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11 failed IUIs, IVF #1- miscarriage, FET #1-nada, IVF #2-triplets but we lost them all at 9, 18, and 21 weeks in 2013. When all hope was lost a friend stepped forward to be our gestational carrier and carried in our twins... 2 years later we decided to try for one more baby with me carrying again...this is our story
Next Steps In the Fight for our Family
My Christmas break has been filled with several phone calls, meetings with doctors, discussion, and thought.
After meeting with our RE at OHSU (who was sure this whole thing was a fluke and wanted me to try again), we met with our maternal fetal specialist who took care of us while losing J and B.
He doesn't think this was a fluke at all. Although there is no "crystal ball" his best assumption is that I have some form of an incompetent cervix. This diagnosis shocked me as I thought IC was when your cervix shortens super quick, dilates, and you deliver within hours. He explained that I might have like a "twitching" cervix-that perhaps it open and closed just enough to let an infection get in...which eventually broke Brinly's sac, which lead to her falling out and things being REALLY open, which let more infection get in that eventually spread to Jude's placenta. AH.
All this to say, IF I EVER manage to get pregnant on my own, they will give me a cerclage at 12 weeks (stitch my cervix closed) in hopes of keeping out infection/it opening randomly and then give my progesterone shots weekly throughout pregnancy. That plan supposedly reduces my chances of this happening again. Scary, I'm not going to lie.
As of now, Darren and I are thinking for the next few months we might try the "old fashion way" with a twist (drum roll please). Ok, fine, the twist is basically we try on our own but with both of us on medicine. All my life I knew I didn't ovulate so when the time came to try to get pregnant, we jumped into IUI's immediately. For those that have been following awhile, although we did IUIs Darren was never on meds himself to help with his counts-several of the IUIs were wasted because I wasn't monitored, the counts were low, I had gotten a false ovulation surge, etc.
After we gave up on IUIs Dar got a second opinion and they put him on oral tablets and within a couple months they say improvements-at this point we had already paid for IVF and I wasn't going to stop going after those. Currently we feel like it might be a good idea to let my body chill out a bit (I've delivered 2 babies in the last 6 and 8 weeks), and IN THEORY, I ovulate on femera, his clomid pulls his counts into the normal range-we might be able to conceive kind of normally. I'm sure that if a few months pass and it looks like we are headed to the land of nowhere, we will consider other options. Sigh.
I hate the fact that J and B could have been most likely saved if we had known my lame cervix was crappy, but there is really no way of knowing till after the fact. I'm thankful there is some explanation other than "it was random, it's a freak thing" because there really is no "plan" for a future random/freak thing. One day at a time.
All I know is our desire to have a child has only increased. The fights not over. We are moving forward.
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It sounds like you received a lot of information. That is very overwhelming to hear, but I agree that it is better to have answers verses its a "freak" occurance. Sounds like you have a great plan in place for the next few months and I will continue to keep you in my thoughts.ReplyDelete
Love you friendReplyDelete
Always thinking and praying for you guys! You are amazing and strong and we are always rooting for you! xoReplyDelete
I hear ya. I hate the diagnosis of "bad luck". I feel like there is no fighting luck. I'm pulling for you guys and with 4 little angels looking out for you, I'm praying for a miracle. XOXOReplyDelete
I agree that it sounds like you have received a lot of information. Praying that you receive clarity and peace over the next few months. Your family is in our thoughts daily!ReplyDelete
Thinking about you!! Glad you are moving forward!!!ReplyDelete
You are such an inspiration, Holly. I'm glad you have gotten some answers and have a plan. Continued prayers coming your way.ReplyDelete
I'm so glad to read you are still planning to move forward. I also did unmonitored IUIs with Femara and got false positives. It is frustrating. You are such a strong woman. You will continue to be in my thoughts and prayers. You are truly an inspiration. I pray this new plan will work for you and your husband.ReplyDelete
I am happy for you that you are moving forward; your perseverance is inspiring. I pray that 2014 will be your year for a take home baby :)ReplyDelete
I'm glad you got answers to help you heal and move forward. Praying that these next couple months give u the miracle you deserve.ReplyDelete
After my loss, I discovered that having an answer was both comforting and tormenting. I'm glad you have a plan for moving forward. Praying for you both.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2013 at 10:41 PM
I'm glad you have a plan and I wish you luck.ReplyDelete
Praying tons for you guys...so glad to see this update...<3ReplyDelete
The fight is most definitely not over. Glad to see that you have a plan. I'll be sending you lots of love and good vibes!! xoxoReplyDelete
Oh, I hope this works for you! It's good to have some answers and a plan. Best of luck!!ReplyDelete
Hi there! I have been following your journey for a few months now. I am so incredibly sorry for the loss of your sweet babies. I also went through many infertility treatments over the last 5 years, so I can relate to the frustrations, emotions and thoughts that you may be having. I got pregnant via IFV with a baby girl and delivered her at 23 weeks 5 days. She lived for 12 hours before we decided to take her off of life support. It was so difficult to understand why things like this happen. I had no warning signs that she was going to be born so early. Come to find out, I had an incompetent cervix. We knew we had to press on because we wanted a family, but it was scary to get pregnant after a loss. I had a cerclage for my next two pregnancies and was monitored very closely while pregnant. I also took Makena shots weekly starting at week 16. It wasn't easy and there were times where I had to heavily rely on my faith to get through...but now I have two beautiful boys. I only tell you this because there is hope! The paths we walk down sometimes are filled with heartache and uncertainty, but I pray that there is a bright future ahead for you. And you will definitely be a better mother because of all you have gone through. I check your blog regularly for updates. If you ever have any questions about my experience with a cerclage and pregnancy after a loss I'd be happy to talk. You can email me at email@example.com . Prayers coming your way often! ~ErinReplyDelete
I read this in my devotional (Streams in the Desert) today, and kept thinking about you.ReplyDelete
Still upward be your onward course:
For this I pray today;
Still upward as the years go by,
And seasons pass away.
Still upward in this coming year,
Your path is all untried;
Still upward may you journey on,
Close by your Savior's side.
Still upward although sorrow come,
And trials crush your heart;
Still upward may they draw your soul,
With Christ to walk apart.
Still upward till the day shall break,
And shadows all have flown;
Still upward till in Heaven you wake,
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When I first read your story I thought of IC (I also have a shiity cervix) Please look into a transabdominal cerclage. It is a permanent cerclage and is much more effective than a vaginal cerclage. It took me five years to get pregnant the first time. Beause of IC I lost Evie at 20.6:( We then had a failed adoption and the next month a BFP. I wasn't willing to risk it with a vaginal cerclage so we drove from Oklahoma to Chicago and Dr.Haney (a leader in placement of TAC"s placed my TAC at 10 weeks. My rainbow is just over a year now. Love & hugs!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2014 at 8:30 PM
I'm glad your MFM doesn't just brush it off as a fluke. Even though there may be things doctors cannot explain, as a patient this is so frustrating. We received the strong single-embryo-transfer-only recommendation, too. I'm hoping you can find a way to move on that you are at peace with. On-your-own-with-meds sounds like a good way to get started. Thinking of you.ReplyDelete
So glad to see you have fight left in you. I have heard great things about cerclage, and I think it's great you have a plan to do it as a preventative measure the next time you get pregnant....which I hope is very soon! I think you could absolutely get pregnant trying with TI and pills. Fertility treatments are such a crapshoot anyways. Plenty of women get pregnant on their own after IVF has failed, so why not? Routing for you guys!ReplyDelete
Saying prayers for you guys as you move to these next cycles. Always thinking about you.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2014 at 7:45 AM
I thought of you when I read this. Maybe you've seen it already, but I think it's amazing. Thinking about you guys. <3 http://lemmonythings.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/god-will-give-you-more-than-you-can-handle-i-guarantee-it/ReplyDelete
So, so glad that you are continuing the fight. I expected nothing less from you! Don't give up hope, Holly. Though your path to becoming a mother has been fraught with challenges and heartache, I do believe that you will get there. You. Will. Be. A. Mother.ReplyDelete
Very glad to hear that your doctor was able to come up with an explanation for what he thinks happened with the twins. Very glad, because like you said, an explanation also means a gameplan for trying again. As scary as it may be. Praying for you and Darren as you begin this next chapter in your journey.
- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2014 at 9:16 AM
I would look into a TAC. The very same thing happened to me 8 months ago. It took me forever to get pregnant 6 years. Before marriage I was diagnosed with PCOS I was 17. Married at 21 and tried naturally for a year then on to clomid, Femara, provera, fsh shots, IUI's and then finally IVF. We got pregnant with twins and I lost them at 18 weeks. MFM not sure but thinks it could be IC. They want to do a similar plan as yours to place a TVC at 12-13 weeks before the cervix starts to change and then give me P17 shots the entire pregnancy. I go back and forth between thinking of surrogacy and getting a TAC placed instead of a TVC. I really would like to have the TAC placed instead of a TVC. I would look into these three items and discuss them with you MFM(TVCIC/TVC/TAC). Usually they wont do a TAC unless you have had more than two losses, but like you I cant imagine that happening again to us. So I have been advocating on my own looking at other options. Before I do a transfer they only want me to transfer one back and it scares me because of the time and money that we put in and the odds, but if it helps me bring home my rainbow baby I am more willing to do it. I wish you the best and pray and hope for your rainbow baby. God Bless you and your babies and husband. You are so strong and so amazing!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 10, 2014 at 12:19 PM
May I ask what exactly Darren was prescribed? My re said there was nothing able to increase levels with my husband.ReplyDelete
I'm just a fellow Christian mom, but I wanted to let you know I am continuing to pray for you and your husband and your sweet angels in heaven. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2014 at 1:56 AM
How much did clomid raise your husbands counts? We are in a similar situation :(ReplyDelete


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Uncertain Objects of Desire
In India, a country that straddles the old and the new, a good place to look for signs of shifting values might be the matrimonial columns of The Times of India
WHEN I was twelve, I spent a summer with an aunt in Rourkela, a small town very different in flavor from Calcutta, where I lived. My aunt taught me to pickle mangoes and to make quilts out of old cotton saris—skills that my mother, a busy schoolteacher, either didn't possess or didn't care to teach me. For this reason I was fascinated by them.
My aunt also taught me a prayer ritual, or vrata, popular among unmarried girls. This ritual involved a weekly fast, an early-morning bath, the gathering of certain leaves and flowers, the pouring of water over a statue of Shiva, and a chant that went like this:
May I have a husband like Rama,
May I have a father-in-law like Dasharatha,
May I have a mother-in-law like Kaushalya,
May I have a brother-in-law like Lakshmana,
May I be a wife like Sita.
If performed faithfully for four years, the vrata guaranteed a happy marriage, complete with doting in-laws.
What Indian girl could resist such a vrata? I performed it zealously for years, in spite of the dubious look in my mother's eye—and the more insidious doubt in my own heart, the result of a convent-school education that scoffed at such "naive" superstitions. Still, I knew that as I chanted, I was calling up, syllable by syllable, the wonderful stranger my parents would select as my mate. (I would eventually get married, years later in America, to a delightful man whom, to my parents' dismay, I chose myself—an example, perhaps, of the unexpected, inscrutable ways in which vratas work.)
Rama and Sita, hero and heroine of the epic Ramayana, are the ideal couple of the Hindu tradition. My peers and I grew up on tales of his courage and caring, her beauty and strength of character, their appreciative and untroublesome in-laws, their mutual devotion in a time of polygamy. But for young men and women coming of age today, in the aftermath of independence and the women's-liberation movement, the old myth is problematic. How can they ignore the way the epic ends, with Rama banishing an innocent Sita from his kingdom because her virtue has been questioned by some of his subjects?
We must search elsewhere, then, for the heroes and heroines of a postmodern India, the new objects of our desire. The movies are one possibility. But the polychromatic Olympian figures of Juhi Chawla and Aamir Khan, the stars of countless Indian screen melodramas, are better suited to fantasy and hero worship. Marriage is a serious and pragmatic commitment, in the traditional Indian context involving significant financial transactions and requiring the blessing of parents and grandparents. In a country that straddles the old and the new, where discos and arranged bride-viewings flourish side by side, a good place to look might be the matrimonial columns of The Times of India, a leading national newspaper. Over a period of time the ads could help us to gauge whether the changes brought about by modernization—such as a growing work force of professional middle-class women, or the establishment of overseas Indian communities in England and the United States—have affected the nation's notions of suitable husbands and wives, or whether such notions, imprinted on our brain cells by centuries of tradition, remain unaltered. I selected ads from the past thirty years to see if I could discover any trends.
EVERY week The Times of India publishes several hundred carefully categorized matrimonial ads. These are mostly organized by community, caste, language, or religion, though new categories have recently crept in: "Doctors," "Working Girls," "Defence" (referring to army families). These ads, with their own vocabulary and shorthand, are the Indian counterpart to the personals found in Western newspapers and magazines (although certain progressive Indian magazines carry Indian versions of those as well). Usually the ads and responses are handled by parents—proof that the arranged marriage is alive and well in India. I have found in speaking with numerous couples whose marriages were arranged that although family compatibility is the starting point for such matches, most of the couples end up falling in love. For a number of reasons arranged marriages have a very high rate of success. One reason, Indians often joke, is that a traditional wedding lasts three to seven days. Most people can handle only one such ceremony in a lifetime.
Reading between the lines of two ads typical of their eras, one from 1969 and one from last year, reveals a great deal about the nature of desired partners then and now, and the protocol for finding them.
Matrimonial correspondence invited from parents of smart, goodlooking girls as match for Gujarati Vaishnav (Khatri), M.S., engineer, 29, employed in New York. Graduate girl preferred. No dowry. Caste no bar. Should be willing to go to U.S.A. [3/5/69]
Alliance invited from parents for Sindhi only fair tall son September 75/177 /10,000 B.Com/DVES well established business non smoker, non drinker, vegetarian from Sindhi tall good looking professionally educated girl. Preferably Doctor/Engineer/ Lawyer/CA response with photograph horoscope compulsory. [3/28/99]
Because parents initiated the marriage talks in both the ads above, a parent had to respond. For a young man or woman to do so would be considered forward. Many Indians believe that wrongly matched stars can create a lifetime of trouble for the couple; thus the demand for horoscopes. Even modern families who declare "caste no bar" will often require them. But caste compatibility is usually important as well. Families may include detailed birth-star and subcaste information in ads. We see this in an ad from 1969 that sought a match for a "Kerala Vadama Srivatsa Brahmin" boy (the phrase describes his sect) and stated, "Horoscopes with 2 'Doshas' [or weak star positions] admissible."
Offering details of the parents' careers and finances is common, as evidenced in an ad from 1969: "Agarwal groom preferably settled in Bombay for a Post Graduate well mannered beautiful girl 22, daughter of a highly placed business executive." Such information indicates the kind of social background the woman is used to, and discreetly invites a compatible match. Not all families are so tactful. One recent ad, as I recall it, reads, "Software professionals, doctors, or MBAs with six-figure salaries only need apply."
Traditionally, parents want a woman who is at least five years younger than their son. Twenty-five for a woman is pushing it. Ads confessing that a woman is twenty-seven or twenty-eight hasten to add that she looks younger. A certain amount of education in a woman is a plus, whether she will work or not. Convent-educated (or "convented," as thrifty word-counters put it) girls are considered assets to their husbands' careers, though some families caution that they are also looking for "religious, homely [home-loving] girl," "modern with a traditional touch." The bride should be fair or at least "wheatish" (skin color creates a hierarchy among Indians). Medium height is preferred—"177" in the "Alliance invited ..." ad above refers to centimeters, describing a woman rather tall by Indian standards, which could be a disadvantage. In India as in much of the world, few families are eager to see their daughter-in-law tower over their son. And always the woman must be good-looking. The ubiquitous demand for "beautiful" women makes one wonder what fate awaits those who are not thus endowed.
The desirable male, on the other hand, is primarily a good provider. "Well settled" is a favorite adjective in the ads; "affluent" is another. Each is at least three times as common as "handsome" or even "smart." And although many parents like to arrange an early marriage for their sons, age is not a major issue. More important is a husband's profession, with women showing a strong preference in recent years for "medicos," software engineers, and MBAs. Equally significant are salary details and family finances, which matchmaking agencies will double-check for a fee.
Matrimonial correspondence invited from parents of South Indian Brahmin girls of Non-Srivasta Gotram, good family background, goodlooking, reasonably accomplished, with ability to converse well in English, age 26-29 height 160-170 cms. for a foreign returned executive engineer, aged 34, earning over 2500—of very good family background, references. Please apply ... giving full particulars together with horoscope. [2/2/69]
Overseas well educated company Director, Hindi, English speaking of Hindu Brahmin family, handsome with beautiful home, car, office, servants and other facilities, age 30. Invites matrimonial proposals from girls, preferably lady doctors and lawyers, wonderful opportunity to establish own practice. Race, religion, caste no bar. [2/2/69]
AN examination of thirty years' worth of matrimonial ads also reveals important changes in attitude toward the Indian diaspora. The first ad I cited from 1969, when the original swell of Indian immigrants came to the United States, declared that the bride-to-be should be willing to go abroad. This would demonstrate her adaptability: she agreed to endure the hardships of a strange land. But resettlement was certainly not something that either she or her parents would wish for: the popular feeling was that only boys who couldn't make it in the home country went abroad. As late as 1979 expatriate men looking for hometown wives needed to prove their worth and not be finicky: "London settled handsome Gujarati Research Chemist, owning property, car, drawing Rs. 10,000-per month, height 170 cms., 33 but looks 30, seeks matrimonial alliance, no bar, send particulars."
An additional worry for families was that once abroad, impressionable young people might forget their duties to family and bloodline and allow themselves to be lured into marrying foreigners. Here is an ad with a distinctly panicky tone:
Matrimonial correspondence invited for Brahmin Engineer, 27 serving in America, drawing 6,000 per month, from parents of respected Brahmin girl, Medico, engineer or science graduate, immediately, as boy will fly back soon. [3/6/69]
Over the course of the next twenty years the tide turned. By 1989 being a prospective groom or (rarer) bride who lived abroad was a distinct advantage. Someone thus situated could unabashedly demand more.
Australian residents, North Indian sisters (Aristocratic Kshatriya Zamindar ancestry) aged 29 and 27 years, very pretty, and cultured, living in Sydney seek matrimonial alliance with refined Indian gentlemen of excellent family background, prosperous businessmen or highly qualified Chartered Accountants, Actuaries, Dentists, Orthodontists, Medical specialists good natured, very ambitious, willing to settle in Australia. Girls visiting India soon. [2/26/89]
And although England, Canada, or Australia was acceptable, by last year the United States had become the destination of choice, for which many bargaining points were willingly surrendered.
Really beautiful very fair slim tall BE/ME (Comp/Electronic) MCA girl from reputed Hindu family ... for Vaish (Madhesiya), very fair handsome boy 29/180/65 M.Tech Software Engr. in USA on H-1 visa coming India next month. Early marriage. [3/14/99]
By last year The Times of India had a long column titled "NRI [nonresident Indian]/Green Card." And the Internet had arrived in the marriage supermarket. Kalpana Shah, a matchmaker, sent in a group advertisement for eight potential brides (with caste information and vital statistics) who all wanted grooms from "USA/UAE/UK." "All brides are beautiful attractive & slim," Shah assured us. Her Web site is www.kalpanashah.com. A typical entry reads,
At present California/U.S.A. working as a product marketing manager, beautiful, slim, fair, highly educated from well settled family, 39 yrs, Bengali, Education MBA/MS/MSc/BSc from USA. Wanted highly educated officer or well settled businessman first preference U.S.A. based. Caste no bar. [12/29/99]
As more immigrants settle abroad, NRIs are beginning to prefer other NRIs, or at least "Green card holder H-1 visa"—a status that allows the recipient to live and work in the United States for long periods. This is in part to ensure cultural compatibility and in part a response to a prevalent urban legend about unscrupulous Indians who marry NRIs in order to get a green card and then shrug off their spouses with a quick divorce.
Perhaps because Indian women are now better educated and more likely to be financially independent, remarriage has grown more acceptable. The traditional stigma attached to divorce and widowhood has lessened. Whereas in 1969 and 1979 a number of ads specified "divorcees, widows, please excuse," last year several feminist ads read "dowry seekers excused." Now, in columns titled "Second Marriage" and "Cosmopolitan," people seek another chance at happiness.
30/156 (looks much younger) M.Sc. B.Ed., PDCA fair, smart charming cultured convented legal divorcee (few months marriage), Hindu Yogi Bhardwaj learning classical music & dance, father class-I officer seeks caring considerate & anti-dowry match. Jovial, humble, respects human values. Responses only from people who admire & have at least some of these qualities well settled issueless below 34 with pleasing personality. Photo horoscope must. No bar. [9/19/99]
US Citizen, high caste Gujarati Hindu handsome athletic 53 (looking 38) 175 cm 65 Kg innocent divorcee Engineer/Music Composer/Published Poet, looking for a loving wife (35-48) for life. Singer preferred. [6/27/99]
Advertisers almost always characterize a divorce as "innocent," meaning that it did not arise from adultery—which makes one wonder where all the "guilty" divorced parties have gone.
A few lines of tiny print and yet in them are buried the stories of entire lives, tragic or comic. ("Alliance for Kshatriya boy 29/5'8"/5000. Professional harmonium/synthesizer player. Good family background. Partially weak vision.") Laced with hope and desperation, these ads hold out the promise of transformation in a society where one's place is still largely determined by caste, class, and connections.
Middle age divorcee but youthful, internationally travelled, dynamic, successful businessman, Indian, good family Hindu background, now Baha'i believes in one God & humankind as one family, tall 183 cm. fair good looks, pleasant, caring, broadminded, East-west values. U.K. citizen, residing London. Would like to meet pretty youthful girl, loving, sincere, homely, friend, independent, age thirty/forties, reasonably educated with useful profession i.e. artist, music, writer, media, business, medical, computer etc. No bar of colour, caste, religion, nationality, divorcee, veg/nonveg. [1/24/99]
It is easy to fall into a daydream over them, to imagine one's ideal mate. Even I, solidly married for twenty years now, find myself, in reading these ads, stirred by the adventure, the Russian-roulette nature of the enterprise.
I am 42, industrialist successful businessman music lover adventurist, with creative mind fun loving person in need of an alliance who is adjustable good natured independent interested in living life in full swing. Please send photograph ... [1/17/99]
A study of the past thirty years of matrimonial ads points to an interesting fact. Whereas the concept of the ideal husband has remained more or less the same (he should be a solid provider who comes from a reliable family), the definition of the ideal wife today is very different. Whereas in-laws once looked for wives who were young, beautiful, home-loving, and biddable, now (perhaps because of increased input from the prospective groom) it is the educated, professional, adventurous woman, enthusiastic about living in a foreign country, broad-minded enough to consider a divorced man for her mate, who is in demand. Perhaps this echoes a larger pattern of social movement in which the Indian woman's role is changing more rapidly than the Indian man's.
But ultimately, India defies generalization. Just when I think I've figured out the nature of Indian desire, "intent matrimony," and its trajectory over the past thirty years, I come across something like this:
Are you fair beautiful Lady unable to take full-fledged domestic matrimonial responsibilities for career or family commitments then do not deprive yourself the happiness of life. Tall fair loving caring and understanding highly educated successful Bombay based Industrialist is looking for you to share all kinds of happiness life can offer from life-time alliance. Write all details. [3/14/99]


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For generations the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has quietly carved out a hardscrabble existence in the evergreen forests and sloughs along what people here call the Big Water, living off wild rice, fish and game.
Little has changed over the decades. They grapple with poverty every day. Their casino is tiny, their homes aging and weather-beaten. But they have their land and their water and that's always been enough.
Now, though, tribal members find themselves in the path of a major effort to create new jobs in Wisconsin. Their lifestyle may turn out to be the most formidable obstacle yet for a Republican governor determined to show that he can ramp up the state's economy.
Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature are pushing to bring a huge iron mine to the Bad River's doorstep and revive an industry that has been dormant for nearly 50 years. Conservationists fear the mine would pollute the area, but supporters disagree and are fast-tracking a bill to clear the way.
In his two years in office, Walker has rolled over his Democratic adversaries and beaten a recall attempt, but he now faces a different kind of opponent. Though only 1,000 members live on the reservation, the tribe has legal status as a sovereign nation and could tie up the project in court, depriving Walker of his signature job creation achievement as he prepares for re-election.
"We're not going to let it happen," tribal elder Joe Rose Sr. said. "The (Chippewa) tradition is to look seven generations ahead. We ask ourselves what we're leaving for those unborn. Will there be clean water and air? Will there be any pristine wilderness left?"
The issue has inflamed the tension between the state's beloved outdoor traditions and the need for paychecks. Many residents of the surrounding counties, where unemployment ranges up to 12 percent, have latched onto promises of hundreds of jobs on-site; backers say there would be thousands more for heavy equipment manufacturers and suppliers across the state.
"Everybody's broke around here," said Ken Scribner, a 47-year-old unemployed construction worker from Mellen, a town of about 800 people on the mine site's western edge. "We need some money."
How the collision of cultures can be resolved, short of years of litigation, is unclear.
Northwestern Wisconsin is a different world than Milwaukee, the state's largest city and a manufacturing hub. This is an untamed place, laced with secluded lakes, snow-frosted forests, swamps and towns separated by miles of lonely two-lane roads.
Iron mining was once the area's lifeblood, but the last mine closed in 1965 as the steel industry shifted to lower-grade ore. The region's economy has limped along ever since, relying on tourism even as abandoned buildings and mounds of waste rock served as forlorn reminders of better days.
Now, though, mining company Gogebic Taconite is considering a new mine in the Penokee Hills, which stretch from the northern Wisconsin woods to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Plans call for blasting away 4½ miles of ridge line to create a massive pit mine. The company hopes to ship ore to take advantage of rising domestic prices.
The Legislature is poised to limit public challenges and allow mining operations to store waste near lakes, ponds and rivers. The measure also contains a general presumption that any damage to wetlands is necessary.
Walker, who has been struggling to deliver on a campaign pledge to create 250,000 new jobs before he launches his 2014 re-election bid, extolled the project in his recent State of the State address. He even surrounded himself with hard-hatted union members he said want to work at the mine during the speech.
But the Bad River reservation lies just north of the mine site, where the Bad River empties into Lake Superior. According to lore, the tribe settled in the forests and marshes here long before European settlers arrived because the wild rice fulfilled a prophecy that the tribe's wanderings would end when it found food growing on water.
Most of the tribe's weathered houses and mobile homes and its casino, one of the state's smallest, sit in the woods along U.S. Highway 2 about 80 miles east of Duluth, Minn. Per capita income was $12,352, according to the latest Census Bureau estimates.
But tribal leaders hold fast to their connection with the natural world. Signs on the reservation's borders inform travelers the land is sacred, and tribal members still rely on the land for sustenance.
"The view you get here is the view your ancestors had," tribal chairman Mike Wiggins Jr. said as he scrolled through photos of the reservation's beaches and spectacular sunsets on his laptop. "These things really do matter."
Tribal leaders fear run-off from mine waste will poison the watershed with sulfuric acid and sulfates. Democrats and conservationists agree. A Lawrence University study conducted on behalf of the state's Chippewa tribes concluded that the waste rock could generate acidic run-off, but state officials say there hasn't been an authoritative analysis.
As a sovereign nation under U.S. government treaties, the tribe could ask the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce the reservation's own water quality standards if a mining permit doesn't meet them. Under a federal treaty signed in 1837, the state also must consult the tribe about actions affecting its hunting and fishing rights.
The bill's author, Republican Sen. Tom Tiffany, sought a meeting with Wiggins in December, but Wiggins replied it would be pointless.
Republicans have acknowledged the matter could well end up in court. But Tiffany said he believes the state will be on solid legal ground in balancing the economy with the environment.
The locals are growing impatient. Leslie Kolesar, chairwoman of the Iron County local mining impact committee, said the county has been living with mining residue for years and nobody is sick. To illustrate, she filled a Mason jar with water from a stream running near a rock pile and slugged it down.
"We're not afraid," she said, adding, "We're still drinking the water, still eating the fish out of the rivers."
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So that leftover chicken from the tacos I told you about here... was just what I needed to re-create on of my favorite pizzas. The spicy chicken works perfectly with a mix of mozzarella, Parmesan and sharp cheddar cheeses. Add some roasted piquillo peppers, green bell pepper strips, and red onion and its my idea of a perfect pizza. If you're like my husband, go ahead and throw some black olives on too.
This pizza crust is a great homemade crust, the addition of white wine and oregano make for a really flavorful crust. It makes enough for 2 large pizzas, but it does require a little advanced planning. The dough has to rise once and then be refrigerated over night and rise again. I actually prefer to freeze it between rises. I think the dough becomes a lot easier to work with after being frozen. I let the dough rise once, divide it in half and wrap in plastic wrap. Slide each disc into a freezer-weight Ziploc and then the day I want to use it, I pull the dough out in the morning and refrigerate. When I get home from work, I heat a mug of water in the microwave for 3 minutes and then put the dough in with the mug and let it sit for about 2 hours. Remove the dough, reheat the water, and let rise 1 more hour. At that point, I knead it a bit and it stretches perfectly for me.
The other big key to this pizza is a pizza stone. Pizza stones make for a fantastic crisp crust because they pull absorb any moisture from the bottom of the pizza so you don't end up with a soggy crust. By heating the stone while your oven preheats, the crust starts cooking immediately when transferred to the hot stone. If you have a pizza peel, make your pizza on that and transfer to the stone, if not use a piece of parchment paper on top of a large cutting board, just transfer the pizza, parchment and all to the stone and bake. A pizza stone can be purchased for under $20 at places like Target or Bed Bath and Beyond. Of course there are other models which cost more, but I've found my Oneida version works great for me. These stones can also be used to bake bread, rolls and even cookies.
Lightly dust countertop with flour, knead dough for about a minute. Stretch crust into circle or square by draping the dough over your knuckles and letting it hang to stretch, rotate your hands stretching the dough as you go.
Spicy Chicken Supreme Pizza
6 oz cooked chicken (recipe here), roughly chopped
1/2 cup pizza sauce
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 small red onion, thinly sliced
1/2 small green pepper, thinly sliced
2 roasted piquillo peppers, thinly sliced
1/4 cup black olives, sliced
1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, shredded
1/4 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1 T fresh oregano, finely chopped
1/2 - 1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
1 pizza crust (see recipe below)
1 tsp olive oil
Place pizza stone in cold oven. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Dust a pizza peel or parchment paper over a cutting board with cornmeal.
When shaped as desired, transfer to prepared peel or paper. Brush outside 1/2" ring of crust with olive oil. Smooth pizza sauce over the crust. Sprinkle with minced garlic.
Add Mozzarella cheese, top with chicken, peppers, onions, and olives. Sprinkle with remaining cheeses. Bake for approximately 15-20 minutes until crust is lightly browned and cheese is bubbly. Sprinkle with oregano and crushed red pepper flakes. Let the pizza sit about 5 minutes before cutting and serving.
Pizza Crust
Recipe from The Way The Cookie Crumbles
2 T olive oil
1/2 tsp dried oregano
22 oz bread flour (approx. 4 cups)
1 3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 packet instant yeast
1/4 cup white wine
1 1/2 cups water
Heat oil and oregano in a small saucepan over medium heat about 5 minutes, add water and wine and stir to combine. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with dough hook, add flour, salt, sugar, and yeast. Mix about 30 seconds. Pour in the liquid ingredients and mix until all the dry ingredients are mixed in. Continue mixing on medium low speed about 8 minutes to knead, until dough is smooth and elastic. Add more flour if necessary, dough should not stick to the sides of the bowl when kneading but will still be sticky.
Grease a deep bowl with non-stick spray or olive oil. Form dough into a ball and transfer to bowl, turn once to coat with oil. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let rise about 1 hour in a warm place. Divide dough into 2 equal portions, pat into a disc, wrap in plastic wrap and slide into a freezer weight Ziploc. Freeze at least overnight or until ready to use. Transfer to refrigerator the morning you want to use. Once thawed, let rise at least 3 hours and then stretch and top as desired.


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Managing a robust, workable disaster recovery (DR) plan in an enterprise environment poses challenges. Add in a hybrid cloud architecture, where private and public assets must co-exist effectively, and planning for crises becomes even more complex. But a mixed landscape doesn't have to be an obstacle if administrators create the right plan and know how to get the best performance out of their resources. It can, in fact, become an asset.
According to Mathew Lodge, vice president of cloud services at VMware, hybrid cloud offers a couple of distinct advantages when it comes to disaster and business continuity planning. "It can make disaster recovery much cheaper, and it can also dramatically improve the flexibility and the agility of disaster recovery," he explained.
Many enterprises look at the public cloud either as a way to introduce DR into their organization for the first time, or as a way to complement or improve their existing DR plan. The infrastructure available from cloud vendors offers the potential for companies to reduce the equipment needed to run multiple data centers in multiple regions. "They can rely on the public cloud provider instead of having to build it out themselves," Lodge said. Along the same lines, enterprises can also stop duplicating data center infrastructure while retaining robust replication capabilities at each recovery site. All of that adds up to significant cost savings.
One factor that may require some additional consideration, however, is that public cloud providers rarely have hardware and software configurations identical to what an enterprise is using at its primary site. This is often the first challenge administrators face, said Bryan Che, senior director and general manager of the cloud business unit at Red Hat, Inc. "There are going to be some fundamental differences in terms of their infrastructure versus yours," he said. Even if the vendor uses the same virtualization stacks, the configuration probably won't be the same. "Having portability of your workloads into disparate and heterogeneous environments becomes a huge consideration," Che explained.
Considering the differences in architecture, how do public and private clouds usually fit together? Che typically sees enterprises working in a couple of ways. In the first, they use one site as their primary and another for DR. A second usage pattern entails the use of several sites, each acting as a primary during its region's regular business hours and as a backup during off hours. This methodology requires enterprises to "start thinking about what becomes primary, what becomes DR, and how you flip that," Che said. It also forces a more focused approach to shifting workloads efficiently and consistently between the sites.
Disaster failover planning from private to public cloud also requires deeper planning that incorporates more than just applications and their associated data sets. Matt Richins, cloud solutions architect at Rackspace Hosting, said it demands a comprehensive profile of the network. "What is the storage, what are the inbound and outbound connection points to their customers and to their business partners?" he asked. True cloud applications may have resiliency designed into them, but legacy applications and other assets might require working with providers on things like VPN access or frame relay connections in the event of a disaster. "It becomes a lot more complex from that perspective," Richins said.
Bandwidth and the other resources that tie together hybrid cloud environments don't always fall under the control of enterprise administrators, either. In an event that affects a wide area of the public infrastructure (think Hurricane Katrina), failing over between private and public cloud infrastructure may create additional challenges. There are, however, ways to sidestep potential issues. "The first is having very high bandwidth connections and continuous replication of data and applications, so the application and the data that it requires is already at the recovery site," Lodge said. In addition, if a large storm or other event is brewing, administrators may find opportunities to move data prior to the event without hitting bandwidth limitations. "If you've got large amounts of data, rather than ship it over the network, you can ship a physical disc to the cloud provider," Lodge suggested.
Administrators may also discover that cloud and telecom providers can solve some large-scale disaster concerns for them. Many networks are designed with resiliency and additional capacity in mind. "Any good provider worth their salt is going to follow ratios like 10 to 1, where for every 1 meg I need of bandwidth, I have 10 megs on standby," Richins said. If transitioning between public and private cloud is part of the DR plan, enterprises should query their providers on existing contingency planning and disaster resources. Telcos often have "emergency teams whose job it is to literally stand up new LECs and COs," Richins said.
A handful of best practices will help administrators further prime their hybrid cloud environment for maximum durability and recoverability. The first is a focus on data. "You can rebuild your applications as you need to, you can replicate the application environments, but if you don't have access to the data, your application is basically useless," Che said. Efficient data replication technologies go a long way toward addressing that concern. In addition, he said it's also important to think about moving toward application architectures that are designed to go into hybrid cloud environments: "The more nimble, scalable, and optimized for cloud your application is, the easier it is to deal with these types of situations." The cloud is geared toward scalability, and DR in a hybrid environment is the ultimate scale scenario.
Remember, too, that bringing up a recovery site means more than just replicating data. The second part of the equation is to ensure that "your application is going to run the same way in the destination cloud that it's running in your data center today," Lodge said. This means truly understanding how the public cloud end of things is architected. It also requires that administrators understand the reliability of the cloud on the other end. "We've seen clouds have outages," Lodge said. "If that same kind of outage happened again, what's your backup plan for your backup plan?"
Perhaps the most crucial factor in successfully managing any sort of DR program is regular, methodical, and repeated testing. That's when enterprises discover if the right files are part of the failover plan, if the image of the operating system is the way they want it, or if a maintenance pack was missed. "It's by testing and recovery of those applications that you validate if the backup data is still good, and if you have captured the right procedures for recovery," Richins said.


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Whitney Houston -- Laid to Rest
Whitney Houston Laid to Rest
Pop legend Whitney Houston was buried today at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, NJ.
Houston was laid to rest next to her father, John Russell Houston, who died in 2003. The burial was a small "family only" affair and not the star-studded event that yesterday's moving funeral service was.
As TMZ first reported, Whitney's casket was heavily protected since the funeral yesterday ... with nearly 10 security guards working in shifts to keep it guarded.
Houston passed away back on February 11. A cause of death has yet to be determined.


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2. If opting for a bathtub and shower combo rather than solely a shower, look for bathtubs that are slightly shorter and narrower than average.
3. Storage is key. Whether it's sink with a cabinet underneath, a cabinet that hangs overhead, hooks on the wall for towels, and open-wall shelving for
4. Mirrors make everything look bigger. Go for an oversized one above the sink and add instant visual square footage.
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FlightSimCon 2015 takes place at the New England Air Museum on June 13-14, 2015. This annual North American aviation and flight simulation conference is entering its third year. The conference is all about promoting and expanding the use of at-home flight simulation, using platforms like Prepar3D.
For existing flight simulator users, the conference is a chance to explore other users' setups, interact with vendors, attend seminars on improving simulator performance, and speak with flight simulation personalities. FlightSimCon will also introduce pilots to the world of flight simulation, with interactive how-to seminars on setting up a first flight simulator.
Attendees of FlightSimCon can:
- Interact with aviation and P3D exhibitors such as Jetline Systems as well as online communities like Boston Virtual ATC, IVAO, and VATSIM
- Participate in a free draw to win door prizes donated by Wilco Publishing and Just Planes
- Attend 'how-to' seminars on setting up or improving your at-home setup
- Meet popular YouTube personality "Frooglesim", who will be speaking at the event
- Hear from recreational and airline pilots about flight training, career planning, and pilot life
- Fly a full-size Cessna 172 "sim-pit" and check out other home cockpit setups displayed by the Demonstration Team
- Explore the 5-hangar New England Air Museum (admission is included in conference registration)
FlightSimCon is proud to have an exciting list of exhibitors and speakers already confirmed for the 2015 conference, with more being added every week. Speakers at the event include current and retired airline pilots, the Dean of the School of Aviation Science at Daniel Webster College, popular YouTube personality "Frooglesim", flight instructors, home cockpit enthusiasts, and leaders from online flight simulation communities.
"I was surprised by the structure and extent of activities at the conference," said Stephen Ablonczy, first-time attendee of FlightSimCon. "With interesting speakers, cool exhibitors, and lots of opportunity to try out different simulators and add-ons, there was definitely always something to do! I'm already making plans to return this year."
Conference registration is open now. Full access to this 2-day conference is just $60, which includes admission to the New England Air Museum. The Museum is the largest aviation museum in New England, with over 70 aircraft that cover all eras of aviation on display.
For more information and to register, visit www.flightsimcon.com. You can also visit FlightSimCon on Facebook or follow them on Twitter for updates on new exhibitors and speakers as the date approaches.


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(CNN) - The approval rating for the first Republican senator to back same-sex marriage has edged down, fueled mostly by a drop in support from members of his own party, according to a new survey.
An adviser to Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, responding to the poll, says the senator's change of heart on the controversial social issue had nothing to do with politics.
A Quinnipiac University survey released Friday indicates that Portman's approval rating stands at 40% among Ohio voters, down four points from a February 28 poll. The four percentage point dip is within the survey's sampling error. The senator's disapproval rating went from 24% in February to 31% now.
A six point drop in approval by self-described Republicans appears to be the main factor in the overall edging down of Portman's approval. Sixty-three percent of Republicans questioned in the February poll said the approved of the job Portman was doing as senator. That's dropped to 57% now. And just over four in ten Republicans say they think less favorably of Portman because of his switch on same-sex marriage.
In March, Portman became the first Republican in the U.S. Senate to endorse same-sex marriage. He announced that he was swayed on the issue by his son, who told his family he was gay.
"Rob's change of heart was driven by a family issue, and clearly had nothing to do with politics or poll numbers. He remains focused on the top issues in the minds of Ohioans – our economy, and Washington's out of control spending and debt," said a Portman adviser.
Portman's change of stance came just before the U.S. Supreme Court heard two high profile cases involving same-sex marriage. The high court is expected to issue rulings in June.
Portman, a former congressman who served as U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush, was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and is not up for re-election until 2016.
"Sen. Rob Portman's reversal on same-sex marriage has cost him a little support in his Republican base, but has little impact among Democrats and independent voters," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
According to the poll, 48% of Ohio voters support legal same-sex marriage, with 44% opposed.
The survey also indicates President Barack Obama's approval rating in Ohio now stands at 45%, down from 48% in March and 54% in December.
The Quinnipiac University poll was conducted April 10-15, with 1,138 registered Buckeye State voters questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report
Portman is truthful in his position. Those other GOP senators, democrats as well, are playing politics with the issue. I swear this Congress is full of cowards not willing to stand up for what they believe in or stand up for what they know is right.
Well, this man's rating have gone up with me. Portman represents, to me at least, what a REAL Republican should be about – limited government, esp. when it comes to adults private lives.
The government should not be regulating relationships between 2 consenting adults. My taxes should not be used to legislate this kind of morality, especially when we have bigger issues to deal with, like terrrorism.
Was is it about the Republican Party and their supporters that they do not understand about equal protection, equal rights? The U.S. government is NOT a theocracy. The Bible Thumpers who think they want to rule the nation by their holy book had better read it a little closer. Many of them will be stoned to death under such a theocracy. If you believe something is a sin, then you are free to refrain from it! That means lust, pride, gluttony, adultery, and a host of other "sins" that the Thumpers are currently free to commit in the land of the free. It would be wise to remember: "Judge NOT!" Please try to exercise that one more often.
Well people of Ohio, looks like you voted to put the failure back in the Whitehouse for another 4 years and now you regret it. Thanks for screwing the rest of the country over.
Figures. The GOP is know for eating their own.
i don't understand... you mean now that this republican supports the democrat gay agenda the democrats are not flocking to support him??? what a naive fool he is.
oi vay
Well people of Ohio, looks like you voted to put the failure back in the Whitehouse for another 4 years and now you regret it. Thanks for screwing the rest of the country over.
Bush is gone and Ken Blackwell can't steal any more elections.
He exercised freedom of opinion, that will get you nowhere fast in the gop, no independant thoughts allowed, blindly follow, or face defunding
@ oi vay – sorry to be a bearer of bad tidings, but after travelling 22 states, meeting with & talking with a diverse and a heck of a lot of people over the last 20 yrs, Ohio has the smartest & brightest people in this country. and I may add, Some of the best educated people in the U.S.
Portman against all gay rights,marriages 2 years ago trying out for Romneys VP but nows for it supposidly because of his son coming out of the closet 2 years ago as well.Just postering to get votes for the upcoming midterms which most republicans know will be their political downfall because of just these issues and now faced with political extermination they flip flopped to try to appease some that turned against them just for these heated political issues..Portmans stance hasn't changed and he'll be exposed as the hypocrite he really is as most republicans are!!
Blindly flollow, or else, what a place you have there sayin, yikes!, your extremist postings onlt serve to bolster the oppossitions viewpoint, meaning, you sound freggin crazy bro! which side is paying you anyway?
-just askin
i don't understand... you mean now that this republican supports the democrat gay agenda the democrats are not flocking to support him??? what a naive fool he is.
He did it for the right reasons, not politics, which explains why you don't understand. The Democrats are not one-issue voters, like the GOP is.
This was a problem for him until it affected his family directly. Now the tiger has changed his stripes. That being said, it least he NOW seems honest about it. Was Chaney different?
"I pledge my life to the theocracy of Rush Limbaugh. Whatever he says is the absolute truth. All others are heretics and nonbelievers and need to be clensed".......the GOP platform
Mr. Portman is on the right side of this subject. A decent country cannot relegate a large portion of its citizens to miserable lives. If you don't like gay marriage, then don't marry a gay person. Other than that, it is none of your business.
We need more people like sanford to lead our country, a proven winner. a ppathetic group of men if ever there was
After he stepped up and supported marriage equality, I had a better view of Senator Portman. Then he blindly walked lock-step with the GOP and voted to filibuster gun background checks. My impression of him shifted back. I guess the only way for Portman to vote to reduce gun violence is for someone close to him to become a victim of gun violence.
Republican rebranding efforts have a long road to travel. Social, cultural, and religious values do not change overnight. It may take a few more election cycle losses before the party realizes the bitter reality.


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This week: a little more mileage, a little more speed, a little more confidence.
I ran just shy of 90 miles this week, although it very well could have been 90 or more since I was guessing at distances until Friday, when I at last had my new training partner, Mojo, happily vibrating and blinking on my wrist.
NY was a sauna this week, with little relief, even at night when it rarely dipped below 70F. The dew points were very high some days, which is really where you feel the misery. The worst days were Saturday and today, and once again I was glad I wasn't running in the NYC Half Marathon this year, as the heat index was already around 80F at 7AM and only went up from there.
I took it fairly easy on my recovery runs, especially yesterday (when it was a brutal 91F heat index when I got in).
I wanted to have a productive run on Wednesday, so I took the LT run inside on the treadmill. The last five miles at LT effort were tough but doable. Although the treadmill's pace readings are always suspect to me (meaning I always suspect it's anywhere from 10-20 seconds "slower" in terms of what it's reporting), I know I was running at the right effort (as I borrowed Jonathan's HRM again) this time around. And right now effort is more important than pace is.
Like last week, there was the strange pattern of my running recoveries quite a bit faster on Thursday, sandwiched between two speedier sessions.
I did Friday's 10K repeats on the Bronxville track, which even at 8:30AM was like an oven, with the rest of the run on the running path. But I wanted to try out my new watch, and I wanted accurate speed data, so I braved the weather. On my third repeat I suddenly had an image of myself as a soufflé with legs, rounding the track as the cheese atop my head bubbled, blistered and browned. Still, I was happy with what I managed: Two sub-7:00 pace repeats of around 1200m and one just over 7:00, all at 92% MHR.
The heat yesterday was just insane. I knew today was going to be a big long run, so I ran yesterday's run extremely slow and at just 63% MHR average. The run, of course, took me forever. The longer I ran, the hotter I got, the more my HR went up, and the slower I went. This experience convinced me to take the long run inside today, since the weather was scheduled to be even worse today (and it was, according to Jonathan, who ran 16 miles up to North White Plains).
And so I ran 18 miles on the treadmill. And I was grateful for it. With AC and fans cranking, I too cranked. After a slow couple of miles to start as a warmup, I ran somewhere around 8:20 for most of the miles, then picked it up to 8:00 or so for the last few. HR% averaged 74% through most of the run and topped out at 79% toward the end. For entertainment, I watched the movie I've Loved You So Long (which was excellent) and then finished off by blasting some Radiohead. The 2.5 hours didn't exactly fly by, but it beat the alternative of struggling outside for 3+ hours instead.
I should note that I'm tiptoeing into things in terms of pace on the harder workout days. Last weekend I did the long run at just under 9:00 pace. This weekend it was around 25 seconds faster (that table should say 8:27 for today, not 8:37). For next Sunday's 20 miler (if I run it inside again), I'll probably shoot for trimming off another 15-20 seconds per mile to see what my HR does.
Next week is yet more of the same, although the LT miles come in the middle of the run and the intervals will be shorter and faster (three minutes at 5K effort). Plus five more miles to top me out at 95 miles per week. I don't know yet if I'll be running more miles than that during fall training.
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Big Men Dominate, Nets Bury Magic 107-68
ORLANDO, Fla. | Brooklyn looked inside in its first game of the season against Orlando. With Dwight Howard no longer patrolling the paint for the Magic, it was a winning strategy.
Andray Blatche had 15 points, Brook Lopez added 14 points and 10 rebounds and the Nets beat the Magic 107-68 Friday night.
"It definitely was a focus," Lopez said of getting the ball inside. "Especially coming off that tough Miami game. We wanted to come out and just hit them right away."
Brooklyn never trailed while snapping a 10-game losing streak to Orlando that dated to 2009. It enjoyed a 46-30 edge in scoring in the paint against the Magic, who traded Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers in August.
It was exactly what the Nets needed after following up their season-opening victory with back-to-back losses, including a 30-point setback Wednesday against the defending champion Heat.
"I think for us, we had a lot of veteran players out there who really know how to play. And they know where their strengths and weaknesses are," Nets coach Avery Johnson said. "A lot of things that we've been harping on about our offensive and defensive game — they executed."
E'Twaun Moore led the Magic with 18 points, and Arron Afflalo finished with 12.
It was Orlando's most lopsided loss of the post-Howard era and came on the heels of a 15-point blowout at Minnesota that was equally one-sided. Friday's loss was Orlando's second-worst home loss ever.
Injuries have certainly played a role, but coach Jacque Vaughn didn't use it as a crutch to explain his team's recent shortcomings.
"You have to be committed to execution," Vaughn said. "Not every other play, not every fourth play, but every single play. You have to cut hard every single play. You have to screen every single play for us to have success. And when they are not committed, it shows."
The Nets dominated inside, with Lopez and Blatche pushing around Orlando's young front line. They also got a lift from their bench, with Brooklyn's reserves outscoring their counterparts 55-18 for the game.
Orlando lost its third straight game after starting 2-0. It also tied a franchise-low with four made free throws, compared to 16 for Brooklyn.
No Magic starters attempted a free throw Friday.
"We've got a lot to work on, defensively being the main issue," Afflalo said. "But the good thing is that we play the same team on Sunday. So I think it will be a great chance for us to see if we can truly learn from tonight. ... Hopefully we grow from tonight."
The short-handed Nets played without swingman MarShon Brooks, who twisted an ankle during the morning shootaround. Johnson went deeper into his roster, giving veteran Jerry Stackhouse his first minutes of the season.
Stackhouse responded by scoring 11 first-half points to make up for slow starts by Joe Johnson and Deron Williams. He was shut out in the second half but the 11 points tied Stackhouse's highest scoring output from last season when he was with Atlanta.
Lopez also went to work early and often in the post, opposite a timid group of Magic big men. He scored 11 of the Nets' first 19 points as they built as much as a 16-point lead in the opening 24 minutes.
That lead passed 30 points early in the fourth quarter. The Nets also held a 48-35 rebounding edge for the night.
Meanwhile, the Magic didn't seem nearly as comfortable in their half-court sets at the outset and were hampered by careless turnovers.
Sixth-man J.J. Redick was visibly frustrated at times, barking at his younger teammates when they failed to move the ball swiftly enough during their offensive sets.
Orlando's remaining reserves also failed to provide a lift, collectively scoring just four points in the first half.
Sunday's game in Brooklyn will be their second of four meetings this season. It's also the start of a three-game homestand for the Nets
"Winning is the cure all," Stackhouse said. "Whatever is wrong with it, winning is the cure all. It is not as cold. ... We will even find some gas when we get home. If we lost tonight, we wouldn't be able to find some gas. I have a feeling we will find some gas.
"This is just how it goes."
NOTES: Magic PG Jameer Nelson sat for the fourth straight game with a strained right hamstring/groin. Vaughn said the team co-captain was "making positive steps in the right direction." Rookie F DeQuan Jones also rested with a groin strain. ... Nets F Gerald Wallace missed his third straight game with a sprained left ankle.
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Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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WASHINGTON — It's not about him. It's about us.
As the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination approaches, we've been deluged with essays, books, websites, videos and a new movie marking the event. The fascination with the Kennedys endures, though it's probably on its last lap. After all, about three-quarters of Americans either weren't born when Kennedy was shot or were too young (under 5) to grasp what happened. It's a distant and disconnected event to them.
There is a coyness to some retrospectives. In a long essay in the New York Times Book Review, Executive Editor Jill Abramson wonders "Was Kennedy a great president?" — a question she never answers — and opines that he "remains all but impossible to pin down," whatever that means. The question is actually easy to answer. He was not a great president. He was somewhere between middling and mediocre.
At his death, he had no major legislative accomplishments. His two major proposals — a tax cut to spur the economy and civil rights legislation — languished in Congress. He expanded the Vietnam War, and though some supporters argue he would have reversed that in a second term, presidents are judged on what they did, not what they might have done. His economic policies, symbolized by the proposed tax cut and called the "new economics" (an American Keynesianism), had damaging long-term consequences. They unleashed inflation in the late 1960s and 1970s; and they effectively abolished the commitment to balanced budgets — a loss that still haunts us.
Beyond Vietnam, his foreign-policy track record was lackluster. The Bay of Pigs was a disaster. At a 1961 summit in Vienna with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Kennedy was — by his own admission — cowed. Later, the Berlin Wall went up. He did defuse the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, but the crisis may have resulted partly from Khrushchev's sense that Kennedy could be intimidated.
It is cruel but true that the most consequential moment of Kennedy's presidency was his assassination: It so filled the country with grief and guilt that, pushed by a masterful legislator, Lyndon Johnson, Congress passed the tax cut and civil rights legislation. Moreover, the shift in public opinion enabled Johnson, after his 1964 landslide election, to advance his Great Society agenda: Medicare, Medicaid, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and more.
None of this sustains the Kennedy fascination. It's too wonky and nuanced. The fixation has other sources. For starters, it's history as soap opera. Vigorous president gunned down in his prime. Beautiful wife. Young children. But this appeal is superficial. Its real power is that for many Americans — baby boomers, members of the World War II generation — Kennedy's life and death represent a larger personal and historic metaphor.
I was a college freshman when Kennedy was shot. The Camelot illusion was that he and we were in control of events. His approval rating averaged 70 percent, the highest of modern presidents. Partly, this reflected a less critical public climate. Eisenhower, with eight years in office and more opportunities to disappoint and anger, had ratings nearly as high (65 percent). But it was also Kennedy's personality. He inspired confidence and oozed charm. He certainly mesmerized me.
As it happened, my wife and I visited the Kennedy Library last summer. Going through the exhibits, I sensed being transported back to the early 1960s and, despite knowing what's occurred in the five decades since, feeling invigorated and hopeful. The Kennedys were what we all wanted to be. No, we wouldn't end up in the White House. But just as they had achieved their ambition, we could achieve ours. And we would make America and the world a better place.
Kennedy's assassination shattered the illusion of control. Who could imagine an American president being shot? But many unimagined events followed: race riots in Los Angeles, Detroit and many cities; a powerful antiwar movement; the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King; a president's resignation (Watergate).
Camelot was that brief interlude when we thought we could impose our will. That is its magnetism. It was less an innocent time than a simplistic one. We thought we could engineer the future and discovered that the future wouldn't cooperate. Our continuing seduction by the Kennedy narrative presumes that had he lived, the future would have been better. He would have grasped the folly of Vietnam, embraced the new youth culture and advanced civil rights. This subtext sustains the Kennedy fascination.
It requires us to suspend disbelief, for there was a great contradiction at the core of his brief presidency. Though Kennedy projected mastery, he followed events more than he led them. It takes a huge leap of faith to think a second term would have been much different.
Robert J. Samuelson is a Washington Post columnist.


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NBC to air Olympic figure skating live
NEW YORK — Television viewers can watch figure skating live during February's Sochi Olympics, a shift by NBC from past games outside North America.
Every performance will air on cable channel NBCSN during the day, the network said Tuesday, with the key moments shown on tape delay on NBC that night as in previous Olympics.
Fans will see the women's gold-medal-winning performance on TV when it happens, instead of waiting until that evening. NBC had started streaming every sport live online at the 2012 Summer Games in London and discovered it didn't hurt prime-time ratings — and may have even helped. But the network still received some criticism for not airing popular events live on TV.
There is a nine-hour time difference between Sochi and the U.S. Eastern time zone. With the last Winter Olympics in Vancouver, NBC could broadcast figure skating live in prime time.
The NBCSN figure skating coverage starts the morning of Feb. 8 with the new team event and goes through the pairs, ice dance and men's and women's short programs and free skates.
NBCSN will air 230 total hours of coverage across multiple sports, which NBC said is a record for a cable channel. It is in about 80 million homes — about 70 percent of the country's households with televisions.
The figure skating coverage is an opportunity to attract viewers to the network formerly known as Versus, which became part of NBC Sports with the Comcast merger in January 2011. It has drawn strong ratings for popular events such as soccer at the London Olympics and the NHL playoffs, but its audience drops off sharply at other times.
Its broadcasts from Sochi will include 16 men's hockey games through the bronze medal round. There will be three qualifying games featuring the U.S. team, highlighted by its matchup with host Russia on Feb. 15.
Seven women's hockey games will include the meeting of the powerhouse American and Canadian teams Feb. 12.
NBCSN will also air live gold medal coverage of events in bobsled, Nordic combined, cross-country skiing, speed skating and ski jumping.


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There are some Ahkaam in religion that have no justification except "obedience" and this matter is among them.
If one is obedient to God, he/she should say ok my Lord.
Some have tried to raise some justifications that I think none of them are true and we can't accept them as a reason behind this legislation.


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(Editor's note: This was supposed to go up on the weekend. This is not your Monday morning post. Reschedule — or don't — accordingly.)
And no, that title's not an innuendo, because they beat my Bruins, dammit, and I don't want to hear a word about how epically hard they pounded the ball in the first few innings. Observe:
Score by Innings R H E --------------------------------------------- Cal State Fullerton. 021 020 000 1 - 6 9 0 UCLA................ 000 000 500 0 - 5 10 0 ---------------------------------------------
So there you have it. Their first 5 runs were scored by the longball (which, by the way, some chicks certainly do NOT dig), and their last one scored on a sac fly. Here's how that last run went down.
Some guy named Colon hits a double, at which point I inform the person sitting next to me that Bartolo Colon 1) Gave up runs today and 2) Is bad. Some guy named Brown strikes out, drawing a mixture of cheers and boos. Colon steals third, but it's kind of lame because the UCLA catcher, Gino Aielli, has time to throw him out but throws the ball high enough that the third baseman doesn't have time to get the tag down. Someone named Fellhauer flies out to left, and the throw home gets there in time but Aielli can't hold onto the ball (at which point I'm very temped to scream "AIELLI you son of a bitch can't you do ANYTHING right!" but instead settle for insulting the umpire). In case you care, the next guy (Clark) worked a full count before striking out to end the inning.
UCLA, of course, did not manage to get their shit together, and they went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the 10th despite an Ecksteinian slide into first base from epic pinch-hitter Brett Krill. (He was out, but certainly not for lack of trying.)
But I present to you, the story of the night, Trevor Bauer. You might be hearing me talk about him quite a bit — I happen to think he's one of the three or four coolest people in all of Los Angeles — and although he gave up a few home runs, he settled down epically. Here's his line for the night:
UCLA IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP -------------------------------------------------- Bauer, Trevor....... 9.0 8 5 5 2 8 32 36 136
Yes, that's 136 pitches. It was his third consecutive game in which he pitched 9 innings — the other two were complete game wins.
He's a 2-time Pac-10 Pitcher Of The Week, plus a whole bunch of other awards, and he's currently the anchor in the rotation, the one guy who can be relied upon to keep you in the game if you're good enough to put yourself in it in the first place.
Okay, so that makes no sense. But he's still better than Yankees first-round pick (and teammate) Gerrit Cole in every aspect of the game except strikeouts, in which Cole has the advantage, and hitting, for which I just don't have any data. Based on patterns I've already observed, I'll assume Bauer's much better at that, too. (So he doesn't wear his socks up. That's pretty much the only bad thing I can say about him.)
You see, Cole doesn't profile as a pitcher. He can throw, that's for sure (as evidenced by all the strikeouts), but he walks guys (2.8 K:BB rate to Bauer's 4.0) and, most importantly, gives up more runs (3.56 ERA to Bauer's 2.90) and more baserunners (1.123 WHIP to Bauer's 1.048). Which leaves me one conclusion: Trevor Bauer is the ace of the team. Sure, Cole's got the hype and the higher heat. But I've never seen an ace with K:BB under 3 and an ERA over 3.5, so there you go. And plus, look, he's got gorgeous mechanics.
(I just want to add that today, I finally gave in and bought myself a -12 DeMarini Vendetta. Yes, I'm an equipment nerd. What of it? Anyway, the Vendetta feels great hitting off the tee, and I'm taking it to the cages sometime in the next couple days. Wait… there's no way people are still reading this, right? More photos next time, I promise.)


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Could Your Skinny Jeans Be To Blame For A Rash On Your Legs?
If your legs are red, bumpy, and irritated, don't blame your soap or body lotion. It may be your skinny jeans. Those popular body-huggers may look hot, but they could be causing some very uncool things on your skin.
When you move in your skinny jeans, the material causes friction on your skin, which over time, can lead to folliculitis, inflammation of the hair follicles. If you have red, itchy bumps or pimples, especially on your thighs where skinny jeans tend to be tightest, then stop wearing them for a few days to let your skin heal. To treat folliculitis, Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at The Dermatology Blog*