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This is obviously named after the stunning colours of the rock from the minerals coughed up through the huge chimney vent.
The lip of the crater gets very narrow as it climbs a few more meters, to 1886m, the highest point of the crossing. This was probably the most alarming part of the whole walk, because it was very windy at this point. I crouched and waddled the 100m or so in an ungainly way, which felt more stable than a striding walk!
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At the top, I ate a sandwich and waited a while. Even so, this was the best I saw of Ngaurohoe, and I never saw Tongariro peak at all! Through the clouds I could see glimpses of the plains below spreading east.
From here there's a flattish plain which narrows as it passes the next crater.
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Sarah decided to tackle the Tongariro Alpine Crossing. This is billed as the best one-day hike in NZ, an 18.5km (about 11 mile) walk up one side of Tongariro and down the other. It's said to be challenging, and this day it really was. Starting at 0630, the bus dropped me (and a few others from the campsite, who rapidly left me behind) off at the road end below Ngaurapoe. This is perhaps 1100m high. The first 100 minutes are pretty easy: a gentle climb through low bush developing into alpine bog. Much of the bog has a boardwalk across it, protecting the fragile plants. It was cloudy as we started, cleared for a short while, and then the clouds rolled back up the valley with a vengeance. Ruapehu shrugged off his duvet, rolled one eye at the sun and then pulled it back over his head. I didn't see him again all day.
From Soda Springs the climb begins. A long haul called variously the Devil's or the Giant's Staircase clambers up the first saddle. It is technically a walk, but there's a lot of scrambling involved. For me, it was very, very slow! But I got there in the end.
At the top of the staircase, there's a side track to the top of Ngaurahoe; it was very foggy at this point, and I felt I was getting exercise enough. So I set off across the South Crater. This stretch is as flat as a pancake and as devoid of life as any desert; by now I was high above the treeline, and only lichens were present. Mind you, it was so foggy there could have been forests out there and I wouldn't have known.
On the far side, begins the last bit of climb. This goes up bare rocks, made slippery by the clouds. Gradually the path narrows and narrows; as the cloud got thinner, I could catch glimpses of precipitous drops to both sides. Some parts of the path are slender walkways along the edges of the rocks. There are no ropes to hang on to, and it's not a place for people with vertigo. The wind was icy, cutting through layers of clothing; it seemed most unfair to be smothered with cloud but knifed by wind.
At the top is the signpost for the summit peak of Tongariro, and the pic is proof I made it!
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On Friday Sarah took a writing day and Pip went off to the Whakapapa and Whakepapaiti valleys on her own for a six-hour hike. On the way she entered the Hauhungatahi wilderness, with lots of amazing bog life and stunning views of the mountains. She enjoyed it and was glad it was only six hours. Her feet steamed when she put them in water at the other end.
We had two nights in the Discovery Lodge at Tongariro, to have power and do the washing. This place has stunning views, and on Saturday night they had an excellent BBQ on the deck looking across the central plateau at the sunset.
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Sarah took a fully loaded pack including tent on this walk as further practice. It's actually only about 10kg so far, but there's no food in there!
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On Thursday, Sarah got the bus south and Pip met her at National Park. (This is the name of the little settlement, which is basically back-packers and ski-lodges.) We drove back up towards Whakapapa, and spent the night at the Mangahuia DOC site (Pip's second night there.) The next day we walked up the river. On the way, we crossed what are known as the Golden Rapids, where the water is stained brown and yellow (gold in the right angle of sunlight) with iron oxide off the mountains.
Climbing above the tree line into alpine bog takes you towards these amazing rapids. The white aluminium-silicate clay is washed down from the peaks, where the silica is created by the heat of the volcanic action. Where the water runs fast, it becomes aerated and the minerals 'fall' out of it to be deposited in these blinding shelves.
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This is another place of which we have loads of photos. Here is Mount Ruapehu, the largest volcano in NZ.
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The Tongariro Park is named after the northernmost summit of three related volcanoes, Ruapehu, Ngaurahoe and Tongariro. Between Ruapehu and the other two is a high table land, called the Central Plateau. This itself is largely above the tree line, at about 900m plus altitude.
The Maori story has it that a tohunga (priest, shaman) in the great explorations of the North Island, climbed Ruapehu. At the top he was freezing and in great danger. He called out to his sisters in Hai'wiki (the ancestral home of the exploring Polynesians) for the gift of fire. Round the Pacific Rim came the fire, putting subterranean power beneath the mountains. The volcanoes are still very much active.
This is Mt Ngaurahoe (the cone on the right) and Mt Tongariro, taken from the part of the park around Mangahuia, below the village of Whakapapa.
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From Thames we drove around the coast to Miranda, where there is a beautiful open beach. Quite a few vans free-park along there for the shell-fishing, but it is such a big beach that it was quiet. This picture looks east to the Coromandel peninsula, but the setting sun is reflected on the clouds.
Miranda is a great beach for shells and before we left we collected quite a few.
From here, we went our separate ways for a few days. Sarah wanted to visit museums in Auckland, but Pip really dislikes the city and ran south to Tongariro National Park.
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In the morning we drove across the neck of the peninsula to Coromandel, another town which owes its size to mining, although now it sustained by tourism. This building, once a bank, with an assay office at the back, is now a shop selling fishing bait and tackle.
The charm of the sacred matai has worn off and it's pouring with rain as we write this in a holiday park in Thames. We were going to go to the tip of Coromandel, a fairly empty and inviting place, but not when there's gale force northerlies and heavy rain forecast for the next few days. So we've tucked in here for tonight, and had a yummy dinner of fine port (the butchers in Whangamata) marinaded in an excellent Pip-invented mixture using some of our new macadamia nut oil. We hope it will clear enough to walk in the kauri forests tomorrow.
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We drove up the spectacular road the stretches the east coast of the peninsula. Along the way we turned down to visit the Hot Springs Beach, Hahei and Cook's Landing. This is a sweet corner of NZ, full of character and interest; you could easily spend a week or more here, rather than the one day we allowed.
One of our serendipitous finds was the macadamia nut orchard, where we satisfied our curiosity about the price of these scrummy nuts. They're a lot of work! The orchard, in the process of going organic, produces some lovely nuts and dressings (including some which are gluten free). See www.cathedralcovermacadmias.co.nz.
From Hahei, you can walk to the Cathedral Cove, but on this very hot day we decided against it. This view looks south across Hahei Bay, one of the lovely local beaches.
Hei was the sailing master of the Te Atawa canoe which followed Kupe (the Maori discoverer of Aotearoa) here, and he settled in this bay. There are two pa sites at the further end of the beach.
We found a quiet spot to freepark in Whangapoua, a tiny village on the edge of an estuary tucked into the northern eastern corner of the peninsula. It is reached across acres of salt marsh, and has a very nice little fishing jetty and a pretty sailing yacht on her mooring buoy in the stream. Although it was a wild and windy night, we were very secure.
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Driving up the Coromandel peninsula, we stopped for two nights at the pleasant DOC site in Wentworth Valley, just south of Whangamata. Sarah managed to get some writing done, sitting in the sun. (Yes, she did get burnt, underestimating the heat after so much rain.)
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- Roger Federer after defeating Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(11) to win his fourth Aussie Open crown and 16th major title.
The Swiss won the battle of court positioning in this match by stepping inside the court to attack any balls left hanging by Muzz. You knew the Brit baller was in trouble when Fed managed to stay steady and patient in the cross-court backhand rallies before finding his favored forehand drive.
This loss will be a tough one for Muzz after having chances in the first and letting go of leads in the third set and in the final tiebreak. Let's hope the next time he comes onto the court ready to play a Grand Slam final he'll be more relaxed and find a more effective balance between steady groundstroking and calculated shot-making. He didn't take his opportunities to be more aggressive and paid the price.
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Favors and Jefferson setting the tone.
Good Defense for the Kings!
Favors and Jefferson setting the tone.
Good Defense for the Kings!
Cuz ejected again! What a Mess!
G-Man has been killing Cousins today. In the 2nd quarter, he said "DeMarcus Cousins has to play better defense. We know he can score. But he simply has to put more consistent effort on defense".
Then he said "He'll never learn", after he got two techs.
Ugggh. Another ejection for Cousins. When will this stop??
Sharing the ball does wonders. Kings up 5
Jazz don't look like they can get good looks against the Kings defense.
Marvin with a shot that didn't want to go in, but did.
I was scared that the switch at the end would kill the kings. But luckily it led to Jefferson taking a deep shot that he airballed.
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Overtime sucks. This is like the Knickerbockers game.
Typical Jazz-Kings game. Always wire to wire
Brent Barry: "The Jazz won this game because they have more talent."
This game sucked in OT. Still better than the NY game, but I want to see wins.
Brent Barry says that the Kings players should have grabbed Cousins and gotten him out of there.
Dennis Scott says players should never approach refs at halftime. He says they should go straight to the lockerroom.
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That looks great! And I really like what you did with the Title/Legend. I liked the wood border, but I like this much better for the titling.
This is the final of the test city I was working on in this thread.
I think it's come out pretty well, but a few lessons learned on the way which I'll put into the next city I do which is going to be in a much more 19th Century style.
That looks great! And I really like what you did with the Title/Legend. I liked the wood border, but I like this much better for the titling.
Super stuff Ravi!!! You make me wanna learn vector based image editors!!!
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Cool map, ravs!
Cheers all. My index left mouse button finger is recovering from the roof lines!
I love it Ravs! I really like how you've managed to seamlessly merge the topographical features of the map with the parchment background. If/when I ever create a city/town map I will look to this map for inspiration. Oh, and enjoy some rep.
This is a great map!, Do you mind if i ask how you were able to get all the little buildings done? They look like a framework of rooftops, did you do them by hand or did you have a program that helped you out?
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<s> thanks Katto....I only have CC2 but I would have thought that it would be quite makeable in CC3.
RedEpic, thanks! Serif Drawplus has a vector scatter brush where you can load vector objects and it sprays them on the page. That's what I used to make the buildings. The vector objects came from Alfar's context free file which is on the site. Then it was a case of drawing in all the roof lines by hand which took a bit of time.


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I was off with a vengeance. This was 3 years in the making, and excitement ran high. As i packed the truck on friday morning I triple checked everything. Before i loaded the most crucial piece of equipment I decided to shoot one last time. I raised up drew back, calm, careful i was at the 70 yard line and mid draw i hear a pop! And feel a crack. The pop was my d loop. The crack was the sound of my nose breaking as my closed fist impaled my own face. The blood ran instantly. And panic set in. Ive practiced with the same six arrows for months. Had them numbered 1-6 and knew exactly where each one would hit at each yardage. Arrow number 1 was now 9' high in a pine tree stuck about 4 inches in with pine sap slowly filling the precision weaved carbon i depended so highly on. I had an extra pack of dloops in my hunting pack. I tied another d loop on for the first time ever. Ive never been so hesitant to draw a bow! My knock point was a touch off. My draw was a touch longer but my arrows still flew true thankfully. My hunt had officially began gear was loaded and trucks were fueled and we were off!
Arriving in antelope land i was overly eager. Pronghorn are on of my favorite animals to chase but this was the first time with the bow and i knew the chase would be substantially more difficult. It wasnt even half way into day 1 and camp was set. Organized, clean, and i was expecting it to run like a well oiled machine. The first hour into glassing i had spotted two antelope in a stalkable location and i was off to close the distance. 3/4 of the way thru the stalk the clouds began to thicken and the temperatures were dropping rapidly. I heard thunder crack and within seconds the rain came pouring down. I was soaked, muddy, cold and soggy. And smiling from ear to ear! Coming from 117 degree temperatures this weather was enough to call my trip a success! I spent the rest of the afternoon in the tent enjoying the company of my father and the smell of wet sage as the rain continued on.
The following morning i was too impatient to wait for the alarm clock to ring. With the vision of white throat patches and heavy black horns dancing in my head i was definitely awake and ready to work. Franticly running around camp acquiring the gear needed to start my quest. Hours before daylight i was ready. Spotters cleaned binoculars cleaned hat tightened. Bonzai pack filled with what i needed to take rapid repeating stalks. I knew this was to be a game persistance and i was willing to be persistant. What i did not know at the time was this was also a game of patience. And i seemed to have forgotten that at home... Ill admit i blew my load on day 1 i had made at least 7 stalks no where close to bow range and had used up plan a,b and c
On previous scouting trips to the area i had spotted several trophy class bucks and had them semi patterned for the water they like to use. But with rainstorms daily these antelope had standing water every 100 yards and no need to travel to their favorite springs. After several days and over 20 stalks on this weary majestic prarie game. The drive to be awake and behind glass before the sun made an appearance was becoming substantially more difficult to find. I had tried decoys, knee pads, white flags, belly crawls, i even caught myself running behind and next to antelope hoping they would tire before i did. Surprisingly enough there lung capacity seemed much greater than mine after a mile or two of sprinting in anger. I believe it to be day 4 or 5 by this point and have yet to be in bow range.
I did some research via you tube and had seen before where guys would use horses as decoys and it seemed to work with ease.
Plan H was deemed a go and i found a new motivation to get back after these longwinded prairie cheetahs. Horses saddled and loaded i was off to the same valley i had drug myself out of with little to no hope of ever being successful. First stalk on horse back was much more efficient after 4 hours i was 80 yards from a antelope that was sure to make eyes pop. He kept a safe buffer at around 80 yards and would never let his guard down. Something about 6 legged horses did not make him too comfortable. Eventually he grew tired of us repeatedly cutting in front of his travel path and off he went. The horses needed water at this point so we rendezvoused at the trailer for lunch and discussed a new game plan. Walking next to horses on sagebrush was sure to get someone injured. Bot my father and i had been clipped in the heel several times during the first stalk by a horses hoof and we decided to head for the slew. Which is where i spent the previous days. It was flat and the pronghorn were a plenty. With only ankle high grass the stalks would seem much easier. We also focused our attention on groups rather than single bachelors. To our amazement we were much more effective with this new tactic. The antelope actually stayed bedded as we closed the distance from over a mile away. Within an hour we were able to pick up horns in the group and i had my sights focused on the largest buck of over twenty antelope. Slowly we would let the horses graze on the grass and every so often give them a kiss or two so that they would head in the direction of the antelope. Finally i ranged over the horses back and we were 150 yards with the whole group of antelope still bedded in the brown grass. Inch by inch we made our way closer 100, 80,70 "its working!!!" i said with bright eyes to my dad. Finally a doe in the group had enough of us and slowly veered away from us. not long after she snorted. Everyone whi has done spot and stalk antelope knows that when you hear a snort. Your heart drops. These animals have communication skills that are far beyond the credit they are given. (so ive learned the hard way) i ranged her. She was 55 yards and the group was crossing the path we had traveled at the same distance. The buck i finally decided to focus on was now slowly grazing away from where he began. Within seconds he appeared from outside my horses torso and i ranged him at 55. I set an arrow, handed the reins behind me to my dad. Told him "hold on. Im not too sure the horses will tolerate this" he slowly pulled my horse away. I drew back. Exhaled slowly. Checked my bubble for level. Opened my front hand. Told myself. "Just like practice" "this is it" Slowly squeezed the release and sent a carbon stick at 300 feet per second directly at the animal. Everything went silent until i heard a bone crushing whack! Blood ran red and he made his run for the sun. Away from the group the animal seemed confused. Suprisingly the horses stayed calm. Which i did not expect. Hints the reason we brought 2. I thought i would need one to round up which ever horse decided to bail out once i realesed! We gave the animal over a half hour and watched him bed. I lost sight of his horns and assumed his head was down and expired. I inched over to the pronghorn via horseback and thats when i learned the hardest bow hunting lesson there is to learn. Patience. Leave the animal until your sure.. He had some life left and no longer liked horses. So we decided to back out and return the following day. With temps dropping below the 50s in the evenings i was confident the meat would be fine. And the animal deserved to expire in peace. We returned the following morning and began our search. After 5 minutes in the general area you begin to question everything that happened the day before. "was it a good shot"? "did he clot up"? " i swear he was right here when i left" i slowed my heart rate and let my instincts take over. Anyone who has had the oppurtunity to let the primal instincts we posess as humans be released for good knows this is an awe inspiring feeling. I began listening to crickets. Watching the field mice. And focusing on earth rather than ground. I heard the wings of a bird soaring in the distance. I turned to see a black raven making eye contact with me as he surveyed the land. I followed his movements as he passed by and suddenly his head was locked on to something not 25 yards from me. I ran as fast as my sore legs would allow to find my antelope right where we had last spotted him. Meat chilled and fully intact i was a humbled man.
A day of rest and recoop was needed after the antelope hunt and meat processing. I took the day to reorganize equipment make some phone calls and answer emails. Most importantly speak with my wife and recieve pictures of our 5 month old baby girl who has been on my mind since i left home the 6 days prior. Her smiles and giggles made it extremely difficult to lay still on top of my bedroll in the comforts of a mummy bag surrounded by wet muddy clothes during the antelope hunt. Something about being away from the two of them with more support than a man could ever ask for made me that much more determined to get these tags filled and get home to them. During my day off i was blessed to enjoy the finest of jack and cokes and snap a few pictures of the beauty were usually too busy to appreciate.


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The most momentous day on the 2011 calendar may be in November when Ranbaxy begins flooding the market with generic Lipitor, long the industry's top-selling brand. The patent expiration of this superstatin marks the end of an era when pharmaceutical empires could be built and sustained by the production of one or two annual blockbusters for the primary-care markets.Drugmakers will be casting about for strategies that free them from the current vicious cycle of cost-cutting, loss in productivity, sales shortfalls, and stock devaluations. "Fewer companies will make it without restructuring, moving into new businesses, major acquisitions for their pipelines—and just plain luck," says Murray Aitken, IMS's Healthcare Insight leader. "There still hasn't been enough cost cutting to provide companies with a base for future profitability."
The most dramatic trends in healthcare are toward market efficiency and the alignment of price with value. Pricing reform is inevitable with runaway healthcare spending finally on the nation's agenda. How each company responds to these new pressures will reveal its priorities, ranging from the bottom line to public trust. No one would be surprised if facing this profit-cramping market, pharma quietly raised prices by 10 percent or more in 2011 as it did last year in the months leading up to the passing of the Affordable Care Act. Longer term, the industry has little choice but to meet the growing demand for drug pricing accountability head on—by showing that the health outcomes provided by drugs are also economic benefits. "The question a pharma must answer in order to price its drug is no longer, Is it safe and effective?" says Carolyn Buck Luce, Global Life Sciences Sector Leader at Ernst & Young. "The new question payers are asking is, How do we know it is worth paying for?"
Industry leaders are in the unenviable (if well compensated) position of having to make the right decisions in the context of not only a disruptive 2011 market but also a transformation of the healthcare industry by decade's end. "Pharma is moving from being a product industry based on a drug to an outcomes industry based on the insight you get from all the information that went into making that drug," says Buck Luce. In this brave new world, pharma may generate the information as it designs the drug, but unless it develops new capabilities fast, it may lose control of that information—and its value—to more innovative players.
For an industry that has remained unprepared, year after year, for a well-known patent cliff, preparing itself for the only dimly grasped perils and potentials of a totally metamorphosed market is akin to trying to jump over your own shadow. But that is the state of pharma in 2011.
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They use you then throw you away, spot on with that comment. With regard to back biting again watch your back because some of the team leads do talk behind your back and try and stir up trouble particularly if your good at your job and quick to get things done.
Comment – March 28, 2013
I suggest you think first before applying to this company, I worked with them for 3 years and when they lost the project I was working on they gave assurances that they still had plenty of work for the engineers, just as the work was completed. I was made redundant in a very painful way. I wonder why they made false promises about having future work to keep everybody. I am glad I left because I got a better job. Will never work for them again, a lot of discrimination and Racism.


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Find a HuehueWe've got four coffees on the table again this week! To what do we owe this good fortune? The country of Guatemala is the size of Louisiana and Counter Culture's four relationships are all to the west of the capital city, but similar to last week's tasting, the geographic proximity belies the diversity of flavor that this week's table showcases.
Notes on the CoffeesFinca Nueva Armenia is our longest-running relationship in Guatemala and we have been unwavering in our commitment to celebrating this beautiful farm and the work of the Recinos brothers. Climate change and coffee leaf rust have conspired to diminish the quality of a large portion of the farm's lower elevation coffee, while our standards for single-origin coffee just keep getting higher, and over the past few years we have sold less of the farm's coffee straight and used more of it for blending. We have an especially small amount of Finca Nueva Armenia's coffee straight this year, but we are working on next year's contracts, plans, and expectations this week and believe we'll see more, better coffee from Finca Nueva Armenia next year. What we do have comes from Grotto, the highest part of the farm, which we've consistently found to be fruitier, sweeter, and more complex than the coffees from lower down the mountain.
The town of Concepción Huista lies only about an hour's drive east of Finca Nueva Armenia, but the farms are much newer and the land belongs primarily to smallholder farmers, as opposed to the larger farms in western Huehuetenango. We bought our first coffees from Codech in 2010 and since then we've spent a lot of time working with them to improve their coffees—and occasionally competing with others to secure them. The eight hundred families that belong to Codech produce coffees that range in flavor from flat and nutty, to fruit reminiscent of sundried naturals, to an occasional coffee that is floral and almost Kenya-esque in flavor.
La Voz makes a guest appearance today at a lighter roast level than most of you have tasted it since we pulled it out of the single-origin lineup. Since 2012 they have proven a consistent producer of good, sweet coffees, some of which end up in Farmhouse, some of which we decaffeinate and one of which, this year, exceeded our expectations and made the single-origin ranks. The ability of this co-op, whose mill is on the shores of Lake Atitlán, to operate efficiently and ship coffee early is worth a lot to us, so while their coffees aren't always the equal in complexity to the previous two on the table, we wouldn't trade it.
Our newest addition is Sipacapa, which comes from San Marcos, a region roughly between Huehuetenango and Atitlán. The mountains in this area of Guatemala reach some impressive elevations and we've had our eyes on it for a few years, though this year marked the first that we zeroed in on a particular co-operative in a community. Hannah visited this group for the first time this year and noted that for a young organization, it's very organized, dedicated to implementing economically sustainable organic agriculture and capable of supporting its members.
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Donatella Versace attended the White House Correspondents' dinner together both matching orange. I'm telling you: he's getting uglier. Turns my stomach the manicured facial hair and the way his lips are the same colour as the rest of his face. Gross. Considering their past fondness for the hard blow, putting them together could be disastrous. Full Story
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Kate Hudson with her gorgeous brother Oliver at the Laker games last night and not a trace of makeup. Compare and contrast with that mutt-faced Tori Spelling and her golddigging loser of a husband Kevin Federline Jr. Her blush looks like a f-ckin' bruise! So Kate looks clammy and flu-stricken and still INFINITELY more attractive that KFed Jr's paycheque. Full Story
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In 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland, Afaa Michael Weaver, formerly known as Michael S. Weaver, was born to working class parents. He attended public schools and graduated as a National Merit finalist at the age of sixteen. After two years at the University of Maryland, he entered the world of factory life alongside his father and uncles and remained a factory worker for fifteen years. These years were a literary apprenticeship during which he wrote and published poetry, short fiction, and freelance journalism. During that time he also started 7th Son Press and Blind Alleys, a literary journal.
His first book of poetry, Water Song, was published in 1985 as part of the Callaloo series. He received a NEA fellowship for poetry six months after signing the contract for the collection and left factory life to attend Brown University's graduate writing program on a full university fellowship, where he completed an MA with a focus on theater and playwriting. Concurrently, he completed his BA in literature in English at Excelsior College.
Tess Onwueme, the Nigerian playwright, gave him the Ibo name "Afaa," meaning "oracle," while Dr. Perng Ching-hsi, of National Taiwan University has given him the Chinese name "Wei Yafeng," derived from "Wei" for flourishing or blossoming, and "Yafeng," the title of a section of poems from the Book of Songs, the oldest anthology of Chinese poetry.
Since Water Song, Weaver has published several more collections of poetry, including City of Eternal Spring (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014); The Government of Nature (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), for which he received the Kingsley Tufts Award; The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007); Multitudes (Sarabande Books, 2000); and The Ten Lights of God (Bucknell University Press, 2000). His full-length play Rosa was produced in 1993 at Venture Theater in Philadelphia. His short fiction appears Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (Little, Brown, 1997), edited by Gloria Naylor, and Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American (Penguin Books, 1999), edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan .
Weaver has been a Pew fellow in poetry and taught in National Taiwan University and Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan as a Fulbright Scholar. He teaches at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.


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mouse, how did kessler do in the D primary for gobernor?
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McKinley helping the little guy? Oh, what's the use? Kessler will run and beat 'em both.
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atoddh, So the 100 million in pork resulted in very few jobs....NO MORE GOBERMENT HANDOUTS!!!!
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the best hope for the OV would be a Congressional alliance from PA,WV and Ohio for NP job creation.A regional approach.
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It is possible the coal interests would back McKinley in a desperate last stand.But it is free market forces(the GOP advocates) that is driving the shift to gas from coal. McKinley would have to switch parties to win;become pro union.
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troll: the pork will go elsewhere;where the seniority is. In the case of Wheelinh tens of millions or pork went into making Downtown a theme park.The only party to profit from it was McKinley and Aderholt.Note Downtown is now mostly gone and vacant : 100 million or so later.How smart is that? Where are the jobs?
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atoddh, that's what you get when you have 50 years of Democrit Government. Not enough West Virginians remember how to work for a living to make it worthwhile for businesses to come here. And the few who do know how to work are crushed by taxes, overregulation, frivolous lawsuits, and unions. All Democrit favorites.
It's time to stop the pork and learn how to earn our keep.
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McKinley has made his money almost entirely from Government building projects(aka pork);not private.
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troll:there is no private interest in WV by anyone other than mineral and timber exploitation.Even Chesapeake has the offices in Ohio to avoid the Courts and taxes in WV. The Fed spending-which will now dry up- has filled in some holes.Now things will get really bad. btw:Highlands only worked as a government backed project.
a defense manufacturing project would really help things in the OV.
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atoddh, have any of the Demorat pack brought real new jobs to WV? Other than big Byrd monuments that now sit empty and do nothing, at great cost to taxpayers, including real businesses?
The job of a politician is NOT to "bring new jobs." That's just wealth redistribution – pork and bribery – and it's what got America in the financial mess it's in now. The job of a politician is to make sure Government stays off the backs of businesses – to vote AGAINST job-killing taxes like Obamacare, and AGAINST loony leftist overregulation, and AGAINST laws that encourage frivolous lawsuits and preferences for unions, and AGAINST bigger, more expensive, more intrusive Government.
When politicians work for smaller Government, lower taxes, and less regulation, businesses will move here and grow here, and the jobs will come here all by themselves.
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New: McKinley is very nice.But has he brought new jobs to WV.New projects to the OV?Is there a major job creating project in the NP with his name on it yet? Does he have the senority to do so as Byrd and Mollohan did?
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REPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA! McKinley is seizing the opportunity to attempt to distort reality, elevate his political potential and maintain high name recognition. He knows he has no chance of defeating Capito, but would like to improve his fantasy to become Governor in 2016.
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How can you not like McKinley? I mean he went for it, and has managed to stay engaged in the process, and with his roots. He has done the hard work, both for his business and politically, but still holds town hall meetings via phone and in person. He comes to the people, and rarely seeks out the media. I feel lucky to have him as our Congressman, and would hate to lose him, but if he can achieve more for us in the capacity of a Senator, we should at least listen to what he has in mind. Shelly does have family roots and money but I haven't seen her in our area coming to the people. She may be a fine woman and a great politician, but who will really help the little guy, when it comes to jobs, health care and helping individuals and families with achieving not merely getting by? That is what we should be looking for, someone to offer a ladder to crawl out of the pit,..offer a path for success. I look forward to seeing both in our area. Good Luck Congressman/Congresswoman! :)
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McKinley would be a fool to run against Capito and I suggest this idea is just a party ploy to make it look like the fix isn't in. But in fact, the fix is in. Capito and Manchin are like brother and sister and their families control each side of the ticket. Don't forget that Capito did not endorse the Republican candidate for Governor in the southern part of the State.
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Capito has recognition in the major population areas of WV.She will win.But her seniority in the House will be lost.
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WVians are pretty simple. If you stand up for coal and guns and beer, you have a real shot Mr. McKinley:)
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NEW YORK - Office Depot and OfficeMax have agreed to merge in an
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The Aggies (8-10, 1-2) made 7 of 19 3-point attempts, with Middleton going 3 of 4 from long range, and shot 48 percent (24 of 50) from the field.
The 40 points marked the Rattlers' lowest output since losing to Alabama 76-37 on Nov. 12, 2010. Florida A&M shot only 22.8 percent from the field 13 of 57), 1 of 16 from beyond the arc, and 13 of 29 from the free-throw line.
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Adrian Powell added 14 points, including 8 of 9 free throws, and Jean Louisme had eight rebounds as the Aggies dominated the glass 46-34.
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The autograph stages at FanFest are a hit with fans of all ages…hundreds lined up to get a signature from Royals heroes of the past (left), present (below left), and future (below right).
Fans bring a variety of items through the autograph lines. We saw one woman with a bowling ball (try carrying that around FanFest for a few hours!)…Royals players have been signing the ball for the last five years! Some items are easy to sign, while David DeJesus found out that a little more precision was needed to inscribe this stuffed animal.
Here's Joakim Soria penning his John Hancock on a green and white Royals Halfway to St. Paddy's Day hat. Maybe this fan is hoping that Joakim's signature will bring them a little luck.
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Q1. How far kood one hit a ball on a giant table?
Q2. How giant kood a table be before u hadto uze a double-kurved bed instead of a flat bed, ie to allow for the angles of gravity, ie so that balls rolled straight?
Q3. How giant would a flat table needtabe before a ball placed at the end rail would start rolling towards the center? (Assuming that the table woz level at center).
Q4. Re Q3, how far might that ball roll before stopping?
Q5. If a giant table had a double-kurv bed, how far away might an objektball be before u kood see the top of it when down on your shot?
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Re Q2, i am guessing that a 100' by 50' table might be the limit for a flat table, ie before players began complaining about rolloff.
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Re Q4, i guess that a ball would roll halfway to the center (ie 25 miles).
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Stillwater, OK (SportsNetwork.com) - The ninth-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys
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for a Big 12 matchup with the TCU Horned Frogs.
After dropping their Big 12 opener to Kansas State, Travis Ford's Cowboys have
righted the ship, topping Texas (87-74) and most recently, West Virginia
(73-72). With the win in Morgantown last weekend, OSU moved to 14-2 overall
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Freshman Brandon Parrish led the team with 16 points, but the Horned Frogs
were no match for the Bears in Waco on Saturday, dropping a 26-point decision.
Kyan Anderson and Jarvis Ray finished with 12 and 11 points, respectively. TCU
was dominated on the glass, getting outrebounded 54-25. Baylor also distanced
itself from TCU at the free-throw line, as the hometown Bears went a perfect
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68.1 ppg on .433 shooting. Despite the average numbers, there is some scoring
depth with four of the five starters in double figures. Anderson leads the way
with 15.6 ppg. Amric Fields is a close second with 13.9 ppg, while Parrish
(11.1 ppg) and Ray (10.7 ppg) round out the top scoring threats.
The Cowboys have had no problem with filling up the basket. Oklahoma State is
shooting at a near 50-percent clip (.491) and rolling up 85.0 ppg. The success
has carried over to the defensive end as well, where foes are being held to
just 65.5 ppg. Opponents are converting under 40 percent from the floor
(.381), including under 30 percent from behind the arc (.294). All-American
Marcus Smart is the straw that stirs the drink in Stillwater. Smart is the
team's top scorer (17.8 ppg) and distributor (4.1 apg), as well as pacing OSU
in steals (41). Backcourt mate Markel Brown (16.8 ppg) can score at a high
rate as well. Le'Bryan Nash (13.5 ppg, 5.8 rpg) headlines the play up front,
while Phil Forte (12.3 ppg) provides a spark off the bench.
Oklahoma State was taken to the limit by the Mountaineers, but was able to
escape Morgantown with a one-point victory. Smart was the driving force once
again, as he posted a double-double with game-highs of 22 points and 13
rebounds. Nash poured in 18 points, while Brown added 12 points and seven
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Credits for sure. I'll have to speak with Tron about the Camrys...maybe a Prius or two?
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I can't wait to be completely out of it after the first weekend like all my brackets the last 5 years.
Why Yahoo this year? It was easier the other way...at least for us.
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Wow... this bracket is a crap-shoot. All the teams that I have getting to the Elite 8, could very easily win the whole thing. Holy smokes...
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I have St. Johns in the Elite 8. WTF.
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Full SubmissionProposal by the Japanese Youth in order to achieve the sustainable development We, Japanese youth, regard ourselves as to be responsible to the future generations, and with that responsibility, we are proposing the followings to all the stakeholders at Rio +20. 1. Declare to make all the efforts to implement the treaties and initiatives in the UN frame, in which frame the environment, human rights, peace, gender indigenous people and bio-diversity are higher 2. State the followings: - Demise the finance-centered economic policy, and Promote the Civil-Finance and Social Responsible Investment; - Reduce the budget on military affairs, and Increase on the Education for poverty problem; and - Withdraw from technology relied on nuclear power and genetic modification, and Promote the technology of renewable energy and organic farming. A SEED JAPAN (Action for Solidarity, Equality, and Environment and Development) is a Japan based, international youth environmental organisation. The ASEED international campaign was founded in October, 1991 in order to give youth a voice at the Earth Summit (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development), held in Brazil in June 1992. This campaign drew participation from 70 organizations from 50 nations. Following the Earth Summit, ASEED Japan was established as an organisation based on a membership system. A SEED JAPAN strives for a sustainable and fair society and focuses on cross border environmental problems and the social injustices found within these. We aim to change the present pattern of mass production, mass consumption and mass waste, and eliminate the gaps between north and south, different regions, and between different generations. In order to make these changes, the youth of today, who bear the generations of the future, have taken action.


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Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote of the great gift we sometimes have of being able to see ourselves as others see us. John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge are editor-in-chief and Washington bureau chief of The Economist, the best secular newsweekly in the world. Their new book, God Is Back, details the findings that surprised them as they assessed the state of Christianity in America and religion throughout the world.
What were you trying to find out as you did the reporting for God Is Back?
John Micklethwait: Whether the secularization theory taught to us in elite universities-the idea that the more modern the world gets, the more secular it is-is true.
And you found out . . .
JM: It's not.
What about in Europe?
Adrian Wooldridge: Religious questions are now a center of European culture in a way they haven't been for a hundred years, for many reasons. The most important is the rise of Islam and the repercussions of that in Europe. Not only is God back in the sense that He's significant enough for people like Christopher Hitchens to devote their energies and talents, such as they are, to battling Him; but also, He's there in Europe in the center of political debate.
We're hearing that Christian political influence is waning in America.
AW: That's true concerning gay marriage. On abortion, what is probably slightly rising in this generation is skepticism about whether abortion is constitutional. But more subtle and more interesting is that religion has escaped from the clutches of a particular political party, the Republicans, and has become much more pervasive in American life.
And at the United Nations also . . .
AW: On lots of issues at the center of the United Nations, lots of religious people have more influence than they have had ever before. The United Nations was created after World War II by a bunch of secularists who saw religion as a problem that needed to be excluded from public life and international life-and now the UN addresses all sorts of religious issues. I see the political influence of religion becoming actually greater in the United States, rather than less. This is true times 10 for the rest of the world.
How does American Christianity affect the rest of the world? You write, "American multinationals are contributing not once but twice to the global revival of religion-as the world's leading exporter of religion and as the world's leading supplier of the capitalism that increases demand for religion."
AW: America is one of the great suppliers of religion, partly because its mega-churches look to the world, not just to America, but also because it is the leading supplier of missionaries, Bibles, and books. America is also the leading exporter of capitalist culture. Capitalism is an extremely disturbing and revolutionary process that creates turbulence wherever it goes, but all of that turbulence creates demand for the consolation that comes from religion. Many people find the values of Hollywood turbulent and disconcerting, and their reaction is to turn back to their traditions and become more religious, rather than less.
A lot of people see competition within Christianity as a waste, but you see it as a good thing.
JM: It's a great irony that sometimes American Christians don't realize how wonderful that competition is. That is the thing that makes American religiosity different, the ability of different churches to spring up and to compete against each other. Look at the Methodists: They came in after the Revolution, and within 50 years they converted an eighth of the country. That set the trend for a variety of different traditions that followed. That element of competition, I think, keeps American religion enduringly fresh.
Europe misses that element?
JM: Adam Smith pointed out that if you have a religion backed by the state, they're not going to work as hard to bring people in or to convert people. Think back through English literature that you've been forced to read at different times; think of Trollope, where you might remember people sitting around and talking about the kind of "livings" they would get. Think of Jane Austen's Mr. Collins who spends his time desperately sucking up to his patroness.
Some people worry that Islamic countries have an advantage because they don't have the religious competition that we have in America.
AW: If you go to Dearborn, Mich., there are a lot of people who pray to Mecca every day. If you go to Mecca itself, I don't think you'll hear many people pray to Christ. I think that's a weakness rather than a strength of Islam. Christianity has two very powerful strengths on its side in the 21st century. One is that it has survived the acids of modernity. It's had its reformations, it's had its competition, it's had all of that and it has been strengthened by it. Islam has to go through all those tests, and it has to learn how to live with all those criticisms. It's going to be a very severe testing: The question is whether it will survive or not.
Do you see a Reformation coming to Islam?
JM: Islam is going to have a much harder time going through that than Christianity had, because the Quran is the word of God and there is only the literal translation. Reform-minded Islam is a tiny, tiny percentage. On the optimistic side, think of Dearborn: Look at what's happening to Islam in America. There are a lot of Muslims in America who are extremely happy living in a pluralistic world. Go to Indonesia; that's also changing.
But does Islam intrinsically discourage competition within it?
AW: One problem that Islam's going to have is that Muhammad was a ruler. When the Saudis create a theocracy in which they enforce the law of the Quran in the most ruthless manner, where there is an absolute, indistinguishable world of alliance between the church and the state, that's not a misinterpretation of the Quran as far as I can see.
How does the opportunity Christians have to read the Bible fit in, as compared to reading the Quran?
AW: The Bible is published in 95 percent of the languages of the world, various dialects. It's also presented in cartoons, Bible theater, teenage magazines. . . . There's actually huge resistance to translating the Quran, because Muslims believe that it is the word of God spoken to Muhammad in Arabic, and it can't be translated into any other language. So most people that Muslims are converting do not understand a word of what they are taught to recite. Today, I think this competition and pluralism, which is the essence of American doctrine, is its strength.
Why don't we hear about the advantages of competition for Christianity?
JM: People haven't gone out and reported it. Secular intellectuals are wholly blind to it, and evangelical intellectuals have not yet really wanted to get hold of it. A lot want to say, "We're right, we're right, we're right," rather than actually engaging in full-scale intellectual debate.
Evangelicals from Puritan days to the present have often preached of declension, with a sense that the old days were better.
JM: Before the Revolution, America wasn't that religious. In Salem, where The Crucible was set, some 80 percent of households had no religious identification.
Today, do you find more optimism or pessimism among American evangelicals?
AW: There's really no middle ground: Either the sky is falling or empires are being created that will never, ever decline. Some "pastorpreneurs" have these incredible notions about growing by 10 percent or 20 percent a year, and on the other hand there's a sudden shift of some people saying, "Everything is falling, the numbers are collapsing, evangelical America has no influence on politics, we must retreat from the secular world, we have to create a cocoon where we can protect our values from a corrupt world."
And some people go back and forth.
AW: You can see these two things existing together, sometimes even within the same brain, in the same mental space. A lot of people are truly schizophrenic between the notion of the immanent Christianization of America and the immanent destruction of Christianity in America. During the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal: "We've lost the culture war, we have to just give up. We have to retreat, just deal with the private world, just let this sinful world out there be as it is." When Bush came along suddenly everything had changed, and we were back to building a Christian republic in which everybody should adhere to the same principles.
What do you make of the atheist bestsellers during the past several years?
JM: You do not suddenly wake up in a panic about God being bad or terrible if you think you've already won the argument. If you went back 10 or 15 years, the idea that Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens could write a bestseller on the subject would have seemed odd, because-certainly in Europe-most of the educated elites would have assumed that God was disappearing anyway, so what's the worry?
Do you think they make a strong case?
AW: Two things really annoy me about the neo-atheist position. One is that they write about evangelical Christians in much the same way and in much the same tone as white supremacists used to talk about blacks. And the second thing is that there's a notion of unilateral moral disarmament where the other side is expected to disarm. If you're arguing about gay marriage, people who are liberals and who support gay marriage are allowed to bring their most profound moral beliefs to that argument, as they should be, but then they say, "You can't base your contrary arguments on religious beliefs, because that shouldn't be part of the public square." That's nonsense. Everybody should be allowed to bring their most profound beliefs; for many, many people, their most profound beliefs are based on their faith, and no one should question their right to bring those arguments and to engage in political organization on the basis of those arguments.
Still, the atheists get a lot of press attention.
AW: There's been a Hitchens figure in almost every generation who is sort of the village atheist who announces the death of God or the irrelevance or malignity of religion. The extraordinary thing about American religion is its capacity to reinvent itself and reassert itself. Every time you feel as though it's dying out, the system is competitive and religious entrepreneurs redefine the product and the market. We have a new generation of entrepreneurs who can talk to a new generation of people.
How does this sense of religion's importance affect U.S. foreign policy?
JM: The irony is that when it comes to foreign policy America's often been completely clueless, which is odd. It may have a lot to do with the fact that there is a very secular foreign policy elite that generally and repeatedly ignores religion. When the State Department and CIA looked at Iran, they dismissed the idea that this could have anything to do with Islam; that was dismissed as mere sociology. When Hezbollah emerged, they looked at it in terms of right vs. left, although you would imagine the name "Party of God" would have given them some vague clue as to what was happening.
You suggest that the government's lack of backing for religion is a plus.
AW: A lot of religious people thought it would undermine religion. They said, "What do you mean? You're taking religion out of official public life? You're going to create an irreligious people who don't have any values." That didn't happen, because as soon as you separate them you get competition and you get religion even stronger; and that is something that Islam has yet to understand.
So, freedom to choose in religion, as in economics, is a strength rather than a weakness?
JM: In America one out of four people change their religion, which is much different from the rest of the world. If you choose your religion, when it comes to politics and work, you're not going to leave it at home. You're not going to assume that it's part of your life. It's going to go all the way through. If you've chosen to be an evangelical Christian, it's not going to be something that you park away when you go to the voting booth, and possibly not when you go to work.


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Just for some information, I am primarly looking at locus of control and how that effects the way doulas need to help women. Look at this link for info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control
MOM is in charge of pain control ... if she has hired a doula, she has entrusted her to make the appropriate suggestions, give her accurate information, and be a focus point to encourage mom during her rushes :) All in all, ultimately, it's up to MOM.
For me personally I go through periods of internal and external locus of control moments during birth. I am a pretty internal locus of control personality, so I mostly keep to myself practicing my hypnobabies for most of the birthing time (don't really want anyone touching or watching me or reading me hypno cues - leave me be!), informing my midwife of my progress as I see fit. But with every baby there has come a point, often at the end sometime either in transition or pushing where I lose it and rely on the steady head of my midwife to pull me through. You know the, "I can't do it any more" moment. Mom is exhausted. She has given so much and just wants to be done, but alas there is more still to do. It is during these moments that I have wandered from my hypnosis training and need to be reminded of what I know - relax the face and the bottom, deep breaths, etc. This is a very vulnerable feeling - a sort of, "help me!" moment that a doula can be so helpful in assisting with pain management - being in charge to refocus the mom. But that again is me. If you had a woman with a more external locus of control personality type (or someone who isn't prepared well - which maybe only a part - the first time I pushed, it was awful. It hurt and I was just a crazy lady. It wasn't until the midwife said, "Push into where it hurts" that I learned, Ok that sounds CRAZY but it works! Who knew!), she might rely on the doula more throughout the birthing to guide her to a comfortable birth.
So, here's another question. How did you let people know when you needed something or not? Beyond just words, what kind of signals or cues did you give?
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I believe the mother is in charge of controlling her pain, but part of being "in charge" is accepting that you don't necessarily know everything and may need help. This is where, IMHO, the doula is invaluable, especially for a first-time mom like me. I was very educated on pain coping techniques ("Birthing from Within" was a great class!), but when I got into "labor land" where the brain doesn't really behave normally, I really needed someone to suggest different things for me to try based on my symptoms. So while I think the mother is technically in charge, part of exercising that control is surrounding herself with people who can provide her the support, suggestions, and assistance for her to manage the pain.
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Sioux County Residents Petitioning County Budget
(Orange City) -- A group in Sioux County, is circulating Petitions to Protest the Budget for 2014-2015 which as approved raises taxes by $700,000 and spending by almost $4 million leaving a shortfall of $2.9 million. Proposed salaries for elected officials are raised to the
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There is also a Petition For Audit which is being circulated because of questions raised over past budgets and expendiures and uncollected moneys including almost $2,000 paid last year to Daniel Pluim (who is also the County Magistrate) to advise the County's Conservation Board on their ability to sue the County Zoning Board, also of Sioux County. The group believes that this was extremely unethical if not illegal. The State Auditor can audit and review the county's finances. No current audit report is available. Williams & Co plans to deliver an audit report to the county on Tuesday, March 25.
Remsen Native Wins Big At Winn-A-Vegas
(Sloan) -- A graduate of Remsen-Union High School and an Air Force Veteran, was on her way to the Omaha airport to fly homeTacoma, Washington, when she decided to make one extra stop at WinnaVegas. She's glad she did. Karen Byrd stopped to play the slots, and BOOM! She hit it big. The slot machine showed that Byrd had won $80,016. Byrd had just visited some of her former Remsen-Union classmates and was only ten days from retirement. Frank Loera, Interim General Manager at WinnaVegas, is more than excited to help send her off to an even happier retirement with this big win. Byrd made a $20 bet on one spin in the High Limits room at WinnaVegas. The High Limits Room is a new addition to the WinnaVegas casino floor and management says Byrd is one of the first big winners of many more yet to come. WinnaVegas Casino Resort is owned and operated by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
Orange City Holds Tulip Extravaganza
ORANGE CITY, IA. – The annual Orange City Tulip Festival Extravaganza was held on Thursday, and revealed both the costumes for Tulip Queen and Court and the parade marshals for the 2014 celebration. Members of the 2014 Tulip Court are Queen Ali Achterhof, daughter of Rick and Paula Achterhof; Lauren Duesenberg, daughter of Gary and Rachel Duesenberg; Emily McDonald, daughter of Todd and Kristin McDonald; Paige Nibbelink, daughter of Jamie and Kim Nibbelink; and Marissa Wiese, daughter of Rob and Tricia Wiese.
Queen Ali and her court will wear the authentic dress from Axel, a town in the province of Zeeland, for this year's Tulip Festival. The wings, which stand up by elaborately folded craft paper, are perhaps the most eye-catching piece of the costume. Queen Ali's wings, known as de vleugels in Dutch, are a stunning purple on floral black, and her court's are a classic black on black brocade material.
The elaborate costume also features a black brocade jacket, a black merino wool skirt, and beuks, which are made from the same fabric as the wings. The beuks, worn on the upper torso, are intricately decorated with colorful glass beads, sequin, small stones, and spangles, and were worn by the women of Axel on Sundays or for special occasions. Queen Ali and each member of her court also wear floral-patterned aprons. Queen Ali's apron is embellished with an embroidered apron bow.
The Axel dress is accessorized with a small cap that fits close to the head, gold spirals worn on the forehead, a multi-strand necklace of red coral beads, and an antique-version purse. An additional highlight to the Extravaganza was the announcement of this year's parade marshals. The Tulip Festival Steering Committee was pleased to honor Terry and Rachel Meekma as parade marshals for the 2014 Tulip Festival.
Attorney General Decides Former Lawmaker Can Run For Political Office
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A panel of state officials has concluded that former state lawmaker Tony Bisignano should be allowed to run for the Iowa Senate.
Attorney General Tom Miller, Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz, and State Auditor Mary Mosiman considered a challenge by one of Bisignano's primary opponents, Ned Chiodo, who claims Bisignano is disqualified from running because he was convicted of second-offense drunken driving in January.
Chiodo's attorney, Gary Dickey, argues that the aggravated misdemeanor falls under the constitutional definition of an infamous crime, which means Bisignano cannot vote or hold public office.
Miller says a law passed by the Legislature in 1994 defines infamous crimes as felonies and the courts are likely to uphold that law. Schultz and Mosiman agree.
Chiodo's attorney plans to appeal the decision to the courts.
State Official Denies Allegations Of Wrong Doing
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A state official accused of improperly pressuring Iowa judges who hear unemployment cases to rule in favor of employers has issued a rebuttal.
Teresa Wahlert, Iowa Workforce Development director, wrote a letter Thursday to the U.S. Department of Labor that denied allegations made against her by Democratic Sen. William Dotzler, of Waterloo.
Dotzler sent a letter asking the federal agency to investigate whether Wahlert is violating federal laws requiring fair and impartial administration of unemployment benefits. In the letter, he alleges that Wahlert is directly interfering with the independence of administrative law judges.
Wahlert claims the allegations are false. In her rebuttal, she says she seeks to provide facts to the "inaccurate information" Dotzler has presented.
Dotzler continues to insist his allegations are true.
Authorities Rescue Two Boys From Shifting Ice
FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) - Authorities say two young brothers rescued from ice on the Des Moines River near Fort Dodge were not injured during the ordeal.
The Fort Dodge Fire Department says the incident occurred Thursday afternoon near Hydro Electric Park. The boys, ages 12 and 7, got stuck on a sheet of ice about 75 feet from the west bank of the river.
A witness says the boys walked onto the ice before it started shifting. The brothers panicked and the witness called 911.
The rescue, which took about 45 minutes, involved firefighters using a flat-bottomed aluminum boat to pull the boys to shore.
The brothers were hugged by their mother once they reached solid ground. They were examined at the scene but did not require hospitalization.
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PARSONSFIELD, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The York's County Sheriff's Department says that Shawn Smith, of Cornish, died on a hilly stretch of Federal Street in Parsonsfiled Sunday afternoon.
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