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DAKAR (Reuters) - A decade and a half ago, Adama Barrow was working 15-hour shifts as a security guard at retailer Argos in north London, harboring dreams of making his mark as a real estate developer.
On Friday, he was declared president-elect of his homeland, the tiny riverside West African nation of Gambia, ending over two decades of rule by Yahya Jammeh, a feared authoritarian who once said he would rule for "a billion years".
Gambians are now looking to the man nicknamed "no drama Adama" because of his cool, calm collectedness, to reverse 22 years under Jammeh's erratic rule that have hurt the economy and made the popular holiday destination a regional pariah.
It is not a job that the soft-spoken Barrow - a member of the Fula ethnic group from rural eastern Gambia - had sought out. He only learnt he was even being considered as a party leader when he turned up for the vote in September.
Jammeh, a former army officer, seized power in a 1994 coup before he had even turned 30. In contrast, Barrow, 51, was unknown to most of his compatriots before the main opposition United Democratic Party's (UDP) leadership election.
"(Before) Barrow came to vote for a new UDP party leader, he didn't even know his name was on the ballot," said Ramzia Diab, a leading member of the coalition that backed his run for the nation's presidency.
In April, small protests in Banjul calling for electoral reform had led to dozens of arrests. Two UDP members died in custody while others were sentenced to jail time.
When the UDP's then-president Ousainou Darboe, who had lost to Jammeh in four successive elections of questionable credibility, was handed a three-year prison sentence, the party needed a leader.
"(Barrow) was absolutely thrust into this position," said Jeffrey Smith, founding director of the advocacy group Vanguard Africa. "He took hold of that leadership and played a seminal role in rallying the disparate opposition leaders around him."
Until he took control, Barrow was mainly known within the UDP, which he joined in 1996, for his methodical management of the books as party treasurer.
But he quickly proved to be an adept opponent, turning Jammeh's attempts to stamp out dissent against the administration and galvanizing a coalition of eight parties to back a single candidate in the Dec. 1 vote. They chose him.
"I am overwhelmed by your confidence," Barrow said timidly in a speech accepting the candidacy.
Barrow plans to reverse some of Jammeh's capricious acts, including stopping Gambia's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court announced last month, his spokesman Karamaba Touray said. He will also ask to rejoin the Commonwealth and nullify Jammeh's declaration of Gambia as an Islamic republic.
"He is the absolute opposite of Jammeh. He wants to restore democracy, it will be entirely different," Touray said.
The biggest test of this ambition comes in three years' time: Barrow has pledged to step down by then to open up newly democratic Gambia's political space.

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Yellowstone Supervolcano Location, History, and Important Facts
Samarpita Choudhury
Mar 20, 2019
The Yellowstone National Park, one of the most sought-after places across the world, is again in the news for quite sometime now. There are reports highlighting some of the facts associated with it.
If the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupts, the global temperatures would fall by several degrees, calling for an Ice Age of sorts.
A home for a beautiful landscape, geysers, forests, mud spots, and hot springs, the history of the Yellowstone National Park trails back to the year 1872. The location of this supervolcano can be found engulfing the states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. Majorly, the park is housed in Wyoming. It is the first National Park ever established in the US.
Yellowstone rests over a huge span of molten matter, beneath the Earth's surface, which is enough to draw an end to most parts of the US. The effects would be of such magnitude that there would be permanent changes on the face of the Earth, putting a halt to several lives in a span of a few minutes. Catastrophic, indeed!
The wide range of geysers, hot springs, and earthquakes, which throng the park, are the subject matter for a wide range of scientific studies. By studying these, the scientists are able to lay down some facts about the future course of action of this underground molten death that makes Yellowstone a dangerous, yet beautiful place.
✦ A supervolcano yields in a gigantic volcanic eruption, the effects of which are devastating and can alter lives across the globe. The Yellowstone National Park is one such.
✦ Supervolcanic eruptions take place from the depressions on the crust of the Earth, where the magma rises from below up to the Earth's crust.
✦ The magma is so large in quantity that when it is emitted out, it flows like a river, and in the process, the rocks collapse, leading to the formation of caldera.
✦ The park has got numerous springs and geysers. This makes the park a 'hotspot', and thus, America is marked by several craters.
✦ Like the other volcanoes, which take the shape of a cone, supervolcanoes are hard to be noticed. The caldera, or the crater, is so big that it sometimes requires aerial viewing to find them.
✦ Yellowstone has experienced three supervolcanic eruptions, apart from numerous other smaller eruptions.
✦ The average gap between such supervolcanic eruptions was about 8,000,000 years, say noted scientists.
✦ The Yellowstone National Park is active to this day, with no indications about its eruption, but certainly, the eruption can't be ignored. There are strong references, which show that the volcano will erupt sooner or later.
✦ The annual number of visitors at the park is very high, close to over 3 million approximately.
✦ There are reports hinting that in February, 2014, there were some strange abnormalities that took place in the supervolcano, located at Yellowstone National Park. These things are usually observed before volcanic eruptions.
✦ Yellowstone is one of the 'hotspots', like Hawaii and Iceland.
✦ The hottest geyser that is present in the park is known as the Norris Geyser Basin.
✦ The Norris Geyser has got two divisions: one is known as the Black Basin, and the other is called the Porcelain Basin.
✦ The striking factor of the Porcelain Basin is that it is devoid of any vegetation, even algae and bacteria for that matter. The place is so high in acidic substance that it is difficult for life to thrive and flourish here.
✦ The place is a treat to see because of the colors that are at display. The colors are the result of the mineral oxides.
✦ There were cracks observed on the ground, and also there was emission of helium-4 gas from beneath the surface.
✦ The last time this supervolcano erupted was over 6,000,000 years back.
✦ Around two-thirds of the US would be brought to ash in just a couple of minutes in case of an eruption―such would be the severity.
✦ The helium-4 gas, which suggests the oncoming of volcanoes, was not present at Yellowstone at all. It rather appeared in a very short time span, suggesting the approach of another massive eruption.
✦ Volcanic eruptions are usually preceded by earthquakes. The US experienced one such earthquake in February 2014, and again a number of such earthquakes in March 2014, escalating the chances of a volcanic eruption. But the eruption need not be super eruption, conclude scientists.
✦ The ground level at the Yellowstone National Park has risen by 10 inches, which testifies the gigantic eruption that lies underneath the Yellowstone. The rise in the ground level is attributed to the increase in the gases under the Earth, along with their rise upwards and the rise in the magma below. The latter can propel the destructive volcanic eruption.
✦ The average expected time for the eruption could range from immediate to 1,000,000 years.
✦ The fleeing of the animals like bison is yet another indicator of an upcoming surge that lies beneath the Yellowstone. After all, animals are well-guided by their sixth sense!
✦ The explosion of such volcanoes occur within a span of millions of years, leaving craters, volcanic ash, and gases in the atmosphere, as evidence of the eruption. The crater at Mary Bay resulted due to one such massive explosion. Smaller eruptions also do occur in a smaller duration of time like the outbreak at Mount St. Helens, 1980.
✦ Unlike the other hotspots, Yellowstone is located under the land, and not under the sea.
✦ The Bishop ash bed and the Huckleberry Ridge ash bed are the resultant of supervolcanic eruptions in the US.
✦ Yellowstone has about 40 waterfalls in its bosom. It is one of the richest sources of water in the US. Old Faithful, one of the geysers in Yellowstone, is known to erupt every hour.
Despite such startling facts, the Yellowstone National Park is thronged by millions, and many scientists are of the opinion that devastation of such magnitude, like that of a supervolcano, may take some more time to rise, probably not in our lifetime.
The Yellowstone volcanic eruption prediction may not give the details of an imminent eruption, round the corner, but the place will have frequent occurrence of earthquakes and eruptions of a smaller stature. However, let's not forget that we are too inferior to predict nature's whereabouts.
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Coast Guard investigators announced today that the New Bedford-based fishing vessel Lady of Grace most likely sank because added weight from excessive ice build up on its superstructure and rigging raised the vessel's center of gravity too high, causing it to capsize.
The Lady of Grace sank 12 miles south of Hyannis, Mass., Jan. 26, 2007, claiming the lives of all four people aboard.
Because there were no eyewitnesses or radio contact with the crew, Coast Guard investigators spoke with other fishing vessel crews operating in the area during the same time and used recorded weather observations from the period surrounding the sinking to reconstruct what most likely happened.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends of the fishermen who died," said Captain Raymond Perry, commander of Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England. "While these experienced New Bedford fishermen lost their lives, we hope that their legacy and the lessons learned from the investigation will help keep similar tragedies from happening."
Over the last 15 years, 194 commercial fishing vessels were lost in the Northeast due to capsizing or sinking. Two of those accidents, including the Lady of Grace, have been directly attributed to icing.


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Appropriately named Atlas, a seven-month-old continental giant rabbit, grew so large its owners found it too much of a handful and passed it on to the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Now the organisation has appealed for someone to provide the giant bunny with a new home.
Anybody taking in Atlas will need a rabbit hutch the size of a dog kennel. Atlas is already the size of a west highland terrier; fully grown continental giant rabbits can measure up to 1.2 metres, weigh more than 20kg and eat a bale of hay a week and up to 2,000 carrots and 700 apples a year.
Scottish SPCA staff in Cardonald, Glasgow, sent out its appeal on Monday.
"Atlas is already about the size of a westie and is still young with some growing to do," said SPCA manager Anna O'Donnell. "He is a very friendly rabbit who loves attention and getting cuddles. Atlas is also an inquisitive boy who makes everyone laugh with his mischievous character."
She pointed out that a standard rabbit hutch would not be big enough and the new owner would need plenty of space for him.
"Atlas needs an owner with the knowledge to properly care for him, so ideally someone who has kept a continental giant before. If anyone is interested in offering him a home they should give us a call on 03000 999 999."
Katie Price, the model with a fondness for animals, tweeted to say that she was willing to take Atlas. Price already has a menagerie of pigs, goats, horses and dogs.
The largest rabbit in the world is Darius, another continental giant, weighing 22kg – about the same as a six-year-old child.
According to the Pets4Home website, the continental giant is one of the largest and oldest breeds of rabbit, with evidence suggesting that the breed may stretch as far back as the mid-16th century.
"They aren't keen on being picked up and so aren't the best breed to keep if you have children who might want to carry them and have a cuddle. They will be more than happy to be petted and stroked however, and as they are such gentle, inquisitive creatures they do make fantastic pets," says the site.
Most continental giant rabbits are descended from the ancient Flemish giant, a breed that originated in Ghent, Belgium. It is thought that the Flemish giant was created by breeding larger examples of fur and meat breeds – probably the so-called stone rabbit (because it was said to weigh as much as an old Belgian stone - 3.8kg) and the Patagonian, an old European breed now extinct.


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I really had no idea this movie was in the works, but it's far enough along to have it's own poster. Dave Seville is coming to the big screen along with Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. I realize some of you may be unfamiliar with these names so let me explain.
These are characters from Alvin and the Chipmunks a popular cartoon series from my youth. Basically Dave played dad/manager to these three singing chipmunks. I know that might sound kind of lame, but I actually liked the show when I was younger. Anyway so they're making a live action movie out of it and there's now picture of the poster online(click for a bigger version over at Coming Soon).
Here's my problem with it. I can't help but think about how terrible the Garfield movies were and the upcoming Underdog movie looks just as bad. Underdog should look like this, not like this. I actually don't think the chipmunks look that bad in the poster, they aren't too realistic but they still don't look much like the originals. They are using the original voice talent at least.
I am a fan of Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl) so I hold on to some hope that this will turn out to be decent. It's due out December 14 of this year.
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I well remember when God came to me nudging me not to leave Mercy Hospital even after the night visiting bell had rung for the second time for all visitors to leave; but I didn't want to go. It had been a blustering cold and windy bus ride from Richmond to Baltimore after receiving a phone call saying my mother was in the hospital gravely ill with another severe gall-stone attack. I just wanted to stay near her for she had been the center of my life. I had hardly had time to kiss my mother and find out what I could about her situation. She looked tired and weak from pain but tried to answer my questions when another announcement came, "All visitors at Mercy Hospital, please leave immediately." How I hated to leave, and why wouldn't they set up a cot there in the room for me to be near her?
The head nurse ushered me out of my mother's hospital room assuring me I could visit her after the operation the next morning. As I stepped from the elevator, my eyes caught sight of a tiny room off of the lobby. The plague above the door read "Chapel". Beneath the darkened wooden mantel piece, was a flickering fire, a low lighted lamp and a book lying on a table beside a comfortable looking polished leather wing-backed chair. Without hesitation, I decided to sit for awhile, gather myself together and contemplate my mother's situation. I was terrified that I would lose her and overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness as I cried and prayed. I reached for the Bible on the table and turned to Psalm 23. Reading it made my tears subside and slowed down my breathing as I drifted away into a deep sleep only stirring when a figure entering the room. I opened my eyes and recognized my mother's doctor so I called him by name. I tried to explain to him my fears of losing my mother for he had once told me that an operation could possibly take her life.
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CIRCOT Mumbai Job Notification for Technical Assistant & Others- Application Form
Jobs are announced by Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology Mumbai (CIRCOT Mumbai) to appoint Technical Assistant and others. If you are interested then you are invited to check below article where we brought all related information like criteria of education, Hiring Mode, number of Position, deadlines etc. Eligible candidates can make application with necessary proofs duly attested manner on fixed term basis by 20th Jan. 2016.
Name of Organization: Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology Mumbai
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From the very beginning, Linda found breastfeeding to be an "uncomfortable" and "anxious" process. Being a modest person, she tells me that the very fact of having her breasts exposed in the hospital was nerve-wracking as she learned how to nurse. The evening before her husband was to return to work following the birth, Linda experienced her first panic attack. The symptoms worsened when her newborn daughter would cry for food, putting the new mother on edge for yet another attack.
"I just couldn't face the idea that I was going to be alone day after day, the only one tending to my daughter with no break or rest," she remembers. "It was incredibly overwhelming. I couldn't take deep breaths and I was itching from the inside -- almost like my body was clawing to get away from itself. I was fidgety, shaky, nervous and unable to form complete sentences and coherent thoughts...nothing was in focus and I couldn't look anyone in the eye."
Linda's husband suspected that his wife was suffering, but she herself remained in denial about her condition for about four months. It was then that Linda suffered a major breakdown while alone at night with her baby girl. After suddenly having visions of hurting her child, Linda called her mother and began sobbing. A concerned friend had a similar experience of uncontrollable visions and feelings and referred Linda to her counselor. She was shortly after diagnosed with PPD.
Her challenges with breastfeeding were weighed specifically with the reality of being her daughter's sole provider -- a fact that kept her from truly enjoying her new daughter.
"I am a Type A, make-a list-and-get-it-done type of person. I hated feeling tied to the bed, couch or chair while the laundry and housework piled up around me. Sure, my husband was helping out but he worked long days and when he got home he wanted to spend time with our daughter as a family. I would be anxious because I didn't know how much she was eating and I was constantly worried that I wasn't doing enough for her... I look back at those months and I don't remember breathing," the mother recalls.
Yet, her ultimate decision to stop breastfeeding her daughter came at the suggestion of her concerned husband. Although Linda planned to stick to the recommended six months for the sake of her daughter, she found that she was doing no service to her baby by being a wreck.
"In the most loving way possible, he let me know that our daughter needed a healthy mother more than she needed my breastmilk," she says. "And he was right. I needed to be present in her life instead of floating through the day in a fog. I wanted to be engaged in her life and enjoying all the new things that babies learn in that first year. After a few sessions of therapy knocked the cobwebs out of my brain and I was able to think more clearly, I realized that he was right. I had to stop breastfeeding in order to be the emotionally present mother that my daughter deserved."
Linda describes her initial feeling after relinquishing the breast in one word: relief. She tells me that the decision truly lifted a weight from her shoulders and realigned the partnership in her marriage. Able to share parenting duties with her husband, she calls her halt to breastfeeding as a real turning point in her recovery from PPD.
"The day that I stopped breastfeeding was the day that I felt I could move onto the next chapter in my life and start digging myself out of that dark hole."
Now a year later, Linda is still regularly seeing a therapist for her PPD. She also encounters comments and cultural judgements for not breastfeeding her daughter "long enough." However, she appears unfazed by the digs at her daughter's first few months of life, telling me, "I know my truth." She says that her ordeal with PPD, anxiety, and breastfeeding has revealed a lot to her about the criticisms and judgements mothers are often keen to make about one another, as well as illuminating what's truly best for her own child.
"Over the past months I've realized that the 'best' that I can give her isn't always what can be written down on paper or put in a category like natural birth, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, etc. The best that I can give her is an emotionally stable and content mother."
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Boundaries, Boudoir and Feeling Like a Badass – Boudoir Photo Session with Chelle Morgan
We met Miss Chelle Morgan through XpoCity Vancouver and knew right away that we wanted to work with her in the studio. This thoughtful and spunky lifestyle blogger shed new light on the Boudoir Photography Experience, and her no nonsense attitude towards body shaming and self love was such a breath of fresh air. We truly enjoyed the time spent together. This beautiful young woman let go of her inhibitions and embraced her femininity in the name of body positivity. She looked her Inner Critic in the face and told her to take a hike. Read about her Boudoir Photo Session experience in her blog, Boundaries, Boudoir, and Feeling Like a Badass.
Thank you Chelle for spending this time with us and sharing your experience with the world. Thank you for the kind words and for allowing us to document this special time in your life, but most of all, thank you for trusting in us and allowing yourself to be vulnerable. We think the results are incredible.
Model- Chelle Morgan
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Out of My Mind An Important Story for Us All
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Melody Brooks hates being treated like an idiot. Just because the 10-year-old can't walk or talk doesn't mean she can't think. In fact, with her photographic memory, plus a sensory condition that makes her experience the world more fully than other people, Melody is probably the smartest kid in her elementary school. Too bad no one but her will ever know it. Most people, especially other children, can't see past Melody's wheelchair—they don't realize she's not just a gawk-worthy freak, but a real person with feelings, thoughts and ideas.
Without a way to communicate more complex sentences than "I'm hungry" or "I have to go to the bathroom," Melody's not sure how to share all the things brimming inside her mind. And it's making her crazy. She has so much to say, she just needs a way to get it all out. When an opportunity's presented that will allow Melody to do just that, she's ecstatic. A little terrified, too. What if people don't want to hear her thoughts and feelings? What if her classmates just make fun of her more? Can Melody find the courage to express herself, even if she says things no one else wants to hear?
I read Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper not just because I loved its premise, but also because my 11-year-old daughter's been raving about how amazing it is. The book didn't blow me away quite as much as it did her—still, Out of My Mind offers an important and thought-provoking story about the assumptions we often make about people, especially children, with special needs. It also says a lot about the need for caring, positive teachers, doctors and therapists as well as parents who believe in their children no matter what limitations they might have. Out of My Mind is a novel for any child who's ever felt misunderstood and for any adult who's ever wondered what goes on inside the heads of the kids they're rearing and/or teaching. Really, it's a story for all of us.
(Readalikes: Reminded me of Wonder by R.J. Palacio)
Grade: B
If this were a movie, it would be rated: PG for subject matter most suited for kids 10 and over
To the FTC, with love: I bought a copy of Out of My Mind at Deseret Book.
Posted by Susan at 10:12 AM
Labels: 2013 50 States Challenge, African-American Writers, B Grade Books, Baby Steps Books, Cerebral Palsy, Middle Grade Books, PG-rated books, Sharon M. Draper, Special Needs, Synesthesia, U.S. Settings: Ohio
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Yes! I loved this one. It made me think and that's always a good thing. I love that your daughter loved it too, as I think it's super important for kids to read!ReplyDelete
Interesting story and its great that it struck a chord with your daughter. thanks for the recommendation.ReplyDelete
We liked this one too! Here's a link to our review of it if interested: http://ourstack.blogspot.com/2011/05/out-of-my-mind-by-sharon-m-draper.htmlReplyDelete
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This past weekend we had our first yoga class here on the farm and it was so much fun! Our class was held outside under our large shade tree while the lambs and llamas grazed around us. I can't wait until our next class you can get your tickets to reserve your spot here!
My life flashed before my eyes…
I have really loved doing morning chores every morning. Listening to the horses munch on their breakfast, collecting those yummy farm fresh butt nuggets the chickens leave me and greeting my sheep each day. Most days this is the best way to start my day … except today was totally different.
There is an order in which things must be done each morning to prevent total mayhem and chaos. First you fill the horse feeders and add their supplements. Next you open the back of the barn door walk out and grab ace to hand walk him to his stall while badger and dickens fallow behind. This was all going great until I went to walk outside and felt something on my face. Thinking it's just my hair falling out post baby I wiped it away. This is when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I had walked into a spider wed and said spider was on his was to wrap me in silk and drain me of my soul. In complete panic trying to escape with my life and flail my arms wildly to avoid being taken alive I tripped over the boards on the ramp. I'm now falling through the air as chickens are angrily flying everywhere. See what I didn't mention is that those super delicious butt nuggets come from super obnoxious chickens who can't be controlled. As I fell out of the barn door to escape death by spider I was set upon by a gang of chickens. Now I'm pretty sure they had assumed their farmer had just had psychotic break and they needed to defend their lives. As chickens descended upon me I'm sure to either rid me of my demons or eat me I look up to see the loving face of my dear wonderful paint horse. His face quite clearly said have you lost your mind quite playing around it's clearly my breakfast time and you are in my way.
What a delightful way to start my day, rest assured my heart is working just fine if there was any question!
Washing and drying and felting and washing a dry….
Just over here processing wool…
Oh the mud ….
Gus moves some sheep for me today into fresh grass.
Poor Life Choices
In an effort to protect my husband, my girls and the lovely woman who does barn chores for us I chose today to try to catch Rooster Soup. You might be wondering why we named our rooster Rooster Soup well he was originally called Handsome Rooster Man. Rooster decided it was fun to charge the humans and try to maim them hence getting him a new name.
I began my approach to the lair of Rooster Soup hoping to have the element of surprise. As I rounded the coup he let out a loud crow telling me he was ready for the showdown and the OK Corral. Not to be daunted by his threats I stepped over the electric net fencing. . . catching my foot in the net and gracefully almost going facedown in the foot deep mud that is my laneway behind the barn. As Rooster laughed at my misfortune I mentally prepared myself. My plan was to just grab him. . . be fearless of the GIANT HUGE ROOSTER hell bent on pecking out my jugular and watching me bleed to death. Well to say after he started charging me I was gripped with fear. Putting my hand anywhere near said charging heap of evil feathers was not going to happen in that moment. Cursing myself for not bringing a weapon with me . . . scratch that an item of self defense I resolved to get the job done.
Plan B herd Rooster into a smaller space inside the coup and catch him there. In my mind this was a good idea less mud for me to walk through and less room for him to get up speed charging at me. As I entered the coup behind him I saw the gleam in his eye . . . he had the home field advantage. He walked into a corner and I thought now is my chance! I realized to late as I reached down that it was a trap. Rooster had led me into a false sense of courage and tried to promptly remove my hand.
At this point my judgement might have been clouded by the annoyance at being bested by a Rooster. I made one last attempt to catch him. Taking a deep breath armed with a trash can lid I made my move. I thought that I had him pinned however he was in the corner making it impossible for me to fully pin him. As I realized my mistake he came flying at my face I'm sure planning to pluck out my eyes. I escaped narrowly deciding I would in fact need reinforcements to get the job done.
Rooster Soup lives to fight another day and I live to reevaluate my life choices in letting the roo live in the first place.
Well that's awful…
I pulled my very first lambs ever last Friday and only the little ram lamb survived. Mom didn't want the little lamb and he was really struggling so we brought him into the house to feed him as a bottle lamb. Over 24 hours he did great and I was really hopeful for him! When the little buffalo had her lambs Purl the ewe's lambs I had pulled Friday seemed extremely interested in them so Jeff and I brought the little ram lamb out to see how they did. Surprisingly Purl was so happy to see her lamb and I made sure her milk was still coming out which it was and he nursed really well. I watched Purl and the little lamb on the camera all night and they did so well. Today we brought the little guy in to dock his tail and when we came back out to bring him back to the barn he had died. Jeff my husband who happens to also be a veterinarian believes he had some sort of problem from the beginning and his death was coincidental to doing his tail. I am super bummed that both of Purl's lambs died but there is nothing I could have done to prevent either death. She does however get herself redeemed as mother of the year for taking her lamb back even though he didn't live.
Wonder Women
Yesterday was International Women's Day which I spent being wonder woman here at home. A week ago I had a csection to birth my beautiful second daughter and I am supposed to be home taking it easy. Both of my parents are here to help with the farm and watching my older daughter (wonder woman in training) while I am healing and taking care of our newborn wonder woman.
Yesterday after lunch I decided that I wanted to walk out to the barn to check on my animals and move the barn camera so I could better see in the sheep area in case anyone was hiding and having lambs. We have been waiting on lambs for weeks now and I keep telling myself any day now they will come out! Upon arriving in the barn we moved the camera and Henley said hello to all the sheep and her barn kitty. I looked down from bungie cording my camera to the barn (because bungie cords and duct tape will fix anything) to see blood dripping all down my favorite Ewe's backend. This was a sure sign that lambs would be arriving any minute. We brought Henley inside to hang out with my mom and her new baby sister while my dad and I went out to make sure that the lambs made it safely into the world.
As we were shuffling the rest of the sheep out of the stall to give Purl some room and privacy Purl's water broke followed by her birthing a tail. Well for those of you that are not sheep farmers my heart sank when I saw only a tail present as lambs need to come out front legs and head first. All of my sheep are first time moms this year and this is my first year lambing so to say none of us know what we are doing is quite accurate. After calling my sheep mentor who confirmed that I would have to pull this lamb I put on my Wonder Woman pants and marched out to the barn with all my supplies and my reluctant dad.
After getting everyone settled and gloving up I had my dad hold Purl while I reached in to see what I could do to get this lamb out for her. I could not get the lamb positioned exactly the way I wanted it since it was so far down the birth canal but I did manage to get the little guy out. This one was a healthy ram (boy) lamb. He took a really long time to stand up and nurse most likely from being wedged in the birth canal for so long. I thought we were done and only having one lamb until Purl pushed out some legs.
Purl began pawing furiously at the ground and laying down and standing up repeatedly. She pushed out two legs and then part of the body unfortunately it wasn't a rear end or a tail. This lamb was coming out front feet first with its head turned back making this one unable to come out on its own as well. After considerable effort I got this lamb in far enough to turn the head and pull the lamb out. To no fault of the sheep or myself this little lamb which was a ewe (girl) didn't make it.
After some time little ram lamb was finally able to stand and nurse with some help. Purl has not won the mother of the year award as she refused to let the little guy nurse. We left Purl's head tied up overnight to try to get her to bond with little lamb and make it easier for him to eat. Unfortunately between Purl not letting the little guy nurse and stepping on him coupled with him continuing to become colder and weak we had to bring the lamb inside to bottle feed.
Henley is in love with her little house lamb and has been super helpful with feeding the lamb. We are hopeful that with some tender loving toddler care and a watchful border collie the lamb will thrive and do well.
Build A Village
Raising children and running a farm is no easy task. Our oldest daughter is now 2 years old just old enough she thinks she can help and do everything herself. For the last 9 months I've been growing her baby sister. As the days grew closer to my due date I wondered how my princess would respond to no longer being an only child. Henley however surprised me once again by being the best big sister ever so far. She takes her responsibility as big sister very seriously! She likes to make she baby sister has a blanket and a binky and is very concerned when she cries.
It's also time on the farm for lambs so as I was in the hospital with my new born I was watching the barn camera. Henley stayed with my in-laws all weekend and we have the best hired barn worker. It truly takes an entire village to raise a family and I couldn't be more grateful for all the people who are a part of my families village!
Welcome Audrey Rose Cacia to the family!
All Tucked In
Everyone is all tucked in for the cold temperatures coming up.
Knitting definitely helps me deal with the ups and downs of farming. I find the repetitive motion very soothing. Here are a few of my recent finished projects! How many of you knit?


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There hasn't been enough reporting on the halting debate over whether and how to compensate victims of North Carolina's shameful forced-sterilization program that blemished the state through the early 1970s. That's just my opinion, and it's given with the open acknowledgement that our newsroom hasn't pulled its weight. Mark Binker, state legislative reporter for the News & Record, says he hasn't been inclined to write much about it because there's not a unique Greensboro angle. That excuse doesn't work for us, considering that Rep. Larry Womble, a Forsyth County Democrat, has been the primary champion of correcting this injustice.
The increasingly grumpy Binker says on his Capital Beat blog that he has another reason for not writing about the eugenics disgrace: Members of a governor's task force on the matter and staff at the Department of Administration made it known that they would not be available for comment about the release of a preliminary report on Monday (available at www.sterilizationvictims.nc.com).
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Not much blog posting lately, apologies darlings!
Your favorite eye guru is still alive, currently effort is going into make video versions of the 7 day free e-mail guide. That and some highly overdue bug fixes on the site, and some BackTo20/20 updates, and also researching doing maybe more interactive video stuff with you guys. (Webinars? Maybe? Time zones and Internet speeds, still working it all out.)
But let's clear a few progress reports from the backlog, today.
Starting out with Wayne who recently also took on helping out our exploding Facebook group (over 7,000 members already!) with some moderating. Here's Wayne, making gains:
Weekends, good for eyes!
And then there's Hector, who has been making some optometrist confirmed 20/20 gains as of late. Always nice to see that even the lens-sellers can't deny that less myopia is a thing well within the realm of possibility.
The update:
Got too long to screenshot – find the full thread in the FB group.
Also in the Facebook group, Al posts a great progress report.
This is a good one, with multiple diopters of myopia reduced. It's quite beneficial to the whole community to share your updates, to keep adding to the collective voice that ending myopia is indeed within everyone's reach.
Al's update:
Really deserves its own post, this one.
And lastly, the report teased in the blog title.
Really key, these experiences. Getting past several milestones, right down to -2 diopters, almost to where you no longer need glasses for close-up. This is what you want, ongoing, methodical approach for consistent improvement.
The update:
I'm always and forever going to keep posting these updates.
There is all the clinical science that we talk about quite frequently. That's the theory, the foundation, the science to point to which explains why and how all of this is possible. But then most importantly there are the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of first hand experiences actually putting the gains into practice, showing that not only it *can* happen, but that it in fact *does* happen.
Who's reasonably going to counter-argue science and countless first hand experiences, many of them validated by optometrist measurements?
People making excuses, that's who. And ones with questionable motives.
Keep making (and sharing) all your 20/20 gains!


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Q. Being a child of the '70s, I grew up with the Fritos "Muncha buncha Fritos go with lunch" commercial jingle, and I still get it stuck in my head to this day whenever I see a bag of Fritos.
I was surprised to see (and hear) that the new Subway commercial for the Fritos chicken enchilada melt sandwich uses different lyrics for the jingle, with the words "Cruncha muncha," as well as a different tune, similar to the original but just a little off.
I actually find it rather jarring, like someone playing your favorite song but hitting a few wrong notes. It's been driving me crazy every time I see it. If they were going to bring it back, why didn't they just bring it back?
A. Thanks, dear reader, for your question. I, too, recall the Fritos commercial, which wrote new lyrics to the novelty song "Aba Daba Honeymoon" from the movie "Two Weeks With Love."
"We worked with Fritos" on the commercial, says Cindy Carrasquilla, a spokeswoman at Subway, "but we made some revisions to make the nostalgic tune current and to embrace the Subway sandwich." The creative agency for Subway is MMB in Boston.
Q. I don't own a cat but one of my friends does, and he posted a question on his Facebook page regarding some packaging rhetoric on the side of a case of cans of Friskies chicken and tuna dinner in gravy.
The phrase in question reads, "Pop open: A dream you wish you could have." Any chance you can decipher this cryptic "stoner" message to the masses? Is the message meant for the cat or the owner?
A. Thanks, dear reader, for your query. The phrase is part of a campaign for Friskies that carries the theme "Feed the senses" and was introduced in 2010. The campaign presents cats as having fertile imaginations and some of the imagery in the initial ads was, indeed, psychedelic.
In 2010, the marketing director for Friskies, Susan Schlueter, explained that the campaign was intended to demonstrate how feeding time becomes "a great time to provide an experience for cats that heightens their senses and takes them on a magical adventure."
The Friskies meal is "feeding the cat's senses through a variety of shapes, textures, flavors and aromas," she said.
The more recent ads in the campaign are less hippie-dippy but still use offbeat imagery. And the campaign is aimed at cat owners, not cats; to aim ads at cats would truly be a stoner idea.