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Heber-Overgaard, Arizona
Heber-Overgaard, Arizona | |
Location in Navajo County and the state of Arizona | |
U.S. Census (2010) | |
Coordinates: 34°24′47″N 110°33′52″W / 34.41306°N 110.56444°WCoordinates: 34°24′47″N 110°33′52″W / 34.41306°N 110.56444°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Arizona |
County | Navajo |
Settled | 1883 |
Area | |
• Total | 6.9 sq mi (17.9 km2) |
• Land | 6.9 sq mi (17.9 km2) |
• Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
Elevation[1] | 6,627 ft (2,020 m) |
Population (2010 census) | |
• Total | 2,822[2] |
• Density | 409/sq mi (157.65/km2) |
• Demonym | Heberite |
Time zone | MST (UTC−7) |
• Summer (DST) | no DST/PDT (UTC−7) |
ZIP code | 85928, 85933 |
Area code(s) | 928 |
FIPS code | 04-32310 |
GNIS ID(s) | 29842, 32586, 2408368 |
Website | http://www.heberovergaard.org/ |
Heber-Overgaard is a census-designated place (CDP) in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. Situated atop the Mogollon Rim, the community ranges in elevation from 6,381 feet (1,945 m)[3] in Heber to 6,604 feet (2,013 m)[4] in Overgaard. The community is 143.6 miles (231 km) north of Phoenix along SR 260 between Payson and Show Low. The population was 2,822[2] at the 2010 census.
Heber was founded in 1883, by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and the town is named after either Heber J. Grant or Heber C. Kimball, both prominent members of the LDS church.[5]
Overgaard was settled in the 1930s and was named after the owner of the first sawmill.[6] It was originally called Oklahoma Flats.[7]
Tourism, retirement and timbering are the foundations of Heber-Overgaard's economy.[6]
In 1876, Mormon emigrants from Utah were assigned to one of four Little Colorado River settlements by Brigham Young.[5] In Allen's Camp (later St. Joseph and now Joseph City), a dam had been built on the Little Colorado River in April, but the high water in July washed it out. By August, many settlers had returned to Utah. Eight married couples and six single men were all that remained. By 1882, three of the four settlements were near collapse due to several years of drought. At this time John Bushman, of Allen's Camp, was sent by Lot Smith, president of the Little Colorado Stake, to scout the forests to the south in anticipation of relocation. Dry farming in the mountains would be easier due to higher rain fall, lush grasses, and plentiful timber.[8]
On December 6, 1882, Bushman set out for the forest with five brethren: W.C. Allen; J.H. Richards; J.C.Hansen; H. Tanner; and James E. Shelley. Upon arrival they started digging wells in search of water. These men were later joined by Hans Nielson, Lehi Heward and John Scarlet. By April 12, 1883, two cabins had been built and grain planted, but only four family's remained (James Shelley, Lehi Heward, John Scarlet and Hans Nielson). The first summer, houses were built, land cleared, and corrals constructed. Crops were planted not only for food, but also to barter for goods that could not be made at home. The growing season was four months long. John Bushman never settled in the area, but did contribute time and encouragement to the actual settlers.[8]
In 1887, Lehi Heward abandoned the settlement and relocated to Pine, Arizona. He was urged to do so, because of the Pleasant Valley War. Buckskin Canyon, where he had settled, was named after the buckskin chaps his wife Elisabeth had made for him. John Scarlet was next to leave in 1888. He was later thought to have joined the posses of Joe McKiney's, under-sheriff for C.P. Owens. In 1889, Nathan, Alva, and Samuel Uriah Porter, arrived in Heber. They grew crops of corn and potatoes between Heber and St. Joseph. The following year brought the Penrod and Sharp families. Samuel U. Porter would later describe the Penrods as anti-Mormon, and the Sharps as dishonest. In 1898, Hans Nielson abandoned his estate on the west bank of the Black Canyon were today's HW260 enters town. Hans Nielson had been the first presiding elder for what became the Heber branch of the Joseph City Ward. Of the original four pioneer families, starting out with four head of cattle, three daughters, and a few worldly possessions, James and Margaret Shelley were the only family to make Heber a long term commitment.[8]
Late 19th century[edit]
In 1882, Heber J. Grant was called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve. Early on in his service in the quorum he made many trips to Arizona earning the title "The Arizona Apostle".[9] On one such trip, he passed through the settlement on his way to Phoenix, and stayed with the Shelleys in their cabin.[10] The townspeople latter named their settlement after Mr. Grant.[5][10]
Another account of the settlement's namesake history is that John W. N. Scarlett named the settlement after Heber C. Kimball, former Chief Justice of the State of Deseret.[5][11]
The post office in Heber was established in 1890, and on September 11, 1890, James Shelley was appointed the first postmaster of Heber.[8] Mail was brought by buckboard every Wednesday from Holbrook to Heber.[10] From here it was sorted and distributed in Heber. This duty was performed by James Shelley, in addition to being a farmer, cattlemen husband and father.[8]
Marion and Clarence Owens came to farm in Heber with their families in 1891. The following year, two practicing polygamists arrived from Utah to escape prosecution. One was called "Brother Luck". In 1893, Joseph Porter arrived in Heber to help his brother, Samuel U. Porter, with his farm. Also in 1893, John Nelson occupied a ranch in Brookbank Canyon, and the Baca family had settled near the head of Black Canyon. John Nelson and partner, Nicholas Valentine, were in the sheep business, and the Porters hauled their wool to the Holbrook railroad. Nicholas Valentin passed away four years later from a rabies bite acquired from a skunk.[8]
Many settlements were located in the fertile cattle ranching and farmlands of Black Canyon. Potatoes, corn, milk, eggs and large gardens were the livelihood of many families. Potato fields could be found down Buckskin Canyon, near the present day "Buckskin Artist Community". Cornfields and large gardens could be found where the present day High School ball fields, and Tenney's Trailer Park are located.[10] All available land near town and in forests clearings was converted to farmland.[8] During this time period, the Apaches were said to be a "fearsome" tribe. Food was said to be given out by settlers to keep the peace. At this time, horses were the primary mode of transportation, and horse thieves were a major problem.[10]
In 1895, Joseph Porter and Maude Shelley were married. Present day Porters of Heber-Overgaard can trace their family roots to them. In 1896 Samuel, Alva and Nathan Porter divided up their farm. In addition to farming, Samuel Porter was often called upon to administer to the residents of Heber to alleviate pain and suffering by using prayer and petitions. A drought affected the residents of Heber that Summer, followed by crop destroying hail storms in August. In January 1897, Wickliff Bushman, the mailman that brought mail from Holbrook to Heber, contracted the measles and died at 23 years old. Three of Samuel Porter's children also contracted the disease, but survived. Margaret Shelley had twin boys that June, but only one son survived.[8]
In 1891 John Hoyle, Johann Frederick Heil, an immigrant from Baden, Germany and former cook for the Hashknife Outfit, opened the first Heber store. He was called "Hoyle" rather than "Heil" because some locals had trouble pronouncing his name. In addition to his store he had a farm located down Buckskin Wash. John Hoyle had relocated from the failed Wilford, Arizona settlement, 7 miles south of Heber, where he had a store and ranch. Samuel Porter helped him on his farm, and hauled freight to and from Holbrook.[8] He ran the store until his death on August 2, 1912 of paralysis (possibly polio). He had no heirs to claim the land in the US. Through a German consulate, twenty-eight distant heirs were located and $3,046 was divided among them.[8]
May 1898 was so dry that water was hauled from wells in Wilford for household use. Heber wells still had enough for livestock. A small reservoir had been built below town, and filled up when water ran down the Black Canyon. A diversion dam was built to divert water from the wash to the ditch. When the rains finally came in July, the Independence Day celebration had cause for additional celebration. Residents celebrated by firing guns, fire crackers, Pie Nie, and a dance that evening.[8] Years later, The 4th of July would remain just as large a celebration in Heber. Alva Porter's Farm eventually became the rodeo grounds, where present day Mogollon High School sits. The community roped caves, rode bucking horses, held pistol shooting contests, foot races, and dances.[10]
The 20th century[edit]
In 1901, Samuel Porter gave his farm over to his brother Alva. This farm was located where today's Tenney trailer park, and the Mogollon ball fields stand.[8]
In 1904, drought was so bad that cattle had to be driven to "Blue Lake" on the reservation.[8]
In 1912, after John Hoyle's passing, Alva Porter purchased much of John Hoyle's merchandise and he and his brother-in-law Thomas Shelley started a new store close to John Hoyle's old one. Alva eventually sold his share to Thomas who ran the store with his wife, Eva Tanner, until 1957. The store would later be called the "Heber Country Store" and later "IGA Supermarket".[8]
In 1916, James Shelley and family returned to Joseph City, their final home.[8]
The Heber school district was established in 1921. Prior to this, children had to move to Joseph City in late fall, after crops were harvested, then return in early spring. The first year took place in Walter Shelley's house. Priscilla Shumway, from Snowflake, was the first teacher. A new schoolhouse was planned. James L. Porter (Dobby), grandson to Sanford Porter, donated 80% of the land towards the new school house.[10]
Overgaard, adjoining Heber, was settled in the 1930s and was originally called Oklahoma Flat. It was later named after the family of the first sawmill owner.[7] The post office in Overgaard was established on October 14, 1938. William T. Shockley served as the first postmaster in 1938, followed by Christ Overgaard in 1939.[12]
Bill Porter built the first sawmill in Heber just south of present day HWY260. This ran until 1935 when it burned down. In 1946 Lorine Donald (Donnie) Porter relocated the "Wagon Draw" sawmill to Heber. It ran until 1984 when a change of ownership was soon followed by bankruptcy. By the 1930s, Heber and Overgaard had become logging towns. Horses were used to haul logs up until 1965. Logging and ranching were the predominant industries until the mid-90s, at which time the Mexican spotted owl injunction was put on the Sitgreaves National Forest.[10]
Upon moving to Heber in the 1950s, Mr. Brown Capps served as principle, and Mrs. Ella Capps as a teacher, of the Heber schoolhouse until his death in 1969. Capps Middle school gets its namesake from Brown and Ella Capps. In 1969-70, the Heber and Overgaard schools consolidated.[10] Mogollon High School was built in 1989. It was named after then Mogollon Rim. Mountain Meadows Primary School was built in the early 2000s.[6]
On Feb. 1, 1971, the local Sheriff's Posse formed a committee to promote the construction of a Fire Department for the Heber-Overgaard area. By March of the same year, land was secured for the location of the new Fire Department. In February 1972, the Sheriff Posse disbanded because some members had moved out of the area. In early 1973, the newly formed American Legion Post 86 took over the task of forming a Fire Department and Fire District for the area. They were able to obtain the signatures necessary to have an election called to form a Fire District. A petition was put together and used to propose the formation of a Fire District to the County Board of Supervisors. The American Legion put up the necessary funds to have an election. On June 4, 1973, by unanimous vote, the Heber-Overgaard Fire District was established. It had an area of 102 square miles. On June 14, Ivan Wilson was elected as the first Fire Chief of the new District and Larry Rhodes as the Secretary-Treasurer. Walt Downs and John Shaffery Sr. were the first two men to sign up as Firefighters.[13]
The first 4 July parade was held in 1976.[10]
On July 4, 1980, Les Parham, of Heber-Overgaard, put on his first of over 33 years of fireworks displays. Fundraising was spearheaded by the Heber-Overgaard Chamber of Commerce and was solely paid for by the contributions of viewers who enjoyed the show. The first show was held in what was once known as the Porter softball field, SW corner of Parkview and HW260, to an audience of several hundred. A country fried steak dinner fundraiser was held to cover expenses. Today, an audience in the thousands views the display at the Mogollon High School fields. This is primarily paid for by parking lot donations.[6]
In 1988, Heber-Overgaard celebrated its first Oktoberfest event.
On Aug. 24, 1995, federal Judge Carl Muecke ordered the 11 national forests of Arizona and New Mexico to halt all logging until their forest plans adequately protect the Mexican spotted owl. The injunction was placed after a lawsuit was filed by Robin Silver, conservation chairman of the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity.[14] The controversial shutdown affected 8 large mills, several small mills and hundreds of jobs.[15] Many Heber-Overgaard residents were forced to relocate and find work elsewhere.[16] Black ribbons were placed throughout town to raise awareness of the situation, and to show support for the loggers and their families.[citation needed] Environmentalists argued that "jobs would vanish no matter what, for if cutting continued at its current rate, the old-growth forests would be gone within thirty years and the mills forced to close anyhow".[17] The forests remained closed for over eight years. In 2002, the Parker Mill, in Clay Springs (16 miles away), and the Snowflake Mill (35 miles east) were two of the first mills to start up again.[16]
The 21st century[edit]
Today, Heber-Overgaard has evolved into a retirement and tourism destination. Recreational and lifestyle activities such as hiking and fishing can be enjoyed in the summer, and cross country skiing in the winter. With a four-seasons climate, the town is a haven for those wishing to escape the heat of Phoenix.[6] Land ownership in the Heber-Overgaard area is private, but surrounded by federally owned lands.[16] As of 2010, nearly 66% of the houses are second homes. While the full-time resident population is 2,822,[2] summertime population numbers climb to nearly 12,000.[16]
In 2002, the Rodeo-Chediski fire was a wildfire that burned in Heber-Overgaard beginning on June 18, 2002, and was not controlled until July 7. It was the second worst forest fire in Arizona to date, destroying 268 structures in Heber-Overgaard, (mainly in Overgaard) and consuming 467,066 acres (1,890.15 km2). Overgaard was evacuated for nearly two weeks while the fire was fought.[16]
Heber-Overgaard is located at 34°24′47″N 110°33′52″W / 34.41306°N 110.56444°W (34.413157, -110.564393).[18]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.9 square miles (18 km2), all of it land.
Heber-Overgaard has an atypical version of a Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) with a dry period in early summer followed by heavy monsoonal thunderstorms and rain from frontal cloudbands in the cooler months. Like more typical Mediterranean climates, however, forest fires tend to be extremely prevalent during dry summer periods.
Historical populations | |||
Census | Pop. | %± | |
1950 | 1 |
1960 | 2 | 100.0% | |
1970 | 3 | 50.0% | |
1980 | 4 | 33.3% | |
1990 | 1,581 | 39,425.0% | |
2000 | 2,722 | 72.2% | |
2010 | 2,822 | 3.7% | |
source:[20] |
As of the census[21] of 2010, there were 2,822 people, 1,236 occupied households, and 814 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 408.9 people per square mile (156.8/km²). There were 3,593 housing units at an average density of 520.7 per square mile (199.6/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 90.2% White, 0.2% Black or African American, 2.1% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 4.5% from other races, and 2.5% from two or more races. 11.6% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.[2]
There were 1,236 households out of which 19.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.9% were married couples living together, 3.7% had a male householder with no wife present, 7.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.1% were non-families. 29.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 45.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.66.[2]
In the CDP the population was spread out with 5.8% under the age of 5, 5.5% from 5 to 9, 4.7% from 10 to 14, 5.4% from 15 to 19, 3.0% from 20 to 24, 3.9% from 25 to 29, 3.3% from 30 to 34, 3.6% from 35 to 39, 3.8% from 40 to 44, 6.1% from 45 to 49, 7.9% from 50 to 54, 8.1% from 55 to 59, 10.7% from 60 to 64, 11.3% from 65 to 69, 7.8% from 70 to 74, 4.1% from 75 to 79, 3.1% from 80 to 84, and 1.9% who were 85 years of age or older. The median age was 53.1 years. Total population was 50.6% male / 49.4% female. 41.0% of males were 18 years of age or older. 39.5% of females were 18 years of age or older.[2]
The median income for a household in the CDP was $29,219, the median income for a family was $29,609, and median income for non-family was $12,194. Males had a median full-time, year-round income of $51,746 versus $31,518 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $12,893. About 24.7% of families and 25.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 36.2% of those under age 18, 21.7% age 18 - 64, and 0% of those age 65 or over.[2]
Retirement and tourism are an important part of the Heber-Overgaard economy. Proximity to the Sitgreaves National Forest provides recreational opportunities, and timber is harvested for Precision Pine Sawmill and Stone Container Paper Mill. A mulch plant processes forest by-products.[22]
Service businesses provide employment and services for the predominant retirement community. Government and schools also contribute to the local economy. Retail trade is increasing. Construction is also a major factor in the area's gradually expanding economy.[22]
Parks and outdoor recreation[edit]
Heber-Overgaard offers multiple community facilities including a library, 40-acre park, and many athletic facilities: baseball, football and Little League fields; basketball, volleyball, tennis and racquet ball courts; and a 9 hole regulation length golf course.[22]
Immediately south of Heber-Overgaard is the Mogollon Rim, a steep escarpment ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 feet from the base to the highest plateau. The Rim divides the northern plateau region from the lower central and southern areas. The Rim offers scenic views and numerous man-made lakes ideal for boating and other water sports.[22]
Hunting for elk, deer, turkey, antelope and bear is permitted. Fishing, in nearby trout streams, is popular. There are also picnic and camping facilities available within the area. Other scenic attractions in the area include Black Canyon Lake, Willow Springs Lake, Woods Canyon Lake, Chevelon Canyon Lake, the Canyon Creek Fish Hatchery, Chevelon Butte, and the Fort Apache Indian Reservation.[22]
The community is governed by the Navajo County Board of Supervisors and served by the county deputies, Department of Public Safety, and the sheriff's posse. The fire department has 40 volunteers, 15 EMTs, three paramedics and five IMETs.[22]
Heber-Overgaard Unified School District serves Heber-Overgaard.
Mountain Meadows Primary School, Capps Middle School, Mogollon Junior High School, and Mogollon High School serve the community. Student enrollment is approximately 551.
Northland Pioneer College, a state-accredited community college, serves Navajo County. The college has centers located in Winslow, Snowflake, Heber and Show Low.[22]
Nearest cities and towns[edit]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Feature Detail Report for: Heber". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey.
- ^ a b c d e f g U.S. Census Bureau (2010). "2010 Census Interactive Population Search". U.S. Government.
- ^ "Feature Detail Report for: Heber". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey.
- ^ "Feature Detail Report for: Heber". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey.
- ^ a b c d Granger, Byrd H. (1983). Arizona's names : X marks the place. Falconer Pub. Co. ISBN 0918080185.
- ^ a b c d e Heber-Overgaard Chamber of Commerce (2013). "Heber/Overgaard Local Attractions: History / Heritage". heberovergaard.org.
- ^ a b wmonline.com (2012). "Heber-Overgaard". wmonline.com.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Hanchett, Jr. Leland J. (1993). The Crooked Trail to Holbrook. Pine Rim Pub. ISBN 0963778501.
- ^ Walker, Ronald W. (1992), "Heber J. Grant", in Ludlow, Daniel H, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, New York: Macmillan Publishing, pp. 564–568, ISBN 0-02-879602-0, OCLC 24502140
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Hunt, Bobbie Stephens (1993). It is not often... Overgaard, Arizona: Pine Graphics.
- ^ U.S. Department of the Interior (1980). "Feature Detail Report for: Heber". usgs.gov.
- ^ U.S.P.S. (2013). "Postmaster Finder". U.S. Government.
- ^ Heber-Overgaard Fire Department (2013). "The history of Heber-Overgaard Fire Department". hofdaz.com.
- ^ Shea Andersen (September 04, 1995). "Owl shuts down the Southwest". hcn.org.
- ^ Luna I. Shyr (Aug 28, 1995). "Spotted Owl Rule Likely Will Cost Hundreds of Jobs, Millions of Dollars". The Daily Courier. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ^ a b c d e NCSU (June 2004). "Precision Pine & Timber". ncsu.edu.
- ^ Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez (Spring 1991). "Ethics and the Spotted Owl Controversy". scu.edu.
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- ^ "Heber, AZ". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
- ^ "CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING (1790-2010)". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ a b c d e f g Arizona State Department of Commerce (2011). "Heber-Overgaard, Arizona VITAL STATISTICS". rimcountry.com.
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In vitro fertilization (IVF)
By Mayo Clinic staffOriginal Article: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/in-vitro-fertilization/MY01648
Egg retrieval technique | |
Blastocyst |
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a complex series of procedures used to treat fertility or genetic problems and assist with the conception of a child. During IVF, mature eggs are collected (retrieved) from your ovaries and fertilized by sperm in a lab. Then the fertilized egg (embryo) or eggs are implanted in your uterus. One cycle of IVF takes about two weeks.
IVF is the most effective form of assisted reproductive technology. The procedure can be done using your own eggs and your partner's sperm. Or IVF may involve eggs, sperm or embryos from a known or anonymous donor. In some cases, a gestational carrier — a woman who has an embryo implanted in her uterus — might be used.
Your chances of having a healthy baby using IVF depend on many factors, such as your age and the cause of infertility. In addition, IVF can be time-consuming, expensive and invasive. If more than one embryo is implanted in your uterus, IVF can result in a pregnancy with more than one fetus (multiple pregnancy).
Your doctor can help you understand how IVF works, the potential risks and whether this method of treating infertility is right for you.
Why it's done
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a treatment for infertility or genetic problems. If IVF is performed to treat infertility, you and your partner might be able to try less invasive treatment options before attempting IVF, including fertility drugs to increase production of eggs or intrauterine insemination — a procedure in which sperm are placed directly in your uterus near the time of ovulation.
Occasionally, IVF is offered as a primary treatment for infertility in women over age 40. IVF can also be done if you have certain health conditions. For example, IVF may be an option if you or your partner has:
- Fallopian tube damage or blockage. Fallopian tube damage or blockage makes it difficult for an egg to be fertilized or for an embryo to travel to the uterus.
- Ovulation disorders. If ovulation is infrequent or absent, fewer eggs are available for fertilization.
- Premature ovarian failure. Premature ovarian failure is the loss of normal ovarian function before age 40. If your ovaries fail, they don't produce normal amounts of the hormone estrogen or have eggs to release regularly.
- Endometriosis. Endometriosis occurs when the uterine tissue implants and grows outside of the uterus — often affecting the function of the ovaries, uterus and fallopian tubes.
- Uterine fibroids. Fibroids are benign tumors in the wall of the uterus and are common in women in their 30s and 40s. Fibroids can interfere with implantation of the fertilized egg.
- Previous tubal sterilization or removal. If you've had tubal ligation — a type of sterilization in which your fallopian tubes are cut or blocked to permanently prevent pregnancy — and want to conceive, IVF may be an alternative to tubal ligation reversal.
- Impaired sperm production or function. Below-average sperm concentration, weak movement of sperm (poor mobility), or abnormalities in sperm size and shape can make it difficult for sperm to fertilize an egg. If semen abnormalities are found, your partner might need to see a specialist to determine if there are correctable problems or underlying health concerns.
- Unexplained infertility. Unexplained infertility means no cause of infertility has been found despite evaluation for common causes.
- A genetic disorder. If you or your partner is at risk of passing on a genetic disorder to your child, you may be candidates for preimplantation genetic diagnosis — a procedure that involves IVF. After the eggs are harvested and fertilized, they're screened for certain genetic problems, although not all genetic problems can be found. Embryos that don't contain identified problems can be transferred to the uterus.
- Fertility preservation for cancer or other health conditions. If you're about to start cancer treatment — such as radiation or chemotherapy — that could harm your fertility, IVF for fertility preservation may be an option. Women can have eggs harvested from their ovaries and frozen in an unfertilized state for later use. Or the eggs can be fertilized and frozen as embryos for future use. Women who don't have a functional uterus or for whom pregnancy poses a serious health risk might choose IVF using another person to carry the pregnancy (gestational carrier). In this case, the woman's eggs are fertilized with sperm, but the resulting embryos are placed in the gestational carrier's uterus.
Specific steps of an in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle carry risks, including:
- Multiple births. IVF increases the risk of multiple births if more than one embryo is implanted in your uterus. A pregnancy with multiple fetuses carries a higher risk of early labor and low birth weight than pregnancy with a single fetus does.
- Premature delivery and low birth weight. Research suggests that use of IVF slightly increases the risk that a baby will be born early or with a low birth weight.
- Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. Use of injectable fertility drugs, such as human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), to induce ovulation can cause ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, in which your ovaries become swollen and painful. Signs and symptoms typically last a week and include mild abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. If you become pregnant, however, your symptoms might last several weeks. Rarely, it's possible to develop a more severe form of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome that can also cause rapid weight gain and shortness of breath.
- Miscarriage. The rate of miscarriage for women who conceive using IVF with fresh embryos is similar to that of women who conceive naturally — about 15 to 20 percent — but the rate increases with maternal age. Use of frozen embryos during IVF, however, may slightly increase the risk of miscarriage.
- Egg-retrieval procedure complications. Use of an aspirating needle to collect eggs could possibly cause bleeding, infection, or damage to the bowel, bladder or a blood vessel. Risks are also associated with general anesthesia, if used.
- Ectopic pregnancy. About 2 to 5 percent of women who use IVF will have an ectopic pregnancy — when the fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, usually in a fallopian tube. The fertilized egg can't survive outside the uterus, and there's no way to continue the pregnancy.
- Birth defects. The age of the mother is the primary risk factor in the development of birth defects, no matter how the child is conceived. More research is needed to determine whether babies conceived using IVF might be at increased risk of certain birth defects. Some experts believe that the use of IVF does not increase the risk of having a baby with birth defects.
- Ovarian cancer. Although some early studies suggested there may be a link between certain medications used to stimulate egg growth and the development of a specific type of ovarian tumor, more recent studies do not support these findings.
- Stress. Use of IVF can be financially, physically and emotionally draining. Support from counselors, family and friends can help you and your partner through the ups and downs of infertility treatment.
How you prepare
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology provide information online about U.S. clinics' individual pregnancy and live birth rates. When choosing an in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic, keep in mind that a clinic's success rate depends on many factors, such as patients' ages and medical issues, as well as the clinic's treatment population and treatment approaches. Ask for detailed information about the costs associated with each step of the procedure.
Before beginning a cycle of IVF using your own eggs and sperm, you and your partner will likely need various screenings, including:
- Ovarian reserve testing. To determine the quantity and quality of your eggs, your doctor might test the concentration of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), estradiol (estrogen) and antimullerian hormone in your blood during the first few days of your menstrual cycle. Test results, often used together with an ultrasound of your ovaries, can help predict how your ovaries will respond to fertility medication.
- Semen analysis. If not done as part of your initial fertility evaluation, your doctor will conduct a semen analysis shortly before the start of an IVF treatment cycle.
- Infectious disease screening. You and your partner will both be screened for infectious diseases, including HIV.
- Practice (mock) embryo transfer. Your doctor might conduct a mock embryo transfer to determine the depth of your uterine cavity and the technique most likely to successfully place the embryos into your uterus.
- Uterine cavity exam. Your doctor will examine your uterine cavity before you start IVF. This might involve a sonohysterography — in which fluid is injected through the cervix into your uterus — and an ultrasound to create images of your uterine cavity. Or it might include a hysteroscopy — in which a thin, flexible, lighted telescope (hysteroscope) is inserted through your vagina and cervix into your uterus.
Before beginning a cycle of IVF, consider important questions, including:
- How many embryos will be implanted? The number of embryos implanted is typically based on the age and number of eggs retrieved. Since the rate of implantation is lower for older women, more embryos are usually implanted — except for women using donor eggs. However, most doctors follow specific guidelines to prevent a higher order multiple pregnancy — and in some countries, legislation limits the number of embryos that can be implanted at once. Make sure you and your doctor agree on the number of embryos that will be implanted before they're transferred.
- What will you do with any extra embryos? Extra embryos can be frozen and stored for future use for several years. Not all embryos will survive the freezing and thawing process, although most will. Cryopreservation can make future cycles of IVF less expensive and less invasive. However, the live birth rate from frozen embryos is slightly lower than the live birth rate from fresh embryos. Or you might be able to donate unused frozen embryos to another couple or a research facility. You might also choose to discard unused embryos.
- How will you handle a multiple pregnancy? If more than one embryo is implanted in your uterus, IVF can result in a multiple pregnancy — which poses health risks for you and your babies. In some cases, fetal reduction can be used to help a woman deliver fewer babies with lower health risks. Pursuing fetal reduction, however, is a major decision with ethical, emotional and psychological consequences.
- Have you considered the potential complications associated with using donor eggs, sperm or embryos or a gestational carrier? A trained counselor with expertise in donor issues can help you understand the concerns, such as the legal rights of the donor. You also may need an attorney to file court papers to help you become legal parents of an implanted embryo.
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In vitro fertilization (IVF) involves several steps — ovulation induction, egg retrieval, sperm retrieval, fertilization and embryo transfer. One cycle of IVF can take about two weeks, and more than one cycle may be required.
Ovulation induction
If you're using your own eggs during IVF, at the start of a cycle you'll begin treatment with synthetic hormones to stimulate your ovaries to produce multiple eggs — rather than the single egg that normally develops each month. Multiple eggs are needed because some eggs won't fertilize or develop normally after fertilization.
You may need several different medications, such as:
- Medications for ovarian stimulation. To stimulate your ovaries, you might receive an injectable medication containing a follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), a luteinizing hormone (LH) or a combination of both. These medications stimulate more than one egg to develop at a time.
- Medications for oocyte maturation. When the follicles are ready for egg retrieval — generally after eight to 14 days — you will take human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) or other medications to help the eggs mature.
- Medications to prevent premature ovulation. These medications prevent your body from releasing the developing eggs too soon.
- Medications to prepare the lining of your uterus. On the day of egg retrieval or at the time of embryo transfer, your doctor might recommend that you begin taking progesterone supplements to make the lining of your uterus more receptive to implantation.
Your doctor will work with you to determine which medications to use and when to use them.
Typically, you'll need one to two weeks of ovarian stimulation before your eggs are ready for retrieval. To determine when the eggs are ready for collection, your doctor will likely perform:
- Vaginal ultrasound, a procedure that uses sound waves to create an image of your ovaries to monitor the development of fluid-filled ovarian sacs where eggs mature (follicles)
- Blood tests to measure your response to ovarian stimulation medications — estrogen levels typically increase as follicles develop and progesterone levels remain low until after ovulation
Sometimes IVF cycles need to be canceled before egg retrieval for one of these reasons:
- Inadequate number of follicles developing
- Premature ovulation
- Too many follicles developing, creating a risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
- Other medical issues
If your cycle is canceled, your doctor might recommend changing medications or their dose to promote a better response during future IVF cycles. Or you may be advised that you need an egg donor.
Egg retrieval
Egg retrieval can be done in your doctor's office or a clinic 34 to 36 hours after the final injection and before ovulation.
- During egg retrieval, you'll be sedated and given pain medication.
- Transvaginal ultrasound aspiration is the usual retrieval method. An ultrasound probe is inserted into your vagina to identify follicles. Then a thin needle is inserted into an ultrasound guide to go through the vagina and into the follicles to retrieve the eggs.
- If your ovaries aren't accessible through transvaginal ultrasound, an abdominal surgery or laparoscopy — a procedure in which a tiny incision is made near your navel and a slender viewing instrument (laparoscope) is inserted — may be used to guide the needle.
- The eggs are removed from the follicles through a needle connected to a suction device. Multiple eggs can be removed in about 20 minutes.
- After egg retrieval, you may experience cramping and feelings of fullness or pressure.
- Mature eggs are placed in a nutritive liquid (culture medium) and incubated. Eggs that appear healthy and mature will be mixed with sperm to attempt to create embryos. However, not all eggs may be successfully fertilized.
Sperm retrieval
If you're using your partner's sperm, he'll provide a semen sample at your doctor's office or a clinic through masturbation the morning of egg retrieval. Other methods, such as testicular aspiration — the use of a needle or surgical procedure to extract sperm directly from the testicle — are sometimes required. Donor sperm also can be used. Sperm are separated from the semen fluid in the lab.
Fertilization can be attempted using two common methods:
- Insemination. During insemination, healthy sperm and mature eggs are mixed and incubated overnight.
- Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). In ICSI, a single healthy sperm is injected directly into each mature egg. ICSI is often used when semen quality or number is a problem or if fertilization attempts during prior IVF cycles failed.
In certain situations, your doctor may recommend other procedures before embryo implantation.
- Assisted hatching. About five to six days after fertilization, an embryo "hatches" from its surrounding membrane (zona pellucida), allowing it to implant into the lining of the uterus. If you're an older woman, or if you've have had multiple failed IVF attempts, your doctor might recommend assisted hatching — a technique in which a hole is made in the zona pellucida just before implantation to help the embryo hatch and implant.
- Preimplantation genetic testing. Embryos are allowed to develop in the incubator until they reach a stage where a small sample can be removed and tested for specific genetic diseases or the correct number of chromosomes, typically after five to six days of development. Embryos that don't contain affected genes or chromosomes can be implanted in your uterus. While preimplantation genetic testing can reduce the likelihood that a parent will pass on a genetic problem, it can't eliminate the risk. Prenatal testing may still be recommended.
Embryo transfer
Embryo transfer is done at your doctor's office or a clinic and usually takes place two to six days after egg retrieval.
- You might be given a mild sedative. The procedure is usually painless, although you might experience mild cramping.
- The doctor or nurse will insert a long, thin, flexible tube called a catheter into your vagina, through your cervix and into your uterus.
- A syringe containing one or more embryos suspended in a small amount of fluid is attached to the end of the catheter and then delivered through the tube into your uterus.
If successful, the embryo will implant in the lining of your uterus about six to 10 days after egg retrieval.
After the procedure
After the embryo transfer, you can resume your normal daily activities. However, your ovaries may still be enlarged. Consider avoiding vigorous activity, which could cause discomfort.
Typical side effects include:
- Passing a small amount of clear or bloody fluid shortly after the procedure — due to the swabbing of the cervix before the embryo transfer
- Breast tenderness due to high estrogen levels
- Mild bloating
- Mild cramping
- Constipation
If you develop moderate or severe pain after the embryo transfer, contact your doctor. He or she will evaluate you for factors such as infection, twisting of an ovary (ovarian torsion) and severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.
Your doctor will take a blood sample to detect whether you're pregnant about 10 days to two weeks after egg retrieval.
- If you're pregnant, your doctor will refer you to an obstetrician or other pregnancy specialist for prenatal care.
- If you're not pregnant, you'll stop taking progesterone and likely get your period within a week. If you don't get your period or you have unusual bleeding, contact your doctor. If you're interested in attempting another cycle of in vitro fertilization (IVF), your doctor might suggest steps you can take to improve your chances of getting pregnant through IVF.
The chances of giving birth to a healthy baby after using IVF depend on various factors, including:
- Maternal age. The younger you are, the more likely you are to get pregnant and give birth to a healthy baby using your own eggs during IVF. Women age 41 and older are often counseled to consider using donor eggs during IVF to increase the chances of success.
- Embryo status. Transfer of embryos which are more developed is associated with higher pregnancy rates compared with less developed embryos (day two or three). However, not all embryos survive the development process. Talk with your doctor or other care provider about your specific situation.
- Reproductive history. Women who've previously given birth are more likely to be able to get pregnant using IVF than are women who've never given birth. Success rates are lower for women who've previously used IVF multiple times but didn't get pregnant.
- Cause of infertility. Having a normal supply of eggs increases your chances of being able to get pregnant using IVF. Women who have endometriosis are less likely to be able to get pregnant using IVF than are women who have unexplained infertility.
- Lifestyle factors. Women who smoke typically have fewer eggs retrieved during IVF and may miscarry more often. Smoking can lower a woman's chance of success using IVF by 50 percent. Obesity can decrease your chances of getting pregnant and having a baby. Use of alcohol, recreational drugs, excessive caffeine and certain medications also can be harmful.
Talk with your doctor about any factors that apply to you and how they may affect your chances of a successful pregnancy.
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- ART: Step-by-step guide. Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART). http://www.sart.org/detail.aspx?id=1903. Accessed May 21, 2013.
- Frequently asked questions. Gynecologic problems FAQ137. Treating infertility. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. http://www.acog.org/~/media/For%20Patients/faq137.pdf?dmc=1&ts=20130521T1023327144. Accessed May 21, 2013.
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Monday, October 10th, 2011OK, I know Glenn Beck is nuts, but millions of people listen to him… unfortunately.
On his radio show today, Beck called the Occupy Wall Street protesters dangerous revolutionaries who want to take down the US government. He asked the federal government to shut down the Occupy demonstrations by sending in the Marines and called on capitalists and Democrats not to trust the protesters or work with them.
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Speaking on his radio show Monday, Beck made his already-crystal-clear disdain for the protests, which have spread across the U.S., even more plain. He took a slightly surprising turn, though, in warning establishment Democrats like Nancy Pelosi (who has voiced her support for the movement) as well as any rich backers of the protests not to trust anyone in Occupy Wall Street…
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The decimated land was opened to anciently new Flower Power crops planted by a horde of free-spirited communal settlers, who seeded the hills and valleys with tall Viet-Cong and Cambodian strains of Cannabis sativa. Hemp had been grown in the Great Southland since the first days of the struggling British colony in the late eighteenth century, but now stronger, more psychoactive varieties had returned from imperialist Indo-Chinese wars in the duffel bags of shell-shocked veterans.
When the newcomers saw their cannabis plants climb twenty feet into the sky in the fertile subtropical paradise, they turned their newly acquired agricultural confidence to vegetables and fruit trees – and slowly discovered unique remnant rainforest seed-banks that the redneck cow ranchers had not quite completely annihilated. They learned the old ways of the lunar cycle and the eightfold wheel of the solar year, and many trained in various forms of yoga, Tantra, Rolfing, Primal Screaming, meditation, Taoism, Tai Chi, fasting, colonic irrigation, magic, Crowleyan Magick, Wicca, herbal medicine, Tae Kwan Do, acupuncture, Ayurveda, Mahikari, Zen, black market Capitalism, Satanism, Communism, Anarchism and other schisms, and Krishna, Christ, Buddha, Goddess or guru worship, to name but a few. And almost all of them became deep green ecologists as they migrated into the emptying old logging towns that had cut off the branches from which they depended.
Some of the New Age settlers spied arcane native fairies watching them from the primeval rainforests and flying saucers soared overhead as often as showers of meteors, but the witnesses usually knew better than to speak of these things among outsiders. Some communicated with Devas and the ancient entities of the eternal landform, which sometimes noticed the newcomers that had driven away the Aboriginal people (The local Kooris knew the ways and means of the land and are still part of its spirited dreaming mind). Other, rarer new settlers practiced astral travel, clairvoyance, telepathy and telekinesis, levitation and higher forms of chakra yoga and its multicultural equivalents.
The Children of the Revolution banded together in the Rainbow Region and many other enclaves across the spun-out globe of the Old Cold War. While others dug bunkers against an unsurvivable holocaust the Aquarian flower children planted forest nurseries from the surviving seeds and halted the last of the local 'old growth' primordial rainforest logging with protests, blockades and political action, before turning their sights on saving the planet.
The Star Earth land provides deep wellsprings that jet from the ancient volcanic hills, to flow in pristine mineral water rivulets down the forested and orchard-lined slopes. They pour past thousands of macadamia trees, various fruits, nuts, berries and recovering rainforest stands, to wind their way into the rocky spas and platypus pool swimming holes of the drinking-quality waterway that borders the festival site. The doof spreads its sights, lights, scents and sounds across the flat paddock at the valley's base. The revellers groove between small rainforest-lined streams and the main channel of the spa-strewn tumbling creek – the waterway that spawned a secret stream of consciousness which still penetrates the torpid veil of human self-enslavement and delusion at the dawn of the new millennium.
Way away on the far side of the high wild plateau that looms above the valley, million dollar mansions, lush hobby farms and well-concealed grass castles overlook the world-spanning Pacific. Unsurprisingly, many of the inhabitants of these upwardly mobile yuppie zones appear much straighter and die-cast than they actually are. As the old local saying goes, 'the shorter the hair, the bigger the crop' – and almost every Munchkin in Oz breaks one or more indiscriminately stupid victimless 'crimes' every day as they career through frenetic lives of endless work, play and consumption. The official figures say more than a third of them regularly smoke ganga, weed, marijuana, green, mull, pot, grass - in joints or jays or spliffs or numbers, pipes, hubble-bubbles or bongs, with spin or without.
It isn't a wise idea to spread the fact around – you never know when someone is the brother or sister or father or daughter of a cop (hi to you all out there!), or simply a paranoid, neurotic law-abiding busybody. The fact that many of the police are in on all the usually suspect rigged games - and often organising them, covertly or blatantly - is no surprise in a hypocritical nation where corruption is always on the edge of being rife. In their jingoistic patriotic pride, the Munchkins console themselves with the national notion that at least it's better in Oz than in many other places 'overseas', where bribery is the overt institutionalised norm and life is considered even more absurdly cheap and disposable.
All across the desiccating world, everyone pretends that the emperor is wearing beautiful clothes while they keep raking in the transient benefits of sucking the life from the planet. An easily cultivated plant that Humanity has used since before this brief, warm interglacial period began fourteen millennia ago is almost universally banned on pain of fine, penal servitude and even death.
That the plant is infinitely useful and versatile – an unparalleled and indispensable medicine, building material, food crop, oil source, paper supply, carbon sink, plastic precursor, clothing, rope and heavy material source throughout human history is blithely ignored by purblind and well-bribed legislatures and congresses everywhere. The fact that almost all peer-reviewed scientific studies only show benefits from using the plant - and fail to confirm any deleterious effects no matter how well-funded their researches – is similarly ignored. Too many hands are too deeply embedded in too many pockets for the exponents of the sane course of legalisation or even decriminalisation to make easy inroads into the crazy status quo.
Entire populations are needlessly criminalised and subjected to horrendous ordeals in this senseless lifetime-long prohibition of cannabis, while the crazy carousel of Capitalism keeps spinning erratically round the long-suffering globe and billions of tax-free dollars slush back and forth, funding wars, famines, pestilence and torture – and there's even more money to be made cleaning up the mess. The only victims of the marijuana trade are the smokers and petty dealers who are arrested, fined and/or jailed by drunken, pill-popping hypocrites – who probably smoke the stuff themselves between sucks on alcoholic baby-bottle substitutes.
Everyone knows that the system is corrupt and we all know it can't last forever. We all know that the balloon holding the inflated dream of the global economy aloft above the environmental ruin it can't leave behind will burst, someday – but the Munchkins of Oz are blithe in their certainty that the worst of the foul-smelling explosion will occur a long, long way away from their idyllic island home at the far end of the Earth - and they hope that they won't still be around to deal with the consequences of their actions and inaction, despite all the latter-day signs to the contrary. Pretending that the party will go on forever while exploiting, plundering and raping the planet can seem like harmless fun at the time – like legal pharmaceutical drugs or binge drinking – but there's always an unholy mess to deal with in the new dawn.
The birthplace of the alternative nation, the
The capital of Queensland (where the coast is always warm, rum and beer drinking is the norm and draconian penalties for soft drugs are way out of proportion to the rest of Oz), Brisbane is the bane of all true or indigenous bros and sis's; a racist place where it's still technically illegal to have more than two people speaking together on a street corner. Of course, no-one is harassed for this 'offence' unless they're black, or poor, or dreadlocked ferals or hippies. So don't go to
Bribery booms in a state where more than a third of the criminalised populace is often (or always) stoned, on something other than the legal carcinogenic chemical-laden potion that passes for beer. The most popular local brand of mind-numbing poison is simply called 'XXXX'. That's how they spell 'beer' in
The southern subtropical half of
Over the border in
Retirees and 'sea changers' move into these insecure shoulder-to- shoulder devo leper colonies, filling the bare toxic boxes with plastic crap and the concrete paveways with fume-spewing infernal combustion engines. Then they begin to wonder where all the brochure-promised paradise has gone as they install air conditioners and chop down the last trees, to moat their already crumbling dreams of home with chlorinated private swimming pools in sight of the free, blue, warm Pacific.
Wide-eyed sedentary 'tree changers' on marginal blocks of land become disenchanted loggers and ranchers when the idyll fades and their unexamined dreams fall prey to their enthusiastic ignorant blunderings,. The last of the surviving wildlife is devoured or driven off by their carnivorous pets and territorial livestock as a new acre of bumfluff-covered desert blooms from the mind of Regular Guy.
Just over the mountain escarpment from these gormless dispirited hobbyists and brick vereereal concrete warrens, early birds capture early worms and travellers stake out their claims on the best campsites and lovers, before the official start of the annual celebration at the first weekend of May. The Rainbow Region spreads inland from the wide sandy coastal bleachers, a peacefully throbbing nerve-centre of theatrical political extremists and cunning deep ecologists. These wise custodians have seen what's befallen the rest of
Every year the Nimbin Mardi Grass magnetises hordes of the faithful to the little painted village - wise older heads and hippies, trippy young stoners, red-eyed speed demons, tribes of dreadlocked ferals, Goths, Wiccans and pagans of all stripes, smiling happy eccie doofers and trancers, earnest pilgrims, bikie gangs, seekers on the paths or the song lines; an indescribable motley of all the 'alternative' peoples under the Sun, including the indigenous Bunjalung Nation. It's a wild ride, an extended weekend of sex, drugs, rock, roll, trance and dance, a psychedelically swinging singles scene that opens hearts, wallets and thighs to new possibilities in a cornucopia of gourmet and gourmand delights.
Some visitors will fly into the country for the event and many will be undeterred by the infamous tyranny of distance within Oz, travelling from everywhere and anyplace across the far-flung continent. The annual pilgrimage to the legendary Mardi Grass will swell the tiny local population of brave souls by tens of thousands, all of whom must dare the drug-swabbing sniffer dog roadblocks, speed traps, lack of accommodation, potential storms and floods and the lousy, dangerous roads themselves, to cross the mysterious ill-defined border into the fabled Rainbow Region.
Everyone comes for a legendary, region-spanning festival celebrating the home-grown and colourfully diverse marijuana culture at the height of the harvest season, when the best heads are just coming to the boil – or have already been snap-dried or carefully cured in anticipation of the event. Some venture to the Mardi Grass to sample the wide range of organic fare and handmade wares in the splendid sacred surrounds, and others for the plethora of eager buyers. There's even some home-made local hashish of decent quality, produced especially for the festival - but hash is still mistreated and misclassified as a narcotic by the purblind legislature, and attracts more than its fair share of opprobrium and unwelcome attention.
Sensibly, most of the police attention is really focused on actually dangerous chemical drugs, like the extended dysfunctional families of opium and speed. They know that marijuana is essentially harmless – many smoke it themselves and they're surrounded by a culture that uses it all the time, are continually exposed to the stuff in countless social settings.
Yet pressure is applied from poll-driven, minority scapegoating politicians of all stipes to regularly increase the levels of surveillance and harassment of harmless, victimless pot smokers, and the streets of Nimbin are filling with patrolling gangs of riot police, a wide range of siren-bearing, lightshow-capped vehicles, pairs of mounties clip-clopping their way along the bitumen - and a bevy of unseen informants and agents from a host of agencies.
These days there's hardly any smack in the notorious little
These days the cafes in town don't have to drill small holes through all their teaspoons to stop the cutlery being stolen, or beat all their spoons flat until they resemble small oval egg-flippers that can't hold liquids. The many intact teaspoons in Nimbin's Rainbow Café are a sure sign of healthier high times, after the post-punk, repetitive mechanised industrial muzak and gangster hip-hop doldrum decades. The latter days of the old millennium were despoiled by the utterly dumb or comfortably numb twin curses of poor musicianship and bad poetry, which ruined the ears and tastes of a bored and dejected ex-generation with death-worshipping fads that grew ever more jaded until they faded from view.
These days things are looking up – but the price of real estate around Nimbin has been rising steeply along with the uplifting optimism, party because of (and no longer despite) its reputation for alternative lifestyles, the lack of government services and control, a plethora of free thinkers, anarchists, young runaways and tearaways, artist's and musician's colonies, organic food, medicines and drugs, clean water, plentiful rain, enlighteningly interesting inhabitants, peaceful remote communes, a well-evolved alternative, intelligent, creatively original culture and music - and wild, constant partying.
The breathtaking natural beauty of the place is also beginning to attract more of the spoilers and despoilers, developers and klutzy suburbanite parasites, who think the relatively undefiled Rainbow Region would look a lot better with a few more walls and fences, a radical haircut and a judicious application of even more herbicide. They all want a cow and a horse and chickens and sheep and neatly mown lawns, and they don't want 'druggies' walking on their grass or protesting when they sell the trees on 'their' newly-purchased land to make room for their destructive fantasies.
Understandably, in the few days before the official start of Mardi Grass, straight-looking people are already descending on Nimbin and its environs from the meathead police state just over the border, and two of them are making noisy enthusiastic love only a few feet from the duvet on which Ram'yana and Angel lay spooning in the moonlight.
The feral Angel's waist-length dreadlocks swirl around her perspiration-slicked body as her slender hand extends down behind her flanks. The wild teenage grrl's palm slithers between their close-pressed skins, stroking the down on her mature lover's naked belly until her black sharpened fingernails reach his curly pubic pelt.
The young feral lies back with the upper half of her slickly smooth slim frame twisted onto the eiderdown as she nestles into his lap. Angel smiles up through her dreads into the older shaman's awed gaze while she raises her calves and spreads her soft young thighs for him. Her pointed, glitter-pierced tongue protrudes lasciviously from black painted lips as she moans and anoints the crown of his inflated flesh with her scented oil. His hands roam the drunken, ecstatic grrl's silken skin, pausing at each adornment of metal ring or stud that pierces her surprisingly responsive little body.
The Goth grrl hesitates as she spreads her hairless well-waxed rim around his manhood, breathlessly measuring his girth with encircling fingers that reach halfway around her new lover's unfamiliar hard hot flesh. Angel draws an impeding strand of ripped material from between her pale firm cheeks and thighs as she impatiently presses his manhood into the gateway of her simmering furnace.
She gasps when his sceptre slips between her silver-studded lips and the electrifying charge of expectant sexual bliss wells within the tripping lovers as the teen tries to stretch her beringed little fingers around his blood-hot, saliva-primed slickness. The last few sips of Strega lie forgotten in the liqueur bottle lying beside remnants of the young pagan's ripped-apart dress, motley fragments of mismatched cloth randomly snaking across Ram's bedding, stash and camera on the soft grass-covered earth.
Time slows, almost stilled by the nerve-bright conjunction of hearts and loins and the phantasmagorical blend of substances flowing through the lovers' bodies and minds. Every sensation deepens into a fugue of exquisite vividness and their skins and auras glow and swirl as floral growths swarm across their surfaces in intricate visions of supreme clarity.
Pairs of cuddling couples and uninhibited lovers cry out and disport in the dappled darkness beneath the broken canopy of the river's edge, dim silhouettes shifting around the bearded long-haired hippie and the dreadlocked feral Goth. Anonymous visitors from everywhere and anyplace enjoy the open-minded hospitality of the Star Earth tribe, their multilingual exclamations almost inaudible beneath the mind-smearing music and the pulse-quickening beat of a dozen drums.
The wide world fades around the hot carnal bubble of the newfound lovers' mutual fascination and thoughts dissolve in the impassioned immanence of their well-lubricated embrace. The ground beneath their electrified flesh vibrates with deeply pounding frequencies that quiver in their meat and bones, undulating waves of sound and music flowing through their souls as their firm, magnetically attracted bodies stretch toward union. The pagan grrl's unfamiliar sweet scent mingles with herbal liqueur, woodsmoke and cannabis resin, filling Ram's nostrils and entrancing his enraptured mind as he nuzzles into the dark coils of Angel's thick, fuzzy dreadlocks and kisses her elegant neck. Perspiration shimmers on her shimmying fever-hot skin as the fresh-fleshed teenager guides him into the smooth, wet, blazing silk of her incredibly tight seam. "Oh, Goddess," she murmurs, "Oh man oh man…"
The shaman sheds the last thin skins of his clothing with economical shrugs as the Goth witch squeezes him past her barely penetrable lips. He desperately needs to feel every inch of her fresh eager body against his skin, inside and out, and the cold night air is forgotten as Angel enfolds him in her sweltering intimacy. A low-pitched feline moan vibrates into his blood while coloured lights swirl in their imaginations. His tongue slips into the young girl's ring-bedecked ear and his beard tickles her twisting throat. Her sweat-wet spine and ribcage slither and slide against Ram's furry chest as she writhes and giggles in his arms, a graceful feminine squirming that lubricates his serpentine staff as her inner lips mash apart around its head. "Oh, Angel… Merry Meet indeed…"
She silences his artless patter with ring-pierced lips and stud-holed tongue. Spotlights spin around the acacia bushes that spread above their bower, providing an illusion of privacy for the newly met lovers as they sigh beneath a glittering infinitude of stars. They open themselves to each other's unknown delights a scant dozen paces from the nearest partygoers, who are dancing, talking, laughing and courting on the brilliantly lit paddock, oblivious to the trippers' urgently involved passion.
Enclosed in a bubble of blinding bliss, the shaman is thoroughly entranced by the gorgeous female creature. The crafty elfin girl pulls his hand down her belly to her tautly stretched outer lips and guides his questing fingertips to the swelling bud of her clitoris. Ram savours the strangely exquisite sensation of the teen's hard silver labial studs gliding between his fingers and the sensitive spongy head of his rigid cock. He gasps with the smooth rubbery glide of her slick fluid labia as she works her way down around its supersensitised summit and the radiant tunnel of her love parts its exquisitely wrought inner gates for him.
Angel's constellation of body piercings roll against his skin and dig into his flesh, strangely intriguing aphrodisiacs for the fortunate mature male who's taken the wayward feral teen's wandering fancy. He carefully slips his fingertip from one of the rings piercing her breasts and his palm glides along the grrl's trembling, sweat-slaked bony shoulders and gracile biceps, skinny elfin torso and slender flat belly while he rolls her steaming clitoris between his erection and his thumb.
Ram wants to press the diminutive feral girl down into his lap and glide deeply into Angel's willing taut loins yet he doesn't dare move, so tight is the ring that encircles the cap of his engorgement as she leans up and moans against his cheek. He's so much taller than the teen that their faces don't meet as she sits back against his torso, mounted atop his erection as he cuddles her in enfolding arms that easily reach her extremities.
He strokes her calves, thighs, flanks and loins when the intoxicated nymph falls back and gasps for breath with her lower half turned to one side, her tongue stretching through his beard in search of his lips. Oh Goddess! The shaman's expanded mind glows in grateful paean to Lady Luck and the Earth Mother for bestowed this glorious young female creature upon him. Angel flexes her buttocks around him and her tongue finds his lips again and explores his mouth.
Angel breaks away to hiss a voluble susurrus of white noise that's completely lost in the pounding waves of sound. She twists back around in his embrace and squeezes her arching spine against Ram's hairy chest while she purrs and growls 'neath the sparse canopy of rainbow-lit young trees. "Oh wow, you tripping out too?" she moans at the edge of audibility, "oh dude, oh man, uh, oh man!" Shifting shadows of leafy boughs dapple the luminous emerging moon and the sky-spanning Milky Way. "Tripping in," he insists into her fragrant dreadlocks.
Infinity fades before the argent lunar onslaught, the urgent psychedelic lightshow and the ardent blinding power of primeval sex that fills the blending awareness of the total, totalled strangers. As Angel's eyes shift sidewise to become glittering slits focusing on the vast vault of heaven, she calls out to the emergent moon in a strident voice that pierces the deafening tumult of the doof. "Oh, La Luna! Oh, Goddess, Diana!"
A slender arm raises and the wicked Wiccan grrl's palm opens to catch the fluttering moonbeams as they pour down through the feathery canopy of their primal primate nest. "Isis, Astarte, Hecate, Demeter…" she sings as her loins clench around her captivated male. Angel's free hand descends to the silver amulet at her throat and she cups and strokes it as her face turns to bathe more fully in the moonlight. "…Aradia, Diana, Inana!"
Ram considers the unusual, almost heretical arrangement of the traditional septet of greater goddesses from the various Wiccan pantheons and orders. Aradia… His spine tingles and their fingers entwine and splay around the livid juncture of their genitals while the Name thrills through his nervous system, echoing through the corridors of endless memory. The lovers hover on the brink of consummated desire in a time-dissolving, psilocybin-infused idyll while his monkey mind spins its gears. Tuscan Queen of the Witches, daughter of Great Mother Duana by the Promethean Lightmaker… "Oh dude," Angel cries a fraction less loudly, "I'm so wet…"
She's so slim, so tight, the dazzled, tripping man realises, so fresh… The exotic feminine creature's smooth, slick legs widen and her muscular cheeks spread as she readies herself for impending entry. "Feel…" Angel tilts her well-cushioned head against his shoulder and kisses his bearded throat as sharp-nailed fingertips guide his caress down toward moist tender lips, stretching elastically to admit him to unplumbed deeper mysteries.
Perspiring in the cold night air, she presses down around Ram's ensnared pole and her skinny muscular legs wrap back around his thighs as beringed toes lock behind his longer, stronger, fuzz-covered limbs. Her pinioning leverage slowly thrusts his shaft up between her layered lips as his legs straighten out and the feral female opens her youthful buds to him as completely as she can. "Take it slow…" she growls seductively. "You know, at first…" She stops moving when her rubber band lips have completely enfolded his swollen glans and Ram sighs in a commingled swelter of ecstasy, compassion and frustration.
"Oh, Goddess…" All his doubts and concerns about her age and inebriation disappear before the undeniable reality of Angel's entrancing eager readiness. Ram still holds back, barely able to resist plunging headlong into the blazing, brazen grrl's irresistible interior. Her willing hairless loins are so alluringly slick and near-impenetrably tight that he knows he can easily hurt the fey young creature if he doesn't follow her wise advice and secret plea. He strokes her skin while their drugged and hormone-enflamed bodies squirm together, beyond all thought of stopping as their flesh melds together so deliciously slowly that every millimetre of nerve-clustered membranes is an intricately textured unfolding horizon, a deliriously pleasurable expanse of a new and unexplored tropical continent.
It's a long, long time since the hermetic shaman has felt such wantonly experienced innocence, felt such willing, supersensitive surrender or made love with so symmetrically flawless and precociously talented an elfin beauty (her splendour is neither enhanced nor marred by her artful array of body decorations in his adoring, tripping sight). It's been even longer since such an entrancingly taut, smoothly waxed young maiden has stretched her charmingly engaging treasures around his rampant sceptre. The magician waits for the teen to lead their dance onward to primeval consummation with heart-pounding anticipation as geometric patterns swirl through his mind's eye. "…Sweet-scented Angel, cupping my wand…"
The teenager takes matters into her own hands. She sighs and pulls him around as she rolls backward on top of him, and he rolls with the grrl as her legs open to the moon-bright sky. Her dreads spread around his torso while sharp-nailed fingers dance between her thighs, and the feral Goth's small palms grasp his length and work him inward as she hums to the unmoving treetops and luminous moon. The intoxicated teenager is utterly, vulnerably naked to her new lover's will, open and ready for the whole wide wondrous world to enter her sensitised senses, her ripened flesh and simmering blood. Horny lust and sweet surrender have supplanted all remnants of caution and shyness; using a dumb cloak of unfeeling latex rubber to separate his straining pole of blood-engorged flesh from her impatiently expectant, feverishly wet secret skin is the furthest thing from both their tripping minds.
The lithe Gothic elf bends her knees and flexes her muscles against him and Ram is amazed once again at the weightless grace of the drunken grrl. She hoists herself upward and squats over his recumbent body, dreadlocks spilling down onto his belly to conceal her pale lovely back and perfect derriere within their dark organic mantle. Her bigger, stronger partner effortlessly lifts the dreadlocked young female, pinning handfuls of serpentine locks to her ribcage. His hands slide down to Angel's waist as she bends forward, raking his sensitive sack and the full length of his shaft with her long nails as she reaches between her thighs to hold him in place. "Mmm," she purrs, "mm, that feels good…"
"Oh sweet goddess," he agrees, "better than that… the best…" His incessantly ticking mind scans the detritus of ages to recall a more sensually unforgettable partner. Wish I could see her more clearly… The wild feral Angel growls in her throat and leans forward to grasp his shins, balancing daintily on his pole with her small feline feet digging into the grassy red soil and her sharp fingernails clawing into his calves. Ram's hands slide to her hips and move around her flanks to caress her cheeks and hold her aloft. "Mm, heaven-sent Angel descending from above…" Her dreadlocks snap forward and lash at his legs, breaking the resurgent noise of the shaman's thoughts and fully returning him to the surreal impassioned eternity of their excruciatingly delayed fuck. Angel's nude, slippery nubile form is suddenly, blindingly revealed in a glaring coruscation of colour that illumines half her shuddering frame as she sways in a semi-delirious gasping swoon astride his unbending pole.
As patterns of coloured light wash across the metal-studded canvas of her suddenly revealed surfaces, Angel shamelessly masturbates in the bright exposure of the panning slide projector, bringing herself to a frothing frenzy as she slides Ram's skin up and down his swollen shaft with her other hand. "Oh man," she gasps, "ohh yess…" Her dreads sway in the phosphorescent light and her moon-white skin is suffused with all the colours of the rainbow. "Now…"
She presses down against his pillar of flesh and her tight, silken entryway suddenly spreads and snaps completely around its pythonic head. Ram'yana looks down and his pole seems hugely thick between the girl's wide-stretched lips and bunched, firmly clenching buttocks in the fractal fragments of psychedelic light. Sheer unalloyed pleasure fills him to the point of ecstasy as Angel's hot-blooded membranes throb and grasp at his cock. The grrl's elastic muscles lock around his girth as he finally burrows into her glorious silken interior.
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Further True Tales of the prince of Centraxis -
Psychedelic Water Part 1 - Fractal Rainbow
Psychedelic Water Part 2 - What Thou Wilt
Psychedelic Water Part 3 - Trancefixed
Psychedelic Water Part 4 - Feral Dolphin
Psychedelic Water Part 5 - Angelic Tantra
Psychedelic Water Part 6 - Dreads Unlocked
Psychedelic Water Part 7 - Fresh Flesh, Old Bones
Psychedelic Water 8 - Predawn of Awareness
Psychedelic Water 9 - Merry Moot
Psychedelic Water 10 -Wandering Orgone Wand
Psychedelic Water 11 - Water Power
The Red Pill - Psychedelic Water 12
Mothership Crew - Psychedelic Water 13
Amber Flames - Psychedelic Water 14
Wills Writ on Waves - Psychedelic Water 15
Alternative Universe - Psychedelic Water 16
Fractal Free Will - Psychedelic Water 17
Reorientation - Psychedelic Water 18
Viva La Difference – Psychedelic Water 19
Big Boing Mindstuff – Psychedelic Water 20
Magical Language – Psychedelic Water 21
More True Tales of the Prince of Centraxis…
Adder Ladies and the Dawn of Ra Part 1 - Doves and Serpents
The Shaman of Centraxis Part 1 - The Whole is Greater
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Part 1
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Taken at Middle Creek Reserve, PA on 03/08/2010. It was really crowded with geese and people there but it was a beautiful sunny day to watch them.
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Great shot BigD, it is amazing how they don't hit each other! I'm jealous of the lens! LOL Tony
Awesome. I love every shot from this place!!!!
Great capture, woow you are quick on the draw ! I love the sun coming through the wing of the bird in front. Looks like you had a wonderful experience that day.
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just spectacular, BigD!!!!!! Glorious light and rich color on these beauties!!!!
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