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Karen Rowley stood by a layout of photographs on her dining room table in her Chestnut Hill home. She gently picked up her intricately beaded African necklace and placed it by her neck. One could tell instantly what she thought of the dear friend who presented it to her. Her face lit up as she recalled her fondest memories of Kenya.
A retired nurse, Rowley, 59, has an innate feeling for wanting to nurture others. "From a wee child, I have always wanted to go to Africa," she explained.
Her dream came true last year, thanks to an organization called Dining for Women, a national charity dedicated to empowering women and girls who live in extreme poverty in Third World countries. The organization empowers these individuals by funding grassroots programs that help provide better access to healthcare, education and economic development.
Dining for Women accomplishes this goal in an innovative, unusual way. "The concept is that while you might go out to dinner once a month with your girlfriends, instead of doing that, you have a potluck dinner," explained Debbie Britt, a regional assistant for Dining for Women.
The money saved is then donated to those in need. Each month, Dining for Women chapters in the U.S. and Canada pool their money together at the potluck dinners and fund that month's featured program. They select 501(c)3 non-governmental agencies that are then required to keep members abreast of direct impacts of donations.
Last year, Dining for Women donated $285,000 to 10 different countries including Kenya, where donated funds went to The Boma Fund, an organization that helps provide for and rebuild Kenyan communities.
As an active member of Dining for Women, Chestnut Hill's Rowley had the opportunity to travel to Kenya with several other women. They had to pay their own way there, but Rowley said she'd do it all over again without hesitation. She witnessed first-hand how her donationsdirectly impacted women and girls. She said through global awareness, many women in Kenya were able to learn about gender inequalities and make decisions that would ultimately have a positive effect on their lives.
She spoke, for example, of one Kenyan girl who refused to be circumcised and married at 14 years of age. Her name was Caroline.
"She apparently had a very understanding father because he was willing to sell eight cows for her to go to high school," Rowley said. "But she had to leave the tribe at that point because the elders did not approve of it."
According to the World Health Organization, female circumcision, also referred to as female genital mutilation, consists of removing all or part of the female genitalia. The practice has no health benefits and in fact can be very harmful to women. Female circumcision has been
documented in 28 countries in Africa and a few countries in Asia and the Middle East.
The World Health Organization estimates that 91.5 million girls and women above nine years old in Africa are living with the consequences of female circumcision. There are an estimated three million girls in Africa at risk of undergoing female circumcision every year.
Rowley said that Caroline's education by Westerners made her realize that "women can have more, and they can be more." Caroline graduated from secondary school and is currently a nurse in Nairobi, Kenya.
Rowley said Caroline's father and her elders could not have been more proud. "You educate a woman; you educate a community," said Rowley, who noted that she was the first female in her own family to receive an advanced education.
With six daughters and one son of her own, the Hill activist said education has been a priority in her household. Rowley's children are now grown up and living successful lives. She believes that women
hold the key to global understanding and that when a woman learns something important, she will be more than likely to share it with the world.
Not only does Dining for Women focus primarily on women, but the organization narrows its funding to recipients in Third World countries. According to the organization, women who live in extreme poverty are living on less than a dollar a day and do not have access to the support systems that exist in much of the developed world.
"These women and children have nothing," said Debbie Britt. "In the U.S., there is a lot more availability for those who need it." On next year's itinerary, the group will donate funds to women's groups in India, Cambodia, Guatemala and Kenya once again.
From just a small group of women in 2002, to a large and successful organization, Dining for Women has made an impact on society thus far.
Karen's husband, Jim, said, "Dining for Women suits my wife because she loves helping women. She's very much a feminist, not in a contrived kind of way, but in her heart, she really is a feminist."
"Americans are such good people," said Rowley. "We have so much to give. For us to know about other people's struggles opens our perspective."
To make donations to Dining for Women or learn more about the organization, visit www.diningforwomen.org or call 215-421-0603.


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Adrian Gonzalez: Any acquiring team would have to put together a tremendous package for the superstar player with the most reasonable multiyear contract in baseball ($10.5 million over the next two years). The silliest rumor so far had Gonzalez possibly going in a three-way trade with Paul Konerko going to the Angels and prospects to the Padres. Beyond the fact the Angels have a great first baseman in Kendry Morales, Konerko's high contract makes him a giveaway at this point.
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'Watchmen' Original Score and Soundtrack Details Released
March 3rd is the street date set for the release of the both the Original Score and Soundtrack for Warner Bros. highly-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Watchmen, Warner Sunset/Reprise Records announced Thursday. The film is due to open nationwide March 6th.Music From The Motion Picture Watchmen, the film's official soundtrack, includes My Chemical Romance's reinterpretation of Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row," recorded exclusively for the film. The band's frontman Gerard Way is well-known to comic book readers as the creator of the popular Dark Horse Comics title Umbrella Academy. The soundtrack also features a collection of classic songs by such artists as Nat King Cole, Simon & Garfunkel, and Janis Joplin, which according to the announcement, "once heard in the context of the film, will never be thought of the same way again." Watchmen Original Motion Picture Score features music by recording artist, composer, and music producer Tyler Bates, who was asked to score the film by Watchmen director Zack Snyder. Tyler, who also scored the Snyder-directed films 300 and Dawn of the Dead, has also scored the soundtracks to The Day the Earth Stood Still, Showtime's Californication, Slither, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and The Devil's Rejects. According to the announcement, he is known for his "surprising juxtapositions of music styles and flair for delicate, atmospheric touches, as well as stressing emotional vibrancy over traditional formulas of music compositions." Bates has also been chosen to score the Watchmen's DVD added story, "Tales From The Black Freighter." Both collections will be released in multiple formats – the physical CD and a digital album will be available on March 3rd, and a vinyl edition of the soundtrack will be released on March 17th. Music From The Motion Picture Watchmen track-listing is as follows:
1. Desolation Row – My Chemical Romance
2. Unforgettable – Nat King Cole
3. The Times They Are A-Changin' – Bob Dylan
4. The Sound Of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
5. Me & Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
6. I'm Your Boogie Man – KC & The Sunshine Band
7. You're My Thrill – Billie Holiday
8. Pruit Igoe & Prophecies – The Philip Glass Ensemble
9. Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
10. All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
11. Ride of the Valkyries – Budapest Symphony Orchestra
12. Pirate Jenny – Nina Simone*
* - used in the end credits of the "Tales From The Black Freighter" DVD.
Watchmen Original Motion Picture Score track-listing is as follows
1. Rescue Mission
2. Don't Get Too Misty Eyed
3. Tonight The Comedian Died
4. Silk Spectre
5. We'll Live Longer
6. You Quit!
7. Only Two Names Remain
8. The American Dream
9. Edward Blake – The Comedian
10. The Last Laugh
11. Prison Fight
12. Just Look Around You
13. Dan's Apocalyptic Dream
14. Who Murdered Hollis Mason?
15. What About Janie Slater?
16. I'll Tell You About Rorschach
17. Countdown
18. It Was Me
19. All That Is Good
20. Requiem (Excerpted from Mozart's Requiem)
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Summit school board member resigns with regret
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The Summit Board of Education is saying goodbye to one of its most tenured members. Sheila Groneman turned in her letter of resignation to the superintendent and board president this week.
While she did not respond to calls regarding her resignation, in the letter Groneman stated her regret in having to make the decision. She explained that after thinking closely on the matter, her duties at her position in Denver would keep her too busy to continue her role on the board. Groneman was recently named the Head Start State Collaboration director for Colorado.
"She was very valuable member of the board and we're sad to lose, her, but we know she's doing really important and good work," said board president Margaret Carlson. "We're excited for her that she's doing work that is her passion and at a higher level now, but we are sorry to see her go."
Groneman was elected to two consecutive four-year terms on the Summit Board of Education and served just over seven of them. Most recently she held the position of secretary, though in the past she had served as board vice president.
"She's been a very knowledgeable board member and a very thoughtful board member," Carlson said. "She was always able to look at the broader community perspective."
Groneman's dedication, particularly to early childhood education, stood out, Carlson added. "Being such a strong advocate for preschool, making sure preschool was included in all of the conversations – that's really her passion."
Superintendent Heidi Pace agreed.
"She's contributed in every way as a board member, but her particular passion is early childhood. She's done a lot to help to build our early childhood programs here in the school district," she said. "She has been a voice for our littlest learners and their greatest advocate."
The board will be looking for a candidate to take over Groneman's position on the board and finish out the rest of her term. Notice will be posted asking for letters of interest, Carlson said. Potential candidates will then be interviewed by the board. The individual would then stay in the position until November, at which time they could decide whether they wanted to run for a full term.
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3D TV hasn't quite captured hearts and minds yet, but never let it be said that Comcast didn't do its promotional best. They're offering a few... um... eclectic 3D selections to their On Demand lineup.
According to High-def Digest, the free Comcast movies include African Adventure and Alien Adventure, and a Sigfried and Roy special. Masterpieces, all!
There are eight 3D selections total, none of which sounds like it'll sell you on 3D. Then again, they're targeted towards people who already own sets. This, early adapters, is your big reward. [Hi-def Digest via Comcast]


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Take a fond memory, throw in a touch of learning, add a lifelong friend, meet students — and you have Ithaca's first Alumni and Homecoming Weekend. by Keith Davis
A campus tour guide during her student days, Helen Peck Legato '89 knew her way around IC. But the campus has changed a lot since Helen was an undergraduate, and she came back for Alumni and Homecoming Weekend this past October to see for herself.
"I've stayed connected with the College and still work with the admission office," she says. "But this year was my 20th reunion, and I wanted to see the campus from a current student's perspective."
The newly dedicated Peggy Ryan Williams Center was incredible, Helen said. So was the year-and-a-half-old Dorothy D. and Roy H. Park Center for Business and Sustainable Enterprise. The most impressive thing, though, was something that hadn't changed.
"Driving in from Owego, coming over the crest of the hill on 96B and catching that first glimpse of the lake still gives me goose bumps the way it did 24-and-a-half years ago when I first came here," Helen says. "The first time I saw that beautiful sight, I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to come here. This place is for me.' That feeling hasn't changed. Every time I come over that ridge and see the lake, I feel like I'm coming home."
More than 750 alumni and their guests, students, faculty, and staff joined Helen in returning to South Hill October 8 to 11 for Alumni and Homecoming Weekend. For many, it was a mix of past and present, but all of them experienced something new — this year, for the first time, Homecoming (previously held in the fall) and Alumni Weekend (previously held in early summer) took place at the same time.
"The theme for this historic occasion was 'Make It Yours,'" said Brenda Carlisle, events coordinator in the Office of Alumni Relations. "Our focus was to create a schedule that would allow alumni to tailor the weekend to a perfect fit. We wanted to provide them with a variety of ways to have fun while also reconnecting them to the College in personally meaningful ways."
Fun was definitely on the mind of Ryan Engels '06 and his wife Stephanie Egan-Engels '06, who live locally in Brooktondale. Ryan, in fact, works in the College's Technology and Instructional Support Services department.
"We were looking for things to do, and Alumni and Homecoming Weekend was right here," he said. "The football game, the wine tasting, and the Big Bash were high on our list."
Meaningful connections were also high on alumni's lists. Jon Howard '89 — an outside linebacker on the 1988 national championship team—traveled from Ohio with his wife and two daughters to meet his father, Nelson, for the football game.
"He's a big football fan, and it meant a lot to us to see the 1979 national championship team introduced during halftime," Jon said. "I also wanted to come back to show my daughters where their dad went to school."
Hector Vera '89 also has teenage daughters. He came back to celebrate his 20th reunion — and to plant some seeds. "I want my daughters to experience the College firsthand," he said. "I want them to see the place where I had so many wonderful experiences."
Not everybody was celebrating a reunion year. Five months after graduating, Cornell Woodson '09 was back on campus from Atlanta, where he works in the Teach for America program.
"I was 18 when I first came to Ithaca, and this is where I grew up," he said, recalling the life lessons he learned as a student that guided him as an adult. "The College allowed me to get involved and understand what responsibility is. Now that I've graduated and am in a real-world situation, I can say, 'No problem. I've been there, done that before' — at Ithaca."
Sometimes having fun and reconnecting were one and the same. Ken Melech, Doug Hunt, Mark Aresco, and Rick Sharp — all from the class of 1974 — come back every five years. They visit old haunts, recall special times like watching the draft lottery with crossed fingers, and make cryptic references to a certain artistic achievement that had something to do with a snowman sculpted in the style of Michelangelo's David. "Starting out as a bunch of kids in an all-freshman dorm, we became friends the day we walked onto campus in 1970, and we've been friends ever since."
In addition to good conversation, good food, and good times, Ken planned to attend Networking 101, which featured a panel of alumni experts giving tips to student job seekers.
"We wanted to give alumni a chance to be on campus when the students were here because the exchanges that occur between alumni and students can be very rewarding," said Gretchen Van Valen, M.M. '93, director of alumni relations.
That worked for Ken. "I can still come to Ithaca and learn something," he said.
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I just wanted to agree with the statement about seeing the lake and the awe inspiring feeling it gives. I also "grew up" at Ithaca College and it was the best experience I have had. Ithaca is the place to grow and learn. Go Bombers!!


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Thailand on Saturday sentenced dozens of asylum seekers thought to be from China's Uighur minority for illegal entry, an official said, despite a US appeal for their protection.
About 120 adults among the group were fined 4,000 baht (US$124) each by a court in southern Thailand, according to police.
Authorities said they were waiting to identify the families before deciding their fate.
The men will be detained by immigration officials and the women and children will be taken to a shelter, Thai Police Major General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot said by telephone.
The group of about 200 people was discovered in a raid on a suspected people-smuggling camp on Wednesday last week in the kingdom's deep south. They presented themselves to police as Turkish, but US-based activists have identified them as Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim group from China's northwestern Xinjiang region.
Thailand, which says their nationality is still unconfirmed, has not said whether they might be forced to return to China, but the kingdom has a history of repatriating illegal immigrants.
The Turkish embassy and the UN refugee agency have been providing assistance.
On Friday the US Department of State urged Thailand "to provide full protection" to the asylum seekers.
The latest annual US human rights report said that China carries out "severe official repression" of Uighurs in Xinjiang, including over their freedom of speech and religion.
Xinjiang is periodically hit by violent clashes and Chinese officials blamed Uighur separatists for a March 1 mass stabbing at a train station in the southwestern city of Kunming that killed 29 people and injured 143 others.
Under pressure from Beijing, countries including Cambodia, Malaysia and Pakistan have all in recent years forcibly returned Uighurs to China.
The Uyghur American Association, a Washington-based advocacy group, voiced concern over the detained group, which it described as Uighurs, and urged Thailand's government to cooperate with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
"This group of Uighurs should not be a test of Thailand's relationship with China, but a test of Thailand's ability to follow international refugee standards," association president Alim Seytoff said.
Thailand has long been a hub for people trafficking, with thousands of Rohingya people — another Muslim minority — from neighboring Myanmar believed to have passed through the kingdom in recent years.


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Read the following and consider two questions:
1. Do we need to expand cooperative ownership into the private sector or the public sector?
2. If Mandelson is involved in a social enterprise summit, and Byrne is talking about a role for social enterprise in "accelerating public service reform" (privatisation), can we assume that the government could be looking to rebrand unpopular policies (the Royal Mail sell-off, for example) using the pretense of cooperative values?
Social thinking can pull UK out of recession
March 11 2009
The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Liam Byrne, said that social enterprise had a key role to play in helping the country out of recession.
"There will be a debate about the type of economy, society and country that will emerge from this recession," he said. "I predict that social enterprise will become more, not less, influential because people are asking: 'How on earth did we end up here?'
"A demand for answers will follow," he told delegates at Birmingham's International Convention Centre. "One answer will be that markets will need more morals like yours. We need business for the public benefit not the personal bonus. This country will look more for ethos with its enterprise – not just cut and thrust but care and trust."
Mr Byrne said that social enterprise was an integral part of the Government's New Opportunities white paper, which outlined how new jobs could be secured for Britain in the decades ahead.
He added that the Business Secretary Lord Mandelson would soon be chairing a social enterprise summit to ensure that that the sector plays a bigger role in the new British economy.
"If we want to re-balance Britain's economy in the years to come, then the role of social enterprise has to expand. We will bring together the brightest minds and the most progressive thinkers – and even some politicians – to join us in this task."
He said there would also be a bigger role for social enterprise in the delivery of public services: "In the last ten years we have rebuilt institutions in our communities — new schools, colleges, universities, health centres, surgeries and youth centres.
"In the next ten years we have to hand over the reins to local people, and we'll need your help. When we publish our plans for accelerating public service reform, I will set out clearly how I want to see the role of social enterprise expand."
In terms of new jobs, Mr Byrne said that he wanted to see 25,000 more people working in social enterprise in the months ahead.
He said that the "soft power" of social enterprise would grow when "investment in British youngsters is seen as more valuable than short-term bets on America's sub-prime debt".


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- Nine labor unions emerged on new contributors list
WASHINGTON -- More than 3,000 individuals and organizations are helping to fund President Obama's inaugural festivities, including labor unions, according to an updated list of donors.
Labor organizations were absent from earlier donor lists, but the new list shows nine have contributed, including the American Federation of Government Employees, the American Postal Workers Union and the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers.
The Presidential Inaugural Committee, which is raising money for Monday's events, has not disclosed how much each donor has contributed. That information will become public in April when it files details of its fundraising with the Federal Election Commission.
In roughly a week, the inaugural committee had added more than 2,000 donors, which includes a handful of corporations. New corporate donors include Bank of America and FedEx.
Some fellow Democratic politicians also are writing checks to support Monday's public celebrations. Minnesota Sen. Al Franken, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy and California Rep. Lois Capps are among the contributors.


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I am currently looking to redesign the anime site RealityLapse.com. I've always felt that the site needed a distinct logo, so this will be included in the contest. Although I'm not sure what style I'm looking for in the design yet, I like the blue and orange color scheme I already have on the site.
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RealityLapse.com has never had a distinct logo so I would like to have one in this version of the site. Although I want to logo to be "friendly", I don't want it have depict something from any particular anime series. Let your imagination go wild for this.
I don't have any specific style in mind for the template design at the moment, but I'll be sure to provide constructive feedback as the contest progresses. However, I would like to preserve blue and orange in the design somehow. You can add any additional colors you like as long as blue and orange is incorporated into the design somehow. It is even more important that the 720x90 and 160x600 ads are preserved somewhere.
In addition to the basic template, there are also four elements of the site that need to be redesigned.
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I'm looking to show the latest videos available somewhere. Otherwise, it'll just the updates and the 300x250 that are there now.
I need to reduce the size of the left navigation bar. One possibility is to eliminate that part completely and adding an "Anime Listing" link to the top. The alternative is to have a collapsible menu with the letters, or range such as a menu that says "A" or "#-A". Once clicked, that menu would show the series that begin with its letter.
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Below is a list of frequently asked questions for mothers:
- What causes HG?
- Will HG happen every time I'm pregnant?
- How long will HG last?
- My doctor says there is nothing available to treat HG. Is that true?
- My husband, family and friends think I'm making this up, but I'm really sick. What can I do?
- I think I have HG. How do I know if this is more than morning sickness?
- I can't stop vomiting. Should I call my health professional?
- I had HG in my last pregnancy. Can I prevent it from happening again?
- I can't eat, can't take my vitamins, and have lost a lot of weight. Will this hurt my baby?
- My health professional offered a prescription medication, but will it hurt my baby?
1. What causes HG?
The exact cause of HG is still unknown and many theories exist. Too little research is done, and that which is done is often inconclusive or only identifies commonality among half of research participants. What is known is that hormonal changes, dehydration, nutritional deficiencies, and the overall stress on the body's chemistry and functioning contribute to nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.
The cause is likely due to several factors that may differ for each woman. Some women may be more likely to vomit due to genetic differences. It is not your fault, and you cannot control whether or not you vomit or are nauseous when pregnant. Vomiting is almost always stimulated by a place in the brain known as the vomiting center. It may also be stimulated by changes in the stomach and intestines that are caused by pregnancy hormones. Emotional distress may worsen vomiting, but is not the cause. Many causes of hyperemesis are related to the various hormonal changes of pregnancy to which you may be more sensitive. Some known causes include the following:
- Altered sense of taste
- Sensitivity of the brain to motion
- Food leaving the stomach more slowly
- Increased sense of smell
- Insufficient fluids or nutrition
- Rapidly changing hormone levels during pregnancy
- Stomach contents moving back up from the stomach
- Physical and emotional stress of pregnancy on the body
- Vitamin deficiencies
2. Will HG happen every time I'm pregnant?
Studies vary, but most find that women have a good chance of experiencing HG in future pregnancies. Statistics suggest over 50% will have it with each pregnancy and those with more than one experience of HG have a greater risk of experiencing HG in future pregnancies. It also seems to occur in similar patterns and severity, though it is not always consistent. Those who have mothers, grandmothers, or sisters who have had HG will often have at least some nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
3. How long will HG last?
In most women, it will begin within 2-5 weeks after conception. The nausea/vomiting will generally ease after the first trimester and typically stops before you reach 20 weeks gestation, or around halfway. However, about 10-20% of mothers will find nausea and vomiting last until delivery, though it is usually less severe. If you have had HG in previous pregnancies, it will often follow a similar pattern of duration and severity.
4. My doctor says there is nothing available to treat HG. Is that true?
Due to the risk of stating a medication is safe for use during pregnancy, few if any drug manufacturers will say their drugs are intended for use during pregnancy or for a pregnancy condition such as HG. However, due to the misery and debility women with HG face, physicians will often treat it with medications deemed safe due to their history of being used for pregnancy nausea and vomiting for decades (e.g. Compazine, Phenergan, Unisom).
It is unfortunate that many health professionals will only consider the older medications, as they are often found to be less effective than newer medications (Zofran, Kytril, Reglan). This is especially true if you have moderate or severe HG. Newer medications are not necessarily unsafe, they just don't have as many studies to demonstrate their safety. The risk of treating you with drugs that are most effective is often less risky than not treating her. Chronic dehydration and malnutrition worsen your symptoms and can adversely affect the baby.
Above all, know that effectively treating symptoms early in pregnancy can make a woman less sick and decrease the time it takes to recover. Delaying treatment until you have been vomiting for several weeks makes it harder to gain control over the vomiting cycle. You have the right to adequate health care. Consult with another health professional if needed to get the care you need. Your spouse or a significant other may need to advocate for you if you are very sick. If you lose more than 8-10% of your pre-pregnancy weight and your doctor is unwilling to give you effective medications or other treatments, it is a good idea to seek a second opinion from a high-risk obstetrician or perinatologist.
Our Referral Network lists health professionals other women with HG have recommended or those who have requested to be added. You will also find information on how to find a practitioner experienced in treating HG if one is not listed in your area.
5. My husband, family and friends think I'm making this up, but I'm really sick. What can I do?
First of all, understand that no one except those who have had HG will truly understand how you feel. You may have some success by suggesting that it is like having food poisoning for weeks (or months). Most people know how miserable and exhausting just a day or two of that is.
Also, keep in mind that if you become isolated due to HG, you may become depressed and/or anxious, especially if HG lasts beyond mid-pregnancy or is very severe. This is not uncommon and not your fault. If you feel you are depressed (PDF), talk to your doctor about medication or try natural homeopathic remedies. Some prescription medications have been researched for use during pregnancy after the first trimester.
- Support Groups
Find others who have had HG and read their stories. It can be very helpful to know you are not alone.
- Survival Guide
Print out or refer them to our Survival Guide pages with information on what it is like to experience HG and how they can help. Remind yourself that they will never completely understand, then find those who do.
- Coping Day to Day
Read our tips on coping day to day.
6. I think I have HG. How do I know if this is more than morning sickness?
If you are vomiting more than a few times a day and losing weight, you might have HG. If you cannot keep enough water down to stay hydrated, are vomiting bile or blood, and have lost more than 1-2 pounds (0.45-0.9 kg) in a week, you likely have HG. You may have great difficulty taking care of your normal responsibilities and/or going to work for weeks or months. If your HG is severe, you may have trouble even caring for yourself, such as showering and preparing food. Immediate medical intervention is critical if your HG is moderate to severe.
|Morning Sickness
|Hyperemesis Gravidarum
|You lose little
if any weight.
|You lose 5-20
pounds or more. (> 5% of prepregnancy weight)
|Nausea and
vomiting do not interfere with your ability to
eat or drink enough each day.
|Nausea and
vomiting cause you to eat very little and get dehydrated
from vomiting if not treated.
|You vomit
infrequently and the nausea is episodic but not
severe. It may cause discomfort and misery.
|You vomit
often and may vomit bile or blood if not treated.
Nausea is usually moderate to severe and constant.
|Dietary and/or
lifestyle changes are enough to help you feel better
most of the time.
|You will probably
require fluid hydration through a vein and/or medications
to stop the vomiting.
|You typically
will improve gradually after the first trimester,
but may be a little queasy at times during the
remainder of your pregnancy.
|You usually
feel somewhat better by mid-pregnancy, but you
may continue to be nauseous and/or vomit until
late pregnancy.
|You will be able to work most days and care for your family.
|You will likely be unable to work for weeks or months, and may need help caring for yourself.
7. I can't stop vomiting. Should I call my health professional?
If you cannot keep more than a few bites of food or a few sips of water down for 24 hours or more, lose 2 or more pounds (0.9 kg) in one week, vomit blood, faint, or generally feel very unwell, call your practitioner. If you have several of these symptoms and it is after working hours, you may need someone to take you to the ER or an urgent care center.
You can buy Ketostix at a local pharmacy without a prescription. These test your level of dehydration and starvation. If you have ketones in your urine (the test is positive), you will need to get fluids through an intravenous (IV) line at the doctor's office, ER, hospital, or an urgent care center. Ketones may be harmful to the baby and mom if not treated.
If you have been vomiting for several weeks and eating very little, you will also need vitamins in your IV. Sometimes this is forgotten, so make sure you ask about it, it is very important. B-vitamins are most critical as they are depleted rapidly by vomiting and lack of eating. Remember, dehydration and ketones worsen your nausea and vomiting and need to be monitored closely.
Call your health professional if you experience any of the following:
- Abdominal pain, bleeding, or cramping
- Difficulty thinking or focusing
- Difficulty walking or talking
- Extreme fatigue and very low energy
- Little if any food or fluids stay down for over 24 hours
- Little saliva and a dry mouth
- Moderate or severe headache and/or fever
- Muscular weakness or severe cramping
- Repeated vomiting or retching daily
- Severe nausea that keeps you from eating/drinking
- Shortness of breath or dizziness
- Urination is infrequent (over 8 hours) and minimal amount
- Urine is dark yellow and concentrated
- Visual disturbances, or fainting
- Vomit is red with blood or yellow with bile
- Weight loss of 2 pounds (0.9 kg) or more in a week
8. I had HG in my last pregnancy. Can I prevent it from happening again?
Since the exact cause is not known and is likely due to more than one factor, it is not preventable. However, the symptoms are often more manageable and less severe if adequate treatment is given early in pregnancy. Sometimes HG is less severe if you plan ahead and prepare for pregnancy. This includes eating very healthy, taking antioxidants and prenatal vitamins for several months, and making sure you are in the best health possible.
Underlying conditions such as gall bladder disease can worsen HG. Finding a health professional experienced in treating HG and who knows your history is crucial. Make a plan based on what worked for your last pregnancy and find a health professional willing to help you get the care you need.
9. I can't eat, can't take my vitamins, and have lost a lot of weight. Will this hurt my baby?
In most cases, women who lose weight during their first trimester have normal babies. Adequate nutrition is important for the baby, but his/her requirements are very minimal during the first few months. Your body should have sufficient stores for the baby during this time. High-quality vitamins can be helpful for most women, but those with HG often cannot tolerate them, especially if they contain iron. Studies show vitamins seem to be most critical during the few months prior to pregnancy and up to about 6 weeks gestation. This is when the risk of miscarriage is great and the spine is forming. Folic acid and antioxidant requirements are greatest at this point according to these studies.
Since HG often does not make vitamins intolerable until around this time, just do your best to take them as long as you can. You can try sublingual (under the tongue) forms of vitamins (especially B and folic acid) that can be ordered online or found at some health food stores. If you are admitted for IV fluids, make sure a multivitamin is added to your fluids, especially if you have been vomiting frequently for more than 2 weeks. This is not routinely done, unfortunately.
The risk to the baby is greatest if the mother is dehydrated for extended periods of time, loses 10% or more of her pre-pregnancy weight and does not receive vitamins or other nutritional support, or fails to gain weight for 2 consecutive trimesters. Obviously, if the mother develops other complications, they also present an increased risk. Most studies, however, show that women with hyperemesis have normal babies unless they are severely ill and receive little treatment.
10. My health professional offered a prescription medication, but will it hurt my baby?
There is always a risk with any medication taken during pregnancy. However, medications most often prescribed typically present less risk to the mother and child than chronic dehydration and lack of nutrition. The risk decreases after the first trimester or around 10 weeks, but if vomiting is left uncontrolled until then, the stress on the body is great and it is much more difficult to stop the vomiting. These women are then at greater risk for complications and a prolonged recovery. They often will have great difficulty caring for themselves and their family for months.
Medications are often more effective if started early because there are fewer nutritional deficiencies and the mother is in better overall health. It can be compared to pain control. Most health professionals know that when pain medicine is given early for pain, rather than later, the pain is easier to control. The same holds true with vomiting. The consequences and complications are typically less if the nausea and vomiting are controlled earlier than later.
Do not be alarmed if the medication insert says something such as "Not for use during pregnancy." This is commonly written to minimize liability for pharmaceutical companies. Discuss any concerns with your physician.
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Bearing in Mind: Notes on Tendril, by Bin Ramke
Guest review by Cynthia Hogue
Phoenix, Arizona
One might never think that Bin Ramke's Tendril (Omnidawn 2007)—built on a careful investigation of the history of the bicameral mind (or schizophrenia), mathematical logic, Greek prosody, and metonymically, etymologically lyric poetry—is haunted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which arrived over the course of a month (this month, as it happens, for I am writing in late September), making landfall within a few hundred miles of each other. Tendril is a complex book, drawing its inspiration from a resonant range of sources, but I was given this book at a Symposium on Hurricane Katrina at the University of Denver, "After the Storm: No Calm" (organized by former New Orleans resident Jessica Munns), and therefore my reference point is hearing Ramke read the title sequence in the context of that very destructive month in 2005 -- putting the "ear" in "tears." Few knew how to respond to the sheer magnitude of the destruction, even, famously or infamously, the government. But if one has some personal tether to Louisiana, as I do, something broke open that doesn't close. Some . . . I don't know . . . call it an attentiveness to all that the hurricanes stirred up: what had been hidden was now revealed. Call it not forgetting.
On his mother's side, Ramke is from generations of French-speaking Cajuns who populate western Louisiana, where he grew up. The family homestead was significantly damaged (walls washed away down to the studs). There was much personal loss, but the poems don't dwell on specifics (and I am not specifying). They displace loss into form. Sorrow's tendrils grow out of rich emotional soil, and wind around such flowering. Ramke is not interested in his grief so much as in how it occupies the mind, which has been "bared" by its "environment" (I paraphrase the collection's epigraph by Julian Jaynes).
The mind's environment can be the outside world, of course, and thus, in a poem contemplating the phenomenon of resemblance, we read of a rainy evening as follows: "This night decants silvery into mind; some mind, /others rejoice," finding "pleasure" in "the mind minded" ("Resemblance"). The play of idiom, shift of nuance, connotation, ripples as light and shadow on water—which is to say, both on rain and on the mind's surface. Ramke tracks the play of mind (literally minding the mind) in words. This is a precise but also a delicate aesthetic praxis: "the history of future is a version, aversion is a kind / of aesthetic. As if. The beautiful is a form of that" ("An Esthetic [Ars Poetica]").
Beauty gives form to "that," which makes it matter: "to make be where once wasn't" ("Resemblance"), although really, this collection is as much about making present what once was as what once wasn't. The mother trained as a secretary and placed second in Louisiana's shorthand test in 1934 ("The aret of brachygraphie, that is, to write as fast as a man speaketh," P. Bale, 1590), leading to "a hard life for girls." She turned her skill to recording family stories and conversations, in ornamental and now-inscrutable script: "hers alone, honed, with grace notes none/ now can read without her" ("Gregg Shorthand Dictionary"). Schooled in a severe and sexist service trade, the mother continued to practice "sixty years in the privacy of her own caprice," as she descended into illness. Her name is lost to the family (her brother died childless, and they were the last of the line). After her death, her stenographic pads of paper were found, filled, but this is an art lost to technological advancement. Not, I venture to say, to social progress. This could only be a woman's story, and Ramke is alert to that gendered script.
Into the unreadable paradox, a page full of script but empty of meaning to the reader (a page we never see but only read about through the son's readability—another paradox), we have a contemplation, a voice study, really, of "leisure," which turns out to be the etymological root (æmetta, OE, leisure, + y) of "empty":
the vowel of the middle syllable æ- meti
was dropped in Old English the initial æ
being shortened yielded as usual in Middle
English dialects the parallel forms ā and ē
hence the forms amti and emti the former
died out in the fifteenth century . . .
What fascinates me about such etymological musings is that they track words conceptually back to the origin (or nearly so) of the associational evolution of meaning. Americans equate leisure with emptiness—we might generalize that way—but what Ramke discovers is that it is back in the roots of Anglo-Saxon speech (and therefore culture). In the poem, "emptiness" feels nothing ("your pain is nothing to me/ your desire is nothing to me") and nothing can crack it open meaningfully ("your empty gesture / into the future called art") except "something" and/or "anything": "you're the first // of the curious races of men/ to be satisfied with something/ anything as long as it can/ be felt against the skin" ("A History of Leisure"). Emptiness is neither empty-headed nor disinterested in what embodiment feels like.
The title sequence is an exquisite meditation on art and memory. "Tendril (A)" is a prose poem about a plaster relief panel from a Roman wall, displayed in a museum, which Ramke finds himself visiting every day one spring and trying to draw in his notebook (and, as he notes, badly). The section of the relief plaster represents a mold "in the form of a winged female figure alighting on a tendril, set against the dyed blue wall while still wet, the figure alighting between two deer." The winged figure's gesture reminds the poet of the angel by Klee, for "in her hand [is] an offering to the deer she faces." The wings are curved and carved—"to carve, a graph, engraved in plaster . . ." (ellipses in original); the curve of place and time between the Buddha and Heraclitus, who were contemporaries. There are algebraic and transcendental curves, the one expressed by equations, the other "involving higher functions . . . representing the probabilities of recurrences of an event." The curve of place and time between the Buddha and Heraclitus probably represents the probability of recurrences—of thought, perhaps, or philosophical insight. Or perhaps of loss. The curve of the wing of the winged female figure is surely reminiscent of the curving grace notes of the mother's shorthand. The curve is both replication and response: "Replicatory can mean, 'of the nature of a reply.'" The answer that unfolds has to do with a memory of speaking, or listening, as in the act of saying or hearing, "I love you," and the experience of being left when someone one loves dies, of not recognizing the land on which one grew up it was so changed by storm. "I suppose I cried," Ramke continues ("Tendril [B]").
At an ecopoetics conference held outside Exeter, U.K. around solstice, "Skylines/ ECOPOETICS: Language & L=a=n=d=s=c=a=p=e=s," organized by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Becky Fensome, Harriet Tarlo asked (following Marcella Durand), "Are we in or of nature?" Bin Ramke's reply is, Yes.
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The Philippines air-dropped food and water to soldiers posted on a grounded transport ship on a disputed South China Sea shoal after China blocked two supply ships from reaching the troops, a senior navy official said on Wednesday.
Chinese ships patrolling waters around Second Thomas Shoal, known in China as the Renai reef, on Sunday ordered the Philippine ships carrying construction materials to leave the area.
Beijing claims Manila is trying to start construction on the disputed reef after it ran aground an old transport ship in 1999 to mark its territory and stationed marines on the ship. Manila claims the shoal is part of the Philippine's continental shelf.
"We only intend to improve the conditions there, we have no plans to expand or build permanent structures on the shoal," said a Philippine Navy official, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the press. "On Monday, we sent a navy Islander plane to drop food and water, but it will only last a few days. We really have to send back the civilian boats. Since last year, we've been resupplying our troops using civilian ships to avoid confrontation and this was the first time China blocked them."
On Tuesday, Manila summoned the second-highest Chinese embassy official to hand over a strongly worded protest, calling the blockade "a clear and urgent threat to the rights and interests of the Philippines."
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Qin Gang (秦剛) said Beijing had called in Philippine diplomats to lodge a protest in response.
"The Philippines' motive in trying to illegally occupy Renai reef and create incidents in the South China Sea is abundantly clear. China calls on the Philippines to stop all its provocative actions," Qin said.
The Second Thomas Shoal, a strategic gateway to Reed Bank, believed to be rich in oil and natural gas, is one of several possible maritime flashpoints that could prompt the US to intervene in defense of Asian allies troubled by increasingly assertive Chinese maritime claims.
On Wednesday, Washington said it was troubled by China's blockage of the Philippine ships, calling it "a provocative move that raises tensions."
"Pending resolution of competing claims in the South China Sea, there should be no interference with the efforts of claimants to maintain the status quo," US Department of State spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.
She added that "freedom of navigation" in the area "must be maintained."
China has objected to efforts by Manila to challenge its territorial claims under the Law of the Sea at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, Netherlands.
Ernest Bower of the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank said new pressure on Manila could be due to China's perception that the US has shown weakness in dealing with crises in Syria and Ukraine, and would be similarly lacking in resolve in Asia — in spite of its declared policy "pivot" to the region.
It also reflected Chinese concerns about negotiations expected to bring about broader access for US troops to the Philippines, he said.
"The Chinese see a very unhappy situation in the Philippines — that one of their smaller neighbors is taking them to court and working with the Americans for expanded military access," Bower said. "It does not fit with the Chinese script of where they want to be in terms of the South China Sea and their sovereign claims."


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City Council Adoption of Fossil Fuel Terminal Zoning Amendments
The ordinance was adopted and went into effect on December 18, 2019.Read More…
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Since City Council directed the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability to develop a concept plan for annexingWestHaydenIsland, staff have strived to develop a proposal that meets the multiple objectives of human, environmental and economic health for the island, the city and the region.
The amended proposal is now before the Planning and Sustainability Commission (PSC), which has held several public hearings and work sessions over the past six months to consider the details. The proposal includes a draft intergovernmental agreement (IGA) between the City and the Port as well as land use and transportation plans for the island.
On May 28 the PSC assessed concerns raised during the previous public hearing, as well as written testimony they received from the public and other agencies. Topics included:
At the end of the meeting, commissioners directed staff to make final amendments to the proposal.
The bureau will release an updated version of the WHI draft proposal the week of June 17. Then the PSC will hold another work session on July 9 at 12:30 p.m. to make a recommendation to City Council, which will likely hold a final hearing on the project later this year. If adopted, the plan for WHI would annex the site into the City limits, and zone 500+ acres as open space and slightly under 300 acres for future marine terminal development.
With Resolution 36805, City Council directed BPS to bring a WHI annexation proposal to them for consideration, indicating that an agreement should holistically address environmental, economic and community needs. The current April 2013 draft attempts to satisfy Portlanders' expectations for environmental quality and livability, as well as economic prosperity, as expressed through the adopted Portland Plan. If successful, the proposed annexation agreement can create opportunities to:
To help address community concerns about noise and air quality impacts to neighborhood, the plan incorporates a Health Analysis.
The Economic Opportunities Analysis, prepared and adopted as part of the Comprehensive Plan Update, reveals a shortage of industrial land supply (635 acres) to meet projected employment growth over the next 25 years. If annexed into the City of Portland, the proposed 300 acres of marine industrial land on West Hayden Island would reduce that shortage by nearly half. Industrial land is unique for the type of manufacturing jobs it can generate — well-paying jobs that increase job opportunities for low income communities and minorities.
As the City works to meet its industrial land needs, the Comprehensive Plan Update process will also assess the impacts of public policy decisions and investments on human health and equity to ensure livability for all.
For more information about West Hayden Island and upcoming dates, please visit the WHI website.


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Hand in found items to the lost property office, so that lost mobile phones, glasses, ID cards, bags etc. can be returned to their owners. If you have lost something, get in touch with the local lost property office. If you don't find it, you can hand in a loss report.


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Water Garden & Features Q & A
Q: How do I control algae in my decorative pond, both long term and short term?
– Stefanie in Michigan
A: Algae blooms are the bane of most pond owners. All summer, they rear their green heads and turn a beautiful pond or water feature into a soupy or stringy mess. But with some planning, both the floating (pea-soup algae) and filamentous (string algae) species can be controlled in the short term and prevented in the long term. Here's how:
Short-Term Solution
To get your decorative pond looking clean and clear right away, you'll need to knock down the algae population by using a chemical herbicide, like AlgaeFix® or TetraPond's® Algae Control. These algae-busters are safe for use in ponds with fish, but because they destroy algae so quickly, they can cause a drop in oxygen levels in your pond, especially during the warm summer months. Be sure that your pond is adequately aerated with a fountain, waterfall or underwater air diffuser.
Long-Term Prevention
To prevent that green goo from surfacing again, you need to limit its food source: Nutrients. Algae thrive on nutrients, which are the end product of the nitrogen cycle. The nitrogen cycle begins with ammonia released from fish waste and detritus. Nitrifying bacteria turn the ammonia into nitrites and then into nitrates (nutrients). The algae grow, the fish eat it and excrete it, and the cycle begins again.
So, how do you control the algae's food source?
Try these approaches:
- Keep your fish load to a minimum. Most pond owners love their fish, but if they plan to have 60 12-inch koi in a 1,000-gallon pond, they're going to have an algae problem – which can be expensive to manage. So, when calculating your fish load, think of it in pounds of fish or total inches per gallon. Remember that your fish are growing and possibly multiplying, so plan for the future and remember: Less is best. Be careful not to overstock your decorative pond.
- Increase the number of aquatic plants. Whether they're submerged plants like hornwort, marginals like dwarf bamboo, or floating plants like water lilies and water hyacinth, aquatic plants consume the same food that algae does – nutrients. The more plants, the more the algae have to compete for those nutrients. Floating plants also shade the pond, which filters the sunlight and can slow the growth of sun-loving algae. You should try to cover 40 to 60 percent of your pond's surface with floaters.
- Check the filtration. The size and type of filtration system on a pond will depend on the fish load. If the filter is not properly sized for maximum potential, the fish will outgrow the filter and produce unhealthy amounts of ammonia, which could prove lethal to the fish. An inappropriately sized filter can also cause an algae bloom from the copious amounts of nutrients in the water. In most cases, filters on the market are rated for ponds containing no fish or a minimal fish load, so you should consider a filter that is rated for at least two times the water volume of your pond.
- Toss in some beneficial bacteria. In addition to ensuring the proper mechanical filtration, you may also consider adding some additional biological filtration – beneficial bacteria – to your pond. These hungry creatures gobble through nutrients, breaking down fish waste, leaves and other organics that accumulate in the pond. One product to try is called DefensePAC® by Pond Logic®. It's a combination of five products that provide beneficial bacteria, trace minerals, and a fish and plant-safe pond cleaner.
No pond will ever be completely algae-free, but the key to keeping the green stuff under control is to limit its food supply. Like any other living thing, if it can't eat, it can't survive!
POND TALK: When was your worst algae bloom, and how did you correct it?
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CBS Local – CBS aired Season 34, Episodes 11 of Survivor: Game Changers, and we had the chance to interview the most recent castoff, Zeke Smith. Zeke turned into this season's breakout star after he was outed as transgender during a previous episode. Here's his unique perspectives (as told to CBS Local's Adam Bloom) on being voted off and the aftermath of being outed during the game.
Castoff: Zeke Smith
AB: Let's jump right in. When Andrea won that challenge, did you immediately think you were in trouble?
Z: No, I didn't. I like to think of Survivor as a game that's played in four quarters. The first quarter is the beginning to the swap, then the swap to the merge, then the merge to the loved ones visit, and then the loved ones visit to the end. Players usually use these quarter breaks to stay together, and that six, I thought I was voting with, had agreed to stick together until the loved ones visit. I just thought that that made sense. I was blindsided. I truly did not know that I was going home. Part of that also has to do with, there was one person I could trust during the game and that was Sarah, and I knew that, either she was telling me the truth or I was going home. There were no two other ways about it. My game rode on her coat tails. That's all I could do-trust Sarah. I was going home or I wasn't.
AB: Did you recognize that when you were bonding with Brad at the reward, did you think that that would get you any trouble at the time?
Z: Well, I would be nice to people when I was on Survivor generally. So, I didn't. I mean, I was trying to bond with him over football and whatnot but I also saw, what we also saw, was Aubrey and Andrea bonding at the reward. We knew we weren't' going to stick together, and were making our separate plans. No, I wasn't imminently aware that talking football with Brad was going to get me in such trouble.
AB: If you could go back would you still want to gun for Andrea in the game?
Z: Yeah, I still think I made the right decision by coming after Andrea when I did in the second merge votes. It wasn't something I randomly decided to do, it was a decision I made with Sarah, who was my closest ally. We had decided that we no longer trusted Sierra and Andrea because they were, sort of, running off into the woods and having conversations and coming and reporting back. So, the decision on flipping on Sierra and Andrea was made collectively. Andrea wasn't a name I picked, it was a decision that we came to, Debbie, Sarah and I. What I think I didn't anticipate was that Debbie had no interest in playing with me. But I didn't flip alone, I flipped with Sarah. And Sarah does become part of that six that votes out Ozzy, I was just not included in that vote because Brad and Sierra didn't trust me, even though I was on the up with them.
AB: The way people play Survivor seems to change ever season. Do you prefer the old way, where people stick to alliances until the end, or the new way, where the block voting kind of changes every week?
Z: I think there is no bigger proponent to the new school way of playing Survivor than me. I love it when the deck gets reshuffled. I love voting with new people every single time. You know, Survivor has so much down time, it's pretty boring, and I'm a frenetic individual, so I like it when it all gets mixed up. I think, in fact, when I'm just trying to be a part of an alliance and stick with everyone else, I would end up getting in trouble. I do my best when things are in chaos.
AB: Going back to tribal council a few weeks ago – I can't imagine being in a situation in which you knew your story would make national headlines, but you couldn't share that with anyone.
Z: Yes, I had a date and time as to when my life was going to be flipped upside down. It was a pretty surreal experience.
AB: Looking back, what was that time like and the emotions that you went through as you knew that this would be a national story.
Z: A lot of elements of my Survivor experience are very unique and I think that chief among them is that Survivor continued to present me challenges, even when I was long gone from the island. I approached the last nine months very systematically. The first thing I did was really gathered around me those people I loved and trusted. And I had to learn to be vulnerable with them and to be open with my feelings with them in a way that I had never really done with anyone before. This was really scary, trying to trust people after playing two seasons of Survivor. It brought me so much closer to my friends and I really feel tremendously loved in a way that I don't know that I've ever felt before. There was that personal component. Then, I'm very fortunate to have worked with GLAAD, in particular, Nick Adams, the director of GLAAD Transgender Media Program. He's really a rock star. He's the guy who, not only trains media outlets and works with networks and studios on how to best represent transgender people in the media, he also holds the hand of trans people entering the public spotlight. He worked with the Wachowski siblings, Chaz [Bono], Caitlyn [Jenner], and Laverne [Cox]. I was totally thrown, like how do I do this? Now I'm gonna be on television for a year. And Nick had been there, he taught me how to begin to speak about this part of my life. The third part, the part I'm most thankful for, how closely Survivor and CBS have held me in their hearts over the past nine months. We worked, in concert, to come up with a plan to tell my story and they have given me tremendous latitude. Jeff Probst promised me, nine months ago back In Fiji, that this would be handled well and that he would never leave me hanging and he never has. I feel really honored to have gotten the chance to meet Jeff Probst.
AB: We've asked this question to a number of other players, it is a little bit random. But – dreaming at night, a lot of players have had very vivid dreams. Do you recall any of these? Do you dream of being on the island or at home?
Z: The thing I always remember is, every day I was on the island I woke up expecting to be in my apartment in Brooklyn. It was almost like I was in half consciousness and I could feel the sun coming in from my window and feel my pillow and my comforter, and then I would wake up and it would take me a second and I'd be like – nope, nope, you're still on Survivor. Then, when I got home, I would wake up thinking I was on Survivor and I was home in Brooklyn. It was crazy.
AB: When you came to that realization when you were on the island, that you weren't at home, did this huge grin come upon you when you realized you were actually there? Or did it feel like – ah, I'm still here.
Z: Oh no, I loved it, every time. I remember in Millennials/Gen X, Michaela in particular was always laughing at me. She was always like, "We're dying in cyclones and the mud, we haven't eaten in a week, and you have this dumb grin on your face, like what's your deal," and I just loved Survivor and I loved every minute that I was out there. It didn't matter if I was hungry and tired and that people were coming after me. I just loved it.


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Home is where the heart is, it's where you are meant to feel the most safe.
But, according to figures from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), the average home holds a host of hidden dangers, especially for the young, the elderly and those who are the most vulnerable.
It may surprise you to know that hot bath water is responsible for the highest number of fatal and severe scalding injuries among young children.
RoSPA states: 'Around 500 children, mainly under fives, are admitted to hospital and a further 2000 attend A&E departments every year as a result of bath water scalds.' The elderly are also five times more at risk of a fatal burn or scald injury than the general population.
And it's not just hot water causing problems, it's all too easy for radiators, towel warmers and central heating pipes to reach temperatures high enough to cause a burn if touched.
This year's annual Burn Awareness Day, this Wednesday, October 18, is aiming to drive home the burns awareness message.
Now in it's fourth year, the event focuses attention onto the prickly subject of burns, especially those avoidable incidents that all too often occur in the home.
Kevin Wellman, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE) said: "The saddest thing about many of these scalding incidents is that they can be avoided.
"We always recommend the installation of Thermostatic Mixing Valves (TMVs) to keep water temperatures within safe levels. TMVs blend hot and cold water to a controlled temperature at the shower, tap or bidet outlet, significantly reducing the risk of a burn."
There are other tips too. Kevin continued: "I would also always recommend running the cold water first when running a bath. If you have vulnerable people in your home, it's worth considering installing low-surface temperature radiators or using radiator covers, though this may impact on the overall efficiency of your heating system. You should also cover any low-level hot pipes with insulating material if possible.
"If you have an older home, you should consider having a plumbing health check carried out by a professional plumber to ensure it is working as efficiently and safely as possible. TMVs cost as little as £30 to buy, and while they do need servicing, it is little price to pay when you look at the life long physical, mental and emotional pain scalding can bring. After all Prevention is better than cure."
Find out more on scalding and general water safety at www.ciphe.org.uk/safe-water


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BOCES holding joint spring open houses and college fairs in Verona, New Hartford and Herkimer
BOCES will host a Spring Open House and College Fair on Wednesday, March 13, 2013. It will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Career and Technical Education Centers on the New Hartford (Middle Settlement Road), the Herkimer (Gros Boulevard) and the Verona (Spring Road) campuses.
Students, parents, educators and community members in the Madison-Oneida BOCES and OHM BOCES regions will also have an opportunity to meet with representatives from local and regional two- and four-year colleges. Representatives from the BOCES Adult and Continuing Education programs also will be available to answer questions about classes.
Herkimer BOCES will have local business representatives in attendance to discuss career ladders in the Mohawk Valley.
State-of-the-art classrooms and learning laboratories will be open to visitors. Displays of equipment, student projects, presentations, and student demonstrations, along with opportunities to meet with CTE teachers, will be included in the evening's program.
Some of the workshops include: Culinary Arts Demonstrations, Early Childhood Education, Electricity/HVAC demonstrations, Conservation, Cosmetology and more!
For more information, visit www.oneida-boces.org, www.herkimerboces.org or www.moboces.org.


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Darien forecast: Showers fall, temps rise
The stretch of occasional showers, which dampened the weekend, is expected to continue today as the work week starts, although temperatures are likely to rise to an unseasonably warm 60 degrees.
The National Weather Service says that, in addition to showers, there will be patchy fog in parts of southwestern Connecticut through midday. There will be a southwest wind 8 to 10 mph., while the odds of precipitation are about 80 percent, the NWS says.
Tonight, more showers are expected, accompanied by patchy fog, as the temperature dips to a low in the low-40s. Chance of precipitation is 80 percent.
Tomorrow should be mostly sunny, but colder, with temperatures rising only to a high in the upper-40s. Nighttime will be mostly clear, with a low temperature in the upper-20s.
Wednesday will be mostly sunny, with a high temperature in the mid-40s. Wednesday night is expected to be partly cloudy, with a low around 30 degrees.
Thursday also should be sunny, with a high temperature in the mid-40s. Nighttime will be mostly clear, with a low temperature in the low-30s.
The outlook for Friday, according to the weather service, is mostly sunny and temperatures in the 40s.


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MTELUS - Red Bull Music Academy Stage [SAT] Society for Arts and Technology
A mystical Montreal techno duo with equally enigmatic live productions, Pulses finds Dom Dumoulin (formerly known as Snork) and Patrice Tremblay (also known as Bushido of the 64hz collective) blurring the lines between introspective analog textures and futuristic, mechanized ambiances. The Pulses live identity commands attention with its entrancing minimalism and undulating melodies, carefully calibrated in a covert dub techno laboratory. Dumoulin and Tremblay also align their synthetic sound trails with the turbo-charged visual feats of digital artist and experimental videographer, TiND (Francis Théberge), whose practice explores the far-reaching rhythmic relationship between images and music. The AV trio hit the hometown stage at MUTEK with the international premiere of Subversion, an immersive, non-linear landscape made of mysterious dub mountains and intergalactic visual valleys.