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I've been interviewing, and I've been asked open-ended and broad questions such as, "Tell me about yourself", and "What do you want to do?". When I was fresh out of college, I remember gushing, "I want to work with smart people!"; or identifying myself with my degrees, "I am a Business Major", "I am an Informatics Major."
Looking back, I smile at my younger self.
Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic to work with smart people at a great company. And I still tell people what I studied in college to set background and context. More than that though, now, if given the chance, I tell people my motivation to work. Since becoming a yoga teacher and seeing first hand what it is like to directly make a difference in someone's day, or life, I'm enormously motivated to help people uncover their potential. And I'm pretty sure you feel the same too.
Now, I'm aware of how cheesy that may sound. Yeah, yeah, let's hear the jokes. Anthony Robbins better move over, Nikki Chau is rolling in.
I'm aware that these things almost always sound incredibly cheesy and sound-bitey through certain mediums, like, uh, the Internet. Oh well. I'm certain I'm not the first or the last to let their guard down 'round here, so I'll put this out there anyway.
Tonight I was searching for a research study I read about a range of salary where it makes virtually no difference to the quality of life and the level of happiness of the wage earner. I didn't find it, but instead I found this nice slide show that I'm digging a lot: Goodness And Happiness – Why Generosity Is The Future Of Marketing Strategy
One of the slides had the Hughtrain manifesto, which was quite inspiring for me to read.
We are here to find meaning. We are here to help other people do the same. Everything else is secondary.
We humans want to believe in our own species. And we want people, companies and products in our lives that make it easier to do so. That is human nature.
Product benefit doesn't excite us. Belief in humanity and human potential excites us.
Think less about what your product does, and think more about human potential.
People are not just getting more demanding as consumers, they are getting more demanding as spiritual entities. Branding is a spiritual exercise. These are The New Realities, this is the Spiritual Republic we now live in.
The soul cannot be outsourced. Either get with the program or hire a consultant in Extinction Management. No vision, no business. Your life from now on pivots squarely on your vision of human potential.
Um, yeah. A few big and fuzzy feely touchy words there, eh? Like, Spiritual? I mean, come on, talk about overused and abused word, right? An easy word people use to sell you crap, right? Yup, let's take a moment to roll our eyes and shake our heads here.
Okay, let's all turn off our snarky skeptical selves for another moment, just a short moment, and consider things like the spirit and the soul in the least commercialized meaning and on the deepest most personal level. Think about the time when you went camping far away from the city and you looked up and saw the whole entire constellation twinkling above, and you just got really quiet and stared up at the sky with a certain sense of wonder, and you didn't even feel the need to tweet or update your facebook status about it.
Or, think of the time when you were just so moved and inspired by someone, when you hear about the story of a human who's overcome something so awful and achieved something great, like the last time you watched "Rudy", or read about an Olympics athlete who have failed and failed and failed so hard so many times before earning their medal.
For me, the last three times I felt this way were:
- Watching Hannah Kearney win Gold in Vancouver after her stumble in Turin
- Watching Roger Ebert's interview on Oprah.
- The story of actress Carey Mulligan, recently nominated for an Oscar's, who was rejected by not one, but three drama schools and was working as a barmaid before she became an actress.
And so, you know, corn and cheese and snark aside, I *do* believe that we want to do good, fun, meaningful, purposeful work. Not preachy, holier-than-thou, d0-gooders-are-better kind of work. No, we don't all have to drop everything and run off and join the Peace Corps. At the core, I believe that we all yearn to do work that lets us express ourselves and means something to someone's soul and spirit.
Okay, thanks for playing. We can put our hard-knock-life jade shell back on now.


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I would like to use WordPress for my school's website. It does everything I need but I cannot figure out how to publish homework assignments. I know teachers can just write posts for daily homework but what I'd like to do is a little more complicated. Is there a way to create a way for a cluster/ group of teachers to be able to post homework on their own page by content? For example. let's say cluster 1 has 4 teachers (math, English History and science) and each teacher wants to post his homework on the same page but it would go under the subject heading. So it would look like this:
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Is this possible? Not sure if custom post types would work or how.
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Not sure that Wordpress can do that but when things start getting overly complex for Wordpress next open source choice is Drupal, and a great candidate to easily solve the sort of problem you're describing.
You will have to consult a WP Developer to get something like that done or code a custom plugin yourself. I do not see any out of the box method for it.
ok-thank you
You could use the 'Members' plugin to create a 'teachers' group and then only allow them access to their own department.
I'm actually working on a Wordpress plugin exclusively for schools to give them a group of features aimed at what a school needs and to allow this kind of 'virtual learning environment' functionality, but it's early stages so far!


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I have crated a userform in access 2007 and used this code to insert in table.
Private Sub Save_Click()If School.Value = "" ThenMsgBox ("Enter School ID")School.SetFocusExit SubEnd If
Dim insertstring As String
DoCmd.SetWarnings (False)insertstring = "INSERT INTO Classroom (School_id) VALUES ('" & School.Value & "' );"DoCmd.RunSQL insertstringend sub
When i press SAVE command for the first time with Schooltxtbox empty, the values are inserted into table without checking if the text box for school is empty. Again for the second time when i click save then it only the checks for the textbox if its empty. Why is this psl help...
Your if is setting the value to empty. It should be:if School.Value == ""
But better yet, use the string helper class to check:String.IsNullOrEmpty(School.Value) this will return a boolean if it is empty / null or not
if School.Value == ""This produce compile error while using ==
My above code works well, but it doesn't check the text box in first press to command, it insert blank in the table in first and for next entry only it checks for the text box if it's empty or not.
I have just a user form in access 2007 with a text box and a Save command.MY code:
Private Sub Save_Click() If School.Value = "" Then MsgBox ("Text Box is empty")elseMsgbox(" Not Empty")
End IfEnd Sub
When the Save is clicked, and the text box is empty, the second statement is executed with message "Not Empty".Why this
Agree with NightStalker-DNS on using String.IsNullOrEmpty, but I'd take it one step further and use String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace
Try the following:[highlight=VB.NET]Private Sub Save_Click() If String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(School.Value) Then MsgBox ("Text Box is empty") else Msgbox(" Not Empty") End IfEnd Sub
If that continues to fail, try the following:
[highlight=VB.NET]Private Sub Save_Click()
If School.Value.Trim().Length = 0 Then
MsgBox ("Text Box is empty")
Msgbox(" Not Empty")
End If
End Sub
Thanks Cpradio, it worked well and Now i have another question :I have used the following code to delete record form table:DoCmd.RunSQL "DELETE * FROM Tbl1 WHERE Grade = '" & txtGrade.Value & "'" This works and what if i want the query to watch two values from the table like Grade and Year or even third value like School_Nmae and delete the one that matches all these values i put in textbox to delete.p.s Make it also for number values, how should the code be ( Colons like things)
Thanks in advance.
Actually, I'm a bit surprised that even works, as I would have thought the * between DELETE and FROM would fail, however, if it works, it works. To expand it to only delete values that match on multiple columns, your syntax would be
DoCmd.RunSQL "DELETE FROM Tbl1 WHERE Grade = '" & txtGrade.Value & "' AND Year = '" & txtYear.Value & "' AND School_Name = '" & School.value & "'"
However, I will say this, you have opened yourself to a SQL Injection with this process so be sure to sanitize your data (verify it is legit). Granted I see this is against an Access database, so your tools to do that, may be limited.
I did a bit of quick searching and found you can use parameters when working with access if you change how you connect to accesshttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/14328640/sanitize-ms-access-query-using-regex (see last example on that page)
Thanks a lot Cpradio, I'll get back to you if there comes any problems, yet i have not checked with this code. Thanks a ton.


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The last thing the Browns need right now is a ticked-off superstar quarterback making his NFL return.
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"It was great to be back in the building," Brady said on Westwood One Radio this week. "Certainly great to be back to work. It's been a long four weeks for me, but I'm excited to get started on my preparation for Cleveland. I'm anxious for the week ahead. I want to get back out on the practice field. This is what I love to do and now I have an opportunity to do it."
What might he do to the Browns (0-4), the NFL's only winless team and ravaged by injuries? What Brady usually does, which most often is a good thing for New England (3-1).
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Though trade officials have not made the negotiating texts of the Anticounterfeiting Trade Agreement public, a joint proposal from the US and Japan has been leaked. It is available online at wikileaks, and PIJIP has posted it on our webpage on ACTA: http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/go/acta .
The Japan-US Joint proposal includes provisions that enable border guards to seize certain goods, either at the request of IP owners, or on their own. The draft shows that more specific language allowing the seizure of "counterfeit trademark goods" (goods that are deceptively packaged to falsely show that they are manufactured by the right owner) has been deleted. It has been replaced with language obliging countries to seize any goods "suspected of infringing an intellectual property right."
Article 2.7: Application by the Right Holder
1. Each party shall provide procedures for import, export [Option US: , and in transit (note 4)] shipments by which right holders may request the competent authorities to suspend the release (note 5) of goods suspected of infringing an intellectual property right suspected counterfeit trademark goods (note 6) or confusingly similar trademark goods, and suspected pirated goods (note 3) into free circulation. …
Article 2.78: Ex-Officio Action
1. Each Party shall provide that its customs authorities may act upon their own initiative, to suspend the release of goods suspected of infringing an intellectual property right. suspected counterfeit or confusingly similar trademark goods or suspected pirated copyright goods with respect to imported, exported [Option U.S.: , or in transit] goods including suspected counterfeit or confusingly similar trademark goods or suspected pirated copyright goods admitted to, withdrawn from, or located in free trade zones. [Option J.: Each Party shall endeavor to provide its customs authorities the same authority as the foregoing provision of this Article in respect of transit goods that are suspected counterfeit or confusingly similar trademark goods or suspected pirated copyright goods.
NOTE 3: The provisions of this section shall also apply to confusingly similar trademark goods, which means any goods, including packaging, bearing without authorization a sign that is similar to the trademark validly registered in respect of such or similar goods where it exists a likelihood of confusion on the part of the public between the sign and the trademark
NOTE 4: For purposes of this Section, in-transit goods means goods under "Customs transit" and goods "transshipped," as defined in the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Kyoto Convention).
NOTE 5: For purposes of this Section, where the competent authorities suspend the release of suspected counterfeit [Option J: or confusingly similar] trademark or pirated copyright goods, the authorities shall not permit the goods to be released into free circulation, exported, or subject to the other customs procedures except in exceptional circumstances.
NOTE 6: For purposes of this Section, counterfeit trademarks goods means any goods, including packaging, bearing without authorization a trademark that is identical to the trademark validly registered in respect of such goods, or that cannot be distinguished in its essential aspects from such a trademark, and that thereby infringes the rights of the owner of the trademark in question under the law of the country in which the procedures set out in this Section are invoked.
This overly broad language lumps fraudulently labeled goods with other products that may not be illegal, for instance, parallel imports. It could also include generics that were not authorized by the patent holder but do not violate IP laws in the jurisdictions where they are made or offered for sale. It is fair to predict that giving border guards the broad power to seize shipments of goods they suspect infringe IP will result in more situations like the highly controversial Dutch seizures of generic medicines traveling to Brazil and Nigeria.
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December 3, 2012 8:32pm UTC
Simulation of the magnetic fied
I have one physical NdFeB magnet and I need to simulate this magnet in Comsol 4.2a, but I dont know exactly how to do it.
I know these parameters of the magnet:
Remanence Br = 1380 mT
Coercivity Hcb = 876 kA/m
Intrinic coercivity Hcj = 876 kA/m
Maximum Energy Product BHmax = 334 kJ/m3
Dimensions of the magnet (cylindric magnet): height = 5 mm; weight = 8,5 mm
The magnet is magnetized axially.
So I used 2D axisymmetric geometry for this shape of the magnet, entered dimensions and now... I tried used mfnc physics, but I dont know exactly, which of these physical parameters (Br, Hcb ...) should be used for modelling magnetic field around this magnet.
I wanted to use this formula for magnetization
M = (1/u0)*B-H
but I dont know, if the B and H in this formula is the same as Br and Hcb or Hcj of my magnet, or if I can simulate magnetic field without this parameter.
Please can anybody help me? Thank you very much.
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December 4, 2012 7:44am UTC in response to Petr Koutný
Re: Simulation of the magnetic fied
that is a good question,
I have a way, but I have never really managed to validate it through detailed measurements, from the few measurements I have I trust it to 10%.
So my way is to define a specific "Magnetic Flux Conservation 2" for the magnet and set the magnetisation M to the Hc value of the magnet. Assuming that it is a hard magnet with a constant mu_r close to 1. This is not fully your case as Br/Hc = 1.25 quite high from my experience but OK.
You have hereby a model, where the magnet is in free air, and is shortened with a perfect iron mu_r=4000 and an air gap you can adjust. If you set it to 0.5 or 0.1 mm you will see that the Hz value in the magnet and the airgao has a difference getting close to Hc, and the Bz is getting close to the Br, which for me is showing that the model is quite OK
Comments appreciated
Good luck
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December 6, 2012 9:24pm UTC in response to Ivar Kjelberg
Re: Simulation of the magnetic fied
Hi Ivar,
thanks for you answer. I tried open your model, but I cant. Comsol said that the model was created in latest version. I have version 4.2a. Second problem, I dont understand the part, where you speak about shortened with perfect iron. I have only the NdFeB magnet and no iron with ... or if it is for the model, that I cant open... Please for clearing.
Thank you
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December 7, 2012 6:24am UTC in response to Petr Koutný
Re: Simulation of the magnetic fied
sorry and I do not have the older versions up running
The story of shortening with iron is just my way of validating the model, not any need for your final model. But when you define a magnet the Br corresponds to a magnet in free air/vacuum, the Hc to a magnet "short circuited" by a fictitious INF mu_r material. So one I have defined my magnet in 2D axi in my case I check that the filed just above the magnet reproduces the Br and Hc values.
the magnetisation is a material property, but the true field around a magnet depends also on the magnet shape, you see that in the field concentration on all corners in ACDC (and elsewhere) if the absolute values you calculate by FEM on sharp corners might be wrong, the field concentration effect is a true physical effects (lightening goes or arrives on sharp edges etc) therefore I always round off all my sharp edges (whenever possible in ACDC
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Never before have we seen so many legitimate challengers ready and willing to be Winnipeg's next mayor, so far in advance of the next election.
It used to be potential candidates would lie quietly in the tall grass, waiting for the incumbent to make his or her intentions known. If there was no incumbent, they would pounce. If the incumbent decided to run again, most challengers would quietly withdraw.
Mayor Sam Katz has not indicated definitively whether he's running in 2014. That has not stopped the onslaught.
We already have one official candidate -- former councillor Gord Steeves -- and a host of others who are threatening to run with a confidence and brashness rarely seen in this city.
Coun. Paula Havixbeck, a constant critic of the current mayor, seems certain to run. The same goes for council colleague Scott Fielding. Former MP Judy Wasylicia-Leis, who ran against Katz in 2010, is mulling a second bid. Lawyer Brian Bowman is said to be nearly 100 per cent in the race.
This could be the most hotly contested mayoral race since 1992, when former mayor Bill Norrie stepped down and three former city councillors battled eventual winner Susan Thompson, a political rookie, for the top civic job.
Just a few months ago, it appeared Katz, if he wanted to run again, was unbeatable. This despite having suffered through the revelation of a host of ethical transgressions.
Since then, Katz's aura of invincibility has mostly disappeared. The recent special audit into the contracts for the fire-paramedic station replacement program has helped galvanize a long list of concerns about Katz and his friends and business partners.
The audit found former CAO Phil Sheegl, a close Katz friend and business partner, improperly helped Shindico Realty, a company owned by Katz loyalists Sandy and Robert Shindleman, obtain four lucrative contracts to build fire-paramedic stations.
More details about the manipulation of the city's real estate transactions are expected in a second, broader audit next year. However, the damage is done. No one is afraid of Sam anymore. And that has emboldened challengers.
However, what these mayoral wannabes have in ambition they may lack in leadership potential.
Consider the case of the aforementioned Steeves, who held a splashy news conference this week to announce his candidacy. He had posters, balloons, T-shirts and buttons festooned with his slogan, "Mayor for a new day."
In fact, the only thing he didn't have was the legal authority to announce his candidacy. The official campaign does not begin until next April, and until then no one is allowed to spend money on campaign materials or events. That's a tragic irony for a man who has a law degree.
And the irony didn't stop there. At his likely illegal launch, Steeves pledged to restore a culture of responsibilty to civic affairs. Unfortunately, Steeves spent most of his post-announcement scrum dodging responsibility for the fire-paramedic station mess.
Given Steeves was not only on council but also chaired the committee that oversaw the fire-paramedic station program when it began, his claims are simply unbelievable.
The launch event may not propel Steeves to the mayor's office. On the positive side of the ledger, he may have set a world record for the fastest breach of a campaign promise.
In fairness, Steeves is not the only mayoral contender to stumble.
Coun. Scott Fielding, long thought to be a mayoral candidate in 2014 if Katz did not run, has been much more restrained in his approach. No splashy campaign launch, no problems with electoral law. However, he has also demonstrated some questionable judgment.
Following the release of the fire-paramedic station audit, Fielding resigned from executive policy committee. At the time, Fielding said his decision was a protest against a draft 2014 civic budget that called for a possible property-tax increase.
First and foremost, it's hard to believe Fielding would step down from council over a draft budget. If he felt strongly there should be no tax increase, then he owed it to his constituents to stay on EPC and make that point.
A more likely explanation is Fielding is running as quickly as he can from EPC and the train wreck Katz is becoming so it does not impair his mayoral bid. For someone who aspires to lead the city, that is a strange way to demonstrate leadership.
There is a black cloud hanging over Katz right now, and that is certainly forcing challengers out into the open. Ironically, those who have been first off the mark have not yet demonstrated they're worthy of the mayor's office.
This is a city that is in desperate need of an upgrade in the mayor's office. So far, it's not clear a better option has stepped forward.


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A LAW student, banned from driving last year for taking part in a high-speed race through Burnley, has been jailed after being involved in a motorway smash.
Sakab Mahmood, 21, gave police the wrong name after the rear end shunt at the wheel of a hired Audi Q7 on the M6 in Knutsford on April 12.
Burnley Crown Court heard Mahmood, who wanted to be a solicitor or barrister, claimed he forgot he was subject to the suspended sentence.
In July last year at the same court, he had been given eight months in prison, suspended for two years, with a curfew, unpaid work and a two-year driving ban after admitting dangerous driving.
He had been one of two drivers who raced each other at speeds of up to 85mph almost causing head-on crashes, on 30 mph Colne Road, Burnley.
Mahmood was back in the dock on Monday after he admitted driving while disqualified, no insurance and police obstruction. The defendant, of William Street, Brierfield, was jailed for 29 weeks, banned from driving for two years and has to take an extended driving test.
Rick Holland, defending, said the vehicle was hired to go to a wedding in Birmingham. There was nobody else to drive it and, conscious of his repres-entational role at the wedding, Mahmood drove.
Mr Holland said: "He's going to have an uphill task to persuade the Law Society if he wants to be a solicitor."
The court heard Mahmood had driven from the Manchester area to Birmingham and back and had had to pay out £4,000 for damage to the hire car and other vehicle.


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HOUSTON - Carrying car insurance is required by law, but one woman is asking Amy what to do when an insurance company won't pay up after its customer hit her car.
She called KPRC Local 2 investigative reporter Amy Davis when she couldn't believe the reason the insurance company denied her claim.
A Progressive Auto Insurance adjuster told Candice Sano they couldn't get in touch with its customer, the driver who rear-ended her. Therefore, they denied the claim. Candice asked me if Progressive can do that.
Sano's car is still drivable, and fortunately, she wasn't hurt when she says another driver bumped her car from behind when she stopped at a Kingwood intersection.
"She gave me her policy number. She gave me her driver's license number," explained Sano. "And she gave me the number where I could reach her insurance company, Progressive."
Sano filed a claim by phone. Her damages were minor. Progressive estimated the cost to repair a small hole left by the other driver's license plate bolt at $361.
But weeks later, in an e-mail, Progressive said it wasn't giving Sano anything.
"The reason they denied the claim was because they couldn't get a hold of their customer," Sano said the adjuster told her. "Why should they be able to deny my claim because they can't get a hold of their own customer? It's not really fair."
"The duty that an insurance company has is to its insured," said David Tiede, director of the Texas Consumer Complaint Center at the University of Houston.
Tiede said if the driver at fault won't talk with her insurance company, the company can't be certain the accident is really their client's fault. He said Sano's beef is with the driver who hit her car, not Progressive. Filing in small claims court may get the other driver's attention.
"Hopefully it will cause the insured to recognize that they need to pick up the telephone and call the insurance company so that the insurance company can handle it," said Tiede.
Meanwhile, KPRC Local 2 made a call to Progressive, which told us it will pay Sano's claim.
A representative e-mailed "Progressive's goal is to provide fast, caring claims service and we're sorry that this claim did not go as smoothly as we would have liked."
Progressive said its adjuster should have communicated better with Sano; but we learned that when you sign a contract with an insurance company, the company answers to you. It has no legal obligation to speak with the driver you may or may not have hit.
Sano could have gotten her own insurance company to go to bat for her, but she said it told her she'd have to pay her deductible to get the repairs covered. Her insurance would then try to get reimbursed from Progressive. If they were successful, it told Sano, she would get her deductible back.
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The Delta Diner isn't a barbecue place per se but the owner (who just happens to be from the next town over from me!) does make his own pulled pork when he needs some, so I thought I'd give it a mention here.
We were up there on vacation last week and since DD had been written up in the Madison paper I wanted to give it a try. It's truly out in the middle of nowhere with nothing to see but highway and forest, although maybe there's a town hall somewhere in the township.
One of the blue plate specials that morning was pulled pork inside a tortilla inside an omelet, which was then topped with homemade slaw and barbecue sauce.
The pork was the real deal and the sauce paired well with the tangy slaw dressing. I can't remember if the bread was whole wheat or whole grain, but either way it made some of the best toast I've had in a long time!
Delta Diner's actually doing Barbecue Thursdays starting today but I'm 340+ miles away...


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DOCTORS failed to give a Bournemouth teenager potentially life-saving antibiotics for several hours despite suspecting she had meningitis, an inquest was told.
Connie Moore, 16, a pupil at Bournemouth School for Girls, was admitted to hospital with a number of symptoms including a headache, temperature and high blood pressure and later died.
Despite her initial examination raising meningitis as a possible cause of her symptoms, it wasn't until four hours later that she was given antibiotics at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, the hearing heard.
The inquest into her death heard that it was impossible to know whether giving her the medication any earlier would have saved her life but Dr Chowdhury Islam told the court: "The earlier you give antibiotics the better."
The court was told that because her condition was improving, doctors put meningitis "down the list" of possible diagnosis.
However the coroner's court heard that, according to guidelines, if there is any suspicion of meningitis, antibiotics should be given within an hour.
The court also heard how a decision to perform a lumbar puncture to confirm meningitis hours later should not have been carried out.
It was this procedure that ultimately caused brain damage which led to her death.
Doctors decided to perform the procedure without having Connie's full notes, the court heard, which would have suggested she was suffering from increased pressure on the brain – which means a lumbar puncture should not be performed.
They instead put too much reliance on a CT scan which didn't show abnormalities.
Dr Charles Gordon said: "We interpreted the information we had in the wrong way."
Fellow consultant Dr Michelle Scott said "with hindsight" she would not have agreed to a lumbar puncture.
Royal Bournemouth Hospital has since carried out a serious incident review.
Associate medical director Dr Sean Weaver told the court that any decisions made were done with the information available at the time.
The court heard it was impossible to know whether Connie would have survived had she been given the antibiotics earlier or not had the lumbar puncture.
Delivering a narrative determination, Coroner Keith Wiseman said: "A differential diagnosis of meningitis was made at a very early stage but there was a failure to give antibiotics at all for a four-hour period after admission in breach of NICE Guidelines.
"Those directed specifically at meningitis were not given for close to six hours after admission by which time Connie had very significantly deteriorated and required emergency treatment."
After the verdict Connie's mother Kathleen Moore said:"As a family we have been devastated by Connie's death. We mourn her loss every day.
"This verdict supports our belief in that there was a systematic failure at Royal Bournemouth Hospital to treat Connie's symptoms in the manner which she deserved and according to national guidelines.
"Meningitis and septicaemia are serious illnesses which require immediate medical attention. No family should have to suffer the loss of a young person to meningitis, as we have. We miss Connie every day."
Paula Shobbrook, Director of Nursing at Royal Bournemouth Hospital, said afterwards: "We offer our sincere condolences to Connie's family at this time and we will be carefully reviewing the coroner's findings."


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PACE, Fla. - Goeun Lee led the Lions with an opening round of one-over 73 to kick off the NCAA Division II Women's Super Region Tournament on a strong note. With help from her teammates, the Saint Leo women's golf team concluded day one in a tie for fourth with reigning national champion Nova Southeastern with a score of 308. Day two is slated to take place on Monday at the par-72, 6154 yard Stonebrook Golf Club in Pace, Fla.
The Lions sit behind Florida Southern, Lynn, and Barry University, who hold onto first round totals of 302, 303, and 305, respectively.
Four Lions fired scores in the seventies as Lee led the team with her one-over 73. Heather Petronis and Ragna Olafsdottir carded scores of six-over 78, while Clare Connolly finished one stroke behind the duo with a first day total of seven-over 79.
Laura Huertas rounded out the team with a nine-over 81.
The Lions will tee off on Monday morning with Nova Southeastern and Tusculum, starting at 9:26 a.m. Fans can catch all of the action live through LIVE STATS that will be available on the Tournament website.
For the latest news, updates, and informatio on the Saint Leo women's golf team's postseason play, visit saintleolions.com.


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NEW BONAVENTURE, NL — In the dining room of Aunt Hattie's Vacation Home, a green wooden cottage overlooking a picturesque harbour, Taylor Kitsch is reflecting on life in a quiet village at the eastern tip of Canada.
Outpost Expedition!10 Aug 2012
Big mountains, fjords, polar bears and Outpost Magazine = Summer 2012 Adventure Overload in Torngat Mountains National Park.
"What kinds of pie do you have tonight?" the man sitting by the window asked. He and I were both eating dinner in a café in the outport of Cow Head, N.L.
CUPIDS, Newfoundland Labrador – Up on the rooftop garden of the Cupids Legacy Centre, Peter Laracy is delivering some stern advice. About fairies. "If you hear strange music, don't follow it...
Don't forget to call ahead!7 Jun 2012
If you're planning to visit us this summer, remember to call now (if you haven't already!) to ensure any car rental, ferry bookings and accommodation. That way, your only responsibility upon arriving will be to have the most relaxing time possible…
Cross Canada Cooks: Newfoundland and Labrador27 Apr 2012
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador teems with culinary traditions from the sea and the land...
Breaking the ice in Newfoundland9 Apr 2012
When the last of the pack ice disappears and St. John's harbour readies itself for summer traffic, one might be lucky enough to see an iceberg making its way behind the ships. The glaciers begin their parade down "iceberg alley" each April, slow moving and stately like German opera singers. It's a kind of magic, spotting one.
#Titanic and #CapeRace – The Story in Tweets3 Apr 2012
The approaching centenary of Titanic's sinking has brought out all kinds of projects and commemorations. While most focus on some aspect of the ship, its crew or passengers – what they ate, what they wore, what they danced to - the role wireless played in helping rescue more than 700 people is the subject of a new social media project from Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism.
Newfoundland and Labrador is not a quick trip. But in the past few years, the brand seems to be everywhere, beckoning travellers to spend the time and money it takes to visit the province. That's thanks to a consistent campaign of cinematic TV ads showcasing the province's scenery and charming nature. For courting tourism in a down market, the campaign has won the Grand Prix at the 2012 edition of CASSIES, which award the best in Canadian advertising.
Newfoundland and Labrador: Days dawn first15 Dec 2011
Still relatively unknown as a tourism destination, Newfoundland and Labrador is a treasury of fascinating history, scenery, great seafood, ghostly "happenings", traditional music and friendly people.
But this is where the North American day dawns first.
Mummers fest just part of rocking Yuletide3 Dec 2011
An oversized bra worn over a plaid shirt with a flowing skirt, a face-shielding lace doily, a floppy hat and an ugly stick. That's a fairly standard costume for the wild and wonderful Yuletide tradition called mummering...
The award-winning dish featured a spoon of parsnip purée, a cod chicharron, a sautéed chiffonade of Brussels sprouts, a tiny ravioli stuffed with peas pudding, and a fried piece of fresh cod napped with a Pernod and sea urchin beurre blanc. This is what's coming out of Newfoundland these days?
Wholly Trinity15 Sep 2011
Small business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit have put Newfoundland town's bustling seasonal tourism industry on the map.
Whale Watching in Newfoundland28 Jul 2011
Once a home base for commercial whalers, the Canadian province is now a popular locale for spotting the massive creatures...
Coinciding with its 40th anniversary in the town of Grand Bank, the Provincial Seaman's Museum has re-opened after expanding their exhibition size. After nearly losing the museum to a fire, the old is new again.
What an Amazing 48 Half Hours24 Jun 2011
Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism's 48 Half-Hours contest to give away 48 free flights in partnership with WestJet wrapped yesterday with an incredible 900,000 entries from across Canada. The contest, hosted exclusively on Facebook, generated more than 620 entries per minute.
Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism and WestJet have paired up to give Canadian residents the chance to win 48 free round-trip flights to Newfoundland and Labrador in just 48 half hours (that's 24 hours to some folks), starting at noon (NDT) today (10:30 AM Eastern). You can enter to win as many times as you like, each and every half hour!
Mark your calendars and set your watches to the half hour. On June 22, at 12:00 PM NDT (10:30 AM EDT), Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism is pairing up with WestJet to launch a major travel contest.
Parks Canada Celebrates 100th Birthday19 May 2011
Parks Canada is celebrating it's groundbreaking 100-year anniversary this summer and there will be special events to mark the occassion at the various historic and scenic sites across Newfoundland and Labrador. That means lots of interesting things to see and do, all summer long, at some of the most beautiful and fascinating areas in the province. Read on for event info...
Manx Shearwaters' Home now Protected10 Jan 2011
The only known North American colony of Manx Shearwaters, a nocturnal seabird, has been declared a Provisional Ecological Reserve. The colony, about 100 birds on Middle Island off the coast of the Burin Peninsula near Lawn, now falls under the protection of the Lawn Islands Archipelago Provisional Ecological Reserve.
The birds live in burrows four feet deep and can live for 50 years. Consultations on making the reserve permanent will be held in the near future. Thousands of seabirds nest on Middle Island, Offer Island, and Columbier Islands, including Arctic terns, great black-backed gulls and black-legged kittiwakes.


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Nearly 30 years ago, Tom Cruise stripped down to his tighty-whities and rocked out to Bob Seger in Risky Business. Next month, Cruise returns to that era—in a slightly more dignified costume—as hair-metal god Stacee Jaxx in the film adaptation of Rock of Ages. "I will light this place on fire," the heavily tatted Jaxx boasts in the film's trailer, before he belts out Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive." And costar Malin Akerman predicts audiences are going to be blown away by Cruise's power ballads. He can "sing like an opera singer," she said in a recent interview. "He's Superman to me. He can do anything he sets his mind to."
"You see Joan Jett and you just think badass, intimidating, hard—and she's so not like that," Kristen Stewart said in 2010 after playing the rock goddess in The Runaways. "She's really thoughtful—almost too thoughtful." And after watching the Twilight star portray her on-screen, Jett repaid the compliment. "I found us to be really, scarily similar, just in our physicality, the way we move through space," Jett told Interview. "When we were hanging out together on set, it was like I had a mirror image. Even just sitting around, we'd do the same thing at the same time. It was just great—and it wasn't creepy. It was wonderfully special."
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The Circumcision
Cosmè Tura, Italian, about 1430–1495
Oil on wood, 38.6 cm diameter
Genre: European Art, Paintings
Location: Early Italian Room
Accession Number: P15s3
Tura was the great painter of fifteenth-century Ferrara; in his lifetime, his stature was equal to that of Mantegna in Mantua and Botticelli in Florence. His reputation has suffered considerably because almost all of his significant works were damaged or destroyed after his death in 1495. Much of what survives is fragmentary, such as this tondo that Gardner acquired in 1901. The work exhibits Tura's wiry outlines and hard, metallic drapery.
The Gardner Museum's panel is generally thought to have come from a large polyptych commissioned by the Roverella family, made in the 1470s for the church of San Giorgio in Ferrara, and dismembered following the bombardment of the church in 1709. Other surviving portions include two round panels of similar format in the Fogg Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, along with a fragment showing the head of Saint George (Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego). The largest portions include the central panel showing the Virgin and Child enthroned with angels (National Gallery, London), a side panel with Cardinal Bartolomeo Roverella being presented by his patron saints (Colonna Collection, Rome), and a crowning lunette depicting the lamentation over the dead Christ (Louvre, Paris).
This reconstruction can be supported not only from the fact that the three tondi are of the correct dimensions to serve as the central parts of a predella for the altarpiece, but also because of thematic and iconographic links with the panels known to have come from the altarpiece. The Circumcision was normally interpreted (especially by the preachers of the Papal Curia, to which the Roverella were strongly attached) as a termination and fulfillment of the Law of Moses. Like the sleep of Christ which is depicted in the London panel, the Circumcision was also regarded as a prefiguration of the Passion; the analogy is made explicit in the altarpiece in the harrowing depiction of the dead Christ in the lunette which crowned the altarpiece. We can envision that on a central axis in the altarpiece were aligned the dead Christ of the Pietà, the sleeping Christ in the lap of the Virgin, and Christ's first shedding of blood.
In the Gardner tondo, Christ does not willingly submit to circumcision but recoils from it, turning away also from the image of Moses. So too in the London panel, the face of the sleeping child covers up and renders illegible the Second Commandment of Moses, which in its Hebrew form makes an explicit prohibition against the worshiping of God through images. The 1470s, when the altarpiece was created, was a time of considerable strife between Jewish and Christian communities across Northern Italy, including Ferrara, culminating in the notorious blood-libel of Trent in 1475 when Jews were massacred following the alleged ritual murder of a Christian child. Any suggestion of Christian triumph over Judaism in these years would have fanned the flames of a cultural tension, not only between Jews and Christians in general but between Italian princes and their Christian subjects who were encouraged by mendicant preaching to resent the protection of the Jews.
Source: Stephen J. Campbell, "The Circumcision," in Eye of the Beholder, edited by Alan Chong et al. (Boston: ISGM and Beacon Press, 2003):54-55.
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In my experience, if you take cereal and add melted butter and marshmallows you're going to end up with a quick, easy and crowd-pleasing dessert. But why should Rice Krispies and their generic "crisp rice" counterparts have all the fun? These are some of my favorite cereal treats I've cooked up. What are yours?
Chocolate and peanuts make for a classic dessert tag team. If you've ever had a Rice Krispies treat and thought, hmmm...you know what would make this extra awesome? Peanut butter, butterscotch, and a ton of chocolate! Well, these are the bars for you.
Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch Squares
Taking a page out of the Scotcharoo playbook, here's another chocolate and peanutty combo. These bars get their peanuttiness from PB Cap'n Crunch. You can't go wrong with sweet and salty.
Golden Grahams
Have you ever eaten a bowl of Golden Grahams and thought, I wonder if you could make s'mores with these? The answer is yes. And these bars are delicious. If you're looking for some summer camp nostalgia but don't have access to a bonfire, try whipping these up.
Lucky Charms Marshmallow Squares
Let's talk things that are magically delicious. Because if the inclusion of some marshmallows makes a recipe tasty, imagine doubling that. Yes, you may have concerns about getting a cavity from reading the recipe. I understand that. Truly, I do. But if you're reading this post, I suspect you're a fellow marshmallow enthusiast. In practice, the oat-ty goodness in the cereal actually balances out the sweetness rather nicely. And come on: rainbow marshmallows.
Kix Toffee Bark
If you're as big a fan of wicked simple Chocolate Crack, this is a recipe for you. All you need is butter, brown sugar, Kix, vanilla, a pinch of salt, and some chocolate. So quick. So easy. So delicious.
About the author: Alexandra Penfold is mild-mannered literary agent by day, food ninja by night. Never one to skip dessert she's the Brownie half of Blondie & Brownie, a Midtown Lunch contributor, and co-author of New York à la Cart: Recipes and Stories from the Big Apple's Best Food Trucks. You can follow her on Twitter at @BlondieBrownie.


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This article was published 1/3/2013 (1634 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
I know what you are thinking, Winnipeg. You are thinking: "Well, March came in like a cute little lamb as opposed to a man-eating lion, so that's a good thing, right?"
Forgive me if I laugh ("Mua-ha-ha!") in a scornful manner here, Winnipeg, but I'm sorry to say that, weather-wise, you are totally out to lunch.
According to my buddy Dale Marciski from Environment Canada, no matter how March comes in, it is impossible to say how it will go out, because it is a wildly unpredictable month.
"The message of March is that basically you can get almost anything," Dale told me Friday. "You can have really warm temperatures like last year, or you can have very stormy weather with big snowstorms."
What we shouldn't expect is sultry weather like we had last March, the warmest in Winnipeg since records began. "I'm not saying we're going to get a huge snowstorm, but history shows us it's a definite possibility," Dale gently pointed out.
"It's a transition month. It came in like a lamb -- tranquil, peaceful. But don't expect that to continue, because it's March."
Speaking of which, Dale says a low-pressure system forming in Alberta will dip down into Montana and the Dakotas and bring us more snow over the next four days. Today, for example, the outlook calls for a 60 per cent chance of flurries and a lamb-like high of -4 C, a tad warmer than the normal high of -5 C.
On Sunday, we're talking an even "lambier" high of -3 C and another 60 per cent chance of snow. There's a chance the flurries will become more intense on Monday and Tuesday. "Somebody's going to get significant snow, probably the Dakotas more than us, but it bears watching," Dale advises.
For those of you who can't get enough statistics, Dale notes that some of our biggest snowstorms traditionally occur in March, including:
-- 38.1 cm on March 4, 1935 (with a total of 53.1 cm from March 3-6);
-- 35.6 cm on March 4, 1966;
-- 30.5 cm on March 6, 1916;
-- 30.5 cm on March 9, 1925;
-- 29.5 cm on March 25, 1904.
The point is, anything can happen in March, which means we need to live for the moment. A good way to do that would be to check out the annual Mid-Canada Boat Show at the Winnipeg Convention Centre, featuring three floors of stuff for boating buffs, including the Mega Fish Tank, a 5,000-gallon semi-trailer tank stocked with local fish, which I hear are very nice when coated with bread crumbs.
If you're not into fish and boats, head to the Garrick Centre tonight for Lebowskipalooza, a celebration of the Coen brothers' cult classic, The Big Lebowski, featuring games, costumes and lots of White Russians. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the proceeds go to the Alzheimer's Society of Manitoba. Tickets are $10 at Movie Village, online at Diyobo.com and at the door.
For those looking for films with a little less Lebowski and a lot less palooza, Freeze Frame: International Film Festival for Kids kicks off Sunday night. Visit www.freezeframeonline.org for more information.
Whatever you do, Winnipeg, let's all say a silent prayer that March decides to go out like a fluffy spring lamb, which we think would be very nice, especially with a little mint sauce.


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"The extinction of life may have been almost as common as its origination, and for proper perspective, we should realize that essentially all plant and animal species that lived before the present are now extinct. Although the fossil record currently documents only about 250,000 past species, there may have been perhaps 4 million or more. The vagaries of all fossil preservation, of soft-bodied organisms, the yet undiscovered species, and the destruction of part of the fossil record account for the discrepancy in the two numbers. Today, in comparison, about 2 million species have actually been named. Until the early 1980s, estimates of existing species - including those not yet identified - hovered around 3 million to 5 million, but now the revised estimates vary between 10 and 50 million! Most species on earth, regardless of the estimate, are insects and are mainly from tropical regions."
Alan M. Cvancara (University of North Dakota), Sleuthing Fossils - The Art of Investigating Past Life, Published by Wiley Science Editions, 1990
Editorial Comment: Textbooks which include extinction as evidence for evolution often support it with the claim that 99% of all species (including dinosaurs) are extinct. They ignore the important facts: The figures above help expose the 99% extinction claim for what it really is – massive loss of living things. However, killing off one creature may explain why others suddenly have more room, but it in no way explains where the others came from. Furthermore, the present day trend of increasing extinction rates truly does support the claim that life is on the decline from created perfection, not evolving upwards to greater complexity and diversity. (Ref. Fossils, Species, Extinction)


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Topic: Fiance Newly Diagnosed
Hello! My name is Sonja and my fiance (Jeff) was just diagnosed with CC a few weeks ago. He first found out that the growth on his liver was Cancer on the 17th of August, the same day he proposed to me. Since then life has been a whirlwind of doctors and frightening statistics and dismal attitudes around us. He is 38, doesn't drink or smoke and was in the best physical shape of his entire life before this. I know cancer doesn't care about all of that, I just hope it will help him have an edge in this fight.
His CC was caught in stage 2B, is unresectable at this point, and so we are just doing whatever the doctors tell us.
Jeff started Gemzar two weeks ago this past Thursday and so far his treatments have been ok. Of course he is fatigued, but for the mostpart has avoided all but one spell of nasea. He has had a weird hiccup reacton following both treatments, which of course are painful, but otherwise he is tolerating things ok.
I have been hearing that the goal is just to keep this at bay, and that frightens me. The term "buying time" is even more scary. We are just so frightened! I did get on the phone with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester two days ago and have him set up to see them in two weeks. The encouraging thing about this appointment is that they have given me hope and said there were "options". So, that's where we are at right now. Sorry for rambling, just still am a little numb at this point and glad to have somewhere to vent!
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PHILADELPHIA - Just one meet remains before the selections for the NCAA Championships take place. The University of Pennsylvania men's track and field team will head to the IC4A Championships this weekend, where those that qualified for the meet at Princeton will have one last chance to improve their marks before the NCAA qualifiers are announced.
The meet begins on Friday night with several distance events and then kicks into full gear on Saturday beginning with the 4x100-meter relay at 10:30 a.m. and ends at 1:45 p.m. with the 4x400-meter relay. The final day of competition will start with the shot put at 9 a.m. and conclude with the 4x400-meter relay finals at 3:05 p.m.
Last week, freshman Sam Mattis and junior Maalik Reynolds earned All-Ivy honors for the Quakers at the Heptagonal Championships. Mattis' won the Heps title in the discus with a toss of58.34 meters (191 feet, 5 inches). That broke a 21-year-old Heps record and improved upon his own school record. The East Brunswick, N.J., nativebecame the first Quaker to win the Heps discus title in nearly a decade (Justin King in 2004). Reynolds earned his sixth career All-Ivy honor with a second-place showing in the high jump.
Last year at this meet, the 4x800-meter relay accumulated all six of Penn's points with its impressive third-place finish. The Quakers were a little more than a second behind Fordham's championship-winning time of 7:28.49. Robby Harwood, Matt Chylak, Brian Fulton and Mato Bekelja reached the IC4A final with a third-place finish in their heat (7:35.52) and entered the final as the sixth seed.
A full recap of the 2013 Outdoor IC4A Championships will be available at PennAthletics.com shortly after the completion of the meet.


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I had an old great-aunt who resided in a swank corner of Buenos Aires when I was very small. Her memory is faded now, and blurrily intertwined with that cigarette-skinny lady from the Babar books. I do recall tea being a big to-do, with any number of finger sandwiches and delicate pastries elegantly served and tidily consumed. My mother and I observed teatime throughout my childhood, with white toast points spread with guava jelly and topped with cheese. Sometimes it was a simple cake.
Tea is not part of my daily routine, but every now and then I think of Buenos Aires, Babar, and my mother, and crave something sweet and nostalgic in the late afternoon. This cake is simple and filled whatever heart and hunger pangs hit me every so often. The crumb is compact and the flavor bare bones: all butter. This plain canvas supports tart blackberry preserves and a brown sugar-based crumb topping that includes fresh thyme leaves. Each bite is an uncomplicated blend of cake and fruit, with a whisper of herbs that adds a sophisticated touch.
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About the author: María del Mar Sacasa is a food stylist, recipe developer, and author of the food blogs High Heels & Frijoles and Cookin' and Shootin'.
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This week we have Victor Salama, NFTE's Vice President of Business and International Partnerships, guest blogging for us to tell us about his recent trip to China for their 4th annual National Business Plan Competitiion.
I just came back from China having attended the Bright China Foundation's (BCF) 4th annual National Business Plan Competition for its youth entrepreneurship program. What a fantastic experience! Having worked with BCF since it became a NFTE licensee in 2003, I knew that they ran excellent programs, and over the years I have had the opportunity to meet several graduates and some teachers. But being there in person at the competition was really eye opening.
The six finalists were smart, poised and had already gained valuable experience running their businesses. One finalist had already purchased a house with the profits that he has made through his business of selling wireless communications devices, while another one has been importing cosmetics from Korea for the past six months and was about to open her third storefront. Although my Mandarin is non-existent, and the students English language skills were spotty, they were able to share their passion for their endeavors and their gratitude for the opportunity to take an entrepreneurship course at their vocational schools.
And why is their success so important for China? While everyone has heard great stories about the impressive changes that Chinese society has undergone due to the economy's tremendous growth, there's an underlying uneasiness among the country's youth about their future. Recent data from various sources has put unemployment rates among recent college graduates at between 30%-40%, a staggering number considering that the country produced 5.6 million college graduates last year and 6.1 million this year. Suicide rates have increased among college students, the increase directly tied to depression caused by the dim employment prospects.
It is more important than ever for China to produce a new generation of knowledgeable, business savvy youth who can launch businesses and become employers. Even at its current growth rate, the country's economy cannot absorb all these new potential employees hitting the job market. The Bright China Foundation's program is doing all it can to get its 14,000 vocational school students to think, and more importantly act like entrepreneurs, but one organization's program cannot solve the unemployment challenges that lie ahead for Chinese youth. Entrepreneurship education must become a required course in Chinese secondary schools – we must give Chinese youth all the tools necessary to become job creators as opposed to just job seekers.


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Just wanted to compile a list of a few comics/web comics/graphic novels I admire and highly recommend!
(In no particular order!)
- Call Sign Spirit (coming soon!) by Tina Lee.
- Meristem County by Jade F. Lee.
- Fajita by Ryan Thompson.
- Luci's Letdown (on my wish list) by Marjee Chmiel & Sandra Lanz.
- Angry Comics/Monster (on my wish list) by by Jessica Hayworth.
- Baritarian Boy by Lawrence Gullo & Fyodor Pavlov.
- Hemlock by Josceline Fenton.
- The Tragedy Series by Benjamin Dewey.
- Death Stories by Omar ZahZah and Eliza Frye.
- Comics by Emily Carroll.
- Hark, a vagrant (of course) by Kate Beaton.


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Angelina Jolie loves her adopted kids more
Angelina Jolie says she loves her adopted children differently than her biological one because they've led such hard lives and Shiloh is just a "privileged blob." She tells Elle magazine:
"I think I feel so much more for Mad and Z because they're survivors, they came through so much. Shiloh seemed so privileged from the moment she was born. I have less inclination to feel for her… I met my other kids when they were six months old, they came with personality. A newborn really is this… yes, a blob! But now she's starting to have a personality… I'm conscious that I have to make sure I don't ignore her needs just because I think the others are more vulnerable."
Guess Angelina Jolie isn't the greatest person since Mr. T after all. First there was that comment where she complained about the cost of kids and now this. And why is Brad Pitt always morphing into his girlfriends? He might as well be wearing an Angelina Jolie mask here.


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How is she not stabbing people?
And the love affair with gas stations is back.
Here's Britney Spears stopping for a Fanta over the weekend while brandishing probably the hardest nipples I've ever seen on her. Seriously, it's a goddamn miracle no one lost an eye and I almost started screaming "SHE'LL PUNCTURE A LUNG!" at the woman stupid enough to snap a picture three inches from Britney's face. Had that lady been holding a burrito, it would've been the equivalent of waving a raw steak at a lion clutching a spear in each paw. You don't even fuck with that.
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CHICAGO — Lisa Strube, the director of finance and administration for wholesaler Strube Celery & Vegetable Co., is the recipient of the Jan Fleming Produce Legacy Award.
Strube received the award from Shannon Shuman, publisher of The Packer, Aug. 19 during the opening reception of The Packer's second annual Midwest Produce Conference and Expo at the Hyatt Regency.
"Jan was truly a mentor not only to me but to so many people," Strube said.
Strube is the first recipient of the award, which honors Jan Fleming, former president and chief executive officer of Celery & Vegetable Co., who died in May. Fleming became president of Strube in 1994, succeeding her father, Bob Strube.
She handled day-to-day leadership of the company until stepping down in 2004 but remained chief executive officer.
Lisa Strube, whose ex-husband is Jan's nephew, remains part of the family and part of the fourth-generation of leadership at the company and said Jan's legacy endures as the company is on the cusp of its fifth generation.
The expo continues Aug. 20 with Bradley Fitzhenry, brand manager at MJR Creative Group, leading a keynote session on new approaches to sales and marketing.
An educational session covering online retailing follows, with panelists Drew Schwartzhoff, director of marketing for C.H. Robinson, Bill Bishop of Willard Bishop Consulting, and Tony Stallone, vice president of merchandising and food safety for online grocer Peapod.
The expo floor opens after the workshops and includes a lunch and happy hour.
This year's expo floor features 205 exhibitors, up from 153 in 2012.
A retail tour Aug. 21 includes stops at Walgreens to check out its new produce format, Target and Chicago's own Pete's Fresh Market's new Oakbrook Terrace location, its first suburban store.
For 2014, the Midwest Produce Conference and Expo is scheduled for Aug. 11-13.


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BRIDGWATER Town manager Richard Fey described Saturday's opening day humbling of Bashley as "the perfect start" as his side cruised to an emphatic 4-0 victory at Fairfax Park.
Fey was full of praise for his new-look side, which included seven debutants.
They dominated the former Southern premier side throughout the 90 minutes in what the manager labelled a "faultless" display.
He said: "I really didn't know what to expect from the game because we had seven players making their debut against a side looking to bounce straight back from last season's relegation.
"But, from the kick-off, we were outstanding and I can't fault what we did.
"We were known as long ball merchants last season, but we've changed that now and we're trying to get the ball down and play – and we totally dominated for 90 minutes; we were faultless.
"The only negative was that we didn't score more goals.
"Young Ollie Chamberlain was outstanding for us in the new role we have given him – he didn't score but set up two of the goals.
"The crowd were great and made a lot of noise and, hopefully, we can get a much bigger turnout at our next home game against Shortwood."
The Robins travel to Evesham this Saturday, August 16, before a trip to Tiverton next Tuesday night, August 19.


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All week long, Ellen has been sharing her all-time favorite moments from 10 incredible seasons. Today she's revealing another amazing moment from the vault! We've combed through thousands of shows to find the very best, most unforgettable moments in Ellen Show history. Don't miss the 4th moment that made Ellen's list!
Then, the game is on! "Biggest Loser" host ALISON SWEENEY has a long-running competition with our host, and they're facing off again today! Their giant Jenga battle was one of the most exciting and hilarious games ever played on the show. Who knows what kind of rematch Ellen has in store?
Plus, the incomparable MICHAEL BUBLÉ is here to serenade Ellen and the entire audience! He's performing his new hit, "It's a Beautiful Day," from his upcoming CD, "To Be Loved."
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I am a total newbie, I have written a handful macros through CNC control software for my lathe and see how powerful they can be. I would like to create them through something like notepad with a box for variable/measurement assignments to coincide with different gcode macros for gcode moves. I have been playing around with the debugging portion of python and I can get the variables to function the way that I would like. I am having a hard time envisioning how to get this install into a program with a variable box that measurements can be assigned to the variables. Maybe write macros in open office and have code post in notepad? I have been teaching programming to myself over the past few years when using my cnc machines, I am sure I am thinking about the process incorrectly as I lack all fundamentals.
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I really like the watch dogs standing by the sign Great photos
Charlotte & Christian
Molly & Éowyn & Khaleesi
Love it! Chipmunks and squirrels beware!!
Riley (black & tan, born 8/2002), Madison (ruby, born 9/2003), and Oz (tri-color, born 7/2007)
In loving memory: Oliver 2001-2015
Adorable Photos! The one in the grass, appears to be hiding, ready to pounce on any prowlers who dare to set foot in her yard!


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War PrisonerLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
During the first world war, there was a prisoner who had been captured. When brought to the army headquarters, the prisoner was told that he had a choice to remain silent or say something. He was also told that if he did say something, he would be shot if he spoke the truth or hanged if he had lied. The war prisoner did in fact make a single statement; he said only a phrase and they had to let him go unscathed. What did the prisoner say to get out free?
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T/Sgt "Bill" Sheehan, 321stBG, 46thBS,
13 May 1943 — Africa
T/Sgt William "Bill" Sheehan
He was injured by flak when Arkansas Traveler belly landed on 13 May 43 (crashed – sent to the bone yard) – Sheehan was WIA in the crash – that's what the Purple Heart is for .
A/C No. 41-12947 "Arkansas Traveler" P Williams, Wallace (NMI) "Spike", Jr., 1Lt CP Morris, Richard. P., Jr. "Big Moe", 2Lt N None B Brei, Harold G., S/Sgt E McKibben, Walter D., Jr., S/Sgt R Sheehan, William F., T/Sgt G Zook, Urie H., S/Sgt F None
446th BS Special Account: Major Schwane led a formation against Cagliari, Sardinia. The target was well covered and some flak encountered. Lt. Williams, after manual operation of his landing gear failed, was forced to belly land. T/Sgt. Sheehan was slightly injured by flak. The following is an account of this mission by Lt. Williams:
Sheehan, William F., T/Sgt, gunner Williams, Wallace (NMI) "Spike", Jr., 1Lt, pilot
As I write this I can see now that here was the start of an unlucky streak for me. Since the fall of Tunisia we had to work on Sardinia, Sicily, and Pantelleria. Real work. My thirteenth mission, on the thirteenth of May! What an experience.
Cagliari took an awful pounding that day, the Fortresses, and B-26's hit it before us and we went in about noon. There were huge fires and immense clouds of smoke. Even the P-38 escort had 500 lb bombs under their wings. Our bomb run was made at about 10,500 feet. We could see a lot of flak bursts up ahead, about where we intended to release our bombs. Just after I had dropped my bombs there was a burst just under my right wing and nacelle. That was too close, one chunk had severed the hydraulic lines and perforated the right side of the plane. The nose wheel tire we found out had been hit, and the windshield on the co-pilot's side was broken. One piece hit T/Sgt. Sheehan in the leg. Not too serious though. I though we were going down over the target, but we managed to keep up with the formation. The landing situation didn't look any too good, the right wheel was hanging out of the nacelle and no hydraulic pressure. We tried to use the emergency system, but the cable broke. While the rest of the formation landed we circled the field and when the runway was clear we brought the plane in. Nobody was hurt in the landing. It was a pretty rugged experience, but it was O.K. That was the last mission for that plane. All it was good for was spare parts after that.
Sheehan, William F., T/Sgt, gunner
Williams, Wallace (NMI) "Spike", Jr., 1Lt, pilot
WALLACE WILLIAMS, Jr
1st Lt., Air Corps.
446th BS War Diary of: Williams, Wallace (NMI) "Spike", Jr., 1Lt, pilot (mission 13)
"Things went along okay. Kirk Martin flew my ship once over Mateur and got a wing tip knocked off. The first time it had been touched. I had about six missions and just then 446th moved up to Souk el Arba to run sea sweeps before Tunis fell. I flew a 448th ship and got about 5 more missions. Once we caught a large destroyer off Cape Bon and did a beautiful job on it. It burned as we left and later sank. Quite a thrilling sight. Most of this time we used 38's and 40's for escort. Sometimes Spits with U.S. pilots.
Martin, John K. "Kirk", 2Lt, pilot
Went back to Ain M'Lila and joined the Group. Had been hearing from home regularly and it was a great help. Next mission was a low element sea sweep, my only one. One I'll never forget. Can tell it better than write it I guess. I thought my time had come, but I was lucky. Six 446th planes went in at 50 feet on Seibel ferries. 50 cal. Looked like rain in the water and tracers made it look worse. Dropped bombs with 5 seconds delay fuses and did a good job. I was on extreme left on Bradley's wing. Brad made it home with an elevator shot off. Lovingood spun in on top of the boats. (Took me to DeRidder from Raleigh that weekend I was home.) Max Garmon and Kirk Martin had a 20 mm burst in their cockpit and took turns passing out on the way home. I was, I confess pretty badly shaken up, so all five of us were, when we got home. I think I was still kind of pale. Griff kept me on the ground a few days. Spring was coming to Africa. Nights were still very cold but the sun in daylight was hot."
Bradley, James L., Jr. "Jungle Jim", 1Lt, pilot Garmon, James M. "Max", 2Lt, pilot
Griffith, Frank J. "Griff", 1Lt, pilot Lovingood, Willard J., 2Lt, pilot
Martin, John K. "Kirk", 2Lt, pilot
"Fight for Tunisia ended somewhere about this time and lots of prisoners were coming by. We got a three day rest and Fred and I went to Philippeville in a jeep. Wonderful swimming in the sea and it was a good rest. No airplanes in sight.
As I write this I can see now that here was the start of an unlucky streak for me. We now had work to do on Sardinia, Sicily, Pantelleria. Real work.
My thirteenth mission was over Cagliari harbor, Southeast Sardinia. It took an awful pounding that day. The Forts and 26's hit it before us and we went in about noon. There were huge fires and smoke from 300 airplanes. Even the 38 escort took 500 lb. bombs. We rode in at 10,500 ft. The boys on the flak guns were hot and it looked black up front. Almost as soon as the bombs went out there was a flak burst just under our right wing and nacelle. It was too close. One chunk severed the hydraulic lines and perforated the right side of the fuselage. Burst the nose wheel tire and broke Moe's side of the windshield. Sgt. Sheehan got a purple heart with a piece in his leg. Not very serious. I though we were going down but we followed the formation home and I looked over the situation. It wasn't good. The right wheel hung out of the nacelle. No hydraulic pressure. We circled the field after the rest landed and found we had a leak in a gas tank. Tried to use emergency gear cable but it broke. Got everything set and came in on the belly with only 15 degrees flaps. Pretty rugged experience but we did it okay. That was the Travelers last mission. It went to the bone orchard at Telergma. Again I didn't fly for a couple of weeks. I got behind in missions. Finally went back to work and ran into more trouble over Sardinia.
Morris, Richard P., Jr. "Big Moe", 2Lt, pilot Sheehan, William F., T/Sgt, radio-gunner


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Here's Your Golden Globes Drinking Game, Courtesy of Tina Fey + Amy Poehler
Who else is psyched that Tina Fey + Amy Poehler are hosting the Golden Globes this Sunday? They're so excited themselves that they came up with a drinking game for the occasion!
-Lucia Peters
As you may know, the Golden Globe Awards are on Sunday night; and as you may also know, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are hosting it, for which we here at BettyConfidential couldn't be happier. What you may NOT know is that the Golden Globes is an awards show known for its drinking. Break out the champagne, Bettys, because it's about to get a lot more fun up in here!
In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, our girl noted that the Globes are more entertaining to be in than a lot of awards shows because of this whole drinking thing (as she says, "When you get a bunch of people in a room who don't eat much, and you give them one drink, it gets good fast"). So what are we going to do with this newfound piece of information? We're going to play a drinking game, of course.
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Luckily, Tina and Amy are more than up to the task. THR asked them to name a few rules, and voila! We've got the makings for a fabulous night. Want to play along? Here are the rules for Tina and Amy's Golden Globes drinking game:
Take a drink…
Any time an actress cries in a speech.
Whenever you spot a person actively not listening to someone onstage.
Whenever someone says, "I didn't prepare anything!"
Eat a meatball sub…
Any time anyone thanks Harvey Weinstein
Remove an article of clothing…
Any time they show Judi Dench.
Any time Maggie Smith wins.
Be sure to tune into the Golden Globes this Sunday at 8pm EST/5pm PST on NBC. Happy drinking!
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.