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Indian firms are busy with M&A as the government opens up to foreign investment, but legal market liberalisation remains off the agenda
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Alliances between Indian firms and foreign firms look like they are becoming a thing of the past as the legal market shows no sign of opening up. But businesses and their advisers still want to get into India as it becomes more accessible to foreign investors.
After a year in which the question of how much work foreign firms can do in India was fought out bitterly in the Indian courts, it was perhaps no surprise when Allen & Overy (A&O) and its Indian best friend Trilegal announced the end of their referral agreement in September.
The firms ended the arrangement after nearly five years when it became apparent the Indian legal market was not going to open up to foreigners in the foreseeable future. The decision leaves Linklaters as the only UK magic circle firm with a referral relationship in India – it works with six-partner firm Talwar Thakore & Associates – and a handful of other international players with preferred Indian partners.
But international work has become an integral feature of the Indian market. The largest Indian firms spend the bulk of their time working on cross-border transactions. While many alliance relationships may have come to an end, the work that made the foreign firms look for best friends in India remains.
Keeping busy
Although the first half of the year saw a slight slowdown in terms of the number and value of M&A deals in India, according to a number of reports, there have been some major transactions and most law firms are happy with the way things are going.
Work is flowing both in and out of India. Big deals include the acquisition by Piramal Healthcare of US Decision Resources Group for $635m (£396m), Mitsui Sumitomo's $535m acquisition of a stake in Max New York Life Insurance and the sale of RBS's India assets to HSBC for $1.6bn. More recently, private equity houses Apax and Bain Capital have bought IT company Genpact for $1.4bn.
"The firm has been incredibly busy," reports Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co managing partner Cyril Shroff. Shroff says M&A and corporate work has been the most active area for the firm in the past few months, with a number of significant cross-border transactions worth more than $500m.
"To be fair, some of these deals have been cooking for a while and are now coming to fruition," Shroff adds, pointing out that the lead time for many transactions is eight to 12 months.
Trilegal managing partner Anand Prasad agrees that it has been a strong year so far.
"We've had a good financial year. Our practice continues to be strong and growing," Prasad reports.
Talwar Thakore partner Feroz Dubash says that while there is less "buzz" around the market now than there was a couple of years ago "there's still a lot of strategic M&A going on, which is frankly of benefit to us because that's where our bread and butter work is".
Prasad agrees that things have slowed a little.
"There's been a slight slowdown in terms of strategic M&A when you look at the market generally, but you still have people looking at opportunities," Prasad says. "When the market starts to shrink I guess the valuations look better for those with cash in their pockets. You still see people exploring M&A opportunities, although it's not as robust as it used to be, say, a couple of years back."
AZB & Partners' chief executive Abhijit Joshi also says things are looking up.
"We had our bad time a few years back when it was slow, but it's picking up now," he reports.
Finance work is following a similar pattern, says Talwar Thakore partner Sonali Mahapatra.
"Finance has been a bit of an up and down story this financial year," Mahapatra says. "It started out reasonably strong and then we had a couple of quiet months and now it seems to have taken off again," she says.
Policy questions
Many blame any stagnation in work on what Prasad describes as "policy paralysis" from the Indian government. For some time there were few changes on the regulatory front, but in recent months this has begun to change.
Notable legislative developments include September's announcement of changes to the country's foreign investment regime, increasing the caps on foreign investment in a number of sectors including retail and aviation. The changes may encourage international companies to move into India by buying stakes in businesses such as supermarkets, airlines and TV operators.
The move is welcomed by the -legal market.
"There's clearly more active decision-making in the government – it's about opening up India to foreign investment a bit more," says Prasad.
But not everyone thinks the recent changes are what has prompted a pick-up in dealflow.
"Most of the deals I'm working on right now have nothing to do with the regulatory changes – I think a wrong connection is being established," Shroff says.
However, he does welcome the changes, predicting that they could well lead to transactions in the coming year.
The continuation of M&A activity also means that firms are looking into related areas of practice for investment, such as competition. Amarchand Mangaldas recently hired the head of Irish firm William Fry's competition practice, John Handoll, as a senior adviser. Handoll is not the first Irish lawyer to work at the firm; Amarchand Mangaldas previously had a more junior Irish-qualified Indian lawyer working on competition issues.
Shroff says the firm feels the need to have such expertise on board because of the extent to which EU law affects Indian transactions.
Joshi agrees.
"Everybody's investing [in competition practices] – everybody who does corporate and M&A," he says, stressing the need to have lawyers who can respond to regulation appropriately. "It's not only about reading the act as it is, it's about interpreting it."
Bust-up 'inevitable'
Bringing in EU lawyers as consultants or advisers is one thing, but any closer relationships with firms in the EU or the US seem an unlikely step at the moment. The break-up between Trilegal and A&O is described by others in the Indian market as "inevitable", given the lack of liberalisation.
Prasad says the two firms entered into the alliance back in 2008 confident that the market would open up in "a matter of months". The firms wanted to ensure that, when liberalisation happened, they would be ready to enter into a closer relationship – perhaps even a full merger if regulations allowed.
But the promised liberalisation was delayed, and delayed again; a new government was elected and a new minister of justice appointed.
"Then the process started slowing down in terms of what law ministers would do to open up the market," explains Prasad. "Every year we'd evaluate how things were going between A&O and ourselves."
Eventually, he says, it became apparent that liberalisation was not going to happen any time soon and that it was low on the government's priority list.
"There are many reasons why the opening up of the legal sector has been given a lower priority – this government has got more important items on its agenda," Prasad says, pointing to the economy and dealing with other aspects of India's business legislation as examples.
He also says the government is likely to want to avoid clashing with India's large domestic legal market, as a large number of lawyers are still resistant to the concept of allowing foreign firms in and could well lobby against any such proposal.
With the next elections two years away Prasad estimates that it would take a new government a further two years to push legal market liberalisation through if it decided to go for it.
"The best-case scenario is four and a half to five years and the worst-case situation is 10 years or even indefinite," he says.
This uncertainty was what prompted the end of the formal relationship with A&O, Prasad adds.
"We don't know who will be around when the market opens," he says. "It's a question of spreading our options."
Prasad believes Trilegal will continue to have a strong relationship with A&O, with work going both ways between the firms, but that both sides will be able to turn to a greater number of referral partners in the future.
Ally detectors
At AZB, Joshi says his firm retains a close relationship with erstwhile referral partner Clifford Chance. The firms split up in early 2011 after two years. The short duration of the alliance meant that AZB did not "go off the radar" for other foreign firms, according to Joshi.
According to Talwar Thakore, however, there are no plans to break up with Linklaters. "The alliance works very well for us, we have a strong relationship with Linklaters and I don't see that changing," says Dubash.
"The concept and objective of each alliance is specific," adds Mahapatra. "We and Linklaters think this is the right fit for us."
Joshi raises the point that alliances work better in India when the Indian firm is smaller, as the relationship then becomes more meaningful; although there is now a sizeable amount of foreign investment into India, one international firm is unlikely to generate enough referral work for a large Indian practice with 100 or 200 lawyers.
While the alliance model is falling out of favour, few think it is completely finished. There are always likely to be a few firms such as Talwar Thakore that believe it is possible to sustain a relationship with an international outfit and others that would prefer to spread their bets and refer work to and from a variety of firms.
The strong fundamentals of India, coupled with the government's recent moves to keep the country attractive, should mean this remains a jurisdiction to watch.
"While there'll always be ups and downs, there is work in this market," concludes Mahapatra.


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Citrus Valley High football coach Pete Smolin was still in a state of shock a day after the Blackhawks lost a nonleague game at Yucca Valley.
The 20-6 loss, however, may be more hurtful to Citrus Valley's ego than anything else.
Smolin said that now is a good time, if any, for such a disappointing letdown and not down the road during the Mountain Valley League title race or in the postseason.
"I see this as a great situation," Smolin said. "They are no different than a tough Rubidoux-type of team, or a scrappy Rim of the World team. We will face those tough teams and we need to handle it. It's good to happen now before league."
Smolin didn't want to come out and blame the officiating, but Citrus Valley didn't get many breaks.
"We had a couple bad breaks in the first half," Smolin said. "Next thing we know it's 14-7 for them. We drive down the field for the tying touchdown. It gets called back when our quarterback lowered his helmet going into the end zone. They call us for leading with the helmet. We went from the 1-yard line to the 11. We couldn't recover."
Last season Citrus Valley faced Yucca Valley twice. The Blackhawks won both times.
"We had a couple great drives but there were some crazy penalties, things just not going our way," Smolin said. "The other team did a good job of being annoying enough to stay under our skin."
Another concern for Citrus Valley is injuries, which are beginning to pile up. Running back Omari Montgomery suffered a groin injury in the early going against Yucca Valley.
"We are down to our fifth-string running back and our passing game isn't clicking," Smolin said. "Our defense is having a hard time fighting off the holding. Yucca always plays us tough."
Smolin was pulling players off his defense to fill holes on offense.
"We are deep, but of the guys who can score, they were on the sidelines with ice bags," Smolin said.
Smolin said his players need to learn from this setback.
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The leading conference and exhibition for real estate experts in Qatar, will be held from May 23 to 25 at the Doha Exhibition Centre and will focus on the country's vibrant residential, commercial, retail, and hospitality developments.
CityScape 2012 will also see an awards night, where UDC is shortlisted in three categories, and a summit focusing on Qatar's real estate industry and opportunities.
With more than US$100 million in development already underway in Qatar, the event is backed by industry leaders and will support this continued real estate growth by providing a platform that will highlight high growth investment opportunities, showcase innovative products and underline sustainability in the sector.
Fadi El Kik General Manager Business Development, UDC, said the company, which is the master developer of The Pearl-Qatar, one of the country's most iconic developments, was pleased to be involved as a Silver Sponsor of CityScape Qatar.
"More than 2000 experts including developers, architects and consultants will take part in this year's CityScape and as one of Qatar's leading companies, UDC is proud to play a part in making this happen," El Kik said. "In this industry it is important to share information and intelligence as well as know what the prevailing trends are and CityScape is the perfect forum for this exchange."
Extending over an approximate area of 4 million square meters, The Pearl-Qatar is one of the largest real estate development projects in the Arabian Gulf.
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Your family history is never complete. Even if you ever get to the point where you've exhausted all of your resources researching the past, you can still start moving forward with your family history. There are tons of ways to gather information for your personal history. Today's Research Roundup is about combing your email inbox for family history treasures.
I'm sure you've received emails in the past that included stories, remembrances, or daily accounts about your family. Most people tend to save these kinds of emails, but they rarely give them a second look. You need a way to make the information accessible for now and the future. Today, spend a few minutes gathering emails you've sent or received. Create notes in your FHnotebook and copy and paste the text into the notes. You will enjoy reviewing what has happened in just the last few years, and you will love being able to find and read these items again and again once they are securely stored and organized in the proper notebook on FHnotebook. This process will also allow you to thin out your email inbox—delete the emails you've created notes for already, and then delete the emails you don't need to remember anymore.
I recently received an email my aunt sent that included three or four memories of her parents. Since I never met my grandparents, I was thrilled to read these remembrances and saved the email so I would have it forever. However, I have only thought about that email once or twice in the last few months, and I knew that if I didn't file the text somewhere more memorable and accessible, chances were that I would forget about it completely in another month or two. When I went through the process of recording my emails in my FHnotebook, I found the one from my aunt. I filed it in my "Higginson" family notebook, and I copied and pasted each separate story into the respective subnotebook. You don't have to get that detailed, but now when I look for stories about Grandpa Higginson, I know I have them all in his notebook. If anyone else was mentioned in the stories, I added a category to the note to help me further connect stories between different members of my family.
Another email I found was a thread between my siblings about what to get our mother for her birthday. Each response from each sibling showed off their personalities beautifully—one brother always has a joke ready, one sister always thinks outside the box. I love having a written record of my siblings; I want my children to be able to get a glimpse of what their aunts and uncles are really like—not just see these people as their cousins' parents. So I created a notebook to store emails from my siblings.
Journal writing is an important part of creating and maintaining your personal history. If I came across an email that only told a partial story, it often sparked a memory that I then recorded into a note in FHnotebook. It's inspiring to find natural journal topics to help you record your personal history.
What types of emails did you find that you were excited to store in your FHnotebook?
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Loved this book too, an excellent novella that was awarded a Nebula in 2006.
Thoroughly enjoyed the story.
The file (well at least the .mobil one) does have a noticeable amount of words which are still hyphenated (I guess from the original source), would be nice if those could be cleaned up.
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A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan killed 18 people, including at least five women, who were travelling to a wedding party by minibus, a local government official said on Sunday.
Violence has risen in Afghanistan this year as most foreign combat troops prepare to leave by the end of 2014.
"They were going to attend a wedding party when their minibus was hit by a roadside bomb... which killed 18 mostly females, including children," said the governor's spokesman, Shafiq Nang Safai.
The Taliban did not immediately claim responsibility, although it usually denies having a hand in attacks that kill civilians. The local government said, however, it believed the insurgency was to blame.
Improvised explosive devices, like the latest bomb that struck the wedding party, are the single biggest killer in the Afghan conflict, causing over a third of civilian casualties in the first six months of the year, according to a U.N. report.
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Ship of the desert ... Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz and Steve Zahn keep a keen watch for a plausible story, but with little success.
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Cinemas everywhere
Early in Clive Cussler's 1992 book Sahara, a mysterious illness turns African villagers into cannibals. The film version is more vegetarian. There is plenty of violent death, but no people-eating and no sex, despite the allure of the stars, Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz.
That's because Sahara is a conservative Christian version of the action-adventure genre.
The key producer is Philip Anschutz, a Denver billionaire who made his fortune in oil, railways and media. He's a Presbyterian Republican who now owns about 20 per cent of America's cinemas. He produces movies that "tell uplifting stories appropriate for audiences of all ages", according to my press kit.
The godliness didn't stop him being sued last year by Cussler, a phenomenally successful writer. Cussler tried to stop production, claiming he had final script approval. He said the makers had sent him seven drafts, all of which he threw in the rubbish. He told them to go back to his original story. This is hilarious, because Cussler's story has elements that no one could make credible. The case is still going, despite the film's release.
In the book, Dirk Pitt, a tall, muscular, green-eyed hunk, finds the skeleton of Abraham Lincoln in the rusted hulk of a Confederate "ironclad" ship from the American Civil War.
Not so far-fetched, you say? It is when the ship is buried in the Sahara Desert. Pitt also solves the mystery of the disappearance of a 1930s aviatrix, as he helps save the world from a pollution disaster. Neither the dead aviatrix nor the dead president turns up in the movie - which may be why Cussler was peeved, given his daughter was going to play the flyer. There's plenty more to stretch the imagination, though.
Cussler is rare among pulp novelists: he does the things in life that his hero does in books (or some of them). He's a deep-sea explorer who has found a number of significant wrecks - including the RMS Carpathia and the CSS Hunley, a Confederate submarine. Dirk is Cussler with the sangfroid of James Bond and the artefact lust of Indiana Jones. In film and book he's on the hunt for the lost ironclad, the CSS Texas.
A prologue shows the Texas running the blockade of the James River in 1865, with an important cargo. Civil war buffs will know that the Texas was captured at Richmond in April 1865 before she was fitted out, but what the hey ... Cut to the coast off west Africa in the present, where Dirk and his trusty sidekick, Al Giordino (Steve Zahn), team up with a comely World Health Organisation doctor, Eva Rojas (Cruz), to journey up the Niger River. She wants to investigate the mysterious illness in civil-war-torn Mali. Dirk wants to find the Texas.
I'm a sucker for stories of boats on rivers - The African Queen, Apocalypse Now, Huck Finn - so I was happy when the team entered the Niger delta. We get a magnificent aerial shot of their launch dwarfed by the river. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, here we come. Unfortunately, they don't stay on the river and they leave all logic behind on the mothership.
Mali is several hundred kilometres inland but the film makes you think it's on the coast. Against all notions of safety, Dr Rojas takes off into the desert and is pursued by the goons of warlord General Kazim (Lennie James), who looks like a banker with dreads. Dirk and Al follow, wisecracking through scrapes with incredible luck and resourcefulness. They turn up to save Eva in the nick of time, every time.
Three things sustain this nonsense. One is that Zahn can make any scene funny; he brings out the best in McConaughey by undermining his egotism. Another is scenery. The film, partly filmed in a remote corner of Morocco, takes us to places we've rarely seen, and some are breathtaking. Third, the film is expertly crafted by new director Breck Eisner (son of Disney maven Michael Eisner). Action and humour are well-balanced.
The Christian ethos is barely discernible. There's a bit of ecumenism when Dirk consults a helpful imam at a mosque, and a sense of sympathy for the victims of African civil wars, but the film is hardly a plea for international understanding and non-violence.
Action-adventure in foreign parts is often driven by racial stereotypes. Sahara tries to avoid it, but it goes with the territory: a lot of people end up dead as mutton in Sahara, and nearly all are black. Somehow, white people are just luckier in this genre.
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There are plenty of great reasons to visit Rúla Búla on a Wednesday night. The bar's cozy interior makes for a refreshing break from the Mill Avenue bustle and grind (the historic location, the Andre Building, certainly doesn't hurt), and the smooth-tasting pints of Guinness make the bar an Irish pub staple in the Valley. The bar's weekly pub quiz, hosted by Brainstormer Pub Quiz group, hosts bar tests and games all over the country. Teams square off against each other, answering questions about sports, pop culture, and history. Chances are the regulars are going to own the newbies, but remember: Pints of Guinness don't just make you strong, they sharpen cognitive skills, too. (We can't verify this claim, but it sounds good, right?)
By the middle of the summer of 2012, we were choking on dust and dying of thirst. Suddenly, it occurred to us: If New Orleans can have the Hurricane, what's stopping Phoenix from creating her own cocktail homage to the haboob? And so we set forth on a bar-to-bar quest to find the bartender who could make our dream come true. It happened at Lon's, where Alexandria Bowler created a drink so unique — and so fitting — it deserves italics in its name. Bowler kindly provided us with her recipe for The Haboob. You're welcome.• 2.5 ounces of High Spirits Gin• .75 ounces of cactus blossom syrup• 1 ounce of lemon juice• three dashes of mole bittersShake with orange flower water and chamomile dust. Enjoy.
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Really, gin made tableside? Flaming shakers of Jameson? Can Richie Moe, Kris Korf, and crew get any more creative with their cocktails? Could anyone?! The Citizen Public House folks decided to make good use of an old VIP room by turning it into a speakeasy-style bar that serves cocktails you most definitely will not find anywhere else. If you're one of the lucky 30 to get in, you must try the Tableside G & T or the impressive Black Blazer, made with Jameson whiskey, black strap molasses rum, and maple syrup. The concoction is lit on fire and mixed until it reaches a beautifully sweet, boozy glaze that is poured over ice and topped with a float of fresh whipped cream and orange zest. It comes with a $17 price tag, but the show itself is worth the price, and the flavors are unforgettable.
Rumor has it there's a cool, skinny chola at the bar. No need to size her up or whistle too loud; this chick keeps it real and authentic without the unnecessary mixes and syrups. Yep, she's the skinny, fresh face of a kick-ass margarita with all the essential ingredients — Jose Cuervo Tradicional Blanco Silver Tequila, agave nectar, and lime juice — and without the diet-driven hype. True, her complex flavors make her a little hard to read. And if you ask for her to touch a blender, she might show you some serious chola attitude. But if you've had a rough day or are in the mood to celebrate, head over to Barrio Queen and find her. There's no better chola to have by your side.
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Love free WiFi in places like coffee shops? Enjoy it, because if patent troll Innavatio IP Ventures gets its way, every corner coffee shop and Panera Bread will be sued for offering the WiFi you enjoy. And they can sue you, too.
A blog named The Patent Examiner lays it all out, including the weasel legal tricks used by Innovatio to charge a few thousand dollars per suit when attacking small businesses. While most patent battles are for millions, these suit amounts are between $2,500 and $5,000. If you've ever dealt with a lawsuit, you know that amount is what it costs to start talking seriously to a lawyer. Since it's far cheaper for a small business to pay Innovatio than a lawyer, patent trolling has now gone into the volume lawsuit business.
Why not attack the makers of WiFi equipment? Innovatio did, filing suit against Motorola and Cisco. But those companies have their own fleet of lawyers, and are fighting back. Let's hope the big tech dogs can crush the patent trolls, and we can keep getting Internet access with our coffee.
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Sounds as if a troll can make a fortune in tiny settlements too small to justify hiring a lawyer to defend.fjpoblam on techdirt.com
It's cynical, reprehensible, and evil, but it's a pretty solid business model.redthrowaway on news.ycombinator.com
There is clearly prior art. When you make this big a nuisance of yourself, clearly exploiting the system at society's expense, you should be permanently disbarred. You are a clear and present danger to the continued operation of the justice system.noonespecial on news.ycombinator.com
It's a common misunderstanding of patent law that you can't be sued if you buy a product that violates the patent. This is not the case: anybody who "practices" the technique described in the patent is liable, unless they have a license. So if the company that sold you the WiFi box paid for a license on your behalf, you're in the clear. If they didn't, you're not. In principle, the patent holder can sue both you and the company who sold you the WiFi router.Ted Lemon on techdirt.com
Patent trolls may be evil, but they're not stupid. The best we can hope for is for them to sue a close friend of a congressman or judge.kylec on news.ycombinator.com
Who loves lawyers?
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." (Henry VI part 2, IV, Sc 2) - but perhaps he should have added "followed by the grasping scum who employer them, and the idiots who pass the laws that encourage this stupidity."Anonymous Coward on theregister.co.uk
It has always struck me as crazy that they can go around useing users, rather then producers of the tech and even more crazy that they can sue after the patent has been challenged. Seems like that should be a show stopper until cleared up.Griffon on techdirt.com
Patent reform request #212
Stupid american patents shockerAnonymous Coward on theregister.co.uk
Will somebody please patent the process of patent trolling and sue anyone who patent trolls?Rex Mitchell on techdirt.com
Intellectual property and patents are not the problem, the problem is the broken system around them that allows these types of abuses.kprobst on news.ycombinator.com
I wonder if Patent Troll will be a popular Halloween costume this year?


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I had a c-section with DD and the lochia wasn't really that bad at all. I figured because they suck/scoop it all out while they are in there. I keep hearing that after a natural birth it's really really bad like dripping down your legs bad. I guess I'm just trying to get a better idea of how long that heavy heavy bleeding last. I'm using cloth pads this time but I do have a few disposables I need to use up. Should I bring both?
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Yikes! I had no idea it got "sucked" up during a section. In my experience, the lochia was comparable to a really heavy period. But I didn't have any clots or anything. I used overnight pads in the beginning, and then large ones later on.
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I've done both. I had pp bleeding for probably 6 weeks with my vaginal birth and it was pretty heavy for a couple weeks. I was totally unprepared. It was really nice to have it for 2-3 days with my sections.
I bled 16 weeks after my cesarean, and 8 and 6 weeks after my natural births. The heaviness was no different for my first(c/s) and second(vbac), it was much lighter for my 3rd who was born unassisted.
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i had the full amount with my c-birth, what everybody describes as average length for any birth-- i was surprised at the time b/c i didn't count on that happening with the c.
too, if you are nursing on your non-first baby, you're going to probably have a shorter but more intense duration either way- i'd bring the arsenal! (they gave me pads at the hospital last time, though, so you might could save yours and use theirs if they offer them)
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After my c with DD1 I had locchia for only 4-5 days. This time, it also is very light at 5 days post partum... though it hasn't stopped yet.
I bled for a good 4 weeks after my c-sections and then lightly for a couple more weeks. I don't think it was any different from a vaginal birth honestly BUT... hopefully I will get to find that out in a few weeks :)
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I bled for 2 weeks after my section. It was like a normal period in heaviness. I have always read to expect 4 weeks of bleeding. I think the RRL tea made a difference.
I've never had c-sections, but with my first birth (episiotomy, not natural, didn't breastfeed past 3 days) I bled for 8 weeks and it was terrible. Heavy, clots, just awful. With my 2nd vaginal birth I was BFing exclusively and I think it made the difference for me. My birth was also drug-free. I was done bleeding before 2 weeks. Occasionally I would spot but no longer than 4 weeks. Not clotty/heavy at all.
Jesse, mama to my three wonderful boys, our newest born at home late Jan 2012
Interesting, maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe like pregnancy, each one is different. I HATE plastic pads they give me a rash. I guess if I just use what the hospital puts on me till I can shower and feel semi normal the rash won't be so bad. I have 7 heavy cloth pads and 4 light/regular ones, I'm hoping with cloth laundry every other day it'll be enough.
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DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) commented Sunday on the unsolicited proposal announced by GeoEye (NASDAQ: GEOY) to acquire the Company for $17.00 per share in a combination of cash and stock.
Consistent with its fiduciary duties and in consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, the DigitalGlobe Board of Directors reviewed GeoEye's unsolicited acquisition proposal and unanimously determined that it substantially undervalues the Company in relation to DigitalGlobe's standalone business and financial prospects, and is not in the best interests of the Company's stockholders. In addition, the Board determined that GeoEye's proposal does not adequately recognize DigitalGlobe's superior track record of financial and operating performance as well as its constellation's greater capabilities.
DigitalGlobe noted that GeoEye made previous private unsolicited proposals, beginning on February 7, 2012, which the Company believes were motivated by GeoEye's concerns with the disproportionate risks of government budgets cuts affecting its business. DigitalGlobe rejected those proposals, but was willing to discuss DigitalGlobe acquiring GeoEye, and proposed a transaction under which DigitalGlobe's stockholders would own approximately 60% and GeoEye stockholders would own approximately 40% of the combined company, with DigitalGlobe's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer continuing in their respective leadership roles. DigitalGlobe terminated those discussions because the Company believed that the U.S. Government process would be favorable to DigitalGlobe, and that protracted discussions would be disruptive to the U.S. government in its decision-making process as well as create needless distraction to ongoing mission performance.
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THE good news is that Hussey scored a convincing hundred. The bad news is that it was the wrong one. It was that sort of day. On Monday morning the Test team will be announced at a preposterous and self-indulgent ceremony on Sydney Harbour. Doubtless the selectors were hoping for signs of form from established men and compelling contributions from possibles. Instead, rain curtailed play at Bellerive Oval in Hobart yesterday and exchanges at the SCG were dominated by outsiders. Any complacency selector Andrew Hilditch felt as he took his seat was surely disturbed by the time the storm arrived.
Two Victorians dominated the day, neither of them hitherto mentioned in dispatches. Except in his home town, David Hussey's name is rarely mentioned when thoughts turn to Australia's wobbly middle order. An accomplished operator, he played a fluent and skilful innings and brought up a richly deserved hundred in the last over before tea.
Mike Hill is the least heralded of the younger brigade, but not the least impressive. A sturdy leftie, he steered the ball into gaps off his hip and repeatedly stooped to cart the off-spinner over mid-wicket. More will be heard from him.
Contrastingly, Cameron White wasted his chance with a woeful swish outside off-stump. Anyone can have a bad day, but the visiting captain cannot expect to attract attention until he scores harder runs higher in the order.
As far as Australia's supporters were concerned, the pleasure taken from the form of the third-wicket pair was soured by the poor showing of the nation's leading twister. Nathan Hauritz was mauled. Refusing to allow the spinner to settle, the batsmen attacked him with gusto, and did not stop.
Hill was especially severe. Dropped at long-on in the middle of an otherwise confident assault, the southpaw clouted anything tossed up, regardless of line or likely turn. Hussey was more measured, tucking the ball away off his pads and taking seasoned singles.
Nor could Hauritz stop the scoring. For some reason he seems to have altered his pace and means of attack. Here he quickly reverted to around the wicket to the right-hander and mostly directed his deliveries at the stumps. Previously he has teased the batsmen with balls spinning back towards the off bail. He also bowled flatter and faster than usual - or so it seemed from afar - and as a result reduced his threat.
Perhaps the slowness of the pitch persuaded him to change tack. Maybe he has lost faith in his method. Had it been an audition he need not wait by the phone. At such times a cricketer falls back on the memory of past successes. Indeed it might be worth watching a few of them on video.
Steve Smith fared a little better. Introduced with heavy clouds gathering, he sent down a few mild but respectable overs. Although a handy cricketer and keen competitor, it's hard to imagine that in such a short time he has acquired the expertise and repertoire required to trouble Test batsmen.
Among the speedsters, Mitchell Starc and Mark Cameron caught the eye. Tall and blessed with a strong action, the product of toil and experiment, Starc coaxed some life from a grudging track and swung the ball enough to inconvenience batsmen. If only Mitchell Johnson's arm was as high and his action as smooth.
Cameron bent the new ball dangerously, an asset in a country whose bowlers mostly bang the ball into the pitch. Now he needs to prove that he can stay fit. Both pacemen are works in progress. Stuart Clark was accurate without ever suggesting he was about to run amok.
At least Shane Watson produced some tidy overs. A crock not so long ago, these days he hardly misses a match. Bagging the selectors is good fun, but now and then a pat on the back is deserved. Watson has become a key member of the Test team and his collaboration with Simon Katich has been productive. Locals will be hoping his partner is fit to play at the Gabba, because openers are thin on the ground in shield cricket. Still, it was only the first chapter. Perhaps things will go better today.


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KENSINGTON - Yet another Prince Edward Island municipality is expressing its frustration with the inability of the federal government to get the money flowing through the New Build Canada Fund for local infrastructure projects.
Kensington Mayor Gordon Coffin told council Monday night, that despite the efforts of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, agreements between the provinces and the federal government for the release of millions of dollars of infrastructure money, nothing has happened to date.
"I attended the Canadian Federation of Municipalities meeting in Niagara Falls," Coffin said. "I was the largest one yet with over 2,000 registered. I certainly had expectations of coming back and hopefully being able to explain how the federal Build Canada Fund would come. We were all extremely disappointed. We listened to federal minister Lisa Wright turn around and say 'Oh yeh, it's all in place.' But when you talk to anybody else, there are no provincial/municipal agreements in place."
It is these agreements that will identify what projects are being proposed for funding and if approved, would allow municipalities to get on with much need improvement to roads, water and sewer systems and facilities such as rinks and emergency services buildings.
Coffin said he met several delegates at the conference who were asking the same question "What is going on here?"
The federal was supposed to be in place and ready to flow to the provinces and the municipalities by March 31. The construction season on Prince Edward Island is well underway and there is no sign of the federal funding.
"That said, we as a council, need to decide what projects we would like to tackle when we can hopefully access infrastructure funds someday soon," the Mayor said. "We did have a number of sewer and water routes mapped out several years ago."
Coffin suggested that those plans be "dusted off" and reviewed to see how much of the work the town wants to tackle.
"We're going on the assumption that we will have access to some of those funds. We were all hoping for this (federal funding) when the budget came down but we're into June now."


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Network Ten is likely to pitch for a fifth series of Big Brother after the top-rating reality show ended on a high note this week.
Production house Southern Star Endemol owns the rights to Big Brother, having produced the reality show in conjunction with Ten over the past four years.
But that contract expired on Monday, opening the show up to a possible bidding war with rival networks which may be eager to steal a piece of the action.
"Big Brother is such a great format and such a great franchise and has hours and hours of television over a 13 week television period," Southern Star Endemol chief Denis Spencer said.
Monday night's finale of the fourth series of Big Brother peaked with an audience of more than three million viewers, with an average of 2.83 million people tuning in to see Trevor Butler win the $1 million prize.
"Make no mistake, Channel Ten have done a great job with it," Mr Spencer said.
"They've looked after it and really massaged it and promoted it and been right behind it over these four series.
He stopped just short of confirming a fifth series.
"One would suspect that with the figures it has got, the way it rates demographically and just the franchise of it, of course it will be (back).
"I am sure (Ten) will be out there pitching the hardest."
Ten's head of program development, entertainment and acquisition Tim Clucas said Big Brother had been a strong part of Ten's formula to win over viewers aged 16 to 39.
He all but confirmed that Ten would vie for a fifth series.
"Let me answer that by saying total 16-39 (age group) audience share for the finale of 75.6 per cent, I don't think we need to go any further on the question," he said.
The fourth installment had been one of the most successful of all the Big Brother series, he said.
"That was a fantastic conclusion to the series by any definition," he said.
"The fact is that even at Big Brother's lowest points this year, it is a program that attracts a level of support from the 16 to 39 audience that both Nine and Seven would love to have it."
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Four best friends left their Nigerian university campus for a nearby village to collect a debt but none of them knew that they were actually heading towards their brutal death!
Ugonna Obuzor, Chiadika Biringa, Lloyd Toku, and Tekena Elkanah were first followed through the streets by some violent law breakers who took off their clothes and beat them until they were nearly unconscious.
Later, concrete slabs were dropped on their heads and car tyres filled with petrol were wrapped around their necks and were then ablazed. This brutal practice is known as 'necklacing' in which petrol-filled tyres are wrapped around victim's neck and are then set on fire!
This dreadful and torturous episode of violence was also filmed on a mobile phone and later uploaded to YouTube.
These four boys were roommates at the University of Port Harcourt, in Chuba, Nigeria.
According to Biringa's mother, Chinewe, Obuzor had asked his friends to accompany him to the nearby village of Aluu because somebody there owed him money.
It is still unclear what actually happened in the village but it has been claimed that Obuzor's debtor spread rumors that they were in the village to steal laptops and mobile phones.
'I want the world to know how our security failed us. I want the world to know that my son and his three friends are innocent of what they said they did,' Mrs Biringa told CNN.
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Carrie Underwood's Uneven Toes
Carrie Underwood may have the best looking legs around…but what good are great legs if your feet (yeah, those things at the very bottom of your legs) are cring-worthy? While some of you may feel I'm being over-critical, might I direct your attention to Carrie's foot? Take a good look at that. I don't know about you, but in my book, the longest toe on your foot is supposed to be your big toe, not the one next to it. Yuck. In the same vein, the second longest toe on your foot is supposed to be the one next to the big toe, not the middle one. Seriously, her middle toe is longer than her big toe. That is one messed up foot or set of toes, whatever you want to call it. Maybe Tony Romo took one look at her toes and split? You never know. I always wondered why Romo chose Jessica Simpson over Carrie Underwood…now I'm starting to wonder whether it was her unsightly feet? Seriously, did any of you see the movie, "Boomerang"? If you did, you would know that toes matter.
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i think you are wrong. carrie has the sexiest feet i have ever seen. i would love to have her sexy toes in my mouth. i bet they taste great, and i'm sure her feet smell awesome.
Carrie Underwood is one ugly girl. She came off of american idol I HAVE NO RESPECT for anyone off that show. Try getting a real artist to look at and talk about toes. Someone who had to work hard and get to where they are at LIKE taylor swift. she actually writes her owns songs and doesnt do the "popular" thing to do like carrie. She is from sigma sigma sigma or whatever its called she is a typical stuck up snob who has torun her mouth about people like jessica simpsons. WELL sorry carrie… i dont like jessica but she is wayyyyyy better then you.. hope taylor and jessica just crush you and push you out of the scene i have ugly feet too but at least thats all thats ugly on me. YOUR NOTHING SPECIAL…. you look like every other stuck up beeotch!!!
You should get down on your knees and beg for her forgiveness. She is a goddess and we all deserve to be beneath her feet. She is yous superior bow to her
You can't judge a foot by a strappy shoe!!!! or sandal!!! or opened toe.. She might have been caught at a time when she was flexing or stretching her toes and feet in the shoes. I know a photographer who works alot of celebrity shows / gatherings. He is picky about womens feet and says they are great – Salma Hayek has great feet yet he has shot them and they just did not look so hot.
She looks very good! I don't care if her feet are ugly! That's not what i look for in a woman!
If the most ugly woman had the most beautiful feet it would not change a thing, she would still be ugly!!!!!!!
That is called "Greek toes". In ancient Greece there was a common relation between beauty and that type of feet. Check the ancient Greek and Roman statues and you will understand.
You are an ignorant, shallow, unintelligent individual.
If you did some simple research you would learn that over 1/3 of people have this type of foot. It is called Morton's Toe. It is not a deformity. What you personally consider unattractive or "freekish" is not the case for everyone. You should get a life and stop worrying about inane, insignificant things you fool.
Best set of feet I have ever set my eyes on. Yummy! Hopefully really ticklish too!!!
i would sniff,smell,kiss,lick,suck and slobber all over her gorgeous toes! i want to inhale her beautiful foot odor and suck each of her toes for hours and hours! i would worship her feet for an eternity, i would suck her feet forever!
Yeah not the best of her feetures – but forget her feet shes not bad looking
If you think that her toes are "ugly" you should really look inside yourself and find out why you are so shallow, that's the only part that's ugly.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! She does have ugly toes!
Un-even? This goofball has no appreciation for pretty feet, there are taperd toes and second and sometimes third toes longer than the big toe, duh! Carrie has nice ones, shithead!
Her feet might be ugly but they siting in shoes you cooldnt afford to wear and unless your sucking her toes who really cares???
Ugly feet? OMG, that's almost laughable. Maybe the bitching beauty would like to post her feet to show us what a pretty foot looks like? And FYI, a longer second toe is very common.
ok Brittney ..your a very insecure ignorant girl. your just jealous you can't sing or probably don't have anything close to the talent she has in her little toe. so go craw back into the hole you came out of and grow up.
Its a sad day when people have nothing better to do then degrade someones feet no matter who that person is. I have the name of a great doctor who can help u out with your problem and believe me u need help. How sad is it that u have to stoop so low as to attack Carries feet in order to have something horrible to say about her. The woman is 100% sexy. Get a life will ya.
Brittney, how old are u 5? The woman is at the top of her game no matter where she started. Taylor swift cant hold a candle to this woman. She cant sing either. I think all that throwing her head around has caused some serious brain damage. Carrie will always kick her butt with little effort. Grow up man. U dont have to start in a bar to make it. When u grow up, then post a comment ok?
Brittany, "try getting a real artist to look at and talk about toes"? Is there something seriously wrong with you? That is messed up girl. It doesnt matter how carrie came on the scene, what matters is shes kicking everyones butt and will continue to do so. Do you know Carrie personally? Shes only a snob to u because she made something of herself. Grow up and shut up. Her toes are as beautiful as she is.
All I know is those toes can put on a hell of a performance night after night. Carrie is our Queen of Country and that woman can put on a show. Rock On Carrie. Your toes and u are simple stunning.
Carrie suffers from Mortons Toe. Also known as Greeks Toe. Its when the second toe is longer than the big toe. Not overly uncommon. Problem is, it can cause pain and also cause you leg to bend inward. There are so methods to relieve pain and help keep you leg straight. I hope she doesnt have pain and can relieve it if she does. Carrie all around is one beautiful woman.
BRITTNY all im going to say to u is that see looks at these so watch yr back. and her toes are fine the only THING WE CARE ABOUT IS THAT SHE CAN SING. AND SHE ROCKS. I LOVE U CARRIE UNDERWOOD
you are haters. She's gorgeous and i have the same toe, it's called Morton's toe. it's hereditary, and her feet are fine.
This is so hilarious! That's all you can find "wrong" with her? Like saying she has 2 bad skin cells out of trillions on her body it's so insignificant! A lot of people have a 2nd toe longer than the big toe. As a matter of fact, when I was younger, there was a mythical belief that people with this toe configuration are born leaders. Seriously! They called it a "boss" toe, and NOT in the sense that you were bossy or bitchy, but that you were more inclined to be successful, a leader, a company president, the top of your field. In Carrie's case, it sure does look like that old toe myth might have some truth behind it! She is most definitely at the top of her field in the music industry, highly respected, and extremely talented. I don't even listen to country but I'm a big Carrie fan. I saw her perform to a sold-out crowd at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and it was one of the most incredible and awesome performances I've ever been fortunate enough to see live. Simon Cowell was right! She sounds fantastic on anything she sings. She can rock hard or bring tears to your eyes on a soulful ballad. I love her to death and would love her if she had mangled toes or no toes at all!
wow dude, get over yourself, and get a life. Who cares?
Search pretty feet on google. Most have morton's toe.
Unless your toes look like the "cingular raising the bar" signal logo, you probably have morton's toe too.
Even the statue of liberty has it.
If I met Carrie Underwood I'll give her a foot massage.
Her feet is gorgeous. This Morton guy who thought it was some genetic mishap is clearly mistaken much like you are. They're beautiful. Your ugly looking feet are just ugly and I'm talking about toes that keep getting shorter and shorter from the big toe. They looks like paddles! Morton's toes sort of gives a beautiful shape to the feet.
I'd put those toes in my mouth in an instant. Yum!!
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|From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 9 17:23:18 EDT 2011
Somewhere between July 2006 and Dec 2007, the linkage table in planet broke in such a way that it has been just ignored for around 4 years now. I just noticed this today [*] as I was spending some time trying to make the planet module name resolver thread safe. So, my question to you: should we bring this feature back? Did anyone notice it was gone? If you're curious what this is about, probably the best thing to read is this paper, specifically the linkage table is what the last paragraph under the heading "The magic upgrade problem" on page 163 discusses: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jacobm/pubs/planet.pdf Thanks, Robby [*] There was a (with-handlers ((exn:fail? (lambda (e) #f))) ...) wrapped around some code that was implementing part of the lookup in the table and the exception handler was catching what amounts to a refactoring bug, instead of the parsing error reading the file that it seems to have been designed to catch and, of course, there were no test cases that the linkage thingy was working properly. So, learn from this old-ish man's mistakes and don't do either of those things....
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Broughton in Furness, Lancashire Genealogy
England Lancashire Lancashire Parishes
Chapelry History
Broughton in Furness St Mary Magdalene is a chapelry of Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire Ancient Parish in Lancashire.
Broughton-in-Furness is a small town on the southern boundary of England's Lake District National Park. It is located in the Furness region of Cumbria that was part of Lancashire before 1974. It lies near the River Duddon, just inland from the West Cumbrian coastal village of Foxfield.
Broughton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun held by Earl Tostig. Dating from around the eleventh century, the original settlement grew to become the local market town for both fishing and agriculture. The central obelisk in the town square was constructed to mark the Jubilee of King George III in 1810.
"BROUGHTON-in-Furness, a market-town and a chapelry, [as of 1634] in the parish of Kirby-Ireleth, union of Ulverston, hundred of Lonsdale north of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 29 miles northwest of Lancaster. The chapel is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene."[1]
Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/
Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop's Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection
Microfilm of original manuscripts in the Cumbria Record Office, Kendal.
Record contains burials, 1662-1686, marriages, 1663-1677, burials, 1667-1694, baptisms, marriages, burials, (transcript), 1662-1694, baptisms, marriages, burials, 1689-1753, baptisms, burials, 1754-1812, marriages, 1696-1697, baptisms, 1813-1901, marriages, 1754-1915, burials, 1813-1901, banns, 1824-1901.
The chapelry of Broughton-in-Furness is in the parish of Ulverston.
Cumbria Record Office no.: BPR/6/I1/1-2, I2/1-2, I3/1-3, I4/1-2, I6/1
Parish registers FHL BRITISH Film 1471921 Items 3-12
Bishop's transcripts for Broughton-in-Furness Microfilm of original records in the Lancashire Record Office, Preston.
Baptisms 1673-1677, 1694-1877; marriages 1673- 1677, 1694-1870; burials 1673-1677, 1694-1876. FHL BRITISH Film 1040308
Baptisms, burials, 1877-1896. FHL BRITISH Film 1040309 Item 1
The registers of the parish church of Kirkby-in-Furness, in the county of Lancaster baptisms, 1701-1812; burials, 1681-1812; marriages, 1728-1754
transcribed by Henry Brierley
Brierley, Henry 1846-1933, Dickinson, Robert Daniels, M. B.
Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Ireleth (Lancashire), (
publications: Rochdale [Lancashire] : Lancashire Parish Register Society, 1911-c1988
subject class: 942.72 K29
Vol. 43 is a photocopy of original publication.
Vol. 127 title varies: The register of the parish of Kirkby Ireleth / transcribed and edited by Canon E. C. Whitaker and Phyllis Tyson ; indexed by W. D. and Mrs. J Knipe.
Vol. 43 With: The registers of the parish church of Torver, near Conistpn, 1599-1792. Printed Rochdale for the Lancashire Parish Register Society by James Clegg.
Vol. 127 With: The registers of the chapel of Ireth / transcribed and edited by Robert Dickinson ; indexed by M. B. Daniels.
Contents: Vol. 43. Baptisms, 1701-1812; burials, 1681-1812; marriages, 1728-1754. -- Vol. 127. baptisms, 1813-1837; marriages, 1754-1837; burials, 1813-1837.
Includes indexes.
Vol. 127 was printed in Newport, Shropshire for the Lancashire Parish Register Society by Advertiser Printing Works, c1988.
Kirkby-in-Furness known as Kirkby-Ireleth.
Vol. 43 Also on microfilm. Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969. on 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. FHL BRITISH Film 599511 Item 3
Vol. 43 also on microfiche. Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998. 4 microfiches. FHL BRITISH Fiche 6142639
Vol. 127 Also on microfiche. Salt Lake City : Fil the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998. 1998. 5 microfiches. FHL BRITISH Fiche 6142722
Census records
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any unique information, such as the census for X year was destroyed.
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census
Poor Law Unions
Ulverston Poor Law Union,Lancashire
Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Web sites
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- ↑ A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 409-412. Adapted. Date accessed: 25 June 2010.


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Locals know to avoid Harbor Boulevard in San Pedro on a Sunday afternoon -- especially around a holiday.
Like clockwork, bumper-to-bumper cars spill out onto the waterfront road by the afternoon, inching south toward Ports O' Call Village, where fish dinners and live entertainment have become a weekly draw for families from miles around.
In short, it's a mess.
Casting a worried eye toward the Father's Day crowds coming on Sunday, port and downtown business leaders are calling for a working group to be formed quickly to find some solutions.
The problem will be addressed long-term through several projects, including street realignments planned by the Port of Los Angeles and developers working on revamping the Ports O' Call venue.
But until then, pressure is mounting to find some interim solutions.
Speaking at this month's business improvement district meeting, San Pedro attorney Robert Nizich said the traffic tie-ups are hurting business.
"There's a tremendous traffic problem at Ports O' Call," Nizich said. "It's hard to get people to the businesses."
Conditions have been getting worse for about five years, traffic authorities said, requiring traffic officers to direct cars and pedestrians through the maze of signals, crosswalks, turns and detours.
Currently, overflow traffic is directed farther south, to 22nd Street, where shuttles then ferry visitors into Ports O' Call.
Drop-off zones might help, Nizich said, allowing motorists to drop passengers before parking in a remote space.
The opening of more than 700 parking spaces in the Pacific Place building at 222 W. Sixth St., just a couple blocks either way from the downtown or the waterfront, is expected to provide some quick relief.
Another help is a new Traveler's Radio station that will broadcast helpful traffic and parking tips as visitors enter the area.
"Something else that would relieve the pressure is a sign at (the freeway off-ramp) at Gaffey Street," district President Eric Eisenberg said.
More signage at Swinford and 22nd streets also should be considered, Eisenberg said.
Currently, Los Angeles Port Police close off the Sixth Street entrance to Ports O' Call -- diverting motorists to the overflow traffic on 22nd Street -- when both Harbor Boulevard and the village parking lot are at 90 percent capacity.
Chief Harbor Engineer Tony Gioiello knows firsthand how dire the situation has become.
"I've been stuck in traffic (there) on Sunday," he said. "We do need a lot more signage out there."
Gioiello recommended that a working group be formed with members from his department at the Port of Los Angeles, the business improvement district, the council office, Ports O' Call merchants and city of Los Angeles traffic engineers. The group could be tasked with exploring interim fixes.
Part of the backup is the result of too many people using just the Harbor Boulevard off-ramp from the 110 Freeway.
"The signage needs to start on the freeway before people even get here," Eisenberg said.
If more cars got off at Gaffey, Eisenberg said, "it would be a huge pressure relief" on the traffic conditions.
It also would bring more people through the downtown district.
While Ports O' Call Village is in line for a complete makeover due to falling business, the venue still manages to bring throngs of people, many from more inland cities, on weekends, and especially on Sundays.
"You go down there on weekends and it's a celebration," said Alan Johnson, who is among the developers involved in the new Ports O' Call plans that are being designed to completely rebrand the venue. "The seafood's great and it's very festive."
The goal for the new Ports O' Call plan, he said, will be to drive more seven-day-a-week business. Traffic and new parking elements will be included in the blueprints.
"I think the desire is for more than a one-day-a-week business," Johnson said.


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According to Harker Heights foot and ankle surgeon Dr. H. Ashley Ledger, osteomyelitis can occur in bones within days of an infection on the skin, known as cellulitis; from a wound, traumatic or surgical; and spontaneously. Ledger explained that the porous nature of bones in people allows infection a fast path of travel, which makes the bone susceptible to amputation.
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While osteomyelitis is most commonly seen in diabetic wounds, healthy adults and children also are affected. Early symptoms can include increased pain, redness, increased temperature of skin, swelling, and difficulty with normal weight on the foot.
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This must be the holy grail of hacking: a cheap, do-it-yourself flying drone that can break into Wi-Fi networks and turn computers into zombies that can be controlled remotely. The coolest part for evildoers: it makes the hacking untraceable.
The SkyNET drone is a modified $300 Parrot quadcopter with a Linux computer, 3G card, a GPS unit and two Wi-Fi cards. This is how it works:
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Today's (Monday 1.4.2013) Madhubala episode of RK (Vivian Dsena) and Madhubala (Drashti Dhami) starts with Sultan suddenly waking up on recalling a lady's voice saying that he is not responsible for all this.
Sultan, Aryan and Kaka dress up themselves in a white dress and leave for pooja.
Madhubala is shocked to see cops in chwal and calls Kaka.
Kaka, Aryan and Sultan hide themselves seeing the police.
Aryan tells Madhubala that they went for a pooja for his mom's death anniversary today.
Sultan asks Madhu to stay away from his past.
Sultan agrees to join Holika Dhahan.
Bhujang decides to kill Sultan on Holi day.
Trishna and Padmini are happy to see Madhubala is playing with Aryan.
Sultan tells Madhu that his wife also loved Holi but this color took her away from him.
Madhu tells Sultan that he should also enjoy colors.