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British bank Barclays' investment banking division beat expectations in the first quarter, outshining the wider group's earnings drop and sending its shares to a 6-week high.
Overall profits at Britain's third-largest bank were down a quarter from a year ago, it said on Wednesday, due to the costs of new Chief Executive Antony Jenkins' plan to overhaul the lender after a series of scandals involving interest rate fixing, mis-selling of products and boardroom excess.
But investors shrugged off the dip, focusing instead on the investment bank, where earnings were up 11 per cent, outperforming rivals Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs and accounting for most of Barclays' profit.
"The big success story is, as ever Barclays Capital. It's quite a remarkable number that, if you adjust to underlying profit, Barcap now accounts for 62 per cent of group profits and the number came in 10 per cent better than consensus," said Ian Gordon, analyst at Investec.
"Importantly it's both a revenue and a cost story."
Over half a billion pounds was spent in the first quarter of this year on Jenkins' "Project Transform", triggering a drop in adjusted pretax profit to 1.79 billion pounds ($2.7 billion), just below a mean forecast of 1.85 billion from analysts.
The investment bank made a profit of 1.3 billion pounds in the first quarter by keeping revenues steady and cutting costs. Income rose 1 per cent to 3.5 billion pounds, higher than the 3.3 billion expected by analysts. Growth in equities and advisory offset a fall in fixed income, currencies and commodities.
Barclays said the good start to the year had continued into the second quarter across its businesses.
Rival Credit Suisse also posted steady first quarter revenues at its investment bank, raising expectations for UBS and Deutsche Bank, which report on Tuesday.
Barclays shares hit an early 6-week high and were up 1.2 per cent by 0945 GMT, outperforming the European banking index .SX7P which was up 0.1 per cent.
Early days
The lender is expected to spend nearly 3 billion pounds on "Project Transform" over the next three years, including another 500 million pounds this year; axing 3,700 jobs, pruning the investment bank and reforming the bank's culture after a series of scandals.
The overhaul is expected to cut annual costs by 1.7 billion and Jenkins said he was confident of meeting that target.
"It's early days but we've put an enormous amount of activity in place and I'm pleased with the progress we've made," he said on a conference call.
Jenkins is attempting to distance the bank from the aggressive, high-risk culture championed by his predecessor Bob Diamond, who left in July after Barclays was fined $450 million for rigging Libor interest rates.
Diamond's allies are leaving the bank, including Rich Ricci, the investment bank boss, and Tom Kalaris, head of the wealth management division.
The restructuring is expected to take 5-10 years to filter through to the bottom line.
Most of the costs incurred so far were in its European operations, where it has cut almost 2,000 jobs, and the investment bank, where it is axing 1,800.
Barclays said its core capital ratio was 11 per cent at the end of March, and would have been 8.4 per cent if new Basel III rules were fully in force.
Scrutiny on UK banks' balance sheets has intensified after the Bank of England last month said lenders needed another 25 billion pounds of capital.
Barclays said it was happy with its position.
"We continue to discuss it with them (regulators) and that dialogue will continue. We will do whatever is needed ... we're happy with the fully loaded 8.4 per cent core Tier 1, that's demonstrating the ability to accumulate capital," said Chris Lucas, finance director.


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In this morning's Progressive Breakfast, I referred to Mitt Romney's Michigan TV spot as "Romney's Auto Bailout Spin-Out." Well, as it happens, things are worse than I thought. Just to recap, Santorum is pounding Romney in Michigan. This is a little embarrassing, because Michigan is supposed to be Romney's home turf. His dad, George Romney, was Michigan's governor for six years. Plus, Mitt needs to win Michigan.
Mitt's Bailout Wreck in Michigan
So, Mitt runs this ad, attacking the auto-industry bailout.
(Take that, Clint Eastwood. You pinko communist, you.)
Because, if you're Mitt Romney, not only do you want to remind folks in Michigan that you told the biggest industry in their state to "Drop Dead," and declared that the government should "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."
It's not that there's not a political angle to the GOP refusal to bail out Detroit the same way Wall Street -- where executives' financial dealings were at least as irresponsible and disastrous as any made in Detroit -- was bailed out. The political motivation is clear: if the "Big Three" fail, foreign automakers are likely to serve as a back-up, and they will likely build their factories in southern states where conservatives might finally offer their base something besides the "red meat" of culture war rhetoric and anti-gay marriage initiatives. Like jobs to finally replace the textile jobs that long ago departed for other shores on the wings of trade agreements that were supposed to be a boon to our economy; a drop in that rising tide alleged to lift all boats.
That they will be non-union, lower-paying jobs than those that will disappear further north, with fewer benefits may not matter to a population so ravaged by conservative economics that they are willing to complete the final loop of globalization, and become the low-wage labor employed by multi-national corporations. They are jobs after all, though not enough to replace the jobs that will be lost in the process of a collapse.
It's not the political angle but the callous, cavalier attitude towards the consequences of collapse in those corner of "real America" that conservatives just spent an entire campaign extolling, that typifies something I've started calling "Drop Dead" conservatism, showing its true face as its many masks -- of compassion, values, etc. -- slip.
Now that the auto-industry is back, that the auto-industry bailout is paying dividends, now that even Michigan's economy is improving, you want to remind Michigan workers whose jobs would have been lost without the bailout that you still think that's what should have happened.
Remember the auto-bailout? Around beginning of June, and again in mid-August, we started seeing reports that it at last this bailout was starting to pay off. Particular attention was given to GM's turnaround: the first quarterly profit reported in almost three years, rising prices for the company's cars, filing to once again sell shares publicly, and already producing returns on the government's investment. Where U.S. manufacturing has lost nearly 175,000 jobs in the last two years, the U.S. auto parts and production sectors grew by 41,000 jobs to 704,000 between July 2009 and July 2010.
No wonder president Obama, when he toured a GM factory in Detroit, touted the success of GM's turnaround to vindicate government intervention to save U.S. automakers -- and the jobs of auto-workers, as well as those in the parts, supply, and service sectors that depend on the auto-industry. White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs summed up the administration's argument: ""
It serves to remind Americans of what conservatives would rather we forget: that they were adamant that the government stand by and "do nothing" as U.S. automakers failed, with disastrous consequences for workers, families and communities that relied on the industry. Likewise, conservatives were willing to let the financial sector collapse, and let million of Americans suffer another Great Depression, "For the sake of the altar of the free market." Many of the congressional conservatives who advocated letting the U.S. auto-industry die, came from southern states that offered generous incentives to foreign automakers to build factories, which came the expense of their constituents, and failed to yield the promised economic growth.
None could claim to be as successful, in fact, as our government's investment in saving the U.S. auto-industry. No wonder conservatives who claimed at the time that president Obama effectively "owned" GM, with a government rescue in place for the company and other automakers, are now claiming that he can claim no credit for its turnaround.
And, just to drive your point home, naturally you'd do it in a car that was made in Canada.
The next big prize in the GOP primaries is Michigan, one of Mitt Romney's five home states (along with MA, NH, UT, and CA). He's released an ad showing him driving around in a fancy Chrysler while he talks about how much he loves Michigan, and all. Here's the ad:
And here's the problem: that Chrysler that he's driving is a 300 model, and the 300 is made in Canada.
How do we know? Here's a screenshot from the ad (click for larger) - the key is the dashboard layout in the lower right hand corner.
Compare that interior layout to that of two Chrysler models - the 200, which is made in the U.S., and the 300, which is made in Canada (click the images for larger views):
Chrysler 200 Chrysler 300
The biggest giveaway is the air vents, which are tall and skinny in the 300, but are sort of square-shaped in the 200. You can see that the 300 is an exact match for what Romney is driving; the 200 is not.
This is like slashing all four tires and pouring sugar in your own gas tank. Oh well, if nothing else, maybe people will be to busy laughing at you were once happy to take help from the government back when you were a businessman.
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I just ordered my first Igigi wrap dress, because they're having a 30% off sale through tomorrow (coupon code: JULY), and that was the final push I needed.
Ever since I started hanging out at Fatshionista, I've been hearing about the miraculous Igigi wrap dresses. I mean, everybody's been making wrap dresses over the last couple of years (hallelujah to that), and there are some great ones out there for much cheaper — I've got a couple from Target, and every Fatshionista except me apparently got one from Old Navy last year. But for fat girls, Igigi is the gold standard. Owning an Igigi wrap dress is, so I hear, cause to bust out the champagne and weep softly in disbelief at your good fortune. Diane von Furstenburg may not be interested in catering to us, but Igigi comes through with fantastic quality and cut for a third of the cost.
This is what I have heard. Fingers crossed that it will turn out to be true.
I've been stockpiling wrap dresses lately (also recently snagged this one and this one), because by now, this trend has reached critical mass, and one assumes it will soon be disappearing on account of ubiquity. Which means I will soon be woefully out of fashion in my many wrap dresses.
But you know what? I'll still look hot, so I'm okay with that. There is no cut in existence — except perhaps a fitted boatneck bodice with a full skirt — that does as much for my figure. And there is no cut in existence that looks worse on me than a trapeze dress, so I shall be sitting out that trend, just as I sat out the skinny jeans one. It's not about being fat — I've seen photos on Fatshionista of women looking smokin' in both those things, as well as many other cuts that would look ridiculous on me. It's about the way I'm built: short, booby, assy. Any top or dress without a defined waist, any pair of pants that doesn't balance out my thighs, just looks like hell.
And I am old enough now to know it is better to look good than to be in fashion — and that the two are often mutually exclusive.
The fact that it took me so long to figure that out is a testament to how much women are expected to sublimate awareness of their own bodies to the expectations of observers. For years, I fretted about being judged out of touch, provincial, frumpy, etc., if I didn't try to keep up with current trends. Yet the inescapable fact is, unless you are built like a model — and there's a reason why they say models are meant to be "hangers" — you will look like an idiot in at least 50% of current trends. We all know how the pendulum swings in fashion — first curves are emphasized, then straight lines, then back again; first boobs, then legs, then back again; first bright colors, then neutrals, then back again. But since all of us are locked into particular body shapes and skin tones, there's no way we can wear it all equally well. And "classic" items, we all know, are for our grandmas — except when a "classic" item fits in with a current trend. (The wrap dress! A classic! Until we all get sick of it and put it on ice for another 20 years!) So unless you're among the very few women who can make most things look pretty much like they do on the hanger, you're going to be out of style about half the time.
It's perversely democratic, in a way. Almost everybody gets a turn, and almost everybody gets left out sometimes. The problem is, when it's your turn to be left out, you're not supposed to think, "Okay, I'll just wait a few years for the pendulum to swing back." You're supposed to think, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?"
Fuck that, sez me. I am going to rock the wrap dresses until they fall off of me — which is one reason why I shelled out for the Igigi and Sweet Pea ones, because frankly, I don't expect the Target ones to last until the trend comes back and I can buy more. I've also finally started giving myself permission to buy more than one when I find an item I really love, whenever I can afford it — I have 5 of these, 2 of these (both bought very much on sale), and 3 of these, for instance. I used to think buying clothes in bulk like that would just be obscene — not to mention boring — but the fact is, I wear the shit out of all those things, and if I know that realistically, I'm going to reach for a particular skirt 5 times as often as I reach for any other skirt, I might as well have it in 5 different colors.
Being realistic about what I look good in and what I actually wear — as opposed to what I admire every time I open my closet but only put on once a year at most — has completely changed my approach to fashion. Instead of buying anything that looks sort of okay and fits the budget, I now force myself to reject anything that doesn't look fabulous, and buy as many as possible of anything that does, so I'll have plenty to wear during the lean (ha! I'm funny!) times, trend-wise. My closet is still in transition, and I still wear a lot of sort-of-okay stuff when nothing else is clean, but the goal is to eventually divest myself of everything that doesn't make me feel terrific when I put it on.
And that part — the feeling terrific part — can be way too easy to overlook. There is such a difference in how I carry myself and how comfortable I feel all day (physically and emotionally) when I'm wearing something I think I look good in, as opposed to something that merely covers my underwear and keeps me from freezing to death. When I think something makes me look as good as I possibly can, I am just fucking happier. (And accepting that is how I justify spending more money on stuff that's made well and really flatters my body — it's cheaper than adding another antidepressant.)
So I'm a clothes horse of the first water, but I'm afraid I will never be a true fashionista; I'm far more interested in wearing clothes that fit properly than in demonstrating my knowledge of what was on the runways 10 minutes ago. On the downside, it means I'll never get a job at Vogue, but on the plus side (ha! still funny!), it means I'll look and feel hot all the time.
I can live with that.


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Bulletin H A S K I N S & SELLS 57 . Investment Trusts I—SURVEY A RECENT estimate (New York Evening Post, August 31, 1929) places the number of investment trusts operating in this country at 450, employing a total capital in excess of 32,000,000,000.00. New trusts formed in the first two weeks of September would probably result in revising this figure upward to $2,500,000,- 000.00 with more to come. This represents a sensational growth, practically all of it since 1921, when one of the important pioneers, the International Securities Trust of America (predecessor of International Securities Corporation of America) was formed. The industry grew very slowly up to 1924. In the succeeding four years it increased rapidly, up to an estimated capital at January 1, 1929, of 31,000,000,000.00, and since that date it has gone forward by leaps and bounds. Records compiled by the Commercial & Financial Chronicle show that of the new corporate issues brought out in the first seven months of 1929, $1,100,000,- 000.00 were those of investment trust and holding companies. This constituted about one-sixth of all the new financing done during that period. In July the new issues by investment trusts and holding and trading companies totaled $222,000,000.00 and in August investment trust financing in stock issues alone totaled $341,000,- 000.00. It has been estimated that 75% of the total funds of our investment trusts are invested in common and preferred stocks, this proportion representing a considerable increase during the current year owing to the fact that foreign markets have presented less inviting opportunities than heretofore. One survey indicated that about 16% of the total capital was represented by liquid assets. This would indicate that the trusts are carrying at times upward of $300,000,000.00 in cash and loans on call. By comparison, it is interesting to note that the distribution at July 31, 1929, of an investment fund exceeding $1,000,000,- 000.00 of one of the great life insurance companies showed about 44% in real estate loans, 15¼% in policy loans, 37½% in bonds, 2½% in preferred stocks, ½% in common stocks, and ¼% in cash. The proportion of preferred stocks will undoubtedly increase as it was only recently that a change in the New York laws permitted life insurance companies to invest in preferred stocks and guaranteed common stocks fulfilling certain requirements. The oldest and best-known group of American investment trusts is that managed by American Founders Corporation. Published reports show that at November 30, 1928, the portfolio of the three principal supervised companies of this group, excluding intercompany holdings, was about $103,000,000.00, of which 58% was in bonds, 5% in preferred stocks, 23% in common stocks, and 14% in cash and call loans. The management has announced that the total resources of this
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Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 12, no. 08 (1929 November), p. 62-68
Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 12, no. 09 (1929 December), p. 71-75
Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 13, no. 01 (1930 January), p. 78-83
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Bus patronage continues to soar
Bus patronage in the region, which broke through the 2 million mark for the first time in the 2005/2006 financial year, continues to soar.
Bus patronage in the region, which broke through the 2 million mark for the first time in the 2005/2006 financial year, continues to soar.
Environment Waikato has decided to retain responsibility for passenger transport services, a core regional council function.
Hamilton residents can breathe a little easier.
Serious breaches of the dairy effluent rules have been uncovered in the first round of helicopter monitoring by Environment Waikato, which recently flew the Kerepehi and Paeroa areas.
Environment Waikato has signaled its intention to retain responsibility for passenger transport services in the region.
Cambridge dairy farmer John Fisher (47) has been elected to Environment Waikato Regional Council as the representative for the Waipa constituency.
Environment Waikato has responded to a call from the New Zealand Fire Service in relation to a fuel tanker accident on SH3.
A small diesel spill near Awakino this morning is unlikely to have any serious environmental effects.
Environment Waikato has undertaken trials of the rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) in the Taupo area and on the Coromandel Peninsula with mixed results.
There is only one week left to vote in Waikato Regional Council's Waipa by-election.
Environment Waikato received a report of an oil spill in Raglan Harbour shortly after 11am today.
A study looking at the extent and likely causes of erosion around the Lake Taupo shoreline is due for release in November.


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Red Nose Day raspberry cookies
Raise some money for Comic Relief with these cheeky cookies.
Nutrition and extra info
- un-iced
- Easily doubled / halved
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal295
- fat15g
- saturates10g
- carbs39g
- sugars22g
- fibre1g
- protein2g
- salt0.29g
- 1 quantity basic biscuit dough - link in recipe
- 1 tsp cinnamon
A fragrant spice which comes from the inner bark of a tropical tree. When dried, it curls into…
- 6 tbsp raspberry jam
A member of the rose family, raspberries have a wonderfully intense, sweet taste, and many…
- 6 tbsp icing sugar, sifted
- icing, to decorate
Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Make up the basic biscuit dough (click here for the recipe), sifting in the cinnamon when you add the flour. Shape into 2 balls, wrap in cling film and chill for 20-30 mins.
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface, then stamp out 28 biscuits with a 7-8cm wide cutter. Lay these on non-stick baking sheets. Using a 4cm cutter, cut out the 'noses' from half the biscuits. Bake for 10-12 mins until pale golden, then lift onto a cooling rack.
Mix the raspberry jam with the sifted icing sugar. When the biscuits are cool, spoon a little of the jam onto each whole biscuit, then carefully sandwich the other biscuits on top. Serve as they are, or pipe icing, made with a little water, to draw funny faces.


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The Policy hub is a searchable database which is regularly updated. You can search for the different policies by country, or by filtering them according to some specific tags.
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Family holidays: great days out in England
Wild camping on Dartmoor
One of the very few spots in England where free camping is permitted, Dartmoor is a rare remaining example of a truly wild landscape.
Camping among the rolling moorland, and waking beneath vast skies, is a great way to feel in touch with nature, and as long as you pitch your tent discreetly, at least 100m from the road, and away from people's homes and restricted areas, it's completely legal and free.
Canoe the River Wye
There are a number of stretches of the river Wye that are possible to canoe in a day, and one of the most popular is the area around Symonds Yat, where a limestone outcrop rises around 500ft from the riverbank, offering spectacular scenery.
For those looking for a more sedate spot, Hereford Canoe Hire operates along one of the most picturesque parts of the river, between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye, where novices and families can enjoy a day afloat, going with the flow as green fields and wooded hills roll by.
The River Wye
Spend the night at Black Sail Hostel
A favourite with Lakeland walkers for more than 75 years, the tiny Black Sail Hut sits miles from any road in the white valley of Ennerdale, in the shadow of the peaks of Great Gable, Kirk Fell, Pillar and Haystacks, and accessible over high mountain passes.
Once a shepherds' bothy and now operated by the Youth Hostel Association, Black Sail has just 16 bunks and outdoor toilets. It offers the experience of being in a real mountain hut, and the communal lounge is a place to reflect on the day's walking, and to dry off when the weather doesn't meet expectations. On a clear night the hostel has an unrivalled view of the stars, unpolluted by civilisation.
Explore the birthplace of the Scouts
At the beginning of August 1907 Robert Baden-Powell brought together the first Scout camp on tiny Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset, as a test of the ideas he had put forward in his book Scouting For Boys. Today, the island is in the care of the National Trust, and is accessible to the public via Brownsea Island Ferries, which have been transporting visitors across the harbour for more than 100 years.
Brownsea is a peaceful place, a world away from the hustle and bustle of the mainland and, as home to the Baden-Powell Outdoor Centre, it still maintains a strong association with the Scouting movement. It is also notable as a nature reserve and, along with the Isle of Wight, is one of the few places in southern England where red squirrels can still be found in the wild.
nationaltrust.org.uk/brownsea-island; brownseaislandferries.com
Watch Lakeland Sports in Grasmere
For more than 160 years, the village of Grasmere in the Lake District has been hosting an annual Lakeland Sports show, demonstrating the arts of fell running, Cumberland wrestling and other local pastimes.
The event still takes place each August in the show field in Grasmere, combining traditional sports with bird-of-prey displays, sheepdog trials, marching bands, a tug of war, and food and drink from the area, including local speciality Grasmere Gingerbread.
The 2013 Grasmere Sports will be held on Sunday August 25
View of Grasmere
Explore the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
England's first permanent sculpture park was opened to the public in 1977. Occupying 500 acres of rolling parkland around Bretton Hall in West Yorkshire, the park is at its best on summer afternoons, offering a vast art gallery in a grand setting. Pieces by local sculptors Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and others attract over 300,000 visitors annually, with the sense of space and fresh air making for an invigorating experience. There are also exhibitions in indoor spaces such as the Bothy Gallery, the Underground Gallery and the Longside Gallery, offering a haven in the event of rain.
More information: ysp.co.uk
Attend the Bristol Balloon Fiesta
Europe's largest annual gathering of hot-air balloons has been held since 1979 at the Ashton Court Estate in Bristol, attracting in excess of 100 balloons and up to 500,000 spectators.
The event takes place over four days in August, with morning and evening balloon ascents, and evening "nightglows", where the balloons are inflated to glow against the night sky.
The 2013 Balloon Fiesta runs from August 8—11; bristolballoonfiesta.co.uk
See the Kettlewell Scarecrows
Each August, the village of Kettlewell in the Yorkshire Dales is been invaded by an army of scarecrows, designed by villagers for a competition in aid of local charities.
For a fortnight, the band of around 100 scarecrows takes over the village.Themes range from topical national events to historical, local and fictional figures, and even entire sports teams. The rakish figures can be spotted in gardens, on verges and even on rooftops throughout the village.
This year's festival runs from August 10-18; kettlewellscarecrowfestival.co.uk
Scale the treetops
The Mighty Oak Tree Climbing Company specialises in safe climbing experiences in Cornish oak trees, using a rope and harness – and for those who want to spend time in the canopy, they have a tree-top pod where families can hide out. The organisers are currently searching for a suitable tree for tree camping – a night spent aloft in a specially designed tree-top hammock.
Tree climbing is suitable for children aged four and above: mighty-oak.co.uk
Watch the British Firework Championships
Plymouth has hosted the National Firework Championships each August for the past 16 years, with spectacular displays from the top fireworks companies entertaining tens of thousands of spectators.
Plymouth Sound
The event brings fireworks experts from around the country to Plymouth, and each has an allocated period of time to impress with their displays; the dramatic results are painted across the skies over Plymouth Sound.
This year's Championships will be held on August 13 and 14; britishfireworks.co.uk
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DenRomano needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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flyrockies needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 29 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
We are looking for a new coded template and logo for a site called Will They Eat it.com. If you cannot design a coded template, we would still be interested in seeing it. We would rather have a great design and worry about the coding later, however preference will be given to the coded variety.
Will They Eat It
Desired Color Scheme:
Web 2.0
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Web 2.0 -- Check out Will It Blend for ideas
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Prefer Templates designed with Dreamweaver
This new site is a video site for pet owners to upload pictures & videos of their pets either eating or not eating pet food, people food or treats.
** This is my 3rd contest on SitePoint. You can search for Go Dogger.com and Shredder Dog.com for recent proof that this is a legitimate contest and I will award a prize. **
The site should be set-up similarly to Will it Blend? .com
It will need the following navigational items: (in no particular order)
#1 RSS Feed
#2 Email a Friend
#3 Will They Eat It Blog (Powered by WordPress)
#4 Learn more about pet food - Link to Go Dogger.com
#5 Home cooked receipes
#6 Suggest a recipe that your pet loves
#7 Will They Eat It Store - for t-shirts, stickers, etc.
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The coded template needs to work like Will It Blend's site. It basically needs to be fully working.
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We will be using Adobe's Contribute CS3 for updates to the Site, Blog, etc.
We would prefer you design it using Dreamweaver because of the relationship between the two programs.
Description & Content:
Instead of "Dont Try This At Home" -- I want "Pet's who love the food," or something similar.
Instead of "Try This At Home," -- I want "Pet's who hate the food," or something similar.
Additional content:
Welcome to Will They Eat It.com, the official home of the "Will They Eat It?" video series. Have you ever gone shopping for pet food or treats and wondered if your pet would actually eat it? Has this prevented you from buying the treat or food for your dog or cat? Wouldn't it be great to see what other picky pets were eating before you wasted money on another product?
If you answered yes to these questions, we are here to help. ** Brought to you by Go Dogger.com **
Check out the new blog. Blog.Will They Eat it.com
Contest: Will They Eat it Video Contest:
Send in your original video of your pet to enter the contest. Only original submissions are eligible.
We are searching for original videos of pet's (dogs or cats) eating or refusing to eat pet food or treats. We would love to see pictures of your dog ravenously chowing down his favorite dinner and equally happy to see the look on the dog's face when he turns down his kibble or treat.
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Your pet's breed, name and age.
The name of the kibble, canned or home cooked meal you are feeding
An email address and a
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All entries must be received by June 14th, 2007. Good Luck!
(Complete contest rules can be emailed to you upon request).
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Vomiting in a baby should not be confused with spitting
up. Vomiting is forceful and repeated. Spitting up may seem forceful but it
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Overfeeding, not burping your baby after feeding,
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Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.
The situation is even worse than it appears. Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What's more, these jobs aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries and they aren't just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers.
They are being obliterated by technology.
Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful, and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived.
"The jobs that are going away aren't coming back," says Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-author of Race Against the Machine. "I have never seen a period where computers demonstrated as many skills and abilities as they have over the past seven years."
The global economy is being reshaped by machines that generate and analyze vast amounts of data; by devices such as smartphones and tablet computers that let people work just about anywhere, even when they are on the move; by smarter, nimbler robots; and by services that let businesses rent computing power when they need it, instead of installing expensive equipment and hiring information-technology staffs to run it. Whole employment categories, from secretaries to travel agents, are starting to disappear.
"There's no sector of the economy that is going to get a pass," says Martin Ford, who runs a software company and wrote The Lights in the Tunnel, a book predicting widespread job losses. "It is everywhere."
The numbers startle even labor economists. In the US, half of the 7.5 million jobs lost during the Great Recession paid middle-class wages, ranging from US$38,000 to US$68,000. However, only 2 percent of the 3.5 million jobs gained since the recession ended in June 2009 are midpay. Nearly 70 percent are low-paying jobs; 29 percent pay well.
In the 17 European countries that use the euro as their currency, the numbers are even worse. Almost 4.3 million low-pay jobs have been gained since mid-2009, but the loss of midpay jobs has never stopped. A total of 7.6 million disappeared from January 2008 through June last year.
Experts warn that this "hollowing out" of the middle-class workforce is far from over. They predict the loss of millions more jobs as technology becomes even more sophisticated and reaches deeper into our lives.
Maarten Goos, an economist at the University of Leuven in Belgium, says Europe could double its middle-class job losses.
Some occupations are beneficiaries of the march of technology, such as software engineers and app designers for smartphones and tablet computers. Overall, though, technology is eliminating far more jobs than it is creating.
To understand the impact technology is having on middle-class jobs in developed countries, the AP analyzed employment data from 20 countries; tracked changes in hiring by industry, pay and task; compared job losses and gains during recessions and expansions over the past four decades; and interviewed economists, technology experts, robot manufacturers, software developers, entrepreneurs and people in the labor force who ranged from chief executive officers to the unemployed.


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How To: 313
The 313 was one of my first handle passes on my switch riding side. It's a railey, followed by a frontside 360 rotation, passing the bar in the air and landing heel side. If you are already doing railey's to blind in regular, the 313 on your switch side will come easier as its the same rotation. Let me take you trough a few personal key elements I figured along the way...
1. COMING IN: To do a full 360 after a railey you need time, height and a bit of aggression. Attempt your take off with good speed (80% of your maximum riding speed) and aim to pop out 1-2m. Do this by focussing on your heel side edge while building up speed for your pop. Try to feel and control the force traveling through your body which is getting projected onto the heel side edge. To understand heel side edge control, imagine you had no fins and had to control your board with body tension aswell as balancing your weight from front foot to the back. Focus ONLY on the positive outcome of your trick!
2. TAKE OFF: keep your arms bend and locked in 90 degrees during take off and flight. Tension your body and lean back to apply all your power and speed onto your heel side. When the counter pressure on your heels starts feeling very solid you have reach the apex of the tension in your lines, they have streched out and your kite has sunk in deeper into the wind window. The power is ready to be released, do this by carving out the heel side of your board in a clean curve. This will eject you straight upwards.
3. GOIN UP: As your back leg carves out of the water and you start gaining height, try to bend your front leg and continue pushing out your back leg to gain a position many riders use for the 313, the tweaked railey. The tweack is when you push out your back leg, going away from the kite. Keep your bar locked in 90 degrees and notice how the distance between the bar an your back leg increases.
4. APEX: recognizing the apex is a technique where you feel weightless, nor going up or down. As you get more experienced you can seemingly stretch the time in the apex, which is simultaneously the moment where your line slack is born. Change your body position now, useing the distance from your bar to back leg to pull in and create a rotation moment. Support this by pulling your back leg towards the bar and up. Literally throw yourself into the rotation by pulling the bar in as hard as you can.
5. PASS AND LAND: as your body starts rotating, let go of your front hand and continue spinning. Your back hand will guide your bar around your hip where your hands will meet for the pass. There is rotation on one side the handle pass on the other, with the rotation being priority over the pass. The feeling is, rotating for as long as it takes to get back to your center position only passing the bar because there is nothing left to do. After this you will land almost instantly. Allow your body to sink in and absorb the force while you to distribute your weight over your board.
KITE TO HIGH = feels like you can't complete the pass as the bar gets ripped out towards the end. Don't try to compensate missing speed and pop by sending the kite up. Focus on step 1.
-> keep the kite at 45-60degree and increase your speed.
LOOSING THE EDGE = will result in an unclean flying position or no pop.
-> tension up your stomach muscles as you build up speed to project the power through your body onto your heel side edge.
MISSING THE APEX = your body is not synchronized and parts of it are trying to go in different direction which makes it hard to observe the apex moment.
-> practice the tweaked railey position with bend arms and focus on your back leg.
TRIPPING ON LANDING = disorientation/ wrong estimation of hight and board angle.
-> Spot your landing for a split second after passing the bar and make a quick judgement on your altitude and how to land with your board. Translate this naturally and directly in your movement.
http://www.florianscharscher.com/2014/0 ... o-313.html


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Underscoring their priorities for the next U.S. budget talks, Republican lawmakers detailed additional cuts to domestic programs on Tuesday to boost funding to defense and security agencies.
The proposed reductions, released by the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, would reduce fiscal 2014 funding for the White House, the District of Columbia, the Internal Revenue Service and other financial services-related agencies by $3 billion. Many of the accounts already are squeezed by the "sequester" automatic spending cuts.
The Republican proposals also would cut NASA's budget by $928 million compared to last year, cut another $198 million from the Department of Commerce and $259 million from the National Science Foundation, which funds an array of scientific research projects.
At the same time, the Republican-controlled committee has proposed giving the Department of Justice, which includes the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and federal prisons, an increase of $770 million above the current sequester level.
Federal court funding also would get a $12 million boost from the fiscal 2013 level.
"This legislation targets taxpayer dollars to federal law enforcement and safety programs, ensuring that the essential functions of the federal government - protecting the life, liberty and property of our citizens - are maintained," House Appropriations Chairman Harold Rogers said in a statement.
"These are tight budget times, and in order to fund these critical programs, hard choices had to be made to reduce or eliminate funding in lower priority areas," the Kentucky Republican added.
An improving budget picture has drained away Congress' urgency to negotiate a new budget deal, pushing other issues such as immigration to the forefront. But budget talks are expected to pick up again in September, as the October 1 start of the new fiscal year draws closer. A few weeks later, likely in November, an increase in the federal debt limit will be needed, providing another pressure point for a deal.
The proposals are consistent with the House Republican plans to keep savings from the sequestration cuts in place and cap 2014 spending for agencies and discretionary programs at $967 billion. They are vastly at odds with the Senate, where the majority Democrats are writing spending bills at a much higher level of $1.058 trillion.
The additional money being considered in the Senate would largely provide more funding for the domestic programs House Republicans want to cut.
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"I think the House having one number and the Senate having another number is a killer," said Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat.
The October 1 deadline for agency funding is one of two major fiscal pressure points for Republicans to demand further deficit reduction moves. Analysts say Congress will also need to increase the federal debt ceiling a few weeks later, likely in November.
The House is yet to consider a committee-approved $512.5 billion defense appropriations bill that is $28 billion above the current sequester-reduced level.
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I have been looking forward to this one for months as well. Have to say I am disappointed. This is an average setting, not good enough to earn a 5 star rating. I was pleasantly surprised by the text. GRAmel is a Polish company and they seem to have done a serviceble job of translation. The rules, what there are of them, are concise. (with one exception) The only issue I have with the wording is the excessive use of hyphens that tend to break words and sentences into sometimes difficult to read mess.
As a whole the potential is there to use this setting as either one of Darkness with the forces of evil winning at every turn. Or a lighter one where humans battle insurmountable odds and come out victorious but bloodied. I don't know if this was intentional. But, it is nice when so many newer games seem bent on shoving bleak evil down our throats.
That said. I like the idea behind the setting. However, I was expecting a galaxy with 10,000 planets at war with a ravening horde of Dark Gods and their minions. In all honesty that was at least hinted at in the history. However, the setting as it stands is totally wrapped up in one star system. Three planets, one dying, one filled with hedonistic self centered rich, and the other a jungle world on the edge of being overrun with Dark Horde creatures.
There are cultists, black magic and psionics. There is no magic or miracles, and certainly no super powers, but there are cyborgs and cybernetics.
Much of the book is devoted to flavor over substance. Great art interspersed with not so great art. (The best you have already seen if you have SWD). The pics are generally not gory or suggestive. (However, there is one of Lij the poisoner that somehow passed censorship; erotic in a very disturbing manner.) Three chapters devoted to the three worlds of the system. Their history, organizations, and personalities. The writing is devoted mostly to setting history and flavor. There seems to be a lack of crunch.
You won't find an extensive section of new cool weapons or equipment. The only real additions to the SW tool kit are plasma weapons, personal deflectors and personal forcefields.
The Beastiary is only 20 pages long. The creatures don't all have pictures which is hard because they aren't like anything you could have seen anywhere else. The pics that are in the book don't seem to match, which is probably an editing issue. Half the creatures aren't even the evil Dark Horde kind...they're genegineered monsters made by humans. Most of the Beastiary is taken up by rehashes of Human critters like Homeless people or street thugs.
There is no plot point campaign; a PEG staple. There are no creature generators; like Savage Mojo's Caladon Falls. No adventure generators: like Gunmetal Games Interface Zero. There are no adventures per se, although there are tentative ideas for hooks in Histories, Organizations and Personalities sections. This is a sand box setting without much in the way of sand. [Note: I just downloaded the Adventure Generator listed in the blurb for Nemezis. Better than before, but still pretty generic. It has some more great art. There are references to travelling out system, but without descriptions of other systems let alone a method of getting there it sees a bit odd]
Overall it is worth the 10 dollars presently being charged. Unless there is a major revamp a la the Golden Edition of Beasts and Barbarians this setting is not worth 20 dollars.


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I was recently discussing with a group of budding DBA's how you go about performing a restore of database. They were trying the restore for themselves and a few of them got an error about not having exclusive access:
Msg 3101, Level 16, State 1, Line 5
Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 5
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
This was a test setup and obviously we had other sessions connecting to the databases. these connections were preventing the restore.
If you are restoring a database and you have other sessions connected it can be quite simple to kill those connections in one go by putting the database into single user mode and using the 'ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE' switch. This will rollback any open transactions and allow you to restore the database. I like to wrap this around the restore statement
alter database TestDB set single_user with rollback immediate
RESTORE DATABASE [TestDB]
FROM DISK = N'C:\Data\SQLBackup\TestDB.BAK' WITH FILE = 1, NOUNLOAD, REPLACE, STATS = 5
Most of this information including example code is available in Books Online, which is great document for all SQL Server professionals to make use of?


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Hi All, My first post on this forum and hoping it's not one of those "not again" topics. A little background. After years of specializing in jewelry and shooting 4X5, I find myself wanting to transition into more editorial type work. I'd still like to service my current jewelry clients but with an upcoming major relocation, the film based workflow will be an issue. I would prefer not spending the $15K - $30K on a MF back if I can help it (I'm still not entirely convinced the MF would work unless it's the P45 or similar res). I have a D2X and am wondering about the possibility of mounting it on the back of my Sinar P and doing multi shots (2 to 4) then stitching it all together. I picked up a Nikon adapter for the back so thats not an issue (the least of the problems I'm sure). Has anyone tried this? Used HDR with any success? Thanks.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=63389\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Hi. I have been experimenting a bit with the combination of stitching and HDR. There are two possible paths to go in the "development phase"1) stitch first all of the images into one big image with a pano stitching tool (e.g. PTGUI allows for stitching of 100% overlapping images) and then save several different stitched images (visible images only for one EV) for each EV value and then use DRI/HDR on those;Method 1) is a lot of stitching work (especally setting control points so that all images of one EV are perfectly aligned with images of EV-1, EV -2, EV +1, EV+2). So for a 4x4 picture with 5 EV there is already a lot of stitching to do.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=65487\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]


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SALEM, Ore. – The winning streak reached double digits for the Puget Sound women's tennis team with a 7-2 win over Willamette on Saturday. The Loggers won their tenth straight match and have nearly locked up a spot in the NWC Tournament, going into the final weekend.
Josie Dow and Malia Ford got things going for the Loggers with a quick 8-1 win at No. 3 doubles. Logan Thompson and Marissa Friedman followed that up with an 8-6 win at No. 2 but Maddie Thiesse and Allison Embernate fell 8-5 at No. 1.
The singles portion of the match belonged almost completely to the Loggers. Willamette's lone singles point came from Denise Poltavki's 6-1, 6-1 win over Thiesse at No. 1.
Both Thompson and Friedman did not surrender a single game in singles as both won 6-0, 6-0 for the Loggers. Jenna Gerdsen took the No. 2 match 6-1, 6-1 and Dow won 6-2, 6-1 at No. 5. Ford also dominated the No. 6 match with a 6-2, 6-0 Logger win.
The Loggers head east next weekend to take on Whitworth and Whitman in the final matches of the regular season.


text: If you didn't know the rules, could you figure them out just by watching the game? Michael Steele/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael Steele/Getty Images Opinion 13.7: Cosmos And Culture The Game Of The Gods Keeps Us Watching July 2, 2014 If nature is like a game played by the gods, scientists are the observers trying to figure out the rules. Physicist Marcelo Gleiser asks: Can our knowledge ever be complete?


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The Institut français suggests...
The Institut français programmes and projects
On 10 December 2019, the Institut français is launching a brand new version of its film distribution platform developed by ARTE.
Initiated by Emmanuel Macron, the President of the French Republic, the Africa2020 Season will take place throughout France (mainland and overseas territories) from June 1st to mid-December 2020. Dedicated to the 54 states of the African continent, the Africa2020 Season is an extraordinary project. Designed around the major challenges of the 21st century, it will present the views of the African civil society and its recent diaspora. Africa2020 will be the sounding board for the changemakers who are impacting contemporary societies.
After the success of its first edition in February 2019, the VR Arles Festival is once again coming to Paris for a weekend.
The event, which takes place from 13 to 16 November 2019, takes place in Luxembourg where 100 film industry professionals meet each year.
The first cinema under the MK2 brand in the city centre of the Spanish capital, the Institut français de Madrid, which has been digitised in 2015 with the support of CNC, French national center for cinema, has renovated its cinema hall for the greatest comfort of its audiences and concluded an agreement with the famous MK2 network, recently established in Spain.


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Since her son, Cody Bauer, died by suicide in January, Cassie Diver has become a devoted advocate for suicide awareness and suicide prevention efforts. Every day in September, she posted a fact, a meme, a helpful quote or a photo of Cody to her Facebook page because it was Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. She still posts most days on the page.
Death by suicide can be the cruelest for those it leaves behind. They are often left wondering why, what they could have done, how such a terrible thing could have happened to them and their loved one.
"I lived through every parent's worst nightmare: losing a child. I have told myself I have to make more of this. I have to give it meaning," Diver said. "It needs to be talked about, and I think a lot of people are afraid to say it."
Many people respond. Some share memories of Cody, while others send messages of support for Cassie and her family. A few talk about their own losses, some for the first time.
Diver said her posts will sometimes motivate readers to randomly share comments: "So-and-so died by suicide, and no one ever talked about it."
"But they're sharing it, and then I know I'm reaching other people who feel the same way," she said.
Connecting with others who share the same experience helps.
"(Suicide is) a different death than others," said Meghann Levitt, the Carlton County Public Health educator who helped initiate the TXT4Life program for the county and region. "You don't have the answers to a lot of questions. You don't have closure.
"When families can connect who've gone through the same kind of loss, it helps in the grieving process, that understanding and connection," she said.
Corrine Campbell of Cloquet lost her son, Jeremy, to suicide several years ago. It was the worst thing that will ever happen to her, she said.
"I needed to know I wasn't the only one feeling what I was feeling, that I wasn't the only one to go through losing a child," Campbell said.
A guide for suicide survivors by Essentia Health advises that it is OK to grieve, to cry, to laugh when someone you love has died by suicide. Don't suppress your feelings. Don't turn to alcohol, which is a depressant. Journaling can help.
Helping survivors
When counseling families who have lost a loved one to suicide, Human Development Center psychologist Caroline Phelps stresses that it's not a question of something they did wrong.
"It's not about 'you did not love them enough'" she said. " It's about a tragedy that you now need to learn how to live with and that job is hard enough."
Survivors need to know they are not to blame and there is no shame for them to feel, Phelps explained. Any shame they feel is "unearned" shame, because they haven't done anything wrong.
Being sad is enough.
"People don't kill themselves because their parents aren't perfect," Phelps said. "It's not that your love of the individual wasn't enough. In fact, people (who die by suicide) often come from very loving families."
Suicide is a traumatic death for survivors, the people a person who dies by suicide leaves behind.
"There are deaths that are not called traumatic," Phelps said. "Suicide certainly is, regardless of how the person dies or who found the body. It's always traumatic."
It can also cause physical side effects. Campbell couldn't sleep, and her short-term memory suddenly wasn't good anymore.
Diver said she feels like she's in a fog much of the time now, and has to make lists for everything and take super detailed notes. Her memory isn't working like it did.
Laurie Audette also can't sleep at night. She said she gets up multiple times every night, practically every hour, since her son, Allen, died by suicide last year. He was 16.
"For survivors, it's like PTSD. It's a sudden trauma that you're not prepared for emotionally, or financially," said Diver. "It's draining."
Like Diver and Campbell, Audette has found comfort in sharing her son's story, and trying to make sure other people know that suicide isn't the answer and where to go for help.
The Askov resident, who works in Cloquet, has started a Facebook page called "Allen's Hope," and worked to bring suicide awareness events to local schools. She's also trying to put a "face" on suicide, she said.
"If you talk about suicide, people brush it off," Audette said. "If you put a face to it, somebody that you know, you make it real."
Schools are also doing a better job of providing crisis counselors and helping other students cope when a classmate dies by suicide, Phelps said.
"We know suicide sends a message that it is one solution to your problems," she said. "We want the message to get out that it's the wrong solution to your problems. We believe if you would have given us enough time to help you, to allow enough time to pass to get a different perspective, that you no longer would want to take your own life."
Diver says the same thing about Cody in an essay, that if he had gone with the "three-day rule" for life-changing decisions, he would still be here.
So what should friends and family of survivors do?
Phelps said "keep checking in." Not just a week, a month or a year later. Two years later, five years later.
"Ask them 'How can I support you best, what do you need from me?' Tell them, 'I've been thinking about you. I can't imagine what it's like,'" Phelps suggested. "Sometimes just sending a message helps, telling them about a beautiful memory of the person who died, letting them know you're thinking of them and sharing what a special person he or she was. It's not just about death. It's about the life and human being they were. "
Diver agreed wholeheartedly. It's OK if you don't exactly know what to say to her, just try. It helps, even if you feel awkward.
She loves it when people share photos and stories about Cody. So many people have told her how Cody impacted their lives, from teachers to friends and family. She's been collecting those stories. She and Campbell have also both traveled to see places their sons had been.
"It helps to heal when you talk about him. The pain is there, but so are wonderful memories," Diver said. "I want to know how he impacted people, whether it's by his death or something he's done," she said. "It's those stories that make me go, 'Yeah, he was here. He did exist."
Remove the stigma
Finally, every expert and parent interviewed for this story stressed how important it is to work to destigmatize mental illness and suicide.
If you suspect someone is considering suicide, the best thing to do is ask them: "Are you thinking about suicide?" Don't be afraid to talk about it, Levitt said, referring to the historic stigma that "if you ask, they will do it (kill themselves)."
"We now know from research that talking about it and asking straight up can actually open up the conversation with somebody. If they say, 'No, I'm not thinking about suicide,' then they're not thinking about it. It's not going to do any harm. But if they're struggling, they will know you're someone it's OK to talk about it with."
Another point Levitt discusses when she visits schools is that mental illness or suicidal thoughts can be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
"It's a physical disorder, just like diabetes," Levitt said. "If it's affecting your brain, an organ, it will affect the thoughts that you have, the words that you say, the things that you do. So even though it's physical, it's going to come out a lot differently.
"No one asks to have thoughts of suicide. Nobody asks to have anxiety, to be depressed, just like nobody asks to have asthma. It's something going on that's outside their control."
Medication will target that chemical imbalance while therapy can help the person with suicidal thoughts make different connections in the brain so suicide isn't the only answer to the problem he or she can see. Ideally, the two approaches work together, Levitt said.
Phelps pointed out that 25 percent of Americans will develop a mental health problem over the course of their lifetime.
"We want to stop thinking of mental illness as being a narrowly defined illness, or a grossly serious illness," she said. "There's a spectrum, just like you can have a range of physical problems from the common cold to a three-day flu to a cancer that you die from. To say someone has a mental illness, you know as much about that person as if I told you they have a certain physical illness.
"We also know anyone can experience mental illness symptoms when they're in an acute personal crisis. That doesn't mean it evolves into an entire illness."
Getting help from a trained counselor can help someone get back to a place where they can be their true, authentic self, she added.
If that help is available.
There is a shortage of mental health professionals in northern Minnesota and most rural areas. It can often take months to get an appointment.
In the meantime, people continue to fall through the cracks.
"As parents we didn't get help after my son left the hospital," Audette said, explaining that Allen was hospitalized after his first suicide attempt. "Maybe there was a list of resources in the fine print, but it would have been great to learn about support groups, family therapy or somehow get help from the county before it was too late."
So she has vowed to get the word out herself. It's making a difference, she said.
"My son's life has already saved other lives," Audette said. "I get Facebook messages, text messages, calls from other high school students asking for help, asking what can they do."
Resources for suicide survivors
• Essentia Health offers a Suicide Family Members Support Group that meets the third Monday of each month in the 2E Classroom (2216) of St. Mary's Medical Center (next to the chapel on the second floor). Contact Kari Parsons at 218-786-4402.
• The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has a family support group for families and friends of people living with mental illness that meets from 6-7 p.m. the last Tuesday of the month at Miller Dwan Hospital, Conference Room 3, 502 E. Second St., Duluth.
• REACH Mentoring has started a Students Offering Support group at Cloquet and Esko high schools, and is working to bring the group to all Carlton County high schools. The group's mission is broad, but includes suicide prevention and talking about mental health. Contact the individual school for meeting information.
• Human Development Center (HDC) psychologist Caroline Phelps has a TV show, "Speak Your Mind," that runs on WDSE/WRPT public TV. This locally produced live show was developed by the HDC to help start the conversation in our communities about mental health issues and to encourage people to ask the questions they've always wanted to ask. There are several episodes on suicide prevention, suicide survival and suicide loss. Find archived and upcoming shows and more at speakyourmindonline.org.


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David Letterman may have ticked off more than just his wife by revealing his indecent liaisons with "Late Show" staffers.
A new poll says that 29 percent of Americans are less likely to tune in to Letterman's shtick following his admission that he had affairs with woman who work for him.
The Rasmussen Reports telephone survey, however, found that five percent of those polled thought that the naughty misdeeds made them even more likely to watch the show, and 63 percent say their viewing decisions have been unaffected.
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Dave's popularity ratings in general have also taken a hit. Forty-two percent of adults still have an at least "somewhat favorable" opinion of Letterman, according to the poll, but that's down 8 percent from just May. Forty-six percent of the people surveyed view him unfavorably.
Nevertheless, at lest for the short term, the off-camera shenanigans have brought big ratings for Letterman, who continues to air his dirty laundry on camera.
His apologies Monday night to his wife and staff netted big ratings for CBS. The Nielsen Co.'s overnight measurement of the nation's 56 biggest markets netted Letterman's "Late Show" on CBS a 4.2 rating — higher than anything in prime-time.
But Nielsen didn't immediately have an estimate Tuesday of the size of Letterman's audience. The overnight rating was slightly less than last Thursday's show, when 5.8 million people watched Letterman say he had been the victim of a $2 million blackmail threat that led him to reveal he had sex with staff members.
As Letterman mixed wisecracks with contrition on Monday's show, he said his wife, Regina Lasko, had been "horribly hurt by my behavior" and stated flat-out that those affairs "are in the past."
He vowed to repair his relationship with his wife, whom he married in March after a years-long courtship.
"Let me tell you folks, I got my work cut out for me," he said ruefully.
Monday's show was the first Letterman had taped since Thursday. While he laced the show with references to the scandal, only one other late-night host, Craig Ferguson, made any reference to it. Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon and NBC's "Saturday Night Live" had all made jokes in earlier shows, but everyone but Ferguson avoided the topic on their Monday night and Tuesday morning shows.
As host of the "Late Late Show," Ferguson follows Letterman's "Late Show." Letterman also is his boss, since Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Inc., produces the "Late Late Show."
"The person you work for, the person you admire and respect, is caught in an embarrassing situation," said Ferguson. "And your job is to be funny about that, whilst trying to keep your own job."
"So this is my last show," he joked.
Ferguson did make light of the situation, joking that it had now been revealed how he got the job in the first place.
But Ferguson defended Letterman, calling him "the king of late-night television."
"If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out," said Ferguson. "I'm gone."
On the "Late Show," Letterman noted the cool fall weather, reporting, "It's chilly outside my house; chilly INSIDE my house." Then he cautioned the audience, "This is only phase one of the scandal. Phase two: Next week I go on 'Oprah' and sob."


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Here is a cute cupcake lesson that will leave you screaming for more. Today I will start the day by uploading "how to draw a Pikachu cupcake", step by step. I know how bizarre this tutorial may seem, but in all reality you can totally make it happen. If you want to actually make a cupcake like this in your kitchen, all you will need to do is buy some white cupcake batter, add some bright yellow food coloring, frost the top of the cupcake with chocolate icing, then add candied eyes, nose and cheeks. I really wanted something bright hitting the front page so here is what I think will add some color to your artistic life. Drawing a Pikachu cupcake is going to be the next best thing to actually eating one. Adios people and enjoy!
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Join this course at Kingston and you too could join the KU e-Racing team and help them drive for success in Formula Student year after year. It's a great chance to apply theory to a real workplace project, enjoy the thrills of appearing at a major racing circuit – and have something amazing to add to your CV.
IMechE's Formula Student is the largest annual student motorsport event in the world and is delivered in partnership with key industry players including Airbus, Jaguar Land Rover, Shell, National Instruments and Mercedes AMG Petronas. Ross Brawn OBE (Team Principal, Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 team) is the patron and the event is entered by 141 university teams from 34 countries across the globe.
With its real-world bias, Formula Student is viewed by the motor industry as the standard for engineering graduates to meet. In fact, many high-profile motorsports engineers have participated in Formula Student whilst at university including Andrew Shovlin, chief race engineer of Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 team and James Painter, engineering lead of vehicle integration working on the BLOODHOUND land speed record.
The week after the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel raced at the British Grand Prix, students from around the world competed in their own motorsport event at Silverstone in the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' Formula Student competition. Kingston University's KU e-Racing proved to be the only UK team with a viable electric vehicle – read how they got on.
You can also see the KU e-Racing car being assembled, the chassis being constructed and the car being transported to Silverstone, as well as glimpses of the business presentation made as part of the University's entry. Produced by students Karam Rajaby and Joseph Bannister (Television and Video Technology BSc(Hons)), Amy Nicole Tinker (Media Technology BSc (Hons)); and Luka Stokic (Automotive Engineering BSc(Hons)).
Watch out for their full-length documentary on Formula Student.
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The brother of Omran Daqneesh — the boy who became an international symbol of the devastation in Aleppo — died from his wounds, NBC News reports.
Ali Daqneesh died Saturday from injuries he sustained when his family's apartment was hit in a blast from airstrikes on Wednesday. Ali was 10 years old, according to the Aleppo Media Center.
The haunting photos of 5-year-old Omran were released by Syrian opposition activists earlier this week. The dust-caked, bloodied Omran sits in an orange chair in an ambulance, his legs too short to reach the floor. Omran appears shell-shocked and weary.
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A doctor who identified him in the photos said Omran was brought to the hospital with head wounds, but didn't suffer any brain injuries, and was later discharged.


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James Marsden's Wife Files for Divorce
After more than a decade of marriage, James Marsden's wife Lisa Linde has filed for divorce.
Citing irreconcilable differences in court documents filed one week ago, Linde is seeking spousal support and joint legal and physical custody of the couple's two young children Jack and Mary.
"This was a mutual decision," Marsden's rep tells PEOPLE. "They are committed to raising their kids together and remain great friends."
"It's always been about being together and keeping the family together," the X-Men and 27 Dresses star, 38, told PEOPLE in 2008 of his then-happy marriage.
"When I'm not working, I want to be home, and that's all I want to do."
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text: January 2011: On your way to Wine and Spirit: Rituals, Remedies and Revelry, stop by the Forman Gallery to see related works from the collection. Among them: wine vessels galore, a still life by Picasso and this charming portrait by French artist Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun. It's the gift of Dr. and Mrs. James Acquavella.


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ROCKFORD - Rockford School District leaders unveiled plans to launch an innovative jobs program Tuesday night that would create about a dozen paid internships at school construction sites.
The pilot program would be a partnership between the district and area contractors and construction trades unions. The goal, administrators explained, is to maximize the district's $311 million, 10-year investment into facilities by funneling a small portion of it - about $200,000 this year - into job creation for local residents.
According to a proposal reviewed by members of the Rockford School Board Operations Committee on Tuesday, firms bidding on the district's next four construction projects would have to commit to creating job-shadowing opportunities.
The positions would last six to eight months, pay at least $15 an hour and give low-income residents a unique job experience that could pave the way for future employment.
The proposal dictates that firms create internships equal to 10 percent of the total labor hours of the projects. The four pilot projects include the fieldhouse addition at East High School, and auditorium and other upgrades at Guilford, East and Jefferson high schools. The estimated construction costs, including materials, for the four projects is $24 million.
Firms bidding on the four projects would submit their bid for the project and an alternate bid that would include specifications for the paid internships. Ultimately, the board would vote on each bid individually and pay for the contracts using district funds.
"We're looking to create opportunities for young men and women to work on a job site," said Rockford Superintendent Ehren Jarrett. "The hope is that the experience could translate to a real significant advantage when it comes to getting a job in the field."
Only a portion of the $311 million that the district plans to spend on building improvements - the $139 million bonding authority approved by voters in 2012 - is earmarked for bricks and mortar. The rest of the money is coming from reserves and other funds that allow for greater flexibility.
Participants in the program will be evaluated and tracked to see if the effort produces results such as long-term employment.
"We want to make a very targeted investment in a program that we believe can be very helpful," Jarrett said.
Committee member Glen Turpoff, executive director of the Northern Illinois Building Contractors Association, spoke in support of the plan saying its time had come.
Members of the Operations Committee voted 4-2 in favor of the proposal. The plan heads to the School Board next week for its consideration.
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Robo Tawny
Remember Tawny Kitaen? I mean the original Tawny Kitaen. Here I go again on my own… Katie Holmes worked some Tawny Kitaen in the hair last night in New York. I'm actually kinda into it. Sucker for the 80s. Still, now in her 30s, that fringe is not a feng shui advantage for Robo. I also don't understand why she decided to wear Office Heels with this dress. Full Story
Hearing Meryl Streep
After my post on An Evening With Meryl Streep at the ROM many of you asked if there was video. This was the interview with Johanna Schneller during which Streep offered many, many memorable insights including the one about being "capable". Full Story