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JORDANNE Whiley helped Great Britain claim a silver medal at the World Team Cup in the Netherlands.
The Halesowen wheelchair tennis star was part of the women's team also made up of Lucy Shuker and Louise Hunt and captained by Paralympian Kevin Simpson.
GB's women had to settle for second after a strong Dutch team won the deciding doubles tie to take the gold medal.
World number 10 Shuker gave GB hope putting them 1-0 up after coming from a set down to defeat Marjolein Buis 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.
But world Number three Aniek van Koot put the Netherlands back in the tie winning 6-4, 6-1 against Whiley to force the doubles match on centre court.
The Dutch pair then showed why they have dominated this event for the past 15 years winning the doubles 6-4, 6-1 to clinch the gold yet again and leaving GB with their third silver medal in the women's event.
GB's Whiley has now headed to Paris to compete at Roland Garros in the wheelchair event this week.


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I am working on a forgot password script.When a user puts in their email address, a password will be emailed to them.
The problem is all my passwords are md5 encrypted. When the email is sent, it gives them the encrypted password.
You don't send them their original password. You send them a randomly created one, which you store encrypted in the database.
yes, you should give them a temporary password for one time login access. After that they can restore their password.
A more secure option is to create a new random password and set its hashed version (don't forget the salt) as the new password for the user account. Then send the unhashed version to the user in an email with an instruction to change their new password to something else when the next log in. When they next log in with their new password, prompt them to change their password to something else and don't let them do anything else until they have successfully done so. This way, "in theory", only the user gets to see the unhashed new password in their email.
btw - if you google md5/sha1 hashing I think you'll find the general consnsus is that sha1 is a better hashing alogorithm than md5.
You can give a temporary password for one time uses
Just one point that hasn't been mentioned - hashing is a one way process and it is not possible to work out what their original password was from the hash as there are millions of possible values that all produce the same hash. Of course they most likely used the shortest one but there's no reason why someone couldn't use the text of "war and peace" as their password if they didn't mind spending months each time to log in.
When you generate the new temporary password don't forget that the old password should still work, too, as long as the user hasn't set the new password yet. The forgot password form could be used by anyone so someone might enter someone else's email address and send the form (either by mistake or intentionally). If the old password stopped working at that moment then the user the account belongs to will be blocked.
Another approach would be to simply send a one-time link with a unique code that will enable the user to set a new password - so no need to generate a random password. The link would lead the user to a form where they can set the password. However, it's a good idea to make the link expire soon, for example after 24 hours.
Dear Leo Tolstoy.
The password you required has already been taken.
Please choose another one.
Damn, that took me 7 years ....

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Your gift to help a hardworking entrepreneur will double in impact thanks to a generous World Vision partner.
Rowena is from Philippines. She has 2 children. She needs a loan of $225 to buy additional merchandise.
Rowena is from Philippines. She has 2 children. She needs a loan of $225 to buy additional merchandise.
Rowena Flores is a 34 year old mother of two who operates a Sari-sari store (a small in-home convenience store) in Hilongos, Leyte in the Omega district of the Philippines. Rowena has felt blessed to be able to earn money from her in-home store , but realizes that to compete well with others she needs to have more stock on her shelves.
A loan from World Vision will enable Rowena to buy canned and snack foods, candies, toiletries, sugar and coffee. Her goal is to someday increase the size of her store and make it appear like a mini-grocery. The extra income will be used to provide for the family's daily consumption, education for Gladys May (13) and Lloyd Vincent (11) and to save for reinvestment in her business.
Retail is a quick and scalable way to begin earning a profit. Many entrepreneurs begin with stalls at markets or even at home and need a loan to expand or increase their inventory. Others may be ready to open a small store. Goods purchased from loan funds range from clothing, grocery or sundry items to jewelry, candy, perfume or health and beauty supplies. Loans in the commerce sector account for around 33% of our loans.
The community of Omega, located in the Southern Leyte province of the Philippines, is home to a large population of farmers and fishermen. On average, 11 of the Philippines' approximately 24 annual typhoons affect this area. Along with poor farming and fishing practices, this contributes to the depletion of natural resources, which affects economic prosperity. Farmers mainly grow rice, coconut, and sugar cane. Fruit and vegetable production is limited, and many families struggle to find sufficient nutrients.
Nearly 50 percent of the area's residents live in poverty. As a result of economic struggles, many children drop out of school and seek work in places such as the sugar cane fields or urban areas. These children often face exploitation and abuse.
In Omega, World Vision is helping community members create a more sustainable future by providing training in livestock raising and fertilizer production, distributing small loans, and developing businesses. We are also educating families about child rights and operating children's associations.
Thank you for supporting a small business loan for Rowena Flores to expand her food and grocery business where she runs a sari-sari store. After receiving the loan from World Vision, she invested the $225 to buy additional merchandise.
Rowena has been repaying her loan on time with her new profits. She makes weekly payments of $11. In addition to repaying her loan, Rowena is using the additional income to pay school fees, purchase food for the family, and expand the current business. Rowena's 2 children continue to study in school.
Thank you for supporting Rowena and World Vision Micro!
Thank you for supporting the small loan for Rowena Flores to improve her food and grocery business. She invested her loan of $225 to buy additional merchandise.
Rowena has now repaid her loan in full. In addition to repaying her loan, Rowena has used her additional income to pay school fees, purchase food for the family and expand her business further.
Rowena's two children continue to study in school.
The loan Rowena received helped her grow her business and the profits she is earning create lasting improvements in her life. In the future Rowena hopes to repair or expand their home.
Thank you for your support of Rowena and World Vision Micro. These funds are now being recycled to support another eager entrepreneur in the same community.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Prior to Sunday, the Lynn University Fighting Knights had only lost a total of three conference women's tennis matches in their 15 years as a member of the Sunshine State Conference. Today marked the fourth as the 12th-ranked Saint Leo Lions upset the fourth-ranked Fighting Knights 5-4 in SSC action from the Saint Leo Tennis Center on Sunday afternoon.
On the doubles side, despite falling in the No. 1 spot, the unranked No. 2 doubles tandem of Pauline Helgesson and Maria Benkirane started the upsets by defeating the seventh-ranked duo of Andrea Berkova and Kim Przeszlowski, 9-8. The win, claimed behind a crucial 7-5 tiebreak, turned out to be the turning point in the victory.
Also at No. 3 doubles, Coralie Pesenti and Adrianna Daszkiewicz claimed a solid 8-3 victory over Lynn's Ana Kriz and Aleks Vukadinovic to put the match a 2-1 in favor of the Lions heading into singles.
In singles play, 18th-ranked Laura Kemkes snatched a hard-fought 7-5, 6-3 win from Berkova. That win, teamed with Benkirane and Emily Singleton's wins at No. and No. 5 singles tilted the match in the Lions' favor and Head Coach James Bryce could only lean back and smile as he knew the Lions would prevail.
The victory pushed the Lions to 4-1 overall and gives them their first conference decision of 2013. Lynn falls to 3-1 and 2-1 in the SSC as they also suffer the first SSC defeat to a school not named Barry University.
The Lions will have less than 24 hours to prepare for their next SSC opponent as Florida Tech comes into the Saint Leo Tennis Center on Monday afternoon. The match is scheduled to get underway at 3:00 p.m.
#12 Saint Leo 5, #4 Lynn 4
02/17/13 at Saint Leo, Fla. (Saint Leo Tennis Center)
|Singles competition
|1. #10 Val Confalonieri (LUW) def. Coralie Pesenti (SLW) 6-0, 6-1
|2. #15 Ioana Ivan (LUW) def. Pauline Helgesson (SLW) 6-4, 6-3
|3. #18 Laura Kemkes (SLW) def. Andrea Berkova (LUW) 7-5, 6-3
|4. Maria Benkirane (SLW) def. Kim Przeszlowski (LUW) 6-2, 1-0, retired
|5. Emily Singleton (SLW) def. Ana Kriz (LUW) 6-4, 6-3
|6. Alina Jane (LUW) def. Adrianna Daszkiewicz (SLW) 2-6, 6-4, 10-3
|Doubles competition
|1. #3 Val Confalonieri/Ioana Ivan (LUW) def. Laura Kemkes/Emily Singleton (SLW) 8-3
|2. Pauline Helgesson/Maria Benkirane (SLW) def. #7 Andrea Berkova/Kim Przeszlowski (LUW) 9-8 (7-5)
|3. Coralie Pesenti/Adrianna Daszkiewicz (SLW) def. Ana Kriz/Aleks Vukadinovic (LUW) 8-3
|Match Notes
|Lynn 3-1, 2-1 SSC; National ranking #4
|Saint Leo 4-1, 1-0 SSC; National ranking #12
|Order of finish: Doubles (1,3,2); Singles (1,4,2,3,5,6)


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Karate Burger with a Shitake Mushroom Sauce, Cool and Crunchy Vegetables and a "Kick" of Spicy Asian Mustard
Shitake Mushroom Sauce
3 Tbsp. olive oil
2 green onions finely chopped
1 Tbsp. minced fresh ginger
3 garlic cloves minced
4 oz fresh shitake mushrooms, stems removed and finely chopped
1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
1 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup white wine (Sauvignon Blanc or your favorite white wine)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp. sesame oil
1 tsp. fish sauce
Juice of 1/2 lime
1/4 cup water plus 2 Tbsp. water
1/2 Tbsp. corn starch
2 lbs. ground chuck
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. freshly ground pepper
1 tsp. granulated onion
Vegetable Oil for brushing on the grill rack
6 sesame seed buns, split
6 tsp. spicy Asian mustard
1/2 cucumber, sliced thin
1/4 cup grated carrot
1/4 cup grated jicama
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
6 pieces red lettuce
Prepare a medium-hot fire in a charcoal grill with a cover, or preheat a gas grill to medium-high
To make the sauce, heat the olive oil in a fire proof sauce pan on the grill over medium heat. Saute the onions, ginger and garlic for 5 minutes. Add the mushrooms and cook until they begin to release their moisture, approximately 5 minutes. Add the rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, white wine, brown sugar, sesame oil, fish sauce, lime juice and the ¼ cup of water. Bring to a boil, move the pan away from the direct flame and simmer for 10 minutes. In a small bowl, combine the corn starch and the 2 Tbsp. water and mix thoroughly. Pour that slurry into the mushroom sauce, move the pan back over the direct flame and bring the mixture back to a boil for 3-5 minutes to thicken. Once the sauce has thickened, remove from the grill, cover and set aside.
To make the patties, place the ground chuck in a large mixing bowl and add the salt, pepper and the granulated onion. Combine well, handling the meat as little as possible. Over handling the meat will cause the burgers to be tough. Form 6 patties, cover and refrigerate.
Brush the grill rack with the oil. Place the patties on the rack, cover and cook for 4-5 minutes per side, turning the burgers once. During the last 2 minutes of grilling, place the buns, cut side down around the outer edges of the grill to toast.
To assemble the burgers, spread equal portions of Asian mustard on each bun bottom. Place a patty on top of the mustard on each bun bottom followed by equal portions of the mushroom sauce. Then place one piece of lettuce per Burger over the sauce followed by equal portions of the cucumber, carrot, jicima and cilantro. Add the bun tops and prepare yourself for a burst of flavor.
Serves 6
On April 20th, 2006, my daughter Lauren Murphy Rheem was born. After a pregnancy of uncertainty, she came into this great world with a smile. Almost immediately, we noticed things about her that were different. We began to learn terms like "tracheomalacia, simian crease, hydroneuphrosis, low tone and developmental delays." Her features were a little bit off. She had trouble breathing and eating and her muscles were so limp that most activities like walking, let alone sitting up, seemed like an impossible dream that may never be fulfilled. As the months went by, our doctors advised us to stay home so that her immune system could develop in the protection of our own house. Most, if not all, of my hobbies were put on the back burner, (golf, dining out, fly fishing and traveling), so I could devote all of my time to my then 4 year old son, who is the best big brother ever, my wonderful wife, who is an angel, and of course my daughter. I have always enjoyed cooking and watching the food network, but it became my outlet quickly. I watched nearly every show and spent many evenings and weekends experimenting in the kitchen trying to replicate dishes from favorite restaurants or parts of the world we have visited.
This burger comes from those many nights of experimenting in the kitchen. This Burger has been tested over and over, sampled by my kids and wife and I can promise you it comes from the heart. By the way, miracles do come true. My daughter, who has been diagnosed with a rare chromosome disorder called Trisomy 9p, just turned three and she took her first steps with that same smile that she brought into this world. I hope that this burger brings a smile to your face!


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A FORMER Padiham Town Council clerk who overpaid herself £12,000 has been warned she could face jail.
Elizabeth Bolton, 59, owned up to abusing her then position in a three-and-half year fraud, Burnley Crown Court heard Prosecutors said Bolton, then working 22 hours a week part-time, overpaid herself and to disguise the shortfall transferred money from one of two charity accounts held by the council into the authority's main account as the tax year end approached.
After the tax year concluded, she would then "reverse" the payment, leaving a net shortfall in the main account, the court heard.
Bolton then paid money in from other sources, including her own account, to make good, but from March 2008, she didn't make enough payments and the money owed began to "almost run away with itself", prosecutors said.
By the time she was suspended in December 2011, the net overpayment was £11,696, a judge was told.
Bolton, of Palace Gardens, Burnley, who was due to stand trial in August, admitted fraud by paying herself a salary in excess of what she was entitled, between January 1, 2007 and December 29, 2011.
The defendant, was bailed until September 5 by Judge Jonathan Gibson who warned "all options" were open for sentence.
Prosecutor Adam Watkins said Bolton had been employed by the town council since 2002.
It was a very small body, with only two paid employees —she as the clerk and a caretaker — and she was responsible for arranging payment of wages to them both.
Mr Watkins said "rather oddly", certainly from 2005 onwards, she arranged that she would be paid gross by Padiham Town Council. Her annual gross salary was about £15,000 for 22 hours.
Bolton would transfer funds to the main account from a charity account, then reverse it and make good the shortfall in the main account by paying money in, the court heard.
Mr Watkins said: "She stopped making good from March 2008, and the amount by which the council was down steadily increased.
"She was given a very considerable degree of autonomy and there were few, if any, checks conducted upon her."
Bolton was given a suspended sentence of 12-months in prison, suspended for two years, 13 years ago, after petrol bombing a car in 1999.
The defendant, who had been forced to resign from her position as principal legal officer at Burnley Borough Council, pleaded guilty to arson with intent to endanger life at Lancaster Crown Court.
Katherine Pierpoint, defending Bolton, said: "It didn't set off as fraudulent. It seems she got herself in a mess. However, she did pay back to cover up for that.
"It looks like she always had the intention to pay it back. In the latter part, she was making some payments, but never paid enough.
"All the outstanding money has been paid back, with interest, to the council, as well as them paying the council's costs."


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CINCINNATI (AP) -- A second Zimbabwe man accused in an Ohio-based tax fraud case that prosecutors say netted up to $7 million has changed his plea to guilty.
Tawanda Marimbire pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Other charges were dropped in exchange for his cooperation. The 23-year-old faces up to 20 years in prison.
Another defendant in the case pleaded guilty last month to one count of engaging in monetary transactions.
Five other men charged in the case, mostly from Zimbabwe, are considered fugitives.
Authorities say the seven men ran a tax preparation business in Cincinnati and used the identities of at least 658 people to file false returns, collecting between $2.4 million and $7 million.


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A SENIOR Poole councillor has flown to troubled Ukraine to monitor presidential elections.
Cllr Ann Stribley, who represents Parkstone, was due to land in the capital Kiev yesterday for a six-day visit to the country, which is in the midst of civil unrest.
She has been selected as a member of the Council of Europe Congress Delegation Team being sent to the country to monitor Sunday's elections.
After two days in Kiev, she will move on to Cherkasy in central Ukraine and Kaniv, a city in the same province.
She will be accompanied by another member of the team and an interpreter.
"I'm sure this will be a very interesting assignment and I hope it will be a peaceful visit," said Cllr Stribley, who has been on the council since 1977 and is a former mayor.
"I'm so glad to live in a country where we can generally agree to disagree without open hostilities," she added.
Presidential elections were originally due to take place in the country, which has been the scene of much bloodshed, in March 2015 but were brought forward after the Russians annexed Crimea in March.
They were scheduled shortly after Viktor Yanukovich was toppled from the presidency in February following months of mass protests in Kiev.
The elections are seen as a crucial step in restoring the government's legitimacy and preventing Ukraine falling apart or slipping into civil war.
However armed pro-Russia separatists have vowed to prevent voting taking place in the east of the country, attacking and disabling government buildings in the region.
And on the border Russia has stationed thousands of troops.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is sending a 52-member delegation to observe the presidential election.


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NFTE's Licensed Partners make a significant contribution to helping young people around the world discover the entrepreneurial mindset. We are beginning a new series of updates from NFTE's partner organizations to highlight the contributions these organizations, like Bright China Foundation, make to teaching the skills that required in a global society.
Life is short,do something meaningful...
From July to August, 2012, Bright China Foundation held 6 Biz camps in Yunnan minority concentrated areas with partnership of Save the Children Kunming office. More than 200 students attended the class, and 12 volunteer Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers (CETs) participated in the Biz camp. The volunteer CETs, who enjoyed teaching, helped the local minority youth learn the basics of business and broaden their thinking.
The opening ceremony of the worker's entrepreneurship training in Wu Di, ShanDong Province.
Additionally, Bright China Foundation established a new partnership with Wudi County Educational Bureau in BinZhou City, ShanDong Province this September. The partner held the opening ceremony for the program on September 5th. Government leaders from WuDi county, and BinZhou City attended the ceremony and signed an agreement with BCF during the Ceremony. BCF held one entrepreneurship training class right after the ceremony and will train more CETs in WuDi County to create an ongoing program.


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THERE'S a drive to get visitors to the Brecon Beacons National Park totally switched on.
And that could soon be achieved as this famous tourist spot on the Wales-Herefordshire border has become the first in the UK to offer a fleet of electric vehicles for the use of visitors.
As part of the Eco Travel Network, the Brecon Beacons is now offering visitors and locals alike the opportunity to drive around this spectacular region behind the wheel of six new Renault Twizys.
Each of these vehicles can reach 50 miles an hour and can travel up to around 50 miles between charges, so visitors will be able to travel far and wide, from Hay-on-Wye to Llanthony Abbey, along some of Wales' most scenic driving routes even if they haven't taken their own car along.
Anyone heading there now could be among the very first to come and explore the Brecon Beacons National Park in an innovative low-energy vehicle powered solely by the Welsh sun, wind and rain!
A handful of hotels and self-catering accommodations have teamed up with the Eco Travel Network, meaning visitors will be able to rent a Twizy before arriving and start exploring right from their doorstep.
From Brecon Beacons Holiday Cottages and the Angel Hotel in Abergavenny, to Old Radnor Barn in Talgarth, these holiday accommodations are helping make it that much easier to experience everything that makes the Brecon Beacons such a special place to visit without impacting on the landscape.
Visitors can even expect special itineraries based on the very best things to do and see while renting one, while Llansantffread Court, near Abergavenny, are even offering their Twizy to guests free of charge!
As part of the initiative, over 20 informal charge points for electric vehicles have been set up in pubs, cafés and visitor attractions throughout the national park, so the opportunity is there to charge up even while enjoying a family day out, or tucking into local Welsh produce.
This all makes the Brecon Beacons an ideal destination for couples looking to holiday without a car. Having caught the train to Abergavenny you can head on over to the Angel hotel, or perhaps book into a cosy one bedroom cottage, safe in the knowledge that you'll be able to rent a Twizy and explore far and wide without having an impact on the local environment.
The Eco Travel Network was made possible thanks to funding from the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority's Sustainable Development Fund. This Fund encourages national park communities and individuals to develop practical sustainable solutions to make differences in the areas of climate change mitigation and decreasing carbon footprints.


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Aug. 13, 2009
Hunter Education Classes Filling Up Fast for Fall
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is encouraging hunters in need of certification to enroll soon as fall hunter education courses are filling up fast. As hunting seasons draw closer, demand for hunter education classes is expected to increase.
"It would be much better to enroll early and avoid the rush right at the beginning of hunting seasons," said Terry Erwin, Coordinator for Hunter Education at TPWD. "Don't wait, because the number of available courses begins to taper off as the hunting season grows closer."
Anyone born after Sept. 1, 1971 is required to take the Hunter Education Training Course in order to hunt in Texas. The minimum age a hunter may be certified was lowered last year to 9, and experts have advice for people who want to take advantage of this relatively new provision.
"Though students may be certified at age 9, we still suggest they be accompanied by an adult guardian until the parent or guardian feels that they're mature enough to hunt on their own," Erwin said. "We lowered certification to age 9 last year to go along with the Texas Youth Hunting Program, which requires certification to participate. We do expect parents to provide good supervision during hunting, and who better should know if their youngster is mature enough to be allowed to hunt?"
Hunters who are at least 17 years of age and have not completed the hunter education course can defer completion for one year. Hunters who opted for "deferral" last year must complete the hunter education course to hunt legally this year.
Hunter education courses are conducted by certified volunteers all year across the state of Texas. Courses cost $15 and students have two options: take the FREE classroom study portion on-line plus a one-day field component or take the traditional two-day course that averages 14 hours of instruction.
"The deferral is only available once. The license point-of-sale vendors are not allowed to sell a deferral once it has been purchased by an individual," Erwin said. "The database keeps track of the sale, and will not allow a sale to occur with the same individual."
More than 30,000 aspiring hunters become certified every year in Texas and since 1972, 820,000 Texans have completed the hunter education course, which is mandatory in all 50 states and 10 Canadian Provinces. Currently, hunter education courses are taught by 2,900 volunteers comprised of game wardens, professional educators, and volunteers at TPWD.
As a result of hunter education courses, Texas hunting accident rates have steadily decreased since 1966 when 12 accidents per 100,000 hunters were reported and the last three years have seen the rate lowered to 2.9 accidents per 100,000 hunters. In fact, football players are, based on 100,000 participants, 391 times more likely to be injured than hunters.
"Hunting is safe and getting safer because of hunter education," Erwin said. "Make sure you are one of those responsible individuals who wish to continue the heritage of hunting for generations to come. Help preserve our hunting heritage by becoming a certified instructor. If interested, please contact our office at 1-800-792-1112, Ext. 4999."
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A LITTLE York boy lost his three-year battle against cancer when he died in his sleep early on Boxing Day.
Six-year-old Blaise Etheridge-Clarke, who suffered from tumours on his brain and spine, had enjoyed Christmas Day, playing pass-the-parcel with a massive parcel, said his mum, Theresa, of Rawcliffe. "It was a lovely day,"
she said. "My colleagues at St James's Hospital, Leeds, where I work as a nurse, had packed the parcel with hundreds of prizes.
"He had been in pain and I gave him some pain relief but when he went to bed, he was playing with his DS and I didn't think anything.
"But when I went in to his room in the morning he was cold. He had passed away in his sleep.
"It has come as a real shock.
We were told in the autumn he only had months to live but the consultant had thought he might now have another couple of months.
"But we managed to do all the things we wanted to do with him - and I'd like to thank all the people who helped raise the funds that made it possible. Over the years, I think about £20,000 was raised for Blaise.
"When we knew Blaise had only got months to live, we made a 'bucket list' to grant him as many of his wishes as possible.
"We took him to Disneyland Paris in October and he had a go on all the rides, and we went on a VIP trip to Legoland thanks to Superbreak (the York-based travel company), and someone bought him a guinea pig hutch and some guinea pigs.
"But we also went on lots of day trips to do all the things we could as a family. We wanted to make use of every minute of every day while we could. We went up to Beamish and to the museums in York.
"We also took a loan out to buy a motorhome and he loved going away in that."
Blaise, who attended St Wilfrid's Roman Catholic Primary School, underwent repeated surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy for his condition over three years until doctors said in the early autumn there was nothing more they could do to help him.
In 2010, he won a Child Of The Year award at The Press's 2010 Community Pride Awards, for displaying exceptional bravery since being diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2009.
The judges were told how he had survived a nine-hour operation to remove part of a tumour from his brain, and was undergoing 12 months of intensive chemotherapy to prolong his life.
Despite being in constant pain and spending lengthy stays in hospital, his mother said he never felt sorry for himself and never complained.
• Blaise's funeral will take place at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Burdyke Avenue, Clifton, but the date has not yet been arranged.


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A staff member from Worcester Sixth Form College has walked across a bed of burning embers to raise money for Sight Concern.
Lynne Matthews, employment and community links officer at the College, raised £288 by taking part in the firewalk on Friday, February 21.
Mrs Matthews said: "I set myself a personal challenge every year – the firewalk seemed a good one for 2014!
"I had no idea what it would be like, but the experience exceeded all expectations.
"The sense of personal empowerment from conquering the challenge of walking 20 feet across red hot embers was incredible.
"I felt like I could take on the world."
She chose Sight Concern as her charity as a thank for the organisation's decision to offer work placements and volunteering opportunities to 60 students at the College over the past 18 months.
Principal Michael Kitcatt, said: "Lynne's enthusiasm and energy are an inspiration to us all and her work with Sight Concern continues to make a huge variety of opportunities available to our students."
The challenge took place at the Pavilion in the Park bar in Cripplegate Park, Worcester.


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A bowl away haircut is a bowl hair cut which fades into a normal haircut, this hairstyle is particularly popular with homosexuals, transvestites, politicians and Jews. This hairstyle has been coined and regenerated by a man named Warwick Ioannou who is a well known hero in his home town of Adelaide. You can often see Warwick hanging outside of a yanni's yiros getting many bitches merely because he has a bowl cut
New kid at school: How does Warwick pull so many bitches
Nick.C and Bruce: He's got a bowl away cut yo!
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MOVE! into October with fabulous fashion & art courtesy of the new downtown mall, Battery Park City's own, Brookfield Place. Home to luxury staples DVF, Burberry, Vince, Scoop & Babesta, who will all participate in the interactive MOVE! experience. Kicking off Friday, October 2nd, at 12pm the event will last all weekend pairing designers and artists.
Talk about a true selfie, "Pose", matches Diane Von Furstenberg and Ryan McNamara creating an original wrap-dress donning you! McNamara's art has been displayed in local museums such as the Whitney and MoMa. Playing with gender, "Crossover" plays with the transformation of females to males and vice-versa with a little help from Cos Bar featuring Yves Saint Laurent Beauty products and artist James Kaliardos. To earn a special (yummy) treat, Le District is taking "singing for your supper" up a notch. Learn a choreographed dance from artist Elana Langer in "Dance Deal" and a pastry snack will be yours.
Babesta will be celebrating the event with two opportunities (including opening day) for participants to add their artistic flair to our store windows! One window will feature a painting-on-denim communal project to celebrate the newest fashionable stroller, the denim Diesel x Bugaboo collaboration! The other will feature an image by illustrator James Gulliver Hancock and participants will get to color the image themselves. Both art pieces will be displayed through the month of October in Babesta's window. Visitors can participate & enjoy the art, nibble on some snacks and sip a wine or juice box.
Brookfield Place
250 Vesey Street
Friday 10/2 & Saturday 10/3 12PM – 8PM
Sunday 10/4 12PM – 7PM


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DETROIT - Happy New Year! Temperatures will stay in the 20s Tuesday.
Skies will be overcast the first half of the day with lows in the low 20s. The afternoon will see a bit of sun and highs in the middle to upper 20s. The wind will blow from the northwest at 6 to 12 mph.
Warmer weather will be in Tampa, Florida where the Michigan Wolverines will tackle South Carolina in the Outback Bowl. Game temperatures will be in the 70s.
The first night of 2013 will be colder with lows in the middle teens and fair skies.
Wednesday and Thursday will be a bid colder or, at least, feel that way. Morning lows will be in the low teens and wind chills will be near zero. Daytime highs will be just above 20 degrees. Thursday has a slight chance of snow.
Friday and the weekend will not be as cold with highs closer to 30 or a little more. Sunday will have another chance of snow.
The Local 4Casters have your latest weather forecast at JustWeather.com and on Local 4 News.
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Nokia Lumia 920 plays nice with much more LTE networks in Europe than the iPhone 5
0. phoneArena posted on 04 Dec 2012, 03:02
Just 25% of Europe's LTE operates on the iPhone 5's 1, 800 MHz, with the rest deployed or about to be deployed at 800 MHz and 2, 600 MHz, both of which the Lumia 920 supports...
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1. wendygarett (unregistered)
I thought it was a review comparison after I saw the headline picture lol :)
Anyway, lumia 920, I choose you!!!
2. lumialove (Posts: 75; Member since: 16 May 2012)
Good for Nokia as it has got the upper hand in Europe.
3. Tsepz_GP (Posts: 1042; Member since: 12 Apr 2012)
Gotta give it to Nokia for their RF tech, i remember the N8 was the 1st or one of the 1st smartphones to have a pentaband HSPA+ antenna, and now they have done it again with LTE in the 920.
4. Thephonegeek (Posts: 118; Member since: 22 Nov 2012)
Whatever. Every other flagship on the market outperforms Iphone 5. Lumia 920 GS3, GN2, HOX+, Optimus G, padfone 2, Nexus 4, Droid DNA, Xperia T. They can't just compare a 5 year old O.S. to two modern OS.
5. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
u forget 3310i
6. tashreef (Posts: 476; Member since: 24 Nov 2012)
This is what we call a complete phone....
7. freebee269 (Posts: 539; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
watch this popular gadget show in UK about the best smartphones this holiday.
8. gazmatic (Posts: 795; Member since: 06 Sep 2012)
Leading the field again. They should release a lumia with snapdragon prime. It supports a blazing fast cat4 lte. Unfortunately exynos is having trouble with lte radio capabilities. Hopefully that is fixed before the s4 comes out. A god phone. No other company has anything good cooking. Even sony still plans to compete with iphone5 and s3. Motorola has stagnated and lg and htc always produce incomplete phones. I'm backing nokia and samsung in 2013. They are the real innovators
9. NewWireless (Posts: 27; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Its funny that in the US, it wasn't released for TMo, but in Europe it was released for TMo.
I am not sure how much the Nokia 920 cost to actually build, but the developers edition released here in the US supports Att and TMo, and maybe I just don't know the economics behind the exclusive deal with Att, but Nokia should just give the options of selling the Developer like edition directly to consumers and cut out the middle man for this beautiful device, at least here in the US.


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P.K. Yonge softball falls to Bishop Snyder
Published: Monday, May 6, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 12:06 a.m.
All season long, as P.K. Yonge piled on win after win in softball, the Blue Wave knew in order to get to the state tournament, their first in 10 years, they had to beat Jacksonville Bishop Snyder.
They couldn't do it last year on the Cardinals' home turf.
And on Monday, in the Class 3A, Region 1 final on its own field, P.K. Yonge again couldn't beat Bishop Snyder, thanks to another outstanding pitching performance from its ace Sydney Wright.
Wright, an Arkansas signee, scattered seven hits with 11 strikeouts and went 2-for-3 at the plate with a double and two RBIs as the Cardinals dominated the Blue Wave, 7-1, to advance to their second straight state tournament.
P.K. Yonge, which had its 15-game winning streak snapped, finished the season 27-3.
Bishop Snyder (26-4), state finalists a year ago, seized control from the start and never let go. The Cardinals totaled 12 hits, led by Andrea Neswiacheny with three singles and Ashley Neal, who had two hits, including a double, and three RBIs.
Lethal at the plate, Bishop Snyder was just as lethal on the mound with Wright. She gave up two hits in one inning once, allowed a runner on third just three times and had seven of her strikeouts in the final three innings, ringing up three in the final frame.
"The want to was there, we worked hard, but sometimes you come up against an outstanding team and that is what we did tonight," said Blue Wave coach Paul Silverman. "Sydney threw a great game tonight. When she is throwing her change-up for strikes, like she was tonight, she is extremely tough.
"They put the ball in play, they hit it hard. They really did everything they needed to do."
P.K. Yonge, uncharacteristically, had four errors, three between the fifth and sixth innings when Bishop Snyder scored four of its runs, to put the game away. Especially the way Wright was pitching.
"We were in a good frame of mind," Silverman said. "I attribute it more to they put the ball in play consistently, hit the ball hard and created those errors. When you get behind you press a little bit, and that may have happened. We were truly outplayed. They were an outstanding team."
Wright had a run-scoring double in the first, scoring Tasha Kistler, who coaxed a leadoff walk, for a 1-0 Cardinal lead. Neal ripped a two-run double in the left-center gap to push Snyder's lead to 3-0.
Courtesy runner Kathryn Butts, running for Taylor Knight, scored on a single by senior Katie O'Dell in the fifth for P.K. Yonge's only run.
Sara Hendrix went 3-for-4 for the Blue Wave, who will only lose O'Dell to graduation, one of the area's top hitters.
"Bishop Snyder is a very good team and they outplayed us tonight," said an emotional O'Dell. "But I wouldn't trade anything about this team or this season. This is like my second family and they mean the world to me."
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At Grove City College, we believe that travel is essential for growth. That's why we make it as easy and affordable as possible for our students to study abroad.
Many students studying a modern language at Grove City College prepare for careers in translation, teaching, government, social work, bilingual services, interpretation, and foreign service by interning at various organizations and businesses domestically and abroad.
The Department of Modern Languages at Grove City College offers students the academic freedom to conduct meaningful, relevant research alongside experienced and accomplished faculty.
Travel during college is important to broadening your world, and no matter your major, you can study abroad. If you're the type to really cast off the reins and explore an international university and culture on your own, the Office of International Education will pair you with the right program.
The Bachelor of Arts degree in French equips students to become skilled participants in today's increasingly complex and interconnected world and prepares them to excel in both graduate study and a wide variety of careers.


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Life is brighter in Gainesville's Porters neighborhood
Published: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 4:45 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8:54 p.m.
Gigi Simmons has lived in the Porters community, the neighborhood nestled between downtown and Depot Avenue, most of her life. People around here remember when she was in diapers.
UF's first football game was in Porters
On Feb. 23, a ceremony will be held in the Porters neighborhood unveiling a historical marker noting that the University of Florida played its first home football game on a field in Porters. UF defeated the Gainesville Athletic Association 16-6 on Oct. 5, 1906.
They also remember a different Porters from a few years ago, one where the prostitutes hung out on the corner in broad daylight and the dealers sold their drugs.
The 39-year-old Simmons, who has been president of the Porters Community Organization for about a year now, said the community is in transition — from what it once was to what it could be.
"We want to build on the history of this place," Simmons said.
The neighborhood — named for Canadian physician Watson Porter, who sold the land exclusively to black families more than a century ago — has experienced a number of milestones during the past year.
With the help of Santa Fe College, it held its first voter registration drive. The University of Florida sponsored the first health fair. There was a haunted house in October, a back-to-school backpack give-away in August and a toy drive in December that allowed every Porters child 17 and younger to receive a Christmas gift.
So after reading in The Sun about a crime in the neighborhood recently, Simmons wanted people to know about the positive things in her community. She sent a letter inviting the newspaper to cover "a story to be told called Porters."
"I've lived in this community," she said. "I know what our potential is."
Crime cut in half
For more than 20 years, at the corner of Southwest Third Street and Fifth Avenue, Steve Smith, 62, has looked out the windows of his store — S&S Cleaners, located just steps from the Porters Community Center.
It's through these windows that he once saw a man cut another man's throat. It's through this glass that he and his employees watched women sell their bodies to the men who had enough money.
Then, not long ago, the city began transforming Southwest Third Street. The tall grass in the lot across the street, where the dealers and women would hide, was mowed to make room for a community garden. Like the weeds, the drug dealers and women did not return.
Some residents of Porters have plots in the garden. A century ago, Watson Porter encouraged the neighborhood families to plant and cultivate gardens to become self-sufficient.
Simmons said she is working with the Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers Inc., which organizes the garden, to get a section carved out just for the community center.
The beautification of the area, including brick sidewalks, seems to positively affect people's behavior, Smith said. They don't throw trash in the streets as much. Keep Alachua County Beautiful last month did a litter pickup project in Porters.
Smith isn't the only one who has watched the neighborhood change through the shop's windows.
"Honey, I could tell you some stories," employee Sandra Kimble said with a twang in her voice. She has worked at S&S for 17 years.
Kimble and employee Elaine Grigsby, who has worked at the cleaners for 10 years, say they are grateful for the cleanup of the area's crime. They always took precautions after closing up shop — neither woman would leave without making sure the other one was safely in her car at night.
They have reason to feel safer now. From 2011 to 2012, the number of reported crime incidents in the neighborhood dropped by more than half — from 127 incidents in 2011 to 57 in 2012, according to Gainesville Police Department records.
In 2011, police intervened in 52 drug-related incidents, including possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and selling drugs, according to GPD records.
GPD Officer Charlene Collins says the Gainesville Police Department has given extra attention to the area. Officers have arrested some of the prostitutes and drug dealers, and they conduct more routine traffic stops in the area.
Taking back the neighborhood
At a Tuesday meeting of the neighborhood organization in January, about 25 residents gathered to hear Collins describe the Citizens on Patrol program.
While the neighborhood has had a crime watch program, Simmons wanted to start a patrol program as well, where residents walk the streets in groups of two or four with cellphones. If they see anything suspicious, they are instructed to call GPD.
"This neighborhood is one of the more involved neighborhoods in the area," Collins said. "Their meetings have a higher attendance compared to 90 percent of the other (crime watch) groups."
There are about 30 other active neighborhood crime watch groups in Gainesville, Collins said.
Collins has known Simmons since November 2011. She has been working with Simmons throughout the past year.
GPD named Simmons a neighborhood hero in its April-to-June 2012 newsletter.
"She's not getting paid to do it," Collins said. "She has put her heart into it."
A visit from the judge
The neighborhood children are one reason Simmons said she became more involved in her community.
A single mother of two teenage boys, she received a bachelor of arts from the University of South Florida and later returned to the family home in Porters to raise her children.
She said she wants the children in the community to know they have opportunities. To inspire the children, she has brought in speakers such as activist and author Cornel West and County Judge Walter Green.
Green, 50, said he spoke to the children for about an hour about pursuing their dreams.
"They don't have a lot of black role models to look up to pursue their dreams," he said.
Green said Porters is like a lot of neighborhoods that need more people to show the younger generation they can achieve their dreams.
Domestic violence was another topic Green touched on because some of the children have witnessed it. He said he explained to the children why they shouldn't hit people to resolve problems and warned them to not end up in his courtroom.
"I told them that I would come see them," he said. "So they don't have to come see me in court."
Being a part of the change
Down the street from the courthouse, UF's Innovation Square continues to develop. It is about a 10-minute walk from the Porters Community Center.
Simmons said that downtown and at Innovation Square, things are changing and opportunities are developing.
"We want to be a part of that change," she said.
"We don't want to be left behind," echoed Charles "Sonny" McKnight, a longtime Porters resident.
McKnight, 70, who said he was born in the front room of the house that he lives in today, said Simmons was the spark that started the change in Porters.
"I saw the fire, I saw the fire in you," he said to Simmons. "I saw how people fell in behind her and supported her. I'll tell you, this is what the grandmamas and the granddaddies have been praying for years, for this community to change and come together."
Simmons smiled and responded that she was very humbled.
"We want doctors and lawyers and scientists and researchers to come from our communities," she said. "We want presidents to come from our communities. We want professors to come from our communities. That's what we're building."
There was a time when McKnight said he was afraid to let his grandchildren play in the front yard. "But our neighborhood is alive now," he said. "Even the elderly can get out and walk around."
Simmons and others say they want the rest of Gainesville to appreciate the efforts that are taking place to revitalize Porters.
It's a little-known fact that the University of Florida played its first home football game on a field in Porters. UF defeated the Gainesville Athletic Association 16-6 on Oct. 5, 1906.
On Saturday, there will be an unveiling ceremony for the historical marker noting this event. Simmons said she hopes that day to see Porters residents standing alongside their neighbors from UF and the entire Gainesville community.
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OK, Stolle is not around, but I'll (Jeff Kiger) step up and put this oddity out there.
Chatter about The Dark Knight Batman movie and Heath Ledger's creepy performance as The Joker as buzzing across the U.S.
One reviewer in San Francisco actually tied (loosely) the insane Joker performance to Minnesota politics. I, for one, did not see that one coming.
Here's the pertinent passage from SF Chronicle movie critic Mick LaSalle's review:
With his smeared lipstick and painted white face, he is every clown who ever terrified a child. He speaks in a measured, Middle American accent, enunciating his words carefully, a voice that could tell bedtime stories in hell. (He seems, actually, to be imitating Al Franken.)
Hhmm… It is hard to know how to respond to that.
I need to tip the hat to Steve Perry and the Minnesota Independent for discovering this.


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Allah had created the universe within a perfect order. He has created the world and every detail within it with a flawless artistry, in such a way as to amaze the beholder. We see an image of that perfection in our brains. The original of matter does exist on the outside, but we only directly experience the image that Allah creates in our brains. The whole world is technically aware of this, but Allah has created that image so perfectly that people forget that it is only that, an image. Believers, however, never forget that as stated in the verse "You did not kill them; it was Allah who killed them; and you did not throw, when you threw; it was Allah who threw: so He might test the believers with this excellent trial from Him. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing." (Surat Al-Anfal, 17) Allah enfolds and pervades all things and that everything is an image created by Allah.
Scientists have made use of all the opportunities provided by the latest technology to produce televisions and other visual systems. Yet despite all their research, experiments and progress they have never obtained an image as clear as those shown to us by Allah. There are no flaws in the image created by Allah, no blurring and no loss of clarity. Indeed, Allah creates the feelings that convince us of the reality of these images together with them. We touch, taste, smell, and feel pleasure, happiness and fatigue. Obviously, matter cannot be the cause of these perceptions. The fact that Allah causes us to experience these sensations although we can never have direct experience of matter proves the existence of the soul.
Allah has created a test in this world in order to bring out true believers. But the fact that Allah portrays matter as if it actually existed causes many people to fall into error. This why people become caught up in this world and forget Allah. This where true believers manifest themselves. Because knowing that everything consists of an image that Allah creates in the mind draws believers even closer to Him. That knowledge increases their fear of Allah and their understanding of His might and artistry, and therefore draws them closer to Him. Allah has revealed the error of those who deny Him in another verse: "But the actions of those who do not believe are like a mirage in the desert. A thirsty man thinks it is water but when he reaches it, he finds it to be nothing at all, but he finds Allah there. He will pay him his account in full. Allah is swift at reckoning." (Sura an-Nur, 39)


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I was looking into Wi-Fi fuzzing (throwing wireless packets at a laptop with a Wi-Fi card) and found a tool that sped up the process of writing python scripts to inject packets. The tool is called Scapy - secdev.org/projects/scapy.
This would be a great tool to use when performing wireless auditing, since you could inject your own packets and learn how to find specific fields within a frame using wireshark.
I believe that LORCON & sharutils also need to be installed in order to construct your own packets to inject.
Would this be something that the BT devs would be interested in adding to the next release of BT? here is an article that discusses it further in case you want to explore this type of packet injection.


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Sudden Wealth
- Could You Handle a Financial Windfall?
Receiving a financial windfall is often a life-changing event. It's a relatively common one, too. You might never win the lottery, but the odds are that at some point you'll receive a significant amount of money, perhaps from an inheritance, bonus, insurance settlement, or the sale of a home or business. If so, would you be prepared for the financial decisions you might suddenly face?
- Sudden wealth
Before you go on a spending spree with that extra money you just received, take a look at your financial position to determine just how wealthy you are. If you need help, a professional (tax attorney, financial planner, insurance agent, or accountant) can advise you on an investment plan for the future. You're more vulnerable to lawsuits now, so think about purchasing an umbrella liability policy. Re-examine your life insurance needs, too. And since estate planning is even more important for you now, remember to update your will.


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A little while ago I was working on a project that required data from an external source. In trying to follow good development practices, I divided the interface code for the external source into a separate ActionScript class. No problems there, but the external source may not respond to a request immediately. This means that my ActionScript class is asynchronous, and will need to tell the calling object when the data is ready.
I've used Flex long enough to know that when I see anything asynchronous, I will be dealing with the event model. "No problem.", says I, "I've used events in MXML components before. Add a meta-data tag, dispatch the event using dispatchEvent, and add a listener in the calling object. Bob's your uncle, its done. I can even create a small custom event to be really fancy. The syntax is all in the help files. "
Alas, it was not so easy. When using MXML components, the dispatchEvent function is a property of the mx.core.UIComponent object, but pure ActionScript classes aren't derived from the UIComponent and therefore don't have access to the dispatchEvent function. So how do I dispatch the event form an ActionScript class?
It took me quite a while to find the answer to this simple question. If you search the internet, there are tons of examples of using the event dispatcher in MXML components. There are not that many when it comes to using pure ActionScript classes. The problem isn't that its difficult to do, its just hard to find how to do it amongst the thousands of results returned in a search.
So in the interest of spreading the knowledge, here is how to dispatch a custom event from a pure ActionScript class.
Source code can be found here.
The parts list:
The solution consists for three parts:
- The ActionScript class. This is a pure ActionScript object (no MXML) that will perform an asynchronous task. In this case it will make an external call to get data.
- The custom event. This is a custom build event object that will be thrown by the ActionScript class when the asynchronous task is complete.
- The calling object (aka parent). This is the MXML, class, etc. that will use the ActionScript class to get data.
The order of operations is quite simple as well:
- The parent object will add an event listener to watch for the custom event
- The parent object will then call a function in the ActionScript class
- The ActionScript class' function will perform an asynchronous task. This may require the addition of its own event listener to know when the task is complete.
- The ActionScript class will dispatch a custom event that includes data from the asynchronous task.
- The parent object will get the data from the custom event and do something with it.
Here's a simple diagram that shows what happens:
The code:
To keep from having to jump around, lets start looking from the bottom up:
The Custom Event
I could have easily used the existing Event object, but a custom event allows me a bit more freedom. I can create my own event types as well as having my own data objects passed back in the event.
- The class is fairly simple, it extends the flash.events.Event object
- There are three types of event that can be returned:
- EXTERNALDATA_DATAREADY – everything is good and the data is ready to go
- EXTERNALDATA_NODATAFOUND – there is no data found
- EXTERNALDATA_ERROR – something went wrong
- There is an attribute that holds the data called externalData, which uses the ActionScript convention around getters and setters.
- The constructor has been modified to include the event type and the data itself.
Here is the source code:
package events
import flash.events.Event;
public class ExternalDataEvent extends Event {
public static const EXTERNALDATA_DATAREADY:String = 'ExternalDataReady';
public static const EXTERNALDATA_NODATAFOUND:String = 'ExternalDataNoDataFound';
public static const EXTERNALDATA_ERROR:String = 'ExternalDataError';
private var _externalData:XML;
public function ExternalDataEvent(type:String, exData:XML, bubbles:Boolean=false, cancelable:Boolean=false) {
super(type, bubbles, cancelable);
this.externalData = exData;
public function get externalData():XML {
return _externalData;
public function set externalData(value:XML):void {
_externalData = value;
The ActionScript Class
The ActionScript class serves as the model for this project. It is called by the parent object, performs an asynchronous call, and returns the result in an ExternalDataEvent event.
In this case I'm just making a simple HTTP request to load an external XML file, but this could just as easily been an SQL call to a database, a web service request, a LiveCycle Data Services call or any other asynchronous request.
- The class extends flash.events.EventDispatcher. This is very important. Because the ActionScript class is not an MXML object, it does not have access to the mx.core.UIComponent object. By extending the EventDispatcher class we can now dispatch our custom event using the dispatchEvent function.
- The class has one public method readData
- Since the data is loaded from an HTTPService (an asynchronous event), we need a listener for the returned data. This is done by the loadData function.
- The loadData function fires our custom event. Which event depends on the data. During the call the type and data are set into the event itself
- There is also an error function, fault, as a basic error trap.
Here is the source code:
package model
import events.ExternalDataEvent;
import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
import flash.events.Event;
import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
import mx.rpc.http.mxml.HTTPService;
public class ExternalData extends EventDispatcher {
private var HttpService:HTTPService = new HTTPService();
private var xmlURL:String = new String();
public function readData(dataUrl:String):void{
private function load(dataUrl:String):void{
xmlURL = dataUrl;
HttpService.resultFormat = "e4x";
HttpService.url = xmlURL;
private function loadData(event:ResultEvent):void{
if (event.result != null){
dispatchEvent (new ExternalDataEvent (ExternalDataEvent.EXTERNALDATA_DATAREADY,event.result as XML));
}else {
dispatchEvent (new ExternalDataEvent (ExternalDataEvent.EXTERNALDATA_NODATAFOUND,null));
private function fault(event:FaultEvent):void{
trace ("ERROR: Problem loading XML data. Stack Trace follows:");
dispatchEvent (new ExternalDataEvent (ExternalDataEvent.EXTERNALDATA_ERROR,null));
The Parent Object
Finally we have the parent object. In this case I built a simple MXML application that will call the ActionScript class and get the returned data from the custom event.
- The application consists of a button and a text area. When the button is clicked a click handler function is fired and the retrieved data is displayed in the text area.
- The click handler adds three listeners. One for each type of event that can come from the custom event object.
- The click handler also sets some data and calls the public method in our ActionScript class.
- The event listeners will be triggered by the ActionScript when it dispatches the custom event (with data).
- The event listeners set the text of the text area field
Here is the source code:
<?xml version="1.0″ encoding="utf-8″?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="955" minHeight="600" xmlns:model="model.*">
<model:ExternalData id="externalData"/>
import events.ExternalDataEvent;
import model.ExternalData;
protected function getDataBtn_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
var dataURL:String = "\\assets\\testData.xml";
private function dataReady(event:ExternalDataEvent):void{
dataResults.text = event.externalData.toXMLString();
private function noDataFound(event:ExternalDataEvent):void{
dataResults.text = "No Data Found";
private function fault(event:ExternalDataEvent):void{
dataResults.text = "Data Fault";
<s:Button id="getDataBtn" x="31" y="40" label="Get Data" click="getDataBtn_clickHandler(event)"/>
<s:TextArea id="dataResults" x="88" y="86"/>
When the user clicks on the Get Data button the ActionScript class is called. Data is loaded and the custom event is dispatched. The parent application is watching for the custom event and it populates the text area with the data from that event.
If all goes well, here's what you should see once you click on the button:
Like I said earlier, its not terribly difficult. At least its no more difficult than doing custom events using MXML components. There just doesn't seem to be too many sample using pure ActionScript classes rather than visual based components.


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George Dranchak, B-25 R/G 340th bomb Group, 487th Bomb Squad MTO
1945 — Italy
George Dranchak was an Aerial Gunner/Radio Operator with the 340th Bomb Group, the 487th Bomb Squad, flying Combat Missions over Italy in the B-25 Mitchell Medium Bombers. He flew in 1944 and 1945, was awarded a DFC, had what looks like "80 Combat Missions" and the AM with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters, or more.
Birth: Jan. 2, 1918 Death: Jun. 4, 1984 Burial:
Saint Michaels Cemetery ( 70592384 )
Broome County
New York, USA
There is George's ORIGINAL DFC CERTIFICATE CITATION, NEWS ARTICLES ON George Dranchak, AND ORIGINAL NEWS WRITE UP ON T/Sgt George Dranchak AND HIS GROUP.
HIS FAVORITE B-25 WITH NOSE ART is THE UNCLE WILLIE.
HIS OTHER PICTURES SHOWS OFF B-25'S AND HIS WAR ROOM. HE FLEW OVER 50 MISSIONS (A-2 Jacket COUNT is 80) AND HE HAD THREE OAK LEAVES TO THE AIR MEDAL.
Barbi Ennis Connolly, email@example.com 57th BW Historical Researcher.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Criminal background checks processed by the attorney general's office under a new state law no longer include information about arrests and charges that didn't result in convictions. But the changes have some officials worried that employers are being given a false sense of security about applicants.
In reaction, the state's criminal investigation agency will begin warning employers this week that background check information only includes convictions and guilty pleas.
The law was designed to make it easier for ex-offenders to find work after paying their debt to society.
It shields information about individuals who have been arrested but not convicted, information that used to be included in the reports. That is affecting three categories of people: juveniles convicted of serious crimes that aren't required to be reported, adults with recent arrests whose cases haven't been concluded and adults who years ago violated their bail conditions and fled to avoid prosecution.
"It's giving that prospective employer a peace of mind about someone they shouldn't have," Steve Raubenolt, deputy superintendent at the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, told The Associated Press.
He said in recent months the bureau has processed background checks for an applicant to a police department with two drunken driving arrests and an applicant to a hospital with a pending murder charge in California that was never closed because she was deemed mentally incompetent. Both had to be reported as having no criminal record.
Attorney General Mike DeWine said Tuesday that he has a list of "horror stories" of background checks, mainly for juveniles, involving serious crimes that under the law can't be reported. The law says only juvenile convictions for murder, aggravated murder and sex crimes where a juvenile was labeled a sex offender can be reported.
DeWine cited the case of a county children's service agency that requested a background check on someone who turned out to have a 2006 juvenile rape conviction. That information couldn't be reported because he wasn't labeled a sex offender.
"From a common-sense point of view, if I was looking for a foster parent or looking for someone to work with children or to be with children, I would want to know whether they had been convicted of rape," DeWine said.
DeWine plans to ask lawmakers soon to fix the problem. He's also asking county clerks of court and probate courts to report on the conclusion of all cases as quickly as possible.
Under the new law, processing cases where someone was arrested but not convicted has to be done by hand, which is also creating a backlog of background checks and costing taxpayers. The agency has racked up about $30,000 in overtime handling those checks since the law took effect last year. Background checks that once took 20 days are now requiring as long as three months.
The backlog caught the attention of the Ohio Casino Control Commission, where background checks have gone from days to weeks, said spokeswoman Tama Davis.
That may be an issue in Cincinnati, where the state's fourth and last casino opens in March with about 600 employees still to be hired, Davis said. The agency is confident it will hit its hiring deadlines, she said.
The bill's sponsor said he caught wind of the attorney general's concerns late in the process last year and is open to revisions, particularly when it comes to people who jumped bond.
Lawmakers never intended to reward people "who never showed up and faced the music," said state Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican.
Cleveland Democrat Shirley Smith disagreed, saying there's no reason to change the law, which is serving the purpose it was meant to.
"We shouldn't rush to judgment and prohibit a person from going to work when they have not been convicted," she said. "I don't think we should say a person should not get a chance at employment just because they're waiting for a court date."
Andrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/awhcolumbus.


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SALINAS, Calif. — Cold nights and rainy days in the second week of April left Salinas Valley vegetable grower-shippers wondering whether relief from a winter of oversupply and stagnant pricing was in sight.
It was too early to tell. But the timing was inconvenient — right as lettuce production was about to shift to the valley from the Huron district and southern areas.
"We're always surprised when it rains in April," said Michael Boggiatto, president of Salinas-based Boggiatto Produce, Inc. "When it starts raining, we think maybe we'll get a market out of this. We're not predicting that. Markets were depressed in the desert deal, but we do hope for a respite."
Boggiatto Produce was stalled by four mornings of frost delays, he said.
Dave Martinez, director of sales at D'Arrigo Bros. Co. of California, also expected initial delays.
"It's going to be a rough, slow go at the start," Martinez said April 9, a day before D'Arrigo Bros. finished its lettuce deal in Yuma, Ariz. "We're going to be at 50% of what was scheduled to come off this week. We're anticipating some quality issues that will affect yield."
"I don't see the front end overproduced at all," he said. "With Huron winding down, there are good opportunities to raise the market a couple dollars. We're really optimistic that the market will get off the floor in the next couple weeks."
Prices on 24-count romaine cartons out of Salinas were mostly $7.69-8.75 on April 12 shortly after Martinez spoke but had risen to $8.50-10.35 by April 17, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That's still down from $9.58 to $10.50 the year before. Romaine hearts in 12 three-count packages were mostly $10.85-12.11 on April 17, down from $12.47 to $13.45 a year ago.
"It's a rocky start to the Salinas deal — not really what I hoped it would be," Henry Dill, sales manager at Pacific International Marketing, said April 9. "We thought we'd have Salinas going side by side with Santa Maria, but that's not the case."
Nevertheless, Dill wasn't predicting shortfalls.
"We had such perfect winter weather that we didn't really miss any planting dates," he said. "I'm not anticipating gaps; we have product in other areas. It's just a matter of when the deal does start."
The Salinas deal develops in stages. Coastline Produce and Castroville-based Ocean Mist Farms, for example, started broccoli and cauliflower in the last week of March. "With our relatively mild winter, the quality on broccoli and cauliflower is just phenomenal," said Mark McBride, sales manager at Salinas-based Coastline Produce.
Pacific International Marketing and Earthbound Farm each reported cauliflower two weeks behind schedule, but had no issues with broccoli.
Doug Classen, sales manager, said Salinas-based The Nunes Co. was on time for all commodities but cauliflower.
For the lettuce varieties, the transition from the desert regions to Huron also happened in late March. Most growers were in Salinas by the week of April 16; for one, The Nunes Co. expected to start iceberg then. D'Arrigo Bros., which skips Huron, is among the first to harvest lettuce here.
Celery hits Salinas in mid-June. Meanwhile production centers on Oxnard, which has problems of its own.
"Oxnard is mired in overproduction," Sammy Duda, vice president of Duda Farm Fresh Foods, said April 10. "We believe in a couple weeks you'll see a seeder issue begin to develop there and supply will start to decline."
Good cheer was hardly universal among grower-shippers.
"We're looking forward to better markets," Classen said. "But we don't see that happening in the near future."
Toward the end of Ocean Mist Farms' Yuma deal, vice president of harvesting Art Barrientos said, growers left some fields unharvested rather than face low prices.
Artichokes are grown to varying extents year-round in the region, but volume peaks in April and May.
Pacific International Marketing's Dill said frost took a bite out of artichokes in lower-lying fields.
"At least 5% to 10% of the next (artichoke) pick is lost," Dill said. "We're just going to have to cut them and drop them. Doesn't matter if it's our stuff, Ocean Mist or Green Giant. Weather doesn't discriminate."
Huron also was problematic, Dill said.
"We had a number of blocks in Huron that weren't able to harvest because of frost damage," he said. "With a depressed market, it didn't warrant taking a chance to clean it up and box it. I can't remember a spring deal in Huron when there was that much blister on the product."


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Police are keen to identify a man caught on camera following reports of two burglaries at a Corsham home.
During the first incident fishing rods valued at over £200 were taken from a shed at a house in Light Close overnight between Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29.
It is believed the same man then returned the following day, Sunday, March 30, shortly before 7pm and removed a number of items from a skip at the address.
He was riding a red bike complete with trailer that he used to carry off the items and was caught on camera.
Anyone who recognises the man or has any information about the incident is asked to contact PC Jennifer Mercer on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.


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Located by the large reservoir named after it, Bornos is one of the towns in Cadiz with the broadest horizons, as well as its gleaming traditional whitewashed houses. Its old town has been declared Property of Cultural Interest.
The town of Bornos is located in the heart of the countryside, on the banks of the Guadalete River, which broadens here into an extensive reservoir that is ideal for water sports. There are exceptional views of the outline of the Sierra de Grazalema mountains on the opposite bank of the reservoir. Bornos also has numerous points of interest, apart from the pleasure of strolling in its whitewashed streets. For example, there is the Church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, the Monastery of Santa María del Rosario, convents and stately homes. Among these homes is the Palacio de los Ribera palace, a Renaissance building constructed in the 16th century on the old mediaeval fortified tower of Fontanar. It is set in an Italian-inspired garden designed by the Neapolitan architect Benvenuto Tortelo.
- Zie alle informatie over de bestemming in:
- http://bornosturismo.blogspot.com/


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This publication is a guide to help those engaged in commercial fishing operations understand Washington taxes and how they apply to the industry. This guide applies only to commercial "deep sea" fishing
outside the territorial waters of the state, and to commercial fishing within the three-mile
For additional information or answers to any questions about Washington excise taxes, please contact us.
The gross-- income directly derived from treaty fishing rights related activity is not subject to state tax. This exclusion from tax is limited to those businesses exclusively owned and operated by Indians or tribes who have treaty fishing rights. If a business exclusively owned and operated by Indians or tribes deals with both treaty and non-treaty fish, this exclusion from tax is limited to the business attributable to the treaty fish.
Commercial fishers are required to register with us and account for the business and
occupation (B&O) tax.
If you catch fish in Washington waters, you are subject to B&O tax under the Extracting classification. The amount of tax due is calculated by multiplying this rate times
the value of the fish (usually the selling price).
If you catch fish outside of Washington waters but selling your catch within Washington,
you are subject to either the Wholesaling, or Retailing, unless
the fish are sold in interstate or foreign commerce. The amount of tax due is
calculated by multiplying the appropriate rate times the selling price of the
fish. (The Wholesaling B&O tax applies to sales for resale; the Retailing B&O
tax applies to sales to the final consumer.)
Commercial fisherman that sell fish to others that will resell the fish (wholesaling) must obtain a reseller permit from the buyer. This document must be retained for five years.
If you catch fish in Washington waters and sell them within Washington, other
than in interstate or foreign commerce, you are liable for both the Extracting
B&O tax and the Wholesaling or Retailing B&O tax. However, you are also entitled
to the Multiple
Activities Tax Credit (MATC) (pdf). The MATC allows the commercial fisher to take
a credit against the Extracting B&O tax in an amount equal to the Wholesaling
or Retailing B&O tax due on the selling activity. The effect of the MATC is to
eliminate a double tax on a person who both catches and sells fish in Washington.
If you are not registered with us and should be, you must complete a Business License Application. These forms are available at your local department of Revenue,
Labor and Industries, Licensing, or Employment Security offices and the Corporation
Division of the Secretary of State.
In addition to the B&O tax, commercial fishers may be liable for the excise tax on
enhanced food fish. The tax applies to the first possession of enhanced food fish by an
owner in Washington.
Indian Treaty Food Fish. Transactions involving treaty food fish are not subject
to the enhanced food fish tax, regardless of where the transaction takes place.
The term "enhanced food fish" includes the following:
The fish tax is based on the value of the enhanced food fish at the point of landing.
The fish are "landed" when they are placed on a tender in the territorial waters
of Washington, or when they are brought to land, which includes wharves, piers,
or other such extensions.
The rate of the tax depends upon the
species of fish or shellfish.
The fish tax is usually paid by the licensed dealer to whom the enhanced food fish are sold,
rather than by the commercial fisher. However, if the buyer is someone other than a dealer licensed
by the Department of Fish and Wildlife, then the commercial fisher is directly responsible for the tax.
Even when the fish are sold to a licensed dealer, the commercial fisher may bear some of the
economic burden of the fish tax. A dealer is entitled to deduct an amount equal to half of the
fish tax from the price paid to the commercial fisher for enhanced food fish. Tuna, mackerel, and
jack fish are exempt from the fish tax. Shellfish raised from eggs or larvae, and under the physical
control of the grower until harvested or sold, are also exempt from the fish tax.
Credit. A credit is allowed against the amount of enhanced food fish tax owed for any tax
previously paid on the same food fish to any legally established taxing authority, including Indian tribes.
If you have questions about the fish tax, please call (360) 902-7151.
Commercial fishers must pay retail
sales or use
tax on all nonexempt equipment and supplies used to conduct their business
There are retail
sales and use tax exemptions (pdf) for sales of, or repairs to, watercraft and component parts that are
primarily used in commercial deep sea fishing operations outside the territorial waters of Washington.
This exemption is not available for watercraft and component parts used for kelping, purse seining, or
gill netting, because such fishing methods can only be performed in Washington waters (the three-mile
If you are regularly engaged in commercial deep sea fishing operations, you are
also entitled to a sales and use tax exemption for diesel fuel used in the operation
of watercraft. To be "regularly engaged" in commercial fishing operations and
to qualify for these exemptions, you must earn at least $5,000 per year at this
activity. (If you engage in commercial deep sea fishing and also charter boats
for sport fishing outside the territorial waters of the state, you may combine
your income from both activities in order to meet the $5,000 threshold.)


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Newt Gingrich has had a rough few months. The always-an-underdog candidate failed to win any key primaries, other than South Carolina and home state Georgia. His exit from the race has been long and drawn out, but on Wednesday, Gingrich official withdrew his name from the presidential election.
Among the presidential candidates, Gingrich boasted the clearest understanding of the challenges facing the medical device industry—not to mention the healthcare industry as a whole.
Exactly one year ago, in 2011, he called for transparency of prices for medical devices. Gingrich told Congress it should ban exclusivity and price confidentiality agreements between device makers and medical providers. This makes "true price competition in the $153 billion medical-device marketplace impossible" and prices can be marked up "hundreds of percentage points," Gingrich said.
Gingrich also championed speeding market entry for advanced medical products, suggesting that FDA issue conditional approvals.
However, Gingrich's think-tank Center for Health Transformation has been suffering. In April, the Center for Health Transformation filed Chapter 7 and will cease operations. In the filed documents, the center listed debt of as much as $10 million and assets of less than $100,000. According to the Washington Post, the Center's "fortunes. . . sunk rapidly last year as its compelling leader turned his energies to the political campaign trail."
Whether Gingrich will once again return to healthcare ventures remains to be seen.


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24 April 2010 — Monticello, IN
Joe Applegate and I enlisted in the Marine Corps together on the Buddy Plan in June 1967 and trained together before we shipped overseas. We had been stationed at Camp Hansen in Okinawa. We were then shipped to Vietnam and started our tour on Dec 5, 1967. We arrived at Da Nang by C130 transport at night and up until that point, we had it really easy. That all changed that night. The next day we were flown to Camp Carroll in northern Quang Tri Prov. The air was filled with all the sounds and smells of combat...there was no joking around...we saw the wounded enroute to a medivac. We noticed that there was an intensity that we would soon have to adjust to ourselves. Even to this day I find myself, if the air is just right, back in the bush. We spent several days there waiting for our unit to return. Prior to deployment on our first operation, we geared up and received info of our first Fire Base. Finally, we were on our way to a remote base known only to us as A3. This was small support base from where we would run LRPs...recon and ambushes. Joe was called the first day there for radio training by our Plt. CO...Capt. Sams. So as time proceeded through Jan '68, I had distanced myself from Joe because I had lost to many close friends...to this day I regret doing that...but for me it was the only way I could stay focused on my tasks. Joe was platoon radio man and I ended up point-man for my squad. He did his job well....to the end. On the 2nd of Feb, 1968, the day Joe died, we were on a Company size operation, that was a big mistake. We always operated in small groups prior to this day. He and I both felt threatened and vulnerable. Joe was loved by all and got along well with everyone. He was a full of life, generous and strong, not only physically, but mentally as well. Joe was a great Marine, always followed orders, respectful of his superiors, and he was always there for a helping hand. Now, this is kind of off the wall, however, thinking back on it, still makes me smile...Joe never knew how many times he would talk to me on the radio. We could key our hand set when he would call...i.e. Joe would call us at night saying..."ECHO ONE RED...ECHO ONE RED...if all is secure, key your hand set twice". He never knew that many times we were out in the dark far away from him and would let him repeat that at least 4 times before we would key the "mike". We could tell he was pissed, we would just look at one another and smile. Joe served with honor and he did make difference, he was truly a Marine's Marine. Semper Fi, Joe, I do miss you and you will never be forgotten. I visit your grave often, and make sure a flag is always there. ~ Your Marine Buddy, Neil Smith ~


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – For the second-straight year, Saint Leo women's soccer midfielder Cassie Barbaresi has been named to the NSCAA All-America Third Team.
The Bradenton, Fla. native adds her All-America selection to her impressive list of 2011 accolades, including First Team Daktronics All-Region, Sunshine State Conference Offensive Player of the Year award, and First Team All-Conference.
Barbaresi finished the season leading the team in assists with 10, and adding seven goals to her scoring tally, good for second best on the team in overall points with 24. She notched one game-winning goal while helping the Lions pepper opponents with 295 shots and 147 shots on target, and was lethal from long range. Starting 14 games and seeing time in 18, Barbaresi ranked third in the Sunshine State Conference in points, and fourth in assists.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo women's soccer team, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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A BLACKBURN charity has pledged to help a local girl who is suffering with a rare illness.
Enola Halleron, 10, from Blackburn will never grow more than a metre tall due to having mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), a rare disease that, among other things, causes skeletal growth problems.
MPS is usually diagnosed within the first five years of childhood. It is caused by a missing enzyme and is a life-long condition with no cure.
A few sufferers can live to their 50s or 60s, but the majority rarely live beyond their 20s or 30s.
People with MPS can also suffer from recurrent respiratory problems that, along with heart failure, can lead to death.
Blackburn charity Al-Imdaad Foundation met Enola's family at an event at the mayor's parlour with Blackburn mayor Salim Mulla, and learned of her plight.
Charity officials were extremely touched be Enola's story and promised to provide long-term support for her illness.
Enola is set to get a new wheelchair before she starts secondary school in September, but will need additional help, including an adapted family car to carry her chair.
Projects co-ordinator Zubair Valimulla said: "It was fantastic to meet Enola and her family. The smile this beautiful girl has is amazing.
"We will support this cause as long as we can and we will give this priority as well as our work in over 65 countries."
An appeal has been launched for Enola on the group's website www.alimdaad.co.uk. The Al-Imdaad Foundation has supported many other UK projects including OCD action, cancer awareness and also assisted during the UK floods in February.
More recently it contributed £20,000 towards the Mayor's Kidney Care appeal, which will now provide a dialysis machine at Royal Blackburn hospital.
The charity received a letter of acknowledgment from the Queen for the work it carries out globally.
Enola's mother Donna Halleron said: "We want to thank them. It was amazing meeting them, and they made Enola's year.
"She was beaming when we met them all, and she woke up happy as Larry the next morning because she knew there are people out there supporting her, and they said how special she was.
"It was something we weren't expecting, but we're proud to have their support."


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Transportation Minister Mary Polak hosted a live Twitter session this morning on the Port Mann/Highway 1 Project, tolling and the TReO electronic tolling system.
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Volcanic vents too hot for evolving life, according to a Royal Society press release, 13 February 2006 and ScienceNOW, 15 February 2006. A current theory on the origin of life is that the first living organisms evolved from chemicals around hydrothermal vents - deep sea volcanoes, because numerous strange "primitive" bacteria are found living on the sides of these. A team of scientists led by David Deamer of University of California, Santa Cruz set out to test this theory by finding a volcanic pool devoid of any signs of life and pouring in "a can of primordial soup containing the building blocks of proteins, DNA as well as fatty acids that could form rudimentary cell membranes."
They found such a pool in Kamchatka on the east coast of Russia, but when they tested the water a few hours after adding the biological building blocks they found most of the added material was no longer dissolved in the water but was bound to the clay lining the pool. According to Deamer, the molecules were "nailed down, so they can't interact." Deamer commented to the Royal Society, "The results are surprising and in some ways disappointing. It seems that hot acidic waters containing clay do not provide the right conditions from chemicals to assemble themselves in 'pioneer organisms'. We don't know what to make of this yet, but these results do appear to narrow down some of our ideas about where life could have begun. One possibility is that life really did begin in a 'warm little pond', (as proposed by Darwin 140 years ago) but not in hot volcanic springs or marine hydrothermal vents."
Editorial Comment: Scientists hoping to find the origin of life by experimenting with chemicals will continue to be disappointed because they are looking in the wrong place. Living cells are made up of the chemicals that Deamer's team used in their study, but living cells work because of the organisation of the chemicals, in the same way that a complex machine won't work until it component parts are put together in the right way by the outside intelligence of the machines creator. The key to understanding the origin of life is not in the chemistry, but in finding the source of information that organises the chemicals. We suggest that origin of life researchers start by copying "In the beginning was the Word" (John 1:1). If they really want results, they will have to play Creator. (Ref. abiogenesis, biochemistry, thermophiles)


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