the Night." This past August, though, he was stopped by Max Holloway at UFC 150 with a second-round TKO for the first loss of his pro career.
With the two featherweight bouts, the TUF 17 Finale card now includes:
- Champ Demetrious Johnson vs. John Moraga – for flyweight title
- Finalist No. 1 vs. Finalist No. 2 – "TUF 17" welterweight final
- Travis Browne vs. Gabriel Gonzaga
- Miesha Tate vs. Cat Zingano
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Why is it bad to steady date before guys go on missions?
"Young women, . . . avoid steady dating with a young man prior to the time of his mission call. If your relationship with him is more casual, then he can make that decision to serve more easily and also can concentrate his full energies on his missionary work instead of the girlfriend back home. And after he returns honorably from his mission, he will be a better husband and father and priesthood holder, having first served a full-time mission" (Ezra Taft Benson, "To the Young Women of the Church," October 1986 general conference).Close
How should a guy and girl treat each other on a date?
"The young women want young men to respect them and show them common, sincere courtesy. Do not hesitate to show good manners by opening a door for them, taking the initiative in inviting them on a date, and standing as they enter a room. Young women, you can also show respect and dignity by being considerate and polite, extending simple courtesies to others" (M. Russell Ballard, "Away from the Blinding Dust," New Era, May 1991, 50).Close
What kind of dates are all right to go on when I first turn 16?
"When you begin dating, go with one or more additional couples. . . . Plan dating activities that are safe, positive, and inexpensive and that will help you get to know each other. Go only to places where you can maintain your standards and remain close to the Spirit" (For the Strength of Youth, 4).Close
Is it OK to kiss a lot?
For the Strength of Youth says: "Before marriage, do not participate in passionate kissing …" (36).
Elder Richard G. Scott said, "Keep your expressions of feelings to those that are comfortable in the presence of your parents" ("Making the Right Choices," October 1994 general conference).Close
Is it wrong not to want to date at all right now? What if I don't date until I'm in college?
Not all teenagers need to date or even want to. Many young people do not date during their teen years because they are not yet interested, do not have opportunities, or simply want to delay forming serious relationships. However, good friendships can and should be developed at every age.Close
Why do I need to wait until I'm 16 to date?
President Gordon B. Hinckley said:
"The Lord has made us attractive one to another for a great purpose. But this very attraction becomes as a powder keg unless it is kept under control. It is beautiful when handled in the right way. It is deadly if it gets out of hand.
"It is for this reason that the Church counsels against early dating. This rule is not designed to hurt you in any way. It is designed to help you, and it will do so if you will observe it" ("A Prophet's Counsel and Prayer for Youth," New Era, Jan. 2001, 13).Close
How much physical affection can I show while dating?
"Before marriage, do not participate in passionate kissing, lie on top of another person, or touch the private, sacred parts of another person's body, with or without clothing. Do not do anything else that arouses sexual feelings. … Avoid situations that invite increased temptation, such as late-night or overnight activities away from home or activities where there is a lack of adult supervision. Do not participate in discussions or any media that arouse sexual feelings. Do not participate in any type of pornography" (For the Strength of Youth, 36).Close
How can guys encourage girls to dress modestly?
"Young men, let . . . young women know that you will not seek an eternal companion from those that are overcome by worldly trends. Many dress and act immodestly because they are told that is what you want. In sensitive ways, communicate how distasteful revealing attire is to you, a worthy young man, and how it stimulates unwanted emotions from what you see against your will.
"Those young women who do embrace conservative dress standards and exhibit the attributes of a devoted Latter-day Saint are often criticized for not being 'with it.' Encourage them by expressing gratitude for their worthy example. Thank them for doing what is pleasing to the Lord and in time will bless their own husband and children. Many young women have returned to righteousness because of the example and understanding support of a worthy priesthood bearer. Perhaps a group of you could frankly discuss your concern in an appropriate setting such as a Sunday School or seminary class. Will you begin a private crusade to help young women understand how precious they are to God and attractive to you as they magnify their feminine traits and divinely given attributes of womanhood?" (Richard G. Scott, "The Sanctity of Womanhood," April 2000 general conference).Close
Is it OK to have a steady boyfriend or girlfriend in high school?
For the Strength of Youth teaches, "Avoid going on frequent dates with the same person" (4). President Gordon B. Hinckley counseled: "When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved. But you boys who are in high school don't need this, and neither do the girls" ("Some Thoughts on Temples, Retention of Converts, and Missionary Service," October 1997 general conference).Close
What is the purpose of dating as a teenager? If I'm not "looking for someone" during high school, why bother dating at all?
"Dating … can help you learn and practice social skills, develop friendships, have wholesome fun, and eventually find an eternal companion" (For the Strength of Youth, 4). When you're a teen, dating helps you learn how to interact with others, make friends, have fun, and learn and practice respect and courtesy. These skills will be helpful in your social interactions and then later in courtship and marriage.
"When you are old enough [at least age 16], you ought to start dating. It is good for young men and young women to learn to know and to appreciate one another. It is good for you to go to games and dances and picnics, to do all of the young things. We encourage our young people to date. We encourage you to set high standards of dating" (Boyd K. Packer, "You're in the Driver's Seat," New Era, June 2004, 8).Close


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Chad refugees in Cameroon start returning home
Nearly 2,000 Chadian refugees who fled a 2008 civil war between rebels and government forces into Cameroon began leaving their camp to return to their home country.
State-run Cameroon Radio Television said Thursday that the first group of 182 Chadians started leaving the Langui camp in the country's north.
Political unrest pitting rebel forces against the government in February 2008 forced an estimated 30,000 Chadians to flee into Cameroon's north. Thousands eventually returned home, but many remained on Cameroonian soil.
Diplomatic negotiations began in 2009 for the voluntary repatriation of Chadian refugees. An agreement was signed on Nov. 20 in Yaounde, Cameroon that outlined the repatriation. Many will resettle in December with help from the U.N. refugee agency.
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This is part 5 in the year-long series on Traditional Foods. January focused on sweeteners, and February focuses on homemade, old-fashioned, nutrient-dense bone broth. And, my apologies for posting this section of the Traditional Foods Primer a touch late,
There is nothing like a homemade broth – rich, fragrant and glistening with droplets of golden fat. It's an essential aspect of good cooking. Homemade bone broth offers the depth of flavor that its storebought counterpart simply can't parallel. It's also an extraordinarily inexpensive food, especially for its nutritive value. Beyond its culinary uses and economic benefits, bone broth is remarkably healthful.
Culinary Uses
Broths made from bones have been used across the globe throughout human history. Nearly every traditional society boiled bones of meat-giving animals to make a nutritive broth. It is deeply flavorful, but versatile and can provide the base for soups, sauces, gravies as well as providing a cooking medium for grains and vegetables.
In our home, we inevitably have a crockpot of perpetually brewing poultry stock bubbling away on the counter. And we use it everyday. When I braise vegetables, I use bone broth. Or we use it to baste roasting meats. Or, of course, in the soups, sauces and gravies we eat throughout the week.
While bone broth is technically a stock, and not a broth the terms are often used interchangeably.
Frugal Benefits
Bone broths are remarkably inexpensive to make. Many times you can prepare a decent broth for the cost of energy used to heat your pot alone. By using the bones from leftover roast chickens matched with vegetable scraps you've saved, you can make a gallon of stock for pennies. In getting to know your butcher or local rancher, you can often acquire beef or lamb bones for free.
Preparing your own stock at home can possibly save you more money over time than any other kitchen endeavor. Consider that a one-quart package of Pacific Organic Broth will set you back at least $4.75 at most grocers, but making your own bone broth from kitchen scraps will cost you only the pennies needed for energy use. And it tastes better.
Health Benefits
As I mentioned earlier, bone broth has been prepared in kitchens, hearths and firesides throughout history. And, in many ways, it's a lost art. Home cooks have simply forgotten how easily a broth is made and how worthwhile it is to make this low-cost, highly nutritive food a regular part of the family diet.
As the bones cook in water – especially if that water has been made slightly acidic by the inclusion of cider vinegar – minerals and other nutrients leach from the bones into the water. Homemade broth is rich in calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and other trace minerals. The minerals in broth are easily absorbed by the body. Bone broth even contains glucosamine and chondroitin – which are thought to help mitigate the deleterious effects of arthritis and joint pain. Rather than shelling out big bucks for glucosamine-chondroitin and mineral supplements, just make bone broth and other nutritive foods a part of your regular diet.
Further, homemade bone broths are often rich in gelatin. Gelatin is an inexpensive source of supplementary protein. Gelatin also shows promise in the fight against degenerative joint disease. It helps to support the connective tissue in your body and also helps the fingernails and hair to grow well and strong.
Why Not Boxed/Tinned Broth
Boxed and canned broths and stocks are commercially available, and you can even purchase organic and free-range meat broths; however, these watery stocks pale by comparison to both the nutrient density and flavor of homemade bone broths. These commercially prepared broths are often aseptically packaged and highly processed. And expensive!
Save yourself money and maximize the flavor and nutrient density of your foods by incorporating broth into your diet more regularly. Want to know more? Check back next week and I'll teach you how to make bone broth from leftover roast chicken.


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Learners in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Specialty Nursing program are Registered Nurses who are either seeking employment or are employed in one of the nursing specialties listed above. The program combines part-time distance study with practice-based clinical education. BCIT grants credit for previous experience and education through a variety of transfer credit, course challenge, and prior learning assessment procedures.
The collaborative efforts of the BCIT Nursing Specialties faculty, nursing curriculum consultants, employers, learners, practicing nurses, and clients have developed the curriculum for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Specialty Nursing. The curriculum focuses on the technology of specialized nursing practice. Technology is broadly conceptualized as the knowledge, skills and attitudes that specialty nurses require in order to practice.
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So I have this book that I was going to ship to Toronto. Here are the specifications:
Weight: 300 grams
Length: 210 mm
Width: 135 mm
Height: 25 mm
Shipping from Vancouver to Toronto via Canada Post Regular Parcel is $10.34 with a delivery standard of 5-10 business days. I thought that was grossly expensive for a very light, average-sized paperback novel. So I checked some other quotes:
- Shipping from Vancouver to Florida via "Small Packet USA Surface" is only $6.65 with a delivery standard of 6-12 business days. It is both cheaper and barely slower than Canada Post's Regular Parcel service.
- Shipping from Vancouver to Florida via "Small Packet USA Air" is only $7.90 with a delivery standard of 6-12 business days. It is both cheaper and barely slower than Canada Post's Regular Parcel service. I would expect that this Air Mail would be closer to 6 days and the surface would be closer to 12.
- With FedEx Ground from Vancouver to Toronto it costs only $12.48 with a 4-day delivery standard (note: with a FedEx account it would be even cheaper). Only slightly cheaper than Canada Post's Regular Parcel, and a far better delivery guarantee.
Trim the package down a bit, to a height of just 20mm (instead of 25g) and a weight of about 250g (instead of 300g), about the size of another book I have here with me, and the price becomes only $2.49 from Vancouver to Toronto with Canada Post Lettermail and $2.99 to the US with Canada Post US Lettermail or $3.96 to the US with Canada Post US Light Packet. The prices suddenly change drastically even though the weight has barely changed.
Here are my observations:
- Why is shipping to Florida cheaper than shipping to Toronto? I don't see how that can ever make sense, unless of course it crosses the border in Vancouver quickly and gets handed off to USPS and they are far cheaper than Canada Post. I wouldn't be surprised as I have read that USPS is much cheaper. Is Canada Post justified in having rates higher than USPS? If they are sending the package by truck, it could be most costly to drive to Toronto than to drive to Florida. Unless of course they drove to Toronto via the US :-)
- Why is FedEx Ground with a 4-day delivery only 21% more expensive than Canada Post's 5-10 business day standard? Either FedEx Ground is highly efficient, or they are not charging enough, or Canada Post is highly inefficient or charging too much.
- Why does reducing the package's volume by 20% and the weight by 17% lead to a 76% reduction in price? This does not make sense at all. Normally you would expect a letter and a small parcel to both have some fixed cost associated with the handling that needs to be done. So let's assume a fixed cost of $0.10 for the letter and $0.10 for a parcel. Let's say the letter weighs 0.1 kg and a small parcel weighs 1 kg. There should be some variable cost to send the package that is proportional to the weight to transport it. Let's say $1/kg. So the letter's variable cost is $0.10 and the parcel's variable cost is $1. So the letter costs a total of $0.20 and the parcel costs $1.10. The parcel weighs 900% more but it costs only 550% more. This makes sense, because of the fixed costs with each item. In my example, a package weight increase of 20% led to a cost increase of 315%. Doesn't make any sense to me. Either the letter is costing them more to ship than they are charging or they are overcharging for the 300g parcel.
- I find it interesting that it is cheaper to send a 300g, 25mm book to the US than it is to ship to Canada, but for a 250g, 20mm book it is the other way around.
I think what we need is something like the small packets service in Canada. We also need some consistency in the rates. They are so many oddities and contradictions in the rates as I've pointed out above.
Some other links:
- David Grant's blog
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- 480464 reads
That's a long blog about one
That's a long blog about one book to mail. Maybe whoever you are sending it to should just buy the book.
I wonder how much it will cost me to send a t-shirt and a card to Korea? ok goodnight
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David Grant replied on Permalink
Actually I have a scale
Actually I have a scale right here and I'm about to go to bed so I just took off my X-Large t-shirt and weighed it. Looks to be about 200g, so it could be between $5.35 and $7.30 with the International Small Packets service. Actually for that price you can ship up to 250g in a 30x30x30 cm3 box to Korea. Which makes me even more irate that it costs over $10 to send a tiny (by comparison) 300g package to Toronto!
I'm not shipping the 300g book though, just a 250g one which is cheap (as I mentioned half way through my post). The 300g was different book I had handy. I was curious what a slightly larger book would cost and was very surprised by what I found.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Interesting - Cut books in half!
I agree totally with the description of the bull crap that Canada Post puts us through. One option might be to take a razor blade, cut the book in half right down the spine, send it as two lettermail shipments with a piece of duct tape for the recipient to "re spine" the book. Even with the two separate shipments, the cost will be between $2 and $8 less.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
I think you may have too much
I think you may have too much time on your hands David Grant. I have found myself directed to your site more than once with questions that I have twice in the last month though. Do you think you could summarize your findings at the bottom of your lengthy answers for people like me who have less time on their hands? ;)
p.s. I think you're smart and your 50 most common interview questions were extremely helpful in landing my last job.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Canada Shipping Rates
I have friends that regularly travel to the Phillipines and back. They buy a HUGE box, fill it with as much stuff as possible to take back to family and friends. The airline shipping for this? $50.00 Canadian. Go figure! Cost me $12.00 Canadian to send a very lightweight tank top to a friend 700 miles away via Canada Post
. No wonder the post office is sinking fast here!
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Canada Post is a Rip Off
There are many people that are discontent with Canada Post and not just you
It has become a power base for Canadian Union based employees and they need your support so they can live in a style you have become accustom to
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Strongly Agree!
I couldn't agree more to this ... it's time that Canada Post ends it's reign!
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Canada Post is a Rip Off
not because of the postal workers! They've closed down 95% of the unionized outlets. They have decided to gouge us because they can gouge us, by adding additional delivery taxes and "handling" fees that our taxes are supposed and meant to be covering.
I'm not a union employee, but good for those who still have a job at a decent rate of pay. At least they don't have to worry about their next mortgage payment.
But if you want to get mad about it, think of greed because that's basically what we're dealing with, pure and utter greed on behalf of our government and Canada Post.
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Kimberley replied on Permalink
Canada Post is a Rip Off
That's right. It is greed by the gov't and Canada Post. The true north strong and fleeced!
Christ I can't even find the rate for a mailing tube on Canada Post's site. Not that it really matters. I do a lot of overseas shipping and luckily, I live near the U.S. border so I just cross and ship from there; way, way cheaper.
I had a package going to Australia that would have cost me 90$ and taken nearly 3 months to get there! I took it across the border and got 6 - 10 day shipping for 56$, and it cost me 10.75$ to make a commercial entry into the states to do that so altogether it cost me 66.75$ for 6 - 10 day shipping. To get it there in that time frame from here was 235$ Can you believe it?
Furthermore, I have a scale here and I looked up the prices for both Canada Post and USPS beforehand. I had to go to the post office, because I just couldn't believe the rates I got for Canada Post were accurate, but when I got there, they were actually higher. The weight she got on her scale was a little more than what I got on mine. So I trotted across the border with my package and the price they got was bang on the same price I got. Oh and by the way: My customer actually ended up getting her package in 4 days!
I find even when you pay extra to get faster shipping here it's not guaranteed because it has to be between two major centres of which my location is not one. So basically with Canada Post ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances.
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Andrew L. replied on Permalink
Totally absurd = Canada Post. F**k them with a knife.
Don't be alarmed -- I have no intention of actually doing harm to Canada Post workers or locations, but I am just trying to express how insanely angry I was to find that I had to pay $10.34 after tax to ship a DVD size package that must have not weighed more than half a pound, from Montreal to Kingston.
Something of that exact same size and weight going from California to New York would cost no more than roughly $5.15 after tax in a flat rate envelope with US Postal. That's 3x the distance of Montreal to Kingston for half the price! US Postal offers "Flat Rate" envelopes and boxes, for those of you who don't know, meaning distance to travel bears no relevance to the price you pay. You just pay for the envelope or box (cheapest is like I said, about $5.15 after tax, and could fit roughly two DVDs or 5 full size magazines). There is a weight limit although it's awfully generous (perhaps 20 pounds for the cheapest I described).
Canada Post is robbing Canadians blind.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Canada Post Rates
Do you people really expect Canada Post rates to be the same as U.S. rates which has 10 times the population base to draw from?
And do you realize U.S. Post lost even more money than Canada Post lost? Figure out the logistics and you will figure out why there is the pricing difference.It's not rocket science.
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A Young Person replied on Permalink
So the US may have a bigger
So the US may have a bigger population, but that doesn't mean the rates have to be ridiculous in a country with a smaller population. Because by this logic, the people of Vatican City would have to pay a lot of money to ship anything.
By lowering shipping prices, more people will consider shipping their products through their post and using their services. U.S. Post may have lost more money, but it's clear that they're going to earn a lot of that back.
There's been a loss of interest in mail lately. Of course Canada Post wants to find a new way to earn money - through shipping rates! Because as of yet, you can't send a package through your computer screen. I don't think they realize that they're losing business from potential customers - hurting their potential profits.
In BC, so many people are just renting boxes in Point Roberts to ship things there - my family has even rented a box down at a local business just so that we could receive some items and save lots of money with shipping. Who gets the profit? The U.S. Post.
It's hurting so many local entrepreneurs that can't afford to compete with the big companies and other sellers because of Canada Post's high postal rates. Make it more appealing for people to send, and they will!
Look, I may be young, but I think that a lot of my friends would love to send postcards or letters through the post, or fun packages to surprise people with for their birthdays. We love Etsy - but everything on there gets so expensive when shipping rates get added to the equation!
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Canada post is a the most expensive in the world
I wanted to spend a small bottle of liquid medicine about the size of regular winter chapstick from Calgary to Toronto, Canada post wanted to charge $12.
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zaheer replied on Permalink
Canada Post rip off
I bought collector coins from ireland , that cost me to ship from ireland with rigestered mail US 27 , unfortunately I had to return them back for some reason , So same packege cost me CDN 65 to ship back to ireland.
Is there any comparision , and same coins comes from UK with registered mail at cost of CDN 18 .
Also same size small packet come from US to canada at cost of US 12 averege , and if I ship same coin to midwest US it cost CDN 28 ,
So Canada Post is complete rip off for bussiness and personal
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Nephologia replied on Permalink
Cheaper to ship outside Canada . . .
Oh, GOD! I have just spent 4 days wading through all the charts and pdfs on Canada Post's website, and I have discovered all the same things you did . . . just now found your old blog post. I used to ship internationally from the States and am now in Western BC wanting to continue this type of shipping. How maddening! It boggles me that there is not comparable Packet service within the country. Thanks for this post of yours. I feel slightly better that I'm not the only person freaked out by the nonsensical rates system!
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David Grant replied on Permalink
Tell me about it...
Yeah, it is totally nonsensical. I'm glad someone read it and found it informative. I should probably summarize it in some HTML tables or something to make it a bit easier to read.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Yes, please do (summarize in
Yes, please do (summarize in tables Canada post rip off charges).
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
re: mailing absurdity
i like your post and totally agree i like the way you calculated the costs. This does irritate me also...I mean how is a person like me supposed to sell anything on ebay when the shipping cost are outrageous and people feel like they are getting scammed!!!
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
canada post
most companies have inconsistencies in their business. so are we picking on canada post because its government associated or because they deserve to be picked on?
i agree their rates are high, and service seems to depend on the mood the postal employees are in the day your parcel passes through their hands.
however that seems to be the same with most service oriented businesses. try getting the attention of sales staff in any big box store when the supervisors aren't around....good luck! too busy discussing boyfriends, girlfriends, parties etc.
everyone is afraid to complain about meals in restaurants due to media coverage about what happens to your food when you send it back!
seems to me there are problems in every industry.........
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David Grant replied on Permalink
try again?
"are we picking on canada post because its government associated or because they deserve to be picked on?"
No one is "picking on" anyone. Only raising valid points about their inconsistent/non-sensical rates. No, the fact they they are a publically-owned company has no bearing on my comments.
"i agree their rates are high"
I never said their rates were high, I was pointing out differences in their rates. On the whole, Canada Post is cheap, it is the cheapest way to ship in Canada, after all, for parcels, and they are the only one that does letters.
"service seems to depend on the mood the postal employees"
I never mentioned service...but whatever, bring that up if you want. Their service is great, I had one thing break but I was covered by their insurance and the lady that handled my claim was awesome.
"seems to me there are problems in every industry"
Maybe there are problems in every industry, maybe there aren't...so...what?
Do you have ANYTHING to say about the things that I actually addressed in my article?
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Perry Crann replied on Permalink
My only complaint about
My only complaint about Canada Post service is I wish that all the employees where required to have basic keyboarding skills. Often representatives use one finger to type postal codes and weight info, it just drives me nuts. It is terribly inefficient and if they learned to keyboard properly it would increase their productivity immensely.
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Mr. Anonymous replied on Permalink
I think the word you are looking for is 'typing'. The 'keyboard' is a relatively new invention. Typing has been around for over a century.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Yep, and being a jackass has been around for even longer.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
learn to spell
You might want to learn how to spell before you criticize typing skills.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Well for the pay rate of
Well for the pay rate of 10.25 an hour that these clerks are making and the amount of stress that has been put on them by Canada Post without any benifits at all I wouldn't be complaining about how fast the clerk is typing most Government employees are all over paid and can't type woth a sh...t so please!!!!
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
You said they are paid $10.50
You said they are paid $10.50 per hour... The average wage is $21 per hour, and the starting pay is something like $18. I know, I contacted Canada Post for a job.
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Sunhang replied on Permalink
Gas Prices
I believe Canada Post may have higher prices then USPS due to the price of gasoline to drive a truck to Toronto as opposed to USPS driving a truck to Florida with their prices. Also, remember Canada's highway systems are not as advanced as the US and many areas of Canada are much more mountainous then the US. As well, it is difficult to compare USPS and Canada Post as equals, I believe, as per their website, USPS has yearly revenues of $70 billion. I'm not sure what Canada Post is, but I'm certain it's not even in the same ball park considering our population is 10% that of the US.
I also am not sure what the prices are to mail an item, but weight cannot be the only factor. If a very large box is mailed and it weighs only as much as the box, how much will Canada Post charge to ship this package across the country? $10 or $20 or $30. That's absolutely ridiculus. They would lose so much money, it wouldn't be worth having a postal system at all.
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Euroguy replied on Permalink
Canada Post
I would not be so quick to defend Canada Post. I realize this is an old blog, but it is fitting, in that I just sent Canada Mail an email on this very concern.
If it was strictly a matter of distance and roads, then why on most shipments, can a US business ship a parcel to anywhere in Canada, cheaper than a Canadian business can ship the same package. to the same address in Canada. Also the discounts that Canada Post gives to business customers are ridiculously small, when you factor in that a typical business can provide more revenue in one day for Canada Post , than a regular "citizen" will provide in one year. Also about the whole volume and weight thing, compare this little example:
Burnaby BC to Calgary Alberta (distance 411 miles, 85g package, 6"x4"x1" size) (Tiny weight and volume) = $9.73 (before small discount)
Burnaby BC to New York, USA: (distance 2416 miles, 349g package, 10"x8"x8") (Larger weight and volume and distance) = $8.90 (before small discount)
Conclusion: Package to New York: traveling a distance 6 times greater, weighing 4 times more, and a cubic volume 26 times greater) = $1 less
Yes, you can purchase pre-paid envelopes to slightly lower the cost, but they are only price effective on products under 1.5 inches in thickness.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Canada Post
I couldn't agree more I can't even make any sales because of the price it is to ship within Canada. The discount they give you is incredibly small I wouldn't even call that a discount! I am very boggled how are people suppose to make money of there merchandise?
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Canada post/us post
Here`s an even worse example. I know someone who has a business in Burnaby BC and they pay someone to deliver packages across the border to the US post office so they can ship a small box to someone IN BURNABY. Even paying someone to drive it across the border, it`s STILL about 1/2 the price. And the box is approx the size of a cube of butter, maybe slightly bigger and heavier.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
That may be true they do
That may be true they do that... but if the person's business is in Burnaby, and the shipping address is in Burnaby... why drive to the US to mail something in the town they live in? Why not just DRIVE it to the persons address? Would be way cheaper than Canada Post, and still cheaper than driving to the US and paying USPS.
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Kimberley replied on Permalink
Canada Post
I don't know how they factor in the distance. A package that is 15cm x 15cm x 15cm and weighs .242kg cost me 5.97$ to go to Texas, 11.87$ to go to Nepean,ON, and 12.35$ to go to B.C. I'm in Cornwall,ON Nepean is just an hour's drive from me
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chris c. replied on Permalink
Cost of Gasoline is a Fallacious Argument
"I also am not sure what the prices are to mail an item, but weight cannot be the only factor. If a very large box is mailed and it weighs only as much as the box, how much will Canada Post charge to ship this package across the country? $10 or $20 or $30. That's absolutely ridiculus. They would lose so much money, it wouldn't be worth having a postal system at all."
Your argument about 'cost of gasoline' as a reason for the outlandish costs of shipping by Canada Post is absolutely ludicrous. If Business in general and the retail sector in particular used Canada Post for shipping, the country would be simply paralysed. Can you seriously imagine paying $20 shipping for that cabbage from Ontario and waiting 4 to 10 days for it to arrive?
Come On!
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tom Morgan replied on Permalink
Setting shipping costs for ebay sales
I am selling prints on ebay. The prints are all the same and I ship them in mailing tubes that are all the same. The weight and dimensions of the parcels are therefore all the same. Where the difference comes in is the cost of mailing them via canada post. In all cases I ask for the cheepest rate. I live in Vancouver so here are the rates from Vancouver to: Florida=$6.65, Ireland=$7.50, Central Mexico (Juanijuato) $7.50, Mississauga, Ontario =$10.90 !!!!
If I mail it to myself it costs $6.66. This is one cent more than it costs to Florida. The size of my parcel puts it in the small packets catagory. I'm sure this is the largest category of parcels sent, so If you live in Canada and are sending to Canada, you should be very proud to be contributing to the CEO of Canada Post's retirement fund!
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David Grant replied on Permalink
That's crazy. I think probably what is happening is that we are not contributing to the CEO of Canada Post's retirement fund, so much as we are subsidizing shipping costs to places like the Northwest Territories and all the other places in Canada that are off the beaten path (which is a large percentage of Canada).
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gwen replied on Permalink
I have been reading through
I have been reading through and wonder if it is Canada Posts lack of reasonable rates that prevent sales on ebay. Looking at furniture on the Canadian auction site there are very few sellers that will ship. Almost all state pick up only and a great deal of them have 0 bids. Is there a reasonable and safe way to send furniture or collectibles across the country?
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
canada post
Yes I agree the pricing system makes no sense at all. You should try working the counter at Canada Post and listen to the customers Gasps and exclamations of disbelief of the prices to mail a tiny light thing. It shames me. And no the money is not going into the workers wages....offices are terribly understaffed all over the country.
Call Canada Post and complain. Complain to your MP's. Canada Post makes huge profits. It's time they invested these profits into improving their services.
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David Grant replied on Permalink
Complaining to MPs
Good idea. Maybe I'll write a "Dear MP," letter here on this blog post and tell people to print it and mail it to their MP.
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Peter Carter replied on Permalink
Subsidizing NWT
If you have ever lived in the north, you would quickly realize most services are not subsidized. Just pay for one air fair (of a completely constantly booked aircraft) and your opinion would change. At this point, I could rant forever....
Sure, there are some essential services get a bit of padding, but it is the people that live there pay the brunt for everything.
All this to say, the subsidizing is more likely to happen just outside of the large urban areas. Services are expected to be the same but do not have the volume to actually support it. People in remote areas expect higher rates, and generally have to pay it.
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Lauren replied on Permalink
Canada Post is losing out...
I send out a lot of books in the mail as well. I don't even bother using Canada Post anymore. I just stack up my books until I have more than 15 of them and take an hours drive to Buffalo, NY then send them out via USPS.
That includes sending back into the country.
And we are not the only ones! The postal workers will tell us about how "Oh just yesterday there was another Canadian in here shipping out about 25 items".
Canada Post is losing business. They need to get their act together and figure out a way to lower costs because I still save, even with the rediculously high gas prices, by driving down to the USA.
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David Grant replied on Permalink
Interesting comment, maybe I
Interesting comment, maybe I should think about driving down to Blaine or Bellingham once I have a bunch of books. Actually, having a P.O. Box in Blaine has other advantages as well. I think with P.O. Boxes you can receive stuff from any of those websites that only ship to the US.
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Kimberley replied on Permalink
Interesting Comment Maybe I
If you have a ship it shop in Blaine, that might be cheaper than paying for a P.O. Box. That's what I do in Massena, I get a package shipped there and it costs me 3 bucks to pick it up; no monthly fees
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Its too bad - i'm sure the
Its too bad - i'm sure the gas money that it costs to drive an hour to Buffalo - not to mention the 2 hours out of your day probably offsets any savings that you would otherwise reap.
At least it sends Canada Post a message! :)
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adora replied on Permalink
Canada Post promotes separation!
I've been selling things on eBay. I had not gotten any Canadian buyers until yesterday. It cost me $6.20 to ship the same item to USA, $7.29 to Malaysia, but $10.53 to Vancourver! I don't even know how to list my stuff on eBay anymore, it's so hard to calculate the rate for the locals. Kindda Dilbertism!
When I asked why is it more expensive, she told me because it includes tracking. I guess we should ask WHY DO THEY FORCE TRACKING ON US when we just need it cheap?
I have lived in many different countries. For my experience, Canada Post provide the best service. I mean for the delivery speed and the state of the parcel upon arrival. I estimate that I has 1% lost and damaged postal when I was in USA. I can totally live with that error if it's cheap. I love their Media Rate for books, which promotes reading. It's so hard for me to buy or sell books now.
I've only lived in Canada for 3.5 years. This kind of Anti-business regulation never stopped surprising me. Is it because of socialism? (but it's not like that in Italy.)
I don't feel like doing business with Canadians out of my province. Don't you think Canada Post is promoting separation?
I'm going to email this to Freakonomics blog and see what the economists think.
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Jeff Krebs replied on Permalink
I agree, I ship out DVDs to
I agree,
I ship out DVDs to both US and Canada.
Light Package is 4.50 to USA.
The same DVD is 13.50 in Canada
I'm going to check out lettermail today.
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David Grant replied on Permalink
You might not be able to
You might not be able to ship a DVD by letter mail. Although the dimensions are ok, I think lettermail has to be paper... Unfortunately we have no media mail in Canada.
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Dr Anon replied on Permalink
I ship DVDs and games via
I ship DVDs and games via lettermail at least once a week and as long as the package fits the dimensions it goes out for around 2$.
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Tyler Mitchell replied on Permalink
Cheaper to Brazil
I just shipped two "small packets" from BC - one to Toronto, the other to Sao Paolo, Brazil. Guess which cost more and only went by land?
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Canadian International Post
because my sister likes to receive items from Holland, you know...And she has a Egyptian husband who is not so nice. I am afraid he will spend the money then. My sister said the post office in Toronto said to her that the parcel was delivered to her, but that nobody was at home at the time of delivery or they say that the postal code isn't correct. I mean: her name is right and the street and housenumber, so what are they talking about...bullshit...If I receive a parcel in Holland, they throw a deliverynote into your postbox and you can catch the parcel at the postoffice with the deliverynote within 3 weeks....the last parcel (I finally find the Canadian Post website, so I could see the state of delivery of the parcel) was sent back within a week. And the date was the 27h of february. I haven't received it back yet.
I am very angry about the post sending in Canada. My sister lives in
Toronto. I live in the Netherlands in Europe. Every year I send a parcel
weight about 10 kilos to her and her 7 children. In december 2006 I send
her a parcel which only came to her after about 8 weeks. Last year, in july
2007, I sent her again a parcel. Within 4 days she had the parcel. But last
4th of february 2008 I send her a parcel and according the site of TNT
(Dutch post) the parcel wasn't deliverd yet. I spend a lot of money per
parcel (about 54 Euros) and in the parcel are clothes and toys for the
children. I daren't send anymore parcels now to my sister. My sister has
almost no money to live on. That's why I am sending her these parcels. I
hope someone has a solution for me of a website from the Toronto post so I
can complain to them.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
Canada Post is perhaps one of
Canada Post is perhaps one of the most expensive national postal service in the world for shipping large packages. It is a federal monopoly that gauges customers because there are not many options. For example, two years ago when I lived in New York, I mailed home(to Canada) 3 large boxes, each weighing between 10-15 kg, for less than $50 USD each. From France last year, I sent home a 20 kg box for 100 euros. Last week, I tried to mail 3 boxes to Europe that weighed next to nothing. Roughly two kilos each. Canada Post wanted almost 200 CAD each box! They only have two options. 5 day expediated service or by land, which would take 5-6 weeks. No middle ground. In the end my friends will not receive their Christmas presents in time. I ended up paying almost 100 CAD each for the surface option, which is still ridiculously expensive. There is no point in complaining to a Federally approved monopoly. They don't care and won't listen.
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