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|December 7, 2011
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The Art of Midwifery
Co-bathing is a good technique to use with babies who have had their natural instincts interfered with due to traumatic birth, vigorous suctioning, labor drugs, etc. The mother and baby have a nice, warm bath together with the baby positioned on the mother's tummy and assistant gently pouring water over the baby to keep her warm. Many babies will actually "crawl" up the mother's body and self-attach to the breast, something that babies from non-traumatic, unmedicated births will do if allowed to soon after delivery. If self-attachment doesn't occur, then at least the mother and baby have a lovely relaxing bath together.
— Denise, Brisbane, Australia
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Jan's Corner
"Midwife," Not "TBA"
At Midwifery Today we do not use the term "Traditional Birth Attendant," or "TBA." We believe it should be banned because it is derogatory and elitist, and was born of medical imperialism that spread to many parts of the world. As western-trained medical professionals, midwives, nurses and doctors travelled around the world in a possible effort to stem maternal and child death, they brought with them the arrogance and ignorance that their way was better whether statistics proved it or not. They blamed traditional midwives who were strong and respected in their communities for the bad outcomes, when often lack of food, clean water, sanitation and poverty were the causes.
After the end of the war with Japan, American nurses went and destroyed the Japanese system of birth houses, which probably had much better outcomes than hospitals in the US. There is an attitude of "our way is better than your way." This arrogance has removed the title of midwife from real community midwives. This language got into each country's nomenclature because the ones pushing for it had forcefully made the inroads towards ruining physiological birth everywhere! Remember, western practitioners were the ones who carried lithotomy position, episiotomy, artificial rupture of membranes, cutting cords short and a myriad of other horrendous non-evidence-based interventions abroad. These were the people who had the audacity to steal the term midwife from the midwives.
No one owns the word midwife or its equivalent in any tongue. If you practice midwifery, you are a midwife—not a TBA—a term assigned by a hierarchical system. The term midwife in any language carries with it love and respect to the community in which the midwife practices. It is past time to give that back. It is stolen property, stolen from those who cared for their community for thousands of years; stolen by a system that cuts more than 35% of babies from mothers in many countries, and many more in others. The term midwife crosses cultures and languages and belongs to all midwives. As the people from the Occupy movement are saying: It is time to take back our world!
Toward Better Birth,
— Jan Tritten, mother of Midwifery Today
Jan Tritten is the founder, editor-in-chief and mother of Midwifery Today magazine. She became a midwife in 1977 after the amazing homebirth of her second daughter. Her mission is to make loving midwifery care the norm for birthing women and their babies throughout the world. Meet Jan at our conferences around the world, or join her online, as she works to transform birth practices around the world.
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News and Research
A Finnish study has found that "low birth weight and slow growth in pre-adolescence significantly increases the risk of poor physical functioning at age 60." Scientists studied almost 2,000 people over the age of 60 and hypothesized that the correlations between low birth weight and decreased physical abilities may be explained by the Barker Hypothesis. This idea suggests that brain development takes precedence over muscle building in undernourished fetuses.
— Academy of Finland and World Science staff. "Low birth weight may have effects 60 years later." WorldScience.net. November 16, 2011.
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We have no traditional midwives in Slovenia—although I know my grandmother gave birth twice with a traditional community midwife at home. The midwives in general, I think, are not respected—they work in the state health system and vary widely in their attitude toward pregnant and laboring women. You are lucky to get a nice or warm midwife when you give birth, let alone one who would support a woman in her choices without remarks and pressure.
Efforts are being made to legalise independent midwifery so that a midwife would be able to make five check-ups during pregnancy and do births on her own, but we still have a long way to go.
— Ana Pavec
In Peru, the underground strategy to institutionalize birth is to ban homebirth and Andean and Amazonian midwives. Their role has been limited to accompanying women who still seek their counseling or treatment during pregnancy, to do walteado to women (girding) after birth, offer infant health treatment when sought, and give women counseling and treatment with herbs for general reproductive health throughout their reproductive cycle (including menopause).
Officially midwifery is not illegal, as the Ministry of Health knows that the number of public health centers and professional health personnel can't cover all the rural population in the country. Local Ministry of Health workers tell women, their partners, and local Andean and Amazonian midwives that homebirth and the work of traditional midwives are illegal.
Midwives used to be highly respected by local rural communities for their wisdom and expertise, and although some women still respect their work, they receive mixed messages from the local government health centers which make them distrust the midwives' ability to attend births and the safety of being attended by them. Others still trust their wisdom and knowledge, but have to go to the public health centers because they will be issued fines that they can't afford. Public health workers, ingrained in biomedical culture, see Andean midwifery as backward and without value, although some of their practices such as vertical birth have already been proven worldwide to be better birth practices for women.
— Cynthia Ingar
In Kenya, 60% of women deliver at home, and the deliveries at home are mostly conducted by midwives. A few are conducted by relatives and some women deliver on their own. There are no legal regulations governing midwives. Women choose whether to deliver in hospital or at home, but most women who deliver at home do so not by choice. Poor access to hospitals make most women deliver at home in the hands of midwives.
Midwives have various roles in the continuum of childbirth: they do antenatal examinations, conduct deliveries and offer neonatal advice. They also refer women to hospitals in case of difficult labour. Midwives are respected in Kenya for role they play in childbearing. They contribute a lot in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality.
— Benson Williesham Milimo
There are no more traditional midwives in Portugal; there are hardly any midwives here. The professional training is on top of nursing and the model of care is between biotechnocratic and the human model of care.
Specialised nurses tell me that they are independent caregivers in a hospital setting, where all women have a drip, 70% have an epidural and the caesarean rate is over 30%.
— Mary Zwart
Midwives attend homebirths particularly in very remote areas where there are no skilled birth attendants available. They help with the household chores while waiting for the mother to deliver her baby. They also run errands for the family in the absence of the husband. They also do home visits after delivery.
It is with pride and honor to say that midwives are respected in our country. They gained the respect of fellow health workers and the respect of the community. Midwives are the barefoot doctors in the remote areas and constitute the largest workforce among health service providers. Statistics clearly show the confidence and trust of mothers in the hands of the midwives.
— Cecille Banca Santos
Traditional midwifery is legal in Belize, and midwives practice in the Mennonite communities and in rural remote areas. Midwives are respected in villages, as are lay health care workers. The Mennonite community uses outsiders for health care, but they very rarely employ outsiders for births.
Midwives receive training once a month at a meeting and discuss issues such as recognizing illness and referring mothers to clinics.
Homebirth is decreasing in Belize as older licensed midwives are growing old and new midwives are not being trained. Distance and transportation are the main problems in getting women to clinics and hospitals.
The majority of babies are delivered by nurse-midwives in clinics and hospitals. Most of these nurse-midwives are from Belize or Nigeria and they have women deliver in the only position they know—on their back and in stirrups. In addition, 98% of first-time moms receive episiotomies and there are no VBAC deliveries even when doctors are present.
— Gail Johnson
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When I was 29, I lost a baby because the only two midwives at our hospital were in the theatre (field) delivering babies. There was no one left to look after those of us in labor. My baby died because it went into distress and couldn't be delivered quick enough. That is no reason for a baby to die.
— Esther Madudu, Ugandan midwife and advocate of improving birth conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa
In reality, healthy bodies come in all shapes and sizes, as do unhealthy bodies, and no single ideal size applies to everyone (even to all babies). But researchers would get a lot less funding, science journalists would get a lot fewer assignments, and the diet industry would make a lot less profit if people started believing that.
— L.V. Anderson, questioning claims connecting infant size to childhood obesity
I realized that being a midwife made me happy. Bringing someone to life is such a beautiful experience.
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As always you will be warmly welcomed and encouraged to make new friends. Our teachers are very accessible and willing to share with you. The events are designed to remind you of your love of birth and to strengthen your calling. They will provide deep learning and enjoyment. There is something for everyone, and moms are invited, too. I believe that if every pregnant mom could attend a Midwifery Today conference, each woman would acquire the skills and knowledge to have a great birth. They would learn so much, the medical monopoly couldn't fool them into needless interventions.
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Homebirth and the operation of independent midwives have been unregulated in Hungary for the last 20 years. Although a government order came into effect in 2011, the situation did not really improve. The most experienced midwife of the country, Ágnes Geréb, has been imprisoned for more than a year, and several court cases are in progress against her and four other midwives. These cases clearly show the lack of equal and fair treatment of independent midwives and homebirth, compared to hospital cases. If you have any idea or recommendation about how to make steps towards the recognition of midwifery and homebirth in Hungary and in other countries of the region, please contact us at: http://freegereb.org/english/181-the-case-of-agnes-gereb-independent-midwife-with-the-hungarian-court.
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Over a six-decade (and counting) career, Brooklyn-born Shelley Winters has proven to be a highly prolific, galvanic presence on stage and screen. As a teenager, she auditioned for the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara in her thick "Noo Yawk" accent, prompting director George Cukor to suggest she consider college. Undaunted, Winters persisted and landed an understudy job for the 1940 Broadway production of "The Time of Your Life". The following year, she made her Broadway debut in "The Night Before Christmas". A voluptuous bottle blonde, the actress soon caught the attention of talent scouts and was put under contract by Columbia Pictures in 1943. Underutilized, Winters auditioned for and landed a role in "Knickerbocker Holiday" (1944) at United Artists upsetting studio head Harry Cohn who eventually dropped her option.
After Columbia released her, George Cukor came to Winters' rescue, casting her in a major part in "A Double Life" (1947). The film proved a breakthrough, offering her a meaty role as a buxom waitress who falls for an actor (Ronald Coleman) gearing up to play Othello. Additionally, it provided Winters with the first of her many memorable on-screen death scenes. Before signing a seven-year contact with Universal on strength of her work, she returned to Broadway to play Ado Annie (the girl who can't say no) in the hit stage musical "Oklahoma!".
Once back in Hollywood and working at Universal, Winters became typecast as, in her words, "the bad blonde bimbo usually going up against the sweet brunette". She fared slightly better as the tarty wife of a slow-witted mechanic in 1949's "The Great Gatsby" and cut a fine figure as a dance hall girl torn between Charles Drake and James Stewart in the fine Western "Winchester '73" (1950). Winters fought hard to land the role of the mousy factory worker who falls for a cad in George Stevens' "A Place in the Sun" (1951). The director initially did not want to cast her because of her brassy screen persona. Winters met with him, dressed down, without make-up. Stevens was impressed enough but asked her to test for the role which the actress managed to avoid. The director eventually gave her the part and elicited one of her finest screen portrayals which earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination. The downside was that it created a new screen persona for Winters: that of the frowsy, blowsy harridan. She embodied these characteristics in such acclaimed films as "Executive Suite" (1954) and "The Big Knife" (1955). Charles Laughton also tapped into that vein when he cast her as the lusty widow of a bank robber who falls victim to a charismatic con (Robert Mitchum) in the superb "Night of the Hunter" (also 1955).
Feeling a need to reinvigorate her career, Winters took four years away from Hollywood to study at the Actors Studio and return to Broadway as the wife of a drug addict in "A Hatful of Rain" (1956). When she ventured back to L.A., she embarked on a career as a character player with roles like the loquacious Mrs. Van Daan in George Stevens' screen adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959), for which she picked up a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Winters made an indelible impression as the pathetically lovelorn Charlotte Haze in "Lolita" (1962). The 60s saw her undertake a string of memorable roles, the best being her Oscar-winning turn as the bigoted Southern mother of a blind girl in "A Patch of Blue" (1965).
Since the late 60s, however, her work has been in substandard vehicles, partly from her seemingly endless stream of projects. Winters had lent her considerable talents to roles that bordered on camp ("Who Slew Auntie Roo?" and "What's the Matter With Helen?" both 1971) to memorable (her Oscar-nominated turn as an elderly former swimming champion in "The Poseidon Adventure" in 1972 and the Machiavellian agent in "S.O.B." in 1981). Among her more recent work was the accompanist to a motley group of tap dancers in "Stepping Out" (1991) and a lovely cameo as the wife of the dying John Gielgud in Jane Campion's "The Portrait of a Lady" (1996). Perhaps ironically, though, despite accolades, status as one of the leading teachers and practitioners of "the Method", over 100 films and numerous stage credits and two volumes of memoirs, Winters became best known to an entirely new generation for her six-year (1991-97) recurring role as Nana Mary on the hit ABC sitcom "Roseanne".


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President Obama will appoint the first female director of the Secret Service, who is also an Orlando native and University of Central Florida alumna.
Julia Pierson, who graduated from UCF with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and Orlando Police Officer from 1980-1983, will be appointed as director of the United States Secret Service, leaving her current post as Chief of Staff in the Office of the Director of the United States Secret Service.
"I am pleased to announce that I will appoint Julia A. Pierson to be the next Director of the United States Secret Service," President Obama said in a prepared statement. "Over her 30 years of experience with the Secret Service, Julia has consistently exemplified the spirit and dedication the men and women of the service demonstrate every day."
Pierson is a veteran of the Miami and Orlando Secret Service field offices and previously served as as the Deputy Assistant Director of the Office of Protective Operations and Assistant Director of Human Resources and Training.
"Julia is eminently qualified to lead the agency that not only safeguards Americans at major events and secures our financial system, but also protects our leaders and our first families, including my own," President Obama said. "Julia has had an exemplary career, and I know these experiences will guide her as she takes on this new challenge to lead the impressive men and women of this important agency."
According to a Smithsonian article, Pierson worked at Disney World in high school, starting off int he parking lot, advancing to watercraft and wore the character outfits while in Americans on Parade. In the article Pierson says she thinks dealing with large crowds at the park helped her ability to work with the Secret Service.
From her start as one of the first women officers patrolling the streets of Orlando and through the ranks of the Secret Service, an Orlando native is breaking molds again.
Pierson is a former OPD officer who patrolled areas like Lake Eola. St. Cloud Police Chief Pete Gauntlett said he remembers working alongside her in the beginning of their careers.
"I can tell you Julia is the consummate professional," said Gauntlett. "She started with good roots, right here in central Florida."
Gauntlett said her career is a tribute to the Orlando Police Department.
Altamonte Springs Police Chief Mike McCoy remembers when he met Pierson when she was a police explorer. Even then, her personality stood out.
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Falmouth's taxi marshals service has been given a one month reprieve after the owner of the security |company which supplies them offered to fund the service for the next four weeks, free of charge.
The marshals, which have been credited for slashing incidents of late night crime and disorder on The Moor, were due to carry out their final patrol last Saturday after the town council pulled the plug on the service because of a lack of financial support from pubs, clubs and taxi companies.
They will be back patrolling the taxi rank this weekend, though, after John Richards, owner of Infinitus Security, made his offer to the town council, believing the service was worth saving.
"Hopefully in the next month I can then either get some sponsorship or fix up a couple of people to help," said Mr Richards. "If I can recoup 75 per cent of the cost I will carry on and foot the rest of the bill. It would be nice if I could break even, but I am willing to fund a quarter, maybe a half, of the cost until the end of the tax year and then I can look at it again.
"The response I have had to the scheme is brilliant so I thought I can give a little back to the community. I'm in the position where I can staff it for a month at my own cost."
Looking ahead into the next financial year, Mr Richards is willing to run the marshal service, a month at a time to allow funding to be found in stages, rather than a year at a time.
"If taxi drivers just paid £3 a month and other businesses donated maybe £5 or £10 a month, it would help," said Mr Richards.
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Are Free Foods Sabotaging Your Diet?by Dana Angelo White in Dining Out, March 20, 2012
Going out to eat almost always means bigger portions and more calories, but those meals may also contain hundreds of unwanted extras from "free" items that find their way to your plate. Here are 8 pitfalls to avoid.
1. Bread
We all know to watch out for the bread basket but it's often hard to resist. It might help to know that each roll or slice averages 100 calories; then add another 120 for every tablespoon of olive oil. Butter only has 100 calories per tablespoon but is also higher in unhealthy fat.
2. Chips & Salsa
While salsa won't get you into too much trouble, the fried chips are another story. Each ounce (about 12 chips) has 140 calories and 7 grams of fat. Crunch in moderation.
3. Free Refills
Free refills of soda and other sugary beverages may seem like a bargain, but your waistline is paying the price. Each 16-fluid-ounce serving of soda has 130 calories. Watch out at diners too – coffee alone is low in calories but added cream and sugar will make each cup count.
4. Pickles
Who doesn't love a big crunchy pickle along with a deli sandwich? If you have high blood pressure you might want to think twice. Along with those salty cold cuts comes another 400-plus milligrams of sodium from each pickle – that's 17% of the daily recommendation.
5. Fried Wontons
As if take-out Chinese food wasn't high-cal enough. Sit down and munch on deep-fried wonton chips and duck sauce and you'll add 45 calories and 3 grams of fat (per chip!) and another 60 calories (per ¼ cup) of sugary dipping sauce.
6. Popcorn
Does your favorite pub welcome you with a basket of warm and crunchy popcorn at the table? The oil-popped variety (from those old-fashioned machines) has 55 calories and 3 grams of fat per cup.
7. Bar Snacks
It's just too easy to mindlessly munch on salty nuts and snack mixes, especially if you're having a cocktail or two. A large handful of mixed nuts (about ½ cup) has over 400 calories and 35 grams of fat. Most snack mixes aren't much better (about 300 calories and 15 grams of fat). Another concern is food safety – how fresh are those bar snacks?
8. Candy Dish
You'll find them everywhere from the bank teller to the local manicure joint: Overflowing dishes of sugary confections wrapped up like presents. Hard candies and lollipops will cost you about 25 to 50 calories each, while the chocolate treats will go up from there. Passing on that 50 calories each day would save you 18,250 calories a year – that's more than 5 pounds! Just some food for thought.
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Arcata High Students take on City Council positions for the day
ARCATA- Members of Arcata High School's student government took the place of Arcata City Council members for a day as part of Student Government Day. Students shadowed council members and city staff to get an idea of what it is like to work for government.
The annual event is held at City Hall to help education students on the role of student government in a community. Arcata High School student government, leadership and journalism students took part in the event.
Students shadowing as council members held a mock council meeting that discussed the issue of pedestrian and traffic safety at Sunset Avenue and LK Wood Boulevard. In past years students have taken on issues like Arcata's plastic bag ban, and downtown public restroom.


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Jessica Simpson's meat-love gets her unsolicited advice from PETA
PETA has taken umbrage with Jessica Simpson's T-shirt proclaiming "Real Girls Love Meat." They decided to seek the moral high ground and respond with a list of five reasons "Why only stupid girls brag about eating meat." Sciencey! Here's my personal favorite gem:
4. Meat will make you fat. All the saturated fat and cholesterol in chicken wings, pork chops, and steak eventually leads to flabby thighs and love handles. I hope the upcoming "Jessica Simpson's Intimates" line comes in plus sizes! Going vegetarian is the best way to get slim and stay that way.
Jesus! "Eating meat will make you fat." How superficial. (Ha ha! The name of this site.) But, seriously, PETA left out these other pitfalls of being a carnivore that warrant your attention. What can I say? I'm a helper:
1. Meat will cause the Lifetime channel to go off the air. Or, at the very least, cancel Army Wives.
2. Feeding your husband meat will lead him straight into the arms of another woman. Who's totally that chick at your work who you'd be friends with if only she didn't have the same purse. Bitch.
3. AIDS: It's what for dinner – if you eat meat.


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But African-Americans who live in the City Different say that number even seems high when they scan the faces here. Why such historically low numbers in the Land of Enchantment, and only hundreds in the capital city?
New Mexico is the home of the only state-funded Office of African American Affairs in the nation; the University of New Mexico has an Africana studies program. Santa Fe supports an annual Fela Festival (a celebration of African culture) and the state NAACP branch sponsors a popular Juneteenth commemoration; Santa Fe's high altitude has made it a popular training spot for African runners; race-conscious writers such as Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow) have filled seats at the Lensic. And yet, are black residents staying away?
Isabel Wilkerson's hugely successful The Warmth of Other Suns, published in 2010, tells the representative story of three black Americans at the turn of the 20th century who leave the South; their exoduses show how black culture spread throughout the US. Before emancipation, blacks free or slave overwhelmingly resided in Southern pockets. Not insignificantly, black homesteaders and Buffalo soldiers ventured westward by the thousands in the late 1800s, but a grandiose influx of millions of blacks into Washington, D.C. and Chicago only began occurring after World War I (known as the time of the Great Migration) and was followed later by a western migration toward Los Angeles and Oakland in the 1940s.
Wilkerson encapsulates the westward migration in the story of Robert Pershing Foster. Foster leaves segregated Louisiana and heads west nonstop until he reaches El Paso, "the unspoken border between the Jim Crow South and the free Southwest." He "crossed into New Mexico" but "had no reason to stop there" except to sleep.
Although she only gives New Mexico a brief, passing mention, Wilkerson's book still illuminates the ways in which migrations have always been a self-fulfilling prophesy–blacks traveled "where they knew others" recreating familiar environs (while New Mexico culture seemed foreign); and they travelled where work was plentiful (the mining jobs available in New Mexico could not compete with the labor force burgeoning in California). They were already making a leap of faith. New Mexico seemed the leap into the fantastic.
While New Mexico has been consistently neglected in books purportedly devoted to illuminating the black West, earlier this year, the University of New Mexico Press finally published the compilation of essays African American History in New Mexico. Editor Bruce Glasrud provides an introduction which often sounds an apologetic note. "It is obvious to this author that the number of publications on the African American community in New Mexico unfortunately lags behind every other state in the West." He laments that "so little can be found about African Americans in New Mexico it almost seems a conspiracy."
Or is it less a conspiracy than another self-fulfilling prophesy? That every time New Mexico is spoken of as "tri-cultural," a bias is reinforced and a potential black narrative is lost in 400-plus years of a Native American/Hispanic/Anglo shuffle? Then again, isn't America fascinated by frontier stories; and isn't it possible that in the tumult of the Great Migration blacks who chose New Mexico made the most radical break with the past of them all?
It's worth considering how an ongoing black presence—from inter-racial sexual relations in the Spanish colonial times to the ways that desegregation battles initiated in the South still impacted New Mexico identity and law—may have changed New Mexico.
I have lived in Santa Fe five years, and I moved here from the heart of the American South. The South is a region burdened by history, and (in my opinion still is) a region torn by racial strife, angst and animosity. Coming from this background, I was fascinated by how blacks maneuvered the terrain of a western state with its own history of racial strife which decentralizes the traditional American black-white racial dynamic. I had no choice but to ask myself how the impact of a black presence culminated in 21st century New Mexico. It also seemed to me there was (and according to Santa Feans interviewed for this article there is) something past and present distinctive about belonging to the black oasis in Santa Fe.
Still, there are stories about race prejudice experienced by blacks in a state with so few. Consider what it's been like for 74-year-old Charles Maxwell, a Santa Fean since 1954.
"One year in the 70s I served on some Fiesta committee. They put up the names on some board of all the groups in New Mexico. They had the Spanish, the Indians and Anglos. I raised my hand and said, 'Well hold on, what about us?' They said something like there wasn't enough of us to put us up on the board. I didn't make a fuss about it," he says with a grimace.
Then, there's James Smart, a five-year resident of rural Española, who describes an unrepentantly racist incident in which a small child used the n-word. James says "This little kid points his finger at me and goes 'Look, look, nigger man!'"
Like many black Americans, I have had this kind of incident happen to me too many times to say I was shocked. Instead, I asked James if it was possible the child had never seen a black American before?
"We have always been here," James replied.
The state's population of blacks can be traced far back in history, a fact emphasized by African American History in New Mexico but belied by today's low numbers. Consider the obscure yet highly romantic figure of Esteban Dorantes.
Esteban was a black slave, probably born in sub-Saharan Africa circa 1500. He was resold to a sea captain in 1522 and became a crew member on one of the earliest Spanish expeditions into Northern America, traversing places we now call Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. The expedition proved catastrophic for all but four of its 300 crew members.
The four survivors, a number that included Esteban, fortuitously reached safety in Mexico City, which was the seat of Spanish colonial power in the New World. Esteban achieved a renown which led to him receiving a position of authority on a subsequent 1538 expedition commanded by Marcos de Niza. With that group, Esteban led a forward guide party that is generally believed to have been the first to reach Arizona, New Mexico and the Pueblo lands. The word "discoverer" is freighted with bias, however, it's worth noting that the ostensible first "discoverer" of New Mexico was a black man.
This seems almost too ironic to be true, though historians by and large agree it is so. The tale has other symbolic resonances. Marcos de Niza later wrote in a report to the crown that Esteban had been murdered by Zuni Indians. The Zunis have passed down an oral account related to Esteban as the inspiration behind a kachina–a small doll used in Zuni ceremonies. According to their account, Esteban was killed due to a ceremonial misunderstanding. Others stories say he was killed because he arrogantly demanded women and turquoise. Regardless, he's still depicted as Chaiwaina—a warrior bejeweled, his flesh midnight black, his hair wooly, simultaneously depicting the dread and awe of a first encounter.
Throughout the 1600s, willing and coerced liaisons between the Spanish and black slaves in New Mexico, and marriages between free blacks and American Indians produced a sub-population of mixed-race citizens. Deidra S. MacDonald points out that although Black-Indian relations in New Mexico had "a less than auspicious beginning" with Esteban, the small, overwhelmingly male population of blacks in the colony bonded with and consistently married Indian women. McDonald furthermore argues that the Pueblo Revolt, which temporarily drove the Spanish out of New Mexico, is best understood as a multi-ethnic revolt against the Spanish conquerors, waged collectively by American Indians and the biracial castes.
Essayist Jim Heath devotes a whole chapter to a directly contrary statement issued over a century later in 1812. Pedro Bautista Pino declared that in New Mexico "Spaniards and pure blood Indians make up the total population of 40,000 inhabitants." The statement ignored the thousands of black slaves brought to Mexico and New Mexico and their mixed-race descendants. Heath identifies specific mullato families living contemporaneously in New Mexico, concluding it was unlikely Pino "genuinely believed no Negro castes lived within province."
Why the need to falsify? It may have been that by 1812 the Spanish caste system—and its recognition of fluidity in race politics and social status—was becoming Americanized. The myth of black inferiority was enmeshed in the United States culture, and the black presence had become a mark of shame.
In 1859, New Mexico, now a US territory, was pressured by Texas into passing a slave code. Essayist Mark Stegmaier points out the irony that by 1859 "New Mexico had so few slaves the territory's census did not differentiate between slaves and free black populations." But the racial caste system which characterized colonial New Mexico was by its very nature at odds with the American rule-of-thumb that declared anyone a Negro who possessed 'one drop' of Negro blood. The standard American racial mores failed to quite make sense here. Who, asks Stegmaier, in the racial flux of New Mexico counted as black? The slave code was repealed in 1861.
Although Southern anti-black race prejudice strongly affected New Mexico after the Civil War, transient black cowboys, and, in particular, black infantrymen, sometimes permanently remained. Between 1866 and 1900, over 3,000 "Buffalo soldiers" served at New Mexico forts. In 1876, Buffalo soldier musicians (the black regiments were renowned for their marching bands) performed in the Santa Fe Fourth of July celebration.
Originally a slave born in Texas, George McJunkin achieved renown for having the acumen to recognize the importance of bison bones and a flint spear tip that he discovered in New Mexico in 1908, although he labored for years to interest professionals in his discovery. The bones were an extraordinary archeological find, dating over 10,000 years old and providing clues about early man. A black bronco buster Addison Jones also became a local legend. Blacks at the turn of the century may have been less a sustained community than an assortment of mavericks and oddities, but from 1900 onward there were visible outlines of the future.
The road towards black hopes and aspirations in New Mexico leads to Blackdom, an all-black township near present day Dexter that briefly flourished in the early 20th century. Blackdom was initially the dream of Henry Boyer, a black soldier who in 1846 traveled through the Pecos Valley at a time when free blacks in New Mexico were required to "post a sum of $200 to ensure good behavior." New Mexico nevertheless struck Boyer as "a beautiful place where a man could live free from slavery, segregation, discrimination, and Jim Crow laws." Henry Boyer instilled in his son Francis the idea that a New Mexico black Elysium was possible.
Possibly the most impressive chapter in African American History in New Mexico uses information gathered from surviving Boyer relatives to reconstruct a thorough account of the Blackdom township, officially incorporated in 1911. Francis Boyer was deeply influenced by the "black Exodusters movement" of the late 1800s. While the later Great Migration was an unplanned, spontaneous exodus and relocation of millions driven by desperation and necessity, the Exodusters movement—which never inspired comparable numbers—was schematic. Thousands of freed slaves journeyed to the great 'elsewhere' (usually Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma) with loosely knit plans to establish farming communities. The heart of the movement was romantic, utopian, and, critics claimed, impractical.
Exoduster ideals were expressed in a town map that Francis Boyer drew up for the town. "The first few years went well due to plentiful rain [and the community] was able to support a small store, two churches, a school, a post office, and a one sheet newspaper," write Jeff A Berg and MA Walton, but Blackdom was killed by drought. Francis Boyer and his wife Ella founded another black settlement in Vado, NM, but the black residents scattered by the late 40s. (Vado today is mostly Hispanic.) Boyer's living relatives harbor memories of feelings of pride and self-reliance fostered in Vado.
It would be unwise to embrace a too Pollyannaish view of race relations in early 20th century, or civil rights era New Mexico. Francis Boyer's family was threatened by the area Ku Klux Klan chapter in 1925. The Blackdom and Vado enclaves were nothing if not atypical. The typical New Mexico city and town was segregated by law or by an accepted social contract. "The racial pecking order in Tucumcari," recalls a black resident in the 1940s, "included whites at the top, the Spanish people next (because they were able to go to school with whites) and then, at the bottom, were the "colored" people."
Blacks in Albuquerque were allowed to attend neighborhood public schools, but were segregated within the school by being forced to sit in the rear of classrooms. Albuquerque passed a local anti-discrimination ordinance in 1952, but it is often implied in African Americans in New Mexico that seeming early successes were in fact reflections of a general indifference–social bandages to a New Mexico population too small to warrant passionate engagement. The 1952 Albuquerque civil rights ordinance—like a later state public accommodations law passed in the early 60s—had too little teeth. Only after federal laws and sanctions such as Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, or the US Civil Rights Act of 1964 did the segregated realities of New Mexico begin to change.
In an essay originally published at the height of the Black Power movement in 1969, Roger W Banks squarely confronts the difficulties of forging a black social, cultural or political identity in a state in which "the small size and scatted nature of the black population" made them a third-wheel minority with little cache or clout. By Banks' account, middle-class blacks in Albuquerque have traditionally been "transient professionals" with no strong commitments to the region, while the native black poor have been so accustomed to lacking representation that they have never developed a strong sense of collective self-identity.
Many may disagree with Bank's dire prognosis, but few will disagree that more work needs to be done to flesh out the state's civil rights era legacy. The narrative portrayed in African American History in New Mexico lacks the drama of Southern struggles, yet it is haunted by a certain disappointment. New Mexico still today has elected no African American state senators, much less a US congressman or senator. The dramatic pinnacle comes with the 1995 election of Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton, D-Bernalillo, who is still the most visible face of black political achievement in the state. It was her successful push in 1999 that established the Office of African American Affairs, an office with a mission to redress African American poverty and support black cultural identity in New Mexico that will likely outlast any individual political term.
In Blackdom, and on many occasions throughout New Mexico history, blacks have expressed deep feelings of appreciation for the ways in which the state's unique racial flux facilitated personal liberation. This is the pole which the state's black history revolves around: A feeling sometimes of rootlessness and a contrary sense of liberation, remaking stereotypes by leaping out of traditional boundaries, and shunting the baggage of the past.
Charles Maxwell, 74, is a familiar face given the decades that he has promoted the Charles "Cocoa" Maxwell Golf Tournament in honor of a deceased son. Retired from the New Mexico Highway Department, Maxwell has the natural manner of a father figure. He routinely emphasizes the importance of doing charitable works.
"My father was a sharecropper in Roswell. When I was 14, the boss man made us give up our house on the land to a white family. My dad got tired of being a sharecropper. He was going to go find a job in California. But he missed his turn, stopped at a gas station, and asked for directions," he says.
"We were so glad when dad decided to leave Roswell. It was so prejudiced down there. The black kids played with the black kids, and whites with whites. The teachers were favored toward the white kids more than the black and Hispanic kids. They used to put all the kids to work on the farms in Roswell. But in Santa Fe my dad made sure my brothers and sisters got a good education. I was about 17 and I got a job to help out. My first job was washing dishes.
I'd say there were maybe 20, or 24 blacks in Santa Fe. But more guys than women. That created some problems 'cause of course black guys were going out with white and Hispanic girls. In Roswell, blacks only went out with blacks. I'd say 80 percent of the blacks in Santa Fe are in mixed marriages. I went out with Spanish girls and Native Americans. I could have married a white, or a Native American, but I felt like…with so few blacks around I just felt like I wanted to marry a black woman."
Maxwell, now happily married for 52 years, prefers to laugh off incidents of prejudice—customers who too hastily accused him of wrongdoing, the not uncommon occurrence of children using the n-word. Ironically, Maxwell notes that only four years ago as he helped local Girl Scouts with cookie sales, he was accosted by two police officers after a resident had complained "a strange black man" wandered the streets.
"I've had a wonderful experience here… but that hurt me more than anything else in all my time here," he says.
George Geder, 62, a genealogist and the president of the Santa Fe NAACP, moved here from Oakland seven years ago:
"When I first got here I tried to find where the black folks were with my wife Cynthia, so we went to the NAACP meeting. We saw first off it was a decidedly multi-cultural group with fewer blacks than usual. The number of black faces is increasing, but just like someone told me when I first got here, if you're looking for the 'hood, you're not going to find it."
Geder says he and his wife "try to acknowledge black folk when we see them." The reaction?
"It varies. We get people who are delighted that we made the overture; other times we get the cold shoulder. And I understand that…some people are coming from large communities like Detroit, or Baltimore, where there is lots of chaos and confusion within the black community. When they come to Santa Fe they...tend to feel they don't want to get involved.
I feel we gotta' have our culture, and shouldn't lose it—hold on no matter where you go. It's always good to have fellowship. As president of the NAACP chapter I just want people to know that if you want a get together with soul food, if you want to celebrate Kwanzaa, it's possible. I believe the last three governors have made statements that this is a multi-cultural state, not a tri-cultural state."
Tone Forrest, an actor and musician, says he routinely approaches other blacks and says "I'm Tone. They're too few of us in Santa Fe for all of us not to know each other."
"I've been black all my life, but here we are demographically a part of the Anglo community. It's different in Albuquerque. There's a black community in Santa Fe, yes, but not an appreciable demographic. Nobody is hunting the black vote in Santa Fe. The irony of that is palpable, but it's worked fine for me. Mostly it's been advantageous because I stand out. Being black gets me noticed…but it's my skills which have gotten me work. "
Danielle Louise Reddick, a Harlem-born actress, has been living here since 1999. She speaks of Santa Fe in terms of freedom from black stereotypes. "I've had a couple of black boyfriends who couldn't deal with me because I was too independent, and my world was a little too white–being in the theater and everything. And I had a white boyfriend who had to hide me when his dad was around. I've seen both sides of the coin. I've felt really ostracized by both the black and the white community."
Reddick moved to Santa Fe with her future husband, then she began to make new associations.
"Soon I met a girlfriend. It's like when you have a black attack. You see another black person and you go 'Heeeey, you live here? What do you do here! Let's hang out!' We were part of a song circle. But she had a son, and [as her son grew older] she didn't want to raise her child here. I had another friend with daughters, and at school the other kids were teasing them calling them slaves! I've met a couple of white mothers with adopted black daughters, and they tell me 'I don't know what to do with her hair!'
"I think because of my life in theater… I think it's given me a mindset where I don't feel intimidated not being in a community of black people," she says. "I experience that from other black people. 'Oh my God. How can you live here? There are no black people here'."
Owner of Wellness by Design, Rick Bastine, will never forget the day he was driving in Santa Fe, and a cop passed by without slowing and staring him down. "In Oakland, and in California in general," he says, "cops stare you down. It's commonplace—racial profiling."
"When I first came here I thought 'what the hell did I do? …Where are the black people?' It also feels like even though black people live here it isn't a cohesive community; when other cultures move to an area they come together; for example the Africans in Santa Fe bond. I have a sense we don't do that—maybe not here or in a lot of other places. I would like to change that."
Bastine does believe that more blacks could "warm up" to Santa Fe. "I know that for some it didn't nourish them, but for me it tenderized me," says Bastine, who discovered his vocations as a hypnotherapist and neuro-linguistic practitioner in Santa Fe. He was born in Jim Crow Louisiana and remembers segregated drinking fountains, but finds an odd sense of being "invisible"—not an object of racial scrutiny—proved rejuvenating here.
"I used to do things I was good at. Not the things I loved. I decided to stop caring about what someone else would think. And I embraced myself," he says.
Gregory Waits, a performance artist and intern architect says "here, much more than Albuquerque, blacks are perceived as a novelty. An exotic other. That can be appealing. But it's not an ideal that applies everywhere. I could be in a ghetto in San Francisco, and if was walking there I would be perceived as a criminal, or a drug dealer. I love Santa Fe. But I do think it has a certain fantasy element about it in relationship to the United States in general."
Waits and others share a dream of publically honoring the continuity of a black presence in New Mexico.
Since the early 21st century, there has been a movement spearheaded by the Blackdom Incorporated (a foundation in Roswell) to build a permanent, large memorial to Francis Boyers' vision behind Blackdom and Vado. Waits, who serves as the project designer, envisions a garden near the original town site. Presently, there is a small historical marker at a rest stop on Highway 285 between Roswell and Artesia, but it's so inconspicuous that it underscores the scanty number of New Mexico's black population rather than highlighting its persistence.
Waits says the memorial garden will look behind and ahead. "I incorporated Francis Boyer's migration with the Middle Passage, the Exodusters and the Great Migration because we tend to see things in parts, but the essence of the story is a search for self-identity, and the memorial doesn't end with Francis Boyer and how his town was killed by a drought. I saw from Boyer's city plan that he was still so dependent on what he had known before. They were so close to slavery, they didn't have an identity yet. You couldn't. Not coming from such an oppressive situation. They didn't achieve it there– but the narrative can go on."
Does the search continue in Santa Fe? Is that why the few of us who live here choose to do so? Is it a point on a map of identity?
"I'd say so. In a strange kind of a way, coming here is a weird kind of erasure of any stereotypical past," Waits says. " The past that's here is unique. Atypical. It's almost like a clean slate."
"When we are worrying about race," he says, "it creates a race to see who is doing what, a comparison of what 'I think I don't have.'... It's a heart-matter for us all to no longer address our differences but for us to lift each other out of our mental slavery."


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A DESIGN student from Addingham has seen her work chosen for a New Designers exhibition in London.
Mary Jenner, 21, who attended Ilkley Grammar School, recently finished her final year at York St John University, where she studied product design.
For her final project she designed and made a modern version of a tradition Yorkshire farming chair. The chair - a lambing chair with the under-seat storage used for children's toy, decorated with laser etched farm animal images - was exhibited in York and was then one of a handful chosen to exhibit her work at the New Designers exhibition in London.
The exhibition, for emerging design talent, was held at the Business Design Centre in London.
Mary said: "I set myself the brief of designing and making a multifunctional item of children's furniture. When looking through existing items of furniture, I found out about the 'lambing chair' - a chair with a pull our drawer or lift up seat where stories say, orphaned lambs were placed to keep warm and safe.
"I liked this idea of a chair used to nurture little lambs and I didn't want this design to disappear. There was no set design for the lambing chair, as each chair was usually built by village joiners or the farmers themselves, so I took inspiration from many of the examples I could find, which led to a very traditional looking chair. I then decided to juxtapose the traditional form with modern laser etched images to create a product that really stands out.
"Throughout the project I have taken brilliant advise and ideas from Lime Kiln Furniture in Addingham, and Mike Enever (from Lime Kiln Furniture) helped me make the final chair. When we were making the chair, there was a lot of carrying materials from Addingham to my university in York and back, as all the cutting and joints were completed at the Lime Kiln workshop and the laser etching at the University workshop.
"Being chosen for New Designers was one of the most nerve-racking yet exciting experiences I have had. It meant a lot of extra work when all my university friends had finished, but when you're in London, with head designers and hundreds of students asking you about your work, it made it all worth it.
"I am now hoping to start as a free lance designer and to also produce CAD images for workshops and furniture companies."
See Mary's portfolio at www.behance.net/maryjenner


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By Leah Eichler
There's another reason why women don't "lean in" at work, according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
It's not due to lack of ambition, or any unconscious bias against them in the corporate world. It's violence, according to the report, titled "The Gap in the Gender Gap [1]." Violence against women, including sexual assault, not only prevents them from advancing their careers, it also costs the Canadian economy $1.9-billion a year, the report says.
Although the business world has embraced the notion of corporate social responsibility, support for anti-violence initiatives is relatively uncommon. This is puzzling, given the issue has a direct impact on workers, productivity and the bottom line. According to a Statistics Canada figure cited in the CCPA report, 70 per cent of Canadian women in the work force say they have experienced spousal violence.
A lot of people harbour misconceptions about sexual violence [2] that may be reflected in business attitudes. Many seem to feel it is an issue that plagues "other people," or that women bring it on themselves. For example, one in five Canadians believe that women encourage sexual assault by being drunk, according to a recent survey by the Canadian Women's Foundation. Flirting and wearing a short skirt were also given as reasons why women are assaulted.
It has been estimated that 50 per cent of women in Canada will experience an act of physical or sexual violence, so it isn't a stretch to think that it may be affecting your employees or your colleagues.
Protecting women from violence is not only an ethical and legal issue, it's also a financial one, including loss of wages, which are substantial: One-third of Canadians who report experiencing sexual assault had household incomes of more than $100,000, according to the CCPA study.
"We need to make the case that preventing violence against women is not only the right thing to do, it is good for business as well," said Todd Minerson, executive director of the White Ribbon Campaign in Toronto, a global movement of men working to end violence against women and girls.
He noted that Canadian men are on board with the anti-violence message. White Ribbon's research shows that 94 per cent of Ontario men consider violence against women an important issue to them, and 87 per cent think it affects all women.
Some companies, such as Ontario Power Generation, for example, have worked to end the violence with financial support for women's shelters and services in the communities where they operate. And some companies are developing their own programs to tackle the issue, both for their employees and the broader community.
White Ribbon is working with companies such as Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp., where it is designing a series of violence prevention programs for the company's mine sites around the world. "This shows tremendous leadership and vision," Mr. Minerson said of Barrick's initiative. "To invest in meaningful, collaborative, community-driven and relevant prevention projects is a real commitment to ending gender-based violence."
To illustrate the impact of violence against women on corporate productivity, Mr. Minerson related an account of a Barrick mine supervisor in Zambia. An employee received a call that his sister's husband was attacking her and he needed to leave to ensure her safety. The only way back to town, about an hour's drive away, was in the supervisor's truck. The supervisor sent two other miners along to ensure additional violence didn't ensue, even though it meant he lost half his team for the shift, reducing that day's production.
Adnauer Amorim, president of Avon Canada in Montreal, said his company is working hard to "bring this issue out of the shadows" through the Avon Foundation for Women, which finances initiatives to build awareness and improve prevention, as well as Avon's "empowerment products," which support charitable partners.
He says he believes businesses can have a "trickle down effect" in preventing violence against women because they are in a position to communicate more directly with the wider community.
"So many victims of domestic violence live in silence – it's critical that we work together to break that silence, and remove the fear and stigma often associated with it," Mr. Amorim said. "The more people talk about it, the more we can bring about change."
(To read original commentary, visit this Globe and Mail link [3])
[1] http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/gap-gender-gap
[2] http://whiteribbon.org.nz/act/get-help/nine-common-myths-and-misconceptions/
[3] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/life-at-work/the-business-case-for-ending-violence-against-women/article13326700/
[4] http://www.nsvrc.org/news/news-current-events


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This post comes from a post asking about Willie's dealings with the press:
Willie doesn't get it when it comes to dealing with the media. He didn't learn anything from Joe Torre. He doesn't like or trust us, and this is more on him being paranoid than anything anybody ever did to him. He's supersensitive to criticism, and I maintain this is because he felt he was unfairly treated in previous job interviews.
Randolph has been around long enough to know what is expected from the manager and still doesn't do the basic things.
Something simple, for example, like a set time to talk with the press. Most every manager in the major leagues talks at a set time, but not Randolph. He talks whenever he damn well pleases, and it is annoying. It's a sign of disrespect to us, whose papers spend thousands of dollars to cover the Mets.
There will come a time when Randolph will want the benefit of doubt, but won't get it because of how he deals with people. Randolph basically makes things harder on himself than he needs to.


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Last week's announcement by Facebook that it would use PayPal as its payments provider brought together two of the most potent forces on the internet – e-commerce and social networking.
Yet for all the promise each sector holds, the two have been slow to converge. Online shopping is still a generally solitary affair, while social networking has yet to place much emphasis on buying stuff. This may soon change.
Today the chief executive of Ebay, which owns PayPal and is the world's largest online auctions site, offered new insights into how e-commerce and social networking might work in concert with one another, and what he sees as the next big opportunities for collaboration. Read more


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Vintage cake topper from the baker's own collection (find similar versions at eBay). Wedding cake featuring two flavors (chocolate cake with orange buttercream filling and orange-infused white cake with chocolate-ganache filling), iced with fondant and decorated with gumpaste flowers and royal-icing accents (including 600 individually piped blades of grass). Serves 90 as shown, $12 per serving, Lovin Sullivan Cakes.
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Since February 1999, when the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's anti-bribery convention came into force - with the aim of reducing bribery of foreign officials in international business deals - the US has brought 103 cases, Germany more than 40, France 19 and the UK just one. So says "Global Corruption Report 2009: Corruption and the Private Sector", a study published on Wednesday by Transparency International, the anti-corruption watchdog.
From a British point of view, the report makes uncomfortable reading. "UK companies still have a long way to go to increase their awareness and adopt robust anti-bribery compliance programmes," it says. Read more


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Did you know?
The average mature male ostrich stands 2.8 metres tall.
The semi-arid Klein Karoo (also known as the Little Karoo) region of the Western Cape is home to many easily accessible attractions for those who choose to drive along the region's scenic Garden Route.
The Cango Caves, ostrich riding, Gamkaberg Nature Reserve, the Little Karoo Wine Route, Sanbona Wildlife Reserve, Anysberg Nature Reserve and the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival are all good reasons to visit the area.
Regardless of whether you're driving the Garden Route from Cape Town or Port Elizabeth, the scenery is spectacular and the locals in the small towns along the way are entertaining and welcoming. The Klein Karoo offers several detours from the Garden Route that are well worth exploring.
Sparse and largely arid, the Klein Karoo is a photographer's playground, with spectacular sunsets that outline the contrasting landscape in stunning silhouette.
The Cango Caves are the only show-caves in Africa that offer standard and adventure tours in English, Afrikaans, German and French. Visit these splendid caves any day of the year except Christmas Day.
The small towns of the Klein Karoo offer visitors a number of alternative activities...
Outdshoorn, a 45-minute drive from George along the N12, is home to more ostriches than you could ever imagine. At the Cango Ostrich Show Farm, guests who weigh less than 75kg can ride the ostriches, while others are welcome to hand-feed these curious birds.
Art and history lovers should visit Uniondale for a tour of the town's Anglo-Boer War forts and art gallery.
Some of South Africa's best Cape port wines (although the European Union no longer allows these wines to use the name 'port') now come from the town of Calitzdorp, 51 kilometres west of Outdshoorn. Visit Boplaas or De Krans to sample some of these delicious sweet vintages.
Other towns in the Klein Karoo worth visiting include Ladismith, De Rust and Dysselsdorp.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Oudtshoorn Info
Tel: +27 (0)44 272 0041
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Get around
Public transport in the Klein Karoo is very limited, so your best option is to rent a car from whichever South African airport you fly in to.
Length of stay
Spend three days to a week exploring the Klein Karoo.
Where to stay
The town of George, south of the Klein Karoo along the Garden Route, offers a large variety of accommodation. There is also a range of guesthouses in Outdshoorn, Uniondale and Calitzdorp.
What's happening
The Klein Karoo National Arts Festival usually takes place in early April. Held in Oudtshoorn, the week-long festival features various exhibitions, dramatic productions, musical performances and discussions.


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Capital city house prices rose 1.6 per cent in the December quarter, official figures show.
This compares with a downwardly revised 0.14 per cent fall in the September quarter.
In the year to December, the house price index rose 2.1 per cent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.
Perth led the December quarter increases, jumping 2.9 per cent, followed by Darwin (2.6 per cent) and Sydney (2.3 per cent).
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With the high cost of feed, pork producers are searching for any feed efficiency advantage they can find to reduce costs as well as save feed. Many are taking a closer look at feed pelleting as a cost effective alternative to conventional meal.
"We are seeing a renewed interest in pelleting, especially in late-nursery pigs ranging in body weight from 30 to 80 pounds. " says Ernie Hansen, Hubbard Feeds swine group leader, "We have conducted a number of trials over the past five years and our research has consistently shown feed pelleting provides a 5 percent improvement in feed conversion." According to Hansen, the improvement in feed efficiency translates to an additional $.50 to $1.00 per pig return over feed costs (ROF) after accounting for the additional cost to pellet feeds.
Pelleting is one of the easiest ways to improve feed efficiency, according to Bob Thaler, Extension swine specialist, South Dakota State University. Thaler cites a 5 percent to 8 percent improvement in feed efficiency and 3 percent to 5 percent improvement in average daily gain with pelleting. "It's a smart thing to do if there are pellet mills close enough to work with," he says. "With a pelleting fee of $10 per ton, all you need is a 3.2 percent improvement in feed efficiency to pay for it."
Pelleting feed increases nutrient digestibility and availability which improves daily gain and feed efficiency, according to Hansen. However, quality plays a crucial role. Poor quality pellets can partially or completely disintegrate into powder, or fines, which can quickly erase the advantages that are possible. "Poor quality pellets don't improve performance so make sure you're getting a good quality pellet," Thaler says.
A study conducted by Hubbard Feeds showed that nearly all the economic advantage of a pelleted diet is lost if fines exceed 25 percent. "A high quality pelleted diet produced an additional $1.06 per pig, compared to the identical diet in meal form," Hansen says. "However, a pelleted diet that contained 25 percent to 50 percent fines in the complete feed did not produce a significant return to pelleting."
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- The days of Dayton area bus drivers racking up six-figure pay in a year appear to be over for the time being.
The top-paid Dayton Regional Transit Authority driver last year made $77,400. That same driver made $103,600 in 2009, a year when he was among four drivers topping $100,000.
However, the Dayton Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/XkqTtM ) that overtime opportunities have been reduced. The authority has hired additional drivers, and has seen a sharp drop in absentee rates after stricter sick day policy changes went into effect. The RTA management has also increased use of on-call pay.
The drivers' base pay of $22.62 an hour has remained the same since 2009.
The Dayton RTA public bus service offers 29 routes and some 10 million rides a year.
Information from: Dayton Daily News, http://www.daytondailynews.com


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Denise Richards flashes her labia
While hanging out at the beach with Richie Sambora, Denise Richards accidentally flashed her labia. I feel bad even calling it a flash since she's still wearing her shorts. It shouldn't even be in the same category as Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears flashing their bojangles. It'd be like taking an x-ray photo of Scarlett Johansson in jeans and t-shirt and then calling her a little slut.


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Fitting in With The Crowd: Recognizing and Coping With Office Cliques
By Angela Rose, BioSpace.com
Cliques are a fact of life in high school. If, like me, your high school years were a decade (or two, gasp!) in the past, you need look no further than Hollywood for a reminder. There were the plastics of "
Mean Girls
" fame. There were the jocks, princesses, criminals, basket cases and brains of "
The Breakfast Club.
" And let's not forget the sportos, motorheads, geeks, bloods, wastoids and dweebies of "
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
" Though we eventually graduate, grow up and move on with our lives, cliques still tend to rear their sometimes-ugly heads in the workplace.
The Good Cliques
We spend a lot of time at the office. According to the
American Time Use Survey
conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average adult spends 8.7 hours per day working. We spend less than 4.0 hours per day on "household activities," including caring for family members and children. Having friends at the office can certainly make the time spent there more enjoyable. When you look forward to socializing with the people you toil with, work feels less like work. Moreover, a group that works well together actually enhances office productivity.
Good cliques may be formed based on a variety of factors. They may form around departments, political or religious beliefs, favorite sports teams and free time activities. This is not a bad thing. Common interests facilitate the achievement of common goals. However, a good clique may morph into a bad clique when the structure becomes rigid, no one new is accepted, and the members become judgmental and uncooperative.
The Bad Cliques
A bad clique is one that excludes all others. They are difficult to join, and can have a career limiting effect if you do manage to become accepted. Often formed around negativity, they may be composed of coworkers who are not necessarily even friends. These bad cliques frequently engage in exclusivity, pettiness and gossip. At their worst, members may even bully or discriminate against coworkers who do not belong. Uncooperativeness, and the withholding of information necessary for the success of others, is detrimental to workplace morale and productivity.
If You're the New Kid on the Block
Starting a new job can be stressful enough without worrying about cliques. It is natural to want to make friends in your new office, but it is best to observe the social dynamics of the workplace first. Once you have identified the good cliques and the bad, decide where you want to belong –or if you want to belong at all. You may have plenty of friends outside of work and prefer to keep your office time strictly professional.
If you decide you want to integrate with a particular group, don't expect immediate acceptance. Be patient, and make an effort to reach out to the coworkers you wish to befriend. Once you have become part of the group, maintain a pleasant working relationship with the members of other groups as well. In an economic environment where layoffs or common, or a workplace with frequent turnover, the person you shunned in accounting could end up as your "in" at another company.
The Conference Board research group conducted a survey about workplaces in 2010. Of the respondents, 56 percent said they like their coworkers. Avoid bad cliques, practice acceptance and friendliness like Ferris Bueller, and your coworker may even refer to you as "a righteous dude."
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Angela Rose researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues for BioSpace.com.
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