Why choose a Doula UK doula?
Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Blaenau Gwent, Powys, Shropshire, parts of the Cardiff area postcode & other parts of South Wales.
I am also a Celebrant and offer bespoke Mother Blessings, Baby Namings, Closing Ceremonies, Handfastings & Weddings. I am happy to lend pregnancy and birth books from my library out to clients. I have good local networks in pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. I co-run Monmouthshire's Birth Group with other birth workers and am an experienced Breastfeeding Counsellor. Just ask and I will signpost you.
I am passionate about supporting women to have the best possible birth for themselves, their babies and their partners. Experienced at supporting women through home birth, VBAC birth, hospital birth, induction, emergency caesarean birth and water birth, I believe wholeheartedly that our bodies are the result of millions of years of birthing evolution.
I recognise that you have your own unique birth journey to make and provide information so you can make your own choices. I am comfortable with the stories of my own babies births. This means that I have no investment in needing your birth to be a certain way in order to heal my own story. I am happy to support you at home or in hospital.
I have a comprehensive knowledge of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding and have been offering informal support, information and advocacy to women for almost twelve years now. I attended my first birth in 2013. I completed my formal Doula training course with Conscious Birthing in Autumn 2015. When my children were young I volunteered with the NCT and was Chair of Bristol branch. I now co-run Monmouthshire's Birth Group, which is a free independent support group, along with other antenatal workers. I also regularly attend Hereford's Attachment Parenting (APUK) group. I have excellent links with other pregnancy and birth workers, both locally and across the UK.
I am a mother of three children who were all born in water at home and breastfed for several years. I am also step-mother to a grown-up child. I used cloth nappies, wore my babies in slings, did baby-led weaning and co-slept. My journey was not always plain sailing, but I am grateful for its gifts and lessons. Now my children are older and need me less, I am able to follow my passions – birth, women's empowerment, the study of herbs, singing and writing.
There is so much work we can do together to prepare for your baby's birth! We cannot foresee every eventuality, but it really does help to have done some solid research, preparation and groundwork. I enable women (and their partners) to work through issues from previous births and from their own births, using a variety of techniques. I have a good selection of birth books and other resources which I am happy to lend out to help you in your processing. I am experienced in helping women create their own bespoke birth preferences for several birth scenarios.
I am a great believer in the magic of breastfeeding. Not only is it the perfect food for babies, but also gives immeasurable comfort and solace. It is also a fantastic way to help heal a difficult birth for the mama and to establish a beautiful bond. I am a Breastfeeding Counsellor with a national breastfeeding organisation and run a twice monthly support group in Monmouth.
I honour the whole journey of womanhood from menarche, through menstruation, pregnancy, birth, infertility, choosing to be child-free to menopause and beyond. I write about these subjects, create songs, hold ceremonies, workshops and events, which enable women to explore and claim this terrain.
I have a humble approach to being a doula. I always aim to support your partner (if you have one) to bring you closer, so that you can lovingly birth your baby together, if this is what you want. I will take a step back if you are managing brilliantly and don't need any extra help. I will be there, quietly in the background, fetching water and massage oils, whispering soft words of encouragement and keeping the faith that you can do this! Equally I am happy to be there with you for every single surge, holding you and massaging you, if this is what you want and what is needed.
– I will willingly honour your placenta, however you wish to do this.
– I have an excellent working knowledge of classical homeopathy as I followed a training course for three years, if this is desired.
– Listening to you and supporting you in your mothering journey.
Whatever needs to be done, I am happy to do it!
What's the difference between a recognised and a mentored doula?
A Mentored Doula has completed a Doula UK approved Preparation Course and is involved in Doula UK's Recognition Process. This means that they have a Mentor providing support and supervision within a framework for reflective practice until they has gained sufficient experience to become a Recognised Doula. A Mentored Doula's fees reflect their previous and current experience, their expenses and the going rate in their area.
A Recognised Doula has been evaluated by a Doula UK Doula Mentor at the end of the Recognition Process, as having sufficient experience to practise without on-going mentoring. Doula UK nevertheless continues to provide support for all its members.


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Here are three face search engines that may give you a thrill. Let's see what they reveal about you or your friends.
Did you know that you could search Google by images? Rather than a keyword, you can use an image to search for similar images. Click the camera icon to search by image. You can either paste the image URL or upload an image and Google will find similar images.
Moreover, you can make Google search for faces only by adding a small bit of code. When you go to Google Images Search, enter your query, hit Enter, and then add "&imgtype=face" (without the quotes of course), either to the end of the search URL or right before another string starting with &. This will further improve the results of your face-related search.
Google also offers its face recognition in Google Photos.
PicTriev goes one step further by actually searching for similar faces. Unfortunately, the feature is limited to look-alike celebrities.
What you do is add the URL or upload a photo in JPG or JPEG format, with a size no larger than 200 KB, and the search engine will return matching celebrity images found online.
For demonstration purposes, I used my own headshot. While PicTriev correctly identified me as overwhelmingly female, the number one match was Jason Clarke. The age estimation of 30, however, is very flattering.
It works much better if you search for a celebrity image.
PicTriev also lets you compare the similarity of two faces or estimate whether photos of two faces are the same person. Click the meter icon in the top right, upload two photos, select similarity or identity, and let PicTriev do its calculations.
Before you add photos, be sure to follow the instructions on formatting for best results.
Similar to Google's reverse face search, PimEyes uses images and face recognition to search for similar faces on over 10 million websites. The demos using celebrity faces like Angelina Jolie or Zac Efron look promising.
For example, you can search for Jennifer Aniston's face using four different photos at once. PimEyes will find the original photos, as well as other shots of Aniston. Curiously, while the app does find the original pictures used for the search, the similarity is only scored at around 70%. Shouldn't it be closer to 100%? Or does the algorithm take image resolution, size, brightness, and other digital alternations into account?
I tried the service myself, providing PimEyes with three different photos of me to analyze. The GIF below illustrates the process.
There are other photos of me to be found online, but PimEyes didn't spot them. The best it could find was someone else's face with a 62% similarity. Apparently, my pictures do not appear on one of the 10 million sites analyzed by PimEyes.
VK.com is Russia's largest social network. And FindFace promises to find anybody on VK.com. To test this service, log into your VK account, grant the app permissions, and upload a JPG or PNG photo no larger than 5 MB.
You can fine-tune the initial result by gender, age, location, and relationship status.
In my case, it did find several surprising look-a-likes, but nothing too crazy.
Meanwhile, Russian photographer Egor Tsvetkov used FindFace for an art project that he termed Your Face Is Big Data. He took photos of strangers on the subway, found them on VK.com using FindFace, and learned a whole lot about their identity that they might never have told him, had he simply asked. The project highlights how invasive a simple photo can be.
Betaface offers facial recognition How Facial Recognition is Invading your Privacy How Facial Recognition is Invading your Privacy Is facial recognition -- a staple of science fiction for the past 50 years -- really a means of oppression, part of a surveillance state and a form of control? Or is it more useful... Read More similar to PicTriev's photo identification. You can upload an image or send the image URL and the face search engine will isolate and characterize all the faces it can identify in the photo.
Next, you can compare faces (with other images you uploaded), search celebrities, or search Wikipedia for each recognized face. The results will appear in the Face recognition matches table.
This tool is useful for uploading and comparing photos in bulk. In addition to classifying faces based on 101 pro facial points, you can also enable extended geometric and color measurements, as well as a "best face only" feature. Both of these slow down the processing, but will increase the quality of your matches.
Similar to PicTriev's similarity feature, TwinsOrNot.net will estimate how likely it is that the two photos you upload are showing twins. This tool is powered by Microsoft.
I tested TwinsOrNot.net with two photos of myself that were taken five years apart. And it wasn't to be fooled. Rather than identifying me as a twin of myself, TwinsOrNot.net guessed that I must be the same person. Great catch!
Interestingly, the site highlighted a small section of the photos to underscore its decision.
Face recognition and search tools have a range of useful applications. Not only can they help the police identify suspects from security camera footage. They can also help professional photographers or media companies index visual material and build large and easy to search archives. Moreover, face recognition can replace passwords How to Log Into Windows 10 With Finger Scans & Facial Recognition How to Log Into Windows 10 With Finger Scans & Facial Recognition Instead of using a password or PIN, you might be better off using fingerprint scans or facial recognition! But there are a few risks associated with them. Here's what you need to know. Read More and keys.
But there's a dark side to every tool. Not too long ago, the Facezam viral marketing scam highlighted what face recognition could do to your privacy. The creators of the app claimed that — within seconds — you could find anyone's Facebook profile by uploading a picture of their face. Essentially, FindFace for Facebook.
While such an app violates Facebook's privacy policies, Facebook itself uses facial recognition to identify people in photos (unless you disabled the feature). And presumably, Facebook's face search engine is better than the FBI's identification tool. Why? Because you've been voluntarily stuffing Facebook's database with a huge variety of photos, all helping its AI improve faster than the FBI could ever dream of. And it's all legal.
While you can't always hide your face, you can protect your privacy online Why Online Privacy Matters and 5 Ways to Reclaim It Why Online Privacy Matters and 5 Ways to Reclaim It Privacy threats are all around us. Today, the impact and dangers of online privacy breaches are major. These few resources explain the pitfalls clearly and concisely. Read More . How do you keep your face private?
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I really like your articles and "tips".
adding "&imgtype=face" without quotes, makes no difference whatsoever.
Thank you for the feedback, Kees.
To clarify: You go to Google Images, enter your search query (e.g. river), and then add "&imgtype=face" (without quotes) into a logical position within the URL, ideally before another &... string.
I see your point and at the same time I'm not sure I agree. I'm German and we have a troubled history in terms of privacy, especially in East Germany (Stasi). In the end, all information will also be misused, which is why privacy is so important. The US (NSA) already collects more data than the Stasi ever could. We don't need a comprehensive record of our data, including photos or other biometric data, available online to the public.
I'm also not sure it's fair to publish criminal records, especially if the offender served their time. The system should focus on helping criminals become good members of society, rather than ruining their chance of ever living a normal life again. They should be able to contribute to society again and not be stigmatized for life. Of course the same (and more) should be done for the victims!
Apparently Sweden is a model we should all look to: they have to shut down prisons because their rehabilitation program works wonders. Obviously, they don't have a death penalty; no European country does.
Just really love your comment above!
Tina, you actually set up the argument against your own points.
If the NSA (government) already HAS the very complete, personal database, then your privacy is already NOT safe. If the public also has access to the facial database, then your privacy is not in further danger since it is already compromised by the most dangerous organization on the planet, government. If all people have the same access as the government, then the government should have no access. But that is an impossibility in todays liberally minded day and age.
I'm not sure I follow your comment, Barrett. Are you saying all information should be public, so that the government cannot cherry-pick the "facts" that serve them? That sounds pretty liberal to me.
So I am saying, do not allow the government to collect and MAKE PRIVATE it's "lists" of information. What they are collecting, how they are collecting it and for what purpose is all moot and you will never be able to change them from doing what they do. But we should all have the same ability to look up a person's face and name in an online, public arena.
But it can be misused by govt or bad politicians to use camera details of protesters to trace n persecute the protesters. Especially in Asia n third world sick countries.
What does the show "Catfish" use to find people from photo's?
I know this is an old thread but I just want to point something out about your comment here. As a photographer it's not unusual for me to be packing a $10,000 DSLR. If I'm just taking a photo of a crowd in the public domain and not singling you out, I am NOT invading your privacy. However, if you "laser" found my CMOS sensor and fried it, I would quickly be seeking compensation for that.
But that's the least of my concerns here. This is a DSLR with a mirror into a Pentaprism through which I may well be viewing a magnified image. Your laser could very well fry my EYE!
And for what? Do you know how many times a photo by a photojournalist has been used to capture the wrongdoings of government officials towards innocent protestors?
Clearly you haven't thought this through.
According to Pictriev, My 25 yr old tomboy self is 85% male and approximately 60 years old.
These are pretty cool - I'll have to test Pictriev!
Well, looks like the technology is not very advanced, yet. At least not the one they are offering for free. Could be a good thing.
If it makes you feel any better - I had equally dodgy results from PicTriev (although it made me 100% male - it also made me 50 instead of the 30 I was in the photo!) and didn't find any matching photos (there are loads of photos of me online).
Viewdle looks like the best of the lot here, though I find the concept of face search both intriguing and a little intrusive.
Of course, for research and background check, these are useful tools. Specially in law enforcement, government jobs, and the media & entertainment industries.
On a related note, I like those fun apps that show how you might age over time (given a current picture), or to let others know how you used to look like say in school.


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Tábara Arriba es un municipio de la República Dominicana, que está situado en la Provincia de Azua.

Límites
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Distritos municipales
Está formado por los distritos municipales de:

Economía
Tiene una producción principalmente agrícola, siendo los principales rubros café, tabaco y guandules. También, aunque en menor proporción, hay un cierto desarrollo de la ganadería vacuna.

En la actualidad se está dando el fenómeno de una masiva emigración de sus pobladores hacia España, lo que ha contribuido al desarrollo del municipio a través del envío de remesas que esos dominicanos envían desde el extranjero.

Cultura y folklore
Entre las manifestaciones culturales del pueblo destaca la celebración anual de las fiestas patronales, teniendo como patrón a San Miguel Arcángel. La misma es celebrada entre los días 21 y 30 de septiembre de cada año y en ella se escoge una joven como reina.

Es costumbre también que durante las fiestas se realicen intercambios deportivos entre los miembros de la comunidad. Son muy populares los atabales o fiestas de palos, días de vela y noches de vela. Estas consisten en cultos de sacrificio a los santos en la que se cantan los palos que no son otra cosa que tambores y cantos o salves acompañados de una guira y una maraca.

Educación
El municipio posee dos centros educativos:
 Liceo Roque Feliz, construido entre los años 94-95 e iniciando docencia en marzo de 1995 con 68 estudiantes matriculados, 5 maestros y un director. Este centro educativo está equipado con un moderno centro de informática.
 Escuela primaria de Tábara Arriba, construida en el año 1972, en donde se imparte docencia desde el primero hasta el octavo grado en tandas vespertina y matutina.

El municipio cuenta también con un consejo de desarrollo y 37 promotores legales. Además los programas de alfabetización, escuelas radiofónicas y el programa de formación en la fe Juntos aprendemos más. Tiene además dos bibliotecas, un parque, dos iglesias, un ayuntamiento y un puesto de policía.

Medios de transporte
El más usado en la actualidad es el Motoconcho, seguido por los minibuses de pasajeros que cubren la ruta Tábara-Azua y camiones de cargas para transporte de productos agrícolas hacia Santo Domingo y otras provincias del país.

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