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SALINA -- Enhancing customer service of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is the driving force behind the new concept of "mobile field office," a pilot project in Kansas. The use of current technology and scientific information enables NRCS employees to help landowners voluntarily address conservation concerns and meet goals for their land.
In the fall of 2006, Harold Klaege, state conservationist for NRCS in Kansas, decided it was time to free employees from buildings and allow them to do more conservation planning where he felt it should be done -- in the grasslands and croplands of Kansas.
"Today, with the latest portable equipment at their fingertips -- such as laptop computers, geographic information system (GIS) technology, printers, cell phones, and more -- NRCS field staff can meet with a farmer or rancher on the land and develop a conservation plan on-site," says Klaege.
Chris Tecklenburg, NRCS rangeland management specialist at the South Hutchinson Field Office, is just one of 15 Kansas NRCS employees who is participating in this statewide pilot project. His equipment consists of a truck equipped with the latest technological tools, including a portable computer tablet, printer, scanner, laptop, GIS, and global positioning system (GPS).
"I can create a grazing plan, for example, print it, and give it to the land manager right in the pasture," explains Tecklenburg. "It makes sense to do everything in the field, so I can focus on the customer. Back at the office, interruptions are inevitable, and it's sometimes hard to stay focused on a single job."
With his mobile equipment, Tecklenburg is able to assist producers like Derek Zongker, Sylvia, who lives 40 miles from his local NRCS office.
"Anytime you're able to go out on the ground and actually see what you're talking about, it is a good thing," says Zongker.
Using Tecklenburg's equipment and expertise, a conservation plan was developed and appropriate conservation practices identified to address Zongker's concerns. As a result, Zongker was accepted in the NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to receive cost-share assistance on conservation practices such as a watering system, interior fences, and incentive payments for rotational grazing. He attributes his one-on-one discussions in the field to the success of his plan.
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- Transit Dependent Evacuation Planning for Kathmandu Valley: A Case Study (2014)
- Due to the increasing number of natural or man-made disasters, the application of operations research methods in evacuation planning has seen a rising interest in the research community. From the beginning, evacuation planning has been highly focused on car-based evacuation. Recently, also the evacuation of transit depended evacuees with the help of buses has been considered. In this case study, we apply two such models and solution algorithms to evacuate a core part of the metropolitan capital city Kathmandu of Nepal as a hypothetical endangered region, where a large part of population is transit dependent. We discuss the computational results for evacuation time under a broad range of possible scenarios, and derive planning suggestions for practitioners.
- Investigate the hardware description language Chisel - A case study implementing the Heston model (2013)
- This paper presents a case study comparing the hardware description language "Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language"(Chisel) to VHDL. For a thorough comparison the Heston Model was implemented, a stochastic model used in financial mathematics to calculate option prices. Metrics like hardware utilization and maximum clock rate were extracted from both resulting designs and compared to each other. The results showed a 30% reduction in code size compared to VHDL, while the resulting circuits had about the same hardware utilization. Using Chisel however proofed to be difficult because of a few features that were not available for this case study.
- Investigate the high-level HDL Chisel (2013)
- Chisel (Constructing Hardware in a Scala embedded language) is a new programming language, which embedded in Scala, used for hardware synthesis. It aims to increase productivity when creating hardware by enabling designers to use features present in higher level programming languages to build complex hardware blocks. In this paper, the most advertised features of Chisel are investigated and compared to their VHDL counterparts, if present. Afterwards, the authors' opinion if a switch to Chisel is worth considering is presented. Additionally, results from a related case study on Chisel are briefly summarized. The author concludes that, while Chisel has promising features, it is not yet ready for use in the industry.
- Construction of discrete shell models by geometric finite differences (2012)
- In the presented work, we make use of the strong reciprocity between kinematics and geometry to build a geometrically nonlinear, shearable low order discrete shell model of Cosserat type defined on triangular meshes, from which we deduce a rotation–free Kirchhoff type model with the triangle vertex positions as degrees of freedom. Both models behave physically plausible already on very coarse meshes, and show good convergence properties on regular meshes. Moreover, from the theoretical side, this deduction provides a common geometric framework for several existing models.
- Integration of nonlinear models of flexible body deformation in Multibody System Dynamics (2012)
- A simple transformation of the Equation of Motion (EoM) allows us to directly integrate nonlinear structural models into the recursive Multibody System (MBS) formalism of SIMPACK. This contribution describes how the integration is performed for a discrete Cosserat rod model which has been developed at the ITWM. As a practical example, the run-up of a simplified three-bladed wind turbine is studied where the dynamic deformations of the three blades are calculated by the Cosserat rod model.
- Geometrically exact Cosserat rods with Kelvin-Voigt type viscous damping (2012)
- We present the derivation of a simple viscous damping model of Kelvin–Voigt type for geometrically exact Cosserat rods from three–dimensional continuum theory. Assuming a homogeneous and isotropic material, we obtain explicit formulas for the damping parameters of the model in terms of the well known stiffness parameters of the rod and the retardation time constants defined as the ratios of bulk and shear viscosities to the respective elastic moduli. We briefly discuss the range of validity of our damping model and illustrate its behaviour with a numerical example.
- Multi-level Monte Carlo methods using ensemble level mixed MsFEM for two-phase flow and transport simulations (2012)
- In this paper, we propose multi-level Monte Carlo(MLMC) methods that use ensemble level mixed multiscale methods in the simulations of multi-phase flow and transport. The main idea of ensemble level multiscale methods is to construct local multiscale basis functions that can be used for any member of the ensemble. We consider two types of ensemble level mixed multiscale finite element methods, (1) the no-local-solve-online ensemble level method (NLSO) and (2) the local-solve-online ensemble level method (LSO). Both mixed multiscale methods use a number of snapshots of the permeability media to generate a multiscale basis. As a result, in the offline stage, we construct multiple basis functions for each coarse region where basis functions correspond to different realizations. In the no-local-solve-online ensemble level method one uses the whole set of pre-computed basis functions to approximate the solution for an arbitrary realization. In the local-solve-online ensemble level method one uses the pre-computed functions to construct a multiscale basis for a particular realization. With this basis the solution corresponding to this particular realization is approximated in LSO mixed MsFEM. In both approaches the accuracy of the method is related to the number of snapshots computed based on different realizations that one uses to pre-compute a multiscale basis. We note that LSO approaches share similarities with reduced basis methods [11, 21, 22]. In multi-level Monte Carlo methods ([14, 13]), more accurate (and expensive) forward simulations are run with fewer samples while less accurate(and inexpensive) forward simulations are run with a larger number of samples. Selecting the number of expensive and inexpensive simulations carefully, one can show that MLMC methods can provide better accuracy at the same cost as MC methods. In our simulations, our goal is twofold. First, we would like to compare NLSO and LSO mixed MsFEMs. In particular, we show that NLSO mixed MsFEM is more accurate compared to LSO mixed MsFEM. Further, we use both approaches in the context of MLMC to speed-up MC calculations. We present basic aspects of the algorithm and numerical results for coupled flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media.
- A direction splitting approach for incompressible Brinkmann flow (2012)
- The direction splitting approach proposed earlier in [6], aiming at the efficient solution of Navier-Stokes equations, is extended and adopted here to solve the Navier-Stokes-Brinkman equations describing incompressible flows in plain and in porous media. The resulting pressure equation is a perturbation of the incompressibility constrained using a direction-wise factorized operator as proposed in [6]. We prove that this approach is unconditionally stable for the unsteady Navier-Stokes-Brinkman problem. We also provide numerical illustrations of the method's accuracy and efficiency.
- Statistical RNA Secondary Structure Sampling Based on a Length-Dependent SCFG Model (2012)
- One of the fundamental problems in computational structural biology is the prediction of RNA secondary structures from a single sequence. To solve this problem, mainly two different approaches have been used over the past decades: the free energy minimization (MFE) approach which is still considered the most popular and successful method and the competing stochastic context-free grammar (SCFG) approach. While the accuracy of the MFE based algorithms is limited by the quality of underlying thermodynamic models, the SCFG method abstracts from free energies and instead tries to learn about the structural behavior of the molecules by training the grammars on known real RNA structures, making it highly dependent on the availability of a rich high quality training set. However, due to the respective problems associated with both methods, new statistics based approaches towards RNA structure prediction have become increasingly appreciated. For instance, over the last years, several statistical sampling methods and clustering techniques have been invented that are based on the computation of partition functions (PFs) and base pair probabilities according to thermodynamic models. A corresponding SCFG based statistical sampling algorithm for RNA secondary structures has been studied just recently. Notably, this probabilistic method is capable of producing accurate (prediction) results, where its worst-case time and space requirements are equal to those of common RNA folding algorithms for single sequences. The aim of this work is to present a comprehensive study on how enriching the underlying SCFG by additional information on the lengths of generated substructures (i.e. by incorporating length-dependencies into the SCFG based sampling algorithm, which is actually possible without significant losses in performance) affects the reliability of the induced RNA model and the accuracy of sampled secondary structures. As we will see, significant differences with respect to the overall quality of generated sample sets and the resulting predictive accuracy are typically implied. In principle, when considering the more specialized length-dependent SCFG model as basis for statistical sampling, a higher accuracy of predicted foldings can be reached at the price of a lower diversity of generated candidate structures (compared to the more general traditional SCFG variant or sampling based on PFs that rely on free energies).
- Constitutive models for static granular systems and focus to the Jiang-Liu hyperelastic law (2012)
- Granular systems in solid-like state exhibit properties like stiffness dependence on stress, dilatancy, yield or incremental non-linearity that can be described within the continuum mechanical framework. Different constitutive models have been proposed in the literature either based on relations between some components of the stress tensor or on a quasi-elastic description. After a brief description of these models, the hyperelastic law recently proposed by Jiang and Liu [1] will be investigated. In this framework, the stress-strain relation is derived from an elastic strain energy density where the stable proper- ties are linked to a Drucker-Prager yield criteria. Further, a numerical method based on the finite element discretization and Newton- Raphson iterations is presented to solve the force balance equation. The 2D numerical examples presented in this work show that the stress distributions can be computed not only for triangular domains, as previoulsy done in the literature, but also for more complex geometries. If the slope of the heap is greater than a critical value, numerical instabilities appear and no elastic solution can be found, as predicted by the theory. As main result, the dependence of the material parameter Xi on the maximum angle of repose is established.


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While not my favorite of all time, it is one that I can re-watch and still enjoy; Which is real hard for me to do with movies these days thanks to ultimately pessimistic view the interwebs has bestowed upon my movie watching abilities. Too many websites, who think they are the all be it all judge (Dredd Style) of what you should enjoy in a movie, either set unrealistic expectations of how enjoyable a film should be, or bury it so low that someone who enjoyed the film becomes subject to ridicule for having their own opinion. Ah, it's the way of life with all things I guess; I still catch flack for enjoying Collateral
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BARBURY Estate owner Nigel Bunter is hoping that the tenth Barbury Horse Trials will be the biggest ever as an expected 1,000 horses give it their all at the county's premier trials, which were getting under way today.
The trials, which run until Sunday, will see the largest-ever field of top-class competitors, with a host of the world's top eventers being put through their paces ahead of this summer's World Equestrian Games.
"Of course, we're very excited and it's our tenth year, so hopefully it will be special," said Bunter.
"We've got 1,000 horses due to compete across the week and that's a huge amount. It's about 100 more than last year and we haven't got any plans to limit entries but we'd have to think about having an extra day if we wanted it to get even bigger.
"We've got a very good list of entries again and a lot of that is down to being based in Wiltshire, with a lot of top riders in the county or nearby in Berkshire or Oxfordshire. The World Equestrian Games are in August too so a lot of people will be bringing their best rides.
"I saw Andrew Nicholson, who has won twice in a row and is very keen to do it a third time, earlier this week. It would be on the same horse, which is called Avebury and would be another nice link to Wiltshire.
"Away from the eventing, we've working with the Injured Jockeys Fund (IJF) this year as it's their 50th anniversary and they do such great work. Unfortunately, a few of our local riders end up at their facilities more than they'd like.
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"And then on Saturday, we'll have jockeys such as AP McCoy, John Francome, Richard Johnson and Sam Twiston-Davies taking on the eventers – Zara Phillips, William Fox-Pitt, Mark Todd and Laura Collett – in the JCB Champions Challenge.
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Our first stay at Paradise Point was a surprise to my husband (who was then my boyfriend). We ate at the Barefoot Bar and Grill and took a stroll after dinner. I was following his lead, and oddly enough, he chose to walk right past our room; earlier that day I had checked in and got our key without him knowing!
We laughed and talked on the beach, and on the way back to the car I said "I would love to stay here sometime". I walked by our room and peeked in the window and said "I wonder what the rooms are like?" At this point, Richard was getting a little uncomfortable. He had his arms crossed and was standing 10 feet behind me. He asked what I was doing. I said, "I wonder if a regular credit card would open the door?" I reached in my wallet to pretend to get a credit card, but really grabbed the room key and opened the door. I said "Come on, let's go inside!" He was shaking his head, thinking I was really breaking in, so I started laughing and told him my sneaky plan.
We came back another time in the winter with our teenage children. It is the one place my teenagers will hang out with me and have a good time. We swam in every pool and rented bikes. Even my 16 year old son said it was his favorite vacation.
On April 23 of last year, Richard and I got married on the Island Point Lawn. The staff was excellent and everything went perfect. They even upgraded our room to the Governor's Suite! We are planning to sail our boat to Paradise Point and stay for our 1 year anniversary.
I took a picture of the Island Point Lawn from the Governor's Suite right before we got married, and still use that picture as my screen saver at work. I love the picture, because if you look real close you can see my husband waiting at the altar for me!


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Pritch pleased at players' response
1:21pm Sunday 16th March 2014
By Andrew Simpson
1:21pm Sunday 16th March 2014
By Andrew Simpson
BRIAN Pritchard excused his players' slow start after they overturned an interval deficit to beat Whitby Town comfortably yesterday, Saturday.
Witton scored three times in a dominant second half display to extend a sequence without defeat in the Premier Division to five matches.
They had trailed to Craig Farrell's goal for the Seasiders.
"I think too many individuals expected an easy game," said Pritchard afterwards.
"We never got going and rarely reached a position from which we could do them some damage. It was no surprise when they scored; it had been coming.
"I was calm at half time though, and asked the players to remember what they have done well in the past few games. The starting point for that was to work harder."
Danny Andrews' leveller was followed quickly by Alex Titchiner's fourth goal since returning to the club.
Substitute Jon Dawson added gloss with an expertly-taken effort six minutes before the final whistle.
Pritchard added: "Jon did well again and should be proud of what he's achieved in his time here.
"It's easy to forget that he was playing in the Cheshire League last season, but he's taken his opportunity to step up to a higher level. I was made up to see him score.
"I'm happy that the result reflects our performance in the second half.
"It settled us to score soon after the break, and probably should have scored a few more than we did."
Witton's latest win moves them to within two points of a position of safety in the Premier Division table ahead of a trip to play-offs hopefuls Skelmersdale United on Tuesday.
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Alonso's arm injury minor, according to trainer
NEW YORK -- The Padres, who had their share of injury-related news in Spring Training, got a big scare during Wednesday's loss to the Mets.
First baseman Yonder Alonso appeared to have hurt his left arm when he came off the bag to make a swipe tag on Collin Cowgill in the fifth inning on what wound up being a throwing error by third baseman Jedd Gyorko.
Alonso immediately clutched his arm.
"Not good," said Padres manager Bud Black. "You think worst-case scenario. It looked like it might be a shoulder issue. But when I went out there, he said it was his elbow."
After working for a few minutes with trainer Paul Navarro, who quickly put Alonso through a handful of strength tests to determine if there was an injury, Alonso's pain started to subside. He ended up staying in the game and was in the starting lineup on Thursday.
"I woke up today and it was good," Alonso said. "I was a little scared for a second. But when Paulie went out and started playing with it, I knew it would be fine."
The Padres are already without third baseman Chase Headley for what will likely be most of April, if not longer, while infielder Logan Forsythe is sidelined indefinitely with plantar fasciitis in his right foot. Two other players -- pitcher Casey Kelly and Minor League outfielder Rymer Liriano -- needed reconstructive elbow surgery in Spring Training.
The last thing the Padres needed was another significant injury. That's why Black felt the team dodged a bullet Wednesday.
"Those things don't look good when they happen," Black said.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Tuesday FoodFebruary 29, 2012 – 1:07 pm
Another early dinner for one. I mist have been craving vinegar, I ended up making 3 dishes that are all strong vinegary flavor :P
- cucumber and wakame seaweed in vinegar sauce (きゅうりとわかめの酢の物)
- Mock chicken and veggies in soy Chinkiang vinegar sauce (モックチキンと野菜の黒酢醤油煮)
- Parsley Tsukudani (パセリの佃煮)
- Daikon radish and carrots in sweet vinegar sauce (なます)
- Kelp seaweed (昆布の煮物)
- Hijiki seaweed (ひじきの炒り煮)
- White rice with grains ( 白米)
- Kenchin jiru (けんちん汁)
I made the chinkian vinegar sauce dish for the first time, but i really liked it! :) numnumnum. I'm saving some for myself to make some noodle dish for lunch sometime! :)
And this was my lunch, made fried rice with the leftover brown rice. I mixed with all those little dishes i had in the fridge! :P
And whitney and I went to a grocery store and bought 6 oranges for $1, and surprisingly, the oranges were super fresh and super sweet, I might even say these were the best oranges I've had!
But then I made them into jelly with agar agar. Because that's what I bought them for! :) Kempers are very well stocked with fruits this week, we got grapefruits, oranges, apples and a cantaloupe! We eat so much fruits now, we used to never do, strange!


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Town of Ulster
� Burglary: Adam L. Iskowitz, 40, of Locust Street, Kingston, was arrested by Ulster town police at about 3:15 p.m. Tuesday and charged with burglary, a felony. Police investigated a report that a person forcibly entered a residence in late August and removed a jar of change valued at about $500. Detectives canvassing the neighborhood observed a male fitting the description provided by the alleged victim, a press release said. Police determined that Iskowitz entered the victim's residence and removed the jar of change. He was arraigned in Ulster Town Court and sent the Ulster County Jail in lieu of $15,000 bail.
New Paltz
� DWI: Alexandra Christine Tercero, 21, of 65 1/2 Main St. A, Highland, Nev., was arrested Monday by New Paltz police and charged with aggravated drunken driving with a blood alcohol content of more than 0.18, drunken driving, both misdemeanors, unlicensed driving and no head lamp. No further information was available.
� Marijuana: Ryan P. Walsh, 33, of New Paltz, was arrested at the intersection of South Oakwood and Main Streets in New Paltz by state police at Highland at 1:55 a.m. Wednesday and charged with possession of more than 2 ounces of marijuana, a misdemeanor. Arrested at the same time was Mikyo A. Reed, 29, of New Paltz. Reed was charged with two counts of possession of more than 2 ounces of marijuana, both misdemeanors. They were released on appearance tickets to return to court at a later date.
� DWI: Helena T. Walsh, 46, of Kingston, was arrested at Emmanuel's Market on U.S. Route 209 in Marbletown at 4:35 a.m. Wednesday and charged with aggravated unlicensed driving and drunken driving, both felonies. She was released to a third party with tickets to return to court at a later date.


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Been on the fence about the Pacers in general for the last few years. Personnel issues. Bad players. Bad coaching. They were bad and getting worse.
Then - poof. We have a roster full of guys that play hard. We have a coaching team that really seems to be working with these guys on offense and especially defense. This is only the 2nd game of the season, but there's chemistry already. And that's just going to develop more and more as the season goes on. Not sure who is going to become the 'leader' of the team, but there are a lot of guys I think could be just that.
This year is going to be fun. Kudos to Larry and his crew for putting this thing together.


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Rugby: Gloucester complete signing of Wales star Hook
5:41pm Tuesday 3rd June 2014
5:41pm Tuesday 3rd June 2014
GLOUCESTER have pulled off a major coup by signing Wales international James Hook ahead of the 2014-15 season.
Following Perpignan's relegation from the French Top 14, it could be argued that the 28-year-old Welshman has been the hottest property on the market this summer.
The Port Talbot born star agreeing to join Gloucester, following the likes of John Afoa, Mariano Galarza, Richard Hibbard and Greig Laidlaw amongst others, is a massive statement of intent for the club and a significant achievement given the level of interest in the player from around the world.
First capped by his country against Australia in 2006, Hook has gone on to win 75 caps for Wales as well as featuring for the British and Irish Lions on the tour of South Africa in 2009.
His last competitive outing was starting at fly half for the Possibles against the Probables in the Wales Trial match at the Liberty Stadium on Friday evening, and he is set to fly out to South Africa with Wales on Thursday.
Upon his return, however, Hook will be linking up with his new Gloucester Rugby team mates and it's a prospect he is looking forward to immensely.
He said: "I would like to thank everyone at Perpignan for the past three years, which have been memorable.
It's very disappointing to see the side relegated, but I'm sure they will bounce right back and I sincerely hope they do so.
"However, I'm absolutely delighted to be embarking upon the next exciting phase of my career as a Gloucester Rugby player.
"I was fortunate to have a number of options, but what stood out for me when I spoke to Stephen Vaughan (Gloucester CEO) was how much Gloucester wanted me to be part of their plans. They have huge ambitions and made it clear to me the role they wanted me to play in that.
"The talent in the squad is terrific, the training facilities are top notch and it's a wonderful area for myself and my family to settle in.
"And I had a taste of the Kingsholm atmosphere last season when I played here for Perpignan. That was phenomenal and I can't wait to experience that again.
"The prospect of playing for Gloucester in the Aviva Premiership is massively exciting.
"It's a new challenge, but one I'm looking forward to hugely. I can't wait to get started."
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With an eighth-grade education, famed New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra was probably not an ace speller, but one of his best-known nonsensical quotes, "It's déjà vu all over again," applied to the elementary school division of the annual Grace B. Powell Citywide Spelling Bee in Vacaville.
For the second time in as many years, Alex Topp on Wednesday walked off with $150 in first-place money, a plaque and bragging rights as the top speller among Vacaville elementary students.
Perhaps not coincidentally, as he did last year, the Cooper Elementary sixth-grader battled Francis Agbayani for the top honor, settling the matter in Round 15, after nearly two hours of competition at Brenden Theatres, correctly spelling nominative, then compendium.
When NorthBay Healthcare executive Steve Huddleston, event judge and member of Vacaville Rotary, sponsor of the 2 1/2-hour event, said, "Congratulations," Alex pumped his two fists at his side, closing his eyes in relief and joy, as the 200-member audience clapped vigorously.
By his turns, easily reeling off words such as beguile, preposterous and palate, he bested 33 other local elementary students, including those from two private schools.
Afterward, he paused to talk with his parents, Donald and Lisa Topp, pose for memento photos and receive congratulations from his peers.
"I knew I had a good chance, but I'm never sure," the 11-year-old said during a brief interview, smiling as he spoke.
Alex, who last month won his school's geography bee, attributes his spelling prowess to "a good memory."
"And I just have a natural talent" for spelling, he added.
Does he plan to return next year to compete in the middle-school division?
"I may just take a rest," Alex said.
Francis, a Browns Valley fifth-grader who successfully spelled unforeseeable, salinity and stimulus before being tripped by nominative, said, "I was just happy to place," but questioned the pronunciation of nominative by word pronouncer Diane Smikahl, head librarian of the Benicia Public Library. For his effort, he received $100 and a plaque. He is the son of Charles and Joannalyn Agbayani.
Stumped by officiant in Round 12, Notre Dame sixth-grader Patrizia Tandinco placed third and took home $75 in prize money and a plaque. She is the daughter of Artoteles and Imelda Tandinco.
When the middle-school rounds began at 7:50 p.m., the audience had dwindled to some 50 in the auditorium, as 15 seventh- and eighth-graders breezed through comportment, manuscript, depravity and caricature.
Here and there, students stumbled on empirical, forensics, disingenuous and diaphanous.
By Round 5, three students were eliminated by inimitable, salubrious and galvanize.
Notre Dame student Corrina Vande Voort earned third place by correctly spelling malachite, leaving Vaca Peña Middle School's Patricia Acuna and Willis Jepson Middle School's Matthew Whitehouse to contend for top honor.
By turns, they easily ticked off the letters to polymathic, solitaire, pompadour and pantheon, but tripped up on cerebellum, dystopia, jitney and artifice.
Finally, Matthew, an eighth-grader, stumbled on haughtiness but Patricia did not, then she successfully spelled cauterize for the win, pocketing $150 and a plaque. Matthew took home $100 and Corrina $75. Each received plaques.
Accounting for her spelling strengths, Patricia, also an eighth-grader, said it helped to asked Smikahl for definitions of difficult words.
Had she studied for weeks on end to prepare for the annual spell-off?
"No, I just started to study recently -- yesterday," said Patricia, the daughter of Laura and Romer Acuna.
Matthew, the son of Jeanne and Keith Whitehouse, said reading lots of books, mostly fiction, helps him to learn spelling.
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Tim McGraw and Curb Records Headed to Court Next Month
The ongoing feud between Tim McGraw and his label, Curb Records, which stems from Curb maintaining that Tim recorded songs for the follow-up to his 2009 CD, 'Southern Voice' too early, has gone on for more than a year. The battle culminated in a lawsuit filed by Curb in May, with the singer-songwriter counter-suing one week later.
Now, both parties will have their day (or days) in court. Nashville's Tennessean reports that a trial date has been set for November 29, where it will be determined whether the multi-platinum-selling singer can continue to record new albums while their contract dispute is being worked out. Meanwhile, both Curb and Tim will head back to court on July 9, 2012, which will determine if the 'Southern Voice' singer can be released from his recording contract.
The dispute may be winding its way through the courts, but the husband of Faith Hill remains optimistic about the outcome. "Right now it's just a matter of letting the legal system handle this," Tim maintains. "All I can do is keep doing what I do. I've always been a good, honest guy and done the work the way it needed to be done and fulfilled whatever I've been obligated to do. All you can do is hope our good faith pays off in the end."
Tim has more than music and courtroom drama on his mind. Appearing next on the big screen in 'Dirty Girl' (opening Friday, Oct. 7), the Louisiana native has his eye on another acting opportunity.
"I would love to be in New York and do Broadway," he tells Hollywood Life. But the role he is after has nothing to do with his musical talent. "I don't know if I want to sing," he adds. "But I would love to do a drama. That would be fun."
The 44-year-old, who is still working on new music in spite of the pending legal trouble, hopes to continue developing his acting abilities as well. "To find that place where you're confident, but you still have an edge of nervousness about you … to find that place where you can find that character and you can live within that character's shoes, and to live in the same room with all these other great actors and still find your place is a tough thing," he admits to The Boot. "I relish it, I love it. It's exhilarating, it's challenging, it makes me find something within myself that sometimes you don't know you have. There's nothing about it that I don't like, except for the waiting. Sitting around and waiting — I could do without that part."
'Dirty Girl' opens in theaters nationwide tomorrow (Oct. 7). On Monday, Oct. 10, The Boot counts down our favorite country stars who've also appeared on the big — and small — screens.
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South Carolina has another commitment in the 2013 class, as Cumming (Ga.) West Forysth's Mohamed Camara made the decision today to become a Gamecock.
"I really was comfortable with everything there when I went down," he told GamecockCentral.com. "My family loved it and I liked the position I'm going to play. Everything felt right."
The 6-foot-2, 187-pounder was recruited to South Carolina by quarterbacks coach G.A. Mangus. He projects as a SPUR in South Carolina's defense and is excited about his potential at the spot.
"I think I fit in pretty good at that position, because they do a lot of things from covering the number two, to the tight end, to being in the box as a safety. That's not that much different from what I do in high school."
Camara registered a 31 inch vertical and a 4.1 second shuttle time at the recent Rivals.com/VTOSports camp in Georgia. During his junior season, he tallied 110 tackles, seven sacks, and two interceptions including one for a touchdown. While USC was the first program to offer, others have been showing interest lately.
"Arkansas, Mississippi State, Florida State, Miami, Cincinnati, and a couple of other SEC schools," Camara listed as having inquired recently. "A couple of them like Mississippi State told me once I came to camp, they would offer. Miami just started recruiting me but said they really liked me."
Camara said that he may visit a couple other programs or attend more camps to compete and see what else is out there, but that he is solid in his pledge.
"I've been talking to a lot of other SEC schools but I felt more comfortable with this one," he explained. "I feel good about this."
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LAKE CITY, Fla. - Family and friends were among hundreds who gathered Friday morning to remember a correctional officer who was killed by an inmate earlier this week.
Sgt. Ruben Thomas was attacked by convicted killer Richard Franklin just before 10 p.m. Sunday at the Columbia Correctional Institution annex, according to investigators.
"I think this guy, as young as he is, he's touched a lot of lives, and we would never forget him, we would never forget him," said Capt. Kenneth Roundtree, who worked with Thomas.
Thomas, a six-year veteran, had a young daughter and was engaged to be married. His fiancee is pregnant with their second child, a son to be named after Thomas.
IMAGES: Corrections officer's funeral held in Columbia County
The service for Thomas at Christ Central Ministries in Lake City began with a moment of silence. Following the funeral, a procession led to his burial site at Oak Grove Cemetery.
"He was a young sergeant, he was definitely -- I think he just got promoted recently -- he was definitely on his way up," said Warden David Ellis, of the Department of Corrections. "It's the ultimate tragedy to have to end a life like this."
Law enforcement officers lined the streets and saluted the hears carrying Thomas' body as it rode by. Members of the community also paid their respects.
"It's just a way of bonding together, you know, in face of a tragedy, I guess, and showing support for one another," said Pamela Parks, Thomas' eighth-grade teacher.
"Everybody was there giving support and love for the family, and for the memory of Ruben, it was a very moving and loving service," Irene Roundtree said.
The 24-year-old was in one of the wings of a dorm checking on an inmate when a control room officer saw Franklin chase and then stab Thomas several times in the neck with a handmade weapon.
When he realized he was in danger, investigators believe Thomas tried to get away, but it was too late.
Thomas was taken to Shands Lake Shore Hospital in Lake City, where he died.
A second officer, William Brewer, was trying to lock down inmates when Franklin swung something heavy in a sock, striking Brewer in the eye, investigators said. Brewer was also taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released.
"When we walk through that gate, we come as a family," Kenneth Roundtree said. "All we do is hope and pray that we walk out that gate at the time we leave and go home."
In the funeral program, Thomas' family asked that any memories be written down and sent to Dees-Parrish Family Funeral Home to be shared with his children later in life.
To donate to Thomas' family's trust fund, go to CorrectionsFoundation.org.
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Dodgers' West lead slips as Correia takes loss
Haren's solid start, Hanley's two RBIs go to waste in extra innings
SAN DIEGO -- Despite six weeks of Spring Training and 135 regular-season games, there are times when you just wing it in ways you never imagined, as the Dodgers did Friday night with disappointing results.
They lost to the Padres, 3-2, on a bases-loaded, walk-off single by Yasmani Grandal with two outs in the bottom of the 12th inning.
The losing pitcher was Kevin Correia, making his first relief appearance since 2012. The inning included a Dodgers defensive shift conceived on the fly by manager Don Mattingly that used four "infielders" on the right side for the first time since, maybe, ever.
One of them was Andre Ethier, brought in from center field, where he had started in place of a benched and slumping Yasiel Puig. One more thing the Dodgers weren't counting on. Puig struck out pinch-hitting in the seventh inning and is hitless in his last 19 at-bats.
Ultimately, they wasted a homer and two RBIs from Hanley Ramirez, who left with an injured left leg. They wasted three hits from Justin Turner, a quality start from Dan Haren and five scoreless innings from their other six relievers.
Ramirez doubled in a run in the third inning, slipped rounding first base on a single in the sixth, talked his way into staying in the game long enough to tie it with a homer in the eighth, then was removed.
Correia wasn't in the clubhouse afterward to discuss his unexpected outing. Primarily a starter for the last 7 1/2 seasons, he was acquired this month from Minnesota and made three Dodgers starts, but was bumped from the rotation because Hyun-Jin Ryu will come off the disabled list to start Sunday.
Haren answered questions that would have been posed to Correia.
"I'm sure he feels like crud," said Haren. "It's tough to get loose for a starter. You can long toss for 20 or 25 minutes and get ready. It's not easy to do. That said, I'm sure he feels bad about tonight."
Alexi Amarista greeted Correia with a line single to left. Jake Goebbert flied out. Yangervis Solarte walked. With Abraham Almonte up, Correia bounced a wild curveball and the runners advanced. Ethier, the center fielder with Puig out, was brought in to first base to form a five-man infield. Almonte walked to load the bases.
For Seth Smith, the Dodgers put Ethier, Adrian Gonzalez, Dee Gordon and Miguel Rojas equal distances apart from first to second base (Justin Turner stayed at third base) and it worked, sort of. "That was something," said Padres manager Bud Black. "I don't think I've ever seen that. You come to a ballpark every night, you're going to see something new."
Smith bounced to Gordon, who threw to the plate on a bounce, gloved deftly by A.J. Ellis to get Amarista for the second out.
"The play A.J. made on the ball was awesome," said Haren.
But Gordon's second misdirected throw of the night (the first cost a run) cost the Dodgers a chance for an inning-ending double play.
Grandal fell behind 0-2, but worked the count full before singling through the right side.
"He got himself into trouble and almost got out of it," Mattingly said of Correia. "He got in that (3-2) count and had to throw a strike."
Haren allowed two runs on five hits, one of the runs unearned because of Gordon's throwing error. Haren went six innings and has a quality start in four of his last five outings after a five-start losing streak.
Haren walked Grandal leading off the bottom of the second. He got a likely double-play grounder from Jedd Gyorko, but Gordon snowconed the one-hopper and threw it away, leaving runners on second and third instead of in the dugout. Haren limited the damage to one unearned run on Rene Rivera 's sacrifice fly.
Turner and Ellis opened the third inning with singles. With two outs, Ramirez doubled home Turner to tie the game, his first RBI since returning from the disabled list Sunday.
San Diego regained the lead with a two-out rally in the fourth inning on singles by Rivera, Rymer Liriano and Amarista.
Liriano also saved a run, running down Gordon's towering fly to right-center as he crashed into the fence to end the fifth inning and strand Turner, who led off the inning with a double.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Robert Siegel speaks with Lucia Virostkova, a Slovak journalist based in Bratislava. She blogs for the EUobserver.com. She describes how the Slovakian parliamentary vote to join the eurozone bailout of banks brought the Slovakian government down — and caused the 2014 elections be moved to March.
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Carjacking suspect has long criminal history
NAMPA, Idaho (KBOI) - Rodney Lee Seiber, who police are searching for after a carjacking, has a long history of run-ins with police.
Seiber just got out of prison four years ago, where he served time on a weapons charge. He was behind bars before that, after being convicted of grand theft. While he was there, he got more time tacked on for assaulting someone in prison.
Seiber's past reveals that he's pretty good at hiding from police...at least for a little while. On January 13th, 2000, a warrant was put out for Seiber in Canyon County for burglary and grand theft. But it wasn't until a week after that he was arrested.
On November 5th, 1999, Seiber was charged with grand theft, also in Canyon County. That time, it took more than a month after the warrant was issued for him to be arrested. And about a month earlier on October 12th, he was charged with theft by receiving or possessing stolen property. That time, Seiber spent about two weeks on the run.
Other past charges on the now 36-year-old's rap sheet include assaulting an officer in Canyon County and battery on an officer in Parma.


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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard was arrested in his hometown after police said he was drag racing on a Winston-Salem street.
He is charged with speeding (94 mph in a 55 mph zone), careless and reckless driving, and speed competition. He has been released from the Forsyth County jail on a written promise to appear in court Sept. 23.
Police said an officer saw a black Lexus and a silver Volkswagen speeding along U.S. 421 late Thursday night. The officer stopped the Lexus, and Howard was identified as the driver. Authorities didn't identify the other driver.
Howard played in high school in nearby Kernersville and was a standout at Wake Forest.
According to the Winston-Salem Journal, Howard is in town this week for a basketball camp sponsored by his foundation.
The Dallas Mavericks drafted Howard in the first round of the 2003 NBA draft, and was named to the All-Star team in 2007.


text: When you think of holiday nail polishes, what comes to mind? A little sparkle? Perhaps some glitter infused within a red, green, silver or gold polish? Traditionally speaking, you'd be right on track, but of course there's more to the holiday nails than the standard palettes. Check out some of the best holiday nail polish collections for 2009, from creamy, silvery, and iridescent purples to bold reds with hints of coral. Which ones are your holly-jolliest?


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Pet owners are being warned to be vigilant after a rise in dognappings.
A total of 38 dogs were stolen in Essex last year, with gundogs and labradors the most targeted breeds.
The Country Land and Business Association believess the figure will rise because animals can be sold quickly and are not easy to trace.
Nicola Currie, regional director, said: "The temptation on a hot day is to let your dog go unattended into your garden, or out on your land, to find some cool shade.
"It's also easy to let it run free and go out of sight while you are on walks.
"Unfortunately, this offers thieves a golden opportunity to take your animal.
"Many dogs are targeted by thieves because they can make money selling them on, often for breeding or for fighting.
"By leaving a valuable and much-loved animal in your garden in sight of a road or a public right of way gives thieves a chance to monitor your movements and security arrangements with a view to possibly stealing it to order."
The website doglost.co.uk, which helps reunite owners with lost animals, has had 26 listings of lost dogs from the Colchester postcode area since the beginning of last year.
Meanwhile, in Southend and the surrounding areas 23 dogs have been reported as going missing.
The website believes gundog theft has increased as former metal thieves have turned their attention to stealing working dogs after metal laws were tightened two years ago.


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Reds in the ForestSituation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
A little eight year old boy went to confession and told the priest that he murdered a red.
The priest was sure the boy meant Indian because "red" was a non-politically correct term for Native American. He thought the boy's parents were old-fashioned because it was just wrong to say Native American that way. Also, there was an Indian reservation just past a forest next to the school.
The priest thought that the boy did this by accident, but the little boy said he and all his white friends were murdering reds in the forest together. The priest was shocked and said for penance to go apologise to the family of the victim.
The next day when the boy came home he was covered with red bumps.
AnswerThe boy had meant "red ants" and there was an ant hill in the forest. When the priest said apologise to the family he went to the ant hill and got bitten by the ants while he was sitting next to the ant hill begging for forgiveness.
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Dow Hits New High, BRICs Nowhere Near
Hip hip hooray--the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new all-time high today.
Of course, this is merely optics. The index hit a new high long ago if reinvested dividends are included, which is really what investors care about. And if inflation is taken into account, the Dow is still waiting for a new record.
But no matter. This momentous occasion provides as good an excuse as any to look at the BRICs and, unlike the Dow, most made a run at their all-time highs a couple years ago--and haven't come close since.
In November 2011, Brazil's Bovespa Index, for instance, came within less than 1% of its all time high reached in May 2008. Since then, it's dropped 21%. Russia's Micex Index came within a percent of its all-time high in April of 2011, but has dropped about 20% since then. India's Sensex Index did manage to trade a new high in November 2010, but just barely. Since then, it's down 8.9% since then.
And China? The Shanghai Composite Index has come nowhere near its peak of 6092.06 reached in October 2007. Today its trading at 2326.31, 61% below its record high.
Of course, indexes are not returns. So how have investors done? The WisdomTree India Earnings ETF (EPI) has lost 4.5% annually during the past five years, while the Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX) has dropped 4.8%. The iShares Brazil MSCI Index (EWZ) exchange-traded fund has lost 4.7% a year during the past five years, and the iShares FTSE China 25 Index ETF (FXI) has dropped 2.3%. The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA) has gained 5.7% during the same period.
The numbers tell the same story: Investors bet that fast-growth emerging-market economies would rebound more quickly than the U.S, which they did. But investors didn't account for the fact that the fast growth would still be slower than in the past--and the BRICs have lagged ever since.


text: Girls take over the Civic Center By Tommy R. Atkinson March 5, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- One champion is chasing history while another is looking to build on its recent success.St. Joseph, the four-time defending state champion in Class A, will be seeking a record-tying fifth straight title while Westside, the reigning AA state titlist, hopes to make it two in a row and avoid the one-year-wonder tag when the curtain is raised today on the 37th annual girls high school basketball state tournament.The tourney tips off today with No. 3 St. Marys (23-1) facing No. 6 Tygarts Valley (17-7) at 9:30 a.m. in the Class A quarterfinals.The AAA field is wide open after No. 1, undefeated and defending state champion Greenbrier East was upset in the regional co-finals.That came at the hands of a plucky Capital squad (10-13), which is making its first appearance at states since 2002 when Alexis Hornbuckle and Renee Montgomery were leading the Cougars to their second of back-to-back state titles.Capital, the only tournament participant with a losing record among the three classes, is also carrying the banner for the Kanawha Valley, which hasn't had a champion in six years.The Cougars, seeded eighth, have a tall order in front of them, facing No. 1 Spring Valley at 7:15 p.m. today in the AAA quarterfinals. The Timberwolves handed Capital a 30-point loss (70-40) during the regular season.Another Cinderella story is Valley (13-7), which last made it to Charleston in 1991. The No. 7 Greyhounds (13-7) take on perennial power and No. 2 Wheeling Central at 1 p.m. today in the Class A quarterfinals. The rest of the AAA field tips off Thursday along with all of Class AA. The championship games are Saturday with Class A at noon, AA at 2:30 p.m. and AAA at 7:15 p.m.Spring Valley, which had two of its losses the first two games of the season, earned the top seed in the AAA field after East's fall and is making its first trip to Charleston since 2003.In AA, Westside won its first title last year and seems primed for another run with the same cast. Bridgeport has some unfinished business after earning the top seed in the AAA tourney last year then losing to Greenbrier East in the title game. Clay is also on a mission after falling to Westside in last year's semifinals. North Marion, which won three titles in a row in AAA from 2009-11, is back after getting tripped up in regionals last year.St. Joseph (22-1) hasn't lost to an in-state team since the 2008 title game and looks to keep that going to tie Summers County's streak of five titles in a row from 2007-11. St. Marys (23-1), which is the only other one-loss team besides St. Joe in the Class A field, has finished runner-up two of the last three years while Central fell in last year's title round.Some of the top players to watch in AAA include Spring Valley sophomore Mackenzie Morris, who is fifth in the Mountain State Athletic Conference in scoring at 18.1 points per game; Logan 5-foot-11 sophomore guard Shayna Gore, who averages 17.3 points and is on the ESPN HoopGurlz Top 100 Watch List for the Class of 2015; Princeton senior guard McKenzie Akers, a Marshall recruit who leads the MSAC in scoring at 25.2 points per game; and Parkersburg South's guard tandem of sophomore Keya Bartlett (19.3) and freshman Taryn McCutcheon (17.3).In AA, Westside 6-0 sophomore center Hope Lester averages a team-high 18.0 points, Bridgeport senior Miki Glenn is one of the top point guards and Clay's Brittany Gould is one of the more explosive scorers at 21.2 points per game.Valley senior guard Alexis Payne averages 25.2 points behind a variety of slashing moves to the basket while St. Joe junior guards Mychal Johnson and Griffin Dempsey have already surpassed 1,000 career points. Reach Tommy R. Atkinson at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-4811. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 'Heroin(e)' spotlights women helping combat Huntington's drug crisis 2 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 3 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County 4 WVU pulls away from Kansas for 56-34 win 5 WVU law professor announces run for Congress Morris losing his anonymity Previous Story WVU hopes third time's a charm against Oklahoma Next Story


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One thing I notice in my practice is that new mothers often do not have the time or support to be able to process their birth experience. This is vitally important, especially if the birth was traumatic in any way. Some women may hold in their feelings of violation, fear, sadness or shame for many years. Homeopathy works to assist the woman to release emotionally so that she does not suppress these negative emotions. Often the release will come in the form of a dream or a good cleansing cry. Since a new mother does not have a great deal of time to think, journal or talk with therapists, the body is effective and efficient, using a dream to begin the resolution of the experience.
— Piper Martin, excerpted from "Homeopathic Medicine for the Postpartum Period," Sharing Midwifery Knowledge, Tricks of the Trade, Vol. IV, a Midwifery Today book
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Checking Our Routines
If we look at how birth was intended to be, we can take our cues, as midwives, for what to do and what not to do. What is expected of us from our divine calling? We've been discovering treasures at birth, such as the role hormones play in helping labor along. The process goes smoothly about 90% of the time, and when it does, we can simply let the birth unfold on its own. We have learned that if a mother and baby get to see, know, smell and feel each other in the first minutes after birth, this will go far in stemming complications (but only if we follow this design).
So what can we do? Most of the time no physical help is needed, but that does not mean we can't help mentally or spiritually. Prayer is always welcome. We must be ever vigilant in reading the signs and signals of normal in order to be ready to act when needed. If a hemorrhage starts, we must stop it. If a baby stops breathing, we need to step into action. My partner and I were at a birth once where a baby stopped breathing a few minutes after the birth. We easily got the baby breathing again. Thank heavens that does not happen very often, but it did this one time. I have even read a birth story where the baby, born healthy just like our little one was, stopped breathing. This little one was covered with a blanket, so no one saw the problem and the baby died. Ever attentive can mean doing very little, but midwives are there for a good reason.
It is important to look at our routines and see if what we are doing is what we really want to be doing. The idea of not talking so motherbaby get their first outside-the-womb meeting when the hormones are high is crucial and may prevent hemorrhage. In order to facilitate an undisturbed environment for those oxytocin-high moments, you may need to explain to the parents in the prenatal period how important this time is. Remind them to save their phone calls for after the initial bonding time. It is easy to get excited in those first thrilling moments.
Being a midwife is such an interesting occupation. It is so multi-faceted. There is so much responsibility, but often our task is simply to be a quiet presence. Midwife Nicky Leap said, "The less we do the more we give."
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The Power of Natural Progesterone: Treating Hormone-related Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression (PPD) and related mood disorders may affect as many as one-fourth of mothers at some point during the year after their baby's birth. According to the 2008 "New Mothers Speak Out" survey, almost two-thirds of the mothers surveyed experienced some form of PPD. Unfortunately, the study also revealed that 60–75% of women suffering from PPD, posttraumatic stress disorder or other emotional difficulties failed to seek help (Declerq et al. 2008). In Natural Health after Birth: The Complete Guide to Postpartum Wellness, midwife, herbalist and physician Aviva Jill Romm suggests that many women avoid treatment for PPD because "[t]here is still stigma attached to depression" (Romm 2002, 170).
Another part of the problem may lie with the perceived lack of alternative treatment options. Standard treatment options for PPD generally involve antidepressant medication, counseling or some combination of the two. However, research conducted by the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction in Omaha, Nebraska, suggests that natural progesterone may be a highly effective alternative treatment option. In a small survey of 24 mothers that I conducted on this subject, 87% of the women who said they had suffered from PPD and did not seek help would have done so if they had known there was a natural and effective treatment option available to them. This result suggests that educating mothers and caregivers about natural progesterone treatments may encourage more mothers to seek help when they need it. This is critical for the health of both mothers and their babies.
Assessing the root cause of PPD is crucial in formulating an effective treatment plan. In their FAQ publication on PPD, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) presents a number of contributing factors, including hormone fluctuation, fatigue (especially following cesarean birth), emotional challenges, breastfeeding difficulties and lack of support for the new mother (ACOG 2011).
Setting hormonal fluctuations aside momentarily, let us briefly consider some of these other potential causes. Aviva Jill Romm notes that, while doctors are inclined to consider internal factors such as chemical imbalances or thyroid issues, women tend to name external factors, such as their birth experiences or the level of support they receive, as causes for their depression. She points to several studies which confirm the negative impact that such external causes can have on mothers' postpartum health (Romm 2002), and this continues to be upheld by recent research.
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Q: Did ingesting your placenta help with regards to postpartum depression?
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A: Yes, I had postpartum depression with my first baby, so I wanted to do anything I could to help myself the second time around. I had my placenta encapsulated the second time and noticed a significant difference! No baby blues and no postpartum depression. I enjoyed that time so much, so I now offer placenta encapsulation within my birth doula business.
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A: Absolutely. I don't know how I would have coped with my son's colic had I not been taking my placenta capsules. I chose to make a tincture out of my last few capsules, and I'm able to take a little even now at 11 months postpartum. At 5 months postpartum, I started training with PBi to offer placenta encapsulation services to others. The placenta is in fact a filter, but it does not store toxins. It filters toxins and prevents them from being passed to the baby, but then removes them to be filtered by the mother's organs. It is absolutely safe for consumption provided the mother is not a smoker.
— Martina Vance
A: The first time I read about this, I thought that was a line I would never cross! But the more I thought about it and considered the postpartum PTSD I'd been suffering for a couple years, I realized I was willing to try anything, even something as nasty-sounding as consuming my baby's placenta. So I asked someone to encapsulate my placenta for me after my first homebirth. I had only heard of them being used for PPD, so I wasn't even sure they would work for my PTSD, but the results were amazing. I never had a glimpse of PTSD as long as I took the capsules regularly. When I ran low on capsules, I started rationing them for particularly difficult days. Some of my PTSD symptoms began to return when I stopped taking them every day, but then would disappear within an hour of taking one of the carefully-rationed capsules. I confess that I cried when I ran out, but the much needed resting time the capsules provided gave my body an opportunity to rest and heal. When my PTSD symptoms returned a few weeks after running out of capsules, they were much less powerful than before, and I had the energy to address them so I could heal for good. Placenta capsules were just the miracle I needed, and now I provide the service to others.
— Heather Barson
A: But what about all those mothers who do not use placenta pills and still have happy, healthy postpartums? Most women do not get postpartum depression. The only way to find out if the pills are effective at preventing PPD is to do some easy, simple comparison tests of women who use it and women who do not. But these comparisons have never yet been done. The placebo effect is very powerful. I am a skeptic.
— Gail Hart
A: Within 15–20 minutes after taking 1–2 of my "happy pills," I would go from feeling overwhelmed, panicky and full of rage to a manageable simmer below the surface. I didn't take placenta pills until baby # 5, and I sure wish I had done it with all the babies before. I will definitely do it again with # 6, and most of my midwifery clients choose to encapsulate as well. Herbal tinctures were not cutting it at the level I needed. If it is just a placebo effect, then so be it; it's worth every penny to be a fool.
— Christy M. Collins
A: I know of a woman who suffered severe PPD after the birth of her first child. She ended up on pharmaceutical antidepressants. After the birth of her second child, she was not open to eating her placenta but luckily the midwife saved it for her because on day three she started experiencing depression. I prepared her placenta according to a Chinese Medicine recipe and she started taking it and has been fine ever since. Pretty powerful, I'd say!
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