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Britain's prized AAA credit rating remains under "significant pressure", the Fitch rating agency warned this week. David Riley, the head of global sovereign ratings at the agency, said Chancellor George Osborne's admission in last month's autumn statement that he would miss his 2016 target date for public debt to start falling had been a "negative event" for the UK.
While he stressed that a downgrade of the AAA rating was not a "decided event", he said that Britain remained "vulnerable" to fresh economic "shocks" elsewhere in the world.
"There is increasing concern that the fiscal consolidation is happening more slowly, that the economy isn't recovering as quickly as we had hoped," he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One.
"This does leave the UK quite vulnerable either to a worsening of the situation in Europe or some kind of shock coming from the United States or elsewhere.
"It does mean that its AAA rating is under quite significant pressure".
While he said that there were still some strong underlying economic "fundamentals" to support the AAA rating, the situation could change if the Budget in March showed a further weakening of the public finances.
"If we were, following the Budget, to see that the debt is going up even higher than we currently project and is going to peak even later than we currently forecast, then that would put a lot of pressure in terms of the UK AAA rating because essentially, on a very broad measure, it would mean that the UK Government is projecting a debt level of 100% of GDP," he said.
"And in our view that is not really consistent with the UK retaining the AAA rating".
Any downgrade to the UK's rating would be a huge blow to Osborne who has placed great emphasis on the importance of maintaining the AAA status.
It would also mean that the UK Government would potentially face higher borrowing costs on the international markets, adding to the pressure on the public finances.
Earlier in the week Fitch said that the United States faces a material risk of losing its triple-A status if there is a repeat of the wrangling seen in 2011 over raising the country's self-imposed debt ceiling.
The credit rating agency also targeted Spain and warned that the EU member will continue to face downgrade risks even if it avoids having to ask for a bailout, while Ireland could claw its way back into the single-A rating band if a deal is struck to share the burden of its banking debts.
Despite December's deal by US politicians in Washington to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff of spending cuts and tax hikes, Fitch's head of sovereign ratings, David Riley, said pressure on the country's rating was increasing.
Riley said the United States did not need the same kind of super-strength austerity some major developed economies are currently implementing because it was grinding out more economic growth than other high-debt nations.


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I was racing the oncoming semi trucks and beating them -- the speed limit is 65 on the main road there.
55'' that is a "Big Girl"..lol
The S/C is 42''iirc and that seems big to me.lol
Is it foam construction...i would be a bit nervous of crashing it if it is balsa.
Nice dragons!
How old are they..
They are cool creatures!!!
Since the first plane I flew was a 4ch, 'The Big Girl', I know what to expect from a 4ch. After flying the T-28 for a solid week or two, Im gonna fix the big lady up and get her up. I think Ill be more comfortable with 4ch after flying the T.
One more day guys...
Thats awesome Ridge! I have a buddy who took an old deli display case stood it up right and made his iguana housing out of that. It looks awesome. Another friend of mine has a Nile Monitor as well and that thing is mean as all get out! I got to watch him feed him a live mouse once and it bashed it up against the glass and everything. I think I even have a picture of him latched onto my buddies finger. And I got him at about a month old back in august so in July hell be 1 year. I dont see him getting much bigger. The biggest they get is 24 and mines sitting heft at 19 inches. I let mine run around on my bed and on the floor. He likes to hop onto my laptop and hang on the screen like you saw. He would eat any bug that moves but hes kept to meal worms and superworms. And he gets kale everyday. And of course eats it all. My cat and him have intense stare downs at times and actually my cat has started to pull the screen out of the lid by laying on it... got a video coming for ya. Oh yeah, the ST is EPO lol
Here ya go, I just took it with my phone so that should explaine the quality, kinda cool. Since I hand feed him alot everytime I put my hand in he tries to stick me lol
And once I get a plane to fly ill make a hat cam and be able to take some videos and actually contribute haha
Thanks for taking the time to do that video!!
He thinks your thumb is a big worm!..lol
Look at him all tall and scary looking!!..lol
Sure thing man, I like showing him off. They are a unique thing to see and interact with. Whenever I put my hand in his tank he thinks he is getting fed, which is usually the case. It might take him a couple times to realize I dont have food. And when I take his dish out he knows hes getting food so he hops down from his basking log. And ugh, crickets. I went through a box of 500 every week and a half from the time he was about one month till about 6 months and they stunk so I moved straight to worms. Much easier.
Beardies arent mean at all, its wierd to say but they almost have thier own personality. Everyone in a while Ill take him out when he doesnt want to be out and hell puff up at me with a jet black beard. But he has never bitten me or anything.
If I can get away with it, my next one is going to be a black and white argentine tegu. Those things are awesome.
Well guys, in a little over 36 hours, I should have a t-28 lol
The Carnage Continues...
My dog is finally coming around and trying to get up and walk. He's been down for 2 weeks and has lost a lot of his leg strength and I don;t know how to get him up and walking again. He needs rehab therapy!
My bad: Yesterday, I put him on a blanket and carried him out back so he could do his bid-ness. I didn't see the red ant mound next to him because it was under the grass. When I went out to get him a half-hour later, he had rolled away from those nasty ants, but they had attacked him and were all in his belly fur and under his tail.
I was so PO'd at myself!!!
I frantically called Karen to come out and help me. We got him on the patio and we each got stung about 5-6 times each while we picked those lil' bass--turds out of his fur.
Then we washed him with a lot of soap & water and toweled him off. He seemed fine - almost resilient - while Karen and I have been itchin' like crazy for the last 20+ hours.
Needless to say, I had revenge on my mind as I dumped an entire cup of red ant killer on that mound and then put the hose on it so the poisoned water would seep down inside and kill their queen red ant be-yotch.
Then the heat got so bad (94º) that our AC units decided to go on vacation.
The inside temperature of our house quickly shot into the 80s. So I had to call for an AC tech to come out. All he found was a burned out breaker on both air handlers. But those breakers and the diagnostics put me out $150!
That woulda bought a nice, new PZ T-28D! HA HA!
We also had a huge brush fire and a fatality that shutdown Interstate 95 for a good part of the day. So it was impossible for me to get from my house to the big CVS flying field.
Plus a kid got attacked by a shark over in Pensacola.
(When I worked on the BP Oil Spill clean-up over there, we used to watch 4-6 foot sharks cruise by in small packs every day @ 11-noon - like clockwork. They don't tell the tourists about this little habit the sharks have! )
You might be wondering why I'm posting-away at 5AM?
Well, I found out that a bunch of guys go over the Riverside Park on Friday mornings to fly RC planes. But because it's only a block from the Atlantic shore, they go early before the winds arrive.
So I have my lipos all charged-up and the 55" Cessna "Big Girl" has been checked out and ready to go!
If it's too crowded, I'll just shoot across town to the CVS field where the Rotorhead dude will be waiting for some company.
Okay, enough babbling -- gotta get ready to fly. Literally.
Went out flying today, with some of my students (I fly, and also teach others too aswell) and took out my FMS Spitfire, Mustang, BF-109, Stuka and my J3 Cub. All my micro's were flown, and one kid crashed my little champ, and what was left was the electronics. Replacement airframe, sounds lovely!
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Uh, watch out for rattlesnakes.... I breed dogs, and had a rattler come up to the kennel, and bite a puppy that was inside of the cage, I guess it stuck its head out to sniff the snake when it was bitten. Died about 30 minutes later but so did the snake
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Just labradoodles @ the moment.
This is Vader, he is a F-2 (doodle to doodle) He goes everywhere with me. This pic isn't up to date. He is bigger now, and has had his summer hair cut.
You'll see him wander around in my videos. Very smart dogs....
I don't own his dad, just his mom. She is peddler, 6 year old F-1. (lab to poodle)
Never heard or seen a labradoodle before.
What is that crossbreed known for?
Must be pretty smart..poodles are smart and so are labs...how about their fur...is it the kind people are not allergic to?
Today i will try and get the stock motor back in the champ...again
Already installed it once after removing the brushless...but did not add enough right thrust and it didn't fly very well...plus all the hot glue.
And there are no bare fuselages in stock at any lhs around..HH says out of stock till july...time to get the dremel out and try and get that hot glue out of there!..lol
I have been bitten all over my feet and lower legs by fire ants before.....i feel bad for you pooch...hope you killed those little sob's!!
Saw the fires on the news,tough job those firefighter have in that heat...don't know how they do it.
Hope you are able to get some video this morning!
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Known for? Laying around, not chasing the ball when it's hot, sleeping all day, chasing birds, squirrels, and rabbits. Stuff like that They are good therapy dogs, and dogs to have around kids. Just a pet..
You can get some crazy hair styles when breeding them, I had one that was chocolate with a wool type hair. Kinda like a afro, on a lab
Poodles don't shed and are hypoallergenic. Labs are the opposite. So its kind of a crap shoot.
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Wife Barrett delivered son Rhys Edward McIntyre at 9 p.m. Sunday in Los Angeles, the singer's rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively. "He and his mom are both rock stars," McIntyre, 36, Tweeted on Monday.
Rhys weighed in at 7 lbs., 10 oz.
McIntyre and Barrett, who announced the pregnancy in July, are already parents to elder son Griffin Thomas, 2.
Will the family continue to grow? "I think we have a deal to keep going until we have a girl," laughs McIntyre. "That's what my wife says."
Here We Go Again, McIntyre's latest solo work, is now available on iTunes. On Sunday, the singer will join the New Kids on the Block for a holiday concert in their Boston hometown.
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After spending last weekend trying unsuccessfully to lure Oregon coach Chip Kelly to Cleveland, Browns owner James Haslam and CEO Joe Banner are considering Montreal Alouettes coach Marc Trestman.
This is an interesting and creative mix to the coaching search. Trestman has a long NFL history dating back to 1985, when he was the running backs coach for the Vikings. He was the offensive coordinator for the Browns (1989), 49ers and Raiders.
Trestman, who got his coaching start as an assistant at the University of Miami in the early 1980s, returned to the college ranks in 2005 to serve as offensive coordinator at North Carolina State. In 2008 he became coach of the Alouettes.
Trestman worked with quarterback Bernie Kosar in college at Miami and for two seasons with the Browns (1988-89). Kosar has always touted Trestmam's intelligence and would undoubtedly put in a good word for him to Haslam and Banner.
Trestman is well-respected in coaching circles. His name has been rumored to head coach openings in the past, but for whatever reason he's never been able to land a job.
The fact that his name surfaced so quickly after Kelly decided to remain at Oregon bodes well for him. Hiring a coach from the CFL might not sell well to the fan base, but Haslam and Banner can't be too picky at this time.
They have to find the best man for the job and not worry about public criticism. That's going to happen no matter which person is the Browns next coach.
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The biological clock is ticking for reality star Adrianne Curry – but it's not hers, it's husband Christopher Knight's! "If we start having [kids] soon [he's] not going to get decrepit like Mick Jagger," the ever-outspoken Curry told reporters Tuesday night. "When his kid hits his teens [he'll] be dead. I don't want that and we won't have that if we have kids in the next few years."
And what brought on the sudden need to add on to the family? Knight's landmark 50th birthday on Nov. 7. (The America's Next Top Model winner and Brady Bunch star, who met on VH1's Surreal Life, married in Santa Barbara last year.)
"When he turned 50, I realized that I don't want him to be anymore ancient than he has to be when our kids are getting [older]," said Curry, 25, speaking at the launch party for Electronic Arts' "Need for Speed ProStreet" game launch party at Hollywood club Les Deux. "Like how much does Mick Jagger run after his 4-year-old? Think about it. Probably not at all."
Knight chimed in: "We want to have the kids before I'm in the crib with them."
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The Poetics and Politics of the Powwow
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Peter Hassrick is an art historian specializing in Western American art. He was director of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center from 1976-1996, serving as curator of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art for ten of those years. He is the founding director of the Georgia O'Keefe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is also the founding director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma. He has written and spoken extensively on Western American art including such topics as Frederic Remington, upon whom he is a recognized expert, Charles M. Russell, and others. He received an M.A. in History of Art from the University of Denver.
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Spurs devoid of defensive backbone in 113-101 loss to Heat
The Miami Heat welcomed the Spurs back to their personal house of horrors with a 113-101 drubbing on Sunday afternoon that was far worse than the final score indicated. The defending champions shot 58 percent against a porous San Antonio defense devoid of its backbone, the highest such number against the silver and black this season, and the Spurs fell to 1-10 against the NBA's elite.
Crumple this box score up and throw it out the window.
San Antonio was a shell of the team we saw toe the line of a fifth title seven months ago. The injuries have piled up, beginning with Tiago Splitter (shoulder) in early January, Danny Green (finger/hand) in the middle of the month and, most recently, Kawhi Leonard (finger/hand). While they've managed to consistently stick it to the lesser teams, the Spurs have been exposed against top competition; and it's not because they can't score on anybody, it's because they can't stop anyone from scoring on them.
The Spurs are allowing 102 points per 100 possessions in January, which isn't all that bad. But when they've matched up against the league's best this month, it's been a defensive disaster. San Antonio has given up 111.5, 118 and 125.8 points per 100 possessions in three games against the Portland Trail Blazers, Oklahoma City Thunder and Heat, respectively, over the last 10 days. These are miserable numbers for an NBA team regardless of who's on the floor, but the Spurs are missing all three of the pieces that transformed them into a title contender in the first place.
At the end of the 2010-11 season, San Antonio was exposed so brutally it truly felt as if its run of brilliance had come to an end. The big, physically imposing Memphis Grizzlies — an eighth seed — pushed and shoved around the 61-win, top-seeded Spurs in the first round of the playoffs, overpowering an aging Duncan and a smallish perimeter group that lacked any defensive presence or physicality.
George Hill was running alongside Tony Parker in many two-guard lineups, and a broken-armed Manu Ginobili would fill in at small forward when Richard Jefferson needed a rest or became inept by the end of the six-game series. To compete against the best, the Spurs knew they had to get Duncan some youthful help on the interior and restock the perimeter with bigger athletes. At that time, Splitter didn't get court time until the end of the series and Green — on a call-up from the D-League — logged only a few minutes throughout the first round.
San Antonio had become a fast-paced, elite offensive team, but it had moved away from the title-winning defense Gregg Popovich required. That changed. By painfully parting ways with Hill (a coach's favorite) to acquire Leonard, the Spurs instantly upgraded their personnel grouping, and along with the development of Splitter and Green it took a middling defense to an elite level over the next year. This season, the Spurs are allowing just 91.7 points per 100 possessions when those three are on the floor together — an exceptional number.
That trio of players gave San Antonio its spine back, and it allowed Duncan to rejuvenate himself as he approaches his late-30s. The Spurs would have never been able to do what they did last season without these three players, so any measurement that's being taken of this team's current level of success must be explained with a major caveat or three.
This isn't to say San Antonio has no issues. The seamless fluidity we saw on both sides of the ball during the 2013 postseason has been noticeably absent in some capacities, even prior to this recent rash of injuries. But it's difficult to take much away from NBA basketball in December and January, especially when the team concerned has more playoff experience than any other in the league.
Rebuilt on a defensive foundation, the Spurs are now missing three of their top four defenders. And there's an interesting dynamic at play in San Antonio. This is a team that features many specialty players and a bench whose identity is based on scoring points, not playing great defense. With hardly a high draft pick to speak of over the last decade and a half — outside of Duncan, Leonard is the highest-drafted Spur at No. 15 — the Spurs haven't built up a base of big athletes to create depth of that sort on the roster, nor have they had the money and cap space to pursue anything more than low-cost "system" guys who fit in, culturally and schematically.
With all the offensive players the Spurs have in their arsenal, they can afford for one or two of them to go down for short stretches because the next man up is capable of filling in. But you're now seeing the difference when Leonard and Green go down. Instead of the 6-foot-7 small forward with a 7-foot-3 wingspan, San Antonio is forced to slide Marco Belinelli to the 'three' and start 6-foot-3 (with shoes on, maybe) Cory Joseph next to Parker. Against the explosive wing scorers that exist out West, it's a problem.
The Spurs played several minutes worth of four-guard lineups in their loss to the Heat, which was a result of necessity more than anything. Belinelli isn't the ideal small-ball 'four,' I hate to say it. Without the length of Splitter, Leonard and Green, you'll find plenty of high school teams around the country more physically imposing than San Antonio seemed at times on Sunday. Defense, depth, size, level of talent — it's all affected by the absence of the three injured Spurs. They were having a hard enough time beating the "big boys" as it was, so patience must be preached in this situation.
Miami's American Airlines Arena perhaps induced nightmares for many of the Spurs upon their first regular-season visit to the place that so recently claimed their title hopes. But the mental images from June weren't of the injury-riddled team that took the floor on Sunday, they were of Leonard's 19 points and 16 boards in Game 7, Green's record-breaking 3-point performance and Splitter's … um … well let's not talk about Tiago.
One by one these players will soon return from injury; until then, just take your lumps, San Antonio fans. Luckily the Spurs built that cushion to start the season, because every NBA team is bitten by the injury bug at some point. In the shootout atop the Western Conference, it will come down to who can keep their ship righted through chaos or even eliminate it altogether.
The Spurs might lose some games while their trainer's room remains full, but through Popovich's system and veteran leadership, they'll never lose their heads.
- Tim Duncan was at least one guy who picked up where he left off in Miami. He was fantastic in this one, putting up 23 points in 24 minutes. The Heat really do not have an answer for Duncan, something that could once again be a major factor in the future if both teams get their minds right.
- Manu Ginobili was … ugh. He went 1-for-7 from the floor and has now hit just five of his last 22 shots since that 29-point outburst against the Blazers. Yesterday wasn't pretty, but really it wasn't pretty for anybody.
- I already hit on this in the column, but man is this team tiny on the perimeter without Leonard and Green. That Mills-Joseph-Nando-Belinelli-Ayres lineup we saw late in the game was cringeworthy. That player combination couldn't stop a runaway toddler.
- The Spurs haven't lost two consecutive games all season, but that streak is in danger on Tuesday night in Houston. On the bright side, the starters hardly had to play against the Heat, so there's that.
- Nando is still so fun to watch when he gets a chance. Jeff Van Gundy is hilarious here, too. It's all hilarious really.


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Hey Kate. I was going to try not to write you till you got back, but here I am. I have Linda the thing I typed out that I ran past you last week, and also I wrote at the bottom I had something else to tell her, so I couldn't chicken out. I told her what I told you this weekend. She had made some comments through the letter, and I hate when she does that, because I have no idea what part she's reading. Then after I told her the other thing, she was just talking. I wish she hadn't. Then she was asking all sorts of questions about how it felt when it happened, whether it was I side or out, how I treated it, whether I could feel the scars now, etc. she said that she tore when she had one of her kids and she instantly went into shock, but she knew what it was and she had an epidural or whatever, so she couldn't feel the pain and they stitched it up. Obviously she tore the other way, but I imagine it's
similar. I told her I Was pretty sure I had a fever for a few days after, and wondered of that may be part of shock. She asked which hurt worse - that or the other. I told her when it happened I was kind of numb but it instantly made me nauseous. But healing-wise, that was worse, because at least the other cuts didn't touch anything. I told he taking a bath that night was a huge mistake, both because the pain and because the water was so bloody it was freaky. She was asking me what I
with all the bloody towels and stuff. all in all, with the questions she asked, she just got me worked up more, and then I left. She told me that there was nothing wrong with me and that this is the kind of thing that happens when something like that is done so roughly. She thought it probably happens a lot. That didn't make me feel any better. She just kept saying that she is looking forwar to when I can look at this stuff and talk about it and see it for what it is I feel so much more high strung now. And I was already feeling on edge
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She said she really wants to talk about what I wrote, but we didn't have a chance, so we will talk about it when she gets back. I don't feel. Like talking about it anymore. I feel like we spent the whole session getting me worked up and now I'm just hanging. Oh well. I'm sure I can get it to go away.
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I am so sorry. It sounds like your session was very traumatizing. Going over the attack and searching for what felt less or more painful is forcing you to think through all the pain you suffered. Comparing what felt worse brings up all those feelings and just re traumatizes you all over again. It really doesn't matter which felt worse. And the pain of childbirth is a completely different circumstance than being forced against your will to have sex. One is a happy event you choose to endure for a good outcome, the other is a horrifying event you have no choice in and that you endure to survive.
What happened to you is not something that you will ever get used to talking about. Trauma is trauma, no matter how long it has been. You may learn to live with it and not have the symptoms you have now, but it will not look better or feel better just because you talk about it a lot. I can talk all day about the abuse I suffered as a child. But I will still feel bad about what happened. I just see it in a different light now and I don't have the same symptoms as I did. That is because it was a traumatizing event. There is nothing good about it and never will be except that I survived and now it's behind me and I have moved on.
I don't want to make it worse for you by questioning what Linda did. I'm sure she has her own reasons for talking with you the way she did. But your reaction to it says that it served to hurt you more than help you and I want to respond to that. You do not need more pain than what you have already been through.
It may help you to tell Linda how you feel. Let her know that talking about your trauma in that way only makes you feel worse. It is one thing to work it through and talk about it in that context, but going back and just comparing is hurtful.
Try to feel encouraged, Shay. Linda may not have responded in a way that helped, but the fact that you were able to share this part of what happened to you means that you are progressing. You are being open about what happened, which means you are starting to accept it. That is a huge step in recovery. And your trust is improving, which is also a great sign. When you felt hurt, you reached out for help always a sign of good emotional health. So in all of this, you are doing very well.
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May 04, 2011
Revenue cycle trends in 2011
In this podcast, editor Richard Pizzi discusses the major themes that marked healthcare revenue cycle management in 2010 and what to expect in the next 12 months. He speaks with Ben Foster, a managing director in Huron Consulting Group's healthcare practice. Foster works with academic medical centers, multi-facility health systems, community hospitals and physician practice group clients to streamline and improve their revenue cycle.
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Little Mezza and I have graduated to weekly Ob appointments this week and I've been told due to his growth and wellness scan that any time from now could be "go" time, very exciting! He's measuring really well and even had a growth spurt which is all good news. He was head down during today's ultrasound and I really hope he decides to stay that way. He's still laying on his side, his spine is along my right side with his feet crossed and on my left side. I'm happy with that but I know a lot can ... [ Discover More ]
Got Balls?
Aren't they the cutest little balls you've ever seen HAHAHA!!! Sorry, no cute profile photos this time ladies because my precious boy did something amazingly cheeky... he turned. He's no longer transverse, he's head down/bum up and I'm very pleased he did it in time for the ultrasound as it makes my Ob appointment tomorrow a lot easier. Vaginal birth here I come... that is if his big head manages to make it through my pelvis.Steve couldn't be there and I promised I'd bring him some photos home ... [ Discover More ]
The unveiling…
Don't we have the sweetest little baby. We had our scan and everything went so well. Steve and I were beside ourselves with excitement. We watched the screen in amazement. So much had changed in 2 weeks. We also found out I'm actually 20wks and 3days but that may be just because we've got a rather big and long baby.Little Mez takes some of the cutest profile photos. I'm a bit of pro now when it comes to visualising what's on screen. Steve's slowly getting it, I still have to point most things ... [ Discover More ]
Our Little Alien
Cute hey! lol. We got our photos today and I love them. What I love even more is that well see Little Mez again in less than 2 weeks. Man, this cracks me up every time I see it. Steve has this pic as his screen saver at work lol.Now here's a cutie photo. So sweet and less alien-like. Mama's favourite. Steve's convinced Little Mez suck up it's rude finger during the scan but I think he's full of it. My sweet little baby would never do such a thing.Look at those big feet. Dad and Mama have the ... [ Discover More ]
I guess babies are programmed from the get-go to cause trouble.Yesterday at 5pm I had a bleed.I went to emergency.I called Steve but he was at the airport.Picking up big bosses and there was nothing he could do.I called my lovely Ob and got some reassurance and 8am appointment.I called my Wom and got some "calm".I was admitted at 5:30pm and didn't see a doctor until 10:50pm.No one even checked my bleed.I called Ob and he told me to go home.Nurses wouldn't let me leave.I was left in a bed bawling ... [ Discover More ]
Hello Mum & Dad!
Here's Little Mez, such a busy active baby. Did you know you can take a USB drive and they record the ultrasounds onto it for you?!?! We didn't but we wont forget for next time. You might be able to see in the bottom left corner that Little Mez is 13 weeks and 5 days. 14 weeks on Friday. Our Ob is really nice and I'm glad my Gyno referred us to him.This afternoon felt like information overload. So much paperwork, so much money. We talked about my overall health, previous surgeries, CIN3 and ... [ Discover More ]
The week that changed my life…
Yes, I'm pregnant and Steve is over the moon. There are a lot of details that I feel need to be shared so I'll give you some time to get over the shock of it all before I get into it... there, is that enough time? That's how I feel, I'm in complete shock. COMPLETE. SHOCK. That is our baby... I'm still getting my head around the concept let alone the idea that this tiny little being is inside me. ME. So many details, where to start... ok, I'll start from where I found out... last Thursday. Yep, I ... [ Discover More ]


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President Barack Obama is feeling really good right about now. While the economy isn't where he'd like it to be, gas prices are still outrageous, and the nation's debt continues to grow, the once beloved symbol of hope and change is looking to have a very smooth re-election. And it is not because he's doing a great job. He's still creating massive amounts of debt for the next generation to pay off, he still wants universal healthcare, and he still wants to experiment in solar power. No, what makes Obama a sure thing in November is that while Mitt Romney has done everything he can to be as acceptable as possible, Rick Santorum keeps mucking it up.
I'm a conservative. I believe in conservative values: capitalism, free trade, states' rights, the death penalty, low taxes, freedom of religion, etc. But when I look at Rick Santorum, who also claims to be a conservative, I want to puke. I want to grab a large brown bag and just let it rip. In fact, my little joke among my friends is that he's an authentic caricature of a Republican. He's his own Saturday Night Live spoof of himself. He's a nightmare.
Over the past few months we've heard him say the most inexplicable things. First, back in January, he made an obvious blunder when he told a group of reporters, "I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money." He later went onto Fox News to state that it was a blurred comment. Was he talking about the "blah" people?
In February, he decided that enemy numero uno was Satan: "Satan has his sights on the United States of America! Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition." That's right. The Devil. He wants to attack the Devil. Now, how does he plan to do this? I'm sure we'll be invading hell in no time.
The Drudge Report first reported this religious rant, and even reported his critique of evangelical Christians, when he said, "We look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles; it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it." And his Catholic Church is the city on a hill referenced in the gospels? I'd keep quiet until all the priests apologize, Mr. Santorum.
During all this, Santorum went on to declare a War on Sex as well. First, he stated back in January that the states should have the right to ban birth control and sodomy. Santorum believes that "[Birth control is] not OK, because it's a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." Santorum and his wife claim that he wouldn't ban birth control, but the fact that he rants and raves against it is problematic, to say the least.
But the cherry on top of his War on Sex is his recent promise to America that he would battle the porn industry. On his website he wrote: "America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography." He went on to explain how he plans to use the Department of Justice to fight this war. So I suppose he plans on creating a committee to sit around all day and watch porn and decide if it should be illegal? If he wants to end unemployment, he could just hire people to do that, I'm sure.
Notice how much of Santorum's fears are not about debt, terrorism or real issues. That's not the leadership we need. We need someone who sees the real problems in this country and wants to fix them.
Recently, Santorum said Obama would be preferable to Romney. That's the straw that broke the camel's back.
I wasn't the biggest fan of Mitt Romney, but now, after seeing Santorum make the GOP more laughable than it could have done by itself, I must say the cruelest thing of all to him.
President Obama would be preferable to Rick Santorum.


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1. * Commodore cracks the lineup for 60+ games and becomes a LGW cult figure after beating the snot out of someone for taking a dirty run.
* Conklin puts in a solid 25 starts and gives Jimmy some room to breathe. Five of these starts will be due to an injury to Howard, during which time he'll post a sub 2.00 GAA.
* Hudler comes in ready for the NHL, puts up 55-60 pts and quiets some of the haters.
* White comes in hot and becomes an instant fan favorite... until they realize he can't consistently score like Rafalski did (who can?).
2. * Mickey Redmond hangs up his mic at the end of this season (sad face).
1. this is one possibility that makes me really excited about the upcoming season.
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The chief executive of AstraZeneca has been masterminding the defence of Britain's second-largest drugs company from his family home in Australia after being caught on the hop by Pfizer's £58 billion hostile approach, The Times has learnt.
The revelation comes as Pfizer is preparing to sweeten its £46.61-a-share offer for the British group to more than £50 a share, which would value the business at more than £63 billion and would throw its independence into deeper doubt.
The situation has left AstraZeneca's top executives scrambling for a response. Pascal Soriot, the chief executive, spent much of the week managing the


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"When I was in high school, every year we would have a talent show," explains Colfer. "Every year I would beg the teachers to let me sing "Defying Gravity" from the musical Wicked. And every year they turned me down because I'm a boy and it was 'a girl's song.'" Sound familiar? If you watched Wednesday's show, it probably does. After Chris shared his story with Glee creator Ryan Murphy, the tale was incorporated into the story for the episode.
The similarities between Colfer, who was born in Fresno, Calif., and his character Kurt were born long before this plotline. When Colfer originally auditioned for Glee, it was to play a wheelchair-bound student. "They liked me but they didn't want me for Artie," explains Colfer, 19. After another round of auditions for a newly created character, Colfer got the part of Kurt and he found out that the role had been written for him.
While Colfer certainly doesn't have the fierce and occasionally bitchy attitude of Kurt, he does relate to Kurt's outsider edge. "I've always had a high-pitched voice and I was made fun of in high school. So over time, I've built a tough exterior," explains the actor. Now, Colfer enjoys "speaking to a group of kids who have never heard their voice before on television."
So how did Chris make it through a high school experience where he wasn't necessarily encouraged to express himself and couldn't sing the songs that spoke to him? Just like Kurt's dad on Glee supports him, Chris's family was there for him. When his grandmother, a reverend, heard that the school wouldn't let him choose his own song, she let him sing "Defying Gravity" in her church. "I was fifteen," he explains. "I think I could have juggled and they would have loved me."
While Colfer may continue to explore Chris and Kurt's similar experiences as the show continues, what's clear is that the actor is enjoying the ride. He explains, "I've gone from a theater geek in high school to a theater geek on national television!" --Blaine Zuckerman


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In 1886 Frank Benson married Gertrude Constance Featherstonhaugh and, as Constance Benson, she would play opposite him in most of the company productions from then on. They partnered each other as nearly all the major Shakespearean couples. There was certainly an added frisson for the audience in seeing a husband and wife team play together. The fascinated gossip about Henry Irving and Ellen Terry shows that Victorian audiences were just as curious about the offstage relationships of their stars as we are today.
Constance is pictured here in The Merchant of Venice. On this occasion, the couple weren't playing precisely opposite one another. That would have required Frank to take on the somewhat thankless role of Bassanio. Instead, he preferred the show-stealing Shylock, which did of course give them one lengthy and crucial scene together: the court scene where, disguised as a male lawyer, gets the better of Shylock with his bloodthirsty contract for a pound of Antonio the Merchant's flesh.


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Recycling event in Redmond area
Residents in unincorporated areas can drop off a variety of reusable and recyclable materials during a special recycling event held by the King County Solid Waste Division April 13 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Eastlake High School east of Redmond.
Materials accepted at the community event include scrap metal, appliances, ceramic toilets and sinks, car tires (off rims), car batteries, #6 plastic food containers, bulky wood waste (tree branches at least three inches in diameter, stumps, logs, plywood, and other untreated/unpainted lumber), reusable household goods (furniture, toys, etc.), and reusable or recyclable textiles. Hazardous materials such as cleaning products and paint will not be accepted.
The county will charge a $5 fee for toilets and a $15 fee for appliances containing CFCs, such as refrigerators and air conditioners. All other items will be accepted free of charge.
This recycling event is designed to supplement curbside and drop box recycling programs and help residents recycle hard-to-recycle materials. Eastlake High School is located east of Redmond at 400 228th Avenue NE. For more information, call the recycling information line at 296-4466.


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Date: Monday, April 2, 2012 at 12:06 am
Trying to cut the cords with any cable/satellite provider and go with Xbox/ESPN for sports and Roku or something similar.
Basically, the only reason we have Comcast is to get college football games in HD and the DVR. We really don't use half the channels out there. The only real hold the cable companies have on me is Utah football - I can't live without watching the Utes week in and week out.
That said, does anyone have any insight into what broadcast platform this upcoming season will be on? I would love to be able to power on my Xbox and watch it live, but wanted to see if anyone else had some good ideas.
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Trott and Bell tune up
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Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell warmed up for next week's first Investec Test against New Zealand with fluent half-centuries as Warwickshire edged towards safety on the third day of their LV= County Championship match against Middlesex at Edgbaston.
Both were in form in last week's draw with Sussex at The BrightonandHoveJobs.com County Gound and again looked in fine touch on another good pitch after Middlesex declared on their overnight 428 for five.
Trott followed his 96 against Sussex with 65, his first championship half-century at Edgbaston in three years, while Bell, who made 56 last time out, also timed the ball sweetly in his 105-ball 62.
As Warwickshire closed on 267 for five, only 12 away from saving the follow-on, this may prove to be the last chance Trott and Bell have to bat before next Thursday's Lord's Test.
Trott was dropped by Ollie Rayner at second slip on five off Tim Murtagh but scored strongly square of the wicket to reach his half-century from 97 balls with nine fours. He added another boundary but then edged Murtagh to first slip where Dawid Malan held the catch.
Bell played some glorious straight drives early in his innings, although Tim Ambrose was the main aggressor in a fourth wicket stand of 96 in 27 overs.
The former reached 50 from 90 balls with six fours and found the fence twice more before he was lbw trying to work former team-mate Corey Collymore off his legs. Ambrose fell in similar fashion for 55 just before the close.
Bell came to the crease after Laurie Evans, who was promoted to open in the absence of England Lions batsman Varun Chopra, was forced to retire hurt on 59 after he had his left hand broken by a lifter from Steven Finn.
Evans, who struck six fours in a confident 50, received treatment in the middle and tried to bat on for two more overs before deciding to leave the field.
He was taken to hospital where x-rays revealed a fracture to his fifth metacarpal. He will play no further part in this match and see a specialist next week when the full extent of the injury will be known.
Finn, another candidate for the Test squad, was unable to pick up a wicket and twice knocked the bails off the stumps at the bowler's end.
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Chase Your Blues Away!
April 16, 2011 - Jim Price
"Go ahead and play the blues if it makes you happy." – Homer Simpson
If the recent deluge of rainy weather in our region has you in a down mood, chase those blues away with…the blues!
Pellegrine's in Altoona will host an open blues jam session this Sunday afternoon, April 17, beginning at 3 p.m. Many of the area's top blues players are expected to be in attendance, as well as numerous other guest musicians. And contrary to the popular stigma attached to this musical form, audience members very likely will discover that the blues is not depressing music, especially when performed with the zest and zeal of many of this area's musicians.
Admission is free.
Besides providing fun, the blues jam session will serve several purposes. One is to provide area musicians with an opportunity for camaraderie, networking and of course, music-making. It will also allow the general public to experience this area's vast wealth of blues-geared talent. And it will enable audience members to experience and learn about the blues and its history.
The Altoona area is quite healthy these days when it comes to the blues, featuring a number of quality blues and blues-related performers. Of course, Felix & the Hurricanes, who represented western Pennsylvania in last year's International Blues Challenge in Memphis, come to mind. But developing strong followings on Altoona area stages with their blues-driven sounds are such groups as The Hawks, The House Band, The Slim Bizzy Band, young upstarts The Ultra-Magnetic, and Chuck Mason & Blue Reality from State College.
Come see members of some of these bands, plus other area musicians testing their hands at blues music, this Sunday afternoon at Pellegrine's.
Pellegrine's is located at 1330 Pleasant Valley Boulevard in Altoona. For more information, call them at (814) 943-9223.
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The Hawks, during last month's "Bands For Preston" benefit concert at 30 Something in Altoona. The band includes (from left to right): Jason Feathers, Brian Elliott, Bill Hocherl and Jim Colyer.


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Review: Cinemax's 'Strike Back' returns, still ready for action
Some TV shows are rapidly evolving organisms. You come back for a new season to find new characters, a new workplace, maybe even a wildly different tone. That can be exciting — though if done wrong, it can strip away what the audience liked in the first place.
Some TV shows offer you roughly the same thing week after week, season after season. There's a danger in that, too, as stagnation can lead to boredom. But there are certain shows that do what they do so well that evolution seems to be beside the point. One of those is Cinemax's "Strike Back," which begins a new season tonight at 10, doing the same things it usually does(*), but with such a high level of execution and glee that I care not a whit about the formulaic nature of it all. A show that kicks this much ass doesn't especially need to stretch.
(*) This is the point at which I note that the "Strike Back" title is entering its fourth season, while the Cinemax/Sky co-produced incarnation of it is only entering its third. I haven't seen the first season, which starred Richard Armitage and Andrew Lincoln, and therefore can't speak to how much it resembles the Cinemax show.
Though the new season brings in a few new faces — Robson Green as a new commanding officer, a wonderfully hammy Dougray Scott as a brutal mercenary, Zubin Varla as a terrorist financier — the core remains the same: Philip Winchester and Sullivan Stapleton as Michael Stonebridge and Damien Scott, a pair of special forces soldiers (Stonebridge is English, Scott American) working for the UK's Section 20, traveling to global hot spots and being placed in situations where they are absurdly outgunned, yet find ways to survive thanks to their superior training and, more often than not, luck.
It's basically the same show as last year — Rhona Mitra even returns as the duo's direct superior, even though the previous season ended with the suggestion her character had been fired — so I have little to say that I didn't write a year ago. The chemistry between Winchester and Stapleton is a treat, the action scenes remain brutal and thrilling and fun, and the show transcends simple guilty pleasure status by paying enough attention to the emotional toll this kind of work takes on the people who do it. It's a blast to watch Stonebridge commandeer an enemy boat single-handed — when an observer asks what his partner's about to do, Scott suggests, "Something brave or something stupid. Can't tell yet." — but the show also takes their problems, and the problems of the people in the various hotspots they're dropped into, seriously. Through the four episodes I've seen (and in the fourth episode in particular) it lives up to its status as a show that's far better than it needs to be.
At one point in tonight's premiere (in the scene excerpted above, in fact), Scott complains about the sameness of their routine, "World's just gonna keep on turning. Some asshole is just gonna play his hand. We're in the badass hombre-making business, buddy. Fuckin' job creators!"
He may tire of things working out the same way each year. For now, though, I'm perfectly happy to watch "Strike Back" be "Strike Back."
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Awww shucks, you're sweet
Weeeeell as for that fitness thing.... if you want to check out the "about me" on my profile it'll flesh out what I'm saying here a little but...
As a heads-up, I have a connective tissue disease called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome that keeps me from doing the sexybeastly things I would love to do like competitive swimming, crossfit, traditional heavy lifting, anything with impact, etc. So my routine is modified and pretty gentle. And 124 for me is pretty arbitrary at the moment now that I'm feeling better about my body composition. My current fitness goals are to increase my strength, pack on some muscle in that process, and to reduce my body fat %. I have no idea what my BF% is now and I don't really care - I just want to get as lean and strong as I can (and can physically handle) while maintaining this Primal/Paleo thing as a lifestyle instead of just a means to an end - you know? This isn't for aesthetics anymore - I'm finally pretty happy with how I look. But for the sake of my condition and the fact that I am desperately fighting tooth and nail to keep from being wheel-chair bound before age 30, I want and need to keep a low BF% as I can while being as strong as I can to take any stress off my joints that I can. So right now I'm focusing on body composition as opposed to weight. I'll gladly pack on as much muscle as I can (and because of my condition and personal limitations, I'm not about to be able to get "big" but I think I could add 5-10+lbs of muscle over the next year or two...slow gains) while minimizing body fat.
So to answer your question - I just started a serious strength routine. I was doing a series, at home, every 7-10 days of chin-ups, assisted pull-ups, pushups/planks, squats, lunges, and static lateral raises in a door frame. Now that my body fat is a little lower I'm more serious about strength gains I'm trying do to a 1-4x/week hardcore strength routine on this AMAZING thing my new strength&conditioning coach (I replaced my physical therapists with him because he doesn't treat me like I should be in a damn bubble) called a rip60. Check it out on Amazon. He has a TRX system but the Rip60 is pretty much the same thing at less than 1/2 the cost. It allows you to use gravity and your body weight for strength training and unlike gym equipment, it is very very easy on my joints. I also bought a 10lb kettlebell and have started doing 1-leg kettlebell deadlifts so I can start building up to legitimately deadlifting. And I say 1-4x/week because I just have to go with how my body feels. It will average close to 2-3x/week, but I know I have better weeks and worse, so that's that. On the Rip60 I've been doing squats, 1-legged squats, lunges, tricep extensions (modified skullcrushers), elbows-out and elbows-in rows, and bicep curls.
Then lots of slow movement. House cleaning counts as my slow movement because excessive daily activity is kind of a no-go for me. I just get damn tired. So cleaning/walking/fooling around with my dogs for 4-8 hours a week is solid for me. I'll throw in a fun bike ride with my boyfriend or something once in a while if my joints feel OK since bike riding is surprisingly difficult on my wrists and elbows. On my walks, every 7-10 days, I'll do about 5 sprints. Always uphill and on my toes because that's the only running/impact that doesn't seem to bother me. I was a competitive swimmer for much, if not most, of my life, so when my shoulders feel good I'll go for a swim for an hour or two.
SO, to sum it all up, I got to where I am by doing lots of slow movement, and sprints and body weight stuff every 7-10 days, and now I'm focusing on body re-composition and strength gains by really upping my strength routine on this low-joint-stress system.
I hope that answers that Good luck!!


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HARTFORD, CT (BRAIN) — The state of Connecticut is considering a $3 million loan to help relocate Cannondale Sports Unlimited — the new name for what was formerly known as Dorel's Recreation/Leisure division.
LONGMONT, CO (BRAIN) — Reigning cyclocross world champion Sven Nys of Belgium will compete in this fall's ClifBar CrossVegas race, which is scheduled for September 18 in Las Vegas, on the evening of the first day of the Interbike Expo.
GHENT, Belgium (BRAIN) — ETRA, the European retailer association, has hired Florian Dammer as its new business development manager.
MUNICH, Germany (BRAIN) — Alpen will distribute Hayes Components products in Italy, the companies announced Tuesday.
OSAKA, Japan (BRAIN) — Shimano's total sales inched up to $636.1 million (63.3 billion yen) from $628.1 million over the first quarter of last year.
Sales at Shimano's bicycle division grew 3 percent to $514 million (51.1 billion yen), and account for 81 percent of the company's total sales.
HELSINKI, Finland (BRAIN) — Mavic parent Amer Sports reported a 2 percent increase in sales for the first quarter on Thursday, and said it expected full-year sales to rise by at least 5 percent.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (BRAIN) — The European Cycling Federation's Cycling Industry Club has announced six grant recipients for 2013 as part of its Leadership Program.
PORTLAND, OR (BRAIN) — Portland-based clothing brand Showers Pass is opening a sales office in the United Kingdom next month.
Based in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, the Showers Pass U.K. headquarters will open for business May 16 and will introduce the company's full product line to the U.K.
We wrap up our series on industry succession with a look at how the titans who created the island's manufacturing base are handing off control—in most cases to their children.
MALLORCA, Spain (BRAIN) — Sigma is taking aim at the enthusiast market with its first GPS-equipped bike computer that also uses the widely adopted ANT+ protocol to read data from external sensors and power meters.
KENT, WA (BRAIN) — Lapierre, a French bike brand with little presence in North America currently, will become "the premiere performance brand" within the newly formed Accell North America, the company said this week.
OSAKA, Japan (BRAIN) — Mountain Bike Hall of Famer Junzo Kawai is back with a new company, SunXCD, offering a hubset, cranks and rims, and a promise of more things to come.
MONTEREY, CA (BRAIN) — Tony Lo offered a thumbnail sketch of the global cycling market through Tony's Report — a short weather report for the industry.
MONTEREY, CA (BRAIN) — The industry has a new company in town — Accell Group North America. And its new structure is taking aim at the industry's top three brands — Trek, Specialized and Giant.
NEWBURY PARK, CA (BRAIN) — Liv/Giant is supporting the first national women's cycling team in Afghanistan, which was featured on MSNBC recently and for which several bike
SEATTLE, WA (BRAIN) — The British bike brand Boardman Bikes has appointed its first North American sales direct, Fletch Newland. Newland has worked for FSA and Cervelo in the past.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (BRAIN) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend opening day of the Eurobike trade show this year, Wednesday, August 28.
Merkel will take about two hours to officially open Eurobike and then tour the show.
HEERENVEEN, Netherlands (BRAIN) – Accell Group will merge bike production for its Batavus and Sparta brands, the company announced this week. Production will consolidate under one roof at the company's headquarters in Heerenveen.
HAMONT, Belgium (BRAIN) — The Belgian bike fitting brand Cyclefit, which was owned by the now-bankrupt distributor Veltec Benelux, has a new owner, former Veltec Benelux employee Niels Heuvelman.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (BRAIN) — German helmet maker Cratoni is taking a second stab in the U.S. The company recently announced plans to re-enter the already crowded lid market in North America, teaming up with SKS USA, which will be its exclusive distributor.