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Richard do apologise, got my words mixed up ! should have read, Hamilton is NOT the kindest driver with the tyres, ALWAYS over drives the car, NEVER uses his brain OR nurses the tyres and yet also extremely quick, so I'm NOT sure he will win, but may be thrash by the rest


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A mother complained that I put an extra 'n' her her daughter's name. We have two girls with the same (pronounced) name.
Julianna and Juliana.
I'm sorry, my name is still spelled wrong 9 out of 10 times. My own boyfriend gets a lecture on how to spell my name every single time he mails me something because he still fucks it up.
This is a lesson you and your daughter must get used to. I am very sorry.


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On his radio show on Monday, Dan Patrick asked Tony Dungy if he would be interested in coaching the Oregon Ducks should Chip Kelly jump to the NFL next season.
Dungy, the former coach of the Colts, has steadfastly said he has no interest in returning to coaching.
But this time Dungy hesitated just a moment before answering "No." Dungy's son Eric is a receiver for the Ducks, and the former coach was wearing a Ducks jersey in the studio when asked.
Dungy explained that the question surprised him, thus the hesitation. He said that his only wish is that Kelly stays at Oregon at least until his son completes his eligibility in two years.
That's a wish all Ducks fans would share without hesitation.
A warning to our fellow sports journalists: contain those tweets.
The University of Washington on Monday reprimanded Tacoma News Tribune reporter Todd Dybas for tweeting too much during a UW basketball game.
The UW has a policy to limit the number of tweets each reporter can send out during football and basketball games. The reason, according to UW athletic director Scott Woodward, is to protect the broadcasters who pay for TV and radio rights.
OK. We understand that money from TV and radio is critical to an athletic department. But we wonder what the UW athletic department folks could be accomplishing if they weren't busy counting tweets.
After more than eight months of competition, the two teams most likely to play for the Major League Soccer championship are the same two as last year. Los Angeles (3-0 over Seattle) and Houston (3-1 over D.C. United) hold good leads heading into the second-leg of the MLS conference championship series.
Both the Galaxy (No. 4 in the West) and Dynamo (No. 5 in the East) entered the playoffs as wild card entries. Meanwhile, the best teams during the regular season — San Jose and Sporting Kansas City — were quickly eliminated from the playoffs.
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Old injustice, new injustice -- still injustice
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Israel's right to exist trumps Lebanon's right to shelter Hez-b-allah. Prove me wrong. I dare you.
Meanwhile, let me remind you where suicide bombing was invented. It started in Israel. It started with a way to kill Jews. It wasn't the Jews who loaded cars with explosives and blew up soldiers. It wasn't the Jews who dressed teenagers in vests or belts full of explosives and sent them onto buses and detonated them with cell phones in case the kids chickened out. It wasn't the Jews who rewarded the families of these "martyrs" with bounty money.
You want to blame Israel? Israel exists because the "winners" in WW2 were too chickenshit to give the Jews who survived back the houses, the banks, the businesses and homes, stolen from them by the Nazis and their allies throughout Europe in the 1930s. Instead the "winners" parceled out some territory in a desert for the Jews, no doubt figuring the effort to stay a step ahead of starvation would prevent them from building anything resembling a nation that could threaten the world's "powers" flush with their own hubris after Hiroshima.
Justice would've been giving back what belonged to the people victimized. It wasn't done. As they have been doing for untold generations, though, the Jews took what they had -- a desert in a remote part of the world surrounded by nations of people who hated them murderously -- and made the best of it. Kibbutzim grew, and out of simple necessity the everyday citizen -- male, female, young, old -- became also a soldier.
Now because instead of huddling in "refugee camps" and seething in hatred, they've built a nation and won three wars and created a working nation with a decent economy, the resentment arises on behalf of the poor downtrodden Palestinian refugees. "Refugees" who are too poor to educate their kids or take care of their ill and elderly, but not too poor to buy guns and ammunition, cell phones and chemical explosives; "refugees" who can't afford to build decent houses, raise gardens and livestock, construct schools and hospitals, create businesses, but have no problem raising bounty money to remunerate the families whose children they sacrifice on buses and in nightclubs and at temples.
Explain to me why ISRAEL is at fault here.
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Telecom New Zealand has won the bidding to secure the last remaining block of 2x5 MHz lot of 700 MHz radio spectrum that was left unsold from last year's auction.
Telecom bid NZ$83 million for this final lot, in addition to the total of NZ$66 million for three lots in the initial auction round. The purchase of a fourth 2x5 MHz lot is conditional upon approval from the Commerce Commission.
In the first round of the auction last October , Telecom and Vodafone each successfully bid for 2x15 MHz (three lots), while 2Degrees successfully bid for 2x10 MHz (two lots) leaving a single 2x5 MHz lot unsold from the available nine lots.
The auction for this lot has proceeded over recent weeks at $1 million increments for each bidding interval, starting from the $22 million reserve price.
Telecom said that the significant price premium over the reserve price reflects what it said would be the customer benefits that this additional fourth lot will provide to Telecom's mobile network in future years.
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The term "sentiment analysis" itself is somewhat unfortunate as it brings to mind "feelings" and "opinions" implying that it only can be used where an opinion holder exists as the author of some sort of textual material. This is just one particular area covered by the technology. In fact, the opinion holder can be the reader of a particular text interpreting the set of facts described therein as "good" or "bad". For example, sentiment analysis can be used on a corpus of news data to separate "good news" from "bad news". This is a very worthwhile thing to do and very useful for business. The same technology could be also used to detect negative earnings reports in annually filed corporate documents and a host of other financial indicators. Furthermore, sentiment analysis does not need to be used only on documents but can be used on word groups as short as sentences or Tweets. So really "Sentiment Analysis" is an umbrella term that describes a set of classification techniques operating on a wide variety of texts.
I am eager to see where some of my fellow panelists and speakers go with their ideas. In particular, I am interested to hear the talk by Richard Brown of Thomson Reuters on Forecasting Financial Market Response and to hear Ryan Sager of the Wall Street Journal talk about how the media is using Sentiment Analysis. As for myself, I will be considering issues pertinent to our customers – how is sentiment analysis relevant to a job or candidate search? It is actually very relevant for both. As a jobseeker, you already know you should be researching the companies you want to work for. But most jobseekers interpret that as researching only the company's products and services – instead of finding out what it would be like to work there. There are plenty of ways to find out how people feel about working at a company. Sites like Glassdoor have employee reviews and can help the jobseeker learn about the corporate culture. Another fun thing to do is check the Twitter stream for the company name. There is actually a nifty tool out now just for checking sentiment on Twitter called Sentiment140.com. I just tried it out using the search term "TheLadders". Pretty cool!
So if jobseekers were to be sentiment-analysis-savvy, they would learn a great deal about the culture of the companies they are applying to. The same goes for recruiters. As a recruiter you need to be on top of your company's reputation and know what employees are saying about it. It is much easier to close candidates if you can convince them that they will like the work environment and be able to back that up with evidence.
It looks like I will be the only participant from my industry at the symposium. I actually look forward to that since I will probably learn about new ways to use sentiment analysis and learn new data processing techniques that I can ultimately use right here at TheLadders!
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In this excellent resource, journalist Gail Sheehy, best known for the best-seller Passages (Bantam, 1984), writes about the challenges of caring for a loved one with a chronic illness — a partner, parent, sibling or child. Sheehy knows what this entails given her 17-year stint as a caregiver for her cancer-ridden husband.
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At the Story County cyclone luncheon, Mr. Pollard
announced that ISU will retire Barry's jersey during
the game that celebrates 100 years of Men's Basketball.
It a long time coming. It should be a great celebration with
ISU's greats all coming back for the game.
Maybe his son will be taking a visit with him???
Uhhh... I don't really know how to say this, but if Barry is going to be there he is going to be there in spirit. I think it's a great gesture for what was a great player in the revival of Cyclone Basketball and he was just such a good man you hope those guys get recognized. Very happy they are doing this.
Im excited for that game already.
This is a well deserved honor for one of the all time Cyclone greats!
This is something that should have been done many years ago when Barry was alive...good move on Pollard's part to get it done.
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This is something that should have been done many years ago when Barry was alive...good move on Pollard's part to get it done.
Why did it take this long to retire Barry's Jersey?
that's great they are finally doing this, but do you think we would un-retire it if say his son commits to Iowa State and wants to wear his father's number?
The NUMBER isn't officially being retired, the JERSEY is. Semantics.
However, you'll notice that no one has worn the numbers of the already-retired jerseys (14, 20, 32, 35 or 44) for quite some time.
Last #14 - Hornacek
Last #20 - Thompson
Last #32 - Ha-Keem Abdel-Khaliq (played with/after Fred)
Last #35 - Sol Harris (1992-95), Mike Bergman (1990-93)
Last #44 - Grayer
hmm.. i guess i was under the impression that those number's were retired, not just the 'jersey'.
So what game is it? I was just thinking about this yesterday while I was bored at work. But I was thinking next year during the Kansas game. Kansas will probably lose quite a bit of talent from this year and we should be better, a good chance for a win.
Plus next year Darius will be a junior, a much more realistic chance at getting him to commit to us. Commiting as a soph is a lil early for some players, they might want to see whats out there.
Fantastic...about time. Will a banner be hanging in the rafters? Orr should have a banner hanging in the rafters as well!
I cheer for two teams, Iowa State and whoever is playing the hawkeyes.
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Fantastic...about time. Will a banner be hanging in the rafters? Orr should have a banner hanging in the rafters as well!
There is a banner of Johnny already.
Originally Posted by thunderdave
There is a banner of Johnny already.
Very glad to hear this...been a long time since I've been in Hilton.
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So what game is it?
The 100 year celebration is going to be at the Nebraska game Feb. 16.
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Per Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal:http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/09/29/daily38.html?surround=lfnBarry Swenson Builder on Tuesday won city of San Jose permission to convert a high-density for-sale housing project adjacent to Tamien Station into apartments.A spokesperson said the move is due to the slow pace of housing sales and the fall in housing prices.The city had to bless the conversion, which is expected to be temporary, because of an existing agreement between Swenson and San Jose to allocate 24 units in the development to affordable for-sale housing. The plan calls for those units to become affordable apartments, at least for now."It's basically a hope for another day," said long-time Swenson Project Manager Jessie Thielen. "We are preserving the asset for a better sales market."Swenson opened a sales office at the complex this spring for three months, but never took buyer deposits and never actively pushed sales, she said.Swenson's equity partner on the project is San Francisco-based Pacific Coast Capital Partners LLC. Its lender is iStar Financial Inc., which inherited the loan when it acquired Fremont Investment & Loan. Fremont was also the initial lender on Swenson's City Heights high-rise condo development in downtown San Jose. City Heights continues to be marketed for sale.The 11-story Tamien development, dubbed Skyline at Tamien, is on the site of the former Alma Bowl on the cusp between Willow Glen and downtown San Jose. It fronts state Highway 87. The building is adjacent to the Tamien train station, an intermodal passenger transportation station served by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail system, two bus routes, and the Caltrain commuter rail line. It is perhaps the perfect embodiment of "transit-oriented development," both because of its location and high-density.Plans call for two towers to be built on the site with a total of 242 units. So far, however, only one tower has been built with 115 condominiums and six town homes.Construction on the first tower was substantially complete in April. Work has not begun on the second tower.The conversion to apartments is the third in central San Jose this year. The Globe development in downtown made the switch on 76 units it couldn't sell. Another Swenson project, The Lofts on The Alameda, is renting out 11 of its 42 units after they didn't sell.THE BACK DOOR FOR SFI.
In Summary, land cost of 180,000 per unit now reduced to 70,000 per unit land value. ISTAR bought the paper at .67 on the 1.00. ISTAR still takes it in the ass for 50% of the value. Guess what? Everything they are involved will liquidate at a 50% loss. How do they survive?
Tell me....how does holding and renting equate to a real loss?
Looks like old news .But it's both good and new news to me.Thanks for posting.
thanks, I have 2 inhouse staff will send them to examine those properties check real story out.
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Two teens charged with murder
Sinkhole swallows Tampa man
PHOTOS: A collection of sinkholes
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Investigators need help with solving two home burglaries in which a door-to-door salesman distracted homeowners while their houses were ransacked Tuesday on the Westside, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
The burglaries are believed to be part of a growing trend which has the Sheriff's Office concerned, according to Public Information Officer Shannon Hartley. The salesman in both cases was reportedly selling lawn care services.
Between 12:45 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., the two Westside homes, one in the 300 block of N. Cahoon Road and the second in 1600 block of Jones Road, were burglarized.
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This past year we met Mariah Carey's twins, Victoria Beckham's darling daughter and Kate Hudson's new son, but which celebrities will be adding to their families in 2012?
Hilary Duff, Jessica Simpson and Beyonce (unless she has already given birth) will all become moms for the first time next year, and there are even more pregnant celebrities who will certainly have their hands full with newborns once the new year rolls around.
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I remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with the idea of becoming a parent. It was just before Christmas in 2007 and, because I went to a teensy tiny prep school that included kids all the way from pre-kindergarten to 18-year-olds, a group of us seniors were singing holiday songs to the littlest ones. They looked all excited as they listened, sitting cross-legged and grinning adorably. But then, they sang to us. Oh my, did they sing to us.
As these little muffins (I refer to everything cute as a muffin, my apologies) sang this high-pitched version of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas," my heart began to positively melt. It was totally off-key and very out of sync, but somehow, that made it even more wonderful. I reached over to my right where a friend of mine was standing and silently grabbed her hand. She squeezed back.
"I know this sounds weird," she whispered, "but–"
"I want one."
We continued to clutch one another's hands until the kids were done with their caroling, and somewhere, I thought heard a "tick…tick…" Lo and behold, my biological clock had begun ticking.


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Head of Russian intelligence lands in Cairo, defense minister will follow in what seems as policy to fill in vacuum left by Obama admin after US aid freeze
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The visit seized much attention by Egyptian and Arab media,
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"The meaning of the visit is not an abandonment of the close ties with Western countries," a source in Cairo said, trying to ease tensions. However some of the details revealed by Arab media show that Egypt is at least seeking additional funding sources due the economic crisis in the country, which of course cannot be separated from the freezing of aid. Some suggest that the actions are no less than a search for an alternative to the American financial support.
Yet it would be premature to bring an end to the relations between the US and Egypt. While the Russian security delegation was hosted, Egypt's defense minister made time to speak to his American counterpart Chuch Hagel. According to the Pentagon, the two spoke about the progress of the roadmap in Egypt, the lifting of curfew and termination of emergency state in the country. The US government statement stressed the importance of continued relations between the countries.


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The National Training Laboratories of Bethel, Maine, which is now called the NTL Institute, determined more than a decade ago that "practice by doing" is second only to "teaching others" as the most effective way of learning. But only in recent years has diversity training transitioned away from side shows and guilt trips to skill-building, such as resolving conflict and providing developmental feedback to subordinates with whom managers have little in common.
Sodexo Inc. is among the companies that have invested years of time and money into diversity strategy. The food and facilities-management services company offers multiple diversity workshops available to everyone from cashiers to members of the C-suite, invites outside speakers to lead sessions at its annual diversity conference and offers webinars available anytime from any location.


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August 2012 TTC
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posted at 8/29/2012 10:45 AM EDTFB--I'm with you on the cramps. Without BCPs, I'm a total wreck on CD1. Of the OTC stuff, aleve (naproxen) works best for me, but it is not a total fix.You can alternate doses of an NSAID (like advil or aleve, but not both!) with doses of tylenol. So if you take advil every 4-6 hours, then add in a dose of tylenol right in the middle after 2-3 hours. (One is cleared through your liver, the other through your kidneys, so this avoids over-taxing your body.) These drugs complement each other--they can work better in combination.Also, you can take notably higher doses of advil safely than the packing suggests. Ask your PCP about this, but I routinely take 800 mg (4 pills) at a time. But you can't do that more than 4 times per day (so 3200 mg per day).Honestly, none of that advice helps on the worst days. I'm still stuck in bed, a sobbing wreck. When I absolutely couldn't spend the day in bed, I've ended up dizzy and almost fainting from trying to stand up/move around/give a presentation at work despite the pain.If you have pain like that, then ask your doctor about taking a prescription painkiller. One percocet will melt away my worst cramps. I don't take it every month, but I feel so relieved to know it is there. Percocet makes me feel sooo drowsy and like my brain is in a massive fog. It's not pleasant. But if I need to stand up and be somewhere, I can, which is an improvement over the pain. And if the pain is really bad and I don't have to be somewhere, I will take it and then take a nap, which is really the most comfortable solution to the problem.The bottom line is you should talk to your doctor about this! Don't minimize your pain and sufffer needlesssly. It took me years to work up the nerve to have this conversation with my doctor, and that was a total waste. I was also scared of prescription painkillers, but I've become convinced that 1 low dose opiate every 4 weeks will not make me addicted. It might take some experimentation to find what works for you. I was first given tylenol with codeine, but that makes me vomit. Honestly, I'd rather be nautious than have those cramps, but there was a better option out there for me!
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posted at 8/30/2012 10:06 AM EDTAnyone watching Dr. Oz? The show is "how old is too old to have a baby." Pros and cons of waiting to have a child.
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posted at 8/30/2012 10:50 AM EDTIn response to August 2012 TTC:
Randomly and definitely OT - anyone have any good remedies for very very bad cramps during AF?
Magnesium does work, a GYN told me to try it in the late seventies and I was shocked with how effective it was.
However, I forget the dose, I think it was high though, and in combination with something else, maybe calcium.
First check with your dr regarding this alternative, before narcotics.
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Anyone watching Dr. Oz? The show is "how old is too old to have a baby." Pros and cons of waiting to have a child.
Thanks, keane, I taped it for dh. I'm 40 and ready to stop trying. He isn't because I think he downplays the risks I've told him about. He likes Dr. Oz...maybe this will shed some "new" light on the whole picture for him.
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posted at 8/30/2012 1:40 PM EDTMy sister-in-law (DH's sister & only sibling; I'm an only child) just told me that she's pregnant. We're close and she knows what we've been going through. There's a wedding this weekend and she, of course, won't be drinking, so even though she's not far along she wanted us to know so we didn't find out just because of the no alcohol....I cried on DH's shoulder for about an hour, but of course I'm excited for her. And I get a niece/nephew. I need to respond to her email, I just...can't do it right now. I don't want her to think I'm mad at her or anything, but I'm really having a hard time with this one.
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posted at 8/30/2012 2:09 PM EDTWPP, not to sound super macabre, if she's telling before 12 weeks simply to avoid the alcohol issue at the wedding she's not out of the woods yet. Having had an early mc myself, I'd walk around with a half full glass of something that looked like alcohol and let that be that. Best to her, though, and to you as you process her bfp.
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posted at 8/30/2012 2:12 PM EDTWPP, I know exactly how you feel. This whole process is so hard. Its ok to be happy for her and sad for yourself. Your time will come. The only thing that keeps me sane hearing the constant baby announcements around me is knowing that some day, somehow it will be my turn (even if its adopting the adorable 9 year old boy on Wednesday's child. DH and I were watching last night and seriously contemplated it for a minute there).
Random but... has anyone on here done acupunture as part of their fertility treatment. I've been reading a lot about how it can be helpful during ivf and am considering trying it. Planning to ask the RE about it at my appt Tuesday since I really wouldn't know where to start in finding one that specializes in infertility.
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posted at 8/30/2012 2:46 PM EDTSSbride - I have been wanting to post to you but I had a hard time logging in and have been SLAMMED at work. I am so sorry about your egg retrieval. That is the worst. Once I had I think 5 or 6 follicles and they only got 1 egg. Totally sucks and it is just a let down. I just wanted to let you know I am thinking about you and so sorry!
I did acupuncture two times. There is no real evidence for it but I thought I would give it a go. I did it at Boston IVF where I had my numerous egg retrievals. I didn't like it because the room was cold so I was uncomfortable. It just migght have been my experience. I certainly don't think it could hurt!
Congrats to our BFPs! that is great news!
Just an aside - I look back fondly on our TTC years only because we did a ton of fun things - little vacations and because I have two children now. Even though I wish everyone TTCing could feel that way DURING TTC, I most certainly did not and probably would have wanted to hurt anyone who thought I should be enjoying it. (I know that is not what you meant Stefani - I know your comment was meant to be completely benign).
I also could not stand to hear about friend's pregnancies - that was probably one of the hardest parts. One friend actually told me she was sort of bummed she was pregnant with her 3rd when I was ttc'ing. Really?
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posted at 8/30/2012 3:56 PM EDTssbride - i went to an acupuncturist while i was TTC. and when i got PG w/ twins on clomid the nurses speculated that that's what made me have twins. i ended up doing it for a month, getting PG (from clomid) and then doing it throughout the first trimester. i went to dr. john zhang located around the corner from MGH in boston - he was referred to me by my PCP at MGH who had heard lots of success stories about him from her patients. his office is LITTERED with x-mas cards and baby announcements from all sorts of ppl he's helped get PG - it was really quite surprising. here's the webiste. http://www.acuhealing.org/aboutus.html
lil - good explanation, thank you, that's exactly how i feel and felt about the TTC thing and what i meant to portray in a non-judmental/non-preachy way. yours is a better way of phrasing! :)
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posted at 8/30/2012 4:24 PM EDTstefani--thanks! I know your comments were intended in the nicest way. I wasn't personally offended or anything--was just venting a little.
WPP--I totally get your feeling about your SIL's pg. I've been having a really tough time with my friends' pregnancies and infants these days, and I feel as if everyone we know is pg. I guess I've just realized how much easier it is to feel and say and do the "right" things when I myself am happy/comfortable with where I am in life; when I'm frustrated with my own situation, feeling/saying the right things for others is much harder. I never quite appreciated that in the same way before.
I hope your SIL is sensitive and compassionate, but if she hasn't been in a similar situation, I think it can be hard for people to imagine exactly what it can feel like. I am concerned that I have damaged one of my own relationships due to the very hard time I've had empathizing with the trials of healthily pregnant friends these days. I'm doing my best, but I'm not sure it's obvious to other people.
Kar--presuming DH & his sis are close, I don't think this is remotely out of line for them to share the news. I am glad that my nuclear family knows some of what we have been going through with this TTC rollercoaster, and I'd tell them when/if we get a third BFP, even though we all clearly know it doesn't = having a baby in 9 months. I agree that spreading the news too widely can beget the risk of unpleasant un-telling, but on the other hand I don't think pregnancy loss should be a taboo subject amongst family and close friends.
IPW--sorry about the job search stress! hope things look up soon. Must be a lot to deal with on top of the pregnancy loss/TTC stress you've had. Sometimes when it rains, it pours, I guess.
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posted at 8/30/2012 4:58 PM EDTThanks lil, as always you give me hope!
Stef, thanks for the recommendation. Sounds like you had a good acupunture experience and I will def look into Dr. zhang.
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posted at 8/30/2012 5:02 PM EDTSIL has been very sensitive and I appreciate it...she told me over email and said that she knew I'd need to process and would have mixed feelings, and to take my time about it. I'm not going to the wedding that everyone is going to this weekend, and I'm relieved now...only DH's parents and us know and I just can't handle it right now.
DH called about never getting the infertility questionnaire. They said they mailed one a couple weeks ago (uh-huh) but they put one in the mail again. I recall a Seinfeld episode where Newman gets mad at Jerry for delivering 83% of the mail on his route because that was an all-time postal work high.
SS, I did acupuncture for about three months. I did it to start my period back up, and that didn't happen, but the acupuncture was amazing. I've been thinking about starting up again because I loved doing it. I saw Jeff Matrician (google his name; he has a web site) in Watertown (also practices in Harvard Square) and he was awesome.
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posted at 8/31/2012 2:15 PM EDTYou're not going? Don't you think you'd be distracted by the wedding and want to be part of whatever memories and photos? And, you'd be passing up an opportunity to not have to cook what is sure to be good food... Do what you want instead, if that's really what you want, but I'm betting you CAN handle it and you'd be totally distracted and have a good time if you were to go. And, if you don't, every time you see a photo of the wedding you missed you'll say, "oh, yeah, I missed that because my SIL was pg."
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posted at 8/31/2012 6:43 PM EDTWPP, I'm sorry your dealing with a pregnancy so close to home. At the risk of sounding like a horrible person, my SIL's pregnancy was a really dark time in my life and I didn't even know about the fertility problems I would have. Yes, having a niece or nephew is pretty awesome and I would take a bullet for my niece, but it was difficult for me when DH's whole family revolved around his sister. It sounds like your SIL is being level-headed about it (she's already shown more class than mine) and I hope that you can enjoy this time with your family. SS is totally right though - you can absolutely feel happy for someone and feel sad for yourself. Sending you hugs right now! You sound like you need them!
Enjoy the long weekend everyone!
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posted at 9/1/2012 10:34 AM EDTThanks, guys. Chiclet, I don't think you're a horrible person at all and I understand being in that place. And you're right, this is a time to enjoy with family.
Kar, this is a planned absence from the wedding--it's tomorrow in the White Mountains and I have to work tomorrow and Monday :( No long weekend here. Next weekend I have a couple days off, though, and we're going to another wedding in upstate NY, which happens to be on my birthday.
We're seeing my MIL and FIL today and I'm hoping we don't talk about it too much because I don't know if I can keep it together the whole time.
Enjoy the long weekend, everyone! This is such a great time of year.
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posted at 9/1/2012 4:50 PM EDTAh, I'm glad it's planned because not to discourage you, but it might take years to get pg, if at all, and it would be a shame to miss "everything" because someone at the event is or could be pg which is how I misinterpreted your post to mean.
I haven't been posting much because since the changeover, bdc insists that I have banned words in my post that don't exist and won't let me post because of it. Can't remove what isn't there. So, here goes nothin'.


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These days, television is the on-screen catwalk that really matters.
Fashion has moved with the times, and Hollywood glamour is getting left behind. Television is the on-screen catwalk that really matters. The pomp and bombast of silver-screen style – Scarlett O'Hara's Gone With The Wind ballgown, Ursula Andress's belted Bond-girl bikini – feel as overblown as a 1990s mobile phone. Saturday nights are spent on the sofa, watching a character wearing the same sweater she wore last week.
The new generation of screen goddesses aren't goddesses at all, but real women. It is probably significant that almost all the small-screen style icons who matter are in complicated, multi-episode programmes, rather than in one-off dramas.
Their lives have ups and downs and contradictions. They have talents; they have faults. They have love lives in which the narrative loops well beyond "fall in love, negotiate adorable/dramatic mishap, get married, the end" – and their wardrobes reflect this.
The world didn't fall in love with Sarah Lund's Faroe Islands jumper in (the hit Danish TV series) The Killing the first time she wore it. Only when it became a recurring theme – a part of the character – did it develop a cult following.
As the actor who plays her, Sofie Grabol, explained, the jumper is "perfect because it tells so many stories. It tells of a person who doesn't use her sexuality – that's a big point. Lund's so sure of herself, she doesn't have to wear a suit."
In less than two decades, the fashion industry has been transformed beyond all recognition by new technology. Fifteen years ago, designer catwalk shows were open only to a couple of hundred people, and all images were kept under tight central control.
Now, by contrast, shows are livestreamed with the aim of reaching a global audience immediately. (Burberry, with its Tweetwalk, made it a point of pride that the looks debuted on Twitter a few seconds before they appeared on the catwalk; those watching on their laptops had the news before the front row did.)
The price-tag hierarchy of fashion has also been upended by the phenomenon of the designer-to-high-street collaboration. H&M has taken the mass appetite for fashion and used it to persuade Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, Martin Margiela and Isabel Marant to dance to its tune. Designers are now expected to serve the new, informed fashion consumer.
Any online retailer finding that, say, "jumpsuit" is becoming a popular search term is now in the habit of telling designers that they need to make more jumpsuits.
Hollywood style has displayed a fatal reluctance to move with the times. It is striking how often "old-school glamour" is referenced in descriptions of red-carpet dressing.
Today, we like our icons a little more real. The style crush on Carrie Mathison in Homeland, played by Claire Danes, or on Stella Gibson in The Fall, played by Gillian Anderson, has quite a bit in common with our running obsession with the wardrobes of Michelle Obama and the Duchess of Cambridge. (Note, for instance, how the duchess "recycling" a dress for a second outing is a news story that gets more hits, these days, than her wearing a new one.)
Small-screen style icons capture our imagination because clothes are part of character. These wardrobes are about a sense of self, not about adhering to trends. Real style is intimate, psychological and complex - just like good TV. – Guardian News & Media
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American Vogue loves to put serene, beautiful actresses on its cover; crotchety-faced, nervous-wreck federal agents, not so much. Interesting, then, that when Annie Leibovitz photographed Claire Danes last summer, it was not the sunshine-blond, movie-star-and-mum version of Danes who gazed out from the newsstands, but Carrie Mathison, her Homeland character.
Her gaberdine and leather Burberry trench was tightly buttoned, the collar turned up incongruously against the August weather; her hands were thrust into the pockets, her gaze cool and level.
In one of the pictures inside, Danes was in a surveillance van, wearing a knee-length Victoria Beckham sheath dress accessorised with bulky headphones and trademark crossed-arm pose.
Similarly, when Danes starred in a fashion shoot for the New York Times's T magazine, she was wearing Comme des Garcons and Valentino, but still recognisably Carrie, with that shiny, natural hair, posing against the backdrop of Tel Aviv.
Carrie wears trouser suits, macs, shoulder bags: A commuter-train uniform chosen for its practicality and anonymity. The level of repeat in her wardrobe has a heartening reality. She wears the same pieces again and again and again, as a working woman in her position would. She looks fantastically sexy in black leather jacket and grey cotton marl T-shirt.
She has a grey trouser suit that does nothing for her, and looks as if the real Carrie might have bought it on a distracted shopping spree – a marvellous, ego-less touch from the wardrobe designer. She is not using fashion to armour herself against the world, as many of us do, and there is a lack of artifice that lends her an emotional vulnerability. The dark colours and lack of artistry leave the spotlight on her face, which is marvellous: the suspicious, twitchy eyes, the epic crying, the manic, toothy smiles. – Jess Cartner-Morley
Peggy Olson, Mad Men
At first it almost hurts to look at Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) – and not in the good way it hurt (and still does) to look at Don and Joan. A tight ponytail and tiny, fearful fringe topped off a motley collection of overly fussy blouses tucked unflatteringly into frumpy skirts in pukesome shades of green and beige.
Everything screamed social and sexual immaturity and vulnerability, which, of course, attracted the disgusting Pete Campbell to her as blood attracts sharks. This in turn led to an interlude of secret maternity wear, followed by secret baby and secret adoption.
A girl grows up fast under these conditions, and since then Peggy's wardrobe has – like the woman herself – become less fussy, more focused, more put-together. Ponytail and separates have gone out, a bob and dresses have come in.
But it is still clearly armour. Necks are high, patterns sober, hemlines sensible, at least for the 1960s. – Lucy Mangan
Jane Tennison, Prime Suspect
What I most love about DCI Jane Tennison's clothes is that she doesn't really give a damn about them. Yes, she looks chic and stylish in her simple blouses and plain tailoring (it's hard to make Helen Mirren look bad, in all honesty), but her image is largely unimportant to her.
Sometimes we see Tennison stir after a late night of heavy drinking and obsessing over evidence, having slept in her crumpled workwear. And even when she's on top of her game, nothing is overdone; every last detail feels authentic. Her shoes are always sensible courts, never dominatrix heels. She goes for soft tailoring, not power suits with sharp angles and jumbo shoulder pads.
Her shirts look stylish, but generic and robust enough to deal with the odd yolk stain at post-briefing fry-ups with the lads from the station. Nothing is perfect, everything is functional, ticking all the right boxes, while her attention remains firmly on the job at hand. The sheer ordinariness of her wardrobe is exactly what makes DCI Tennison's such an unforgettable look. – Sali Hughes
Claire Underwood, House Of Cards
Say what you like about Claire Underwood, the blond, terrifying one played by Robin Wright in House Of Cards: her wardrobe is cold, hard perfection. As one half of a Washington DC power couple, Underwood knows that perception is everything, and dresses accordingly.
At work, she is pristine in form-fitting shift dresses, crisp shirts, mannish trousers, tailored overcoats and expensive accessories: Louboutins, perhaps, or an Yves Saint Laurent tote.
By night, at the Capitol Hill galas where she publicly swaps longing looks and urbane witticisms with her husband, she binds herself into chic, corseted gowns and strapless cocktail dresses. Whatever the occasion, her palette is as controlled as her small talk: black, navy, charcoal, pewter, cream, white. Every outfit shows off her tanned, gym-toned biceps and lithe, bare legs (hosiery is for wimps). – Hannah Marriott
Stella Gibson, The Fall
I always suspected that power blouses were unwearable by mortals like me, who live in the same world as bra straps, spaghetti bolognese and an ironing deficit. Watching Gillian Anderson coolly cut a swath through BBC crime drama The Fall in a succession of the glorious things left me wholly convinced.
Those silken, cream-coloured blouses were part of that stillness, yet they almost revealed her flesh; a hint of woman in a man's world.
These are blouses that make a subtle joke about their own femininity; associated with Tory wives who pretend to be ladylike while actually wearing the trousers, or royal women who have to look pretty for the camera while commanding with a will of steel.
In fact, a plain silk blouse is one of the sexiest things you can put on, if you're not really meant to be wearing clothes that make people look at you. I dread to think how much you have to spend on one that sits right on the body like Gibson's, effortless and breezy as expensive milk. – Sophie Heawood
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The next step for ESBs is here. Incorporating the best of WebSphere ESB, WebSphere Message Broker has now evolved into IBM integration Bus. As the single consolidated ESB offering from IBM, IBM Integration Bus V9 still enables you to deploy integration solutions to meet a diverse set of integration requirements, but now provides key capabilities to support more intelligent decision making, process improvement and mobile.
In this latest release we have included:
Built-in decision service nodes (powered by IBM Decision Server technology) to make it extremely easy to create and invoke Business Rules in order to influence the routing, transformation and validation of in-flight data, all in near real-time. This enables organizations to make smarter decisions through the application of decision logic to achieve an optimal business outcome. For example, a business can offer a promotion to a receptive customer at the point of sale, or to select the least cost channel for a financial payment based on a customizable set of criteria.
Prebuilt developer patterns simplify the provision of integration services for organizations using IBM BPM to automate, manage, measure, and continuously improve their processes. Discovery, selection, mapping and testing of integration services can now be completed from within the BPM development environment and shared quickly and easily between Process Designer and Integration Developer, accelerating delivery and driving out errors.
Policy-driven traffic shaping provides greater visibility and operational control over workload. This enables clients to meet the demands of an explosion of new endpoints (such as mobile and cloud applications), while protecting critical enterprise applications and systems. Policies allow traffic to be delayed or redirected, or additional resources can be added to cope with load spikes while simultaneously sending notifications to increase business awareness and enable trend discovery.
Out-of-the-box patterns for IBM Worklight allow business to extend data from backend systems to mobile devices exposing critical information to mobile users securely and with ease. Push notifications can also be used to update mobile users in real-time. For example, bedside medical devices can use push notifications to send alerts when patient vitals drop to dangerous levels notifying a doctor via his tablet that immediate medical attention is needed.
And for the icing on top of the cake:
These capabilities and more build on the need to not only integrate, but gain increased insight and value from business data. With cloud, mobile, social and big data changing how a company does business, and the explosion of new applications, data and systems that need to not only be connected but truly integrated into the business, this latest release provides exciting new capabilities to connect and derive value from existing and future skills and assets. For more details visit our IBM Integration Bus webpage.
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I want to bring power in at a 3 way switch box to feed 5 lights with the other 3 way switch - a dimmer - at the end of the circuit. How do I accomplish this?
assuming all five lights are on same circuit already you need to have power from the source (circuit breaker) go to the FIRST 3way dimmer switch, then through the five lights, then to the LAST 3 way dimmer switch. That way the first and last switch control the lights...must use 3 way dimmers (obviously) and four-wire wire with the extra wire as the "common" line...you may need to rewire the entire circuit with the four-wire--check either Home Depot's DIY book OR Time's DIY book. If I check myself I will post again.
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Ambitious Commitment Would Result in Cumulative 30 Percent Decrease in the Company's Emissions Since 2004, and Includes New Corporate Real Estate Portfolio Goal of 20 Percent LEED(R)-Certified Space
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 18, 2011 -- Bank of America today announced an ambitious new goal to reduce its absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 15 percent from 2011 to 2015, based on its 2010 baseline. This goal spans all of the company's global operations in more than 40 countries and builds on its previous GHG reduction of 18 percent between 2004 and 2009, which had focused on legacy Bank of America operations in the U.S.
Through the Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program, Bank of America was one of the first global financial institutions to announce GHG emissions reduction targets in 2004, and the first to publicly report out on exceeding those goals within the commitment period.
Today, factoring in the addition of Countrywide and Merrill Lynch, the new target represents an overall global reduction in aggregate GHG emissions of more than 30 percent from the 2004 baseline. This is equal to annual emissions of more than 700,000 metric tons CO2-equivalent or said another way, equal to eliminating the annual GHG emissions from more than 124,000 passenger vehicles.
"Reducing our emissions not only lessens the environmental impact of our global operations, but enhances our efficiency and delivers tremendous value for our company and shareholders," said Global Technology and Operations Executive and Bank of America Environmental Council Chair Catherine P. Bessant. "Continuing to achieve a GHG reduction of this magnitude requires fundamental changes spanning our entire organization, from our global real estate portfolio to the individual workspaces our employees occupy."
Like most companies, the vast majority (90 percent) of Bank of America's GHG emissions derives from energy consumption. To accomplish its GHG goal, Bank of America will focus on lowering its energy consumption by:
Leaders in LEED(R) certification
To further advance its GHG reduction goals, Bank of America also announced today that 20 percent of its corporate workplace real estate portfolio will be certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED(R) (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating system by 2015. Currently 11 percent of the company's workplace portfolio, 13.2 million square feet, is comprised of LEED-certified space. LEED-certified space will include new construction, core and shell construction, commercial interiors, retail spaces and the operations and maintenance of existing buildings.
"Bank of America is an industry and corporate leader in applying LEED to achieve improvement to their global corporate footprint," said Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chair of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). "The company has systematically leveraged every aspect of green building practices throughout their entire workplace building stock to help them standardize their energy efficiency and achieve their carbon reduction goals."
Employee engagement
Additionally, the company recognizes the important role that employees have in contributing to the company's comprehensive GHG emissions reduction goals. By instituting robust employee programs, the company is better able to achieve this specific goal, as well as reduce its overall indirect GHG emissions.
Through a comprehensive employee educational program, and a partnership with the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the company is providing training, education and resources to help employees find ways to save energy and money, while reducing waste, improving their workplace and communities, and engaging with their teammates in market-specific opportunities. Employee training sessions in 2011 will focus on overall energy conservation, sustainable transportation, LEED building enhancements and recycling.
Under the company's Hybrid Vehicle Reimbursement program, eligible U.S.-based employees can receive up to a $3,000 reimbursement toward the purchase of a new hybrid, highway-capable electric or compressed natural gas vehicle. Initially launched in 2007, more than 3,800 employees have replaced conventionally powered vehicles which, on average, doubled their fuel economy and prevented the release of nearly 4,000 tons of annual CO2 emissions from employee commuting.
Third party partners
Bank of America also engages leading, independent partners like the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Ceres, throughout the entire lifecycle of its emissions and other environmental goal setting, benchmarking and reporting. To track its progress on this and other environmental commitments, the company continues to complete CDP's comprehensive annual carbon survey, adhere to Global Reporting Initiative sustainability reporting standards, and submit its GHG emissions data for independent, third-party review.
"As a global company, Bank of America is to be congratulated for its past achievements and impressive new goal, as well as demonstrating how effective management of their emissions and environmental footprint makes both business and environmental sense. It is clear that the effective management of these issues has a direct impact on a company's ability to compete and grow," said Paul Simpson, chief executive officer, Carbon Disclosure Project, a global, independent, not-for-profit organization that monitors and encourages company disclosure on carbon dioxide emissions. "They have made significant progress in engaging suppliers, employees and leadership on climate change and this announcement speaks to their long-term commitment."
About Bank of America's Environmental Commitment
Understanding the important role it plays in helping clients and communities address climate change, Bank of America continues to establish itself as an environmental leader in the financial services sector. In 2007, Bank of America embarked on a 10-year, $20 billion business initiative to address climate change through lending, investments, capital markets activity, philanthropy, and its own operations. Delivering $12.1 billion in four years to hundreds of clients in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and markets across Asia, Europe and Latin America, Bank of America is focused on reducing its environmental footprint while aligning its global financial products and services to help advance energy efficiency and low-carbon energy markets, including wind, solar, biomass, other emerging technologies. For more information about Bank of America's environmental commitment, visit www.bankofamerica.com/environment [1].
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By Sowmya Krishnamurthy
"September 24th. Just wait on it," Drake told us on his "Versace" verse. This week, the rapper officially dropped his highly anticipated third studio album Nothing Was the Same. From emo cuts like "Hold On We're Going Home" to the H.A.M.-inducing "Worst Behaviour," there's something for every Drake fan on this album. Kick back with your Moscato as we revisit the moments that brought us to Nothing Was the Same.
February 2013: Started From the Bottom
"Started From the Bottom" set the tone for Drake's new album. The rapper talked tough about making it and bringing his Toronto boys along for the ride. The Mike Zombie-produced cut quickly became a hit and "started from the bottom" has become a mantra we'll forever associate with Drake.
He quickly dropped a lighthearted visual for "Started From the Bottom," which featured Drake upgrading from a job at a drug store to riding in a Bentley (in the snow) and then having a Soul Train-esque dance party. The rapper also revealed the title of his new album Nothing Was the Same.
April 2013: No New Friends
"No New Friends" was in many ways the remix to "Started From the Bottom" and showed Drizzy taking time out for his famous friends, DJ Khaled, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne, while working on his own album.
May 2013: Memes Flood Internet
Drake in classic Dada? The throwback look from the "No New Friends" launched a thousand memes and showed the rapper wasn't taking himself too seriously.
June 2013: Would You Like a Tour?
Would you like a tour from Drake? Of course! The rapper announced his multi-city tour with Future and Miguel. Emo times on deck.
July 2013: Fashion Crazy
When Drake jumped on Migos' "Versace," the song went from moderate hit to high-octane anthem, not to mention, gave us classic Drizzy one-liners like "I think I'm sellin' a million first week, man I guess I'm a optimist." That month, Drake also continued his foray into streetwear and debuted his own New Era x October's Very Own (OVO) caps.
August 5, 2013: OVO Fest
August was one of Drake's biggest months. His annual OVO Fest in Toronto is always a star-studded affair, but this year, the hometown boy outdid himself with appearances from Kanye West, Lil Wayne and yes, Diddy and Ma$e reunited. "That was probably the most important moment in my career to date," Drake told MTV News after the show. "I think me and Kanye have wanted to express our respect for each other for a long time and sometimes rap, the business, the competitiveness and just the heart behind it forces you to not talk to the people you quietly admire."
August 7, 2013: Hold On We're Going Home
He then debuted his hit single "Hold On We're Going Home," which was markedly different from what fans were expecting. Even Drake clarified that this was not a rap song but more of a wedding song. "It's not a rap record," he said. "It's not 'Versace,' it's not 'Started From the Bottom.' In approaching this album I was like man, it would be great if we had a record that was played at weddings in 10 years or that people that are away from their families in the army could listen to."
August 26, 2013: "Hold On" Live
Drake debuted his wedding song "Hold On We're Going Home" live at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. The rapper toned it down for a heartfelt performance at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Backstage, he explained the interesting cover art for his album. "When it's positioned on the shelf… you'll see that it's a child version of myself staring at myself now.
September 16, 2013: NWTS Leaks
Like so many other albums, NWTS sprung a leak about a week before its official release. Fans quickly took to Twitter to share their love for tracks like the Jay Z collabo "Pound Cake." Drake performed the personal "Too Much "on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" bringing along UK singer/songwriter Sampha around that time.
September 18, 2013: Expectations
With just days until the official release of his album, Drake was cool and collected, saying that he had expectations. "Best advice I ever got is: No expectations lead to no disappointments. So I have no expectations," the rapper told MTV News back in August. "Really, just more than September 24, I'm just excited whenever people get the music, " he said. After a year waiting, now we have it.
September 24, 2013: "Hold On We're Going Home" video
After previously saying that he hoped to hear "Hold On We're Going Home" playing at weddings in 10 years, he debuted a mafia-inspired video for the song. He told MTV News that this will help him transition back into acting.


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The 13C south portal is decorated in the Gothic style. Inside, note the fine 16C gates by Juan Francés, the retable on the main altar devoted to the life of the Virgin, the Trascoro retable (16C) and the tomb of St Peter of Osma in multicoloured lim..


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Englands bowlers didnt need to aim at the stumps to run through Indias top order on Tuesday. James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Moeen Ali could get their name on the scorecard by targeting the helmet grill, pitching the ball outside off-stump or even by looping a tame half-tracker heading down the leg-side. Cheteshwar Pujara gloved a drone-like Broad delivery that chased his head, Murali Vijay dragged a ball by the same bowler to his stumps while Virat Kohli was out as he hung out his bat to a Anderson away going ball. India, on Day Three, had failed to show restraint as they forgot to bring their Test-match temperament to the field.
After the early damage by the pacers, Moeen Ali dealt a couple of soft blows with his innocuous off-spin that were more traumatic for the Indian dressing room. First Rohit Sharma played a shot that answered the often-asked question: Why has he played just six Tests so far? Five minutes before tea, Rohit, aiming for the vacant long on boundary, hit a tossed up Ali ball into the hands of mid-off. In an eerily similar dismissal, Ajinkya Rahane, five minutes after tea, hit a rank long-hop by the same bowler with the toe of his bat to short mid-wicket. A couple of obnoxious shots, after the inspiring spells in the morning, had made the England bowlers look more menacing than they actually were.
India finished the day at 323/8, needing 46 more runs to avoid the follow on. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, unbeaten on 55, had for company Mohammed Shami (4) as he tried to pull India out of trouble. The tourists scored over 100 runs after the fall of their last specialist batsmen. Like so often in the series, India were banking on another lower-order revival. This time, though, the usual rescuers Ravindra Jadeja (31) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (19) - too had departed early. At best from here on, India will do well to salvage a draw and keep their series lead.
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It wasnt the pitch or the English bowlers who were responsible for Indias misery. That goes to the collective failure of their batsmen to make a good start count in what soon turned out to be a dismal day. Two 30s, a couple of 20s and a 50 from the Top 6 on a scoreboard isnt good reading. Its an embarrassment for any team that aspires to


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Need for Sussex planner long overdue
Thank you Cape Gazette Editorial Board for once again insisting in your editorial (Jan 11) the need for a Sussex County Certified Planner is now!
Unfortunately, the county council does not seem to think that a certified planner is a priority (not advertised on the county website) and apparently, they're assuming they have the expertise and education to play the role of a planner, you don't!
For the benefit of the county council I give a brief, overall profile of a planner:
Duties: Develops comprehensive growth plans for urban and suburban communities; works closely with developers, government agencies, and others
Alternate Title(s): Regional Planner, Urban Planner
Salary Range: $51,000 to $86,000
Education or Training - Four-year degree, master's degree preferred
Experience - One to three years experience in community or urban development
Special Skills and Personality Traits - Professional written and verbal skills; ability to work independently; detail-oriented; proficiency with Microsoft Office suite.
Special Requirements - Certification; certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners. Advanced certification; preferably in environmental planning/or transportation planning or both.
We all want what's best for Sussex County and one way to begin implementing that is to bring to the Sussex Planning and Zoning Commission as well as the Sussex County Council an experienced certified planner to attend their meetings and offer the best advice/options. Developers use planners and experts when they want to sell their development project to the P&Z and the county council, isn't the time now we have our expert?
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Wrestling Classes
Wrestling Classes - all the details on this competitive sport in London.
At a glance:
● Wresting classes are great exercise
● Competitive sport
● Styles to suit everyone
● A growing phenomenon in London
The Lowdown
Wrestling was not invented by Hulk Hogan - contrary to what many believe. Jumping from the top turnbuckle, clotheslining and trash-talking your opponents is all very fun, but we're talking about a different type of wrestling here. Written about in Homer's Iliad, wrestling was a mainstay of many ancient civilizations as a form of combat as well as competition. In the early Olympics, wrestling was the hot ticket, and the discipline has not changed too much since then.
A sport with a diverse and long-running history, it's no surprise there are a host of styles. The two most common disciplines are found in the Olympics, and these are the ones you will most likely come across in wrestling classes in London. Greco-Roman wrestling puts the emphasis on arm and body movements with trips and leg moves not an option whereas in freestyle wrestling, you can get those legs involved.
The Crowd
Wrestling classes are great for anyone with a competitive streak looking to try something new. Wrestling in London is perfect as a simple workout, a way to develop strength and balance, or just if you love the sport as competition. A wrestling class is also the perfect setting to exact some revenge on a sibling who maybe put you in one too many headlocks growing up.
The Cost
Wrestling classes are just like any other fitness class in that they really aren't that expensive to attend - usually around £10 per class. Make sure to wear comfortable clothing but nothing too baggy that limbs and extremities could get caught in. (Ouch.) It wouldn't be a terrible idea to bring your own mouth guard as well (about £4).
And Finally…
Watch this compilation of some of the best wrestling moves made at the 2008 Beijing Olympics to get pumped up before you head off to your wrestling classes.


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Dear XXXXX
How old is your Son and what evidence have you that he is no longer attending college?
The CSA is undoubtedl the most autonymous of all the Government agencies. Their arrogance is almost incredible. Unfortunately, they were given too much power and we know what that does.
The worst single aspect of their method of arriving at a figure is that they take no cognisance of a father's liabilities - only his income.
If you go to the following link, you will see how that calculation is made:-
It would be well worth your while employing the services of a Private Detective Agency to report upon your sons movements for an hour or two each day for a few days.
In the meantime, you should lodge an immediate Notice of Appeal against the CSA's decision. The appropriate form can be downloaded at:-
I wish you luck.
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4-H Poultry
Moveable Poultry Hoop House
Buckeye Moveable Hoop House for pastured poultry or backyard flock.
Materials: 2 8ft 4X4s treated 2 6ft 2X4s treated 5 10ft ½ inch inside diameter schedule 40 pvc conduit (UV resistant) 1 8ft galvanized electrical conduit 3'4 " 28 ft poultry netting, galvanized wire or UV resistant plastic or netting, 5ft wide. 14 ft rope (for towing hoop house and staking it down) 16 3" or 3-1/2" coated self tapping screws 10 1-1/2" coated self tapping screws Electrical tape or other UV resistant tape. UV resistant plastic ties 6-8" long Tarp and tarp straps
Suggested Materials: Fence Energizer Galvanized electric fence wire Insulated connector wire to connect two or more hoop houses
Tools: Measuring tape Hammer Drill Phillips driver bit 7/8" wood drill bit 1-1/8" wood drill bit Marker
Construction On a flat surface place the 4X4s parallel to each other 6ft apart, then screw the 2x4s into the ends of the 4x4s to form a 8x6 foot rectangle, (use the 3" screws), you might want to drill through the 2x4 first to make it easier to run the screws into the end of the 4x4. Keep the screws away from the middle of the end of the 4x4 because you will be drilling through this junction soon and you don't want to hit the screws with the drill bit. Four screws connecting each 2x4 to each 4x4 should be enough, or lag screw them together with coated lag screws. The new pressure treated wood requires the coated screws (check the box) since the screws will rust out quickly otherwise. Now starting at the end of the 4x4s measure every two feet and mark the top middle of the 4x4. You will have 5 marks including the ends of the 4x4. Now drill out each mark with the 1-1/8 inch bit on one 4x4 and the 7/8 bit on the other (or cut off the female side of the conduit and use 7/8" on both sides). The holes should be at least 1-1/2" deep, make them all the same depth. Mark each pvc conduit at the halfway mark. Now match the larger end of the conduit to the correct side and push it in as far as it will go, then bend it and stick the other end in the smaller hole across from it. Be careful that one end doesn't come out and hit someone. You can hold the conduit in by running one of the 1-1/2" screws in from the outer side of the 4X4 or angled in from the top so that the ends of the conduit are held in the drilled holes. Now mark the metal conduit (pvc might work) every 2 ft., then tape it to each bent pvc (underneath) at the highest point, which should be where your halfway mark on the hoop pvc is. Electrical tape works well for this and is UV resistant. You should also wire each connection with galvanized wire as this metal conduit may be used to hang the feeders and waterers from. Cut the 5ft wide wire/netting into 8ft lengths and fasten to the sides of the hoop house so they meet on top. The netting can be fastened to the 4x4s with coated staples or bent nails. Fasten the netting to the pvc conduit with the plastic ties and connect it to the other piece of netting where they meet on top, probably every 6 inches or tight enough that predators can't squeeze in. It's much easier to have two people to attach the plastic ties, one inside and one outside the frame. Cut the remaining wire/netting to match the ends of the house and fasten in place. It may be best to have your door on the side, probably just by cutting a two foot flap between the pvc conduit. Leave the top of the flap uncut so it will drop closed behind you as enter or cut a larger door from a separate piece of wire to cover your opening. The door can be held in place with several tarp straps or just by wire. A more expensive alternative would be to have one end of the cage made from outdoor plywood, you can then cut a door into it and hinge it. This is a nice system and firms the cage up a bit. Weather To prevent rain from entering use a tarp over at least ½ of the house, including one end, face the tarped end into the prevailing wind. Hang the feed in this end. One of the main problems of hoop houses is that they can blow over in high winds. You should probably have at least two diagonal corners staked down to guard against this. You might want to use a loop of rope (nylon) at two corners to run your stakes through. Use a fairly long metal stake (err on the side of caution) but make sure you have a means to pull it out, perhaps a good size wrecking bar or crow bar and a piece of 2x6. A loop of rope fastened to the 2x4 at one end will give you something to grab on to so it can be pulled to a new location when needed. Watch the birds as you do this so they don't get injured by the other end of the house. Predator Protection By wrapping 2 or 3 loops of galvanized electric fence wire around the hoop house at 6" and 12" high you should be able to control most predators. If you use galvanized chicken wire instead of plastic netting the hot wires will have to be installed on stand out insulators to keep a short from developing. It may be helpful to install a loop around the wooden base (on insulators) if skunks start digging in. Many of these hoop houses could be lined up and connected to the same fencer as needed using insulated clips to join the houses. Size This basic design could probably be modified for larger sized pens also.