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IRON-WILLED Andy Reid has described how his mother's strength to cope with losing a leg in a road crash inspired his own recovery from an IED blast in Afghanistan.
The former soldier, 36, was speaking to more than 300 people at Langtree Park, where he launched his autobiography, Standing Tall.
He gave an insight into finding the inner strength that helped him move on from the explosion in the autumn of 2009 that left him one of the most seriously injured UK survivors of the war.
The triple amputee, who lives in Windle, told guests: "My mum lost a leg in an accident when I was 11. A drink driver crashed into a motorbike and a sidecar we were in.
"When I lost my limbs I could not sit around and feel sorry for myself when my mum has been through that and brought three kids up in a three-storey Victorian house with no stair lift"
He also spoke candidly about the "moment that changed everything" on October 13, 2009, when he was caught in the explosion.
The book launch drew guests from around the country, such as former comrades, charity workers, celebrities – including the comedian Jason Manford and soap actor Kelvin Fletcher - and prominent St Helens figures.
He added: "I had met an amazing girl called Claire – and vowed I will get out of this wheelchair and marry her.
"And it has been an amazing few years - from walking again to skydiving, riding elephants and even meeting David Beckham – at the Millie Awards.
"When he asked me which football team I supported I told him – 'I don't like football I like rugby league."
The audience was treated to entertainment, including music from young tenor Tom Loughlin, wartime singer Heather Marie and an acoustic set by Liverpool rock band Sound of Guns.
Andy, who is embarking on a career as a motivational speaker, has begun a series of book signing events at Langtree Park, Asda and Tyrers.
He will be at Asda again between 10am and 4pm and on Saturday, February 9.


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CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Police in northeast Ohio say two holdup men tried to rob a meat market, fired off several rounds and then both were shot several times by a store employee.
Both wounded suspects fled the Canton market Wednesday and went to different hospitals where they were arrested and held under police guard.
No one at the market was hurt.
The suspects, ages 17 and 19, had been wanted on earlier warrants for burglary and robbery.
The (Canton) Repository (bit.ly/ZfQrhR) says the shop owner and an employee overpowered a masked gunman last April. The man was sentenced to four years in prison for robbing the market and a neighboring store.
Information from: The Repository, http://www.cantonrep.com

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LAMBOURN-BASED Jamie Snowden's dreams hung in the balance after the last race on day one of the Cheltenham Festival yesterday, as the stewards took an agonising length of time deliberating over the result.
Despite his faithful chaser Present View crossing the line first, an enquiry was underway as to whether his line in the run-in had hampered second-placed finisher Attaglance.
As the minutes ticked by, the heart monitor Snowden had in his pocket recorded 170 beats per minute, and the nerves were escalating.
All victories at the Cheltenham Festival mean a lot, but when a trainer has just 34 horses in training, has only trained for six years and has just one runner over the four days, to have a winner is near on miraculous.To then face the prospect of that being taken away is heart-wrenching.
So, when it was finally announced that Present View was indeed the winner, it was no surprise to see an outpouring of emotion from Snowden and everyone connected to him. He was quick to praise the ride of young jockey Brendan Powell, and admitted he had let himself hope for this result.
"It's what dreams are made of," he told the Swindon Advertiser.
"You dream about it every day, in my wildest dreams that's exactly what would have happened.
"We were in the right place at the right time, and it all happened as it was meant to. [Brendan] is a brilliant, brilliant jockey. I could not have asked for a better jockey, he rides with supreme confidence.
"It's just fantastic! Cheltenham is where it all is, and words can't express it. There's been a lot of hard work from a lot of people. It's credit to all the staff.
"He's always been a smashing horse, who we've thought the world of.
"He was an untamed horse over hurdles, but we've had to grab hold of him, and really teach him how to race. I remember working for Nicky [Henderson] and Paul [Nicholls] who would bring battalions of horses here, and if they had one winner they would be pleased. So for us to win, it's great."
There was another local win late in the afternoon, when Alan King-trained Midnight Prayer won gamely for amateur jockey Joshua Newman.
There had been earlier disappointment for the Barbury Castle Stables trainer, when his hopes of a third Arkle triumph did not materialise, as Valdez finished fifth. King's Assistant Trainer Oliver Wardle said of the win: "Josh has given it some ride. He ticked all the boxes to win the race, he jumps, he stays, he's honest and he tries hard.
"It was an unknown trip but he matched all the criteria needed to win this race.
"I'm delighted for Josh, he has been riding for the boss for a good long while now, so this is spot on."
For the rest of the local contingent of trainers and jockeys, it was a more frustrating day.
Nicky Henderson finished second and third in the first race, the Supreme Novices' Hurdle, with Josses Hill and Vaniteux. However, the Champion Trainer looked beyond the disappointment of not winning, recounting that many of his top horses had never won this race.
"They are both horses for the future but it was a bit agonising to have run so well yet be thumped like that by the winner", he said.
"All my good novices have finished [there] in the places. The likes of Sprinter Sacre, Binocular, Darlan and My Tent Or Yours were placed in this."
The feature race of the day, the Champion Hurdle, had been billed as one of the best editions of the race in years, with over £30 million gambled on it.
However, when the race finally came, the victory of Jessica Harrington-trained Jezki was tainted by the fatal fall of one of the favourites, Our Conor.
Furthermore, last year's winner Hurricane Fly, who had been heavily backed, could not replicate his form in recent years, and finished down in fifth.
Champion Jockey AP McCoy will have been kicking himself, despite finishing second on the Nicky Henderson-trained My Tent Or Yours, as he passed up the opportunity to ride Jezki.
Nico de Boinville tasted what riding a winner at the Cheltenham Festival would be like, but the reality was snatched away from him in the closing stages of the Festival Handicap Chase.
Having given Ma Filleule a brilliant ride, a slight error at the third last fence caused him to lose his stirrup, and he was overtaken by the eventual winner Holywell.
"Without a doubt, that's my best spin at the Festival," he said. "She's very gutsy and genuine to run on from that mistake at the third last."
History was made on day one, as Quevega won a sixth consecutive Mares' Hurdle. It was not easy viewing for those who had backed the 10-year-old as she was made to work by Glens Melody, who finished second while King's L'Unique was third.
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BRIDGWATER Town manager Richard Fey says his side face a "tough start" to the new season, with the visit of Bashley and Merthyr to Fairfax Park in the opening two weeks.
Bashley were relegated from the Southern Premier League last season while Merthyr were beaten in the play-off final in May - and Fey knows his side face a huge challenge when the season gets under way.
He said: "It's a tough start for us, with Bashley at home who were relegated last season but were a big club and will want to go back up, so it's going to be tough - and then home to Merthyr the week after says it all.
"They are another side who have lost in last two play-off finals and have a new manager, so we will have to be at our best."
As well as fresh faces in the playing squad, Fey has revamped the coaching setup following the departure of last season's player/assistant manager Geraint Bater.
Bater has moved back to former club Mangotsfield, so Nathan Rudge assumes the role of Fey's assistant.
Fey said: " Due to the budget slashed in half I couldn't afford to keep Ger and with him doing two jobs for me I was honest with him and told him he is better off playing every week at this level, which was something I couldn't guarantee as we are going with young lads in middle of the park.
"He played his best football at Mangotsfield and under Richard Thompson they will be up there with the signings they have made.
"I've managed to persuade Nathan Rudge into assistant manager because we have worked together before and I know what he is about - and also Steve Laker has stepped up from the reserves to help us."
Andy Robertson has been elected first team captain for the new campaign.


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Feedback on my safety management system article in AIN's March 2011 issue exhibits the mixed feelings that business aviation users continue to have on the subject of SMS. One of the elements of the article that readers didn't like is the photo of the Citation CJ2 that ran off the runway at Atlantic City's Bader Field on May 15, 2005. The obvious conclusion, these readers say, is that no SMS would have prevented that accident.
"Right on page 36," wrote pilot Terry Walby, "there is a picture of a Citation jet that overran the runway with the caption that reads, '…could have benefited from a Safety Management System.' Really? Tell me what steps in the SMS risk assessment procedure would have prevented that accident?"
I wasn't involved with the selection of artwork for this story, although I did have an opportunity to veto that photo. I did think that the photo was appropriate the first time I saw it.
But after hearing from Terry and another reader, I thought they had a point. After all, the pilot in this accident seemed to exhibit questionable judgment (see the amazing video of the accident on YouTube). Bader Field was then closed to jets and is now closed permanently; that accident probably hastened its demise. An airport diagram clipped to the pilot's yoke had this notation: "airport closed to jet aircraft." Runway 11 was only 2,948 feet long, and calculations showed that at the CJ2's 11,4000-pound landing weight, it would have a landing distance of 3,000 feet.
There was another factor: a 10-knot tailwind, which increased the landing distance to 3,570 feet. If the pilot had landed into the wind, he might have succeeded. Oddly, the NTSB report doesn't ask or answer a key question: whether this pilot had accomplished this flight in the past, thus setting him up for the expectation of being able to do it again.
Now, would an SMS have helped this pilot? Perhaps not. From reading the NTSB report, this pilot appears to have exhibited some strange characteristics. If the pilot had flown an ordinary stabilized approach to the runway, one might give him the benefit of the doubt and conclude that he simply picked the wrong direction to land yet still tried his best to salvage the situation. This happens. I've done it, more than once.
But this was no stabilized approach. After being cleared for the visual approach, the pilot descended to 800 feet while heading 220 degrees. One minute later, he made a 360-degree turn, rolled out on 220 degrees, then crossed abeam Runway 11 at 100 feet. He climbed to 300 feet and flew downwind adjacent to Runway 11, then turned right toward the runway at about 200 feet at a groundspeed of 180 knots. Approaching Runway 11, the CJ2 was at 200 feet and 155 knots 1.25 nm from the end of the runway. Then the CJ2 descended to zero feet at 140 knots, with the last radar return logged at 1,000 feet beyond the approach end of the runway at 128 knots, according to the NTSB. The CJ2 touched down about two-thirds along the runway.
It seems pretty obvious that no amount of skill could have prevented that CJ2 from overrunning that runway at those speeds and even without the tailwind.
But to the question posed by the readers: would an SMS have prevented this accident?
After considering this some more, I think it could have. First, because an SMS, to be successful, must be adopted by the entire organization and supported by top management, and presumably this pilot would have been part of the SMS process. The NTSB report doesn't say if he was the owner of the company, but it seems likely that he was in the executive level and would have been intimately involved with SMS development.
Second, because part of the SMS process is assessing risk before flying. We all are familiar with taking off without thinking too much about what's coming. This is a terrible habit, yet I learned it from my flight instructors. We never calculated weight and balance or runway requirements before our flights, except for when tests were imminent. Consequently, I got in the habit of ignoring many preflight planning considerations, all of which now fall into the risk-assessment category.
I wonder how the CJ2 pilot was trained. Wouldn't it be better for all pilots to learn and adhere to good risk-assessment practices from day one of their training? Isn't this how the military trains its pilots? And isn't that a key part of an SMS?
Third, no SMS can prevent all accidents. But nurturing an attitude of consideration of risk and how to minimize it can't hurt. If the CJ2 pilot had spent even a few minutes looking over the charts for Bader Field, assessing the CJ2's runway performance and then considering more suitable alternatives, he might have thought that Bader Field wasn't the appropriate choice. Then again, given his odd high-speed flying close to the ground, one may wonder whether safety was a high priority for this pilot.
The readers raise another important question. SMS may be beneficial, but does it need to be law?
On this point, I remain unconvinced. There are more than enough regulations covering every aspect of flying as it is, and if we all complied with every one of them, maybe there would be fewer accidents. The FAA, in fact, is completely unable to marshal the resources to enforce all of its regulations and leaves it up to the industry to comply. And for the most part, we do comply.
Turning the SMS into a regulation, however, is a big step towards carving in stone some squishy concepts, and it raises innumerable questions.
How, for example, is the FAA going to enforce an SMS requirement?
Will SMS documents eventually require FAA approval, thus creating an even larger bureaucracy supported by more third-party auditors?
How does the FAA determine that an operator is violating an SMS regulation? If SMS is such a good idea, why not require it of all pilots, mechanics, flight attendants, charter operators, airlines, repair stations and so on?
And if this happens, how will we ever get our work done, because we will be spending so much time assessing risk before we can even climb in an airplane or open a toolbox.
The FAA seems to think that writing more regulations will improve safety and that SMSs will make us all stop and think before we take off and do something like land downwind on too short a runway. Ultimately, it's impossible to regulate people into making the right decision. And while SMSs may help, especially if the concept is introduced early in pilots' careers, I believe that there is no need to make SMS a regulation.
Instead, the FAA should encourage operators to adopt SMSs where it makes sense and reward them for doing so voluntarily. But the rush to make SMSs mandatory is going to have less of a safety benefit than regulators expect and will increase costs of operation yet again (which may improve safety because people will fly less).
The FAA would see better safety results by working closely with the industry to incentivize safety practices and not by enacting more punitive regulations. SMS is a safety practice and is not amendable to regulatory treatment.


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DETROIT - The man convicted in the deadly shooting of a homeless man on Manistique Street in Detroit over 2 years ago was sentenced Friday.
32-year-old Tigh Croff was convicted of killing Herbert Silas two years ago.
Judge Michael Hathaway sentenced Detroit homeowner Tigh Croff to a mandatory two years in prison this morning for using a gun in the commission of a crime for the December 2009 killing of a suspected burglar.
Croff was also sentenced to three years' probation for manslaughter.
In August, Hathaway, ruled the case would go to the jury as manslaughter, not second-degree murder.
Hathaway called the case "textbook manslaughter."
The judge said Croff was acting under the heat of passion when he chased and killed Silas after finding him and another man trying to break into his Detroit home on Dec. 28, 2009.
Police said at 12:30 a.m., Croff began chasing two men he found standing in his back yard on the city's east side.
One of the men ran away, but 53-year-old Silas, of Detroit, turned around and had a verbal exchange with Croff, who then shot him.
Hathaway said that since Croff, 31, had been robbed two times that week, the third burglary put him over the edge and caused him to react without reflection.
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Review: University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center Annual Spring Flours Benefit
Saturday, May 14th was an evening of fabulous food and fundraising for the University of Chicago's Celiac Disease Center at the 10th Annual Spring Flours Benefit which was held at the Swissôtel in downtown Chicago. The center is completely funded by donations and this event it vital in keeping the center at the forefront of celiac research, education and advocacy. ... Read More »


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In my last LPM tip, I discussed the importance of
creating a clear and focused biography for your website. Similarly,
I suggested that it is also important to have a profile on LinkedIn
which communicates the same message. Deciding who you are as a
professional (and who you are not) is a critical step in trying to
differentiate yourself in a crowded marketplace. If you have a well
defined niche and you have a good strategy for keeping in touch
with your referral sources, over time, you are much more likely to
generate leads. But what happens when you have a live prospect who
is thinking about hiring you?
Being able to speak about what you do in a clear and succinct
way is also important. Someone who is thinking about buying
legal services is looking for someone they can trust. Part of that
trust comes from the belief that you have experience in helping
similarly situated clients with similar problems.
While the words you use are certainly important, your non verbal
communication is actually even more important. Does your body
language project confidence that you can help the client? Does the
tone of your voice suggest that you know what you are doing and you
have handled problems like this for many other clients?
It is well documented that your body language and the tone of your
voice communicate far more than the words that come out of your
mouth. If you make good eye contact and hold yourself in a
confident posture, you are more likely to convince a prospect to
trust you than if you are looking down or slouching. Similarly,
demonstrating that you have good listening skills is another way to
engender trust. Greet someone with a solid handshake. A limp
handshake communicates weakness. A bone cruncher communicates
In short, all of these nonverbal cues will tell someone a lot more
about who you are and whether or not you are trustworthy.
In poker, there is a concept called "a tell," a nonverbal
indication that gives the other players clues about what you really
have in your hand. So like a good poker player, try to elevate your
awareness of your body gestures, the tone of your voice, how you
hold your body, and whether you are making good eye contact. Even
if you are a newer lawyer and don't necessarily feel that
confident, you can still project confidence and this will go a long
way towards helping you to get the prospect to retain you.
Tip courtesy of Stephen Seckler, president, Seckler Legal
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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — When college football teams open practice for the 2014 season, chief among their goals will be getting to New Orleans and Pasadena, Calif.
BCS conference commissioners met here Tuesday and confirmed what has been widely speculated: the Sugar Bowl and the Rose Bowl will host the first semifinal games for college football's new four-team playoff.
The Sugar and Rose will be paired together through the entire 12-year run of the playoff, both hosting semifinal games in 2015, 2018, 2021 and 2024.
The games will be played back-to-back on Jan. 1, with the Rose kicking off about 4 p.m. Central Time and the Sugar Bowl immediately following about 7:30 p.m.
Both bowls will be televised on ESPN.
"We are very excited to be in the leadoff position for something like this," Sugar Bowl CEO Paul Hoolahan said. "We look forward to being in tandem with the Rose. We think it will make for a special night."
In the other eight years of the playoff system that the Sugar does not host semifinal games, it will pair either the SEC and Big 12 champions or the best available teams from those conferences not in the playoff.
In those eight nonsemifinal years, New Orleans may also land the national championship game.
Unlike in the current BCS format, the playoff championship game will not follow a set rotation but will be awarded on bids much like the Super Bowl.
Hoolahan said he has told his staff to expect to host the championship twice in that 12-year span as a guide.
There was no site announcement for the first playoff championship game, but it does have a date: Monday, Jan. 12, 2015.
Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, site of the Cotton Bowl, is reportedly the front-runner. An announcement is expected to come no later than April.
The national championship game will be played on a Monday night each year, moving between Jan. 7 to Jan. 13, depending how the calendar falls.
The next two or three championship game sites after that will likely be selected in the next six months, according to BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock.
The Sugar and Rose bowls will be played each year on Jan. 1, except when New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the final day of the NFL regular season. In those years, the Sugar and Rose will be played on Jan. 2.
Hancock said the Sugar and Rose were paired together for a variety of reasons, among them calendar issues stemming from the fact that their contracts guarantee they will be played on New Year's Day.
There will be at minimum one week between the Sugar and Rose bowl semifinals and the national championship game.
No city will host semifinals and the national championship game in the same year, but can have its traditional bowl and the championship game, similar to the current BCS "double hosting" format.
A total of six bowls will be part of the playoff semifinal rotation, each hosting four semifinals in a 12-year span.
So far, only the Sugar, Rose and Orange have been guaranteed slots. The Cotton, Chick-fil-A and Fiesta bowls are the favorites to be chosen.
The Orange Bowl will have semifinal games on Dec. 31 in 2015, 2018, 2021 and 2024.
Hancock said the Orange would likely be paired with a bowl from a western or central region, with ESPN reporting it would be the Cotton or Fiesta.
The semifinal hosts for 2016-17, 2019-20, 2022-23 and 2025-26 will come from the two bowls yet to be chosen, but they will again likely come from two different geographic regions, Hancock said.
The final BCS National Championship Game under the current format will be played Jan. 6, 2014, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
"I think the Rose will be pleased to have the championship game and follow it up the next year with the semifinals," Hancock said.
The 2014 Sugar Bowl will be played on Thursday, Jan. 2.
A meeting is set for April in Pasadena to firm up more details for the playoff system.
"We still have the matter of the championship game sites, the other three semifinal sites, the name (of the playoff) and the (selection) committee," Hancock said. "Those balls are still in the air, and I think they will be until that April meeting."
SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said he believes the most pressing issue is to name the remaining semifinal bowls and the first several championship game sites, "because there's so much work to do."
Slive said the commissioners also talked Tuesday about what name the playoff will go under "in a very preliminary way."
Hancock said emphatically at Saturday's BCS championship game media day that the playoff system would not be called the BCS.


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Before i buy an evo i was wondering if BT5 will recognize my alfa awus036h adapter.
I will go with whatever evo works best and im sure my adapter will be better than the built in one plus i have a powerfull long range antenna.
Also im hoping to use a usb hub so i can plug an external keyboard in too.
Will this be possible?
Any help will be most grateful.


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A BED and breakfast in West Lulworth has been named the best in the world.
Bindon Bottom, a Victorian country house close to Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door, scooped the title of World's Best B&B at the TripAdvisor 2014 Travellers' Choice awards.
Award winners were determined based on the reviews of TripAdvisor travellers around the globe. The Dorset B&B has risen up the ranks to become the world's number one after coming 10th in 2012.
It is run by Clive and Lisa Orchard, who set up the B&B in 2010 as a change of lifestyle after reaching natural career breaks. Clive is originally from Dorset and learnt to swim at Durdle Door.
Lisa, originally from Sydney, Australia, said: "We are so grateful to our guests for taking the time to write the reviews. We both love the area and we're hoping that people have a wonderful holiday in Dorset, which is something we can help them to do."
TripAdvisor reviewers describe the quirkily named B&B as an 'amazing little gem' with a breakfast 'to die for'.
One reviewer wrote: "Spotlessly clean, with lots of thoughtful extra touches."
Bindon Bottom, named because it is sited near Bindon Hill, has a strong literary lilt, with its five guest rooms named after authors including Dorset dialect poet William Barnes and Enid Blyton.
Lisa said: "I think it's our personal choices that make us different."
Also flying the flag for Dorset is the Summer Lodge Hotel in Evershot, which was named the 8th Best Small Hotel in the UK.
For a complete list of winners see tripadvisor.co.uk/TravellersChoice
Final 10 in TripAdvisor list
1. Bindon Bottom B&B, West Lulworth, Dorset, United Kingdom
2. All Seasons Guest House Filey, Filey, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
3. Historic Oak Hill Inn, Natchez, Mississippi United States
4. Saxon Villa, Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
5. Baan Malinee Bed and Breakfast, Thalang District, Thailand
6. Linnett Hill, Keswick, Cumbria, United Kingdom
7. Riad Alnadine, Marrakech, Morocco
8. Dumfries House Lodge, Cumnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
9. Millgate Bed & Breakfast, Masham, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
10. Arbor Guest House, Napa, California, United States


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RUNNERS will pound the roads this Sunday (April 6) at the annual Taunton Marathon and Half Marathon.
Around 1,300 competitors have signed up for the gruelling race, which will see runners tackle either the 26.2-mile or 13.1-mile route.
Race director John Lewis said: "We couldn't have put this event on for the last 31 years without a lot of support from businesses and other organisations.
"Somerset College has looked after us really well all that time, with facilities other race organisers are very envious of."
The races start at Somerset College at 10.30am and pass through Norton Fitzwarren, Oake, Bradford-on-Tone, Rumwell and Bish-op's Hull.
There is also a 1.4km or 2km fun run around the college grounds.
The event is supporting charities chosen by Somerset County Council chairman David Fothergill – the National Autistic Society and the Somerset Trust for Arts & Recreation.
Traffic will be stopped in Wellington Road in both directions for ten minutes from 10.25am to allow runners to set off.
As the pack passes along Corporation Street, North Street and Bridge Street vehicles will be held at various junctions. Once out towards Staplegrove, runners will begin to spread and traffic will be able to pass.
Silk Mills Road will be closed to through traffic from 10.30am to 3pm in both directions between Netherclay Lane and Bindon Road.
The bridge in Bradford-on-Tone will be closed between 11am and 1pm to all traffic.
See somersetcountygazette.co.uk and next week's paper for pictures and results.


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10 Pretty Printed Shoes to Wear Now
Step into the fall printed shoe trend with these 10 wild pairs.
-Diana Denza
From sweet florals in electric hues to pretty polka dots, printed shoes are all the rage this season. And why shouldn't they be? Your wardrobe will go wild over these 10 funky pairs of printed kicks. There's something for every gal out there, so slip these on and hit the town in style!
1. Polka dot slingbacks ($24.80, forever21.com). These spots and dots will keep your toes trendy. Plus, you can wear them with everything from your skinnies to a classic little black dress. Score!
2. ASOS Paris pointed high heels ($34.49, asos.com). France might not be an option, but you can exude Parisian flair with these classy heels.
3. Red Valentino leopard-print nylon pump ($350, neimanmarcus.com). Meet the new cool cats on the block! These leopard pumps are fierce, but their bright pink satin bows soften the bite.
4. BCBGeneration parade tribal-print pumps ($98, dillards.com). Classic suede meets the tribal trend with these date night heels. While you're busy sharing a sugary dessert with your guy, your LBD will be busy checking out this new duo.
5. Zig-zag stitch wooden platform heel ($35.50, charlotterusse.com). Spice up your life with these fall-hued slingbacks. Zig-a-zig-ah!


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Russell Moore, Provost
Deb Coffin, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
With the academic year now in full swing and an election approaching, you may notice at times the presence of various groups on campus engaging in demonstrations, consciousness-raising activities, presentations and advocacy for various causes.
As a community of learning, it is important that the university promote the exchange of ideas and issues. University policy provides procedures that allow speech to occur on campus in a way that augments and safeguards our ability to attend to our core educational mission. The university, in accordance with the law, does not discriminate against any group based upon the content of its speech or presentation. However, the presence of any group or organization on campus should not be viewed as an endorsement of that group's beliefs by the CU community or the administration.
All CU faculty, staff and students are encouraged to react to any displays or presentations on campus in the spirit that defines our academic community: through discussion and civil debate. The CU-Boulder campus has always been a place of robust exchange, where ideas and values are constantly in motion in and out of the classroom. We wish to encourage this proud tradition as a distinguishing feature of our campus this academic year, and indeed, for all time.


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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
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Just Pure in Hermanus
In Hermanus, there's a certain place where people heading for the PostNet in the centre of town are led astray. They suddenly pause and sniff, and then turn at right angles.
Tamsin is South Africa's low-key, elegant, sleekly beautiful answer to Anita Roddick and her Body Shop.
They stop there and sniff some more. This is where Just Pure makes its products, and they smell delicious. Tamsin Koen, the founder and owner, insists on only natural, organic products. All the hand creams, face creams, bath oils, soaps and cleansers are scented with essential oils, like frankincense, myrrh, rose geranium, everlasting and cedar wood.
Tamsin is South Africa's low-key, elegant, sleekly beautiful answer to Anita Roddick and her Body Shop. Just Pure has the same ethics, and was started for roughly the same reasons: a driving belief that there must be something better to put on your skin than riotous combinations of unnatural odours and substances.
Tamsin was driven to this mission because her mother got cancer. It seemed an act of insanity to bring anything near her body that was carcinogenic, and Tamsin was horrified how many proven harmful chemicals were in body creams.
"Research shows that up to 60% of what we put on our skins is absorbed into the body," she says.
She looked around for lotions without these chemicals and couldn't find much that was locally made.
So Tamsin started experimenting. She wasn't a chemist, she wasn't a cosmetician. In fact, her background was in marketing and fundraising. Tamsin eventually came up with a few products and, of course, the name described what they were – Just Pure.
Her small shop was a pleasure to walk into because of its naturally good scents, some astringent, some sweet. The shop did very well, especially considering the seasonal nature of Hermanus trade. The reason it thrived was because locals loved her place, and still do. There is always something new: hand-made pure wool baby's clothes, for example; or a new range of soaps.
Then she opened a daytime bistro with the most addictive cappuccinos and healthy food that is locally sourced, free range and organic where possible.
The latest development is that spas are starting to stock Just Pure, and therapists are mad about Tamsin's massage oils.
But Tamsin's enduring fascination is her laboratory. This, the source of the alluring smells, is a place where she oversees the making of fresh batches, and experiments with scents and products. Her husband, Louis, and all her friends are guinea pigs, and they swear by her creations.
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Adobe's Rich Internet Application (RIA) framework product, LiveCycle Mosaic, allows developers to create applications that are made up of smaller micro-apps called Tiles. Tiles can be either Flex applications or HTML pages and there are very mature tools for development and testing of individual Tiles. Since one of Mosaic's biggest features is that Tiles can communicate with each other on the client side (not requiring round trips to the server) its very useful to test Tiles running in the framework. In this post I'm going to describe a few tools and tips to make this a bit easier.
Mosaic Debug WAR
There is a special debug version of the Mosaic WAR file that is built specifically for developers. When you install/unzip Mosaic you fill find the debug version in the deploy/war/{logversion}/debug folder (logversion refers to either the log4j-logging or jdk-logging folder). This version of Mosaic is the same as the production version, except it includes hooks for QTP and the Mosaic plugin for Flash Builder (see below). If you want to create a debug environment, simply deploy this debug version to your application server.
Debug WAR in Standalone
Mosaic comes with a handy-dandy standalone version for development. It comes bundled with its own Tomcat so you can start building things without worrying about setting up a more complex production environment. As of the time of this post, the standalone version comes with the production version of Mosaic. The first thing I always do is to replace it with the debug version. Here's how:
- Stop the standalone Tomcat if its running
- Go to the {mosaic home}/standalone/webapps folder
- Delete the existing mosaic.war (don't panic, you still have a copy in the deploy folder)
- Delete the mosaic folder and everything in it – This will delete any deployed Mosaic apps
- Copy the debug version from {mosaic home}/deploy/war/log4j-logging/debug/mosaic.war into the {mosaic home}/standalone/webapps folder
- Start the standalone Tomcat and redeploy any apps
Debug Tools
Flash Player Debugger
If you are doing any Flash or Flex development you owe it to your self to get the Flash Player debug version (find it here). Get the ActiveX one if you are using IE and the Netscape one if you are using Firefox. This will allow you to connect to the Flash Builder tool and see exactly what's going on in your apps.
Mosaic Flash Builder Plugin
The Mosaic team has put together a really useful plugin for the Flex Builder 4 IDE. The LiveCycle Mosaic ES2 Plugin for Flash Builder 4 (FB4) plugin helps with tile creation as well as debugging. Used in combination with the debug version of the mosaic.war file and the FlashPlayer debug version, you can do all of the standard debugging things that you could with FB4, but inside of the Mosaic framework. This includes breakpoints, expression watchers, step through, etc.
The tool will even build a temporary Catalog and Application file so you can test Tiles in the framework strait away. Having said that, however, I usually like to test with my own layouts and catalog setups. Fortunately I can do this by deploying my Catalog and Application descriptors as per normal (using an ANT script), then I change the Debug Configuration in FB4 to use my setup. By setting the Host Application and Catalog settings to point to my descriptors I can test the tiles as they would appear to the end user. For example, in the shot below I have an Application called SalesDashboard and a Catalog called SalesDashboardCatalog. This setup will launch the debugger using those descriptors:
You have 45 seconds to comply
If you are using Firefox as your web browser then you may have noticed that the Flash Player will crash after a short idle time.
This is especially annoying when you are debugging because the thing times out and crashes when you are in the middle of looking at variable properties. This is because of a "feature" in Firefox that crashes the Flash Player after 45 seconds of inactivity. Fortunately its fairly easy to override this by disabling the hang protection:
- In Firefox type the following into the address bar (aka the "Location bar") and hit enter: about:config
- Click the "I'll be careful…" button
- In the resulting Filter box type: dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs
- In the resluting dialog box enter -1 and click OK
Now the Flash Player won't time out while you are trying to debug your application.


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Hot Air Balloon Proposal Goes Horribly Wrong
It was a great idea in theory… then disaster struck.
-Piper Weiss, Yahoo! Shine
This romantic proposal wasn't supposed to make news. A Louisville area man's intimate proposal on a hot air balloon became a horror story moments after she said yes.
Just after 8 p.m. Wednesday night, as pilot Dallas Beall attempted the land and pop open a bottle of champagne for the couple, the balloon hit a power line, according to CNN, jolted with electricity fell on the bride-to-be, seriously shocking her as well.
Her future husband jumped into action administering CPR on the pilot, until medics arrived to rescue the stranded passengers. They were transferred to an area hospital and treated for burns. The identities of the couple have not yet been released.
All three are reported to be stable, and no injuries were life-threatening but the accident undoubtedly changed the mood.
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According to the Clark County Sheriff's report, the pilot had first tried to land the balloon on an overgrown patch of land only to relaunch in search of safer ground. Moments later, the power lines were struck.
Beall, owner of Dallas Jewelers for over 35 years, offers balloon rides as part of a special engagement package for clients who want an airborne setting for presenting the ring. The ride itself runs about $425.
"It's my understanding that everyone is okay, that's all I'm aware of," a Dallas Jewelers representative manning the phones told Shine on Thursday.
Hopefully the dramatic turn of events hasn't changed the couple's plans. A lot of people make elaborate flash mob-worthy promises when they're popping the question, but few have the unfortunate opportunity to back it up minutes later. If ever a man deserved an "I do" it's this guy, who launched into action to save his fiancee.
Beall has not provided a statement but his website, Hot Air Dallas, says it all, advertising the ride as "a memory you'll have forever."
That's an understatement.
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Voters go to the polls next week to elect their first Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC).
Four candidates are standing in West Yorkshire – Labour's Mark Burns-Williamson, Geraldine Mary Carter for the Conservatives, independent Cedric Mark Christie and Andrew Clive Glover Marchington, representing the Liberal Democrats.
The election takes place on November 15, and will be repeated every four years.
PCCs are being recruited for each of the 41 police areas in England – excluding London – and Wales, and they will take-up their £100,000-a-year posts on November 22. The current police authorities will be abolished.
The commissioner will be responsible for holding the Chief Constable and police force to account on the public's behalf, and overseeing how crime is tackled in the county.
He or she will have regular meetings with the public to set police and crime plans, ensuring the force budget is spent on priorities in the area.
By next February, the PCC must have a clear set of budgeted objectives, which can be wholly or in part rejected by the members of a Crime Panel.
The Chief Constable will continue to be responsible for day-to-day operations.
Listed here are a profile of each of the four West Yorkshire candidates.
Mark Burns-Williamson (Labour)
Mark has been a member of the West Yorkshire Police Authority since 1999 and its chairman since 2003.
He also represents the Castleford Central and Glasshoughton Ward on Wakefield City Council, is a member of local voluntary groups and was awarded an OBE for services to the community and policing in this year's Honours List.
Mark says he has decided to stand because he believes his experience as chairman of the police authority and chairman of the Association of Police Authorities gives him the successful track record at local and national level necessary to undertake such a task. Mark wants to ensure that, as West Yorkshire is one of the biggest police forces in the country, views will be heard at the highest levels.
"I'm convinced I can be a robust advocate," he said. "It's a big job and I want to work with various communities throughout West Yorkshire to make sure their concerns are included in policing plans and priorities. It's really important neighbourhood policing continues to form the bedrock of policing throughout the county."
Mark said he would work with all the communities and organisations throughout West Yorkshire to ensure their concerns were included in his policing plan.
Key pledges include standing against £100 million Government cuts of about 2,000 police officers and staff in West Yorkshire, keeping police officers and PCSOs on the beat, as well as strong and swift action on anti-social behaviour.
Geraldine Mary Carter (Conservative)
Geraldine is a councillor for the Ryburn ward on Calderdale Council and for the Ripponden ward on Ripponden Parish Council.
She was born in Bridlington but has lived in Halifax & Ripponden from a young age. She married Brian in 1970 and has two daughters.
Geraldine first joined the party in 1964 as a Young Conservative, and has since held all officer positions in Calder Valley Conservative Association.
She has been a Calderdale councillor for the Ryburn ward since she was first elected in 1998, and has held various positions on the local authority, including cabinet member for corporate services in addition to committee, scrutiny panel and working party chairman.
She was also mayor of Calderdale in 2003/4 and deputy mayor in 2007/8.
Gerladine was nominated by Calderdale Council to serve on West Yorkshire Police Authority in 2004, where she was chairman of the human resources committee, special committee and the Calderdale Community Forum, as well as being a member of the Policing Plan Working Party and Partnership Liaison Group. She was also a member of the Association of Police Authorities committees.
Geraldine has also served as a board member of the West Yorkshire Probation Service and specialised in hostels and prisons.
She has represented the Ripponden ward of Ripponden Parish Council since 1989 and was chairman twice.
Her plan for policing includes being tough on crime, supporting victims not criminals, zero tolerance on knife and gun crime, cutting police paperwork and recruiting more special constables
Cedric Mark Christie (Independent)
The only independent candidate, Cedric says he is not a politician – "what you see with me is what you get".
He served for more than 30 years with the police, reaching the rank of inspector.
Cedric said: "At school in Leeds, I stood up to bullies – my anti-bullying principles are entrenched.
"If criminals break into your house, rob you at knifepoint, assault you, subject you to anti-social behaviour or abuse you on the grounds of difference, then they are personally bullying you.
"When you are a victim, you turn to the police. You want to be treated with respect, listened to, be supported and protected. You ask that your crime is investigated professionally and the perpetrators caught.
"Your police must act with honesty, integrity, fairness, impartiality and within the law. They have a duty to report colleagues' misconduct."
Cedric added: "West Yorkshire houses a minority that do not adopt these standards. They are tainted by greed and power. They commit criminal offences, lie, cheat and bully. When challenged, they close ranks. This impropriety goes right to the top of the organisation.
"I know the difference between right and wrong. I never allowed negative traits to influence my behaviour whilst serving you. I would never do so as the first Police and Crime Commissioner.
"I will chase the corrupt and incompetent out of office. They do not deserve your respect. Now is your opportunity to influence the future of policing."
Andrew Clive Glover Marchington (Liberal Democrats)
Andrew lives in Huddersfield with his wife and two children.
He is a councillor in Huddersfield – he was first elected for Golcar ward on Kirklees Council in 2004 and was subsequently re-elected in 2006 and 2010.
Andrew was on the West Yorkshire Police Authority from 2010 until this year, and chaired a task force in Kirklees that oversaw a reduction in violent crime by 30 per cent.
He helped to set up the Kirklees Safer Stronger Communities Part-nership and chaired it from 2005-6 and 2009-12, chaired the Kirklees Violent Crime Task Group from 2006-12 and says he regularly meets with the police and local people to ensure issues are dealt with.
Andrew says he looks for long-term solutions to crime and anti-social behaviour and not just "quick fixes".
He supported the development of an award-winning alcohol awareness programme used in schools.
Andrew says his priorities as commissioner would include reducing red tape to protect frontline services and getting more police on the streets, getting police and local communities working together to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour, effective action to protect people from domestic violence and rape, and Payback sentencing to help victims, benefit communities and reduce reoffending.
He says that over many years, he has shown the dedication and commitment necessary to make a real difference and has a strong track record of working with local people, the police, probation and community organisations to prevent and tackle crime.
Andrew is also a preacher in the Methodist Church.


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Honda have confirmed they will make a total of 99 compulsory redundancies following discussions with the Unite union.
A short statement from the firm, which recently announced it would be reducing production from two lines to one, said all employees leaving the company would see their contracts end on May 23.
The South Marston-based manufacturer had opened a voluntary redundancy programme but too few employees came forward, making compulsory cuts necessary.
The deadline for applications to leave the business voluntarily, using HUM's Associate Release Programme, was extended from April 22, by which point 191 associates had applied to leave voluntarily, to last Friday.
Unite's regional co-ordinating officer in Swindon, Jim D'Avila said last week he hoped there may be as few as 83 forced out of the Highworth Road plant, while HUM forecasted as many as 109.
Honda's statement read: "Today, Honda of the UK Manufacturing Ltd (HUM) can confirm that following ongoing meetings between HUM and the Unite Consultative Committee , and following the closure of the voluntary redundancy programme on Friday, May 9, the total number of compulsory redundancies will be 99.
"A formal compulsory process commences this week. The last contractual day for all employees leaving the company will be 23 May 2014."


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Trivia Game
Use python lists to store 10 trivia questions and answers of your choice.
Out of the 10 questions, ask the user 4 randomly selected questions each round.
Make sure a question is not repeated during the run of the program.
When the user answers the question, check if the answer is correct or not. Display a message indicating correct or incorrect.
Record the score: 1 point for each correct answer.
At the end of the 4 questions:
Display the score.
Ask the user if they would like to play another round (another 4 questions)
If the user wants to play another round, keep the same score. Do not repeat questions between rounds.
If the user says no, then exit the game
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Hello everyone,
I am looking to create my first big project in Python. The idea for this is a script that interacts with an XLS spreadsheet that contains Magic the Gathering cards, and URLs to mtgprice.com to pull prices off their site and write them into my Spreadsheet. I am using xlrd, xlwt, and scrapy to do this. The problem comes with setting up the spider to pull the prices off the pages as I have not gotten this far yet, I haven't started the process of writing into the XLS spreadsheet. If anyone has any ideas on how to set up this spider, or another, easier way to do this I would greatly appreciate it.


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"Islam is not a political ideology but a religion of peace. The Qur'an teaches this." said Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, while expressing that Islam faith and Muslim people should always be referred positively.
Schroeder also emphasized especially that German people should never give credence to any of these fake statements about Islam covers violence and said; "There were two World wars which took place in the past century and the Muslim Countries were definitely not the reasons of these. We do not have a right to act in a spoiled way to these people."


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Hundreds of people turned out to discuss fears that Otley is in danger of turning into "just another suburb".
The public meeting was held by Otley Development Disgrace (ODD) at the Methodist Church on Monday.
The campaign group organised the event as part of its bid to have the future housing allocation that has been set out for Otley, in the Local Development Framework, revised.
ODD claims the current plans would see the town jump in size by a fifth, leading to unsustainable pressure being placed on schools, health services and roads.
Spokesman Alastair Watson told the meeting that people should be worried about the 1,177 additional houses earmarked for Otley as there were "no corresponding improvements proposed to our already overloaded infrastructure".
The chairman of the Wharfedale & Airedale Review Development (Ward) network, David Ingham, meanwhile described how overdevelopment along the A65 corridor had already had "severe consequences" for communities like Guiseley.
And he stressed the need for more empty brownfield – previously developed – sites to be used for housing, instead of green fields.
Turning to the likely impact in Otley, ODD spokesman John Buck said the 20 per cent rise in population would:
- place an intolerable burden on already oversubscribed local schools, GP surgeries and dentists
- lead to the loss of valuable green space while derelict sites remained as eyesores
- create parking and traffic problems while failing to deliver significant affordable housing.
Otley Town and ward Councillor Sandy Lay (Lib Dem, Otley & Yeadon), who attended, said: "The large turnout clearly indicates that proposals for development in Otley are causing some concern.
"The Rumplecroft and East of Otley developments were approved a long time ago when Otley's employment situation was very different.
"Since then we have lost large employers such as Garnett's, Jeffries and the hospital, which these developments were supposed to support. Leeds City Council's lack of an Environmental Cumulative Impact Policy completely fails to recognise this, and I fear Otley is increasingly being seen as a commuter town."
Resident Caroline Davis, of Moor Drive, said: "As a long-standing Otley resident I feel that we have not had a proper opportunity to direct any of this development in a meaningful manner.
"My major concern is that there are too many concessions made to developers to maximise their profits by allowing so much development to go ahead on green fields when there is so many derelict, brownfield sites around.
"This is totally disgraceful and I feel the elected Government is to blame by relaxing planning restrictions and trying to build our way out of a recession.
"I would like Leeds City Council together with MP Greg Mulholland to hold a public meeting in Otley to look at these site allocations, potential numbers and infrastructure and allow our views to be heard."
Monday's meeting also heard that ODD wants a formal impact assessment to be carried out on the combined effect of all the proposed development sites on Otley's services.


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Setting the stage:
The Timberwolves enter the fourth week of the season with an impressive 7-4 record. As of Sunday morning, that is good for a sixth place tie in the Western Conference and percentage points away from second in the Northwest Division. As most expected, the team looks like an offensive juggernaut, averaging 108.5 points per game – 3rd in the NBA. The team is also 5th in the league in both rebounds and assists per game.
After missing one game with the flu, Kevin Martin returned to form Saturday night and remains one of the most impressive stories early on this season. Kevin Love continues to play at an All-Star level, averaging 26.8ppg and 13.6rpg, with a PER at 29.7! While Ricky Rubio continues to struggle with his shot, he continues to do everything else with 9.6apg and just over 3 steals per. Ricky put up a triple double last Sunday against the Lakers and if he continues to put in ~10+ppg, this team is very dangerous.
Week 4 for the Wolves is going to be tough, with two sets of back-to-back games and travel. A few old faces will be clashing with the Wolves this week and it is a perfect time for the team to put on some throwback jerseys (#Twolves25)!! Here are a few thoughts for each game this week.
Game 12: Tuesday, 11/19, 6pm – Timberwolves @ Washington Wizards (TV: FSN Plus)
The Wizards will enter this game at 2-7 and Randy Wittman is the early leader in the "coach most likely to get fired first" category (again). It would be an understatement to say the Wizards are underachieving. The Pups will come into Tuesday's game with two full days of rest (so will Washington). Hopefully, this game will be as easy as it looks on paper.
Opponent to watch:
Bradley Beal – Beal is off to a great start this season in Washington, playing right around 40 minutes per game and averaging a shade under 20 points. The second year SG will look to make it tough on Kevin Martin on both ends of the floor.
Despite this game being on the road, do you really think I'm picking a team coached by Randy Wittman that is grossly underperforming to start the season? Final score: Timberwolves 106, Wizards 99
Game 13: Wednesday, 11/20, 7pm – Los Angeles Clippers @ Timberwolves (TV: FS North)
The Pups will travel back home from Washington to face the Clippers on Wednesday night and will be looking to avenge the nail biting loss that they suffered back on 11/11. Love and Nikola Pekovic will look to continue their strong play against the solid tandem of Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan. Let's see if Matt Barnes can talk himself out of the NBA before tip-off of this game too. (Good grief.) In an effort to get completely ahead of ourselves, this is actually a pretty big game for the Wolves, who will look to even the season series and keep the Clippers (and others) well within their grasps when thinking about playoff seeds. (Yep, we went there before Thanksgiving!)
Opponent to watch:
Chris Paul – The queen/king of flopping outplayed Rubio in the first outing and will likely need to do so again for the Clippers in order for them to win.
Quite honestly, the Wolves are dealt a tough deck here. The Clippers will be off the night prior, and coming into the game off of a four game home stretch. The Wolves will be flying back from DC and won't get home until late Tuesday / early Wednesday. The only reason I'm taking the Wolves is because, well, I hate the Clippers. Final score: Timberwolves 114, Clippers 112
Game 14: Friday, 11/22, 7pm – Brooklyn Nets @ Timberwolves (TV: FS North)
A few things about this game and how it relates to the national TV schedule. First, since this game is on a Friday, how in the world is it not on ESPN? The young, improving Wolves vs. the star-studded (albeit underachieving) Brooklyn Nets. Second, this is possibly KG's last game ever at Target Center – even though his contract goes for one more season. What brainpower decided that this game wasn't worthy of ESPN coverage?
Third, and changing the focus on national media, why couldn't this match-up, in Target Center, be on TNT on a Thursday night with Kevin Harlan in the booth? Fourth, pivoting again, please, PLEASE, PLEASE make this a throwback jersey night! I really don't ask for that much.
Opponent to watch:
Kevin Garnett – I don't care that he is averaging under 25mpg and his averages are well below what we have all become accustomed to. This is KG and it might be his last run on the Target Center floor. If you have the ability to get to Target Center, you should be there.
I'm going to predict a "throwback night" from KG as well, who will come into the game firing on all cylinders. Assuming Deron Williams plays (D2D with an ankle injury), I'm going to predict my first loss in this weekly column for the Pups. Final score: Nets 102, Timberwolves 100
Game 15: Saturday, 11/23, 7pm – Timberwolves @ Houston Rockets (TV: FS North)
You can literally take just about everything that I said above in the first paragraph for the Nets game and place it here too. With Kevin McHale on the opposing sideline, this is another opportunity for the Wolves to throw on a few old school jerseys (cough, ORIGINAL BLUE'S, cough). Do it! DO IT!!
Opponent to watch:
James Harden – Harden has picked up right where he left off last season, stuffing the box score night in and night out. Harden lit up Thabo Sefolosha and Kevin Martin in the playoffs last year. While Martin had one really bad game (game 5) in that series, he bounced back nicely in game 6 to knock the Rockets out of the playoffs.
The Wolves can't afford to get that "game 5 Martin" in this one, as they will be on the back end of a back-to-back against a team that will not have played since Wednesday night in another part of Texas (Dallas). Final score: Rockets 112, Timberwolves 106
The Pups don't catch any breaks this coming week from the scheduling gods whatsoever. If they can go 2-2 this week, I would be content. 3-1 would be impressive and 4-0 would be glorious. Let's go Wolves!


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Eastern Kentucky University's men's basketball team made just 33 percent of its shots in an 82-60 road loss to Valparaiso University in the 2013 ESPN Ramada Worldwide BracketBusters.
The Crusaders (22-7) shot 68 percent from the field.
The Colonels (22-7) fell behind 11-2 out of the gate and trailed by seven, 24-17, with a little over eight minutes left in the first half. Eastern put together a strong defensive stretch that allowed the visitors to score eight unanswered.
Valparaiso had four turnovers and a missed shot on five straight possessions. The 8-0 run was highlighted by Timmy Knipp's 3-pointer and ensuing free throw after being fouled on the shot. Two free throws by Mike DiNunno capped the run and gave EKU its first and only lead of the game, 25-24, with 5:32 left in the opening half.
The Crusaders answered with a run of their own to take control. Valpo ended the first half on a 15-4 run, then scored the first six points of the second half on 3-pointers by Ryan Broekhoff and Will Bogan to stretch the run to 21-4. Bogan's trey pushed the lead to 16, 45-29. The Colonels never got closer than 11 the rest of the way.
Corey Walden scored a game-best 20 points. He made 7-of-13 attempts from the field, including 3-of-5 from behind the arc. DiNunno finished with 19 points. Eric Stutz contributed 10 points and five rebounds.
Broekhoff and Bogan led Valparaiso with 13 points each. Five Crusaders finished in double figures.
Valpo made 30-of-44 shots from the field, including 7-of-17 from three-point range (41.2 percent). VU out-rebounded Eastern by 14. EKU committed six fewer turnovers, but made just 20-of-61 attempts from the field.
The Colonels will close out the 2012-13 regular season with a pair of road games next week beginning at Tennessee Tech on Thursday. Tip-off in Cookeville is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. ET.
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Note not in the recap: Corey Walden went down with an apparent injury during the second half. Dinunno appeared to trip over Walden's leg on the way to the basket for a made layup. Walden had trouble fully extending his left leg, and was helped to the sideline after a few minutes on the court. He did not return to the game. There's no word on the extent of his injury.


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An un - satisfying shit, usually where the person fails to reach point break, and is too embarrassed to spend half an hour seeing the whole thing through, or make two trips to the toilet. The discomfort, heat and sweat associated with this can be amplified by people occupying your direct vicinity, increasing greatly with an increasing number of people and how close they get.
"Man, I was so uncomfortable during that staff meeting due to needing a shit... Not only did I have to put the meeting on hold, I came back with mad clumpf and that just made things much worse. I think I'm going to get fired."
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Topic: What a mess
After getting a good scan back on September, mom is back in the hospital with 2 plastic stents and cholangitis. She is on IV antibiotics and had the plastic stents changed due to blockage. MD is placing the blame on effects of radiation therapy she received 7 months ago for the strictures, but I'm not so sure.
How can she be in this predicament in just 2 months. It certainly is frustrating. Anyone else go thru this?


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The Inauguration of Dr. Karen M. Scolforo
Central Penn College's Ninth President
On Saturday, June 7 at 4 p.m., the Central Penn College community will celebrate their future during the Inauguration of Dr. Karen M. Scolforo, the college's ninth president since 1881.
Scolforo was the unanimous choice for presidency by the board of directors after an eight-month national search that resulted in a diverse pool of 127 highly competitive candidates. She began to serve in her new role in August 2013, and will be officially installed as president on June 7 by William Kobel, chairman of the Central Penn College board of directors and 1981 alumnus, and Todd A. Milano, president emeritus & ambassador to the Central Penn College Education Foundation.
The college has installed two presidents in the previous 45 years, including Bart A. Milano and Todd A. Milano, who both served with energy, vision and dedication for 20 years or more. In that time, the previously named Central Penn Business School moved from its 323 Market Street location in Harrisburg to its current 58-acre residential campus in Summerdale; advanced from offering two-year programs to associate, bachelor's and master's degree programs; opened two bachelor's degree completion locations in Lancaster and Bethlehem; and began offering fully-online degree programs.
According to Central Penn's latest One-Year-Graduate Survey, 87.8 percent of graduates were working in their chosen field or continuing their education within one year of graduation.*
"For more than 130 years, Central Penn College has been career-focused," says Kobel as part of his charge to the new president. "Innovate and evolve with this focus in mind; never lose sight of our desire to contribute tangible skills, business acumen, leadership and professionalism to businesses that hire our graduates. Never lose sight of our commitment to helping students become better people, cultivating their sense of the common good to the broader community."
Since her arrival on campus, Scolforo has been exploring new ways to fulfill the mission of Central Penn College; expand the institution's reach; and serve a diverse population to meet the needs of future workforces. In addition to working toward having Central Penn's Lancaster and Lehigh Valley locations serve as autonomous campuses, successful Summerdale programs are being incorporated in Lancaster. Physical therapist assistant evening classes will begin summer 2014, as well as business administration and criminal justice administration day classes.
Building on Central Penn's degree programs available fully-online, Central Penn's master's degree in organizational leadership with a concentration in organizational development will be available online in the fall.
Scolforo has been instrumental in leading the development of new, in-demand academic programs in the allied health fields. A health sciences building is currently under renovation/construction on the Summerdale campus. Fully-online students are experiencing proactive changes to their online learning environment with the addition of Blackboard Community, a new tool that increases online engagement among peers and faculty.
She has demonstrated a commitment to holistic education by expanding student's perspectives through the arts, diversity and further development of the soft skills necessary to help them succeed in life.
"Central Penn College will continue to prepare its graduates for the real world," says Scolforo. "We recognize that we have a responsibility, as educators, to prepare out students and ultimately our graduates to be: accountable, responsible and committed to their careers; to their communities; and to their environment. We will encourage innovation and creative problem-solving, respect for individual differences, a solid work ethic, servant leadership and face-to-face communication."
A new student union, called the Underground, is currently under renovation/construction that will include a writing center, student government association offices, a 250-seat theater (with performances that will be open to the community), dance studio, lounge and fitness center. Additional tutoring opportunities will be available in the Underground.
Scolforo is specifically interested in recommitting to the residential experience on campus, expanding the college's athletics programs by six new sports and adding a new shuttle transportation system.
"I want Central Penn College to be a place that shines for students," Scolforo continues. "I want students to know that I'm here to serve them."
Throughout Scolforo's 15 years of higher education executive leadership experience, she has demonstrated a commitment to enhancing student learning through a holistic approach to whole-student development. Much of Scolforo's scholarly work in education has related to student outcomes, assessment and retention; and she has received numerous awards for her work in these areas.
"Dr. Scolforo has shown great passion for moving Central Penn forward as an institution of learning, while maintaining the values established by the Milano family," says Carl Heininger, 2003 alumnus and member of the board of directors. "I'm looking forward to the growth and transformation of Central Penn under the strong leadership of Dr. Scolforo and her dedicated team."
"It has become clear over these past ten months that Dr. Scolforo's prior career experiences have shaped her students-first mindset and passion for career-focused education," Kobel adds.
Click here for Dr. Scolforo's biography, including her roles as former executive director of the Fortis Institute in northeast Fla., and former Jacksonville campus president of Keiser University.
Scolforo looks forward to increased partnerships and service opportunities on behalf of Central Penn College and its students. Since her arrival at Central Penn College, Scolforo has become a member of the Harrisburg Rotary Club, the Harrisburg Regional Chamber & CREDC, the West Shore Chamber of Commerce, the Executive Leadership Series Harrisburg Area class of 2013, a volunteer for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and a partner with the East Pennsboro Township Commissioners and the East Pennsboro Area School District administrators.
She serves on the Board of the following community organizations: Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region; Leadership Harrisburg Area; Modern Transit Partnership; and the West Shore Chamber of Commerce Foundation, where she also serves as co-chair for the Foundation Education Committee. Scolforo is a Trustee for the Central Penn College Education Foundation and serves on the President's Circle of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber & CREDC.
Central Penn College has been helping students turn potential into career success since 1881, now offering associate, bachelor's and master's degrees in the fields of accounting, business administration, criminal justice, communications, healthcare, homeland security, information technology, legal studies and organizational leadership. The college, currently serving students at its Summerdale, Lancaster, Lehigh Valley and online locations, attributes its high rate of student success to a caring faculty and its hands-on learning approach. Based on Central Penn's most recent One-Year Graduate Survey, 87.8 percent of graduates were employed in their chosen field or continuing their education within one year of graduation. Central Penn College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (267-284-5000). The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. www.centralpenn.edu


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Several moths ago I posted a blog about some issues that were being reported with Flash CS4; some of you also posted your own comments and issues. I am happy to say that we have just posted an update to address a good number of the issues that were reported. I know some of you have been waiting for some time, but we wanted to fix as many problems as we could so we took a little more time with this one.
Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional (10.0.2) addresses a number of performance issues. Some key fixes are:
- Fixed a performance issues when dragging objects on stage, scrubbing the timeline, or entering symbol edit mode in large AS 2.0 and AS 3.0 files.
- Fixed a performance issues when opening large files or files with many nested symbols.
- Fixed a performance issues when working in the library such as scrolling, selecting items in the library, dragging item to stage, or editing symbol from library.
It also addresses several crashes involving creating a text fields on stage and opening specific files with corrupted fonts. The font issue was causing many people to suffer crashes because Flash was not handling inappropriate or corrupted fonts very gracefully.
One fix that was very specific to a request by the community was to put back the JSAPI that allows users to publish FLA files without opening them. You can now use fl.publishDocument( flaURI [, publishProfile] ) to do this. Steven Sacks I hope this helps.
There are a more fixes than that and I have posted the list of them at the bottom of this blog.
I do want to thank everyone that contributed their issues and concerns in my blog, the forums and the email lists. The team worked hard to fix as many issues as we could. If you don't see your specific issue addressed in the update it doesn't mean we didn't pay attention. We just had to prioritize in order to get the update out in a reasonable time. The remaining list is logged and we will continue to try and fix as many more as we can for a future version of Flash.
We made many significant changes to the tool in this cycle and unfortunately this time we ran into a few issues. The changes were necessary to continue to have a framework to work on and make Flash a next gen tool, but you have my commitment that we will do better next time.
Bugs fixed in this release:
- AS2 Doc Crashes CS4 when buttons not rendered correctly
- Auto Format beaks the code if encounters ++ or — with an array inside if statement
- Clicking through movie clip with large preview takes long to select in the Library in AS 3.0 file
- Scrubbing and pressing Enter to play timeline is not smooth, slower in AS3 documents
- W and H of instance incorrect after frame 2 if apply tween to instance with filter
- 3D tools appear incorrectly to a child movie clip when applying skew and rotation to the parent 2d movie clip.
- Changing W/H for nested 2d>3d movie clip from PI does not work. After scrubbing the hot text, it snaps back to the original size.
- Dragging from Library to Stage is slow in some files in CS4
- Selecting items in the library is slow in CS4
- Scrolling the library (vertical scroll bar) is slow compared to CS3
- In a FLA with lots of library items, double clicking a symbol "in the edit mode" hangs Flash on Mac.
- Library contents explode CS4 memory (CS3 sits at 75M)
- Performance issue with Stagecore (AS 3.0 fla) – scrubbing, moving, altering objects.
- Object visibility is compromised when created inside empty groups in AS 3.0 fla files.
- Double clicking symbol or symbol name in library hangs Flash; library contains a lot of items
- Text with device font disappears when it is selectable
- Component parameters don't work for scenes greater than scene 1
- Selecting frames with textfields is a lot slower if the Components Inspector panel is opened
- Empty maskee incorrectly renders mask invisible rather than visible
- Crash when opening a fla that uses a font symbol whose name was identical to the Postscript name of the underlying font and the font is missing
- Optimize a section within a shape leaves gaps in the shape
- Optimize opening and closing FLA files, frame manipulation for FLAs with many frames
- Win only: Crash on exit when the text field is in edit mode and clicking X button to quit without save
- Compiler errors when opening "Air Settings" while adl still running.
- (screens) timeline playhead can't scrub and jitters when playing anything that spans frames
- gotoAndPlay("framelabel") compiles differently in CS3 versus CS4
- Scrubbing the timeline and selecting frames is much slower in CS4 than in CS3
- Crash when creating a text object on stage when there are corrupted fonts
- Graphic symbol looping setting changes when apply color effect to instance in PI
- Files with lots of nested clips suffer from performance issue (file open) in Flash CS4
- Edit in Place of 2d objects which has 3d movieclips nested inside is not functioning correctly.
- Edit in place is slow for complex instances in FP10 documents
- Breaking apart a nested movie clip erases instance name of child movie clip
- Efficient calculation between keyframes so dragging is faster and generally makes people happier if spans are long and complex.
- AS3 Components not compiling correctly when using the Component Definition dialog
- Window Only: Flash crashes when double clicking a fla to open while a current fla is opened with text block selected
- Can't interact with Flash because modal dialog is up, but hidden behind the workspace when switching between applications
- From crash reporter: crash on Mac when double click to enter symbol edit mode (when the black dotted rectangle is drawn)
- Mac IDE flashes when right-clicking on Library after doing Test Movie
- Performance is slow after double clicking movie clip to enter edit mode and exit
- Setting an instance's width and/or height to 1 makes W and H hot text unusable in the vertical PI.
- Hot text in the Vertical PI for X, Y, W, H displays only 1 decimal point while edit field displays 2
- Export image: Dimension values in Export dialog and Vertical PI do not match which is misleading to user.
- Crash when selecting text field on stage with many fonts on user's system.
- Text PI is stuck and some controls on the PI are not drawn with certain fonts on user's system
- The JSAPI that allows users to publish FLA files without opening them was inadvertently removed when the Project Panel was deprecated. fl.publishDocument( flaURI [, publishProfile] ) is added.
- "Export classes in frame" behavior is different in CS3 than in CS4
- Drag and drop large nested symbol from library to stage hangs Flash
- Dragging from Library to Stage slow on subsequent drag or after scrubbing the timeline
- Scrubbing and pressing Enter to play timeline is not smooth, slower in AS3 documents
- W and H of instance incorrect after frame 2 if apply tween to instance with filter
- Large amounts of text nested in a symbol causes performance problems in non-AS3 documents
- Playback in authoring is not smooth (playhead skips frames), cannot stop it when hitting enter, eventually hangs and takes long to respond (both AS 2.0 and AS 3.0)
- Performance Creating Exported Symbol when the classpath contains lots of files and folder
- Create ease, undo after first edit removes ease
- Selecting and deselecting raw shape after convert to symbol spikes memory and/or crashes
- FLA crash on open when fonts loaded
- Mac only: User input resets to previous setting when attempting to change any value in Vertical PI input area
- Accessing a Windows SWF after it has been moved or deleted crashes Flash
- Crashing when re-opening FLA after canceling publish
- Crash in test movie when running a file with video and filters


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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Many mnemonics rely on making visual associations in your mind. The way you create these visualizations will have a lot to do with how well you will remember the information.
The items that you are associating together should be visualized as interacting in some way. If you are trying to associate a stapler with a dog, it is not going to do you much good to picture a dog standing next to a stapler. A much better association would be to have the dog eating the stapler, or picture a dog with a stapler mouth. Not only does this interaction make the image more interesting, but by grouping both objects into one association, you are effectively chunking the material.
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You're a few years away from retirement and you fear that you're about to be laid off or fired from your job -- ruining all your retirement planning. Attorney Larry Bodine, editor-in-chief of Lawyers.com, says, don't go quietly -- "Negotiate."
Bodine believes that an age discrimination claim can be your most powerful bargaining chip. "If you can see any reason that you are being laid off because of your age -- age discrimination starts at age 40, and if workers younger than 40 are being spared -- this gives you leverage. No company wants lawsuits brought by employees."
Bodine acknowledges that actually filing an age discrimination suit is an unrealistic option for many. "If you file a claim, you'll be in court for several years," he says. And the odds of actually winning aren't great. But Bodine thinks that the threat will make many employers nervous enough to ease your separation from the company.
Here are six things he says you can negotiate for and have a reasonably good chance of getting:
Severance. At least a month of pay for every year that you have worked for the company.
Paid COBRA. The federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act guarantees that you can buy the health insurance your company offers for a maximum of 18 months. Ask the company to pay for the insurance for the whole 18 months.
Accrued bonus. If you were expecting a bonus at the end of the year, ask for it early.
Unused vacation and personal leave. Get cash instead of days off.
No disputing unemployment insurance. You get to collect unemployment and they agree to tell the state it's deserved.
Mutual goodwill. You promise not to say anything bad about the company or about anyone who works there to professional organizations or on social media if they will return the favor. Insist that the agreement has to be company-wide, even though it's tough for them to guarantee it. That's still more reason for the company to help you leave under the best possible circumstances. "This is especially effective if you are prominent in your industry. Companies hate to terminate people who are leaders in trade associations or who run online discussion groups," Bodine says.
If the company asks you to sign a statement that says that you won't sue, Bodine believes you need to hire a lawyer to review the agreement. You'll need a plaintiff's employment attorney. There aren't an abundance of lawyers with this specialty, "but you can find one if you do your homework," Bodine insists. "Check Lawyers.com."
And whatever you do, no matter how frustrated you are, don't quit. "If you quit, you extinguish all of your rights," Bodine says. "If it comes down to it, make them fire you."


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Intel's PixelSync & InstantAccess: Two New DirectX Extensions for Haswellby Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/27/2013 9:00 PM EST
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Jafar - Thursday, March 28, 2013 - linkI could be wrong, but AMD's zero copy will only see light this year, although it has been announced for a while. Reply
TeXWiller - Thursday, March 28, 2013 - linkHere you go: http://amddevcentral.com/afds//pages/OLD/video.asp... Reply
Jafar - Thursday, March 28, 2013 - linkThanks TeX!
Part of the confusion I had is probably due to vague memory from AFDS12, where AMD announced their HSA initiative, and the unified memory architecture. Zero Copy might mean different things (http://amddevcentral.com/afds/assets/presentations... ). I guess what AMD is trying to deliver this year and the next is CPU/GPU with "equal" rights to memory access. I believe current APUs still set aside part of the memory to be exclusive to the GPU. Reply
iwodo - Thursday, March 28, 2013 - linkCant wait to see how haswell GT3 with cache to perform. I am hoping for a surprise. Reply
A5 - Thursday, March 28, 2013 - linkWell, it's probably a big threat to the GT 640Ms of the world (which is great for an iGPU, mind you), but don't expect desktop-gaming level performance. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Thursday, March 28, 2013 - linkack! That van looks like it is photoshopped into that image, it looks like it is floating in the air above the fence rather than on the ground. What is this, a game from 1997? Reply
Mr Perfect - Thursday, March 28, 2013 - linkThose who live in glass houses... Reply
yefi - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkSee everything? Reply
xenol - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkIs it bad that I'm finding it amusing that zero copy is just being implemented on higher performance machines when it's been a staple in embedded programming for years?
The framework I use handles events through a zero copy mechanism so as to avoid unnecessary memory consumption. Reply


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Antisocial personality disorder is a mental illness that involves a
pattern of disregard for or violation of the rights of others. Deceit and
manipulation to gain personal profit or pleasure are common behaviors by people
with this disorder.
A person with antisocial personality disorder fails to conform to
social norms. He or she may repeatedly take part in destructive, illegal activity,
such as property damage, cruelty to animals, setting fires, or harassing
others. Important decisions, such as ending a relationship or changing a job,
may be made suddenly and without much thought about the
Those with antisocial personality disorder tend to be irritable and
aggressive and may repeatedly get into physical fights or physically or
verbally abuse another person such as a spouse or child. Irresponsible work
behavior and financial habits are common. Little remorse is shown for harmful
Antisocial personality disorder usually develops during childhood or early adolescence—as conduct disorder—and continues into adulthood.
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Fergie and Josh Duhamel have welcomed their first child, a son named Axl Jack! She announced that she was pregnant back in February, taking to her Twitter account to share the exciting news, writing, "Josh & Me & BABY makes three!"
Fergie and Josh started dating back in September 2004. They tied the knot in January 2009 and quickly renewed their vows the following year. To celebrate the longtime couple's new addition, we've rounded up Josh and Fergie's sweetest moments, from romantic red carpet appearances to PDA-filled birthday celebrations. Congrats to the couple!
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Available on Adobe Labs is the prerelease of the Archive Migration Tool. The plug-in is available for LiveCycle Workbench ES2 (version 9 and higher). Check out the tool here.
In a nutshell, this tool migrates archive files from the LiveCycle ES to LiveCycle ES2 or LiveCycle ES2.5 applications. Without this tool, it is necessary for you to manually upgrade your LiveCycle ES applications. For more information about upgrading legacy soutions, see Upgrading legacy solutions to LiveCycle ES2.5 in the LiveCycle Workbench 9.5 Help.
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Family Mart - Eat the Sakura version of Hatsune Miku!
Sakura-Miku-Man is back! Now available at Family Mart.
Last March, Family Mart released the cutest An-man (a steamed bun with a redbean jam filling) in collaboration with Hatsune Miku.
Because Sakura (cherry blossom) season is just around the corner, this An-man's Hatsune Miku has pink colored hair, not the usual turquoise hair. Therefore, it's called Sakura-Miku-Man. Her famous pigtails are recreated on Sakura-Miku-Man.
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The Top 20 Style Lessons from 2012
Dior invited not one, but two lucky ladies into its stable of faces in 2012. Joining house regulars Charlize Theron, Natalie Portman, and Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, who was announced as the new frontwoman for Miss Dior handbags in January (she appeared in a second round of ads for the brand, posing as a glamorous 1950s star in black and white, in July). Jennifer Lawrence, meanwhile, signed on in October, marking her first collaboration with a high-end brand. The Kentucky native's ads—coincidentally, for Miss Dior handbags—won't appear until March of next year, but she's been donning Dior on the red carpet in the meantime.
Karl Lagerfeld isn't slowing down, by any means. The world's busiest designer launched a new line, the contemporary-leaning Karl collection, with 70 pieces in January. That same month, he also introduced his now cult-followed kitten, Choupette, to the world. Never one to shy away from lending his expertise far and wide, Lagerfeld then debuted his version of a VIP helicopter in April, and in May appeared in a music video with Snoop Dogg (Snoop Lion?). Last month, his limited-edition collection makeup collaboration with Shu Uemura hit shelves. What will next year bring?
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