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Hi. I'm looking for advice/others who have PCOS and how you've dealt with the symptoms NOT relating to fertility.
I'm 22 and was diagnosed with PCOS back when I was 19. I had ultrasounds and hormone tests done and I have ALL the symptoms except for the excessive hair growth. Pretty textbook case actually.
I am still having troubles managing my symptoms. I got the acne under the control with a BC pill (no more pimples!!) but my weight is bothering me. I'm 240 lb. I'm giving myself a year to have SIGNIFICANT weight loss and if I don't, I'm getting weight loss surgery done. I've already been approved by a nutritionist, a doctor, and a psychologist for the surgery if that is what I decide. I worked my way up recently to 2000mg of Metformin a day. It's still causing nausea in me but I have lost some weight. What dosages of Metformin are you on? I am very, very insulin resistant. Eating pasta will cause my blood sugar to SPIKE like you'd never believe.
I've been having problems trying to find support for my PCOS problems because all the boards on it are centered on how to get pregnant while I am only trying to get ALL of my symptoms under control. Due to major genetic issues in my family as well as my own personal factors, I have chosen not to have children at all or pursue ways to preserve my fertility. I am with a wonderful boyfriend who supports my choice and just wants me to be healthy and happy. I just want to stop having the occasional cyst, get my weight down to 160, control the hormone fluctuations, and make it so I DON'T get Diabetes in the future. I am terrified of that.
I hope I'm not going to be banned or anything. I am just looking for PCOS support from people who have struggled with the symptoms, regardless if they are TTC or not. Thanks.
I have had great success with Estrosense, a herbal medication. I took 4 pills a day and it eliminated virtually all my symptoms (I know you aren't concerned with fertity, but it regulated my cycles to a "perfect" 27-28 days, and I got pregnant with my youngest on the first try). I haven't noticed any side effects to the medication. Walking lots also seemed to help.
I would love to get my cycles to normal. Even if you are not TTC, I think it's a great thing to have!! Congrats on getting pregnant!
I got my period for the first time when I was 11, and I was never, ever "normal" so I hope that someday, I can be. I like being able to predict my hormone cycle and "when it comes". I am normal now but I am on the Pill and I know I can't stay on that forever so I would like to be "normal" without the BC pill. I will definitely check out the herbal medication that you mentioned.
How have you lost weight? I am doing a low carb diet and metformin but it's soooo slow.
I would love to do something about this stupid facial hair. I'm a GIRL. I'm not supposed to have a MUSTACHE! I'm hoping to save up and do electrolysis in a few years.
I'm enjoying not having a period right now - my last was in July of 2010. I've been pregnant and breastfeeding since then. I have tried Vitex in the past, but it didn't do anything much for me.
I just got back on Metformin about a month ago and I've already lost 5 pounds. Metformin makes me lose weight like crazy. I was at my lowest weight ever before I got pregnant with DD thanks to it and now I'm hovering around my peak again. Nothing fits right and I feel frumpy no matter what I'm wearing. I'm really looking forward to dropping a size or two.
Loving wife of my gamer boy Michael. Blog link in my profile!
Sorry to hear about the excessive hair. :( I am not sure why I don't have any. When I was diagnosed, I had some "peach fuzz" on my back but it was not visible and it's gone now. My testosterone level is rather high too so I don't know why I don't have a mustache trying to come in.
I have lost about 4 lb on the Metformin already on this dosage. I was doing 500-1000mg for a LONG time but it was immediate release so i kept getting ill. The extended release seems to be much better. I hope I can continue to lose weight on it like you have!
I am just so desperate to get healthier again. When I was 10, before pubery set in, I was so lean, fit, healthy, and full of energy. I really want to get closer to that that in terms of energy and fitness. Being 160 lb would be such a blessing and I know I'd look and FEEL great!
Hi kitkat, I've done some research on different supplements and written a brief review of the literature. I am trying to get pregnant, so the focus is definitely on cycle regulation. However, most of the research I link to references the effects of different supplements not just on ovulation but also on inflammation, oxidative stress, and insulin resistance - all integral to controlling PCOS. Most of the research on these supplements also document success in lowering BMIs, testosterone, insulin sensitivity, blood glucose, etc.
Also, I just bought a book that has helped me plan my meals. Turns out I am eating the right food, just not in the right proportions. This book lists suggestions for appropriate breakfast, lunch, and dinners, as well as snacks. I found it to be incredibly helpful.
Hope this helps!
Me (33) + Him (34) = US 10.3.09
Trying to conceive since 1.6.11. Diagnosed as phlegm stagnant with PCOS and a blocked tube.
First loss on 3.5.12. Second loss on 5.19.12. Cautiously optimistic that the 3rd time really is a charm. EDD 8.7.2013.
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text: Mike Fisher for 105.3 The Fan | CBSDFW.com January 21, 2014 1:28 PM ALLAS, Texas (105.3 THE FAN) – It was the middle of July in 2006, and Troy Aikman was in possession of football's most demanding schedule – overflowing with the rights and responsibilities that come with existing as a freshly-minted three-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. There was mostly the business of leading a football team. But Aikman couldn't leave one member of that team behind. "It meant everything in the world to me,'' Michael Irvin recently told me, reflecting on Aikman's voluntary appearance in a Dallas courtroom to support a teammate embroiled in a sordid second-degree felony drug case. "It meant more than football, more than black and white. It meant he was my brother.'' Aikman and Irvin had forged an unusually close alliance as their Cowboys built from a 1-15 season to those Super Bowls. I have no indication that Josh Brent and Sean Lee share a similar bond. Yet there was Lee, attending Tuesday's closing arguments in a Dallas courtroom sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with Brent, who now awaits jury deliberation after being charged with intoxication manslaughter in the December 2012 death of his friend, Cowboys practice-squadder Jerry Brown. Read the rest: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/01/21/bigger-than-football-cowboys-lee-attends-brent-trial/

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Contributors' Marginalia: Austin Segrest on "Winter Inlet Arrangement" by Hastings Hensel
Hensel's poem operates in the Bishop-esque mode of reading the correspondences of a seascape: we might think, for example, of the glaring clutter of "The Bight" or the steely fishscaled disuse of "At the Fishhouses." Hensel's foregone conclusion—that all is pain—reminds one of Randall Jarrell's "90 North": "…Pain comes from the darkness / And we call it wisdom. It is pain." The tested assumption in these great midcentury poems is the pathetic fallacy—projecting (imagined) feeling onto the (real) inanimate. Jarrell's poem pushes the limits of such a potentially corresponding landscape to the extreme of polar desolation, finding, like Stevens' "Snow Man," hoary blank "meaninglessness." But where Stevens discriminates winter's real "nothing" from the poet's falsely (and pusillanimously) projected, apocalyptic "nothing," Jarrell names it "pain." What else would we expect with Freud in the water and confessionalism on the rise? Stevens might tell Jarrell you're projecting your emotions; Jarrell might tell Stevens you're afraid of the pain like everyone else but trying to be stoic and wise. Either way, the text of nature yields for Stevens, and after him, for Jarrell and Hensel, a grounding, a sobering. It seems likely that war is at the back of these very American curtailments, squelching natural-emotional hermeneutic transport: for Stevens, WWI, for Jarrell, WWII, and for Hensel, possibly, take your pick. So goes the modernist narrative. Interestingly, Bishop's "Bight" alludes overtly to Baudelaire, proto-modern coiner and deconstructer of such "Correspondences." Bridging European Romanticism (the ideal moral instruction of Nature's teachings) and American modernist meaninglessness, Baudelaire reads in Nature synesthesia, sensory derangement and intoxication. For all his Dionysian materialism, the intended effect of such derangement (a kind of willful misreading some would say) is still "les transports de l'esprit,"—though the poem's final clause is telling: "et des sens." "The Bight," then, reads like a kind of post-Baudelairean hangover. "If one were Baudelaire," she writes, "one could probably hear it turning to marimba music." Bishop's poem reels to the residual rhythm but falls nauseously short of such surreal correspondence. In contrast, Hensel's poem is a pointedly sober, tensely muscular "Arrangement," though it could also evoke a hangover. With such high-flying notions of "les transports de l'esprit" thoroughly grounded, Hensel's ordering principle, like a baseline of the remaining "des sens," is "pain." Which is not nothing, especially if you buy Burke, who finds that pain is the primary cause of the sublime.
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Originally from Alabama and Georgia, Austin Segrest is poetry editor of Missouri Review. His poems can be found in Yale Review, New England Review, and Threepenny Review.


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Update: Arizona officially cut Kolb on Friday, AZCardinals.com's Darren Urban reports.
Recommendation: The Cards made the move minutes after news broke regarding Kolb's unwillingness to take a pay cut. Kolb shouldn't have trouble catching on with another team, though his fantasy outlook figures to remain dreary no matter where he goes.


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Target: New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly
Goal: Hold CEO legally accountable for the animal abuse he committed on camera
Recently, Daniel Padilla, the CEO of a luxury charter-jet company Greystone Aviation Services, was caught on the security camera of his high-rise Hell's Kitchen apartment elevator beating and abusing his St. Bernard puppy.
The eight-month-old puppy, named Boston, had run off after Padilla had forgotten to bring a leash when he picked the dog up from doggy daycare. Padilla, annoyed at having to run after the puppy, proceeded to unleash his anger on the defenseless baby animal, kicking and punching him in the head and side of his body. An employee of the apartment building saw the abuse and called the police. When the police arrived, they brought the wounded puppy to a vet who confirmed Boston had sustained painful injuries from his abuse. Dr. Bonnie Wong, who treated Boston, reported that he would wince when she touched his body.
Despite a confession from Padilla himself, eyewitness testimony from the New York Police Department, and videotaped evidence of this powerful man abusing a helpless animal while trapped in an elevator, all charges against him have been mysteriously dropped and the dog is still in his care.
Animal abuse and cruelty has no place in a civilized society, and we cannot allow the rich and powerful to get away with i. We cannot afford to set this precedent. We cannot allow Daniel Padilla to go unpunished.
Please sign this petition to demand that Daniel Padilla be held legally accountable for his actions to the absolute extent of the law, and demand that his dog be removed from his guardianship immediately.
Dear Commissioner Kelly,
Recently, the CEO of Greystone Aviation Services, Daniel Padilla, was caught on camera abusing his eight-month-old St. Bernard puppy, Boston. Even though he admitted to his crime and doctors and police officers have testified to the abuse the animal endured, the city has dropped all charges against this perpetrator of animal cruelty. His poor defenseless puppy is still in his charge.
This is completely, entirely unacceptable.
Please hold Daniel Padilla accountable for his cruelty to the full extent of the law, and most importantly, remove Boston and any other animals from his guardianship. Based on his past abuse, this man seems to be unfit to care for any living animal and justice must be served.
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CEO responds to nursing home death caused by wrong meds
Investigators from the Minnesota Department of Health concluded Fair Oaks Lodge neglected three residents by giving them the wrong medication or administering medication at the wrong time, leading to the death of one of them. A spokesman for the nursing home said a human error was made, medication disbursement procedures have been changed and the home's changes recently resulted in high marks on an inspection.
In a report released Friday, March 5, MDH ruled "the preponderance of the evidence indicates that neglect did occur when medications were given in error" to a Fair Oaks resident, an incident that led to her death. The report also said other "significant medical errors" were made during that time.
"We self-reported this to the state according to the provisions of the laws, as well as knowing this was the right thing to do," said Joel Beiswenger, CEO of Fair Oaks. "We did a full disclosure discussion with the family as soon as this happened and admitted the error. We're not denying there was an error."
Beiswenger said the staff of Fair Oaks has been retrained to ensure a similar medication mix-up doesn't happen in the future.
"It's a tragic human error," he said. "We've very sorry for the family of this resident that they experienced such a significant loss. We wish we could have changed the past here, but the best we can do is do everything in our power to make sure that something like this never happens again."
The names of the residents were not included in the report, referring to them only as "Resident #1," "Resident #2" and "Resident #3." Staff members were not identified, either. Beiswenger declined to identify the woman, citing HIPAA privacy laws.
But the Pioneer Journal learned the woman was Eunice Schwartz, a homemaker who "raised five good kids -- all adults living across the U.S. -- Colorado, Utah, California and two in Minnesota," said the Schwartz family's attorney, Jeff Stowman of Detroit Lakes.
Schwartz died just 37 days after being admitted to Fair Oaks in April 2009 due to advancing Alzheimer's disease. Around 7 p.m. on June 1, 2009, Schwartz was given medication meant for another patient, including lithium carbonate, a central nervous system medication; Inderal, a medication to treat heart arrhythmias; Clozaril, an anti-psychotic used to treat schizophrenia; and Lorcet, a pain medicine made up of Tylenol and hydrocodone. The Fair Oaks employee recognized the error about 10 minutes later and contacted the hospital emergency department physician, who advised the facility staff to monitor the resident's neurological status and take her blood pressure in a half-hour. In that time, the woman's blood pressure dropped to 58/42, she was breathing with pursed lips, periods of 15-second apnea were noted and her pupils were fixed and non-responsive, according to the report. She was taken to the emergency room and admitted into the intensive care unit. She was taken off life support on June 4 and died on June 7, 2009.
On June 8, 2009, another woman was admitted to Fair Oaks for physical rehabilitation following a fall in her home. On June 12, she was also given medication meant for another patient, and was rushed to the emergency room at the hospital. That resident remained there until early the next morning, when she recovered and was discharged back to the home on June 13.
A third incident detailed in the report says a resident on May 27, 2009 was given his scheduled doses of medication too close together -- at 3:45 p.m. and 5:50 p.m. -- and became unresponsive for two to three minutes, with weak pulse and non-reactive pupils. That resident was taken to the hospital's emergency room for monitoring, and recovered with no further complications.
What came next
Beiswenger said the employee involved in the death was disciplined according to Fair Oaks' policies, retrained and eventually put back to work. He said the staff member was "a good employee who made a human error." However, that staff member eventually left Fair Oaks to seek employment elsewhere.
The family took the death hard, Stowman said. He said Eunice Schwartz's Alzheimer's wasn't very far along, but her husband of 55 years, Roy, fell and hurt his knee. He couldn't care for Eunice like he wanted to, so he planned to bring her to Fair Oaks until his knee improved to the point he could care for her again.
Stowman said Roy told him, "If I'd only been able to keep her at the house, she'd still be alive."
Eunice and Roy spent their whole adult lives together in Wadena, Stowman said. In addition to being a homemaker, she worked briefly at Pamida.
Beiswenger and Stowman both said the family and the nursing home's insurance agency and attorney are in settlement talks, "but those talks have broken down," Stowman said.
Reports of errors made
Beiswenger said the MDH report and media reports have mentioned an 18 percent medication error rate, which is misleading.
"That does not imply we have an annual error rate of 18 percent," he said.
After the incident, health department inspectors viewed two rounds of medication distribution in one day at the nursing home, and found an 18 percent error rate during those rounds. However, Beiswenger said, it's very difficult to get a perfect score, as delaying someone's medication even five minutes can result in an error.
But he said the most recent annual inspection in February found an error rate of zero.
"We're very confident right now that everything is in order," Beiswenger said. "Our residents are in great hands and very safe, and the residents' families should be at ease."
Beiswenger said he hasn't been notified of any disciplinary action by the health department. He also said the nursing home has been working with the deceased woman's family toward a settlement since the incident happened, but none has been reached yet.
Fair Oaks can appeal the findings of the MDH inspectors, but Beiswenger said he doesn't know if they'll end up doing that.
"Haven't decided yet," he said. "It's still pretty fresh for us in terms of [receiving] the final report."
He said it's the first time something like this has happened at Fair Oaks.
Stowman said he "sincerely hopes this never happens again to anybody."


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Mediterranean food is served at the Forum restaurant, and the comfy lounge bar serves refreshing cocktails. The hotel's lower level relax area offers fitness facilities, sauna, steam room, and spa services. Free WiFi is also available for easy access to email and the Web.
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Each of the 177 guestrooms has parquet flooring, and is brightly decorated with contemporary furnishings. Some rooms have ocean views, and tech conveniences include free WiFi and LCD TVs with satellite channels.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Hotel Front Maritim has its own restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner where you'll find a selection of Mediterranean items to try. Guests wishing to enjoy a drink will surely want to visit the lounge bar, equipped with a large flat-screen TV.
The relax area with sauna, steam room, and spa treatment rooms are ideal for unwinding, while the gym will help you rev up for the day.
Free WiFi is available, and you can keep up with work in the business area equipped with 6 meeting rooms and conference space. There are free newspapers available in the lobby, and with a 24-hour front desk, you can ask the multilingual staff for sightseeing or dining tips any time. Self parking and an area shuttle are available, too.
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Playmaker Palfrey is main man
Date published: 08 May 2014
BACK-TO-FORM Lewis Palfrey has been named Kingstone Press Championship One player of the week.
In the eight-try drubbing of Tony Benson's Oxford he rediscovered the spark that made him one of the division's top performers last season, landing eight goals from nine shots; kicking a 40-20 up the Whitebank slope; sending in Danny Langtree for two tries and David Cookson for another; and putting in a perfectly-weighted kick to the corner for Mo Agoro to score.
"We were more direct in the Oxford game and that suited me in terms of helping me to fulfil my role within the structure of the team," said the player.
The citation for his player-of-the-week billing said Palfrey's was an influential performance in which he directed Oldham's play with intelligence and maturity.
His eight goals gave him 20 in Championship One and lifted him to joint second in the league list.
Coach Scott Naylor is banking on his captain and midfield general going from strength to strength as third-placed Oldham prepare for the visit of second-placed York on May 18.
"This was Lewis's best display of the season, as near as you'll get to the complete performance," enthused the Oldham boss.
The divisional team of the week also includes Oldham prop Michael Ward and second-rower Danny Langtree.
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Millions of children left behind, UNICEF report card on education warns
Millions in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States enter the workforce each year without any formal education
GENEVA, 20 September 2007 - UNICEF warned today that education systems in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States were leaving millions of children behind each year.
A report 'Education for Some, more than Others?' commissioned by the UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS concluded that, in spite of the economic recovery and increased public expenditure on education in many countries over the past decade, most national education systems were struggling to provide universal education.
"This situation will lead to intergenerational cycles of poverty, and undermine the capacity of governments to develop globally competitive economies based on skilled labour rather than cheap labour," - UNICEF's Director for the CEECIS Region, Maria Calivis
A key indicator of these systemic failures was that there are an estimated 2.4 million 'missing children' of primary school age, who should be in school but are not and almost 12 million missing out-of-school secondary school children.
UNICEF's Director for the CEECIS Region said that meant more than 14 million children entered adult life every year without any kind of formal education or school diploma and this in a region largely known for its former high levels of access, quality and equality in education.
"This situation will lead to intergenerational cycles of poverty, and undermine the capacity of governments to develop globally competitive economies based on skilled labour rather than cheap labour," Maria Calivis said.
The report found that public expenditure on education reinforced rather than counteracted social, ethnic and economic inequalities in access to and in the completion of basic education. Family background, mainly parents' income but also education, had increasingly become a determinant in enrolment and attendance, particularly at pre-school level.
Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Tajikistan, countries with low economic indicators, had the lowest attendance rates, less than 50 per cent for upper high school, and in some instances less than 30 per cent for Pre School.
The report identified two further issues for UNICEF: the situation of the Roma children and gender equality. In three of the countries with the largest Roma communities, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania only a tiny proportion of Roma have any schooling beyond primary, compared to the non Roma people. Roma children's educational attainment ranges from 10 to 35 per cent in secondary school. Across the region only one percent of Roma had attended higher education.
The report also showed that no country was achieving equal representation of girls in basic education but the numbers were close, 95 girls to 100 boys on average. The most striking aspect of the figures was the feminization of higher education throughout the region. Girls outnumbered boys, in most cases significantly, in all countries except Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. Only Turkey and Tajikistan were in trouble to meet Millennium Development Goal 3, elimination of gender disparity at all levels of education by 2015.
The study found while reforms of education systems had been initiated they had not penetrated into the classroom, thus affecting the overall quality of education, especially in poor and rural areas.
"This in turn affected demand for education which now was falling among disadvantaged families due to the poor quality of services provided, lack of relevance of curricula to the labour market, low transition to the upper-secondary education and insufficient perceived benefits from education," Ms Calivis said.
The report warned that it would not be possible to achieve 'Education for All' and thus achieve the Millennium Development Goals in the region if this situation of 'Education for some, more than others' continued to prevail.
The report advocated that Governments should substantially increase spending on education to at least 6 per cent of their GDP as against a regional average of 3 per cent to 4 per cent and move from a distribution of public expenditure that reinforces inequality to one that counteracts inequality. It also urged central governments to intervene to create the policy conditions that will ensure "Education for All".
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GPs call for prescription changes
Doctors' leaders are calling for a radical rethink on prescribing, which they say is "riddled with anomalies".
They are worried that TV and internet advertising of prescription drugs will push up demands for higher cost drugs, as patients learn more about the different drugs available.
At the moment drug companies are not allowed to advertise prescription medicines on the television.
But it is allowed in America, where it has led to an increase in patients lobbying their doctor for specific drugs.
The British Medical Association's GP committee, which is canvassing doctors for their views, also questions whether they should charge for consultations about lifestyle drugs which are not currently on the market.
Although some lifestyle drugs, such as the baldness drug Propecia, are not available on prescription, patients still make appointments with their GP to discuss the pros and cons of taking it.
Pharmacist powers
GP leaders also criticise anomalies in the current system where people with some chronic conditions qualify for free prescriptions when others do not.
The document discusses handing some powers on issue over-the-counter medicines back to the pharmacists.
They said that if pharmacists were allowed to issue prescriptions such as children's paracetamol, to save low income families large expenses, it would relieve pressure on already stretched GPs.
The BMA's discussion document asks the GPs 13 questions about prescribing. Any new policies would be formulated at the annual conference of local medical committees in June.
Dr George Rae, chair of the sub-committee on prescribing and a GP in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, said an improving patient drug knowledge would obviously lead to an increasing demand on the GPs time.
He said: "Patients are becoming more and more knowledgeable about health.
"They surf the Internet for information about their medical conditions and the logical next step might be to allow the drug companies to advertise direct to the consumer.
"There is a downside. Pharmaceutical companies are going to put their advertising budgets behind the new drugs, which are likely to be more expensive than tried and tested drugs or non-branded generics."
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text: Thanks, I just tried it with the ones in contrib dir. I'm getting the same error, the return code matches as if not enough parameter. === comment = Checkpoint script failed with return value of 255 === Robin On Sep 21, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Al Taufer wrote: > I do not know how up to date the scripts are on the web page but there are 2 scripts included with the distribution, they are in the torque/contrib/blcr directory and should be up to date. They are checkpoint_script and restart script, I would try using these. > > Al Taufer > Adaptive Computing > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Hi, >> >> I'm following the instructions on >> http://www.clusterresources.com/products/torque/docs/2.6jobcheckpoint.shtml >> Torque is compiled with --enable-blcr, version 2.4.10, I'm aware that >> the doc is for 2.5.x, I did not easily find the doc for 2.4.x. >> >> Attached are my >> mom_priv/{config,epilogue,blcr_checkpoint_script,blcr_restart_script}. >> It's essentially the scripts from the doc, but the script on the doc >> needs correction (or it would not run). >> blcr_checkpoint_script was editted to declare variable $depth and put >> a missing comma -- the aim was to fix the syntax (I didn't spend much >> time on the scripts). >> [ It would be nice to see the webpage has the code fixed. ] >> >> I submitted my test job with "qsub -c enabled test.job", then issue >> qhold jobid. It did not checkpoint the job, under qstat -f, there's an >> output line for that job: >> comment = "Usage: >> /usr/local/torque/current/var/spool/torque/mom_priv/blcr_checkpoint_script" >> >> Mom logs say that it the blcr_checkpoint_script exited with code 255, >> which is consistent with running the script without parameters. >> >> I take that the pbs_mom did not issue the blcr_checkpoint_script >> command with all the required parameters. >> >> Any comments, helpful hints, or outright help will be most welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> Robin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> torqueusers mailing list >> torqueusers at supercluster.org >> http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/torqueusers > _______________________________________________ > torqueusers mailing list > torqueusers at supercluster.org > http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/torqueusers


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The 7 Most Baffling Things About Women's Clothes
There are a lot of annoying things about being a woman, like periods, childbirth and not being able to play basketball in a way that keeps spectators awake. But near the top of the list has got to be buying clothes.
I know one way to fix it is just to be ballsy and wear men's clothes, and that's a bold choice. But you take a social hit for wearing "masculine" clothes, and most women don't want to take that hit. So they go to buy clothes made specifically "for women," and generally find a set of the most impractical, low-quality, high-maintenance crap that a sweatshop can make.
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AMP's Financial Services arm has been restructured to capitalise on the added distribution and product development capacity acquired following its takeover of
Under the new structure announced yesterday, it will be divided into eight divisions, an increase of four, with an increased emphasis on sales, marketing and servicing its expanded tied and aligned networks.
AMP will retain its integration team of senior AMP and AXA executives, which is run by Paul Sainsbury, who reports to chief executive
A new "strategic sales and marketing" division, responsible for developing business strategy and setting sales and growth targets, will be run by former AXA general manager of sales and marketing Adrian Emery.
Responsibility for products has been divided into two sections, with banking and wealth management to be headed by Rob Caprioli, former director of AMP's product manufacturing, while wealth protection and mature products will be run by former AXA general manager of products Ian Campbell.
He will also be responsible for merging its two risk products into one over the next two years.
Steven Helmich and Andrew Waddell will retain their respective leadership roles with AMP's Financial Planning and AXA Financial Advice Networks.
Financial advisory group ipac will continue to be led by managing director Neil Swindell, who will also take control of AMP Private Wealth Management. Ipac will remain "largely unchanged", according to the company.
The new leaders have been chosen from the interim leadership team announced in March, following the merger. They are expected to finalise the structure of their divisions over the next three months.
AMP Capital Investors, a diversified investment manager with more than $110 billion under management, will continue to be run by Stephen Dunne who will increasingly focus on building capacity for the merged group's networks.
The multi-asset group, led by David Kiddie, and client, product and marketing division, led by Brian Delaney, have been told to appoint senior managers responsible for strengthening its retail asset management presence.
Ipac chief investment officer Jeff Rogers has been appointed head of investment solutions for the multi asset group.
AMP is also expected to provide more details on integration, such as priorities, achievements and whether the deal is on course for $120 million in post-tax synergies by the third year of ownership at next month's results.
The $14.6 billion merger took three bids and more than 17 months to complete.
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A Weymouth man will stand trial after denying a charge of making threats with a bladed article.
Dale Paul Ellard, of Southview Road, pleaded not guilty to the offence, which is alleged to have been committed on November 16 last year on The Esplanade in Weymouth.
The 30-year-old was granted unconditional bail and will return to Dorchester Crown Court on May 20.


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By Kenny Unser
The reigning King of New York, Jared Seiler, recently filmed a 30-mile "training lap" around Manhattan to promote the fourth season of the Whitewater King of New York point series. The annual competition showcases the Adirondack rivers and festivals that host four downriver events from August through October.
"The King of New York combines all kinds of formats," explains Matt Young, one of the series' organizers, "there's mass-start, individual start, races where you start out of your boat, race where you start in your boat."
The series starts August second, when racers face their boats upstream for a chaotic mass-start that sends a heap of long boats down the class IV Black River in Watertown, NY. This year the Black River Festival organizers have added a freestyle competition and changed the venue to accommodate growing interest. At 4+ miles, the Black Race is the endurance event of the King of New York series where dramatic crashes often result at the "Poop Chute" rapid when tired racers lose control of their 13+ foot boats.
"The main event is really on Labor Day weekend," says Young about New York's Beaver River Rendezvous, "[There are] two races that weekend. If you can pick one weekend to come to New York, that's it."
Beaver Fest, as the Rendezvous is more popularly known, features releases on three sections of the Beaver River including a one-day-a-year release on the waterfall laden Mosier section. The Stone Valley section of the Raquette River is the most technical course of the race series. The Raquette has proven to be a king-maker with all three past series winners claiming victories at Stone Valley.
The short and steep Eagle race course sees the largest competitive field of the series. The Eagle Race is a spectator favorite since the rapids are impressive and the short course can be seen almost entirely from a single viewing area.
"We finish things off on October 18th with the Moose Race," Young admits, "That one, for me, was brutal. I ripped my drysuit. I flipped over. It wasn't pretty."
After the Class V Moose Race, Mountainman Outdoor Supply Company hosts a King of New York awards party where the King is crowned, prizes are given away, and an NRS sponsored rock, paper, scissors tournament raises money for charity.
"I'm really pumped about it," Chris Gragtmans says of the grand prize Dagger Green Boat, "You don't have to be a race winner to win the Green Boat; you just need to attend one of the four races."
A competitor raffle will see most of the prize bounty go to race participants at random. Prizes include a Werner paddle and a Bomber Gear spray skirt. Werner paddles is sponsoring an additional raffle just for women racers which means that ladies have a better chance of taking home prizes than men. The racer with the best crash will take home the Immersion Research "Are You Gonna Eat That?" consolation prize.


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.2415 Monday, 16 December 2002
Date: Monday, December 16, 2002
Subject: WARNING, Worms, Viruses, and Spoofing
Dear SHAKSPEReans:
Let me first say that I scan every message that I send out and every
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I am beginning to put together the problem with the "Honey" Message.
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According the NYT, there is a shift away from network-based television programming in favor of internet-based outlets. The internet is "the new front in the war for Americans' attention spans."
The companies are, in effect, creating new networks for television through broadband pipes and also giving rise to new rivalries — among one another, as between Amazon and Netflix, and with the big but vulnerable broadcast networks as well.
"House of Cards", a Netflix drama series I watched in one day thanks to John Nolte, is one example of this shift. (Have you watched "House of Cards"? Fabulous.) The series was released in it's entirety on Netflix and by all measures was a success. Netflix has another series set to premiere in April called "Hemlock Grove."
And Amazon is hot on Netflix' trail. The Times reports that Amazon has at least six comedies and five children's shows in their hopper.
All of this is good news, as it fosters competition which benefits the consumer with more options for entertainment. I would like to see the same developments along the information front, with more news or investigative journalism type shows on the internet.


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Vikki Stark, M.S.W., a psychotherapist for thirty years, was born in New York City and currently lives in Montreal where she is the Director of the Sedona Counselling Centre. She has an international private practice in which, as well as meeting clients face-to-face, she conducts phone and Skype sessions with people throughout the world. She's a familiar face on television and radio and has been a guest on NBC's The Today Show as well as on Oprah radio. Her blog on Psychology Today Magazine called "Schlepping Through Heartbreak" deals with all aspects of relationships.
Vikki's most recent book, Divorce: How to Tell the Kids, is the definitive guide to help parents break the news of an upcoming separation to their kids with the least risk of trauma. The book is based on interviews with over one hundred children whose parents divorced. Readers will learn, step-by-step, how to manage their own emotions, to understand the meaning of divorce to children, what to say to the kids, and how best to respond in an attuned way to the children's reaction to the news. This practical book offers solutions that are designed to help parents limit the risk of trauma in the most important conversation of their children's lives.
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Students who wish to minor in Musical Theatre should make an appointment with the Chairperson, Sarah Gabel. The chairperson will sign the student's minor declaration form (to be taken to the Sullivan Center), help work out a schedule, assign an advisor in the student's area of study, and answer any questions the student may have.
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Moments before Robert Ray Huizenga won his bid to end house arrest for felony DUI more than five months early, prosecutor Lanie Bandell summed up my feelings precisely.
"He got spared going to Florida state prison — he should be thankful," Bandell told Broward Circuit Judge Michael Kaplan on Friday.
Instead, the son of Dolphins co-owner and billionaire entrepreneur H. Wayne Huizenga lamented the hardships of being mostly confined to his luxurious Fort Lauderdale digs since January.


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Today Bandai Premium, the official online store for Bandai items, has started accepting pre-orders exclusively for "Mascolle Premium: Naruto Mascolle" featuring the heads of Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Kakashi Hatake. Mascolle (Mask Collection) is Bandai's popular head figure collection and this is the first time for the Naruto characters to appear in the collection. The retail price for the three figures set is 4,830 yen (about US$61.75). And the set will be shipped in March 2013. Bandai Premium doesn't accept orders from outside of Japan, but it also mentions there is a possibility the item may be available in other countries.
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Keidel: Where Should Tony Romo Go?While Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has many suitors, only the Broncos and Texans would really be a good fit.
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|The Victoria Cross awarded to Lieutenant Commander Eugene Esmonde, 825 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, a Second World War award, has been loaned to the Imperial War Museum in London.
In the winter of 1941-42 the German battleships 'Scharnhorst' and 'Gneisenau', together with the heavy cruiser 'Prinz Eugen' were defensively in harbour at Brest, western France. The battleships had taken part in the invasion of Norway in 1940, after which they became commerce raiders. Relentlessly harried by the Royal Navy, the three ships found refuge at Brest, where they were encircled by hundreds of anti-aircraft guns. Whilst the warships remained operational it was not necessary to use them at sea - the threat they posed to Britain was enough to dictate naval strategy in the Atlantic and northern waters.
After RAF raids had damaged 'Scharnhorst' the German High Command decided to move all three ships to home waters at Wilhelmshaven. The date of 12 February 1942 was fixed for what became known as the 'Channel Dash'.
To stop the German warships one contingency plan, code-named Operation Fuller, involved 825 Squadron, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Eugene Esmonde, of the Fleet Air Arm, then standing by at Manston Airfield in Kent. The squadron was equipped with the Fairy Swordfish planes which could only attain a top speed of 100 mph when carrying a torpedo. Eugene Esmonde's plan was for his six aircraft, in two sections, to launch their torpedoes at an altitude of 50 feet towards the German ships.
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[ London Gazette, 3 March 1942 ], Straits of Dover, English Channel, 12 February 1942, Lieutenant Commander Eugene Kingsmill Esmonde, Royal Navy ( 825 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm ).
On the morning of Thursday, 12th February, 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Esmonde, in command of a Squadron of the Fleet Air Arm, was told that the German Battle-Cruisers 'Scharnhorst' and 'Gneisenau' and the Cruiser 'Prinz Eugen', strongly escorted by some thirty surface craft, were entering the Straits of Dover, and that his Squadron must attack before they reached the sand-banks North East of Calais. Lieutenant-Commander Esmonde knew well that his enterprise was desperate.
All six Fairey Swordfish aircraft were shot down. Five survivors were fished out of the Channel waters and only one of these men was unwounded. Four of them were awarded the DSO, the other the CGM. About seven weeks later Eugene Esmonde's body, still in his lifejacket, was washed ashore in the Thames Estuary near the River Medway. Esmonde was buried at Woodlands Cemetery, Gillingham, Kent, on the 30th April 1942.
The German War Diary entry for 12 February 1942 stated "the mothball attack of a handful of ancient planes piloted by men whose bravery surpasses any other action by either side that day".
It was later confirmed that all three German warships reached safety. The 'Gneisenau' was damaged in RAF raids on Kiel, decommissioned in July 1942 and scuttled in Gdynia at the end of the war. 'Scharnhorst' was damaged by mines during the Channel Dash and was imobilized until early 1943. She later operated in northern Norway against Allied convoys but in December 1943 was sunk by British warships with the loss of 1,864 men. 'Prinz Eugen' survived the war and was turned over to the Allies.
[ London Gazette, 12 September 1941 ], To be a Companion to the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ), Lieutenant Commander Eugene Kingsmill Esmonde, Royal Navy, ( HMS 'Victorious' )
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Williams, who attended Boston College, was named to the Big East All-Rookie Team as a sophomore. His second season with BC, he appeared in 27 games leading or tying the Eagles in blocked shots in 21 of those contests. The next season Williams played in 15 games, starting each, and had his best collegiate game as he posted a triple-double against Duquense with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 13 blocked shots.
The New Jersey Nets drafted Williams in the first round (17th overall) of the 2007 BA Draft. In his rookie season, he saw action in 73 games averaging 5.6 points and 4.4 rebounds. Making an immediate impact in his first NBA start (against Miami on 11/17/07), he scored 22 points, had 8 rebounds and 2 blocked shots. Invited to play in the Rookie-Sophomore Challenge at NBA All-Star Weekend in New Orleans, Williams tallied 17 points and 10 boards.
For the season, he led the Nets in blocked shots 34 times and, with 106 blocks on the year, registered the second highest block total for a Nets rookie in team history (trailing only Kenyon Martin's 113 blocks during the 2000-2001 season. He also led all NBA rookes with blocks per game at 1.45.
Williams split his second season between the Nets and Colorado of the NBA D-League. For the year, with New Jersey, he appeared in 33 games averaging 2.4 points and 2.4 rebounds. His third season was much the same being split between New Jersey and the D-League.
The Nets waived Williams on January 11, 2010 at which point he joined the Mavericks D-League affiliate, the Texas Legends. Playing for head coach Nancy Lieberman, he saw action in 49 games and averaged 14.4 points, 9.4 rebounds and 2.9 blocks per game. He was named to the D-League All-Star Game in Los Angeles and finished second in Defensive Player of the Year voting.
He made the Dallas Mavericks roster coming out of training camp in 2010 and appeared in 3 games averaging 4.7 points and 2.0 rebounds in 5.7 minutes of action. On January 6, 2011, he, along with the newly signed Yi Jianlian, were assigned to the Texas Legends of the D-League.
Williams was released by the Mavericks on March 22, 2012. During his tenure with Dallas, he he appeared in eight games averaging 3.6 points, 1.6 rebounds and 8.1 minutes.


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Mary MacKillop was Canonised on October 17, 2010 at St Peter's Basilica, Rome. Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed Mary's sainthood during the Canonisation Mass.
Over 8000 pilgrims from Australia and New Zealand attended the ceremony.
The Church does not make a saint – it recognises a saint. Canonisation is the act by which the Holy Father declares in a definitive and solemn way that a Catholic Christian is actually in the glory of heaven, intercedes for us before the Lord and is to be publicly venerated by the whole Church.
Canonisation is a double statement – about the life of the person and also about the faith of the people who are alive at this moment.
They are as much a part of the canonisation as the person who is being recognised.
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Well isn't that cute! Oh wait… it's Iron Man's head?! Or maybe just his helmet. This can't really mean what we all think it might mean, right? Marvel Studios has unveiled the fifth character poster in their series for Iron Man 3, directed by Shane Black, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark once again. As much as I wanted to be done with these, this one shows Pepper Potts played by Gwyneth Paltrow. And although she's in an awful pose and her face is barely visible, it's all about the face in her hands, if you know what I mean. This film seems to get darker the more we see from it. There's another Empire cover shot below, too.
Here's the new, oddly similar Iron Man 3 cover design, featuring Tony Stark, straight from Empire today:
Iron Man 3 is directed by Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) working from a script that he co-wrote with Drew Pearce. Actor Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark and Iron Man in this sequel described as a technological crisis thriller in the midst of international war, taking place after the events of The Avengers. Sir Ben Kinglsey is playing Iron Man's arch nemesis Mandarin and Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Dale Dickey, Ashley Hamilton, James Badge Dale and Jon Favreau all co-star in the Marvel Studios production. Disney is bringing Marvel's Iron Man 3 to theaters starting May 3rd this year.
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A weekly planner book for 2014, including 16 of my best landscape and travel photos from this year in full color.
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Effects of physican compensation method on physician behavior and satisfaction in managed care organizations
The Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization program was designed to support research, demonstration, and evaluation projects examining major changes in health care financing.The purpose of this project is to study the effects of alternative methods of individual physician compensation by managed care organizations on the primary care physician's clinical efficiency in managing episodes of care for common health conditions. The grantee will investigate how the primary care physician's efficiency as an "event manager" (the episode of care for a given condition) is influenced by how he or she is compensated. They will also illuminate the "black box" of organizational arrangements and activities that influence physician practice to produce an understanding of how groups transmute the payments they receive from health plans into individual compensation. The data to be used in the study will be collected directly from the managed care organizations.
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ZAM: Finally, you've been taking a bit of flak in the media lately for some of your recent Neverwinter announcement interviews, in which you talk about learning from releases like Star Trek Online and Champions Online. The scuttlebutt around the blogosphere is that "Cryptic COO Jack Emmert admits releasing crap MMOs," to paraphrase some of the milder comments. What's your response to those accusations?
Emmert: I've been pretty honest about our faults in the past and people have accused us that I'm virtually admitting that we pushed out Star Trek and Champions as unpolished product. But as God as my witness, when we launched those games, we had zero idea that we thought they were anything less than excellent… When we launched those games, we felt they were superior to City of Heroes, which as you know was a big hit. And I still, to this day, say they are superior to City of Heroes—but, you know, the market changed. If we launched CoH now, oh my God; we'd be in the same boat as [Realtime Worlds'] All Points Bulletin. It would be a bad situation; the way people receive MMOs, it's just a completely different marketplace and I think that we need to change those expectations, and we need to listen.
The reason why I'm doing this interview—and not the guy running the Neverwinter project—is because Neverwinter the start of a completely different orientation to what we're trying to accomplish. I've been reading responses to various interviews, and I can understand people [asking], 'Why did you make Star Trek in 18 months?' Well, that's what it was… If somebody said, 'Hey, here's the Star Trek license.' You say, 'Great, I can't wait to make the game!' You've got 18 months. Do you say no? Of course not… we were full of ego and enthusiasm.
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Recently the family of Reuben and Alma Lorraine Gartner gathered to honor them on their 72nd Wedding Anniversary.
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Random thoughts for a Tuesday morning for the first time in The Daily Facts, wondering whatever happened to Trevor Wilson, the 1996 CIF-SS Division XII offensive football player of the year from Arrowhead Christian Academy.
For years, the path to a CIF-SS big schools championship passed through the Citrus Belt League. Those were the days when Redlands ruled one of the oldest leagues in Southern California. After the Terriers' rule, Fontana and Eisenhower brought titles to the area.
But it's been a while since the league has been in that role. In fact, the CIF moved it out of the premiere conference into the Inland Conference. However, as it turns out, the conference is one of the best in Southern California thanks to the population explosion in southwest Riverside that has produced powerhouses such as Vista Murrietta and Corona Centennial.
The Citrus Belt League promises to be competitive this season, which begins Friday, despite an 11-19 record in nonleague competition. We'll use an old, trusted crystal ball to predict the outcome: 1. Eisenhower (4-1), Eagles have not skipped a beat under new coach; 2. Redlands East Valley (1-4), don't let the record fool you; 3. Yucaipa (3-2), T-Birds are battling history; 4. Redlands (1-4), hopefully Terriers can rebound; 5. Cajon (2-3), still a bit too young; 6. Miller (0-5), Rebels need to secure footing. ...
For old-timers in the area, it was tennis that put the University of Redlands on the national map thanks to the success of the late Jim Verdieck with the Bulldogs. He was head coach for 37 years and won 15 national titles without a single player on an athletic scholarship.
Redlands is inviting high school tennis coaches to a free clinic on Oct. 25 on the courts named after Verdieck. Jim Buck, former USC tennis coach and the chairman of junior tennis competition for 10 years, will be featured at the two-hour session.
For those coaches wary of a collegiate coach, remember Buck was a head coach at Van Nuys High School for 33 years and currently serves as an officer on the Southern California Tennis Association Board of Directors. He also has led the Southern California team in the annual Maze Cup for 23 years.
The man has credentials.
There's no fee but coaches must register by contacting assistant coach Rachael Miller at email@example.com or by calling 909-748-8435. ...
Taking a look at the Mountain Valley League: 1. Rim of the World (4-1), Scots have the experience; 2. Jurupa Hills (3-2); 3. Citrus Valley (2-3); 4. Norte Dame )4-1); 5. Banning (2-3); 6. Rubidoux (2-3). ...
An attempt to forecast the Ambassador League, which already has produced a pair of surprises in unbeaten Arrowhead Christian and Western Christian: 1. Ontario Christian (3-2), Knights have the experience; 2. Aquinas (3-2); 3. Western Christian (5-0); 4. Linfield Christian (2-3); 5. Arrowhead Christian (5-0); 6. Calvary Murrieta (2-3). ...
The Redlands Karate Club made quite an impression, literally, at the recent Southern California Karate Tournament in Glendora and the Southern California Martial Arts Championships.
The local participants brought back five first-place awards, another five for second place and seven for third place.
The local group included Isaiah Lopez, Noah Gonzalez, Ayden Lunn, Itzel Nunez, Tala and Jamal Alaradah. Mohamad and Abdul Mardini at the karate event and Jacob and Josiah Ambriz in the Martial Arts Championships.
"Our school is currently celebrating its first anniversary, so all of our students are in the beginner brackets," Sensei James Longley said. "For many of the students this was their first competition and they each gave it their all and made their instructors and parents proud.
"At the Redlands Karate Club we teach more than sport karate. We also teach the traditional values that go along with being good members and leaders in the community." ...
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Schoolgirl still critical after New Year's Day crash
4:49pm Friday 10th January 2014
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4:49pm Friday 10th January 2014
By Chris Baynes
A schoolgirl who was hit by a car on New Year's Day remains in a critical condition in hospital.
Miriam Parker, of Carshalton, was struck crossing the road in Selsdon, Croydon, just before 9pm.
The 17-year-old, a pupil at Archbishop Tenison's Church of England High School in Fairfield, is in an induced coma at St George's Hospital in Tooting.
Police arrested the driver of the car, a man in his 40s, on suspicion of causing injury by dangerous driving following the collision in Selsdon Park Road, near Tedder Road, just before 9pm.
He was bailed pending further investigations.
The Metropolitan Police appealed for anyone with information to call 101.
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