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The Birth of Evan
At 40 weeks, Maria said that the baby was still pretty high and recommended to walk. I started to climb Bernal Hill every day and it felt really good! She also recommended to go back to my Zumba classes, which I have been taking until 37 weeks... and she even came with me! :)
I was a bit surprised to reach 41 weeks, on March 22nd. My daughter was born on her exact due date, 3.5 years ago, and I guess I was expecting this baby boy to come out close to the guess time as well. My french due date was actually passed only 2 days ago, so I was then relying on this one. I went for a non-stress at the hospital (Kaiser) on that day and it went very well. An induction was scheduled for the following week.
I was having some mild cramping and had two false start at night during the last few days, so I was optimistic and staying confident that this "false" or "pre" labor was leading somewhere sometime soon - at least before the induction. I was tired though, as it was difficult to sleep through it. That evening, I asked Maria what I could do and she suggested to take a bath and have a glass of wine. That's what I did and the glass of wine was amazing! It took me some time to drink it but I was definitely feeling more relaxed and sleepy. I went to sleep around 11pm.
I woke up at 2:30am and I was having my first 'real' contractions. I felt some leaking so I had to wake up my husband to protect the mattress and the floor so I can stand up and go the bathroom without making a mess (in case my waters would break). I was not able to go back to sleep in between the contractions, and may have been afraid that they could go away if I was falling asleep! I was happy and hopeful to be in labor as I deeply wanted this homebirth. I knew it was real labor because they were not going away even though I was changing positions, eating, etc. I started to time them. At some point I went into the baby's room and labored in there, sending my husband back to sleep. I wanted everyone in the house (including my daughter and in laws) to sleep so I was very quiet.
Everybody started to wake up in the morning and I went back to bed around 8am. I was tired. I was waiting for the contractions to get into a regular and active pattern but this was not really happening. They were sometimes close together but short, some other time further apart but more intense, but I was not getting a 4-1-1 pattern yet. I first called my dear friend and birth doula, Ti, so she knows I was in labor and probably needing her on that day. She told me to call her back when I needed her to come. Then I called Maria, she asked me if I wanted her to come and I wanted to say YES but I knew it was still early and we agreed to stay in touch in the morning.
My daughter left with her grand parents to go to preschool. Maria said to start filling up the birth tub by the phone and Yann did that, but it was a bit more complicated than when we did it before labor started, 'to try it out'. I was getting tired to be on my own as my husband was busy with the tub so I called Ti and asked her to come. When she arrived she helped me to realize that I was still in early labor and that it could be long... which was so difficult to hear! She suggested to stop timing the contractions and focus so much on them, and to go for a walk. I'm glad she suggested that and I wanted to do it, but I was a bit scared to deal with the contractions in the outside world. We went out thinking we'd go one block away from the house. I had a few contractions and was able to manage them. So we decided to go on Cortland Street a few blocks away to the coffee shop. We stopped at the pizzeria because it was smelling good and I had a few bites of a slice, in between two contractions. Then we decided to go up the hill... which I have been doing every day for a week. I was hanging from houses' fences and my husband when I had contractions. I didn't really mind what people could think. I climbed some stairs at the top of the hill and we came back. It took us a long time! The weather was really nice.
When we were almost back home, I know I needed to go to the bathroom. Ti told me that a change could occur after I went to pee. I had a strong contraction on my outside stairs. And indeed, everything changed as soon as I went to the bathroom. Contractions began to be every 3 minutes and at least 1 minute long, there was a clear pattern change as they were stronger and closer apart. Everybody was trying to have a few bites of food in between contractions in the kitchen. We called Maria and asked her to come, she arrived less than 30 minutes later.
Maria checked me and I was 5 centimeters, exactly what I was thinking and hoping for! But she also said that my cervix was thin and soft and that I could dilate easily the next centimeters... I think this few words set up a new tone and direction in my labor. It took me 12 hours to dilate until 5cm, and only 4 hours more after that until the baby was born.
At this point I labored standing up and doing squats when I was having contractions, leaning on my husband or Ti. Ti was massaging me in the back and legs and it felt great. Then something strange and very pleasant happened. I felt like a hormone rush and very confident. The beginning of a contraction was painful, then I was working hard on relaxing my pelvis and cervix as much as I could, until reaching a point in physical relaxation that was making the pain disappear, making me feel so powerful and happy! I was laughing, in the middle of the contraction, kind of a laugh and cry at the same time, because it was so good!! I was working with my body, with my baby, and everything was in harmony. I was feeling the pressure and the baby coming down at each contraction.
I started to feel tired on my legs and moved into the bed. One contraction later I was feeling hot and cold, a bit dizzy and nauseous. I almost threw up but didn't (which was one of my fears, with tearing, though at the moment I was okay with it!). I thought I was in transition because it was exactly how I felt when I was in transition during the labor of my first child. Then I decided to lay down in the bed, on my side. I wanted to rest, but it took me a few contractions to feel okay dealing with the contractions in this position. I think Maria checked me again to see if it was a good time to go in the pool. I was 8-9 centimeters.
I went into the pool and it felt AMAZING! I didn't want to work anymore! I just wanted to relax and enjoy the sensations of being in the water... Contractions slowed down. Maria encouraged me to go back into a squat position, in the tub, and I was reluctant because I knew it would bring more pain and stronger contractions. It took me a little while but I did it and it definitely brought back strong contractions. Then Maria checked me again and I was fully dilated. She could feel the bag of waters and I asked to break it to facilitate the pushing phase... she managed doing it in the water with her fingers. I was getting impatient, and scared. It turns out this baby was bigger than my first one (8lb6oz over 7lb10oz) and I could feel stronger sensations/pressure while the baby was descending. I couldn't see the pushing phase coming. I was asking for help and getting a little bit dramatic... In retrospective I think it was my way to stay connected to my birth team, I needed them to know I was struggling and needed their support, and they all responded to it.
I couldn't feel the pressure and the urge to push in the tub as I probably could have felt it outside. Maria offered to go sit on the toilet and I didn't want to, I wanted to give birth to my baby in the water! I started pushing and I was feeling like I didn't know what I was doing. I was feeling unstable in the tub and asked my husband to come in so he can support me, which he did right away. Finally and very suddenly I felt the head coming and decided to get it out through the same contraction no matter what. I was crowning and asking what to do, my husband I think reminded me to do the horse lips like I told him to... I tried to breathe and relax my jaw which was so difficult... but it was fast and the head was out. I put my hands on his head and felt his hair. Another contraction and the rest of the body came out. My baby boy came on my chest and he looked perfect... He was covered of vernix and so soft! I loved his smell. The pushing phase lasted 23 minutes. My husband was crying, telling me that our son was beautiful.
I was loosing some blood so Maria wanted me out of the water pretty quickly, to know how much I was loosing. Maria clamped the cord and Yann cut it. The second midwife Sue took my baby while I was getting out of the tub to sit on a birthing stool, where I delivered the placenta. Sue gave me my baby back very quickly. I was helped to go in my bed after that. The bleeding stopped quickly and everything was okay. Baby was doing very well. I had 2 stitches first degree and Maria did a great job with it. It was the busiest time for the midwives who were making sure both of us were doing okay and very focused on what they had to do. Before and after that, they were so relaxed and confident in what was happening! That was very reassuring to me and made me feel everything was normal, reminding me this was a joyful event. My boy latched on on both breasts and was sucking very actively for a while. After about one hour, my daughter came to meet the baby and this was a very strong and emotional moment to me.
A few reflexions
Before wanting a homebirth, I wanted midwife care for this pregnancy. I wanted continuous care, choose/know the person who will be there when I give birth, and get some postpartum care (6 visits instead of 1 through the regular hospital care...). When I realized that midwife care was going along with homebirth, I started to think about it, get more information, go to Meet the Midwives at Natural Resources and watch homebirth videos on youtube. I was already a few months pregnant. After meeting some midwives with my husband (and getting his support about doing it), it suddenly became obvious that it is what I wanted to do.
During the last 2-3 weeks of my pregnancy, I really needed to be surrounded by other women who had a homebirth or where also planning on having one. I needed to hear about their stories in details or share our plans/excitement/concerns when they were expecting too. I have two friends who had a successful homebirths and I wanted to hear again about their stories. I established quick and strong connections with some other women under the care of Maria as well, met through the group that she is facilitating in her office twice a month. At some point I couldn't hear about other people's questions or fears about our birth plans, even coming from close friends or family, I just needed to protect myself and feel part of a community who was sharing the same goals and birth philosophy.
I think women who plan on a homebirth are even more educated about the birthprocess. Watching many videos is part of the preparation, and I learnt so much through them... Can the baby stay safely in the water when the head is out but not the rest of the body? What does the placenta looks like and what are the ways to birth it? What are the best pushing positions to avoid tearing? Also, a homebirth includes material preparation. My midwife gave me a full list of supplies to get ready and believe me, you learn a lot while figuring out why each item is asked for... You need to think about where and how you want to deliver in your home, find a bowl in your kitchen to receive your placenta, buy some plastic tarp to protect your floors and mattress, and so on! You are in charge of your own birth event.
I had a non-medicated birth at the hospital with my first. Although everything went accordingly to my birth plan without any complications, I needed to tell mybirth story as often as possible and probably provided more details than people wanted to hear :) I think I was a bit in shock, because of the intensity of it. It also lasted 30 hours + and I was exhausted at the end. Whatever is the reason, I do not feel the same about this birth. I feel much more at peace with it. I needed to ask a few questions to Maria and to Ti a few days after the birth, but that's about it. It don't feel able to relate the simplicity of the story. I feel like I'm sharing a secret with the people who were there. They know.
It looks like I was very suggestible during this birth. When Ti told me to expect a possible change when we came back home after the walk and going to pee, my contractions began suddenly much stronger and closer, Ti called Maria within 10 minutes after that. When Maria checked on me the first time, she said I was 5 cm and that my cervix was so thin and ready that I could dilate very fast if I wanted to - and it took me 'only' a few hours to be complete. When Maria told me that the head would be out a 'handful of contractions' later, I almost got angry at her because I didn't want her to give me false expectations or hope... but only one contraction later the head was out! I don't think these are coincidences. I think I had so much faith, love and respect for all the people around me that they were really able to influence me - my labor and my body. Considerably! Trusted people and familiar environment are invaluable.
Midwives are amazing. They know exactly what to do and what to say, at the exact right time, to help you get going, reassure you, or just help you to keep trusting your body. They are not necessarily talking or doing that much... but when you need them they are here! A few times during the pushing phase I screamed "Mariaaaaaaaaa, help me!' and she did. They have a very safe presence and never give you the feeling that they know better than you what is going on. They let you take the lead so you feel powerful and able to push this baby out.
Someone asked me if there were some disavantages of giving birth at home. I would say:
- there is quite some work to do during the first few days after birth for the dad, in terms of cleaning up (doing laundry to wash the sheets and the towels), especially if it was a water birth, and you can't really wait and let this sit for a while ;)
- it is wise to make plans ahead for the first few days: since you are at home and more likely walking fine, people around (or yourself!) may start doing things on day one that nobody would expect you to do if you were in a hospital... it was almost like nothing happened and I realized it was wrong, I was not ready to go back to 'normal' life especially with a toddler around, so I forced myself to take the time to heal, recover, and enjoy those precious few days (but I wish I had envisioned it ahead of time)
- financially: since we are at Kaiser, we had to pay out of the pocket all costs (somewhere around $5000). We have no regrets at all, of course, but that's an aspect to consider.


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Tropical Entryway With Limestone-Topped Table
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Heavy wood furniture anchors this neutral traditional bedroom. A subtle wallpaper pattern creates a focal point as well as bringing texture into the room.
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Green and white stripes highlight the the dramatic vaulted ceiling in this master bedroom. Layers of rich cream-colored linens create an inviting look on the contemporary bed.
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A wood platform bed serves as the focal point of this tranquil Asian-style bedroom. A silver planter with large bamboo stalks and a gold Buddha statue flank the windows with floor-length neutral drapes and mounted pendant lamps. A frosted glass door and neutral bench complete the room.
Master Bedroom With Old World Elegance
Wood beams, an ornate four-poster bed, rustic chandelier, and arched wall decor exude old-world elegance in this master bedroom from designer Thomas Oppelt. The large, patterned area rug frames the space.
Bright Teal Bedroom
Texture and color fill this vibrant bedroom. Designer David Bromstad combined different hues of blue and red to add drama, while also bringing a calming effect to the space.
Picturesque Red Bedroom With Tulip Painting
A bright red wall, tulip artwork, fresh roses, and red and white bedding instill a feeling of passion in this contemporary bedroom.
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Opulence and finery is on display in this cream and blue bedroom, which features a teardrop crystal chandelier, heavy drapes and a velvet chaise. The ceiling's pale blue hue and white molding top off the elegant design. A wall of windows and a claw-foot antique bed with heavy blue and beige bed linens adds to the luxurious feel.
Canopy Bed in Tropical Style Bedroom
This heavily carved four poster bed with mosquito netting drapes takes you to the tropics. The bed and nightstands are mahogany and ornately carved to reflect the colonial influences in Caribbean decor. Soft gray walls lighten the heavy furniture.
Red and White Bedroom With Damask Wall Covering
Four cream-colored window panels are separately pulled open, letting in sunlight that illuminates a dazzling red and white bedroom. A white bench window seat is decorated with a pair of red and pink pillows, while fuchsia-flocked damask wall covering completes the elegant look.
Country-Style Bedroom With Brass Bed and Red Accents
Adorned with lively patterns and an energetic color palette, the north bedroom of designer Sarah Richardson's farmhouse pops with personality. Sarah combined red paisley and polka dots to create an eclectic look, but kept the space cohesive with a brass bed and brass accents throughout.
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This richly textured master suite features jungle themed prints and luxe patterned furniture. A tall brown and blue upholstered bed is the focal point of the space, ensuring the room's status as a relaxing retreat.
Floral Wallpaper Accent Wall in Neutral Master Bedroom
Modern yet warm and feminine, this space features whimsical floral wallpaper that distracts from the window creeping into headboard wall. The spherical chandelier continues the fanciful theme. To allow for more storage and keep the space streamlined, custom-designed bedside tables float on the wall.
Sarah's House Master Bedroom
Sarah Richardson turned this bedroom into a simple elegant escape. Neutral grays and clean whites, this transitional bedroom is clean and cozy.
Tropical Bedroom With a Gauzy Canopy Bed
This canopy bed has been constructed out of natural materials and looks light and airy with flowing white linen drapes. A bamboo wall treatment and thatched ceiling complete the tropical look.
Transitional White Kitchen With Subway Tile Walls
Glass-front cabinets break up the white tile walls in this bright kitchen. White cabinets, walls and light gray marble countertops ensure this space feels open and airy.
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After many weeks of never finding time to sew, I found an hour in the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday. I set up my sewing machine on the kitchen table and commenced a tea wallet project for a friend who had requested a few. It wasn't a lot of sewing and I figured it wouldn't take but half an hour.
Like so many days in November, it was a lowery day, pewter colored clouds scudding across the sky like giant buzzards. It had rained, and the wind had a sharp edge to it. Even Sissy, my cat, didn't want to go out again after a morning spent prowling the woods beyond the back lawn.
The minute I sat down to sew, Sissy jumped up on the table, got close to my face, inquiring apparently, if I wanted to play with her instead of sewing.
"Not now," I said. "Later."
She rubbed her ear on the wheel of the sewing machine, gave me one of her what-fun-are-you looks, turned her back to me and licked her front paw, clearly indicating that she had other things to do more important than begging me to wave the feather wand.
I figured that stance wouldn't last long, and it didn't.
A few minutes later, she stretched out along the length of the sewing machine. I pushed her paws off the sewing surface. She looked at me, blinked her yellow eyes twice and laid her head on her paws.
Thinking that Sissy was settling down for a nap, I started stitching. But she rolled over on her back in the kind of contortion only a cat can achieve. As the fabric came through on the back side of the presser foot, Sissy cuffed it. I stopped sewing and moved her paws out of the way. She behaved long enough for me to finish that piece.
When the second tea wallet began to come exit from beneath the presser foot, Sissy very gently sunk her teeth into it and pulled. I extricated it from her mouth and pushed her gently away from the machine. She napped for a few minutes.
As the third piece was going under the presser foot, Sissy opened her eyes, caught the piece in her claws and simply held it, looking at me, as if to say, "If you put a little catnip in this thing, it would be way more fun."
At that point, I knew two things — Sissy wasn't going to give up her game and I was running out of patience. I picked her up and deposited her on one of her favorite perches, an old steamer trunk by the east window. She flicked her tail in protest, jumped down and stalked off to the living room.
I finished the last tea wallet in peace, but it wasn't nearly as much fun.
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As the U.S. Navy revisits many of the requirements for its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), it's certainly time to reconsider the vessel's need-for-speed concept. There is no question the Navy needs a fast ship for some of the proposed LCS missions –- the issue is just how fast the ship needs to go, and what is the service willing to give up for the ability to zip across the seas? Alternately, perhaps the Pentagon should consider a whole new vessel as its maritime sprinter.
Officially, the LCS goes above 40 knots. When I was on LCS 1 USS Freedom last year, the ship was pushing it near 50, leaving any questions about its speed-demon status well in its wake.
Now, with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's directive to make the LCS successor more lethal and survivable, Navy officials say they can dial that speed back a bit. But how much? The low 40s? High 30s. Mid-30s?
Navy officials will most certainly review Freedom deployment data from its Singapore swing last year before deciding that number. But they also should review –- and I'd like to think they would actually be re-reviewing -– some earlier reports on this Navy speed quest and the results thus far.
"The pursuit for high speed itself demonstrates an inherent bias toward the attribute of speed and the neglect of range and payload requirements," writes David Rudko in his March 2003 thesis, "Logistical Analysis of the Littoral Combat Ship," prepared for the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, Calif.
"Ideally, a small warship would be inexpensive and fast, carry a large payload and have high endurance and good sea keeping," he writes in the published thesis. "Unfortunately, the current state of technology prevents this combination."
He notes, "Throughout history, the United States Navy has invested a considerable amount of time and money in the development of high-speed ships." Looking back to the 1960s, he writes, "The Asheville class experienced many problems throughout its life cycle. In the design process, the tradeoff between speed, payload and range was a great source of debate and resulted in delayed construction. Each ship cost approximately $5 million, five times greater than the initial $1 million projection, and high maintenance costs made them expensive to operate once commissioned. Additionally, sea keeping problems prevented them from capitalizing on the high speeds for which they were designed. The changes in missions they experienced throughout their service life demonstrated their inability to successfully fulfill the primary mission for which they were designed."
Then came the Pegasus class missile hydrofoils. "The initial concept was to establish a squadron of missile hydrofoils, each carrying a different modular weapons package, capable of functioning collectively as one multi-mission conventional warship."
He points out, "Due to the inability to incorporate a modular weapons capability into the missile hydrofoil design, the squadron concept never came to fruition and the missile hydrofoil's limited role was not in keeping with the Navy's emphasis on multi-purpose ships that were more adaptable to the full spectrum of naval operations."
He says, "The more appropriate question is whether or not it is possible to overcome the limitations which have, throughout history, prevented previous high-speed ship designs from successfully capitalizing on any value that speed potentially offers."
Rudko is not the only one to raise such questions. "Persistence in the quest for speed has involved hundreds if not thousands of scientists and engineers over many decades dedicated to developing new ship and vehicle technology to give the Navy credible high-speed options," say Dennis Clark, William Ellsworth, and John Meyer in their 2004 report for the U.S. Navy's Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, "The Quest for Speed at Sea."
They write of the focus after World War II, "when the U.S. Navy began to seriously consider the value of proposed concepts for planing craft, multihulls, hydrofoils, hovercraft, and hybrids," noting, "In the period 1970 to 1983, 327 fast attack units and 1,471 patrol craft were constructed and exported worldwide. Their excellent cost-effectiveness ratio, simplicity of operation, miniaturized electronics, and relatively heavy firepower attracted the attention of many navies, particularly those operating in restricted waters. The modern planing hull now has better seakeeping characteristics with little sacrifice in calm water performance."
In the mid-1970s, they say, "The U.S. Navy undertook an advanced planing hull research program aimed at improving seakeeping while retaining as much speed as possible and improving the lift-to-drag ratio of the hull through the mid-speed range."
But, they say, "The aggressive and successful planning hull research program initiated in the early 1970s subsided in the late 1970s, when the U.S. Navy decided to emphasize acquisition of large combatants capable of transiting the world's oceans. With this philosophy, problems can arise when we need to engage in limited warfare in areas where the larger ships cannot operate close to shore, or in the inner harbors or rivers."
So the Navy pulled back from the research at the time when it really needed to step up such studies. "While many of the high-speed vehicle types described above have been in existence for many years, we have limited experience in their application in actual naval missions," they report.
Another Carderock report from the Naval Warfare Center, the High-Speed, Small Naval Vessel Technology Development Plan, says, "It is unlikely that the full matrix of technologies will be developed... . Naval high-speed (40 to 60 knots) missions require extrapolation beyond current capabilities in critical areas such as structural loads, resistance and powering, and seakeeping."
One program that proved, in the end, to be somewhat successful was the Cyclone-class patrol coastal (PC) ship. After essentially being dumped by the Navy -– with some of the ships going to the Coast Guard for a bit -– the vessels now are being used in a variety of missions and getting more lethal weaponry.
But the PCs are even less lethal and survivable than the LCSs. If Navy officials are going to consider those types of ships, it should look at whole new fast-ship concepts, considering different types of seacraft altogether.
"Efforts to solve the seakeeping and ride comfort problems led, in the 1960s, to the small-waterplane-area twin-hull (Swath) ship configuration," Clark, Ellsworth and Meyer write. "Although the Swath ship is an important development with a number of desirable features, it is not currently considered a high-speed concept."
There's a company in Portsmouth, N.H., looking to change that. Juliet Marine Systems has developed a prototype small-attack craft based on the Swath concept that looks something like a sea-skimming F-117 called Ghost that it is touting as a "poor man's LCS."
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The boats are certainly portable –- you can fit four of them in the well deck of an LPD 17 San Antonio Class amphibious ship.
The U.S. Navy has discussed the vessel with the company, CEO Gregory Sancoff says, but there's been nothing official. There has, however, been international interest, he says.
"We have had many discussions about building a Corvette-sized Ghost to carry a crew and sophisticated weapons systems and missiles," he says. "Ghost would be capable of operating in denied-access areas without detection, due to vessel design and by utilizing RAM (radar-absorbing material) coatings."
He notes, "Ghost today can carry over 80 of Lockheed Martin's Nemesis missiles in an enclosed weapons bay."
The boat provides a huge advantage, he says, as missile thrust does not have to be redirected but can vertically exhaust in an effective and safe manner. "Ghost fires the missiles from an enclosed weapons bay and the thrust is directed down between the hulls, hidden from satellites and cooled by the ocean waters. The craft is ideal for missions requiring the ability to fire and sprint."
Countries like Qatar do not need a destroyer or LCS, he says. "They need smaller tactical platforms that bring all the capabilities of LCS in a smaller package to protect their country and escort exports ships. Ghost can also carry two Mark 48 lightweight torpedoes if necessary."
Of course, this late in the game, it appears unlikely such a novel concept has a ghost of a chance of being an LCS stand-in for the successor warship missions


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Catharine Clarke Ingersoll
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Major/Minor: Major: Art
Catharine Clarke Ingersoll '03, a doctoral student in art history at the University of Texas at Austin, has received a prestigious fellowship to spend nine months working at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany. Catharine was nominated for the fellowship by her graduate advisor at UT, but she credits Washington College with jumpstarting her career in art history.
"My first semester of college, I took Northern Renaissance Art with Professor Donald McColl and it was really interesting — very memorable and fun. The following spring, I took his seminar on Albrecht Dürer, and it solidified for me that the Northern Renaissance was the time period I found most artistically interesting," Catharine recalls.
Catharine's grant will allow her to spend half her time in Nuremberg working for one of Europe's greatest museums and the other half completing her dissertation research. At the museum, she'll be helping the curators put on a major international exhibition on Dürer, scheduled to open in 2012.
"I'm most looking forward to the opportunity to work with the curators and the fantastic holdings they have in such a world-class museum," Catharine says.
She'll also be taking advantage of her proximity to other major European collections — both for dissertation research and personal enjoyment.
"In my dissertation, I'm going to be looking at the art of the court of the Bavarian dukes in the early 16th century, particularly the work of the artist Hans Wertinger, ," Catharine explains.
Though she jokes that her research might be the least fun component of the fellowship, Catharine is truly passionate about Northern Renaissance art.
"I find the issues surrounding the Protestant Reformation really interesting in terms of visual culture. The early modern era is a time of transition between the medieval period and the Enlightenment, and there's a sense of humor to many of the pieces. It's rich, with layers of meaning I find fascinating," she says.
Plus, she adds, "It's the prettiest! If you're going to look at art all day, you might as well look at the pretty stuff."
Before beginning her fellowship in 2011, Catharine will attend two conferences — the Gender and Medieval Studies Conference in Swansea, Wales in January, and at the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference in Vancouver in March — to present papers.
When she returns from Germany, Catharine will finish her dissertation while teaching a course as an assistant instructor. "Currently I am a TA. Three hours a week, I lead discussion sessions with about 18 students. I'm always trying to replicate the small classroom experience and personal attention I received from my professors at Washington College. It's not typical of the undergraduate experience at UT, where there are 50,000 students, but it was so important to my education," Catharine explains.
Once Catharine completes her doctoral work, she hopes to continue teaching.
"Ideally, I'd like to teach at a place like Washington College, a small liberal arts college. I grew up in that kind of environment — my dad's a music professor at WC. I believe that the liberal arts environment, with its focus on small class sizes and individual attention, would be the best fit for my teaching style and is most beneficial for students."


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Dr. Katsiaryna Matusevich joined the Organization Learning and Human Resource Development faculty in the Adrian Dominican School of Education in 2013. Dr. Matusevich holds a PhD in Leadership and Education with the specialization in Human Resource Development from Barry University, an MA in Community Psychology from Sage Graduate School, and a BS in Pedagogical Sciences with the specialization in the English language and literature from Minsk State Linguistic University. Her dissertation, entitled "Exploring Ethical Organizational Culture, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Other Selected Predictors of Work-Related Flow," proposed a new model for researching the construct of work-related flow. The proposed research framework was strongly supported by the data for the sample used in the study. Dr. Matusevich is currently working on revising her dissertation for publication. In a broader context, her research interests center on exploring factors that promote employees' well-being and flourishing in organizations.
Dr. Matusevich has taught several courses in the field of HRD, including Consultant Practices and Career Development. For the past three years, she has also taught a Presentation Principles course, where she has utilized a variety of experiential activities to enable students to not only create powerful and memorable presentations but also conduct interactive and dynamic training sessions. Dr. Matusevich has served as a peer-reviewer for Human Resource Development Review (HRDR) for the past two years.
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By U.S. Army Research Laboratory Public AffairsApril 10, 2013
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (April 10, 2013) -- Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injury in Combat program -- the name itself implies vast scale. Formed in July 2006, the program is a partnership among Defense Department intelligence, operational, medical, and materiel-development communities that collect, integrate and analyze injury and operational data from theater.
The goal is to improve DOD's understanding of vulnerabilities to threats and enable the development of improved tactics, techniques, and procedures, known as TTPs, and materiel solutions to prevent or mitigate traumatic injuries.
Paul Tanenbaum, Ph.D., director of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command's Army Research Laboratory Survivability and Lethality Analysis Directorate, known as SLAD, explained the big-picture impacts.
"For SLAD the thing that's perhaps most exciting about [Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injury in Combat] is that it's opened the floodgates of communication," Tanenbaum said. "We now receive lots of very timely and detailed medical data along with the mission that was being executed, threats, and so forth. And in turn, we now have a great new channel to communicate our analyses, recommendations, and the like to people who can make things happen."
The mission is vast, but vital. Due to the nature of the full-spectrum operations of the Army and Marine Corps, it is important to capitalize on opportunities to quickly identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities through incident analysis and lessons learned, he said, in order to adjust TTPs and upgrade vehicles and protective equipment.
Charles Kennedy, an engineer in SLAD, is ARL's program manager for Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injury in Combat, or JTAPIC. Members of SLAD's Warfighter Survivability Branch work closely with ARL's Weapons and Materials Research Directorate, known as WRMD, and many others to address a variety of issues including analyzing the survivability of the mounted and dismounted warfighter.
For example, SLAD has developed an end-user tool for coding injuries. This software program, called VisualAID, provides a way to illustrate injuries to warfighters in a dignified way that is appropriate for a variety of audiences. It also helps translate the medical implications of the injuries for non-medical audiences.
For example, if a vehicle designer is reading a report written in medical jargon, he may not glean vital connections to design changes that he could have made.
With a 3-D image of the warfighter with injuries color coded to show their severity, these design options are much easier to discern. SLAD's computer scientists have worked to code the new program to make it a user-friendly interface while still providing a large amount of information using the Abbreviated Injuries Scale, an international standard for classifying injuries by type and severity used by both the medical and engineering communities.
"SLAD is mapping injuries to specific regions of the body and identifying the specific anatomy affected," Kennedy said.
Developing modeling tools to visualize injuries is not new for SLAD. SLAD developed its Operational Requirement-based Casualty Assessment system, known as ORCA, which models mounted and dismounted Soldiers, in the 1990s. About six years ago, SLAD integrated ORCA into MUVES S2 -- SLAD's modeling system for interactions between vehicles and ballistic threats.
VisualAID is another tool demonstrating SLAD's ability to provide detailed and accurate modeling and simulation for both personnel and platforms. It is available to all JTAPIC members for their use in coding injuries. This uniform, web-based program should increase the accuracy of coded injuries because of its user-friendly interface, while still providing the high-power geometry underneath.
Another JTAPIC area where SLAD has concentrated is analyzing fragments and small-arms munitions recovered by medical examiners from victims killed in action. This information is valuable on several levels. In the beginning of SLAD's work on the JTAPIC program, SLAD would analyze fragments when needed for specific event reconstruction or for cases of interest. In 2011, SLAD undertook the task of analyzing all fragments and small arms munitions recovered from KIAs, and they are now able to provide trend information, which has proved useful in developing suggestions for adjustments to materiel.
For example, Karen Pizzolato, a chemist in SLAD, briefed Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody, then-Army Materiel Command commanding general, on trends in small-arms head wounds. The briefing pushed specific design modifications for current helmets.
Since then, SLAD has also been engaged in answering further questions about the performance of new helmets.
"SLAD's role is to be an impartial provider of analysis so that decision makers, materiel developers, and PMs have the information that they need to make the most informed decision," Pizzolato said.
The fragment analysis begins with WMRD's sterilizing the fragments. SLAD then produces a 3-D scan of the fragment, thereby preserving the geometry of each sample. Next, WMRD analyzes the fragment to identify its chemical composition and assists in small-arms identifications. This information helps analysts identify threats and threat components. It also allows analysts to determine new enemy TTPs.
Finally, using data from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System and other available information, SLAD analysts can reverse engineer the incident to determine such things as projectile velocity. This provides additional pieces of the puzzle for members of JTAPIC working to analyze battlefield incidents.
JTAPIC is powerful because it provides an interface for all of its members. For example, members of the research community such as ARL can easily access members of the Dismounted Incident Analysis Team, to have operational assumptions validated. There are even times that the information uncovered through fragment analysis -- reported up to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs -- has been used in veterans' treatment and counseling.
JTAPIC has proved successful by opening lines of communication and providing forums for sharing information across many different agencies. The various communities have worked together to provide deeper information which has resulted in tangible results for increased Soldier survivability. SLAD has been able to leverage its unique workforce to provide in-depth analysis. Engineering, computer science, chemistry, operations research, and biology are just a few of the scientific fields that converge at SLAD to provide the most accurate analysis for survivability of personnel and platforms.


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Designing a Sustainable Campus in Costa Rica
With a working farm, grazing cattle and groves of mango and citrus trees, the new satellite campus being developed by Costa Rica's Earth University offers abundant opportunities to explore design for sustainability – and for RISD students to think about eco-progressive solutions in a new cultural context.
College students from around the world are drawn to the tropical university in Guácimo (close to Costa Rica's Caribbean coast) to study agricultural sciences and natural resource management in a country known for its commitment to environmental stewardship. So when Earth U received a gift of 3,700 acres on the country's west coast and approached RISD for help in planning a sister campus, Architecture + Design faculty immediately embraced the opportunity.
RISD students and faculty have a long tradition of global engagement. "We help our students understand diverse cultural contexts and be alert to, and deeply critical of, the world around them," notes Professor of Landscape Architecture Colgate Searle BLA 71, who led a project team that included Assistant Professor of Architecture Enrique Martinez MID 98 and Associate Professor of Industrial Design Charlie Cannon.
Architecture majors were charged with designing physical facilities for the campus. Several students proposed solutions that use locally sourced construction materials and techniques. For example, Walter Zesk MArch 09 envisioned gathering spaces that minimize the distinction between indoors and outdoors, with building units consisting of open frames that support fabric canopies and are complemented by a hotel constructed of rammed earth.
Students in the ID Department's Innovation Studio conducted extensive research on the site's social and economic context, as well as precedents in other areas of the world. They then produced detailed proposals promoting the sister campus as a hub for entrepreneurial activities. For example, seniors Stephanie Castilla and Carolyn Spinney proposed merging existing technologies – GPS, topographic mapping, and hand-held phone/data units – to create an open-source research, data collection and tourism tool that supports the country's eco-goals.
When the studios wrapped up, Cannon and five of his students worked on a book that serves as a record of the group's investigations and a reference for future research. The team sees the venture as a prime example of the value of partnered research between institutions in various parts of the world.
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Charles XII Swedish: Karl XII (Latinized to Carolus Rex "King Charles", Turkish Demirbaş Şarl "Charles the Habitué") (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718) was the King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718.
Charles was the only surviving son of King Charles XI of Sweden and Ulrika Eleonora the Elder, and he assumed the crown at the age of fifteen, at the death of his father.
He left the country three years later to embark on a series of battles overseas. These battles were part of the Great Northern War and many of them were fought against Peter I of Russia. Saxony, Denmark-Norway, and Russia joined in a coalition to attack Sweden, starting what would later be known as the Great Northern War.


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Dr Brian May Condemns Badger Cull
Save Me Trust Press Statement
Tuesday 23 June, 2015
Brian May's Save Me Trust condemns badger cull as "an expensive and failing disaster". The Government's failing badger cull couldn't be more disastrous. Whilst Ministers and a few landowners continue to hang on to the policy, the science continues to fall apart around them. With no credible science to support their actions at the beginning of the cull and now "key" support abandoning the policy, the Government surely has to look at a credible, science led, cost-effective solution to the problem of bTB.
In the latest blow, the National Trust has now confirmed that it will not support any roll-out of the cull on its land. As the country's largest landowner, the message is loud and clear. Patrick Begg, the Rural Enterprises Director of the National Trust, said: "It remains our position following the first IEP assessment that we cannot support the roll out of further badger culls on our land."
Jeanne Berry, the spokesperson for Gloucestershire Against Badger Shooting, said, "This decision of the highly respected National Trust confirms that there are escalating difficulties for the Government and pressure to cancel any proposed roll out. We believe the Government is now looking for better ways to tackle the terrible disease of bTB." She continued: "We are grateful that the National Trust is taking a scientific approach to bTB and has done excellent work on its Killerton estate in Devon to show that badger vaccination is a real and cost effective alternative to the culling of badgers."
This latest news, combined with the recent concerns of the British Veterinary Association who have stated that free shooting of badgers was inhumane (the pilot culls were set up to assess the effectiveness of free shooting badgers) and the public outcry over the costs and morality of culling all mean that this new Government should respond and change tack to show it is listening to the experts.
Dr Iain McGill, Veterinary Surgeon, BSc (Hons), BVetMed, MRCVS, who previously exposed the Government's foot and mouth cover up, has led the call for vets objection, or to any association with this policy, as it has no chance of achieving its aims. He has called on the BVA (British Veterinary Association) to withdraw their support. (See letter below)
Brian May said "The BVA have already, rightly, condemned the free shooting of badgers as inhumane, and free shooting is now exactly what George Eustice is proffering as a policy, in a desperate attempt to turn the cull around from the tragic mess it has created."
The Save Me trust have revealed the badger culls cost significantly more in 2014: with the cost of policing the cull zones now revealed, it is now known that every badger killed in 2014 cost the British taxpayer £5,624 - a sharp increase from 2013 (£5,200) that caused outrage last year. Official figures show the cost of £3,350 for every animal killed, before the cost of policing. Anne Brummer CEO of the Save Me Trust said "Now the Government have confirmed the policing costs of £1.4 million in 2014, let's be clear - it is disgusting, at this time of austerity, that this Government is wasting tax payers money on a policy which plainly doesn't work."
Last year, The Government's own IEP (Independent Expert Panel) came to the conclusion that the cull was inhumane, and were promptly disbanded, an indication in itself of a callous disregard for the suffering of animals. Experts including Lord Krebs have been warning the Government from the beginning that killing badgers will not make any impact on the problem of Bovine TB in Cattle. But at the moment, flying in the face of all scientific evidence, their own advisors and public opinion, the Government has announced its intention to continue the slaughter.
Having claimed the scalps of three ministers already, is it little wonder Liz Truss is nervous. Ms Truss has had private meetings with scientists without her Government "spads"(special advisors) and has probably reached the same conclusion as the rest of us - that this policy has failed - it's not good for cattle, for badgers, for farmers or tax payers.
A spokesman for Team Badger said "To cap it all, Wales - where no badgers have been killed - is now showing a significant improvement in bTB incidence in cattle. This was achieved by stronger controls within the cattle farming industry. The public, along with new Conservative MPs, are disappointed with the apparent prioritising of a return to blood sports in the early days of a new administration. It looks as if both fox hunting and badger culling are becoming toxic issues for this Government."
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Gay marriage on ballot in 4 states
Gay marriage is on the ballot in four states on Tuesday and could give advocates a victory that has long eluded them — a statewide vote in favor of same-sex nuptials.
Both sides have fought expensive battles over whether to legalize gay marriage in Maine, Maryland, Washington state and Minnesota, all Democratic-leaning states on the presidential level that are expected to go blue in that race. Polls show the battles tightening in all four, but there appear to be majorities supporting gay marriage in Maine and Maryland, where the state's governor, Martin O'Malley, has helped finesse a strong campaign.
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Gay marriage has been a subtext of the 2012 presidential campaign for the last six months, after President Barack Obama's hand was forced on the issue by his vice president getting "ahead of his skis" on a Sunday morning talk show and declaring his own support for legalizing same-sex marriage.
Obama risked damaging his post-partisan brand, and ire from his liberal base, by staying silent on the issue, although some Democrats feared he could still turn off conservative voting demographics like Hispanic evangelicals with his open support for same-sex marriage in May.
A win at the ballot box would be historic for gay activists — and a loss would be a major setback ahead of two major U.S. Supreme Court decisions involving gay marriage. Conservatives are equally motivated, with the National Organization for Marriage mounting a strong campaign against the ballot initiatives in all four states.
"Whether or not there should be civil rights for gay people should not be on the ballot, but we're participating because it is, and that's the law," said well-known gay-rights activist Richard Socarides. "If even in this environment we still lost all four of those, it would be a significant setback and we would have to re-evaluate the state by state strategy."


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[ https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQCPP-316?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=62055#action_62055 ] Timothy Bish commented on AMQCPP-316: ------------------------------------- Yay! Thanks for letting me know. > Unable to receive any messages after re-starting message broker > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: AMQCPP-316 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQCPP-316 > Project: ActiveMQ C++ Client > Issue Type: Bug > Components: CMS Impl > Affects Versions: 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3 > Environment: Windows xp service pack 3, ActiveMQ broker 5.3.1, apr 1.4.2, apr-util 1.3.9, apr iconv 1.2.1 > Reporter: Helen Huang > Assignee: Timothy Bish > Priority: Critical > Fix For: 3.2.4, 3.3.0 > > Attachments: ReconnectionTest-new.zip, ReconnectionTest.zip > > > We developed two applications that use CmsTemplate to send and receive messages. The sender application is called MessageSender, and the receiver application is called MessageListener. We found that the MessageListener is unable to receive any messages after we re-start the message broker. > The followings are the steps to recreate the problem: > (1) start the activemq message broker, > (2) start MessageListener and MessageSender, and observe that messages are being sent and received successfully. > (3) stop the message broker without stopping MessageListener and MessageSender. Wait for a while (for about a minute or two) > (4) start the message broker again. > We expect we can send and receive messages successfully after step (4), but the MessageListener can never receive any messages any more. Also from the activemq admin page, we find that the consumer of the topic is gone. We did the test with url "?keepAlive=true&wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration=0", but it did not work. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Grand Theft Auto Online Start Times And Additional Details Announced
Say a prayer for the network teams at Rockstar, Xbox Live, and PlayStation Network. Grand Theft Auto Online kicks off tomorrow bright and early.
If you want to get in right away, be sitting at your console of choice at 4 AM Pacific/5 AM Mountain/6 AM Central/7 AM Eastern. The title update will start rolling out about that time.
We also know that Rockstar has been working to make sure that griefing is at a minimum in friendly circumstances. If you invite a friend to your residence, he or she won't be able to shoot up the place or steal your cars. If you both own the same property, you'll have individualized instances of it available.
Rockstar has also addressed the concern over real-money purchases of GTA$. Players will still need to rank up with Reputation Points before they can purchase high-end items.
Grand Theft Auto Online will continue to see new content after launch. Tools to create and publish your own races and deathmatches, new vehicles and items, a capture the flag mode, and major heists will be added over the coming weeks.
For more on Grand Theft Auto Online, check out our extensive preview. Keep an eye on the Rockstar Newswire tomorrow for updates, as the servers are bound to be slammed. Oh, and remember to hit the ATM to bank your score. You don't want to lose it to some street thug.
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Our Take
Grand Theft Auto Online is extremely ambitious and there are a lot of people who want to play it right away. Do not be surprised if the servers buckle under the weight of the people behind $1 billion worth of sales all trying to access the game at the same time. It'll even out over time, but be prepared for some disruptions. From everything we've heard and seen, it'll be worth the wait.


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There has been a long battle between the British Board of Film Classification and the Pan-European Game Information System over who gets to rate games for the UK, and now we know which system has won out. From now on, PEGI will be providing game ratings for the entirety of the United Kingdom.
"The Government has made absolutely the right decision for child safety. By choosing PEGI as the single classification system in the UK, British children will now get the best possible protection when playing videogames either on a console or on the Internet," Mike Rawlinson, the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association Director General said in a statement. "Parents can be assured that they will have access to clear, uniform ratings on games and an accurate understanding of game content."
The BBFC is going to go along with the decision, but the group isn't exactly happy with the decision. "The BBFC has always supported PEGI and wished it well, but it continues to believe that it satisfies these requirements better than PEGI," the BBFC's own statement read. "However, it will cooperate fully in the detailed work needed to give effect to the Government's decision. And it must be independent in substance as well as appearance, reaching its decisions and providing information on the basis of its own detailed assessments."


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Is President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) trying to take Taiwan back to the bad old days by centering power in the party's headquarters rather than in the Presidential Office?
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government may deny it, but the dividing line between state and party is becoming increasingly blurred under the leadership of Ma, who doubles as KMT chairman.
On July 24, Ma, while presiding over the KMT's Central Standing Committee meeting in his capacity as party chairman, offered an apology over the case of army corporal Hung Chung-chiu (洪仲丘), who died in military detention on July 4 in controversial circumstances.
"As the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, I am utterly saddened that in the national forces, under my leadership, a case in which someone allegedly died from abuse has occurred. I have the responsibility to offer a solemn apology to Hung's family and the public," Ma said.
While Ma may think he has played his part well by making the statement and offering an apology, by making the comment in an inappropriate capacity at an inappropriate location, Ma is leading the regression of Taiwan's democracy by failing to distinguish state affairs from party business.
The Hung case has caused a public outcry and dealt a heavy blow to people's confidence in the nation's armed forces. With the consecutive resignation of two defense ministers, there is no denying that the military's morale has been further dampened.
Yet, rather than taking action to address the low morale of the troops and calm their fears and possibly agitation by, for example, visiting the military in his capacity as commander-in-chief, Ma's actions appear to be a throwback to Chiang Kai-shek's (蔣介石) party-state regime, in which the country was run from KMT headquarters.
Ma did it again earlier this month by announcing the appointment of Yen Ming (嚴明) as the new defense minister during a KMT Central Standing Committee meeting on Aug. 7.
These incidents suggest that Ma is clinging to the concept that "the party leads the state (以黨領政)" and regards the nation's troops as belonging to the KMT. Therefore, he is unaware of how inapt it has been to make comments suited to his role as the commander-in-chief and announce a military personnel appointment, both at party headquarters.
President Ma, who was re-elected to the KMT chairmanship last month, has defended his decision to double as KMT chairman by saying it would be easier for him to push policies and boost the government's performance. Yet, not only has Ma proven he is poor at working two jobs — evident by his administration's performance these past years that has been anything but stellar — worse, he time and again treats the KMT Central Standing Committee as if it were the center of national power. This suggests he is taking the nation back to the old party-state regime.
The handling of the cross-strait service trade agreement negotiations is a clear example: KMT headquarters clearly damaged the government's integrity by mapping out and setting the agenda for cross-strait development before handing it over to government agencies for implementation.
When meeting with foreign guests, Ma often touts Taiwan's democracy and trumpets his desire to further it, stressing that it is a path "worth continuing on."
Indeed, Taiwan is proud of its democratization and it is befitting for the head of the state to broadcast this achievement to the world. However, talk is cheap.


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Reflection is a new Mac app that lets you use the screen mirroring feature of your iPhone 4S and iPad 2 with your Mac. It's very easy to use and will be great for giving demos, teaching, and gaming.
To use reflection, you simply install the app, connect both your Mac and iPhone 4S or iPad 2 to the same Wi-Fi network, select your Mac from the list of Airplay options from your device, and toggle the mirror switch to on. Your screen will then instantly appear on your Mac inside a frame that looks like your device. It's looks awesome.
Reflection works great and has an almost non-existant delay; however, it does seem to crash a lot. You will likely only be using Reflection while giving some sort of presentation or playing a game and crashes are unacceptable for both of these activities.
This it the first release of Reflection, and the frequent crashes make it feel like it. Having said that, Reflection has the potential of being a very useful app and I'm looking forward to future updates. I've been in some contact with the developers and they are already working hard on the next release and have more features in the works.
In the meantime, I recommend at least trying out the 10 minute trial. A single licesne will run you $14.99 and a multi-licence for 5 Macs is available for $39.99.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Crude-oil futures settled modestly higher Wednesday, rebounding a bit from the hefty losses a day earlier, after a surprise decline in last week's U.S. crude inventories and as uncertainty in the Middle East prevailed despite a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
Crude oil for January delivery CLF23, -50.81% rose 63 cents, or 0.7%, to settle at $87.38 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It touched a low of $86.37.
Nymex floor trading will stay closed Thursday for Thanksgiving and hold an abbreviated session Friday.
Oil prices had temporarily taken a turn lower when reports of the cease-fire agreement first emerged, easing worries about oil supplies from the region. The reports were later confirmed, with the cease-fire in effect as of Wednesday evening in the Middle East.
Despite the bullish U.S. supply numbers, prices pulled back on initial "rumors of a cease-fire in Israel," said Matthew Parry, senior oil-market analyst at the Paris-based International Energy Agency. But it's "too early ... to see major correction as significant risks remain."
Oil prices had dropped nearly 3% in the previous session as hopes for a Gaza Strip cease-fire relieved some of the concerns over supply risks. See: Oil rallies, ends above $86 to score weekly gain.
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Developments in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinians remained the key focus Wednesday, even as trading was thin ahead of the holiday.
"Escalations in tensions, between Israel and their neighbors, have added an additional geopolitical price premium to those already in existence, thanks largely to Iran," Parry said.
Data surprise
Looks like traders on Wednesday "got a quick cease-fire dividend," said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at the Price Futures Group. "Yet Inventories and cold weather forecasts should keep us well supported."
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration early Wednesday confirmed the surprise decline in last week's crude inventories that was initially reported by the American Petroleum Institute late Tuesday.
The "EIA numbers were very similar to yesterday's API numbers with unexpected draws in crude and its products," said Tariq Zahir, managing member at Tyche Capital Advisors.
If you look deeper in the EIA report, however, stocks in Cushing, Okla., a major trading hub for crude, had an unexpected build of 1.4 million barrels, he said. "We feel that is offsetting the headline numbers" from the EIA report.
Early Wednesday, the EIA reported that crude supplies fell by 1.5 million barrels for the week ended Nov. 16. Analysts polled by Platts expected a 1 million-barrel increase.
Motor gasoline supplies also fell 1.5 million barrels, while distillate stocks dropped 2.7 million barrels, the EIA report said. Analysts had forecast a rise of 1.25 million barrels for gasoline inventories and a fall of 1 million barrels in distillate supplies, which include heating oil.
The API late Tuesday had reported that crude supplies fell 1.9 million barrels last week. See: Oil, gasoline, distillate supplies drop: API.
Against that backdrop, heating oil for December delivery HOZ22, +0.00% rose 3 cents, or 1.1%, to $3.07 a gallon, and December gasoline RBZ22, +0.00% also climbed 4 cents, or 1.4%, to $2.75 a gallon.
Energy traders digested somewhat upbeat U.S. economic data.
U.S. initial jobless claims dropped by 41,000 to a seasonally adjusted 410,000 in the week ended Nov. 17, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. Economists polled by MarketWatch expected a fall to 418,000. See: U.S. initial jobless claims drop to 410,000.
Consumer sentiment for November gained slightly to a reading of 82.7, but wasn't as strong as initially estimated, according to the University of Michigan and Thomson Reuters. See: Consumer sentiment edges up in November.
The Conference Board also said it's likely that the nation's economy will expand "modestly" through early 2013. See: Leading economic index rises 0.2% in October.
In other energy trading Wednesday, natural-gas futures for December delivery US:NGZ12 tacked on 7 cents, or 1.9%, to $3.90 per million British thermal units, gaining more ground after the EIA reporter a bigger-than-expected decline in natural-gas inventories.
The EIA reported that inventories of the commodity fell 38 billion cubic feet for the week ended Nov. 16. Analysts polled by Platts expected a withdrawal of between 23 billion cubic feet and 27 billion. The EIA data was released a day early due to Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday.


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Boxer Mike Tyson has revealed he only married actress Robin Givens because of an alleged pregnancy.
The former heavyweight champion and Givens wed in 1988, but Tyson admits he immediately knew the nuptials were a mistake.
In his memoir, "Undisputed Truth," he writes, "I should have known something was up. I … didn't know that Robin and her mother, Ruth, had been on the prowl for a big black celebrity for Robin since she graduated college.
"She was supposedly three months pregnant when we got married. Now it was June and she hadn't gained a pound, so the next thing I knew she was in bed and claimed she had miscarried our baby."


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Comedian-writer-actor Paul Reiser reflects on a career that led him to work with the likes Peter Falk, Woody Allen, Barry Levinson and James Cameron, among others. That came after a near-miss of a career as a music composer. He also explains why a long, successful existence in show business is no protection from network-induced failure. This episode is sponsored by Sundance Selects and the new film Tabloid.
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(My dear readers, you have permission to treat this rumor as hostile.)
Not two days after wild rumors started circulating that Angelina Jolie was looking to play Catwoman in Christopher Nolan's third chapter of the Batman Begins series, comes an even wilder rumor from out of the UK that Warner Bros. execs have begun eying top-notch actors Johny Depp and Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman for the roles of The Riddler and The Penguin in the next Bat-flick
DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID JUST YET. For every new rumor of which villains will be featured in the next Batman film, comes another statement from Dark Knight scribes Jonathan Nolan and David S. Goyer, saying that they are trying NOT to take the obvious route of throwing the second-most iconic villains from Batman's rogue gallery into the next film. However, as Spider-Man 3 taught us all, when a franchise reaches a certain $tature, the studio's wishes quickly begin to trump any creative desires. Don't be surprised to see The Riddler, The Penguin, or both, show up in the final draft of the script.
However, we won't really know anything until a script for BB3 is actually done. But that hasn't stopped fan debates from raging 24/7. Personally, I don't think Goyer and Nolan should be working too hard to try to pull out obscure villains and/or plotlines for the next installment. If Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight taught us anything, it's that an actor at the top of his or her game is able to take what is iconic and totally redefine it. (And fanboys, really, is that not the essence of all the best comic books: re-definition of the status quo?)
Which villains do you think should make into BB3?
Source: Comic Book Movie