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Finally, after an intensive search Ash Williams had found his runaway mistress. Melody Trent couldn't even remember him, but Ash was determined to discover the truth. Had he fathered her child? And the only way to bring her to his home was to claim her as his fiancée—even if she had no memory of him whatsoever. At Maddox Communications he could handle any crisis with icy calm. Even so, having Melody back in his life—amnesia or no—would mean using all his resolve to keep his heart from ruling his head.
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Asher Williams was not a patient man by nature. When he wanted something, he didn't like to wait, and truth be told, he rarely had to. However, he was warned, when he enlisted the services of a private investigator, that finding a missing person could take time. Particularly if the person they were looking for didn't want to be found. That being the case, he was surprised when he received a call from him a mere two days later.
Ash was in a meeting with several of his colleagues and wouldn't normally answer his cell phone, but when he saw the P.I.'s number on the screen, he made an exception. He suspected it was either very good news, or very bad.
"Excuse me for just a minute," he told his colleagues. He rose from his chair and walked across the room, out of earshot. "You have news? " he asked, then heard the three words he had been hoping for.
"I found her."
In that instant he felt a confusing and disturbing combination of relief and bitterness. "Where is she?"
"She's been staying in Abilene, Texas."
What the hell was she doing in Texas?
That wasn't important now. What mattered was bringing her back home where she belonged. And the only way to do that was to go and get her. He was sure, with some convincing, he could make her see that he knew what was best for her, that leaving him had been a mistake. "I'm in a meeting. I'll call you back in five minutes."
He hung up the phone and turned to his colleagues.
"Sorry, but I have to go," he told them. "And I'm not sure when I'll be back. Hopefully no more than a few days. I'll let you know when I have more details."
The look of stunned confusion on their faces as he walked from the room was mildly amusing, and not at all unexpected. In all his time as CFO of Maddox Communications, Ash had never missed a meeting or taken a sick day. He had never been so much as five minutes late for work, and he honestly couldn't recall the last time he'd taken a vacation—much less one with two minutes' notice.
On his way into his office Ash asked his secretary, Rachel, to hold all his calls. "And cancel any appointments I have for the next week, just to be safe."
Her eyes went wide. "A week?"
He closed his office door and settled behind his desk, his mind racing a million miles an hour with all that he needed to do before he left as he dialed the P.I.'s number. He answered on the first ring.
"You told me it could take months to find her," Ash said. "Are you sure you have the right Melody Trent?"
"I'm positive it's her. Your girlfriend was in an auto accident. It's how I found her so quickly."
Melody Trent wasn't his girlfriend. By definition, she was his mistress—a warm body to come home to after a long day at work. He paid her law school tuition and living expenses and she offered companionship with no strings attached. Just the way he liked it. But it was no time to split hairs.
"Was she injured?" he asked, expecting, at worst, a few bumps and bruises. He truly was not prepared for what the P.I. said next.
"According to the police report, the driver, your girlfriend, was pretty banged up and there was one fatality."
Ash's stomach bottomed out and his mouth went dry. "How banged up?"
"She's been in the hospital for a couple of weeks."
"You said there was a fatality. What happened exactly?" He rose from his chair, began pacing as the P.I. gave him what few details he had about the crash. And it was bad. Worse than Ash could have ever imagined. "Is Melody being held responsible?"
"Fortunately, no. The police filed it as an accident. That doesn't mean there won't be a civil suit, though."
They would deal with that when and if the time came. "How is Melody? Do you have any details on her condition?"
"All the hospital would say is that she's stable. They'll only give details to family. When I asked to talk to her, they said she wasn't taking phone calls. That usually means that for whatever reason, the patient is unable to speak. My best guess would be she's unconscious."
Since Melody left him, Ash had been counting the hours until she came crawling back to ask forgiveness, to say that she'd made a mistake. At least now he knew why she hadn't. Although that wasn't much of a consolation. And he would be damned if anyone was going to stop him from learning the truth. "I guess I'll just have to be family."
"You going to say she's your long-lost sister or something?" the P.I. asked.
"Of course not." He needed something a bit more believable. Something he could easily prove.
Melody was his fiancée.
The next morning Ash caught the earliest flight to the Dallas/Fort Worth airport, then rented a car and made the two-and-a-half-hour drive to Abilene. He had called ahead the afternoon before, setting up a meeting with the doctor in charge of her care. They told him that Melody was conscious and out of the woods, but that was the most they would say over the phone.
Once he got to the hospital he strode right past the registration desk. He'd learned a long time ago that if he looked as though he belonged somewhere, showed he was in charge, people naturally followed along, and no one tried to stop him as he stepped onto the elevator. He got off on the third floor, surprised to realize that he was actually nervous. What if Melody didn't want to come back to him?
Of course she would, he assured himself. Her leaving had obviously been a great error in judgment, and it would have only been a matter of time before she realized how much she missed him. Besides, where else would she go while she healed from her injuries? She needed him.
He stopped at the nurses' station and they paged a Dr. Nelson. He appeared less than five minutes later.
"Mr. Williams?" he said, shaking Ash's hand. The department on his name badge was neurology, which likely meant that Melody had suffered some sort of brain injury. Which explained why she would have been unconscious. But did it mean her injuries were even more serious than he could have imagined? What if she never made a full recovery?
"Where is my fiancée?" Ash asked, surprised by the note of panic in his voice. He needed to hold it together. Barging in and making demands would only make this more difficult. Especially if Melody told them he actually wasn't her fiancé. He took a second to collect himself and asked, in a much calmer tone, "Can I see her?"
"Of course, but why don't we have a talk first."
He wanted to see Melody now, but he followed the doctor to a small family waiting room by the elevator. The room was empty, but for a television in the corner playing some daytime game show. He sat and gestured for Ash to join him.
"How much do you know about the accident?" the doctor asked.
"I was told that the car rolled, and there was one fatality."
"Your fiancée is a very lucky woman, Mr. Williams. She was driving on a back road when the crash occurred and it was several hours before someone drove past and discovered her there. She was airlifted here for treatment, but if the local EMS team hadn't worked so quickly, you would be having this conversation with the coroner."
A knot twisted his insides. It was surreal to imagine that he had come so close to losing Melody for good, and the thought of her lying trapped and alone, not knowing if she would live or die, made him sick to his stomach. He may have been angry that she left him, but he still cared deeply for her. "What was the extent of her injuries?"
"She suffered a subdural hematoma."
"A brain injury?"
He nodded. "Until two days ago she's been in a drug-induced coma."
"But she'll recover?"
"We expect her to make a full recovery."
Ash's relief was so intense, his body went limp. If he hadn't already been sitting, he was sure his legs would have given out from under him.
"Although," the doctor added, his expression darkening, "there were a few…complications."
Ash frowned. "What complications?"
"I'm sorry to have to tell you that she lost the baby."
"Baby?" he asked, the doctor's words not making any sense. Melody wasn't having a baby.
The doctor blinked. "I'm sorry, I just assumed you knew that she was pregnant."
Why would Ash even suspect such a thing when the radiation from childhood cancer had rendered him sterile? It had to be a mistake. "You're sure?"
The only explanation, Ash realized, was that Melody had been cheating on him. The knot in his gut twisted tighter, making it difficult to take a full breath. Is that where Melody had been going when she left him? To be with her lover? The father of her child?
And like a love-sick fool Ash had been chasing after her, prepared to convince her to come home. She had betrayed him, after all that he had done for her, and he hadn't suspected a damned thing.
His first reaction was to get up, walk out of the hospital and never look back, but his body refused to cooperate. He needed to see her, just one last time. He needed to know why the hell she would do this to him, when he had given her everything she had ever asked for, everything she could have ever needed. She could have at least had the decency, and the courage, to be honest with him.
He could see that the doctor was curious to know why, as her fiancé, Ash hadn't known about the pregnancy, but Ash didn't feel he owed him or anyone else an explanation. "How far along was she?" he asked.
"Around fourteen weeks, we think."
"You think? Didn't she say?"
"We haven't mentioned the miscarriage. We think it would be too upsetting at this point in her recovery."
"So she believes she's still pregnant?"
"She has no idea that she was pregnant when she was in the accident."
Ash frowned. That made no sense. "How could she not know?"
"I'm sorry to have to tell you, Mr. Williams, but your fiancée has amnesia."
The gripping fingers of a relentless headache squeezed Melody's brain. A dull, insistent throb, as though a vice was being cranked tighter and tighter against her skull.
"Time for your pain meds," her nurse chirped, materializing at the side of the bed as though Melody had summoned her by sheer will.
Or had she hit the call button? She honestly couldn't remember. Things were still a bit fuzzy, but the doctor told her that was perfectly normal. She just needed time for the anesthesia to leave her system.
The nurse held out a small plastic cup of pills and a glass of water. "Can you swallow these for me, hon?"
Yes, she could, she thought, swallowing gingerly, the cool water feeling good on her scratchy throat. She knew how to swallow pills, and brush her teeth, and control the television remote. She could use a fork and a knife and she'd had no trouble reading the gossip rags the nurse had brought for her.
So why, she wondered, did she not recognize her own name?
She couldn't recall a single thing about her life, not even the auto accident that was apparently responsible for her current condition. As for her life before the accident, it was as if someone had reached inside her head and wiped her memory slate clean.
Post-traumatic amnesia, the neurologist called it, and when she'd asked how long it would last, his answer hadn't been encouraging.
"The brain is a mysterious organ. One we still know so little about," he'd told her. "Your condition could last a week, or a month. Or there's a possibility that it could be permanent. We'll just have to wait and see."
She didn't want to wait. She wanted answers now. Everyone kept telling her how lucky she'd been. Other than the head injury, she had escaped the accident relatively unscathed. A few bumps and bruises mostly. No broken bones or serious lacerations. No permanent physical scars. However, as she flipped through the television channels, knowing she must have favorite programs but seeing only unfamiliar faces, or as she picked at the food on her meal tray, clueless as to her likes and dislikes, she didn't feel very lucky. In fact, she felt cursed. As though God was punishing her for some horrible thing that she couldn't even remember doing.
The nurse checked her IV, jotted something on her chart, then told Melody, "Just buzz if you need anything."
Answers, Melody thought as the nurse disappeared into the hall. All she wanted was answers.
She reached up and felt the inch-long row of stitches above her left ear where they had drilled a nickel-size hole to reduce the swelling on her brain, relieving the pressure that would have otherwise squeezed her damaged brain literally to death.
They had snatched her back from the brink of death, only now she wondered what kind of life they had snatched her back to. According to the social worker who had been in to see her, Melody had no living relatives. No siblings, no children, and no record of ever having been married. If she had friends or colleagues, she had no memory of them, and not a single person had come to visit her.
Had she always been this…alone?
Her address was listed as San Francisco, California— wherever that was—some sixteen hundred miles from the site of the accident. It perplexed her how she could still recognize words and numbers, while photos of the city she had supposedly lived in for three years drew a complete blank. She was also curious to know what she had been doing so far from home. A vacation maybe? Was she visiting friends? If so, wouldn't they have been concerned when she never showed up?
Or was it something more sinister?
After waking from the coma, she'd dumped the contents of her purse on the bed, hoping something might spark a memory. She was stunned when, along with a wallet, nail file, hairbrush and a few tubes of lip gloss, a stack of cash an inch thick tumbled out from under the bottom lining. She quickly shoved it back in the bag before anyone could see, and later that night, when the halls had gone quiet, she counted it. There had been over four thousand dollars in various denominations.
Was she on the run? Had she done something illegal? Maybe knocked off a convenience station on the way out of town? If so, wouldn't the police have arrested her by now?
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Good day it's Thursday
where has the week gone????
HOLLLLLLLYYYYYY Cow uh??
he he
I can't beleive that it's mothers day this weekend
I have a special card in my head to create for my mom
I'll share that with you all on Monday
I have a few others mom's that I will be making cards for and will share them next week as well
I know I should share them now to give you ideas right
BUT the thing is that I can't - I don't want them special ladies to see the cards hehe
hope you all understand
soooooooo for today I continue onto my mission of the
have you had fun seeing what I am creating with these new colours??
I'll tell you that I am having tones of fun
mind you, I think I am tired of the layered labels stamp for this
hum?? should I switch it up tomorrow???
we shall see what my 2:30am in craft room brain goes with lol
but today my featured colour is
it's a really pretty pink
all right enough blah blah let's get started
I first did a litle BIG SHOT action
let me think about this??
all right I think I am liking this better
so picky I am
but the other way was too much
too cute now with some little details of the embosslit butterflies
ever told you how much I love my Stampin Up goodies
ouh my hint for the day - almost fergot
that's my hint
are you getting it yet???
I will announce my big surprise event real soon
we will have new ribbon I am sure with this colour
but these eyes have yet to see that
sooooooo let me improvise
I'll tell you that the new stamp pads are so juice that it's so much easier to colour my ribbon
I used a very vanilla satin ribbon here and used the sponge dabber with my ink pad
and voila beautiful Primrose Petals ribbon
I used my cropadile to punch holes in my cardstock
and snuck the ribbon in the holes
hide the holes with my big pearls
these are fabulous pearls
last few details and card 3 o 5 will be complete
there we have it what do you think of this one friends
I like this colour
I am off to run and to work
I wish you all a super terrifik Thursday
see yha tomorrow
embossed hug from me
Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski
AKA Stampin Stressaway


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The funeral is underway of Rhymney mining campaigner Dave Green. It was feared he could have had a pauper's funeral, but following a fundraising campaign backed by Hollywood actor Michael Sheen a big funeral has been held for him.
Newport-born Sheen could not attend the funeral due to filming commitments but sent a floral tribute, reading: 'In memory of Dave Green - a strong voice used well. Rest in peace, Dave. It was an honour to meet you. Michael Sheen'.
Watch Megan Boot's report from the service:
Funeral for penniless activist after Sheen-backed fundraiser
A service takes place this afternoon for a penniless mining activist spared a pauper's funeral following a fundraising campaign backed by Hollywood actor Michael Sheen.
Dave Green was a well-known campaigner against open-cast mining in Rhymney and a member of United Valleys Action Group.
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More than £4,000 has been raised by the local community for the funeral this afternoon.
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Council 'will consider' Michael Sheen's ideas
Newport City Council has responded to an open letter by actor Michael Sheen, criticising it for demolishing the city's Chartist Mural.
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Eco-school welcomes Hollywood star
Fresh from receiving his accolade for Best Actor at the BAFTA Cymru awards last night, Michael Sheen visited his home county of Neath Port Talbot today.
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Goal setting is a valuable practice that helps you stay on track and get things done. Goals are essential for completing tasks, whether it is developing a new business skill, learning a new hobby or cleaning the garage.
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A big night for Mitt Romney indeed, as he wins in Arizona and Michigan. Tonight was the Republican nomination battle in a nutshell. Lots of excitement, and if you spin it the right way you can find lots of weaknesses for Mitt Romney…but at the end of the night, you remember that Romney basically has had the nomination nailed down for a while now.
He didn't need Michigan – he would have had a good night even if he lost by a few points there, since he would have gained in the delegate count – but it helps make it more clear than ever that he's going to be the nominee. The short-term question now is whether he can get a reasonable bounce out of it and into Super Tuesday next week, on March 6. As I've said after each round, that depends more on the spin war than on the actual election returns. What's working for Romney: He has an overwhelming lead among Republican opinion leaders, who may want to try to shut this thing down for good. What's working against him: Everyone who has an interest in keeping it going as long as possible, which certainly includes the press. Perhaps the deciding vote goes to those conservative opinion leaders, including quite a few elected senators and governors, who have sat on the sidelines so far. A sudden surge in support for Romney might well start a bit of a stampede to him that voters would jump on.
The truth is that it doesn't matter all that much at this point. Mostly, what's at stake is whether the general election campaign starts a few weeks earlier or later. Republicans are nominating someone who will function, basically, as a generic Republican; Romney's no master politician, but he doesn't have any of the significant weaknesses of a Rick Santorum, not to mention the massive weaknesses of Newt Gingrich. And yet they're going to nominate him only after pushing him on issue after issue to adopt a Tea Party platform. That's good for conservatives if he wins, but on balance it will tend to make a November victory a bit harder for him. At any rate, enjoy these last few weeks of primary elections while they last, because we're about to have a very, very long general election campaign.


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Graduate Students Hang Deng, Minghui Diao and Mary Kang Selected as Princeton Environment and Climate Scholars (PECS)
Graduate students Hang Deng, Minghui Diao and Mary Kang have been selected as Princeton Environment and Climate Scholars (PECS).
The department is please to announce that graduate students, Minghui Diao and Megan Konar, are two of six graduate students selected to join the Princeton Energy and Climate Scholars (PECS) this fall.


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Life has been hard, as of late. I'm not really sure why I feel this way, to be honest. I mean, yeah, we have a new GM that's kind of trying to fix everything at once, but that hasn't really affected me THAT MUCH. I'll have to do a little more IT work, because he let the company we were using go… but other than that… whatever.
I've just been depressed, recently. Can't seem to break it for more than a day, and of course being UP for a day means I crash the next day. I've been trying to diet and exercise… and I honestly think that's a contributing factor.
Now, let me clarify… It's not the diet that depressed me, but the fact that I kept to the diet and exercise for seven days, I gained 3 lbs instead of losing anything. Before anyone says it, I don't think it's me gaining muscle mass. I've been walking, not weight lifting. Trying to get as close to 10k steps as I can. Closer to 6-8k most days, but that's still way more than I ever used to move. You'd think I'd drop half a pound or something… not gain three motherfucking pounds. It's discouraging as fuck.
On top of that, I have a weirdness with exercise. People always say the same stupid shit about exercise to people that don't like to exercise.
If you keep at it, you'll learn to love it and you'll get addicted to it.
Bitch, no I will not. Stop telling me that. Do you know how quickly people get addicted to heroin? Almost immediately. Nicotine? Pretty quick. Gym? Fuck you. I've been trying to get addicted to exercising for 10+ years. Still hasn't taken. I sometimes manage to develop a habit for months to a year, but I've never been addicted to it. I never CRAVE to exercise. I have to negotiate with myself over it, or berate myself into submission to do it. I never feel GLAD I exercised. I never get done and think, "Yeah, I wish I could feel like this all the time." I always hate it. I always get done and just start debating taking up meth or cocaine, both of which are much more addictive and effective for weight loss.
Maybe it's just me.
I can't think of a single good association I've ever had with exercise since I was a kid, so maybe I have just been conditioned to hate it. #Pavlov
Maybe it's because I'm bipolar, so my brain doesn't release endorphins like it should.
All I know is that I'm really motherfucking tired of being told exercise is addictive and NEVER being able to get myself addicted to it.
No. No it motherfucking is not. If it is, then that shit isn't universal, so you should still stop saying it. You're just making me feel broken, and I have enough issues getting motivated.
The only way I'm any good at exercise is to be angry. Tell me I can't do something, I'll do it or literally die trying just to shut your stupid fucking face. I'm like She-Hulk or something. Thing is, though, I can't be that angry every single god damn day. It's a form of mania. After mania, I fucking crash. SO… yeah, I can go on that 7 mile hike with you and rage my way through it, but for the next week I will only have the energy to get up, go to work, come home, and cry till I fall asleep. That's my reality. I don't like it, but I can't change it.
The diet hasn't been bad. I'm kind of used to the eating habits, now. To the point that I had Chipotle yesterday, and it wasn't even very good. Like, I just wished I'd cooked instead of getting it. It wasn't bad by any means. I just would have prolly enjoyed my own cooking better, and it would have had less calories. Lesson learned.
Maybe I'll just stop eating lunch and live off caffeine. I have to lose weight, and I'm not interested in being healthy about it. I've never wanted to be healthy. I don't wanna be fit. I just wanna be rail thin. If I had a genie… my first wish would be, "I wanna be a size small with C-cup boobs forever." People don't get that concept. It's how you can tell they've never been fat. I don't wanna be able to run a 5k. I don't wanna eat healthy greens. I don't wanna eat heart healthy. I don't really care about living a long time. I just wanna be thin.
But I also want to eat food I like.
The two don't really go together.
My doctor once did a genetic test on me to see what foods my body would digest most effectively. It's supposed to be a scientific approach to weight loss, because you just change over to foods you're genetically pre-disposed to digest effectively, and you should lose some weight and feel better with only minimal efforts. My diet was a VERY low-carb Mediterranean diet, and it would have worked… because I'd rather NOT EAT than eat most of the things on my food list. Not terribly fond of mackerel and olives with bitter leafy greens you're not allowed to cook with brown sugar and pork fat. Just… gross.
I'm gonna try this shit for another week… if I don't lose some weight, I'm just going to stop eating lunch. That means, since I already don't eat breakfast, I will be eating just dinner. Cuts my cals to about 800 on a bad day… if I don't lose weight eating that little… I dunno. Maybe I'll just take a knife and cut all the fat off like that girl in the ABCs of Death and see if I bleed out. Least I'd die pretty.


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Archive for March 2011
Hitting Your Stride
World and personal events have been churning deeply for a couple of months. There is still lots of movement, but it is looking more deliberate now.
From Chaos to Deliberate Movement
It seems like a 'comma' in space; not quite a turning point, but with an expectation of continued flow. It feels like some sense of organization is coming out of the chaos that has been around recently.
When I have spoken with clients in the last two months, I related the larger influencing energies to churning earth. (This was prior to the earthquakes and resulting devastation).
While the energies are still moving *alot, they are taking on a unidirectional quality versus the 'anything can happen' signature of late. All in all, this means less chaos and more predictable flow. Generally speaking, most people feel more 'on purpose' when there is a distinct path to follow and so, because of this, life will probably seem easier than it has in a while.
What can you do right now?
- Determination is a wonderful quality to invoke.
- Renew and re-affirm your intent to follow through with the steps needed to achieve your goals.
- If your goal is longer term, use your determination to keep from meandering around too much which makes you feel busy, but ultimately is just distraction.
- Look with appreciative enquiry at your surroundings: What is working? Focus on that.
It is important to know that energy dynamics are as impersonal as the electricity running through your house and it is what you make of it that matters. I usually put positive 'spin' on it because we all have that choice and contributing to hope, optimism and empowerment sure beats dragging yourself and others down and making things worse than they have to be. The another factor is from what angle you are looking at the dynamic which is why the last post is about Your Higher Vision.


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With Wisconsin Women: Midwives in the Badger State
- About the Exhibition
- Introduction
- Mary Gerrard
- Regulations & Licensing
- Education
- Midwifery in 20th Century Wisconsin
- Professional Designations
- Instruments
- Resources
- About the Curator
About the Exhibition
From April 23 to July 31, 2007, "With Wisconsin Women: Midwives in the Badger State, Late 1800s to the Present" was on display in the Historical Reading Room of Ebling Library. A complement to the Smithsonian exhibit "Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from 'All My Babies,'" "With Wisconsin Women" highlighted significant events in local midwifery practice. The exhibit featured artifacts, photographs, and government documents generously loaned from the Wisconsin State Historical Society, Ebling Library, and from private collections.
This online exhibit is a small representation of the history, artifacts, and lives of Wisconsin midwives during the past one hundred years.
Exhibition developed and arranged by guest curator, Kala R. Kluender.
The word "midwife," in Old English, means "with woman." Traditionally, the label is applied to those who assist women during childbirth. A more contemporary use of the term describes midwives as healthcare providers who focus on women's health before, during and after healthy pregnancies.
The 1909 Midwife Practice Act was the first legislation to officially regulate midwives statewide. It required all midwives to apply and test for professional licensure from the Wisconsin Board of Medical Examiners. Subsequent years saw a rise in the social authority and professional status of medical practitioners, and physicians began to replace midwives as childbirth attendants. The prevalence of midwifery practice continued to decline throughout the early twentieth century, and in 1953, the law that allowed for new midwife license acquisition was repealed.
Recent renewal of interest in midwifery has been attributed to a combination of social and political movements in the late 1950s and 1960s, along with heightened awareness of increasing healthcare costs. Wisconsin legislature enacted a law in 1979 that again permitted the certification of nurse-midwives. On April 10, 2006, Governor Jim Doyle signed the Midwife Licensing Act 292, establishing a second means to midwifery licensure in Wisconsin that does not require training as a nurse.
Mary Gerrard
In the late 1800s, Wisconsin midwives attended births much as they had throughout history. Valuable knowledge of the birthing process was gained largely from experience due to remote or isolated settlements. The birth log of one particular midwife, however exceptional her practice, provides a glimpse of midwifery at the time.
Mary Gerrard was born in Luxembourg, Germany and emigrated to the U.S. in 1872. She attended a three-month training course at the Northwestern Academy of Midwifery in Chicago and practiced midwifery in the St. Joseph's Ridge, WI area before moving to La Crosse with her husband and five children in 1884.
Courtesy of UW - La Crosse, Murphy Library
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Gerrard's Birth Log
In her birth log - a rare surviving record in the field - Gerrard noted the name of the baby's father, the date, and the amount she was paid by the family from 1878 to 1912.
Her very active, full-time practice was unusual at that time as midwifery was not typically the primary source of income for most families. An analysis of the birth log reveals between 1878 and 1883, she attended an average of 28 births per year. In 1894, however, she achieved a career high of 202 births in the La Crosse area. She received about $3 per birth, although the amount fluctuated considerably throughout her career.
Gerrard's Birth Log.
Courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society, La Crosse, SC 28: WHi-48154
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Regulations & Licensing
The 1909 Midwife Practice Act required midwives in Wisconsin to obtain professional licensure from the Medical Board of Examiners. The applications illustrate the various educational and ethnic backgrounds as well as geographic locations of midwives in Wisconsin.
Dora Larson's application for licensure
Midwives seeking certification after 1909 needed to graduate from a formal school of midwifery and had to pass an exam administered by the Medical Board of Examiners.
The examination presented problems for prospective, non-English speaking immigrant midwives. Several applicants provided documentation of midwife certification from their country of origin. An important exception to the Act allowed midwives already in practice to be exempt from the educational requirements and exam - they received their licenses for a $5 fee if their application was approved.
In 1923, new Wisconsin midwifery laws prohibited practice without registration. Applicants for licensure had to fulfill the same requirements as outlined in the 1909 Act, receive approval from six members of the State Board of Medical Examiners, and register in their respective county of practice. Certification as a midwife under this law disallowed the use of any instruments and also did not permit midwives to grant medical or death certificates.
The Milwaukee School of Midwifery was founded in 1879 by Wilhelmine Stein, a German immigrant who trained at the Midwifery School at Anstedt, as well as doctors Alphonse F. Kalckhoff and Charles Betzell. The school appealed to the substantial German-speaking community in Milwaukee and appeared to emphasize experiential learning.
Early applications for registration with the State listed attendance at this school for four to six months, though within a few years nine month program durations were more common.
The Wisconsin College of Midwifery opened in 1885 under the direction of three physicians. It also offered classes in both German and English languages, and was later under the administrative direction of midwife Mary Klaes. The school was re-named in 1889 as the "Wisconsin College of Midwifery and Lying-In Hospital," and in 1901 began to be referred to as "St. Mary's Private Sanitarium."
Both the Milwaukee School of Midwifery and the Wisconsin College of Midwifery were in operation for about 20 years, and together were responsible for the majority of the training cited by midwives during their registration in the late nineteenth century.
Midwifery in 20th Century Wisconsin
Midwives continued to be licensed in Wisconsin until 1953, when certification of new midwives was discontinued. A new law in 1979 stated that certification as a midwife required training as a nurse, fee payment, and practice in a healthcare facility or under a formal written agreement with a physician supervisor. Non-nurse midwives unsuccessfully attempted to establish self-accreditation in the 1980s by writing a "Program for Certification" and granting certificates of Lay Midwifery.
In 1983, the first Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) conference was held in Milwaukee, WI.
In 2002, Wisconsin Assembly Bill 725 changed the definition and standards of practice of a "nurse-midwife" to those used by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM). Under this bill, certified nurse-midwives were granted prescriptive privileges, given insurance requirements, and defined to work in collaboration with - versus under the supervision of - physicians.
Most recently, on April 10, 2006, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed the Midwife Licensing Act 292 into law. In addition to Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) and effective May 1, 2007, this law established a second means of obtaining midwifery licensure in Wisconsin: as a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM).
Professional Designations
Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM): requires a nursing degree, additional training in midwifery, and passing a national certification exam. Certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board, CNM's are currently licensed in all fifty states.
Certified Professional Midwife (CPM): requires that candidates meet the standards of knowledge and skill established by the North American Registry of Midwives. CPMs must also pass a national certification exam. A CPM is the only credential recognized internationally that requires experience in out-of-hospital settings. CPMs generally do not have backgrounds in nursing.
Direct-Entry Midwife (DEM): requires midwifery experience via self-study, apprenticeship, a midwifery school or a college/university-based program separate from that of nursing. DEMs are independent practitioners who usually provide care to healthy women and infants outside of hospital locations. They are also referred to as Lay Midwives, Traditional Midwives/Birth Attendants, Granny Midwives, and Independent Midwives.
Licensed Midwife (LM): can include any of the classifications listed above as licensed in a given state. In Wisconsin, this term describes CNMs and CPMs that are licensed under Act 292.
Doula: trained and experienced in childbirth, doulas provide continuous emotional and physical support to a laboring woman before, during and just after childbirth. The word "doula" comes from ancient Greek, meaning "woman's servant."
Midwives may use a number of different tools to monitor the fetal heartbeat and development. In the first half of pregnancy, modern midwives often use Doppler ultrasound. After 18-20 weeks gestation, a pinard horn may be reliably employed to assess the heartbeat and position of the fetus. The pinard horn has been used by midwives for centuries.
Made of wood, plastic, or aluminum, a pinard horn has a hollow core about the diameter of a pencil. It is through this opening that the sound of the fetal heartbeat travels from pregnant abdomen to naked ear. The flat end with a smaller opening is applied to the ear, while the wider, open end is placed on the abdomen. As the heartbeat sounds travel up through the cone, the flat opening at the top amplifies them. The sound of a fetal heartbeat through this instrument has been described as subtle, like a vibration felt with the ear.
(Artifact courtesy of Jane Crawford Peterson)
Today, many midwives continue to use the pinard horn in the second half of pregnancy in addition to the fetoscope. Similar to a stethoscope, the bell of a fetoscope is pressed firmly onto the pregnant abdomen, and the flat bar is held against the forehead of the person listening. The heartbeat is heard most clearly over the fetus' back. For this reason, the pinard horn and fetoscope, unlike Doppler ultrasound, can assist the midwife in determining the fetal lie and position. While the Doppler probe can trace a fetal heart echo from most positions on the abdomen, the pinard horn and fetoscope directly transmit the heartbeat. The sound quality and position of these tools indicate the direction the fetus is facing and whether it is vertex (head down) or breech (head up).
(Artifact courtesy of Ingrid Anderson)
Applications and Photographs
Applications and photographs of licensed Wisconsin Midwives can be found at the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives. The collection title is "Applications for midwifery licenses, 1909-1934," Series 1611.
For additional information, please contact the Archives Reference and Information Services.
While we cannot endorse any program or organization, additional information regarding midwifery training and organizations may be found on the following websites:
- American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
- Citizens for Midwifery (CfM)
- Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
- North American Registry of Midwifes (NARM)
- Wisconsin Guild of Midwives (WGOM)
- Borst, Charlotte G. "Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920." Harvard University Press, 1995. MadCat
- Fiorenza, Mary. "Midwifery and the Law in Illinois and Wisconsin." Unpublished Univeristy of Wisconsin M.A. Thesis, 1985. MadCat
- Leavitt, Judith Walzer. "Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750 - 1950." Oxford University Press, 1986. eBook
"With Wisconsin Women" in the News:
- "State's Midwives Finally Get Their Day." Susan Lampert Smith. Wisconsin State Journal: A1. May 1, 2007.
- "Writer's Choice: Students use art, history to sharpen practical skills." Barbara Wolf. Wisconsin Week, May 9, 2007 (see p.13).
- Midwife Licensing Act 292
- "With Wisconsin Women" brochure
About the Curator - Kala R. Kluender
I approached Judith Walzer Leavitt (to whom I am deeply indebted for her continuous patience, advice, and mentorship) with a heightened interest in women's health history while enrolled in her course, "Childbirth in the United States," in the Spring of 2006. Ebling Library had just secured the Smithsonian traveling exhibit "Reclaiming Midwives" by Linda Janet Holmes for installation in April 2007. Professor Leavitt and I decided to create a complementary display of the history of midwifery in Wisconsin. Under the guidance and leadership of Micaela Sullivan-Fowler and Mary Hitchcock, Curator of the Historical Services Unit and Historical Services Librarian, respectively, the project evolved into an incredible interdisciplinary learning experience.
My research began and followed the work of Charlotte G. Borst. Her book, "Catching Babies," led me to the Wisconsin State Historical Society, where I gained access to century-old applications for licensure, Mary Gerrard's birth log, and other items I had not known existed on this subject. Selection of materials and the "science" of museum exhibit installation were also new to me, and I was grateful for the guidance of Sullivan-Fowler and Hitchcock. Their insight to human traffic flow, lighting, and aesthetic appeal of the space we worked with was integral. Given the subject matter and recent legislative decisions, we sought a balance between the presentation of accurate information and political neutrality. I was constantly aware of the significance of the exhibit's display within a building almost entirely devoted to the field of medicine. I felt the heavy responsibility of presentation to the public; historical and explanatory text, artifact descriptions, and background information had the potential to give first and lasting impressions to those who haven't had the opportunity to study the subject extensively, as well as receive criticism from others who have.
I am deeply thankful to Ingrid Andersson (CNM, MS), for her input, advice, as well as assistance in promotional efforts. Further thanks are extended to: Jane Crawford Peterson (CPM, LM), Ginnie Priest (CPM, LM), Gretchen Spicer (CPM, LM), Aszani Kunkler (CNM, MS), and Julie Olson Simani (MS, RN, CBE) for the items and information they provided.
I will graduate from the University of Wisconsin Madison in May, 2008 with a B.S. in Kinesiology, a second major in the History of Science, and a Certificate in Women's Studies. Largely due to my work with this exhibition, I have decided to pursue a career as a midwife and would ultimately like to practice, teach, and research within an academic setting.


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Eiders have been a recurring topic of Birding Frontiers, and Martin really pushed the boundaries of Eider subspecies identification. However, most of the effort so far has focused on males, and females have gone largely forgotten. It's time to change that! Along the East Coast of North America, where at least 2 subspecies regularly occur (the local breeder Dresser's Eider S. m. dresseri and the arctic Northern Eider S. m. borealis), identification of females is relatively easy, and studying them here is useful for understanding the phenotypic variation. Massachusetts hosts tens of thousands of wintering Dresser's, and in a few spots they are very close to shore, allowing great opportunities for study.
Given that both subspecies have been recorded in Europe, but only/mainly in adult male plumage, it's interesting to take a look at some females to raise awareness about how distinctive these birds are. As far as I know, the plumage variation of borealis is poorly known due to lack of information from the breeding grounds, so this post contains a lot of speculation!
Dresser's Eider dresseri
dresseri is the default subspecies in the US and southern Canada, with an extensive intergradation zone with borealis along the Labrador Peninsula. There are several features that differ from both borealis and mollisima, and identification might be possible in most individuals.
Bill lobe: reminiscent of the massive bill of males, female dresseri show very long lobes, almost reaching the eye, which often look thick and always present a blunt and rounded tip. If seen close enough, the pattern of the tip is absolutely diagnostic in almost all birds, and even at long distances they give a characteristic look. There is a huge variability in lobe length and thickness, apparently without correlation to age or geography.
Nostril position: as in mollisima, nearly all individuals show overlap of the nostril with the feathering at the bill base.
Bill color: dark blue, with a reduced and contrasting greenish tip, duller in first-winter birds. On average they have a small nail.
Head shape: typically flat-topped, with the forehead relatively short leading to a profile that is dominated by the straight contour of the large bill. My impression is that the crown is longer and the bill is shorter than in mollisima, leading to a more square-looking head, as opposed to the elongated bill (and consequently profile) typical of mollisima.
Plumage coloration: adult females are typically rusty or orange-tinged, with most first-winter females being browner and darker. Nevertheless, variation is extensive and adults vary from dark brown to creamy pale, whereas first-winter birds sometimes look very reddish and adult-like even in the first prebasic plumage. The cheek is often neat, lacking any dark streaking.
Tertials: richly colored in adults, typically with a rufous fringe and darker feather center, but the pattern is quite variable and sometimes they show vermiculated or almost entirely rufous tertials. Plain brown in juvenile and second-winter plumages.
Sails: some adult females show small black scapular sails, not as large as in adult males but definitely distinctive if present, compared to mollisima.
Northern Eider borealis
Nearctic borealis overwinters around Greenland, reaching Newfoundland but quite rare further south (see below). I have experience only with vagrants in Massachusetts, but Bruce Mactavish kindly allowed me to study and show here some of his pictures from Newfoundland. Males from Newfoundland show orange bill but rounded lobe tips, likely suggesting these birds are relatively southern breeders in Greenland, as the high Arctic breeders are expected to show more pointed lobes.
Bill lobe: short and sharply pointed, and thus very different from dresseri, but probably not very distinctive if compared to mollisima.
Bill color: extensive pale greenish tip, sometimes with a more gradual transition towards the dark blue of the lobe. They often present a marked and pointed nail.
Nostril position: often no overlap of the nostril with the bill feathering, but there is definitely some variation and birds showing overlap aren't rare.
Head shape: the bill height is very short in borealis, sometimes strikingly so, giving rise to a peculiar head shape. The triangular bill meets the rounded head forming a marked angle and leading to a usually concave head profile. In addition, the bill is remarkably short, especially the distance from the bill feathering to the bill tip – this feature is sometimes quite eye-catching.
Plumage coloration: it seems that birds overwintering in Newfoundland present two main "morphs" – rufous and pale grey – with all sort of intermediates. Whether this difference in plumage coloration is due to some geographical variation or just represents the plumage variation within a single population is yet unresolved. The fact that the few available pictures from N Greenland show completely grey females – whereas dresseri is usually reddish – suggests to me a clinal variation, but with the current evidence it's difficult to say.
Wing bars: as in all other Common Eider subspecies, adult females present white tips on greater coverts and secondaries, forming two parallel white bards in the wing. This feature is in general quite variable, but in borealis the bars seem to be on average thicker and more obvious than in dresseri and mollisima.
Tertials: usually dull brown, or with at most rufous on the fringes.
Sails: pictures from Newfoundland don't show obvious sails in females, but see below.
Note that most/all individuals shown here are adults: juvenile borealis seem to be quite rare, or at least in much lower proportion in the population than in dresseri, perhaps as a consequence of strong hunting pressure in Greenland & Canada?
Out of range borealis – some examples from Massachusetts
Borealis is scarce or rare on the East Coast of the US, with most accepted records involving adult males. However, females seem to be more regular, and given the striking differences in lobe pattern and overall coloration, they are much easier to separate from the local form than in Europe, where the similarity with mollisima hinders finding vagrant borealis. But certainly they are out there; several females have been claimed alongside confirmed males in the UK.
Among flocks of dresseri, female borealis look slightly smaller and less bulky. The measurements given in the Reever guide also suggest a smaller size compared to mollisima (but may depend on the population). Most of the females seen in Massachusetts are of the striking pale grey morph, but it's likely the proportion is also biased because they are the easiest to pick out from a distance. All five of the birds I've seen had neat pale cheeks and a distinctive pale eyebrow.
The bird below is a rufous adult female, quite similar to many of the birds from Newfoundland. Both the lobe length and the bill are fairly short, giving her a distinctive appearance.
This second bird is a more typical pale grey/creamy adult female. Note all the key characters – pointed lobe, extensive pale bill tip, clean cheek, pale eyebrow, dull tertials, and hint of sails.
Some of the females seen in Massachusetts and neighbouring states are very striking. Too striking, perhaps. For instance, take a look at this amazing bird found by Marshall Illiff and Ryan Schain off Cape Cod, MA, on December 2011. This adult female differs from the typical borealis from Newfoundland and other vagrants seen in Massachusetts – note the heavy head, flat crown, large size, and even the shape and length of the lobe. Is it possible that this bird shows some influence from sedentaria, the subspecies that breeds in the Hudson Bay and spends the winter in polynyas in the frozen sea? Very little is known about this subspecies, not to mention the potential intergradation with borealis at Baffin Island and its surroundings. Do some birds from this region actually take the eastern route and spread out into the western Atlantic? Hopefully we will discover more about this fascinating topic in the future!
I would like to thank Bruce Mactavish and Marshall Illiff for insightful discussion about nearctic eiders.


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See my comments on colorism and New Orleans history below. I was responding to someone who said black people are so desperate for blue eyes that they are making bogus claims that blue eyes are common among black people. I never said that because I paid attention to genetics in biology, but someone else may have. As for my commentary below, I've said something similar somewhere else before but sometimes thoughts on a topic bear repeating. There are books written on this topic of skin color and colorism. What I say here is only a splinter of thought.
However, I did object to misinformation that blue eyes are only possible in black people, meaning those identified as of African descent, as the result of disease. In addition, I made sure to identify the people of color of whom I spoke as those having white blood. It is the projection of a reader to assume that any writer is either proud of white blood or ashamed of it unless the writer says so. Many people are simply indifferent, feeling a focus on bloodline other than for purposes of understanding one's personal heritage, is unproductive, and a global focus on bloodline is frequently destructive, which was Hitler's hangup. Nevertheless, such discussions of ethnicity are necessary sometimes to put racism in perspective.
In my father's family, no one gets happy over light skin or light eyes or that his mother or some uncle could pass for white. They take pride that they chose not to pass. In Louisiana, a state that once enforced the one-drop law and had black codes forbidding women of color from wearing "finery and plumes" on the streets because it was believed such extravagance was the sure sign of a white male lover, (a state that) enforced laws such as no marriage between blacks and whites, not every black family is enamored of light skin and blue or green eyes popping up among its members. Some see it as nothing more than a reminder of a rape or somebody's mother being a paid mistress. Depending on lineage, light skin and light eyes may even be evidence of the traitorous deeds of a free person of color in New Orleans, some of whom owned slaves themselves.
On the other hand there were families so desperate to be light and stay light in order to retain social status in the Creole social clubs that they resorted to inner marrying. Take that however you like, but history's history. It's a complex and frequently painful subject.
Some of that history was discussed in comments on a post about Barack Obama and Michelle Obama at this link. One sister who identifies herself as light-skinned from a family that runs the gamut in color was offended at how dark-skinned blacks look down their noses at light-skinned blacks, in particular the phrase "light, bright, and damned-near white." True, it happens sometimes that some black people go out of their way to make a person of mixed race feel unwelcomed, but that reaction is almost as much an anomaly as black people having blue eyes. Frequently, we as a people are so afflicted in our self-hate that members of the race are more often not looking down the nose at lighter skin and blue eyes as much as they are looking on in lust. I am saddened that 40 years after "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud," we remain as dysfunctional as ever on this subject. --Nordette Adams
Now, how about a little science to go with all this insanity? One person was smart enough to leave a link to what a geneticist has to say on the subject of black people and blue eyes at Stanford University, who says, "Yes." While it's uncommon, people of African descent, black people, can have children with blue eyes via recessive genes in their gene pool. All it takes is for both black parents to have had white people somewhere in their family tree, even somewhere way back in history.
This may also be a good time to invoke the name of Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize winning African-American author whose novel The Bluest Eye tackled the longing of a little black girl to have blue eyes, a desire foreign to Morrison herself and to me as well.
New Post added July 9: "Complaints about Black Self-Hate, Complaints about CNN's Adoption Story from Black in America."


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Tom has been President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the McNally Group since 2003. Working closely with the general managers of each of the independent operating companies and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Tom takes a hands-on role in all major elements critical to the McNally Group's performance, from communication with hourly employees to strategic direction. He has extensive experience managing in a dynamic aerospace and defense manufacturing environment; developing internal growth initiatives; attracting, motivating and retaining talented personnel; sourcing and completing acquisitions; and raising capital.
Prior to founding the McNally Group, Tom served as CFO for Western Sky industries, Inc., a privately held manufacturer of highly engineered proprietary component parts used in aerospace applications. He was instrumental in developing and implementing aggressive internal growth and acquisition programs, which resulted in an increase in EBITDA from $1 million to $37 million in six years and the eventual sale of the company to a strategic buyer. Prior to Western Sky, Tom worked for nine years in the Accounting and Auditing Services Group at Price Waterhouse, focusing largely on middle market clients. He has extensive experience in corporate development, financing and the wide range of organization management issues associated with a high-growth manufacturing environment.
Tom has an undergraduate degree in Accounting and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Senior Vice President of Business Development
Todd first joined the McNally Group in 2004 serving as business development for McNally Industries LLC. As the company acquired Sun Country Industries and Pacific Aero Tech his role increased to supporting the full group. With a strong background in Aerospace and prior MRO leadership positions, he later took on the role as the General Manager of Pacific Aero Tech, LLC from 2010 to 2014. Today Todd leads the Business Development efforts for the McNally Group. His exposure to each of the business and sound understanding of the industry climate allows him to play a key role in the overall growth and strategy of the group.
Prior to McNally, Todd held leadership roles with both Defense and Commercial MROs located in the Dallas-Ft Worth Metroplex. Todd holds a BA from Texas State University.
Chief Financial Officer
Leslie has been with the McNally Group since 2014 in the role of Chief Financial Officer. She manages the daily financial activities including treasury, financial reporting, audits, employee benefits and risk management. She interfaces regularly with the accounting teams at each operating company to coordinate various finance and accounting activities. Leslie has an extensive manufacturing background including over twenty years in the medical device industry. She spent the four years prior to joining McNally as the Chief Financial Officer of a consulting company that specialized in achieving operational excellence through Lean Six Sigma. Leslie has a BSBA in Finance from the University of Minnesota and an MBA in Accounting from the University of Colorado – Denver.


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Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter VII
Chapter VII.—What is Impiety?
"But impiety against Him is, in the matter of religion, to die saying there is another God, whether superior or inferior, or in any way saying that there is one besides Him who really is. For He who truly is, is He whose form the body of man bears; for whose sake the heaven and all the stars, though in their essence superior, submit to serve him who is in essence inferior, on account of the form of the Ruler. So much has God blessed man above all, in order that, loving the Benefactor in proportion to the multitude of His benefits, by means of this love he may be saved for the world to come.
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1992 Summer Games: Previous Summer Games ▪ Next Summer Games
Host City: Barcelona, Spain
Date Started: July 26, 1992
Date Finished: July 26, 1992
Events: 10
Participants: 244 (244 men and 0 women) from 69 countries
Youngest Participant: Sevdalin Minchev (18 years, 2 days)
Oldest Participant: Leonid Taranenko (36 years, 53 days)
Most Medals (Athlete): 29 athletes with 1 medal
Most Medals (Country): Unified Team (9 medals)
The 1992 Olympic weightlifting program was the same as it had been since 1980, with 10 classes for men only, and no change in the weight divisions. However, at Atlanta in 1996 the weight classes would change as the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) tried to âcleanseâ the world record lists by creating new weight categories with new records, in an attempt to eliminate doping related marks. This failed miserably as doping continued to occur and the IWF would actually make two further attempts at âcleansingâ the record lists in the coming years.
The 1992 weightlifting events were held at the [Pabellón de la España Industrial], a building constructed specifically for the Barcelona Olympics, and completed in 1991. Eleven nations won medals in Barcelona, but the former Soviet Union, now competing as the Unified Team, led the lists with nine medals and five golds. Bulgaria and China won four medals each, while Germany and Poland each won three medals. No nation other than the Unified Team won more than one event.
|Men's Flyweight
|Ivan Ivanov
|Lin Qisheng
|Traian CihÄrean
|Men's Bantamweight
|Jeon Byeong-Gwan
|Liu Shoubin
|Luo Jianming
|Men's Featherweight
|Naim SüleymanoÄlu
|Nikolaj Pešalov
|He Yingqiang
|Men's Lightweight
|Israel Militosyan
|Yoto Yotov
|Andreas Behm
|Men's Middleweight
|Tudor Casapu
|Pablo Lara
|Kim Myong-Nam
|Men's Light-Heavyweight
|Pyrros Dimas
|Krzysztof Siemion
|Men's Middle-Heavyweight
|Akakios Kakiasvili
|Sergey Syrtsov
|Sergiusz WoÅczaniecki
|Men's Heavyweight I
|Viktor Tregubov
|Tymur Taimazov
|Waldemar Malak
|Men's Heavyweight II
|Ronny Weller
|Artur Akoyev
|Stefan Botev Khristov
|Men's Super-Heavyweight
|Aleksandr Kurlovich
|Leonid Taranenko
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Pass It On: Beyond Blue's Powerful New Campaign About Casual Racism
It's called 'The Invisible Discriminator'. It's fairly confronting.
'Stop. Think. Respect' is an ongoing beyondblue campaign which highlights how discrimination can impact mental health. Where the first iteration in 2012 focused on discrimination of GLBTI people with a powerful video that drew parallels between being bullied for being gay and being bullied for being left-handed, the campaign's second phase — launched with a video this morning — highlights the compounding effect that casual racism has on the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. And it's quickly picking up speed on Facebook.
A 2013 study by the Lowitja Institute in Victoria found that 97% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had experienced racism multiple times; it also showed that subtle forms of discrimination, like being left out, avoided or stared at, were just as harmful to mental health as overt racism.
The video was accompanied by behind-the-scenes interviews with the indigenous actors featured in the ad, who talk of their own experiences. And this one's even more confronting.
beyondblue is a national initiative to raise awareness and understanding of anxiety and depression, and help those who suffer from it. To read more about their current campaign, head here; for advice and support for anxiety and depression, head to their website or call 1300 224 636.


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"This is going to be interesting," said a media buyer who asked not to be named. "We've bought a lot of time, and now you start the nail-biting."
Potential for a hard sell
If ratings falter despite the immense amount of live coverage-over 50% of prime-time events will be live for 10 nights except on the West Coast-and the surge of patriotism after Sept. 11, advertisers may begin to question the value of buying time on the Olympics. That would leave NBC with a hard sell for the 2004 Athens, 2006 Turin, Italy, and 2008 Beijing games.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. took a pass on buying Olympics broadcast time this year, despite being an OPUS (Olympic Properties of the U.S.) supplier for up to $20 million. "We just don't buy a lot of media time in February and to do that at a premium seemed off strategy," said John Lebbad, director event marketing and sales promotion at Sears.
Others, such as Visa and McDonald's, bought Olympic rights and are buying significant time on NBC, which with new campaigns can easily double what they pay the Olympics for marketing rights. "It becomes basically bigger than the Super Bowl," said Tom McGovern, director of sports marketing at Omnicom Group's OMD USA, which buys time for Visa. "It becomes a month-long marketing calendar."
For Salt Lake, it appears NBC took a conservative estimate in prime-time household ratings guaranteed to advertisers. Media executives said NBC projects a 17.8 household rating but guarantees a 16.9, which would translate into 17.9 million households. That would be slightly higher than the `98 Winter Games on CBS from Nagano, Japan, which posted a 16.3. An NBC spokesman declined to comment.
Sydney's average rating of 13.8 was a major blow to NBC. The last Olympics with significant live coverage-the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta-brought a 21.6.
"We've revised our ratings predictions," said OMD's Mr. McGovern. "We think [NBC] will overdeliver" on the projected guarantee of 16.9. But an executive at another media agency that bought time expects ratings to fall below NBC's guarantees, forecasting a 16 rating for opening ceremonies and a 15 for the remainder of prime-time coverage.
Considering the Salt Lake Games take place in the midst of a sputtering economy and are only three years removed from a major bribery scandal that threatened to turn off advertisers, NBC has done an impressive sales job. The network last week said it has reached 97% of its $720 million sales goal.
range of advertisers
Olympic advertisers come from a range of categories, from struggling Delta Air Lines to TMP Worldwide's Monster.com. Also present will be several drug companies with direct-to-consumer ads for Rx drugs. Pfizer will promote cholesterol-lowering Lipitor, possibly in spots using ex-skating champ Peggy Fleming, although it may opt to run an existing campaign, according to people familiar with the situation.
Perennial Olympic sponsors General Motors Corp. and Coca-Cola Co. will run special promotions each evening. GM will sponsor features called the "Chevrolet Olympic Moments." Coca-Cola will run a nightly music video to the pop group American Hi-Fi's "Another Perfect Day," with an international feel of memorable images from the competition and flags from a variety of countries, according to people close to the matter. It may also have another nightly feature with an Olympic theme.
With the Winter Games, NBC has the huge advantage of offering the popular figure-skating competition live in prime time; that's a good way to reach women, who make many household buying decisions. "Figure skating is the crown jewel of any Winter Olympics," said David Neal, exec VP, NBC Olympics. "It certainly has an appeal to all demographics, but particularly women."
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Fast Facts
Event: 2002 Winter Olympics
Venue: Salt Lake City
Dates: Feb. 8-24
Networks: NBC, CNBC, MSNBC
NBC sales goal: $720 million
Pct. of time sold: 97%
NBC ratings guarantee: 16.9


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As of 2015, Growing-Self-Esteem.com and Self-Esteem-Experts.com offer printable self esteem worksheets. These resources are available at no charge, and you do not have to create an account or provide any personal information to access them.
Some of the free self esteem worksheets offered by Growing-Self-Esteem.com include "Goal Setting," "Strengths" and "Who Am I?" Worksheets offered by Self-Esteem-Experts.com include "Gratitude List," "Love & Admire Me," "Toot Your Horn" and "Self Confidence."
Use these resources yourself at home or while working with a professional therapist. The worksheets help improve self esteem by helping you change the way that you think about yourself.


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Jose Mourinho has revealed Pedro has settled into life at Stamford Bridge well, and has backed him to score plenty of goals. The former Barcelona man found the back of the net on his debut against West Brom and Mourinho adds that the Spaniard has already helped to improve his team. Zlatan Ibrahimovic might play in the Premier League in the future, but would only consider Chelsea, according to ex-Arsenal star Martin Keown. Known believes the move could only happen however if Diego Costa breaks down with an injury. And finally Chelsea are set to end their interest in John Stones after having a £37 million offer rejected by Everton according to reports.
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Our phones these days come packed with a ton of Sensors, more so than the feature phones from back in the day. These days our phones can track all kinds of information which can lead to the creation of some pretty amazing and useful apps, as well as all kinds of fun games and whatnot.
Unfortunately it seems that there are two sides to every coin and according to Researchers at the University of Michigan, they have discovered that sound waves could actually be used to trick and hijack the sensors in our phones. Basically what they have done is that when sound is played at a specific frequency, it will affect the spring structures into motions sensors such as the accelerometer, which in turn tricks it into thinking that the phone is moving.
So far what the researchers have managed to do with this "hack" is steer an app-controlled car, get a phone to spell out the word "Walnut" on a graph, and trick a Fitbit tracker to record steps that were never taken. Admittedly none of these "hacks" sound particularly scary, but the researchers have theorized that it could potentially be used to hijack drones or vehicles that might rely on such sensors for navigation.
Thankfully the fix is said to be relatively low-cost and the researchers have since reached out to manufacturers, such as Fitbit and Samsung, to inform them to the issue. Whether or not these companies take any action remains to be seen.Researchers Use Sound Waves To Trick Your Phone's Motion Sensors , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.


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Dr. Randy Evans Award for Clinical Service
The North American Brain Injury Society is pleased to announce the creation of the Dr. Randy Evans NABIS Award for Clinical Service. This award, which will be given annually at the NABIS Conference, will recognize professionals who "follow in Randy's footsteps" in developing needed and innovative services for individuals with brain injuries. Brain injury professionals are asked to kindly make a generous pledge of support to help fund this award. Pledges may be extended over several years and will be acknowledged on the NABIS website, printed materials and at the annual conference.


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Few occasions will highlight Southampton 's rapid progress in recent years than their glamour trip to Inter Milan.
Six years ago, Jose Mourinho led Inter to Champions League final glory as part of a Treble – also featuring their fourth successive Serie A title – in their greatest season.
That same 2009-10 campaign, Saints won the Johnstone's Paint Trophy and finished seventh in League One, hampered by a 10-point deduction, under Alan Pardew.
Yet on Thursday evening, the two sides meet as equals in a Europa League group match in the iconic San Siro.
Kelvin Davis, Saints' goalkeeper during their rise to the Premier League and now their football development executive, said: "Did I realise back then that, within that timescale, we would be playing Inter Milan at the San Siro? No.
"But did I believe the club was heading in the right direction? 100 per cent yes.
"Playing Inter is a fantastic marker. They are a massive name in world football, so to be on a level playing field with them shows what the club has achieved."
Back-to-back promotions in 2011 and 2012 took Southampton from League One to the Premier League. And they have improved year-on-year in the top flight, finishing 14th, eighth, seventh and sixth, despite major turnover in playing staff and the departure of two managers.
The huge belief and finances injected into the club – following the late Markus Liebherr's 2009 takeover – have been key to their growth, says Davis.
So, too, has building strong and united dressing rooms, plus having a good link between the management level of the club and players.
Listening to Davis, it is clear that everyone at Southampton is in accord.
It is also impossible to ignore how impressively they have coped with the loss of players and managers and repeatedly found equally, if not more, effective replacements.
"That has certainly been a key factor in continuing our success," Davis said."Whenever anybody comes to this club, they are put through a rigorous selection process to ensure they are the right type of person because it is about having the right people before having the ability."
One of the next targets for Southampton is to be Champions League-ready within five years.
Contrasting with Saints' success, bad decisions on and off the pitch have contributed to Inter's decline.
This season, having sacked coach Roberto Mancini less than a fortnight before the first game and with replacement Frank de Boer already under pressure, they are 11th in Serie A.
Their Europa League squad has had to be weakened because ofFFP rules, and captain Mauro Icardi is at war with the club's Ultras.
Southampton arrive in Italy primed to inflict more misery — Saints are on a seven-game unbeaten run and eyeing a result that would be another high point in their remarkable rise.
"We are excited about the game," Davis said. "I can assure you, we don't go to any club these days expecting to lose."