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Up to one in 10 women experience antenatal distress (Illustration: Miriama Grace-Smith)
We need to talk about antenatal mental health
Emily Writes | Parents Editor
The challenges of postnatal depression are increasingly part of our conversations around birth. But too often the mental distresses encountered while pregnant are misunderstood or unspoken.
I didn't know about antenatal anxiety until I had it. I'd been concerned about postnatal depression, and prepared to handle it as best I could. But I'd never heard of mental distress occuring during pregnancy.
When I look back, some of my thoughts and feelings showed really clearly that I was distressed. I was obsessed with counting the movements of my baby because I thought he was dying inside me. I thought sleeping might hurt him so I used to try and stay awake all night. I was convinced he didn't want me to be his mother. These are obviously not the thoughts of a healthy person.
But other thoughts were more subtle and insidious. I cried in the shower most days. I put this down to hormones – but actually, you shouldn't cry that much while you're pregnant. I put a lot down to hormones when what I was actually experiencing was anxiety – feeling worried every day about finances, how we would manage, what kind of parent I would be with two children. It is normal to worry a little bit; but if you're constantly worried, it could be a sign of something bigger. I felt emotionally numb a lot, it was hard to make a connection with my baby.
I had a lot of feelings about my upbringing. I think it's normal to consider how you were raised when you're about to start a family – but you should be able to process those issues fairly easily. If your feelings around this have a weight too heavy for you to carry, you should talk to someone.
I'm lucky that I was able to talk to someone. I had help and it saved me.
Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Aotearoa (PADA) says up to one in 10 women and one in 20 men experience antenatal depression. Anxiety is thought to be as common, and many parents experience anxiety and depression at the same time.
"It is normal to experience a degree of anxiety and 'ups and downs' when expecting a baby. However, some people develop a more pronounced anxiety or lower mood (depression) which affects their daily life and functioning," says PADA general manager Treena Cooper.
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A number of factors can contribute to the development of perinatal anxiety and depression.
"There is sometimes a history of anxiety and depression, a family history of mental illness, previous infertility, or miscarriage, termination, stillbirth or the death of a baby. Sleep deprivation can also be a cause, along with physical illness or chronic pain. Financial or relationship stress can also be a trigger. Lack of social support, family violence, childhood trauma or neglect, grief – these can all be factors for a parent developing antenatal depression and anxiety."
I went online and asked a private group of mostly mothers if any of them had antenatal depression or anxiety. Within an hour I had dozens of emails. The stigma around any kind of mental health challenge is strong – and for mothers it feels even stronger.
Most of the women I spoke to didn't want their names included in this article despite the fact that they had recovered. There's a fear, even if you're well now, that you could be punished for your openness.
I remember when I finally sought help during my second pregnancy. I was worried my child might simply be taken away if I admitted I was extremely anxious. Māori babies are five times more likely to end up in state care than non-Māori, a rate that has doubled since my first baby was born. It's understandable many parents worry about speaking out.
Huia, 34, from South Auckland was 20 weeks pregnant when she felt like she began to "lose control". It began with sleepless nights.
"I started researching childbirth. Not in a normal way, but in a reading-medical-research-papers-at-2am kind of way. I was convinced something awful was going to happen to me," she says.
Her turning point came when her GP referred her to Maternal Mental Health. She felt she was able to ask for help because of the trust she had in her GP.
"I walked in and told him I wasn't feeling excited about this baby and burst into tears. He knows me well and knew something was wrong and referred me straight away."
She feels lucky to have got the help she needed. She didn't feel supported by her midwife, who – although lovely – didn't seem equipped to deal with her mental health concerns.
"I am so appreciative that my GP didn't brush me off and I'm lucky I met the criteria to access Maternal Mental Health. A different day, a different GP or a different DHB and maybe I wouldn't have received that help."
Aurora, 33, from Wellington was 22 weeks pregnant with her second child when she first noticed symptoms of antenatal depression. At first she thought it was just normal pregnancy tiredness and hormones.
"I started feeling really exhausted and lacked the will to do more than the basics of caring for myself and my toddler. On the weekends when my husband wasn't working I would spend the whole day in bed, totally numb and devoid of any desire to do anything.
"The thing that really scared me, though, was the mood swings. I would go from fine to full-on rage in a matter of seconds sometimes, which left me feeling sick with myself and scared I might do something to my toddler."
Waiting for a midwife appointment, Aurora saw a PADA pamphlet on antenatal depression – it described rage as one of the symptoms. That pamphlet was a catalyst for her seeking help. She took it into her appointment.
She brought up her concerns on the spot. Her midwife advised her she would probably get treatment faster if she went through her GP, and her GP in turn suggested she see PND Wellington (now Little Shadow).
"So I called them and started seeing one of their counsellors."
After Aurora's third session with a Little Shadow counsellor, her depression became more controllable. By the time she gave birth she was no longer showing symptoms.
"I think I was really lucky to catch it before it spiralled too much – and that I had a great counsellor".
(Illustration: Miriama Grace-Smith).
Huia recalls that she was screened for domestic violence multiple times in the hospital after she had her baby, but she was never asked how she felt about the birth of her child. She wants to see change throughout the system that helps women recognise the symptoms of perinatal mental distress.
"I honestly believe if we were supported better before and after childbirth, a lot of mental health problems wouldn't be as prevalent or as severe," she says.
Too often, symptoms of antenatal mental health strains just aren't recognised. Little Shadow director, Vic Parsons, says there is more awareness required about the intricacies and nuances of what perinatal anxiety and depression looks like.
"There is such a broad spectrum of experiences that sit within this diagnostic umbrella – yet only a couple that might be commonly recognised, discussed or known. Usually there is more exposure to extreme or harmful stereotypes and sensationalist stories."
She wants to see more conversations designed to allow interventions that act as a "fence at the top" to help identify the experiences when they're happening and allow women to get support quickly.
"I think there is so much space for conversations about how to support each other and ourselves, and how the systems (health systems, institutions, structural racism, sexism, workplace discrimination in the parenting space) we live within can support us better."
Mental health and wellbeing should be woven into all of our interactions and relationships professionally and personally as a part of the whole, Parsons says. Allowing those conversations to happen creates an opportunity to prevent the worst outcomes.
"Our mental health and wellbeing are affected by multiple parts of our world, and are complex and unique in each person," she says.
Training health providers to support the unique needs of different people experiencing mental health distress is an important part of raising awareness around the issue. This includes cultural literacy, working in partnership, consent during pregnancy (for example, talking through options and giving consent to interventions), birth and labour, trauma-informed care and communication.
"I know this happens and is great in lots of spaces but would be even better as a minimum standard across the board. I'd like to see intentional support of existing community spaces – resourcing people who already do this mahi and create safe inclusive spaces for parents."
Parsons would like to see mental health support normalised for all women during pregnancy.
"It's incredibly complex to achieve –- because what we are really asking for there is a complete culture shift."
The mothers I spoke to agreed. The answers aren't as simple as "ask the pregnant person if she's OK". They suggested a huge range of ways we can all help pregnant mothers from respecting physical boundaries and not touching pregnant bellies or babies without consent to learning about hormonal and brain changes – as well as workplaces having realistic expectations and flexibility for new parents, and people not telling birthing horror stories.
"We need to acknowledge the transformative and life-changing process that welcoming a baby into the world is," Parsons says.
"I want to see a deliberate recognition of the importance of it, and recognition that we need to be processing it carefully and with the right support."
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Helen R. Frederick, 83, of Merrill, passed away Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at Pine Crest Nursing Home, Merrill.
Helen was born October 13, 1933, in Lincoln County, daughter of the late Clarence and Gertrude (Wengeler) Frederick. Helen attended Merrill High School and graduated with the class of 1951. She went on to work at Weinbrenner Shoe Company, the former House of Merrill, and the former Ward Paper Company. She also was a hostess at Club 64 in Merrill. Helen belonged to the Hattitudes II Red Hat group in Merrill and loved to travel.
Helen was a church organist for 60 years. She started at the age of 14 at the former St. Paul's Lutheran Church in the Town of Scott. She also served as the organist at Trinity Lutheran Church in the Town of Berlin, St. Paul's Lutheran Church – Naugart, and Grace Lutheran Church in the Town of Maine. Helen loved serving the Lord with music. She played for many weddings and funerals. She also played for a Pastors convention and several German services.
Survivors include her sister and brother-in-law, Jeannie and Harlan Storm of Merrill; and several dear friends and cousins. Helen was preceded in death by her father, Clarence Frederick; her mother, Gertrude Frederick Kleinschmidt; her step-father, Edwin Kleinschmidt; her brother, James Kleinschmidt; her sister and brother-in-law, Elaine and Jerry Gruling; her dear and lifelong friend, Mary Ann Zastrow; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.
The funeral service for Helen will be at 11:00 A.M. Friday, December 2, 2016 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Town of Berlin. The Rev. Jeffrey Schmidt will officiate. Burial will take place in the church cemetery. Visitation will begin at 10:00 A.M. Friday at the church. The Taylor-Stine Funeral Home, Merrill, is assisting with arrangements.
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Like many other small towns in Japan, the village of Rokkasho (六ヶ所村) in Aomori prefecture, situated in the north of Japan's main island Honshū and just south of its northernmost prefecture Hokkaido, hosts a nuclear facility. And like other nuclear facilities in Japan, while fueling the local economy, the plant's main function is not to generate energy for local inhabitants of Aomori but rather to power the country's larger urban centers, whose need for energy drives and maintains Japan's nuclear industry as a whole.
A reprocessing plant is a plant that literally reprocesses spent nuclear fuel expelled from nuclear power stations so that it can be re-used as fuel.
The reprocessing technology for this spent nuclear fuel only exists nowhere in the world except in France and in Japan, and the idea of extracting energy from something that is essentially garbage is attracting a great deal of attention.
What is especially frightening is the radioactive material (material which emits radioactivity) that would be leaked in the remote chance of an accident. In this country of earthquakes in particular, there is honestly-speaking [a real chance] that the plant could be damaged.
In that case, what would we do… worse comes to worse, there is the fear that this could lead to a disaster like Chernobyl in Japan.
One of the convergence points for discussions of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant is a documentary film entitled Rokkasho Rhapsody, directed by Kamanaka Hitomi (鎌仲ひとみ) [ja] and reviewed in English by students at the University of Chicago "Popular Culture In/Out of Japan" blog here and here (and with its own blog).
In all honesty, I am neither for or against this reprocessing plant.
[The reason I am not for or against it is that] I don't have enough knowledge about it. I am convinced when I listen to people who are for it, but I am also convinced when I listen to people who are against it.
Also, the concept of the director [of Rokkasho Rapsody] was that she wanted to "let many people know about [Rokkasho], putting aside the issue of being for or against it; to first of all spread [knowledge of] the word 'reprocessing'". In accordance with this [concept], I want to relate the thoughts and feelings I had during my trip [to Rokkasho].
Today, I participated in an event that was held in Sendai to try to put a stop to the reprocessing facility for spent nuclear fuel in Aomori's Rokkasho village. Everybody watched a documentary film and listened to talks by people from various different specializations, and after that we went on a peace walk through the whole town of Sendai. I felt many things [while I was there], and I am still feeling them now. Discharging radioactivity is of course terrible! They say even though it will be drained into the sea, it will be watered down and even though it will be released into the air, it will be diffused; but I don't want any radioactivity at all to be emitted from this facility. Until this is possible, I don't want this [facility] to go into operation.
This reprocessing problem is very significant for the future of Japan as it is something that cannot be undone.
A reprocessing plant is the biggest threat to the health and food safety of Japanese people.
This is a much bigger problem than that of contaminated food products from China.
In one day, the reprocessing plant emits as much radioactivity as a nuclear power plant emits in one year.
In other words, Rokkasho will produce as much radioactive contamination as would the operation of 365 nuclear power plants.
Furthermore, while in the case of nuclear power plants radioactivity emitted into the environment is regulated, for some reason in the case of reprocessing plants emissions are for the most part unregulated. Neither has there been any installation of a removal systems [for radioactive waste] which could be set up if money was spent on it.
As a result, large quantities of radioactivity flow from the chimney of the reprocessing plant into the atmosphere, and from the drainage into the sea.
The Sanriku Sea, one the most prominent fishing zones in the world, will certainly become polluted with radioactivity.
The radioactivity concentrated inside those famous Oma tuna, inside delicious fish and oysters, will creep onto our dining table.
In the area around La Hague in France, and around Sellafield in the U.K., the incidence rates of leukemia in children are far higher than the national average, and there is serious damage being caused to people's health.
However, the Japanese mass media is hardly covering this problem at all.
The reason is that they fear the pressure of their greatest sponsors, the power companies.
The limits of commercial media are obvious.
Video of the walk a group organized from Izumo to Rokkasho in 2007.


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Mitridate, re di Ponto at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Based on a play by Jean Racine, Mitridate, re di Ponto is an early Mozart opera that premiered in December 1770. The musicologist Daniel E. Freeman recently demonstrated that Mozart incorporated some musical motives from Josef Mysliveček's La Nitteti, which was first performed in April 1770 just a month after the young Amadeus first met the older composer, into his own operatic setting. Nevertheless, this hardly detracts from the achievement of a fourteen-year old composing such an accomplished full-length piece.
Although the mature Mozart introduced many innovations into opera, this early work is very much grounded in well-established traditions such as the utilisation of lengthy recitative. While, however, it features only two ensemble numbers it does possess a wide range of virtuoso arias, making it worth experiencing for far more than the reason of simply ticking another Mozart rarity off the list.
Set in 63BC during the conflict between Rome and Pontus, the story concerns Mitridate who is king of the latter. At the start he has just been defeated in battle and is presumed dead. His fiancée Aspasia is actually loved by both of his sons, Farnace and Sifare, but they are very different characters. Farnace is all too ready to conspire with the Romans in order to further his own ambitions. Sifare, on the other hand, is always loyal to his father, and it is his love that Aspasia reciprocates. It then transpires that Mitridate is alive and about to return home. Both sons initially agree to unite and tell Mitridate nothing of their love for Aspasia, but the truth soon comes out with Mitridate learning of Farnace's treachery and Aspasia and Sifare's apparent disloyalty. At one time or another, all three of them are threatened with death, but the situation is resolved after Mitridate, following further defeat, commits suicide. Before he does so he gives his blessing to Sifare to marry Aspasia, while Farnace sees the error of his ways and is accepted back into the fold as he agrees to marry the Parthian Princess Ismene. All four of them then pledge to free the world from Rome.
Michael Spyres (Mitridate) (c) ROH / Bill Cooper
Mitridate (c) ROH / Bill Cooper
In many of his later works, including his three collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart moved away from exploring traditional operatic subject matters based on mythology or stories from the ancient world to focus on human beings who felt more relevant to his time and indeed our own. As a result, it is relatively easy to set those pieces in a variety of eras including the modern world because the characters can still speak to us today. His early works, however, are grounded in a less naturalistic tradition and this presents its own challenges. There seems little point in reproducing the opera exactly as Mozart would have seen it staged, when opera houses are now different in nature and tastes have changed, but an updating would not necessarily work for such a stylised piece. Graham Vick's classic 1991 production for the Royal Opera has an ingenious solution that strongly alludes to the manner of eighteenth century performance without reproducing it to the letter. In this way, the bold red walls of Paul Brown's set serve the dual purpose of enabling the drama to rise to the scale demanded of the large Royal Opera House, and making some moments feel suitably intimate by being positioned so as to restrict the size of the stage.
The beautiful costumes, in which tunics and dresses possess skirts that stick out to an alarming degree, allude to the lavishness of eighteenth century dress. By exaggerating their size, however, it sees the performers become an integral part of a dramatic set-up. The same could be said of the gestures, which work from the fact that eighteenth century performance did use stock actions to signify different feelings and emotions. Here these are put together so that soloists' bodies sometimes display a continuous stream of fluid movement as they do in Chinese opera.
Mitridate's attendants and soldiers march towards us with masks and tilted heads, visually illustrate the King's sense of rage at Farnace's treachery, and threateningly encircle him as Ismene pleads with Mitridate for clemency. For all that they dance on occasions, however, this production proves equally adept at knowing when not to introduce distractions to arias so that soloists can engage us purely through their own sounds, expressions and gestures.
Christophe Rousset on his Royal Opera debut conducts extremely well, while the cast is outstanding. Michael Spyres puts his smooth and strong tenor to good use in the title role while Albina Shagimuratova displays a beautifully full soprano that is possessed of many nuances and, when necessary, the utmost sensitivity. Bejun Mehta reveals an excellent countertenor as he thoroughly embodies both Farnace's malevolence and subsequent repentance, while Lucy Crowe is a brilliant Ismene, revealing a beautifully clean and pure soprano and perfectly capturing her character's nature through the strength of her movements. Salome Jicia reveals a fine and supple mezzo-soprano as Sifare while Jennifer Davis and Rupert Charlesworth provide excellent support as Arbate and Marzio respectively.
By Sam Smith
Mitridate, re di Ponto| 26 June – 7 July 2017 | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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NJ man indicted on child porn charges
TRENTON – A South Jersey man has been indicted on charges that he molested a teenage girl and took sexually explicit photos of her while she was sleeping.
Acting state Attorney General John Hoffman said Wednesday the 10-count indictment against 55-year-old Bernard Cahill of Gloucester Township was issued by a state grand jury.
The indictment stems from a child pornography investigation by the State Police and law enforcement officials.
The charges against Cahill include aggravated sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and possession of child pornography. He faces several decades in prison if he's convicted.
While investigating Cahill's alleged sharing of child pornography online, Hoffman said, investigators allegedly discovered sexually explicit images in his computer that he had taken of a 16-year-old girl. At the time, Cahill lived in Folsom.
Hoffman said the investigation revealed that, on multiple occasions, Cahill allegedly touched and groped the victim while she slept, and pulled aside her shorts or pulled up her shirt to take photos of her exposed private areas. Cahill also allegedly placed her hand on his genitals while she slept.
Starting when the victim was 13 years old, authorities said, Cahill spied on her and took photos of her through her bedroom window while she was alone.


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She stopped at the edge of the porch. She inhaled a couple of deep breaths. Her stomach settled a bit. Her hands gripped the wood and squeezed tight, willing herself to remain calm enough to utter words.
"You haven't?" She turned, finding him much closer than she'd expected. That was not what she was expecting him to say.
His head dipped, and his lips claimed hers. There was no room for doubt in his kiss. This was how she remembered things from that one magical night. Maybe it'd been the sparkling wine or the romantic ballads, but Niko had swept her off her feet…just like now.
His lips moved over hers, brushing aside the rush of turbulent emotions and replacing them with pure, undiluted passion. She suddenly remembered how on that not-so-long-ago night she'd momentarily disengaged from her common sense and followed her heart. Their time together wasn't supposed to be anything serious, but sometimes actions have consequences. And in her—well, their—case, it was a life-altering consequence.


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Karita Mattila and cast in Katya Kabanova
Photo: Dan Rest/LOC 2009
After a quick 36 hours in New York it was onward to Chicago for the other half of my Janacek opera weekend. The Lyric Opera of Chicago opened up a production of Katya Kabanova, which I saw on Sunday (at their invitation). And while it may not be a first for the company, cast members, or this particular production like the Met's From the House of the Dead, it's pretty fantastic on its own terms. The primary reason for this is the phenomenal Karita Mattila who appears in the title role. Mattila has become the most significant performer of Janacek's operas since Elisabeth Söderström, and seeing her should be a high priority. Given Söderström's recent passing, it makes this performance even more poignant considering that it's pretty clear that due to her work with Mackerras on a number of seminal recordings, Janacek's operas have pretty much arrived at the international repertory by now. Mattila is well suited to the frustrated Katya, trapped in a claustrophobic family home and pushed beyond the brink in the wake of her affair with the young and handsome Boris. Mattila is a performer who never leaves a question in anyone's mind about the level of her immersion in a role. The clarity and intensity of her voice throughout this opera is just one example of what great singing is all about.
To make matters even better, Mattila is paired with the young and alluring Brandon Jovanovich. As Boris, he cuts a physically and vocally exciting figure of the young man Katya has fallen in love with. The rest of the cast is convincing. Judith Forst plays the evil step-mother Kabanicha. It's a tough role that easily becomes cartoonish, which she was not entirely successful at avoiding here. Of course, Jonathan Miller's rather plain-jane 1991 production imported from the Metropolitan Opera doesn't leave the cast many places to turn on the large , empty stage. Why they dry-docked an opera soaking in the waters of the Volga with little more than a slit at the rear of the stage in Act III is somewhat bewildering. Katya Kabanova contains frequent musical and spoken allusions to the power of the river but Miller's staging would have worked equally well as Oklahoma!. On the plus side, Miller's approach does invite you to see Kabanicha, who constantly berates Katya for her shortcomings as a wife, and the younger Varvara, who encourages Katya's affair with Boris, as two sides of Katya's own personality. It's not some metaphorical overlay, but the troika of these women are tightly bound in this most straight-forward of approaches.
The orchestra was led by Markus Stenz, the music director of the Cologne Opera, and no stranger to Janacek. It was a richly textured and lively performance from the orchestra. So even if you're not going to be in New York over the next couple of weeks, there is a great Janacek opera to be seen right here in Chicago, so don't let it pass you by. Katya Kabanova runs through December 12th.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Brady Kolb went into the college selection process with an open mind.
The St. Clairsville senior wanted to find place where he found the greatest level of comfort.
He didn't have to look too far or too long to find it. Actually, it took just a visit to Wheeling Jesuit University.
Head coach Zac Bruney and his up-and-coming Cardinal program checked all of the boxes for Kolb, who was a three-time all-Ohioan for the Red Devils.
It became official during a ceremony inside the board of education room inside the St. Clairsville Administration building Wednesday when Kolb signed his National Letter of Intent to join the Cardinals for their first season as a varsity sport.
One thing that Kolb liked about Jesuit's recruiting pitch was the fact that they were flexible on what position it was recruiting him for. For Coach Brett McLean's squad, Kolb was the primary ball carrier in the Devils' ground-and-pound offense for the last two seasons.
However, he earned his first all-Ohio acclaim as a linebacker, meaning the versatility is there.
Despite putting up mind-boggling numbers, which included 2,081 yards and 31 touchdowns rushing as a senior, Kolb knows the transition process from high school to Division II college will be a challenge.
"The game's obviously going to get a lot faster," Kolb admitted.
While Kolb's fine season earned a myriad of honors, including a spot in the prestigious Ohio North-South Game this spring, the team success was what meant the most. The Red Devils finished with a 12-1 record and played in the regional championship before bowing out.
In his two seasons as the chief running back, Kolb amassed an impressive 3,648 yards and 52 touchdowns.
Along with the all-Ohio acclaim, Kolb was also named first-team all-Eastern District for the third time. He was a three-time all-OVAC and all-Buckeye 8 selection, too. He captained both the all Times Leader and all-Valley squads.
Away from the football field, Kolb is active in Spanish Club where he's a two-year member of the Executive Board. He's also part of the Chamber Choir and is in the Ping Pong Club.
Brady, who is undecided about his major, is the son of Brian and Amy Kolb.


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FCC to release broadband maps next week
A pre-production draft of new maps will be revealed on November 18
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has confirmed that it's on track to release its US broadband map this month.
It will be the first time that such a map has been available, and will detail precise broadband availability for consumers & businesses across the country.
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In a statement, the FCC has confirmed that a pre-production draft of new broadband maps will be released on November 18.
It's the first release of the map, which is required by the Broadband Data Act, with the map to be continuously altered to improve any data that is submitted by providers.
"When the first draft is released, it will provide a far more accurate picture of broadband availability in the United States than our old maps ever did," said FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, back in September.
The maps have been sought after for some time, with prior maps being based on Form 477, which has been criticized as providing inaccurate data as it allows ISPs to count an entire census block, even if only a fraction of this area is served by the ISP.
The first draft will be based on broadband availability from data submitted by providers during the initial Broadband Data Collection filing window, up until June 30, 2022.
Once published, the draft maps will display location level information on broadband availability throughout the country, which will allow people to search for their address, and review and dispute the services reported by providers at their location.
Publication of the map will invite a public challenge with operators, government, and other interested parties able to provide feedback on the maps, adds the FCC, in a bid to continually improve and refine the broadband availability data relied upon by the FCC.
Once the draft maps launch, individuals will also be able to submit challenges, or request corrections.
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We try to anticipate questions you might have about our Screw Machining and provide the answers here.
What are the advantages of making a part on a screw machine?
Mostly the reduction in the time required to machine a part and thus lowering the costs.
What is your minimum run quantity or most economical run quantity?
Part size and quantity play a key role in the machine selection, and must be reviewed on an individual basis. Generally speaking, we like to start with a minimum of 10 parts for our CNC Lathe, 1000 parts for our CNC single spindles and others up to EAU of over 5 million parts a year. We supply weekly as needed.
Can you help with new part designs or suggest changes that would save money on existing parts?
We can offer technical assistance in machining methods, raw material and finish applications. Many times, a slight design change, tolerance review, elimination of secondary machining, etc. will allow a problem part to fit into a low-cost screw machine application. Send us a sketch; we'll take a look.
What kinds of materials are you capable of machining?
The following is our "short list" of the most common materials run in all standard, and sometimes irregular, shapes.
Do you perform your own secondary operations?
We perform most of our own secondary machining operations, such as milling, drilling, tapping and deburring. Also, all finish processing such as cylindrical grinding, heat treating, plating, etc. is subcontracted to approved suppliers.
Your price looks good for higher quantities, but I don't want to stock that many parts. What can you do?
Barring design changes, we can produce your six-month or annual requirement, inventory your finished parts for up to 12 months, and ship from our stock weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly or six-month releases to match your production schedule.
Normal lead-time is approximately 2-4 weeks affected by tooling, work load & complexity of part configuration. Engels Machining with our CNC equipment and in-house wire edm tooling can always be your on time producer of production parts.
Do you operate on more than one shift?
Currently, we operate on a single shift from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time Zone. We can plan to add a second or third shift in as needed for our customers needs. We will exceed your expectations!
Is your company ISO 9000 compliant?
Yes, we are. Engels Machining meets International Organization for Standardization requirements for consistently high-quality products and manufacturing processes. We audit to current standards and maintain documentation and records in the event we need to be certified.
I know I need a turned parts specialist. What type of equipment should my supplier have for my product?
In general, high volume parts without really tight tolerances are best made on multiple spindle automatics. Miniature parts or products that are long and slender are best made on Swiss machines. Shorter run products are best made on CNCs. If your products have cross-holes or milled flats, they may be best suited for three to five axis machines. At times, even the tool engineer has to carefully consider several alternatives before arriving at a final decision, so keep your options open. See Engels Machining capabilities.
Should I pay a tooling expense?
The buyer should be informed of the non-reoccurring costs related to a production order. Costs of programming, tool design, fixtures and cams will not occur on a repeat order. It is really best for the buyer to have this cost differentiated from the part cost.
In production machining, quantity has a tremendous impact on price. For very high volume jobs we use different types of machines to reduce cycle time and increase output. However these machines frequently cost more time and money to set up. Once set up, production can be run in multiple shifts with production efficiencies improving as the job runs longer and longer. We can easily provide you with price breaks for multiple order quantities.
Should I consider an annual contract or blanket order?
For a stable part design with steady usage, there is no better way to optimize your costs and your supplier's.
We will be buying a high volume part that is critical for our production. Is buying from a single source rather than dual sources wise?
Single sourcing gives you several advantages. First, having one larger order in one shop gets you a better price. Second, if you have any quality problems, you know where they came from. Third, buying parts from one supplier will likely result in parts that are more consistent. Select your strongest supplier and you will have less than half as many scheduling, delivery, and quality problems. Yes, a stable, single source really is better than two. Engels Machining has been a stable supplier since 1965.
How about requirements for heat treating and plating, can I save money by handling those myself?
If you really want to shave the nickels you can handle these processes yourself, but you do assume responsibility for potential problems. At times, part dimension will change after heat treat. Furthermore, plating buildup changes dimensions. If you buy the part before plating , make sure you adjust your print to pre-plating dimensions. Most customers would rather not have these headaches.
Engels Machining is offering the best domestic price that I have been quoted but I have an off shore price that will save my company so much money, I can't pass it up. Can we keep you in mind for our backup source?
First, you should realize that many companies buying parts offshore never know what factory will really make their parts. Often brokers move the jobs around as they overload a supplier or find lower prices. Many companies have also been burned by losing control of their design and later discover they have helped establish a foreign competitor. Beyond this, few manufacturers fully capture the REAL cost of importing. Beyond the added freight costs, duties, increased inventories, costs of communication delays and overall purchasing management costs increase, the strategic loss may be the single biggest added cost factor. What is the value of having a domestic supplier that will not be shut down in the event of a dock strike, an embargo or a war? What is the value of having a manufacturing expert readily available to support your engineering team? What is the value of having a manufacturing supplier that can ship you parts before a shipping container is filled? What is the value of having fewer parts in the pipeline, allowing your engineering to implement design changes faster? What is the value of having a manufacturer that is a long-term strategic partner in meeting your business objectives? Fully accounting for all these cost factors before the assumption is made that "offshore is cheaper", would be more than prudent, it is critical for your long-term business success.


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We Can't Even Comprehend the Massive Data Haul We'll Soon Get From Sensors
Peter H. Diamandis, MD
"Hey Google, how's my health this morning?"
"One moment," says your digital assistant.
It takes thirty seconds for the full diagnostic to run, as the system deploys dozens of sensors capturing gigabytes of data.
Smart sensors in toothbrush and toilet, wearables in bedding and clothing, implantables inside your body—a mobile health suite with a 360-degree view of your system.
"Your microbiome looks perfect," Google tells you. "Also, blood glucose levels are good, vitamin levels fine, but an increased core temperature and IgE levels…"
"Google—in plain English?"
"You've got a virus."
"I ran through your last 48 hours of meetings. It seems like you picked it up Monday, at Jonah's birthday party. I'd like to run additional diagnostics. Would you mind using the….?"
As the Internet of Things catapults to new heights, Google is developing a full range of internal and external sensors, monitoring everything from blood sugar to blood chemistry. The list of once multi-million-dollar medical machines now being dematerialized, demonetized, democratized, and delocalized—that is, made into portable and even wearable sensors—could fill a textbook.
[Note: This article is an excerpt from my next book The Future Is Faster Than You Think, co-authored with Steven Kotler, to be released January 28th, 2020.]
Sensor Proliferation
Sensors will not only transform healthcare and diagnostics. Any electronic device that measures a physical, quantitative value—light, acceleration, temperature, etc.—then sends that information to other devices on a network qualifies as a sensor.
Sensors add intelligence to our appliances. But more importantly, they add hours to our lives. Consider that in less than a decade, when you run out of coffee, your kitchen cabinet will detect a shortage (cross-referencing sensor data with your coffee-drinking habits) and order more. A blockchain-enabled smart contract will subsequently place an order, triggering an Amazon drone delivery directly to your doorstep.
And of course, your very own Butler-bot might soon transport these freshly-ground beans from delivery box to cabinet, sparing you the trouble.
If advances in computing power, AI, and networks represent the center mass of the digital revolution, then today's sensor uprising is the outer edge of that revolt.
Comprising the first part of tomorrow's smart environment information-processing pipeline, sensors are the data-gathering apparatus that provide our computers with the information they need to act.
Case Study: The Oura Ring
Not much more than a sleek, black band, the Oura Ring is the most accurate sleep tracker on the market, thanks to its TK sensors.
The product began in 2014 at an infectious disease lab in Finland. Health researcher Petteri Lahtela noticed that many of the diseases he'd been studying, including Lyme disease, heart disease, and diabetes, shared a curious overlap: all of them negatively affected sleep. Lahtela started to wonder if all these diseases cause insomnia or if it worked the other way around. Could these conditions be alleviated, or at least improved, by fixing sleep?
To solve that puzzle, Lahtela decided he needed data, so he turned to sensors. In 2015, driven by advances in smartphones, we saw the convergence of incredibly small and powerful batteries with incredibly small and powerful sensors. So small and powerful, in fact, that building a whole new kind of sleep tracker might be possible.
The sensors that caught Lahtela's fancy were a new breed of heart rate monitors, particularly given that heart rate and variability serve as excellent sleep quality indicators. Yet at the time, all such trackers on the market were riddled with issues.
Fitbit and the Apple Watch, for instance, measure blood flow in the wrist via an optical sensor. Yet the wrist's arteries sit too far below the surface for perfect measurement, and people don't often wear watches to bed—as smart watches can interrupt the very sleep they're designed to measure.
Lahtela's upgrade? The Oura ring.
Location and sampling rates are its secret weapons. Because the finger's arteries are closer to the surface than those in the wrist, the Oura gets a far better picture of the action. Plus, while Apple and Garamond measure blood flow twice a second, and Fitbit even raises this figure to 12x/second, the Oura ring captures data at 250 times per second.
And in studies conducted by independent labs, the ring is 99 percent accurate compared to medical-grade heart rate trackers, and 98 percent accurate for heart rate variability.
Twenty years ago, sensors with this level of accuracy would have cost in the millions, requiring reasonably-sized data centers and tremendous overheard processing costs. Today, the Oura costs around $300 and sits on your finger—a perfect example of sensors' exponential growth.
Connected Devices and IoT
We are in the middle of a sensor revolution. The street name for this uprising is the "Internet of Things," the huge mesh network of interconnected smart devices that will soon span the globe.
And it's worth tracing the evolution of this revolution to understand how far we've come.
In 1989, John Romkey, one of the inventors of the transmission control protocol (TCP/IP), connected a Sunbeam toaster to the internet, making it the very first IoT device.
Ten years later, sociologist Neil Gross saw the writing on the wall and made a now famous prediction in the pages of Business Week: "In the next century, planet Earth will don an electric skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations […] These will monitor cities and endangered species, the atmosphere, our ships, highways and fleets of trucks, our conversations, our bodies—even our dreams."
A decade later, in 2009, Gross' prediction bore out: the number of devices connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people on the planet (12.5 billion devices, 6.8 billion people, or 1.84 connected devices per person).
A year later, driven primarily by the evolution of smart phones, sensor prices began to plummet. By 2015, all this progress added up to 15 billion connected devices, with researchers at Stanford predicting 50 billion by 2020.
As most of these devices contain multiple sensors—the average smartphone has about twenty—this also explains why 2020 marks the debut of what's been called "our trillion sensor world."
Nor will we stop there. By 2030, those same Stanford researchers estimate 500 billion connected devices. And according to Accenture, this translates into a US$14.2 trillion economy.
Hidden behind these numbers is exactly what Gross had in mind—an electric skin that registers just about every sensation on the planet.
Consider optical sensors. The first digital camera, built in 1976 by Kodak engineer Steven Sasson, was the size of a toaster oven, took 12 black-and-white images, and cost over $10,000. Today, the average camera that accompanies your smartphone shows a thousand-fold improvement in weight, cost, and resolution.
And these cameras are everywhere: in cars, drones, phones, satellites—with uncanny image resolution to boot. Already, satellites photograph the Earth down to the half-meter range. Drones shrink that to a centimeter. And the LIDAR sensors atop autonomous cars are on track to capture just about everything—gathering 1.3 million data points per second, and registering change down to the single photon level.
We see this triple trend—of plummeting size and cost, alongside mass increases in performance—everywhere.
The first commercial GPS hit shelves in 1981, weighing 53 pounds and costing $119,900. By 2010, it had shrunk to a five-dollar chip small enough to sit on your finger.
The "inertial measurement unit" that guided our early rockets was a 50-pound, $20 million device in the mid-60s. Today, the accelerometer and gyroscope in your cellphone do the same job, yet cost about four dollars and weigh less than a grain of rice.
And these trends are only going to continue. We're moving from the world of the microscopic, to the world of the nanoscopic.
As a result, we've begun to see an oncoming wave of smart clothing, jewelry, glasses—the Oura ring being but one example. Soon, these sensors will migrate to our inner bodies. Alphabet's Verily branch is working on a miniaturized continuous blood glucose monitor that could assist diabetics in everyday treatment.
Research on smart dust, a dust-mote-sized system that can sense, store, and transmit data, has been progressing for years. Today, a "mote" is the size of an apple seed. Tomorrow, at the nano-scale, they'll float through our bloodstream, exploring one of the last great terra incognita—the interior of the human body.
We're about to learn a whole lot more, and not just about the body. About everything. The data haul from these sensors is beyond comprehension. An autonomous car generates four terabytes a day, or a thousand feature length films' worth of information. A commercial airliner: Forty terabytes. A smart factory: A petabyte. So what does this data haul get us? Plenty.
Doctors no longer have to rely on annual check-ups to track patient health, as they now get a blizzard of quantified-self data streaming in 24-7.
Farmers now know the moisture content in both the soil and the sky, allowing pinpoint watering for healthier crops, bigger yields and—a critical factor in the wake of climate change—far less water waste.
In business, agility has been the biggest advantage. In times of rapid change, lithe and nimble trumps slow and lumbering, every time. While knowing every available detail about one's customers is an admitted privacy concern, it does provide organizations with an incredible level of dexterity, which may be the only way to stay in business in tomorrow's accelerated times.
Within a decade, we will live in a world where just about anything that can be measured will be measured— all the time. It will not be your knowledge that matters, but rather the questions you ask.
It's a world of radical transparency, where privacy concerns will take on a whole new meaning.
From the edge of space to the bottom of the ocean to the inside of your bloodstream, our world's emerging electric skin is producing a sensorium of endlessly available information. And riding rapid advances in AI, this "skin" possesses the machine learning required to make sense of that information.
Welcome to the hyper-conscious planet.
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ELGIN, OREGON__The 2017 season of the Eagle Cap Excursion Train launches Sunday, May 14, with the annual Mother's Day Brunch, then settles in for an active season that includes sixteen trips. Ed Spaulding, volunteer engineer and President of the Friends of the Joseph Branch, the non-profit organization that manages the excursion train, expects a busy year for the train, as Oregon is receiving a lot of additional attention due in part to the solar eclipse in August. "People are planning trips to Oregon who may have never considered visiting before," Spaulding said.
The 2017 season includes some new trips, designed for lovers of wine and artisan food. A Wine & Chocolates Train, leaving the depot at 4 p.m., June 10, features a tasting of wines from Tero Estates Winery, expertly paired with chocolates from Petits Noirs Chocolates. Both businesses are located in Milton-Freewater, Oregon, at the south end of the Walla Walla Valley. In September, the focus shifts to wine and cheese, with Copper Belt Winery of Baker City and Umapine Creamery, located near Milton-Freewater, serving samples of their specialties.
"We have created two train rides that call attention to the amazing food and beverages produced in our region," said Janet Dodson, a board member who helps design the trips and schedule. "Passengers will be served a light meal at the beginning of the trip and will have the opportunity to enjoy wine and chocolates (June 10) or cheese (September 30) during the return to the depot."
Also new is a train ride designed for railroad photographers, with special stops to let photographers off the train for run-bys, giving them excellent views of the train as it passes. See the website for trip descriptions and the full schedule.
Reservations are required and are available through the online booking service on the website, www.eaglecaptrainrides.com; go to "Ride the Train" and select "Book Online" from the drop-down menu. Passengers who prefer to talk to an agent can call Alegre Travel, the excursion train reservations agency, 800.323.7330. Agents can also, upon request, book motel rooms and offer advice on other activities and attractions in the area.
Passenger train excursions use the section of track from Elgin to Minam. This section travels through mostly roadless country, staying north of Oregon Highway 82 to Enterprise, also known as the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway. Volunteers with the Friends of the Joseph Branch, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, manage the excursion business for Wallowa Union Railroad, operating the train and hosting passengers, as well as restoring the rail cars and preserving the history of the railroad. See the web site, www.eaglecaptrainrides.com for the full 2017 excursion schedule and information about how to join the Friends and volunteer to assist with train activities.


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Architecture of Bali: A Sourcebook of Traditional and Modern Forms
Paperback - 07 July 2016
Wijaya, Made (Author)
Editions Didier Millet
Acclaimed landscape and architectural designer Made Wijaya draws on his photographic archives, compiled over the past 30 years, to present a visual study of Balinese architecture: its origins, elements, variations and vagaries. The book opens with an overview of Balinese architecture in its human context the village. It then looks at the basic elements of local architecture the walled courtyard and the pavilion. Further chapters examine building materials, the Balinese love of ornamentation and the architectural hybrids resulting from other ethnic influences. Wijaya also examines how Balinese architecture has been incorporated in modern private houses and boutique hotels in Bali. Besides Wijaya s own archival photographs, the book is illustrated with the work of acclaimed artists, photographers and illustrators."


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Cumnock Places
Templand Viaduct
Templand Viaduct was one of the great engineering feats on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr line, which opened on 20th May 1850. It consists of 13 arches – the highest being 175 feet above the Lugar Water. The engineer was John Miller of the firm Miller and Grainger of Edinburgh. The viaduct – which takes its name from nearby Templands Farm – is still used by the Glasgow to Dumfries railway.
Glaisnock Viaduct
Glaisnock Viaduct was built c1872 when the Glasgow and South Western Railways built a second railway line through Cumnock. It consists of 13 arches – the tallest being 75 feet. The viaduct closed to trains in 1964.
Taken from Murray Park by Bobby Grierson December 2015
Cumnock's two viaducts from the air
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Unemployment among Saudis edged up by 0.1 percent to 11.6 percent in the second quarter of this year, according to official statistics.
The news comes despite strenuous efforts by the country to get more of its nationals into work, and highlights the difficulties in finding jobs for a fast-growing, youthful population.
According to a survey put out by the General Authority for Statistics, 61 percent of unemployed Saudis were women.
In total, 33.7 percent of Saudi women are unemployed, with that figure improving by 0.1 percent since the second half of last year.
The highest percentage of Saudis out of work was in the 25-29 age bracket, where 39 percent were unemployed.
For Saudi women in that age bracket, 42 percent were unemployed.
The survey also found that just under a third of Saudis (31.9 percent) worked in service industries, while 19.4 percent worked as "technicians in the science, art and humanitarian fields".
The Saudi government has introduced several new measures in recent years in a bid to lower the unemployment rate, particularly in the private sector.
However, the lower oil price has put pressure on government budgets, leading to a slowdown in public-sector hiring.
Saudi Arabia's total unemployment rate – including expatriates who are not permitted to remain in the country without a job – was 5.6 percent.


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How to convince your child that car seats are "COOL"
Explain to your child exactly what happens in the event of a crash. While it may be an abstract concept still, it may help for them to know they are at risk of getting "some pretty big boo-boos" if they are not in their seat.
Make it fun! Let your child be in charge of making sure everyone in the vehicle is safely buckled up.
Set an example and always, always, always wear your seatbelt!
Never let your child ride without their seat, even for a few blocks. Knowing that the rule can be negotiable will make them more likely to try and negotiate on future, longer trips.
If you are moving up a seat, let your child pick their own pattern or fabric. Having a seat they actually like makes it easier to follow the rules!
Make sure your child knows they can't go anywhere without being buckled up in their seat. Their seat may be more appealing if they know that they can't go to the park without getting into it!
Make sure your child still fits into their seat and they are not being pinched or squeezed!
Hopefully these tips can help you change THIS…. Into this!
Is a really great suggestions for making it fun. When we needed a new car seat she wasn't quite old enough to really understand or care. She loves her new one that is still facing backwards until she outgrows it.


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Q: Maximum sampling frequency supported by perf How is the value of the maximum sampling frequency is determined by linux kernel? Why does this value change provided that perf is executed on the same machine?
When working with perf, I have noticed that the value of perf_event_max_sample_rate changes? Why? should not this value remain constant?

A: Linux kernel tracks of how long perf's non-maskable interrupt(NMI) handler is performing. If the sample duration exceeds a configurable threshold(perf_cpu_time_max_percent), it drops the sample rate. This allows to prevent system from hanging because it spends all of its time handling sampling process. In this case you will see the following message in kernel logs:
perf samples too long (2506 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000

You can disable this throttling mechanism by setting perf_cpu_time_max_percent to 0:
sysctl -w kernel.perf_cpu_time_max_percent=0

Useful links:

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*Documentation for the sysctl files perf_cpu_time_max_percent

*Linux kernel sources

*See also this patch which introduces this throttling mechanism

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I started Eldala's sequel in 2009 and had planned to have it finished and published by 2011. I quickly learned that circumstances are quite often not under my control. In the span of 6 years, I've dealt with health issues, getting a house ready to sell, moving to Montana (which included 3 moves), and adjusting to a new environment and life, as well as other life things that come up.
As of 2015, I've written more drafts than I can count (or want to count). Quite often I've wanted to chuck the whole thing, but it's a story that's lived in my head so long it deserves to be told, and honestly, it won't let me not tell it.
When someone asks me, "When will it be done?" I answer with, "I have no idea." When someone says, "I can hardly wait to read it," I smile and say, "Me too."
As of this moment, I'm on draft #4 and have completed the Prologue and 8 chapters. That's 31,500 words that I deemed fit to share. I don't want to think about how many I've written that won't go into the book, but as most authors do, I've saved them all. I'm pretty sure that by now I've written over a million words, but I refuse to count them all or it would send me into a fit of depression.
My eldest son has helped me develop the most recent plot and characters. He's also helping me write from the villain's point-of-view, and consults with me on certain points. The story takes place seven years after the end of Eldala, and is a darker story. Arathor and Tiana are my primary characters, but I also use Kieran and Jessa's points-of-view, as well as those of other characters (both old and new).
The final Prologue can be found under the Black Heart tab above. I'm pretty sure it's not going to change, but don't quote me on that.


The Cavaliers are making a hard push for Tom Izzo as their next coach. That much is clear. The question is how hard.
The Northern Ohio News-Herald is reporting that an offer has been made to Izzo to become the next head coach of the Cavs as they seek to keep LeBron James, a curious choice. Adrian Wojnarowski is citing sources that refute a contract has been offered.
Izzo isn't part of the CAA Wesley tree, but majority owner of the Cavaliers Dan Gilbert is an MSU grad. And it's not as if Izzo doesn't have a highly impressive resume, having been to what I believe is 7,000 Final Fours in a row. But it's still to be seen if he can have the same success at the pro level.
It's also interesting because of all the options to go with in an attempt to lure LeBron back to Cleveland, the Cavs have opted to go for a college coach. Relevant, since, you know, LeBron with his vital link to college history. Izzo also made his mark in college basketball by taking guys without elite level talent to the top. The NBA doesn't really work like that.
There are also talks that GM Danny Ferry chose to resign over just such a decision, with Ferry resisting the hiring of Izzo. Either way, if Woj is right and Izzo elects not to take the offer, that's going to seriously hurt the Cavs' legitimacy and make them seem like even more of a sinking ship trying to get LeBron to pull them to harbor. There are a lot of huge decisions being made, and it's hard to say that they've been done with the best effort to retain LeBron James.


Just a quick note - I've moved to a new hosting provider. If you see anything wonky, broken links, or other such weirdness shoot me an email.
When I first migrated the database (a few days ago) I ended up with some spurious Unicode characters scattered throughout the website. (E.g. lots of strange à characters stuck in around words, &etc.) Turns out the problem was mysql. Wordpress was correctly backing up the database as utf8, but when I re-imported it, it was re-encoding it for some reason. The solution was to add "--default_character_set=utf8" on the mysql command line during the database restore/import.


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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-road-to-a-bad-brexit-1544486820
Review & Outlook
The Road to a Bad Brexit
The politicians failed to seize the opportunity the voters offered.
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement in the House of Commons, London, Britain, December 10, 2018. Photo: handout/Reuters
Britain's miserable Brexit debate took another bad turn on Monday when Prime Minister Theresa May delayed a vote on her withdrawal agreement with the European Union. At this late date there still is no consensus in Parliament on whether or how to proceed—and most of the ideas lawmakers are floating are bad in one way or another.
The argument in London now concerns whether to pursue a no-deal option, Mrs. May's deal for a permanent customs union, a trade deal that mimics Norway's with the EU, or a new referendum to free lawmakers from the burden of deciding. Presumably someone will eventually have to pick some option.
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I had the displeasure of working, for a short period, for this shower when they were known as Business Air back in the 1990's.
Talk about a village shop mentality, ABZ had a closure time of 2150L, absolute maximum extension time of 2230L, this shower had their passenger flights scheduled to arrive back in significantly after 2100 to have the seats removed in a timed X amount of few minutes to go off on their night Royal Mail flights, I mean it was 'skin of your teeth stuff' and a similar scenario once ABZ would re-open the next morning.
One day I was Ops Controller, or whatever the position was called, when the boss asked if we had any delays, I mean it was going like clockwork and I subsequently received a rollocking for not reporting a 3 minute delay when only a 2 minute delay was accepted as being on schedule.
And alas this is the way they shall always do it because it's the only way they know, last time I researched perhaps a couple of years back I recognised the management names still in situ, they've only ever worked in their village shop and not in a supermarket, it's the only way they know, fine tuning any scheduling and then kicking-off at the slightest hiccup, there was no hope for them then and it sounds like things haven't changed.


We had the pleasure of Terry and Jeff Norris staying with us and one afternoon Jeff was boasting about Terry and her baking. He was mentioning this one recipe that had lemon, and me, well, I love anything with lemon.....so I had to know more! Terry said this cake has extemely simple ingredients and easy to make, but has the best lemon flavor you can imagine and is always requested for her to bring along when she is attending funtions. So, I asked if she would share the recipe with me. So here it is folks and enjoy!
If too thick, add water.
3) When done, remove from oven and immediately fork the top of the cake all over it, then pour frosting over top of the cake. Let it cool then serve.
Paul and Janell Davenport of rural Bellevue, Ohio would like to share a recipe with anyone interested in sampling something very different in life. You must first locate within your personal cupboards some of the following tools; necessity, desire, creativity and above all… resolve. In a large vessel (we got a little carried away and therefore suggest using a portion of your lawn) you begin by blending together only select heirloom ingredients.
Once you have fashioned the mold into shape, you may then liberally sprinkle it with savory and time-tested herbs and spices like passion, love, warmth and for the finale add small dollops of colorful things from flowers to keepsakes.
Now comes the really hard part. You must be patient and allow it to slowly rise over a 14 month period (good stuff takes time!). Then at last you are ready to sample and share your new creation with family, friends and new acquaintances.
We call our highly unusual but delectable offering the "Dancing Fox Cabin".


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It's a sure sign of spring when certain special restaurants re-open across Michigan for the season. We all look forward to getting to revisit old favorites, and have that special dish once again, after a long, cold winter without them. On Friday April 12, the fabulous Village Cheese Shanty in the Fishtown neighborhood of Leland, will throw open their doors again, and start serving up some of Michigan's Best subs to all of us.
The Cheese Shanty is located on the Leland River, right where it meets Lake Michigan. It's an idyllic setting, in heart of the charming Fishtown, surrounded by other quaint business and home to the Manitou Island Transit ferry.
We got to visit them during our search for Michigan's Best subs a few years ago, and promptly fell in love with pretty much everything about this spot. It's obvious that scores of others have been seduced as well, the place is usually packed all summer long, and can typically run out of buns before the end of the day. Spring is the perfect time to visit, when lines are a bit shorter.
In addition to the lip smacking subs, the shop also carries a nice selection of local Michigan wines, beers and ciders. You can grab a few to enjoy outside on a picnic table over looking the river. It's pretty much a pure Michigan moment.
The subs here nice and thick, loaded with freshly sliced meats and cheeses, lots of crunchy veggies, and house made spreads that really set them apart.
Here, it is really all about the bread. And what delicious bread it is. The Cheese Shanty is known for it's incredible pretzel buns and baguettes that are baked fresh throughout the day. As soon as you walk in, you'll inhale the most incredible, yeasty, bready smell, that will get your taste buds going. This bread is sturdy, with a great chew. It's perfect for subs, and you can feel confident in it's ability to stand up to a couple hours wait if needed, so don't hesitate to order subs here to take on the ferry or to one of the nearby beaches.
All the subs are under $7. Yes, you read that right. $6.95 to be exact.
You can also get a bag lunch for $10.50 that includes a sub, blue cheese cole slaw or chips, a chocolate chip cookie and water or a Coke. Or do a super upgrade to a beer bag lunch for $11.75.
We are partial to several sandwiches here, including the Lake Effect, which comes on a baguette stuffed with chicken breast, goat cheese, lettuce, tomato, and pesto. The Leelanau, also on a baguette with roast beef, locally made Leelanau peppercorn fromage blanc, onion, cucumber, lettuce, tomato, and Dijon mustard. Served on a pretzel bun, the North Shore with turkey, bacon, Swiss, lettuce, tomato, cucumber and herb mayo is a top seller. There are also several pita sandwiches to choose from.
Fishtown has recently been undergoing a bit of a transformation. The nonprofit group Fishtown Preservation Society took ownership of the town 12 years ago, and in February completed their last mortgage payment. Since they've taken over, they have slowly been renovating store fronts in the area.
The Cheese Shanty is scheduled to get a face lift in the late fall this year.
Be sure to peruse the huge selection of artisan and locally produced cheeses, they typically carry over 60 different kinds.
No matter when you visit the Leelanau peninsula, a visit to The Cheese Shanty is a must.
Located in the charming Fishtown area of Leland, right on the water, the Village Cheese Shanty is the place to stop from mid April through October. The bread here is what it's all about, a delicious, house-made pretzel roll created by owner David Kareck. It's chewy, with a bit of caramelized flavor, and it perfectly holds all the fresh ingredients. The substance of the roll creates a sandwich that can hold up for a few hours, which makes it perfect to grab for a trip to the beach or to enjoy on the ferry ride over to the Manitou islands. Homemade herb mayo is great, as is the olive spread on the "Bear." "We've had people drive 8 hours just to come here," employee Kendra Shimeck told us. Plan ahead; it's cash only at the Shanty.


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Miriam Margolyes' sex shop experiene may have led to one of her most iconic roles - and you won't believe what it is
Miriam Margolyes' sex shop encounter was followed by one of her best known roles although you may not have heard of this particular one
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By Aoife Hanna
Miriam Margolyes' sex shop encounter is, according to the actor, potentially how she bagged the role of the voice of the Cadbury's bunny. The story behind it is not only hilarious, but just as filled with saucy content as you'd expect from the sex positive star.
A decades-long career on stage and screen means having a heck of a lot of interesting stories to recount. Just when you thought you couldn't be more shocked after Miriam Margolyes claims Arnold Schwarzenegger farted in her face (deliberately), the tale of how she hopped into the Cadbury's bunny role may leave you slack-jawed.
In conversation with the Guardian (opens in new tab), Miriam answered readers' questions. After one curious reader enquired, "how did you get the job as the seductive voice of the sexy 1980s Cadbury Caramel bunny?" - the Romeo And Juliet star told the saucy tale behind it all.
Yes, believe it or not - the veteran actor is the voice behind one of the best known characters in 1990' British advertising, the sexy bob-tailed bunny with a voice as smooth as Cadbury's Caramel.
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Before her career became more established, Miriam worked a lot as a voice artist. "I have quite a high girlish voice," she explained, "but I can deepen it for the purposes of sex. I once recorded what I call 'take-home wanking tapes' such as Sexy Sonia: Leaves From My Schoolgirl Notebook." These audio recordings were for sale in sex shops at the time, and hers was one of the best known voices in the industry.
So how the heck did that lead to her mainstream role? Well, she believes it was a chance encounter at an Ann Summers shop that may have changed everything. "One day, I went into Ann Summers and told the man behind the counter I was Sexy Sonia," she said. "He told me to keep my voice down because he didn't want people to know Sexy Sonia was actually this short, fat, rather unattractive lady."
However, it appears to have worked in her favor as word got out. "But word got out and maybe that prompted my being asked to voice the Cadbury bunny because, I suppose, sex sells. And chocolate has its place in the repertoire of love."
Miriam is known for her amorous language and enjoying discussing the joys of all things sex. The reason behind this, she admitted, is one of those long held maxims about people who talk a lot about sex. When asked about her worst habit, the actor said that perhaps it is talking about sex so much. "But it's only because I don't really have sex any more," she admitted. "I just like to remember it and talk about it."
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Aoife is Junior News Editor at woman&home.
She's an Irish journalist and writer with a background in creative writing, comedy, and TV production.
Formerly Aoife was a contributing writer at Bustle and her words can be found in the Metro, Huffpost, Delicious, Imperica, EVOKE and her poetry features in the Queer Life, Queer Love anthology.
Outside of work you might bump into her at a garden center, charity shop, yoga studio, lifting heavy weights, or (most likely) supping/eating some sort of delicious drink/meal.
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Alston, Patrick "Pat"
CSM, USA (Ret)
Command Sergeant Major Patrick Z. Alston is employed as a Senior Fellow for the National Defense University's Capstone and Keystone programs. He is also a Senior Consultant with Burlington Capital Corporation, a diverse investment management firm located in Omaha, Nebraska.
CSM Pat Alston is a native of Columbus, Georgia. He is a graduate of Columbus High School. After graduation, he subsequently enlisted into the United States Army where he completed Basic Training at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
His initial assignment was at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as a Medical Specialist. Subsequent assignments include Medical Specialist with 3rd Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment, and 82nd Airborne Division. In 1984 he reclassified to the Chemical Corps and was assigned as a squad leader with 4th Chemical Company, 2nd Infantry Division; NBC NCO and Squad Leader with Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 73rd Armor, 82nd Airborne Division; Battalion NBC NCO with 3rd Battalion, 73rd Armor, 82nd Airborne Division; Senior NBC Operations and Staff NCO with Division Chemical, 82nd Airborne Division; NBC Operations, Staff NCO and Platoon Sergeant with 34th Support Group, Korea; Senior Drill Sergeant with Alpha Company, 82nd Chemical Battalion; Detachment Sergeant for the Contingency Support Detachment (WHITE HOUSE TEAM), 84th Chemical Battalion, U.S. Army Chemical School; Career Advisor/Branch Manager Career Management Field 74D, Total Army Personnel Command (PERSCOM); First Sergeant for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Soldier Biological Chemical Command and Technical Escort Unit; Battalion CSM of the U.S. Army Technical Escort Battalion in Edgewood, Maryland; Division Chemical Sergeant Major for the 2nd Infantry Division, Korea; Battalion CSM of the 23rd Chemical Battalion, 19th TSC, Korea; CSM of the 23rd Area Support Group, 19th TSC, Korea; 10th Regimental CSM of the Chemical Corps, Command Senior Enlisted Leader, Defense Threat Reduction Agency/STRATCOM Center for Combating WMD and finished his Army career as the Command Senior Enlisted Leader of United States Strategic Command.
His military schools include Command Sergeant Major Course; Sergeant Major Academy (class # 51); First Sergeant Course (CDMT List); Advanced Noncommissioned Officers Course (Honor Grad); Basic Noncommissioned Officers Course (CDMT List); Primary Leadership development Course (CMDT List); Drill Sergeant School (Honor Grad); Airborne School; Air Assault School (Honor Grad); Technical Escort Course (J5) (Honor Grad); Drill Corporal Course; Customs Course; White House Executive Support Course; Executive Operations Course; Hazardous Material Course (Level 1-5); Chemical Weapons Orientation Course Joint Military Intelligence Course on Chemical Affairs; Assignment Manager/PDNCO Course; Administrative Procedures Course (DA Level), Joint Forces Staff College, United States Army Force Management Course and Keystone Course. He is currently a few classes away from receiving his Bachelors of Science Degree in Leadership with a concentration in Management from Trident University.
His awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal; Legion of Merit (second oak leaf cluster); Defense Meritorious Service Medal; Meritorious Service Medal (first oak leaf cluster); Army Commendation Medal (third oak leaf cluster); the Army Achievement Medal (silver oak leaf cluster); Army Service Ribbons; the National Defense Medal; Combat Medical Badge; Space Badge; Airborne Badge; Air Assault Badge; Drivers Badge; Drill Sergeant Badge; Good Conduct Medal (Silver Clasp, third loop); Overseas Ribbon (Third Oak Leaf Cluster); Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; and the noncommissioned Officers Professional Development Ribbon (fourth award). CSM Alston is also awarded the CHEMICAL CORPS HIGHEST AWARD "THE ORDER OF THE DRAGON" as well the TRANSPORTATION CORPS "HONORABLE ORDER OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER."


Homer Wood then organized Oakland, California, USA #3, Seattle, Washington, USA #4 and Los Angeles, California, USA #5 by the end of 1909. Two days after Christmas, Seattle #4 organized Tacoma, Washington, USA #8. It was an answer to Paul Harris' prayers. Rotary was an idea that could be taken to many cities.


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Claymore (Manga): Buff Women and Swords and Yoma, Oh My
February 28, 2020 Scott Manga Reviews 7 comments
Having watched the Madhouse Claymore anime years ago and being very disappointed by the ending yet interested in the concept, I was always wanted to read the manga. Imagine my surprise when I saw Claymore on the SJ+ app. What? The show I remember was closer to berserk then anything which a far crew from the demographic that Shonen Jump is going for in general. I mean, the concept of sexual monsters doesn't usually appeal to kids I think. Maybe. Doesn't matter to me I suppose, because I got to read Claymore for a good price. What do I have to complain about here? Almost nothing. I got to read it all on whatever pace I decided which is great.
Claymore opens up with a nameless and tall sword woman, called a Claymore by reputation, wandering into a medieval town. It's made immediately clear that she is there for one reason and one reason only. To kill the Yoma slowly picking off the town's people and then leave. That's it. Over a short amount of time, we learn that this woman's name is Clare. She seems to travel from place to place faster then other Claymores like she's after something. Mostly because she is. Things change a little bit when a young orphan boy named Raki followers her from place to place. After her last visit in a holy city that doesn't like Claymores, we dig into the real depth of this world. Well, sort of. We stay on the island that the manga takes place in and nothing else really.
Clare!
This series does a pretty good job of establishing things in the beginning. Not just the world kind of, everything. The introduction of Clare and her level of abilities was great. We went along with her on her excellent journey of killing Yoma with tons of struggling here and there. Then when the truth gets revealed, it all makes sense now. The island that Claymore takes place in has 47 districts protected by 47 different Claymores at different levels. Having Clare being casually mentioned as being the 47th strongest Claymore was kind of a shock back in the day. The delivery behind it all makes this reveal in the manga still pretty great too. There is a reason for it in the manga's backstory. Better wait a few paragaraphs. All in all though, It just means we get to eventually know 46 more buff women. Not complaining about that.
The world of Claymore, an island protected by a secret organization that pushes Claymores all over the place to save people, is a pretty lively place to explore and have our characters fight all over. Yes, it's a very European medieval island, but each town somehow has their own personality to them. Each direction is ruled by a different awakened being which Claymores sometimes work in groups to defeat. We never see what this island looks like on a map, but the selected directions are varied enough to give you a feeling of knowing where you are going. It's more obvious then "the north is snowy and the south is sunny". There is real effort into making every region feel unique somehow. My favorite place is the holy city. I love medieval castle architecture.
Yoma energy flows everywhere in this series. The towns that Yoma show up and defeated in are killed by Claymore of course. The Claymore are women who choose to get Yoma flesh inserted in their bodies in order to gain some great abilities by this secret organization with vague motivations. A long time ago, the organization used to do this process with men. That experiment's result lead to most of the awakened ones that inhabit the island right now. That's not a spoiler by the way, that's information that is revealed very early on. All that said, the scientific projects and mass atrocities from the organization as a whole are a massive plot point in ways that can't be expressed otherwise. One of the massive plot points that takes numerous chapters is the downfall of the organization.
Clare being at the center of this journey is what makes it all work. She is this supposed super serious claymore who hunts down an awakened being other the course of the series. That's all tied into her backstory. Like Raki, she followed a Claymore around for a long time too until that Claymore betrayed the organization for Clare leading to that specific Claymore's death. That's the second plot element that connect the whole thing together. This is the hardened Clare which is a shell of her true self; a kid that has never grown up. She's very stoic and hot headed for a reason and it works because the other Claymores in the show bring up the emotional load of the series. It takes a while though.
This is older Raki. He got pretty hot.
From a story telling perspective, Claymore lost it's steam for me half way through it's run. After a massive battle between twenty Claymores and the massive pile of awakened beings in the north. A battle that doesn't go well for Clare and other friendly Claymores. After a time skip, everything is actually pretty cool. Clare and six others survived the fight while the Organization reformed their Claymore unit. The dynamic between the two sides was great. Of course, that's when the manga kind of sort of killed of Clare for a while AND threw a lot of world changing things all at once centered on the awakened ones and the organization's newest experiments. A little too unfocused honestly. Luckily, Claymore really doe stick the landing with all it presented. Hell, even Raki grew up and became awesome.
If anything, Claymore in it's manga form is pretty gay too. I do think that there is a difference between being battlefield buddies who you rely on to live and actual gay relationships, but the imagery and Clare's story are pretty gay. The reason why she became a Claymore and the flesh she used to become a Claymore to secret revenge kind of are. Same with a lot of the monsters that the Claymores have to fight. One is two girls fused together facing each other and another one was a legitimate vagina monster. I'm not making this up and there is a lot of content centered on it. The gore was already bloody and bad enough to scare away (or intrigue) people in reading it, but the added sexual sort of content really pushes it all over the top really. I liked it, but it's a hard recommend unless you know what other people's tolerances towards this stuff is. A lot of "hey, have you watched Berserk?"
When Older and Newer Claymores fight together!
The manga art really did improve over time. I don't think the character designs and action drawings have changed a lot. Well, at least not from what I've seen when I've read it at my desired pace at least. Honestly, that isn't a problem because I think the style used in the manga is generally pretty solid. Ok, the newer monster designs are pretty cool so there is some design evolution here. For me, it's the background drawings which really evolved over the course of the manga. The first chapter had great art and feeling of movement, but the background art was very minimal. It did a great job of creating a bleak tone in the manga itself, but they all felt tacked on last minute somehow. From that starting point to establshing all sorts of scenery and background shots in the world itself was great. Maybe that was on purpose to widen Clare's point of view as the world itself grows. Even if it wasn't, I'm pretty happy with the result.
Claymore is a very hard manga to recommend to some people, but I really enjoyed the ride. The story was pretty great, the characters were wonderful, and the evolution of all that happened was well structured and told. I do think that the 1/4th of the manga after the middle point really weighed down the story and manga quite a bit here in terms of tone and execution, but I think everything fight pretty well in the end too. Clare is a very stoic main character, but she's a fun character to follow along with her journey for revenge. Plus, the other Claymores and even Raki each had their own story and evolution too. A surprisingly well thought out show. What else can I say. I'm just going to give Claymore a good on my rating scale. Even if it isn't flawless, I think Claymore manga deserves it.
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I've had this on my Shonen Jump app for a while and been meaning to read it, but never got around to it for whatever reason. I've never seen Berserk – idk, I like shows with pretty ladies more than big beefy guys XD but I do like a lot of "grimdark" anime and manga like Re:Zero, The Promised Neverland, Madoka Magica etc. Would you recommend it to someone if they haven't seen the anime?
Oh yeah, definitely. Infact, don't even worry about the anime.
Lynn Sheridan says:
I loved Claymore and most specifically the designs of the Awakened Beings. They were fantastic.
I'd also agree about the time skip dragging. All of a sudden we were introduced to a bunch of new characters and provided very little context for a short period. I loved the ending though. I might even have to reread this.
I really liked them too, definitely pretty powerful looking 😁.
Yeah, that time skip was just such a mess. Also, muahaha.
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Krystallina says:
This is one I've always been interested in and just haven't gotten around to. I will sometime though.
I hope you do 😁


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