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2.4 Sectoral statistics (UNECE TIM)
2.4.1 Agriculture, forestry, fisheries (UNECE TIM)
Activity 11.1: Collection, processing and dissemination of forest sector statistics
Description and objectives
Collection and dissemination of data on forest resources, production and trade of forest products, and indicators of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM).
Activities and output
• Provide timely and relevant forest statistics, including data on forest resources, production and trade of forest products, wood energy and indicators of SFM.
• Collect and disseminate data on production and trade of forest products, through the Joint Forest Sector Questionnaire (JFSQ), in cooperation with FAO, Eurostat and International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO).
• Work on European Forest Outlook Study to collect, review and prepare data for inclusion in models (EFI, Alterra, Hamburg University).
• Data collection/data management:
- Qualitative and quantitative indicators on sustainable forest management for next State of Europe's Forests (SoEF);
- Work with International Data Providers (IMF, Eurostat, ILO) to locate and use data for SoEF;
- Forest Products Statistics, including prices of forest products;
- Wood Balance.
• Dissemination of statistical products:
- Timber Committee's website: http://timber.unece.org/index.php?id=84 in Excel, PDF and HTML formats;
- CD-ROMs;
- On-line data on "State of Forest and Sustainable Forest Management in Europe 2007" available through the UNECE Statistical Database;
- FRA 2010 results to official meetings, contacts in countries, other fora;
- Joint Wood Energy Enquiry (JWEE) to energy and forest sector, including database and analysis, including at meetings;
- Publications, e.g. the Forest Products Annual Market Review;
- Reports to governing bodies, particularly the Joint Working Party on Forest Economics and Statistics.
Organizations and groups involved
UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists on Sustainable Forest Management and the Team on Forest Sector Outlook
International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO)
Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE)
Activity 11.2: Analytical and methodological work on forest sector statistics
Description and objectives
Analytical and methodological studies on different issues in the area of forest sector statistics, including Forest Sector Country Profiles. Methodological improvements in areas such as forest resource assessment and wood balances. Analysis of forest resources, sustainability of forest management, and forest products markets.
Activities and output
Analytical products:
• UNECE regional input to the global Forest Resource Assessment (FRA) 2010 (to be published by FAO);
• Forest Products Annual Market Review, published as a Study Paper;
• Forest Sector Country profiles, published as Discussion Papers;
• Outlook Study.
Methodological work:
• Activities by the Team of Specialists on Eastern Europe on forest resources and sustainable forest management, on forest products markets and marketing, on policies and institutions.
• Discussions with Member States at the Joint FAO/UNECE Working Party on Forest Economics and Statistics on methodological issues.
• Create and maintain terms and definitions, specifications and classifications in consultation with partners and stakeholders, in particular for the FRA.
• Provide inputs to international statistical classifications, e.g. Harmonised System, International Standard Industrial Classification.
• Establish a concept of National Wood Resource Balance.
• Pursue conversion factor work to improve understanding of relationships between products and standing timber.
• Develop methodology and definitions for Joint Wood Energy Enquiry with IEA, FAO and Eurostat.
• Cooperate with Joint Research Centre (JRC) which is carrying out work in real-time analysis of fires and increasing use of national forest inventory information.
• Organization of the meetings of the Joint FAO/UNECE Working Party on Forest Economics and Statistics (annual sessions, intergovernmental, usually in March).
• Organisation of the annual meetings of the Inter-secretariat Working Group on Forest Sector Statistics (membership: UNECE, FAO, Eurostat, ITTO, OECD, EEA, CEC).
• Organisation of the meetings of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Forest Policies and Institutions (membership: UNECE, FAO, MCPFE).
• Organisation of the meetings of the Teams of Specialists.
Organizations and groups involved
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
European Environment Agency
International Energy Agency
Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE)
Activity 11.3: Technical cooperation on forest sector statistics
Description and objectives
Capacity building in member countries through workshops and meetings of national correspondents, and through the guidelines for the implementation of international projects, like Forest Resource Assessment (FRA).
Activities and output
• Work with member countries through Team of Specialists to complete replies to State of Europe's Forests report.
Organizations and groups involved
European Environment Agency
Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE).


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Hooray the first batch of the 1911 census is indexed and ready for searching on Ancestry.co.uk. If you have people in Wales, the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man then you are all set to go. The rest of us will have to wait a little longer, but it will be worth it.
The census is available on Ancestry, but you have to search page by page …. just like the old days. How quickly we have forgotten how things used to be!!
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Our employees are the secret of our success
Exctract of the Annual Group Report 2009
Securing sustainable growth with strategic personnel management.
The right personnel strategy helps us to achieve our ambitious corporate objectives. The major components of this strategy are the qualitative and quantitative expansion of employment in relation to our group growth. By investing in the qualification of our employees we develop and maintain the existing know-how in the company, optimize our internal processes and, at the same time, open up individual career perspectives. New recruitments will help us gain additional people to enable us to expand our production on a broad basis and to inject new ideas into the solarworld Group. Both of these things taken together create a sustainable basis for our planned growth and guarantee safe jobs for our employees in the future.
We created 175 new jobs group-wide in the reporting period and thus increased the number of employees by ten per cent in comparison with the previous year. As at 31 December 2009 solarworld had a total of 2,000 employees on its payroll. The proportion of female employees grew to 22 (previous year: 19) per cent.
New recruitments were mainly made in the areas of Production, Research & Development and International Sales as well as in central group functions such as Controlling, Accounting, IT, Human Resources, Procurement, Technical Service, Logistics and Marketing.
In Germany, the number of employees increased by twelve per cent to 1,341 (previous year: 1,198). In the USA, also, the strategically important market of the future, we upped our workforce. The headcount there rose by 6 per cent to 644 (previous year: 609). Staff fluctuation increased in the year under review and amounted to a group-wide figure of 9.3 (previous year: 3.6) per cent. This was mainly attributable to restructuring measures at our US sites. In Camarillo, California, the legacy module line was taken out of service in the first quarter of the year and a new, highly efficient line was commissioned. In Vancouver, Washington, the production facility was refocused in the first quarter to the reprocessing of silicon material. At these sites, we employed less people. In Hillsboro, Oregon, on the other hand, we created an additional 124 regular employment jobs. The absenteeism rate in the solarworld Group amounted to 3.4 (previous year: 2.5) per cent. As far as the other recorded social service indicators such as health protection are concerned, we refer at this point to the integrated Report on sustainable corporate managent /Social service indicators.
Assuming responsibilty - creating training opportunities
In the year under review 86 (previous year: 83) young people received qualified vocational training at the German locations of solarworld. The training rate was 6 (previous year: 7) per cent. In 2009 we took on 21 (previous year: 26) new trainees/apprentices. In addition, we offered 9 (previous year: 8) young people an opportunity to start a practice-oriented sand wich course on "Industrial Management". In the reporting period we gave 61 (previous year: 64) per cent of the trainees an employment contract after they had passed their final examination.
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The North Carolina women's swimming and diving team has placed three swimmers in championship finals and six in consolation finals on the second day of the 2013 ACC Championships at the Greensboro Aquatics Center.
During Thursday's preliminaries, the Tar Heels came out strong in the 500-yard freestyle, placing two swimmers in the championship final and three more in the consolation final. Junior Danielle Siverling and senior Jackie Rudolph led the way for Carolina. Siverling qualified fourth in a season best time of 4:43.62 and Rudolph qualified fifth in a career best 4:44.57, taking almost three second off her previous career best of 4:47.29. She is just outside the Carolina all-time Top 10 in the event. Katelyn Martin holds down the 10th spot at 4:47.21.
Three Tar Heels qualified for the consolation final in the event — Emma Nunn in 11th at 4:49.53, Kelsey Cummings in 13th in a season best 4:50.58 and Annie Harrison in 14th in a season best 4:52.10. Meredith Hoover just missed the consolation final, placing 17th in 4:53.83.
Junior Cari Blalock is the only Tar Heel who made it back in the 200-yard individual medley as the veteran took fourth place in 1:58.87. Other Tar Heels in the event included Rebecca Brooks (17th, 2:02.90), Rachel Canty (20th, 2:03.46), Danielle Jansen (23rd, 2:04.45), Madison Burns (25th, 2:04.80) and Katie Rechsteiner (36th in a season best 2:08.23).
Four Tar Heels swam in the 50-yard freestyle with three of them qualifying for the consolation finals – Lauren Earp in 14th with a season best 23.04, Hannah Lincoln in 15th with a career best 23.59 and Ally Hardesty in a careeer best 23.09. Their previous career bests had been 23.31 and 23.59, respectively. Nikki Barczak just finished out of making consolation, claiming 19th in a season best 23.25.
Divers Natalie Ritter and Emily Schmidt will be competing this afternoon in the preliminaries of one-meter diving.
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UPDATE TRANSIT: We won't know until summer what a Jackson County commuter rail plan might look like. And no one has proposed a ballot issue to fund a rail system, much less set a date for an election. Yet according to a front page story in the Star this week, Jackson County government officials are spending half a million dollars on TV ads and an awareness campaign to promote rail transit in the county. How does this square with KC's plan for a streetcar line? Is there room for both? Are either of them feasible?
UMKC NAME CHANGE: UMKC is considering changing its name to the University of Kansas City. Officials say the name change would help it emerge from the sizable shadow of the Missouri campus in Columbia. The school has used its current name since it joined the four-campus University of Missouri system nearly 50 years ago.
ROMNEY IN KC: Mitt Romney was in town Thursday. The presumptive Republican nominee for President did not appear though in public – his visit was totally private. No public rallies and big speeches – why?
SHOT SPOTTER TECHNOLOGY COMES TO KC: It's a high-tech anti-crime system that uses sensors to spot gunshots and let's police know almost exactly where those bullets were fired. Kansas City officials have been talking about the system for years, but they've finally got the money to install the equipment. So how is this supposed to work and will it really reduce violent crime in Kansas City?
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AMES, Iowa — When children throw tantrums, which comes first: the screaming or the crying? Michael Potegal knows — and has the video evidence to prove it. The University of Minnesota researcher talks about his video study of tantrums in this month's Science of Parenting podcast from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
By videotaping actual tantrums, Potegal, a UM associate professor of pediatric clinical neuroscience, has been able to note the detail of what happens when children have tantrums.
People have the impression that during a tantrum, the child is angry first, which then turns to sadness. It's an understandable impression, because the anger "is literally in your face and gets your attention. Folks don't notice that it's against a fairly steady background of whining and crying and so forth," Potegal said.
During the 30-minute Science of Parenting podcast, program host Douglas Gentile, an associate professor of psychology and extension specialist at Iowa State, "parent-on-the-street" Mike Murray and Potegal discuss the emotions related to the yelling, crying and whining of tantrums.
The podcast is available for free download from the Science of Parenting website or can be subscribed to in iTunes.
Scientists' understanding of tantrums has been "fuzzy," Potegal said. "Even in scientific literature, all the behaviors that the kids do tend to be lumped together and labeled tantrums. It's never been quite clear what exactly the children do when, and if some children do one thing and others do another."
Potegal's approach has been to study the phenomena of tantrums. "They need to be studied on their own terms rather than being squeezed into some preconception," he said. "The point of the study that we did was to find out how emotions work."
He recently studied children who had tantrums at least two to three times per week that lasted for a minute or longer. He selected children who had tantrums frequently enough that they could be captured on video, and whose parents were willing to let the cameras roll during the tantrums. The study was conducted in the children's homes with parental permission, special equipment and two cameras. The goal was to capture the complete tantrum, from whatever triggered it until it was over.
"The study was about understanding emotion, and its most direct application is to issues of children's mental health … things like, what counts as a normal tantrum, and when can we tell from tantrum characteristics that there's something more problematic going on," he said.
Potegal noted that younger children, age 18-24 months, have more frequent and shorter tantrums, one to two times per day to two to three times a week. By age 4-5 years, tantrums are less frequent but longer. If children this age are having tantrums one to two times per day, there might be cause for concern, Potegal said.
Behaviors during tantrums are grouped around two emotions, Potegal said. Yelling, screaming, hitting and kicking are related to anger, while crying, whining and fussing are related to distress or sadness.
"Anger-related behaviors tend to occur during the beginning of the tantrum, peak somewhere around a third of the way through, and then decline over time," he said. "The sadness or distress-related behaviors, which are crying, whining and dropping to the floor, tend to remain relatively constant in probability over the course of the tantrum. That was a major finding. Comfort-seeking is also a distress-related behavior, but it occurs toward the end of the tantrum after anger has diminished."
The Science of Parenting podcasts offer research-based parenting advice from experts across the country. The monthly podcasts are available for free download from the Science of Parenting website, www.scienceofparenting.org, or can be subscribed to in iTunes. Each month a new, 30-minute Science of Parenting program will be available, as well as previous podcasts and other research-based parenting information.
Through the Science of Parenting blog, blogs.extension.iastate.edu/scienceofparenting, ISU Extension and Outreach specialists share and discuss research-based information and resources to help parents rear their children. Parents can join in the conversation and share thoughts and experiences, as well as how they handle parenting responsibilities.


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|Last Review Posted by Pendragon35 - posted: Sat December 6, 2014 6:02am
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We bought Pendragon, I believe a 1965 Alberg 35 in July, 2014. Previous Owner (PO) had done extensive rewiring very professionally. Another PO had installed a Yanmar 3gm30 diesel, also another PO had built a beautiful chart table/storage area between the port galley/port settee. I believe the forward berth was also changed; it is about a 1.5 person, starboard only.
The boat is tender but hardens up about 25 deg of heel in winds of about 10 knots. She's a joy to sail. Although objectively she isn't as fast as others, she "feels" fast. Very solid, very homey, well built. I have her in Baltimore's inner harbor and intend coastal cruising on the Chesapeake but she has the "we could go anywhere" feel to her. Definitely would recommend this boat for a cruising couple.
Rating: 10
|Product Details: "35" by Administrator - posted: Mon May 12, 1997 - Rating: 10.00
|Last Review Posted by ajmd - posted: Wed November 12, 2014 12:45pm
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|i am looking at a 2000 hunter 310. seems okay, has a 5ft plus keel, looks like the deck hardware where riiging goes into deck (stay??) the bedding looks cracked , any issues??
|Product Details: "31" by Administrator - posted: Mon May 12, 1997 - Rating:
|Last Review Posted by CaptainNick - posted: Fri October 10, 2014 1:05pm
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This is my second boat after a Catalina 25. I have had my Ericson 27 for 2 seasons now. The first season was almost entirely just cleaning the boat and replacing parts on the atomic 4. This last season finally got the Atomic running smooth with the electronic ignition kit installed and a cleaning of the fuel system. Put on a new hatch cover with new wood trim, and have had a dozen trips out with the engine running well now. Reversing out of my slip is a fun exercise, I think prop walk makes steering in reverse tricky. I seem to always rotate the front to starboard when in reverse, so i counter steer against that now.
The boat sails faster than the Catalina 25 or at least feels faster and is also much more sensitive with tiller steering. Looking away for a minute can significantly alter course.
Great weekend cruiser so far, and love hearing how far people go on their "smaller" boats. End up daydreaming about sailing down the coast to the Caribbean.
Rating: 7
|Product Details: "27" by Administrator - posted: Mon May 12, 1997 - Rating: 7.50
|Last Review Posted by ixd704 - posted: Tue September 16, 2014 7:41am
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Great boat. I've had it for 2.5 years now. She came from the Great Lakes (Sarnia) and is now at home on the Ottawa River. Great for cruising, although it currently won't win any club races (I'm 16th out of 24 boats). But, in fairness to the boat, I had a bad grounding (low water levels and a big unmarked boulder) and the keel now has a bite out of it (grinding cast iron is a slow slow process). Once I fill and fair the divot, speed aught to go back up to 8 knots in a 10 knot blow. At the moment 7.5 knots in a 15 knot wind is the best I can get out of her. Before the grounding, cruising at 8 knots was quite common even under power. Now I'm lucky if I can get her to 7 knots with full power.
I have been slowly finding things to fix:
The electrical on old boats is, well, old. I have been changing things like the lighting, radio, stereo and all of the wiring to those parts and snaking wire around in this boat is quite a challenge at times. Still to do is the main panel (fuses instead of breakers). I also want to replace the rest of the lighting with LEDs (best thing ever for long battery life at night).
My current problem is that water draining from the main hatch cover does not exit through the spouts but rather is running between the glass layers to the windows. I will cut the top off the deck at the hatch and then seal the area where the two glass sheets join. It would have been a better design to have screwed the cover to the deck verses making it part of the deck (my neighbours boat has this set up so I'm going to copy it). I will make it removable. Once repaired, it should be better than new.
Engine has started to overheat when at over 50% throttle for extended periods, I suspect it has ingested part of a water pump impeller as I was unable to find all of the parts of the previous one that was broken. I'm sure it will not be fun trying to verify that the water ways are clear through the engine this fall. So it is important to change those impellers often...
Rating: 8
|Product Details: "28" by Administrator - posted: Mon May 12, 1997 - Rating: 8.00
|Last Review Posted by stevecar - posted: Fri August 29, 2014 7:18pm
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Today my wife and I viewed a 1980 323 with a 5 year old Universal 25 hp engine. We are seriously considering purchase after haul out and survey. I was troubled by the negative comments concern the front of the engine access. I am going to explore this issue prior to purchase. All the port lights leak and the owner stated they all need to be replace. The four in the head and v berth are easy but the metal framed in main cabin could be more difficult. If anyone has experience with window replacement would love to hear from you. Steve C
Rating: 8
|Product Details: "323" by Administrator - posted: Mon May 12, 1997 - Rating: 8.50
|Last Review Posted by charlesmoore03 - posted: Sat August 23, 2014 10:26am
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I am a brand new owner of this Irwin 43 that is now named Inspiration II. I hope to write more articles as I develop experience with her. I originally was looking for a Whitby 42 and after talking with the broker he showed me our present boat and it fit our plans for coastal and Caribbean cruising. We will be live aboards for 6 months per year.
Our previous vessel was Inspiration ,a 35' Youngsun shown in my avatar, which we cruised during the summer months on Lake Michigan and lived aboard from April through October.
Like our first vessel, my wife immediately liked the Irwin 43. The lines were clean, it was bright and airy, the galley was functional and reasonably secure, the interior was beautiful, open and uncrowded. She also liked the two heads that were complete with showers and 180 gallons of water to use taking them. The berths were open and looked comfortable. The two air conditioners would keep us cool in all but the very hottest of conditions.
Also, like our first Inspiration, I liked her immediately for much the same reasons as the First Mate. I also liked the 8kw generator because, within limits, it would power the air conditioners, microwave and most anything else we could throw at it including the AC power refridge, freezer. On the negative side, the battery capacity could be larger and the boat does not have a watermaker, solar panels or wind generator.
We have a lot of refit plans but the upcoming season will see new hatch lens replacement as required, two 250W solar panels with MPPT charger (to down convert the 36VDC panels) and possibly a wind generator if I can find a good used unit. No watermaker is on the immediate horizon but I have a good friend who fabricates these components into systems so who knows. Also, a high water alarm/bilge system and re-plumbing the front shower sump so it pumps grey water directly overboard instead of via the bilge and bilge pump as is standard.
Moore later.
Rating: 9
|Product Details: "43" by Administrator - posted: Mon May 12, 1997 - Rating: 9.00
|Last Review Posted by Koinonia M27 323 - posted: Sun August 17, 2014 9:09am
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purchased boat this summer after 2 year search. perfect size for return to sailing after 30 years. just the 1st mate and myself, perfect size, will need to upgrade electrics for all equipment that had been added over the years. There are a few owners active out there, all seem to be happy with their boats, wish there was a very active group, would save all of us a lot of headaches, no need to reinvent the wheel. Solid boat, good design, good builder, was well taken care of.
Rating: 9
|Product Details: "27" by Administrator - posted: Mon May 12, 1997 - Rating: 9.00
|Last Review Posted by iwhitman - posted: Fri June 27, 2014 6:48pm
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Dpeavey is right on. I recently bought a second Vic 18 (I sold the first many years ago because I didn't have time to sail much back then). The addition of a screened, opening portal on the front of the cabin made a big improvement on ventilation. Beware of too much engine--the lazarette really does compromise the strength of the after deck and motor mount. Though, I understand that some were built without the lazarette (and without battery/lights), which mitigates this problem.
Sails well in light air with main and Genoa. Also does well in stiff breeze with reefed main and jib. In between, with main and jib, she has a bit too much weather helm.
Over all, a great boat for day sails and weekend trips.
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/victoria18/
Rating: 7
|Product Details: "18" by Administrator - posted: Mon May 12, 1997 - Rating: 7.00
|Last Review Posted by PA-22-108 - posted: Wed June 25, 2014 4:38pm
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|Product Details: "26" by Administrator - posted: Mon May 12, 1997 - Rating: 5.00
|Last Review Posted by lebob - posted: Mon June 23, 2014 10:38am
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I have the Niagara version with the factory installed race package: boom-vang, inboard genoa/jib track, all halyards and other controls lead to cockpit, adjustable split back-stay, jiffy reefing, two 2 speed winches, 6 winches total, mid-boom sheeting with cockpit traveler, and internal halyards.
The Niagara version interior has a teak and holly sole and more teak trim. Mine had the handrails removed for racing. I installed new, smaller, sturdy stainless steel handrails that look and work great. Very little exterior wood, which I like. The boom sits high which made adding a bimini very easy. I used a very light aluminum bimini that easily/quickly comes off for races; it works and looks great. Cabin has a new aft port side marine head and some new electronics. I removed the folding table and v-berth partition/cushion for a more open cabin. The cabin feels very spacious for a 24' boat. Headroom in my original 1978 manual is listed as 5'6''. Overall it's a great weekend cruiser for my small family. 6-8 people can be comfortable for a light air daysail. On choppy days the bow and cabin top can get splashed. A 5hp longshaft outboard cruises around 5.5 knots easily and has never fully cavitated in some decent bay weather.
I race it in regattas and weekly club races . In PHRF and Portsmouth the boat does great. In mixed wind conditions it consistently sails to it rating. In certain wind conditions it sails much better than its PHRF rating.
This is my sixth sailboat. Construction on this boat compared to others is solid: old school sturdy fiberglass, stout spars, and heavy duty rigging. Overall after cruising and racing every week for two years, I think the C&C 24 is still one of the better racer/cruiser designs in its size.
Rating: 10
|Product Details: "24" by Administrator - posted: Mon May 12, 1997 - Rating: 8.50


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Thirty-four weeks into your pregnancy, or 32 weeks after conception, your baby's fingernails have reached his or her fingertips.
By now your baby might be nearly 12 inches (300 millimeters) long from crown to rump. The pasty white coating that protects your baby's skin — the vernix caseosa — is about to get thicker.
Thirty-five weeks into your pregnancy, or 33 weeks after conception, your baby's limbs are becoming chubby. Your baby is gaining weight rapidly — about 1/2 pound (230 grams) a week for the next month.
Thirty-six weeks into your pregnancy, or 34 weeks after conception, the crowded conditions inside your uterus might make it harder for your baby to give you a punch. However, you'll probably still feel lots of stretches, rolls and wiggles.
You might want to check on your baby's movements from time to time (kick count) — especially if you think you've noticed decreased activity. Ask your health care provider how many movements you should detect in a certain number of hours.
Thirty-seven weeks into your pregnancy, or 35 weeks after conception, your baby will be considered early term. Your baby's organs are ready to function on their own.
To prepare for birth, your baby's head might start descending into your pelvis. If your baby isn't head down, your health care provider will talk to you about ways to deal with this issue.
Thirty-eight weeks into your pregnancy, or 36 weeks after conception, your baby is developing a firm grasp.
Your baby's toenails have reached the tips of his or her toes. His or her brain might weigh about 14 ounces (400 grams). After birth, your baby's brain will continue to grow. Your baby has mostly shed all of his or her lanugo.
By now your baby might weigh about 6 1/2 pounds (2,900 grams).
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Johan Djourou believes his recent experiences at right-back will make him an even better centre-back.
The Swiss defender has filled in on the flank more than anyone since Bacary Sagna and Carl Jenkinson suffered injuries and he could continue in his temporary role when Arsenal visit Wigan in the Premier League on Saturday.
Djourou was arguably Arsenal's most consistent centre-back last season and he thinks he can scale new heights once he returns to his preferred role.
"I was talking to some friends recently and I told them that playing at right-back would help me when I go back into the centre because you have to do so much more on the wing - positioning-wise and going forward as well," Djourou told Arsenal Player.
"It takes more energy physically than in the centre where it is settled and that will help improve my game. I'm not scared of getting forward [on the right], it's something I like to do. I have the ability to do it and playing on the right gives me more of an opportunity than if I was playing in the centre.
"I put one of my best performances at right back against Fulham, and against Man City as well," he added.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Junior goalie Jamie Faus (Lakeville, Conn.) made 11 saves and allowed just five goals in 50:23 to jump-start the fourth-seeded University of Denver men's lacrosse team's largest come-from- behind victory under head coach Bill Tierney, a 12-11 win over fifth-seeded North Carolina in the NCAA Quarterfinals on Sunday afternoon at Lucas Oil Stadium. Denver is the first team in Men's Lacrosse Championship Quarterfinal history to win after trailing by five goals or more.
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Senior Chase Carraro (Louisville, Ky.) won 17-of-26 face-offs in the game, including six of the last seven to aid the Pioneers to a 6-1 run to close out the contest. Carraro also picked up a game-high six ground balls.
"North Carolina: what a train that was, trying to stop that coming downhill at us early," Tierney said. "Mostly, I'm proud of these young men and teammates for persevering. You don't get too many opportunities in life to fight through such adversity and come back ahead. I'm just proud for everybody at the University of Denver and everybody in our organization."
On the scoresheet, senior attacker Eric Law (Centennial, Colo.) led Denver with six points on his eighth hat trick of the season, to go along with three assists. Sophomore attacker Wesley Berg (Coquitlam, British Columbia) added four goals and an assist, good for his team-leading ninth hat trick of the year. Senior Cameron Flint (Georgetown, Ontario) distributed three assists, and classmate Colin Scott (Ridgefield, Conn.) turned in his fourth multi-goal game of the season with two off the bench for the Pioneers. Freshman Gordie Koerber (Baltimore, Md.), junior Jeremy Noble (Orangeville, Ontario) and sophomore Eric Adamson (Anaheim Hills, Calif.) added a goal apiece to round out the scoring for Denver.
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Senior Kyle Hercher (Littleton, Colo.) picked up an important ground ball to lead to a Scott goal from Berg, and the Pioneers had the lead back to one with 4:44 to play. Denver's defense stepped up again on North Carolina's next possession, forcing a 30-second clock violation with 2:18 to play. After a DU timeout, Adamson scored the 25th goal of his sophomore campaign, and after trailing for 55:32, Denver was level once again at 11-11 with 91 seconds to play. Carraro won the ensuing faceoff, and after the Pioneers final timeout of the half, Law put away the game-winner in the midst of a stall-warning to send Denver to the National Semifinals.
North Carolina got the afternoon started with six goals from six different players to take the early advantage. Scott's first of two goals came with 4:11 remaining in the quarter, but the Tar Heels would take a 6-1 lead into the first quarter break. Faus entered the game 9:37 in, relieving sophomore Ryan LaPlante (Fort Collins, Colo.) who was charged with the first six goals.
Berg got a goal from Law to cut the UNC lead to four, but Joey Sankey and Pat Foster found the back of the net for the Tar Heels, and with six minutes left to play in the half UNC was back up 8-2. Berg then answered with his second of the quarter before Law got on the scoresheet to cut the lead back to four with 4:04 to play before the intermission. North Carolina would take a 9-4 advantage into the lockers off a goal from Steve Pontrello. In the first half, Denver was robbed by the post or crossbar six times.
The Pioneers scored three of the four goals in the third quarter, two from Berg and one from Koerber. After being held without a point in the first 30 minutes, Flint recorded two of his three assists in the third frame.
Denver, who entered the game averaging over three penalties per game, picked up just one 30-second infraction on Sunday. North Carolina was called for six penalties, resulting in two man-up goals in five opportunities (one two-man advantage) for the Pioneers.
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The county jail is outdated and since fall of 2012 has not been used solely as a temporary holding facility, so inmates are transported to the Glasgow detention center.
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Based on the stated experience of the builder, I will assume it's not a clearance issue, although I'd want to double check it. Seeing as how it's a two time occurance this is most likely not the problem.
I would guess an overheating situation that could be caused by blocked water passages in the front of the block or a failure to completely purge the cooling system of air on startup.
After I have a block tanked I use a piece of coat hanger or long screwdriver and some compressed air to ensure all the crud is out of the water passages. You'd be surprised at what comes out during this operation.
I've also heard of blocks coming from the tank, set down on their front side to drain/dry and sediment settling in the front passages. Then someone fails to clear them.
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I have not seen the engine yet. This guy is a shop owner and builds 100 or so motors a year so i would bet the rods are rightous..... Not sure about the detonation. That thought crossed my mind but he told me the other 6 cylinders (2,3,4 6,7,8) look great. I am going over friday night to do some work on my own stuff and i am going to check it out.
5.0 freak, this guy builds like 100 motors a year. I am sure he double and triple checked all his work. especially after the first time it came back. Do you know if the reverse rotation water pumps come in cast iron???? I was told they are all aluminum, but i was not sure if an aftermarket pump might be cast iron???? Is there an easy way to tell if it is a reverse rotation pump????
thanks guys for the help,Keith
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|only way that could happen is if the block is warped. and that Is very hard to do. After he had it bored over did he manually check himself to see if it was done properly?? Becasue on 302's the back 2 cylinders closest to the winshield for some reason always have more wear on them, then the other 6. I had a similar problem like this in one of my 5.0L mustangs and it was due to poor and shotty machine shop work on my block. I had to bore it over a bit more to straghten it out. then it worked like a hot dam.
|Were the rods checked for straightness? was the engine detonated?
small block ford problems
Tonight i was talking to the shop where i get my balancing done and the guy was telling me about this ford 302 thats fighting him..
He rebuilt it .030 over and the guy brings it back with the front 2 pistons skuffed real bad #1 and #5 so he goes .040 over and the thing comes back again with the exact same problem.. same cylinders. both times like 100 miles max. the rest of the motor is perfect crank, cam, etc. So he ( me also) is guessing it's a overheating problem??? Any body ever delt with this situtatuion???? Someone told him it might be a reverse rotation water pump on it and that would cause the problem?????
Any ideas of where to look????? this is a new one for me....
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Arsène Wenger believes that Theo Walcott is better for his age than Lionel Messi.
The Argentinean striker is one of world football's most mercurial talents. Like Walcott he burst onto the scene early but has gone on to carry the hopes of both Club and country.
The same could happen to the 19-year-old. The Arsenal star has featured in every game this season in the Premier League and Champions League. He has also just returned from eye-catching appearances in both of England's World Cup qualifiers.
That schedule might mean Walcott is bench-bound against Everton on Saturday afternoon. But time is on Walcott's side, according to his manager.
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Just wondering about some things Gunther expresses in his play if any trainers think that his behavior could show potential for more? When I put on my hoodie he associates that with borderline aggression. He is never mean and I can always put him in his place. However when the hoodie comes on he goes into crazy mode where he's pulling on my sleeve and tugging me and barking at me. When either one of us stomp our feet at him he charges and barks. All while being able to shut it off and turn back into our boy who melts under our attention. If I fall to the ground or floor and say "help me" he instantly grabs ahold of my sleeve or pants leg and tries to tug me.
Curious to know if these could be signs that Gunther has a potential working line hidden in him that I can somehow incorporate into training. I think that Gunther is trying to be more than I'm allotting him to be. Any ideas on if this may be true, and if so, than how to best highlight this character behavior in training?
*sidenote* He gets the same way with the hoodie as with gloves.
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Wow Maverick,
I may be missing the boat here (pun intended), but I think there is a WAAy easier method. I am in the process of redoing my 49 Chev custom for the 3rd time(styles changed again). Anyway, I have owned a 49, 52 & 53 Chevy pick up and I do alot of woodwork. I have also built a few wooden boats and I built a few music instruments, so I know a thing or 2 about bending wood including plywood. These guys are giving you some correct info aboout bending wood, but I think there is an easier method. If you take boiling water and pour over wood, yes you can bend it as you pour the water and ,let it dry for a day or 2 and it will hold shape. What you are doing is breaking down the lingen in the wood. If you buy marine merranti plywood, say in 1/8. it bends very nicely and finishes like mahogany, it is mahogany just Luan is Phillipine mahogany except it can take hot water withoout delam. Anyway, if I wanted the wood look on one of these pick em ups, I would do it an easier way. If I remeber right, they have a back, or 2 piece shell made out of sheet metal. If what you are after is JUST a nice wood look, how about going to a wood worker store, and getting pre split veneer and gluing with contact or urethane adhesive? This stuff is split as thin as 1/32" in failry large sheets and made out of many domestic and exotic species and will form to a curve like linoleum, even compound in some cases. You can even finish it like regular wood because it is real wood.
If you have a few sheckles, coco bolo or rosewood would look awesome. If real wood look is all you are after, I would go this route, otherwise you can bend 1/4 wood strips in about 4" wide sections and then finish level after install. If you can and are willing to successfully do the latter, you can also build wooden boats by hand. Let us know if you need more detailed information.
Old Thread, I know, but...
Something should be mentioned about Bender Board - also sometimes called Wiggle Board or Wiggle Wood. Basically, it's an interior grade of Lauan or Poplar plywood, either in 3/8" or 1/8" thickness, and can be bent as easily as a piece of paper.
Bender board shouldn't be confused with regular Lauan plywood used for interior door skins. Bender board is made differently. On normal plywood, the grain of each ply runs perpendicular to the ply it sits on top of. This, along with the glues, heat, and pressure used in the bonding process give regular plywood it's rigidity - even in a sheet only 1/8" thick. In bender board, the grain of all of the plys run the same direction, and it can be bent along the length of the grain. Bender board is directional, meaning you can order an 8' X4' sheet that bends on the long side, or the short side, but not both directions. One drawback to using bender board is it doesn't hold its shape without fasteners - meaning it must be screwed, glued, nailed, or otherwise fastened to something to hold that shape.
Here are a couple of links for Bender Board.
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In the cabinet shop, I've made some Bombe' front cabinets and curved, corner pieces using bender board, then applied Cherry or Maple verneer over it after the piece was completed. Then I finished it just like any other cabinet.
In the truck mentioned at the beginning of this thread, the bender board could be applied to the rear of the truck's cab, then a nice verneer applied over it using a good quality contact cement. A little light finish sanding with 150 - 220 grit sand paper, then adding the stain and topcoat of your choice would complete the project. Upholstering it could also be an option, but I've never upholstered it, so I don't know how that would work out. Wrinkles and such...
Hope this helps somebody out there!
|Listen to BRANDLER. The laminating method using thins strips of wood will give you an extremely stable and strong, perfectly curved piece that will look like the wood grew in that shape. the only plywood you can get anymore that isn't total crap is Baltic burch and that stuff is not easy to bend. In addition it is a most uninteresting grain and color.
|Yes, kerf cuts could work .... if the cab you're in is like your graphic, you've got a pair of faaaaairly tight curves to deal with. I'd suggest using as thin o' blade as you have, preferably one of those Japanese razor saws (or a sharp/thin hacksaw) and space the cuts close - 1/8" to 1/4". You can press it/mount it into place (after the soak), using the cab body as mold, then pour a line of wood glue along the top edge, and work it into the kerf ends with your finger, putty knife, or a compressed air stream. Before it dries, press a little kerf saw dust/glue into the kerf ends. Hit o' sand paper (120 grit folded to a stiff edge) and seal it.
|Luaun is basically the cheapest clean grain plywood you will likely find. It is basically a soft Philippine mahogany with a fairly strait grain and a bit porous. If you like the look it would be fine stuff. If you need a different harder wood, or can't bend a tight enough curve, the kerf cuts described by dave5113 should work with any plywood or solid wood you choose. If the curve you choose to bend is too tight to bend the wood without splitting, you must use either a thinner piece, or one made thinner by using kerf cuts on the back. Use water or steam to make the wood softer and able to bend without splitting and cracking. For best results, you can slowly bend it over a form and clamp it while it dries. More kerf cuts is better than too few. If you do use the kerf cut method you will likely have some long thin (weak) spots after it is the shape you want. You can spread on some epoxy to partially fill the kerf cuts to regain some strength, and material thickness. In this application, I don't think you need much strength, but you could laminate some additional wood or even fiberglass on the backside after it is the shape you want to add strength. Brandler offered a different but very appropriate solid wood approach. Another expensive approach would be to use veneer, which could be bent and glued to any already bent backing made out of any material including sheet metal or fiberglass. I'd recommend NOT using veneer for you project, and would recommend the kerf cut method with plywood. Veneer is most appropriate on a small item or area, particularly one with a lot of curves that solid wood cannot be used for.
|luaun plywood is a fancy name for interior door skin (like the doors in your house)..got it at home depot..it's about an 1/8 inch thick and has a good finished side..it also works great for the backing on door panels..
Thanks for all the input!
What in the heck is luaun plywood?? Iam sure I know what it is just never hear the name.
Thanks again
|I've got a 51 chevy pickup that i did the same thing to..i used luaun plywood (door skin) and it worked great..i wet it with water, not too much, and clamped it it a "workmate" and slowly bent it to the radius i needed and let it dry..it took a couple of times but it worked out perfect..the luaun plywood is cheap and has a good finished side for stain..i also used some 2x6's in the workmate and put the luaun between them so it would be closer to the point i needed the radius to start..i ran the luaun from door jam to door jam.. it fit in the groove at the back of the jam..there is a small brace there that you will have to notch out for..i also ran some 1x2"s across the cab braces to hold the luaun straight across the long span in the back of the cab..good luck..
Lee Valley Tools http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...D=&ccurrency=1
has all the tools you need to steam bend the wood and the prices are pretty good too. Good Luck.
|On the back side of the plywood from top to bottom make some cuts with a saw about 1/2" apart, but not into the last ply of the wood. Get the good side of the plywood wet, bend it to shape, when it is dry, sand off with 220 sand paper. If it will not bend, make the cuts 1/4" apart.Go slow. Hope this helps.
|The easy way to do this is to sand the ist ply clear off , wide belt works best, be sure to sand the back side, once the ist ply is off you'll be able to roll it like a piece of paper, good luck .
Ok, i'm a woodworker .... if you need it to fit curved corners, I'd suggest forgetting the flat plywood you have, buying a stick of 1X4 of the wood you like. Then 'rip' it on a table saw into 4 - 3/32" or so strips (4" X 3/32" X how ever long to wrap from door to door + a little extra). Make 3 dozen L's about 4" high with a 3" or so foot. A diagonal brace is recommended too, so these little L's will hold their 90degree angles. Then draw the curves, like looking straight down, onto a sheet of plywood and screw these L braces along the outside of the curved line about 3/4" - 1" apart. Soak those ripped strips in water overnight. Then place a bendy strip of something, like thin masonite, along the line and against the L's. Glue one side of strip one, place the unglue side up against the bendy masonite. Glue both sides of the next 2 strips and slap them in there then glue one side of the strip you want to show (the last strip) and put that up against the others. Cover this 'sandwitch' with another strip of bendy masonite and clamp this 'sandwitch' to each L (the masonite is to protect the glued wood strips from indenting from the L's and clamps).
Follow that? It's like you're making your own curved plywood.
Let that all dry a couple days, then unclamp, trim the edges, round over the inside corners, stain/finish and apply (glue/screw).
It's a long way around, but it's the way to do it right.
That would work fine. The stuff your talking about is called veneer. You could go the veneer route witch would be pretty easy, or you could buy and form some balsa wood, its a bit thicker, but with a tea pot or pot of boiling water you can form it with some patience. Veneer would be easiest and less exspensive/time consuming. You can get veneers in any wood species from oak to walnut burl, from domestic to exotic for a decent price. A bit of skill is involved in veneering, but I'm sure you'll get the hang of it rather quickly.
|It dosnt have to be very thick. I kinda dont like the painted wood thing I like the real thing. Not to mention finding someone who can do it right with out breaking me. I had an idea about using alum. sheet then forming and glueing some of that thin wood they ues to restore old desk or table tops. Cant remember whats its called. then finishing it with stain and varnish. Watcha think about that?
Maverick, steaming would be ideal, how thick does the wood need to be? If you just want the look of wood, why not do an aluminum or sheetmetal peice and have it painted to replicate wood? If you look in Madd Syntst's photo album the "woody" wagon at the bottom has this same idea done, paint!
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The Darkest Month
As if seen through the wrong end of a telescope, blurred and dimmed around the edges, the darkness of December beckons as November draws to its end. For the general non-pagan public in America, December is the brightest month of the year, a gleeful blending of commercialism, family ties, and food comas. For many (if not most) pagans, it is a conundrum of sorts, a season when non-pagan family obligations directly or indirectly conflict with the allure of like-minded spiritual gatherings. Historically, for Europeans throughout the middle ages, especially in northern Europe, it was a time of gathering the family tightly together against the outer cold, of taking in travelers and guests with generosity but caution (for who knew what--or Who--might be wandering out there in the freezing gusts, hobnobbing with the trolls), for lavishly feasting the gods--pagan or Christian, depending on the time and the setting--and the dead, but at a careful distance, ever mindful that the next hand on one's doorknob might not be a human one, that the skeletal scraping against windows might not be the branches of dead trees, that the dead walk this time of year, and that things and People far more dire walk alongside them--or worse, fly through the stormy night skies--keeping careful count of debts accrued throughout the year passed, and demanding Their due.
For me, as for my spiritual ancestors, December is the darkest month of the year, with the traditional twelve days of Yule--the "smudging nights," so called in folklore because you had better be smudging your home with protective herbs against the wild spirits that roamed the long nights--beckoning at its black heart. It is the most precious month of the year for me--for it was in this month that I took sacred marriage vows to my Husband, Odin, that darkest of gods, at this darkest of times. But it is also the most dreadful month. It is a time when the air is filled with ghosts and the trolls spill upwards through the cracks in the earth, freed from their underground lairs to walk among humans.
For me it is, beyond all else, Odin's month--although that is certainly not limited to December. Although I feel and honor Him equally, yet somewhat differently, throughout the other seasons of the year, during the period of late September through the beginning of January we see His darkest face, the face of Yggr (the Terrible One) who sacrificed Himself on the World Tree, the face of Wilde Jaeger (the Wild Hunter) who rides His flame-eyed steed at the head of the Furious Host. Perhaps I am biased, but although I do have special festival days throughout the year for Him, and especially in late September through November, for me December is all about Odin, from beginning to end, even though several of the actual festival days within it are goddess-focused.
I was halfway through writing this when I saw Galina's post on her Heathen Heretic blog about the process of designing a personal religious festival calendar, streamlined to fit one's own unique spiritual path and individual needs. I started working on my own calendar a couple of years back, inspired by what a few other spirit workers and polytheists of my acquaintance were doing along these lines. Prior to that point, I had celebrated days of special significance for me personally (such as the anniversary of my vows), I had commemorated the days of the week that are named for specific gods (especially Wednesday for Odin), and I had wavered between celebrating the full panoply of festival days adopted by most modern Heathens or choosing to commemorate only the ones that "clicked" with me personally (including the "hero's days"--the Heathen equivalent of saint's days--that I connected with most readily). I admit, even though I have always dwelt on the "woo" (witchy/shamanic/ultra-personal-gnosis-driven) fringe of Heathenry, for several years I struggled mightily to fashion myself to the confines of its mainstream and to fit within one established Heathen tradition or another--Asatru, Theodisc belief, Fyrnsidu, and so forth--obviously to no avail. When I first began as a baby Heathen (and baby godspouse) there was no "spirit worker" community to speak of, no one who could advise me to follow the promptings of my spirits and of my own heart and intuition. In the end, I managed to fumble along by following Odin's lead and listening to my other spirits, and I cobbled together something that works reasonably well for me.
As I'm sure is the case with everyone who had been through a similar process, my personal calendar has been very much a work in progress, continually having festivals and events added to it, developed further as I do more research or am given additional inspiration, or (occasionally) taken away. With my avid interest in all things medieval, I suppose it stands to reason that I adopted the concept of the advent calendar as my working model for the Yule season.
Advent (from the Latin adventus, meaning "coming") is a Christian concept, a series of festival dates that mark the progression of the Christmas season. Now, I am not claiming that this practice was borrowed from paganism, but since so many other trappings of the Christian festival year clearly were, and so many Christian holidays were intentionally superimposed onto traditional pagan folk festival days by the medieval Catholic Church, I feel no qualms about adopting the calendar--along with some of the actual days in it--for my own purposes. I have also been making an effort, in developing my year-long religious calendar, not just the Yule portion of it, to dig beneath those superimposed saint's day and uncover some of their original meanings.
Once Samhain has passed (which is certainly not a Heathen holiday per se, but dovetails nicely with Winternights, the Scandinavian festival for the elves and the dead), my Yule advent calendar proper begins with St. Martin's Day on November 11th and ends with Twelfth Night, which we tend to celebrate in our household on New Year's Eve. I'll talk more about November in a future post discussing my calendar as a whole, but for this post I thought I'd focus specifically on the December dates. Before I do, though, I'd like to add that in honor of the 10th anniversary of my marriage to Odin, this December I am devoting the entire month to Him. I am not promising to post something about Him on my blog for every day of the month, for while I think that is a worthy devotional exercise it would, for me, put too much emphasis on interacting with others rather than going deeper with Him. However, I will be sharing poems, anecdotes, and posts from my old spiritual diaries, as well as crafting a number of things as gifts for Him, photos of which I will share on my blog. I am also, throughout the month of December, inviting readers of my blog to Ask Me About Odin--whether such questions be related to lore or personal practice. If you have a question, please email it to me: firstname.lastname@example.com. I will select questions to answer in blog posts (on my personal blog, not this one) during the month.
And now on to the festivals that currently make up my Yule advent calendar...
Gunnlod's Day (St. Barbara's Day) – December 4th
St. Barbara was a rather obscure Christian martyr who was locked up and persecuted by her father for her faith. Her day is traditionally associated with prophecy, prosperity, and luck in love. The idea that she was imprisoned by her father for disagreeing with his ideas about things struck a chord with me and invited comparison with Gunnlod, the giantess who was appointed by Her own father to guard the Mead of Poetry in a subterranean cavern beneath his mountain fortress. Bent on recovering the Mead for the gods and Asgard, Odin penetrated the cave and won Gunnlod's heart in the process, whereupon She surrendered the Mead to Him willingly. Gunnlod is not much honored by contemporary Heathens, which is odd given the fact that the sharing of sanctified (and usually homebrewed) mead is the central communal sacrament of the religion. However, She has played an important part in my own spiritual development, and is also--so I have been told--an ancestress of mine. And so I set this day aside as a time to honor Her. This also happens to be the anniversary of my Marriage to Odin (interestingly, I only found out about the St. Barbara--and Gunnlod--connections with the date afterwards) so much of what I do to observe it is private for obvious reasons.
Oski's Day (St. Nicholas' Day) – December 6th
Sometimes associated with Odin, sometimes with various other pagan gods (most notably Poseidon, in Greece), St. Nicholas (a fore-runner of Santa Claus) has many attributes in common with Odin: both have beards, carry a staff (in Odin's case, a spear), and ride on a white horse. St. Nicholas has a black servant named Zwarte Piete (Black Peter), while Odin has two black ravens. On the eve of St. Nicolas' Day in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, children would place their boots, filled with carrots, straw or sugar, near the fireplace for St. Nicholas' (Odin's) horse, and He would replace the horse food with gifts of candy. This evolved over time into the modern Christmas custom of hanging stockings to be filled. I have seen, in recent years, a growing number of Heathens adopting this day as "Oski's Day" in honor of one of Odin's ostensibly gentler and friendlier faces, Oski or "the granter of wishes." While Odin has certainly fulfilled this function in my own life in more ways than one, the old saying "be careful what you wish for" should certainly be taken into advisement here! I celebrate this day by giving special thanks for all of the blessings He has given me, and by giving gifts to Him in turn. (And by the way, I do not follow the modern Heathen precaution against "giving too much." From archaeological findings and the stories in the Icelandic sagas, relating how the weaponry of entire armies and even the sons of kings were sacrificed to Him freely, I see no evidence that this was a rule followed in the past, and no reason to limit my own gifts to my Beloved, as He certainly does not stint on His gifts to me.)
Lussinata (St. Lucy's Day) – December 13th
Lussinata, or Lussi Night, was in the unreformed Julian calendar the longest and darkest night of the year. The Lussi, a female demon, was believed to ride through the air on this night with her followers, the Lussiferda. I see in this an obvious parallel with Frau Holle or Holda, a continental Germanic goddess who is sometimes perceived as an old hag and sometimes as a beautiful young woman. Frau Holle, an exemplary housewife, is believed to cause snow to fall from the sky when She shakes out Her down comforter. A patroness of spinners and witches, She has many points in common with Frigga and probably deserves Her own separate post, in fact! More to the point of this post, on Lussi's Night She leads Her own version of the Wild Hunt, which is believed to be made up of the souls of unbaptized children (although I doubt Christian baptism had anything to do with the selection criteria, originally; probably any children who died in childhood were eligible).
In Scotland and the Orkney Islands, this night was known as Tulya's E'en, and according to tradition the trow--a species of Little People similar to trolls--were released from their underground lairs to reek whatever havoc they desired on the world of men. At any rate, during the time between Lussi Night and Yule proper, trolls, evil spirits and the dead were thought to be especially active. It was particularly dangerous to be out on Lussi Night itself, which was also in some parts of Scandinavia known as the Perchtennacht (blackest night)--Perchta being an alternate name for Frau Holle.
In present-day Scandinavia, St. Lucy's day is still celebrated. One girl in each town is elected to represent Lucia, and is dressed in white with a red sash and a crown of lit candles (another probable echo of Frau Holle). She leads a procession of other women dressed in white and carrying candles, a symbolic lighting the way against the darkness of this night. I remember how, way back when I was in grade school, our holiday pageant (our school administrators were much too forward-thinking to call it a "Christmas pageant") focused on this theme. As the oldest girl in my class at the time, I was chosen to be Lucia, and although proud of my status I was very thankful that I didn't have to wear a crown of actual lighted candles. (They used the electric Christmas-decoration kind instead.)
Oracular seidhr for Yule - December 16th
Oracular seidhr ( a word that means either "to speak" or "to seethe"--the debates still rage) is an ancient pagan Scandinavian method of trance divination, which you can read more about here. There are as many different ways of translating this art into modern practice as there are modern practitioners, but my own seidhr practice invites requests for an oracle from members of the extended pagan community and the general public several times per year. There is no charge for this (although donations are welcomed), but I ask that you send me only serious questions, as this practice is an integral part of my spiritual path and not a parlor trick, and if you choose to send a question I ask that you respect this. (Questions can be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com; please include the header "Yule seidhr.")
Modranect/the eve of the Winter Solstice – December 20th through the 21st
This year, the 21st is the date of the astronomical Winter Solstice, and start of the traditional "smudging nights," during which the home is purified with smoke and herbs to drive away unfriendly spirits. In Anglo-Saxon tradition (as recorded by Bede in the 8th century) the eve of the Solstice is also Modranect, or Mother Night, the time to honor the mothers among the gods, which in our household includes Bestla (mother of Odin), Frigga, Gunnlod, Jord, and several others, as well as our own ancestral mothers and disir (protective/guiding female spirits). This year, for the first time, I will also be honoring a special group of personal disir I refer to in my own spirit work practice as "the Queens," who actually are the spirits of English medieval and Tudor queens who have been kind enough to offer me their collective wisdom and companionship.
Yule/the Winter Solstice - December 21st
In pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon England and in the Northlands, Yule officially began with Mother Night on the eve of the Winter Solstice and then continued for the next twelve nights afterwards, ending on or around New Year's Day. For me this period is both the peak of the festival year and the height of my spiritual year, a time for intense spirit work with Odin, the dead (which in my case is not limited to just the human dead, as I work with the spirits of dead animals and plants as well) and the Wild Hunt, which is composed of both human and non-human spirits (gods, elves, trolls, etc.). This is the season when (in Scandinavian tradition) the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest, and the gods, the dead, and other denizens of the other worlds walk among us with the greatest ease.
During the Twelve Nights of Yule, my activities include uti seta (the Scandinavian practice of "sitting out" with the spirits), trance journeying, pathwalking (walking in two worlds—in my case, usually Asgard and Midgard–at once, most often in wooded areas but sometimes on the streets of our little city), divination for the year ahead, and artwork created in trance as portals and vessels for the Hunt to use. Much of what I do during this time period ends up being private simply because I have no words with which to frame the experience, and sometimes it seems wrong to try. There are certain experiences that are so sacred, so numinous, that attempting to communicate them to others is pointless, at the same time as it actually cheapens the experience itself. This is part of the ancient definition of a Mystery, a spiritual truth that must be experienced directly to be known. (In fact, I will admit that I use this criterion as a private yardstick of sorts: if someone is boasting about an experience that I would be terrified to speak of, or honor-bound by either love or duty to remain silent about, that calls the person's credibility into question, for me.)
12th Night (New Year's Eve) – December 31st
For 12th Night, the last night of Yule, our household observes the Norse tradition of toasting and boasting, which greatly resembles the modern custom of making New Year's resolutions. As always, however, when you're holding a horn of mead in your hand in a ritual setting, it is wise to be mindful that the horn represents the Well of Wyrd, with anything you say going directly into the Well and becoming part of your orlog (a concept similar to fate, except that you participate in actively creating it yourself). In other words, don't oath lightly, and keep in mind that even so-called "resolutions" should be carefully considered and not rashly made.
I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but I think that hits most of the ritual highlights of the month ahead for me! It's going to be busy and grueling, but it's the month I look forward to all year long. Here's to December!
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Interestingly, I just read an excellent book by Claude Lecouteux entitled "Phantom Armies of the Night: The Wild Hunt and the Ghostly Processions of the Undead" that debunks the notion that Odin was regarded as the leader of the Wild Hunt, presenting it as a conflation of similar, but ultimately different, legends. I highly recommend it.
Sunday, 25 November 2012
As you already know, I'm of two minds about claiming saints' days for my own calendar. I've tried it, I don't love it, but I can see the appeal, and ultimately I think that if it works for someone, they should use it. I rather love having a fluid religious calendar. I really enjoy seeing other peoples calendars and, especially, the thought-process behind the building of them. I think it's important to share. There are enough of us out there who do not fit neatly into specific religious boxes.
Great post!
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