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My Natural Unmedicated Homebirth Story!
I'm not sure where to start this story. I guess we'll start around 38 weeks when I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. This happened with the twins as well, but a lot earlier, I was happy to have made it so far! Katharine (OB) sent me for a NST, BPP, and labs and we were happy to see that everything was perfect, just Pregnancy Induced Hypertension again. The scary part was our little man had flipped from his vertex position to breech! We spent a week visualizing him flipping and researching breech births, as our plan was to move forward with a natural unmedicated childbirth, although we were discussing perhaps having him in the hospital rather than the "homebirth" we were planning. At 39 weeks I went for another NST, BPP, and labs and was immediately relieved to find out he was back in the vertex position and getting ready to meet the world. At Katharine's encouragement Dan and I began doing some gentle home induction techniques. Lots of visualization, red raspberry leaf tea, walking, bouncing on my yoga ball, etc. My due date came and went and I was admittedly getting slightly frustrated. I had my bloody show on my due date, but it didn't seem like anything was progressing otherwise. I was tired of being pregnant and I was ready to meet my son!
On Tuesday November 27 (two days after my official due date), I woke up around 4am to a rush. Assuming it would go away like it usually did, I got back in bed to another one. I started to time them, and found they were coming about every 5 minutes, and lasted about 30-45 seconds each. After about an hour I nervously woke Dan up to help calm my nerves. He called into work, we ate some waffles, and he helped me time the rushes. Sitting in the living room I found myself falling asleep watching a Scrubs rerun, so Dan suggested we go back to bed until it would be a decent hour to call Katharine. I think at this point neither of us felt like it was the real thing.
We woke up a little after 8 and I had an email from Katharine that she wanted to discuss possibly inducing at my appointment later that evening. She was concerned about my blood pressure, and felt it would be best for the baby to born. I replied to the email that I thought I might be in labor, and was planning to call her anyway. She was very excited to say the least (she is as anti-induction as I am!), and told me to stop by her office anytime and she would check me and we could form a gameplan.
So with that, Dan and I showered and got the boys dressed, and headed to my moms to pick her up so she could babysit the boys. On the way we stopped for a bagel at Tim Hortons and this was the first point where I felt truly uncomfortable and it hit me that this just may be real. We were in the drive thru lane and I felt slightly panicky that we were 'trapped', but Dan assured me that if need be he could drive over the median and we could 'escape'! En route to my moms I experienced three rushes, all of which were uncomfortable mainly because I wanted to badly to stand up and just couldn't. I imagine I was a sight to see half sitting, trying to stretch my legs into a different position! After dropping off my mom and the boys at the house we headed to Katharine's, and again, I was uncomfortable mainly because of the position the car forced me to be in. Poor Dan was apologizing with every bump we hit!
Once we got to Katharine's we got into the exam room quickly and she came in, "Let's have a baby today!" She was so excited, it was hard to not get excited with her, although I was suddenly terrified and questioning my entire birthplan! She check me and confirmed that I was indeed in labor - I was 70% effaced, 4-5cm dialated, and -1 station. While she was checking me I had a rush and all I can say it that it was one of the few moments I can actually describe as painful from that day. Knowing my 'me do it' personality, Katharine always gives me both sides of a coin, and lets me decide how it lands. She gave me the choice of heading to Eileen's, or to the hospital. We considered our options briefly and decided to move forward with the 'homebirth' - assuming if the need arose, it would be easier to transfer to a hospital than go the other direction. So off to Eileen's we headed, possibly on the bumpiest road in town! Since 8am I had been keeping in touch with my close friend and acting doula, Sigrid, and she was preparing to head to Eileen's to meet us. It was really happening!
Once at Eileen's we were ushered in by her receptionist, and in making small talk she mentioned that when Katharine called to let them know I was headed over she said that I "was 5cm, but not acting like it". I briefly wondered to myself what I should be acting like? We settled into the birthing room and Dan and I joked about how it was nicer than a lot of hotels we had stayed in! The next hour was somewhat awkward for us, as we weren't quite sure what to do. In between rushes, we just sat on the edge of the bed, played on our phones, and...waited. I wanted badly to lay down and rest, but inevitably if I layed down a rush would begin and I would have to stand. For the majority of my labor, I simply had to stand to get through the rushes. Each time I would lean on Dan with my arms on his shoulders, mouth open, hands open, quietly chanting "open" to myself. Dan would whisper in my ear reminding me to relax certain body parts, helping me visualize different things like waves, and reminding me that would be meeting our son soon. As soon as a rush ended I would step back and Dan and I would kiss and then high-five. We got through another one! The only time any of it seemed unmanageable is when I would try to not stand for them. Occasionally I would try to see if sitting would work, and nope, not a chance.
Eileen arrived, then Katharine, and finally Sigrid. My full birthing team was assembled! Things moved rapidly, although at the time it didn't feel like it. I wasn't sure how to act with the 'spotlight' on me, and I felt guilty anytime I had to stop talking to stand with Dan for a rush. After a while I started to feel shaky and realized I hadn't really eaten anything since the bagel in the morning, and it was now 3pm. Sigrid heated up some spaghetti carabona we brought (lots of protein!), and I started to eat it. It was surreal to be sitting in Eileen's kitchen with my team just chatting, getting up now and then to sway with Dan. At some point while eating I realized that rushes were changing. I could feel them in my lower back now and suddenly I didn't want to stand, I wanted to be squatting. Such a change! But with Sigrid doing counter pressure on my back, I really felt I could handle them. With this change Katharine decided it was time for me to get my antibiotics (I was found to be GBS+), and she quickly inserted the IV, let the drugs fly in, and the IV was out all in less than five minutes.
Sigrid was talking with Katharine and Eileen, so I went back to the birthing room to be with Dan (he has a needle thing, so he left during the IV), and I had a mini freak out session. The rushes had changed, this was all very real, and Katharine thought I would be delivering soon. She had told me she wanted the antibiotics in my system for at least two hours, but no more than four, so I wouldn't have to get a second dose. The reality that she thought I would be holding my baby within four hours scared me.
Dan always said that with the twins' labor I turned into "Zombie Meg" as he called me. I think somewhere around here is when I started feeling zombie like! I was overwhelmed with emotion, and inbetween rushes I would just look at Dan and start crying, softly telling him that I wanted to go home now, and I wanted to be done. He would just gently remind me how close we were to meeting our son, and how great I was doing. I started not wanting to be touched and I just wanted to lay my head on the cool tile of the tub in the bathroom. Somewhere around here I started vocalizing during the rushes. I felt very much not like me, like I was a character in a show who was in labor. I overheard Katharine tell Eileen (or maybe Eileen told Katharine?) that the noises I was making meant I was very close. I felt such relief this time hearing that.
I wanted to sit on the toilet because I felt like my water was going to break any moment, and I kept thinking that it would be so much easier to clean up if I was on the toilet. At one point I even told Katharine that my water would break soon. During one rush I can remember the feeling - it was as though I could feel a pulsing between legs. I told Sigrid that I felt pushy, and I didn't know how long I could hold it. I was so afraid of pushing too soon, and I just kept waiting for my water to break. Katharine told me it was okay to push if I felt like it, but she suggested it might be a good time to take off my pajama bottoms. Dan left to get me a teeshirt to change into, and I looked at Katharine and said "We keep meeting like this", thinking of how I nearly delivered Maxwell in the bathroom in the hospital nearly two years ago.
I changed into Dan's shirt and sat on the toilet, and with the next rush I started trying to push. It didn't last long, but it was enough to get me quite riled up and I peeled off my shirt and socks and now sat naked on the toilet, apologizing to Sigrid "sorry I'm naked!" She assured me she had seen it all before! With each rush I tried to stand, realized it wouldn't work, and sat back down. Suddenly I could feel him crowning. I knew the feeling so well, although I hadn't felt it since Max, I just knew it. I told Katherine "He's right there, I KNOW he is, he's right there". She confirmed what I knew, and they asked me if I could get to the birthing stool in the other room, since space wasn't a luxury in the bathroom.
I moved to the other room and just stood there staring at the stool for a moment. I understood how it worked, but somehow my mind and body didn't feel connected for the briefest moment, and I just stood there. After what felt like an eternity, I sat down, and leaned against Dan who was on the bed. I was sure the whole time I was between his legs, but he says he was next to me and I was just leaning on him. Either way, I was supported by him and with my next rush I pushed with all I had in me. I was ready to meet my baby! I felt him come just little when the rush passed, and Katharine placed a warm washcloth with olive oil on my stretched skin and it was like the sweetest relief. I was so thirsty at this point, and I really wanted to take a break and chug some juice, but I was just as happy with the water they brought quickly to me. I could feel him regressing, and I said "He's going back in, I don't want him to go back in!" Finally I pushed one last time with all my might and I could feel his head come all the way out. Katharine told me to wait a moment, and I responded "I can't!" and with that, his body was out, and Phoenix Euan was born. "Hold your baby!" Katharine encouraged as she put the slippery baby on my chest. "I can't, I can't, I'm shaking, I'll drop him" "No you won't, we'll help". It was 5:25pm - 13 hours after I felt my first rush, and barely 2 hours after I received my antibiotics. Katherine told me sweetly that he had been born en caul, my water sac broke with his body. So all my fears about passing the GBS+ onto him were moot. Such a relief to not have to worry about it! Five minutes and one slight push my placenta came out and I was done. It felt so so so good.
Sitting on the bed, holding my sweet boy, giving him his first hour of kangaroo care and letting him learn to nurse, Dan presented me with a surprise I know I will cherish - he got the entire thing on video. I will forever be able to remember what Phoenix's first cries sounded like. I had no idea he had his phone out to record, but he did! Katharine and Sigrid kept commenting on how calm and content he seemed, and I really have to agree. After an hour Katharine and Eileen measured and weighed him - 6lbs14oz and 18.5in long. He seemed so small, but yet a whole 2lbs bigger than the twins had been! After just three hours, I had eaten again, used the bathroom, and nursed. It was time to go home!
Overall I have to say I don't think this experience could have been better. I was left to labor as I needed, I was checked via doppler every hour or so, but that was all the monitoring I had. I was only checked once for dilation. I ate and drank at my will, and had a calm and peaceful birth was lights down low, music on, and candles lit. Exactly as I had hoped! I am still so blissed out by the entire experience!
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It was another rollercoaster 24 hours over at Dewey & LeBoeuf, the beleaguered New York law firm whose struggles amid a stream of partner exits and looming deadlines with creditors have made national headlines.
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On Monday night, following the departure of at least 11 partners to rival firms, Dewey leaders sent out a memo to partners advising them to seek positions elsewhere, even as the firm continues to pursue "potentential transactions" such as mergers or transfers of Dewey lawyers to other firms.
Tuesday, Dewey lawyers describe the scene at the firm's New York headquarters as "chaos" as attorneys boxed up their offices and backup up emails and contacts. A firm spokesman said "there are no plans for the firm to file bankruptcy." Still, hundreds of jobs remain in the balance.
Some junior lawyers learned their health coverage had been cancelled due to what the insurer said was nonpayment by the firm. A memo from leadership said it was a temporary suspension and that coverage would be restored.
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We Laugh, We Cry, We Cook: A Mom and Daughter Dish about the Food That Delights Them and the Love That Binds ThemBecky Johnson, Rachel Randolph
Becky Johnson and her daughter Rachel Randolph come from a long line of laughter. The female side of her family tree is dotted with funny storytellers, prolific authors, hospitable home cooks, and champion chatters. In We Love, We Laugh, We Cook, Becky---a butter and bacon l... Read More
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I had thought this was going to be a cookbook, and though it does have some recipes, mostly it is a book about mother and daughter team, Becky Johnson and Rachel Randolph.
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Coming this spring from Cryptozoic Entertainment, World of Warcraft: Clash of Champions is 423 cards worth of tabletop raiding fun for two to four players in one sexy $45 box.
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He supposed to make for our Company a Booking Portal, for which we was waiting over 7 month without any result and did also not get our upfront Payment returned to us. He kept us waiting with the work and we could not run the Business, as we where waiting for the Website, which was not made at all. The company could not run its Business, as Network one and Mr Tony O'Connell did not make the job, which supposed to be done within 30 days after receiving the Payment from us.
Because of mr Tony O'Connell we have lost 7 month of the Business, which we were not able to run without the website. and we have an estimated loss of about 25.000 Euro of Business and had to cover meanwhile the companies expenses. [continued below]....
We was at the Police station for Reporting this Person, but the Police could not do anything, because mr Tony O'Connell was not in the Country anymore, as he has left Thailand, because he was afraid of the Punishment by the Thai Law. Now, the Police is searching Mr Tony O'Connell in Thailand but because he ran off, The Police can't get him outside of the Country.
We recommend everyone with being careful with this Person/Company. He is a Thief and done this also to other Business People here in Thailand.
Also other People would like to punish this Person without involving the Officials, as he upset some good People.
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"History and fiction"
An absolutely beautiful combination if fiction and history, it is beyond entertaining, especially for those interested in world history. Loved it.
"Follet, good as always..."
yes, Follet writes amazing stories...
Ethel, because of the causes she defends and how she does it.
"Epic Saga"
This is another great epic saga from Ken Follett. As usual, he has done a superb job of researching his subject matter, and he brings to life the lives of five different intertwined families around the time of the First World war.
The character depictions are done well, and John Lee is a great narrator who has an excellent command of dialects and voices. His American accents are less convincing than his English. Welsh, Russian and German accents, but that's only a very minor flaw.
Follett manages to bring to life all of the political and social issues without being pedantic or overbearing. All the characters are related to one another by six degrees of separation, and there are some very satisfyingplot turns.
This is a book which engages the mind and the heart. It's as rich and satisfying as a seven-course meal.
"Great listen!"
I love the story. Ken Follett does a great job of connecting the characters in ways you would not immediately assume. The story has a lot of characters but it is necessary in a book of this length.
I love how he changes his voice for different characters. It makes the book more interesting to listen too.
No, the book is much to lengthy to listen to in one sitting. Personally, I like that. It is great for runners or for a long car ride!
I have to say that even though the story is compelling the narrator makes the whole experience. He is incredibly talented. There is no way I would have enjoyed this book as much if I read it and only had my own voice in my head. I will seek out books from now on that are narrated by this man.
"Very interesting story. Looking forward to Part 2"
I love stories that can bring actual history to life. This one does exactly that. This is an era of history which I studied very little about in college and it was fascinating to watch it develop.
Billy Twice (William Williams). Because he is demonstrates such good judgement and because he is a man of his convictions.
Never before, but John Lee did an incredible job with a very complex set of characters. His dialect and accents covered British aristocracy, cockney, Welsh, Russian, German, French, and American. All brought the characters to life. Masterful.
"Excellent historically novel"
One of the best I listen to thus far
Winter of the world, writen by the same author
The emotions of characters come across and move you.
The first world war comes to life like never before.
I loved this book, it gave me more information on life during this important time than I have ever found elsewhere.
Love, Pride, and Injustice
Characters are colorful, story is captivating. One of the books that you just can't put away until you are done. Writer creatively transitions from one part of the world to other, keeping all characters intertwined with their complicated lives. None of the leading characters are "just bad" or "just good", which makes them more believable. The imaginary characters fit in so well with real people, events, and places. While you are drawn into love stories and hardships and victories of people of those times, you are also getting a good refresher lesson on WWI events.
John Lee is an excellent story teller, pausing and speeding up in the right places. You don't get tired of listening to him!
One thing that I found irritating was his imitation of Russian or German accents in English, while the characters theoretically were speaking in their native language to each other. Russians in Russia would not be speaking to each other in English (except for very few instances in the whole book), therefore, narrator's accents sound mocking. On other hand, using thick accents while narrating dialogues among Welsh gives the story more credibility.
"Long but worth it"
All the information about the beginning of WW1, negotiations, progress of the war, resolution and development of Soviet Russia.
Can't pick. Both Ethel and Maud together were great. They were form 2 different classes in England and yet their lives became very intertwined. They were both very strong women and involved in women's suffrage together. They were the center of the book. Although for a male character, I like Gregori in Russia. All three of these people's lives changed significantly from before the war until it's end.They carried the story for me.
Gregori. He got the accent down pretty well. Also he did all of the American accents particularly well given that I think he's English.
The fight over no man's land. Thanks to the author, I got to see both the German and English point of view. His depiction of this heartbreaking conflict was particularly poignant .
This book was very compelling with good character development, plotting, weaving of character throughout the book. It's long, but listening went fast. I never finished my book group read because I was too involved with Fall of the Giants. This is a much better book than Pillars of the Earth.
"Learned more about WW1 than I ever knew..loved it"
So much information and the characters were so real.
Ken Follett's books are in a class by themselves.
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Prep 30 mins
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This came from a long time friend. My dad, who doesn't like apple pie, likes this one. I will warn you, it's VERY sweet. I have cut the sugar. Please feel free to do so as well.
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- 1 pie crust, I use store bought
Pie filling
- 6 cups tart apples, peeled and sliced
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 3⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 cup butter, cold
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup flour
- Place crust in an 8 inch pie plate.
- To mix the topping ingredients together, combine flour and brown sugar. Cut in the butter using a pastry blender, two forks or food processer. Set aside.
- Mix sugar and cinnamon. Mix with the apples. Place apples in the crust.
- Sprinkle the topping over the apples.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 50 minutes or until apples are tender.
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Makes for an awesome apple pie! Have been making desserts for the freezer with my fall apples, this one a real winner. Made one using my pie crust Pastry Dough (Madam Benoit's No Fail Lemon Tang Pastry) - not having time to make more pastry I choose to make the second pie using Andypandy's Tart Pastry Press In the Pan. Both pies were absolutely delicious. I have always thought the apples one uses allows for just how much sugar one needs to add - I used a touch over 1/2 cup for the pie filling which for my apples is just right for us. Made this in my large deep dish pie plates. Upon sampling had to whisk them to the freezer or we would have emptied the pan! Thank you for sharing - gives me a lovely new dessert to serve to family and friends.
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I don't want the product anymore. I haven't for years. My children are too old for their cartoony representation of the Gospel. And frankly, some of it is doctrinely incorrect.
I am a slave to a company that I have to pay no matter what...or they take me to court...and still receive product that I no longer want. And I thought this country outlawed slavery a long time ago.
I am appalled at the business practices of this company that purports upholding and practicing Christian values. They send college students that purposefully neglect to tell you the actual truth when you sign your name to your "subscription"...and that is what the reps call it-a subscription. NOT a contract. And they mislead you into thinking that you can end your subscription at any time and not have to continue to pay for crap you don't want anymore. Shame on them.
So be smart and DO NOT EVER get living scriptures....and don't you dare sign anything.
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Sample Turkish-Mediterranean cuisine, see cultural exhibits, folk dances, live music, arts and crafts and more.
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Saturday, May 7: OutSpoken Queer Poetry
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The slam is open to self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and queer-questioning poets. Featuring Queer Xicana poet, Tannia Esparza. Hosted by Erin Northern.
The Daily Word in Millennials, Art and David Cameron
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I don't know why anyone is surprised that Beyonce performed in North Carolina when she's kind of ignored the LGBT community in the past.
People will no longer be jailed if they aren't able to pay court fines in Colorado Springs.
Millennials are so _________.
"By white men, for white men."
If you don a sombrero, a fake mustache or utter "Cinco de Drinko" today (or ever) please don't talk to me.
This doctor said the hospital she works at told her not to talk about abortions with her patients.
This feminist artist makes jabs at famous artists.
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Saturday, Apr 30: Rezilience Indigenous Arts Experience
By Maggie Grimason [ Thu Apr 28 2016 10:00 AM ]
Learn about Indigenous art processes. More than 60 Indigenous artists and art-related professionals representing the US, Canada and Latin America participate.
The Daily Word in Star Wars, Solar Power and Oddball Imagery
By Monica Schmitt [ Tue Apr 26 2016 12:36 PM ]
Not all Internet-born relationships are doomed. If you're as lucky as this surreal pair of artists you'll find a brain as bizarre as yours. Love awaits in strange photo ops involving distortion and creepy props. Compatibility at its finest.
How does one accidentally run a half-marathon? Ask this 12-year-old.
Ever seen Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds? Fictional, right? That's what I thought, too, but don't be fooled. Behind the beady black eyes of ravens and crows are brains just as clever as chimpanzees'. I'm not saying they're planning an attack but be prepared.
One thing that Donald Trump is exceptionally good at? Playing the victim.
Thousands of animals lovers sign a petition to ban tourists riding elephants after one in Cambodia falls to his death.
A team of 5 and 6-year-olds takes home a trophy taller than themselves for winning a competitive chess competition.
I guess a bad economy (not, I don't know, slowly killing the planet) is justifiable reason for workers to quit pumping oil and switch to working with renewable resources.
Internet conspiracies are abuzz, but all we can do is wait. The only certainty: Star Wars Episode VIII is gonna be... different.
A Troubling Sort
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Weekly Alibi's own resident artist Rob M has decided to release his very first comic strip entitled "Meadows". You can check it out in the paper if you're a more tangible cat, but here's a web version for your viewing pleasure. A troubling sort...a meadow out of time...
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The Daily Word in Global Warming, Dinosaurs and Golden Toilets
By Monica Schmitt [ Tue Apr 19 2016 1:14 PM ]
A message in a bottle is discovered after 98 years of floating at sea.
The Science Guy bets a pretty penny against bodybuilder and nagging critic Joe Bastardi that the Earth is—wait for it—actually getting warmer.
Speaking of the well-being of our planet, the key to saving it might be a global transition to a vegan diet.
Apparently, "Boaty McBoatface" fails to denote even an inkling of seriousness as the new name for the U.K.'s new $300 million research vessel.
Everything is connected, even grammar and sick beats.
Humans aren't the only species who could use prosthetic limbs. A duck who lost his feet to frostbite is walking again, thanks to a 3D printer.
Lines to the restroom at one of New York City's most popular museums might be a little longer than usual pretty soon. The Guggenheim Museum is about to install a completely functioning 18-karat gold toilet designed and sculpted by artist Maurizio Cattelan.
Asteroid? Volcanic eruption? Scientists propose a new theory on how dinosaurs went extinct.
The Daily Word in Big Macs, Animal Sex and Rappers in the White House
By Monica Schmitt [ Fri Apr 15 2016 3:25 PM ]
President Obama decides its time to sit down for a talk with America's truly important figures.
Turns out excessive fast food consumption is linked to infertility, especially in men. Sorry boys, but if you want to have kids, put down the whopper.
Apparently poodles are a real turn on for some people but don't have sex with your girlfriend's dog. Just don't.
If you see a guy dragging an ATM with a rental truck, know this: he stole both of those things. Only in Albuquerque, am I right?
She got knocked down but she got up again. Nothing, not even the Boston bombing, kept this persistent woman down.
Bacteria does serve a purpose- art supplies for the nerdy.
Stealthy snake pretends to be an eight-legged insect as a ploy to catch a bird. You just can't trust anyone these days.
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Sunday, Apr 17: Down in the Bosque Opening Reception and Talk
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Artist Alan Paine Radebaugh discusses his work.
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Finding a Contemporary Voice
The Legacy of Lloyd Kiva New and IAIA
Press Release [ Thu Apr 7 2016 2:00 PM ]
Taking a Fritz Scholder group portrait of IAIA faculty and the legacy of the institution's first artistic director, Lloyd Kiva New, as starting points, Finding a Contemporary Voice: The Legacy of Lloyd Kiva New and IAIA includes work from the New Mexico Museum of Art's collection by IAIA faculty and alumni from the 1960s to the present such as Scholder, Neil Parsons, T.C. Cannon, Melanie Yazzie, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie and Will Wilson. The exhibition opens Saturday, May 21, 2016 and runs through Oct. 10, 2016. The Museum of Art's free to the public exhibition opening is on Friday, May 20 from 5.30 to 7.30pm.
Finding a Contemporary Voice complements concurrent exhibitions at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (A New Century: The Life and Legacy of Cherokee Artist and Educator Lloyd "Kiva" New) and the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design, and Influence. All three exhibitions and associated symposia, lectures and other events celebrate the centennial of Native American artist Lloyd Kiva New's birth by focusing on key aspects of his significant contributions to contemporary Native culture.
New (Cherokee, 1916-2002) encouraged looking at innovative techniques and forms as a path to creating contemporary indigenous art. IAIA's founding in 1962 intersects with a significant moment in the history of western art when ethnicity and culture, political ideology, feminism, and the inclusion of personal narratives became legitimate forms of expression in mainstream contemporary art. IAIA's early years were also an era of consciousness raising and civil rights movements in the United States. Native American self-determination was a major issue for many indigenous artists.
Enough time has passed that the early days of IAIA, looking back half a century now, can be historicized and examined in greater context. The institution was founded during a period of great change and spurred shifts in how indigenous artists viewed themselves and their art, paving the way for Native American artists to take their place in the global contemporary art field. Looking at the issues of identity still being raised in contemporary Native American art, it is clear that the artwork of the 1960s and 70s began a conversation that continues to this day.
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Enjoy a day of fun, gourmet cuisine and local and national craft beers all in one place. Live music and face painting also onsite.
V.25 No.14 | 04/07/2016
The Daily Word in Rembrandt, Junkies and Smash Mouth
By Megan Reneau [ Thu Apr 7 2016 11:29 AM ]
Look at this "new" Rembrandt painting.
Hillary just got Berned allll sick, huh?
This interview is FLAWLESS.
This Italian documentary about addiction looks super intense (and great).
Do extreme videos online really affect children?
This local man told the police the dead man found in his apartment had just told him, "he wanted to kill some people."
How to make a Philosopher's stone, by Isaac Newton.
V.25 No.13 | 03/31/2016
The Daily Word in High Times 2.0 and the Isle of Wight National Poo Museum
By Geoffrey Plant [ Tue Apr 5 2016 1:10 PM ]
A brief history of the Frito Pie.
High Times has plans that basically ape Playboy's '60s expansion into nightclubs and merchandise but with frito pie ... I mean marijuana.
New Mexico Attorney General has cleared the last of the fifteen behavioral health providers of any wrongdoing.
Donald Trump, who is 100 percent scarier without his tan, has a balls to the wall plan that would virtually guarantee both the destabilization of the Mexican state and Mexico paying for Trump's border wall.
The Prime Minister of Iceland resigned in the wake of the Panama Papers data dump.
A National Poo Museum has just opened on the Isle of Wight.
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Saturday, Apr 2: Dahl's Best Seat in the House Art Contest
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Toilet seat art contest benefitting Albuquerque and Rio Rancho art students.
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Sunday, Mar 20: Stories and Songs: Immigrant and Refugee Artists
By Megan Reneau [ Fri Mar 18 2016 11:00 AM ]
A performative talk with artists and cultural workers who have made their home in Albuquerque.
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A subplot was added to this weekend's Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado rematch when it was reported by Franciso Salazar that strength and conditioning coach Angel 'Memo' Heredia had become a part of Rios' camp.
Heredia's notoriety comes from his involvement with Mexico City's Juan Manuel Marquez, as well as his history of having supplied performance-enhancing drugs to Olympic sprinter Marion Jones and others.
Prior to the final pre-fight press conference for this weekend's event, I was able to get a shot of Heredia with Rios and his trainer Robert Garcia.
Rios-Alvarado II takes place this Saturday night from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. HBO will televise the proceedings.
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Needless to say they didn't even record that I had rescinded. They received the rescission and all of their documentation of March 17, 2003. On April 11, 2003 they still had not refunded a dime. Just so you know. The three-day right of recission law requires refund WITHIN 20 days. Not 20 business days. The legal time they had to refund ended April 7, 2003.
So, being extremely demanding did not get me the refund on April 11, 2003. In fact they charged my credit card another $159.85.
Just so you know. Not complying with the right of recission guidelines is a criminal act. They can be held liable for the refund, interest charges, your time, and fines. In some cases they could be sent to jail.
The key to getting your refund is stay on their 1-800-544-9459 number. Keep calling. If they tell you they will call you back, they won't. Tell them that you will be holding on line 3. When I chose option 3 after I dialed the 1-800 number that option goes to music. It costs them at least 9 cents per minute to hold on that line. They don't seem to be able to pick up that line. But, if they know you will be using up as much of their money as you can by calling the 1-800 number they will respond.
Don't be nice. They will accuse you of being rude. How rude is it to rip people off. They do not provide a service except for the service of charging your credit card. Remember, once you submit the three day right of recission, the transaction is canceled in whole. If they charge your account after that time it is credit card fraud. You did not authorize any charges to your account. Even if you had at the seminar. The Three-day right removes all authorizations as if you had not authorized at all.
I will be keeping my eyes open and attend any and all seminars that Usight conducts in my area. I will make a point of informing all attendees of their fraudulent practices.
I will make sure I do everything in my power to put them out of business.
Contact the Better Business Bureau and inform them that if they do not place a warning on their records for Usight that you will participate in any and all class action suits against them for failing to do so. The BBB I have found out does not provide any form of consumer protection unless they are FORCED to. Even though they are required to.
Remember, Be a Witch. It's the only way to deal with these people. You have rights. They don't. If they don't follow the law, they are criminals. Always remind them that they are criminals.
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This week's coloring page is a minimal kitchen that's sparsely filled. I like how children's coloring books sometimes allow space to draw in details to complete the picture. The bottom shelves have plenty of space for dry food or other dishes. Since the kitchen cabinets are minimal, there's room to make your own alterations, adding a knob or some sort of decorative front.
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Brandon Rios, Provodnikov Ready To Face Each Other
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There could be a rematch between trainers Robert Garcia and Freddie Roach, as their boxers are ready to face each other. Roach's star boxer, eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao, dominated Brandon Rios (31-2-1, 23KOs) over twelve rounds last month. Provodnikov (23-2, 16KOs) knocked out Mike Alvarado in October to capture the WBO junior welterweight title. Alvarado holds a win over Rios.
Provodnikov is one of the boxer is the running to face Pacquiao on April 12th, but in several interviews he rejected such a fight - stating that Pacquiao was a friend and he doesn't want to cause an issue with their mutual trainer, Roach.
On the social networks, Provodnikov called Rios out - "Brandon Rios, I agree to make fight [with you]. I'm ready [to fight you]."
Rios replied - "Ruslan Provodnikov, yes sir [I'll fight you]. Me too, [I'm ready to fight], so let [us] make it happen."
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IT's continued but has gotten worse.Ā In doing some research, I am seeing that he displays quite a few signs of ODD.Ā However I am VERY HESITANT to slap a label on him that will follow him the rest of his life, therefore I won't have him clinically diagnosed.Ā Just know that the traits are there.
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Franklin County Senior Judge John Walker has upheld a conviction for 19 counts of animal cruelty against a Waynesboro woman whose Rottweilers were surrendered to Antietam Humane Society earlier this year.
The opinion Thursday followed Walker's order to Franklin County Assistant District Attorney Steve Smith, who prosecuted the case, and defense attorney Gregory Knight to submit separate arguments on a legal issue raised by the defense during a summary appeal hearing in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Oct. 17.
The decision related to whether Joanna Toms, 49, of 199 Tritle Ave., had the state of mind to be found guilty of the offenses and whether her conduct was wanton and/or cruel.
Toms was found guilty of 27 counts of animal cruelty — one for each of the live dogs and one for each of the eight puppies found in a freezer in her home — during a hearing in May before Magisterial District Judge Larry Pentz.
"The court found her guilty of 19 counts of cruelty. For the other eight counts — puppies in the freezer — the commonwealth couldn't establish whether puppies were alive at birth," according to Smith. "She alleged they died at birth. We had nothing to contradict that, according to court's opinion."
Smith said that Toms is permitted to own one service dog.
The 19 dogs, which ranged in age from 1 to about 12, were taken to the shelter March 11 after Toms reportedly suffered a medical problem.
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Already this year more than 50 firefighters have lost their lives while on duty. Four of those were in Alabama and more recently nice in Charleston, South Carolina.
Each year about 100 firefighters die, some while on the scene, but many during training exercises and while commuting to and from an emergency scene.
Experts say many of these deaths are preventable.
That's why firefighters nationwide are participating in a stand down for safety program to help lower the number of fatalities.
Dothan Fire Dept. Captain Chris Etheredge said, "We've seen an increase in numbers of firefighters killed responding to alarms so we teach to be defensive drivers and be safe in everything."
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The UK had a key role in the Iraq War, and even before it happened there were millions of us on the streets marching against it: we said in advance that it was unjustified and would escalate terrorism in the region. (There's a video going round at the moment of Jeremy Corbyn back in the day, saying exactly that.) Now, looking back from a 2016 in which we have Isis/Da'esh and waves of refugees, there's no pleasure in the confirmation that we were right. The consequences reverberated not just through the region, but through to the EU and the UK too. Millions of us ignored, and so many killed (not least, directly killed in the war), because Tony Blair had pledged to Bush: "I'm with you, whatever".
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"[The inquiry said] 'we consider that the UK was, in fact, undermining the Security Council's authority.'"
The inquiry received 37 legal responses regarding the war's legality, "reflecting the views of 57 expert individuals and six organisations. Just one of them supported the claim that the war was lawful."
"On 31 January [2003], Blair met Bush and offered a commitment that contradicted the legal advice given to him by Goldsmith the previous day."
"[Goldsmith's] formal advice - the 7 March document permeated with an understanding of the uncertainty and risk involved in going to war - was deliberately withheld from cabinet."
Our government (and related organisations such as the UN Security Council) are built with checks and balances, so that things such as ill-advised wars on the basis of misconstrued information should be less likely.
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Then in the woods, I saw something unexpected. - A grid of little concrete pyramids, each about a metre high. Just sitting there, not part of a building, or an art installation, or anything, as far as I could tell. Looking fairly old and unkempt. An area of about 15 by 20 metres, weird.
I didn't take a picture, so here's an artist's impression:
Weird huh?
Eventually I saw there was a little notice by the side, explaining that these were a leftover part of the tank-trap strip that defended the Iron Curtain a few years ago. Thick forest provided a lot of the border defence against tanks - but in the channels between forests, these tank traps would be built so that tanks would scupper themselves on the pyramids. Then the guards watching from the nearby towers could do the rest.
Here's a picture I found online, of some similar leftover pyramids in the Czech Republic border area:
There were a couple of photos included, of tests where they drove tanks on top of the pyramids. The thought of it, in this peaceful forest. An "enemy" (or any) tank coming hurling down the way, aiming for the border, crashing over the landscape, through fences etc. This is what borders in Europe used to be like. Within my lifetime. These are the eventualities that planners had in mind.
It puts in perspective how we currently talk about borders, with the EU and Schengen and Brexit. I presume that Germans who remember their country before unification already have this perspective...? But as a mainland Brit, it's not like that.
(I know it's also how some borders are right now. For example between Israel and Palestine. Maybe we should all go and experience the physicality of those things first hand.)
Politically, the world is quite unstable right now, and it's really unclear how the multiple crises of 2016 will play out. Whatever happens, the future will not be exactly the same as the past. But when you bump up against our very recent history (the Iron Curtain) in physical form it really brings it home, for someone who never experienced a war - never really even felt the brunt of the troubles in Ireland, though I remember the Manchester Arndale bombing - that the peace and stability that happens (?) to coincide with the EU era is not something to be taken cheaply.
Further reading: I found this nice travelogue from someone who travelled along exploring the Iron Curtain etc, while I was looking for the photo.
Not particularly traditional:
But my special prize goes to this which is... not traditional but has some "tradition" to it:
Serves 1 (fairly big portion), takes 25 mins.
In a deep pan which has a lid, heat up about 1 tbsp vegetable oil, while you chop the onion. You want to chop about three-quarters of the onion into whatever size pieces, and the remaining one-quarter of the onion slice it into nice rings, about half a centimetre thick.
The misc pieces of onion, put them in the pan and give them a good fry to get them softened. Add the three spices and stir around. Then add the chorizo - not too much, it's mainly for flavour. Let this cook for two minutes or so.
Then add the lentils and stir, then add enough boiling water to only-just-cover. Put a lid on, turn the heat right down, and let this bubble for 15 minutes.
In the final five minutes, heat about 2 tbsp of vegetable oil in a frying pan. Make sure the onion rings are separated into circles, and put them in the pan to fry briskly for 5 minutes, turning halfway. While these are getting a little crispy, chop the mangetouts roughly into maybe 3 pieces each and chuck them into the stew, and also add the bits of parsley and the lemon juice.
When the onion rings are ready, simply put the stew in a bowl and sprinkle the onion rings on top.]]>
The effect is on EU funding in particular. Since the UK hasn't actually left the EU, you might think that things carry on "as normal" until that point - existing projects continue, and you can even apply for new projects. (In fact, that's essentially the official guidance so far.) The problem is that collaborative EU grants are the lifeblood of a lot of research, and they're also very competitive. I know of at least one colleague who's been taken off a grant proposal (which is being organised by someone in another EU country), because a UK partner now means a risk factor that could easily cause a reviewer or a programme administrator to mark the proposal down.
Similarly, at least two colleagues who have been leading on EU grant proposals, they're now in a difficult situation. After having put a lot of work into preparing a proposal, do they submit and risk getting marked down as a risk factor? Do they rewrite the proposal with Brexit backup strategies? Do they stop and wait to see what happens?
(I'm not writing this down to change anyone's mind about Brexit, by the way. Just documenting.)
Less concrete, but in my own first-hand experience: we were intending to invite a good researcher to come and work with us under the Marie Sklodowska Curie scheme (which funds researchers to spend time in another country), but I'm not sure how we can do that now. The funding is still there, but apart from the "risk factor" effect mentioned above, the potential researchers would obviously need to know how it affects their right to work in the UK (will they need a visa?) and what career options might follow on afterwards; and there's pretty much nothing we can say in answer to such questions.
This Guardian article, "UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears" puts the same phenomena in a wider context. This quote, for example:
Joe Gorman, a senior scientist at Sintef, Norway's leading research institute, said he believed UK industry and universities would see "a fairly drastic and immediate reduction in the number of invitations to join consortiums. [...] I strongly suspect that UK politicians simply don't understand this, and think it is 'business as usual', at least until negotiations have been completed. They are wrong, the problems start right now."
This time I had some of my black bean chorizo in the fridge so we did bacups with a layer of black bean chorizo, then an egg on top, then some grated cheese on the egg.
After pre-cooking the bacups we wanted to take them out of the little pots so they would crisp up properly in stage two, but they weren't holding together enough for that so we kept them in the pots. Added the fillings, blast them about 10 mins in the oven, and look at this lovely result:
The egg almost-perfectly cooked, slightly runny yolk, protected from the oven by the cheese - and complemented perfectly with the dark chorizo-y bean mix. Crispy top of the bacon, even though not crispy all through. Best bacups on record, IMHO - taste-wise, at least, even though we still need to work on structural issues.]]>
The ideal way forward is for the next PM to get some informal outline, the likely shape of a UK/EU deal, and put it to Parliament at the same time as a bill authorising them to trigger Article 50. We know that the Leave campaign's fairytale deal is not going to be on the table. So, armed with better information, Parliament could then choose to enable or refuse the triggering of Article 50. I don't know what the outcome would be; but it would be the right way for our democracy to work, and it leaves open a route "back into the EU" now that some of the referendum's consequences (not least, for the future of the UK as a union) are crystal clear.]]>
And now this:
A sudden flash flood due to the storms, and all of a sudden it's taken out lots of expensive equipment (amplifiers, mixer, drumkit, and the handsome little piano at the back) as well as obviously ruining the place.
The venue is a labour of love, Rob's been working at it 7 days a week, and it needs our support. Please support the crowdfunder to save this venue.]]>
Then the other day it hit me:
In our research group, in the exact office I work in every day, we have researchers from all sorts of countries, but mostly from the EU. Would they all be here if the UK had divorced itself from the EU? I don't think so. Have you seen the bureaucracy that an American has to go through to work or study in the UK? (I say "American" (meaning USA) to emphasise that the burden is there even for the richer countries.) I don't know how they maintain the energy to go through that!
So if it was much more hassle to study here than in Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, it's clear to me that we'd lose some proportion of those scientific minds coming over to collaborate or to study. I'm not even talking about the people who are directly funded by the EU, and nor am I assuming some massive limitation on free movement. We'd lose out from the multiple little frictions of no longer being part of the big club that makes so easy the sharing of people who have good ideas.
Some people would counter this with suggestions about collaborating with other countries instead: the Commonwealth, China, India. Well guess what? We already do plenty of that too. It's not a zero-sum game.
So yes, our excellent science definitely benefits from the free movement of people in the EU. But if I say it like that, it sounds so abstract again. - The great people I've encountered in my research career, the great ideas they've come up with and developed together, which of them would not be there?]]>
I was hoping this article would be a complete and canonical reference that I could use as a handy citation to refer to in any discussion of evaluating sound event detection. It isn't that, for a single reason:
Just so you know, the context of that paper is the DCASE2016 challenge. For the purposes of the challenge, they've released a public python toolbox with their evaluation metrics, and that's a great way to go about things. This paper, then, is oriented around the evaluation paradigm used in DCASE2016.
In that paradigm, they evaluate systems which supply a list of inferred event annotations which are entirely on or off. They're not probabilistic, or ranked, or annotated with certainty/uncertainty. Fair enough, this happens a lot, and it's a perfectly justifiable way to set up the contest. However, in many of my scenarios, we work with systems that output a probabilistic or rankable set of output events - you can turn this into a definite annotation simply by thresholding, but actually what we'd like to do is evaluate the fully "nuanced" output.
Why? Why should evaluation care about whether a system labels an event confidently or weakly? Well, it's all about what happens downstream. An example: imagine you have an automatic system for detecting events, and you apply it to a dataset of 1000 hours of audio. No automatic system is perfect, and so you often want to either (a) only focus on the strongly-detected items in later analysis, or (b) ask a human expert to go through the results to cross-check them. In the latter case, the expert does not have time to listen to all 1000 hours; instead you'd like to prioritise their work, for example by focussing on the annotations that are the most ambiguous. This kind of work is very likely in the applications I'm working with.
The statistics focussed on in the above paper (F-measure, precision, recall, accuracy, error rate) are all based on definite binary annotations, so they don't make use of the nuance. I'm generally an advocate of the "area under the ROC curve" (AUC) statistic, which doesn't tell the whole story but it helps make use of the nuance by averaging over a whole range of possible detection thresholds.
A nice example of a paper which uses AUC for event detection is "Chime-home: A dataset for sound source recognition in a domestic environment" by Foster et al. The above paper does mention this in passing, but doesn't really tease out why anyone would use AUC or how it differs from the DCASE2016 paradigm.
I want to be clear that the Mesaros et al. paper is not "wrong" or anything like that. I just wish it had a section on evaluating ranked/probabilistic outputs, why that might matter, and what metrics come in useful. Similarly, the sed_eval toolbox doesn't have an implementation of AUC for event detection. Presumably fairly straightforward to add it to its "segment-wise" metrics. Maybe one day!]]>


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Machinists, along with Washington politicians, will hold a rally Friday in support of the tanker Boeing is proposing to the Air Force. Bids for the $35 billion aerial refueling tanker contest are due Friday. Boeing's main rival for the contract, EADS, will host its own rally on Monday in Mobile, Ala., where the European company would assemble its tanker, based on an Airbus A330 commercial jet. EADS is the parent company of Airbus. Boeing will offer the Air Force a 767-based tanker. The company assembles its commercial 767 jet in Everett. The Machinists rally begins at 10:30 a.m., Friday, at the union hall, 8729 Airport Road, Everett.
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Wal-Mart's warehouse chain Sam's Club says it is offering small-business loans of up to $25,000 to its business members. The division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which is based in Bentonville, Ark., is testing a program with Superior Financial Group, one of 13 federally licensed nonbank lenders, and will offer $5,000 to $25,000 loans to members who qualify. Sam's Club says 15 percent of its business members reported they were denied a loan in a November survey. The program will focus on minority-, women- and veteran-owned businesses. Sam's Club members who apply for a small-business loan during the pilot will receive $100 off the application fee, a 20 percent discount and a rate discount.
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Applications for home loans rose last week as consumers raced to refinance at the lowest rates in decades. The Mortgage Bankers Associations said Wednesday that overall applications increased nearly 7 percent from a week earlier. While they have been increasing in recent weeks, they remain below early 2009 levels. Applications to refinance home loans were up 9 percent to the highest level since May 2009. But new mortgages taken out to purchase homes fell 2 percent. Those applications have fallen in eight out of the past nine weeks, after government tax credits that spurred home sales ended April 30. Applications were 35 percent below last year's levels. The average rate for a 30-year fixed loan sank to 4.58 percent last week, according to Freddie Mac. That was the lowest since the mortgage company began keeping records in 1971.
Nissan to offer new Infiniti hybrid system
Nissan is readying a new hybrid system for its Infiniti luxury model, set to go on sale later this year, while revamping technology for regular gas engines to send a green message. Nissan Motor Co. is a leader among global automakers in zero-emission electric cars, with its Leaf being rolled out in a few months' time. But its engineers said Tuesday that green offerings for conventional cars are in the works because vehicles with gasoline engines still make up the bulk of Nissan's models. Among them are idling stop, which turns off the engine at traffic lights.
From Herald news services


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Here's what I see each time I add a contact form to a page:
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That error message appears in both the WP page editor and on the actual page that displays to the public. WHY?
See this page for the error message: