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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – November 19, 2012 – MuleSoft, provider of the world's most widely used integration platform, today announced another record-breaking quarter, increasing bookings 191 percent year-over-year. In Q3 2012, MuleSoft built upon strong customer momentum with notable enterprise wins across its leading Mule ESB and CloudHub platforms – including BT, Echostar, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – as well as significant expansions by existing customers worldwide.
MuleSoft continues to establish its dominance in the SaaS integration space by expanding key relationships with leading SaaS providers and systems integrators (SIs) such as Zendesk, ServiceSource, Bunchball, Cloud Forward and MetraTech. MuleSoft has built a rich network of global cloud partners that provide unique SaaS applications and services to address Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Management (HRM), Project Management, eCommerce, Social, Mobility and additional customer challenges.
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- Achieved 89 percent subscription renewals, driven by an industry-leading 94 percent customer satisfaction rate
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- Reached 4,400 user accounts and 5,700 integration apps deployed on CloudHub, the most widely used integration platform as a service (iPaaS), which is now processing over 5 million cloud integration messages per day
- Expanded the MuleSoft connector library to include a number of market-leading SaaS and enterprise applications, with instant API connectivity to Intacct, Magento, MongoDB, MS Dynamics CRM, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, Twilio and Workday
- Continued delivering on the company vision of packaged integration apps by introducing three new integration apps for Intuit QuickBooks, helping to drive connectivity for the millions of customers in the QuickBooks ecosystem
- Completed the Mule Summit 2012 series for the Fall season, visiting hundreds of MuleSoft customers and enterprises in Chicago, Gothenburg, London, Madrid, New York, Paris, San Francisco and Toronto
- Awarded with Stevie® Awards in the Tech Innovation of the Year, Company of the Year - Computer Software, and Best New Product or Service - Cloud Platform categories in The 10th Annual American Business Awards
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On Friday, McHenry County was one of 11 Illinois counties to be declared a federal disaster area as a result of last month's flooding along the Fox River.
More than 800 homes were affected, McHenry County Emergency Management Agency Director David Christensen told the McHenry County Board last week. About a quarter of them meet federal criteria for reimbursement.
The federal assistance could include grant money and loans to pay for repairs, property losses and temporary housing. McHenry Board members last month waived all permit fees through year's end related to repairing damage from the flooding.
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• Base all bids on the same criteria;
• Do not automatically pick the lowest bid;
• Do not give in to demands to make excessively large down payments, and do not make a full payment until all the work is done to your satisfaction;
• Determine whether the contractor has the proper insurance;
• Ask to see any required state or local permits, or licenses;
• Check with your local and county units of government to determine whether permits or inspections are required;
• Work with contractors who have a verifiable track record;
• Get all estimates in writing.
Additionally, Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office offers these tips:
• Call the attorney general's Consumer Fraud Hotline to check out a contractor and to learn whether any complaints have been filed against a particular business;
• Be aware that you have the right to cancel a contract within three business days if you signed it based on the contractor's visit to your home;
• In the case of disaster repair, if your insurance carrier denies coverage, you have the right to cancel the contract within five days of when your insurance carrier denies your coverage.
If you suspect you have been a victim of fraud, call Madigan's office at 800-386-5438.

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Twins designate Guerrier for assignment; recall Pressly
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN - The Minnesota Twins announced today that they will recall right-handed pitcher Ryan Pressly from Triple-A Rochester prior to tomorrow's game vs. the White Sox. Pressly has a record of 1-4, with a 2.98 ERA (60.1 IP, 20 ER), 21 walks, 63 strikeouts and six saves in 35 appearances with the Red Wings this season. The 25-year-old right-hander appeared in 49 games for the Twins last year posting a record of 3-3, 3.87 ERA (76.2 IP, 33 ER) with 27 walks and 49 strikeouts.
Additionally, right-handed pitcher Matt Guerrier was designated for release or assignment, making room for Pressly on the 25-man roster. Guerrier has appeared in 27 games for the Twins this season and has a record of 1-0, with a 3.86 ERA (28.0 IP, 12 ER), 10 walks and 12 strikeouts. He is third on the Twins all-time relief innings list with 488.0 innings pitched and fifth on the club's all-time list for appearances with 420.
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Today's Gospel reading is perhaps the best-known verse about the love of God, from the Gospel of John: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life." God's perfection is not the static, cold perfection of a mathematical algorithm, nor is his completeness located merely in his power and knowledge. His perfection and completion are most deeply revealed in relationship, in the giving of himself in ways we can only begin to comprehend.
God so loved that he gave. This essential theme is set at the start of John's Gospel: "But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God ..." (Jn 1:12). The Triune God desires that we share in his divine life and be true children of God: "Beloved, we are God's children now" (cf 1 Jn 3:1-3). How does that come about? Through a new birth, carried out by the power of the Third Person of the Trinity in the sacrament of baptism: "Jesus answered, 'Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit'" (Jn 3:5). Sacraments are not mere symbols, of course, but "efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us" (CCC 1131). By baptism — in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit — "we are called to share in the life of the Blessed Trinity, here on earth in the obscurity of faith, and after death in eternal light" (CCC, No. 265).
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Michael Buble + Christmas.... can it get any better?
28 November, 2011
Christmas Decorations
Our Christmas decorations come to you courtesy of Walmart and Hobby Lobby! Lately I've been into the rustic feel and both stores had some great stuff! The cute pinecones on the tree were from Walmart and are actually clip-ons that fit right onto the tree branches. They were under a $1 a piece and I'm actually thinking about going back to get some more! Mr. Countdown Snowman is probably my favorite! I found him at Hobby Lobby and I think he's just adorable. (Obviously I took this picture a couple days ago because now we're even closer to Christmas! Yay!) Our Christmas decorations are definitely a little sparse, but I think that's something that will change the longer we're together! After all, this is only our first Christmas together! :) Next on my shopping list is to actually go out and purchase an 'Our First Christmas' ornament!
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Thanksgiving Weekend Cont'd
I'd like to introduce you to one of my Charleston favorites... TACO BOY!
Saturday night my parents treated us to Taco Boy.
It was a perfect night for numerous reasons.
1) I was with my entire family and hubby in the same city.
2) I got a nice cold Corona Light.
3) The Charleston weather was perfect.
4) The outdoor seating allowed us to smell the salty air.
5) I was bold and tried their "Mexican Street Corn". Maybe, the second best decision of my life after marrying RC! ;) It's a deliciously fried corn cob spiced with cayenne pepper and rolled in feta cheese. To. Die. For!
Seriously, kids. If you're in Charleston please take the time to go to Taco Boy. You won't regret it! They have two locations. One downtown... the perfect end to a day of shopping. And one on Folly Beach... the perfect end to a day on the beach.
Now that I've made you all hungry, I hope you have a wonderful Monday!
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Thanksgiving Weekend
Thanksgiving Day
This year, for the first time, our families had a joint Thanksgiving dinner.
Since this is the last time for a while that RC and I will be in South Carolina for the holidays, our families wanted to have one big Thanksgiving celebration instead of making us split up the day. And we were so thankful! It was so nice to have everyone together. We're blessed that our families get along so well!
Ross and his dad playing Bocce.
My stud of a husband.
Hanging out with my "little" brothers.
The Day After Thanksgiving
My family has always had a special tradition. It's almost bigger than Thanksgiving! The day after Thanksgiving we always go to Cracker Barrel for breakfast and then head out to pick/cut down our Christmas tree! And from the picture below you can tell there are a lot of us! This was the first year RC was able to participated with us! :)
The whole loud and crazy group.
My love.
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15 November, 2011
Happy 6 Months
Today marks 6 months since we said I do! We chose to do things a little different and ate our 1 year anniversary cake 6 months early! Once we found out about our big move we realized transporting a cake overseas probably won't be the most feasible option. I'm all about traditions and I like the nostalgia of wedding memories. BUT our cake tasted delicious. It kept very well and we didn't have to worry about freezer burn and all the horror stories of a nasty year old cake. I'm thinking in another 6 months maybe we'll have a delicious German pastry.
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10 November, 2011
Showin' Your Roots
There's something RC and I both learned really quickly. When you move away from your home state 1) you miss it dearly 2) you gain even more pride in your state and 3) you want to showcase that pride.
Side note: Of course, this only applies if your from a state as a freakin' awesome as South Carolina.
In South Carolina there is a ton of state pride! We market the jank out of our state flag. You see the cute palmetto tree and crescent moon on EVERYTHING! I'm talking car decals, belts, tumblers, t-shirts, flip flops, and Columbia jackets. Basically, think of anything a college logo would be put on and that's we do for our STATE. (I think Georgia tried to the same thing with like a cute peach emblem... I don't know if it ever took off.) People are proud to be from South Carolina, and if you've ever visited you know why!
So when RC's family came to visit for his birthday they brought a lot of South Carolina with them! We now have honey from John's Island, stone ground grits from Charleston, pralines from the market, and plenty of paraphernalia. As you can tell, we were grateful and RC was very happy! :)
When you drive into any parking lot at a military installation you will see license plates from all over. You drive around post and you'll see many homes hanging the US flag as well as representing the flag of their home state. It's one of my favorite things about the Army.
I am so proud to represent the state of South Carolina.
It's where I'm from and will always be a part of me.
It's the rolling hills in the upstate and the sandy beaches on the coast.
It's the use of y'all, family values, good food, and Southern manners.
It's the love of the beach, football, and church on Sundays.
It's the rivalry between a tiger and a pesky little bird.
It's home and always will be.
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Auditions To Be Held for Theatre Victoria
Theatre Victoria is hosting open auditions for the 2013 summer musical, Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," on Monday and Tuesday at the Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Victoria. The production is directed by Scott Mohon, choreographed by Laura Klimist and music direction is by Patricia Balmer.
Registration begins at 6 p.m., and auditions start at 7 p.m. both days, according to the Victoria Advocate. Monday is dedicated to female roles and Tuesday to male roles. There are seven main female roles and eight male roles, plus a need for about 21 extras.
Actors will be required to sing 32 bars from a song and participate in the dance/movement portion of the audition. Bring sheet music or a CD for the singing portion or be prepared to sing a cappella.
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Three years and the never ending King size Cathedral Window Quilt is still in progress. I have been thinking as I go. Question.... I have never done a label so was wondering what to use? Something that would be permanent and not run. I am wanting to write on the fabric itself instead of attaching a separate label. I see all of these that can be printed on your printer but wouldn't the ink run and/or wash out? I am thinking my logo plus pertinent info. Any advice would be tremendously appreciated!


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On Aug. 19, 2004, Google Inc. began trading on the Nasdaq at an IPO price of $85 per share, and the stock has been on a winning streak since.
The company has reached the 10th anniversary of its public offering today. To mark this major milestone, here are 10 things you may not know about Google .
Most of the company's revenue is generated by advertising. Three Google products, AdWords, AdSense and Checkout, are the source of about 90% of the company\'s revenue. In the most recent quarter, Google posted revenue of about $16 billion. That\'s a lot of ads.
Many in Silicon Valley were bearish about Google\'s IPO. "I'm not buying," said Apple Inc. co-founder Stephen Wozniak ahead of Google's offering. The IPO was held up by a string of technical snags, and its expected offering price of between $018 and $135 was, at the time, astronomical by tech company standards, alienating investors who feared a deceleration in the company\'s rapid revenue growth.
Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page still control the company. Google split its class A shares on April 4, 2014, granting investors one Class C share for each Class A share they previously owned. This halved the company's $1,000-plus share price, making them more accessible for small-time investors. But the Class C shares came with no voting rights, allowing Brin and Page to retain control of Google despite owning a shrinking percentage of shares.
Google\'s public offering made instant millionaires out of 1,000 employees. No one keeps track of all the Google millionaires out there, but when the offering happened it was estimated that 1,000 employees became millionaires, at least on paper. Brin and Page are both billionaires many times over.
Google is planning to bring Internet access to the unwired parts of the world. The company plans to invest more than $1 billion in 180 small, high-capacity satellites that will orbit the Earth at lower altitudes than traditional satellites, extending Internet access to all.
Google's first "office" was in a garage. Like Hewlett-Packard and Apple Inc. before it, Google began life in Susan Wojcicki's garage on Santa Margarita Ave. in Menlo Park, Calif. Wojcicki is currently the head of YouTube. The company outgrew the office in February 1999, when it moved into its first legitimate office at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto, Calif.
Carl Page, father of Larry Page, was a computer-science pioneer. Page Sr. was a pioneering researcher in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. He received his PhD in the nascent field of computer science in 1965, then went on to develop a graduate curriculum for students of computer science at Michigan State University, where he was also one of the first faculty members of the department of computer science.
Google indexes more than 60 trillion Web pages. And the number is growing every day. 60 trillion seconds is 1,892,760 years. That's a huge number.
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State of the Union to have a Newtown tint
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will share the bright spotlight of his State of the Union speech Tuesday night with residents of Newtown and others who symbolize the debate over gun violence as lawmakers -- and Michelle Obama -- use the prime-time event to call attention to the campaign for stricter gun laws.
Rep. Jim Himes, D-4, said approximately 24 of his congressional colleagues have given their guest tickets to someone affected by a gun tragedy. Himes said he has invited Curtrina Murphy of Bridgeport. Her 3-year-old daughter was hit in the crossfire of a gunfight in Bridgeport last summer as she and Murphy walked hand-in-hand down the street in the middle of the afternoon. Himes said the youngster has recovered from her gunshot wounds.
The guest of Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5, whose congressional district includes Newtown, is expected to be Natalie Hammond, a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, who was wounded in the Dec. 14 massacre that claimed the lives of 20 children and six staff members.
One of the Sandy Hook victims' family members turned down an invitation to appear at the speech. Himes had invited Bill Sherlach, the husband of slain school psychologist Mary Sherlach. He declined, The Associated Press reported, saying he felt the event had become too political and polarizing.
Carlos Soto, the brother of Vicki Soto, a teacher murdered at Sandy Hook, will attend as the guest of Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3. "Having Carlos at the State of the Union will be a powerful reminder that the victims of gun violence are not statistics," DeLauro said in a statement.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal has invited Patricia Llodra, the first selectman of Newtown, while Sen. Chris Murphy has invited Newtown Police Department Detectives Jason Frank and Dan MacAnaspie.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she has invited a fourth-grade student from another Newtown elementary school and her mother after the student wrote to members of Congress urging them to enact gun legislation. Pelosi's spokesman, Drew Hammill, declined to identify the student or her school.
Joining Mrs. Obama in the First Lady's gallery high above the House floor will be the parents of Hidaya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl shot to death in Chicago last month.
To counter the presence of pro-gun-control guests, Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, an ardent foe of gun legislation, has invited Ted Nugent, gun-rights advocate, musician and harsh Obama critic. "I am excited to have a patriot like Ted Nugent joining me in the House Chamber to hear from President Obama," said Stockman. "After the address I'm sure Ted will have plenty to say."
Each of the 100 senators and 435 House members can invite a guest to sit in the gallery above the floor of the House chamber for the 9 p.m. address. No weapons are allowed in the Capitol building.
In the wake of the Newtown shootings, the Obama administration has endorsed a ban on assault-style weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines, universal background checks and improved access to mental health care.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and other lawmakers have introduced legislation in the House and Senate adopting those principles. Feinstein has invited a California victim of gun violence to the speech. Josh Stepakoff was 6 years old in 1999 when he was shot at the North Valley Jewish Community Center near Los Angeles. The gunman was a white supremacist who fired more than 70 rounds with a semi-automatic assault rifle, injuring five people.
Stepakoff is currently a student at California State University Northridge.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a leading gun-control advocacy group, said its supporters "hope and expect" Obama to use his state of the union speech to urge swift action on the pending gun legislation. The group said it had delivered petitions Monday to the Senate Judiciary Committee with almost 35,000 signatures from people supporting background checks on gun buyers.


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I'd wager the sister did some killing of the people close to her.
|2012-05-20, 19:02
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Chapter 8
I'm starting to wonder if we're getting a stealth harem now.
Anyway, this chapter was very fun. We manged get a bit of background on Leone as well as good dose of plot advancement. Tatsumi and Leone seem to make a really good team. The government now definitely seems like it about to get serious against Night Raid especially in the wake of losing two Generals by sending Esdes. We also have Schere and Mein about to face-off with our resident Knight Templer Seyiruu Kinta. I'm looking for to that fight.
It is the forum kinda "wonky" anyone else during posting right now or is just my pc.?
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|2012-05-22, 05:12
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After reading the English translation of 9... haah... they should've just killed off Main... Scissor girl was our initial fave... way before Esdes
But it can't be help...
Really grateful to the translator... hope this continue more along witrh the increase in popularity of the series...
Now that she's dead, it'll be some chapter after the armor guy bite the dusk...
The who will die next line of the original Gundam is really applicable in this series...
|2012-05-22, 12:03
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Chapter 9
Oh god this chapter....
Well, I was at least able to brace myself when it happened. It looks like the Empire has her Teigu too. Speaking of which Seyiruu's pretty overpowered and even it turns out she's basically cyborg.
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Well this Manga is not like any other. Most Manga, Novel, and Anime are very light heart among things into killing. Most of the time when characters do get killed, it is very light meaning no blood, chopped limbs, or in this manga giant ugly animal eating a beautiful girl. It is sort of a wake up call though, I like this Manga for that very reason. Though minus the giant animal crunching on a beautiful girl, the killing, dark stuff, or among other things interest me. It is really how life was back in the day, in the Crusades, Communism of Mao Zedong, Rule under Hitler (You really don't want to get me started on this), Rule of Saddam, Rule of Stalin, and plenty more. All of these society during these times had corrupted Government doing all sort of evil deeds. If I had to mention what those societies had, it would make this Manga look like a fluffy kitten. This Manga isn't new, so far the English translations covered up to the beginning of vol 2. In Japan however, it is on vol 5 and still ongoing. Can't seem to find any raws. By the way, can anyone give me a spoiler of Seyiruu Kinta? Does she die, because if she did I want every details surrounding it. I just don't like girls like that, how naive or brainless can you be to not realize her teacher was corrupted. whsie, I am pretty sure you know can you please answer it?
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There are many motifs to this that would generally have me pass it off like a very typical action based manga, but it stands out to me in a few ways:
1) The main character doesn't seem to have some secret, hidden power and not so weak he has to be saved at every moment. He's just a guy with some skill that is fighting to make a better world with a group of others.
2) He doesn't have some moral hesitation about killing contrary to most main characters in this genre, nor is he crazily self-obsessed. He seems like a genuinely good kid who misses his friends.
3) Speaking of those friends, in a very general cliche sense, they should have been saved at the last minute by our hero. Or he should have moped about their deaths for volumes on end. Instead he seems to deal with their loss in a very realistic manner, reflecting and looking back on good times, breaking down when he's finally alone and has someone to comfort him.
4) The world is dealt with in a pretty real way, without taking on a 'serious' art style. Concepts such as venereal disease, prostitution, slavery, rape, torture and execution are not avoided without embracing in an overly shocking manner just to elicit attention. It's a nice mixture.
I guess in general it has some cliche points, but I still find it interesting and fun to read without feeling terribly depressed.
|2012-05-22, 18:54
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Well that sorta thinks me off a lot knowing that little girl didn't get what she deserves. She fights for justice yet she is on the side for evil. My perfect death scenario of Seyiruu is she fighting off one on one with Tatsumi, gets beaten badly and Tatsumi said that he killed her beloved Captain Orge then slices her head off. You are on vol 5 right whsie, so what Manga Chapter is that? I just hope Leone and Akame doesn't die, I like her and Akame. Also the reunited Tatsumi and Edses, is that the part where she drags him into the castle after his Match with Ox Head?
|2012-05-22, 19:16
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The one killing Seyuri would be Main, or both Main and Tatsumi... or hope not a reverse in which her pet would dine on Main's flesh just like scissor girl...
The reunion is way pass v5...
Its in V6 more or less...
Akame and Tatsumi aside, almost every char has a possible death flag. But agree with you that Leone shouldn't die...
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That also makes the Manga real to us. Despite all the magic or unatural stuff that happens in there. This is what life is under a Dictator Tyrant is. People die a lot, prime example is the Dictator of Joseph Statlin, during the time he took power to the time of his death. He alone killed 30 million of his own people, makes Edses 400,000 look small. Nevertheless, like Akame Ga Kiru, there were people in the inside who tried to destroy the Tyrants. The very definition of that is Operation Valkyrie. Akame Ga Kiru is a good Manga to read, though if you are light heart among these things than it isn't the thing for you.
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Two investigations are under way into the death of a woman who was 17 weeks pregnant, at University Hospital Galway last month.I simply cannot understand why any church that calls itself Christian would teach that an incomplete spontaneous abortion can't be completed by medical assistance. For doctors to stand by and watch this beautiful young woman die in prolonged agony for the sake of their tender consciences is far beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior. First, do no harm. The medical staff could have saved one life.
Savita Halappanavar (31), a dentist, presented with back pain at the hospital on October 21st, was found to be miscarrying, and died of septicaemia a week later.
Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar (34), an engineer at Boston Scientific in Galway, says she asked several times over a three-day period that the pregnancy be terminated. He says that, having been told she was miscarrying, and after one day in severe pain, Ms Halappanavar asked for a medical termination.
This was refused, he says, because the foetal heartbeat was still present and they were told, "this is a Catholic country".
She spent a further 2½ days "in agony" until the foetal heartbeat stopped.
The dead foetus was removed and Savita was taken to the high dependency unit and then the intensive care unit, where she died of septicaemia on the 28th.
An autopsy carried out by Dr Grace Callagy two days later found she died of septicaemia "documented ante-mortem" and E.coli ESBL.
The treatment of Savita in the hospital demands an investigation, which is now in progress. The Roman Catholic hierarchy has a lot to answer for in the "Catholic country" of Ireland if its teaching demands or encourages this type of cruel treatment by doctors, whose mission it is to heal, in complete disregard for the life of Savita. How is this behavior pro-life? How is this treatment in any way compassionate? The more I think about this sequence of events, the more horrified I am.
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"It's a basic, low-tech thing that has high impact," Waleed Javaid MD says of hand washing.
Javaid is a hospital epidemiologist and Upstate University Hospital's director of infection control. With this year's flu season already under way, he reminds us that keeping hands clean helps prevent illness and infection from spreading. That's true in the hospital as well as in our homes, schools and workplaces.
At Upstate, Javaid compiles a monthly report to administrators about hand hygiene among staff, which is monitored by a mystery staff person who observes a variety of staff throughout the hospital. This person is trained to track not just whether people wash their hands, but whether they wash them adequately.
In addition, the hospital's annual training requirements include hand hygiene. Caregivers must wash hands prior to any patient contact, regardless of whether they put on gloves, Javaid says.
Hospital visitors, too, are encouraged to wash their hands. This helps protect their loved one – but it also goes a long way toward keeping visitors healthy.


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Friday, January 06, 2012
Pork tenderloin with leeks, raisins and warming spices
This was our family's last proper home-cooked lunch back in 2011. I didn't expect to like it, but I did, just like the rest of my family. You see, I had some young leeks and a pork fillet in the fridge, and a putting those two ingredients into the search box of my Estonian recipe site yielded this recipe that I had scribbled down from a Swedish Arla-site back in 2002 (Gryta med julens kryddor was it called). Pairing pork and leeks wasn't a problem, it was the addition of raisins and the spices (cinnamon and ginger) that worried me. However, a positive reader comment encouraged me to go ahead with it, and I'm so glad I did.
This is not a dish I'd be making for my family on a weekly basis, but it's definitely one I'd happily make every now and then - and perhaps even use for a casual weeknight entertaining during the cold months.
Pork with leeks, raisins and warming spices
(Jõuluhõnguline siga porruga ehk porru-rosinaliha)
Serves four
500 to 600 g pork tenderloin
2 leeks or a handful of young leeks
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
a knob of butter
200 ml whipping cream/heavy cream (a cup minus 3 Tbsp)
2 Tbsp concentrated veal stock (I used Bong's Touch of Taste)
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp soy sauce or Worcestershire sauce
4 Tbsp seedless raisins
Cut the pork tenderloin fillet into thick slices (about 2 cm each). Season with salt and pepper.
Heat some butter in a non-stick frying pan, brown the pork slices on both sides over moderate heat. Put aside.
Cut the leeks into thick slices (larger ones) or 5 cm lengths (younger ones). Add those to the pan and sauté gently.
Now add the cream, veal stock concentrate, raisins and spices to the frying pan and simmer for a few minutes.
Return the pork slices to the frying pan, cook for another 4-5 minutes until heated through.
Serve with boiled potatoes or potato mash.
3 comments:
- Pene said...
Sounds good. I would use fresh ginger root instead of powdered ground ginger - adds a unique flavour. Happy New Year, Pille!
- 10:09 am, January 07, 2012
- Moritapititona said...
I am making it today. It sounds good, wholesome and just the ticket for today's lunch. Happy new year from Spain.
- 2:32 pm, January 08, 2012
- Pille said...
Pene, fresh ginger would work well, too. As the flavour is rather different, then it'd be a bit fresher and livelier, and not such gingerbready, but still delicious.
Moritapititona - happy new year to you and yours! Did you enjoy the dish?
- 10:34 am, January 14, 2012
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WestLife needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 310 designs submitted by 75 freelance designers.
WestLife Church
-WestLife Church is a brand new church in Hillsboro, OR. Our heart's desire is to follow Jesus into communities and cultures in order to help people find life in Him, live life by His grace, and share His life with others.
-When you experience a good thing, you want to share it with others. That's what we are all about. Not buildings, not an institution, not cookie cutter people acting out religion, but people -as they are- getting to know Jesus. Pure and simple.
-If you were to come to know WestLife church you would find a welcoming, laid back time with vibrant music and relevant input from the leadership. Behind the scenes you will discover a hard-working group of ordinary people investing their lives into communities and cultures.
-One of the key elements that will make WestLife Church unique is our vision to be a multi-cultural church in a multi-cultural city. A multi-lingual team, as well as experience in many different cultures opens the door for us to be a bridge between cultures. Hillsboro's demographics are very diverse. Equality in the midst of distinction will be a mark of WestLife church.
-In summary: Find Life, Live Life, Share Life.
-Hillsboro has a very young and diverse demographic. A median age of 30 and a household size of just over 3 people shows us that the city has a large number of young families. It also has many countries making up a good portion of the population percentages.
-Our target age will be 22-35 years old, with a focus on young married couples and young families.
-Hillsboro is located on the western edge of the Portland, OR metropolitan area. It is an active city known for its parks and outdoor recreation. It was just voted as one of the top 100 cities in the US under 100,000 people to live in. Surrounded by mountains and rivers, it is a beautiful city.
-Our target group will be concerned with raising a family, being successful in their work, and being environmentally responsible. They are technologically savvy (Intel has its 2 largest campuses worldwide in Hillsboro), creative in their culture, and active in their lifestyles.
-Our target group will be culturally diverse, taking great pride in their home countries, traditions, sports, and food.
-The logo should be kept creatively simple, clear, and bold; not too busy.
-We would like to see a logo that includes both text and an icon that can stand alone to represent WestLIfe church. Many of the logos we are seeing cannot be separated.
-No religious emblems should be included in the logo.
-The logo will be used for our website, print graphics, t-shirts, and signage. We will need web and print file formats.
-Our main focus is to create a logo with the name WestLife Church. We also would be willing to see design options that would include Find Life, Live Life, Share Life with the church name.
-Please no clip art or stock images.
-Feel free to use the colors you would choose.
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Happy Friday!
I've got a lot to share with you.
First, let's get right to the pumpkin recipes!
Pumpkin pop tarts with buttermilk glaze
pumpkin & vanilla Oreo ice cream
pumpkin funnel cake crispies
pumpkin pie french toast
pumpkin walnut granola
creamy pumpkin smoothies
pumpkin muffins
pumpkin-coconut bread
pumpkin-nutella fudge puddles
pumpkin cinnamon rolls
pumpkin cheesecake buns
pumpkin quiche with caramelized onions, sage & gorgonzola
savory kale & pumpkin scones
pumpkin chocolate chip bars
pumpkin cheesecake with nutella ganache
pecan pumpkin butter rolls with bourbon cream cheese icing
2-ingredient pumpkin brownies
quick & easy pumpkin-cream cheese cinnamon rolls
Isn't this a gorgeous site? I want to go there next summer. (Surf Lodge)
Apple cider vinegar for soft/detangled hair.
Who has tried this?
Does it truly work? I'm scared to try.
Keep cats off kitchen counter.
Amusing video on how ramen noodles are made.
The best life advice from William Faulkner
Some of the best homemade egg rolls I've seen (and 3 types of sauces).
Real video (time lapse) of flight-deck. Do NOT watch if you are afraid of heights!
The evolution of the scrollbar.
4-types of breast cancer. Must read.
BPA (plastic) and your ovaries.
Photos from an airplane graveyard.
I love this tentacle cake stand. (pricey though!)
The ostrich pillow! A safe cocoon for naps.
I totally need this in my life!
Plot-toon: a battalion of toy soliders traverse the dangerous landscape of a garden vegetable patch.
(great video).
Google street view now has under the sea!
Jamy smart toaster.
Yoga for runners: 3 poses for your hamstrings.
Yoga Is: a documentary film.
chipotle chicken fajitas with black bean spread.
slow cooker Sindhi beef curry (I can only imagine how good this must smell while cooking)
chicken tikka salad
frosted speculoos cookie bars
Have a wonderful weekend!
friday links
Happy Friday!
13 comments:
Omg I want to open like ALL of those pumpkin links! And then have someone else make it all for me :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for including my pumpkin muffins! I appreciate it, and they really are amazing :)ReplyDelete
Have used ACV to rinse my hair and face since I was a kid... it works GREAT. My mom always said it restored the ph balance and removed all the crap. You do NOT smell like ACV once you rinse it out!ReplyDelete
All picx and recipes looks temptingReplyDelete
Don't be scared of the apple cider vinegar! It works wonders! You must try it immediately...I love all of the recipes as well. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the plug! I got a major pumpkin-flavored sweet tooth scrolling past all of those wonderful pumpkin creations.ReplyDelete
Dawn, thanks so much for including my slow cooker beef curry. I love the eclectic mix of links in your Friday links posts.ReplyDelete
2-ingredient brownie? Ostrich pillow? Love the octopus table!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/28/12, 11:34 PM
I put a spray bottle of white vinegar in the shower and spritz my hair all-over after shampooing. I rinse it out, but you could leave it, too. It is awesome to keep hair soft. I read somewhere that it closes the cuticle, which smooths hair out.ReplyDelete
I need to make the Sindhi Beef Curry very soon. During the winter, when I don't grill outside as often, I frequently cook Indian, Thai, Russian, Cuban, Argentine, German, French, Norwegian, and just about every other nationality food. It sounds like these slow cooker recipes are perfected so I may need to buy the book and dust off the slow cooker.ReplyDelete
Let the pumpkin parade begin!!! I just love this season!ReplyDelete
Such a delicious batch of links. Will definitely be bookmarking this post.ReplyDelete
Okay... the pumpkin goodies are making me drool! The airplane graveyards scares me because I am terrified of flying. The underwater google street maps are awesome - I can't wait to show my kiddos.ReplyDelete


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TIKAL NATIONAL PARK, Guatemala — The woman in the shorts shrieked, grabbed her ankle and crumpled to the ground as though she'd been shot.
And in a sense she had.
"A bullet ant," surmised José Elias, our unflappable guide. "If they sting you, the pain will last 24 hours. Take care."
We left the stricken woman to her friends and plunged deeper into Guatemala's steamy jungle. Birds sang madly, chaotically. Emerald billed toucans alighted in the treetops. The spooky cry of a howler monkey echoed through the forest.
Elias plucked a fragrant leaf, crushed it and slipped it under my nose.
"Wild allspice," he said.
I skittered around a watermelon-sized termite nest, then caught a glimpse of something enormous looming through the canopy.
We were approaching the heart of Tikal, a sprawling metropolis of temples, palaces and pyramids deep in the misty rain forests of northern Guatemala. Once a vibrant city-state of 100,000, Tikal now lies empty, partly buried beneath moss, ferns and vines.
"You are coming to the cradle of Mayan civilization," Elias said. "The city has collapsed, but the Mayan race has never disappeared."
Just a few hours earlier I had been aboard a small prop plane from Guatemala City streaking low over volcanoes and deeply forested mountains toward a green carpet stretching to the horizon.
As rain buffeted the plane, I flicked through William Coe's classic "Tikal: A Handbook of the Ancient Mayan Ruins," savoring the royal cast of characters: Stormy Sky, Jaguar Paw and Ah Cacao, or Lord Chocolate.
Growing up in Ohio's dreary Rust Belt, I spent countless nights immersed in stacks of World Book Encyclopedias reading of exotic lands and vanished empires.
My favorite volume was "M" for Maya, where I lingered over photos of fierce stone gods, elaborate hieroglyphs and lurid depictions of human sacrifice.
Now I was walking wide-eyed into the Great Plaza, stopping before the Temple of the Giant Jaguar as it rose 170 feet, its steep staircase ascending to a doorway crowned by a mammoth limestone block bearing the faint image of Ah Cacao surrounded by serpents.
In 1962, archaeologists discovered the tomb of Ah Cacao under the temple along with 16 pounds of jade ornaments now in the park museum. Temple II, directly opposite, may conceal his wife's grave.
I now understood Coe when he wrote that superlatives, "however florid," are justified when describing Tikal.
As grand as it now, Tikal dazzled in its heyday. The city has been called the Manhattan of the Maya and from 600 BC to AD 900 was a major force throughout Central America. Temple pyramids were painted blood red and bore massive faces of kings. Today's overgrown plazas were covered in smooth white plaster. Raised causeways connected the city. There were ball courts and bustling markets. Ultimately, drought, famine and warfare may have caused Tikal's collapse.
I climbed the Central Acropolis, poking in and out of empty rooms and imagining reclining nobles, adorned with macaw feathers, drinking cups of spiced chocolate.
It was July, black clouds gathered and there was a mighty crack of thunder. I took shelter beneath a thatched hut and came face to face with a giant stucco mask of Chaac, the rain god. Fittingly, a torrential downpour followed.
A soggy middle-aged Frenchman sidled up beside me and lighted a cigarette. We watched the storm drench the temples below.
"It is magnificent, no?" he asked quietly.
Tikal is like an iceberg, with 3,000 sites across a 220-square-mile park and far more lying beneath. The major attractions are within a 6.2-mile area and can be explored in a two-day visit.
Signs are few so hire a guide for about $20 a day — otherwise, you'll walk around in a daze. Important sites are often given ho-hum names such as Complex N, Complex P or Complex Q. I spent one day with a guide and the next on my own.
Wandering through a monkey-filled jungle and stumbling across mossy palaces and monstrous faces of rain gods pretty much defines adventure for me. All that was missing was a golden idol and guys with blow guns. Guatemala is beguiling that way. It is home to dozens of Maya ruins, but scientists say entire lost cities are waiting to be found.
The rain stopped and I headed down a dirt path, serenaded by thrumming cicadas. Brilliant yellow orchids and scarlet bromeliads sprung from sapodilla trees. The heady aroma of Spanish cedars flooded the forest.
A helpful sign warned that howler monkeys liked to defecate on the heads of visitors "to show their presence and scream loudly."
I emerged into Complex Q with its twin, flat-topped pyramids. Centuries ago, priests stood atop them, recording the movements of the heavens. When Venus appeared in the morning sky, scholars say, the Maya sometimes launched wars against other cities.
The Maya calendar is so precise that some believe it predicts that the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012.
I asked Douglas Quinones, a Guatemalan expert on Maya cosmology, about that. He declared it "nonsense."
"Some scholars say there is a glyph that shows the time the world will end, but there is no glyph tied to the end of the world," he said. "Additional writings found recently at Uaxactun show the Maya calendar extending out at least another 5,000 years."
I walked through an arched doorway to a stone stele bearing the image of Chitam, ruler of Tikal about 771. A bound captive was etched into the altar in front. He may have been decapitated or his heart may have been torn out on this very spot. A chilling thought, made more so by the fact that I was alone except for a curious coatimundi, a long-nosed relative of the raccoon, and a solitary turkey. Jaguars roam here, but I didn't see any.
I explored the Palace of the Windows and climbed Temple IV for spectacular views of pyramids piercing the jungle. As the sun faded, I grabbed the last seat in a crowded minivan for the 45-minute trip to my hotel. Villagers sold tortillas and coconuts along the way. Guatemalan soldiers toting Israeli assault rifles patrolled the road to deter robberies.
Like most visitors to Tikal, I stayed in Flores, a tranquil island in Lake Petén Itzá with pastel-colored hotels and houses. In 1697, it was Tayasal, the last Maya kingdom to fall to the Spaniards.
After showering off layers of Deet, I headed up a cobblestone street to a radiant white church overlooking the lake. A cool breeze rippled the water. Maya women in woven purple skirts sipped beer under orange trees.
I had dinner that night with Al Stenstrup and Maria Ghiso of the Rainforest Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to the conservation of rain forests. Mayrena Morales Puga, a local teacher and conservationist, joined us.
They told me this region, the Petén, was part of the Maya Biosphere, the largest continuous rain forest north of the Amazon. It is home to ancient cities such as Yaxha, Uaxactun and remote El Mirador. When the Maya ruled, it was more savanna than jungle.
We talked into the night about Tikal. Ghiso recalled being trapped in a hut during a storm as two guides hotly debated the Maya collapse.
But Puga saw something we didn't. We saw the remains of a dead city; she saw a mystery that was very much alive.
"They call Tikal the city of voices," she said. "I feel it's trying to tell me a story even if I can't always understand what it is."
I asked about those apocalyptic predictions. She said perhaps her ancestors were leaving a message tied to their demise.
"Maybe they felt if people used up the forest and water at the rate they did the world really would come to an end," she said. "Maybe it was a warning. Nobody knows."


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YREKA – A passenger in a vehicle that was involved in a collision at the Oberlin and Fairlane Road intersection Wednesday reportedly fled the scene, and was later arrested on a warrant.
Robert Morrison, 43, of Hornbrook, was charged with failure to appear on felony charges, possession of controlled substance paraphernalia and obstructing a public officer.
According to Yreka Police Department (YPD) Lt. Dave Gamache, authorities were dispatched to the intersection of Fairlane and Oberlin roads at approximately 11:54 a.m. upon receiving a report of the collision.
Gamache said Susan Pindell, 64, of Yreka, was traveling northbound on Fairlane Road in a 2007 Dodge pickup with an attached trailer. She made a stop at the Oberlin Road intersection. While she was attempting to turn west onto Oberlin Road, she pulled in front of an eastbound 1983 Ford Mustang, driven by Raul Mario Mercado, 45, of Yreka. Mercado collided with the Dodge.
No injuries were reported as a result of the collision, stated Gamache.
According to the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office (SCSO), Morrison was traveling with Mercado when the collision occurred, and he allegedly fled on foot before officials arrived.
Gamache said YPD officers attended to the traffic collision while the SCSO launched a search for Morrison, and arrested him shortly thereafter.
Pindell was found to be responsible for the collision, although Gamache said she was not cited. Rather, Mercado was cited for driving on a suspended license and for not having insurance.
Morrison is being held in the Siskiyou County Jail on $50,000 bail.
According to online court documents, a warrant was issued for Morrison's arrest after he failed to appear for a court hearing. His court appearance was for a case in which he was charged with transporting a controlled substance along with special allegations for prior drug offenses.


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Table of Contents: February 2008
Best Values 2008
It's what every traveler wants: a hotel that delivers a quality experience without charging exorbitant rates—in other words, a great value. Here's our list of TripAdvisor's Top 100 Best Value hotels around the world, with quotes from travelers who have actually stayed in them.
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Under the Alentejan Sun
Friendly people, beautiful countryside, and delicious food and wine.... The Alentejo region of southern Portugal has everything that those famous areas in Europe have—except the crowds.
Portugal menu decoder
Have You Ever Been Chill?
There's no better place to just hang loose than the perpetually mellow town of Cabarete, on the Dominican Republic's northeast coast.
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Who Says D.C. Is Dull?
A new slate of after-hours restaurants and bars is turning the nation's capital into a hip night spot, and keeping the locals out late.
'Til Travel Do Us Part
Eight couples share ideas on how to make the most of traveling together—and avoid big fights on the road.
Contest: Ever nearly break up while traveling?
Driving Into the Blues
The Civil War is a recent memory and blues legends loom large in the cotton fields and swamp towns of the lower Mississippi Delta.
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40 Best
The Grand Canyon by train, the Moscow Circus, South Africa's Zulu villages, and more.


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I've been thinking about compassion lately. People keep asking me about it because Buddhist teachers are supposed to talk about compassion all the time. But I hate talking about things I'm supposed to talk about. Whenever some idea starts wending its way through a culture it very quickly turns into a cliche and dies. Compassion died a long while ago.
Which isn't to say that compassion itself is dead or cliche. It's just that once a word gets sent through the ringer of approved pop culture opinion a couple of times all the life is wrung out of it and we're stuck trying to find new ways of expressing the same notion.
In my search for a better way to talk about Buddhist compassion, especially as Dogen describes it, I've come up with the cumbersome and pretentious phrase, "conscientious selfishness." It sucks. I hate it.
But I think it might be a better way to look at that something we've been calling compassion. It seems to me that the way most people approach this idea of compassion is to create an image in their minds of the ideal compassionate person, who usually looks an awful lot like themselves. Then they ask, "What would a compassionate person do?" and make their efforts to mold themselves into the image they've created.
A lot of the time this activity manifests in an attitude of, "I hate doing this, but I'm doing it for your sake!" Anyone who has ever been the recipient of action taken with that kind of an attitude knows how miserable it feels.
But I don't think that's what Dogen was on about when he wrote about compassion. He said that compassionate action was "like a hand reaching back to adjust a pillow during the night." It's a very interesting image that I've written about probably 243,572 times.
A hand reaching back to adjust a pillow sounds kind of like selfish action. It's not what we usually imagine our idealized compassionate spiritual superbeing doing. He's supposed to save the whales, and feed the children, and shelter the homeless. What would he be doing adjusting his pillow just to make sure he slept OK?
But taking care of yourself is where compassion begins. The seemingly "selfish" action of doing zazen every morning and night doesn't seem very heroic. But the effects of regular zazen practice help everyone that practitioner comes in contact with.
In a way it's like sex. I don't know if you've noticed this, but pay attention the next time you're getting hot and heavy with your special someone. The very hottest things your lover can do while you're getting it on are usually the things he or she does to get him/herself off without any specific regard for you.
When you're getting intimate with someone you love, you care deeply about that person. So your selfish actions in that context are always taken with a caring attitude toward the one you're with. And yet it's far more erotic when your lover forgets about you and focuses on him or herself. This is a kind of compassion.
I'm gonna save the rest of this particular tangent for my forthcoming book about Zen and sex (available from New World Library in 2010). But I think this is very valid.
All truly compassionate action comes from this kind of attitude, when you care deeply for others and yet do what feels best for you.
Anyhow, what felt best for me last weekend was a trip out to Vasquez Rocks where the famous battle between Captain Kirk and the Gorn took place. Here are the photos to prove it!


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Stephen Bose needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 128 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
iCetana is a start-up software company that is passionately developing innovative software products that learns and analyses complex motion from multiple input streams in order to detect abnormal movement in real-time. The initial focus of the anomaly detection technology is in the field of Video Content Analytics, particularly in the area of public security video surveillance. Our current project is targeted towards B2B and government clients.
Based in Perth, the company will be looking to market its products globally and currently has less than 10 employees but growth approx 25+ people is on the horizon.
Target Market and Audience:
We are looking to market to the following industries:
• Transport companies and authorities that include airports, railways, roads & traffic and port & marine.
• Government organisations such as local governments and city councils
• Defence
• Hospitality and Retail
• Corporate and Enterprise including mining and manufacturing
In all of the above organisations, we will be interacting with most business and corporate users including CxO level executives, technology managers and engineers.
Since our technology is difficult to explain to lay person we will be looking to include some form of animation (NOT FLASH) on the homepage that will visually represent how our technology works.
We are looking for home page design and a general page template can be used for a consistent look and feel. The design to be provided in layered Photoshop PSD format for our team to code.
The design needs to be instantly appealing, so that the potential customers stay on the site, but also present the content in a clear, professional and logical manner.
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Brian L needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 209 designs submitted by 41 freelance designers.
TwoGun Media
We are in need of a new logo to replace our old logo that is attached to this brief.
TwoGun Media, LLC is mainly a web development company. We pride ourselves in providing a high quality service to clients who appreciate our attention to detail and exceptional customer service. The new logo should reflect this professionalism while also having a bit of a "web 2.0" feel to it.
Our target audience is businesses in need of web applications or complete makeovers of existing websites.
Logo must be clean and not overly complex.
Horizontal orientation is preferred over square or vertical orientation, though these may be considered if they are very creative.
Final logo should be provided to us as both an Illustrator compatible vector file and as a high res .tif file.
Colors should be professional looking. Blues and greens are preferred but don't let that limit creativity.
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Liberty News
Liberty gets high marks for Financial Aid processing
Liberty University's Financial Aid Office had reason for celebration today as it was announced that the university has received a 100-percent clean audit on all financial aid operations this year.
Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. met with the Financial Aid staff and other support offices to recognize this first-ever achievement.
"This is an amazing accomplishment," he told the staff. "Liberty is becoming a model other colleges are looking at for how to succeed, how to make education more affordable, more accessible, and what you do is a big part of that."
The annual audit was conducted by Goodman and Company, which reported "… we concur that Liberty University was compliant with federal requirements and there is no finding to report."
Rob Ritz, Executive Director of Financial Aid, congratulated his staff, who helped process $544 million in aid last year; $375 million was federal money.
"It's better to know that behind closed doors, where no one is looking, where students and parents don't trod, that we're doing things right, actually we're doing them better, especially in light of what's going on [illegally] in other financial aid institutions."
Vice Chancellor Ron Godwin also spoke at the celebration, commenting on how the Financial Aid Office was redesigned, from the bottom to the top, to accommodate the anticipated growth of the university. The office went from 51 to 140 staff.
"Having gotten our Financial Aid house in good order, it allows us now to continue dramatic growth with the confidence that we will be able to handle these additional students," he said.
Ritz said that as the largest private university in the country, Liberty is processing four or five times more money per year now than it did just four years ago.
Chris Johnson, Vice President of Enrollment Management, said the clean record is a result of the cooperation of many departments.
"Financial Aid is being honored, but we work very closely with the Registrar's Office, Student Accounts and other divisions here at Liberty that have to partner and work together in order for it to be a clean audit, to keep us in good standing."
Ted Whitney, Executive Director of Business Intelligence, said the audit's findings are a blessing.
"I think God has really blessed our university because we do things correctly. I think he honors that."


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Our alliance with the AAP has resulted in the development of several simulators designed to support the Newborn Resuscitation Program (NRP), e-learning programs, and the suite of Helping Babies Survive educational modules.
Jhpiego is a non-profit health organisation affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. Laerdal Global Health supports Jhpiego in developing and implementing the Helping Mothers Survive Programs.
Laerdal has worked with the British Heart Foundation for over a decade, and formalised their relationship in 2014 with the Nation of Lifesavers initiative. This collaboration aims to ensure that CPR skills are learnt across the nation, through schools, workplaces and in the community and has resulted in over 148,000 of Call Push Rescue Mini Anne CPR kits utilised. Laerdal and the BHF continue to work together to develop programmes and activities to achieve our aligned missions.
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For 20 years, Laerdal has worked with Philips Healthcare on projects like HeartStart automated external defibrillators and Q-CPR technologies.
Laerdal is the strategic partner of the NLN for patient simulation training for nursing education in the United States.
Stavanger Acute medicine Foundation for Education and Research (SAFER) was established in 2005 together with the University of Stavanger, Stavanger University Hospital and Laerdal Medical. In 2016 alone, training activities surpassed 12,000 participant days.
The Global Resuscitation Alliance (GRA) is a global network of experts focused on collaborating to increase survival from sudden cardiac arrest. The participants commit themselves to the goal of increasing survival rates by 50 percent.


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The Evolution of Organizational ProcessBy Diana Mirakaj | Posted 2009-12-08 Print
For as long as formalized management studies have existed, organizational processes have needed improvement.
Despite a multidecade focus, business-technology processes in many companies are unmanaged, invisible and unmeasured.
Consequently, they are executed haphazardly and inconsistently. This results in delays, errors, low quality and high overhead costs. Such unmanaged processes cannot detect and adapt to changing market conditions—and that can be fatal in today's business environment.
There are countless reasons for this continuing breakdown. Principal among them is that many processes cross an enterprise's internal and external boundaries as part of business networks and, therefore, they become the province of no one.
In most cases, there are no single point-of-responsibility process owners. Although there are some recent exceptions to this state of affairs in best-practice companies, surprisingly few enterprises currently have managers for their key processes.
These realizations have led to a new perspective on business processes and their technology enablement. This perspective is based on new business-technology capabilities, the increasing need for real-time metrics, and the adoption of an external orientation that is customer-focused and interorganizational.
Terms used to describe this state include "the real-time enterprise," "the on-demand organization," "business-process fusion" and the "service-oriented enterprise." The basic requirements of this perspective include the following:
1. A service and customer emphasis: All processes have a customer for what is produced, whether that is an internal (employee) or external (market) customer. From a customer's perspective, the delivery end of a process chain is a service. To view a process as a service requires asking what solution it provides or what problem it solves, rather than asking how it does what it does (which is a process viewpoint).
2. Rule-based business process management: A rule-based approach establishes guidelines that coordinate the relationship among activities and tasks along an entire process chain. A rule-based approach helps prevent the processes that collectively produce customer services from becoming fragmented.
These processes are typically a mixture of digitized and manual activities that span many functional areas and their associated automated applications. Moreover, the processes that deliver value to the end customer will generally extend beyond the firm into the business network.
3. Event-spawned metrics: Process orchestration makes it possible to monitor event data across the entire process chain. With this potential for fine-grained event and status visibility comes a new set of issues to be reconciled. These include determining what metrics are appropriate, at what level of aggregation, and to whom they are delivered and in what form.
At the same time, compliance issues such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act increasingly focus on, if not demand, the reporting of noncompliant events and deviations from prescribed operating rules. Finally, having real-time, end- to-end process status information permits continuous business optimization.
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