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Contractions – What Do They Feel Like?
If you ask a woman what contractions feel like, you may get a 'deep in thought' or confused look back. This is because describing a contraction is something that women can find really difficult – I liken it to trying to describe an orgasm, something else which women can struggle to explain!
Experiences of contractions and labour pain can vary a great deal from one woman to the next and one labour to the next, and so many factors contribute to what a woman is feeling.
For example, if a baby is in posterior position (their back lined up against your back) then the mother may feel intense back pain on top of normal labour pains, which adds to their account of what labour feels like.
Some women may have done Calmbirth or Hypnobirth classes and deal really well with the contractions, reporting feeling minimal pain. On the other hand, some women feel all sorts of things in labour – nauseous, hot, (and!) cold, tired, aching legs, pubic pain, cramps, all of the above… well, you get the picture!!!
Also adding to feelings of a painful labour is the fact that a woman may have laboured on her back, which is a more painful (and dysfunctional) way to labour – or she may have been been induced. So before you buy into the endless horror stories that come flying your way as soon as you announce that you're pregnant, remember that there are so many variations of labour and labour environments, and women have different levels of birth education, preparation, fitness/health, birth support (partner, family, doula etc), carers with certain philosophies (which may sadly dictate the course of her birth), family of origin stories, as well as her and her partner's perceptions of pain and what that means in labour.
Fear also increases the amount of pain we feel. How? Fear causes tension, tension causes pain. It's important to be as loose and relaxed as you can be in labour, being tight and tense in your muscles intensifies everything else.
Given that we now lead a very sedentary lifestyle, we don't push ourselves physically like we used to, so the endurance and stamina involved with labour can be more of a shock – and the result has been women seeking pain relief much sooner than usual. But it needn't be that way with good education, birth skills and preparation. Labour is exactly that – labour – and it needs to be approached like a marathon! Pace yourself, taking it one contraction at a time and knowing that it wont be easy, but it sure as heck will be worth it.
Doulas are truly worth their weight in gold – consider hiring one or if money is tight there are plenty of keen student doulas available for a reduced fee. Studies continuously show that when giving birth with a doula, labours are generally shorter, less pain relief is requested, mum and dad are more satisfied with the outcome. Because doulas don't work for the hospitals but themselves, it is a huge benefit – a review of doula studies concluded that a doula provides more effective birth support than hospital staff or the mother's family. This is because she is trained and experienced in birth (not medically, that is the doctor or midwives role), provides continuous care, is known to you (not a stranger) and is hired by you – so she supports your wishes and plans. You can find a great Australian doula in our directory here – just click your state to filter the results.
So with all that in mind, I asked some BellyBelly forum members to tell us what labour pain felt like to them!
Cailin's Experience Of Contractions
"Contractions to me are like period pain – the most painful type of period pain, but unlike period pain they have a pattern. With period pain it is consistent and in most cases all over. However I personally found that it came in waves across my tummy and it would rise peak and then ease off towards the end of a contraction. Sometimes other pains would add to the contraction like back pain or pelvic pain but overall the contraction pains are a separate feeling, in my opinion."
Lucy's Experience Of Contractions
"For me, contractions felt like this: imagine you are REALLY thirsty, and you finally get your hands on a bottle of water. That drink bottle gets tipped your lips and you drink as if your life depends upon it. You know how the drink bottle contacts in, as you gulp? And with each gulp it contracts more? Until you finally lower the bottle to take a breath yourself? And the water bottle then relaxes and goes back to normal?
I was lucky… I never felt that my contractions actually hurt all that much. But the tightening sensation was out of this world."
Sam's Experience Of Contractions
"I would describe contractions to be like a cross between a stitch and the worst pain you get when you have gastro x 100 low down in in the pubic bone and in my bum.
They start and I feel my heart begin to pound and I feel a tightening in my body. They build to a peak when I can't talk or think about anything, then they begin to ebb and fade away. Between contractions I don't think about the pain and relax a bit till that next time my heart begins pounding again."
Shannon's Experience Of Contractions
"A contraction starts off with a small tingle somewhere in the middle of the torso, I assume this is at the top of the uterus, it grows and grows, feeding the surrounding muscles with a cramp like feeling, which radiates and spreads to the back down near the tailbone and starts to 'bite' into the muscles like someone is pinching on the spine. It is like a tide which pushes and pushes up and up in intensity while you breathe through it in big deep breaths, until you can feel it 'let go' and start to recede back down again, and even though this takes longer than one would like, at least you know that it's coming to an end and you can feel the release. It leaves a tingling feeling for a few seconds afterward, but then vanishes completely. I would say it feels like someone rubbing the top of your baby bump, then hands grabbing your belly and starting to squeeze, harder and harder, and after a few seconds of this, someone else putting their elbow in your back on your spine and pushing and pushing harder and harder, then it all releasing and things going in reverse again until there is no pain. They are relatively predictable and you can know pretty much how long until the intensity increases, then how long until the apex, then how long until it starts to ease off, then how long until the end of it, although it does change slightly as you progress, you can pretty much predict it contraction to contraction and allow for the slight changes."
Chloe's Experience Of Contractions
To be honest I don't have a good memory for anything that is painful – I just block it out. When I was in labour with Imran I felt a lot of back pain.
For me early contractions feel a bit like period pain, kind of achy and some lower back pain. The later more intense contractions kind of felt like someone is digging their elbow into your back only more wide spread – kind of like lots of elbows spread out evenly. When I had Yasin the final pushing contraction felt a bit like doing the world's biggest poo."
Melanie's Experience Of Contractions
"Contractions start like the tummy cramps you get with an upset belly. They come every few minutes and make being upright uncomfortable. Then very soon they are so much more intense that they are completely overwhelming. And they are more frequent, so that there is no time to recover from one before the next hits. Soon getting through the wave of pain is the only focus. You long just for a few minutes to rest but then before the thought is fully formed; there is that all-encompassing pain again. But then it is time to push and the thought pushes into my brain, 'I am actually helping myself to split in two'. The pain, discomfort and focus of pushing overtake the pain of the contractions, and suddenly they are the lesser of two evils. Until there is a head to feel, lots of fluffy hair, and then another push and a husband saying "he has boy bits" and the relief (and joy) is so complete. And I am so glad that I have done it, given birth without pain relief, but at the same time knowing that it's not something I ever want to do again. 24 hours later though, I've changed my mind and decided I want another baby!"
What Did Contractions Feel Like For You?
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Kelly Winder is a birth attendant (aka doula), the creator of BellyBelly and mum to three beautiful children. Follow Kelly on Google+ and become a fan of BellyBelly on Facebook. BellyBelly is also on Twitter. Please note that all of my suggestions and advice are of a generalised nature only and are not intended to replace advice from a qualified professional. BellyBelly.com.au – The Thinking Woman's Website For Conception, Pregnancy, Birth and Baby.
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[Android] Search through all of your cloud services with CloudMagic
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[1]CloudMagic is an application that will allow you to link and search through all of your cloud services to find the information that you are looking for. This application is perfect for those who keep and maintain several different accounts across several different services and need a central way to organize them all. This application is also great for those who get easily overwhelmed by the amount of information that has to be tracked over the course of a day.
Main Functionality
This application is simply designed to help you find the things that you need most right when you need them. It is based around the fact that most people need to access their information through a variety of different services, which can be difficult when most of them have different search functions.
[2]As social and cloud services become more popular and consequently, more widely used, more and more people hare having difficulty keeping track of their information. This is due to the fact that each service has their won method of searching for content. While search functions are a good thing, they can be a major hassle when you don't remember which service something specific is on. CloudMagic aims to unify all these services when it comes to search by showing results from all of them. This means you no longer have to try and remember which service a specific file or email is on.
The application itself is actually extremely simple to set up and get used to. You begin by adding all of your social and cloud-based accounts to the application. These accounts include all popular services like Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Dropbox, Google Docs, and many more. Once you've added all of your accounts, you will be able to search all of them at the same time. The search results will be listed in one convenient view.It offers live search and even the ability to search for content using your voice instead of text entry. You will be able to preview all content like emails and attachments in addition to being able to have the device function properly across multiple devices.
The real problem with this application is that the Pro version requires a monthly payment. The Pro version will only provide you with the ability to have unlimited previews instead of only 50 on the free version. Developers need to learn that most users do not want to pay a monthly fee for an application on their devices. In fact, I would say that if there was a one-time fee for the Pro version instead of the monthly payments, then this application could potentially become extremely popular. There are very few services that can survive on monthly payments due to the fact that people are simply not interested in this type of payment because having a smartphone already requires monthly access fees.
Overall, this application is almost perfect and functions every way you would expect it to. Not everyone will have a use for this specific application as they don't have their lives spread across different services. However, for those out there that need certain services for their specific offerings, then this application could turn out to be a real life-saver.
Price: Free, $4.99/month (Pro)
Version reviewed: 3.1.6
Requires: Android 2.1 and up
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Planet Shakers | |
Origin | Adelaide, Australia |
Genres | Worship music Contemporary Christian Christian Rock |
Years active | 2000 – present |
Labels | Integrity Music |
Website | http://www.planetshakers.com |
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Planetshakers is a youth movement that began as an annual conference and grew into a ministry and church in Melbourne, Australia.
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Planetshakers runs annual conferences in several Australian states.
The 2007 conference period saw Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne as venues, and marking the 11th anniversary. Melbourne, being the primary venue, hosted the conference in Hisense Arena (formerly Vodafone arena), part of Olympic Park.
The conferences were held in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth in January 2008. Melbourne at Hisense Arena from 2–5 January 2008; Brisbane 7–10 January 2008 at Brisbane Convention Centre; Sydney 9–12 January 2008 at Sydney Olympic Park in the Sports Centre (formerly State Sports Centre); and finally Perth on 15–18 January at Challenge Stadium.
The 2009 Planetshakers conference was moved to April, instead of January as in all past years. It was themed 'ONE' as the 4 conferences in the 4 venues were merged to become one major conference in the Hisense Arena from 13 to 16 April 2009.
Conference speakers have in the past included Glen Berteau, Jurgen Matthesius, Rich Wilkerson, Mal Fletcher, Pat Schazline, Jude Fouquier, Matthew Barnett, Judah Smith, Reinhard Bonnke, Reggie Dabbs, John Bevere, T. D. Jakes and Chris Hill[disambiguation needed].
Growing internationally, Planetshakers now also runs conferences in Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa, with a desire to expand to the United States of America. They ministered at Singapore's Faith Community Baptist Church in Singapore Expo's max Pavilion in 2006.
Internationally in 2007, Planetshakers band played at events in Hong Kong, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa.
Planetshakers also has relationships with Australian Youth Alive events, which often cross-promotes the conference and college to tens of thousands of young people.
Planetshakers City Church (formerly Melbourne City Church) is a Pentecostal Christian church affiliated with Australian Christian Churches, the Assemblies of God in Australia. The church started when the Planetshakers band and ministry moved to Melbourne in 2004. The church is pastored by Russell and Sam Evans and has attendance over 6000, and throughout most of 2005 it ran three services per weekend, commonly approaching capacity. Currently, the church is held at the Dallas Brooks Centre. There is also a Geelong Campus and a North East campus (previously Yarra Plenty Church). The City campus also made use of the Arrow building for baptism services but due to the increased attendance the baptism services have been moved to Richmond AOG Church in Melbourne.
The youth ministry has become so successful that the Catholic and Anglican churches are looking at adopting Planetshakers' methods.[1]
The church also runs a children's ministry called "Planetkids", which is held concurrently with the main church service. Planetkids runs an annual children's conference at the same time as Planetshakers Conference. Planetshakers has also created a children's resources aimed at reaching children and training leaders, branded '4 Store'.
"planetUNI" is the church's university students ministry and comprises local and international students as well as recent graduates being active in the group. In addition to fortnightly meetings (Urban Life groups), a new outreach event will be held once a month on a Friday night aiming to attract university students.
"Urban Life" groups (basically cell groups) are run fortnightly in homes spread around all parts of Melbourne. They include different age areas, such as kids (held in the Church service each week), teenagers (PlanetBoom), university students (planetUNI), young adults and adults.
There are also various other ministries serving and reaching out to women (Beautiful Woman), men (Mighty Men) and business people (Kingdom Life).
Planetshakers Ministries have set up a bible school named, Planetshakers College. There are several campuses running in most major Australian states. In Perth (WA), Brisbane (QLD) and Melbourne (VIC). The college is affiliated with Southern Cross College and emphasizes on impartation, not academic learning. They offer a fully accredited course for the Certificate IV in Contemporary Leadership which runs as a year long course. Students can then choose to go on and complete a Diploma version for a second year. The aim of the college is the same as the Planetshakers movement, "empowering a generation, to win a generation". Many well known individuals associated with the Planetshakers conference including Henry Seeley, Russell and Sam Evans, and Martin Steele serve as guest lecturers during the course of the year.
It was reported in 2006 that former bass player Michael Guglielmucci, had fraudulently claimed he was dying of cancer.[2][3] During this time Guglielmucci received money from supporters who believed his illness was real.[4] Guglielmucci also released the hit song Healer, an anthem of faith for believers who were suffering from cancer.[5] Guglielmucci explained his actions as being a result of a long term addiction to pornography.[6][7]
Planet Shakers | |
Origin | Adelaide, Australia |
Genres | Worship music Contemporary Christian Christian Rock |
Years active | 2000 – present |
Labels | Integrity Music |
Website | http://www.planetshakers.com |
The Planetshakers band is an Australian rock and worship band, a part of Planetshakers's ministry. Their music is a contemporary style of praise and worship tempered with mainstream rock and pop.
The Planetshakers band is the central part of their events. The 2003 Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian was also a part of the Planetshakers band for several years, taking both lead and backup vocal parts on the 2002 and 2003 albums and conferences.[8] Many of the musicians originated from Youth Alive South Australia, which also released CDs. Some of the songs written by current band members for the Youth Alive albums, such as 'Phenomena' and 'God of Miracles' (from Youth Alive Western Australia) have also featured on Planetshakers earlier albums.
In 2004, their CD Open Up The Gates was nominated for Praise and Worship Album of the Year for the Dove Awards.[citation needed]
Planetshakers announced at their 2008 conference that they would begin to release tracks via subscription to the "Planetshakers Revolution" - an online music/resource distribution system designed to consolidate and build upon different products that they had previously offered. "Revolution" was then discontinued on June 2010, with Planetshakers informing users they planned to move to other mediums to distribute their resources.


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Up-front Hepatic Resection for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Results in Favorable Long-term Survival
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Hepatic metastasis from colorectal cancer (CRC) is best managed with a multimodal approach; however, the optimal timing of liver resection in relation to administration of perioperative chemotherapy remains unclear. Our strategy has been to offer up-front liver resection for patients with resectable hepatic metastases, followed by post–liver resection chemotherapy. We report the outcomes of patients based on this surgical approach.
A retrospective review of all patients undergoing liver resection for CRC metastases over a 5-year period (2002–2007) was performed. Associations between clinicopathologic factors and survival were evaluated by the Cox proportional hazard method.
A total of 320 patients underwent 336 liver resections. Median follow-up was 40 (range 8–80) months. The majority (n = 195, 60.9 %) had metachronous disease, and most patients (n = 286, 85 %) had a major hepatectomy (>3 segments). Thirty-six patients (11 %) received preoperative chemotherapy, predominantly for downstaging unresectable disease. Ninety-day mortality was 2.1 %, and perioperative morbidity occurred in 68 patients (20.2 %). Actual disease-free survival at 3 and 5 years was 46.2 % and 42 %, respectively. Actual overall survival (OS) at 3 and 5 years was 63.7 % and 55 %, respectively. Multivariate analysis identified four factors that were independently associated with differences in OS (hazard ratio; 95 % confidence interval): size of metastasis >6 cm (2.2; 1.3–3.5), positive lymph node status of the primary CRC (N1 (2.0; 1.0–3.8), N2 (2.4; 1.2–4.9)), synchronous disease (2.1; 1.3–3.5), and treatment with chemotherapy after liver resection (0.42; 0.23–0.75).
Up-front surgery for patients with resectable CRC liver metastases, followed by chemotherapy, can lead to favorable OS.
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- Title
- Up-front Hepatic Resection for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Results in Favorable Long-term Survival
- Journal
Annals of Surgical Oncology
Volume 20, Issue 1 , pp 295-304
- Cover Date
- 2013-01-01
- 10.1245/s10434-012-2424-1
- Print ISSN
- 1068-9265
- Online ISSN
- 1534-4681
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Someone please clear this up because me and my girlfriend were just discussing this and she's positive if she ever caught me cheating, she could get away with killing me because of temporary insanity.
I laughed and tried telling her, "You can't get away with this before you undergo an evaluation and if you're fit mentally to stand trial at the time of the trial and only claiming insanity in those few moments when you committed the crime, then I'm sure a lot of murderers could've said when they murdered their victim they were insane but they're fine now and got away with it."
I told her you could poop in your hand and eat it in front of the judge and jury and you would still have a pretty hard time getting off scot-free unless you have a previous history of mental illness or a doctor deems you crazy. You might not get the chair or life, but if you could fake being insane for a psych evaluation, then you would be tortured by more shrink doctors for the rest of your life and you would probably end up being insane after it was all said and done anyway, so the joke is on you, babe!
I love her and she knows I'd never cheat on her, but she's not a lawyer and neither am I so can someone find out the truth, please? She swears it's a true story she's basing this wild theory from, and all I do is watch "Law and Order," so I'm not a lawyer either.


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After a winter of anticipation, Formula One racings new generation of 1.6-litre turbocharged cars were put through their paces for the first time on Tuesday as pre-season testing got under way in Jerez.
At the end of a day that saw limited running as teams battled to get to grips with the radically different systems on their new machines, Ferraris Kimi Raikkonen emerged at the top of the timesheets in Spain.
Raikkonen completed 31 laps - the most of anyone - and set a best time of 1m 27.104s as the Italian team did some aerodynamic mapping and checked the functionality of the F14 Ts on-board systems.
We had a lot of new things to learn today, said the Finn. "Even if we would have liked to do more laps, I think that for a first day it was alright. Towards the end, when the track was damp, we chose not to take any risks. Now we have a lot of work ahead of us, but all in all, we are pleased with our first day.
Lewis Hamilton set the day's second-quickest time for Mercedes, despite having his running severely curtailed. The Briton had been the first car out on track in the morning, successfully completing 18 laps in the new F1 W05 whilst others, including Raikkonen and Sergio Perez in the Force India, stopped on track and brought out the red flags.
But just as it looked like Mercedes were stealing an early march on their less reliable rivals, a front wing failure pitched Hamilton into the crash barriers at Turn 1. The resulting damage was enough to end the 2008 world champions encouraging opening day behind the wheel of his new car.
Despite the setback, Hamilton was still in an upbeat mood: For me it's an incredibly positive start to be the first car out on track and completing a good number of laps.
Other teams have been going out for single-lap runs, starting a few hours after we had first hit the track, so to have started running through our test programme was very encouraging. The car feels quite good, especially considering it's so early in our programme, so overall it's been a positive day.
Williams' Valtteri Bottas ended the day with the third-quickest time, despite completing just seven laps as he debuted the new Mercedes-powered FW36. An engine sensor problem meant Bottas had to wait until the final hour of the session before he was able to run the car.
"The car matched my expectations on track with more torque," commented the Finn. "It feels like a very different car compared to last year in the way it handles as well as the power. After only a few laps we found a few things we can improve which is also good, so we need to start working on those things tomorrow."
Force Indias Sergio Perez was fourth quickest in the VJM07, but was only able to complete 11 laps after hitting technical problems early in the day. The Mexicans best time was marginally better than that achieved by Jean-Eric Vergne in Toro Rossos STR9. The Frenchman completed 15 laps before a software glitch brought his day to a premature end.
It would be easy to say things did not go well today, because the car stopped, because we didnt use full power and therefore I did not get a chance to see what the car feels like," said Vergne, "However, that is the wrong way to look at things, because we expected plenty of difficulties, especially learning about how the new type of power unit works.
In fact, I would say this was a positive day, because just getting the car on track was an achievement, so the team can be pleased with that as it was down to their hard work. From my point of view, it was also interesting to work with my new race engineers for the first time and to be back enjoying the atmosphere of the Formula One paddock.
Now, we will spend a lot of time looking at all this data tonight and then Daniil [Kvyat] will move the programme forward tomorrow. Overall, a satisfactory start to the season in very difficult conditions.
Esteban Gutierrez was the final driver to set a time on Tuesday, taking the Ferrari-engined Sauber C33 around Jerez in 1m 42.257s. The only other men to lap on the opening day of the 2014 pre-season test were reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel and rookie Marcus Ericsson.
Both were only able to make it out in the final moments of the session after various technical issues. Vettel managed three installation laps in the newly-unveiled RB10, whilst Ericsson recorded just one lap after Caterham took the covers of their CT05 machine.
Further along the pit lane, it was a frustrating day for McLaren who were unable to run Jenson Button in the MP4-29 because of electrical issues.
The subsequent dismantling, inspection and re-installation of several major components ultimately meant we were unable to conduct any running today, read a McLaren statement. Were re-installing key systems on the car overnight, with the expectation that Jenson will begin the cars installation programme tomorrow.
Testing continues at Jerez on Wednesday, when rain is forecast.
Unofficial Tuesday test times from Jerez:
1. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 1m 27.104s, 31 laps
2. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes , 1m 27.820s, 18 laps
3. Valtteri Bottas, Williams, 1m 30.082s, 7 laps
4. Sergio Perez, Force India, 1m 33.161s, 11 laps
5. Jean-Eric Vergne, Toro Rosso, 1m 36.530s, 15 laps
6. Esteban Gutierrez, Sauber, 1m 42.257s, 7 laps
7. Sebastian Vettel , Red Bull, No time, 3 laps
8. Marcus Ericsson, Caterham, No time, 1 lap
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Wait, So Registered Child Abusers Had More Adoption Rights Than Gays?
The only Justice to full out disagree with the ruling was Harry Lee Anstead. In his descent he punched more holes in the ban than Swiss cheese.
Anstead was concerned that too much of HRS's case relied almost exclusively on the state's sodomy law, and that it, in theory at least, applied to homosexuals and heterosexuals. The good news is that the state basically built its entire case in 1995 against gay adoption around a law that no longer exists. The US Supreme Court struck down all sodomy laws in 2003. So, it will be interesting to see what kind of legal gymnastics lawyers put together this time.
Anstead's opinion then goes on to blast the sodomy law some more, before finding it quite strange that in Florida ex-Felons and registered child abusers can apply to adopt, but homosexuals can not.
"The differential treatment of felons and child abuser on one hand and homosexuals on the other raises a serious substantive due process question. It suggests that the state is completely denying gays acces to any meaningul legal process, even the intensive scutiny reserved for felons and child abuser. Before the State can deny due process in this manner, it must at least advance a legitimate reason for doing so based in fact and emprical study."
As we've pointed out, the mainstream facts and emprical studies show that homosexuals are just as qualified to raise children as heterosexuals.
Unfortunately, Anstead will be forced off the court in January when he hits the mandatory retirement age of 70 (what happened to the idea that old age brings wisdom?), and another Justice will hit seven decades of life in March. So by the time this issue hits the court again, the ideology of the current bench may be shifted radically to the right.
The good news is that the legal arguments used to defend the ban in 1995 will no longer hold up.
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This trip was taken in June 2007 with my wife, Ellen. Amazing!
World's Sexiest Islands
Real life is the enemy of sexiness. Real life is a bad economy, mortgage worries, global warming. Sexiness is the act of shedding worries and slipping off the constraints of real life. Best of luck doing that at home. While finding a sexy beach is a good start, at this point you need more. You need the total escape that comes only with an island, preferably one that's not merely physically set apart from the mainland but that feels a million miles away. The type where inhibitions are lessened, the locals friendlier and more open-minded, and where less actually is more. Whether you choose a beachy scene like Mykonos or an energetic city island like Hong Kong, these are the places where it's okay to meet a stranger on the beach or at a club and embark on a licentious adventure. Or where you and your partner can forget about the horrors of the boring old real world and get back to sexy.
Published November 2008. Pictured: Mezzatorre Resort, Ischia, Italy
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Corfu, Corfu, Greece
The most heavily visited of the Ionian Islands, Corfu draws sun-worshippers and resort-hoppers (and is a good jumping-off location for more islands), but it also attracts history and architecture buffs. Corfu Town retains the hodgepodge cultural elements brought over by the French, British, and especially the Venetians—all of whom ruled at different points over the past eight centuries. Venetian architecture abounds: Instead of the usual white sugar-cube-style buildings endemic to Greece, structures here tend to be ocher or dark pink, with shutters and red-tile roofs. The most venerable Venetian structures are the town's two fortresses: the Palaio Frourio, or "Old Fortress," originally a Byzantine structure that was renovated by the Venetians between the 13th and 15th centuries (30-266-104-8310), and the Neo Frourio, the "New Fortress," built by the Venetians between 1576 and 1589. Both are open daily to tourists for a small admission fee.
Two other sites that attract culture vultures (and buses of package tourists—unless you arrive early) are the palaces-turned-museums of Mon Repos and the Achilleon. Mon Repos, the closest to town, was once the summer house of the Greek Royal family; it has two Doric temples on its grounds, a beach, lovely gardens, and a theater (30-266-103-0680; closed Mon). Slightly farther afield in the village of Gastouri is the Achilleon, a rococo palace built in 1890 by a hypochondriac Austrian empress who settled on the island to take advantage of the clean air (30-266-105-6245; open daily). More recently, the property served as a backdrop for several scenes in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. Corfu Town has tons of restaurants and cafés, making it the easiest place to stay if you're only here for a bit. The waterfront is dominated by a grassy esplanade called the Spaniada, which includes a cricket ground and is ringed by the Liston—a gorgeous stone pedestrian walkway that's the best place to while away the afternoon with a glass of wine. For shopping, head to M. Theotok Square and the streets around the church of St. Spyridon.
Beaches! Yes, Corfu has dozens, but they're a pebbly bunch. The best are Glyfada, a sceney favorite of wealthy Greeks; Sidari, which has rock formations such as the hyped Canal D'Amour (where the cliffs form a canyon in the sea that you can swim through—very romantic); and rocky Paleokastritsa, overlooked by a cliff-top monastery whose museum contains what monks claim is the skeleton of a sea monster.
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Acropolis, Greece
Athens 10558, Greece
Tel: 30 210 321 4172, Tel: 30 210 321 0219
Website: www.culture.gr
The entire hill is the Acropolis; the 5th-century B.C. temple to Athena Parthenos is the Parthenon. Try to arrive early for less heat and fewer crowds; you can always return, because admission allows you back in anytime the same day. And whatever you do, don't pick up any stones (remember the tourist arrest in spring 2004?). Wear your comfiest shoes and lots of sunscreen—the climb is pretty relentless and there isn't much shade—and take your bathroom break beforehand (the facilities at the top aren't exactly up to the demand). A barely advertised elevator for wheelchair users has existed on the north face since August 2004. The approaches from the south and west sides—Apostolou Pavlou and Dionysiou Areopagitou—have been recently improved, widened, pedestrianized, and generally beautified, making the whole experience much sweeter.
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Swedish Edmonds Receives National Honors in Clinical Excellence for Second Straight Year
EDMONDS, WASH., Jan. 24, 2012 – For the second year in a row, Swedish Edmonds has been named a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence™ by HealthGrades®, a leading independent source of physician information and hospital quality ratings. The HealthGrades Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence study, released today, names Swedish Edmonds as one of only five hospitals in Washington state to receive this national honor and ranks Swedish Edmonds as among the top 5 percent of hospitals in the nation for clinical performance based on outcomes.
"For the second consecutive year, this honor recognizes the dedication of our nurses, physicians and the entire Swedish Edmonds team to clinical quality and providing patients with outstanding medical care every day," said David Jaffe, interim chief administrative officer of Swedish Edmonds. "The HealthGrades study reaffirms our strengths as a community hospital, as well as provides us with information to continue to raise the bar on patient care."
Emergency Cardiac Care at Four Swedish Campuses Recognized by the Washington State Department of Health
SEATTLE, Dec. 20, 2011 – Swedish recently learned that the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) certified four of its campuses to provide emergency cardiac care services to patients throughout the Puget Sound region. Swedish Cherry Hill and Swedish Edmonds received Level 1 designations, and Swedish First Hill and Swedish Ballard received Level 2 designations.
The DOH recently developed the emergency cardiac system to provide a consistent, statewide certification program that recognizes the level of emergency care available to cardiac patients in medical facilities across Washington state.
This new designation confirms Swedish's long standing role as a leader in providing critical cardiac care in emergency settings. The Level 1 designation for Swedish Cherry Hill and Swedish Edmonds signifies that both campuses have the full range of equipment and staffing to provide 24/7 percutaneous (catheter-based) cardiac interventions as a provision of the Level 1 emergency cardiac care designation.
Swedish Produces Short Video Featuring Two Quick, Easy and Healthy Holiday Drink Recipes
Swedish recently shot and produced a short video featuring two recipes for quick, easy and healthy Holiday drinks.
Four Nurses from Swedish Earn The DAISY Foundation Award for Extraordinary Patient Care
SEATTLE, Dec. 9, 2011 – Four nurses from three different Swedish campuses were presented this morning with The DAISY Foundation Award for Extraordinary Nurses, a national program to recognize top-notch nurses for the important role they play in patient care and making a difference in people's lives.


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Miami-Dade County already has 31 cities, the majority of which have populations of less than 50,000. Experts on the county staff have estimated that, were the trend to continue, the county would end up with an additional 40 cities if all areas incorporated. For that reason they have urged commissioners to consider having existing cities annex territory rather than creating new municipalities. Sweetwater is heeding the advice, though it appears to have been lost on Alonso. "The people of the area are worried," she asserted at her Belén gathering. "They don't want to be annexed."
Shortly after the meeting began, Sweetwater Mayor Diaz and his commission colleagues forced their way into the crowded room, though other partisans from the city couldn't get inside. Diaz looked on incredulously as Alonso professed her love for Sweetwater and then proceeded to trash the place. "Quality of life is a problem in Sweetwater," she announced, warning the audience that this could be their fate if they were annexed.
When Diaz raised his hand to explain Sweetwater's position, Alonso refused to allow him to speak. "Tonight is the people's meeting," she proclaimed. "The officials of Sweetwater shouldn't create a confrontation."
Meanwhile Alonso's commission staff and the West Dade MAC's members gestured for the crowd to continue shouting, "No Sweetwater!"
"She wanted me to start yelling," Diaz marveled hours later in Sweetwater's city hall. Instead the mayor and commissioners decided it would be wiser simply to leave. But as they tried to squeeze through the crowd, with Alonso looking on, they were surrounded by angry residents. (Commissioner Joe Martinez, who earlier had been introduced by Alonso but not invited to speak, left at the same time.) Diaz claimed one commissioner was punched by what he characterized as "outside agitators" brought in by Alonso. "It was professionally done," he said. "They were hitting commissioners." As he spoke, some of the Sweetwater commissioners sat in a nearby office watching a videotape of the meeting filmed by a cameraman they'd hired. "Not to be allowed to speak!" Diaz continued in exasperation. "She lied to the people and then didn't give us the opportunity to defend ourselves. This is not Cuba, after all!"
Shortly after Diaz and his commissioners departed, Alonso decided to move her meeting downstairs to the Belén cafeteria, where there was ample room. (The cafeteria had always been available.) After repeating her warnings against annexation by Sweetwater for those who had not been inside the cramped auditorium, she opened the floor to questions. An area resident asked why they couldn't stay in unincorporated Miami-Dade instead of forming a city. Alonso responded by saying this was not the right time to discuss a new city. The issue was the proposed annexation by Sweetwater and Commissioner Souto's upcoming move to have county staff study that plan. (Mayor Diaz later scoffed at that claim. "This is all about her hysteria to create Miriamville disguised as West Dade," he said angrily. "We were used as a propaganda tool by her to rally people to establish her own city.")
Also present in the cafeteria were several residents of the Doral area, which has struggled for nearly a decade to create its own municipality. Among them was Juan Carlos Bermudez, a Doral resident who is president of a new community organization called One Doral. He complained that the proposed boundaries for West Dade took large bites out of Doral's original outline for a city, including very valuable commercial property. "It's turning into �Honey, I shrunk the boundaries,'" said Bermudez.
Among the multitude unable to enter the auditorium earlier in the evening stood Roger Lorenzo, president of the Fontainebleau Park Federation, a homeowners group. In a phone call the next day, Lorenzo fumed that Alonso has ignored hundreds of letters from residents of his community begging her to allow them to start their own incorporation process. Fontainebleau also wants some of the gun barrel desired by West Dade. "It's not fair that she would come and take away our survival," he said.
Alonso's campaign to create West Dade has only just begun. Under county guidelines, the West Dade group must hold at least two public meetings and go before both a standing Boundaries Commission and the Planning Advisory Board. Only then can the county commission grant permission to hold a referendum of area residents. "Stay tuned," advised Assistant County Manager Pedro Hernandez, who also attended the Belén meeting. "It is just getting interesting."


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Mitsubishi Lancer GTS: A fun sedan for anywhere
Whale on Wheels
Engine: 2.4-liter I-4, 168 horsepower
Length/width/height (in.): 180.0/69.4/58.7
Weight: 3,010 pounds
MPG city/hwy/observed: 20/28/25.6
Base warranty: 5 years/50,000 miles
Price as tested: $23,110
Alternatives: Chevy Cobalt, Ford Focus, Honda Civic Si, Mazda3, Nissan Sentra SE-R, Subaru Impreza, Toyota Corolla, VW GTI
In the eyes of enthusiasts, Mitsubishi's compact Lancer sedan lineup consists of only two models, the Evolution GSR and the Evolution MR. But as a daily driver the GTS can be nearly as much fun as an Evo for $15,000-20,000 less — and if you think the Pilotis need to be retired, stick with me for a minute.
The Evolutions are fabulous cars, especially when you have racetrack access, deep-pockets tire budget and are ready to blow your warranty. From a dead stop you're illegal in less than six seconds and when your widebody fills someone's mirrors or hurtles around them, their resulting panic might ruin your day. It's very hard to find a road on which you can drive to its potential.
A Lancer GTS on the other hand has the same genes in it, invites being driven and you can use all the car has to offer far more of the time. It's not as fast as the Evos, or the Ralliart that looks very similar, but even family sedans these days are as fast as a not-too-old Ferrari or racecar.
The GTS has a 168-horsepower, 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine, larger than any other Lancer but not turbocharged like the 237-hp Ralliart and 291-hp Evos. It's willing and smooth enough for interstate cruises or to thrash around town and still get mileage the turbo cars can only dream of (about 50 percent better observed), and without the turbo's electronic controls the GTS has more linear power output.
The GTS comes with a five-speed manual like the Evo GSR, an effortless clutch and light-shifting arrangement that requires more interaction than pulling a paddle, or ughhh, merely selecting D on an automated box, again bypassing electronics to a purer driving experience. There is no artificially intelligent all-wheel drive system either, and while front drive doesn't deliver the same handling balance this one is fairly good and could be rotated without hammering the brake pedal mid-corner.
The lack of all-wheel drive, turbocharger plumbing and a fancy transmission makes the GTS a minimum 450 pounds lighter than the faster Lancers; the GTS' power-to-weight ratio is better than you think relative the Ralliart. And in virtually every case, including this one, the lighter car with all else being equal will be the more fun to drive.
In a twist of product-planning fate the front-drive GTS comes with all-season tires while the otherwise winter-ready all-wheel drive Ralliart gets summer tires. Since they're the same weight distribution and tire and brake size, the GTS comes across as the better handling car, except perhaps climbing bends or hills where the Ralliart can exploit its power and all-wheel-drive advantages. On equal tires or winding descents the GTS clearly goes round the bends better.
Can the GTS match the performance of Ralliart? No. Can it match the fun and involvement on a daily grind to work or school? In many cases it can. And though it doesn't count nearly as much for most drivers, the GTS is as practical as the Ralliart.
It's a four-door that fits four adults or two plus three kids, with a split-fold rear seat and decent trunk space, even with a 10-inch subwoofer enclosure off to one side.
Cloth upholstery is standard but the Touring package adds perforated leather seating surfaces to the nicely contoured seats; the only major cabin equipment the GTS does not offer are the hot-rods' Recaro front seats. In addition to the former, the Touring package adds heated front seats, a quieter windshield, and bi-Xenon headlamps that shame a lot of cars twice the price, all for the ridiculously low tab of $1,500.
Analog tach and speed dials frame a crystal clear display with all the remaining data, including graphic representations of coolant temp and fuel. The simplicity of this layout is reflected in all the controls, but having to hold the stability control switch for three seconds to get out of the snow or sand is two seconds too long. A small bin with a door has audio inputs and room to keep your MP3 player out of sight, like just another ashtray lid, and the chrome trim on the climate controls adds a nice touch.
Apart from a single tail pipe out back and no scoops and vents in the hood, the GTS looks just like a Ralliart. The forward-leaning grille is refreshingly different, even neater, smoother and more aggressive than the similarly tilted Dodge Charger. Spats at the outer lower edges, side skirts and a spoiler that partially interferes with the view rearward finish it off; the view forward and to the sides is very good.
For less than $20,000 the GTS comes with climate control, power accessories, Bluetooth, seven airbags, keyless entry and fog lights that for a welcome change came properly aimed from the factory. Add $1,500 for the Touring package, $1,900 for Sun & Sound (710-watt Rockford-Fosgate six-CD sound system, Sirius satellite radio, moonroof and Fast-Key) and you've got all you need; if you can't read a map, navigation is $1,800.
And there's another factor to consider: The basic warranty on the GTS is two years and 14,000 miles longer and the powertrain warranty nearly twice as long as the all-wheel drive Lancers.
Whale, a longtime Ventura County resident, has been breaking parts for 31 years and writing about it for 23.
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Greensboro Dermatologist Pleads Guilty To Tax Charges
Greensboro, N.C. – John W. Stone, Jr., Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina announced today that Clyde Nolan, Jr. of Greensboro pled guilty on Thursday November 4, 2010 to one count of failure to pay payroll taxes and one count of failing to file a personal income tax return.
According to documents filed in the case Nolan failed to account for and pay over taxes withheld from the pay of employees of his dermatology practice in Greensboro between 2003 and 2006. Nolan also willfully failed to file a personal income tax return for calendar year 2004, a year in which he was required to file a return.
Nolan is scheduled to be sentencing on March 16, 2011. Count One (failure to pay payroll taxes) is punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of not more than five years, a fine of up to $10,000, or both. Count Two (willful failure to file tax returns) is punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of not more than one year, a fine of not more than $25,000, or both. The defendant may also be placed on a term of supervised release of not more than three years. Restitution can also be ordered.
The case was investigated by special agents of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division.
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Origins of Wicca: A Primer Witchcraft has existed in all parts of the world from time immemorial as an outgrowth of man's first religion, shamanism. Today, the word 'Witchcraft' is commonly translated as meaning "the Craft of the Wise," a translation supported with the argument that the Witch was the 'wise one' of his or her village and served as resident healer. However, from the Middle Ages up until fairly recently, the word 'Witch' was used very differently from today. Witches were thought to work magic only for personal malice or entertainment. When someone felt they were under a Witch's spell, they turned for help to those who were the real precursors of today's Witch: the Wise Women and Cunning Men. These Cunning Folk specialized in working magic to help others. One of their specialties was breaking the spells of Witches. Virtually all Cunning Folk were astrologers and herbalists, and they stood out among the generally illiterate population as people who read and collected books. They often wrote their own book of spells and recipes, made from notes they took from their books, including passages from the Bible of the "Old Religion," Catholicism. Cunning Folk were almost always solitary individuals, but there were also many hereditary family Clans of a type of village Witchcraft who often lived around standing stones and ancient earthworks. England saw a general rise in the interest of magic in the late 1800's, and a number of magickal societies helped to collect and disseminate the knowledge of magick to a wider audience. Far and away the greatest of these was the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (founded in 1888). The Golden Dawn collected a vast amount of occult information together into a coherent synthesis in its nine major rituals, and admitted both men and women as members (unlike many other Orders of the time). The Golden Dawn and its offshoots had hundreds of members, including many scientists, physicians, ministers, and writers, the most famous of whom was W.B. Yeats. A large number of Rosicrucians and Masons joined the Order. The Golden Dawn's most infamous and successful initiate was Aleister Crowley, who probably had a hand in founding a new Witchcraft religion called Wicca. One of the earliest English covens we hear about in modern times was the Canewdon Coven of Cunning Murrell, who died in 1860. This Coven was taken over by George Pickingill, a Cunning Man who died in 1909. The Canewdon Coven was a type of village Witchcraft, and its operation can be traced at least to the beginning of the 1800's. Pickingill is said to have started several Covens, including one in Hampstead by the New Forest. The best evidence of modern hereditary covens comes from the New Forest, where hereditary covens were operating in Lymington, Lyndhurst, Brooks and Burley. The best known was the Horsa Coven near Burley, whose famous initiate, Sybil Leek, wrote several books on Witchcraft. Burley, as well as nearby Beaulieu, had been known for their Witches for centuries. Sybil was initiated at Gorge de Loup outside of Nice in the south of France in 1932, at the Horsa's mother coven. Covens were said to have been operating in France since the time of the invasion and occupation by the Moors of Africa. Certainly the inclusion in Witchcraft lore of Berber words such as 'athame' and the 'Eco, Eco' chant point to African origins, and cults similar to Witchcraft are known to have existed in northern Africa since the 9th century. The Leeks knew about other New Forest covens, and they were sometimes a topic of conversation when they had visitors such as Aleister Crowley. Sybil recalled that as a little girl, she was fond of sitting on the lap of "Uncle Aleister" during his visits to her home. In 1964, Sybil formed the Witchcraft Research Association in Britain, and she emigrated to the US soon thereafter. A number of new covens were created in the New Forest in 1939, according to Cecil Williamson, the founder of the Witchcraft Museum on the Isle of Mann. The Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, located in Christchurch, Hampshire by the New Forest was active in the late 1930's. One of the participants in the Witchcraft venture was a retired British civil servant who was also an amateur archeologist and author: Gerald Gardner. In 1938, Gerald Gardner moved to the Highcliffe area just south of the New Forest, and he soon joined the Crotona Fellowship. At a Fellowship Meet in 1939, Gardner met with Aleister Crowley, Cecil Williamson, Dorothy Clutterbuck and a number of local New Forest members. Williamson says that the group decided to form several Witchcraft covens, including one run by 'Old Dorothy' Clutterbuck. They were inspired in this undertaking by the 'Castle of Heroes,' the Irish magical group founded by W.B. Yeats and Maude Gonne. Their plan was to combine information on village Witchcraft from the hereditary covens in the New Forest with ceremonial magick. It was at Clutterbuck's covenstead at Highcliffe that Ms. Edith Woodford-Grimes (Dafo) initiated Gerald Gardner in early September of 1939. During World War II, Gardner continued studying Witchcraft with Dafo, who had studied with hereditary Witches. After the War he made contact with the man who helped set him on the course to creating the modern Witchcraft religion of Wicca: Aleister Crowley. Gerald Gardner According to Crowley's personal diary, he met with Gardner and Arnold Crowther on 01 May 1947, and Gardner immediately began making weekly visits to Crowley. The two men were both world-traveling adventurers with much in common, and Crowley's vastly superior magickal knowledge undoubtedly acted as a catalyst to Gardner. Gardner obtained from Crowley a charter to run the British branch of Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), a sex magick Order. Crowley made Gardner, who was a 3rd degree Freemason, a Fourth Degree OTO initiate, giving him authority to teach three degrees. Crowley felt that changes were needed in the OTO, and he urged Gardner to set up many small groups of initiates instead of centrally located main temples. When Crowley died in December, 1947, Gardner was in the United States conferring with Jack Parsons, the rocket scientist and OTO member. Parsons was one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and inventor of the fuel that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon; in 1972, a crater on the dark side of the moon was named in his honor. Parsons had been deposed as acting Head of the Agape Lodge of the OTO in California (the only active OTO Lodge at the time) by Crowley. Parsons had neglected the Lodge because he and L. Ron Hubbard had been spending time in the desert invoking Babalon of the Stars to manifest in the flesh, as well as to send Parsons a Scarlet Woman. Shortly afterward, a beautiful young redhead named Marjorie Cameron showed up seeking to become a student. Parsons was very interested in the idea of Witchcraft, and had written about what he thought would be a coming resurgence of Witchcraft on several occasions. He had written instructions for creating a Thelemic Order based on paganism and Witchcraft, which he shared with Gardner. Back in Britain, Gardner began working on a Witches' workbook he called Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical. Gardner 's Book contained material from the Key of Solomon, the Goetia, the Kaballah, Crowley's works and Witchcraft material he had received from Dafo. He had a system of three initiatory degrees. Attainment of the First Degree made one a Priest or Priestess; attainment of the Second Degree made one a High Priest (Magus) or High Priestess, and allowed initiates to hive off and start their own covens. The optional Third Degree was an OTO sex rite from Crowley's 'Gnostic Mass' designed to aid the Great Work of spiritual transformation. Gardner then set out to create his own coven. He published a fictionalized account of Witchcraft in his book, High Magic's Aid, giving some of the hereditary information he received from Dafo. Gardner joined the Five Acres Nudist Club at Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, where he found some students and started teaching Witchcraft . He and Dafo bought a wooded lot next door and started holding meetings in an old chicken shed until he obtained a modern replica of a 'Witch's Cottage' from J.S.M. Ward's Abbey Folklore Museum and moved it onto his lot. Ward, seeking to avoid debt, moved to one of Gardner's properties in the West Indies. By 1949, when Gardner participated in an OTO ritual with Kenneth Grant to invoke extraterrestrial entities using some of chaos magician A.O. Spare's methods, he had a working group of Witches with Dafo as his High Priestess. The magickal energy generated by these activities was the seed from which Wicca later grew. In Britain, what Witchcraft existed was still underground because it was against the law. Thanks to the Spiritualist Movement, this was soon to change. When the Central Association of Spiritualists had dissolved in 1883, the Rev. Stainton Moses resurrected it as the London Spiritualist Alliance in 1884. The group attracted such influential members as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was president of the society in the 1920's. Spiritualists, whose medium-ship was affected by the law against Witchcraft, lobbied to have the law repealed. The British Parliament repealed the Witchcraft Act of 1735 in 1951. In July of 1951, Cecil Williamson moved his Folklore Centre of Superstition and Witchcraft to an old mill at Castletown, Isle of Mann. Williamson had studied Witchcraft for many years and was acquainted with a large number of village Wise Women and Cunning Men. Gardner moved to Castletown and became the resident Witch at the Centre, where he gave many interviews about Witchcraft. Williamson worked with Gardner and other Witches there until too much conflict developed between Gardner and the other Witches. One point of contention was Gardner's insistence that two persons of the same sex should never work magic together because this could lead to homosexuality; he described homosexuals as being "cursed by the Goddess." Williamson sold his Isle of Mann Witchcraft Museum to Gardner in 1953 and moved out, eventually settling in Bocastle, Cornwall, where he opened another Witchcraft Museum. Williamson retired in 1996 and turned over the Witchcraft Museum to Graham King and Liz Crow; he died in 1999. In 1953, Gardner initiated Doreen Valiente, whom he had met over tea at Dafo's house. Gardner launched a publicity campaign to make the public aware that Witchcraft was still around. Dafo dropped out of Gardner's coven because she didn't like the publicity, and Doreen became his new High Priestess. At the Witchcraft Museum, Gardner exhibited his OTO charter from Crowley. The fact that Gardner's OTO charter was hand written by Gardner but signed by Crowley may have led some who saw both the charter and Gardner's magical workbook to believe that Crowley had written the Witches' workbook himself. Sometime after he started his coven, Gardner started using the term 'Book of Shadows' to refer to the Witches' workbook. Doreen didn't think Gardner's magical workbook was right for Witchcraft, so Gardner let her rewrite it. She changed Crowley's Scarlet Woman ("in whom all power is given"), a vessel for stellar forces, into the coven High Priestess who ruled the coven with its solar and lunar rituals. Doreen deleted much of the ceremonial magick, but left in Gardner's addition of scourging. She is best known for re-working Crowley's Charge of the Goddess using Leland's Aradia: Gospel of the Witches of Tuscany, and for her own work, the Witches Rune. Today, Doreen is credited with establishing the basic form of the Gardnerian Book of Shadows. In 1964, Doreen became president of the Witchcraft Research Association after its founder and first president, Sybil Leek, left England to live in the US. In 1954, Gardner published Witchcraft Today, and started initiating new Witches and forming covens. Gardner used the Masonic term 'the Craft' to refer to his version of Witchcraft. He made only passing reference to having heard Dafo use the term 'Wica,' and he used the term in his published books to refer to hereditary Witches. The resurrection of the term and its widespread use today with the spelling 'Wicca' can be laid to those followers of Gardner, and the later Alexandrians, who started using the term to define their form of Witchcraft. Hereditary Witches spell Wica with only one 'c,' when they use it at all. In addition to the hereditary Witches who worked with Cecil Williamson, there were others who disagreed with the Gardnerian way. One of these was Roy Bowers, who liked to call himself Bob Cochrane. Bowers, a blacksmith with hereditary Witches in his own family, studied village witchcraft and added his own Druidic ideas to create his group, the Clan of Tubal Cain. After Bowers' death in 1966, his wife destroyed all of his private papers. Some of Bowers' followers merged his teachings with Plant Bran, a Welsh village Witchcraft spread by Ruth Wynn Owen. In the US, Witch Joe Wilson spread Bowers' work under the title '1734 Tradition.' Gardner was called a fraud because he was claiming that his Book of Shadows was hereditary Witchcraft, but it contained many things unknown to other Witches. Among other things, he invented the Law of Three and the Witches Rede. Gardner had added techniques of High Magick to the magic of hereditary Witches, and turned diverse secret teachings about magic into a unified religion for the masses that emphasized the erotic, with ritual nudity and sex. Gardner also knew and drew inspiration from anthropologist Margaret Murray and the poet Robert Graves, and insisted that his Witchcraft descended from an organized Witch cult from Medieval Times. Although hereditary Witches deny this and both Murray and Graves have been discredited by modern research, most Witches still quote them as proof of the antiquity of the religion of Witchcraft. When Doreen Valiente objected to Gardner calling his Witchcraft hereditary and to his constant seeking of publicity, a parting of the ways was at hand. Doreen had suffered emotionally from the results of his early publicity, when the newspapers had accused him of practicing devil worship and black magic. The government even tapped their phones, and in 1955, she and Gardner destroyed many documents of their early work and contacts to prevent them falling into the hands of government investigators. The final straw for Doreen occurred when Gardner suddenly produced the 'Ardains,' a set of supposedly ancient Witchcraft laws that allowed him to replace the complaining Doreen with a younger High Priestess. In 1957, Doreen, Ned Grove, and several of the older members of Gardner's coven left to seek real hereditary Witches who didn't court publicity. Gardner's coven maid, Dayonis, became his new High Priestess, and those who had left took up with Roy Bowers. According to Doreen Valiente, who would never again identify herself as a follower of Gardner, Roy Bowers coined the term 'Gardnerians' to refer derisively to the followers of Gerald Gardner. Bowers believed Gardner was damaging Witchcraft by popularizing it, and he characterized the Gardnerians as lacking real magical knowledge or power. When Bowers declared he was going to undertake a holy war against the Gardnerians to protect traditional Witchcraft, Doreen decided it was time to leave and start her own coven. In 1960, Gardner initiated Eleanor (Rae) Bone and started the Whitecroft line of Witches. In 1961, he initiated Pat Crowther (Thelema) and started the Sheffield lines of Witches. Gardner, described by one of his coveners as "an old man in a hurry," took to initiating as many persons as he could. In 1962, Gardner initiated a French woman named Monique Wilson (Olwen) he had met in the French West Indies, and she became his last High Priestess. She was much younger than Gardner, and was euphemistically referred to as his "niece." Gerald Gardner died at sea in 1964 at the age of 80, while returning from a visit to one of his covens in Lebanon. He is buried at Tunis. Monique took over running his coven and his museum on the Isle of Mann. In 1971, she sold the Witchcraft Museum to the Ripley Museum in the U.S. and moved to Spain. This was precipitated by the government trying to take her daughter after a local newspaper accused her of practicing black magic, and other Gardnerian Witches turning against her after she stated she was going to undertake Gardner's secret Fourth Degree. The Witches' Mill Coven has disappeared, the Mill itself having been turned into apartments, but the Bricket Wood Coven still exists in England today. Alex Sanders, a Gemini with Scorpio rising, was initiated into Gardnerian Wicca on 09 March 1963 by Medea of the Derbyshire Gardnerian Coven. Medea also initiated Sylvia Tatham and raised Patricia Kopanski to the Second Degree. Patricia Crowther had refused to raise Kopanski to the Second Degree in her Sheffield Coven, so Pat left. When Medea's husband suddenly died, she closed her Coven and left the area, leaving Pat, Alex and Sylvia without a Coven or a complete BOS. They started their own Coven in Manchester, with Pat as HPS, Alex as acting HP and Sylvia as Maid. After Sylvia received her Second and Third Degree Initiations from Scotty Wilson (Loric) at Gardner's Witches' Mill Coven, she initiated Alex to the Third Degree, and brought a complete BOS from the Witches' Mill. Pat left the Coven when Alex refused to marry her, and Sylvia became the HPS. After Sylvia left for New Zealand and the Coven dissolved, Alex formed a new coven with Paul King and Maxine Morris in late 1964. Sanders made Maxine, a redhead who dyed her hair blonde, his HPS and later married her. In 1967, Sanders moved his coven from Manchester to London, and he went out of his way to conceal his early Witchcraft experiences. Alex reversed some of the reforms of Doreen Valiente, making the God and Goddess once again equal, adding Kabbalistic ceremonial magick, and changing the coven emphasis from group activity to individual magical development. Sanders proved to be just as passionate about promoting "the Craft" as Gardner, and, consequently, the number of Alexandrian covens grew to rival the number of Gardnerian covens. Sanders' initiates started calling themselves 'Alexandrians' to differentiate themselves from the Gardnerians in May 1966, after Pat Crowther and Rae Bone denounced Sanders. They claimed, wrongly, that he was not properly initiated, carrying on a feud that had simmered between them and Medea and Pat Kopanski. Medea was one of those Witches Gardner had initiated in a frenzy of initiations that Crowther and Bone considered poor judgement on his part. The Alexandrians and Gardnerians have constantly cross-fertilized each other, until today their similarities outweigh their differences. In 1970, Sanders and his HPS, Maxine Morris,
initiated Stewart and Janet Farrar into their 'tradition'. As a writer,
Farrar started writing about the Alexandrians and became a chief
proselytizer for Sanders. Later, he mixed the Gardnerian and Alexandrian
Traditions in his work. Prior to his recent death, Farrar switched to a
Gardnerian format for his Witchcraft. After splitting from Maxine in the early 1970's, Sanders made a bonfire of his private papers, including those relating to his time as a Witch. Toward the end of the 60's, Sanders had been shunned by many of his previous supporters when he embarked on a series of magickal workings to make contact with extraterrestrial entities. Sanders was a gifted medium from a family of mediums, and he worked with another medium named Derek Taylor. Two of the manuscripts produced were called 'Children of the Stars' and 'The Southern Quarter Speaks: Set and Sekmet.' Sanders also claimed to have been initiated into one of the oldest continuous covens on earth, the Ordine Della Luna in Constantinople. Sanders and Taylor resurrected the group in Britain as the Ordine Della Nova, a coven pursuing the Great Work as the stellar mysteries of the Divine Mother ignored by Wicca. He died in Sussex at Beltaine 1988. Both Gardner and Sanders conferred a secret Fourth Degree upon those initiates they deemed worthy. Gardner's was the OTO Fourth Degree, while Sanders used the Adeptus Minor Ritual of the Golden Dawn. Although both of their traditions contain some seed of the old Cunning Craft, they contain even more that is different and stand alone as a newly created religion of Witchcraft generally known as 'the Craft' or 'Wicca.' Both the Gardnerians and the Alexandrians exported their Craft to other countries before it came to the US, and neither showed much interest in 'colonizing' the US with Wicca. |


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