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Post subject: amazing breech birth!
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Sadly I didn't , I got bullied into a section in labour after being bundled off to the hospital instead of getting my home birth when my baby was discovered to be breech at 4cms dilated, as I hadn't done any research and was outright lied to by the doctor, who actually said flat out your baby could die if you don't do what we say I felt I had no choice I found out afterwards my baby was in whats considered the best presentation for a breech birth and two other doctors have said since they would have encouraged me to labour , since then I've seen some amazing video's where as you say the baby just seems to know what to do without interference from anyone :)they practically deliver themselves, and in Germany with my next pregnancy they were shocked I'd had a section just for breech as they consider it just an alternative presentation rather than a problem .
I'd love to see routine breech birth come back to the UK but thanks to the very damaging and largely discredited term breech trial which most hospitals seem to use as their guide I can't see it happening anytime soon which is a shame because breech birth is as safe as any vaginal birth when handled properly. If I did ever get pregnant again and my baby was breech I'd insist on a hands off natural birth
There was a Lady a while ago who had a surprise footling breech vaginal delivery though hopefully she'll reply to you
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Oh wow! Its awful isn't it. I was practically bullied into my section. I have a bicornuate uterus which makes things difficult anyway but she was a footling breech and barely fit inside me!
If my placenta wasnt slightly too low i would have insisted on a breech birth but i wasnt even given the option. Even at 5 months gone i asked my midwife if we could discuss my birth plan as im aware you need to book in your water birth early and she actually said they dont discuss it :/
I was offered to turn Lola but i find that procedure unecessary and virtually impossible without having a bicornuate uterus!
I believe they dont even show you the mechanisms of a natural hands off breech birth when studying midwifery. Im hoping to get in midwifery for 2014 intake, i'm hoping to specialise in awkward deliveries such as mine! haha xx
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From what the Lady who had the surprise footling breech said in her birth story it seems like the midwives didn't have a clue and just froze
I suspect one of the main reasons that c sections are now routine for breech births is because of skill fade for natural breech deliveries, some midwives never even see one anymore because they are so rare now
I know both the midwives I had went into panic mode and rang an ambulance without even asking me to get me to hospital as quickly as possible purely because they didn't want anything to do with a breech birth, they both actually looked terrified which then made me feel as though there was a problem
I read a lot of stuff about hands off breech births afterwards mostly by independent midwives and it all made sense but sadly most hospital midwives don't see it in action as a lot of doctors will still try to force a woman who wants to labour with a breech baby into an epidural and then use forceps which is totally unnecessary and can be dangerous . I hope you do get on the 2014 intake, the midwifery profession could do with some more midwives who are happy to take on the more unusual labours xx
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I was watching one of those 999 type programs and there was a lady in labour whose husband had phoned 999 as she was ready to push. Telephone operator following his on screen prompts was telling her to get on the floor. She was having none of it and husbund had to pretty much force her. Then a foot appeared and operator was like stand up, stand up. Talked her husbund through what to do and told him not to touch Baby as can shock them and cause them to take a breath. He delivered a lovely healthy Baby to his wife. It was really emotional and the telephone operator was brilliant and stayed really calm although you could tell he was thinking 'oh [*CENSORED*]'.
I think I would look into trying for a natural birth if I had a breach presentation. I wonder if private midwifes are anymore experianced.
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Yes independent midwives are much more experienced. As in hoping to become a midwife ive been on workshops run by 'mothering nature'and the midwife who runs them is amazing. I even asked about my heart shaped womb and she said she's delivered women with a heart shaped womb previously. Also she sees a breech presentation as an alternative position. The only shame is though that independent midwives are being pushed out, no one will insure them any longer so she's becoming a teacher i think there's a decision to be made later this year. If we lose independent midwives I'd give up all hope of bringing a breech presentation into natural birthing. Xx
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my 24 weeker was breech his bum came through and cervix was tightly shut round his bum, csec isn't an option at 24 weeks he just shot out traumatic experience, but the bruising on his bum and back from me having no water for 6 weeks, i am so glad he wasnt head first or he'd of has the bruses there


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U.S. senators backed a White House-supported push to enable the transfer of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, setting up a fight with House Republicans over the future of a prison President Barack Obama has long sought to close.
By voting down a pair of amendments to a broader defense policy measure, senators left standing provisions in the bill that would give the administration broad new authority to transfer detainees out of the prison — both into the U.S. as well as foreign countries.
One amendment, offered by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R., N.H.), effectively would have stripped the new authorities. A second amendment with bipartisan support would have made clear transferred detainees would not gain special rights if brought onto U.S. soil.
Neither amendment received the 60 votes necessary to pass.
The votes put the Senate on a collision course with the House over the prison's future. A House version of the legislation passed earlier this year included restrictions making it harder for the Obama administration to transfer prisoners and eventually close the prison.
The White House has already said it favors the Senate language, calling it a "significant improvement over existing law." White House press secretary Jay Carney, speaking with reporters Monday, said the Obama administration retains a "firm commitment" to closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
"The facility continues to drain our resources in an era of sequestration and tighter budgets, and it harms our national security," Mr. Carney said.
Critics of closing the prison such as Ms. Ayotte countered that the roughly 160 detainees currently housed at the prison remain too dangerous to transfer to the U.S. or overseas.
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To Maycomb, Tom's death was typical. Typical of a nigger to cut and run. Typical of a nigger's mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first chance he saw. Funny thing, Atticus Finch might've got him off scot free, but wait-? Hell no. You know how they are. Easy come, easy go. Just shows you, that Robinson boy was legally married, they say he kept himself clean, went to church and all that, but when it comes down to the line the veneer's mighty thin. Nigger always comes out in 'em. (25.25)
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China's stocks rose to the highest in 11 weeks after European governments reached an agreement on a Greek aid package and investors speculated the Chinese government will adopt more measures to ease a credit crunch.
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. and China Construction Bank Corp. led gains for lenders after money-market rates declined. Jiangxi Copper Co. climbed 1.3 percent after European finance ministers awarded 130 billion euros ($173 billion) in Greek aid. Gansu Qilianshan Cement Group Co. jumped to the highest in almost three months, pacing gains among companies based in western China after the government approved a plan to accelerate the region's development.
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The Shanghai Composite Index climbed 17.8 points, or 0.8 percent, to 2,381.43 at the close, the highest since Dec. 1. The CSI 300 Index rose 0.9 percent to 2,562.45. The Shanghai Composite has rebounded 8.3 percent this year on expectations the government will ease monetary policies to bolster economic growth that cooled to the slowest pace in 2 1/2 years in the fourth quarter of 2011. The measure trades at 9.8 times estimated earnings, compared with a record low of 8.9 times on Jan. 6, according to weekly data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Concerns about China's economic slowdown intensified after January data showed exports and imports falling for the first time in two years, new lending was the lowest for that month in five years and money supply grew the least in more than a decade. China's expansion may be cut almost in half if Europe's debt crisis worsens, the International Monetary Fund said in a Feb. 6 report.
HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics are scheduled to release their preliminary manufacturing index for this month, known as the Flash PMI, at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. It was at 48.8 in January, below the 50 threshold for expansion.
Jiangxi Copper, China's biggest producer of the metal, rose 1.3 percent to 26.84 yuan. Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd., the listed unit of nation's biggest maker of the lightweight metal, advanced 0.4 percent to 7.27 yuan.
Greece won a second bailout after European governments wrung concessions from private investors and tapped into European Central Bank profits to shield the euro area from a precedent-setting default.
Greek Bailout
Finance ministers awarded 130 billion euros in aid, engineered the central bank profits transfer and coaxed investor representatives into providing more debt relief in an exchange offer meant to tide Greece past a bond redemption next month.
Vice President Xi Jinping told Irish political leaders that China is "considering more involvement in helping address the European debt issue through the European Financial Stability Facility, the European Stability Mechanism and other channels," according to comments aired by Dublin-based broadcaster RTE yesterday.
Europe is China's biggest overseas market, making up about 18 percent of the nation's overseas shipments, according to Shenyin & Wanguo Securities Co.
China will raise export tax rebates for some goods for the first time since 2009 this year, the China Daily reported, citing Vice Commerce Minister Zhong Shan.
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The increase will be implemented at an "appropriate time" and that will be applied to "specific categories of goods" including some labor intensive products, the newspaper said. Tax rebate rates were "in general" increased to 13.5 percent in 2009 from 9.8 percent before the global financial crisis, according to the newspaper.
China will continue to implement proactive fiscal and prudent monetary policies this year as it adjusts the policies "slightly" to make them more targeted, flexible and forward looking, the official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday, citing a statement from a meeting attended by members of the Politburo.
ICBC, the biggest Chinese lender, rose 1.4 percent to 4.46 yuan. Rival Construction Bank advanced 0.6 percent to 4.88 yuan. The seven-day repurchase rate, a gauge of funding availability in the financial system, fell 12 basis points to 5.25 percent as of 3:26 p.m. in Shanghai, according to a weighted average compiled by the National Interbank Funding Center. One basis point is 0.01 percentage point.
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China cut the amount of cash that banks must set aside as reserves for the second time in three months to spur lending. Reserve requirements will fall by 50 basis points from Feb. 24, the People's Bank of China said on Feb. 18.
"On the margin, policy will ease slightly and that will provide an additional boost to Chinese equity markets." Manpreet Gill, senior investment strategist at Standard Chartered Plc, said on Bloomberg Television today.
The People's Bank of China won't sell any repurchase contracts today, according to a trader at a primary dealer required to bid at the auctions.
Qilianshan Cement climbed 4.8 percent to 10.83 yuan, the highest close since Nov. 29. Sichuan Road & Bridge Co. rose 3.9 percent to 7.82 yuan. Xinjiang Korla Pear Co. jumped 5 percent to 9.20 yuan.
The government plans to put 15,000 kilometers (9,323 miles) of new rail lines into service in western China in the five years through 2015, Xinhua reported yesterday, citing a State Council statement. The economies of the western region will expand at a faster pace than the national average in the period ending 2015, according to the statement.
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., Asia's biggest oil refiner, lost 0.7 percent to 7.55 yuan. Crude futures for March delivery, which expire today, advanced as much as $2.20 to $105.44 in intra-day trading, the highest price since May 5.
"Higher international crude prices certainly sparked some concern among investors that Sinopec may face big losses in refining," Shi Yan, a Shanghai-based analyst with UOB-Kay Hian Ltd., said yesterday. "It serves as a reminder on how vulnerable Sinopec is to fluctuations in crude prices."


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Holton, Jackson Named Undergraduate Assistant Coaches
CHARLESTON, S.C. – College of Charleston baseball coach Monte Lee is happy to announce that former players Jimmy Holton and Tyler Jackson will be wearing the maroon and gold in 2014 as undergraduate assistant coaches.
Holton and Jackson continue a proud line of former players who will cut their teeth as assistants while completing their undergraduate degrees at College of Charleston.
"We are excited to bring these guys on to our coaching staff," Lee said. "They exemplified maturity and leadership as student-athletes on the field, and I look forward to them joining us in the dugout."
A native of West Palm Beach, Fla., Holton played three years with CofC after redshirting in 2010. As the team's catcher, he was a part of two NCAA Tournament squads and finished his career with 20 runs scored and 13 RBI. He made 553 putouts behind the plate with 68 career assists for a .989 fielding percentage.
Jackson came to College of Charleston before the 2012 season as a product of Spartanburg Methodist junior college. In two seasons, he totaled 35 RBIs and a sported a .353 slugging percentage as a first baseman and designated hitter, helping CofC to an at-large berth in the 2012 NCAA Tournament. He committed just three errors with 349 putouts for a career fielding percentage of .992.
Holton and Jackson join an experienced coaching staff that all boast professional playing experience in head coach Monte Lee, assistants Matt Heath and Chris Morris and volunteer assistant Brandon Sizemore.
College of Charleston finished second in the Southern Conference last season with an 18-11 conference record, 31-26 overall. The Cougars will return all but two starters to the batting lineup in 2014, including Freshman All-American Carl Wise.


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Tuesday, November 04, 2014
Now the world knows how incompetent the Santa Anita stewards are
Southern California horse players have been aware for years how incompetent and inconsistent the stewards are. Now the whole world knows.If Bayern didn't deserve to be disqualified from his Breeders' Classic win, they might as well adopt the greyhound model and make each race official as soon as the horses cross the wire.
MIAMI, Nov. 4, 2014--Ron Nicoletti, who does the closed circuit handicapping at Gulfstream East and West, likes to joke that he's going to write a book on his bad beats titled, "DQ'ed at the Dog Track."
For those who have never been to the greyhound races, getting taken down would be the ultimate bad beat. Disqualifications are not part of the game. Greyhounds can bite, jump on and knock competitors over the rail with impunity. The order of finish is the official result.
Just like at Santa Anita.
The two worst non-disqualifications I have witnessed in a lifetime at the track both happened at The Great Race Place. Coincidentally, horses trained by Bob Baffert were the beneficiaries in both. (Lest anyone think this is sour grapes, I cashed in both instances.)
One was leaving up Game on Dude in the 2011 Big Cap after Chantal Sutherland allowed her horse to "shift out"—Trevor Denman's words, not mine—and knock Twirling Candy sideways into Setsuko, who recovered to miss by only a nose.
That was the all-time worst in my experience until Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic. There are incidents out of the starting gate, which are generally tolerated, and there is what Martin Garcia did aboard Bayern. Breaking from No. 7, Garcia let (encouraged) Bayern take a sharp left hand turn, which took out half the field. Garcia made no effort to straighten his mount as they made a diagonal beeline toward the rail. This is what separated it from a commonplace incident out of the gate.
Among the most compromised were undefeated Shared Belief and Moreno, who represented a serious pace threat to Bayern. Eric Guillot, the motor-mouth trainer of Moreno, is fond of saying that any horse in front of his colt early is going too fast. Without Moreno to prod him on the front end, Bayern didn't need to worry about going too fast.
And with Shared Belief getting ping-ponged because of what Garcia and Bayern did and, to a lesser extent, eventual place horse Toast of New York blasting him a few strides later, Shared Belief's chances were severely diminished. But the stewards determined none of this figured into the outcome.
Richard Migliore, who has developed into as much a talent analyzing and commenting on races as he was riding in them, was adamant on the Players feed that Bayern had to come down. Like many sweating out the decision, he was astonished when the stewards allowed the finish to stand.
There must be different rules for the fifth race on a Wednesday than there are for the Breeders' Cup, The Mig said. He added the observation that the stewards' non-action might encourage riders to take dangerous liberties out of the gate in the future.
The stewards' explanation was a classic (no pun intended) cover your ass exercise. "When the contact occurred at the start, according to the rules, we thought (Shared Belief) was not cost a better placing," Kim Sawyer said.
Not only was Shared Belief sawed off by Bayern as he was trying to get into stride, he was thwarted again when Toast of New York crossed over and forced him to check. But Sawyer and her cohorts ruled that neither incident cost Shared Belief, who had never had a horse finish in front of him in seven lifetime starts, a better placing.
In a statement released later through the California Horse Racing Board, Sawyer's colleague Scott Chaney doubled down. "The incident occurred in a part of the race where the horses interfered with were not cost the opportunity to place where they were reasonably expected to finish."
Amazing! Less than a furlong into a mile and a quarter race, the stewards knew exactly where every horse was reasonably expected to finish. Chaney stuck to this interpretation in a press conference Sunday.
The incompetence and inconsistency of the Santa Anita stewards has long been a burning issue on the West Coast. Now it has been exposed to the world.
The outcome of stewards' inquiries at Southern California tracks has become the equine equivalent of Las Vegas boxing decisions. Favored sons are treated remarkably well despite what fans see with their own eyes. Is anyone more a favored son of California racing than Baffert?
This is one more reason why anchoring the Breeders' Cup in Southern California should not even be seriously discussed. Inasmuch as the Breeders' Cup will be back in Southern California for at least two more renewals after a detour to Keeneland next fall, it is time to consider a change in the stewards stand for future editions.
Like boxing has started to do, outside judges should be imported, maybe one from the East Coast and another from the South or Midwest to serve with a hometown representative. Divers perspectives might result in more equitable decisions.
As unacceptable as the call by the Santa Anita stewards was, it was even more infuriating that Chaney said the decision was unanimous. Of course it was. These three people spend all day every day with each other. No way are they going to publicly disagree on such a controversial issue.
It would have been close to impossible to randomly pluck any three people from the Santa Anita grandstand or the television audience and get a unanimous decision that Bayern deserved to be left up.
Bayern got the money but he might become collateral damage of the outrageous decision. There were headlines Sunday morning that Bayern had put himself into position to be voted the Eclipse Award as 3-year-old champion.
I doubt it. I'm not sure Bayern would be the favorite for the Eclipse even if he had won on the square. The Classic was his second Grade 1 triumph. California Chrome has three Grade 1's and one of them is the Kentucky Derby, the only event that dwarfs the Classic in prestige and importance.
Throw in the backlash triggered by the way Bayern won and not even the Santa Anita stewards could find a way to put him on top.
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See the new models and concept cars shown off at the 2014 Paris Motor Show.
They're rolling up the carpet here at the 2014 Paris International Auto Show, but before we go hunting for baguettes we took a moment to capture our thoughts and discuss our favorites.
Bringing new meaning to the term flat tire, the Japanese company shows a second-generation prototype of its airless tires at the Paris Motor Show.
Bridgestone is developing tires that use slanted resin spokes instead of a cushion of air to absorb shocks. Here's what the company showed at the Paris Motor Show.
At every international auto show it's the concept cars that add spice to the practical, economical and otherwise dull machines that fill the show floor. Join us for a look at our favorites.
With all the luscious sheet-metal (and carbon fiber) on display on the
show floor this year, it wasn't easy picking favorites. But we
managed. Here are the top 5 concepts from Paris 2014.
At the 2014 Paris Motor Show, Fiat rolled out the 500x compact crossover as an attempt to stretch their brand of '500' vehicles.
Honda used the 2014 Paris Motor Show to debut their new Android-based head-unit called Honda Connect, which allows drivers to install Honda approved apps in the car.
The seasons are changing and so too is the new Audi TT. It's a roadster edition on display at the 2014 Paris Auto Show, and it's already available for order.
VW's XL1 was a 261 mpg hyper-efficient beast, but for the Paris Motor Show, VW is giving it a power boost to create this, the 168 mph XL Sport concept.
At the Paris Motor Show, Citroen made clear its new DS-brand intentions by unveiling the DS Divine concept car, featuring a diamond design theme throughout.
Land Rover says the all-new Discovery Sport heralds a new line of vehicles under the Discovery brand, which may make a more affordable entry point for new Land Rover buyers.
Lamborghini makes their first foray into the world of hybrid supercars with their 910 horsepower plug-in hybrid Asterion which debuted at the 2014 Paris Motor Show


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If you are hiking or camping, especially in areas where hantavirus has been reported, the following recommendations may help you avoid contact with infected rodents:
- Avoid disturbing rodent burrows or rodent dens.
- Do not handle or pet any rodents that you see, even if they appear tame.
- Do not use cabins or other enclosed shelters that are rodent-infested until they have been aired out, cleaned, and disinfected.
- Do not pitch tents or place sleeping bags in areas near rodent droppings, rodent burrows, or possible rodent shelters, such as woodpiles.
- If possible, do not sleep on the bare ground. Use a cot with the sleeping surface at least 12 in. (30.5 cm) above the ground or use tents with floors.
- Keep food in rodent-proof containers.
- Promptly throw away all garbage and trash in covered trash cans. If trash cans are not available, store garbage in a rodent-proof container until you get to a place where you can throw it away safely.
- Use only bottled water or water that has been disinfected by filtering, boiling, chlorination, or iodination for drinking, cooking, washing dishes, and brushing your teeth.
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Lindsay Lohan wants out of rehab.
Well, yeah. They totally won't let her take drugs.
According to TMZ, the 26-year-old is "hellbent on making her escape" from the Betty Ford Center, after the meaniepants doctors there decided she doesn't need Adderall and cut her off. Lohan says she needs the drug for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but doctors at the center evaluated her and believe there are plenty of substitute medications for ADHD that are less addictive than Adderall.
Betty Ford also reportedly doesn't prescribe Adderall to people older than 15, because some people use it to lose weight.
TMZ said Lohan has told friends she wants to go to another facility that will let her take Adderall.
Right. Maybe she can find one that has a happy hour as well.
The only problem is that prosecutors are "unbending," according to TMZ, and won't approve any move.
A source reportedly told TMZ, "She had 45 days to find a suitable place. She didn't listen to her people and just did what she wanted so it's her problem now. Not gonna happen."
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SPRINGFIELD -- Missouri State opened the second half on a 13-6 run and never looked back in a 58-48 win over Air Force at JQH Arena on Saturday in the Mountain West-Missouri Valley Challenge Series.
The Bears trailed 28-27 at the half, but stormed back to tie the game early in the second stanza on a three-pointer by Kyle Weems after the Falcons scored the first basket of the second period. After the fifth tie of the game at the 16:04 mark of the second half, Weems would hit his fifth trey of the game to give the Bears a 37-34 advantage, and Missouri State would never trail again.
Weems' fifth three-pointer matched a career high, while his game-high 19 points helped the Bears improve to 7-0 for the first time since the 1996-97 season.
The Bears would reel off 11 of the game's next 15 points to build a 48-38 lead on a jumper by Jermaine Mallet with 8:49 to go. Adam Leonard would make Missouri State's last two field goals of the night, both three-pointers, down the stretch, and the Bears helped their conference tie the Mountain West-Missouri Valley Challenge Series, two games apiece.
The second half comeback by the Bears followed a valiant run by the Falcons (4-2) who found themselves behind 15-4 less than five minutes into the ball game. Grant Parker paced a feverish comeback by the visitors, finishing the first 20 minutes with 12 points, including 6-of-6 from the free throw line.
AFA's deliberate offense worked to perfection as it outscored Missouri State 24-12 over the final 15:45 of the first half, frequently running the shot clock down to its final ticks before drawing a foul or finding an easy bucket. The Bears were called for 10 of the 13 fouls called in the first half, which led to the Falcons scoring 11 of their 28 first-half points at the line.
Just before the break, the Bears recaptured the lead briefly on a put-back by Michael Porter at the 1:28 mark, but Parker got to the line again before the half to give AFA a brief advantage, 28-27.
However, in the second half, Cuonzo Martin's team stepped up its defensive pressure, forcing 12 turnovers and holding Air Force to just six field goals in the half.
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By Jordan Holland
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Marietta's Jeffrey Hensler chips onto the 9th green at Lakeside Golf Course in Beverly during a prep golf match earlier this season.
Five Marietta High golfers have earned Division I Southeast District honors.
Leading the way for the Tigers was sophomore Jeffrey Hensler. Hensler was named co-District Player of the Year, along with Logan High's Logan Holbrook, in addition to earning first team All-District and All-East Central Ohio League honors.
Hensler posted a team-best 75.25 round average this season.
He was a co-medalist, along with teammate Nick Thieman, at the sectional tournament at Lakeside Golf Course in Beverly and shot 75 at the district tournament at Apple Valley Golf Course, one stroke away from advancing to state.
Thieman, a junior, and senior Nathan Matheny were also named first team All-District, along with Logan's Jacob Barstow and Jackson's Evan Massey.
Matheny, who was also named first team All-ECOL for the second year in a row, led Marietta in greens in regulation and averaged a 77.3 per round score.
Thieman, who in addition to the district honors was named first All-ECOL for the first time, was third on the team with a 79.37 average.
Junior Garrett Bertram received second team All-District recognition along with Logan's Paul Duffy and Jared Walker and Jackson's Cole Massey.
Bertram led the orange and black in fairways hit at 49 percent.
On the honorable mention All-District list was Marietta's Max Fitzgerald, Logan's Hunter Fizer and Jackson's Jared LeMaster.
Fitzgerald averaged a score of 86 per round.
As a team Marietta shot a 304 at Lakeside to claim a sectional championship. The Tigers also won the Waterford Invitational at Lakeside this season by shooting a 299.
The team posted an overall record of 104-48 in 2013, and everyone returns for next season with the exception of Matheny for head coach John Doughty's squad.
Said Doughty, "I'm very pleased. The kids worked really hard this year. It wasn't an easy schedule. We played some very tough schools. It means a lot to have these kids honored. I'm very proud of them."


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Wit, charm, virtuosity, and depth of feeling, adding up to the humanity to which all artists should aspire. A model of virtuosic display. Goluses was dazzling, wrote the New Jersey Star Ledger about Nicholas Goluses, one of Americas most sought-after guitarists. The New York Times wrote: Goluses produced an elegant sound. And the finales, taken dangerously fast, were accurate, transparent, and impressively articulated. Mr. Goluses gave persuasive, energetic readings. The Generalanzeiber (Bonn, Germany), acclaimed: Goluses reached the highest levels of instrumental virtuosity.
One of America's most sought-after guitarists, Nicholas Goluses is Professor of Guitar and director of the guitar programs at the Eastman School of Music, widely recognized as one of the world's premier conservatories and a leading center for guitar study. At Eastman, he received the Eisenhart Award for Excellence, and is currently CoChair of the string department. Mr. Goluses has held the Andrés Segovia Faculty Chair at the Manhattan School of Music, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree, and was the recipient of both the Pablo Casals Award for Musical Accomplishment and Human Endeavor and the Faculty Award of Distinguished Merit. Mr. Goluses is in great demand for master classes at major colleges, universities and conservatories throughout the world. His students have won top prizes in major international guitar competitions such as Darwin (Australia), Allentown, GFA, DAddario, MTNA, Appalachian, Taxco (Mexico), Rantucci, Rosario, Stotsenburg, Paracho (Mexico), and the Aaron Brock Memorial International Competition (Canada). They have won university positions throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Australia and Mexico.
Nicholas Goluses appears in solo performance, as chamber music player and as soloist with orchestras across North and South America, Europe, Australia and the Far East to critical acclaim. He has been a featured artist at numerous international festivals, where Twentieth Century Guitar wrote: Nicholas Goluses is a true American master.
Mr. Goluses has recorded for NAXOS, Albany and BMG, and has received wide critical and audience acclaim for his solo CDs of Sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach and late solo guitar works of Fernando Sor. He enjoys an active association with flutist Bonita Boyd, and their widely praised debut CD for Albany Records features contemporary American music by Joan Tower, Augusta Read Thomas, Katherine Hoover and Roberto Sierra. He has just completed a new recording for Albany with violist George Taylor of works for viola and guitar.
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Requiem for a Cartoon: Wal-Mart to Sell $4 Generic Lamisil
Digger, the repulsive cartoon character at left, has symbolized many things to many people. Today, Wal-Mart may have put the final nail in his coffin by adding the expensive drug he pitched to its list of $4 generics.
Digger sold Lamisil, Novartis's pill for fungal toenail and fingernail infections. For Novartis, he represented the nastiness of a fungal infection under your nail. For the FDA, he showed that drug companies sometimes go too far in their ads. And some health plan officials saw the Digger ads and other Lamisil pitches as revealing the problem with direct-to-consumer drug advertising: They believed he drove consumers to ask their doctor for a pill they really didn't need. And the treatment was expensive — more than $300 a month.
Generic competition for Lamisil started earlier this summer. And prices for a month's supply still seem to vary widely for the generic, terbinafine. The Walgreens Web site lists the price at $261.79. It's $48.99 at drugstore.com and $20.63 at Costco. Wal-Mart's decision to sell the generic for $4 will only hasten the decline of Digger (and sales of the branded drug he represents).
The addition is also significant because the company's much-hyped rollout of $4 generics last year included mostly old drugs that were already pretty cheap. Wal-Mart didn't hesitate to point out that newly expanded $4 list it announced today includes newer drugs such as Lamisil and Coreg, a GlaxoSmithKline heart drug that went generic earlier this month.
Bonus bargain: Wal-Mart also said it's lowering the cost certain birth-control pills to $9.


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How a Higher-Priced Netflix Stacks Up
Netflix said it plans to increase its U.S. prices in the current quarter by $1 or $2 for new members. Other countries also could see increases, Netflix said in its letter to shareholders. The video-streaming company, which carries its own popular shows such as "House of Cards" and "Orange Is the New Black," last tried to raise prices in 2011 at the same time it sought to separate its DVD and streaming businesses. That move didn't go over well with customers.
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Is My Subscriber Price Going Up?
But if you are an existing subscriber, the increase won't happen immediately. Netflix said current members will be "grandfathered" — locked in — at their current prices "for a generous time period." It just didn't say how long is "generous." In Ireland, where Netflix raised prices in January by €1, existing members were locked in at the lower price for two years.
If you are on the fence about subscribing, now is the time to get in at the lower price. (Undoubtedly, that's part strategy. When Amazon raised prices for its Prime service, the retailer gave people a short window of time to lock in the lower subscription price, replete with a countdown timer on its website.)
Which Plans Get the Increase?
The increase is $1 or $2 a month, and that's where the specifics end.
Currently, Netflix's standard plan offers unlimited movies and TV episodes–commercial-free–for $7.99 a month and allows members to access the service from two screens simultaneously. The "family plan" allows members to stream services simultaneously from four devices for $11.99 a month. Members also can add an unlimited DVD rental plan for an extra $7.99 a month.
Which plans specifically see the price increase — that we don't know.
Why Raise Prices Now?
Netflix said much of the revenue generated from the higher prices would go toward paying for content. In recent years, Netflix has had to pay more for its content, either for the programs it creates like "House of Cards" or the stuff it buys from other creators. Netflix primed the pump on this price increase when it announced results in the prior quarter.
In a report published last week, Pacific Crest Securities said Netflix has a lot of wiggle room in price-setting when comparing the hours viewed to the average cost of traditional pay-TV packages. The average Netflix customer pays about 16 cents an hour, while the average pay-TV viewer pays 50 cents an hour. "We believe this creates tremendous latent pricing power in Netflix's model," the analysts said, estimating a $1 increase in average revenue per user would raise 2016 domestic operating profit by 84% to $1.61 billion.
Wall Street seems to agree. Netflix rose 6.5% in after-hours trading.
How Does Netflix Stack Up Now Against the Competition
Amazon last month increased the price of Prime, which is a shipping and streaming-video service, by 25% to $99 a year, or $8.25 a month. Existing Prime members were grandfathered until they renew their contracts.
The price increase, the Journal reported at the time, puts Prime at 26 cents more a month than Netflix's current streaming service. But that includes free two-day shipping on many Amazon purchases. Amazon also is considering a streaming music service connected to Prime, people briefed on those discussions said.
Hulu Plus, a smaller streaming-video rival, is currently priced at $7.99 a month.
Since Netflix carries exclusive content, it routinely refers to itself as a rival of HBO, a premium cable channel where prices and packages vary. On Optimum, for example, HBO itself costs around $15 a month while the HBO On Demand channel is an additional $5. The HBO Go service for streaming video on apps and a Web browser is free for HBO subscribers.
-John Kell contributed to this article


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The Suharto Empire
Can the family's big-business deals survive after the President is gone?
For Bambang Trihatmodjo, it was another triumph. Jaws clenched and eyes locked in a fierce gaze, the 43-year-old son of President Suharto was a picture of power, bathed in camera flashes in the Jakarta Convention Center ballroom. On stage, an emcee introduced government ministers and Hyundai Motors Co. executives, who heaped praise on each other. The occasion was the launch of a $1 billion passenger-car venture between Hyundai and Bambang's Bimantara Group.
As he watched the proceedings, Terry J. Emrick was sullen. A few months before, as Ford Motor Co.'s executive vice-president for Indonesia, Emrick had expected to be launching a new car himself that evening. But instead, Suharto was, again, letting one of his sons launch a sweetheart deal that stacked the deck against other foreign carmakers. So Ford has halted plans to build Escorts in Indonesia. Says Emrick: "We never believed this could happen."
It's yet another case of special privilege. The six Suharto children, along with a few sons-in-law, grandsons, and other relatives, have come to dominate industry in one of the world's biggest and fastest-growing markets. In the Indonesian version of Camelot, it is well-nigh impossible to get a deal done without a Suharto clan member as ally, agent, or partner. Refusing to cut the Suharto clan into the action means U.S., Japanese, European, and other companies lose out on opportunities in telecommunications, power plants, finance, and automobiles. Says one foreign executive with a big investment in Indonesia: "Without them, you wouldn't have a project. It's as simple as that."
LOOSER GRIP. The fat years, however, may be drawing to a close. Suharto, 75, is said to be in ill health since the death in April of his wife and confidante, Tien. But even if Suharto endures, recent political upheavals in support of opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri have sent him a message: Indonesia's political transition may not be smooth.
Suharto, who has ruled with an iron fist since 1966, has yet to designate a successor, and no one child has the clout to inherit his political mantle. "[The transition] could be a disaster because the government is totally centered around one man," says Hilman Adil, director of the Center for Social & Cultural Studies, a government think tank. "Nobody knows what they're going to do after Suharto is not here anymore."
That spells risk not only for his children but also for the foreign companies that have insinuated themselves into the Suharto business empire. Over the past five years, companies such as Lucent Technologies, Hughes, NEC, Sumitomo, British Petroleum, Deutsche Telekom, and Siemens have forged joint ventures with sons Bambang and Hutomo Mandala Putra (known as "Tommy") and daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana ("Tutut") (table). The empire, estimated conservatively at $4 billion, nears that of the fortune amassed by former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. The Suharto children declined requests for interviews.
One of the most important guessing games in Asia these days is: Which children and their partners are best positioned for the post-Suharto era? Most analysts predict that any successor will be wary of disrupting Indonesia's economy. Should a future President seek to dismantle the Suharto empire, an all-out witch-hunt would be too destabilizing: Practically every big businessman, military leader, or politician has benefited.
But there could be some losers, particularly if outrage is turned against the Suharto family. Controversial petrochemical deals and the auto projects involving Suharto's sons are the most likely First-Family ventures to be dismantled. Suharto offspring who don't find the right allies in the military could also be exposed. Megawati and her supporters have threatened to break up monopolies and take away the family's privileges.
The big question is whether multinationals will get swept up in retribution. Even if the children are forced to disgorge a portion of their assets, most analysts think foreign companies' interests might not be touched. For one thing, there is a feeling that multinationals had no alternative to collaborating with the Suhartos. And unless there are disclosures of outright bribery or fraud, overturning joint-venture contracts would be difficult because they are legally binding. "The next government may want to redistribute family equity to other investors, but it still must follow international rules," says Jakarta consultant Christianto Wibisono.
Thus, for the Suharto offspring and other relatives, a painful transition seems to be looming. Even if Suharto stays healthy enough to set up a successor who will protect the family's business interests, his family is likely to lose perks such as ready access to investment licenses, cheap credit from government banks, the ability to acquire the assets of state-owned enterprises at below-market prices, and first dibs on franchises to operate everything from telecoms to toll roads--all without competitive bidding.
Members of Indonesia's First Family are already scrambling to withstand a transition. To improve their chances, they are turning management over to professionals and tapping capital markets. Last year, Bambang listed his 27-unit Bimantara Citra, a holding company with interests in cars, telecoms, infrastructure, and broadcasting, on the Jakarta Stock Exchange. So did Citra Marga Nusaphala Persada, the $65 million operator of toll roads controlled by Tutut. Says Dorodjatun Kuntjoro-Jakti, economics dean at the University of Indonesia: "The First Family businesses are being forced into the open."
STRANGLEHOLD. For more than a decade, Indonesian technocrats and the World Bank have complained that the family's monopolies and subsidies have driven up commodity prices. In the '70s and '80s, Suharto's sons Sigit Harjoyudanto, 45, Bambang, Tommy, and other relatives made their first millions by teaming up with powerful ethnic-Chinese tycoons to become sole distributors of steel, plastics, petrochemicals, and foodstuffs sold in Indonesia.
Then they started using their pull to secure investment licenses and infrastructure franchises. They also piled up wealth by acting as agents for General Dynamics fighter jets, Motorola communications systems, Rolls-Royce engines, and Hughes satellites. Because Suharto approves each investment personally, and since many officials--from ministers to heads of state companies--have lost their jobs by refusing a family request, ramming projects through the bureaucracy has been easy.
They parlayed their relationships into equity stakes in big joint ventures, in most cases without using their own money. In a typical family project, the capital comes from foreign partners and state banks. The children's share, usually 20% of equity, is counted as "goodwill"--or as a loan that is paid off after the project starts earning profits.
Take the government's 1989 decision to allow foreign companies to add new phone lines in Jakarta. One contract went to NEC and Sumitomo, which were tied up with Tommy. Switch manufacturing contracts went to a joint venture with NEC and a second tie-up between AT&T and Tutut. Although Tutut is the chairwoman and has a 25% stake in the venture, now affiliated with AT&T spin-off company Lucent, she is not active in management and has contributed no capital, according to a source close to the deal. Lucent officials were not available for comment.
PROTECTION. Having a government official's children as deal partners isn't illegal under U.S. law. In some cases, the children bring real value. Hughes, for example, has a 10% stake in a satellite-communications venture with Bambang, called Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN), and sells satellites to another Bambang-linked company, Satelit Palapa Indonesia (Satelindo). "We have no problem operating in that mode," says George A. Tadler, vice-president for Indonesian business development at Hughes Space & Communications International Inc. "It isn't bad to have a President's son as partner."
But in other cases, a clan member merely lends protection to a deal. Consider the construction of the $2.5 billion Paiton power plant. One of the partners with General Electric Co. and Edison Mission Energy Co. is coal supplier Batu Hitam Perkasa, which has a 15% stake. Shareholders of the coal supplier include daughter Siti Hedijati Hariyadi ("Titiek") and her brother-in-law Hashim Djojohadikusmo. In turn, Batu Hitam owns 15% of the plant but didn't put in its own capital. Instead, its share of the equity in Paiton is a loan to be repaid from profits. "In Indonesia, how the practice usually works is you lend the Indonesians their equity," says an investor close to the deal. "That of course raises the cost." GE and Edison officials say they are small participants and the financing is above-board.
The frustrations of operating without powerful connections were driven home to executives of Salomon Brothers Inc. They're convinced they failed to win a 1995 deal to underwrite the $1.7 billion listing of the government-owned phone giant, Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom), because they tried to go it alone. Foreign brokers who participated in the bidding say the criteria were mystifying until a group of Wall Street banks led by Merrill Lynch & Co. won. It just so happened that Merrill Lynch was negotiating a joint venture with a company owned by Hashim and Titiek. "Salomon Brothers and the other [losing] brokerages were naive," recalls Gunawan Jusuf, managing director of the Makindo brokerage house. "They didn't think they had to bother building up solid relationships with local partners." Morgan Stanley & Co., which was negotiating a joint venture with Tutut-affiliated Makindo, got second prize by being named adviser to Telkom.
SHAPING UP. Morgan Stanley doesn't deny that Tutut's name improves its chances in business. But its executives insist there are more reasons than just the name. "Makindo is the prime joint-venture opportunity in investment banking," says Ronald G. Felt, Morgan Stanley's executive director for Indonesia. "Everyone else is second-tier." Besides, Tutut isn't getting something for nothing, say sources familiar with the deal: She agreed to invest $1 million in cash for her share of the joint venture's $5 million equity. Merrill Lynch says a joint venture was required by Indonesian law.
Of all the children's companies, the one most recognized for professionalizing itself is Bambang's Bimantara. This year, profits are expected to rise 27%, to $65 million, on sales of $377 million. Management denies it has gotten a free ride on Bambang's ties. Finance Director A. Kadir Assegaf says the company has assets worth $3.3 billion and "plenty of cash flow." Says Assegaf: "After Mr. Suharto is no longer President, we can prove we are like any other private company."
The question for foreign investors involved in all these deals is how to navigate their way through the transition, especially if the turmoil in Jakarta's streets escalates. "If companies are seen to be contributing to the corruption in this country, they will be held liable," warns Laksamana Sukardi, a consultant who supports opposition leader Megawati.
It's a process that has already played out across Asia, where sudden changes of governments have led to the undoing of big-ticket deals ranging from nuclear plants and F-16 jet fighters to mass-transit systems. As Suharto takes ever harsher measures to control the frustrations spilling out into Jakarta's streets, domestic and foreign businessmen alike may start reassessing the stability they had long taken for granted.


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Ben also shows how to obtain accurate color balance in tungsten and fluorescent lighting situations, and how to postprocess the images in Photoshop to remove noise caused by higher ISO settings. He also demonstrates accessories that can greatly expand your low-light photography options.
- Understanding how low light affects exposure, shutter speed, color temperature, and more
- Preparing for a low-light shoot
- Shooting in dimly lit rooms
- Using the flash indoors
- Shooting in the shade
- Taking flash portraits at night
- Controlling flash color temperature
- Focusing in low light
- Light painting
- Manipulating long shutter speeds
- Correcting white balance
- Brightening shadows
- Sharpening and noise reduction
Skill Level Intermediate
(laughter and cross talk) Steve's out there shooting again. I'm in here snacking. There's a problem we haven't addressed yet though, and that's white balance. White balance, as I mentioned earlier, is always really an issue when you're in low light because everything turns a lot more red. Steve and I are taking different white-balance strategies. He's gone out and is trying a manual white-balance strategy, and I've decided to simply ignore white balance all together. I'm shooting RAW and so I know that I'm going to be able to change my white balance after the fact.
So--and I wasn't just looking for more food here-- I was looking for my white balance card. What I'm going to do is go out there and put my white balance card in there somewhere and take a picture of it and then take it away, and then I know that later I'll be able to use this as a reference to correct all of the white balance in my image. So we're going to shoot some images and then talk about it and see what strategy works better. Chris could you hold my white balance card? Thank you.
Steve might be doing manual white balance, but I'm doing this much fancier white- balance-card-based thing. What I'll do with that is be able to sample that with the white balance dropper in my RAW converter later and then apply that white balance to a bunch of images. So that'll give me a real accurate white balance, but it's going to be an extra step in my image editing process. If I needed to get these images out of the camera and delivered really quickly, that might be not be so practical. (cross talk) Okay Steve, I have explained to them already that obviously in low light we need to worry about white balance and that you and I took very different strategies.
Steve: Yes, we did. Ben: You went all manual on me. Steve: I did go on manual. This is a little a trick. I don't even know where I learnt it, but it's very effective, because I actually selected white balance, the color temperature, and I did kind of a custom white balance, not officially, but by using the live view, the camera's live view function. I'll show you what I did. I basically activated live view, so you get a view of the table. You can see the color is not very good here. Ben: There's a red shift that you usually get in low light. Steve: You really do. So in order to figure out what the most natural rendition is going to be visually, just using my eye in live view, I press and hold the white balance. And by turning the front dial, you can see I'm changing the white balance, and you can see the scene shifting in color until it becomes kind of natural-looking.
I like to go too far back and then come back and see what looks good. And this gets me really close, just by eyeballing the white balance. Though in RAW, of course, we can seamlessly correct without any real repercussions, I find it's easier to get those skin tones when you get the white balance right out of the box a little closer. Ben: A little closer, right. It can be difficult when things are shifted really far to the red, even if you're trying to manually correct it in RAW. You've got so far to go, it's hard to even have a reference point. So that is a very nice way of ball-parking it.
It's not super accurate, but it's certainly better than starting with a really red image. Steve: Absolutely. Ben: White balance is a critical choice to make though, when you come into low light. If you're shooting JPEG, you absolutely have to think about white balance. You've got to get it right in camera because that's going to be very difficult to correct later if you got a JPEG image, because you can't actually just alter that white balance.


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