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Fancy Cantonese is fabulous for special occasions, but most of us get our Chinese food fix from a takeout box in front of the TV.
For those mu shu nights and broccoli beef weekends, we've compiled a list of affordable wines that pair beautifully with the broad range of sweet, savory and spicy flavors in Chinese food. In general, stick to fruity wines that have soft tannins and mild to moderate body. Think pinot noir and barbera for reds, and white wines with just a touch of sweetness, such as riesling and Gewürztraminer.


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And so this is Christmas and you haven't laughed yet? Well, we can't let that happen. And it just so happens we've got the perfect antidote to the laughless holiday. A CAT! Of courrrrrrse. For if this cat video doesn't make you laugh, then I'll be the one to tell you that you're laugh meter is broken and you better get to the doctor aysap! There's a nice bonus here too: You get to see what a super old Super Mario video game looks like. Combine Mario Bros. and a golden kitty cat with a fear of bouncing noises and you've got a winner.
My friend sent me this video (yes, I'm that sad soul whose friends forward her cat videos) with the line, "No cats were harmed in the making of this video.") And I'll be honest, as I watched it, I kept thinking, This poor kitty! Whhhhyyyy are they torturing it with that bouncing sound? (Yeah, I'm a little overly sensitive.) However, I was laughing too hard to care much.
PLUS it looks like the cat is sort of enjoying itself. After all, he doesn't leave the room or run away. He just keeps trying to figure out what that noise is. And when the bouncing sound comes in, look out.
The funniest part is the end, when the cat thinks the torturous sounds are all over and goes back to grooming himself. And then! Doh!!!!
Take a look. And if you've got family over and no one has giggled yet today, bring them over for a look too. I DARE you to get through it without cracking a smile. And, oh yeah, you won't get that Super Mario video game sound out of your head for at least a week.
Happy holidays, everyone!!
Did this make you laugh?
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California Department of Transportation
Date: September 1, 2011
District: Headquarters - Sacramento
Contact: Matt Rocco
Phone: (916) 654-5467
$23 Billion in California Transportation Projects Could
'Grind to a Halt'
Without New Federal Transportation Bill
SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) today announced that Malcolm Dougherty, Acting Caltrans Director, has sent a letter urging Congress to swiftly pass legislation that will reauthorize transportation funding and protect $23 billion in active state and local transportation projects.
Without an extension or reauthorization, the department will be unable to continue existing transportation projects across the state. In the attached letter to the California congressional delegation, Acting Director Dougherty states that without continued federal funding, thousands of active state and local transportation projects valued at
$23 billion would grind to a halt within weeks of the end of the Federal Fiscal Year (September 30).
The current surface transportation legislation, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), expired in 2009. Congress has extended the Act seven times, but the latest extension expires on September 30. The federal government currently provides about $3.4 billion per year for transportation projects across the state.
To read the Acting Director's letter to the California Congressional Delegation, please visit: http://www.dot.ca.gov/docs/CaltransDirectortoCalCongress_29August2011_FINAL.pdf
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Republican snubs Mexican prez for holding U.S. Marine
Skips governor's honorary luncheon to join protest outside mansion
Instead of accepting an invitation from California Gov. Jerry Brown to attend a luncheon honoring the president of Mexico at the governor's mansion, a Republican state assemblyman will lead a protest at the official residence during the event in support of a U.S. Marine held captive south of the border.
Brown, a Democrat, will hold the luncheon honoring Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Aug. 26.
Assemblyman Tim Donnelly was invited to the event, but he delivered a scathing response to Brown on Monday regarding the continued imprisonment of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, which he exclusively shared with WND.
Tahmooressi, who served two combat tours of duty in Afghanistan, has been in jail since March after driving near the Mexican border and getting caught in a traffic lane that prevented him from making a U-turn back to the U.S.
He was jailed in Mexico because he was carrying his personal weapons, which although legal in the U.S., are illegal in Mexico.
Donnelly's letter states: "I am writing to decline your luncheon invitation, and to express my deep disappointment that you would entertain the president of a nation that is holding an active-duty U.S. Marine captive."
Referring to Brown's July 27 trip to Mexico, Donnelly writes: "How you could visit Mexico and not publicly demand the release of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, is beyond me. … Instead of visiting our imprisoned Marine, you were feted by his captors."
Donnelly also references the influx of illegal aliens in California.
"You care more about the comfort of those who have illegally entered our country than you do for your own countrymen," he writes. "You have spent endless billions of taxpayer dollars provided by the legal citizens of California to make certain that illegal aliens feel comfortable in our state."
He cited several laws granting illegal aliens benefits such as free college and allowing them to practice law.
"When it comes to fighting for the rights of an American, you're too tired from fighting for the rights of the only constituents you truly represent, elitists, illegals, and public sector union bosses," he says.
Donnelly plans to hold the protest outside the gates of the governor's mansion.
"I know that my absence may distress you, but it may comfort you to know that I'll be standing outside leading a protest, doing the job you should have done as the highest elected official in California: demanding the release of one of our own, our Marine, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi."
He adds: "You are welcome to join us if your conscience bothers you."
In a phone interview with WND, Donnelly explained why he declined the invitation.
"I can't in good conscience share a meal with the governor and the president of Mexico unless they plan to bring back our Marine. If Andrew Tahmooressi is not being brought back to this country as part of the Mexican delegation meeting with our governor, I refuse to participate."
Donnelly said he will create a Facebook events page for the protest, and he plans to heavily promote it on Twitter and other social media.
"I'm sure Gov. Brown thought he would have a nice, quiet meal," Donnelly said, "but we hope to change all that. This may be our only chance to show Gov. Brown and the president of Mexico how many Americans care about and support the release of Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi."
The protest will be held Aug. 26 at 11:15 a.m. at the front entrance of the Leland Stanford Mansion, 800 N. Street, Sacramento.
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Secure boot requires that all code that can touch hardware be trustedRight now, if you can run unstrusted code before the OS then you can subvert the OS. Secure boot gives you a mechanism for making sure you only run trusted code, which protects against that. So your UEFI drivers have to be signed, your bootloader has to be signed, and your bootloader must only load a signed kernel. If you've only booted trusted code then you know that your OS is safe. But, unlike trusted boot, secure boot provides no way for you to know that only trusted code was executed. That has to be ensured by OS policy.
This doesn't sound like too much of a problem. But it is. Imagine we have a signed Linux bootloader and a signed Linux kernel, and that these signatures are made with a globally trusted key. These will boot on any hardware using secure boot. Now imagine that an attacker writes a kernel module that sets up a fake UEFI environment, stops the kernel from running code and then executes the Windows bootloader - kind of like kexec, but a little more fiddly. The Windows bootloader believes that it's performing a secure boot, but in fact everything that it believes is trustworthy is the attacker's fake UEFI code. The user's encryption passphrase is logged, the Windows kernel is modified to hide the Linux code and despite everything looking fine your credit card details are on their way to China. In this scenario, the signed Linux kernel is simply used as a malware loader. The only sign that anything is wrong is that boot will be slightly slowed down.
Signing the kernel isn't enough. Signed Linux kernels must refuse to load any unsigned kernel modules. Virtualbox on Linux? Dead. Nvidia binary driver on Linux? Dead. All out of tree kernel modules? Utterly, utterly dead. Building an updated driver locally? Not going to happen. That's going to make some people fairly unhappy.
(The same applies to Windows, of course. Windows 7 allows you to disable driver integrity checks. Windows 8 will have to forbid that when the system's using secure boot)
LicensingGPLv3 has various requirements for signing keys to be available. Microsoft's new requirement that systems support the installation of user keys would let users boot their own modified bootloaders, so that may end up being sufficient to satisfy the license. But we're then beholden on Microsoft - if they remove that requirement then users lose that freedom, and suddenly we're in an awkward licensing situation. There are ongoing conversations about exactly what we're able to do here, but it's not a solved problem.
Key distributionThe UEFI spec doesn't describe or mandate a central certifying authority. Microsoft require that everyone carry their key. We could generate our own, but we have much less sway with vendors. There's no way to guarantee that all hardware vendors will generate our key. And, obviously, if we generate a key, we can't just hand the private half out to others. That means that it becomes impossible for people to produce derivative versions of Linux distributions without getting their own key. The kind of identity verification that would be required for getting such a key is likely to be expensive, and also fairly likely to require that the distribution have a legally registered company in order to facilitate the identity verification. Think Extended Validation certificates, not Startssl Free. Hobbyist Linux distributions will be a thing of the past.
Doesn't custom mode fix this?Microsoft's certification requirements now state that all systems must support a custom mode, implying that it will be possible for a user to install their own keys. Linux vendors would then be able to ship with their own keys on the install media and impose their own policies. Everyone's happy. It's not really good enough, though. People have spent incredible amounts of time and effort making it easy to install Linux by doing little more than putting a CD in a drive. Asking them to go into the firmware and reconfigure things adds an extra barrier that restricts the ability to install Linux to more technically skilled users. And it's even worse than that. This is the full description of the requirement for custom mode:
- It shall be possible for a physically present user to use the Custom Mode firmware setup option to modify the contents of the Secure Boot signature databases and the PK.
- If the user ends up deleting the PK then, upon exiting the Custom Mode firmware setup, the system will be operating in Setup Mode with Secure Boot turned off.
- The firmware setup shall indicate if Secure Boot is turned on, and if it is operated in Standard or Custom Mode. The firmware setup must provide an option to return from Custom to Standard Mode which restores the factory defaults.
There's a few things missing from this, namely:
- Any description of the UI. It's effectively impossible to document Linux installation when the first step becomes (a) complicated and (b) vendor specific. Vendors are using the UEFI transition to differentiate themselves by coming up with their own unique firmware interfaces. Custom mode is going to look different everywhere.
- Any description of the key format. A raw binary representation of the key? An EFI_SIGNATURE_DATA struct? A base64 encoding of one, further protected with ROT13? We just don't know.
- Any way to use custom mode for unattended installs. It's a firmware interface that requires a physically present user. Want to install a few thousand machines over the network? This isn't a scalable approach
- …and this one's nitpicking, but there's not actually any requirement that the user be able to add keys - a vendor could conform to this language by only letting users delete keys. This is actually ok as long as the user deletes Pk, because then we'll effectively be back in setup mode and can install our own keys from the installer, but it still results in some practical problems
So no, custom mode doesn't make everything ok. Custom mode with a mandated UI and a documented key format would be much closer, but it wouldn't solve the problem of unattended automated installs.


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Gold is on its longest losing streak in 8 years.
Per the AP, it's now fallen 6 straight weeks, and is 8% below where it was on October 4.
Why is gold losing its appeal?
There are two main drivers of gold.
One is volatility. When volatility rises, people rush to it as a "safe" asset. Volatility's been getting crushed lately. Even with all of the Fiscal Cliff/Debt Ceiling nonsense, people are starting to become immune to it all.
The other aspect is interest rates. Particularly real interest rates. As real interest rates rise (or start to rise) the dollar holds more appeal, and gold holds relatively less appeal. Interest rates have been ticking up, and there are the first murmurs about an end date for the Fed's extraordinary easing. This too makes gold marginally less attractive.
For a fun chart relating to volatility and gold, here's a look at volatility (red line) vs. gold/oil (blue line). It's not a perfect match, but it's clear: When volatility spikes, gold surges relative to the industrial commodity oil.
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Dirs: Victor Kubicek, Derek Anderson. US. 2012. 82mins
Is there more to know about arch-swindler Bernard Madoff? Madoff's secretary tells of her almost three decades with him in the documentary In God We Trust, directed by Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson, and even finance junkies will be struck by the questions it raises.
In its blend of poignancy and doggedness, it reminds us that there's a lot more about Madoff and his clients that we still don't know.
In God We Trust finds another human dimension to the Madoff scandal as it details the betrayal of Eleanor Squillari, a woman now aged around 60 from Staten Island. This first-person account, told in the New York accent of a pretty policeman's daughter will make the rounds of the festival circuit in the US, with a short stop in American cinemas before airing on television or cable. International exposure could depend on whether this doc is overtaken by the next financial crisis.
Squillari's take on the Madoff scandal first emerged in an article in Vanity Fair in 2009. In the documentary, we follow her from a grim Italian-American childhood in Staten Island to a journey reminiscent of Mike Nichols 1988 film Working Girl that took her to Madoff's notorious operation in the Lipstick Building where she stayed 28 years. When the fraud was cracked, she lost her job, but began probing the reach of her boss's misdeeds. Like Melanie Griffith in Working Girl, she overcame her modest upbringing and learned how a business worked, albeit bit a too late.
Squillari's story mixes a journey through her own life with Madoff and testimony from journalists and other investigators who were on to the man early. Most of those warnings went unheard, especially at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the designated regulator. Kubicek and Anderson leave the SEC alone which is a major shortcoming to the film.
Also, testimony from Madoff is absent, as are his wife and sons, one of whom committed suicide. Squillari insists that the sons were not complicit in their father's schemes.
But besides giving human poignancy to a woman who worked for Madoff and believed, until she was told different, that he wasn't a criminal In God We Trust achieves something new…t makes Madoff out to be less of a criminal than some of his clients.
Investigators testify that Madoff's most important clients emerged with most of the money that they had put with him, and maintain that Madoff's money-laundering operations for those clients handled far more money than his Ponzi that guaranteed smaller investors a sure annual 10 % return.
Kubicek and Anderson point fingers at Jeffry Picower, an investor whose wealth escaped being included on the Forbes 400 of the world's richest men, but who nonetheless received 500% returns on funds placed with Madoff. After Picower's body was found in his Palm Beach swimming pool, he wife settled with the US government for $7.2 billion. The filmmakers wonder where the rest is.
One top European beneficiary, Sonja Kohn, who investigators said was also a feeder of billions to Madoff, is shown at a recent business meeting in a Vienna café. Another major Madoff investor vanished from the internet, an act more remarkable than tax evasion.
Even with excellent production values, In God We Trust does not break the mold in reporting on finance or on conspiracies. Nor is all its information new. But in its blend of poignancy and doggedness, it reminds us that there's a lot more about Madoff and his clients that we still don't know.
Production companies: The Halcyon Company, Verisimilitude, Magic Hour Entertainment
International sales: Thought Engine
Producers: Victor Kubicek, Derek Anderson, Hunter Gray, Orlando Wood
Executive Producers: Tyler Brodie, David Aim, Beverly J. Camhe, Marc Altschuler, Paul Wilmot
Co-Producer: Phaedon Papadapoulos
Screenplay: Victor Kubicek, Derek Anderson
Editor: Melody London
Music: Human


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Drunk History Season 3Eps9
IMDb: 8.0
22 min
Paleontologists Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope become rivals, and Penzias & Wilson discover the echo of the Big Bang. Featuring Greg Kinnear, Stephen Merchant, Justin ...
Country: USA
Actor: Derek Waters, Tony Hale, Christopher Meloni, Jason Ritter, Justin Long, Greg Kinnear, Stephen Merchant, Tess Lynch, Mark Proksch, Jenny Slate, Jadon Wells, Bennie Arthur, Tim Baltz, Maria Blasucci, Mort Burke
Drunk History Season 5Eps13
IMDb: 7.8
22 min
Historical reenactments by A-list talent are presented by inebriated storytellers.
Country: USA
Actor: Derek Waters, Bennie Arthur, Craig Cackowski, Maria Blasucci, Mort Burke, Michael Coleman, Aasha Davis, J.T. Palmer, Tim Baltz


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MinGW Installation Notes
MinGW may have problems with paths containing spaces, and if not, usually other programs used with MinGW will experience problems with such paths. Thus, we strongly recommend that you do not install MinGW in any location with spaces in the path name reference. You should avoid installing into any directory or subdirectory having names like "Program Files" or "My Documents", etc.
No version numbering convention exists for MinGW as a whole. Each package has its own version number, and the installer version number does not correlate, in any way, with the version number of any individual package which it installs.
The preferred installation target directory is C:\MinGW
The preferred installation method is using the automated installer tool. While a manual installation is possible, we do not reccommend it. Instructions are provided below if you really want to risk it.
After installation you will need to perform some additional tasks yourself to ensure your MinGW applications will run. Most importantly, you will need to make changes to your PATH environment variable. Be careful: there are two PATH variables which can be changed, and changing the wrong one can have significant consequences. Instructions for changing the correct PATH variable are provided below.
You will also need to ensure you specify the correct installation target directory to the MinGW environment. While it is possible to install MinGW to a location other than C:\MinGW (ie on a different drive), you must ensure that the MinGW environment knows where it is located. Instructions for doing this are also provided below.
Graphical User Interface Installer
An automated GUI first time installer tool called mingw-get-inst is currently the preferred method of installation.
The mingw-get-inst tool will only facilitate the initial set up of the CLI (Command Line Interface) mingw-get installer. Note that the mingw-get-inst tool is not an official GUI installer; it is intended for first time use only, to set up the CLI installer which should be used for all subsequent updates or modifications.
An official GUI installer is currently under development, but remains temporarily unpublished. For those willing to assist with the evaluation and testing of the GUI installer development snapshots, these will be made available from the developer's personal SourceForge project pages, (see below).
To use the mingw-get-inst automated first time installer tool, do the following:
- Click on this mingw-get-inst link to take you to the installation tool server directory.
- Click on the directory that has the most recent date string (yyyymmdd) in its name.
- Locate the file named "mingw-get-inst" ending in ".exe", and having the most recent date string (yyyymmdd) in its name.
- Click on that link and save the file to your local hard drive.
- Locate the file you have downloaded, and double click on it to start the installer.
- Locate the directory into which you want to install MinGW (ie C:\MinGW). Use the advice given above: that the absolute path to this directory should not contain any spaces.
- Select the option to update package catalogues to latest available. NOTE: If you attempt to use the bundled catalogues, you may install a hopelessly out-of-date system.
- Select the optional components to be installed, including the C++, Fortran, Objective-C, and Ada compilers and MSYS.
- The set up tool will download and run the mingw-get CLI installer, to install the selected component packages. NOTE: The make and GDB packages are installed automatically by the set up tool.
NOTE: The preferred installation is to always include the MSYS addon, regardless of other packages you also choose.
NOTE: In many cases, you will probably need to add the C++ compiler as well
(The MinGW release notes contain more detailed information about the configuration and use of the mingw-get-inst set up tool).
After Installing You Should
If you used the automated installation tool and installed MSYS as an addon to MinGW, you do not need to change your PATH environment variable.
If you used either of the GUI installers (the mingw-get-inst tool or the unofficial installer snapshot), and you installed the MSYS add on, they will create a start menu "MinGW Shell" shortcut in your "Start \ Programs \ MinGW" folder. Double clicking the shortcut will open a command window with the correct environment setup for you, including the correct path references, allowing you to run any of the MinGW or MSYS applications within that command window.
Regardless of how you installed MinGW or MSYS, you should check your MSYS configuration (if you have installed MSYS). You need to ensure that MSYS knows where it is located:
- Open a Windows Explorer window and locate your installation directory (ie C:\MinGW)
- Below your installation directory, you should find a directory named "msys" in lower case letters.
- Find (and open) the additional subdirectories "1.0" and "etc".
- Within the "etc" directory, there is a file named "fstab". Open it with a text editor. You should be able to do this by right clicking on it, and in the popup menu select "Open" or "Open With"
- Edit the file and ensure that it reads as follows:
<installation-directory> /mingw
NOTE: Substitute <installation-directory> with the FULL and absolute path to where you installed MinGW (ie C:\MinGW). Make sure you follow the <installation-directory> entry with at least one space before typing the "/mingw" entry.
NOTE: Before you save the file, make sure there is at least one blank line at the bottom below all of the entries that may exist, then save and close the file.
Your MinGW and MSYS installations should now be ready for use.
Caveats: (exceptions)
If you ever intend to run MinGW or its applications using a cmd.exe window, you will need to make changes to your PATH environment variable. Instructions for doing so are listed in the Environment Settings section below.
Updating or Changing Your MinGW or MSYS Installation
There are two options for updating, adding, or removing components from your installation:
- Using GUI Installer Development Snapshots
- Using the CLI (Command Line Interface) Installer
Both methods will allow you to modify the original installation packages, in addition to the following available addon packages:
- C++ (actually g++)
- fortran (Fortran 90/95 compiler)
- ada (Ada compiler)
- java (Java compiler)
- objc (Objective-C compiler)
- mingw32-make (GNU make)
- gdb (GNU debugger)
- msys-base (MSYS shell environment)
Using GUI Installer Development Snapshots
After you have completed the first time set up (described above) you are expected to use the CLI Installer (described below) to manage and update your MinGW installation.
If you are uncomfortable with using the CLI, you may wish to consider running a development snapshot of the GUI Installer. You can also participate in the development and testing of the GUI version of the installer. Even if your participation is limited to offering suggestions based on your user experience, your input will be greatly appreciated.
Currently, development snapshots are made available here, on an ad-hoc basis. To install any (ideally the latest) of these snapshots:
- First ensure that you have completed a basic mingw-get installation, (e.g. using the set up tool, as described above).
- Locate the preferred snapshot archive; (it will be identified by an "-hg-YYYYMMDD-N.bxz.zip" suffix) and download it.
- Unzip this archive into the same MinGW installation directory as you chose when you ran the set up tool; (formally, this is the parent of the "bin" subdirectory in which mingw-get.exe is installed, if you used any other installation method).
- For a first-time snapshot installation, from a command prompt, (cmd.exe or MSYS shell), run the installation command:
mingw-get install --start-menu mingw-get-gui
- To upgrade to subsequent snapshots, repeat the manual download and unzip steps, for the new snapshot archive, then run the upgrade command:
mingw-get upgrade --start-menu mingw-get-gui
- After completing these steps, you may invoke the GUI Installer from the shortcut in your start menu, or directly from the command line, by invoking:
without specifying any argument.
Using the Command Line Interface Installer
The tool used for command line installation is called mingw-get. Note that it differs from mingw-get-inst. Although currently designated as a 'beta' release, mingw-get is capable of installing GCC 4.x and the basic (optional) MSYS shell environment recommended to support it.
Since it is still under development, we ask that you manually perform some follow-up actions, which you might rightfully expect the installer to complete for you; eventually it will, but in the meantime, please bear with us).
Download the latest version of the mingw-get installer and extract the files to the C:\MinGW directory using a program that can extract zip files. Recent versions of Windows may support this directly from the Windows Explorer; alternatively you may use a freeware program such as 7-Zip.
After extracting the files, you will need to make changes to your user PATH environment variable. See the instructions in the section "Environment Settings" below now.
You should also read the section "After Installation You Should" above.
After changing your user PATH, you will need to open a new Command Prompt window. Click on "Start \ Run" and enter "cmd" then click "OK".
At the Command Prompt, type the command:
mingw-get install gcc
to download and install the C compiler, and its requisite support packages; (mingwrt, w32api and binutils, for those interested).For example, the command:
mingw-get install gcc g++ mingw32-make
will install the C compiler, C++ compiler, and make utility.You can install more additional packages at any time. For example, the command:
mingw-get install fortran gdb
will add the Fortran 90/95 compiler and debugger to the existing installation.
If you choose to also install 'msys-base', note that its default installation path is now 'C:\MinGW\MSYS\1.0'. The easiest way to start the shell is by running the msys.bat file found in that directory.
The first time you start the shell, you may also wish to run the command:
This is only a temporary measure to establish bindings between your MinGW and MSYS installations. The command will become unnecessary, when appropriate post-install scripting is added to the MSYS package catalogues.
The mingw-get release notes contain more detailed information about the configuration and use of the mingw-get installer. GCC documentation, make documentation, and GDB documentation are available online.
- The installers do not automatically modify any environment settings, (in particular the PATH). You will need to add the MinGW `bin' directory, as described in the "Environment Settings" section below.
- Administrative note The MinGW team do not recommend modifying the Windows PATH variable system wide. We prefer that you use a script to set PATH for the processes on a per session basis. This is the reason that we do not adjust the PATH.
- For versions of MSYS prior to MSYS-1.0.11; do not install MinGW into the same path as MSYS; (you may install to a subdirectory of the MSYS tree, as long as non-MSYS executables are not placed in the MSYS /bin directory). You probably don't have to worry about this.
- When you install both MSYS and MinGW, and have /mingw mapped to your MinGW directory (as is the default), if you then install ports, supplementary MinGW programs or dependency libraries, you are advised to install them into the /mingw directory tree, to ensure that they will be available for use with GCC; e.g. you should configure with
../path/to/configure --prefix=/mingw
../path/to/configure --prefix=`cd /mingw; pwd -W`
(This latter form is preferred, when the program being installed is a native Windows binary, and the prefix may be hard coded into the executable).
Environment Settings
When you install command line tools, such as MinGW, or GnuWin32 tools, you have to tell the command line interpreter where to find them. This is usually accomplished by adding the appropriate directory names to the PATH variable in your user environment. The installers will not do this for you.
NOTE If you choose to alter your PATH variable, you must ensure you alter your user PATH variable, not your system PATH variable -- there are two of them!
NOTE The MinGW team do not recommend modifying the system wide Windows PATH variable. We prefer that you use a script to set PATH for the processes on a per session basis. See the notes in the "After Installation You Should" section above.
Warning: Adding entries to the PATH is normally harmless. However, if you delete any existing entries, you may mess up your PATH string, and you could seriously compromise the functioning of your computer. Please be careful. Proceed at your own risk.
- Right-click on your "My Computer" icon and select "Properties".
- Click on the "Advanced" tab, then on the "Environment Variables" button.
- You should be presented with a dialog box with two text boxes. The top box shows your user settings. The PATH entry in this box is the one you want to modify. Note that the bottom text box allows you to change the system PATH variable. You should not alter the system path variable in any manner, or you will cause all sorts of problems for you and your computer!
- Click on the PATH entry in the TOP box, then click on the "Edit" button
- Scroll to the end of the string and at the end add
- press OK -> OK -> OK and you are done.
NOTE: Substitute <installation-directory> with the FULL absolute path name of the installation target directory you chose (ie C:\MinGW);
NOTE: If you installed MSYS, you may also want to add ";<installation-directory>\MSYS\1.0\local\bin", and ";<installation-directory>\MSYS\1.0\bin" to the end of your user PATH variable.
More Information
More information on Configuring and Using mingw-get is available.
Manual Installation
Manual installation, as an alternative to the use of the automated installer described above, is not recommended; nevertheless it is possible. If you wish to pursue this option, you may install MinGW by manually downloading and extracting individual components. Please refer to HOWTO Install the MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite for (possibly outdated) information on manual installation.


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In the fall of 2009, Nick Vujicic and Tyrone Wells discussed the possibility of working on a project together, unaware that their bond had been established long before the meeting ever took place. Tyrone had already written the captivating "More" lyrics. Nick had always dreamed of being part of music with meaning. Today, the song connects both men in an incredible way.
"More" mirrors Nick's personal testimony, depicts Tyrone's heartfelt plea, and conveys a strong message of hope. Nick Vujicic and Tyrone Wells have united, and launched THE SOMETHING MORE CAMPAIGN, combining the arts of music and film with the power of inspiration.
With the music video and the documentary series in the final stages of post-production, THE SOMETHING MORE CAMPAIGN is now ready to debut.
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zh-cn:Password Recovery This guide will show you how to recover a forgotten root password. A several methods are available that can help you accomplish this.
Using a LiveCD
With a LiveCD a couple methods are available: change root and use the
passwd command, or erase the password field entry. Any Linux capable LiveCD can be used, albeit to change root it must match your installed architecture type.
Change Root
- Boot the LiveCD, and change root.
- Use the
passwdcommand to reset your root password.
- Exit change root.
- Reboot, and remember your password.
Password Erase
1. Boot the LiveCD, and mount your root (/) partition. For example:
mkdir /mnt/arch mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/arch
2. Edit the password file with your editor. Example vim:
vim /mnt/arch/etc/shadow
3. Delete the second field on the root line (in vim this can be done by going to the first letter/symbol in the field and typing d/:/ then Enter):
4. Save the file (:x in vim).
5. Reboot and root login will not require a password.
Using GRUB to Invoke Bash
1. Select the appropriate boot entry in the GRUB menu and press e to edit the line.
2. Select the kernel line and press e again to edit it.
3. Append
init=/bin/bash at the end of line.
4. Press b to boot (this change is only temporary and will not be saved to your menu.lst). After booting you will be at the bash prompt.
5. Your root file system should be mounted as readonly so remount it as read/write:
# mount -n -o remount,rw /
6. Use the
passwd command to create a new root password.
7. Reboot and do not lose your password again!
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Charitable Beta
Charitable Beta is a non-profit company focused on efficiently increasing donations to non-profits globally. The concept is simple, we'll teach you how to move your portfolios to index funds, and you donate the savings to your favorite non-profit. Not only does the non-profit receive more money, but the donation is fully tax deductible! Its a win-win for all parties.
This is directed primarily to Baby Boomers. The age should be assumed to be men and women between 40-55 years of age.
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Who wants to run out and try this? Stephen Fry uses a green laser and a few shouted obscenities from the cast of QI, and bursts three balloons with a laser. He then fails to burst the fourth, but fortunately there's a quick-fix with a magic marker.
This is a fun little segment that gives you a use for your leftover New Year's Eve balloons, which also makes you think twice about dismissing the claim that lasers can damage people's eyes. (I still doubt they can do much unless they're held right on the eye for a long period of time, but this does give me more respect for their abilities.)
When we look at white objects, we're seeing every wavelength of light jetting out at us in a confused tangle. When we look at a black surface, no light is coming out of the object, but light is still going into the object. (Okay, technically infrared and ultraviolet light, which we can't see, could be coming out. But there's still a lot of visible light that's being pumped in but not out.) Light is a form of energy, and if it's not coming out of the object as light, it's staying inside and warming the object as heat. In the demonstration above, Stephen Fry uses a laser on black balloons. The balloons have to be heating up, taxing the rubber. After just a second or two, they burst. A white balloon, which reflects the light, can vent the energy as light well enough to stay intact. How is this fixable? Just give the balloon a new coat of paint. A little work with a magic marker and the balloon absorbs the energy enough to burst.
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Connecticut city drops foreclosure suit on home where racial slur found
The city has dropped a foreclosure lawsuit on a Bull's Head home with a history of blight issues and where a racial slur was found painted on the garage earlier this year.
The city filed the foreclosure lawsuit after the High Clear Drive homeowner, Heather Lindsay, accumulated about $140,000 in fines since 2012 for violating Stamford's blight ordinances, according to court documents.
Stamford Corporation Counsel Kathryn Emmett confirmed the city has dropped its foreclosure case against Lindsay, but declined to comment further.
Lindsay, 59, accrued the fine after the city charged her a $90-per-day penalty for the blight condition beginning on Nov. 9, 2012.
Elizabeth Carlson, spokeswoman for Mayor David Martin, said the city is working with Lindsay and her lawyer, Andre Cayo, to reach an agreement to resolve the unpaid fines.
Lindsay said she was relieved the city's foreclosure proceeding is over.
"That part is fantastic, but I have to make sure it sticks, and we have a contract signed," Lindsay said.
Lindsay said the city has offered to lift the $140,000 lien on the property if no other blight violations are found in the next five years.
Emmett declined to comment on the proposed agreement.
Lindsay claimed the city's blight finding was racially motivated. But Emmett said the violation was found by the city's Blight Committee.
"I guess the city was afraid of the press," Cayo said.
He said the case was just days from going to trial when it was withdrawn on March 3.
Cayo said he believes the city wanted to avoid the negative exposure of taking his client to court.
"It was getting ugly," he said.
The 2,300-square-foot cape's property still faces another foreclosure action, filed in 2008 by The Bank of New York.
The home made international headlines this year when Lindsay and her partner, Lexene Charles, 56, found a racial slur painted on their garage in January. The city offered to remove the N-word, but Lindsay refused because she said police were not doing enough to find the culprit. She claimed someone in the neighborhood was targeting her home because Charles is black.
The city initially threatened to fine the couple $100 a day until the slur was removed, but decided against the penalty.
Police are now investigating a second act of vandalism on the property after the slur was painted over earlier this month.


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Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learning takes a unique, cognitive approach to technology, distinguishing itself from other texts by emphasizing meaningful learning for both teachers and students. The text strikes a balance between practical applications and theoretical issues, so teachers concentrate on the connections between learning tasks and the mental activities of their students. The new edition expands its coverage of using the Internet as a communication and inquiry tool and includes up-to-date information on emergent technology. An increased emphasis on Internet applications includes updated references to Internet-based technology throughout the text and additional material from Grabe/Grabe, Integrating the Internet for Meaningful Learning. Coverage of applications concentrates on readily available software, making the book is as useful as possible for classroom teachers. This edition gives increased attention to PowerPoint presentation software and digital video. The authors expanded the new edition's emphasis on higher-order thinking by adding information on critical thinking. The unregulated access to sources provided by the Internet necessitates the development of critical-thinking skills in today's students.
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Alfred Zolo needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
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ZoloPages is a data extractor for any kind of yellow pages worldwide. Currently in beta,
I need a whole web site. Good quality, but cheap. You can keep credit for the design.Mock pages can be seen at http://www.zolopages.com/test/
The applications at this point look like this:MASK EDITORhttp://www.zolopages.com/test/zmc1.jpghttp://www.zolopages.com/test/zmc2.jpgZOLOPAGES EXTRACTORhttp://www.zolopages.com/test/zpg2.jpghttp://www.zolopages.com/test/zpg1.jpgA word on the icons:1. Extractor = a page and a Z2. Mask Editor - a Z with a mask (think Zorro)There will be a logo contest shortly here. The themes will be either Zorro whose sword zips into a wad of pagesor A crazy Italian named Alfred Zolo, frizzy hair and a thin mustachio (?)orA miner, helmet on, digging for data in a stack of web pages.
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Do you want to earn a master's degree in educational psychology? Looking for educational psychology master's programs and schools? Earning your Masters in Educational Psychology on Campus degree may help to enhance or jumpstart your career and deepen your expertise within your field. Studying on a traditional brick-and-mortar campus may allow you to take advantage of campus opportunities and resources that may support your academic efforts.
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Earning your masters in educational psychology on campus may have a number of distinct advantages. Brick-and-mortar campuses may enable opportunities to network with peers, interact one-on-one with professors, and to collaborate with classmates in person. In addition, many campuses may offer resources such as career assistance, libraries, gyms, as well as academic support. Additionally, with the increasing role technology plays in higher education, traditional programs may even offer increased flexibility, such as online course options within the traditional program.
Once you have decided to look for a traditional Masters in Educational Psychology on Campus program, there are a few ways you may want to go about it. One major consideration is whether you wish to study a commutable distance from your work or home, or whether you wish to attend a university in a new city farther away. In either case, you may wish to consider how the program in question fits into your lifestyle, whether you have to commute, and whether you prefer to take classes alongside full time employment, or whether you wish to be a full-time student.
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M.Ed. degrees in educational psychology may often be earned through a school of education, and may have some notable similarities with M.A. and M.S. programs. These programs may have a rigorous research methodology element, developing fluency with understanding and interpreting research in order to apply it effectively in the field.
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A boys lacrosse coach on one of the area's most successful programs has resigned after he was arrested at the school last week.
Raul Bourgeois, a coach on Darien High School's freshman team, was arrested on an active warrant for possession of narcotics, according to the Waterbury Police Department.
His arrest came around 2 p.m. Thursday by Darien Police officers after being notified by the Waterbury Police Department, that he was believed to be on the campus, Darien Police said.
According to Waterbury police Deputy Chief Fred Spagnolo, the warrant and drug charges stemmed from a motor vehicle stop in Waterbury.
Following his arrest, Bourgeois was transported to Darien Police Headquarters where he was turned over to detectives from the Waterbury Police Department.
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Minnesota State Fair Opens Thursday
FALCON HEIGHTS (AP) — Hundreds of horses, cows, pigs, goats, sheep and even llamas will face the judges — and the public — when the 2012 Minnesota State Fair begins its run Thursday.
The brand new AgStar Arena will be open for its first Great Minnesota Get-Together since replacing the fair's dingy old judging barn. Fair officials expect 4-H, FFA and other farm families showing off their livestock will love it, while the new facility will provide a friendlier environment for city folk.
Other new exhibits connecting with the fair's agricultural roots include Minnesota Wine Country, serving locally produced wines from 13 wineries, and the "Land of 10,000 Beers," hosted by the Minnesota Craft Brewer's Guild, which offers samples from more than 20 of the state's breweries. For the kids, it sells root beer.
The lowdown on the 2012 Minnesota State Fair:
As always, a mix of deep fried, impaled calorie bombs, and maybe even something healthy. They're too many to mention but include: bacon ice cream, beef tongue tacos, eggplant tacos, eggplant fries, breakfast sliders, camel burger sliders, Ragin' Ankles smoked pork shanks in a pineapple-habanero barbecue sauce, chicken nachos on a stick, walleye rolls, cranberry wontons, poutine, lamb chop on a stick and red velvet funnel cakes. For the daring: Mideast lamb testicle fries.
The Great Big Sandbox gives kids a place to dig, scoop, pour and burrow their toes. The Lasertainment Laser Hitz Show and Luminarium are harder to pigeonhole. Pianos on Parade and its "artistically transformed" piano for all to play and enjoy in Baldwin Park. Twelve Artists, Twelve Hours, Twelve Days will give fairgoers a window into the world of 12 different working artists for 12 hours on each of the 12 days of the 2012 fair. The Boy Scouts Adventure Summit will let boys and girls 5-15 test their rope-climbing skills and ride a zip line. Minnesota Wine Country and the Minnesota Craft Brewer's Guild will showcase Minnesota-made wines and beers. Traditional livestock shows and the new Minnesota High School Rodeo Cutting Horse Competition will take up residence in the new AgStar Arena.
On the Mighty Midway: the World of Wonders Palace of Illiusions and Bubble House Fun House. OK, they're not rides, but they're on the Midway. For real rides, the potentially stomach-churning Flipper, Freak Out, Fun Factory, Orbiter, Sizzler and Stratosphere are hard to describe briefly. See them and ride them if you dare. At Kidway, the Jumping Jumbos flying elephants and Down on the Farm Tractor Ride shouldn't scare the little ones.
The Department of Natural Resources exhibit has been spruced up, while the DNR's main message this year will be stopping invasive species. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture will be teaching visitors how to protect themselves against the scourge of bedbugs. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Eco Experience will have new exhibits on saving energy and water, green and renewable home products, healthy local foods and farmers markets, and bicycle maintenance.
The parking lot at the closed St. Paul Ford Plant has been added to the stable of park-and-ride lots for the fair, with more than 800 parking spaces and free shuttle buses, while four new express bus stations have been added.
Bonnie Raitt with Mavis Staples. Alan Jackson with Jamey Johnson. Blake Shelton with Sunny Sweeney. Anita Baker. The Happy Together Tour. Demi Lovato with Hot Chelle Rae. Kiss and Motley Crue. Rascal Flatts with Little Big Town, the Eli Young Band and Edens Edge. MN Music on a Stick with Semisonic, the Jayhawks, Dessa and Jeremy Messersmith. Journey with Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo and Loverboy. The 40th Annual Minnesota State Fair Amateur Talent Contest Finals. Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller with Big K.R.I.T.
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2. To adjust the CrossRamp, you can either straddle the equipment with one foot on either side, or stand to one side of it (shown).
CAUTION: To adjust the ramp, you must be standing on the floor. You cannot be standing on the equipment or the foot pedals.
3. Place one hand under the front of the CrossRamp and one hand on the lever.
4. Pull the front of the ramp up and toward you while pulling the lever back and up. This releases the ramp for adjustment. Carefully adjust the ramp to the desired height.
IMPORTANT: Before releasing your grip, test the ramp by gently pushing it down with your hands to make sure that it has securely clicked into one of the incline positions. The ramp should not move when tested.
5. Be aware of the position of the console and moving handlebars (on the EFX 222) when you are adjusting the ramp. Be careful not to bump your head on the console when you stand up.


text: Hello everyone Some of you might have mod_security installed on their server, so do I. Since the rules are sometimes very strict, you often have to disable rules for specific applications. I thought that it might be a good idea to create a little collection of what rules you have to disable for what application. General I assume you have mod_security installed like described here: http://www.faqforge.com/linux/apache-mod-security-installation-on-debian-6-0-squeeze/ How to whitelist? You should choose one of these methods: server-wide deactivation Code: nano /etc/apache2/mod-security/modsecurity_crs_99_whitelist.conf per-site deactivation In ISPConfig -> Sites -> domain.tld -> Options -> Apache Directives Code: <ifModule mod_security2.c> (paste the rules here) </ifModule> Applications Here are the per-application specific rules you should disable if you encounter problems running them. IP based access Reason Accessing a website by it's IP isn't allowed Rules SecRuleRemoveById 960017 Usage You should place this rule within the global whitelist ------------------------------------------------ ionizeCMS Reason the built-in flash uploader doesn't work Rules SecRuleRemoveById 960015 Usage You should place them per-site ------------------------------------------------ WebDAV Reason You'll get an 405 - Method not allowed when connecting with a WebDAV client Rules SecRuleRemoveById 960015 SecRuleRemoveById 960032 Usage You should place them per-site or within the custom vhost (WebDAV block) ------------------------------------------------ Wordpress Reason pasting iFrames within the editor gets blocked as well as selecting images Rules SecRuleRemoveById 950001 SecRuleRemoveById 950004 Usage You should place them per-site Summary If you have rulesets by yourself, we would appreciate it if you would share them too Regards, MaddinXx


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Nintendo Announces Mario and Luigi: Dream Team for the 3DS
The Mario and Luigi role-playing game series will finally see its first 3DS entry when Mario and Luigi: Dream Team arrives this summer.
Taking place inside the mind of a sleeping Luigi, players will take the role of Mario as he traverses the dreamworld. Luigi will still appear in the game, but he will have a bunch of different superpowers available since it's all a dream.
The sleeping Luigi will also be present, as he will take up the bottom screen. Interacting with him can help alter the game world, and he can open new paths for Mario to explore. There wasn't a whole lot of gameplay details, but we should learn more about Mario and Luigi: Dream Team in the coming months.
You can check out some screenshots from the game below, and let us know what you think in the comments.


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I saw Olerud play a lot when I covered the Orioles and Yankees. He was one of the more soft-spoken players I've dealt with, but he sure did have a sweet swing. And, with him at first, the Mets had one of the finest fielding infields in the game.
Any memories of Olerud?


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Turkey player Neslihan Darnel: They played well today. After two sets we started to play better. We did not concentrate in the first two sets. Our goal is to make the final four at this event.
Canada coach Arnd Ludwig: Our goal for the tournament was to improve with every match and we have done that. We lost focus in the third set. I am proud of the effort my team has shown here.
Canada captain Tammy Louise Mahon: They stayed patient. We came out strong but they responded. We didn't react to them like they did to us. This was both our highest and lowest moment in the tournament. It was an emotional loss.
Canada player Sarah Pavan: In the first two sets we played the way we wanted. We didn't elevate our performance to match theirs when we had to. Our passing fell apart in the third set.


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Special care taken for Travis letter en route to San Antonio
AUSTIN - A skimpy $85 payment for William Barret Travis' stirring "victory or death" letter 120 years ago may have ensured that the Alamo commander's plea for help would never leave Texas again.
The Alamo's patriotic call for aid - a roughly 13-by-16-inch letter, written on front and back, folded into a 3-by-6-inch rectangle and carried to East Texas by mounted couriers - resided with Travis' survivors in Alabama for years.
The state purchased it for the meager fee ($2,179 in today's dollars) in 1893, and placed it in the state archives, where it resides in Austin. The rare document, now estimated to be worth $1.2 million, was displayed for media Thursday, two weeks before its appearance in San Antonio.
The artifact will return to the Alamo for the first time for a public display from Feb. 23 to March 7.
Its exposure to light during lengthy public exhibitions in the late 1800s and 1960s has faded the dispatch dated Feb. 24, 1836, and sent from the besieged mission.
"That letter suffered desperately during that period (1960s)," David B. Gracy II, former state archivist, told the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in October, as the board voted 6-to-1 to loan out the letter for a 13-day public display at the Alamo.
Letter is 'ghosting'
As the science of historical conservation evolves, the commission is working with the Texas General Land Office, Alamo custodian, to ensure the letter's safe return to its home at the Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library Building in Austin.
Along with the original Texas Declaration of Independence and millions of other historical documents, the Travis letter is stored in an environmentally controlled area of the stately building, across the street from the Texas State Capitol.
Sarah Norris, hired as conservator the same year the commission opened its current conservation lab in 2009, used a late-19th century cast iron board sheer to construct the housing that protects the letter that's kept in a Mylar sleeve.
"This is where it lives," a white-gloved Norris said, unfastening a clasp made of cow bone and unfolding the protective packaging made of binder's board, archival card stock, book cloth and Nideggen paper.
As with many precious documents of its era, the letter's iron gall ink, a highly acidic mixture made from oak trees, has turned brown over time and corroded the paper's cellulose fibers.
"It's actually kind of ghosting; it's burning through the paper," Norris said.
Before the letter departs, she will perform colorimeter checks, as a baseline to gauge any fading upon its return, and will place the document between two layers of Optium, an acrylic, that will surround it in a specially made display case at the Alamo. Jelain Chubb, state archivist, will travel with the letter, which will be carried in a padded wooden fine arts shipping crate.
Historic haggling
The artifact will return to the Alamo for the first time for a public display from Feb. 23 to March 7.
John Anderson, the commission's preservation officer, said the letter spent years in Alabama, where Travis' family lived. They may have been going through a tough financial time when his great-grandson, John Davidson, offered to sell the letter. He wanted $250, which was the entire acquisitions budget for the state agency that preceded the commission, created in 1909, Anderson said.
"So they talked him down to $85," he said.
From that humble beginning now looms a major exhibit set for the 177th anniversary of the Alamo siege and battle. Anderson said this is the biggest project he's worked on with the Land Office in his 34 years with the commission.
"We're certainly putting a lot of resources into making this a world-class exhibition," he said.


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Two weeks ago my sweet little #4 came into my arms, and I have been blissfully enjoying newborn-land ever since. It has however come to my attention that I now have FOUR children, count them: one, two, three, four—and I still have to just laugh about the reality of me taking care of 4 kids by myself in another week or so. But that's my next adventure. This story is about becoming that mother of four, who actually got to be "just a mama having a baby"—my first vaginal birth with my fourth baby. (Donna wants this to be the story of my journey to HBA3C, but that's a lot of letters. For me, it's the story of how I finally stopped trying to be smart and instead learned to trust my intuition, my body, and the Lord.)
Here's the back story: in college, my first major was to become an RN, and my plan was to go back and become a Certified Nurse Midwife after I'd had my kids. I have a memory of being a naïve little 19 year old telling someone about my plans and about how crazy it is the way that docs and hospitals treat pregnancy like an illness. Fast forward eight years later—my husband is in grad school and we are buying private health insurance to cover me because we're hoping to get pregnant soon. So exciting when that little stick comes up positive!! It's still in the back of my mind that I want a CNM not an OB, but we find out after I'm already expecting that our insurance only covers one group of 6 OBs. We're poor students and figure the big group of OBs seems to work for everyone else so we'll try it, but we do decide to drive to a hospital across town for a "lamaze natural childbirth class" because I know I do not want an epidural and my mom did lamaze. The night we cover c-sections our teacher tells us that 1 in 6 births happen that way—I say, "You mean one out of the couples here will probably have a c-section?!" I had no idea cutting a mama wide open to get her baby out was that common. (and those are pretty nice numbers compared to what they are today…)
My water broke 3 days before 40 weeks. It was dinner time and I was pulling laundry out of the washer. We did just what they taught us at the hospital: don't eat if you're in labor! and come right in and get checked if you have a gush of fluid! Well, that left me very tired and hungry by the time contractions started kicking in 4-5 hours later. And then after a couple hours, the doctor said we needed to do pitocin to speed things up, so the nurse said she'd put it on low "since I wanted to go natural." After an hour or so I was dilated to a 5 (that was good progress! What I wish we had known…), but pitocin contractions were hard to deal with (no endorphins), and we were already wearing out our breathing techniques. The hospital staff basically patted my hand and said, "Oh honey, you probably have another 12 hours of this, don't you want an epidural?"
So I caved and got one, and immediately after insertion our room filled with nurses. Fetal distress. They slapped an oxygen mask on me and started flipping my numb body from side to side. (I remember thinking: "See, I knew epidurals weren't good for my baby!") They couldn't get his heart rate back up from 90s so we were prepped and headed for an emergency c-section before we hardly knew what was going on. Baby was acynclinic with a slight brow presentation, nuchal chord wrapped around torso/neck, and my sweet baby boy was sucking on his cord when delivered. Nine on his apgar, 8 lbs. 13 oz. I begged for and got one glimpse of him before they wisked him away to check him out. He was screaming and a healthy bright pink curled in the nurse's arms—I sent my husband with him and stayed to joke in the OR about the way they were stapling me back together (it really does sound very much the same as the stapler on your desk). My firstborn was delivered around 3:40 am, I didn't get to see him again and hold him for the first time until after the nurse shift change at 6am. Those two hours seemed an eternity to me and I was upset—keeping me from my baby was probably more traumatizing than anything else.
With baby #2 on the way two years later, "I want a VBAC" was my cry. My OB told me I was a great candidate for a vaginal birth, but that when we moved I would have to look hard for a doctor that would support it. Well, we made it to TX when I was 3 months along and I asked around. Lots of women from church used a group of OBs that said they "allowed" VBACs. One of the doctors even told me that they were one of the few groups that did VBACs in the area, and I believed them. Every visit I told them that I wanted a vaginal birth, they in turn reminded me every visit of the risks of VBAC, and agreed that they would "let" me labor as long as it began before 40 weeks. I dutifully scheduled a date for surgery, just in case.
The day of the planned surgery arrived, I walked and walked that morning, already so depressed that labor hadn't come. When the nurse (who smelled of cigarettes) prepped me, I was contracting. "Can you feel those?" she asked, "Yes. I want to VBAC, I need to talk to my doctor!" I said, but she replied, "If you are scheduled for a c-section, you are having a section, honey." The doctor and assistant talked about garage sales over me in the OR like I was an old Buick, and my sweet little girl was born, 8lbs. 7oz. "She probably wouldn't have fit through there anyway," the doctor reassured me as she sewed my belly back together. I later had to yell at the nurses to get them to give me my baby so I could nurse her—they had a policy about
moms on morphine not being alone with a baby. Did I mention that I don't like being separated from my baby?
Donna summed up baby #3's story for me, you can read it here. It was wild and disappointing, and again, even when I asked them to stop, they took away and poked my baby, this time because he was "big" 9lbs. 6 oz. I've never felt more beaten down than I did as I watched them wheel my baby away from me, and it sunk in that I had just had my 3rd "unnecesarean." But I did have an angel nurse later that same day, and her simple kindness helped me feel again what I have always known: I was made to be the mother of my children. My husband had gone home to get a shower, and I was lying in my crinkly hospital bed with my sweet baby boy starting to fuss over in the hospital bassinet, out of my reach. As the hopeless feeling of again being stuck in bed unable to care for my new little one was threatening to overwhelm me, my good nurse picked up my baby and said, "He just wants to be with his mama," as she tucked him in beside me. It was a turning point for me, bless that nurse!
Now I like to think that I'm educated about normal birth and rather loud and feisty to boot, and I fought hard, but fighting just doesn't get you a peaceful birth. I did however learn much from my experience in getting baby #3 here. I learned that for me, labor stops in a hospital with bright lights and uncooperative staff. I learned that I can't be smart enough and know enough to make people treat birth as healthy and normal when they are in the habit of doing things differently. And as I look back, there were key decisions that I made based on logic and convenience instead of what my intuition told me. I had heard of a very pro-VBAC doctor that I could have switched to, that was an hour drive from my home, but had ruled it out because it seemed too far away. My doctor who was supportive of VBAC had told me that there was only a 60-70% chance that he would actually be at my birth, that should have been a red flag, but it was more convenient to just stay with him. I also made the mistake of paying attention to my labor too soon and let myself be very discouraged by dilation numbers. And I allowed myself to fight against the very labor that I had hoped and prayed for when we had no care provider.
When we realized that baby #4 was coming it was a bit of a surprise and it put me in a very humble place. What do I do? I believe with all my heart in normal natural childbirth, but I have been cut open 3 times already. Even Ina May herself would send me to the hospital to have this baby, but I know that my body shuts labor down in a hospital. And my good husband at this point would rather just skip the whole birth phenomenon and go straight to having a 2 month old—he doesn't trust hospitals and doctors anymore than I do, and he just wants me safe. So I did what I thought I had done before, but with my whole soul this time, I put it in the Lord's hands. I told God Almighty of my desires to birth my baby the way He designed me to, and before I could add that I'll do a c-section if I need to and I'll stop trying to be too smart about all of this, I felt the sweet peace that He was good with my desires and that it would all work out just fine. Wow. That same peace has been renewed again and again and carried me through to holding that sweet baby in my arms.
Love this quote from Hannah at Intuitive Mothering:
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that has honored the servant and forgotten the gift." –Albert Einstein
I formed what I call "my bubble" around myself to protect that peace and rely on my intuition as I prepared to birth this child. A very important part of that bubble was choosing care providers who were in the habit of treating birth as a normal, natural event. I did drive the hour up to the amazing doctor I should have gone to with baby #3, and he was supportive of my VBAC plans and fine with me doing most of my prenatals with my midwife. My awesome midwife helped put my husband at ease, and I had that same peace about her, my intuition telling me simply "she will help you." I actually saw my chiropractor before any other care provider, and she got my uterus back in alignment (it was tilted over on my right side) and provided great care throughout pregnancy. I never worried about my scar (my husband let me know the other day that he did the worrying for me), and my awesome midwife reminded me early on that a chance of uterine rupture is very much the same during all the growing of pregnancy as it is during labor. Didn't tell many people about our plans, if they did ask, I usually told them the back-up plan: we've hired a midwife to be our doula and have a doctor who is very supportive of me having a VBAC. As pregnancy continued, I grew sure that we wouldn't actually need that doctor because this baby was going to be born at home. My husband was willing to ride on my faith, after plenty of discussion. He trusted our midwife—she had made it clear that if there was any indication of a problem for baby or me in labor that we would transfer to the local hospital less than 5 minutes away.
My water broke while she was checking me, huge release for my huge belly. And then from here things get a little hazy for me—I got in the tub again for a little while and I think I began to feel the urge to push. I had figured that I would spend a lot of time squatting to help get my baby down and open up my pelvis, but squatting didn't work for me for very long. I had a lip of cervix that needed to get out of the way, my midwife held it back though a few contractions and I was ready to push. Pushing is hard, I know some women like it better than first stage and I can see how they might, but I just wanted to be done. I was getting more and more tired and a bit confused about how to make the pushing effective, and I had strained an inner thigh tendon that was freaking out when I pushed. Being a "first-time mom" I had mentally tried to be ready for hours of pushing, but it was harder than I had imagined and I was so tired.
We did it, she's here! Sweet baby girl #4 is here!! And her big sister saw her birth. I don't really know how to describe how good this has felt for me and for my family. I am whole and well, and able to enjoy this little one as I had never been able to with my older ones. Not a bit of the baby blues that hit me so hard after my previous 3 cesarean births. I do cry, but it's when I think about the blessing of this new little one coming the way the Lord designed. And one of the best parts: my baby has been with me as much as I want! (I think I need to go snuggle her soft little head again right now…)
And speaking of her little head, my sweet little one was 9 lbs. 12 oz. and her chest was an inch bigger than her head. Her dad has called her our sumo baby. I had a 1st degree tear (sweet baby kept her hand up by her face too) that did need a few stitches, and felt better within several days. Recovery has been very different from major surgery. I feel so well, and my baby has been so alert, a great nurser and a really good sleeper.
Two weeks ago I got to be "just a mama having a baby" as we welcomed our sweet baby girl into our home and family. My intuition has always quietly told me that birth without unnecessary interventions would be best for me and for my baby and for our new relationship. I'm very grateful to have found people who believed in me and believed in natural normal birth. It has made all the difference for me. My body gave birth the way it was designed to, the same way thousands of mothers across the globe give birth every day. It was awesome. Not eventful at all, just plain old normal, and I loved it.
Allison recently had another HBAC, making this her second VBAC. She has also become a certified Birth Boot Camp Instructor. You can take her class in Highlands Ranch, CO. Visit her class schedule for more details.


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A public meeting of the Budget Committee of Josephine County, State of Oregon on the budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015, will be held at the Anne G. Basker Auditorium, 640 NW Sixth Street, Grants Pass, Oregon. The meeting will take place on Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to receive the budget message and to receive comment from public on the budget.
A copy of the budget document may be inspected or obtained on or after Thursday, May 8th at the Board of County Commissioner's Office, County Courthouse 500 NW Sixth Street, Grants Pass, Oregon, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. and will be available on the county website, under Finance Department, Budget Information.
This is a public meeting where deliberation of the Budget Committee will take place.
Any person may appear at the meeting and discuss the proposed programs with the Budget Committee. This notice is also on the county website at www.co.josephine.or.us.