Archive for December, 2009

Addressing the Canadian Age of Sexual Consent

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Canada’s government is failing to protect our children from sexual predators. Under the Criminal Code of Canada it is currently not a criminal offence for an adult to engage in sexual activity with a person aged 14 years or older if the young person consents to sexual activity, as long as the adult is not in a position of trust or authority.

Canada’s age of consent to sexual activity offers Canadian youth no protection from sexual exploitation. This has resulted in Canada becoming a preferred destination for sexual predators to prey on our innocent children. There is a need to protect out children and this should be the Governments highest priority.

In 1999 the Department of Justice’s consultation paper view that the current age of consent was too low. In 2002 Over 40,000 people sent a letter to Justice Minister Cauchon asking that the age of consent be raised to 18. The Canadian Police Association has twice requested the age to be raised.

In early November 2004 , HELENA GUERGIS, MP prepared a petition asking the Martin Liberals to raise the age of sexual consent from 14 to 16 years of age. A copy of her petition is available in each of her offices. You can read MP HELENA GUERGIS thoughts at the following website. http://www.helenaguergis.com/view-Nov22_04.htm

It was in 1987, the Mulroney government reduced the age of consent for sex in the Criminal Code to age 14. Since that date the Liberal government has refused to amend this law and raise the age of consent to 18.

Our government is sending an open invitation for predators to focus on our children. Might I add now if a man sleeps with a 13 year old he is put away for rape.What does the difference of one year make as far as maturity ?

Something In Canada law is seriously wrong. Because of this low age a growing number of men are now targeting Canadian children for pornography and sex purposes.

C.A.S.E. has started a petition concerning asking the government to up the age of consent to 18.Click Here for Petition on the Age of Consent

As a Canadian I’m requesting you to please write to the Parliament of Canada to amend the Criminal Code of Canada and raise the age of consent for sexual activity from 14 years to 16 years of age.

Please write to:

Minster Paul Martin

Prime Minister’s Office

80 Wellington Street, 2nd Floor

Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2

Tel: (613) 992-4211

Fax: (613) 941-6900

The Honourable Anne McLellan

Minister of Justice

Justice Building

284 Wellington Street

Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H8

Tel: (613) 992-4621

Fax (613) 990-7255

Your MP

House of Commons

Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6

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For Wordpress users version 1.5 new feature “Pages”

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

After many requests from wordpress users, the latest version of wordpress has a build in option to create static pages. You can use static pages for an about page, contact page, a links page, etc. This dreamhost review page is an example of a stand alone static page. The advantages are that you can add stand alone content to its own page, outside the normal weblog hierarchy. Pages have the same editing options, plug-in functionality and themes as posts. Or you can customize the stand alone page as much as you want. Static pages also help search engine indexing, as opposed to dynamic urls.

The comprehensive overview and instructions are on the wordpress codex “pages” page.

“A Note on Nomenclature

A page can be static or dynamic. Static pages are those which have been created once and do not have to be regenerated every time a person visits it. In contrast, dynamic pages do need to be regenerated every time they are viewed; code for what to generate has been specified by the author, but not the actual page itself. These use extensive PHP code which is evaluated each time the page is visited, and the content is thus generated on the fly, upon each new visit.”

This article is perfect for a quick blog post. The byline need not be included. Please publish this article as is, including all links.

Byline- Ron Robinson maintains a personal weblog about science fiction writing and a
Weblog about profitable online publishing.

A Fresh Advancement for Cosmetic Dentistry Techniques and What this Do for All of Us

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

You might believe that esthetic dentistry is all about techniques dealing with that flawless smile as well as about looking your most stunning. Nothing could be more mistaken, however. For good alveolar hygiene may set off even broader effects than you might grasp. Hence, it has a significant bearing on your entire well-being and can ultimately determine how routinely you will turn ill. Many studies have reported some very alarming findings specifically regarding periodontic disease.

Scientific endeavor has shown a compelling relationship between gingivitis and heart problems. Those who are suffering from gum disease have about a 25% larger possibility of contracting coronary diseases as well. The grounds of this is believed to be the diffusion of infection causing chemicals released by unhealthy gum tissue. The essential point is that an esthetic orthodontist will not solely mend dental caries, he is likewise able to recognize the onset of gum disease and will deal with it before it turns into an endemic affliction. Naturally, the promise of that movie star smile is a challenge that is hard to resist, and with the help of the most recent developments in esthetic dentistry the operation has become considerably easier and will actually prevent the level of pain accompanying it in the past as just about every cosmetic dentist who keeps an eye on recent trends has a great many of the cutting edge options at her disposal. Here’s a few techniques by which such a perfect movie star smile has actually become a realizable tangible option. The whitening of your teeth by utilizing in-office tooth whitening technology can make you appear a great deal younger. Laser whitening is employed by using a certain manner of gel and can ordinarily be done in about an hour in the dentist’s practice, subject to the teeth’s general state.

Molded out of materials like silicon dioxide or quartz that are blended with a resin, tooth bonding may also be accomplished at the dentist’s practice and coated straight onto the tooth. It’s then hardened by a special laser following which the bonding matter is shaped to repair cavities, chips, discolorations and gaps. True, weakening of this material may happen in as little as a couple of years, but it can well last up to fifteen without a problem, reliant on how much intense care & attention you have taken to preserve it. Dental veneers are typically made up of porcelain and are applied to the teeth with very little to no pain killers. Porcelain veneers are the first choice of virtually all cosmetic dental practitioners and are able to give you back that flawless smile no matter how badly disfigured those teeth of yours may be currently. Due to the awesome advances in cosmetic dental medicine during the past few years, you can not only realistically hope to get that untainted smile — you can also check out a vast number of your greater health concerns in one go…

Hints for Slimming down without Harming Your Health

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Morbid has hit frightening proportions and often ends up in an untimely demise or a serious disease like diabetes. And while it is in your interest to lose all that surplus weight, it isn’t done easily. To prepare, you must discover how to lose the extra pounds. Do not forget that it has taken years to put the surplus weight on, but losing it in as much time is often monotonous. Restricting what you eat for months on end and never seeing the results can get you down. You need to get a program to help you to shed the surplus weight quickly, but sometimes, this frequently results in more medical issues than it resolves. So it’s essential to take into account all the programs available and then make your choice. Although gastric bypass surgery is a routine surgical procedure at present, it can result in some really dreadful as well as severe consequences. Binging after gastric bypass surgery regularly ends up in you being very flatulent or even vomiting. Numerous people who opt for surgery likewise experience food intolerance, irregularity in bowel movements and the inability to compensate for cold temperatures. It is evident why this risky surgery isn’t the right choice for everybody.

For anyone wishing to achieve their recommended weight rapidly, fat-burners offer a great solution. fat burners supercharge the metabolic processes in the body through increasing your body temperature, which mimics the effects of physical exercise to burn off the excess fat. Different forms of fat-burners use synephrine, sesamin, and asprin to increase the body’s metabolic processes and shed those surplus pounds. These active ingredients are now manufactured in a liquid form. Of course they start acting nearly straightaway because the compounds are always digested a great deal faster.

Your body’s nutritional needs are paramount irrespective of what program you use to lose weight. Weight loss plans and surgery will frequently cut the amount of essential nutrients available from your food. Therefore, make sure you stay well hydrated and find the right multi-vitamin when you are trying to get rid of a few pounds. Working out speeds up weight loss, especially when you mix muscle building routines with stamina building exercise to boost the rate at which you burn fatty tissue.

Everybody longs for a magic way to lose weight instantly. Taking care of your health must be at the center of your efforts. Finding the best diet plan for your life-style, working out on a regular basis, and taking a good supplement if you need to, is probably all the info you need to shed weight fast…

Importance of Apparently Useless Knowledge

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

For some unidentified reason, humans are glad to treasure and from time to time take up random useless knowledge. This useless knowledge is the resultant of millenia of fact collection and organization performed by humans all over the Earth. Our draw to useless knowledge facts may be just as much a byproduct of our personal existential impulse to accumulate information to help us identify ourselves within that world. Our identity may very well endure in the countless knowledge gathered since the beginning of wrote human culture.

While we are oftentimes confused about the meaning of these factoids, we are nonethless driven by them. Lists of these bits of knowledge have been compiled for ages. Even in the modern era, we see them in tomes like “Guinness World Records”, whose publication has been in the hands of many hundreds of thousands members of our species. Within these lists, we find that our own different concerns and neuroticisms aren’t so peculiar. This provides us with a level of comfort that may help us continue moving in the mode we have become used to.

If we existed on a cultural space whose goals and needs were not accumulated, our our own eternal spirit might also be mangled by time.

Finding a Job Using the Internet to Your Advantage

Monday, December 28th, 2009

The Internet offers huge opportunities for a job hunter, but also presents several potential challenges. It also adds several complexities, and a lot more things to think about…and be careful of.

Job hunting needs to be thought of as a highly personal, highly directed marketing operation where you are the product. Your resume is an advertisement. Your extended network is your source for information.

So where does the web fit in? At AA-Careers, we recently posted a job on Craigslist and got hundreds and hundreds applications in a calendar week. For a single job. That’s increased competition.

Had a strong person gotten ahold of us before we posted the ad, they could have landed the position before having all that competition. How? By finding someone at our office who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew of the job for at least 11 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?

Be sure to check your cover letter and resume carefully! When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily removed with a fast triage process. How? The same way any employer would. By passing over resumes where the objective didn’t match our job posting. By rejecting candidates whose cover letters gave us reasons not to hire them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating prospects whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by eliminating job hunters who didn’t bother to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.

So the good news is that job sites give you a sense of who is hiring, and for what kinds of positions. But once those jobs are posted, the competition is intense. You can still compete, if you have a well written resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.

Another issue to be aware of is how quickly and easily you can be looked up on the net. As we Googled several job hunters, we ran into some pictures and comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing insane, but enough to tilt our thoughts about who to hire.

AA-Careers provides a broad set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.

Be careful out there, and good hunting!

Guaranteed Satisfaction at 1800Flowers.com

Monday, December 28th, 2009

1800Flowers.com started out as a retail offline floral retailer about 35 years ago. Established by Jim McCann, the organization simply kept on growing and over the years it has become the biggest business of its type in America. Customer care and flowers of the best possible quality are the foundations of its success. Even at the most frantic times of year like Mother’s Day and Valentines Day, each client can be sure that their order will be treated with care and attention.

What makes 1800Flowers.com such a winner is its full variety of gifts. Among the blooms available are exquisite flowers at the height of freshness like lilies, gladioli, sunflowers and asters. Also on offer is a fantastic range of food gifts like epicurean foods or boxes of candies. You can include various extras with your floral gift like the many varieties of gift basket or a cute teddy bear. Therefore, 1800Flowers.com has bouquets for everyone on every occasion.

It is easy to make your selection 24 hours a day either via calling or online. To be truthful, it’s never the wrong time to send bouquets or gifts. It’s easy to send one of these great products to express your thanks, or show respect and appreciation to an employee, co-worker, or loyal customer. Many floral options exist to help you say the right things to someone special. During the holidays you can treat your friends and family with seasonal blooms, decorations or wreaths made from evergreens. Say thank you to someone by sending a bunch of pretty flowers or a house plant. Having flowers delivered to a funeral can demonstrate your fondness or respect for the deceased and offer comfort to those left behind. Why don’t you please a new mom with a colorful bouquet and send a special present for her newborn? Customer satisfaction is assured, regardless of what you pick out. Next day delivery is assured on your order and gifts can be with the recipient on the day they are ordered as long as they are ordered before 2 PM local time. Anybody who orders is welcomed in a courteous manner by an employee or or a website that makes buying the perfect gift very easy. Sending floral arrangements and gifts anywhere has never been simpler

Windshield Repairing Service

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Replacing or repairing a chipped windscreen can be a simple or tedious task of owning a car, depending on the approach you take. Windscreen replacement is not an easy task; it requires strength, a pair of stable hands, and a willingness to follow instructions cautiously.

All cars are unique, most frequently, loosening the urethane that supports the windscreen in place will be the first step, then raising it out its place with caution. Once this step is done, using the a utility knife the remaining urethane must be cleared away to make room for the new windshield. The new windshield is then affixed into position, and enforced with bolts. The most important step is to make sure that the new urethane seal is put in place the right way, because any leakages can cause wind to get into the vehicle, totally ruining the experience of driving.

You do not always need to replace your windscreen if it has a chip, it may be possible to repair it instead of replacing it. Windscreen repair is a considerably easier process. Repair kits can be found in almost every auto parts store, and involves sealing off the chip with resin. The resin the clear and does not leave a mark, and once the procedure is completed, it is almost impossible to notice that the windshield was ever chipped off. Windscreen repair kits can be unreliable when used to repair large cracks, however, and can sometimes make the problem worse, needing a replacement. This job is often better left to professionals.

If you decide to let a professional deal with your windscreen problems, you may be delighted to find that very often you do not need to bring your car to the garage. Many repair companies offer mobile services, which can be completed in a matter of an hour or less, even if the windshield requires to be replaced completely. Mobile windshield repair services are able to perform the service at your home, or at work, making the process an extremely convenient one.

My Best Pointers in Regards to Optometric Instruments

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Optometrists will find their career calling for much more than professional knowledge, more important even than their tradecraft; because beyond this what they actually require first and foremost are the ultimate tools to do the job to help them produce results as promptly as possible. We will look at three forms of this now, focusing on assessment, the comfort of your patients, and supply storage, and what to remember in purchasing each — be they used, remanufactured, new or refurbished. Dynamic contour, applanation, and handheld disposable models are among the different styles of tonometer available to buy and necessary for the measurement of intraocular pressure. A combination of models or a particular personal preference may be the choice of every individual optometrist. The tonometers you pick out to work with ought to be top quality. This is purely because accuracy with this kind of optometric equipment produces a significant difference to the diagnostic process.

Make sure that in spite of patients’ physical differences they can all be able to attend appointments at your practice without discomfort sans you having to sacrifice anything in terms of your capacity to position patients effectively for your exam. You’ll find plenty of exam chairs readily available capable of supporting any patient, from largest to smallest, and they can even do so without discomfort in your preferred position. Your equipment must be stored, and ideally in a place that can be easily accessed when you need it. Typically this calls for a treatment cabinet boasting a number of important features — movable shelving, leveling glides in case of unsteady floors, and so on and so forth. Such cabinets can swiftly be moved to whichever part of your practice currently requires their contents and to store the equipment you’ll find that you employ. Take care to secure a cabinet that won’t be too bulky to shift easily. Just three of the items of opthalmic equipment that may affect your capacity to do in your job are the treatment cabinet, the exam chair, and the tonometer. Thus, begin your equipment purchasing only after positively establishing what you definitely require. Sub optimal gear can only cause you all sorts of problems, but the more user-friendly to use and the more ergonomic your gear, the better you should perform. The difference this is certain to make is genuinely staggering. As a result, the instruments you buy can have significant influence on how well you do in your professional role as a whole, and equally the survival of the practice.

When Did You Last Re-examine Your Individual Savings Accounts?

Friday, December 25th, 2009

With the financial turmoil earlier in the year and the threat of continued global recession still causing issues for investors, it might not seem to be the best time to review your Maxi and Mini Individual Savings Accounts and investments.

Even So, in many respects this could be the ideal opportunity to take out a review. History has recorded that most savers buy ISA’s at the peak of the market and tend to dispose at the bottom. In reality, investors should be buying at the lowest point and hopefully selling at the peak of a market. It is true, though the stock market has recovered considerably since March 2009, it could be debated that investors should now be deliberating the investment opportunities that are open to them.

If you have a portfolio of isa investments with different investment providers it may be worth reviewing your investment holdings to ensure that your existing investments fit your attitude towards saving. You might also check into to make sure the actual investment funds are performing well in comparison to their competition.

Savers can sometimes find that if their investment portfolios have not been examined for a long time, the level of risk they might be taking might not reflect the level risk, they would be ready to bear.

If you would like to check out more about the current Isa Investment and limits, please see the Idividual Savings Accounts part of our website. Investors might also consider taking a peek at our investment philosphy brochure and how to interpret their attitude to risk.