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ZURICH, Switzerland, May 29, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
29 May 2018
Advisory Board Appointment
Mr Alexander Borodich Joins Zichain's Advisory Board
Zichain, a crypto finance company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Alexander Borodich to its Advisory Board.
Mr Alexander Borodich is a pioneer in the fields of innovation and blockchain, a venture investor with over 70 projects worldwide, and a digital media strategist. He is the founder of Universa Blockchain and VentureClub, Russia's leading crowd investment platform and investor club. Alexander is a former Marketing Director at Mail.ru Group. His key interests are internet of things, cloud computing, and smart cities. Mr Borodich holds PhD from the Moscow State University School of Economics and Mathematics, Master's Degree in Marketing from Russia's National Research University Higher School of Economics, and MBA from Stockholm School of Economics. He is an active mentor and a lecturer at the Higher School of Economics.
Zichain combines the management team's extensive experience in the world of traditional finance with the cutting-edge technology. The company is developing four simple and safe products that will allow everyone to successfully invest into cryptocurrencies, track the performance of their investments, and receive the latest crypto market data.
Zichain's Advisory Board has been created to provide strategic guidance and valuable technical advice to the company's management team. It will also support Zichain in accessing new growth opportunities. Mr Alexander Borodich will be working together with Mr Jun Hao and Mr Bogdan Fiedur, who joined the Advisory Board earlier this month.
Zichain's CEO, Mr Khachatur Gukasyan, said: "I am honoured to welcome Alexander onto our Board. Being a legendary figure in the world of blockchain technology, he brings in his invaluable knowledge and unique experience. I am very pleased that he is sharing Zichain's aspirations of becoming a leader in crypto finance."
Alexander Borodich commented: "I'm delighted to be joining Zichain at such an exciting time of the company's development. I believe in their ambition and I look forward to working with such a dynamic team and supporting their vision of pioneering the world of blockchain finance."
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About Zichain
Zichain is a Switzerland-based blockchain finance company and a pioneer of the cryptocurrency index industry, having launched the world's first cryptocurrency indexation and analysis service in December 2017. Combining its extensive experience in the world of traditional finance with the cutting-edge technology, the company is developing a range of simple, safe and trusted products that allow everyone to successfully invest into cryptocurrencies, track the performance of their investments, and receive the latest crypto market data. Zichain is currently focused on the development of four key products: a unique and convenient platform for asset managers who wish to launch their own white label funds; a range of cryptocurrency index funds based on a family of crypto indices; a new infrastructure for the collection and analysis of industry news and market data; and a crypto-fiat exchange platform.
Zichain is a one-stop-shop for blockchain finance, with the mission of making it safe, orderly and accessible to everyone.
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Michael P. Kitz
Associate Professional Specialist
Associate Director
Integrated Engineering and Business Practices Program
Executive Director
London Summer Engineering Program 2019
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Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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Office: 224 Cushing Hall
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MBA, University of Michigan, 1989
Michael Kitz, who earned dual degrees in engineering and theology at Notre Dame in 1985, and an MBA from the University of Michigan, spent more than two decades in industry, focused on product development, marketing, and management. His globetrotting career included years at Procter & Gamble, Motorola, Honeywell, Chrysler, Goodyear Tire, and OfficeMax, where he was chief marketing officer, head of product development, and leader of a large sourcing operation in China.
Kitz returned to Notre Dame three years ago as associate director of the College of Engineering's Integrated Engineering and Business Practices Program, a two-course elective series started in 2000 at the urging of the college's advisory council to give undergraduates exposure to the business world. Sixty to seventy percent of engineering majors now take at least one of the courses.
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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
Creationists who think themselves clever sometimes ask why, if evolution is true, we don't see bacteria re-evolving into multicellular organisms. But, as is often true of creationists, this taunt gets the situation completely backwards. Evolution is not a teleological march of progress but a blind algorithm, concerned exclusively with reproductive success. Looked at in this light, a far better question is why multicellular life ever evolved at all. In the metrics of success that evolution is concerned with, bacteria are our undisputed superiors. They far outnumber us; they thrive in environments we could never survive in; and, if they were ever to disappear, all of the so-called higher life on this planet would swiftly follow them into extinction.
To drive this point home, consider this mind-boggling statistic: in the body of every healthy human being, there are ten times as many bacterial cells as there are human cells. If this seems impossible, realize that bacteria are prokaryotes, lacking the complex internal structure of, and therefore much smaller than, our own eukaryotic cells. Most of the bacteria in the human body live in the intestines, and the 15 trillion or so bacteria in a healthy gut would just about fill a ten-ounce soup can.
Our gut flora are not invaders or pathogens, but an important part of the body's normal functioning. Far from being mere passengers, they live in an intimate symbiosis with the cells of the digestive tract. They play a vital role in extracting nutrients from food: mice raised in absolutely sterile environments need to eat 30% more to stay at the same weight as normal mice. (This partnership is more prominent in herbivores like cows or termites, whose resident bacteria enable them to digest the woody plant tissues that no animal could otherwise eat – but our natural bacteria do the same for us, helping break down complex carbohydrates and proteins that the body cannot digest on its own.) In fact, it's believed that the gut flora are a vital barrier against disease: by occupying all the niches within the body, they leave less room for genuinely pathogenic species to get a toehold.
Jessica Snyder Sachs, in her book Good Germs, Bad Germs, quotes an unforgettable portrait of the microbial jungle that lives just in the human mouth alone:
…I was able in my mind's eye to zero in on the little fleshy crevices around Tom's and Jenny's teeth as they ate their meal and to see the turmoil of microbic life there, the spirochetes and vibratos in furious movement, the thicker corkscrew-like spirilla and vibrios gliding back and forth and the more sluggish or quiet chains and clusters and colonies of bacilli and cocci, massed around or boiling between detached epithelial scales and the fibers and debris of cells and food particles. Like the great and beautiful animals in whose mouths they live, these too are organisms, living things; and I could imagine them, quite like Tom and Jenny, making the most of the sudden accession of nourishment after a long fast. (p.36)
All our cells are… stuffed with bacteria which have become so transformed by generations of co-operation with the host cell that their bacterial origins are almost lost to sight… [They] have become so intimately enmeshed in the life of the eukaryotic cell that it was a major scientific triumph to detect that they were there at all. (p.537)
Each of our cells contains organelles called mitochondria. Colorfully speaking, they are the cell's power factories – the reason we breathe oxygen is so the mitochondria can use it in the production of ATP, an energy-carrying organic molecule that's used as a common currency for many of the cell's chemical reactions. Mitochondria also have their own DNA – not the complexly packaged chromosomes of our own nuclei, but simple circular chromosomes similar to those of bacteria – and are capable of self-replication, dividing autonomously within the cell.
The evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis is famed for discovering the origin of mitochondria: as their separate DNA hints, they were once free-living bacteria. Long ago in the mists of evolutionary history, these bacteria merged with the cells that would ultimately become our ancestors. Both cells benefited from this symbiotic partnership, and so it persisted and thrived. Over long stretches of time, the mitochondria lost most of their DNA, as it was no longer needed in their new environment. Though they have become so intertwined with us that they are no longer capable of independent existence, they remain as traces of the ancient eukaryotic union that was the first flowering of life recognizably like ours. Incredibly, even today, we can guess at the identities of those species involved in this historic partnership. From Richard Dawkins again:
…molecular comparison tells us the particular group of bacteria from which mitochondria are drawn. Mitochondria sprang from the so-called alpha-proteo bacteria and they are therefore related to the rickettsias that cause typhus and other nasty diseases. (p.539)
Though their wild relatives cause us grief, the tame mitochondria are essential to life as we know it. And not just our life, either: chloroplasts, the organelles that give green plants their color and make photosynthesis possible, are, like mitochondria, the remnants of an ancient symbiosis. For both plants and animals, the seen depends on the unseen: each of us is not a single organism but a myriad, a kind of ecosystem made up of hundreds of different species. If it were not for our microbial partners, our kind of life could not exist. This insight, and the humility it brings, are worth remembering whenever we Homo sapiens are tempted to imagine ourselves the crowning glory of life on Earth.


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Modeling species distribution from atlas data for selection of priority areas for bird conservation
2010 Modelling species distribution from atlas data for selection of priority areas for bird conservation ROSSI Marzia (Italy) firstname.lastname@example.com
Organisation: University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK) Supervisor : Aldina Franco
Summary: 1) In the current context of accelerated rates of biodiversity loss, there is an urgent need to identify and protect areas that maximize the conservation potential of populations and ecosystems. Traditional approaches to identify these areas are generally limited to expert opinions and constrained by data availability. In light of the widely recognized inadequacy of existing networks of protected areas, there is a need for more systematic and objective approaches to optimize the reserve selection process and conservation outcomes.
2) In this study, the statistical ZONATION algorithm based on area-prioritization for conservation and recently published distributional data is used to identify priority areas for the conservation of persistent populations of several Portuguese breeding birds.
3) The priority areas identified using this systematic approach and newly available species distributional data have little overlap with the existing network of Important Bird Areas (IBA) and Special Protection Areas (SPA) based on expert opinion. 4) Synthesis and applications. This study identifies priority areas for conservation of many bird species in Portugal using newly available distributional atlas data and the ZONATION reserve-selection algorithm. The sites identified in this study show little overlap with protected areas based on expert opinion. These results represent an opportunity to identify potential sites to complement existing networks of protected areas in Portugal, where experts could effectively direct efforts for more detailed analysis and planning.


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'Invincible' bowler Johnston dies at 85
Bill Johnston, the versatile left-arm fast-medium bowler who was a key member of Australia's 1948 Invincibles squad, has died in Sydney at the age of 85. Johnston's death means there are now five surviving players from that touring party: Arthur Morris, Neil Harvey, Sam Loxton, Bill Brown and Ron Hamence.
Johnston was an often under-rated member of the Australian side in the decade after World War II, playing 40 Tests and taking 160 wickets at 23.91 until a knee injury forced his retirement. He was one of the best performers on the 1948 tour and he equalled Ray Lindwall as Australia's top wicket-taker in the Tests, with 27 victims at 23.33.
His efforts earned him a Wisden Cricketer of the Year title in 1949 and the Almanack reported that "no Australian made a greater personal contribution to the playing success of the 1948 side" than Johnston. Across the whole tour, he collected 102 wickets at 16.8 and he pounded down 84 overs in the first Test at Trent Bridge for match figures of 9 for 183.
Prior to the war Johnston was a slow-medium and spin bowler but he developed his quicker pace and proved a dangerous ally to Lindwall and Keith Miller. His Victorian and Australian team-mate, Ian Johnson, once wrote of Johnston: "He was not quite as fast [as Lindwall and Miller] but fast enough and he had the ability to make a bumper fly from a really awkward length".
However, Johnston still sometimes reverted to slower bowling and his finger-spin remained useful. When he claimed his 100th Test victim, the four years it took him to achieve the mark was a record. He was an important part of a successful side, and Australia won 25 of the 40 Tests he played.
Johnston, who was born at Beeac in country Victoria in 1922, toured South Africa, England and West Indies in a Test career that lasted until 1954-55. His debut was in the home series against India in 1947-48, and he wasted no time making an impact: he played in four of the five Tests and harvested 16 wickets at 11.37.
His best innings figures came at Johannesburg in 1949-50, when he took 6 for 44. It was another successful trip for Johnston, who managed 23 victims at 17.04. Although he was a genuine No. 11, his finest hour with the bat was in the fourth Test against West Indies at Melbourne in 1951-52, when he and Doug Ring added 38 in a last-wicket stand that earned Australia an unlikely victory.
Bob Merriman, the president of Cricket Victoria, said Johnston's efforts deserved to rank alongside those of his better-known colleagues. "Although he possessed a mean bouncer, he was one of the game's gentlemen and a man of generous humour," Merriman said.
Creagh O'Connor, Cricket Australia's chairman, said Johnston would leave a valuable legacy. "To cricket fans he will always be remembered, rightly, as a member of Sir Donald Bradman's legendary Invincibles, and as a left-armer who took a lot of wickets quickly and economically when bowling in the company of fellow greats such as Lindwall and Miller," O'Connor said.


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UC Story - written to me
UC birth of an 11-pounder – told to me, then sent to me, and I was requested to keep her anonymous. But, this is her story in her voice.
My second child was a planned unassisted homebirth. How that came about is a long story for another day.
I was fearful tearing at the scar tissue from my horribly managed first birth, and my preparations for this birth included stretching my vaginal tissues with an Epi-No (basically an inflatable sex toy) and taking evening primrose oil and occasionally using it in my vagina as well.
The night before his birthday, I noticed some painless contractions with pressure. This was a new one for me. I was at 41+0. With my first baby, I started labor at 41+2 after feeling first contractions at 41+1. So I was expecting the baby any day.
I slept in the front bedroom (I'd had a bad cold that week and had moved in there) from about 10pm to 4am, a pretty good stretch for pregnant me. I turned on the light and read the fifth Harry Potter book and was just about to turn off the light again just before 5am, when I heard my fifteen month old daughter wake up in the family bedroom. I switched beds.
I had nursed my daughter for about 20 minutes when I felt a RIP SPASM RIP SPASM with a sensation like the baby jerkily pushing on the top and bottom of my uterus at once. I thought I should go listen to the baby with my fetoscope and make sure he sounds good. I unlatched my daughter and started to sit up to get out of bed but when I felt the fluid rushing outward. I took a leap out of the bed to save the sheets from getting wet.
I said to my husband, "I think my waters broke." Of course there was no "thinking" about it. They were ruptured. He said, "Are you sure? What does that mean?" I said, "That the baby will be born today."
I didn't have to wait for contractions; one started as I walked to the bathroom to check the fluid color (I'd been wearing a pre-fold in my underwear to contain any urine leaking from my coughing fits that week and there was nothing to clean up). It was nice and clear. The contractions were those lovely easy cramp ones that just barely hurt. I was very relieved because although I was prepared to wait for weeks if I PROM'd and had no signs of infection, I was just glad that for my first UC things were going the way people "like" them to.
I went into the kitchen to make breakfast for my daughter and my husband got up and tried to adjust both to an early rise time and to the news that he wouldn't be going to work. I carried a chux pad or a towel around with me to sit on. My daughter and I ate eggs and cheese as I eagerly anticipated calling my mom with the news. My aunt and Mom were both staying in town and would come over most days around 8:30 or 9am to help with the baby and the house and be with me. I wanted to call late enough that they would get all their sleep, but early enough that my aunt could plan a day without Mom, because she (my aunt) was not to attend the birth.
I called Mom about 7am. I loved hearing myself say that the baby was coming today.
I listened to the baby once, and his tones were good.
Mom came about 8am and I was leaning on the counter during contractions humming, but not because I needed to yet. I was just having fun.
My husband asked when the baby would come and I guessed by five. He packed up our daughter and went off for a day of fun, starting with breakfast out and then the petting zoo.
I hung out on the counters chatting with Mom until a little after nine, when I decided to get into my hot tub in the borning room I'd set up. This was my private space where no one could enter without permission. Within a few minutes, I was weeping with emotion and singing and dancing in a continuous activity that hit some peaks during the contractions but continued through each space between contractions with the same -- quality. I was singing open, open, open and weeping with the intensity of my ... pleasure might be the right word. Pleasure at being in labor, pleasure at being a mother, pleasure at being alone. They didn't hurt very much yet so I don't want you to get the wrong impression when I describe it as intense. It was emotionally intense.
Suddenly at about 10:45 or 11am, the emotional intensity turned off and I suddenly felt very normal and very sleepy-tired. My contractions, not close together before second stage, seemed to space out a bit more at the same time and I wondered if I could lie down and take a nap. But I hesitated so long each time between contractions that by the time I tried to approach the steps out of the tub, another contraction would hit. So I was tired, somewhat bored and not sure what I wanted to do right then.
Suddenly my mom walks in kind of cheery talking about some phone call she had with her sister. I said, "You aren't supposed to do that! But right now I want you to stay and talk to me." I considered my options and ordered a cheese sandwich and a peanut butter sandwich. She brought them back to add to my poolside table stock of weak Gatorade, water, liquid calcium, cal-mag, vitamin C and Rice Krispy treats (I'm sure there's something I am leaving out from what I consumed in labor). I ate a couple of quarter sandwiches and accepted some neck and back massage while still in the hot tub. It was still not emotional and I was laboring by moving to the other side of the tub when a contraction was going to start and doing my water-labor move -- holding the side of the hot tub and shaking myself forwards and backwards while moaning.
I moan really well and I never suffer while I'm moaning. If it hurts more, I just moan louder and it covers up the pain.
I still wanted a nap and asked if we could move to the living room. I had two identical nightgowns for laboring, one "wet" and one dry. I changed out of my tub gown into my land gown and to my pleasure was able to manage contractions lying on my side on the couch. I dozed in between contractions while Mom massaged my feet and legs.
Before I forget, I want to tell you about these contractions. In my first labor, my contractions felt like a bell curve. In this labor, they were always (once they had clear sensation) 0-90 in five seconds and almost immediately started sloooowly backing off so that they hurt for about I'd guess 30-40 seconds. They were VERY short and well spaced. About an hour before he was born, I think my mom said they were 4-5 minutes apart by my soundings. She thought he wouldn't be born until about 6pm.
While I was lying on the couch, my husband and daughter came home briefly to change clothes before heading out to a restaurant for lunch. Dad put a blanket over our child's head so she wouldn't see me and ask for Mama, and they rushed in and out.
I spent maybe forty-five minutes on the couch and then decided to go to the bathroom. That was very difficult. My contractions got close together when I tried to do that. It was a challenge contracting in the bathroom and I decided I wanted to get back in my tub. I was going as fast as I can but still had two more contractions before I could climb back into the hot tub. I think Mom was with me to help me change back to the wet nightgown but then she scrammed upon request.
I was back into that emotional place again for about another hour or hour and a half. Contractions were more intense at this point, but in neither of my labors have I ever had "transition." I don't throw up, I don't shake, I don't say I can't do this. But during this time, I was only singing and dancing and weeping with joy in between contractions. When a contraction came, I threw myself at the side of the hot tub and just started sounding with all my might so that I didn't have to hurt.
And suddenly, for about a half hour, I left that emotional space like I had late morning and was just kind of bored and laboring. I was quiet, looking around almost bored in between contractions and sounding like crazy during them. And during the contractions, I very distinctly felt my pelvis being pulled open evenly in all directions. Hmmm, I thought. Very interesting. No pressure though. I can't feel the baby pushing on anything. I had been checking myself toward the end but just felt head and a really stretchy, painless womb opening for maybe the last half-hour or hour of labor. I couldn't figure out how to get to the posterior side of the head to feel actual dilation so I just contented myself with exploring my baby and my body.
This is such a minor thing, I left it out of the first draft. Probably five or six contractions before my body started pushing the baby out, I had this thought and feeling "I need to poop and pee and that will make me feel better and that will make the birth easier." It is the same feeling I had the night before labor where I felt right before bed: if I could just empty my bladder I wouldn't feel this pressure with the Braxton-Hicks contractions. But during labor, it wasn't pressure. Well it might have been, but I would never have said "oh I feel all this pressure" like some women do in their births. It was very subtle. I tried peeing and pooping in the hot tub after a contraction but nothing would come out. I was momentarily frustrated and scared because after the first birth (where I pushed for hours on a full bladder), I wanted to have an empty bladder to birth past, but then I decided not to worry about it and I did not notice it after that. (I think if I had said to a typical midwife, I have to poop, and she had said, "Oh, that's the urge to push. Start pushing," that it would have been a damaging wrong thing. I also think (now bear in mind this is my first experience of actually giving birth and actually getting to feel a real, full first and second stage), that if I am lucky enough to birth a third time, that since I don't go through transition, maybe that will be my signal to prepare for birthing -- when I get this sense that I want to be empty.)
Then I felt the warning for the next contraction and grabbed the side and started to sound and rock when THE BABY'S HEAD CROWNED. I was like, "OOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH MOM GET IN HERE! I WANT YOU HERE NOW!!!!" My vagina went from being empty to being completely full of head in about ten seconds. She hustled in and I told her the baby was coming and, "GET OVER HERE AND HOLD ME UP." So she kneeled by the hot tub and I put my arms around her body and she held my shoulders and that's how I birthed the head over five or six contractions. The contractions were still short but much closer together and all I could do was hold on and holler. When I hollered, the head moved down. When the contractions were dying down enough for me to stop hollering, the head stopped moving. His head was way outside my "body" before he was clear of my perineum. It was so wonderful because it felt SO right and I knew I was not going to be harmed. I didn't have to push; my body would do that for me in this very mysterious, perfect way.
On the fifth or sixth pushing contraction, his head finally cleared my skin. I would say this was about 10 or 12 minutes into second stage, since these short pushing contractions were frequent. I recall being able to have short conversations with Mom between contractions, four or five statements apiece, before he would start moving down again. I remember as his head was being born, there was no pain in between contractions as long as I did not move. At one point between contractions during the birth of the head, Mom asked me if we could move a foot to the left so that she could kneel on the steps (that's right, she was being forced to stand during contractions to support me where we were) and I tried, but cried out, "stop!" because it hurt. But with my body suspended in water and not moving, I was completely comfortable in between contractions.
I told Mom that the head was out. My eyes were closed and I backed away from Mom a bit and sat there in the water. I reached down to feel his head, located the landmarks of his face and felt him, willing him to start rotating. He stayed face backwards, not moving, not moving ... slowly he started rotating. He made the turn toward my right thigh. Good baby. I went to feel around his neck for curiosity's sake. My intention ahead of time was to leave nuchal cords alone.
Two loops of cord ... um, I don't feel a pulse here. It never occurred to me that that would be the situation so it affected me differently than it will in a third birth. I didn't like it.
He had moved once during his head birthing, so I wasn't too scared but I wasn't happy and decided to try to do something. I believe I referred to this in the early postpartum period as my attempt at Stupid Midwife Tricks and I still do not know if I was doing the prudent thing; being benign but ineffective; or causing some type of harm or some combination of these. I just want a nice pink baby next birth.
Or purple, that will suit me too.
Just not white.
I do think that my activities probably slowed down the arrival of the next contraction. But since in my experience, delayed contractions hit harder, maybe that worked out for the best. He was a big baby.
The first thing I did was tell Mom what my concern was and turn around and present her with my behind so that she could reach him underwater and I asked her to unloop the cord from around his neck. I was thinking at the time that this was "doing something" and maybe the cord would get moved and whatever was causing it not to pulse would be somehow changed.
She unlooped his cord and I felt it. Still limp. I decided to get out of the hot tub.
This is what I remember after I got out of the hot tub. I have thought about it, and I think this is complete and ordered. I remember getting on hands and knees facing the wall, and asking Mom to suction him with the bulb to see if that would make him start breathing while he was still inside me. I knew this was not a shoulder dystocia, but I remembered reading that sometimes when shoulders are sticky the baby will (not often, but sometimes) be able to start breathing on the perineum, which takes the time pressure off. And what I wanted was breathing baby. He made some mews of irritation probably right before losing consciousness. (This was really a bad experience for him and when he loses it entirely, I sometimes think he is remembering When the Bad Thing Happened). I hoped that meant he could breathe. I asked her if he was pinking up. She said no.
I got up and went to the side of the hot tub. I remember holding on to the edge of the hot tub and doing some squatting and kind of shaking myself to see if he would fall out. I remember trying to push in this position, but I had no idea how to push consciously and I felt I was not being effective and was just going to hurt myself.
I went back to hands and knees and asked Mom to see if she could -- (remember I am not a midwife) but what I was remembering is pictures on TV of babies with their heads out and the doctor has his hands all over the baby and is kind of pulling down on the baby's head with the mom supine and the baby slides out. I didn't want his head pulled on but I asked Mom if she could put pressure on one of the shoulders to see if he would come out. She went in and said, "I can hook an armpit." I said "Give it a little pull" knowing my mom never forces anything (from early childhood, my parents constantly told me not to force things or I would break them). She did and I said, "OW STOP." I think this is where I got my skin split because I don't remember anything hurting the wrong way but this, if you know what I mean.I think I decided I would climb some steps and see if he would fall out. I am not sure where I got the idea that he might fall out, but I was ever hopeful.
I was just about to walk through the doorway to leave the borning room when the next contraction hit -- I suddenly dropped forward to the floor without thinking and out he came. Mom said something cheery like "There it is!!!"
I was slightly lower than hands and knees I think, but it happened very fast. I turned around, scooped him up off the floor and started talking to him and rubbing his back and patting him. I had him stretched out lengthwise on the air mattress on the floor of the borning room. I was kneeling next to him on the floor thinking these thoughts: Oh dear, he is white and floppy. Oh my, he's big. Oh, look at that penis. Oh, look at my beautiful baby. I kept rubbing him briskly and I said, "Come on little boy." Mom said, "It's a boy?" surprised because she thought he would be a girl.
He stayed white and floppy with his eyes closed during this vigorous rubbing, turning over on my arm, and more rubbing and talking. I ended up giving him three lungfulls of air before he started screaming and turning bright pink.
The placenta detached while I was kneeling there because that's where the blood puddle was. I didn't notice this at the time because I was so busy working on him.
I moved to the air mattress and sat there holding him and rubbing him and trying to comfort him with the breast. I took off my nightgown, naked for the first time but not worried about being powerless now. I held him to my bare chest. He kept screaming. I said I wanted to get into the tub and see if he would relax if I put him back in the warm water. Mom helped me and then I asked her to go call my husband.
I heard her from the kitchen saying, "Congratulations you have a son!" She came back into the borning room and said, "He is three minutes away. They are just leaving the playground."
My son was born at 3:20 pm
He kept on crying in the hot tub.
My husband came in holding our daughter and trying to get his bearings. The baby was still screaming. He said I should get out so the baby wouldn't get cold. I didn't want to argue about how 90% of his body was in 94-degree water, so I got out and got on the air mattress and covered us with the comforter.
The baby still wouldn't nurse and I wanted to use nursing to help with third stage. So I asked my daughter to sit next to us on my left side and nurse. She hesitated and then nursed for a minute just staring at her brother crying hysterically in my right arm and then burst into tears. The squalling baby was getting to be too much for me, too.
Our daughter went back to Daddy and I lay on my left side and tried to nurse him again. I asked mom for my cell phone and left a message (complete with screaming baby in the background) with an understanding midwife. She didn't answer so I tried another friend. She didn't answer so I hung up and just stared helplessly at my distressed baby and cuddled him and talked to him and tried to nurse him and willed him to please stop crying. I picked up the phone and called the midwife again. She answered this time and I told her he was born and probably a little about it, but mostly, "He won't stop crying! Why is he crying?" She said something like, "Sometimes their collarbones might break on the way out. Be careful with his arms." And hearing "bone" "break" I said, "OK YOU CAN COME OVER NOW." (She'd said earlier in the week, "I don't have to wait three days or something to come see that baby, do I? I'm special, right?" And I said, "I don't know. Maybe, maybe not.") And she chuckled and said she would be by later in the evening after registering her team for lacrosse league. So we chatted a bit and rung off. I told her he was a big baby.
Shortly after that, my husband made another you-should comment (I can't remember what it was, but I think it had to do with warmth or cleaning off blood or "why aren't you nursing him?" or something like that in an effort to be helpful in the face of a naked unassisted birthed wife and screaming baby) and I said, "You all need to leave me alone because I still have to birth the placenta without bleeding to death. I am going to go into the bathroom where we can sit under the heater in the ceiling." So I did. And it was lovely in there and after maybe a total of three crampy postpartum contractions, I had an urge to lean over from a standing position and release the placenta, which fell painlessly to the floor.
He stopped crying around this point and was alert for five or six more hours, but really wouldn't nurse.I called Mom in and asked her to hold the baby so I could take a bath and clean off. She sat on the closed toilet holding the baby in a towel with the placenta lying there on the floor. I hopped into the bathtub and took a quick bath. Within a few minutes, the baby and I and the placenta in a bowl were snuggled into bed. Mom brought me the rest of the labor sandwiches, relatives were called, my daughter came up on the bed to snuggle and nurse, and my aunt came over from the bed and breakfast.
I cut the cord at 3 hours under pressure from the family. At about five or six hours, I replaced the cord floss with a clamp because blood was leaking onto his blanket. When I clamped it (still four or so inches down the cord) in front of the floss, being very careful not to pull the cord, he SCREAMED. I won't be interfering with the cord on my next baby unless I have to for his safety until it is hard and dry.
I was getting tired and wanting to go to bed so I called the midwife to find out if she was really coming. She said she was on the road on the way so we stayed up a bit longer. Mom and my aunt left for their room, taking comfort in knowing that the midwife would be stopping by as an extra layer of "everything's good."
I was in the big rocker cuddling a sleeping newborn when my husband let the midwife in. She came up, eager to see him and I said, "He's a big baby." She asked to hold him and I handed him over. She said, "oh my, he is big ... oh my." She put him in the sling for her scale and tried to lift it while sitting on the couch, but she couldn't. She had to stand up. Eleven pounds even.
You know, I almost always wanted to do for myself in this pregnancy. But at the very end of the pregnancy, I wished for (but never pursued) someone to give me a prenatal because I was tired of looking after myself. And after my son was born, I just wanted to partially hand over responsibility for things to someone else so I could just hold my baby and not feel guilty for not scrutinizing him. I wanted someone else to put a diaper on him and dress him. The midwife gave him a barebones newborn exam (he did not have a broken clavicle) and visited for a while before leaving us to sleep for the first time as a family of four.
After being woken and unwrapped and then dressed, my son was mad enough to do a first good nursing. But as I realized over the next two days, there were no really good nursings. He was tongue tied so eventually I gave up on stretching it and convinced the midwife to notch it for me when he was about 10 days old while I held him in place (harder on her than on me). His nursing improved immensely after that and he started catch up gaining.
And that is the story of the birth of my son.
I ask:
Why wasn't your husband there?
Birthing woman answers:
He wasn't there because his role in the birth was to mainly be helping with my daughter while my mother mainly helped me. For example, we discussed in a transfer my mother going with me while he went separately with our daughter, gathered up diaper bag and so forth and then gone and done insurance stuff while my mom stayed with me. It wasn't planned ahead of time that he wouldn't be in the house, but since I had gone into labor first thing in the morning, on a beautiful day, it seemed natural and appropriate that they go off together since my mom was there for me. I found it very peaceful to have the house empty. Had I given birth a few hours later, he might very well have been home. But when we discussed things ahead of time, he did not want to be in the room (our first birth was a rape, which I'm sure affected him in this matter). And I had a strong rule that I was not to be outnumbered at any time while birthing.
I ask:
Why didn't your husband dress the baby instead of the midwife?
Birthing woman answers:
My husband will hold tiny babies, change babies diapers and clothes as asked, and so forth but he feels very unsuited to handle them until six months or so and before that he is afraid of their fragility or having them cry and he can't help. I left my son swaddled naked until my midwife friend got there, since she was going to look him over for me and I didn't want him to have to dress, undress and dress again; and since I was not feeling like dressing him it seemed natural to impose upon her to do it. I did want him in a diaper before I took him to bed.
I ask:
Why don't you consider this a shoulder dystocia? In your description, by every indication and sign you describe, it was a shoulder dystocia.
Mom answers:
This is a hard question for me. You're the first to call it that, though I'm sure not the last. He was not turtling, he did rotate and when I talk about waiting for rotation, well he didn't rotate immediately but he was a watched pot. I've just counted one-onethousand, two-onethousand … with my eyes closed. Remembering. Five to seven seconds passed before he started rotating. It only felt like forever. Time passed SO SLOWLY, and he birthed easily and in reasonable amount of time after the head was born. 90 seconds, two minutes? It felt like a long time between the head and body contractions, but I was moving quickly between those activities so it was just my perception.
I did not ever feel resistance on my pubic bone. The head didn't come fast but I was holding back power while birthing the head. When I did get a contraction he slipped right out immediately without any voluntary pushing on my part. My sense, during the period when I was trying to get him out without a contraction, was that I had time to try to do it without hurting myself. He was mewing when Mom suctioned him, for example. There was a point where I would have started pushing like crazy with her pulling and I was almost there because I was running out of ideas and time seemed to be passing slowly; stairs were my last idea. But it didn't come to that.
If I birth again, I don't know. I'm still working out lessons from this birth.
You know, after writing all of the above I did a web search on "sticky shoulders" and found this:
Excerpted from http://220.127.116.11/archives/shoulderDystocia.html#Difference
At midwife deliveries (which amount for about 80% of births in my unit ) the shoulders are delivered by maternal effort and force of contractions in most cases. Typically there is a lull in maternal effort and uterine contractions after delivery of the head. The next contraction typically doesn't come for 90 -120 seconds. By the 60 sec definition almost all of these normal deliveries would be defined as shoulder dystocia, this must mean the definition is inappropriate.
Note from me:
"Turtling" is when the head is born outward and then is sort of sucked back inside… a classic sign of shoulder dystocia.
A short note from mom says:
I would like to make sure the message is heard about how amazing my mother is.
Note from me
I have heard wonderful things about her mother's presence and presence of mind during the birth a number of times. I know this birthing mom was very blessed to have her mother available to nurture and witness her own daughter during her daughter's child's birthing.


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Nope, my new toy has nothing to do with the latest gadget in town. I've never been fond of buying the latest gadget and wouldn't want to be part of the never-ending quest to always have something better. The latest would always become obsolete for sure! So every time I get something electronic for myself, I asked, "Is this something I am willing to stick with for the next 3 years, no matter what the new technology offers?"
Going back to my sharing, my new toy is just an automatic washing machine from Samsung. I didn't consider this as a necessity before, but in times like this that we don't have a helper at home, I really need to have it. Of course, nothing beats the traditional hand washing especially for our favorite clothes but got no choice but to trust the delicate function of this machine. I had actually chosen between this machine and our former laundry woman but decided on the machine due to the inconsistency in cleanliness of the latter. Less headaches for me I guess. If the machine fails, it wouldn't affect me much rather than paying somebody who doesn't deliver consistent results.
I've been using this toy for 2 weeks now, and so far it does serve its purpose. Most of our clothes came out clean although some needed soaking. It doesn't consume too much energy at 330W compared to the regular washing machines. But I still need to find out how much it will add to our electric bill. As for water consumption, I think it is fairly okay. The more important thing is that I can do other things and focus less on this chore. :-)


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After rebooting my fairly freshly installed Ubuntu Desktop 9.04 vmware image today, the desktop comes up with the screen offset (approximately) 50 pixels to the left. So the left-most 50 pixels on the desktop are 'outside' the VMWare host window (not visible), and the right-most 50 pixels inside the VMWare host window are black. So the entire screen is shifted left by 50 pixels, revealing a "black background".
The login screen also doesn't show the complete login box. The login box is cut off mid-way through the last "e" in "Username".
The offset remains after changing the screen resolution.
Hmm.. Just rebooted again. The Login box is still cut off, but the screen is no longer offset.
What's the deal with this?
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Baroness Campbell packs a potent message about how sport can cure corrosive youth culture
Baroness Sue Campbell is one of the most powerful people in British sport. As chair of UK Sport and the Youth Sport Trust she oversees the whole of the sporting spectrum: from grassroots participation to elite high performance. She also happens to be a woman.
Campbell is so passionate about the power of sport, particularly the benefits of using this 'miracle pill' as a force for good, that she can sound, to use her description, 'missionary' at times.
The 63-year-old, a former England Under-21 netballer, is only too aware that her unflinching approach could get on people's nerves but something else nags away at her, too. She is conscious her uncompromising approach would be much easier to stomach coming from a man.
Fix: Sport could cure our corrosive youth culture
When she walked into UK Sport nine years ago, initially with an 18-month task to reform the organisation, she says she encountered sexism so bad it drove her 'right to the edge'.
Quitting - and letting someone else win - is anathema to Campbell, the type of schoolgirl tomboy who would fight to get her coat on first. Her confident tone - she very seldom stumbles over words - falters just a touch when asked if she has encountered sexism in her career.
'Yes,' almost laughing at the suggestion it would be otherwise. 'I have met some pretty tough moments.'
Campbell takes a quick glance around her office at UK Sport's headquarters in Russell Square, central London and continues: 'When I first came into this job, yes, I probably came as close to - I won't say walking away because I don't know that I ever would - but I got driven right to the edge here.
'I'm not sure if it was sexism or if my style got on their nerves, but it felt like sexism. It really was tough going for a while.
'It's confusing because I'm an agent of change - and not everybody likes change. I can be horribly dogged on behalf of sport.
'I'm pretty easy-going, actually, but you threaten sport and I'm afraid you threaten me. Then I can be a pain, and I will be a pain, because I've spent a life trying to do my very best for sport, because I so believe in it.
'Maybe that's what people have hated me for, or found me difficult to handle. You can easily put it down as sexism, but certainly it is a man's world.'
Catalyst: Will magical nights at the Olympic Stadium spur youngster on to compete in sport?
She guards her words carefully but it is clear the sexism Campbell encountered was not in the form of inappropriate sexual innuendo, but the patronising put-downs of men upset that a woman had not only infiltrated but was now in charge of their world.
Change is difficult to handle at any time, but it is easy to play the 'How would you know? You're a woman' card if you don't like what you're hearing.
As the first woman on the staff at Loughborough University in 1976, Campbell says it didn't really occur to her that she was the lone female among the '25 blokes in their African violet tracksuits'.
'If anything, I felt slightly, occasionally, looked after,' she says, 'like a little sister. You could have seen that as patronising but I found it very useful. They were great guys and I got on incredibly well with them.
'I think it was when I came into the National Coaching Foundation, where I was rubbing against very strong personalities on governing bodies and the more hardcore, traditional sport, then I started to experience it.
'I've never felt the need to stand on the "women in sport" platform and bang the drum but I try every day to be what I am and I'm very proud to be a woman. I don't really want to be a pseudo male.'
Campbell, a tall, slim former netball goal defence, retains the outdoorsy, approachable aura of a PE teacher but, in her simple light grey suit, she is far from a 'pseudo male'.
Focus: Do we only concentrate on female tennis players after the men have been knocked out?
She listens considerately and is surprisingly witty but she bristles when asked whether she finds it irritating that we still discuss 'women's sport', even though Great Britain's women are set to outshine their male counterparts in many disciplines at this summer's home Olympics.
'Yes,' she says. 'I've spent quite a lot of my life in the (United) States and my American friends are blown away by how appalling the coverage of women's sport is here. If you did it in America, half the nation would be down your throat. They just wouldn't stand for it.
'All the sport in the (British) media is played by males and the only time you get any profile for women's tennis is when the British players all got knocked out in the first round of the Australian Open. What you're projecting all the time is women fail, or they're not even worth reporting on.
'Maybe if there were more women in there, more women would be interested in the dialogue. But at the moment, they're sitting watching men playing something so there isn't any great dialogue because they aren't those men.
'It's the little boy thing; the relationship with the players. "If only I could have been playing for Spurs." Whereas because it's not an option for us you don't think, "I could have been".'
Campbell's roles at UK Sport and the Youth Sport Trust are to try and ensure no sportsperson, whether an elite athlete or a child playing football at school, are left thinking what might have been.
She is confident 'we're where we want to be' in terms of high performance but, despite her upbeat, positive demeanour, there is regret in her voice when she discusses school sport.
Fantasy: Playing for teams like Spurs is something only boys can dream of
If the Olympics has 'turbocharged' the drive for podium places, the Government's decision in October 2010 to scrap 450 school sports partnerships, which were run by the Youth Sport Trust, was a devastating blow.
Campbell said: 'In high performance, we're ahead of where we were before Beijing. We think we'll do really well in London and even better in 2016 because they've got it now.
'We created a cultural shift where we said coming 10th in the medal table isn't good enough. Everybody said, "Really?" and I said, "Absolutely. We're going to pitch for fourth". (But) in school sport, if I'm honest, I would have liked to have continued to have that wonderful infrastructure of great people.
'It was a way of ensuring we could give every child a great experience in sport and hopefully improve their life chances, so we're not, ideally, where we want to be.
'In 2003 there were 23 per cent of our kids doing two hours of PE and sport a week. That's how low it was. But 2009 it was over 90 per cent. Those people drove that. They got it and they were doing an amazing job.
'(But) now we've a new mission, called the Sainsbury's 2012 School Games. It's about engaging all kids and giving them the best chance you can through sport.'
Diverse: A range of people will compete for Britain at the Olympics
This is the underlying belief that really drives Campbell, even now, more than three decades after she first walked into a 'challenging' school in Moss Side, Manchester, in the early 1970s and was confronted by a group of girls smoking cigarettes and refusing to play netball because 'they said they might break their nails'.
She smiles as she relays a story that has clearly been told many times before. 'What they evolved into was an amazing dance group,' she says.
'It's the one thing it's really hard to get politicians to get hold of,' Campbell adds. 'They get sport. They realise they have all sorts of "youth issues". But I believe sport is one of the most powerful things we've got to change youth culture.
'The frustration for me is we have evidence, but I can't get people to say, "Wow, here is something that's almost like a miracle pill". We don't use it for that end, we use it to get more people doing sport, rather than see sport as a way of getting more people improved and doing well in life.
'I'm not saying we'd stop all riots or we wouldn't have kids with huge challenges, but we could and we should be able to change youth culture.'
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Workshop: September 12, 2010, Barcelona, Spain
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Michael Haupt, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany
Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany
PC Members:
Gabriela Arevalo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Johannes Brauer, NORDAKADEMIE, Germany
Johan Brichau, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Marcus Denker, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France
Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Stéphane Ducasse, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France
James Foster, GemStone Systems, Inc., USA
Andy Kellens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Andreas Raab, Teleplace Inc., USA
Lukas Renggli, Software Composition Group (SCG), University of Bern, Switzerland
Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.
Dave Ungar, IBM Research
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Fauxreel is fo'real!
Again, apologies all around for posting these photos so late in the game, but as I've been saying, I had so many New York and Montreal photos to get through, that these have just been sitting in my photo storage banks for months, itching to be posted!
I've photographed Fauxreel's stuff before (although, admittedly, I haven't seen his stuff about Toronto in quite some time). Fauxreel is arguably Toronto's most famous street artist (everyone in the Brooklyn scene knows who he is, how many people can boast that?), so was glad to hear that during the Luminato festival, he was invited to erect some stuff around the Gerard and Parliament area.
These were taken at night, so forgive the lax-clarity.
Looks like he made the piece out of Condominium Open House and Grand Opening signs.
it's nice and all, but i think i prefer Fauxreel's wheatpastes of full-size people…. check out my Fauxreel category for examples of those:)
know when to stop. if not, keep on going
this used to be on the wall of Abode, a club on the corner of richmond and peter. i photograffiti'd it just in time.
another Fauxreel piece:)
advertising? artwork? or illegal?
i'm almost certain this is the work of Fauxreel.
Post-Graffiti exhibit at The Gladstone Hotel
i have found lots of Shepard Fairey's around Toronto and New York (check out my Shepard Fairey category for each find), but i thought i had found them all in Toronto. i don't think he's been here for a few years, so to find some of his OBEY stickers still lingering about is a real treat. i found this practically unblemished OBEY sticker on queen west near dovercourt
speaking of Shepard Fairey…..
i found out recently that The Gladstone Hotel quietly opened a free exhibit on their 3rd and 4th floors called POST-GRAFFITI. it features the work of Shepard Fairey (the Obama HOPE poster!!!!), Dolk, Retna, Anthony Lister, Dan Bergeron (aka FAUXREEL), and yes, Banksy.
they're having a launch party for it on the 27th in conjunction with another art exhibit, BUT they'll charge ya $5. if you go any day between 12pm and 5pm, it's free to the public.
just sayin'.
shepard fairey.
apart from his obvious style, there are lots of visual cues to his previous work here.
more shepard fairey. basically the whole 3rd floor was dedicated to him.
this is Anthony Lister. he has this motif with golden award trophies that he works with often.
this piece by Anthony Lister previously appeared this summer at the Show & Tell Gallery
i was first introduced to his work when i wandered around Brooklyn for two weeks earlier this year.
dolk's homage to warhol.
i'm pretty sure this if FAUXREEL, as he primarily works with photographs of people. if so, he only had this one piece in the whole exhibit. what a shame. i love his work.
i'm assuming this Indian/Pakistani scene is by Retna
and the one BANKSY at the exhibit
you can tell it's a BANKSY by the lettering/font of the word "applause."
hahah uss enterprise.
most of all someone said true love was dead and i'm bound to fall, bound to fall, for you
adventures in photoshop. i think i'm gonna get the hang of this. oh ya, banner up top of this blog has been changed with some brilliance on my part. i'm becoming a total bitch.
last weekend i'm walking down queen west, i look up, and lo-and-behold it's yet another pole sporting gregory alan elliot's turn of phrases and actual name attached to this street art.
i decided to take this as a cosmic sign from the universe. a while back, mr elliot tweeted me his phone number when he saw the cornucopia of his street art pictured on this blog, so after toeing this line (see what i did there+) of his in the sidewalk, i gave him a shout and we met up at Crafted by Te Aro on ossington.
and he was . . . well . . . he was unlike anyone i've ever met before, and that's not a lie.
without saying how i felt about him, i'll just tell you what he said:
"i'm NDP in practice, but i always vote conservative."
make your own judgements.
i concur
since then, it's been a strange but amazing week. after leaving mr elliot in the ossington area to give away plants that were meant for me to hands of other homes, i looked up at the back of the street lights and poles along queen west (something i trained my eye to do after two weeks in NYC and Brooklyn, never wanting to miss a single piece of street art), and what do i find?
it's old and it's ripped, but it's clearly my boy.
oh ya, that's a sheppard fairey andre the giant "obey" sticker. proof that he's been here, and deems our city worthy.
like the first time i ever saw this sticker in real life on houston street in manhattan, i got all giddy and starting jumping up and down.
just ignore me.
i don't know who put up this really clever stencil on adelaide street near simcoe, but i drove by it first, turned the car around, wheels and hubcaps screeching like surgical tools along the pavement, pulled up in front, and took a bajillion shots.
EDIT!! just found out this is by fauxreel!
i love how the wheatpasted image incorporates the pipes facading the building. so clever. and looks like an old street art friend to the right was taken away. boo-urns.
phil and i found this outside st george station.
there is nothing greater than citizens commenting on the city in which they live through art.
oh and rob-ford-bashing, ya gotta give the drugs-of-joy.
early this week i went to the morning press screening of director morgan spurlock's latest doc POM The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, which premiered here as part of the Hot Docs film fest, which i am covering as media. i wrote a health-framed film review of the film, which you can read here, and then, the holiest of holies happened -> i got to interview DA MAN morgan spurlock himself on the red carpet of the premiere which you can read here! the pres rep only gave me 5 minutes (which was then diminished to 4 mins) with mr spurlock, but he was totally gracious and generous with his responses, and gave many great soundbites.
i've been a freelance writer for all of my adult life, and i've interviewed a shitload of celebrities and notable personalities, but it never really gets old. the moment you become blazé about how cool the job is, you should leave it. i love being media. i really do.
and now i fancy mr spurlock. just sayin'
watch me in this video by shawn preece hall interviewing morgan spurlock at the 3:10 mark!
some fuzzy blackberry-shots i took of mr spurlock on the red carpet as he inched his way toward me. here he's being interviewed by CityTV.
now he's being interviewed by CBC.
and NOW it's the naked news, oddly, with clothes.
there's shawn preece hall in the leather jacket. totally cool dude. he recognized me in the media line from twitter. i love it when that happens (which is rare. i have this complex where i believe no one actually knows my name or what i look like, so when people recognize me and actually know my name, it makes me a gonzo-blush)
anyway, watch the trailer for POM The Greatest Movie Ever Sold here:
i went to the Windsor Arms Hotel for high tea, in celebration of the Windsors tying the knot (see what i did there? anybody? Bueller?)
i wrote about it for The Gloss.
here's some photos that didn't make the final cut of the article
i won this book.
i'm not really bothering to read it. i mean, i got up early to watch them get married, but i'm over it now. fuck, even THEY are over it now, look.
drinks served.
hats given.
tea and crumpets.
see those two little pots of jam sitting next to the butter dish in the centre?
ya, those went straight into my purse.
i'm like a sloppy scavenger. i spent so many years broke, eating nothing but scraps and morsels, and that mentality never leaves you.
you can take the poor grifter outta the girl, but you can't take the girl outta the poor grifter.
when you're not looking, i'm eating the leftovers on your plate.
all the lovely ladies wore sunday dresses and strappy pumps. i showed up in my work clothes and Chuck Taylors.
above i said i'm turning into a bitch. replace "bitch" with "fuckface."
something new has popped up this week out of seeming nothingness. for once, i don't particularly want to say anything about it.
i had a dream in the middle of the week that a hand was reach under the covers of my bed to choke me. when i woke up, i was still suffocating, wrestling with the hand which was independent of any body. this dark, strong, floating hand was trying to kill me while i lay bare.
death by duvet.
the night before i dreamed i was being told by the new girlfriend of an old boyfriend to leave the metropolis, he would never love me that way again.
no one ever loves the same way twice.
back off, duchess of cambridge, wills is MINE.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) NASCAR driver Brian Scott plans to retire after next week's season finale to spend more time with his family.
Scott is 28 and has been racing at NASCAR's national level since 2007. He has two young children.
Albertsons Companies, Scott's longtime sponsor, said it would terminate its NASCAR program after the season. However, Richard Petty Motorsports plans to field the No. 44 that Scott drove with a new sponsor and another driver.
Scott posted a statement about his decision on several social media platforms and explained the Sprint Cup schedule ''has taken its toll'' and caused him ''to re-evaluate what I want in life for myself and for my family.''
Scott raced in the Truck Series through 2009, the Xfinity Series from 2010 until 2015 and joined RPM in the Cup Series this season.


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In my previous blog, I had pointed out there had been a time in mid 2008 I been without service for three months. Sometime in 2009, someone stole or cut off the line connected from the pole to our house. How did it happen? My provider had remained silent. If only apologies could be converted to cash. I would be richer by now. During the first year of my broadband subscription, towards the middle of 2008, I had not experienced service interruption. Until a neighbor and an internet café close to our house, subscribed to the same provider I have.
Why the service interruption? I had to figure it out myself. Either my connection is used by someone else illegally. Or the up stream and down stream of the internet connection is causing my service to be disconnected from the server of my provider. I lost counts, but whenever there is a system outage in some areas my connection is always affected. I would suddenly have a faster connection than normal. After several hours enjoying the fast connection my service would suddenly stopped.
Honestly, I do hope someone from my provider would listen to what I had been saying to their customer service, who answers my call. Every time I would report service interruption. I know the going concern concept in business. I know competitive market strategy. But the strategy is hurting some consumers due to the neglect in the deliver of quality service. Subscribers are being offered with freebies and low cost of internet connections. The catch is consumers also get free headache, due to the poor delivery of service.


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By Okonkwo Isaac Somto
For Family Writers
Unless you have been living under a rock, everyone on the planet is aware that Donald Trump is running for President of the United States as a Republican. Think Donald Trump wouldn't do well in office? Think again. Yes, he has a tendency to speak without thinking and he's embarrassed himself on more than a couple of occasions. Plus, we all thought this was just a publicity stunt. It seems as though there is no middle ground when it comes to Trump, people either love him or hate him. When Trump first announced that he was planning on seeking the highest office in the world, political columnists, commentators, and experts all felt that it was all a stunt to give Donald publicity. No one really thought that Trump really wanted to be President, and even if he did really want the job, no one thought he would be an actual threat to win. However, what we may not realize is that Trump may bring some needed change to the world.
Here are my 5 reasons why I think Donald Trump will make a great president.
Donald Trump is first and foremost an acute businessman. The man behind the multi-billion dollar real estate empire is truly the classic American hustler who built his fortune from the grounds up. Yes his father was a successful realtor, but what Donald did eclipses by far anything his father ever accomplished. Donald Trump is a multi-billionaire and there is no question that he can fund his presidential campaign. He doesn't need any help funding his own campaign and that's why he will not owe any favors to any groups that are looking for political collateral. Trump will not feel the pressure of other politicians to try and pass legislation that helps the groups that donate to their campaigns. What trump has exhibited as both a successful businessman and a leader, shows that he's capable of withstanding the pressure of running a country as great as America.
Politicians have a way of talking and using lots of fancy words, yet not really saying anything meaningful at all but that's not Donald Trump. Typical politicians will never answer questions in a straightforward manner but trump clearly speaks his mind and also speaks from the heart, and you can at least respect that. Many experts thought the way he spoke about major issues would be his downfall. In reality, its one of his biggest strengths, people are finally seeing a candidate who is clear in his stances on the key issues. He does not hide his answer amid political double talk. He's just too honest, that's bad business in politics and that's more reason why i will vote for trump.
I know what you thinking, he needs to be in the political game to be a able to manipulate his way into the white house and play the dirty games in other to survive but that's not true. Trump is not a politician, It only takes listening to a few minutes of him speaking to make that clearly obvious. But his inability to play the political correctness game that every politician plays will make him stand out in a packed field. The vast majority of Trump's support is due to the fact that he is saying what many of the voters are thinking. Whenever Trump says something that is considered to not be politically correct, his lead in the poll increases. This can't be by accident. He's not a career politician who says whatever he thinks the people want to hear. He's running for office to make an actual difference. And he can do so by being different. Of the 16 Republican candidates, all but 3 of them have been senators or governors at some point. It won't be a bad idea for a non-politician to be in charge to show what he can do and I believe Trump will do great.
Unlike other politicians who always have plenty of skeletons in their cupboard and end up in scandals, trump has managed to put his own all in the open. There isn't actually anything about his life or past that's controversial or offensive other than he is divorced and has a crazy hair style. Honestly, he's business is all out in the open. But can you say the same of Hillary Clinton? Or Trump's entire Republican rivals? Well you know better. Trump even made clear intentions of even prosecuting Hillary Clinton if elected president. Haha..crazy huh?
Donald Trump doesn't hate Africans. Trump has always been opened minded about the problems that Africans go through which are largely caused by their own leaders. For example, Trump said Obama has done very, very poorly for African-Americans.
"I've always been able to bring people together," Trump said on CNBC. "And we right now, believe it or not, I mean, we have an African-American president, and I thought one thing. I was not thinking he was going to be a great president because I disagreed with a lot of his views, but I thought he'd be a great unifier, and he turned out to be a great divider. "He's a great divider. There's tremendous division in this country, whether it's white and black or so many other things," Mr. Trump said about Obama.
Trump also had this to say about Africans home and aboard.
"African Americans are very lazy. The best they can do is gallivanting around ghettoes, lamenting how they are discriminated. These are the people America doesn't need. They are the enemies of progress. Look at African countries like Kenya for instance, those people are stealing from their own government and go to invest the money in foreign countries. From the government to opposition, they only qualify to be used as a case study whenever bad examples are required. How do you trust even those who have ran away to hide here at the United States hiding behind education? I hear they abuse me in their blogs but I don't care because even the internet they are using is ours and we can decide to switch it off from this side. These are people who import everything including matchsticks. In my opinion, most of these African countries ought to be recolonized again for another 100 years because they know nothing about leadership and self governance" Donald Trump explained about the problems facing Africa.
The fact still remains that Donald trump has been very controversial about his views about Africa, and when you think about most of what he says about African leaders, he speaks the truth. I know Nigerians finds Trump annoying but we Biafrans finds him fascinating, that's why he has our vote. Most times he's always blunt with the truth, always hitting the nail with the hammer. Like the saying goes, "Truth Hurts".
(And for the record, this just my own personally opinion about Trump, so don't get it twisted)


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From the interview:
"I like products that people buy frequently that are lower ticket, especially in tough economic times. The global population recently surpassed 7 billion. Most people just want to get through their day with a little pleasure. They want a cup of coffee, a bite of chocolate, a cigarette, a beer, a Coke, whatever, a little boost to get them through. So we like the fact that people are going to buy that product every day, by their choice."
Some of the best businesses in the world sell the stuff that's consumed everyday by the global middle class (according to Auxier the global middle class is ~1.8 billion and growing by ~150 million/year). Things like snacks, beverages, tobacco, and other lower ticket branded consumer products (or FMCG). Compared to just about anything else, many of the great global franchises have very significant and durable competitive advantages. As a result, the best among them tend to have relatively predictable, attractive long-term business economics and prospects. More from the interview:
"Recently throughout Asia and China, there is a movement away from the cheap knockoffs and a push for higher quality, especially with regard to food. They want the real thing. People want to buy quality Western brands. The disclosure provided by the internet is driving envy. People want to live better. I look at what people are using by their choice, what they like to do every day, and that source of demand. We have $400 billion a year in housing subsidies. How do you figure out the real supply demand there? Russians are going crazy over Doritos because they love the taste."
And big scale matters...
"If you look at the demographics related to food in Asia – the rapid urbanization – the thing is you need scale to hit that market. You can't do it as a small company."
Basically, the producers of things like snacks, beverages, and cigarettes with some scale are the exact opposite of technology businesses.
The difficulty with most tech companies isn't understanding what their business economics look like now.
The problem is understanding what those economics will look like in 10 or 20 years.
Not an easy thing to do. Tech businesses reside in environments that are fast changing and unpredictable. There is a wide range of possible outcomes and, as a result, they require a much larger margin of safety.
Mostly, they are not worth the trouble unless extremely cheap to protect against the worst possible outcomes. With technology businesses, too often the storm clouds don't emerge with enough warning. Cheap is often not cheap enough. I realize some are very good at identifying the next big winner in technology, but that's a tough thing to do consistently well. Besides, potential big winners often reside in the same neighborhood as potential big losers and sometimes they're difficult to tell apart.
Avoid the big losses and the returns usually follow.
As I explained here and on other occasions, there's just no technology business that I'm comfortable with as a long-term investment. Most are involved in exciting, dynamic, and highly competitive industries.
That's precisely what makes them unattractive long-term investments.
No matter how good business looks today (or how high the expectations are), it's just not that easy to predict their economic prospects many years from now.
With the best businesses that's not the case. Occasionally, certain tech stocks have sold at enough of a discount that it made me willing to own some shares. Even then I'm only willing to slowly accumulate very limited amounts. They've always been and always will be, at most, very small positions. To be worth the bother, the shares must sell at an extremely low multiple of free cash flow and, even if lacking growth prospects, have cash generating capabilities unlikely to fall off a cliff.*
In other words, I'm not exactly trying to anticipate the next big thing in tech. I'll let others try to figure that sort of thing out. It's buying inexpensive cash flow and, in some cases, lots of net cash on the balance sheet. Cash that, even if not put to brilliant use, just needs to not be allocated in very dumb ways. (Though it's better to assume that some poor capital allocation will happen then end up pleasantly surprised. The price paid should reflect that assumption.) The margin of safety must be large enough that nothing great has to happen to get, over several years, a good investment result. It must also be substantial enough to protect against all but the very worst unforeseeable rather bad tech business outcomes.
Tech businesses, in general, are involved in exciting, dynamic, and highly competitive businesses. That's precisely what makes them unattractive long-term investments.
I'd buy more shares of my favorite businesses (some are in Stocks to Watch and the Six Stock Portfolio), with the intent to hold them indefinitely, if they were selling at just a nice (but not extreme) discount to intrinsic value. In contrast, even if bought extremely cheap, most tech stocks are just not for the long haul in my view.**
So, if there's a very large margin of safety, I'll consider some limited technology exposure but that's it. Well, at least until that margin of safety shrinks a bit. In general, they'll always play a small supporting role.
Jeff Auxier later added this in the interview:
"If the food dynamics are growing 2 to 3 times faster than the economy, who's going to do it? It's going to be like a Tesco, and a Pepsi and a Wal-Mart."
The portfolio he manages is certainly consistent with his thinking.
Here's the top ten positions in the Auxier Focus Fund:
PepsiCo (PEP)
Molson Coors (TAP)
Tesco PLC (TSCDY)
Philip Morris International (PM)
Merck (MRK)
Microsoft (MSFT)
Procter & Gamble (PG)
Wal-Mart (WMT)
Medtronic (MDT)
Hospira (HSP)
According to Morningstar the annual portfolio turnover is 8%. So what's in the portfolio is generally held for quite a while. The top 10 make up roughly 21% of the portfolio.
The problem is getting shares of the great franchises when they're truly cheap. Unfortunately, it happens too rarely and most are not at all inexpensive right now.
In fact, the financial crisis provided the first window in quite a while to buy shares of the best businesses at big discounts to intrinsic value (conservatively estimated). These days, most of them are much tougher to buy. They remain fine businesses but there's, by definition, lower returns at more risk if bought at these higher prices.
Unfortunately, the window that opened -- as a result of the financial crisis -- to buy shares of higher quality businesses at very attractive valuations has mostly closed.
Check out part I and part II of the interview.
Long positions in PEP, PM, TSCDY, MSFT, PG, and WMT
* Though I actually do prefer that the share price falls even further in the short-to-medium term. That way the cash generating abilities can be used to buyback shares at an increasingly large discount to value. I'm perfectly happy to see a stock I've already bought temporarily go down further if I think management will use the opportunity buyback in a smart way.
** I rarely invest in anything -- and that includes tech stocks -- unless I'm willing to own the shares for several years or even longer. Frequent traders might consider several years to be long-term, but I consider that time frame really the bare minimum for almost any investment. The difficulties that have caused a security to be cheap and mispriced are unlikely to be sorted out in less time than that (though I realize several years is hardly a trade). To me, a long-term investment is something that can be owned indefinitely and deliver good results. (Indefinitely, unless there's damage to the economic moat, valuation become extreme on the high side, or opportunity costs are high.)
Generally speaking, that's just not possible with tech stocks.
So investing in tech stocks is a much different investing model than what I traditionally favor but worth the trouble if the mispricing is substantial. My preferred investing model is to own shares of good businesses indefinitely. Even when bought at just a fair price, the high quality enterprises tend to produce very satisfactory long-term returns with much less risk of permanent loss of capital.
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Daisies Nail Art
Daisies Nail Art will look good on those of you who love to wear flower nail design. It is pretty simple but i'm sure that there will be lot of people out there who can't stop admiring your daisies nail art when it's done. I am already finish my own daisies nail art and it takes less than 3 minutes to finish each nails. Interested to learn more about this nail design? Then you should read my complete daisies nail art guide here!
Ready to start daisies nail art guide? You better be. In order to create good nail art like daisies nail art, you need clean and nice-shaped nails. So, i recommend you to start using nail file now girls. It will help to remove all cuticles on your nails. In order to bring back your nails to their original shape, you need to grab nail buffer and start to trim your nails. It will be a lot easier when your do this daisies nail art with your friend. Wash your hands with bathing soap and dry it. Now we are ready to create our own daisies nail art.
Just like always, i am gonna start with base coats. Use bright pink nail polish to all over your nails. This will be the primary color of our daisies nail art. If you want to create an opaque look, you can add one or two more layers on your base coat. Wait until all of these coats to dry before you move on to the next step in creating daisies nail art. It's time to use your stylus. Dip it into yellow nail polish and start to create daisies with five circles on each side of your nails. Add white dot at the center on each daisy and connect them with dotted swirls. Look at daisies nail art pictures above if you have no idea about what i'm talking about right now. Add top coat and you can go outside with your new daisies nail art!
Well that is all i can tell you right now girls. If you want to know more about this tutorial, you better write down your question on the comment box below. I might come back soon with more tips for daisies nail art here.


text: Summer combo has been my running shoes and some kind of more formal wear. Lately the running shoes has been all over the streetstyle and dome runways as well. in fact at the beginning I was not that sure about the combination. My days need to have some hours of excersizing so one day I decided to try the trend. To make my fashion more practical.Was magical to say the truth how comfortable was and how different it looked at least here in Mexico the trend has not started. One of the best feelings in fashion is discovering something makes you feel comfortable and making still a good statement. What are your fave fashion feelings? Xx