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Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-OA3
Rating Action: Moody's takes action on $309.5 Million of Alt-A and Option ARM in 2003 and 2007
Rating Action: Moody's takes action on $805.1 Million of Alt-A and Option ARM RMBS issued in 2004 - 2007
Rating Action: Moody's upgrades $464 Million of Alt-A and Option ARM RMBS issued in 2004 and 2007
Rating Action: Moody's takes action on $455.2 Million of Option ARM RMBS issued in 2005 and 2007
Announcement: Moody's reviews ratings of twenty interest rate swaps in US RMBS transactions
Moody's assigns rating to certificate swap in Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-OA3, an RMBS transaction
New York, November 16, 2010 -- Moody's Investors Service has assigned a A1 (sf) rating on the Swap to the Deutsche Alt-A Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-OA3 transaction. Moody's rating addresses the credit risk posed to the swap counterparty. This rating only addresses the risk attributable to the ability of the trust to continue to honor its obligations under the swap. The rating does not address market risk that may be experienced by the party facing the trust under the swap contract.
Issuer: Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-OA3
Swap: Swap (Reference Number N621204N)
Interest Rate Swap, Assigned A1 (sf)
The rating takes into account the rating of the swap counterparty, the transaction's legal structure and the characteristics of the collateral mortgage pool of the respective trust. Because there is relatively limited historical performance data for the types of instruments, this credit rating may have a greater potential rating volatility than would ratings for transactions supported by more historical performance data.
Our rating approach for this counterparty instrument rating (CIR) rests on three propositions:
» The CIRs are based on an analysis of the payment promise made by the trust, the position of the instrument in the payment waterfall, the credit quality of the rated payment flows, the security arrangements governing the trust's relationship with the counterparty, the support mechanisms available to the counterparty, the termination date of the swap and other structural features of the transaction in question. In this regard, the rating process is similar to that for all other ratings assigned by Moody's.
» The credit quality and ratings assigned to counterparty instrument obligations of the trust may differ from those of its payment obligations to bondholders. As a result, ratings assigned to bonds issued by the trust may diverge from the CIR and therefore the bond ratings may offer only a limited guidance on the CIR.
» Although counterparty instrument ratings address payments to rather than from the counterparty, in certain circumstances the credit strength of the counterparty itself may have a bearing on the CIR. For example, where a counterparty's non-performance under a swap agreement leads to the trust having to make a termination payment to that counterparty, Moody's will take into account the likelihood of the counterparty's non-performance occurring and the position of termination payments in the cash flow waterfall . Specifically, in the event that the swap counterparty causes a termination event, any termination payment owed to the swap counterparty may be paid at the bottom of the cash flow waterfall. As a result, a default by the swap counterparty, which is currently rated Aa3, makes payment in full to the counterparty unlikely.
By way of background, the swap counterparty, Deutsche Bank AG, New York Branch in this case, receives a fixed rate from, and pays LIBOR to, the trust on a notional amount that is a monthly amount set forth in the schedule to the swap agreement. Per the terms of the deal documents, the swap counterparty receives payments prior to bondholders, and is thus in a senior position to all bonds issued by the trust. The termination date for the Certificate Swap is 25th May, 2012. To pay the swap counterparty, the trust also has access to principal payments, liquidation proceeds and interest collections. This provision strengthens the nature of senior payment right of the swap counterparty.
The primary risks driving the rating on the swap is the risk that the collateral pool amortizes at a rate that exceeds the amortization rate of the swap notional and the risk of a termination event triggered by a default of the swap counterparty. As the notional amount is fixed according to a monthly schedule, it is likely, especially in high default scenarios, that the collateral balance would amortize faster than the swap notional. The counterparty in the swap, Deutsche Bank AG, New York Branch, has a Aa3 long term rating and a P-1 short term rating by Moody's.
Our methodology for rating swaps on US RMBS transactions includes running collateral cashflows and considers the rating of the swap counterparty. We stress the cashflows by increasing defaults and prepayments to determine what level of collateral stress would cause a shortfall in proceeds owed to the swap counterparty. The cashflows are modeled to reflect the waterfall of the underlying transaction, which results in all swap payments other than termination payments caused by a counterparty default coming at the top of the waterfall. Termination payments owed to the swap counterparty resulting from a default of the swap counterparty are paid at the bottom of the waterfall. The swap in this transaction passed scenarios consistent with the Aaa collateral cashflow stresses. Sensitivity to a decline in the weighted average interest rate of the collateral pool was also analyzed. However, when considering the swap provider's long term rating, Aa3, and additional qualitative considerations that were not modeled, such as interest rate reduction modifications or more conservative servicer advancing approaches, Moody's assigned the swap a A1 (sf) rating.
Moody's projected remaining loss on the mortgage pool as a percentage of the current balance is 44%.
Other methodologies and factors that may have been considered in the process of rating this issuer can also be found on Moody's website.
In addition, Moody's publishes a weekly summary of structured finance credit, ratings and methodologies, available to all registered users of our website, at www.moodys.com/SFQuickCheck.
Moody's Investors Service did not receive or take into account a third party due diligence report on the underlying assets or financial instruments in this transaction.
Information sources used to prepare the credit rating are the following: parties involved in the ratings, parties not involved in the ratings, public information, confidential and proprietary Moody's Investors Service information, and confidential and proprietary Moody's Analytics information.
Moody's Investors Service considers the quality of information available on the issuer of obligation satisfactory for the purposes of assigning a credit rating. However, the credit rating action was based on limited historical data.
Todd Swanson
Asst Vice President - Analyst
Kruti Muni
VP - Senior Credit Officer


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Ophrys apifera v chlorantha
O. apifera was first described by Hudson from England as far back as 1762. Its name refers to the flowers resemblance to a bee and accordingly the species has long been commonly (and affectionately) known as the Bee Orchid.
It's a widespread orchid with a distribution across temperate and Mediterranean Europe as far east as the Caucasus. In its favoured locations it can be abundant and its choice of habitat is wide, ranging from the driest chalk grassland and garrigue to wet even swampy conditions. It usually favours full sun positions but will tolerate (though not relish) even significant shade. The plants featured here were growing in the deep shade of a pinewood and photography of yellow and white flowers in such conditions was very difficult.
O. apifera is largely self pollinating and this autogamy seems responsible for the frequent appearance of variant plants, some of which, although not of evolutionary significance, occur on a sufficiently regular basis to have aquired formal varietal status.
O. apifera v chlorantha is one of the commoner variants and occurs throughout the range of the type species. Its appearance is distinctive and although general shape and configuration is normal, the colouration is very different. This variation is particularly common in O. apifera and caused by a hypochromatic condition that reduces pigmentation. The level of pigment reduction determines the appearance of the plant and it can vary from a partial loss of colour (semi hypochromatic) to a complete loss that renders the specimen simply yellow and white (as here). Unsurprisingly this variation is commonly called the White Bee Orchid. The pictures here come from the Akamas hills of Cyprus and date from the 20th of March.

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Association of prepregnancy body mass index, rate of gestational weight gain with pregnancy outcomes in Chinese urban women
Xueyin Wang ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4461-324X1,
Xiaosong Zhang1,
Min Zhou1,
Juan Juan1 &
Xu Wang1
The prevalence of obesity and excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) has been increasing worldwide. The aims of this study were to evaluate associations of prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and rate of GWG in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters with pregnancy outcomes in Chinese urban women, and to examine the dose-response relationship between rate of GWG and pregnancy outcomes.
A retrospective analysis included 8926 women who delivered live singletons at ≥28 weeks of gestation between June 2012 and March 2013 among Chinese urban women. BMI was classified into underweight (BMI < 18.5 kg/m2), normal weight (18.5 kg/m2 ≤ BMI < 24 kg/m2), overweight (24 kg/m2 ≤ BMI < 28 kg/m2) and obese (BMI ≥ 28 kg/m2) according to the Chinese standard. Rate of GWG in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters was classified as insufficient, adequate and excessive if it was below, within, or above the 2009 IOM guidelines (0.44–0.58 kg/w [underweight], 0.35–0.50 kg/w [normal], 0.23–0.33 kg/w [overweight], and 0.17–0.27 kg/w [obese]). Logistic regression models and restricted cubic spline analyses were used to assess the association of prepregnancy BMI and rate of GWG with cesarean delivery, preterm birth, small-for-gestational age (SGA) and large-for-gestational age (LGA).
22.6 and 50.0% of women had insufficient and excessive rate of GWG, respectively. After adjustment for potential confounders, prepregnancy underweight was associated with increased risk of SGA (OR = 1.71, 95% CI: 1.40–2.09), while both overweight and obesity were associated with higher risk of cesarean delivery (overweight: OR [95% CI] = 1.80 [1.56–2.08]; obese: 2.34 [1.69–3.24]) and LGA (overweight: 1.75 [1.44–2.13]; obese: 2.48 [1.71–3.60]). Both insufficient (OR = 1.34, 95% CI: 1.08–1.65) and excessive rates of GWG (OR = 1.44, 95% CI: 1.20–1.73) were associated with higher risk of preterm birth. Insufficient rate of GWG was associated with increased odds of SGA (OR = 1.49, 95% CI: 1.16–1.82), while excessive rate of GWG was associated with higher risk for cesarean delivery (OR = 1.22, 95% CI: 1.10–1.35) and LGA (OR = 1.58, 95% CI: 1.33–1.87). Additionally, there were significant nonlinear associations between rate of GWG and preterm birth (U-shaped, P for nonlinear < 0.001).
Prepregnancy overweight, obesity and underweight, and insufficient and excessive rate of GWG were associated with increased risk of pregnancy outcomes in Chinese urban women.
Obesity and overweight have become major health concerns in women of childbearing age, and their prevalence has been increasing worldwide. Data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) indicated that 45% of US women who give birth were overweight and obese before pregnancy [1], while overweight and obesity have affected 6~24% of Chinese women of reproductive age [2,3,4,5]. Prepregnancy overweight or obesity has been associated with a number of poor maternal and neonatal outcomes such as higher risk of cesarean delivery, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), preterm birth, macrosomia, and low Apgar scores [1, 4, 6]. In addition, maternal obesity may also affect the long-term health of their children, such as increasing the risk of obesity, poor body fat distribution, high blood pressure, adverse lipid profile, and insulin resistance in child and adult offspring [7, 8]. On the other hand, maternal underweight with the prevalence of 11–14% in Chinese pregnant women has been also associated with suboptimal fetal growth, including low birth weight and small-for-gestational age (SGA) [2,3,4, 6, 9].
Gestational weight gain (GWG) is a potentially modifiable risk factor for a series of adverse pregnancy outcomes which could be reduced by nutrition or exercise interventions during pregnancy [10]. Recently, a systematic review and meta-analysis estimated that 47% of pregnant women had excessive GWG and 23% had inadequate GWG according to 2009 Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations [11]. Excessive GWG has been associated with increased risk of cesarean delivery, hypertensive diseases of pregnancy, postpartum weight retention, macrosomia, and childhood overweight or obesity for the offspring, whereas insufficient GWG may contribute to low birth weight, preterm birth and failure to initiate breast-feeding [10, 12, 13]. In addition, some previous epidemiologic studies using total GWG (kg) as the measurement may introduce bias because of neglecting the inherent correlation between GWG and gestational age at delivery [14, 15]. Moreover, the rate of GWG is constant and its association with pregnancy time is close to be linear in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters [16], and thus, the rate of GWG in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters would be more preferable for evaluating the association between GWG and pregnancy outcomes. Furthermore, few studies have examined the dose-response relationship between GWG and pregnancy outcomes. To our knowledge, only two studies reported the dose-response relationship between rate of GWG in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters and preterm birth [15, 17].
Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to examine associations of prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and rate of GWG in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters with pregnancy outcomes in Chinese urban women, and we also assessed the dose-response relationship between rate of GWG and pregnancy outcomes in the whole population and in women stratified by prepregnancy BMI categories.
Study design and participants
This was a multicenter, retrospective cohort study of postpartum women and their neonates conducted in 14 hospitals in urban areas of China, including 3 centers in Beijing, 2 centers in Guangdong province, 3 centers in Hunan province, 2 centers in Hubei province, 2 centers in Sichuan province and 2 centers in Shanxi province. Women aged ≥18 years with a gestational age of ≥28 weeks and live birth who delivered during 10th–19th of the last month of every quarter from June 2012 to March 2013 were recruited in order to control for seasonal variations. A structured questionnaire was designed to collect information on demographic characteristics, lifestyle behavior, obstetric and medical history of pregnancy, and pregnancy outcomes. During hospitalization for delivery, face-to-face interviews were conducted to collect information on demographic characteristics and lifestyle behavior, and clinical information was obtained retrospectively based on their medical records. Among 9152 participants with full medical history of regularly scheduled antenatal visits and delivery, 226 women with multiple gestation, pre-conception history of severe heart disease or chronic renal disease were excluded. Overall, the current analysis was limited to 8926 deliveries. All participants provided written informed consent, and the study was approved by the institutional review board of Peking University First Hospital.
Classification of prepregnancy BMI and rate of GWG
The weight (kilograms) and height (meters) of all pregnant women were measured at each antenatal visits in light clothing without shoes. At the enrollment after delivery, weight and height at the first antenatal visit, weight at the last antenatal visit in the first trimester or the first antenatal visit in the 2nd trimester, and weight at the last antenatal visit or the time of delivery were recorded based on the medical records. Prepregnancy BMI was calculated as the weight in kilograms divided by the square of height measured in meters, and classified into four groups according to the Chinese standard [18]: underweight (BMI < 18.5 kg/m2), normal weight (18.5 kg/m2 ≤ BMI < 24 kg/m2), overweight (24 kg/m2 ≤ BMI < 28 kg/m2) and obese (BMI ≥ 28 kg/m2). The rate of GWG in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters was calculated as: [(final weight measured at the last antenatal visit or the time of delivery – weight measured at the last antenatal visit in the first trimester or the first antenatal visit in the 2nd trimester) / (gestational age at delivery – 13 weeks)] [16]. According to the 2009 IOM guidelines, the rate of GWG was classified into insufficient, adequate and excessive if it was below, within, or above the recommendations as follows: 0.44–0.58 kg/w (underweight), 0.35–0.50 kg/w (normal), 0.23–0.33 kg/w (overweight), and 0.17–0.27 kg/w (obese) [16].
Definition of pregnancy outcomes
The main outcomes of this study were cesarean delivery, preterm birth (defined as delivery before 37 weeks gestation [19]), large-for-gestational age (LGA) and SGA. LGA and SGA were indicated by birth weight less than and greater than the 10th and 90th percentile, respectively, for the same gestational age by sex, according to the Chinese neonatal birth weight curve [20].
Assessment of covariates
Covariates included age, gestational age at delivery, education, drinking during pregnancy, passive smoking, annual household income, number of parity, GDM, and PIH. Age, education, drinking during pregnancy, passive smoking, annual household income and number of parity were assessed by the interviewer-administered questionnaire. Gestational age at delivery was determined from the date of last menstrual period to the date of delivery and expressed in the week after the last menstrual period. If the date was uncertain, ultrasonography was used to determine gestational age. GDM was diagnosed according to the diagnostic criteria amended by China's Ministry of Health [21], which recommend that the diagnosis should be made when any one of the following values is met or exceeded in the 75 oral glucose tolerance test at 24–28 weeks: 0 h, 5.1 mmol/L; 1 h, 10.0 mmol/L; and 2 h 8.5 mmol/L. PIH was defined as systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg after 20 weeks of gestation [22].
Demographics characteristics and pregnancy outcomes were presented as numbers and frequency distributions for categorical variables, or median and interquartile range for continuous variables, and were compared using the chi-square test or Kruskal-Wallis test. Multivariable logistic regression models were conducted to estimate odds ratios (ORs) and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of pregnancy outcomes across categories of prepregnancy BMI or rate of GWG. Models were adjusted for age, gestational age at delivery (except for the outcome of preterm birth), education, drinking during pregnancy, passive smoking, annual household income, number of parity, and study centers. Further models included mutual adjustment of prepregnancy BMI or rate of GWG as appropriate. The normal weight group and adequate GWG rate group were used as the reference groups, respectively. Sensitivity analyses were conducted to additionally adjust for GDM and PIH. Restricted cubic spline (RCS) logistic regression models were used to assess nonlinear effects of GWG rate on adverse pregnancy outcomes by treating the median level of GWG rate as the reference, using 4 knots located at the 5th, 35th, 65th, and 95th percentiles of the distribution of GWG rate. Analyses were carried out using SAS software version 9.2 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC), and the RCS was performed using SAS RCS_Reg macro [23]. All P values are two-sided, and a 0.05 level was used to declare significant differences.
Among 8926 postpartum women, 22.6, 27.4 and 50.0% of women had insufficient, adequate and excessive rate of GWG, respectively. More than 70% of participants who were overweight or obese had excessive rate of GWG (Fig. 1). Distribution of pregnancy outcomes, prepregnancy BMI and rate of GWG by study centers is shown in Additional file 1: Table S1 and Additional file 2: Table S2, respectively. Table 1 shows demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants according to the prepregnancy BMI and rate of GWG categories. The prepregnancy BMI was inversely associated with rate of GWG (P < 0.001). Women with greater prepregnancy BMI were more likely to be multiparous, and have a higher risk of GDM and PIH, and were less likely to have a higher level of annual household income (all P < 0.05). Overweight women were slightly older and obese women were more likely to be exposed to passive smoking than women of normal weight (all P < 0.05). Women with excessive rate of GWG had a higher likelihood of PIH, and women with insufficient rate of GWG were more likely to be multiparous, and to have a lower education level than those with adequate rate of GWG (all P < 0.05).
Percentage of gestational weight gain rate categories in different prepregnancy BMI groups
Table 1 Characteristics of participants by prepregnancy BMI and rate of gestational weight gain
Additional file 3: Table S3 illustrates the prevalence of adverse pregnancy outcomes by prepregnancy BMI and rate of GWG categories. Prepregnancy BMI and rate of GWG were positively associated with risk of cesarean delivery and LGA (all P < 0.001). Women with underweight and obese had higher prevalence of SGA compared with those of normal weight (P < 0.001). Both insufficient and excessive rates of GWG were associated with higher prevalence of preterm birth than those with adequate rate of GWG (all P < 0.01).
Associations of prepregnancy BMI and rate of GWG with pregnancy outcomes
Table 2 shows associations of adverse pregnancy outcomes with prepregnancy BMI and rate of GWG categories. After adjustment for potential confounders, prepregnancy underweight was associated with higher risk for SGA (OR = 1.71, 95% CI: 1.40–2.09), and both prepregnancy overweight and obesity were associated with higher risk for cesarean delivery (overweight: OR = 1.80, 95% CI: 1.56–2.08; obese: OR = 2.34, 95% CI: 1.69–3.24), and LGA (overweight: OR = 1.75, 95% CI: 1.44–2.13; obese: OR = 2.48, 95% CI: 1.71–3.60). Insufficient rate of GWG was associated with increased odds of preterm birth (OR = 1.34, 95% CI: 1.08–1.65), and SGA (OR = 1.45, 95% CI: 1.16–1.82), while excessive rate of GWG was associated with higher risk for cesarean delivery (OR = 1.22, 95% CI: 1.10–1.35), preterm birth (OR = 1.44, 95% CI: 1.20–1.73), and LGA (OR = 1.58, 95% CI: 1.33–1.87). The results remained significant after further mutual adjustment for rate of GWG or prepregnancy BMI.
Table 2 Adjusted ORs (95% CIs) for pregnancy outcomes by prepregnancy BMI and rate of GWG
Sensitivity analyses were conducted to additionally adjust for GDM and PIH, and results were generally similar between models including and not including these two variables (Additional file 4: Table S4). We further examined the relationships between rate of GWG and pregnancy outcomes by prepregnancy BMI categories. Results were generally consistent pertaining to associations of GWG rate with the risk of pregnancy outcomes across different BMI groups, except for cesarean delivery (Additional file 6: Figure S1).
Dose-response relationship of rate of GWG and adverse pregnancy outcomes
The RCS analysis presented in Additional file 5: Table S5 partly confirmed the results above. Higher levels of GWG rate were associated with higher risk of cesarean delivery and LGA, and associated with lower risk of SGA (all P overall < 0.001). Both lower and higher levels of GWG rate were associated with increased risk of preterm birth compared with the median of GWG rate of 0.50 kg/w (P overall < 0.001, Additional file 5: Table S5 and Fig. 2). Fig. 2 shows the shape of associations between continuous rate of GWG and the risk of preterm birth and LGA based on the RCS logistic regression models. Among all participants, rate of GWG was nonlinearly associated with the risk of preterm birth (U-shaped, P nonlinear < 0.001) and LGA (P nonlinear = 0.002) after adjustment for potential confounders. Subgroup analysis based on different BMI categories has been shown in Additional file 5: Table S5. Similar results for the shape and the magnitude of associations of GWG rate with the risk of pregnancy outcomes were found between women with normal weight and the whole population.
Log ORs and 95% CIs for rate of GWG with risk of preterm birth (a) and LGA (b). Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CI, confidence interval; GWG, gestational weight gain; LGA, large-for-gestational age; OR, odds ratio. Adjusted for study centers, age, gestational age at delivery, education, drinking during pregnancy, passive smoking, annual household income, number of parity, and prepregnancy BMI; Preterm birth was not adjusted for gestational age at delivery
In this retrospective cohort study of Chinese urban women, 22.6, 27.4 and 50.0% of women had insufficient, adequate and excessive rate of GWG in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, respectively, and more than 70% of women who were overweight or obese had excessive rate of GWG according to the IOM recommendations. We also found that maternal underweight prepregnancy BMI was associated with higher risk of SGA, while overweight or obese pregnancy BMI was associated with increased odds of cesarean delivery and LGA. After adjusting for potential confounding factors, both insufficient and excessive rates of GWG were associated with higher risk of preterm birth than women with adequate rate of GWG. In addition, insufficient rate of GWG was associated with increased risk of SGA, whereas excessive rate of GWG was associated with higher risk of cesarean delivery and LGA.
One interesting finding of our study is that we observed a U-shaped association of GWG rate with preterm birth by both logistic regression and RCS analysis. Consistent with our findings, a previous study also reported a U-shaped relationship, with both low and high rates of 2nd and 3rd trimester GWG having a positive association with preterm birth among US pregnancy women [17]. Another study also indicated that the association between rate of GWG and preterm birth was U-shaped in Peruvian women who were normal-weight or overweight before pregnancy [24]. The potential mechanisms linking insufficient rate of GWG and an elevated risk of preterm birth may involve diminished uteroplacental blood flow, poor expansion of plasma volume, deficiencies in micronutrients, impaired antioxidant activity, infection and inflammation, while excessive rate of GWG may be associated with an increased risk of preterm birth due to induction of a pro-inflammatory state and fluid retention associated with preeclampsia [24, 25]. Potential mechanisms underlying the association between GWG and preterm birth needed to be further explored in future research.
Another finding of our study is that insufficient rate of GWG was associated with higher risk of SGA. In concordance with our results, the forementioned PRAMS cohort also reported that inadequate GWG in underweight and normal prepregnancy BMI groups was associated with increased risk for SGA infants [26]. A large-scale retrospective study conducted in Japanese women found that poor GWG was associated with a higher frequency of SGA [6]. Another retrospective cohort study focusing on Taipei women also demonstrated that GWG below the guideline increased the risk of SGA in women with prepregnancy underweight or normal weight [4]. In contrast to a previous study suggesting that GWG below recommendations was associated with a four-fold risk of SGA in US obese women [27], our study demonstrated that insufficient rate of GWG was associated with SGA among women who were prepregnancy underweight or normal weight rather than overweight/obese women. Differences in findings may be partly due to ethnicity disparities. Although factors associated with low GWG and high risk of SGA are largely unknown, several studies inferred that ethnicity, inflammation and preeclampsia might be risk factors for poor fetal growth [28].
The positive associations of prepregnancy BMI and rate of GWG with increased risk of LGA have reported in different populations [4, 6, 11, 26], which is in line with our study. A retrospective cohort study conducted in Taiwanese women also reported that overweight or obese women were at risk for LGA, compared with the women of normal weight, and GWG above the guideline was associated with higher rates of LGA [4]. Another study also revealed that excess GWG was associated with a higher frequency of LGA in Japanese women [6]. Similar to that reported by a recent systematic review and meta-analysis [11], we also found the strongest association between insufficient rate of GWG and lower risk of LGA in underweight women. It might be partly explained by the association of baseline maternal BMI and GWG with changes in the hormonal milieu, including insulin resistance, suggested by animal studies [29].
In addition, we also found that prepregnancy overweight/obesity was associated with an elevated risk of cesarean delivery, which was in accordance with the findings of previous studies [6, 30,31,32]. The association between overweight/obese and increased risk of cesarean delivery might partly due to excess pelvic soft tissue which can lead to a relative obstruction of the birth canal, and decreased rates of cervical dilation and subsequent increased rate of inductions after labor had started [31, 33]. However, the relationship between rate of GWG and cesarean delivery is still controversial. A prospective cohort study conducted in the Netherlands reported that 1st trimester rate of GWG increased odds of cesarean delivery (OR = 1.19, 95% CI 1.10–1.29), while rate of 2nd and 3rd trimester GWG was not associated with cesarean delivery [30]. Another retrospective cohort study among Hispanic women indicated that rate of GWG in the 3rd trimester was associated with a 1.24 odds of cesarean delivery, whereas excessive rate of GWG in the 1st and 2nd trimester was not associated with higher risk of cesarean delivery [31]. In the current study, we observed that rate of GWG in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters was associated with increased risk of cesarean delivery. Prior studies indicated that excessive GWG might contribute to risk of cesarean delivery through an increase in child birth weight, and an elevated rate of preeclampsia independent of prepregnancy BMI [31, 33].
The main strengths of this study include a relatively large sample size, using rate of GWG in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters to control for the effect of length of pregnancy on pregnancy outcomes, adjusting for potential confounding factors comprehensively, and utilizing RCS analysis to assess dose-response relationships of GWG rate with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Our study has several limitations. First, our data included only Chinese Han population, and it is unclear whether the results can be extrapolated to women of other ethnic groups. Second, we did not record GWG for different trimesters of pregnancy, so we were unable to examine associations of pregnancy outcomes with rate of GWG in different trimesters. Finally, we did not differentiate spontaneous and induced preterm birth, and did not distinguish between emergency and elective cesarean deliveries.
In summary, our study indicated that overweight or obese women had higher risk of cesarean delivery and LGA, and underweight women had higher risk of SGA. We observed a U-shaped association between GWG rate in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters and preterm birth. And we found that insufficient rate of GWG was associated with increased risk of SGA, whereas excessive rate of GWG was associated with higher risk of cesarean delivery and LGA. Our findings emphasize the importance of maintaining normal prepregnancy BMI and adequate GWG in preventing adverse pregnancy outcomes by implementing healthy lifestyle strategies before and during pregnancy.
The datasets analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
GDM:
Gestational diabetes mellitus
GWG:
Gestational weight gain
IOM:
Institute of Medicine
LGA:
Large-for-gestational age
PIH:
Pregnancy-induced hypertension
PRAMS:
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
RCS:
Restricted cubic spline
SGA:
Small-for-gestational age
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We thank all participants and investigators, and all staff of medical record section in 14 hospitals.
This study was funded by the Scientific Research Seed Fund of Peking University First Hospital Project (2019SF37).
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Table S1. Distribution of pregnancy outcomes by study centers. (DOCX 31 kb)
Table S2. Distribution of prepregnancy BMI and rate of gestational weight gain by study centers. (DOCX 20 kb)
Table S3. Pregnancy outcomes by prepregnancy BMI and rate of gestational weight gain. (DOCX 17 kb)
Table S4. Adjusted ORs (95% CIs) for pregnancy outcomes by prepregnancy BMI and rate of gestational weight gain. (DOCX 16 kb)
Table S5. Adjusted ORs (95% CIs) for pregnancy outcomes and rate of gestational weight gain. (DOCX 19 kb)
Figure S1. Adjusted ORs for pregnancy outcomes according to prepregnancy BMI and rate of gestational weight gain. Abbreviations: BMI: body mass index; GWG, gestational weight gain; LGA, large-for-gestational age; OR: odds ratio; SGA, small-for-gestational age. Values are ORs for cesarean delivery (A), preterm birth (B), SGA (C) and LGA (D). Adjusted for study centers, age, gestational age at delivery, education, drinking during pregnancy, passive smoking, annual household income, and number of parity; Preterm birth was not adjusted for gestational age at delivery*. (JPG 52 kb)
Wang, X., Zhang, X., Zhou, M. et al. Association of prepregnancy body mass index, rate of gestational weight gain with pregnancy outcomes in Chinese urban women. Nutr Metab (Lond) 16, 54 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12986-019-0386-z
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Ally, I do not deserve the many, many chances I have been given. I refused to see a doctor (any kind of doctor) for almost 20 years. My A1C was once over 12, probably higher, and i refused to do anything about it. Yet, here I sit in reasonable good health. So what is the message? We need to be thankful for what we have, and work hard to make things better for our community. After all what choice do we have? Not much really.


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Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to present A Shadow As Big As A Hat, the first New York solo show of video by Jonathan Ehrenberg.
Ehrenberg's in-camera special effects offer elaborate windows for his fictions to revolve and transform through uncanny distortions of time and place.
Addressing themes of transformation and metamorphosis, the exhibition's central work, Seed, borrows from Nikolai Gogol's The Nose with its portrayal of a man whose body begins to slowly shed its pieces. As his identity slips away, he seeks help from a shamanistic healer who is able to restore the man's physical body, albeit with an unsettling new corporeality. Evoking feelings of disembodiment and loss of self, Seed explores supernatural states of reverie through manipulated montages and a tragic story that romances as much as it disturbs.
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JOHN MENADUE. The Coalition and media myth about stopping the boats.
With the appointment of Angus Campbell as the new Chief of the General Staff we have witnessed again the repetition of the nonsense that the Coalition and Operation Sovereign Borders stopped the boats. As if the media farce over a Chinese military base in Vanuatu was not enough the media has climbed aboard again to continue the myth about the stopping of the boats. Perhaps being careless in the first place the media finds it embarrassing to admit error.
Below I have reposted what I posted in Pearls and Irritations in 2017 and earlier
Peter Hughes and I posted two blogs in September 2015 ('Slogans versus facts on boat arrivals' Part 1 and Part 2) that pointed out first, that Tony Abbott kept the door open for tens of thousands of boat arrivals by opposing legislation that would have enabled implementation of the Malaysia Arrangement of September 2011. Secondly, we pointed out that Tony Abbott's role in 'stopping the boats' was at the margins and vastly overrated.
Since then, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton have continued their spin about how they stopped the boats. They didn't. Unfortunately, our mainstream media were duped in the first place by uncritically accepting the Coalition's line in the confused period of the changeover of governments and in the drama and secrecy surrounding a small number of turn backs.
Our main conclusion in those posts was that:
By the time Operation Sovereign Borders geared up for its first boat turn backs on 19 December 2013, the number of boat arrivals was down from 48 in July 2013 to only seven in December 2013. OSB applied only to the tail end of the boat drama. The 'game-changer' was Kevin Rudd's announcement in July 2013 that people arriving by boat after that time would not be settled in Australia.
Arguably boat turn backs would not have been successful at all without the July 2013 decision. For example, the Navy and Customs were able to turn back three boats in December 2013 after the introduction of OSB. It's hard to believe that it would have been physically possible to turn back 48 boats if they had continued at the monthly rate that occurred in July 2013 and that Indonesia would have quietly acquiesced.
In short, Tony Abbot in Opposition gave the green light to people smugglers by opposing the implementation of the Malaysia Arrangement in September 2011. In Government, Operation Sovereign Borders, had a marginal effect on boat arrivals. By the time OSB came into effect, the number of boat arrivals had been dramatically reduced.
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3 Responses to JOHN MENADUE. The Coalition and media myth about stopping the boats.
Kevin Bain says:
Yes, MSM is lazy on the detail but Abbott was able to spook Rudd into the July 2013 "no settlement here" decision, so he's entitled to share the ignominy. No wonder he lacks credibility for either truth or competency. When he did a U turn in 2016 in favour of the 2011 "Malaysia solution", he said "the 800 boat people that could have been sent to Malaysia was less than a month's intake, even then" which is more than double the figures in your Arrivals Table prior to his decision.
With Costello, Menadue, Brennan, Robert Manne has tried to find a least-worst solution (based on political realism rather than moral purism) without much effect or support. His recent book of essays reminds us that public opinion since about 2000 has been against generous treatment of refugees who arrive by boat. The big challenge is how can we ever remove this "original sin" from our national DNA, which is probably bigger now? The growth of refugee numbers has led to harder hearts internationally, with step-back policies from Macron, Merkel, Trudeau. There are many admirable grassroots groups advocating for higher values and working on projects in local communities and institutions , but the power to achieve new policy settings is missing.
John O'Callaghan says:
The MSM in this country are bloody woeful at informing us but very good at running a protection racket for this Government, have a look at the way the majority of the presstitites protected Bill Morrow at the PC the other day, bloody cringe worthy Murdoch bum wiping performance by almost the whole lot of em!
Mike Yewdall says:
It's no surprise that the government stretches the truth, to be kind about it. The number of spin doctors used by this lot is a goldmine for the PR industry and the politics of fear has always been a weapon of the conservatives. After all, they don't have anything else to offer.


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Very useful format and descriptions of drills. I am using Sportplan...
Tony, Coach
There will be 2 teams. One on each side of the court.
Players will be number from 1 to 10 depending on how mnay in a team.
When a player's number is callled out there will be a basketball and they must shoot it
- Reaction Timing
- Agility
- Speed & Acceration
- Shooting
- Drbbling
1 on 1 Continuous
Split into 2 lines and have a line on either side of the court. One player in the middle with a basketball. The player in the middle will pass to the 1st player in one of the lines. After the pass is made that player will go and defender the receiver of the pass. They will play 1v1. Only 1 shot is allowed. Once a shot has been taken the ball will be passed to the opposite line where the offensive player will become the defender.
1 v 1 Advantage
A line of players will start in the corner. There will be a cone in front of the players about 25 ft away. There will also be a cone along the baseline that the defensive player will run around. The player at the front of the line will have a basketball. The coach will nominate 1 person to start on defence. When the coach yells GO both players will take off to get around their cones. Once they are around the cones they are playing 1 v 1.
Stuck in the Mud
All players have a ball each. The catchers have to try and touch one of the players without bibs. If they succeed in doing so then that person has to stand still and put their ball on their head.
1 on 1 continuous - rear view
2 on 2 Half Court
Play 2 versus 2 at one basket. No dribbling allowed. Alternate possession. Play to eleven.
2 on 2 Helpside Drill
white1 and white2 will pass ball to each other 3 or 4 times. blue1 and blue2 will adjust accordingly. red1 and red2 are continually getting open. white1 or white2 will pass to either red1 or red2. Now, it becomes a 2 on 2 game. reds vs blues until reds score or blues get the ball. Rotation = Offence to defence, defence to passers.
Split the class into groups of 6. With 3 defenders and 3 attackers. One team starts with the ball and is attacking the basket, with the other team defending. If the defenders get the ball then the roles are reversed.
4 on 2 Grid Passing Drill
Players play a 4 on 2 passing game within the grid area. When defending wins the ball 2 whites move out of the area and another two move into play a 4 v 2 again.
Play 4 versus 4 at one basket with the following rules: No Dribbling Pass and screen or pass and cut Make it - take it First team to 7 wins
Animal - Everyone vs. Everyone
3 players in key, coach bounces ball in. Everyone is competing for the ball. Player who gets a shot in returns to the line and another player comes in. It is continuous play.
Basketball Bulldog
White Player 1 is 'On' Blue Players 1 to 8 try to dribble their basketballs to the opposite line. Any players that the white player touches are 'caught' and will be 'On' with white player 1. The players that make it to the other side continue until there is one winner.
Select between 2 to 6 people to be in the middle (depending on the size of the group). The rest of the group each have a ball and on the command they have to dribble from one end of the court to the other. They have to make sure that they avoid the catchers in the middle who are trying to knock their ball away. If one of the dribblers is caught they join the other catchers in the middle.
Carolina Shooting Drill
2 players work with 1 basketball. Players must catch and shoot on the move. Once a player has shot they should catch their own rebound and pass to the other players. Once the player has passed the ball, they should make a run/cut and then get ready to shoot the ball.
Set up two wide cones with 2 teams facing each other. Both teams are going in the same direction around the cones. The goal is to catch up with the other team to tag or over take them. The team that does this is the winner. Each player will complete a full circle around both cones before passing to the next player.
Catch the ball passing game
One defending player is trying to catch the player in possession of the ball. Players in possession of the ball can not move. Players without the ball can move though to make themselves available to receive the pass. If a player is caught whilst in possession of the ball they must now become the catcher and the drill starts again.
Grip Game
Each player has a basketball. At the end of each baseline put a football goal. The coach has a volleyball. Each player must hold his or her basketball with both hands (fingertips). The game starts in the central circle. The coach bounces the volleyball and players must hit the volleyball with the basketball and try to score a goal.
Hot Seat- Shooting Game
Set up as shown in diagram. If the player makes the shot, then they will go to the back of the line and the next player will shoot. If a player misses a shot, then they will go stand by the cone (this place is called the "hot seat") If the next player makes the shot, then the player on the "hot seat" is out. If the next player misses then the player on the "hot seat" goes to the back of the line and the player who missed takes their place on the "hot seat". The winner is the last person in the game.
Island Bulldog
Players with a ball try and get to the other side without being caught (must dribble the ball). None of the players are allowed on the islands (Set up area with cones).
Players dribble their ball outside from island to island without being caught by the catcher. The catcher is not allowed on the Islands. Anybody caught goes to a prison island.
IT Basketball
2 team of players try to touch a nominated player with the ball. The player that does manage to touch the player with the ball becomes the next player to try and avoid the ball from touching them.
There will be 2 teams. One on each side of the court. Players will be number from 1 to 10 depending on how mnay in a team. When a player's number is callled out there will be a basketball and they must shoot it


For the first time ever ECOintention training will be provided in English in the USA this October. This is the practice I describe in some detail in the Volution dissertation. You can find out more online here and register here.
Here is an article that has been brewing for a while about what I see as a critical missing piece in approaches to transitions and transformation. Feel free to share it around!
The next immersive version of the Introduction to Energetics course will be starting on May 7th.
I have just completed a new online course aiming to give people an introduction to understanding and working with energetics in large-scale systems.
In the conclusion, I share what I have learned, the further research that I see ahead, and other potential next steps.
The Abstract summarises the core thesis.
The Introduction introduces definitions of language I use, frames the context, and describes the purpose and process of the research, as well as the core thesis.
There are practices, documented by the wisdom traditions and today's progressive scientists, as well as implemented by current communities, that can be used to work with all dimensions of this volution process (beyond only the part of the spectrum that most of us can see).
This section looks at both the implications at the individual as well as the collective level, starting with the individual level, within the context of the collective.
This fourth section goes into more detail on the phases of growth within a holographic torus-like entity as it moves from seed to fruit. I have chosen to explore this through the lens of eight phases, as an octave.


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Can We Cool it With the "Woman Disguised as a Man" Twist Already?
By Vrai Kaiser on August 15, 2016 • ( 8 Comments )
During the summer of 1997, Mulan was seven year old Vrai's very favorite movie; during the fall of 1997, it was therefore assured that a costume from the movie. What that small child quickly found, however, is that while they wanted to dress up as Ping, all that the stores were selling was the matchmaker dress. Nobody thought it worth selling the masculine clothes when obviously the girly girl no really totally a girl bit was obviously more appealing. This trend never stopped. Your author just got more bitter about it.
As for why it's come up now, a story: I've been inundated lately with comments about how I should watch Voltron: Legendary Defender. It's the Legend of Korra writing team. It's really clever and adorable. And, most alluringly, it supposedly had a canonically non-binary character. I'm nothing if not predictable.
[Minor Voltron spoilers follow]
But the thing is, as I found out very quickly, Voltron doesn't have a non-binary character. Perhaps you're already putting the pieces together from the title of this article, but just in case: what the show has is a character (Pidge) who passes as male for the first few episodes, only to reveal to her friends that she is actually female about halfway through the series. At which point I walked away from anything breakable in my house.
The next point of order, of course, is "how could you possibly be upset about this, when it's your own dumb fault for getting taken in by rumors?" And you know, there's a certain truth to that. The recommendations were well intentioned, seeming to stem from stories that the writers had described Pidge as "they" in the writer's room to try and preserve the twist, which they quickly backed off from once they realized that "they" is an actual pronoun actual people use; and a screenshot in the comic where Pidge is on panel and referred to as "they" in a sentence which might also be describing all the pilots. The writers, meanwhile, have been hitting the point almost comically hard in interviews about how Pidge sure is a girl, and isn't that great.
Which, fine. In truth, Pidge is written with probably the best "post reveal" fallout I've ever seen with this trope. No one really refers to Pidge with any pronouns at all after the conversation occurs, and no one treats her differently. This is a far cry from revealing that the trans character in Fushigi Yugi was "only" presenting as female to honor her dead sister's memory, after which she was summarily killed off. It's not even "we're trying to say a feminist thing about a male-dominated field, but also you need to embrace your femaleness in very socially acceptable ways; and let's throw in a reference to body alteration as a threatening, horrible potential outcome," fuck you very much Persona 4.
Pidge is a fun, endearing character; heck, she's even written in such a way where the writers could decide to explore the subject of non-binary identity in future, even if I doubt they will (not everyone figures out their identity instantly, after all, especially in such an uncharted area). So I'm not really mad at Voltron, in the end – although I rather wish they'd appreciate that queer representation is important and rare enough in all-ages media that they'd come down a little more firmly than a lukewarm "well maybe, we'll see." But it has made me realize how much I long for the death of the "cis woman masquerading as a man" plot altogether.
It's one of the oldest tropes out there, made hugely popular in a number of Shakespeare's plays and reaching back even further than that. And while implying that trans identity is a costume or a phase is becoming easier to critique and root out with the "men in dresses" trope, which is almost always used for belittling comic effect or to queer-code a villain, "women in drag" is a lot harder to pin down. Unlike its counterpart, having cis women disguise themselves as men is far more likely to be painted as a heroic motivator, and a means of trying to interject a woman into a story and demonstrate her competence alongside the male characters. It's ostensibly a good trope, and even the Voltron writers talked about it in terms of "showing that a girl can be just as good as the guys."
Which is a really optimistic way to come at it. But let me describe for a moment how it reads from out here, so far outside consideration that the thought never crossed anyone's mind. First off, it implies that an AFAB (assigned female at birth) person would only ever choose to present as masculine if there were some kind of dire stakes that pushed them to this UNHEARD OF, EXTREME MEASURE. And when you tie that presentation to a quest, it naturally implies that there's an endpoint – that the character's presentation is a means to an end, and once they've achieved their goal they'll go back to acting "normal."
It's not intended. It's almost never intended. The average person doesn't look at these tropes (including TvTropes, which loves lists a lot more than context) and think "wow, I sure can see how this came out of a fear of an Othered group and how its history might be fraught." Unless you're affected by it, chances are good the implications will just pass you right by.
I'm not entirely naïve. The reaction to the new Ghostbusters certainly proved that there's a subsection of the viewing populace that apparently needs female characters snuck into their media like vegetables hidden on a spoiled child's plate; but we're in an age now where it's time to call some intersectional critique into things too.
When I bring this up, it's not really because I want to burn all my copies of Twelfth Night. I think disguises can lead to interesting stories about gender and presentation, if the writer is willing to bend outside of seeing cis identity as the default one. Monstrous Regiment remains one of my favorite novels. But not when it's every portrayal of an AFAB person in masculine clothes. Not when you know there's no point in hoping, even though you can't stop yourself – those breathless recommendations came from a place of hope, not cruelty, after all. Even when the story always ends with saying, "but you're really this," and you go back to feeling invisible.
Bioware was pretty great when they wrote Krem, but one character is not keeping me from drowning. Krem wasn't there when I was 18 and thought I'd found a kindred spirit in Naoto Shirogane only to wind up crying myself to sleep. Krem by himself can't erase repetition after repetition of feeling like a plot device and not a person. I know it's a slow process. I know because I've had writing rejected specifically because editors were worried about inducing confusion with singular "they" pronouns. Because people still refer to Stevonnie as "she." Because I am still so tired.
So can we give it a rest, world? Just for a little while?
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Rajan Awasthi says:
Any word on the Gravity Falls Recaps?
Vrai Kaiser says:
Still planning on picking them up again, yes. Should be within the next few weeks.
calltainn says:
I think you should give Robin Hobb's "Realm of the Elderlings" a try. It has a canon non-binary character, who, I think, could be called a main, even though books are mostly written in first person pov. Their reveal goes roughly like this: "You thought he's a man? No, they're non-binary", then "You thought she's a woman? Nope, non-binary". It's also an excellent fantasy series, even if it's a lot of books to read.
This does sound like a thing I'm in favor of. Bless the internet and its ability to procure beautiful things from the corners of the world.
Rose Bridges says:
Reading this post, even though I know it's a small part of it that's dealt with in the first episode, makes me really want to see your take on Ouran High School Host Club. (Aka "my favorite thing ever that is also hella problematic.")
I haven't revisited it in depth since high school, honestly. I have a certain fondness for it (and genderfluid Haruhi….and Kyoya/Tama/Haruhi as an OT3), but it never really thought very hard about non-normative gender stuff (yeees a little with Tama and Haruhi, but it's still A Straight Romance in the end)
I agree with you about that OT3 completely, haha.
I would be curious if you think it stands up at all with how it deals with gender roles. I still think it does a lot of genuinely progressive things (if my multiple articles I've written about it for ANN aren't an indication, lol) but of course its writers don't go as far as they could, and it's still limited by the confines of its genre.
And that's interesting also in light of the fact that its head of story also wrote a lot of Utena (Yoji Enokido), which boldly confronts a lot of the stuff that Ouran seems to be afraid to do more than dance around.
Honestly, I've always read Pidge as a trans girl, for a couple different reasons.
The first reason is Pidge's reactions of relief, not shock or anything else, when people tell her they already know that she's a girl. In playing it like that, the writers made it seem like Pidge had been struggling with admitting her identity when there's the chance that the people she's grown to trust would dismiss it or not believe her.
It's entirely possible a cis girl Pidge would feel the same, especially due to the fear that people would see her differently simply due to gender norms. However, her main reason for hiding her identity has been left behind, quite literally, on Earth, and telling everyone that she's a girl as soon as she's sure that she's far and away from the Galaxy Garrison should be fairly easy if that were the case – more half of the people barely even know her at the beginning of the series, two of them being aliens who most likely don't even know the gender norms of Earth and another one being a human who's already spent a year with aliens and doesn't get freaked out by much.
Her hesitancy and relief, however, make a lot more sense if she's trans – even in coming from a loving and accepting family (that, in this interpretation, were okay with her padding to look like she had breasts), she would more than likely know that not everyone is going to be alright with her gender identity should she outright admit it.
By going with her level of comfort even when wearing things that don't make her look obviously feminine after she comes out, like her power suit, it seems like at times she would have been more than willing to put on more masculine wear and venture out into the world while still identifying as a girl. Depending on the situation, that definitely could have brought her up against transphobic individuals. Presenting in such a feminine way with long hair and everything makes a whole lot of sense while still on Earth, as it makes it more likely for people outside of Pidge's family to automatically assume she's a girl. So her delay in admitting she's a girl and subsequent relief in most of them already realizing her gender comes from a stance even more justified than if she were a cis girl who was afraid they were going to judge her based simply on societal norms.
Similarly, this can be seen in the level of hesitancy we see in the 'cutting her hair' flashback. Yes, it's true that there are cis girls out there who are incredibly attached to their long hair and this scene could be made sense of in terms of a cis girl Pidge mentally preparing herself to take on an identity and gender she herself doesn't identify with. But the scene gains another level of meaning if taken from a 'trans girl Pidge' perspective – she's forcing herself to let go of identity that she had to advocate for and also the identifying marker that makes society see her as a girl, and return to those feelings of dysphoria in order to get one step close to saving her brother and father.
Which plays into the second reason I view her as a trans girl: it would give her a more substantial reason to pretend to be a boy while with the Galaxy Garrison. As you said yourself, the whole 'girl-pretends-to-be-boy' tends to be shown as a dire, extreme measure that said cis girl will stop doing and eventually return to 'normal', which has a lot of unfortunate implications. The thing is, as a cis girl Pidge would have no need whatsoever to pretend to be a male, as we see plenty of female cadets at the station. It wouldn't take much more than a hair cut, the canon glasses, and and a dye job to make her look different.
Why would she instead put herself into a role that forces her to be on constant high alert of people noticing the fact that she binds to keep her breasts from showing, or any medical doctor from the Garrison who wants to give her a physical to see how healthy she is?
While it could be entirely possible to put together an explanation that fits for cis girl Pidge, the more simple explanation is actually that she's trans. In a lot of ways, the Galaxy Garrison models our day military system, which has allowed women in it since 1948 (which doesn't get rid of the many problems that still exist today for women in the military system, but I digress). Trans representation in the military, on the other hand, has only become an often-discussed issue in the last few years, and doesn't even begin to broach the topic of potential discrimination troops of trans individuals could very well end up facing while in the forces, which has tended to sway towards the conservative side. With that in mind, it wouldn't be surprising if a trans girl still felt the need to pretend to be male while in the military so as to get the same respect and treatment as their peers.
Since the Galaxy Garrison seems a lot like the military, it seems much more justified for Pidge to pretend to be a boy if she's trans rather than if she's a cis girl.
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Andrew Thomas Williams is a British-born American Anglican bishop. Since 2019 he has been the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese in New England, part of the Anglican Church in North America. He was a lawyer in the United Kingdom prior to his entry into ordained ministry in the Church of England and his move to the United States.

Early life, education, and legal career

Williams was born in the United Kingdom. He graduated from Tavistock School in 1985 and received a law degree from Exeter University in 1988. In 1985, he met his future wife, Elena, at Exeter University; they married in 1992 and have three daughters.

Williams trained for law in Chancery Lane and worked from 1989 through 1994 at Cameron McKenna in London as a litigator defending architects, accountants, actuaries, insurance brokers, and Lloyd's underwriters in civil suits. From 1994 to 1998, he was a senior litigator with S.J. Cornish and Bond Pearce, where he specialized in legal malpractice defense.

In the 1990s, the Williamses moved to a large house in North Devon. While there, Williams said he "had this deep conviction that there was something missing. There was a quiet sort of despair within me that was only temporarily distracted by the next grand interior decoration scheme." To meet locals, they visited their local Church of England parish, where Williams said "a kindly new vicar and a friendly small group of people came around us, and I found myself intrigued by and drawn to them all at the same time. . . . [T]hey always spoke about Jesus like they knew him personally. I decided that I liked them sufficiently that I was not going to hold that against them." Not long after, Williams participated in a Lenten Bible study and had a conversion experience, praying "I am saying 'yes' to You without reservation. Whatever You want for my life, I desire too." His wife had a similar experience.

Ordained ministry
Williams—who had become disenchanted and unfulfilled in his law career—pursued a call to ministry. In 2000, he received his theology degree from Trinity College Bristol and was ordained in the Diocese of Exeter. He served as curate at St. Andrew's Whitchurch and from 2003 to 2009 was associate vicar at St. Andrew's Chorleywood in the Diocese of St. Alban's. At Chorleywood―a large evangelical congregation in the C of E―he was assigned to develop a missional growth strategy to address a passive laity and a 10 percent annual membership turnover rate. At the time, the church had no midsize small groups, just prayer groups of three to four. Williams established 40 "mission-shaped communities" (MSCs) characterized by "low control, high accountability." They were designed to reach unchurched groups, including youth, the elderly, prisoners, the disabled, special-needs adults, people experiencing homelessness, immigrants and others. Williams identified and mentored 120 volunteer lay leaders for these MSCs. The size of these groups enabled more leaders to be identified and develop their leaderships skills, management expert Gary Hamel has observed. Between 2003 and 2009, St. Andrew's tripled in size to 1,600 attendees.

The MSC model attracted international interest and Williams co-authored a book on the concept entitled Breakout: One Church's Amazing Story of Growth Through Mission-Shaped Communities. In 2008, while speaking on the model at a conference of the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh, Williams was connected to Trinity Church, a non-denominational multisite church in Greenwich, Connecticut. Trinity had been founded ten years before Williams' arrival but was not growing, with an average attendance of 250 to 300. Williams grew the church to 1,200 in attendance at three Sunday services in addition to a Trinity offshoot in Darien. Trinity's services were held in rented space in schools, hotels, and other churches, a deliberate decision (although Williams led a $6 million fundraising campaign for Trinity's office and ministry center for midweek programming in Greenwich). Williams was also noted for his use of video and social media as pastor of Trinity.

In 2018, Bill Murdoch, the retiring bishop of the Anglican Diocese in New England, asked Williams to agree to be considered as his successor. Williams initially turned the invitation down but reconsidered. On November 17, 2018, Williams was elected bishop of ADNE. He was consecrated by ACNA Archbishop Foley Beach at a Catholic church in Amesbury, Massachusetts, on March 16, 2019, and enthroned at All Saints Cathedral the following day.

References

External links
Official website

Living people
Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America
21st-century Anglican bishops in the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Trinity College, Bristol

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Early Diagnosis: "...there is no greater gift."
Their long-term vision for Alzheimer's care - and beyond.
In this video Dean and Ayesha talk about the many benefits of getting diagnosed as early as possible. Thank you, Team Sherzai!


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Q: The type `Expander` was not found? I am getting an error that the type Expander was not found. I am aware that it was moved
in the Xamarin Community Toolkit, so I added this namespace on my Content Page;
xmlns:xct="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2020/toolkit"

and used it like this.
<xct:Expander>

</xct:Expander>

But I still get the error. Can someone help me with this problem?
Thank you!

A: At first, you need to open the nuget package manager and install the package named Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.Markup and the package named Xamarin.CommunityToolkit. In addition, the two packages always have dependency with the high version of Xamarin.Form packge.
So you can install the low version of the CommunityToolkit and .CommunityToolkit.Markup or update the Xamarin.Forms to the last version.
I suggest the latter and then add the namespace xmlns:xct="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2020/toolkit" in the Content Page, you can use the Expander.

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Avalon Raceway roared into life as the mighty Speedcars headed the bill with Super Sedans and huge field of Wingless in support.
The night starts with time trials for the speedcars and wingless and early on we see it's going to be a great night of racing. David Cook posts quick time for the Wingless while Anthony Chaffey gets it done for the Speedcars. The heats begin and 25v Matt Papa looks strong from a fast finishing 11v Troy Jordan and 06s Paul Murphy. Heat 2 and 06v Anthony Chaffey has contact with 88v Craig Smith and flips in corner one, Smith then ends up in the wall and also flips. After the restart, it's the 59v of Ashley Booker from 02v Paul Farrell and 71v Domain Ramsey. Heat 3 and 8v Jack Day just holds off Troy Jordan by the narrowest of margins with 6s Paul Murphy doing the same to Anthony Chaffey. Heat 4 delivers a win to n89 Brayden Wilmington from a fast finishing Ashley Booker and current series points leader n7 Nathan Smee.
The thundering V8 Super Sedans roll out for their 20 lap final and we start to see what the track can deliver. Lucus Roberts, who has been on a mission all night, works his way through the field and takes the win, Brad Wicks comes from position 10 to secure second place and Neil Whitnish is in for 3rd. During the break we talk to Super Sedan driver Lionel West about his exciting attempt to reach 300MPH on a salt lake in South Australia. For more info see Bronzeaussie300mph.com.
The Speedcar Super Series final starts and the tow truck is called early after Ian Jones has a collision in the 3rd corner. Troy Jordan, who has looked really fast through the heats, is out after 2 laps and Paul Farrell joins him infield after 4 laps with a flat left rear. The final continues and a great battle develops between Nathan Smee and Domain Ramsay, this was to continue for the length of the race. Anthony Chaffey has fixed the car after major airtime in the 2nd heat and is making a challenge to the leaders. On the checkers it's Smee from Domain with Chaffey making a dive for the line. A great final and Smee continues to lead in the point's race.
In the Wingless final v43 Daniel Storer takes strong form from the heats and wins the A main. V36 David Cook almost stole it on the line while v98 Peter Logue just managed to keep v1 James Wren from the podium.
Avalon Raceway would like to thank Andy Pearce from Lucas Oils for his time and valuable insights during the race meeting, we appreciate Stewballs making him available.
Our next event is the Routley's Westcoast Classic for Modified Production sedans with AMCA and Street Stock's on February 27th.


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Любительский драфт НХЛ 1974 года состоялся в офисе НХЛ в Монреале.

Процедура драфта
Во время 12-го драфта НХЛ в 25-ти раундах было выбрано 247 хоккеистов. Однако вскоре выяснилось, что японский хоккеист Таро Цудзимото из клуба «Токио Катанас», выбранный в 11-м раунде под 183 номером клубом «Баффало Сэйбрз», всего лишь плод фантазии генерального менеджера клуба Панча Имлача, а имя хоккеиста взято из телефонного справочника города Баффало. После выяснения всех обстоятельств дела, НХЛ объявила выбор «Сэйбрз» недействительным и удалила 183-й номер из летописи драфта 1974 года. Право первого выбора было предоставлено командам дебютирующим в НХЛ – «Вашингтон Кэпиталз» и «Канзас-Сити Скаутс».

Итоги драфта
В представленном ниже списке полностью приведён первый раунд драфта и наиболее успешные игроки из более поздних кругов драфта.
<p style="font-size: 90%;">Легенда:   # = Номер драфта, С = Страна, А = Амплуа, И = Игры, Г = Голы, П = Передачи, О = Очки, Ш = Штрафные минуты

  Игрок = Участник «Матча всех звёзд»,
Игрок = Участник «Матча всех звёзд» и команды «всех звёзд»,
Игрок = Член Зала хоккейной славы

Статистика драфта
 Количество хоккеистов игравших в НХЛ: 98;
 Процент игравших в НХЛ от общего числа игроков: 39,8;
 Среднее количество игр за карьеру в НХЛ: 311;
 Среднее количество голов за карьеру в НХЛ: 64;
 Среднее количество очков за карьеру в НХЛ: 171;
 Среднее количество штрафных минут за карьеру в НХЛ: 327.

Ссылки
 Любительский Драфт НХЛ 1974 года  на The Internet Hockey Database
 HockeyDraftCentral.com

См. также
Сезон НХЛ 1974/75

Сезоны НХЛ
Драфты НХЛ
1974 год в хоккее


Driving at night is always a bit difficult, even if you have excellent vision. No matter how attentive a driver you are, you always have to be on the lookout for others: drunk drivers, sleep-deprived humans, and rogue animals, to name a few. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, fatalities on the road occur at a rate three times greater at night than during the day.
Clean your windshield and headlights: These two suggestions are pretty obvious. Clean headlights and a clean windshield mean you can see more clearly. Your headlights can get a build-up of yellowish fog or haze around them; you can buy a kit to clean your headlights, or you can try to do it yourself with sandpaper and polish. You'd be amazed at how much completing these two simple steps will make a difference in how you see at night.
Aim your headlights: Even the headlights in your brand new car might not be aimed in the correct direction. Popular Mechanics says that it's not unusual for a new car's headlights to be uneven or pointed lower than necessary. The good news is that you can aim them correctly by using the instructions in your owner's manual. It might take a few tries before you get them aimed correctly—just make sure they won't blind oncoming traffic.
Adjust your mirrors: Flip your rearview mirror to reduce the glare from the headlights behind you. It's helpful to adjust the side mirrors as well. If you're doing a lot of night driving with cars behind you, Life Hacker suggests that you angle your driver side mirror slightly down. You'll have to lean forward a bit to get a good view when changing lanes, but the car behind you won't be blinding you as you drive.
Look for eyes: On dark highways, animals can be anywhere. Another tip from Popular Mechanics advises looking for the retinas of animals because chances are, you will see their eyes long before you see their bodies. If you have someone traveling with you, ask them to be on the lookout for animals, too. That way, you have two sets of eyes looking for danger on the road.
Take a break: Direct General agrees with your mom: make frequent stops for breaks and stop driving to rest when you're too tired to drive. Our instinct is to keep driving so that we can get to our destination quicker. However, if you're beginning to get tired, it's best to stop off at a gas station and take a break. If you need to rest, lock your doors, recline your seat, and set a timer.
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DesnoGuns Mod MCPE 0.13.0/0.14.0 – Is it true that you are prepared to shriek while you work? How about we go over a few nuts and bolts of mining in the realm of Minecraft!
There are five sorts of pickaxes with which you ought to know: wooden, stone, iron, gold and precious stone. As you advance through the distinctive sorts, every pickaxe can normally mine the majority of the past materials alongside new mixed bags.
Beginning, wooden pickaxes can just stone, mine coal, iron, rock, Redstone, quartz, and cobblestone. A stone of pickaxe can likewise mine iron and gold. The pickaxe of iron adds the capacity to dig for precious stones and emeralds. The gold pickaxe is stronger than iron, however not as flexible as the precious stone pickaxe that can mine obsidian.
How would you get these important tools? In case you're fortunate, you may locate an iron pickaxe that has brought forth inside a mid-section situated in a deserted mine, a town metal forger, or a fortification. You might likewise have the capacity to exchange with metal forger villagers; they look for emeralds in return for charmed iron and precious stone pickaxes. Be that as it may, most players get themselves needing to give themselves something to do so as to get every sort of pickaxe.
Beginning off in survival mode with a starter mid-section gives you a wooden pickaxe, which can be utilized to get wood for building a home (however you will probably incline toward a hatchet for that) or to begin mining quickly. Take a stab at burrowing down until you hit a stone, then mine however much as could reasonably be expected. Next, punch trees for wood. You can then utilize you're making a table to change the wood into sticks, which will appear in your stock. Put the sticks and cobblestone on the making table to make the stone pickaxe. You are currently prepared to dig for an iron with a specific end goal to can create your next pickaxe.
To refine any metal, you will require a heater. You may discover one in the amusement (indication: look close metal forger shops in towns), or you can create one out of cobblestone. When you have a heater available to you, refine your iron utilizing coal as a part of the fuel opening and your iron mineral in the top. This procedure will furnish you with iron ingots that can be made on the same path as the stone pickaxe. Gold metal should also be refined with a specific end goal to be it into your gold pickaxe. Proceed with the movement until you are prepared to dig for precious stone and specialty the last pickaxe, however not being a metal mineral it needn't bother with refining preceding creating.
Want to have more fun? Install DesnoGuns mod to enjoy different guns, explosions and weapons. Sounds exciting!
• Download the zip that contains the mod and the textures.
• Extract it with an Android file manager (I use ES File Explorer) or with your computer.
• Install textures in BlockLauncher Pro 0.12.2.
• Import the script from local storage in BlockLauncher and enable it.