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D'IBERVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A child returning from school found the bodies of a man and two women in a house in coastal Mississippi, and police are investigating the deaths as homicides.
The Harrison County coroner's office told The Associated Press that autopsies were being performed Thursday. The identities of the victims were not released.
Paul Powell owns Stringer Auto Center down the street from the house in D'Iberville, north of the Gulf Coast city of Biloxi.
He said an extremely upset girl, about 6 years old, walked to his business Wednesday and said someone killed her aunt. The girl said her brother would be home from school any minute.
Powell called police. He said his "stomach is still quivering" from seeing the child so distraught.
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OVER £1,000 was raised for the County Gazette-backed Somerset Unit for Radiotherapy Equipment charity last week.
Donations for SURE, which helps equip the Beacon Centre cancer unit at Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital, included £20 from Mike Crew; £32 from Smeathorpe Women's Institute from their on-going collection of 5p coins; £10 from Mrs Gange; £250 from Wellington Ex-Servicemen's Skittles League; £53 from Jackie Baker and the keep fit ladies of North Petherton following a coffee morning; and £44.76 from a fundraising event held by North Petherton Bowls Club.
There was also an anonymous donation of £10; £24.70, including £21.70 in 5ps, from the Small and Martin families, Charlton; £32 from Mr and Mrs Silver, of Broadway, following a sale of plants; £40 in 5ps from Taunton Bowling Club; £22, including £2 in 5ps, from Pauline Harrison; and a collection at Morrisons, Burnham, raised £278.60.
Donations from collection boxes were £17.70 from Bishop's Hull Conservative Club; £7.12 from Honey's Hairdressers, Galmington; £33.89 from the One Stop Shop, Galmington; £39.85 from the Esso Garage, Wellington Road, Taunton; £63,55 from Trull Post Office; and £269.77, including £227.65 in 5ps, from the Beacon Centre.
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The ring was very pretty and for the value and price, a good deal. It is thinner than it appears in the add. That is my only complaint. Overall i am happy with it....
Miadora 10k Gold 1/4ct TDW Blue and White Diamond Ringby Miadora
ITEM#: 13732067This fine three-stone ring features a trio of vibrant blue diamonds in the center accentuated by sparkling white diamond side stones. The ring is crafted of 10-karat white gold with black rhodium plating and a highly polished finish.
Center stone
- Center cut: Round
- Diamond: One
- Weight: 1/10 carat
- Color: Blue
- Clarity: I2-I3
- Setting: Prong
- Diamonds: Two
- Side stone cut: Round
- Weight: 1/10 carat
- Color: Blue
- Clarity: I2-I3
- Setting: Prong
- Diamonds: 12
- Side stone cut: Round
- Weight: 0.05 carat
- Color: G-H
- Clarity: I2-I3
- Setting: Pave
- Metal: 10k white gold
- Finish: High polish
- Style: Colored diamond
- Weight: 2.04 grams
- Ring setting: 20.2 mm wide x 3.4 mm long x 6.2 mm high
- Band: 1.5 mm wide
Diamond total weight: 1/4* carat TW
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ROWENA Darby has just one wish — to live long enough to see her little boy start school.
The 33-year-old mum-of-one has been diagnosed with terminal cancer — and told she has less than two years to live.
But rather than wallowing in self-pity, Mrs Darby is determined to leave her son, three-year-old Freddie, something to remember her by and has made him dozens of birthday and Christmas cards so he knows just how much he was loved by his mother.
She has even made a card for his graduation and wedding days.
Mrs Darby, who lives with husband Phil and Freddie in Turton, said: "I'd love more than anything to see Freddie's first day at school in September next year. The longer I'm here, the more likely he'll remember me.
"Freddie knows that I get treatment and go to hospital but he doesn't know anything else because he's too young.
"I have a permanent colostomy bag now and he knows that mummy goes for her medicine.
"I've always have more good days than I have bad days from the treatment which is good. I feel a bit groggy some days but you've just got to get on with it.
"I don't care what they do to me, anything to keep me going as long as possible, and the more likely Freddie will remember me.
"I know a lot of people in my situation create a bucket list but I just want to be a mum and do normal stuff with my son. There is nowhere I want to go — I just want to have a normal life with no regrets.
"Every cancer is different so my doctor said he would not be surprised if I was here next year, but he would be if I was here the year after. It's progressing reasonably slowly at the moment, thankfully."
It was when Mrs Darby fell pregnant with Freddie in 2010 that she first started suffering symptoms of rectal cancer.
She said: "I started getting 24 hour pain in my abdomen and eventually in March, 2011 I had a colonoscopy which found nothing.
"I wasn't losing any weight or anything — I felt fine in myself apart from the pains. I had another colonoscopy in May and they found it.
"I knew before then that there was very little else it could have been. They told me it was so big it had grown through the bowel wall and my lymph nodes were inflamed. It could have been in there for years."
In October, 2011 Mrs Derby began five weeks of radiotherapy to shrink the tumour before having an operation at the Royal Bolton Hospital to remove it — along with part of her bowel and some of her lymph nodes.
She said: "They got everything out and said that there were four lymph nodes with cancer in them.
"I started six months of chemo in January, 2012 as a preventative measure, but at that time I was rushed into hospital with bowel spasms where my small bowel had got caught on a small growth on my right ovary.
"I had another operation in April, 2012 and they took out everything — I had a full hysterectomy, my bowels and full lining of my abdomen were all removed.
"They also flushed chemo through my abdomen after the operation while I was under to get rid of any little cells."
Despite this radical preventative measure, a scan showed the cancer was still spreading.
Mrs Darby said: "My emotions were all over the place at this time. They kept saying that they could possibly cure it, and then they'd find something else. But after this op they couldn't confirm that it had gone because the edges of what they had removed had cancer cells on it.
"In August last year they did a scan and said it was in my lungs and liver and it was terminal. The growths are still very small so they wanted to put me through chemo, but they weren't hopeful because I hadn't responded to it the first time."
But the inspirational mum, who is on long-term sick from her job as an actuary, has started making her own bracelets in hospital while she has her treatment to pay for trips around the country with her family.
She said: "I started making bracelets after going to a craft fair with my mum. I was bored in hospital when having my treatment.
"I took this kit in and made all these bracelets in under an hour and I worked out that I could sell them for £10 each. I got all the material for it and made a website and set it into a little business, Roda Handmade, and I use the money to take Freddie on holidays."
More recently Mrs Darby had Mistletoe Therapy in Aberdeen, where she had injections in her stomach to induce a fever to prevent the cancer from growing.
She said: "Diet and lifestyle are really important. I believe my current diet, which is recognised as effective for children with epilepsy and Multiple Sclerosis sufferers, is slowing the cancer down."
Mrs Darby adds that despite everything that has happened, she feels "privileged" that she can prepare for her death.
She said: "When it gets closer to the time where I won't be here I'm going to get a big photo book and put all the emails I've written for Freddie in there for when he gets older.
"I'm privileged that I can prepare for my death — if I was in a car crash there would be none of these memories for Freddie.
"When I die it's going to be awful for my family but at least they know it's going to happen and because of this we've had the best quality time together beforehand."
To view or purchase any of her bracelets, visit: rodahandmade.co.uk.


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When one requires a more effective method by which to style a property for first matched elements ( primarily in the way by which different browsers access most properties ) – the .css() method proves to be a more convenient way within accessing certain properties.
With the css() method sets – or – returns, one or more style properties for the selected elements can be set to manipulate any css or html elements, however – if one desires consistency, they can simply use "float", and JQuery will translate the correct value for each browser.
Since most browsers access the greater number of those properties differently the getComputedStyle() method in standards-based browsers versus the currentStyle and runtimeStyle properties in Internet Explorer along with the different terms browsers use for certain properties, JQuery can equally interpret the CSS and DOM formatting of multiple-word properties since jQuery understands and returns the correct value for both .css( "background-color" ) and .css( "backgroundColor" ) , (margin, background, border ), or if you want to retrieve the rendered border-width, use: $( elem ).css( "borderTopWidth" ),$( elem ).css( "borderBottomWidth" ), etc.
Therefore, instead of using bloated plugins which have features you will never use by which to produce certain elements within your web project or page, the following jQuery & CSS plugins will allow ease of workflow, and produce similar if not better results within your projects rather than running 10 different plugins by which to achieve what you really want with just a few lines of code.
1. Stickup
Stickup is a simple jQuery plugin that "sticks" an element to the top of the browser window while scrolling past it, always keeping it in view. This plugin works on multi-page sites, but has additional features for one-pager layouts.
Although stickUp was made to work on any kind of website, it was originally designed for the "one-pager" style of websites. By using CSS the sticky navigation menu item will be highlighted as it's correlating content is scrolled in and out of view.
2. CircleType.js
Circletype.js is a lightweight , tiny jquery plugins that helps you to set type on a circle. Its quite useful and only 2.7 kb jquery plugin. It has numerous features such as it uses any font, adjust letter spacing as usual with CSS, flip it around so it reads counter-clockwise instead, set the radius manually or let CircleType.js figure it out for you, work in fluid and responsive layouts and plays well with FitText.js.
3. Glide.js
Glide.js is a lightweight (4.5kb minified) jQuery plugin for creating sliders. It has completely customizable OOCSS markup and uses CSS3 transitions but has fallback to JavaScript. The slider is responsive; it'll adapt well to all devices and comes with touch support.
4. Animo.js
Animo.js is a powerful little tool for managing CSS animations. It includes features like Stack animations, create cross-browser blurring, set callbacks on animation completion. Animo includes the amazing animate.css library by Dan Eden which provides you with nearly 60 beautiful animations from attention seekers to entrances and exits. He has also added a few helper animations to the library.
Animo's only dependency is jQuery 2 or later. The source includes animate.css plus the helper animations made specifically for animo but you can use whatever stylesheet of animations you'd like.
5. Salvattore
Salvattore is a jQuery Masonry alternative with CSS-driven configuration. Salvattore organizes your HTML elements according to the number of columns you specify. Each of the items in your container is placed within these columns, one by one. To get started simply add a data-columns attribute to the container.
In your CSS file you can set the number of columns you want to be created inside that element. To create a responsive columnar design, just use media queries. Items are appended and prepended on the same container without conflicts. You can combine this API with your XHR functions to have a dynamic layout with live content.
6. Mixit Up
MixItUp is a light-weight but powerful jQuery plugin that provides beautiful animated filtering and sorting of categorized and ordered content. It plays nice with your existing HTML and CSS, making it a great choice for fluid, responsive layouts. It's perfect for portfolios, galleries, blogs, or any categorized or ordered content.
MixItUp uses jQuery to decide which elements to hide, show or re-position based on your filters, and then applies the power of CSS3 transitions to smoothly animate these elements to their new locations. MixItUp is optimized for the current generation of modern, CSS3-ready browsers. Due to its light-weight and efficient approach, It works beautifully and smoothly on all modern devices including smartphones and tablets.
7. Fancy Input
Fancy Input, a jQuery plugin, doesn't focus on the styling part but makes the fields attractive (and fun-to-use) by adding CSS3-powered effects. The plugin hides the input field, places a span element containing the character pressed and applies CSS3 transitions to each element (letter). There are multiple built-in effects and it works with both input + textarea fields.
8. Transit
Transit is a super-smooth CSS transitions & transformations for jQuery. You can make transition on any CSS property. They will happen much smoother than if you were to use jQuery's default .animate(). You can easily translate, rotate, scale, skew and etc.
Transit degrades older browsers by simply not doing the transformations (rotate, scale, etc) while still doing standard CSS (opacity, marginLeft, etc) without any animation. Delays and durations will be ignored. It is released under MIT License.
9. CSS Emoticons
The CSS Emoticons plugin is a simple jQuery plugin (and stylesheet) that allows you to turn any text emoticons on the page into cute little smiling faces with pure CSS3 styling (no images whatsoever). The result is great-looking emoticons that leave the text exactly as written (so that the text emoticons actually get copied and pasted with the text if you select a block of text from the page). This uses the CSS3 properties, transform, border-radius, box-shadow, gradient, and transition (when supported).
10. Minimit Anima
Minimit Anima is a jQuery plugin to animate with transforms and transitions. It's hardware accelerated css3 animations which is built to have fast animation execution, and it has an api similar to jquery animate, with animations queuing.
By default the anima method do automatic fallback animation on browsers not supporting transitions or transformed. It also does scale, rotate and skew animations on browsers without transitions from jquery.transform.js already included in the plugin.
11. Tooltipster
Tooltipster is a powerful, flexible jQuery plugin enabling you to easily create semantic, modern tooltips enhanced with the power of CSS. Tooltipster allows you to use any HTML tag you can think of inside your tooltips. This means you can insert things like images and text formatting tags.
12. ScrollUp
ScrollUp is a lightweight jQuery plugin to create a customisable "Scroll to top" feature that will work with any website, with ease. To create a visible line to help determine an ideal scroll distance from the top, assign a valid CSS color to the activeOverlay setting.
13. Textillate.js
Textillate.js is a simple plugin for CSS3 text animations. Textillate.js combines some awesome libraries to provide an ease-to-use plugin for applying CSS3 animations to any text. Simply include textillate.js and it's dependencies in your project to start creating unique effects. Textillate.js is built on top of the simple, yet amazingly powerful animate.css and lettering.js libraries.
14. Motio
Motio is a jQuery plugin for simple but powerful sprite based animations and panning. Motio is called on an element representing animation container, where animation is delivered as a CSS background image.
In sprite based animations, container should have the dimensions of one sprite frame. E.g, if you have 10 frames in a horizontal sprite that is 1000 x 100 pixels big, the container should be 100 x 100 pixels big. In panning, container size doesn't play any role, just the background image should be seamless.
15. Photobox
Photobox is a CSS3 Image Gallery JQuery Plugin. It is beautiful and posses a great look & feel. Both the script & CSS are only 7k each. It uses silky-smooth, hardware accelerated, CSS3 transitions and animations for better performance.
It works also on IE9 and above, but clearly not as nice as in normal browsers. Image can be zoomed in and out with mousewheel and navigated using mousemove to move around. The bottom row of thumbnails can be navigated by mouse movement. It supports keyboard keys for navigation and closing the gallery view.


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Tuesday, 17 September, 2002, 12:15 GMT 13:15 UK
Dutch nurse denies patient murders
A Dutch nurse accused of murdering 13 patients, including four babies and a UN war crimes judge has proclaimed her innocence at the start of her trial in The Hague.
Lucy de Berk allegedly injected each of the victims with a lethal cocktail of drugs. The killings are said to have taken place at three hospitals in The Hague, where she worked over a four-year period.
Denying all responsibility, Ms De Berk instead blamed doctors for ignoring warnings that children in her care were dangerously ill.
The case, which is being heard by three judges in front of a packed public gallery, has sparked immense media scrutiny in the Netherlands.
In court, Ms De Berk gave her account of the death of a six-year-old Afghan boy, Ahmad Noory, who died during her shift at the Juliana Children's Hospital.
"I warned the doctor that the child was very ill and nothing was done. Nobody did anything when I told them Ahmad had stopped responding and couldn't be woken up," she said.
When asked to explain why all of the deaths occurred when she was on duty Ms De Berk said: "I have a clear conscience. I didn't do a thing. Of course it's strange, but I don't know how it happened."
This was the first time that the nurse had given up her right to silence and answered prosecutors' questions on the subject.
The nurse, who also faces five charges of attempted murder and is accused of forging her high school diploma to qualify for medical training, has refused psychological assessment.
Deadly drugs
Prosecutors have described 40-year-old Ms De Berk as a classic psychopath who is "obsessed with death".
The nurse allegedly injected her victims with small but deadly doses of potassium and morphine at three hospitals where she worked from February 1997 to September of last year.
Suspicions were sparked when a five-month-old baby died in September 2001, just an hour after doctors had said its health was improving.
A post mortem examination on the child indicated foul play and prompted an investigation.
In March, investigators exhumed the bodies of three infants initially believed to have died of terminal illnesses. Traces of poisonous toxins were found in their blood.
Weight of evidence
A number of her alleged victims were children born with serious physical abnormalities and several elderly or terminally ill patients, who were initially believed to have died from natural causes.
One of them was a 91-year-old Chinese judge at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, Haopei Li, who died in 1997, just weeks before he was due to retire.
Among those who will be giving evidence at the trial are a professional serial killer profiler from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and a mathematician.
The mathematician specialises in calculating probabilities and will be called upon to demonstrate how likely it is that the same nurse could be on duty when all of the deaths occur, purely by coincidence.
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The new rights top up Mr Cameron's package, which became less then he expected after the company raised $1.2 billion in new capital just after he joined in 2009.
But the diversified property group waited almost eight weeks before notifying the ASX of the increase yesterday, citing "an administrative oversight in advising the company secretariat of the change".
"The company confirms that it has revised its existing procedures in relation to the notification of directors' interests to ensure that this failure is not repeated," GPT said.
GPT undertook a rights issue in May 2009, "reducing the inherent value of the performance rights in Mr Cameron's employment package", the group said.
The board had enlisted Ernst & Young to quantify the impact of the rights issue on Mr Cameron's sign-on incentive, as well as his 2009 long-term incentive. On December 8 last year, GPT determined it would issue Mr Cameron an additional 16,843 rights – worth about $50,000 – as a sign-on incentive (half of which vests on June 30, 2011, and the other half a year later) and 50,529 performance rights for the long-term incentive, valued at about $150,000. The long-term incentive is redeemable only if GPT Group outperforms its peers.
A GPT spokeswoman said the performance conditions were approved by security holders at the 2009 annual general meeting.
Under corporations law, listed companies had to disclose changes in directors' interests 14 days after the date of trade, an ASX spokesperson said.
"ASX's policy is to refer all director interest notices that are lodged later than the 14-calendar-day time limit to ASIC [Australian Securities and Investments Commission] for potential breach of the Corporations Act. However, we won't comment on any matter specifically," he said.
GPT Group shares closed down 4¢ at $2.92 yesterday.
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Although LG announced most of its new Android smartphones before MWC 2014 even started, the company has one more handset to show us: the LG F70.
Unveiled today in Barcelona, the LG F70 "is expected to appeal to millions of new LTE customers around the world." So, yes, the F70 has LTE connectivity, but it will not wow anyone with its specs.
The new LG handset runs Android 4.4 KitKat and comes with that nifty Knock Code screen unlocking feature. It sports a 4.5-inch IPS display with 480 x 800 pixels, thus offering a 207 ppi density. Other features include a quad-core 1.2GHz processor of unknown provenience, VGA front-facing camera, 5MP rear camera, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, and MicroSD card support. The device measures 127.2 x 66.4 x 10.0mm, coming with a 2,440 mAh removable battery. Reportedly, this battery "has the largest capacity in its class so users will be able experience the exceptional speed of LTE without having to recharge mid-day."
"Not only does the LG F70 offer the best of LTE technology, its hardware and UX are also best-in-class. Utilizing our expertise in the field of 4G technology, we plan to strengthen our leadership in the global market," said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company.
The F70 is the sixth new LG Android smartphone introduced this year, following the LG G Pro 2, LG G2 Mini, LG L90, LG L70 and LG L40.
For the moment, we don't know how much the LG F70 will cost, and neither when it's going to be released. But we'll keep you posted.
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|Cupcakes Comics
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Cupcakes Comics is a fan comic created by musapan. The comic begins with Pinkie Pie discovering the Cupcakes fan fiction book and displaying a horrified reaction. The rest of the comic shows the other mane cast members discovering the fan fiction and their opinion on what they have read.
Each page focuses on a specific pony as they read "Cupcakes", and their reactions to the aforementioned fan fiction.
Pinkie Pie
The comic starts with Pinkie as she skips along her way through Ponyville. Along the way, she discovers a book on the ground called "Cupcakes". Believing that it will be about cupcakes, she takes the book and reads it off screen. Around 20 minutes after reading the whole book, we find Pinkie Pie traumatized as she hugs Rainbow Dash, who is confused and annoyed as to why she is hugging her so hard.
Twilight Sparkle
The next page shows Spike finding the Cupcakes book in the library and showing it to Twilight. Spike mentions how he feels a "weird vibe" from the book and suggests that they throw it out. Twilight, however, is happy that she has something new to read and dismisses his fears. That night, Spike is awoken as Twilight gets into his bed for comfort after reading Cupcakes.
Applejack, bucking apples in the orchard, hears Twilight shouting in fear that the Cupcakes book has disappeared and worrying that somepony else will find it and read it. Confused, Applejack continues her work, but as she starts bucking the trees, the book magically appears in front of Applejack. Applejack notices the book and, ten minutes later, is shown planning to harm whoever wrote it.
Rarity overhears Opalescence hissing and swatting at the Cupcakes book and comes in to investigate. Some time later, Applejack and Twilight arrive to stop Rarity from reading the book, but are too late, finding Rarity unconscious on the floor. However, Twilight notices that she only read the first two pages, making Applejack curious about what would have happened if she had read on.
The next page shows Fluttershy reading the book, curious about why Rainbow Dash has fallen asleep as well as why the book is titled "Cupcakes." Twilight, Applejack and Rarity arrive and tell her not to keep reading. Fluttershy asks what happens in the book, but Twilight cannot bring herself to tell Fluttershy the truth, saying instead that Pinkie Pie steps on a caterpillar and kills it. Despite Twilight's efforts, Fluttershy faints anyway as the book disappears, "like dang clockwork," as Applejack describes.
Rainbow Dash
Realizing that Rainbow Dash is the most likely target for the book's reappearance, Twilight and the others set off the find Rainbow Dash before she reads the book. Along the way, Twilight crashes into Pinkie who has also been searching for the book since it first disappeared after she read it. Twilight quickly explains that they too have read it and they believe Rainbow Dash is the next target. Pinkie then declares that they have to stop her from reading it and hating her guts. Applejack tries to dismiss her fear of the latter happening by saying that Rainbow wouldn't hate her, but Pinkie responds by glaring at her as if to say, "Really?", whereupon Applejack says that she sees her point and they all set off to find her.
Futtershy and Applejack ask Colgate if she'd seen Rainbow Dash, but she tells them that she hasn't. Rarity asks Bon Bon and Lyra if they'd seen her, only to find that they haven't. Twilight asks Derpy Hooves if she'd seen Rainbow, only be answered by Derpy holding Dinky up to her face, much to Twilight's confusion. Pinkie Pie discovers a familiar voice which turns out to be Rainbow Dash's. Rainbow Dash is reading the book on a near-by bridge with her hooves held to her face as though she is crying. Pinkie Pie's hair deflates at the sight, and she rushes over to Rainbow Dash trying to convince her that she had nothing to do with the book. However, before she can say anything else, Rainbow Dash bursts into a fit of laughter. Confused, Pinkie Pie asks why she would laugh at such a horrific story. To which Rainbow Dash explains that she knows that Pinkie would never do anything as horrible as the book described.
Rainbow Dash suggests one of Pinkie Pie's special styled parties to cheer her up. This idea makes Pinkies' hair return to its bouncy nature as she happily replies, realizing that she hasn't lost her friend. As they walk away, the book disappears again in a puff of smoke.
Princess Luna
The book reappears in Canterlot Castle and is found by Princess Luna, who confronts Princess Celestia about it, appalled by its horrific content. Celestia confesses that she had enchanted an empty book to create a "devastatingly horrible mess of a story," as she descibed it, featuring two of Twilight's friends. She admits that she is unsure as to whether the words were conjured by her magic or if they were "from another world altogether," but states that it doesn't matter either way, as the book has served its purpose. She then explains that she created it to serve as a test for the Elements of Harmony, as she mentions that, for the first time in history, the Elements chose mortal ponies to wield them. She states that their personalities and emotions are erratic, "as is customary for mortal ponies", and mentions to Luna that they themselves had to control their emotions in order to wield them. She then mentions that it is vital for them to set aside any doubts they may have about the others as they will face more hardships being the Elements of Harmony. The series ends with Celestia destroying the book, reducing it to a pile of ashes.
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Williams' Renee will appear in the season premiere on September 26 and continue her streak up until the fourth episode where friction between her and Bree gets hotter. "Suddenly by episode 4 they're both going after him. So there's a little competition for Brian Austin Green," executive producer Bob Daly said.
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NUMBER eight James Thompson took his try-scoring tally for the season to double figures with two touchdowns as Kendal took full advantage of results elsewhere to move third in North One West.
Kendal held a narrow 12-7 lead at the break as Chris Park and Garry Holmes crossed the line after Will Miller scored the opening try of the piece.
Thompson started and ended the scoring in the second period as Liam Nicholson extended the home side's lead before Robert Marrs and David Hanabury replied for the visitors.
Duncan Green returned at hooker after missing the Widnes clash while Brad Jackson made his first start for the club at right wing as Nicholson came into the back row.
Both sides entered the fixture eager to return to winning ways after recent defeats with Wigton establishing an early lead following a misjudged kick from Kendal skipper James Gough.
A quick kick from the drop out caught the hosts napping with the move continued by Richard Moffatt and finished by Miller, as Hanabury added a further two points.
The scores were level after quarter of an hour as Ian Voortman and Jordan Johnson combined following a forwards set-piece drive in midfield before a supporting Park crossed the whitewash and converted.
The Black and Ambers took the lead on the half-hour mark, Dan Lowther finding touch from a penalty with the Kendal forwards winning lineout ball and driving for the line.
Flanker Holmes – who had taken the field in place of Matty Houghton – managed to break away and force his way over for his 22nd try of the campaign as Kendal claimed a half-time advantage.
Having made indifferent starts to the second period in their previous two matches, Kendal this time started on the front foot as a strong forward drive allowed Thompson to touch down.
Park's conversion took the score to 19-7 although the away side replied after 50 minutes, quick ball from a scrum paved the way for full-back Smith to break through the Kendal defence.
Park added a long-range penalty before Wigton enjoyed a sustained period of territorial advantage with impressive handling and ball retention testing the Kendal defence which held firm.
After weathering the storm, the Kendal forwards set up another try after taking lineout ball, Nicholson breaking away as Park added another conversion to take the score to 29-12.
Wigton reduced the arrears with 20 minutes remaining, Hanabury evading a number of Kendal tackles before second row Marrs scored, with wing Tom Gardner converting.
And ten minutes later, a strong run from Smith let Hanabury in for a try as Wigton set up a rousing finale by moving to within a single score of Kendal.
However, Thompson was to have the final say as the Kendal forwards once again claimed lineout ball with the number eight driving over for his second try of the afternoon and tenth of the season.
Park's conversion proved the final score of the match with Kendal now third in the league table following this bonus point victory ahead of this weekend's clash at ninth-placed Wilmslow.
Kendal: Glen Chesher, Duncan Green, Richard Harryman, Liam Hayton, Reece Tomlinson, Matty Houghton, Liam Nicholson, James Thompson, James Gough (c), Dan Lowther, Jordan Johnson, Ian Voortman, Alistair Thompson, Brad Jackson, Chris Park. Replacements: Garry Holmes, Robbie Collinson, Andrew Broadley
Wigton: Lindsey Walker, Richard Jackson, Russell McLean, Robert Marrs, Matthew Atkinson (c), John Story, Oliver Lewis, Stuart Creighton, Fergus Ledingham, David Hanabury, Stephen Harris, Will Miller, Richard Moffatt, Tom Gardner, Greg Smith. Replacements: Elliott Armstrong, Andrew Prentice, Scott Smith


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Maintaining his unbroken run of front row starts, Sykes shrugged off a frustrating opening half to the weekend to come out in contention for a fifth Superpole of the season.
Though he would eventually fall short of Jakub Smrz and Carlos Checa in his quest to improve his almost faultless qualifying record, Sykes admits he was nonetheless surprised to find himself towards the head of the field having been unable to show front running pace through free practice.
"I'm pleasantly surprised to be on the front row because we have been struggling for a time here at Miller. Once again the guys have done a great job because we changed something for Superpole, to try and make something happen, and fair play to the Kawasaki Racing Team technical staff because even on the first lap on a race tyre I knew we had a lot better package.
"About 15 or 20 minutes before Superpole we made quite a step with spring balance and that has put us very close to where we wanted to be. The lads have never stopped working. I have been a little bit difficult to deal with because I want to stay at the front, so I was getting frustrated. That makes it nice for me to see how well they all worked to make improvements.
"I feel a lot more confident going into tomorrow's races now. We have kept up our good record from qualifying this year. Starting races from the front row is quite crucial so I am very happy to be here and hope to have two good races."
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Orchestra League Announces Getty Grant Recipients
Reflecting a growing commitment on the part of America's orchestras to increase their relevance to their communities, 22 innovative orchestra educational and community partnership programs from across the United States have been selected by the League of American Orchestras to receive first-year Getty Education and Community Investment Grants.
"More and more orchestras all over the country are finding innovative ways to help address community needs through music," said League President and CEO Jesse Rosen. "The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation's commitment to encourage these important educational and community engagement programs is a great boost to orchestras' ability to provide community relevance beyond the concert hall," he commented.
A list detailing each grantee program can be found here.
A prerequisite for qualifying orchestras was the existence of partnerships with local cultural and/or community organizations, such as schools or social service providers. This year's grants, part of a new three-year, $1.5 million re-granting program from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, will fund both new and established innovative programs including: long-term in-school partnerships and afterschool programs; health and wellness initiatives in hospitals, rehabilitation facilities and nursing homes; and programs for the underserved and underprivileged, including incarcerated youth.
A total of $425,000 was awarded for the first year grants, with individual grant amounts ranging from $14,500 to $37,500 per orchestra. 45% of the grants were awarded to educational programs, 43% to health and wellness programs, and 12% to those serving other populations.
Applicants for the grants came from every orchestra budget group. The initial 204 applicants were narrowed by an independent advisory panel to 44 semi-finalists; all were then judged on six criteria: the degree of innovation and relevance to community needs; the orchestra's capacity to deliver; appropriateness to mission and community; appropriateness and strength of partnership(s); ability to assess outcomes; and professional development for musicians and staff.
The recipients for 2012-13 are:
Allentown Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, California Symphony Orchestra, The Central Ohio Symphony, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Omaha Symphony Association, Pacific Symphony, Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory, Sphinx Virtuosi, and St. Louis Symphony (further details here).


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The Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights are hoping Hollywood stars can put a big dent in their fundraising needs.
They'll be one of about a dozen Manitoba groups heading down to the Golden Globe Awards next month in Beverly Hills.
While outfits such as the Farmery Brewery, Elman's Kosher Deli Foods and High Tea Bakery will be handing out samples of their beer, pickles and cupcakes and hoping for a little exposure, the Friends will be appealing to movie and television stars to get out their chequebooks to support their cause.
"It will give us a chance to connect with Canadians who live in Los Angeles who are in the business and can get the word out (about the museum)," said Kathi Neal, the Friends' director of communications and marketing.
"We're grateful for the opportunity to really connect with our American counterparts. It's a chance to communicate with (both groups) about the museum."
She said the Friends are still $8 million short of their $150-million capital campaign goal but they don't have a number in mind of what they'd like to bring back.
Gail Asper, the museum's driving force since her father, Izzy, died a decade ago, as well as her younger brother, Leonard, will be part of the Friends' delegation. The museum will open on Sept. 20, 2014.
The Golden Globes trip is once again being organized by Heather Stewart, owner of Lilyfield Cakes and its sister company, Lilyfield Productions. She'll be hosting the "Oh Canada" event at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel.
Some of the guests in previous years have included actresses Catherine O'Hara and Neve Campbell and director Ivan Reitman.
"It's a way of spreading the word and marketing your product. They hope to get their product into the hands of the influencers, not necessarily just celebrities, and also the foreign press," said Stewart.
Lawrence and Chris Warwaruk, the owners of the Farmery Brewery and Luxalune Gastropub on Osborne Street, will have their beer available at Oh Canada and their soap -- which is made with beer, of course -- in celebrity gift bags.
"Wouldn't it be great to have a picture of Ryan Reynolds holding our beer?" Chris Warwaruk said.
The Golden Globes are given out annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.


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Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 | 2:40 p.m.
Finally, there's some good news out of Detroit. The Ford Motor Company, the only Detroit manufacturer that didn't accept federal bailout money, announced Thursday a surprising profit of $2.7 billion for 2009. This was the first profit for the company in four years.
So, naturally, the first question that came to my mind was what, if anything, would this mean for Ford's involvement in NASCAR? Would Ford be willing to support more teams in Cup racing? Could we see Ford increase its financial commitment to the existing teams?
I put these questions to Kevin Kennedy, the communications director for Ford Racing. Kevin responded that there are no plans to add more Ford teams for 2010. Ford's racing budget for 2010 is decided in advance and is unchanged from the amount the company spent on their racing program in 2009. Since the budget is unchanged, that also means that there won't be an increase in funding to existing teams.
Kevin mentioned that the company is happy with the current stable of Cup teams and, as would be expected, is excited about Richard Petty Racing's move to Ford and with the company's involvement with Front Row Motorsports. The manufacturer will have a larger presence in the sport next year due to the addition of Richard Petty Racing, but that was a deal that was decided last year before the announcement of Ford's financial gain. For 2010, Ford will have 12 to 13 teams in the Sprint Cup Series. Chevrolet will have around 14 and Dodge will have four.
I like the fact that Ford and Chevy will be so evenly represented on the track, and I hope that we can see rivalries between manufacturers as well as drivers this season.


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The market for plastic blow molded drums, intermediate bulk containers (IBCs), and tight-head pails (THPs) is sluggish right now, with growth of only 1% to 2% in 2002. Some manufacturers believe 2003 will be flat. The result is a lot of cutthroat competition and low profitability as producers struggle to buy or steal market share from each other.
Blow molded drums, IBCs, and THPs currently consume about 450 million lb of resin. That amount is projected to grow around 3%/yr for the next five years, reaching just over 500 million lb by 2006. Some blow molders claim the IBC segment is responsible for most of this growth.
IBCs take market share
Plastic drums typically range from 15 to 65 gal, 55 gal being the most common size. IBCs range in size from 220 to 550 gal. THPs typically range in size from 3 to 15 gal. Slow growth of these containers is a reflection of the general state of the economy. Nonetheless, blow molded drums continue to experience a stronger growth rate than steel or fiber drums. Two areas where steel drums will retain an advantage over plastic is in storage and transportation of flammable petroleum products and where greater stacking strength is required.
Demand for IBCs is reported to be increasing at a faster rate than for blow molded drums. The 275- and 330-gal IBC can take the place of five or six 55-gal drums, providing reduced storage space, lower overall shipping costs, and greater ease of container reuse or recycling. An additional benefit for IBC users is economies obtained by purchasing packaged products in larger unit volumes. Also, the price of IBCs has dropped by nearly 50% in the past six years.
Consequently, conversion from drums to IBCs is becoming common, which is resulting in overcapacity for production of 55-gal drums. Many smaller blow molders of drums and pails can't afford new equipment to produce IBC products.
Who's who of the top five
During 2002, Russell Stanley Holdings, Inc. and its Hunter Drum Ltd. Div. was the largest producer in the market, representing a market share of around 40%. Greif Brothers Corp. was the second largest processor in this market, with a market share ap proaching 20%. The third largest factor was Hoover Material Handling Group, Inc. Other companies in the top five producers are North American Packaging Corp. and Schutz Container Systems. Collectively, these five companies account for about 80% of the market.
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The improving Brisbane Lions are eying in-form Richmond as a valuable litmus test for their AFL finals potential.
Brisbane appear just out of finals reckoning with four rounds left this season, but milestone man Daniel Merrett says an upset over the Tigers on Saturday would highlight their top-eight credentials for 2014.
Merrett hopes to celebrate his 150th game with a rare MCG win over Richmond, who he sees as a year or two ahead of the young Lions in development terms.
Richmond (12-6) are preparing for their first September campaign in 12 years following a 41-point thumping of Hawthorn but the Lions (8-10) are also in good form with four wins from their past five matches.
"The last few years they've been a few spots ahead of us on the ladder but we haven't beaten them for ages so it's a massive test for us to see if can we maybe make the step up next year, to that next group," Merrett said on Wednesday.
"We'll be on the MCG in front of a big crowd and they're up and about.
"They've been a developing team over the last few years and have come out of the blocks and smashed us early."
Brisbane last beat the Tigers in 2009, the only season in Michael Voss's five-year tenure the Lions have made the finals, and suffered an eight-goal Gabba thumping this time last year.
Merrett must step into injured co-captain Jonathan Brown's boots as the prime spearhead on Saturday as his career has turned full circle.
The 28-year-old debuted as a power forward under Leigh Matthews in 2005 before making his mark as a hard-nosed full-back.
The flexible Merrett is resigned to finishing his career in the forward line and eventually taking over from Brown, who turns 32 in October.
"The back line are doing a good job and they don't need me any more," he said.
Brisbane hope to have both Simon Black (groin) and Brent Moloney (hamstring) back from injuries to take on the highly-skilled Tigers midfield but Voss won't take any risks.
"What this game does demand is that you are absolutely 100 per cent fit and your capacity to play 120 minutes of football is paramount," he said.


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I don't know what kind of beverages they serve at Psystar's Miami headquarters, but I'll take a double helping, thanks. In what can only be termed "extremely optimistic predictions," the Mac clone-maker last year
The numbers come from a presentation given to potential investors in 2008, which was uncovered during the trial's discovery phase; Apple attached it to a motion it filed last week to halt Psystar's sales. The presentation outlined two sets of sales predictions, one "conservative" and the other "aggressive." Or, as I like to call them, "charmingly optimistic" and "laughably deluded."
The conservative numbers had Psystar moving 70,000 machines in 2009, 470,000 in 2010, and 1.45 million in 2011. If that seems kind of unbelievable, consider the aggressive numbers, which had the company selling 130,000 in 2009, 1.87 million in 2010, and 12 million in 2011. As Computerworld's Gregg Keizer points out, Apple sold a record-setting 10.4 million Macs during the 2009 fiscal year, including a quarterly record for the most number of Macs sold
But the real question is how much did Psystar manage to sell during its tenure? An economic consultant hired by Apple, Dr. Matthew Lynde, tracked down just 768 discrete sales of Psystar machines--which just goes to show the importance of trailing zeroes. The clone-maker, for its part, has not disputed those figures.
How did Psystar manage to miscalculate so wildly? Well, part of its failure revolves around the fact that the company has only offered desktop and server products, whereas Apple and other computer vendors have been seeing more growth in the portable arena. However, Psystar also made the mistake of suggesting that its legal dispute with Apple would allow it to protect its business plan by making other vendors wary of jumping into the Mac clone field.
Unfortunately, that didn't actually work at all. In fact, it seems the litigation with Apple may have had the opposite effect, scaring off customers who were worried about what the lawsuit would mean for their products. I mean, who could have seen that coming?
We'll have to wait for the official trial, which begins January 10, to conclude before we declare the moral of the Psystar story, but in the meantime, I'm tentatively suggesting "don't launch a business dependent on costly legal battles fought from shaky ground."
This story, "Psystar Sold Just 768 Mac Clones" was originally published by Macworld.


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Extensor muscles were muscles of the hand located in the back of the forearm with long tendons connecting them to bones in the hand.
In 2373, Kathryn Janeway's extensor muscles showed a gradual build-up of lactic acid during her Nechani endurance ritual. (VOY: "Sacred Ground")
Later that year, Janeway ruptured her dorsal extensor muscle while dodging a macrovirus in the mess hall. (VOY: "Macrocosm")


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I was recently dumped by my exgf, who I now think has BPD. The thing is, I'm not too sure what is related to her possible BPD or what is her fear of coming out... Any advice would be massively appreciated.
I met this girl through my cousin this time last year. She was finally out to people in our area (she went to Uni here) after a long drawn-out process. Everyone knew, but she was only then admitting it. Her family and old friends still didn't have a clue tho. When we met I'd be single for 18 months after a 6 year relationship with this great guy. I'd never been with a girl before and initially I resisted her advances - she put her hand down my top and kissed me the first night I met her. She text me an apology for "bad behaviour" two days later and from there we started up a friendship. She pursued me, relentlessly and very aggresively, and eventually we got together. No one knew about us, because I didn't want my family finding out about us. It was an incredibly intense r/s from day one. She told me how everyone else had hurt her, cheated on her, lied to her, treated her badly - even her mum would make disparaging comments about her appearance. How she knew she had to break up with her college bf because she knew she was gay and when they had sex she started feeling like he was raping her. When she dumped him she said she knew it was the right thing because he was distraught and cried his eyes out, and she knew she was doing the right thing because she didnt have much of an emotional reaction to his dispair. He attempted suicide after she dumped him apparently. She was always the victim tho, and she was happy she'd finally found 'the one' for her. Of course, I was her saviour. I would build her back up and remind her how awesome she was and not to be too hard on herself. She would say that no one was as nice to her as I was, and that I was out of her league etc.
After 3 weeks she was "completely in love" with me, after 4 weeks she dropped in that she would kill herself if anything ever happened to me, after 5 wanted me to move in with her. I had noticed her tendency to drink a lot of wine (every night we'd have a bottle) and take co-codomol (painkillers) "to help her sleep". After 6 weeks she drunkenly told me that she hated herself, felt it was abnormal and unnatural being gay, that she was probably always meant to be alone and unhappy, that she had often thought about suicide and that she thought she might kill herself when she felt happy because how you felt when you died was how you felt forever.. so many red flags. She said to get out because she wasn't good at r/s and she didnt want that (gay) kind of life for me bceause it was awful. I tried to get her to seek help with her issues but she wouldn't. It wasn't an option. I had contacted local LGBT counselling service but she refused to go because of her job. After 12 weeks she told me that it was a case of when she asked me to marry her. Her job as a doctor means that she has to move around the country a lot with her training, so when she was told her next 3year placement would be in her home county she asked would I move with her. She wanted us to move in together, so I applied for a position down there too. Her parents would be living only 40 minutes away at this point, and she still hadn't told them she way gay, let alone had a gf she was planning on living with. Two weeks before my job interview we argued over the phone - we hadn't seen each other properly for that month because of conflicting work schedules, plus we lived an hour apart. Before then it was every day, all the time. Anyway after that argument she told me in the following week that she was worried that I was only still with her because she'd got upset. I tried to reassure her that I was with her because I loved her, but clearly it didn't sink in. The next weekend she initiated another silly argument over the phone. She had just been showing us places to live on the internet two days earlier, and from nowhere she accused me of going through her old phone and calling an ex of hers - something I absolutely denied. She was hysterical, crying and clearly went on self-destruct, necking a whole bottle of wine, was outside on the beach (I could hear the sea in the background and told her to get back inside). We ended the conversation with us both telling the other we loved each other - her words: I love you in every possible way. I nearly drove down to her that night, something id done before when she'd gotten upset. I dont know why I didnt but I really regret not going down. Anyway, she drove up to mine the next day after no sleep and drinking, doing god knows what and ended it. We never got on, apparently, we didn't work and we had to split up. She said she still loved me and wanted to be with me so much but it had to end because we just dont get on. News to me.. we were best friends. We had a stressful r/s, hiding it from so many people fr so long, the anxiety of telling my family about us, it wasn't a level playing field, not like any other r/s, so much stress. But we loved each other, or so I thought. Our r/s history was rewritten by her that day. I was absolutely stunned and devastated, cried my eyes out and (sadly!) begged her to stay, asked her what happened to the girl who "would never leave" me. All this 6 days before my interview. Conveniently her family still don't know that she's gay.
I've seen her once since the break up, 10 days post break-up, to get my things, and she was upset and so was I. I hugged her when she cried and she said she didn't deserve to be hugging me. She told me she would have found it easier if I'd been angry with her. I wasn't, I told her I understood that she was scared to tell her family, but she didn't need to dump me, I would have understood (I'd told mine after 4 months). She said: "I know you think I'm a wimp". Since then, she's been slightly aggressive with me, sending me a few arsey text messages the following week about a conversation I'd had with a friend of hers (I said to look out for my ex because I was worried she'd pretend she was fine when she wasn't). 6 weeks post break-up she was flirting with a 21-year-old girl on fb, it was very public, clearly they were together but writing posts on her wall, and she tagged my ex in a gay bar with her. That was so painful. I would never do that to her, and never do it to someone I'd just dumped and broken their heart. It felt like that was designed to make me jealous, and as if it were her way of saying: See, I can tell people. The thing is, I feel as though she's misconstrued my love and support. I only ever wanted to be a support to her, not for her to do it out of spite for me. I didnt respond to anything of course, I didn't want her knowing it had upset me. She deleted me a few days later. I've not heard a peep from her since, and she's made no attempt to contact me. I had asked if we could remain friends but she clearly doesn't want to.
I was so confused, what had happened? I really couldn't work out what I'd done wrong? I started looking in to her bizarre behaviour, how you can be happy you've found the love of your life one day and the next you've cut them out of your life... and it's then I stumbled across Borderline Personality Disorder. It's like everything's clicked. I've worked hard to understand what has gone on, reading as much as I can to try to understand the disorder. I've been a mess, not slept properly for weeks, lost just under 20lbs(!), it's it's consumed me for the last 3 months, it's been the hardest time of my life. She has deleted me from fb, twitter, Skype, you name it, and we've been NC ever since. I ask myself what's happened, I'm the first ex she's ever deleted from facebook. Her first (unofficial) gf who treated her like rubbish, cheated on her and dumped her is still there. I am trying to understand that she's living with a lot of shame and guilt, and to cope has to project her bad feelings on to me and therefore cut me out of her life. It's been hard, because I've never been anything other than kind and loving to her, but I am beginning to understand, ish, why she's done this. She thought, or was at least worried I was distancing myself that month we didn't see each other (object constancy), but those two arguments were enough to make her dump me first? I'm trying to understand it... she was scared by the thought of me abandoning her, yet when she was dumping me I was clearly devastated and didn't want to end our r/s. so why do it? How does that work? And why cut me out completely, like I don't exist. The timing of her deleting me was after she found out I had the job in the new city, and would therefore be moving there too. Clearly she didn't want me going.
Anyway, that was just over 3 months ago, and 2/3 weeks ago I was asked out by this guy. I had been massively struggling with getting over my exgf - I'm still in love with her - but my friends convinced me to go. Anyway, Im not sure I trust myself anymore. He is very intense too, has wanted to see me almost every day since we met and to be honest Im starting to feel a bit crowded by him. I'm starting making up excuses of being busy, just so I can have space. I don't want to stop seeing him, I don't think, I just think maybe I need a bit of space. 11 weeks after being dumped and heartbroken, its probably too much for me to get in to something so serious again.
The thing is, there just isn't the chemistry there with this guy that my exgf and I had. It's hard. We were crazy about each other (I thought and was lead to believe). My exgf is high-functioning, but emotionally a mess, and I'm the only one who saw it. I only ever tried to comfort her and tell her how perfect she was to me. I was the only one she'd ever let in that close. I'm moving to the same small city as her in just under 4 weeks and I'm dreading running in to her. I wish I knew that she'd be civil with me. It's the uncertainty that plagues me. I'm guessing her post break-up behaviour makes me think I'm black to her, I know her flaws (and she thinks I was about to reject her for them?), and so I'm the enemy for now. I feel like this is taking over my life, I can't stop thinking about what's gone on. I'm obsessing about, it's on my mind 24/7. I don't really have too many people to talk about this with - everyone is sick of talking about it, and they're telling me to move on and forget her - if only I could. My best mate and I were supposed to be moving to Japan together - he's been there for 5 months already, but of course I didn't go because my ex, and her friends, asked me to stay. I was moving to be with her. It's funny when you look back and realise how much you were sacrificing, and there wasnt much in return. Two weeks after the break up the same friend who told me to stay because my ex was in love with me sent me a message calling me a "f***ing idiot"... not sure what I ever did to deserve that. I just responded by saying that if never doing anything to hurt me ex, loving and caring about her always makes me a effin idiot then so be it. She didn't respond to that.
I just feel lost, like I don't know who I am anymore. I don't feel the same way about this guy that I did about my ex. How can I when I still love her and think about her constantly? I wanted to see her as much as I could, and I find myself making excuses to be busy with him. I know that's not fair to him, and I'd never want to hurt anyone. But this whole episode has made me question everything. I feel so used and abused. I haven't got a therapist but I think I might need one. I keep wondering if I'm gay? Or bisexual? It's made me question everything I've ever known. Does she have BPD? All the evidence and the last year that I've lived through points to this, but what if she doesn't? What if this is just her fear of coming out that's made her behave this way? She's 27, but emotionally very young. She dysregulates with me regularly, overreacting to everything, hypersensitive, she triangulated with exgf's to keep me on my toes, would threaten to crash the car if we argued by veering the car from side to side, she even headbutted the wall in another argument. I'm sure it's BPD, but how much of that is her fear to come out and her self-loathing for being gay?
I'm scared that she'll come back to me one day and I'll have to go through all this heartbreak yet again. I thought she'd never leave me because she loved me, so how can I think she'll never come back because she 'hates' me? I'm terrified that she'll come back before I'm strong enough to say no and move on. I would love to know we could work out, but I'm so fragile after this whole ordeal I dont think I'd survive a second dumping. At the moment she's happy with me not existing so I can't see her coming back to me anytime soon.
Sorry, long post! It seems I just can't be concise. You know what it's like when you could talk about it all day... Any advice would be so welcome. I have no one to talk this through with and I'm going crazy going over it in my head. Thanks, Seb


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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index climbed on Wednesday to its highest in 2-1/2 years as the World Bank's bullish forecast for global economic growth helped fuel broad gains and higher oil prices provided support to energy shares.
The World Bank raised its forecast for global growth for the first time in three years as advanced economies started to pick up pace, led by the United States.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's benchmark index has gained in six of the last seven sessions, with its resource sectors, which had a lackluster 2013, beginning to gather steam.
"The market reaction was to be expected. It is very much keeping with the thesis that strong global growth benefits the TSX," said Elvis Picardo, strategist and vice president of research at Global Securities in Vancouver.
"People are definitely turning more positive about the commodity groups," he added. "I believe that the TSX may actually outperform the S&P 500 this year."
In 2013, the TSX's growth trailed the S&P 500's .SPX performance.
On Wednesday, the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE closed up 80.20 points, or 0.59 percent, at 13,772.58, after touching 13,785.02, its strongest level since mid-2011.
Eight of the 10 main sectors on the index were higher.
Financials, the index's most heavily weighted sector, rose 0.6 percent. Manulife Financial Corp (MFC.TO) climbed 1.8 percent to C$21.96, and Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO) added 0.2 percent to C$71.06.
Higher oil prices supported gains in the energy sector, with Suncor Energy Inc (SU.TO) advancing 0.3 percent to C$37.35.
The materials sector, which includes mining stocks, gained 1.7 percent. Barrick Gold Corp (ABX.TO) rose 1.5 percent to C$19.78.
Osisko Mining Corp (OSK.TO) said it was considering Goldcorp Inc's (G.TO) unsolicited C$2.6 billion ($2.4 billion) takeover proposal but viewed the 15 percent premium offered as "very low". Osisko shares added 0.3 percent to C$6.25, but Goldcorp shares slipped 0.3 percent to C$24.28.
Magna International Inc (MG.TO) forecast 2014 sales below analysts' expectations due to lower revenue in its complete vehicle-assembly business. Shares in the auto parts maker were nevertheless up 1.1 percent at C$93.12.
($1=$1.09 Canadian)
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JERUSALEM (Apr. 1)
The Prime Minister's Office today denied local press reports that the government was urging Israel's supporters in the United States to freeze the move in Congress to relocate the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
A senior government official said that "Israel's position, which is well known, is that we would like every foreign Embassy, including that of the United States, to be sited in Jerusalem, our capital city."
The Jerusalem Post reported from Washington Friday that supporters of the Congressional initiative were upset that the Israeli government was not backing their efforts. A bill introduced by Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D. N. Y.) has more than 30 sponsors in the Senate and more than 200 in the House. Israel has made it clear all along that the initiative for moving the Embassy did not originate in Jerusalem but among Congressmen.


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This morning, I was going to start making videos demoing some of the new features in AIR 2.0 when I realized that I should probably start with a list of everything that's new. Below is an exhaustive list of everything that we're planning on including in AIR 2.0. I use the word planning because even at this relatively late stage, things can change. Consider yourself warned.
Feel free to post questions in the comments.
- Multi-touch: Touch events are similar to mouse events, but on multi-touch enabled devices, you can track multiple touch points simultaneously.
- Multi-touch support:
- Windows 7 and beyond.
- Requires multi-touch enabled hardware (obviously).
- Multi-touch support:
- Gestures: Applications can listen for multi-touch events, or gesture events (not both at the same time). Gestures are the synthesis of multi-touch events into a single event.
- Gesture support:
- Windows 7 and beyond.
- Macs running 10.6 and beyond with multi-touch trackpads.
- Type of gestures we support:
GESTURE_TWO_FINGER_TAP(tapping with two fingers)
GESTURE_PRESS_AND_TAP(holding one finger down, then tapping with another — convention on some Windows devices for bringing up context menus)
- Gesture support:
- Open Files With Default Application: The new
File.openWithDefaultApplicationAPI lets you open a file instance with whatever application it happens to be associated with. This is a good cross-platform way to integrate with other applications since you don't have to know what applications are installed, or where.
- OS Download Security Dialog: The new
File.downloadedproperty lets you indicate that a file was downloaded from the network and the OS should prompt the user with a confirmation dialog before opening it.
- Supported platforms:
- Windows XP SP2 and later.
- Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and later.
- (No Linux support because Linux doesn't have this concept.)
- Supported platforms:
- Storage Volume Detection: The new storage volume APIs let you listen for the mounting and unmounting of storage volumes, list accessible volumes, and get information on storage volumes such as the file system type, whether it's removable, whether it's writable, the drive letter, and the drive label.
- Native Processes: Launch and communicate with native "out-of-band" processes. Bundle your own native executables, or call executables that you know are already on the machine. This feature requires that your application be installed with a native installer rather than though a .AIR file (we provide tools for building native installers).
- Types of installers:
- Windows: EXE
- Linux: Debian and Red Hat Package Manager
- Types of installers:
- File Promises: File promises let users drag and drop files that either don't exist yet (because you want to generate them on-demand), or that exist on a remote server. We provide an implementation that will automatically download remote files for you and save them to the drop location, and we provide an interface for you to implement if you want to generate files on-demand.
- Server Sockets: The new
ServerSocketAPI let you listen on a socket so that you can implement inter-application communication, P2P applications, advanced network protocols like FTP, etc.
- Datagram Sockets: In addition to TCP sockets, AIR 2.0 will now support UDP sockets.
- Encrypted Sockets: Sockets can now be encrypted using TLS/SSL.
- New Socket Properties:
- IPv6 Support.
- Access to Low-Level Network Information: The
NetworkInfoobject lets you enumerate network interfaces on the machine and get access to properties such as whether they are active, their IP address, and their display name.
- Bind Sockets to Specific Network Interfaces: The new
Socket.bindfunction can be used to bind to a specific network interface (discovered through the
NetworkInfoAPI) rather than always binding to the default. This can allow you to pick the best network connection for your particular application.
- DNS Resolution: Use
DNSResolverto look up the following types of resource records:
- ARecord (IPv4 address for a host)
- AAAARecord (IPv6 address for a host)
- MXRecord: mail exchange record for a host
- PTRRecord: host name for an IP address
- SRVRecord: service record for a service
- Configurable HTTP Idle Timeout.
URLRequestDefaults.idleTimeoutlet you specify the amount of time (in milliseconds) that a connection will remain open before it receives any data. This is useful for things like long polling.
- Local Audio Encoding: Access audio data directly from the microphone. You used to have to send the data to a server and access it from there, but now you can do it entirely on the client.
- Global Error Handling: Global error handling lets you handle all uncaught errors (both synchronous errors and asynchronous error events) in one place in your code. (More information on Global Error Handling.)
- Accessibility: AIR 2.0 will have the same level of support for screen readers as Flash. (More information on accessibility in AIR 2.0.)
BitmapSize Increases: The maximum size of a
Bitmapinstance used to be 2880×2880. In AIR 2.0, it will be 4095×4095.
- Improved Printing.
- Vector printing on Mac (already in FP 10).
- Complex transparency support.
- Nested Transactions. SQLite will now support nested transactions.
- Exiting Event on Shutdown. In AIR 2.0, you will be able to handle the
Event.EXITINGevent when the computer is shutting down so you will have an opportunity to save any unsaved work or data.
- WebKit Upgrades:
- Nitro JavaScript Engine (SquirrelFish Extreme).
- CSS3 Module support (2D transformations, transitions, animations, etc.).
- Scrollbar styling.
- Break up text across columns.
- Latest Canvas enhancements.
- General Optimizations:
- Lower CPU utilization when idle.
- Lower memory consumption.
I think that's everything. A beta of AIR 2.0 will be on Adobe Labs late this year, and we hope to release in the first half of 2010. Questions?


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By Paul Downer, Community Editor
From searing summer temperatures to severe winter storms, it's no secret that Minnesotans face a wide range of challenges. It simply comes with the territory.
A July 2 review of the updated All Hazard Mitigation Plan from Carver County, however, showed the Cologne City Council just how many potentially dangerous situations can occur in this area, and included a comment on how likely each scenario is.
The list was sobering. Severe summer and severe winter storms, along with hazardous material spills, were rated "highly likely."
Tornadoes, flooding, drought, lighting damage, hail, extreme temperatures, and epidemics/pandemics were rated "likely."
Less common events included wildfires, aircraft accidents, energy/fuel shortages, and failure of critical facilities and infrastructure, which all received an "occasional" rating.
On the bright side, the risk of terrorism attack and dam or levy failure were given "unlikely" ratings.
Cologne council members commented on how intriguing the information was, reflecting the weather extremes found deep in the continent's interior. With dramatic variations in the weather over the past several years, some wondered if climate change might be happening before our eyes.
Mayor Bernie Shambour Jr. commented that 100 or 50-year weather events may become more like 25 or 50-year events if trends continue. He added that the countywide plan is based on best practices and said it could be helpful to have in place if any of the above events end up causing damage locally.
The council agreed to approve the plan, which is meant to help communities plan for disasters, reduce the cost of disaster response and recovery, put the community in compliance with federal regulations and provide eligibility for funding if the area should ever be declared a disaster area.
In other business: