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Early last year I bought a bottle of Burt's Bees body lotion from Debenhams, simply to make my order up to a high enough amount to get bonus Beauty Card points. Recently, I've finally got around to using it.
Burt's Bees is a company that I have a bit of experience with, though not as much as with Lush or Body Shop products. As the name suggests, the company makes products designed around ingredients that come from bees, such as beeswax and honey. For this reason, the range is not suitable for vegans, but it is aimed at those who prefer more 'natural' skin and body care. Products are harvested in such a way that they do not damage or harm the bees. The company uses as many natural ingredients in its products as possible. They also try not to use potentially harmful ingredients, and you won't find any sulfates, parabens, phthalates or petrochemicals in their products. Like their other products, this body lotion carries the BUAV bunny logo certifying that it has not been tested on animals.
This Honey & Orange Wax body lotion comes in a narrow, tall yellow bottle with a white and yellow label bearing a picture of a beehive. You get 235ml of product in the bottle. It has a white flip-top lid for ease of use and contains moisturising honey, vitamin-rich orange wax, and sunflower seed and coconut oil.
I'm a bit funny when it comes to honey scents and I wasn't too keen on the scent of this lotion. It has a slightly sickly honey-based smell which grew cloying very quickly. Unfortunately the smell of the lotion lasts on the skin for a good few hours so I had to put up with it for a while, or else drown myself in perfume.
Texture-wise, the lotion isn't particularly thick but it has a rather unpleasant waxy texture, which became particularly apparent when I applied it to my skin. It felt as though there was a film of something on my skin. Luckily this feeling wore off as the day wore on.
As a positive, the lotion did moisturise my skin pretty well for the entire day and it didn't feel greasy. Mind, I think I would have preferred greasy to waxy!
At first the lotion was easy to get out of the bottle, particularly as it isn't very thick, but the bottle is extremely tough and as time went on I found myself making my hand ache trying to squeeze some out! I couldn't get it all out of the bottom, but to be honest I can't say I was that bothered.
This lotion does work well and would be ideal for someone who wants an animal-friendly product free of supposedly nasty chemicals. Personally however, it's not something I would purchase again. The waxy texture and sickly cloying smell really put me off.
On investigation, it seems that Burt's Bees have now discontinued this lotion and it can't be obtained any more. I can't say I'm all that disappointed, however I would consider trying another Burt's Bees body lotion in the future (just not one containing wax!).
Burt's Bees Thoroughly Therapeutic Honey and Orange Wax Body Lotion was given to me by my daughter for xmas and i have been using it ever since as i love the smell and the effects it has on my skin.
Package: the lotion comes in a 6" high bottle made of orange plastic with a white flip-top cap. It is nice and colourful and attractive to the eye. It gives the description, "This naturally therapeutic lotion combines Honey, a natural humectant, and vitamin-rich Orange Wax to moisturise, and rebalance dry, overworked skin. Enriched with Rosemary extract and soothing Aloe to heal, this formula provides daily therapy for dry, irritated skin. Long-lasting, therapeutic moisture for naturally soft, smooth and healthy skin". The plastic the bottle is made from comes from 90% post-consumer recycled material.
Contents: This product does exactly what it says on the bottle, the cream is rich to the touch, creamy and thick and it goes onto your skin with a waxy feel that rubs well into the skin leaving it so soft and smooth to the touch. The smell is quite strong so may not be to everyone's taste but i love the sweet honey scent with a hint of orange and it lingers on your skin for many hours later.
Opinion: I love this body lotion, the smell and the way it leaves my skin feeling soft and smooth and and fresh for many hours. I would deffinatley buy it myself when this is finished. The only downside at all to this product is that the plastic is quite a tough plastic and is therefore difficult to squeeze to get the lotion out of the bottle. However to combat that i just store the bottle upside-down and let the contents settle into the cap.
Cost: I am afraid i cannot comment on the cost as it was a gift so i don't know, but i have seen it on Amazon.co.uk for £10.00 for a bottle of 8 fl oz, which i think is reasonable considering how long it lasts.......i had it for xmas and am only just one third of the way through the bottle.
Conclusion: All in all this is a lovely product and i would be happy to buy it again!
This rich body lotion provides long-lasting moisture, leaving skin naturally soft, smooth and supple / It combines natural honey with vitamin-rich orange wax to repair and rebalance dry, damaged skin while coconut oil and beeswax preserve vital moisture /


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With what's been said... In what way it was forgiven and what type of account it was. Using example of late payment, often times creditor will forgive a late payment and waive the late payment fee, however the mark of late payment will remain on your report for 7 years.... There just too many variables to answer your question better.
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It was forgiven how? Did you receive a letter in the mail, informed over the phone or did you pay a settled amount?
If you received this information in the mail and it does indeed show that the account has been forgiven and they are removing it from their records, then send it to the credit bureaus demanding removal ( In this case, you can also dispute the account with the bureaus and if the account has indeed been removed from the company's record nothing will be found in the investigation and they will remove it). If you were informed over the phone, have them email or fax something stating that and send it to the bureaus and demand removal.
If you paid a settled amount and did not negotiate a "pay for deletion" then you may want to reach out to them and ask for some sort of "paid receipt, etc" for proof and then send to the credit bureaus demanding removal.
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I am not sure what you mean by "forgiven". Do you mean that they sent you a tax form for the amount that you owed? If that is the case, then the account will still remain on your reports for seven years from the time it originally became delinquent and closed. On the other hand, if the company made some type of error and are now saying that you do not owe them, you would want to contact the credit bureaus with the proof of that and ask for it to be deleted.
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Yoga for Women Attempting Smoking Cessation
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|Behavioral: yoga Behavioral: cognitive therapy Behavioral: wellness
|Phase 3
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Yoga for Women Attempting Smoking Cessation: an Initial Investigation
- smoking cessation: 7-day point prevalence abstinence [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Acceptability: recruitment, retention, adherence to protocol [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
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|August 2007
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|March 2011
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|February 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Cognitive-behavioral smoking cessation with yoga
Behavioral: yoga
vinyasa yogaBehavioral: cognitive therapy
cognitive behavioral therapy once weeklyBehavioral: yoga
vinyasa yoga twice weekly with smoking cessation once weekly
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smoking cessation with twice weekly wellness program
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cognitive behavioral therapy once weeklyBehavioral: wellness
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Smoking is the leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality among women in the US. Quitting smoking may be especially problematic for women. As a form of exercise, yoga shares many of the same properties as traditional (Western) aerobic exercise which our previous research has shown to be an effective addition to smoking cessation. Yoga may also offer other benefits that may make it an especially effective complimentary treatment for women who are attempting to quit smoking.
In this study we will recruit two cohorts of 30 women smokers and provide cognitive-behavioral therapy for smoking cessation once weekly for 12 weeks. In addition, participants will be randomly assigned them to receive either; (1) Yoga or (2) a Wellness program (contact-control), twice weekly during the program. All participants will be assessed for changes in smoking behavior, psychosocial variables relevant to smoking cessation and other psychological constructs that may act as mechanisms of action (mediators) of yoga and smoking cessation. These variables include; weight concerns, perceived stress, mindfulness, self-esteem, quality of life and group cohesion. Interviews will be used to collect qualitative data at the end of each cohort. The proposed study is designed to provide information necessary to establish several research fundamentals necessary to support a full scale efficacy trial. These include: 1) establishing intervention feasibility and acceptability in the target population, 2) piloting recruitment and retention procedures and identifying barriers to participation, 3) obtaining qualitative feedback from participants to enhance treatment content and/or design, 4) establishing anticipated effect size estimates, and 5) identifying likely mechanisms of action that may be responsible for intervention efficacy.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
Female, Age 18-65, Cigarette smoking 10 or more per day for more than 1 year, sedentary (not exercising more than 2 days per week)
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Major depression, Hypertension, Current yoga practice, Current mind/body therapies
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00492310
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|United States, Rhode Island
|The Miriam Hospital
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02903
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|Beth C Bock, PhD
|The Miriam Hospital
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|NCT00492310 History of Changes
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R21AT003669-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
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|June 25, 2007
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|June 27, 2007
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|October 12, 2017
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The active Dutch donor population consists of approximately 400,000 non-remunerated donors (approximately 2.5% of the Dutch population). Since Sanquin Blood Supply is by law the only blood bank in the Netherlands, all Dutch blood donors are represented in Sanquin's information system.
Prior to every donation, donors fill out a donor health questionnaire to identify known medical conditions and potential exposure to transmissible infectious diseases. Current and previous versions of this questionnaire can be requested via email@example.com. Furthermore, haemoglobin and blood pressure are measured to check whether the prospective donor is eligible to donate. In the Netherlands, female donors are considered eligible to donate if their haemoglobin is ≥ 7.8 mmol/L, male donors if their haemoglobin is ≥ 8.4 mmol/L.
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Do you have, or have you experienced a period of lost confidence in riding (or some aspect of riding) and struggled to get past the associated fear? Lots of riders do. Sometimes from a fall, or a period away from horses, or even an overactive tendency to imagine what could go wrong. It's easy to beat ourselves up about it, and try to deny the fear because we used to or should be able to do this simple thing.
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The real thin of CS is that it changed AT ALL my life. I started my dream in SouthAmerica, Argentina, in Octuber of 2008. The first day that i arrived i met GREAT CS people in Buenos aires group who treated my like at home, when i was thousend of km from home...and after nearly two years, i got married one of that de puta madre people! Javier, javitxu, el rey de los asados argentinos y de la buena onda.
Javier and me have been working and travelling arround south america...high time. Maybe one day i am able to explain in any way, what i expected when i left my job and everything in Spain and i went to Buenos Aires, and what i finally got...nowadays i try to explain to myself, but it is not easy!!!
Maybe, i am in the way of feeling my mission..where i belong to...
Its been a lot of people, friends,brothers, sisters, from the way of the life, who helped me to continous doing it, looking for that feeling, for that dream...
Maybe you are one of that people!!! because this, i would like to feel in your request that you really want to stay in our home with us. We do not believe in CS as a hostel, We believe on it as a human group based in the trust for the people. Because this, I ask you something: in the subject of your request, you have to write if you will bring sleeping bag or no. This will be a proofe that, at least, you did read all my profile, because we sometimes receive emails, that they are only copy paste to a lot of people, and we do not like that!! Bytheway, we preffer if you bring your sleeping bag because we are having a lot of guests and we are cleaning sheets all the time...but if you can not bring it, is not a problem!
We have two rooms empty so we can host two people, even more for exceptionals moments. You can smoke what you want at home..just feel free! We enjoy cooking and eating, so will be welcome any kind of new recipy for our book!!! We do not leave in the center but it is vey well comunicated with the center by bus and metro. If you need more information, just contact us and you will get it!
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Since I live very close to the Convention Center, I volunteered for the Local Arrangements Committee. In addition to managing the bag-stuffing operation, I spent several hours staffing the Local Information Booth, from which I gave opinionated advice about local restaurants (and handed out restaurant guides prepared by Hu!). I was thrilled to leave my car at home for three days straight, but was mildly disappointed to discover that I didn't win the short distance award. To my knowledge, that honor belongs to another ZSR librarian (ask around offline if you want to know who!) and a librarian from High Point U. who lives downtown.
I still had time to attend some of the sessions. I'll skip talking about sessions already discussed by other ZSR bloggers, and a few others where my main takeaway was confirming that I am already up on current trends. Here are more details on three sessions where I learned a lot of valuable new-to-me information.
Demystifying Fund Formulas in an Academic Library Setting
Lisa Barricella & Cindy Shirkey, ECU
ECU was looking for a different way to allocate the monograph portion of their budget. Their previous formula – based on factors like credit hours, faculty headcount, grad students, etc. – had several flaws. For instance, using credit hours earned in a subject would overfund areas like foreign languages where there is a lot of enrollment at the lower levels, but not a lot of need for library materials. Also their old formula – just for monographs – didn't account for the journals v. books breakdown which is unique to each discipline. (There was also the procedural issue that the data, which came from sources external to the library, was sometimes very difficult to collect.) Their new formula relied heavily on two factors: how much the collection in, say, Art was used as a proportion of the entire collection and how many ILLs did Art generate in proportion to their holdings. Both of these criteria more closely map to the actual demand for monographic materials in that subject. (The ILL part was not fully implemented due to specific failures in ILLIAD reporting.) Finally the average price of books was considered. While I'm not looking to redo all the monograph budgets anytime soon, I will keep these ideas in mind in case we ever need to overhaul our monograph budget structure.
Taming the Hydra: A Strategic Approach
Kim Vassiliadis, Emily King & Chad Haefele, UNC
This presentation is about how UNC corralled a whole bunch of subject guide thingies all over their website, deleted about half of them, and got all the rest into LibGuides with an updated (and consistent) look-and-feel. Then they initiated a plan to make sure that each LibGuide gets some maintenance at least once a year. Guides that are not updated are given "unpublished" status (i.e. suppressed from public view) in LibGuides. I'm impressed that they were able to pull this off in the decentralized environment at UNC. One rule they implemented was that you can't have more than one row of tabs. Also every guide has to have an intro paragraph that lists all the tabs. I actually disagree with the intro paragraph idea. More on that in a minute.
I Honestly Had No Idea: LibGuides Usability Assessment in an Academic Library
Randall Bowman, Teresa LePors & Shannon Tennant, Elon
LibGuides best practices is an area where a lot of folks (including yours truly) have lots of ideas but very little evidence. Elon conducted a usability test with some undergraduates to fill the evidence gap. In addition to asking students to perform tasks, they asked some subjective questions at the end.
Some of their conclusions:
- Students go straight for the search box, any search box. That's bad news on my guides since the only embedded search box is for "Search this Guide." That's also bad if the source with a search box is not the best place to go for that topic. For one task, the relevant guide had a JSTOR search box embedded (also with the pretty "J" logo). However, JSTOR did not contain the particular article that students needed to find.
- Students don't read the text on the page. They quickly scan for something that looks familiar.
- Students ignore the tabs. (Paraphrased comment from audience: I've been to three presentations on LibGuides, and they all say that students don't use tabs! However, LibGuides is built around tabs!)
- Students were split (on both the tasks and the subjective questions) as to whether "Articles" or "Databases" was the best word for leading students to databases that contain articles. (My own guides hedge on this one by saying e.g. "Linguistics Databases for Finding Journal Articles")
- Students don't scroll, which is bad news if you're also not using tabs
- Elon's main LibGuides page prominently featured the tag cloud. Students didn't use it, and on the subjective questions they Xed it out as an unnecessary element.
- Students liked the librarian profiles, which include an embedded chat window. A significant percentage of their chat questions are referred by the research guide pages.
Based on what they learned, Elon is going to lose the tag cloud and have the front page of each LibGuide list all the tabs (like UNC). I disagree with this "intro paragraph" approach since it was also established that students don't read the text! When I have time, I'm going to edit my LibGuides so that the #1 resource is a search widget, preferably with a pretty logo. If there is no pretty logo, then maybe I'll add the "Best Bet" star like we use on the database pages.


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Few things were as sacred to my childhood as the annual letter to Santa Claus.
My wish lists (at least from my perspective) were works of art: carefully planned, prioritized and delivered on time.
When we spent Christmas with my grandparents in Kentucky, I'd even add a postscript to that effect to make sure the hoped-for spoils of my good behavior were routed properly.
One such letter, it turns out, somehow survived the ages. I was looking for something in our storage room and came upon a taped-up box of books and papers from my dad, who passed away 17 years ago.
Like a gift from the past, it was carefully tucked into a manila envelope that bulged with notes, drawings and Father's Day cards I had given him over the years.
I am guessing I was 6 – maybe 7 – that Christmas, based on requests for toys like the Spirograph and a Fright Factory set. Also on the list were Monkees records, pocket knives and walkie-talkies.
At the top of the page, though, was the real target, the Holy Grail of gifts: a rock pick.
It was underlined, highlighted with an arrow and emphasized with a notation that "I want this most."
Something gave me an itch to become a geologist. I think it stemmed from an outing with my grandfather to the Ohio River fossil beds near Louisville, Ky.
What about the rest of the story? I did, indeed, find a rock pick under the tree that year. It was heavy and sharp – the real McCoy – with gleaming steel and a hickory handle painted red.
Although I never became a geologist, I've cherished that rock pick now for almost 45 years – and still use it today.
It is special to me not only for what it is, but where it came from.
Looking back now, I realize it wasn't Santa who made the call. It was my mom and dad – perhaps mostly dad – who decided it was OK for a 6-year-old to have a 24-ounce steel hammer with a sharp point at the other end.
Playing the role of Santa was one more way my parents made me feel loved and listened to, and I would imagine they enjoyed a little entertainment in the process.
Perhaps that is why my dad saved that Christmas letter to Santa all those years, and why it gave me a warm feeling to read it, as an adult raising three boys of my own.
After all, this was the man who taught me to fish and hunt, and who let me have my first .22 when I was just 12 years old, even if mom wasn't thrilled.
Browsing through other things dad had preserved in that faded envelope, I found an interesting note that referenced my childhood best friend and neighbor, Clayton Woodward.
"Daddy," it said, "This is half the money to pay for the letters and numbers on the Harper's mailbox. Clayton pays the rest."
I vaguely remember what that was all about, and it wasn't pretty. But that's another story for another day.
Merry Christmas to all of you, and remember to hug your parents this holiday season – while you still have them.


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Jonathan Menard - May 30, 2013
The St. Charles Parish Sheriffs Office is searching for a man who was photographed Thursday afternoon loading up items into his car from a Barton Avenue home.
According to Sheriff Greg Champagne, the man backed his Dodge Durango into the homes driveway before taking items from the carport.
After noticing he was seen, he quickly sped away in a grey Dodge Durango towards Highway 90, Champagne said. The Dodge Durango had some type of temporary, or paper, license plate.
The above photo was taken by an alert neighbor. Anyone who can identify the man is asked to call 911.
Champagne made it clear that he does not believe the man in the photo is responsible for a recent string of home burglaries in Luling.
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Improving Throughput and Fairness by Improved Channel Assignment Using Topology Control Based on Power Control for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
Multi-Radio Multi-Channel (MRMC) Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) achieve higher throughput using multiple simultaneous transmissions and receptions. However, due to limited number of non-overlapping channels, such networks suffer from co-channel interference, which degrades their performance. To mitigate co-channel interference, effective Channel Assignment Algorithms (CAAs) are desired. In this paper, the authors propose a novel CAA, Topology-controlled Interference-aware Channel-assignment Algorithm (TICA), for MRMC WMNs. This algorithm uses topology control based on power control to assign channels to multi-radio mesh routers such that co-channel interference is minimized, network throughput is maximized, and network connectivity is guaranteed.


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FLAC represents Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format much like MP3, but lossless, suggesting that audio is pressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. It is very close to the way that Zip is designed to work, but in case of FLAC you will get much better compression since it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back pressed FLAC files in your preferred gamer (or your vehicle or house stereo, see supported devices) similar to you would an MP3 file.
FLAC sticks out as the fastest and most commonly supported lossless audio codec, and the only one that at the same time is non-proprietary, is unencumbered by patents, has an open-source reference application, has a well documented format and API, and has a number of other independent executions.
FLAC supports tagging, cover art, and quick seeking. FLAC is freely available and supported on most running systems, consisting of Windows, "unix" (Linux, IRIX, OS X etc), BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga.
There are numerous programs and devices that support FLAC, but the core FLAC project here keeps the format and offers programs and libraries for working with FLAC files. See Getting FLAC for directions on downloading and setting up the official FLAC tools, or Using FLAC for directions and guides on playing FLAC files, tearing CDs to FLAC, and so on.
It implies that the specification of the format is completely open to the public to be made use of for any purpose (the FLAC job reserves the right to set the FLAC requirements and license compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding approaches are covered by any known patent.
The encoding of audio (PCM) information sustains no loss of info, and the decompressed audio is bit-4-bit identical to exactly what entered into the encoder. Each frame includes a 16-bit CRC of the frame data for spotting transmission mistakes. The stability of the audio information is further insured by keeping an MD5 signature of the initial unencoded audio information in the file header, which can be compared against later on throughout decoding or screening.
FLAC is asymmetric in favor of decode speed. Deciphering needs only integer arithmetic, and is really less compute-intensive than the majority of analogue codecs. Real-time decode efficiency is easily attainable on even modest hardware.
Hardware support: FLAC is supported by huge amount of electronic gadgets, from portable players,home stereo devices, to vehicle stereo.
Flexible metadata: FLAC's metadata system supports tags, seek tables, cover art, and cue sheets. Applications can write their own APPLICATION metadata once they have an ID. New metadata blocks can be defined and executed in future versions of FLAC without breaking older decoders or streams.
Seekable: FLAC supports fast sample-accurate seeking. Not just is this beneficial for playback, it makes FLAC files suitable for use in modifying applications.
Streamable: Each FLAC frame consists of enough information to decipher that frame. FLAC does not even rely on following or previous frames. FLAC makes use of sync codes and CRCs (just like MPEG and other formats), which, along with framing, permit decoders to choose up in the middle of a stream with a minimum of delay.
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A new incentive has been set up to reward breeders who send their mares to Massachusetts stallion River Keen in 2009.
A new incentive has been set up to reward breeders who send their mares to Massachusetts stallion River Keen in 2009.
Grade I winner River Keen will stand in 2008 at Pine Nook Farm near South Deerfield, Mass.
Millionaire River Keen and graded stakes winner Optic Nerve have arrived at Michael and Debra Lischin's Dutchess Views Farm near Pine Plains, N.Y., where they will stand the 2001 breeding season.
Hugo Reynolds' River Keen, who hit the peak of his form by winning the Woodward Stakes (gr. I) and Jockey Club Gold Cup (gr. I) at Belmont Park in consecutive starts in the fall of 1999, has been retired from racing.
Michael Cooper and Cecilia Straub-Ruben's Tiznow led from the start and held off a determined Captain Steve and possibly a ticket to the Breeders' Cup.
Stable notes from Oak Tree at Santa Anita on Wednesday works for stakes horses.
Richard Englander's Devine Wind collared pacesetter River Keen in the stretch and drew away to a one-length win over Irish Prize in the $200,000 Bay Meadows Handicap (gr. IIIT) Saturday at Bay Meadows. Claimed for $40,000 at Hollywood Park in May, Devine Wind earned $110,000 and his first stakes victory with the win.
Golden Gate Handicap (gr. IIIT) winner Deploy Venture seeks to rebound from a sixth-place finish in the Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap (gr. IT) when he takes on 118-pound highweight River Keen and four others in the $200,000 Bay Meadows Handicap (gr. IIIT) Saturday at Bay Meadows.
Skimming made all the pace before kicking clear of Tiznow and General Challenge at the top of the stretch to win the $1-million Pacific Classic (gr. I) by two lengths Saturday at Del Mar.
Three-year-old Tiznow drilled four furlongs at Del Mar Wednesday morning and then drew post position four for Saturday's $1-million Pacific Classic (gr. I).
Stablemates General Challenge and River Keen, the respective first- and second-place finishers in last year's Pacific Classic (gr. I), indicated their readiness for this Saturday's renewal of the $1-million race with workouts at Del Mar Monday.
Trainer Vladimir Cerin declared Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. I) winner Early Pioneer out of the Aug. 26 Pacific Classic (gr. I).<br>
A total of nine horses, headed by defending champion General Challenge, have been nominated to the $1-million Pacific Classic (gr. I) to be run at Del Mar Aug. 26.
Juddmonte Farms' homebred 4-year-old colt Skimming, saved ground along the inside on the way to an eight-length wire-to-wire victory in the $250,000 San Diego Handicap (gr. III) Sunday at Del Mar.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Freshman Matt Williams scored 21 points, all on 3-pointers, and Kasey Wilson added 16 points and 11 rebounds as Central Florida downed Division II Florida Tech 90-62 on Saturday.
UCF was hampered by some first-half turnover issues, but began the second half on a 23-6 run to take a 61-35 lead with 12:50 left to take control.
Julius Reid led Florida Tech with 22 points and Chris Carter added 14.
The win snapped a two-game losing streak for the Knights, who hadn't played since their Nov. 23 loss at Florida.
Saturday was the season debut for Williams, an Orlando high school-product, who missed the start of the season after having an appendectomy.
Williams was diagnosed with appendicitis just two weeks before the start of the season and spent two weeks in the hospital, dropping 20 pounds.
He was cleared for contact in practice just this past Thursday.
UCF coach Donnie Jones planned to play him no more than five minutes Saturday before he started to heat up from beyond the arc. Williams went 7 for 9 from deep, completing his scoring barrage in just 13 minutes of action.
Williams wasn't the only one hot from the 3-point line. Fellow freshman Daiquan Walker was 5 for 6 on the night, scoring 15 points.
The only sore spot UCF was at the free throw line, where the Knights went 12 for 23 for the game.
The Knights took a 38-29 advantage into halftime, but led by as many as 11 in the opening 20 minutes.
UCF pushed the tempo and pressed Florida Tech for most of the half, but it was the Knights that had trouble hanging onto the ball with 14 turnovers.
Florida Tech didn't shoot particularly well, but got 14 first-half points from Reid.
Defensively, the Panthers tried to negate the Knights' size with a zone. It confused the Knights at times, leading to nine Florida Tech steals.
The cushion that UCF did get was thanks to the 55 percent (15 for 27) in shot the half. Keith Clanton was 4 for 5 from the field and had 11 points.
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1990 saw Gary Moore's first visit to the Montreux Jazz Festival, to which he has since been a regular visitor. It was part of the tour for his Still Got the Blues album and The Midnight Blues Band with special guest Albert Collins, delivered a lesson in the art of blues-rock. As a bonus, three of the biggest hits, Out in the Fields, Over the Hills & Far Away and the classic Parisienne Walkways, are included from his Montreux performance in 1997.
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WILMINGTON,NC (WWAY) — All-CAA performer Brittany Blackwell racked up her 10th double-double of the season as UNCW reached the 20-win plateau for the third time in the program's history with a 48-33 victory over Northeastern in Colonial Athletic Association women's basketball action Sunday at Trask Coliseum.
The Seahawks, ranked 22nd in the CollegeInsider.com mid-major poll, won for the third time in four outings to improve to 20-6 overall and 12-3 in the CAA. The Huskies suffered their seventh consecutive loss and plummeted to 8-18 and 3-12.
Blackwell paced the Seahawks with 17 points and 15 rebounds for her third consecutive double-double and the 35th of her illustrious career. The Cary, N.C., senior just missed a triple double after collecting nine steals on the defensive end of the floor.
Senior center Martha White added 14 points and seven rebounds for the Seahawks, who were held to a season-low in scoring and overcame 32.7 percent shooting with 20 steals. The Seahawks, ranked 12th in the nation in steals per game, reached double figures in steals for the 22nd time in 26 games.
Sophomore forward Christine Huber led the Huskies with 10 points and 13 rebounds for her second double-double at NU since transferring from Rutgers.
Blackwell and White combined for 16 points and 15 rebounds to power the Seahawks to a 27-16 halftime lead and Cynthia Cooper-Dyke's club maintained a comfortable lead throughout the second half.
The Huskies did manage to get within eight points with 11:13 remaining when reserve guard Dani Iervolino swished a three-pointer from the left corner to close the gap to 35-27.
But CAA Rookie-of-the-Year favorite Alisha Andrews answered with a trey of her own and Blackwell sank a pair of free throws to increase the margin back to 40-27 at 10:22.
After Jamie Conroy made a pair of free throws and Huber connected on a layup to cut the lead to 42-33 with 5:51 left, the Seahawks held the Huskies scoreless the rest of the way and scored the final six points of the game for the final verdict.
Playing in the annual "Pink Zone" game, the Seahawks scored the first nine points and led wire-to-wire to sweep the regular season series from the Huskies for the first time since the nine-game series began in 2006. UNCW cruised past NU, 85-68, on Jan. 23 in Boston.
White scored the first three buckets of the contest and Blackwell's conventional three-point play with 15:58 remaining in the first half gave the Seahawks a quick 9-0 cushion. The lead ballooned to 12 points, 16-4, when Blackwell made a steal and converted the layup with 13:31 left in the opening period.
NU closed the deficit to eight points twice in the first half before Andrews drained a three-pointer from the left corner to give the Seahawks their largest lead of the game, 27-14, with 3:14 on the clock.
With the win, the Seahawks racked up 20 wins for the first time since the 2002-03 season when that club accumulated 22 wins.
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To hide from MIL in my room until I get better?(63 Posts)
My MIL is lovely. She's so kind, thinks the world of me and I love her to bits.
I became quite unwell in the last month of my pregnancy due to a pre-existing condition getting dramatically worse. I wasn't coping at all. 3 weeks ago my son arrived and I knew there was no way I could cope with a new baby and a house which had already disintegrated into chaos (my husband works away during the week).
So MIL packed her bags, got on the train and came to stay. Since she's been here she's done everything for me. The laundry, the cooking, the cleaning, shopping, endless cups of tea, baby-minding so I can sleep. Practically she is an absolute treasure and there is no way I can thank her enough or manage without her at the moment. But ...
She doesn't stop talking. Ever. Incessant wittering from the minute I open my bedroom door until I go to bed at night. She even stands outside the bathroom door so she can talk to me. Much as I love her, I may have to kill her.
I need:
MIL: Would you like a cup of tea?
Me: Yes please.
The end.
MIL: Would you like a cup of tea?
Me: Yes please.
MIL: I'll pop the kettle on then. I bought some teabags earlier as we don't want to run out. I was going to go to Tesco but my friend Maud doesn't like Tesco and would rather go to Waitrose. She used to be a air stewardess you know so she really knows her tea and she says Waitrose ones are the best. Although she admits Asda ones are cheaper. We have the Asda ones at church. They're quite nice too and Maud is right they are a bit cheaper than the Tesco ones, but the box is a bit bigger and they go further. The vicar doesn't drink tea though. Did I tell you? He likes coffee but only instant. He went to India once, it supposed to be very nice there. Maud's son went there once too. Would you like a biscuit with your tea? I bought some nice ones while I was out but I'm not sure if you'll like them. The biscuits are Waitrose are better. My friend Maud always gets hers from there ...
Me: ARRRGH!
I'm being an ungrateful cow aren't I.
Aww she sounds lovely, can we swap
You are reminding me of going to a party at my grandparents where there was a bunch of men in their 70-80s talking about the benefits of ear syringing causing deafness - "the secret to a long and happy marriage is not being able to hear the wife" - and whether it was too late to start now.
turn it in to something useful, ask questions, ask about her childhood, her parents, grandparents, great aunties, uncles, do this at every opportunity, and later on you won't regret missing out,
You will also end up with very detailed information, for your child's family history book.
and it's a lot more interesting to listen to,
my DH, is often amazed at how much i know about his family, MiL and her mother, have loved that I am interested, it beats listening to details of shopping trips, his grandmother has even told me things his mother didn't know,
get her going then ask questions, record if you can, your son will love it when he is older.
Record her. Leave it playing back through the radio.
See if she notices.
She does sound lovely though, so this might not be the best thing to do. Perhaps you could book a retreat for her at the convent of a silent order.
My MIL is like that without being helpful. She'll just witter on with the same old stories I've heard before oblivious to the fact I am trying to deal with the DCs. Three nights with her is my absolute limit. She's very me, me, me but she does at least play with the DCs even though she doesn't help in a practical way. Thank goodness for the internet, at least I can distract myself when she is on the phone. The occasional uhuh and mmm seem to keep the conversation flowing from my end.
OP, your MIL does sound sweet but I hope you recover soon and can manage on your own.
Just you wait, those with nattery children. They grow up and leave home and you are faced with long, empty silences which make you feel small, uneeded and invisible.
Until you get used to it.
Then when they come back to visit, you have to slip away upstairs for ten minutes every now and then because you are so used to quietness, the constant chatter and noise is hard to deal with.
Try waking up with a "headache" today.
My MIL is exactly the same. Never. Stops. Wittering. Carries on talking to you if you leave the room. And if she goes upstairs for something and there is nobody to talk
at to, she starts dum-de-duming to some I recognizable tune in her head. And she leaves the bathroom door ajar so she can continue to talk at you if she needs to go for a wee. And she tells you the same stories over and over and over and over again. And she views the world through rose-tinted spectacles (which is nice but sometimes reality intrudes).
But otherwise she is lovely! She is DH's stepmother and both his parents are dead. I'm probably closer to her than he is. He was 23 when his dad married her so she has never been a mother figure to him. Was a reception teacher till she retired and was fab with DS when he was little. And she loves him to bits. She doesn't have children of her own.
She is irritating but lovely.
She has been with you for a long time .. is it possible she's bored without her usual daily activities/friends?
My MIL is like that but a. not as funny b. repeats herself c. doesn't help d. with a hint of racism
I may have paraphrased Terry Pratchett
Hope you are surviving, op.
My MIL does that talking and NONE of the helping...
My mum and my mil are talkers. My mum is like Maud. All about supermarket products, pricing, what people I've never met are wearing and saying. Mil is all about what's in The Times, New Scientist, latest research paper. Both utterly exhausting. Mil won't have the tv on. There IS NO escape. Mum talks over the telly. So you can't watch anything even though we've had a massive discussion about what to watch.
I have a 4 yo dd who never stops talking and a 6 mo who squeals with joy a lot.
I dream of silence.
feel for you op..my aunty is like that and yes I just hid in my room with baby.
I wish there was a fb similar like button...the incessant toddler chat post gets a like from me..
sorry op but there is more to come when baby gets older including screaming fits when you dare to think it acceptable that you have a wee ;)
I have a tendency to whitter when nervous
Having met a lot of whitterers over the years I have realise that often I am the only person they have spoken to all day, or longer, so I try to be generous and make allowances.
With mil, who sounds lovely although annoying, could you try putting the radio on? That sometimes works with a whitterer.
Your MiL sounds a real treasure.
I am a talker, so this post has given me food for thought congratulations on your new arrival.
I dont really have any advise (except agreeing that its good tranining for when you have a toddler), but i had a good laugh at your post
DS2 talks incessantly too,a whole load of
boring very interesting stuff about nothing.
He's 18,it never gets better.
Brilliant thread.
My family of origin are all natterers. My brother gave my dp a small polished wooden wedge one Christmas. It had "The Acme Patented Word Inserter" written on it!!
I love a nattering person, I'm naturally very quiet so people like your lovely MIL take the pressure off.
Trust me the alternative is much worse. My ILs are masters of toe curlingly awkward silences where they sit and stare at people waiting for them to talk.
When you don't fill every single silence they end their visit with "Oooh Babooshka, you were very quiet today"
you need an ipod
I know I shouldn't be laughing but my DS is like this..he chatters from the moment he gets up until he goes to bed. He can talk all the way through programmes, dinner etc.
We've just been having a bacon sandwich and he was wittering all the way through expecting a response from me
Do you have any films that the two of you like - can you stick on a dvd so she has to watch the film?
Treat her to a morning of pampering to give yourself time to recover She sounds lovely!
Oh dear Lord..I went to a festival a few years ago with a friend like this. Four days of relentless talking - mostly about how amazing he is and how wonderful his life is. On the last night I deliberately ' got lost' and turned my phone off for two hours so I could have some peace!. Also have a friend who's 3 yr old DS is like this and doesn't stop from the minute he wakes up to till bedtime. She just has to ignore a lot of it whereas I only have to put up with it for a couple of hours so will engage with it. Last time he came over he said 'Mrsdrew, what's this?' and pointed to every single DVD I have (about 100) in turn even though the answer 'It's a DVD' was also exactly the same..... Friend reports spending a lot of time feigning sleep but he still carries on apparently.
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Helder Postiga left it late to earn Real Zaragoza a first win of the Primera Division season, sinking 10-man Espanyol at the El Prat.
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Mubarak Wakaso picked out Vazquez's run, the young striker drilling home from 20 yards without breaking stride.
Following the restart, Portugal international Postiga forced Cristian Alvarez to tip a daisycutter around the post before Los Blanquillos were handed the opportunity to level.
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