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Premier Ford warned against another lockdown of churches
ONTARIO: The Justice Centre has written to Ontario Premier Doug Ford on behalf of a coalition of faith leaders warning against re-locking down Ontario society. There is broad concern amongst churches and business owners that Premier Ford will bend to cries to return to repressive lockdowns of places of worship and other aspects of society, despite dramatically lower rates of deaths and hospitalizations than occurred during the spring. Churches are witnessing the damaging consequences of lockdowns on the physical, mental, spiritual and emotional well-being of their parishioners and other citizens, and have cautioned that further lockdowns preventing the exercise of Charter freedoms of religion, assembly and association will be challenged in the courts.
Churches, synagogues and other places of worship remain restricted to only 30% capacity, even after complying with all public health requirements including physical distancing, screening measures and often the wearing of masks. It took the threat of legal action against the province by the Justice Centre to get access to their buildings at all, which were closed down entirely as "non-essential services" for two months in the spring.
On Thursday, September 24, a group of doctors wrote an open letter demanding that Premier Ford return the province to Stage 2 COVID lockdown measures, which would re-classify places of worship as "non-essential" and impose further restrictions or close them down entirely once again.
The Justice Centre's letter warns that their clients will not accept any further draconian restrictions, and notes that the increase in positive test results is primarily in younger demographics who are statistically at very low risk from COVID-19. There is also strong evidence that a significant number of these "cases" are actually false positives. In addition, the dramatic increase in positive tests is clearly linked to the four-fold increase in testing since the earlier months of the pandemic: more testing discovers more asymptomatic cases. For these reasons, the Justice Centre has warned the Ford government that it must resist misguided calls to re-lockdown the province, and instead protect the constitutional rights of Canadians and help Ontarians begin the process of repairing the social and economic destruction which resulted from the spring closures.
"Our clients and a growing number of Ontarians are troubled by the shifting goals of restrictive measures: from initially protecting the health care system, to what appears to be the unattainable objective of wiping out or suppressing this virus at any cost," notes Justice Centre lawyer Lisa Bildy.
"We want to ensure that the government's Command Table is avoiding groupthink, and is not merely responding to the loudest voices. Even in the face of public pressure, the government has an obligation not to infringe the Charter rights of citizens without proof that doing so is demonstrably justified and only a minimal impairment of those rights," adds Ms. Bildy. "If the government fails to do so on its own, our clients will have to turn to the courts."

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Research Note: Not found in 1891 Census.
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "GRO Online Index: 1855/Q3 PASK, Charles Benjamin REYNOLDS Bethnal Green 1c 211."
[S2819] Image of the 1901 Census for 126 Well Street, Hackney, London: RG13 Piece 232 Folio 32 Page 55. Indexed incorrectly under the name of PACK.
[S659] Image of the 1871 Census for Bethnal Green, Middlesex: RG10 Piece 474 Folio 74 Page 36.
[S337] 1881 Census for London. Full details upon request: FHL Film 1341090 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 0415 Folio 117 Page 59 (Indexed under the name PARK).
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1878/Q4 PASK, Charles Benjamin = HARRISON, Mary Ann E Bethnal Green 1c 761."
[S5011] Website London (LMA) Marriages & Banns 1754-1921.
[S5548] Image of the 1881 Census : Piece 0415 Folio 117 Page 59 (Indexed under the name of PARK).
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "GRO Online Index: 1896/Q4 PASK, Mary Ann Eleanor Bethnal Green aged 42."
[S2800] Transcript of the marriage of Thomas Garner and Caroline Pask, 29 February 1908. Kindly provided by David Horwill - GOONS Marriage Challenge.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1905/Q3 PASK, Charles Benjamin Bethnal Green 1c 138 age 50."
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1928/Q1 GARNER, Caroline Hackney 1b 629 aged 63."
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1878/Q4 HARRISON, Mary Ann E. Bethnal Green 1c 761."
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1894/Q2 MANCHEE, Charles Bethnal Green 1c 126 aged 32."
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1908/Q1 PASK, Caroline = GARNER, Thomas Poplar 1c 682."
Caroline Pask Age: 43 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1865 Spouse Name: Thomas Garner Spouse Age: 42 Record Type: Marriage Event Date: 29 Feb 1908 Parish: Saint Mark, Victoria Park County: Middlesex Borough: Tower Hamlets Father Name: Robert Leigh Spouse Father Name: Thomas Garner.
Children of John PASK and Harriett BISHOP née ?
[S1183] E-mail from Tony Cairns to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 March 2005: Descendancy Narrative.
[S1755] Copy of the death certificate of John Pask, who died 6 August 1868. Kindly provided by Susan Keefe.
[S384] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Batch: M001612.
[S2578] Copy of the marriage certificate of John Pask and Mary Ann Bowness, 4 February 1836. Kindly provided by Sue Keefe.
[S949] E-mail from Susan Keefe to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 2 July 2007: LMA St. Botolph, Bishopsgate - Frances PASK born 6 January 1837, baptised 12 Feb 1837 daughter of John and Mary PASK of 6 Skinner Street, occupation Shoemaker.
[S949] E-mail from Susan Keefe to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 2 July 2007: LMA St. Mary's Whitechapel - Margaret Sarah PASK born 3 August 1838, baptised 26 Aug 1838 daughter of John and Mary Ann PASK of 100 Petticoat Lane, occupation Shopkeeper.
[S949] E-mail from Susan Keefe to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 2 July 2007: LMA St. Mary's Whitechapel - Emma PASK born 7 August 1840, baptised 30 Aug 1840 daughter of John and Mary Ann PASK of 100 Middlesex Street, occupation Shopkeeper.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1852/Q2 PASK, Mary Whitechapel 1c 219."
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1868/Q3 PASK, John E. London 1c 5 age 62."
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1894/Q3 PASK, Harriett Mile End 1c 298 age 64."
[S2580] Copy of the birth certificate of John Pask, born 16 October 1844.
[S2579] Copy of the birth certificate of John Pask, born 16 October 1844.
[S1757] Image of the 1871 Census for 4 White Rose Court, Bishopsgate, London: RG10 Piece 0416 Folio 46 Page 31. Indexed incorrectly under the name of PUSH.
[S1155] Copy of the marriage certificate of Joshua Pask and Jane Rebecca Harley, 7 June 1919. Kindly provided by Susan Keefe.
[S27] Website National Burial Index (NBI) @ FindMyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk: ) 9 May 1852 Mary PASK 40 City of London City of London, Tower Hamlets Cemetery.
[S285] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : England, Marriages, 1538–1973 , index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NKNF-X97 : accessed 12 June 2012), James Pask, 1840.
[S4588] Transcript of the marriage of James Pask and Caroline Panting, 12 October 1840. Kindly provided by Sian Plant & Team - GOONS Marriage Challenge.
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1840/Q4 PASK, James = PANTING, Caroline St. James Westminster 1 83."
[S6] Teresa & Stuart Pask's Guesses, Theories and Speculations: He married Mary Ann REYNOLDS in 1852.
[S342] E-mail from Liz Cooke to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 29 February 2004.
[S3499] Online Index to the 1911 : "RG14PN19473 RG78PN1164 RD412 SD4 ED5 SN71."
[S4272] Image of the 1911 Census for Thetford, Baston, Lincolnshire: RG14 Piece 19473 Schedule 82.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1955/Q3 PASK, Harry Bourne 3b 52 age 74."
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1966/Q3 PASK, Elizabeth S. Bourne 3b 57 age 80."
[S454] E-mail from Peter Plant to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 2 August 2004.
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1908/Q3 PASK, George Alfred Bourn 7a 369."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1909/Q3 PASK, Hilda Mary Bourn 7a 362."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1912/Q2 PASK, Dorothy COOKE Bourne 7a 685."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1914/Q1 PASK, Phyllis COOKE Stamford 7a 635."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1917/Q2 PASK Archie A. COOKE Bourne 7a 546."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1919/Q3 PASK, Mary A. COOKE Bourne 7a 508."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1922/Q4 PASK, Joseph COOK Bourne 7a 585."
"Independant; a house called Lletty'r Deryn occupied by William PASK, farmer; the Reverand David THOMAS, James PASK, John PASK, Isaac PASK, William PASK, James POWEL; No 244. (Endorsed 1817, August 27)"
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 28 September 2003: Need to continue research and confirm this.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 28 September 2003 (His age given on the death certificate was 84. In attendance at the death was Mary Powell of 5 Barrs Street).
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 21 January 2008.
[S845] Letter from Pat Maybrey to Stuart Pask, dated 15 November 2004 Newchurch Baptisms: 1765 9 Sep Isaac PASGC, son of William & Jane PASGC.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 2 March 2008: Baptism record from Newchurch parish register 1765.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 28 September 2003.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 31 December 2006: Research Notes.
[S2911] Website Monmouthshire Grooms (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monfamilies/… ) Isaac Christchurch Mary Holmes Christchurch Christchurch B 13/03/1786.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 13 June 2010: Isaac Pask & Mary Holmes were married at Christchurch Parish Church on the 9th March 1786.
[S3139] Image of the 1841 Census for Landevaud, Llanmartin, Monmouthshire: HO107 Piece 745 Book 16 Folio 2-3.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1846/Q2 PASK, Isaac Bristol 11 119."
[S3161] Website Llanmartin Parish Record Transcripts (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/… ) Burials: Isaac Pask, otp 4 Jul 1846 84.
[S384] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Film Number: 455134, Submitted by a member of the LDS Church.
[S384] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Batch Number C033591.
[S3161] Website Llanmartin Parish Record Transcripts (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/… ) 114 13 Mar 1792 Isaac s/o Isaac Pask.
[S285] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Film Nr. 447844 Ref. 16776.
[S3161] Website Llanmartin Parish Record Transcripts (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/… ) 133 29 Dec 1799 Ruth d/o Isaac & Mary Pask.
[S285] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Film No. 455134.
[S3161] Website Llanmartin Parish Record Transcripts (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/… ) 138 16 Jan 1803 Wm S/o Isaac Paske.
[S2711] Baptism Registers Indexed transcript, Cwmcarvan, Monmouthshire, Baptisms 1696, 1725 - 1810 "24 Apr 1754 Chas s/o Wm & Mary Pask."
[S781] E-mail from Pat Maybrey to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 7 November 2004.
[S3074] Baptism Registers Indexed transcript, Llanvihangel Yestern Llewern, Monmouthshire, Baptisms 1725-1798 "14 April 1732 Wm s/o Isaack Pask."
[S2911] Website Monmouthshire Grooms (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monfamilies/… ) Pask William Llangwm Mary Edwards Llangwm Llangwm B 03/04/1755.
[S384] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Marriage of William PASK = Jane HARRY 26 JUN 1759 Wolves Newton, Monmouth.
[S446] E-mail from Clive Hill to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 21 December 2004.
[S2911] Website Monmouthshire Grooms (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monfamilies/… ) Pask William Wolvesnewton Jane Harry Wolvesnewton Wolvesnewton B 26/06/1759.
[S845] Letter from Pat Maybrey to Stuart Pask, dated 15 November 2004 Newchurch Burials: 1783 31 Dec William (Mynddbach).
[S1010] Digitial photograph of William and Jane Pask's Grave in Newchurch Cemetery. Kindly provided by Clive Hill.
[S845] Letter from Pat Maybrey to Stuart Pask, dated 15 November 2004 Newchurch Baptisms: 1768 24 Jul Thomas son of William/Jane PASCE.
[S845] Letter from Pat Maybrey to Stuart Pask, dated 15 November 2004 Newchurch Baptisms: 1773 27 Jun James son of William PASKE.
[S845] Letter from Pat Maybrey to Stuart Pask, dated 15 November 2004 Newchurch Burials: 1775 2 Nov Mary daughter of William/Jane PASK.
Research Note: The assumption is that this is the wife of William, however her age is suspect, as she appeared to have her children in her 40-50s. There is no other Jane in this time period.
Research Note: The families of Jane HARRY and Jane COWCUM may have been mixed up.
[S845] Letter from Pat Maybrey to Stuart Pask, dated 15 November 2004 Newchurch Burials: 1805 16 Nov Jane, 86.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 13 June 2010.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 12 April 2008: The baptisms of Isaac Pask & Elizabeth Stephens (later Pask) from Caerleon Baptist Church records, but they were baptised at Carrow Hill which is near Caerwent.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 16 February 2008.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 28 February 2006: Marriages solemnized in the Parish of Caerwent in the county of Monmouth, Isaac Pask of the Parish of Llanveches, bachelor, and Elizabeth Stephens of this Parish, spinster, were married in this Church by Banns 14 May 1814. A copy of this marriage was given to me by Melanie Dodds of Caerwent and is in my possession. entered by Kermit L. Hodges 15 May 2002.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 28 February 2006: Resource: Film 0104166 Newport Branch, see also Abercarn,Newport and Varteg Branch record of members1848-1857 Newport Branch, Herfordshire Conference. Page 22 #246 Isaac Pask occupation Mason birthplace Lenfeolyn,Mon., (?on spelling) age 60 was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by Wheelock 14 July 1850. Ordained an Elder 28 Jul 1850 by W. Roberts entered by Kermit L. Hodges 22 Feb 2001.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 February 2006: RESOURCE: film 0104191,Hamlet of Llandevaud census of 1851, taken on night of 30 Mar 1851 states: Isaac Pask head age 60, mason, Elizabeth,wife age 54, daughter Rebeka Hodges age 20,James Hodges son in law age 22. (note, Rebeka and James were living with Pasks,awaiting the birth of their son James on the 20th April 1851) I have spelled Rebeka the same as it was recorded on the census record. This information added by Kermit L. Hodges 20 April 2002.
[S1864] Image of the 1851 for Llandevaud, Monmouthshire: HO107 Piece 2451 Folio 27 Page 9.
[S1742] Image of the 1861 Census for Llandervaud House, Llandervaud, Monmouthshire, Wales: RG9 Piece 4014 Folio 15 Page 7.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1864/Q1 PASK, Isaac Newport, M. 11a 129."
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 February 2006: RESOURCE:Film 1565721 item 54 and 56 From Bethany Baptist, Llanvaches, Monmouthshire, England, B8 Headstone:In memory of Issac Pask of the hamlet of Llandevaud who died 14 Feb 1864 age 71 years. Also Elizabeth wife of afore said died 22 May 1871 age 78 years. Also Rebecca Hodges daughter of afore said died 21 May 1865 age 34 years. (note:The certified copy, application number R006856 from the General Register office at Abergavenny in the county of Monmouth, copy of death entry clearly states 25 April 1865. and also the death date shown on hospital records shows 25 April 1865.)( Rebecca was buried 21 May 1865.) I checked with a Funeral Home to see if this was possible and they replied that it was common to take this long for a burial and that the body could be preserved for that length of time but would not be advisable to view the remains.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1865/Q2 HODGES, Rebecca Abergavenny 11a 37."
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 28 February 2006: Resource: Film 0104925 parish of Llandevaud, burial of Isaac Pask, age 73 years,17 Feb 1864. entered by Kermit L. Hodges 22 Feb 2001.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 4 March 2009.
[S285] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Batch No. C095691.
[S2463] Baptisms Registers Transcript, Wolvesnewton, Monmouthshire: "INCORRECT ENTRY Isaac Pask, parents Isaac & Mary at Lanmartin. Birth Date 27 March 1820; Baptised 29 March 1820 [with twin sister Susan] - should read Susan the daughter of Isaac Pask and Elizabeth Pask of the Parish of Llanmartin was born on 28th February 1820 and was baptized 29th March 1820 by David Thomas of Nebo Independent Chapel Wolvesnewton."
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 13 June 2010. Notes from Nebo register: Isaac the son of Isaac Pask of the Parish of Llanmartin by Elizabeth (Stephens) his wife was born on 27th March 1816 and was baptized 29th March 1820 by David Thomas of Nebo.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 13 June 2010. Notes from Nebo register: Mary Ann the daughter of Isaac Pask of the Parish of Llanmartin by Elizabeth his wife was born in February 1817 and was baptized January 7th 1820 by David Thomas of Nebo.
[S2463] Baptisms Registers Transcript, Wolvesnewton, Monmouthshire: "INCORRECT ENTRY Isaac Pask, parents Isaac & Mary at Lanmartin. Birth Date 27 March 1820; Baptised 29 March 1820 [with twin sister Susan] - should read Susan the daughter of Isaac Pask and Elizabeth Pask of the Parish of Llanmartin by was born in 28th February 1820 and was baptized 29th March 1820 by David Thomas of Nebo Independent Chapel Wolvesnewton."
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 4 March 2009: Susan the daughter of Isaac Pask and Elizabeth Pask of the Parish of Llanmartin by was born in 28th February 1820 and was baptized 29th March 1820 by David Thomas of Nebo Independent Chapel Wolvesnewton.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 13 June 2010. Notes from Nebo register: Susan the daughter of Isaac Pask or the Parish of Llanmartin by Elizabeth his wife was born in 28th February 1820 and was baptized 29th March 1820 by David Thomas of Nebo.
[S781] E-mail from Pat Maybrey to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 11 January 2007.
[S3161] Website Llanmartin Parish Record Transcripts (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/… ) Burials: Ruth Sadler, Landevaud 1 Apr 1856 65.
[S781] E-mail from Pat Maybrey to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 11 January 2007: From Genes Reunited - Nicola Symonds.
[S3161] Website Llanmartin Parish Record Transcripts (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/… ) 9 April 1826 Jas & Mary children of Edward & Ruth Sadler, Landevaud, labr.
[S3161] Website Llanmartin Parish Record Transcripts (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/… ) 26 Feb 1832 Eleanor d/o Edward & Ruth Sadler, otp, labr.
[S6] Teresa & Stuart Pask's Guesses, Theories and Speculations: Burials: Tabitha Sadler, otp 6 Jun 1840 10wks.
[S3161] Website Llanmartin Parish Record Transcripts (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/… ) 14 Sep 1843 Albert Edward s/o Edward & Ruth Sadler, otp, labr.
[S3161] Website Llanmartin Parish Record Transcripts (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/… ) Rachel Paske, otp 9 Mar 1830 62.
[S3161] Website Llanmartin Parish Record Transcripts (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/… ) Burials: Rachel Paske, otp 9 Mar 1830 62.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1871/Q2 Newport, M. 11a 210 age 77."
June 1 1864 Rebecca Hodges age 31 female wife of James Hodges, Llanmartin labour of Llandevaud and Caerleon.
Medical certificate signed by W W Hoyan and sent by authority of Geo. Pope J.P.
County, Union, or Parish to which chargeable: Newport Union.
Form of mental disorder: Dementia with Paralysis.
Supposed cause of insanity: Organic disease of Brain.
Bodily condition: in feeble bodily condition.
Duration of attacks: 3 ,age on first attack 28.
Date of death: 25 April 1865 certificate informal.
First attack has lasted 3 years, not epileptic, is at times excited threatening has had some symptoms of paralysis of right side. About a year ago bore a child.
Mental delusions, speaks of her deceased father in one moment as living, in another as if dead. Once threatened to kill her husband with a reap hook.
Exposes her person, then laughs, screams or scolds any person present, and talks ramblingly of her dead children.
On admission seems in feeble bodily condition, is very incoherent and doesn't apprehend questions readily.
July 9 has much improved in strength and is less demented.
Jan 1865 14 rather more feeble is still however stout.
April 15 has been confined to bed for several weeks and shows a tendancy to bed sores still being rather stout, for a week past has taken very little food and has a large swelling of left Paroted Gland.
Apr 25 sank and died today at noon.
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1850/Q3 PASK, Rebeka Newport, M. 26 139."
[S285] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : The information is incorrect - the correct information is as supplied by Kay M Hodges.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 February 2006.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 28 February 2006: resource: certified copy of an entry of marriage, Application number P.A.S. 151118/51. Marriage solemnized at The Register Office, district of Newport in the counties of Monmouth and Glamorgan. No. 179 sixth day of July 1850 James Hodges age 22 Bachelor labourer, Llandevaud,father James Hodges, rank or profession of father, smith.
Rebeka Pask 19 years, spinster, Llandevaud, father Isaac Pask, rank or profession, mason. Married in the Register Office. this marriage was solemnized between us, the mark X of James Hodges the mark x of Rebeca Pask in the presence of B. Samuel and William R. Potter.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 February 2006: RESOURCE:Film #0415449 British Mission Records, James Hodges Sr. emigrated in 1866. He was in the ward or branch LLandyfod,Herfordshire,conference. He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints 11 Aug 1850 by Issac Pask at the age of 21 years. Also his wife Rebecca was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints 11 Aug 1850, this same day by Issac Pask, her father. James Hodges was ordained an elder by Henry Naish 17 Mar 1851 book #162 pg 2a line 1. This information researched by Kermit L Hodges.this date 8 Aug 1994.
[S1848] Website Yahoo Groups - MONFH Monthmouthshire Family History (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/monfh) : Message 10951: Simon wrote "...she died in 1866 & then her husband JAMES "joined" The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints & went to USA, sailing on the "St Mark" from Liverpool to New York on 6 June 1866 ticket no. 655. Arrived 26 Jul 1866. Left on Nebraska wagon train on 8 Aug. Arrived Salt Lake Valley on 8 October 1866, but he had died on the way". They had a son JAMES (Jnr) HODGES in 1852 who married EMMA STEDDAR."
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 February 2006: Rebecca entered the Pen-Y-Fal hospital 1 June 1864 and died there on the 25 April 1865 of general paralysis. This Hospital was at Abergavenny.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 February 2006: RESOURCE:Film 1565721 item 54 and 56 From Bethany Baptist, Llanvaches, Monmouthshire, England, B8 Headstone:In memory of Isaac Pask of the hamlet of Llandevaud who died 14 Feb 1864 age 71 years. Also Elizabeth wife of afore said died 22 May 1871 age 78 years. Also Rebecca Hodges daughter of afore said died 21 May 1865 age 34 years. (note:The certified copy, application number R006856 from the General Register office at Abergavenny in the county of Monmouth, copy of death entry clearly states 25 April 1865. and also the death date shown on hospital records shows 25 April 1865.)( Rebecca was buried 21 May 1865.) I checked with a Funeral Home to see if this was possible and they replied that it was common to take this long for a burial and that the body could be preserved for that length of time but would not be advisable to view the remains.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 February 2006: Resource: ref.CRO/C9/DJR/JR Gwent county council David J. Rimmer county Archivist obtained her death record. Refer to individual notes on Rebecca Hodges.researched by Kermit L. Hodges this date 15 Mar 1996.
Thank you for your letter of 27 Febuary.
I am pleased to let you know that the female case record book for the Joint Counties Asylum, now called Pen-Y- Fal Hospital, 1864-1868, which shows that Rebecca Hodges from Llandevaud, Llanmartin was admitted to the Hospital on the 1st. June 1864 and died there on the 25 April 1865.
As there is no entry in the Hospital burial register Mrs. Hodges was not buried in the cemetery attached to the Chapel at Pen-Y-Fal.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 6 July 2007.
[S2635] Digital Photograph & Transcription of Patient Register for Rebecca Hodges. Kindly provided by Kay M Hodges.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 28 February 2006: Resourse: film 1565721 item 54 Bethany Baptist, Llanvaches, Monmouthshire,England. B8 Headstone: in memory of Isaac Pask of the Hamlet of Llandevaud who died 14 Febuary 1864 aged 71 years. Also Elizabeth wife of aforsaid died 22 May 1871 aged 78 years. Also Rebekah Hodges daughter of afore said died 21 May 1865 aged 34 years. ( note, the death entry record and also the Hospital records that she died on 25 April 1865). This resourse was found and sent to me by Marilyn Fisher of Birmingham, England on 8 May 1996.
[S2636] Digital Photograph & Letter of Necklace of Rebecca Hodges. Kindly provided by Kay M Hodges.
[S415] Website Ancestry Civil Registration - Births: 1852/Q3 HODGE, James Newport, M. 11a 156.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 February 2006: Isaac born 1853 lived 3 months died 1853.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 February 2006: Elijah born 1855 lived 5 months died 1855.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 February 2006: Elizabeth born 1852 lived 4 months, died 1852.
[S2475] E-mail from Kay M Hodges to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 25 February 2006: Mary born 1861 lived 2 months died 1861.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 4 March 2009: Isaac the son of Isaac and Elizabeth Pask of the Parish of Llanmartin was born on 27th March 1816 and was baptized 29th March 1820 by David Thomas at Nebo Independent Chapel Wolvesnewton.
[S485] Image of the 1881 Census for Llanmartin, Monmouthshire: RG11 Piece 5260 Folio 23 Page 7.
[S417] Website Ancestry Civil Registration - Marriages: "1843/Q3 PASK, Isaac Newport, M. 26 125 = THOMAS, Mary."
[S384] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Baptism: PASK, Richard 10 May 1848 of Llandevanl, Monmouth Parents: Isaac PASK and Mary THOMAS. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church.
[S588] Copy of the marriage certificate of Augustine Pask and Jane Parry, 20 November 1886. Kindly provided by Paula Payne.
[S482] Image of the 1891 Census for Llanmartin, Monmouthshire: RG12 Piece 4370 Folio 62 Page 5 . Indexed incorrectly under the name of PATH or PARK.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1891/Q3 PASK, Mary Newport, M. 11a 100 age 69."
[S1168] Scanned photograph of Isaac Pask and two unknown people. Kindly provided by Paula Payne.
[S4999] Website UK Government Probate Search Service: 1896: PASK Isaac of Llandevaud Llanmartin Monmouthshire mason died 24 October 1895 Probate Llandaff 23 March to Isaac Pask mason Effects £56 19s 6d.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1895/Q4 PASK, Isaac Newport, M. 11a 93 age 79."
[S5] Website Miscellaneous http://www.cefnpennar.com/llandevaud/stpeters.htm - In / memory / of Isaac Pask / of this hamlet / who died Feb 14th 1884 / aged 71 years / ... / Also of / Richard Thomas Pask / who died May 23rd 1923 / aged 75 years / Peace perfect peace. Includes a photograph of the gravestone.
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 13 June 2008.
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "GRO Online Index: 1844/Q3 PASK, Caroline Ann THOMAS Newport 26 91."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "GRO Online Index: 1846/Q3 PASK, Elizabeth THOMAS Newport 26 131."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "GRO Online Index: 1848/Q2 PASK, Richard THOMAS Newport 26 118."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "GRO Online Index: 1849/Q2 PASK, Mary THOMAS Newport 26 120."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "GRO Online Index: 1851/Q4 PASK, Elizabeth Jane THOMAS Newport 26 93."
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 27 August 2004.
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "GRO Online Index: 1854/Q2 PASK, Isaac THOMAS Newport 11a 169."
[S3161] Website Llanmartin Parish Record Transcripts (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/… ) 17 May 1883 Augustine Thos s/o Isaac & Mary Pask, Llandevaud, stone mason.
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "GRO Online Index: 1864/Q2 PASK, Augustine Thomas THOMAS Newport 11a 189."
[S343] E-mail from Paula Payne to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 4 March 2009: Mary Ann the daughter of Isaac Pask and Elizabeth Pask of the Parish of Llanmartin was born in February 1817 and was baptized January 7th 1820 by David Thomas at Nebo Independent Chapel Wolvesnewton.
[S344] E-mail from Philip L Fletcher to Stuart & Teresa Pask 24 February 2004.
[S1663] Image of the 1851 for Ewerby, Lincolnshire: HO107 Piece 2101 Folio 151 Page 1.
[S567] Parish Registers Transcript, Wellingore, Lincolnshire "Baptism: William PASK s Joseph & Elizabeth; Born 1 Jan 1802."
[S384] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Batch C034202: Gives date of birth as 7 January 1802.
[S384] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Batch C034202.
[S344] E-mail from Philip L Fletcher to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 23 November 2005: Philip writes "A list of William & Bridget (Massey) Pask and their children is in the possession of Russ and Shirley (Brown) Bachman, it says William Pask married Brigit (Malsey) March 11, 1824. It also says Brigit died December 10, 1843."
[S1662] Image of the 1841 Census for Ewerby, Lincolnshire: HO107 Piece 618 Book 10 Folio 9-10.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1843/Q4 PASK, Bridget Sleaford 14 347."
[S344] E-mail from Philip L Fletcher to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 23 November 2005: Typed Brown & Pask History images.
[S344] E-mail from Philip L Fletcher to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 24 February 2004.
[S285] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Batch No: C028861.
[S270] Website Rootsweb World Connect: Jacky Clark (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi).
[S384] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Batch C028862.
[S27] Website National Burial Index (NBI) @ FindMyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk: ) 21 Dec 1843 Bridget PASK 38 Lincolnshire Ewerby, St Andrew.
[S5508] Website FindmyPast: Lincolnshire Parish Registers 1538-1911: St. Andrew's Church, Ewerby Burial 21 December 1843.
Baptism 5 March 1826 Amelia Alice daughter of William & Bridget Pask of Great Hale, a Shoemaker.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1847/Q2 Sleaford 14 376."
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1847/Q2 PASK, Amelia Sleaford 14 376."
[S27] Website National Burial Index (NBI) @ FindMyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk: ) 5 May 1847 Amelia PASK 21 Lincolnshire Ewerby, St Andrew.
[S5508] Website FindmyPast: Lincolnshire Parish Registers 1538-1911: St. Andrew's Church, Ewerby Burial 5 May 1847.


BOSTON – Massachusetts outranks all other states in terms of its "Innovation Economy," which has helped drive the Bay State's standard of living higher than most others, according to the latest assessment from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative in Westborough.
The Bay State's innovative industries mostly thrived over the five years from 2009 to 2014, even as declines in the computer and telecommunications sector held back a better performance, the organization's Innovation Institute reported Tuesday.
Over 2014, annual job growth from what the institute calls the Innovation Economy reached 2 percent between the first three months of 2014 and the first quarter of last year, exceeding the 1.7 percent rate produced by the rest of the economy, the organization said in its 2015 annual assessment. Annual average wages also rose in all innovation sectors except health care services, with the fastest increase in biotechnology and medical devices industries.
But employment has fallen more than 10 percent since 2009 among computer and telecommunications hardware companies, the institute said in its "2015 Annual Index of the Massachusetts Innovation Economy." During the same period, California surpassed the Bay State in terms of the number of patents issued per state resident.
Software and communications services production increases were "the driving force" behind a $7.7 billion expansion in output from 2009-2014, the institute said in its report. Overall, innovation sectors produced almost $210 billion in economic output in 2014, up $25.6 billion from five years earlier.
Massachusetts remains at the top of all "leading technology states" in terms of workforce education levels, research and development spending and output per state resident in innovation sectors, according to the report. Average wage rates are also higher here in all but one industry segment.
But Massachusetts trails California in the number of startups tied to universities, hospitals, research institutions and technology investment firms, the institute said. The state also lags behind California in terms of overall research and development spending. While entrepreneurs in the Golden State attract more venture capital than Massachusetts, the Bay State remains "a top destination" for seed money from investors, with the largest amounts going to biotechnology and software startups.
From 2009 to 2014, venture investment in Massachusetts climbed 74 percent, with more than $1.8 billion dedicated to biotech firms and $1 billion for software companies, the institute said.
The other top 10 leading technology states are Texas, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Minnesota. Close behind are five more: North Carolina, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Missouri and Wisconsin.
The institute's assessment produced a result similar to a survey from Bloomberg Business, which recently named Massachusetts the "most innovative state," the institute said. It also noted that the Consumer Technology Association named the state an "innovation champion" in a 2016 survey.
In terms of the concentration of innovation industries employment, Massachusetts ranks No. 1, according to the report. Health care services is the biggest, with almost 364,000 worker in 2014, followed by financial services with less than half as many. But financial services paid the highest average wage, at $139,500 in 2014, followed by biotech and medical devices at almost $132,000.
The state's advanced materials industries employed the smallest number of people in 2014, at about 29,400, followed by computer and communications hardware, and both shed jobs from 2009 to 2014. But average annual wages for hardware company workers ranked fourth highest, at almost $112,000. Salaries for advanced materials workers, averaging about $67,200, ranked above only those in post-secondary education, at about $64,000, and health services, at $67,400.


If you have circled the PSU Market park block loop on a Saturday morning over the last 15 years, you may have noticed a booth standing out among the crowd. You know, the one with displays of long-locked sheep skins, colorful hand knit accessories strung along the canopy edge, and large coolers filled to the brim with fresh cuts of lamb. More than likely, you stepped a little closer and spotted a woman sitting behind a spinning wheel.
Susie and Dan Wilson of SuDan Farm are a long-time vendor at our PSU Market. They produce grass fed, locally grown, and locally processed lamb, pastured poultry, pastured chicken/duck eggs, and fiber items made from the wool of their sheep. The Wilsons love their line of work – especially being at the farmers market. Together with their main farmhand and booth helper, Ashley, SuDan Farm serves shoppers with every ounce of warmth that their sheep provide.
With a world of agricultural history aiding her fiber-spinning fingertips, Susie is an enthusiastic sheep raiser, shearer, and fiber crafter. Having grown up in a family of DIY-ers in Eastern Iowa, at the age of five she began dreaming of having her own farm to bring her crafting passion full circle. In May 1990, despite other educational and career path opportunities, Susie enrolled in a sheep shearing school at Oregon State University, and her dreams of coming home filthy and sore from sheep wrangling became a reality.
Without a doubt, Dan is the man for lamb. He has the know-how and wherewithal to oversee every aspect of their sheep's lives. From a large ranch in Arcata, Calif., farming and ranching are in his blood. After spending time in the military after high school, he returned home to continue farming orchards of apples and hazelnuts near Salem, Ore., and attend school. It was during his time at Oregon State University that Dan wound up in a butchering class that set his path firmly towards sheep.
Susie and Dan met at a dinner in the Fall of 1990 and married in February 1991. Their lifelong dream of raising a flock was humbly fulfilled on a rented farm in Hillsboro with only six sheep to keep Susie shearing, showing, knitting, and spinning her fibers into wool. Business blossomed over the following years, and they saw an avenue in direct marketing when Lake Oswego Farmers Market opened in 2001. With the support from friends and colleagues, SuDan Farm was accepted into Lake Oswego's market and began their farmers market journey with six coolers of lamb, Susie's spinning wool, and two bags of raw fiber.
From the beginning, SuDan Farm filled a critical role for local area farmers markets. Fresh produce and value-added products are expectedly abundant at farmers markets, but ranchers offering animal products are a little harder to come by. Since securing a spot as a reliable source for lamb, wool, and wool accessories, Susie and Dan have made it their business model to fill the gap enthusiastically. In their early days at market, Susie shared that customers would ask for things not available so "we would just say yes and then go figure it out!" Today, they offer the most delightful array of wool products and an impressive menu of meats.
Raising a flock of any size is no small task. At their farm located just outside of Canby, Oregon, they keep a breeding flock of around 30 ewes. These ewes are primarily Border Leicesters with some Coopworths and Gotlands. SuDan Farm's meat animals reside mainly in the upper Willamette Valley. Whether raised for breeding or heading to the butcher, each sheep has to be sheared of their long wool coats. In our drizzly climate, adults are sheared twice a year; "once right before lambing and then right before breeding," Susie explained. However, every ounce of wool is worth the grime and a sore body. Everything their sheep provide has a purpose and will find a way to the farmers market.
Sheep are extremely practical. As one of the oldest domesticated animals in history, it's no wonder sheep have a proud reputation! Susie is proud of the "5,000-year-old miracle fiber" and Dan is proud of the extensive meat offerings. Considering every step of the process, they should be proud of all their work!
With the help of local mills, butchers, and cutting facilities, SuDan Farm sends their cultivated materials to trusted facilities for further production. Susie shears every sheep and then soaks the fibers to rid them of weight and lanolin, the oil secreted from the sebaceous glands of wool-producing animals. She ships the fibers to eight different mills in the Northwest where they will be washed and carded. Carding wool involves a process of detangling and straightening wool fibers. Once milled, wool is then ready to become simple roving suitable for spinning (cue Susie's wheel), sheets of needle felt for shoe insoles, or other felted items like balls for juggling, dryer balls, and cat toys.
SuDan's felt insoles are by far their most popular wool product. Using 200-300 pounds of felt a year, insoles are a favorite among shoppers and vendors (including Susie and Dan who wear them year-round!).
As for their extensive menu of meats, Dan oversees the processing of each sheep. Their flock is butchered at a USDA facility in Brownsville, Oregon. Carcasses hang five-to-six days for aging and are transferred to a cutting facility in Mount Angel, Oregon. Dan visits the cutting facility every Monday and helps with the cutting process.
Afterwards, lamb skins are salted and sent to the closest available tannery in Wisconsin. After a four-to-five month process, sheepskins are ready for market. SuDan Farm tans around 300 every year, but could easily sell twice as many. These long-locked skins are not only scrumptiously soft, but they've also been tanned for washability (no dry cleaning necessary!).
"The real magic of our market experience is explaining where wool comes from to help people see the connection to the earth and sun that raise our animals who provide us with so many useful things," she said.
Susie also holds a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the local and national craft and fiber arts scenes. She always carries informational fliers about fiber festivals, local knitting guilds, and resources for learning to spin, knit, and crochet. In addition to on-the-spot spinning demonstrations, Susie is happy to answer knitting questions – she knows about needle sizes, gauge, and yardage requirements by heart!
So if after all these years you have not stepped into the SuDan Farm booth, don't be sheepish. You can find them at PSU market every Saturday (except for the weekend of Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival at the end of September). You'll be glad you did.


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List of Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year is a list of the annual selection by College Sports Communicators (known before 2022–23 as the College Sports Information Directors of America, or CcSIDA) and its Academic All-America sponsor of the individual athlete selected as the most outstanding of the annual Women's Basketball Academic All-America selections. From 1996 through 2011, one winner each was chosen from both the College and University Divisions for all twelve Academic All-America teams, including football. The Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes.  The University Division team included eligible participants from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I member schools, while the College Division team included scholar-athletes from all of the following: NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), Canadian universities and colleges and two-year schools.

Beginning in 2012, CoSIDA revamped its award structure. The University Division was renamed "Division I". Since then, NCAA Divisions II and III have had their own separate All-Americans. The College Division consisted only of non-NCAA institutions through the 2017–18 school year, after which it was effectively replaced by an NAIA division restricted to members of that governing body.

Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada.  First team All-District honorees make the All-America team ballots. Currently, all twelve Academic All-American teams (Men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track & field, men's baseball, women's softball, men's American football, women's volleyball and men's and women's at-large teams) have one Academic All-American of the Year for each division. One of these twelve sport-by-sport Academic All-American of the year is selected as the Academic All-America Team Members of the Year for each division. The most recent women's basketball player to have earned the all-sports honor is Grace Barry of Concordia University Nebraska, winner of the 2020 NAIA award.

University Division/Division I
All winners are Americans unless indicated otherwise. Names in bold were winners of the all-sports Academic All-America Award.

Division II

Division III

College Division/NAIA

Footnotes

References

External links
Academic All-America information page

College basketball trophies and awards in the United States
women's Basketball
Sports awards honoring women
Lists of women's basketball players in the United States

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You know that feeling you get when you see a great movie that you didn't know anything about prior to watching it? Every scene, character and plot twist are introduced to your surprise and you never quite know where it's going, but your imagination tries to fill it in along the way.
That's kind of how I felt about Hamburg.
We zipped up the Autobahn enthusiastically, ignoring all warnings on the radio about the storm that was brewing in the Baltic Sea. What's a little rain to us Nova Scotians anyway?
We arrived on Saturday afternoon and checked into our apartment rental right away. It was super spacious and absolutely adorable. The old wooden floors, large windows and crown mouldings were stunning – I could have moved right in!
Thanks again Hamburg Homes for the sweet hook-up while we were in town!
Now, as you probably know, Hamburg isn't exactly surrounded by rolling vineyards and wineries. But that doesn't mean it isn't a prime location for a wine-lover like me to want to hang around. The city has a TON to offer if you're feeling parched or peckish, and we had a pretty decent set of arrangements lined up!
On our first evening we hit up Vlet in der Speicherstadt which is located in the HafenCity district on the canals. 'Speicherstadt' is German for 'warehouse district' and Hamburg's just happens to be a UNESCO World Heritage site and is absolutely breathtaking – especially in the evening. A must-see for all you Restoration Hardware loft-loving design fanatics.
We hailed a cab just in time to beat the rain, which was hammering down horizontally by the time we arrived to our reservation.
After a fantastic dinner and the best freakin' beef tartare I've ever tasted we called it a night. We had plans to wake up at 5am the next day to visit Hamburg's famous fish market and were told to be there early in-order to get the full experience.
To be honest, I wasn't convinced a single one of us would be surrendering to our alarm clocks the next morning – Especially not after the cocktails, bottles of wine and round of nightcaps that the manager kindly rolled over on the digestif trolly. But! Like my Dad has always said, "those who want to drink with the boys at night, have to get up with men in the morning". So, at 5 o'clock sharp, off went the alarm and up we all jumped.
We headed out into the darkness trying our very best to ignore the fact that we had all so willingly sacrificed our Sunday morning beauty sleep for a pile of dead fish we knew we weren't going to buy anyway. It was a quiet drive but we were there in no time. We parked along the water next to the boardwalk and headed towards the market. As we approached we started to notice that something wasn't quite right. It seemed as though the majority of the dock walkways and bridges were underwater… and a park bench and a lamp post, and… ahhh, the main market building itself. Wonderful.
So how do you make the best of a dark Sunday morning in Hamburg? Turns out we didn't have to get too creative, because directly across from the market on the only piece of dry sidewalk left in sight was a pub called Eier Carl, and it was bumpin'!
Walking in sober you had to adjust to the smell of flourishing hangovers and beer breath fast, or you wouldn't last. The trick, we figured, was to get your own beer as quickly as possible, join in on the drunken festivities and admit that you do absolutely fit in there – no matter what the time of day. Because, as much as you try to tell yourself that you've never been the one up there, arm-in-arm, belting out songs you think you know the words to, with a keyboard player who calls himself Izzy, or Iggy, or whatever it was, and is dressed as a sailor, let's face it luv… you have.
If you had seen how quickly we cleared out of the Eier Carl when we heard about the bathroom situation, you would have been impressed to see that we could move even faster. I should tell you though, and I do hate to burst the bubble, the car was not underwater when we got to it. Turns out they had closed the flood gate on that side in plenty of time – boringgg. So, we carried on with our Sight-Seeing-Sunday.
We had breakfast in the red-light district in St. Pauli, did the stereotypical tourist round on one of those hop-on hop-off buses, took a boat cruise around the harbour and then caught a late lunch at Coast by East where we enjoyed a bottle of Robert Weil Riesling before heading back to our flat in the Sternschanze district.
Now, even-though we had carted an overly ambitious amount of wine with us from home, it was still great to know that we were staying around the corner from a restaurant with one of the city's best wine lists, Witwenball.
We stopped in to check it out on Sunday evening for an appetiser and a bottle of Von Buhl Riesling Sekt. The owners Axel and Julia have done an incredible job. The place is beautiful and the atmosphere was warm and welcoming. With floor to ceiling shelves stocked with an impressive selection of wines and an equally tempting dinner menu, it isn't hard to see how they scored a 96 point Falstaff rating.
If you haven't tasted Von Buhl's famous Sekt before, I urge you to track some down. Especially since Mathieu Kauffmann – former Chef de Cave at Bollinger has taken over the cellar master position at the prestigious Pfalz winery.
Monday was our last full day in the city and we headed back towards the water for our lunch reservation at German celebrity chef, Steffen Henssler's sushi restaurant, Henssler Henssler.
My momma's hotter than the wasabi!
After a couple bottles of Sancerre, about a ton of sushi and a boat full of assorted desserts we were on our way, and good God… I'm still thinking about the food today.
During lunch (sometime around the end of the second bottle of wine) I booked us in for an 'Evening Lights Canal Tour' for that night. We rolled out of Henssler Henssler, bundled up in our warmest clothing and headed for the pier in search of our lovely bateau. When we arrived, to our surprise, we were pointed towards the exact same boat we had been on the day before, and it would in no lifetime, ever, be fitting into the city canals like we had imagined. I had obviously booked the wrong boat.
The bartender onboard definitely recognised us from the day before – I assume they don't get too many repeat visitors over the span of a weekend. We made the best of my screw-up and drank our share of the bar dry as we watched the fully-lit Queen Mary II sail off into the darkness from the upper deck. Hamburg is as pretty by night as it is by day, especially since the completion of the Elbphilharmonie, which stands gloriously at the rivers edge. It may not have been the night we planned, but it was still a perfect ending to our stay.
Harvest: How it all goes down.


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Recent Insights » Ask the IRB Experts - Posts Only » What documentation is needed to prove a parent's legal authority to consent for a child's participation in research?
What documentation is needed to prove a parent's legal authority to consent for a child's participation in research?
June 26, 2020 Yvonne Higgins | Quality Assurance Advisor, Compliance
When the signature of a parent or legal guardian is required for pediatric research, what is expected in terms of the documentation collected by the investigator to prove that the person accompanying the child and signing consent is the parent or a parent with sole custody or is a legal guardian. Are legal documents required in all cases where two parents are not accompanying the child? And even then, is legal proof required?
- Quality Manager, Clinical Trials Management Group
The requirements for permission of parents or guardians and for documentation of consent are intended by the IRB and the federal regulations (Source 1 | Source 2) as an additional safeguard and protection for children and not as an obstruction for researchers. As there is no federal regulatory requirement to provide proof of a parent or guardians' legal authority to consent, IRBs are unlikely to set a requirement. This is consistent with respect to confirming the identity of individuals presenting themselves for inclusion in research. Sponsors or sites may impose their own requirements.
The WCG informed consent template does include the following statements below the signature lines indicating parental permission. Some sponsors choose to include this as a check box "attestation" in the parental permission/consent form.
1st signature line: Signature of adult subject capable of consent, child subject's parent, or individual authorized under state or local law to consent to the child subject's general medical care.
2nd signature line: When the IRB requires permission of both parents, the signature line for the second parent includes the statement that the signature is required unless this subject is an adult, the second parent is deceased, unknown, incompetent, or not reasonably available, or the parent providing consent has sole legal responsibility for the care and custody of the child.
The approach to documentation of legal authority to consent for may depend on both the research setting and on state law. State laws may vary widely. Investigators should be familiar with state or local law requirements that may be more stringent. When the research is done in a clinical care setting, the practice may already have policies in place that guide the practice of pediatric medicine. At a minimum, the clinician would have established some knowledge of the relationship between the parent and the child, and when in doubt, would have asked for additional information or documentation.
Note that the federal regulations require that when research poses greater than minimal risks with no potential benefit to subjects, both parents must give their permission "unless one parent is deceased, unknown, incompetent, or not reasonably available, or when only one parent has legal responsibility for the care of the child." While there is no regulatory definition for "not reasonably available," and no federal guidance on how to make the determination, the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections concludes that "ultimately the responsibility of the investigator to adequately assess, document and decide whether a parent is not reasonably available given the specific facts and circumstances of each situation, including the level of that second parent's participation in the life of the child." In this case, the investigator could include a note to the study file documenting the assessment and decision to allow one parent's permission to enroll in a study. Here is a link to the SACHRP recommendations for a discussion on how the term "reasonably available" should be applied and interpreted.
Yvonne has contributed to the cause of ethics and responsibility in human research for more than 20 years. During that time, she has served as Vice President of Quality Management for Copernicus Group IRB, Executive Director of the human research protections program (HRPP) and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) at the University of Pennsylvania, Co-Chair of the workshop and didactic planning committee for PRIM&R's Advancing Ethical Research annual conference, and Public Health Analyst within the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP).
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How Robin Hood got me all a-quiver!
As my eleventh arrow - just like the ten before it - flops feebly into the grass, I begin to dislike my beautiful, hand-made, 5ft-long, solid yew longbow. And Russell Crowe. In equal measures.
The longbow because it's hurting my shoulder and bruising my wrist, and isn't doing what I want it to. And Russell, because I'm sick and tired of hearing how much better he was with his.
'Russ was a natural,' trilled my (and Crowe's) archery teacher, who is called Steve Ralphs, sports a pair of rock 'n' roll sideburns, plays in a band called Shaved Horse and has a lot to say about Crowe.
Steve, 55, would know. He was the brave chap who jetted out to the famously short-fused Russell Crowe's farm in Australia and spent weeks in the scalding heat teaching the actor how to shoot a longbow like a master archer for his starring role in the new Robin Hood film, directed by Ridley Scott and co-starring Cate Blanchett and mark Strong.
'Russ was brilliant. He has huge, huge big arms - he's enormous, he's in great shape.
'In fact, his left arm is so big the string kept hitting his biceps, so we had to make him a special bracer to protect him from bruising.
Over the years, Steve has taught countless Hollywood stars to shoot a longbow without catching their fingers, pinging their wrists, injuring their shoulders, swearing filthily under their breath and, most importantly, shown them how to look vaguely like they know what they're doing in all manner of historical epics.
His alumni include Keira Knightley ('Superb, absolutely brilliant and so polite'), Ray Winstone ('A riot - he's "on" all the time'), Emily Blunt (' gorgeous'), Rupert Friend ('just lovely'), Dame Judi Dench ('a natural'), Clive Owen, Orlando Bloom and goodness knows how many more.
Today he is teaching me - in the lumpy field behind his very pink house in Norfolk - and it turns out it's ridiculously hard. The string is slippy, the bow is cumbersome, the arrow keeps sliding off my left fist and falling on the ground and the instructions are endless.
Another arrow slatters into the grass and I swear under my breath.
Steve says: 'Everyone seems to think: "Ooh, it'll be easy, it's only a bow and arrow. What could possibly go wrong?" Well I'll tell you.
But not quite as much as he loves longbows. Or Robin Hood. 'For me, Robin Hood is an attitude. Some of us have a little bit, and I have far too much,' he says.
We start on a 30lb bow. Bows are measured not on size, but on the amount of power it takes to pull the arrow back over a given length - 28in for men, and 26in for women.
They range from 30 to 35lb for women and 45 to 50lb for men, though Steve's been known to shoot a 120-pounder.
So I wear a bracer, or leather forearm protector.
Steve's love affair with longbows and Robin Hood started when he was given the book Robin Hood, aged five.
Two years later, Steve's father, who'd inherited his bow-making skills from his own father, and he from his father, and so on and so forth, found a nice piece of yew and made the young Steve his first longbow.
He's been making longbows and studying their history ever since. Today he has an encyclopaedic knowledge of longbows, which he is quick to share, and despises any other kind of archery involving sights, carbon fibre or alloy.
'Real archery is two sticks, one of them with feathers. It's a fine line, but it's important to us traditionalists,' he says.
As well as training dozens of film stars and thousands of extras, he has made bows and arrows for epics including Gladiator, Braveheart, Troy, The mummy and Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.
All from the dusty forge overlooking a tadpole-filled swimming pool.
The place smells of leather, beeswax, wood shavings and oil, and is piled high with dozens of bows, arrows, beautifully carved ox-horn bow tips, piles of turkey feathers ('they used to be brown geese, but we're a bit short these days'), a harness of armour ('it's called a harness - there's no such thing as a "suit" of armour), replica shields and a sign that reads: 'No B****y Swearing'.
As well as film sets, he supplies the ever-burgeoning battle reenactment community.
And his wife Lindsey, what does she make of it all?
While Crowe, of course, was a model student ('I couldn't believe the work he put in - he'd seen all the old Robin Hood films, read all the old medieval ballads and he knew so much'), not all his famous pupils have been quite so eager.
Steve says: 'Some of them, and I'm naming no names, come down, smack their arm and that's that. They don't want to know. Men are the worst - they assume they can do it because it looks easy, but archery is 70 per cent technique and 30 per cent luck.
'She just draws up and . . . Whap! - straight in the bull's eye. And the next one . . . Whap! into the bull's eye. And she turns round and says: "Oh goodness, this is such fun, why didn't I do this years ago?" and . . . Whap, a third goes straight in the bull's eye.
Gosh, good old Judi. And did any of his actor students ever ping their arms and swear a lot?
Steve is full of the talk, but can he actually hit anything? If a rabbit ran across the field, could he kill it?
He is also a stickler for historical accuracy. 'Don't watch a film with me! Never! None of my family will. I have to put a bulldog clip on my lips. I don't criticise; people think I'm the grumpiest man in the universe, but I'm not. I'm just pointing out that it could have been done better.
But do people really notice?
'I do. And it drives me mad.' Even when he's watching films he's worked on, such as the 1991 Kevin Costner epic, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.
Although, to be fair, he didn't see it all.
Even his favourite Robin Hood film ever - Sean Connery's Robin And Marian - doesn't escape his beady eye.
'You've got one of the best fight scenes ever - Sean Connery and Robert Shaw chopping chunks off each other outside Sherwood forest - and it's just brilliant.
But the recent BBC TV series of Robin Hood, costarring Keith Allen, hit a new low.
'It was absolute pants. They had ridiculous shiny armour, the girls had Page 3 make-up and the bows were rubbish.
Back in the paddock, I can barely pull the string back on my 30lb 'baby', and certainly nowhere near the all important 'anchor point', where my right hand fingers need to be in the corner of my mouth.
'Further back. Further back. FURTHER BACK!' he barks, before declaring me ' over- bowed' , muttering about my 'power triangle' and downgrading me to Emily Blunt's teeny-weeny bow and diddy little arrows 'from the set of The Young Victoria'.
It goes without saying that Super-Russell started on a 50lb bow.
'Not many men start on a 50-pounder. But Russ kept saying: "That's not powerful enough, that's not powerful enough. I need something more powerful." I ended up giving him one of mine.
Another painful ping on my wrist. And then, suddenly, just as I'm about to hurl the bow on the floor and start jumping up and down on it, one of Queen Victoria's flimsy arrows hits the target. The blue ring, no less. And everything feels better.
And maybe I would. But my wrist hurts and my shoulder aches and, unlike Russell Crowe, just hitting the target is good enough for me.


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import newBuild from '../../src/parse';

const filepath = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'fixtures', 'template');
const template = fs.readFileSync(filepath).toString('utf8');

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Q: How To Save CSV parsed data into another csv file? Please see the question below the code -
import csv

MY_FILE = "../data/sample_sfpd_incident_all.csv"

def parse(raw_file, delimiter):
    opened_file = open(raw_file)
    csv_data = csv.reader(opened_file, delimiter=delimiter)

    parsed_data = []
    fields = csv_data.next()
    for row in csv_data:
        parsed_data.append(dict(zip(fields, row)))
    opened_file.close()
    return parsed_data

def main():
    new_data = parse(MY_FILE, ",")
    print new_data

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

The question is, if I want to save this parsed data to another file in csv format, how do I do it? I tried a few things, but it kinda screwed up the code at one point.
Can anyone help?

A: You can use csv.writer() to write rows of data to another CSV file, or use csv.DictWriter() to write dictionaries with row data. The latter does require that you specify fieldnames up front.
Copying across CSV rows could best be done straight when reading:
with open(inputfilename, 'rb') as ifh, open(outputfilename, 'wb') as ofh:
    reader = csv.reader(ifh)
    writer = csv.reader(ifh)

    writer.writerows(reader)

Here writer.writerows() takes an iterable of rows; a reader object happens to be an iterable, so this copies data straight across. You can add additional dialect parameters t othe csv.reader() and csv.writer() constructors to change the format; say you read with delimiter='\t' (tab separated) and write out the default comma-separated format.
If you want to process each row in between, use a loop:
for row in reader:
    # do something with row
    writer.writerow(row)

The writer.writerow() (singular) method takes one row at a time to write out.
To copy across dictionary rows, you need to specify the fields. Use a csv.DictReader() object to produce the dictionaries, it'll handle fieldnames from the first CSV row for you:
with open(inputfilename, 'rb') as ifh, open(outputfilename, 'wb') as ofh:
    reader = csv.DictReader(ifh)
    writer = csv.DictWriter(ifh, fieldnames=reader.fieldnames)

    writer.writerows(reader)

Here, the fieldnames parameter is taken straight from the csv.DictReader().fieldnames attribute. Again, process rows in a loop as required, same as with a regular csv.reader() / csv.writer() pair.

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Q: Strange effects with OpenGL app when compositing is enabled on Linux + Intel driver I'm having a problem with this very simple SDL2+OpenGL code:
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int main() {
    SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
    SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_MASK,    SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_CORE);
    SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MAJOR_VERSION, 3);
    SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MINOR_VERSION, 2);
    SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_STENCIL_SIZE, 8);
    SDL_Window *window = SDL_CreateWindow("OpenGL", SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED, SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED, 800, 600, SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL);
    SDL_GLContext context = SDL_GL_CreateContext(window);
    SDL_Event windowEvent;

    while(true) {
        if(SDL_PollEvent(&windowEvent)) {
            if(windowEvent.type == SDL_QUIT) break;
        }
        SDL_GL_SwapWindow(window);
    }

    SDL_GL_DeleteContext(context);
    SDL_Quit();
    return 0;
}

This code should just show a blank window. When running it with an NVidia driver it works (even with window manager compositor enabled), but when I run it with an Intel driver and compositor enabled I randomly get a full black screen for about a second, then the window shows, then the black screen comes back etc.
When I disable my compositor (KWin 5.10.4) with Alt+Shift+F12 before running the program, it works. I also tested it with Mutter (the GNOME compositor) and the same happens.
The program works if I comment out all the SDL_GL_SetAttribute part, the SDL_GLContext variable declaration, and change SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL with SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN (basically if I set the window to be managed by SDL).
I even tried with glfw instead of SDL, but I got the same problem.
How should I solve it?
Update: the program also works if I disable vsync in the KDE compositor settings.

A: You're swapping a framebuffer which you never cleared or drawn a framebuffer covering primitive to. Hence the outcome is undefined and any kind of output might appear.
Add a glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT) to your inner drawing loop and see what it does.


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Diamond Anvil Cell: Tiny Diamond Anvils Open Exciting Tech Possibilities
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Scientists are always on the quest to push learning further. A recent paper was published wherein researchers have found a way to use diamonds as tiny anvils to break molecules apart. Creating and using a very small anvil—a tool that's called a diamond anvil cell —while pounding away at molecules might seem unique, or cute, even, but it's a bold idea that has plenty of real-life applications and implications.
Breaking Bonds with Physical Pressure
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The research was conducted by a team of scientists from the Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, formerly known as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. According to their published study in Nature, the event is the very first chemical reaction that was triggered by using just mechanical pressure.
Through this feat, they are hoping to create a method of doing molecular chemistry that is more precise, is efficient, consumes a lot less energy, and is greener for the environment.
The SLAC researchers used diamonds—namely, diamond anvil cell —to generate large amounts of physical pressure to break the atomic bonds between molecules. They used this tool in conjunction with another durable compound known as carborane. (This compound is a very small sphere-shaped compound comprised of carbons and other elements. And it has the ability to resist the extreme pressure that is generated by the diamond anvil cell.) They then attach these carboranes to the softer molecule they wish to—in this case, a molecule made of copper and sulfur. The carboranes then act as a sort of molecular pressure points where the force is applied to force the atomic bonds to break.
A Different Take on Chemical Reactions
Using physical force—such as the one from utilizing a diamond anvil cell —isn't the easiest way to produce chemical reactions. However, a chemical reaction derived from pure pressure instead of just using heat generates less energy and is cleaner for the environment. It is also a more precise way of producing reactions as it is possible to manipulate specific atoms in the molecule and force only a specific bond to break. Such a fact allows scientists to look for new chemical processes and apply them to various technologies.
According to one of the study's lead authors Hao Yan—physical science research associate at Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES)—the pressure from the molecular anvils has the potential to break chemical bonds and produce entirely different results compared to other means, such as pulling the bonds apart or by using light, heat or electricity to force the chemical bonds to break.
Diamond Anvil Cell — Just the Beginning
Currently, the tech is still in its infancy, and there is still a lot of work to do. But as long as the process exists, scientists will be able to find useful ways to apply the tech. In fact, researchers can use it to make new kinds of semiconductors or even convert carbon dioxide to something useful and less harmful.
This new greener and more energy-efficient method of breaking chemical bonds is a welcome addition to the field of research, as there is now an increasing demand for managing the environmental impact of scientific research. Research published in 2011 notes that the environmental impact of research should be taken into account in its design and execution. Not only does this statement make sense financially, but it also increases the sustainability of the content and the process.
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I gotta be honest here for a minute… This post isn't just written for you readers. That's right, I got selfish. As a women's health therapist I work with pregnant clients all the time and the first time I heard of doulas I had absolutely no idea what that meant. So when I had the opportunity to meet a doula and learn about them, I jumped at the chance! Emily Potter Wannenburg and I were introduced through a mutual friend who knew we would nerd out and bond over our love of helping women. For this interview, Emily and I grabbed lunch to discuss all things Doula.
First things first. What in the world is a doula?
A doula is a layperson who lends support to an expectant mother and/or a couple from the time the contract is signed, through pregnancy, labor & delivery, and into postpartum period.
What's the difference between a doula, midwife, and OB?
- a doula is a lay person there to support you, who does not deliver. This person may have a medical background but they do not act as a medical health care provider when they are a doula.
Well if a doula isn't going to actually deliver your baby then what do they do?
A doula provides a momma to be (and her family!) with emotional, physical, and informational support throughout pregnancy. They help you to understand the changes your body is going through. When it comes time for the big day they are there to help you make the best decisions for you and your growing family. After delivery, they can help you better bond with baby, such as assisting with breastfeeding and by making sure you are cared for.
Essentially they help you to be more confident throughout the whole process by supporting and educating you - which is no joke because confidence going into birth is a strong predictor of having a positive birth experience!
Research has shown that a woman's involvement in decision making during childbirth, having information about available options, feeling supported by caregivers, and fulfillment of expectations all contribute to confidence and positive birth experiences. Doulas can help with that, and working with a doula has actually been shown to decrease rates of C-section and use of pain relief medication.
A doula is not going to tell you how you must have your baby. "A great doula has experience but realizes that it's not about her, it's about the mother and their birth focus." Their role is to help you to have the best birth experience possible, whether that's through a scheduled C-section or an unmedicated home water birth, and everything in between. They will spend time talking about what you would like for your birth because this is a day you're going to remember.
Emily and I both hear lots of birth stories - both good and bad. I can tell you that every time I ask a woman about her pregnancies and deliveries I hear purely about the experience. Rarely does anyone remember what degree of tearing she had or how many stitches they required. But you can hear it in the way a woman describes her births whether she felt supported or pushed around.
A doula may be as involved or not-involved throughout the pregnancy as you decide. For example, Emily's "mommas" (she doesn't call them clients!) have 24/7 access to her via calls, texts, and email from the time they sign the contract, usually 6-8 weeks pregnant, up till after the birth. She also attends at least one care provider appointment with her mommas. Her mommas get access not only to a support person but with her almost 30 years of experience and community network she knows who in Jacksonville will help make your VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) dream much more likely.
One huge benefit of working with an experienced doula in your community is that they have the connections. They know which midwives will drive out for a natural water birth at home, who will honor your intention to have a vaginal delivery after a c-section, and who might NOT be a great match for your birth plan. Currently, in healthcare, it's tough to choose a qualified health care professional based on objective measures and numbers… it's mostly done through word of mouth. Unlike Gossip Girl, your OB should not be picked just because your best girlfriend used them. That's a whole topic on its own (I'll post it next!).
Ok, that's nice but what if you have a partner/spouse/best friend/mom who's going to be there for you during the delivery?
In fact, there's been plenty of times where she actually "doulas" the partner, reminding them to eat, drink, use the bathroom, and even rest. "I'll tell them right up front that if there's a long labor, I will send off the dad to rest, because after the delivery you're going to need to rest and he's going to be with the baby." Not only does she make sure that everyone is at their best, but she is there to be helpful and work together as a team with your family and care providers. When that happens, the moms leave feeling good about the choices they make regardless of what happens during that birth. You want to make educated decisions and not to have regrets.
What kind of training does a doula have?
Doulas are not licensed nor degreed professionals. Training typically consists of a long weekend. In the training, you learn the physiological progression of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. You'll touch on things like coping mechanisms, breastfeeding, childbirth education, pain control, and what your role is as a doula. After the course, there are a certain number of births which a doula needs to "attend" to before becoming certified. There are a number of different certifying bodies such as DONA which run the courses, certify, and offer continuing education for doulas.
How do you find the right Doula for you?
Doulas come in all levels of experience, just like in any profession.
- Google Yes that's right, Google and FB can help you find doulas in your area!
Price: doulas can set their own prices, which most often vary on the amount of experience they have and what they include in their services. Remember, a doula with 30+ years of experience who is available 24/7 is probably going to charge differently than someone with 5+ years of experience. Emily knows many doulas in the area and will happily refer a momma over to a fabulous doula within her price point.
3. If availability and price both work for you then the next biggest question to answer is: Do you like this person? Seriously ladies, this person is going to probably be in your home at some point, they will meet your family, and they are going to be present for one of the most memorable moments of your life. It's best to speak with a few different doulas (within your budget and who are available!) to see who you have the best connection with.
4. And finally, meet with this person! Before you sign the contract be sure to get some face to face time, ideally with you, the doula, and feel free to bring along your partner, friend, or mom. If the birth doesn't go according to plan you could be spending quite a bit of time with these people - make sure you are comfortable with that! This is also the time to discuss any questions you may have about the contract.
It was an absolute pleasure to chat with Emily. I left with a much better understanding of how doulas can support expecting mothers. Do you have any other questions about doulas? Comment below!


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An award ceremony was sponsored by the SBA, the New Mexico Small Business Development Center Network and the New Mexico Department of Veterans' Services. Optomec was nominated by Sandra Necessary, Director of the U. S. Export Assistance/U. S. Department of Commerce. As the New Mexico winner, Optomec competed at the regional level and was selected as the Region VI Small Business Exporter of the Year. Region VI includes the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
Optomec, a privately held supplier of advanced manufacturing systems for the Electronics, Solar and Aerospace markets, now boasts a world-wide installed base of more than 100 customers in over a dozen countries. These customers utilize Optomec's patented Aerosol Jet Printed Electronics systems and LENS powder-metal fabrication system for the production of a variety of high value end products, including high efficiency Solar Cells, printed Fuel Cells, Displays, and Smart phones. Optomec is also experiencing continued world-wide demand for its LENS systems, used for the fabrication and repair of high performance metal components in the Aerospace and Defense industry.


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Local pests: aphids only problem so far.
This Anna apple is part of a family tree, with Dorsett Golden as the other apple. I got one Dorsett apple this year.
Planted in 2014, got 1 apple in 2015, 5 in 2016. Taste is fruity, very tasty, mildly crisp. It got down to 5 degrees both winters and yet the tree has thrived. Very impressive for a "warm climate" apple tree.