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I had a C-Section. From the moment I found out I was having identical twin girls the possibility of a C-Section loomed large in any and all discussions about delivery day. I also had one of the most un-New Agey pregnancies you can imagine. I had sonograms every two weeks until 28 weeks to check for twin to twin transfusion syndrome. I had 2 amnios – one for each fetus – and a third shot full of blue dye to make sure they weren't pulling fluid from the same sac twice. That Maternal Fetal practice was my second home for 37 weeks. And never once did I feel like all that medical care distanced me from the experience of pregnancy, or intervened in the "natural" process of gestation. As a data geek I actually loved having the inside look at my developing babies, charting their progress and having the documentation. But, there were plenty of forces out there telling me that everything I was doing, that my doctors were recommending, was somehow unnatural at best, and plain out misogynistic and corrupt at worst.
I started writing this a few days ago, as I sat and waited while my sister was in the midst of a long, painful, drawn out labor delivering her first child. My sister threw herself into creating the perfect circumstances under which to give birth "naturally." She fought her insurance company – and won – for the right to have a midwife instead of an OB/GYN. She did hypno-birthing, acupuncture, massaged places you'd rather not ever have to massage, bought flameless candles for the delivery room, and basically focused for 9 months on making sure that the delivery day would be exactly the way she envisioned it – with minimal medical intervention. And, boy did I hope it would go that way for her. But, anyone who has been through the process knows that anything can happen once labor begins.
The problem is that an entire industry has cropped up telling women that the pain and complications are mostly in our heads; that with enough focus and determination – and not giving in to the evil "business" of birthing – we can attain the beautiful, connected birth experience women are meant to have. This movement that was meant to empower women to feel more in charge and less scared of the birth process has now become one more source of pressure and judgement on women at their most vulnerable. When I was in my 36th week of my twin pregnancy my girls were in two very different positions. Baby A was head down ready to go. Baby B was transverse, stretching under my ribs, and she was bigger than Baby A. My really wonderful doctor said to me, "Well, we could try to deliver Baby A vaginally and then try to turn Baby B, but chances are you'll end up having both – vaginal and C-Section." He tried to say this matter-of-factly, but I immediately blurted out, "BOTH? Are you nuts?" He looked so relieved and the nurse laughed. So, scheduled C-Section it was.
And yet, still, even after my multiples childbirth class where C-Section was a major topic, a part of me felt like I was copping out. That I was somehow not getting the full birthing experience, that my babies wouldn't be properly prepped for the world, by having a C-Section – scheduled no less. When my water broke at 37 weeks, 3 days before my scheduled date, I took a taxi to the hospital, met my husband there, went right in to the doctor's office, was then whisked into the pre-op room, and then hung out for 6 hours reading and watching TV until they decided enough time had passed since I had last eaten that they could now do the C-Section. 20 minutes later my girls were born. Healthy, adorable, and raring to go. I never regretted that decision, I actually often thought to myself that 90 years ago both I and Baby B would most likely have died during the birth, but I also have to admit that I still thought that I didn't have the "full" experience somehow.
My sister's 30-hour, excruciating marathon labor ended in a C-Section – and a beautiful, healthy baby girl. My sister was literally in shock. She said she felt like she was suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress afterwards. And, she was disappointed. She couldn't shake that somehow it was her fault she didn't have the delivery she had planned for – that she came to the hospital too early, that somehow her "mental" state changed and caused her body to slow down the labor, that the pain soared because suddenly she was too anxious. Of course, none of this is true. And it made me angry. My sister was wiped out, cut off, and sad. The exact opposite of everything the "natural" birth movement is supposed to encourage.
The actual birth? That's a blip, and as far as I'm concerned, if they gave out medals for that sort of thing, my sister would have won the Iron Woman prize three times over. The fact that women are now made to feel guilty and less-than because they couldn't have this idealized, magic, essence of womanhood moment is infuriating to me. We should stop condemning the "business" of birthing, and start thinking about supporting women through birthing – no matter what. C-Sections and epidurals are not a sign of failure, nor an evil plot by doctors. In the end, you have to do what is necessary for the health of mom and baby, because that is the ultimate goal – a healthy mom and baby.
I have friends who delivered "naturally," friends who trained for months with the Bradley method, friends whose babies were crowning by the time they reached the hospital, and friends who ended up with emergency C-Sections, more than once (because they were convinced that they should try VBAC and have the experience they had missed out on the first time). Guess what? In the end, they all, thankfully had a baby arrive in the world – and then had to start the really hard part – being a mom.
This is what makes me angriest of all about my sister being disappointed in herself and trying to replay what she did "wrong." She is now a mom. A mom who made sure for 9 months that she ate healthy food, took her prenatal vitamins, avoided alcohol, caffeine and pesticides – and then carried that baby 10 days past her due date! She had already put in the first foundation of caring for her baby and considering its needs over her own. She should be proud that she brought this healthy, sweet baby into the world, that she already tried her best to give her baby a solid start to life.
And she will be a great mom. As she gets her mojo back, physically heals, gets some distance from the actual birth day, and settles in at home I know she will feel connected and more present. In the meantime, she will realize that her birthing experience taught her the first important lessons of motherhood:
It's a long, long journey full of things she won't be able to control.
Things won't go exactly as planned.
There's plenty of guilt and judgement to go around.
Confidence in your choices is key.
And never feel bad for admitting you need help, need to change course, or need a little something to help get you through.
So, maybe, in the end, she got exactly what she needed out of that harrowing birth experience – candles, tubs and hypnotherapy be damned.


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How to Choose Truly Pure Sheets
Hello All and Good Afternoon on this beautiful November Day!I have been inspired to teach you all about that wondrous thing we make every morning and fall asleep into every night, the one-the only, your sheets. Sheets are extremely important when it comes to your sleep and they are not the same, at all.Sheets can vary in many ways, from the raw material, where that material comes from, how that material is sewn, how it is finished, how it is dyed, and even what quality that material is to its counterparts.
This is not even all the differences; here I will explain further, variances in raw material among various types of sheets and give recommendations on how to find perfect, truly pure, sheets.Firstly, let us discuss conventional sheets and their variances. Conventional sheets, i.e. the sheets you get at most major retailers and stores, have three main raw materials.
These raw materials are polyester, conventional cotton, and silk. Sometimes they are a blend of these materials, like cotton and silk or polyester and cotton, but they are normally almost always made of these main raw materials. Most sheets are made of 100% Polyester unless you pay a little more money, and then they are the blend of cotton and polyester, pay somewhat more and you get 100% cotton, pay a lot more and you get cotton/silk, pay a whole lot more and you get 100% silk. I will not be discussing silk as the average American does not tend to purchase silk bedding. Please comment below if you would like me to post on silk and I will do so.
Polyester, sometimes shorthand named Poly or Poly-Fabric is a synthetic raw material made from petroleum that is used to make fabrics and PET plastic. Polyester is made as a result of a condensation reaction between Anti-Freeze (Ethylene Glycol) and Terephthalic Acid (produced from petroleum/crude oil). Before I can get into any further detail on how Polyester is made I must explain how Terephthalic Acid is made and what it is. Terephthalic Acid, in simple terms, is a chemical that looks like a white powder made by distilling Petroleum then heating to an extremely high temperature that distilled petroleum in various complex ways multiple times then cooling it. Then separating the gas parts from the liquid parts, then stabilizing that liquid and heating until it steams/boils and redoing this until it becomes p-Xylene. P-Xylene is a hazardous and carcinogenic colorless liquid (sometimes solid) and is considered harmful to people's health. This p-xylene then goes through the process of oxidation and becomes Terephthalic Acid. To put this in simple terms, to make polyester one would heat up Anti-Freeze and highly processed crude oil until it condensates together and becomes Polyester.Conventional cotton is a natural raw material that is picked off of cotton plants which grow mainly during the summer. Conventional cotton tends to be grown with many various pesticides and cotton is known to be using some of the largest amounts of pesticides among conventional plants. A few of the pesticides used include Deltamethrin, Parathion, and Thiram. Deltamethrin is considered moderately hazardous and is a known Endocrine Disruptor. Parathion is considered extremely hazardous and has the long term exposure effect of lowering red blood cell activity and count. Thiram is considered moderately toxic but is highly toxic if inhaled, it can also be found in conventional soap and sun screen. Conventional Cotton also is often genetically modified; genetically modified cotton is referred to as transgenic cotton. This transgenic cotton is mainly cotton with certain pesticides' and herbicides' genes added to it so that it can be either bug resistant or resistant to bug or weed killing sprays. In 2008, 94.6% of U.S. conventional cotton crop that was planted was the transgenic cotton.Organic sheets tend to be made with organic cotton. Organic cotton is cotton which is grown without the use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, or any other chemical. Organic cotton also cannot be genetically modified. Dealing with pests, weeds, or fungi is usually done through natural or more traditional methods like growing plants around the cotton which deters the pest and pulling out any weeds manually. Organic cotton in the U.S. needs to be GOTS certified organic in order to be called certified organic.When it comes to sheets, I personally recommend getting certified organic cotton that is grown in India, Egypt, or the United States. Egyptian and India organic cotton tends to be softer because the summers there are longer and therefore the cotton fiber grows longer. U.S. organic cotton is still soft (not as soft), but also tends to be sturdier and purchasing U.S. organic cotton shows companies the higher demand for such products which has the possibility of resulting in more supply of organic cotton products and less supply of polyester/conventional cotton products. Certified organic cotton is almost always going to be much softer and higher quality than conventional cotton and polyester products mainly due to the amount of additional care which comes with producing something organically. Lastly, with any sheets"not just organic cotton but preferably so"one would want to make sure that the sheets are dyed with either low impact dyes or traditional"from a direct tribe not a big company"herbal dying process and that the sheets are not finished with any chemical finishes like formaldehyde"which contrary to popular belief, are extremely hard or, in the case of formaldehyde, impossible to completely wash out".I hope this has helped explain some factors with organic and conventional sheets and their raw materials well so that you may have some more knowledge on something as important as ones' bed linens! If there are any questions please post a comment below and I will happily answer them!Sources for the information provided: http://www.whatispolyester.com/http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/06/71268http://www.cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/16085http://pac.iupac.org/publications/pac/pdf/1994/pdf/6605×1077.pdfhttp://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_iv/otm_iv_2.html#3http://www.ejfoundation.org/pdf/the_deadly_chemicals_in_cotton.pdfhttp://www.toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Deltamethrinhttp://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/parathio.htmlhttp://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/pyrethrins-ziram/thiram-ext.html http://www.ota.com/organic/mt/organic_cotton.htmlhttp://www.cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/9181http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5011805.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terephthalic_acidhttp://www.cotton.org/edu/faq/index.cfmhttp://fscimage.fishersci.com/msds/95257.htmhttp://www.speclab.com/compound/c106423.htmhttp://cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/16085http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/formaldehyde-factsheet.pdfhttp://health-report.co.uk/formaldehyde-fact-sheet.htmhttp://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/factsheets/formaldehyde.html


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Symposium focuses on race relations
Projects recognized by the Princeton Prize in Race Relations -- which honors high school students' efforts to improve race relations in their schools or communities -- will be presented at a symposium set for 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, on the Princeton University campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The Princeton Prize Symposium on Race also will feature a panel discussion on race relations with local community leaders. Mayor Douglas Palmer of Trenton, N.J., will give the keynote address on "The Challenges and Rewards of Leading a Diverse City."
Sponsored by Princeton University, the Princeton Prize in Race Relations is an awards program that was created by Princeton alumni volunteers in 2003 to recognize high school students who are doing exceptional work to advance the cause of race relations. The prize is offered in 21 regions across the country, and prize winners from the regions have been invited to attend the symposium to share their views on race and how to make a positive influence on race relations.
"It is the hope of the Princeton Prize Committee that the symposium will inspire students and the community at large to look for ways that they can participate in making their communities, schools and organizations welcoming places that respect and honor all of our differences," said Princeton Prize founder Henry Von Kohorn, a Princeton class of 1966 alumnus.
Von Kohorn said organizers hope the symposium will become an annual event.
The symposium will begin with a panel discussion on "Innovations in Race Relations Within Our Local Communities." It will feature community organizers Richard Cammarieri of New Community Inc., in Newark; Joyce Hadley, first vice president of the Bucks County Peace Center; Kiki Jamieson, the Class of 1951 Director of the University's Pace Center; Caroline Mitchell, director of the Racial Justice Institute of YWCAs Princeton and Trenton; and Sasa Olessi Montaño, director of the Department of Housing and Economic Development for the city of Trenton.
Following the panel, winners from 14 of the Princeton Prize regions will present the work that they did to win the award. Winners include a New Jersey student who helped raise more than $10,000 as president of the student group Help Darfur Now, and a Pennsylvania student who revived his high school's newspaper as a way to improve dialogue between students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
"It has been a dream of ours to bring our honorees to Princeton for a symposium on race and to celebrate the achievements of these inspiring young people who have made such a positive impact on improving race relations in their schools or communities," Von Kohorn said.
A day before the symposium, high school students from New Jersey and Pennsylvania will join Princeton Prize winners at a series of workshops and lectures on race relations held on the University campus. The workshops and lectures will be led by University faculty, staff and alumni, including Angel Harris, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and the Center for African American Studies, and Kimberly Smith, visiting associate professor of the Center for African American Studies and the Princeton Environmental Institute. The symposium is sponsored by the Princeton class of 1966 and cosponsored by the University's Office of the Alumni Association and the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.
Since its inception, the Princeton Prize has grown to include schools in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Dallas, Essex-Hudson counties in New Jersey, Houston, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Nashville, New York City, northwestern New Jersey, Philadelphia, Princeton, Rochester, N.Y., San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C. Over the past five years, cash awards have been given to 75 students and certificates of accomplishments to 233 students.
For more information, visit the Princeton Prize in Race Relations website at www.princeton.edu/pprize/.


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On the day Dion Phaneuf returned to work after presumably munching on Christmas turkey, his legion of critics was already referring to him as one before the first intermission had even arrived.
Phaneuf was on the ice just 7:01 into the game when Matt Moulson outmuscled a number of Maple Leafs to whack in a rebound and give the lowly Buffalo Sabres a 1-0 lead at the Air Canada Centre on Friday night.
Less than a minute later, Phaneuf was sitting on the Leafs bench when John Scott — the same John Scott who had called him "Princess Phaneuf" earlier this season— scored his first goal since 2009.
Twitter blew up the moment Scott raised his stick to celebrate, with many claiming Phaneuf really was a "Princess."
About an hour later, the Dion Bashers were momentarily muzzled when Phaneuf assisted on a Phil Kessel power-play goal, one which put the Leafs up 3-2 just before the horn sounded to end the second period. This time, social media suddenly transformed into a stage to applaud the captain.
Like we said, momentarily anyway.
Such is the polarizing figure that is Dion Phaneuf. One moment he is perceived as being awfully good; the next, just plain awful.
Sorry Dion Detractors, but it seems that you are about to lose the war to run Elisha Cuthbert's hubby out of town.
As the Leafs returned to action after the Christmas break, the buzz around the ACC was that the Leafs were closing in on a long-term extension with the veteran defenceman, with reports suggesting various terms ranging from a seven-year, $50 million US package to a six-year, $39 million pact.
Whatever the case, Phaneuf, 29, was certainly not tipping his hand when approached about the subject after the morning skate at the ACC.
"I don't like to get involved in that kind of stuff," he said. "That's what I pay my agent for.
"I'm focused on the hockey and making sure we make the playoffs."
In any event, let the debate begin.
First off, should Phaneuf receive $7 million US per season, he would be earning the same annual salary as Los Angeles Kings superstar Drew Doughty.
Keep in mind that Doughty signed his eight-year, $56 million US deal in September 2011, a year before the impending NHL lockout.
The financial landscape of the NHL has changed considerably since Doughty put pen to paper.
The salary cap is projected to mushroom to the neighbourhood of $71.1 million next season, part of a consistent long-term escalation aided by the NHL's recent 12-year, $5.2 billion Canadian television rights deal recently completed with Rogers Communications.
Even if Phaneuf and Phil Kessel were to eat up a combined $15 million of cap space next season — Phaneuf at $7 million, Kessel at $8 million — the number becomes more digestable with each passing season as the cap increases.
Of course, that won't stop the anti-Phaneuf fraternity — the ones that refer to him as "Lady Di" — from seeing that he makes as much as a superstar like Doughty and saying "Are the Leafs nuts?"
This much is pretty well certain: With minute-gobbling unrestricted free agent defencemen few and far between on the open market this summer, someone will pay Phaneuf that kind of money.
On the other hand, if the projected contract gets done, Phaneuf will be in his mid-30s by the time the deal runs out.
That's a long time to be hearing both cheers and jeers from the hometown fans.
While all this speculation was going on, Phaneuf was front and centre in the Leafs' 4-3 shootout victory.
In the final minute of regulation, Phaneuf took a hooking penalty and was in the box when Buffalo's Steve Ott scored the tying goal.
The fans booed him.
During the overtime period, Phaneuf was clearly hauled down. Yet the Sabres were not charged with a penalty.
The fans booed the officials.
Once OT had ended, Phaneuf was slapped with a 10-minute misconduct, presumably for yapping at the referees.
As a result, he wasn't on the bench to see Joffrey Lupul score the shootout winner.
"I think the officials do a great job," Phaneuf said afterward.
"But I didn't like the call or the non-call."
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DENVER, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Republican challenger Mitt Romney went hard at Democratic President Barack Obama in their first debate Wednesday at the University of Denver.
Romney said if elected he would seek to eliminate Obama's healthcare reform package. "It has killed jobs," the former Massachusetts governor said, adding he would rather see individual states craft their own healthcare plans as he did in Massachusetts.
Obama said his healthcare reform has helped provide coverage for millions of uninsured people, and later said Romney would have a hard time getting Democrats in Congress to go along with wiping out "Obamacare," a term the president embraced.
The two parted ways on the role of the federal government, with Obama saying it has "the capacity to open opportunities" for people.
"Also, there are some things we do better together," Obama said.
Romney said Americans "care for those with difficulties. But we also believe in the right of individuals to pursue their dreams."
Romney said Obama promotes "trickle-down government, which has the government thinking it can do a better job than people in pursuing their dreams."
The result, he said, is an increase in the number of people on food stamps from 30 million to 47 million and half of this year's college graduates unable to find work.
On education, Obama said Romney's plan, while not very detailed, would result in a 20 percent cut in the federal education budget. Investing in education, Obama said, "is how we're going to grow this economy over the long run."
But Romney said he's not going to cut education funding and faulted Obama for putting $90 billion in so-called green industries. "That would have hired 1 million teachers," Romney said. "I propose we grade schools."
"The right course for America's government is not to become the economic player, picking winners and losers," Romney said.
"It's time," he said, "for a new path."
Asked what they would do to create jobs in the next four years, Obama said he would put money into education and training, developing new sources of domestic energy and changing the tax code.
He said he would take "some of the money we're saving as we wind down two wars and reinvest in America." Obama said it would be wrong to "double down on the top-down policies" that led to the Great Recession and called for "economic patriotism" from the nation's wealthiest to help move the country forward.
Romney laid out his five-point plan to increase domestic energy, open up trade, improve worker skills, balance the budget and "champion small businesses." He said business start-ups are at a 30-year low and blamed "trickle-down government."
Romney said he wants to reduce income tax rates and tighten credits and deductions. Obama contended Romney wants to implement $5 trillion in tax cuts and add $2 trillion in military spending, and that even if all loopholes were eliminated for the wealthy, it wouldn't add up to $7 trillion so the burden would fall on the middle class.
Romney denied he would cut taxes $5 trillion.
"I will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans," Romney said. "I will not raise taxes on middle-class families. I will lower them."
Obama said he doesn't buy it.
"For 18 months he's been running on this tax plan. Now, five weeks before the election, his big, bold idea is 'never mind," Obama said. "It's not possible to come up with enough deductions [to eliminate]. It's math. It's arithmetic."
Romney blasted Obama for wanting to raise taxes on the top 3 percent, saying it would cost 700,000 jobs.
On the deficit, Romney said Obama "would prefer raising taxes."
"The problem is, that slows down the rate of growth," Romney said. "I want to slow spending and improve the rate of growth."
When it comes to spending, Romney said he wants to make government more efficient, and his measuring stick would be a program must be "important enough to borrow money from China."
"The president said he would cut the deficit in half. Unfortunately, he doubled it," Romney said.
Obama noted he has cut $1 trillion in discretionary domestic spending and has put forth a plan to cut $4 trillion more.
He said the "major difference" between him and Romney is that he wants a balanced approach and Romney "has ruled out revenue."
"If we're asking for no revenue, you're going to have to cut a whole bunch of stuff," Obama said. "That will be a severe hardship for people, but more importantly, it would not help us to grow."
The second debate, Oct. 16, at a 5,000-seat sports and exhibition complex at Hofstra University near New York City, is to be a "town meeting" format moderated by CNN "State of the Union" host Candy Crowley.
The third debate, Oct. 22, at a 750-seat performing arts center at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., is expected to focus on foreign policy and be moderated by CBS News "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer.


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Surviving Seasonal Sales Slumps
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Chokecherries. Wild plums. Currants. Sandcherries. These are the fruits that bloom wildly on Snake Falls Ranch in rural Nebraska. Every summer, these are also the fruits for which Annie and David Kime venture out into the canyons surrounding the Snake River to harvest. And one year later, these are the fruits that Annie will transform into 15,000 jars of jams and jelly in the commercial kitchen she's built in her home 35 miles from the nearest town of 2,500 people.
Aside from the difficulties inherent in such a rural enterprise, Annie also has to deal with the most fickle of business partners: Mother Nature. If a spring frost comes late, Annie has no crop to harvest. Even when the seasons do show up on time, Annie must still plan her business around the seasons. The year begins slowly with catch-up work, business planning and vacation time. Come spring, Annie begins to cook the wild fruit into juice for freezing and start making jams and jellies. Summer and autumn are heavy production times, with approximately three weeks of harvesting, then the holidays bring in most of the sales.
Running a seasonal homebased business provides unique challenges. You have to stretch your funds to last a year when you may only be bringing in cash for three or six months. You must learn to prepare for the busy seasons and figure out how best to use your slow season to your business's advantage. And finally, you have to mentally prepare yourself for the rough times. "I know this may sound like a very simple piece of advice, but when times are difficult, I always know it won't remain that way," says Annie, who's seen her share of seasons since starting Annie's Jellies, Etc. LLC in 1996. "It will either get better or worse, and it's up to me to see that it gets better."
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People have an all-too-common inclination to spend, spend, spend when the coffers are full. Rule No. 1 of seasonal businesses: Don't do that.
"Be extremely disciplined," says Mike Marchev, author of Become the Exception and a homebased professional speaker who focuses on sales, customer service and motivation. "My income is flat; it doesn't go up or down. We've learned to live within our means so when things get tough, it doesn't affect us. [With] many people, when they make a lot of money, they spend a lot of money. All of a sudden, the bottom falls out and they're in trouble."
Lorre McKeone, the owner of North Platte, Nebraska-based corporate training and consulting firm The Executive Extra didn't at first recognize the seasonal fluctuations in her business, which caused a cash crunch every year and led her to find part-time jobs a few slow summers.
"In the 'good times,' I wasn't putting aside any money," says McKeone, whose slumps are caused by summer vacations and busy holiday periods. "Then, after a slow time, it would take me a few months to pay my bills and restock depleted materials, so the cash crunch extended into the times I was making money again. I now realize that nearly every business has regular seasonal fluctuations, which you can determine through industry research or discussions with others already in the business. Had I done this initially, I may have been able to make better spending decisions."
McKeone learned to survive her early slow periods by deferring spending, taking less for her personal salary, buying used furniture and equipment, bartering her services and not using a credit card. Now, she saves regularly, encourages clients to schedule during her off season since she's often overbooked in her busy season, and has a year-round contract as a meeting facilitator with the Union Pacific Railroad.
Manage Your Time Wisely
In addition to a carefully balanced bankbook, a seasonal business will also require some master time-juggling. With part of the year appropriate for 25-hour workweeks and another part calling for double or triple that, seasonal businesses prosper only under the most organized of planners.
"Because it gets so busy in the summertime, our administrative and marketing [tasks] go by the wayside so we can concentrate on actually serving our customers. [In the slow winter months,] we do a lot of catch-up work," says Tonya Poole, who runs her real estate documentation and communication business, ink.spinners, out of her home in Reno, Nevada. When the real estate market is slow in the winter, Poole takes in non-real-estate assignments and offers incentives to current clients like special discounts or increased services. During her heavy season, she hires college interns to help her and her part-time assistant, a homebased independent contractor.
In her early years of business, McKeone marketed heavily to try to drum up business during her slow season. "After about four years, I decided it just wasn't worth the time, effort and expense to try to schedule something when people are not predisposed to take the training," says McKeone, who started her business 15 years ago. "Once I accepted that this is a seasonal business and took steps to better prepare for the slow times financially, I was able to be more relaxed about the one off-season and spent much of it doing things with my family. I also use the time for my own personal development--taking classes, reading, preparing new materials and rejuvenating myself physically and mentally so I'm better able to face the busy times around the corner."
During her busy times, she takes pains to not overbook herself. "Stress and burnout are a distinct danger when [I'm] overbooked. What I'm doing now is taking a hard look at all the different things I can do and then trying to focus on what I do best, enjoy the most and find to be the most profitable," says McKeone. "I'm gradually working out of those things that take too much time or add little to the bottom line."
Mike Marchev has no trouble keeping himself busy during his slow times. Here are some of the activities he advocates:
- Strengthen client relationships. "Call people you already know, arrange a meeting with them, and brainstorm," says Marchev. "It re-energizes your batteries."
- Play catch-up--or don't. "That can be anything from straightening up your desk or [organizing] your files to reading or remembering why you went into business in the first place--and that is to enjoy a Thursday afternoon. Now, that doesn't mean go play golf every day. [But if] there's a slow time, don't beat yourself up. Enjoy the afternoon."
- Call associates in a similar situation. "[When they say,] 'Boy, I hope you're busier than I am because I'm really dead,' then you can say, 'Gee, I'm dead, too. I feel better already.'"
- Write a book. "If you're a homebased entrepreneur, regardless of your [industry,] you want to be known as the expert in what you do," says Marchev. "Every entrepreneur should have a goal to put their knowledge into a book. Because once you become an author, it puts you into a different category. You must know what you're talking about--you wrote the book. So that's a perfect downtime activity."
Stay Afloat Through Diversification
Another choice for seasonal business owners is to do as Tonya Poole has: branch out in the slow season. "We occasionally get people not in the real estate market who are looking for copywriters, editors or typesetters," says Poole, who also founded The Sierra Soho Association, a nonprofit organization for Nevada and California SOHOs. "During the summer months, it's very difficult for us to take those jobs, so we normally refer them out. But during the winter months, we take those in-house."
Gillian Christie's theory of seasonal slumps is that there are none--only "a lack of creativity." She helps her marketing and public relations firm clients figure out how they can overcome obstacles, like seasonality. One client, a full-spectrum lighting company with slow summer sales, repositioned its product to sell it as dental office lighting and as lighting for makeup applications. Another client--an African hot tea company--is focusing on the health benefits to nursing mothers of their herbal blend to sell more in the summer in America.
"A person who feels they have a slump should look at it from a different angle or find a niche they haven't reviewed before," says Christie, whose firm, Christie Communications Inc., is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, and focuses on ethically minded clients. "It's really a wonderful exercise in creativity. Just think and play with ideas. Study and read a lot of industry publications outside your category so you're familiar with what's going on in other industries."
Make Your Decision
With a seasonal business, you have several options. You can remain busy year-round through diversification, you can focus on other activities like writing a book, or you can plan carefully and take some extra time off for yourself.
"Despite all the downsides to a business that's seasonal," says Poole, "the upside is you can, if you plan it properly, make enough money during the busy periods to support yourself [while] you actually take some time off, relax and really enjoy what working from home is all about. That's much of the reason why people work from home--to either have that freedom to choose their own hours or to have more time with their family. So work a little bit extra hard during your seasonal highs and then during your seasonal lows, you can really enjoy that benefit that you started out to begin with."


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"I can safely tell you...I've seen the movie and it kicks ass," Ellis says. "This is the movie you want to relaunch the greatest franchise of all time."
"It is so much better than the prequels, which I don't hate," he adds. "It's not quite as good as the classic trilogy films, in my opinion, but my God, there's so much to love here."
Harloff says he thinks "this is absolutely one of the best 'Star Wars' movies since 1983" but that he isn't sure he likes it as much as the original trilogy.
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The movie, he says, "proves a sturdy, rousing addition to the 'Star Wars' canon....Yes, you might find yourself still yearning for the more innocent pleasures of the original films, but that's likely more about trying to recapture something in our own pasts than it is with the quality of a film that's just arrived, with a delightful blare, in the here and now. Full of cute droids, wacky aliens (done, mostly, with practical effects), and a game, goofy sense of humor, Abrams's film exists as a captivating, heady mix of nostalgia and evolution."
3. IndieWire's Eric Kohn gives the movie a B+ grade, calling it a "fun, polished space odyssey that embraces the appeal of the originals."
"There's no doubting the Disneyfication at work here as the series gets relevant for its latest demographic," he writes. "The younger characters speak in noticeably different vernacular than their forebears. ('You're so right!' exclaims a villain early on)."
"Of course, drawn into this spirited light show, it's hard not to relate," he adds. "Cynical viewers averse to this kind of super-sized product can fight it all they want, but 'The Force Awakens' is certainly the most impressive achievement in Abrams' career in terms of sheer scale. It excels at a form of slick commercial filmmaking designed to satisfy millions of viewers, which places it light years away from Lucas' own idiosyncratic version of the material."
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4. Time Out's Joshua Rothkopf gives "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" five out of five stars, calling the movie "J.J. Abrams' rousing, pitch-perfect triumph--a feast of nostalgic blockbustering."
"There's better acting in 'The Force Awakens' than in all the 'Star Wars' movies combined," he writes. "BB-8, a whirling soccer-ball-like droid that plays like WALL-E's mouthier cousin, might be best of the bunch--he's a new high for cinema's expressive machines (and a nod to Lucas's love for gearhead invention). Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher bring unexpected pathos to roles they sometimes used to drift through. The graying hair helps."
"But once again, a black-clad villain steals the show: Mystical Dark Sider Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) wears the robes, face-obscuring helmet and ferocious demeanor of you know who, with a distorted basso bark that actually improves on the breathy squawk of James Earl Jones," he says. "Fortunately, the actor gets to do more than menace, steering the movie toward a heartbreaking scene of personal confusion that plays like a franchise high."
5. ScreenCrush's Matt Singer gives "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" a score of seven out of 10.
"Abrams struck gold with his new cast," he writes. "Isaac has the swagger and luxurious hair of a young Harrison Ford. Boyega brings real weight to Finn's repeated moral dilemmas; Driver delivers equal complexity in his performance as Kylo Ren. And Ridley has one of the most expressive pairs of eyes I have ever seen on a big screen. They pull you in like a tractor beam."
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Foreign auto makers like Ford are making traction in China, but the world's largest car market holds both promises and perils, Ivo Naumann of AlixPartners tells the WSJ's Abheek Bhattacharya.
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A United Nations panel warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday he could be charged by the International Criminal Court with systematic executions, torture, rape and mass starvation.
Such a case for crimes against humanity would require at least acquiescence from North Korea ally China, one of five veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council that generally opposes such referrals to the ICC.
Yet the panel's recommendation alone infuriated North Korea, accused in a wide-ranging indictment of holding up to 120,000 people in camps for political crimes, and state-sponsored abductions of North Korean, Japanese and other nationals.
North Korea, which refused to participate in the investigation or allow the commission to visit, called the findings "a product of politicization of human rights on the part of EU and Japan in alliance with the US hostile policy."
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North Korea's only real ally is China, and some experts hoped the report would put pressure on China to demand the North alter its treatment of its citizens.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China opposes taking the case to the ICC.
"We think we should establish a constructive dialogue to solve the disputes over the human rights issues based on equal footing and mutual respect," Hua told reporters in Beijing. "It will not help the situation to bring the issue to an international court."
Barry Pavel, vice president of the Atlantic Council and a former defense policy adviser to President Obama and former president George W. Bush, said the U.N. panel's warning "is not enforceable unless the international community decides to go after" Kim like it did former Serbia president Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic died in custody while being tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
China has also been engaged in a human rights crackdown within its own borders, however, and does not want to bring attention to itself, Pavel said.
Bruce Klingner, who headed the CIA's Koreas branch in the 1990s and early 2000s and is now at the Heritage Foundation said not to expect much help from China.
China prevented international sanctions against North Korea after its unprovoked killing of dozens of South Koreans in 2010 in the sinking of the South Korean destroyer Cheonan and shelling of South Korean Yeonpyeong islands.
"China will be more a part of the problem than a solution in addressing North Korea's violations of human rights and its longstanding violations of international law," Klingner said.
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Hi, Yuzo Koshiro posted today on his Twitter feed a few design document pictures from games like Actraiser, Sonic GG, Streets of Rage (2), etc.
[edit] Much higher-quality scans of the pages below are available on this page:
Here are the docs for Actraiser rotated and straightened out:
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Sometimes I wish that Nintendo had stuck with that original plan of the Y and B position buttons on the Super Famicom/"SFX" prototype controller being named as B and A, if only to circumvent creating the Wii/3DS/Wii U era of awkward B-and-A upward angled control schemes in spite of being on pads with diamond-arrangement face buttons.
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Now, now, don't blame Super Famicom-era Nintendo for that re-design just because Wii-era Nintendo developers had apparently never seen a Super Nintendo controller in their lives. :P
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It's astounding to think that Actraiser was Quintet's first game, and on completely new hardware, at that. I know some of the staff worked on Falcom games, but it's still impressive that they set the Super NES soaring right away.
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Well, the goal of the Actraiser project, according to the design doc, was to make a game in a new genre, and to use the SFX's tricks in ways that had never been seen before on a console.
Pretty lofty goals all around.
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Nice. Hopefully they keep releasing stuff.. Actraiser 2, Vatvla, Car Battler Joe...Fox Junction would be very unlikely but awesome.
Is it known if Ancient was involved with the Actraiser project that Quintet was supposedly developing for Saturn before they decided to make Solo Crisis instead? There seems to be very little proof it even existed at any point, but Koshiro is probably the most high profile person who would actually know.
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Here's a simple machine translation of that design document:
I) Title
The World Master
Ⅱ) Target machine
Super Family Computer
Ⅲ) Development purpose
Since it is the software of the first cartridge of SFX, the game of the genre which is not in former is made to permeate a user, and the industry is approached in the possibility of a game.
Moreover, what can carry out a fruit to the maximum by none of other hobby machines taking advantage of the function (expansion, rotation, reduction, double scrolling, and translucence processing) of SFX is made.
Ⅳ) The outline of a game
This is a game describing process in which God from which power was taken by the evil spirit regains its power, and forms man's land.
Incarnation of God is carried out to a warrior, it fights with evil, and a set of men and a woman are made to live in the purified land.
They make posterity, and one house serves as a colony, serves as a village, and develops into a town soon.
Man forms various culture with development of civilization.
It memorizes constructing a bridge, knows making iron from an ore, and studies carrying out a fishery by ship.
If the number of people increases, by their faith, God regains power gradually and can use various miracles.
God fighting with evil and purifying other lands, a trouble of man is canceled using a miracle, and man finds out the tool which God was using once and offers God.
Thus, it is the outline of this game that God and a human being help each other, destroy evil spirits, and man's world is finally established.
This game consists of an action part and a simulation part.
Below, each specifications are indicated to be the flow chart of a rough operation system.
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President Obama can make a better argument. Congress has given him an impossible task: to implement a large number of costly public projects with less money than those projects cost. If he cuts spending, then he violates constitutional norms that give Congress the power to determine spending. If he raises revenues by borrowing or trying to tax people, then he violates constitutionals norms that give Congress the power to borrow or tax. In the face of contradictory instructions from Congress, the president can't avoid choosing—by virtue of his administrative role as collector and disburser of revenues, the president must do something. Where Congress fails to provide him with consistent instructions, he has the discretion to do what he believes is in the public interest. If the economy were to be on the point of collapse, he could cite emergency powers sanctified by tradition as his authority for borrowing beyond the debt ceiling on his own. But a less drastic argument is that the power to resolve conflicting congressional orders is inherent in the president's administrative role. Indeed, presidents frequently face conflicting statutes as they govern, and they have long enjoyed a great deal of discretion in resolving them.
So in the face of contradictory orders from Congress, President Obama should do what he believes is in the public interest. And if the House refuses to raise the debt ceiling, this surely means some combination of cutting spending, borrowing beyond the debt limit, and perhaps even searching out new sources of revenue.


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Am I A Buggy Dork?
The Differences Between Racing a Truck and a Buggy
The green flag drops and we are off in a flash, the LS3 engine pushing me back in my seat. "Man, this thing really moves!" I think to myself as Sam Cothrun and I hurtle through the desert at triple-digit speeds in our attempt to win the VORRA Yerington 300. The race took place last Memorial Day weekend, but the story starts further back—a year Earlier, my friend Sam asked me to co-drive for him at the Valley Off Road Racing Association (VORRA) USA 500 in his 7200 truck.
For those unfamiliar with the class designation, 7200 is essentially a "mini Trophy Truck" with the only class rules being that you must have an 85-inch maximum track width, 37-inch maximum tire diameter, and six-cylinder engine. Otherwise, anything goes. Sam built his 7200 truck himself at his shop, Samco Fabrication, and it runs an inline six-cylinder engine out of a Chevy TrailBlazer. Despite only producing 275 horsepower, we went on to win the USA 500 last summer—not just our class but the entire field! Success like that is hard to repeat, but the experience definitely got me hooked on racing trucks.
As long as I can remember, I have always been into trucks. Prerunning, rockcrawling, mud bogging, it didn't really matter. I had other friends into Volkswagens, but air-cooled cars never really captured my attention. Volkswagens didn't have small-blocks or 37-inch-tall tires. It was not until I was introduced to desert racing that Volkswagen Bugs and their buggy offspring started to earn my respect. The light weight meant that big horsepower was not necessary, and these little Davids are capable of slaying some pretty potent Goliaths with the proper suspension setup.
So they have my respect … but there is a long, long way between respect and desire. In fact, in the desert-racing community, there is a marked distinction between "truck guys" and "buggy dorks." I didn't choose to be a "truck guy"; I was born that way. So was Sam, but even more than being a truck guy he is a desert racer. So when his 7200 truck was in a million pieces just weeks before this year's VORRA Yerington 300, he started to look for other options. Our savior came in the form of Frank Maciel, who sold his awesome Land Cruiser (which was featured in the August '07 issue of Off-Road) to fund a Class 1 buggy build. The Class 1 car started with a Jimco chassis, and Samco Fabrication added Fox coilovers and bypass shocks, a Fortin transaxle, and an LS3 engine. It was potent, but it doesn't have a bed on the back or an engine in the front.
Beggars can't be choosers, so Sam and I signed up for the Yerington 300 and strapped into Frank's buggy. I put my helmet on quickly, hoping no one would recognize me and start chanting "buggy dork." The first thing I noticed was that, instead of sitting with the transmission between us and burning my leg on the exhaust, we were shoulder to shoulder with the entire drivetrain behind us. Hmm … I might like this after all. Soon, the only thing my helmet was hiding was an ear-to-ear grin. Frank's buggy was fast. Actually, weighing 1,500 pounds less than Sam's truck and churning out 150 more horsepower, it was violently fast. Other initial impressions while prerunning the course included the easy visibility to check for flat tires or fast-approaching traffic from the rear.
When race day came, getting passed proved to be the least of our concerns. Sam and I started third off the line, with vehicles leaving in one-minute intervals. Just 20 minutes into the race, we passed the first car off the line, and we were in the physical lead less than half an hour later. Yerington is a 300-mile race set up with a 60-mile loop and a 40-mile loop. Racers have to complete three of each loop, and after doing the 60-mile loop on their first lap, they can do the remainder in any order they wish. We set the fast lap for the race on our first lap, and with some passes and small errors I felt that we were still leaving time on the table.
From the driver seat, Sam said that the car drove totally different than his truck. "With the spool in the back of my truck, you can really steer with the throttle; not the case with Frank's Class 1 car though. The cutting brakes were great for tight maneuvering through the canyons on the Yerington course, but I am still getting accustomed to using them." On lap 2, we did a short lap to get in front of some traffic and were starting to find our rhythm. Yerington is not a particularly rough course, so it played to the strengths of the buggy—namely a great power-to-weight ratio. While the top speed was slightly better, the buggy got up to that top speed much faster. "Trucks tend to work better in the rough because they have more total wheel travel," Sam explained. "All the additional travel is in droop, so on whooped-out courses like San Felipe, they keep the tires on the ground more, making traction and propelling the trucks forward."
By lap 3, everything was clicking … right up until the point where we heard a loud clicking. "Oil pressure dropping fast!" I shouted into the intercom. The yelling was more a result of adrenaline than due to noise, as the rear-engine buggy was surprisingly quiet. Being only a mile out of our pit, Sam tried to nurse the car in, until he lost the power steering. "We're on fire!" he yelled as he exited the vehicle on the side of the course. "Get the extinguisher!" he added as his adrenaline rate increased to match mine. By the time I got the extinguisher and got my harness and window nets out of the way, Sam had smothered our engine fire in dirt.
There was a hole in the side of the block I could fit my fist in, and the piston and rod were in a million little pieces. As a result, all of the oil came out the side of the engine and started the fire when it hit the hot exhaust headers. The power steering let go when the fire melted the belts on the engine. Hero to zero in the blink of an eye; my day was over … or was it?
Back at the pits, I peeled myself out of my race suit and washed off the dust before devouring a cheeseburger. I was on the last bite when Sam asked if I wanted to get back in the race. "Huh?!" was all I could manage with a mouth full of burger. Friend and fellow racer Jeff Parsons, who was pitting with us, hadn't slept in three days. Like most of us, he is a working stiff who puts all of his free time and resources into his truck, and he was going to do anything to make it to Yerington. Apparently "anything" included multiple all-nighters in a row.
Jeff had completed the first two laps of the race, but between the lack of sleep and exhaust fumes leaking into the cab, he could not keep his eyes open. To make matters worse, his starter wouldn't engage and he couldn't shut off the truck. The team ripped out the windshield to solve the exhaust issue as Sam jumped into the driver seat. Like I said, Sam is a desert racer before all else. Someone else on Jeff's team volunteered to co-drive, recognizing that I was having a hard time choosing between the cheeseburger and the race seat. Sam wheeled the truck for two laps before handing it back to a rested Jeff to finish out the race.
And Frank's buggy? "That's racing," he said without emotion. "We'll build it even stronger now." Before the car was even unloaded from the trailer, there was a dry sump and forged pistons to go in the extra block in the back of Samco's shop. Frank's buggy will be back, and I just might be back in the passenger seat. I am starting to think that being a buggy dork isn't so bad after all.
Trucks and Buggies: What's the Difference?
Race "trucks" are really tube-frame creations that have a fiberglass body on them. Other than the body, what are the differences between trucks and buggies? Trucks traditionally have the engine in the front (there are some exceptions, like Robby Gordon's Trophy Truck) with a solid axle in the rear running a spool. By comparison, buggies have the engine in the back with a transaxle to route power through an open differential. Cutting brakes are often used on buggies to turn more sharply and make up for the lack of a locking differential when traction is limited.
The name "buggy" is derived from Volkswagen Bugs, as are many of the buggy parts. Volkswagens use air-cooled four-cylinder engines mated to a transmission and axle all-in-one (a transaxle) that uses constant velocity joints to power the rear wheels and a beam axle in the front. Many racing classes (Class 1/2-1600, Class 5, Class 9, Class 11) still use this basic design. Other buggy race classes (Class 10, for example) mount the engine in the rear, but they don't necessarily use VW engines or beam front axles. Class 1 cars, such as those built by Jimco, Racer Engineering, Penhall Fabrication, Raceco, and others, are the pinnacles of buggies. These vehicles don't use any parts from Volkswagens, but they share their basic layout with the iconic Bug, with the engine in the rear mated to a transaxle.
What The Heck Does the Co-Driver Do, Anyway?
When telling friends and families who are not into the off-road scene about my recent racing, they usually reply, "So, you get to ride along? That's nice," in a patronizing tone. In reality, the co-driver has an important job and is busy from before the green flag drops until well after the race is over. To start, you need to have your own safety gear, including an SFI-approved race suit and a helmet that is plumbed for air and wired for the intercom. A HANS device, racing gloves, and driving shoes are all optional but highly recommended. Safety is not the place to cut corners.
After making that financial commitment, get to know the vehicle you will be racing in if you plan to co-drive. The most important factors will be the location of the fire extinguishers and how to change a tire, but general knowledge of the car and how to wrench on it are definitely beneficial skills. Sam Cothrun and I spent time going over these details prior to the race as well as practicing getting in and out of the car—from harnesses tight and the window net up to all the way out in case of a tire change or emergency. Once that was second nature, we discussed the assortment of switches and gauges in the car and the function of each switch and normal operating range for each gauge.
We ran the course the day before the race, marking cautions on the GPS for any dangerous locations like large rocks or hidden ditches. Every co-driver will have his own preferences for the GPS, but knowing how to process the information on the screen and efficiently relay that information to the driver is critical once the green flag drops. You will also be monitoring the gauges, watching the mirrors for faster cars behind you, and getting on the horn for any traffic you are approaching. Don't forget to look up every once in a while, either, or you might find yourself getting queasy! Being a co-driver is far from a ride-along, but if this all sounds appealing to you then you might just have what it takes to race.


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DUBLIN - Ireland's government pledged on Thursday to clarify its abortion laws after an Indian woman who was refused a termination died from blood poisoning in an Irish hospital.
Thousands took to the streets to protest on Wednesday after news broke of the death of Savita Halappanavar of septicaemia following a miscarriage 17 weeks into her pregnancy.
Activists in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country, which has some of the world's most restrictive laws on abortion, say the refusal by doctors to terminate the pregnancy earlier may have contributed to her death.
"I was deeply disturbed yesterday by what Savita's husband said. I don't think as a country we should allow a situation where women's rights are put at risk in this way," Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore told parliament on Thursday.
"There is no question of equivocation. We need to bring legal clarity to this issue and that is what we are going to do."
Irish law does not specify under what circumstances the threat to the life or health of the mother is high enough to justify a termination, leaving doctors to decide. Critics say this means doctors' personal beliefs can play a role.
Halappanavar was admitted to hospital in severe pain on October 21 and asked for a termination after doctors told her the baby would not survive, according to her husband Praveen.
The foetus was surgically removed when its heartbeat stopped days later, but her family believes the delay contributed to the blood poisoning that killed Halappanavar on October 28.
Praveen said he would wait for the results of an investigation before deciding whether to sue, but that Ireland's Roman Catholic tradition appeared to have been a factor in the decision to deny a termination.
"I am still in shock. It is hard to believe that religion can mean somebody's life," Praveen Halappanavar told Reuters. He said he planned to return to Ireland from India, where he travelled with his wife's body.
The Irish health authority (HSE) has launched an inquiry which the health minister said must "stand up to the scrutiny of the world." Irish media said Praveen would be interviewed.
The Indian couple were resident and working in Ireland, he as an engineer and she as a dentist.
Political storm
Despite a dramatic waning of the influence of the Catholic Church, which dominated politics in Ireland until the 1980s, successive governments have been loath to legislate on an issue they fear could alienate conservative voters.
Fine Gael, the senior partner in Ireland's ruling coalition, told supporters before a recent election that it would not introduce new laws allowing abortion during its five-year term, despite pressure from its junior partner Labour to act.
The government said it had received long-delayed recommendations from an expert panel on introducing new rules on abortion, and would report before the end of the month.
Four out of five Irish voters support a change in the law to permit abortion in cases where a mother's life is at risk, according to a recent opinion poll.
But a vocal anti-abortion minority has dominated the debate on abortion in Ireland in the past, with campaigners arguing that the adoption of legislation or guidelines for medical terminations would bring in abortion through the back door.
In 1992, when challenged in the "X-case" involving a 14-year-old rape victim, the Supreme Court ruled that abortion was permitted when the woman's life was at risk, including from suicide.
A European Court of Human Rights in 2010 ruled that Ireland must clarify what this means in practice.
"This is exactly what the (European) court was complaining about ... The court has not said Ireland must or must not have abortion, they said they have to clarify circumstances," said Ronan McCrea, a barrister and lecturer in law at University College London.
"The vagueness ... gives excessive scope to doctors to follow their own personal views or it means even if they want to give the treatment, they'll fall foul of the law," he said.
Halappanavar's death has dominated debate in Ireland's parliament since news of it broke on Wednesday.
Her photograph was spread across front pages of all Ireland's major newspapers on Thursday, while editorials demanded action from politicians.
The fact that she is a foreign national has heightened the government's embarrassment. The story was on the front of several large Indian newspapers and family members were featured on national television.
The Indian government said on Thursday it deeply regretted Halappanavar's death. "The death of an Indian national in such circumstances is a matter of concern," a spokesman said.


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First Lady Laura Bush's Education Initiatives
Foreword by First Lady Laura W. Bush
Some of my fondest memories are of sitting quietly wrapped in my mother's arms, listening to her read to me. Little did I know that she was doing much more than providing comfort and entertainment -- she was paving the way for learning and success in school.
Unfortunately, not every child is as fortunate as I was.
Some children enter school without even knowing the basics, such as the alphabet and counting. For these children, reading and learning can often be a struggle. And, it is a struggle that affects every American because if our children are not able to read, they are not able to lead.
Our challenge is to reach these children early and lift them to success. My experiences as a mother and an elementary school teacher have taught me that children that are ready to read are ready to learn.
As First Lady, I will work tirelessly to make sure that every child gains the basic skills to be successful in school and in life.
Across America, there are countless classroom heroes who are helping children beat the odds. I want to build on their success by helping to recruit more teachers, shine the spotlight on successful early childhood pre-reading and vocabulary programs, and help parents get access to information that will help them help their children learn.
Each of us has a duty to help our children achieve their full potential. By working together, we can shape the destiny of America's children with our hands and hearts.
Children who are able to read will be ready to learn and ready to lead.


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Dandelion Chocolate Roasted Cacao Beans
A homegrown San Francisco chocolate company, Dandelion was started by Cameron Ring and Todd Masonis in their garage. Their small batch, "bean-to-bar" chocolate is known for being very pure and distinct. This is a unique offering of a bag of the Ambanja cacao beans from Madagascar, packaged by themselves, still each in their thin husk with no added sugar or processing. The popular, fruity tasting bean has a powerful citrus taste, strawberry & cherry notes bold with slight sourness. They can be eaten as a delicious snack alone, or tossed in brownie batter, or banana bread batter as well as on top of ice cream or even a salad.
To enjoy, squeeze lightly and roll the shell off in your hand, like you are cracking a peanut.
12 oz.
Read about our Dandelion Chocolate Factory visit on our Journal


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and deeply regret not attending the University of Miami. LET'S GO!
YOU DON'T KNOW DIXIE – 9:00PM (History Channel) Think the South is full of gun-totin' rednecks who drive trucks and run moonshine operations? THINK AGAIN. This new two-hour History Channel special dives deep into all the ways the South has contributed to American society and debunk common misconceptions. On hand to comment about such matters are former FSU head coach, Bobby Bowden, Ricky Skaggs, James Carville, and Jeff Foxworthy. Yes, Jeff Foxworthy. Because when you want to dispel myths about the American South, the first person you call is Jeff Foxworthy. ANTICIPATION: HEE HAW!
CMT MADE – 10:00PM (CMT) More Dixieland shenanigans, this time on a new CMT show featuring simple country folk looking to change their lives. Tonight you'll meet a cop who aspires to become a pro wrestler and trains to make the circuit. If his name wasn't Roscoe before, it sure oughtta be his wrestling handle. ANTICIPATION: ROSCOE!
THE HOUR – 10:00PM (BBC America) BBC's newest show is a drama about the BBC newsroom back in 1956, when the news media had yet to become the insatiable, corrupt, repugnant monster it now is today. Aww, it's so cute how they have integrity! Anyway, I should point out that, contrary to its title, this show runs MORE than an hour. By all means, sue them for false advertising. ANTICIPATION: SERIOUS!
BEDBUG APOCALYPSE – 8:00PM (Animal Planet) Bedbugs are everywhere! In your bed! In your sofa! In your hair! You can't get rid of them! Surely, they will end up colonizing and enslaving us all! ANTICIPATION: GAHHHHHHHHHH!
OUTRAGEOUS KID PARTIES – 10:30PM (TLC) It's a new season of the show that will surely repulse you, as two nutjob parents throw a carnival party for their six-year-old that includes a 500-person guest list. Aren't we all going broke? Who are the people who can afford all this superfluous nonsense? I demand answers. ANTICIPATION: OBSCENE!
Wednesday Watch List: Dixeland Delight!
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and deeply regret not attending the University of Miami. LET'S GO!


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