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Obtaining Parameters for Geotechnical Analysis
Increasingly powerful personal computers combined with user friendly numerical analysis software are giving rise to greater emphasis on numerical analysis in geotechnical design. For the ongoing transition from empirically to numerically based design to continue engineers will need to ensure appropriate parameters are adopted. However, obtaining appropriate parameters is not just a matter of getting results from standardised tests. There is an over-riding need to ensure that any set of parameters adopted adequately reflect complex field behaviour. If the soil parameters are not obtained to a sufficiently high degree of accuracy then the subsequent numerical analyses will be of little value and potentially lead to the wrong design decisions.The main objective of this book is to provide guidance on all stages of obtaining geotechnical parameters for numerical analysis, from selecting constitutive models,to planning and specifying the site investigation, interpreting data and deriving soil parameters, and assessing the reliability of soil parameters in a numerical model.
For specific discussions and worked examples, five common constitutive soil models are used throughout this book: linear elastic perfectly plastic model with Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion (M-C), Modified Cam Clay (MCC), Hardening soil model (HS), Hardening soil model with small-strain stiffness (HSsmall) and Jardine et al small strain model (JSS). However, the guidance provided in this book is still largely applicable to all constitutive soil models.
Target Audience:
- This book is aimed at readers with various backgrounds. It can be used by experienced geotechnical analysts as a reference tool for obtaining and validating geotechnical parameters, but also by novice analysts in order to develop their competences in all aspects of obtaining geotechnical parameters.
- It can also be used by those involved in all stages of site investigations for numerical analysis, even if they have no involvement in numerical analyses themselves, since this book provides extensive guidance and references on advanced site investigation techniques and, furthermore, helps site investigation specialists to understand the needs of numerical analysts.
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While a novice geotechnical analyst could benefit enormously from reading this book from cover to cover, it has also been arranged as an easy-to-use reference tool for analysts at work. For instance, to perform a particular analysis, Section 2.3 highlights appropriate constitutive models and critical parameters, and readers can quickly find the relevant parts on soil testing and parameter derivations by then referring to Tables 4.2, 4.4 and 5.2. Site investigation specialists will benefit in particular from reading Chapter 2 which describes how real soil behaviour needs tobe idealised in some way in numerical analyses, while the other chapters will also serve as a useful reference source for the advanced techniques and parameter derivation methods often used for numerical analysis.
In summary, the contents of this book consist of Chapter 2 which covers analysis planning, including selection of constitutive models and other factors to consider when modelling soil, as well as useful quick reference guides on the constitutive model input parameters and appropriate models for particular applications. Chapter 3 provides guidance on specifying and obtaining high quality soil samples for laboratory testing, as well as groundwater monitoring. Chapter 4 provides extensive guidance on all the main types of in situ and laboratory tests used to measure soil parameters for numerical analysis, and planning site investigations. Chapter 5 provides guidance on deriving parameters from the measured values in accordance with Eurocode 7 and has 17 worked examples on deriving parameters from various in situ and laboratory tests for the five common constitutive models. There is also guidance on the important step of validating the derived values of parameters. Chapter 6 provides some guidance on how to manage the all too common situation of having insufficient site investigation data. Finally, Chapter 7 describes how to assess the reliability of soil parameters in the numerical analysis and how to manage potential errors arising from analyses when they do not match field conditions.
1. Introduction
2. Analysis planning
2.1 Overview of soil models
2.2 Some factors to consider
2.3 Typical applications
3. Soil sampling and groundwater measurement
3.1 Soil sampling
3.2 Groundwater monitoring
3.3 Case studies
4. Soil testing
4.1 Test planning
4.2 Laboratory testing
4.3 In situ testing
4.4 Case studies
5. Parameter derivation and validation
5.1 Parameter derivation
5.2 Parameter validation
5.3 Case studies
6. Other sources of parameters
6.1 When there is insufficient site investigation data
6.2 Case studies
7. Reliability of parameters
7.1 Assessment of soil model accuracy
7.2 Managing potential errors
7.3 Case studies
8. Standards
9. References
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WILL SHORTZ, BYLINE: Good morning, Rachel.
MARTIN: Refresh our memories. What was last week's challenge?
SHORTZ: Yeah, last week's challenge was to name an island in which some of the letters appear more than once. I said drop exactly two instances of each repeated letter. And the remaining letters can be rearranged to name something to eat. What is it? Well, my intended answer was Manhattan. If you drop those repeated letters, each one twice, you're left with ham. But we got some alternative answers. Santorini - you know that island...
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MARTIN: In Greece? Yeah.
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FRED STADLER: Well, thanks so much.
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STADLER: I usually try to work these ones backwards, in reverse, but that wasn't going to work. So, I looked up a list of islands and looked for repeating letters and decided just that I try Manhattan first. And I'm very bad at anagrams, but I can do a three-letter anagram, so this one was pretty easy.
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STADLER: Oh, Oshkosh is a delightful city. I'm retired and I moved here because of the Experimental Aircraft Association. It has a world-class aviation museum here and I'm lucky enough to get to fly kids ages 8 to 17 with free rides and adults in a 1929 open cockpit biplane. So, it's lot of fun.
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STADLER: I do. I have a 1956 Cessna 310 that we've been all over the country in and we really enjoy recreational aviation.
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STADLER: Well, I was sort of curious, Will, how do you avoid having duplicates? You know, you have so many puzzles and so many other things, that...
MARTIN: That's a good question.
STADLER: ...how do you keep track of that?
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MARTIN: Wow. You just remember what you've done?
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STADLER: I think I'm going to make some of your listeners feel relatively smart.
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SHORTZ: That's it. Number two: a person who works at a store.
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SHORTZ: That's it. Something considered immune from questioning or criticism.
STADLER: Sacred cow.
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SHORTZ: No.
STADLER: Oh, well, it's Santa Clara then.
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MARTIN: Oh see? Yeah, now you ask me.
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SHORTZ: Mark Twain's real name.
STADLER: Samuel Clemens.
SHORTZ: That's right. And your last one: photographer's request just before snapping a picture.
STADLER: Oh, say cheese. Oh, how appropriate for a Wisconsiner.
MARTIN: Fred, that was so excellent.
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STADLER: Oh, I listen to WPNE in Green Bay and also WRST in Oshkosh.
MARTIN: Great. Fred Stadler of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Thanks so much for playing the puzzle, Fred.
STADLER: Thanks so much.
MARTIN: OK, Will, what's up for next week?
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- The Opaque Prism said...
Well my take is that the former Ambassador is a seasoned diplomat and veteran in the polished ways of presenting things. Oprah is just a tele star whose USP is charisma.
- August 3, 2012 at 7:22 PM
- Aaina said...
Why are Indians so sensitive about the way they are seen for what they are? Does it rub sand in yoru shoes shobha? That you are drinking Robert Mondavi, eating caviar in Mumbai while millions of people 5 feet from you have no access to clean drinking water?
As an american Indian I can tell you her comment"Indians stille at with thier hands: was not emant to offend but show the ties to cultural heritage. At the crux of it, is that all you Kelly and versace pruse carrying, globe trotting, hinglish speaking desis, felt bad for being shown the real face of India. One where the disparity is so wide and so unfair that people get insensitised to it.
How else would you survive?
Not to say that there is no poverty here, but we welfare for poor people, we have child and women food stamps available for people. Some people dont utilize it due to mental problems or drugs abuse. But it is there.
We have douche bags like the Kardashians and the hosuewives too. Who need to shipped off the mars. Yet, Indians have no qulams about molesting women, pinching thier bottoms on a daily basis, but if a non indian was to draw attention to it..Holy Rama, all hell breaks loose.
Isn't this is a good time to evaluate why millions are poor, and have no drinking water? or sanitation?
Instead of trying to get positive reviews from some Gora?
If you are so sensitive, stop drinking you $100 wine and donate money to put up some toilets, water wells and such.
- August 3, 2012 at 8:55 PM
- Desi Babu said...
Dear Mrs. De,
Many years ago, I used to live in the land of the free, where Oprah dwells. And based on their culture of being "direct", I did not find any fault with her description of Mumbai. It is what it is.
We Indians should be more tolerant of what people say about the trash in front of our houses that we dump. If not, we need to take a broom and do something about it. Believe me, most Americans act that way to fix their problems, while we, simple whine about them.
All Indian cities have their fair share of problems. When was the last time we saw an enlightened writer we all know (and like), write about it? No need to take a broom and sweep the streets of Kolaba, but please, just write about them. May be, something will happen.
By the way, Ambassadors, who have been knighted, are neither good at diplomacy, nor at looking good in shining armor. Ignore them.
- August 4, 2012 at 10:22 AM
- Anita Jeyan Sandeep said...
It makes me embarrassed to see one of the comments above- from an Indian who suddenly identifies herself with the West.Yes staying there makes you that, ma'am. We are clearly ashamed of people like you. And who the hell are you to say about contributing to toilets -when you are there in the US, earning and paying taxes to build toilets there. Well you can do your bit here cant you?
And about the butt pinching bit.Please dont get me started about the sexual atrocities that happen on a daily basis in your country. Also you should know about the NGOs and other organizations which help poor people here, and about the poor students who get a noon meal everyday at school. Oh you might be an NRI.. and u might be treading Oprah's path on showing India in a poor light without much information. SHAME on you, woman.
- August 4, 2012 at 12:23 PM
- Indo-Global said...
Very well_said, Anita.
- August 5, 2012 at 3:13 AM
- Aaina said...
Anita ,
Please go back to high school , bcos with your juvenile comments thats were you ought to be.
I am of part Indian origin and to be frank, shame on you, get off your friggin high horse.
I have build wells in Chad, volunteered in India and used my engineering skills to help build basic pumps in northern India and Nepal, donated time and money. So before you start acting like a lunatic. WTF have you done, other than acting like a total B****?
If you read my comments with an open mind,I do acknowlegde that atrocities happen here and people point it out rightly so, but not the extent as it happens in India. I dont get upset just becuase someone points out the obvious. Sometimes People say things that may appear rude due to cultural differences. I have been offended many times when Indians have asked me "what are you?"
Why are Indians like you so sensitive to criticism, yet dont think twice before calling other people like Blacks "kallus", asians" Chinky" or their own lower caste people "chamars".
I seen Indians here eschew fellow indians who were lower caste and yet kiss up to the white man.
Please..seems like you need a crash course on dont hurl stones on other people, if you cant deal with the brickbats.
- August 6, 2012 at 9:47 PM
- Sally said...
@Aaina.....Well said, to both of your comments. Couldn't have verbalized it better.
@Anita.....The craziest part of your comment is when you say 'An Indian who suddenly identifies herself with the West' Why are you assuming its necessary for her to first identify as an Indian?? You are making her sound like some Pro-India Motherland lover who went to America and got caught up in the greed, glitz, and sleaze of the West and 'suddenly' like a traitor started identifying with the West. Therefore she needs to be embarrassed and ashamed of herself. As you so point out.
And yes, there are Indians who don't live in India and have not been born in India. The West is their 'home' and it WILL come off like that!
Not every person of the Indian heritage who is going to make comments on this blog is going to live up to the denial that people as yourself and Shobha De like to live in about the blatant insensitized culture that India has always been.
- August 6, 2012 at 11:22 PM
- Aaina said...
Thank you @ Sally.
I dont "identify" myself as western but as a human being. LOL..this coming from people who use "English" to communicate and prove thier superiority to the ethnic speaking populace (Yes, seen that in India, amongst the literate undecuated Indians). Dont think twice before ordering their food from a 12 year old child or employing 12 year maids. Most of them live as western as they can in India, trying to ape the Yankees, wouldn't be caught dead speaking their mother tongue,and yet I am acting western..oh the Irony of it all.
- August 7, 2012 at 12:42 AM
- nidhi said...
The only reason Shobha De likes this documentary is because the presenter consulted her and features her inner circle in his coverage.
Ms. De, you were all over Oprah when she was in India. Now, you have suddenly changed your tone and have been critizing her. You are actually making a fool of yourself.
And by the way, I saw nothing wrong in the way Oprah portrayed India. I live in Canada and was actually embrassed to see the way Indians compalined and whined about a simple televsion series.
Grow up.. seriously!!
- August 8, 2012 at 6:36 AM
- Sally said...
Dear Ms. De
I can appreciate the one-sided biased views that you have in regards to India. You are a writer after all, and a passionate one at that...The juiciest writing to read, is that of a very biased and opinionated person. I watched Christopher Meyers video on Mumbai... which you claim to be "Balanced, Fair and Classy" and couldn't stop chuckling. Making a video about Mumbai and ONLY showing the "Rich and Classy" is NOT... Ms. De, a Balanced, Fair and Classy portrayal of India. It is a portrayal, yes, but a very biased one. Oprah on the other hand at least went across the many facets of India. Oprah is the one who made the Fair and Balanced Portrayal of your country....it's not Oprah's fault that India is not classy in all aspects....blaming her is pointless.
It's too bad that the Elite of India have turned a blind eye to what REALLY exists in their country to such an extreme point, that when an outsider comes in and points out what "is", the Indians blow up in a rage and point fingers blaming everyone around, everyone except themselves. If you want an outsider to come in and film something wonderful in your country, think about trying to make your country wonderful and helping your poor and stop wasting time insulting others and trying to impress everyone in the West.
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If you have an HTC Sense 4+ phone, HTC and Playstation Mobile want to give you a free game every week through the end of February. Much like the offer for free games on Sony devices, there are no hoops to jump through, just download the Playstation Mobile for Android app, set up your Sony Entertainment Network account, then use your Sense 4+ phone to download your free games. Supported models include:
- HTC One V
- HTC One S
- HTC One X
- HTC One XL
- HTC One EVO 4G LTE
- HTC One X+
There is one sticking point -- your phone must be running Android 4.1 and Sense 4+ or higher, which leaves folks on AT&T and T-Mobile out in the cold unless they've rooted and ROM'd. Feel free to express your distaste in the comments.
This week's free game is Cubixx, and HTC reminds us all to check every week for a new game. See the source link for the full details.


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Sandra Bullock wore Victoria Beckham to the premiere of The Heat in London last night. I'm really into this dress, especially the back in that it's supposed to look like your bra is exposed. Unfortunately, the shoes. I can't with the chains. It's too much of a night out in Vegas by Kanye West's girlfriend.
Did you know that The Heat 2 is already in production? They film hasn't even been released yet but two months ago a sequel was approved.
Sandy went out for dinner after the event. Too bad it wasn't with George Clooney who's been in England shooting The Monuments Men. She and George worked together on Gravity, opening in the fall. A trailer for the film was posted last month -- click here for a refresher. It looked good...but terrifying. So, if The Heat can deliver, and Gravity is as impressive as people hope it will be, Sandy might have a repeat of 2009 when she kicked ass at the box office with The Proposal and finished the year with a drama in The Blind Side.


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DENVER (AP) — The nation's most sweeping measure addressing youth-concussions in sports was signed into law Tuesday in Colorado, where the guidelines for protecting child athletes will require coaches to bench players as young as 11 when it's believed they've suffered a head injury.
DENVER (AP) — The nation's most sweeping measure addressing youth-concussions in sports was signed into law Tuesday in Colorado, where the guidelines for protecting child athletes will require coaches to bench players as young as 11 when it's believed they've suffered a head injury.
The new law also requires coaches in public and private schools and even volunteer Little League and Pop Warner football coaches to take free annual training online to recognize the symptoms of a concussion. Most of the dozen other states with laws meant to protect young athletes only require concussion training for school-related athletic programs.
"This is the most far-reaching bill in the country with regard to protecting children," said Republican state Sen. Nancy Spence, one of the sponsors of the legislation.
The Colorado law, which goes into effect in January, comes as concern over concussions in youth sports is receiving more attention nationally, and it was among those passed in the last two years with support from the NFL, which either helped states craft legislation or gave endorsements for the measures.
Jeff Miller, the NFL's senior vice president for public policy, said the league is changing its culture surrounding concussions and how players are treated as new information emerges about the risks and consequence of head injuries. Miller said he understands sports at all levels look to the NFL for guidance.
"We have a responsibility to set the standard and we take that responsibility seriously," he said.
Colorado's Senate Bill 40 is named after Jake Snakenberg, a Colorado high school student who died in 2004 after being hit during a football game. His family said doctors told him his injury was likely compounded by a concussion he suffered in a previous game that went undiagnosed.
Snakenberg's mother, Kelli Jantz, closed her eyes as she hugged Gov. John Hickenlooper shortly after he signed the bill into law Tuesday.
"To have Senate Bill 40, the Jake Snakenberg Act, serve as his legacy gives me some peace and provides some sense of purpose to our loss," she said.
Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Oregon are among the states that have passed laws that address head injuries in youth sports, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Utah signed a bill into law last week and California and Nebraska are among states with pending legislation.
About 135,000 children ages 5 to 18 are treated in emergency rooms annually for sports and recreation related concussions, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"For me, because the child's brain is still developing, is still immature, I think we need to take these injuries especially seriously," said Dr. Michael Kirkwood, a pediatric neuropsychologist at the Children's Hospital and co-director of the hospital's concussion program. Kirkwood said another reason to pay attention to brain injuries in youth sports is that there is little information about the long-term impacts concussions have on young athletes. Most of the information doctors know about the consequences of concussions, including mood and cognitive disorders, come from the NFL.
"We don't have an answer yet for younger kids," Kirkwood said.
Jake Bryant, 16, was a goalie in an advanced youth hockey with the Colorado Rampage when he decided to retire after suffering five concussions in less than two years.
"I just kept getting more and more and it was to the point where it was too much it was risking my health," he said. Bryant said he feels fortunate that he did not suffer more serious harm because he and his coaches handled his injuries correctly because he was never pressured to stay in a game or return prematurely.
Another youth hockey player, Alexandra "Z" Karlis, suffered her first concussion last October while playing in Boston with a Colorado youth hockey team. Karlis, 17, will continue to play, but she said the injury made her aware of all the potential long-term impacts of concussions.
"That completely freaked me out," she said.


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Learners will explore the concept of parallax (the apparent displacement of an object caused by a change in the viewer's position) and then simulate the discovery of Pluto with a Blink Comparator via an online interactive.
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In this kinesthetic activity, students learn how photons may be transmitted, absorbed, or scattered. Materials required include a small ball, an overhead projector, 4 clear cups, different liquids (milk, water, black ink, grape juice), and a... (View More) flashlight. This resource is from PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science - a collection of brief examples created by scientists and engineers showing how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes have real world applications. (View Less)
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We went foraging this weekend for blackberries and were lucky. This is the first cake I made in our new home, our new kitchen and in a new oven. It's a gas oven and I will surely need some time to get used to and to bond with. Quite a special relationship between a baker and his/her oven, right?
And with a newborn in the house there is just no time to bake. On some days it's a struggle to find the time to cook (so blessed are frozen and canned foods these days!) and I can be lucky if it's still hot when I come to eat it. So making a cake is somewhat a luxury now that I cherish and it tasted even sweeter.
100ml vegetable oil
125g brown sugar
4 eggs
200g flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 lemon (juice and zest)
pinch of salt
100g caster sugar
Preheat oven to 175-195°C. Separate the yolk and white of 3 of the 4 eggs. Mix the oil and brown sugar with a hand held blender, add the one egg and 3 yolks, salt, lemon juice and zest and beat until pale. Mix the baking powder and the flour and sift, gently adding to the mixture. Pour into a baking tin and bake for about 30 minutes. Sprinkle the blackberries on top and bake for another 20 minutes and take out of the oven. Reduce the temperature of the oven to 125°C. To make the meringue whisk the 3 egg whites in a metal bowl until they start to form peaks and add the sugar. Beat some more until stiff and glossy. Now spread over the slightly cooled cake and put back in the oven to bake for another 45 minutes to an hour. The meringue topping should be golden on the outside and have a nice crunch to it.


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Could Eating Yogurt Give You A Slimmer, Sexier Swagger?
It might be time to start stocking up on yogurt, if studies on mice are any indication of health benefits to humans. Scientists researching how probiotics fight obesity stumbled upon some unexpected results in mice — they got super sexy and had increased "swagger." Swagger as defined by researchers, that is.
ABC News says scientists at the MassaÂchusetts Institute of Technology knew they were onto something while studying how yogurt could possibly ward off age-related weight gain, and were surprised to get such sexy mouse results.
To test that theory, researchers fed one group of mice a normal diet and added a mouse-sized serving of vanilla yogurt to the diets of the other group. That's when things got sexxxxy!
"One of the first things we noticed was their fur coat," said one researcher. "It was so thick and shiny; shockingly shiny."
Not only were the mice shiny and slimmer, but the males had "swagger."
"We knew there was something different in the males, but we weren't sure what it was at first," said a researcher. "You know when someone's at the top of their game, how they carry themselves differently? Well, imagine that in a mouse."
It wasn't just a general sense of swagger, either. There was some, uh, very visible evidence, noted by a lab technician.
"She noticed their testicles were protruding out really far," said a researcher, adding that the yogurt-eaters had testicles that were 5% bigger than their counterparts, and 15% larger than those on a diet aimed at mimicking a human's junk food diet.
Beyond the apparent yogurt-inspired confidence, researchers say male fertility was enhanced, and there were legitimate physiological differences in the yogurt eaters and the other groups.
Females also had a share in the swaggerfest, with shinier coats than the males and better mothering habits to larger litters.
"We think it's the probiotics in the yogurt," another researcher said. "We think those organisms are somehow directly interacting with the mice to produce these effects."
Yogurt Makes Mice Slimmer, Sexier [ABC News]
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Over the past two years, the Crossborder Crew of volunteers and corporate sponsors, Sevenson Environmental and Atwal Eye Care have raised funds for many local youth and recreation programs in Wilson. A portion of these proceeds were also used to create a maritime heritage trail that was unveiled Memorial Day weekend. The trail incorporates history with navigational skills to wrap hikers around the harbor, through the village and back to the Lake Ontario information center.
This project serves the community in both an educational and tourism aspect and is another addition to summer recreation in Wilson. Pictured, the Crossborder Crew unveils the Wilson Maritime Trail at the first Mooring Post outside the Wilson House Inn. (photo by Wayne Peters)


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Have you heard of Maybelline's year ender campaign? If not, it's #Makeithappen. This tagline of theirs gives a strong message to women, It inspires. You see, a lot of things are happening lately. Aside from political heat, a growing economy and others of that ilk, we have a journey to make. The goal of that journey is to promote not only growth in our career or life status, but also spiritually. Whatever it is that brings goodness, #Makeithappen.
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And by the way, if you are the type who is into planners, you might wanna check out Maybelline's.
Aside from being affordable as a free item for every P 1,000 worth of Maybelline beauty products, it's a great kickoff and monitoring agent. It's absolutely adorable. <3
You see, I find planners a great way to remind us of our goal and to keep track of them. And it is a matter of getting used to all the planning and taking down notes every now and then, Soon it will be a part of the routine.
Well again, Happy New Year and everybody. May the Lord's in our lives be done.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (September 18, 2008) - The ETSU men's tennis team looks to continue its success as they travel to the prestigious 41st annual Southern Intercollegiate Championships, Friday and Saturday, at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga.
The two-day event will feature 179 participants from 32 schools including notable ranked Duke, Florida, Georgia Tech, Middle Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and host and two-time defending NCAA champion Georgia.
This is the oldest collegiate fall tournament in the South. This year notable individual field includes 16 nationally ranked players and two top-10 Division II members.
The Bucs are coming off a strong showing in their first fall tournament, the Virginia Fall Classic, last weekend. Leading the way for ETSU was a trio Buccaneers.
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After tonight's Canucks loss, and after this dismal road trip, I'd say it's time for Trevor Linden to do some quick pre-Christmas housecleaning.
The time has come to relieve Willie of his coaching duties and along with him, get rid of Miller. It's about the usual time of the season for Miller to get injured and be on the bench for a few months anyways.
I'm sure the owners are not amused at what's happening on the ice and at the box office.
I'd sure hate to be paying salaries in US dollars when the house is half empty night after night.


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Sasha is Warwick's own certified pet therapy dog. But, Sasha's journey to obtain such a title is different from most dogs. She is a pit bull. Sasha is also homeless; she was abandoned a year ago and has been in the care of the West Warwick Animal Shelter ever since.
Susan Parker and Kerri Sobel, who were in charge of Sasha's training, said they chose her because she was never aggressive, and they thought she was just special. Sasha began her training in March and has been so successful that they want to create a program so more homeless dogs can be like her, and find better homes because of it.
Parker is the owner and founder of Dynamic Dog Training and The Little Rhodie Bully Breed Club. Dynamic Dog Training will train all sorts of dogs, while The Little Rhodie Bully Breed Club is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping sheltered pit bulls.
"I just love them," Parker said of the breed. "They're misunderstood, they're loyal, loving, and have a bad rap. I want people to feel the same way I do about them."
Through both of these organizations, Parker has been able to train dogs using two programs, which she hopes to combine to create a third one for dogs like Sasha.
The first program, Out of the Pits and into the Ritz, is a national program. It allows shelter dogs, specifically pit bulls, to obtain the AKC Canine Good Citizen certificate. Parker began working with Out of the Pits, in 2005, and in a spin-off program, she and Sobel work with students at the Met School and children sponsored by the North American Family Institute every week to help train the dogs.
"The program is written so kids understand to treat their pets with love, honor and respect," said Parker.
According to the American Kennel Club, the Canine Good Citizen Program "lays the foundation for other AKC activities such as obedience, agility, tracking, and performance events."
Most shelter dogs are adopted before they can obtain the good citizen title.
The second portion would be based off Lexis Circle of Friends Pet Therapy Program, which is taught by Parker and named for another homeless pet therapy dog, Lexi. This program deals with dogs who already have owners, and who already have the AKC Canine Good Citizen certificate. Dogs, and owners, are taught the proper temperament and behaviors for going on pet therapy visits to nursing homes or children's hospitals.
Although shelter dogs do not normally enter the pet therapy program, Sasha showed so much potential that both Parker and Sobel wanted to enroll her.
"After we started the AKC Classes, we agreed Sasha was special, so I said let's try it," said Parker.
Sasha excelled in her training, especially with children. Now they hope to put her either in children's hospitals or interventions with teenagers. Sobel, who is a volunteer with both Dynamic Dog Training and The Little Rhodie Bully Breed Club, has a 15-month-old son that Sasha has become great friends with.
"He's been around her for about a year. When we go for a walk she likes to be near him and keep tabs on him. She's very gentle with him. They're best buddies!" Sobel said.
Sobel has also received some backlash about her choice to let Sasha be around her son.
"She's fantastic with him. People say, 'Oh, I can't believe you let a pit bull near your baby.' But she's just so good. They're inseparable," she said.
Parker stated that she would like Sasha's future owners to be responsible with pit bulls, and continue with the children's pet therapy. However, they shouldn't own cats.
"Sasha's not a cat lover," she laughed.
The new program will aim to make more dogs like Sasha. They will take dogs from shelters that already have some basic obedience training, like sit and stay, and train them to receive the AKC Good Citizen Certification. Once they become Good Citizens, the shelter dogs will be trained to become pet therapy dogs like Sasha. The training will be similar to what Parker teaches dogs with owners now, but more intensive so that when the shelter dogs are adopted owners know they have had rock solid training.
"Our goal is to make this a shelter dog program for dogs that have the qualifications and personality," said Parker.
The program will differ slightly from Out of the Pits because it will not be limited to just pit bulls but will be open to shelter dogs of all breeds. However, Parker and Sobel want to make Sasha the poster dog for their new program, so that they can support their new program and still help to get rid of the stigma against pit bulls.
The new program has yet to be named, but Parker and Sobel are ready to get the ball rolling, and help out more dogs like Sasha.


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I recently had the need to move the quorum for a cluster to a new SAN drive. It's a quite simple thing to do, but some of the options and locations of the cluster resources itself are a little hidden in Windows 2008. Let's just walk through the basic steps.
The first thing you need to do is get the new drive added to the cluster and put into the proper group. If the drive is being presented from a SAN and you have multiple paths to that SAN, then you will need to setup whatever multi-pathing software you have. If you're not sure, then an easy test is to open Window Disk Management and see how many new drives are there. If there are more drives there than you are supposed to have, then you need to setup your multi-pathing. Once you get that setup and reboot, you should now see the correct number of drives. If you are on a cluster, you need to do this on each node in the cluster.
Now that your drives are correctly presented to the OS, it's time to bring them online and format them. You can do this from the node in the cluster that your services are currently running on and you only have to do this on that one node. Right click the drive in Windows Disk Management and select online. Now that the drive is online you need to right click it again and select initialize. Finally you need to format it by right clicking the drive and selecting New Simple Volume. Walk through the wizard giving it a drive letter and formatting it with a label. Don't worry about what drive letter you assign, as we can change that later.
You are now ready to add the drive to the cluster. Open the Cluster Manager MMC, expand the cluster, and select storage in the left hand pane. In the right hand pane you will see all of your cluster groups with their assigned storage below the group. Select Add Disk in the actions pane and select the disk to add. You will now see a group called Available Storage where you will find your new drive.
At this point everything is now setup and ready for the move. In the left hand pane, click the cluster name at the top of the list. In the actions pane go to More Options and select Configure Cluster Quorum Settings. Follow through the wizard and the only thing you need to change is on the Configure Storage Witness page. On this page, simply select the check next to the new storage disk. You have now successfully moved your cluster quorum to another drive, but let's verify it. Open Windows explorer and view the new drive. You should now see a folder called Cluster, which verifies the move. Just to be clear, what you have really done is not move the quorum but created a new one.
If you want to reuse the old drive letter (Typically Q:\), then right click the old drive under the Available Storage group and select Change Drive Letter. Now you can right click the old drive and select delete, which will remove it from the Available Storage group in Cluster Manager. In order to assign your new drive to the previously used drive letter, simply right click it in Cluster Manager and select Change Drive Letter. The old drive letter will now be available, so simply select it. After changing the drive letter you now need to restart the cluster service or run the following command from an elevated command prompt to move it to another node.
cluster group "cluster group" /move:nodename
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What Are Your Worst Fears in Pregnancy?
Sometimes the Facebook Queries take a deeper turn than others. This question in particular struck a chord with many women. Fears in pregnancy aren't often delved into beyond momentary glances followed by reassurances that everything will be fine. Sometimes the feelings need to be held for a little longer than just a moment, but promise me, ladies… you won't take these fears and wear them like a new cloak you'll worry about every day.
Here, without even initials, are the fears women bravely shared on my Navelgazing Midwife Facebook page. Feel free to add your own to the list. We'll hold them tenderly.
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- My biggest fear was a baby with a cleft palate or something like that. I remember feeling so guilty that I was being so shallow. I wasn't afraid of a cesarean or my baby dying.
- Unresolvable shoulder dystocia is my irrational worst fear. Until the baby actually comes out, I'm scared every.single.time that s/he is stuck.
- Cord accident, hands down.
- Stillborn, late term miscarriage, due to hyperemesis, low birth weight, breathing difficulties, a heart issue, hemorrhage; I was pretty much a basket case of worry.
- With my first baby, it was probably something that required an NICU stay or lengthy separation. With my second (as I was planning a homebirth), it was having to transfer emergently to the hospital for a C-Section. With this pregnancy, I'm not really sure. I'm more afraid about after the baby is born and how I will handle 3 kids, spaced closer than I ever planned on, and if I'll have to go back to work.
- After 4 miscarriages, it's always loss.
- Shoulder dystocia is my nightmare. I have bigger babies with line backer shoulders and my first did indeed have SD (shoulder dystocia) although that was likely due to position/epidural/being induced early and was fairly easily resolved with McRoberts. Still, it's a scary thing to be in the middle of and I always feared it would occur again without being able to get him/her out. I was also scared of breech with my twins...and you know how that worked out. (She had a breech and it went fine.)
- NgM - I know we all know this, but I really, really hope women don't judge their own fears as being appropriate or not. Just because one woman has death fears doesn't mean a baby with Down syndrome isn't equally terrifying. Even when something is correctable like cleft palates or other "cosmetic" issues, I know those can be just as horrific in the head.
- That someone would take my baby from me. I had nightmares about it in my second pregnancy, where I was hiding the baby so no one could find him. After he was born, I had PPD (Postpartum Depression) and was convinced that something horrible was going to happen to them and they would die, so I was planning their funerals in my head. My psychiatrist promised me that no one was going to take them away or commit me, to help me trust him and open up about my symptoms.
- I think I feared a mentally disabled child the most, having been brought up to think intelligence was all important. My father taught mentally handicapped children and achieved great things with them, teaching many to read, write and do simple math even though they were only supposed to be able to, by the classifications of the day, to be only 'trainable' not 'educable.' He also taught them to work with tools and with many other things in the world. For instance, having an enormous aquarium in his room filled with local stream life. He behaved with devotion towards them, but always grieved at their limitations beyond which his efforts could not take them, and feared finding any such thing in his children. I believe in the worth of all people, not dependent on their intelligence, but the values I was brought up with were also strong in me.
- With my UC (Unassisted [Child]Birth), being responsible for my baby's death.
- Dead baby. Always, the constant fear of a dead baby. Waking up and frantically poking my belly 'til I could feel baby wake up as well. Every morning.
- I also had similar fears for probably the first year of my first child's life. That he would die.
- I was afraid once because I ate the potatoes which had parts which had turned green and read that this might be a cause of spina bifida or anencephaly. It seemed impossible to get through any pregnancy without doing or encountering something which one could fear might have harmed the baby.
One fear I think was real. I was taking anatomy and physiology and we were doing dissections without gloves and pickling our fingers in formaldehyde. I read that in a long list of teratogens and went to my teacher, who told me to stop, not to do any more dissections. That baby was born with a minor degree of hypospadia, and I think that could have been the reason.
But most of the rest were merely dark shadows of fear finding some form to cling to.
- With my third, I had an intense fear of pushing. It hit me suddenly during transition. I felt better once I verbalized my fear of pushing with my midwife. I don't know why, but just saying that I was scared of the pushing stage made me feel better and less scared.
- My fear during pregnancy was of the hospital staff being pushy and not allowing us to labor peacefully and birth how we wanted. Grateful that in the end it didn't matter at all!
- To be honest I didn't even have a reasonable degree of fear that anything would go wrong during birth. I had tiny pricklings of fear about my C-section scar for the first few home births and then I really totally forgot about it. Other than that, I just didn't expect that I would have any problem giving birth. Not saying this is reasonable but that is where I was at.
- My first child was before my "birth enlightenment". Because I have always had horrible constipation, I thought my body would not be able to push a baby out. "If I can't push out a little poop without pharmacological help, how can I push out an entire person" was my very real fear. It seemed so private and scary, I never told a soul. Turns out my body knows exactly what to do - 3 contractions of pushing and he was out. But my fear made me push too hard, and I prolapsed my uterus. A good reminder that 1) no fear is to silly to talk about before birth, 2) fear can truly effect birth and 3) to take seriously any fear that women discuss with me during pregnancy/labor.
- That I would have to be transferred to the hospital. And then all of my defending of homebirth would have been out the window. But it went well and we birthed at home 5 weeks early!
- Scared that I'd be transferred to the hospital. Scared about tearing or being cut again. Phobic about the ring of fire, after the consultant made out she did me a HUGE favour by giving me a local and a cut and using forceps. She fed me lies about the baby emerging being the worst pain ever, just couldn't shake that fear.... Stupid woman! It could have been easier and smoother if she hadn't given me that worry to hold me back!!
- Having to have a c-section. The first pregnancy I read that What to Expect When You are Expecting book and was in fear of everything.
- I had a strange fear of dying when I was pregnant with my first. I looked around at all the women in my life who had survived giving birth and realized that odds were firm that I would too!
- I was petrified of induction or c-section. Induction became a reality at 42 weeks, but I fortunately still had a vaginal birth. Will never willingly birth in a hospital again.
- My biggest fear with #1 was cleft lip, cleft palate. I watched a lot of infomercials about it during that pregnancy.
#2 my biggest fear was premature labour (because of #1)
#3 my biggest fear was going into labor far from home, thankfully I was home because my labor was 30 minutes that time.
- This sounds like the silliest thing in the world, but my biggest fear when I was pregnant was that I wouldn't take care of her umbilical cord stump properly. By the time she was born, I had worked myself into a full tilt over it, convinced that I was going to somehow kill my baby because I messed up her cord stump.
- Oh thank you so much for asking this... some of these still haunt me and I've never really been able to tell anyone! I had a fear that my oldest son would drown complete with nightmares about it. I feared something apocalyptic would happen and I wouldn't be able to get to my mom's 200 miles away. I also had fears about how I would be able to get all the kids out of the van if I crashed into water.
- I am so worried about a prolapsed cord. And having to transfer to the hospital. And that my baby will die. Scary stuff.
- NgM - When I was pregnant with Tristan (#1) back in 1982, ultrasounds were archaic, barely able to display a shadow, much less anomalies. They did one at 7 months because I'd already gained over 50 pounds (ended up gaining 70 pounds). I got to watch the screen (rare for that time) and when I saw his hands, I freaked out that he had stumps for hands, his hands curled into tight balls like claws, deformed and ghastly. The doctor told me it was nothing to worry about, that everything looked normal, but I obsessed about it the rest of the pregnancy. When he was born, I didn't care about the gender, I just wanted to see his hands. Of course, his hands were in balls because that's how baby's hands are!
I was so, so green back then and this memory helps me with newly pregnant moms scared of something or other, that explaining things, not just reassuring them, can make all the difference in the world.
As we all see, of course, even the most knowledgeable of us can have enormous fears, rational or irrational; doesn't matter which.
With Meghann, I was terrified of a cesarean; she was a UC with a gnarly shoulder dystocia.
With Aimee, I was worried about shoulder dystocia (of course), but more worried about having to endure hospital protocols when I knew better. (I was a doula and having a homebirth.) My water broke 7 days before labor started, leaving me in the hands of the CNMs at the military hospital. I finagled signed birth plans from docs re: my desires. In the end, labored alone and had Aimee in the car. Because of my birth plan, however, we stayed a mere 3 hours then went home. It was the BEST birth of all three.
- Water breaking preterm before 37 weeks and therefore not being able to have my homebirth.
- My fear? - my baby's death, either as a miscarriage, a fetal demise, during birth, or as a baby.
- Having another stillbirth after losing my first baby to PROM (Premature Rupture of Membranes) at 20 weeks. I was terrified of going into preterm labor before 25 weeks and being told they couldn't help me again.
- I'm so glad I had my daughter before I was an NICU nurse. I just had those vague fears that something might be wrong.
- Going into labor prior to 37 weeks or having to transfer to the hospital. I did transfer to the hospital after 36 hours of active labor (6+ in transition), but birthed a beautiful 40-weeker vaginally after 44 hours. I had random fears throughout pregnancy of my son dying.
- I'm 34 weeks with my first and am still in shock that nothing has happened and everything has been text book. I've had bizarre health issues since puberty so I don't have a lot of trust with my body. I am trying to work through the fear of waiting for the other shoe to drop. The unknown is what's most terrifying. That I am going to have a child for the rest of my life and cannot guarantee it's protection is terrible.
- I had nightmares about having miscarriage or stillbirth. During labor all I was worried about was a c-section, it was a constant fear.
- So, I am not afraid of another c-section. I am not afraid of a stillbirth (not that I want one), or a miscarriage or congenital defects - in the end of the 3rd trimester and during labor death seems to be walking with me. Not death of the world, MY death, my end, to me birthing is bringing life and death. I am not normally morbid nor morose but it makes my hair stand on end and I do think death was holding me close during my c-section, and I remember being given a choice (in my head) after he was born and I didn't care at all. So I do what I can to avoid death before, during and after pregnancy but I know that will be there next time too.
- I honestly didn't have many fears with baby 1 or 2. With my 3rd son, all I could think was I am tempting fate. I've never had a miscarriage so until I reached about 15 weeks the fear of that was in my mind. I worried about still birth after that. When I finally put that fear to rest, I thought I'd conquered the notion that I could not be so "lucky" as to have another healthy child and birth, but the stuff my doctor said throughout the latter part of my pregnancy seeped in. About 25 weeks he was first hinting at big baby. Then by 30 weeks, he wanted to schedule my induction (which I flat out refused). He scheduled one any way, which I didn't show up for. I went a few days overdue feeling perfectly fine, but when it was time to push my baby out, very briefly, I felt fear creep in (I've never felt fear pushing my baby out before). I thought I was a bad girl and didn't listen. My baby will get stuck and die and it will be all my fault for not listening and tempting fate and getting pregnant again. I think my boyfriend sensed my hesitation, because he whispered in my ear, "If you need to push, think of the reward you are getting when you are done. We will finally see our baby." I pushed our son out in less than 15 minutes after that. slowly, on my own terms, and it was beautiful. He did weigh over nine pounds, but I had no trauma because of it. And neither did he.
- I am pregnant with #4, 39 weeks on Wednesday and those silly fears of tempting fate have popped up again. I addressed them all early on with my midwives. Now I focus on positivity and strength. The strength is to be able to deal with whatever comes my way. The positivity is basically knowing I can do this. My baby can do this, even though it's a first home birth for me; I feel more relaxed because of it.
- I don't remember many with my first 3. I guess the biggest was #2 and I was afraid I would end up with another cesarean. I was scared a lot of my pregnancy with #4 that something was going to happen to her. She was not planned by my husband and I and I knew if something happened to her it would be hard to cope with because I had just decided to go back to school and we were struggling as it was. She's 22 months now and the biggest blessing ever!
- I was scared I'd develop preeclampsia –again- and scared I wouldn't make it to term… again (x2). I didn't and I did and it is the greatest feeling of pride and competency to be able to say that my body CAN do what it's supposed to. I CAN carry a pregnancy to TERM.
- Having to have a c-section. It's honestly the main reason I wanted to go/went med-free, to give myself the best chance at vaginal birth. (It also meant I was doing every trick in the book from 37 weeks on to get baby into a good position and encourage labor.)
That being said, I had to come to terms with the fact that a c-section was a possibility and it might be beyond my control. Being HSV+ (Herpes Simplex Virus), my biggest fear was losing my chance at a vaginal birth with a late pregnancy outbreak. Despite taking prophylactic Valtrex in the last month, I got a lesion a week before my EDD (Estimated Due Date). Probably due to stress/anxiety/hormones shifting with labor on the horizon. At that point, I was having regular periods of BH (Braxton Hicks contractions), so I was terrified of going into labor before I was healed. Let me tell you, I am now a firm believer in positive thinking, and it doesn't hurt if you also have friends praying for you. I firmly told my body to hold off on labor until my EDD. The BH stopped completely. I commenced with a lot of self care to heal as quickly as possible. Wouldn't you know, my water broke spontaneously shortly after midnight on my EDD, contractions started 15 minutes later, and 12 hours later I had a beautiful med-free hospital delivery.
Interesting moment from labor: I had just made it through transition and was told I could start pushing. I had been way deep in labor-land, but the second my midwife gave the green light for pushing, I snapped into clarity and had my first RAWR MAMA BEAR moment and asked her to double check and make sure I was completely healed (even though I knew I was) just in case because I couldn't handle the possibility of hurting my baby girl.
- NgM - Wow, everyone. Very, very powerful, these thoughts.
As you women spoke about luck running out, I totally remembered that after you said it. I'd never had a miscarriage (still haven't), really didn't have any problems during the pregnancies, no bleeding or anything... and I was a doula pregnant with 2 and 3, so knew way too much at that point to be non-chalant. I was so scared something was going to smack me upside my head and I would be one of most who've experienced so many things going wrong.
My things that went wrong (shoulder dystocia, post-dates, SROM [Spontaneous Rupture of Membranes] for days) were not anticipated, so didn't terrify me. Much scarier were the unknowns. I think it's part of why I play out the worst-case-scenario with clients; it can really help name the fear and put it in its place.
I see it like this.
The fear is the mouse in the corner, but all you can see is its huge, long, ugly shadow on the wall. Talking about the fear gives mom a flashlight to peer into the darkness and, hopefully, see the scary thing really isn't that giant shadow, but a small mouse that's lost its way. Please don't think I'm diminishing the fears' grasp, but offering a way for moms to face the worst and then be able to put it in a box and set it aside when they can. If that helps someone here, I'm glad.
- During my 1st, when I was about 16 or 17 weeks, I remember a woman telling me that she lost her 1st baby at like 24ish weeks. (And side note--I have no clue why she would just volunteer such information, in great detail, to a women who was newly pregnant!!) And that became my greatest fear -that I would lose the baby in some rare, pre-term labor type situation. And then my greatest fear came true. (Due to cervical incompetence @ 19.5 weeks.) As my cervix was dilating prematurely, on the surface I was in denial. But in my head, before I even went to the hospital, I knew it was cervical incompetence. I just knew it. I had no history or anything else that would've suggested to me that it was cervical incompetence... I just knew it in my heart.
Something happens to people when they've already experienced their greatest fear realized. It can make you stronger or it can paralyze you. During my 2nd pregnancy, it paralyzed me. I was terrified of losing another baby in the same way. I kept telling myself, "I'll be more relaxed when I make it to 24 weeks, 26 weeks, 28 weeks, etc." Yet as I reached each of those milestones successfully, I found all sorts of new things to obsessively fixate upon. I most certainly carried all that fear into my birth.
Thankfully, I was able to fully grieve the loss of our 1st baby before we conceived our 3rd pregnancy. This pregnancy was totally different. I was far more educated, empowered, but most of all, I was free from all the painful baggage I carried into my 2nd pregnancy/birth. During my 3rd pregnancy, my greatest fear was a c-section, or rather anything completely out of my control that could lead to a truly, medically-necessary c/sec. I believed in myself and I was very confident in my abilities to have an unmedicated birth. Then my baby was breech and stayed that way through all my attempts to encourage her to flip!!! And I ran out of time trying to find a care provider who had experience w/vaginal breech (which I was willing to consider). So I decided to embrace my birth and my baby and carefully laid out a positive c/sec plan. And in the end, because I worked through my greatest fear, it didn't become my worst nightmare. A c-section is always a c-section; it can never, ever come remotely close to resembling a normal vaginal birth. But for what it was, I was able to make it as positive as possible.
- I was worried about being stressed and the baby picking up on it. Stressing about being stressed. Worrying that my baby would be a worrier. Any less than pure thought in my mind was undermining my baby's future. I was mostly scared about becoming a parent.
- My biggest fear was AFE (Amniotic Fluid Embolism). Which was really not something I could do anything about.
Now, my biggest fear would be abuse/intentional harming/disrespect and disregard. This is, of course, because of what did happen with my last birth.
- Losing this baby, very early on after 3 miscarriages. I set a milestone and would get excited when we met them: 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 20 weeks, and now 28 weeks.
- Bleeding to death in labor. I used to have strange dreams about this when I was young, long before I was ever pregnant. Someone (of a more mystical bent than I) once told me that I had died of PPH (Postpartum Hemorrhage) in a previous life! This fear completely disappeared after the first labor went smoothly.
- Carrying the baby to term, just to have it be still born. Or dying in childbirth... I think that scared both my husband and myself.
- I'm interested that you remember your fears so clearly Barb, or anyone else with adult kids. I don't remember any at all, although I'm sure I had them. In fact I know I had them, because I remember an important task of my first pregnancy was learning how to box up the fears of things I could not control.
I always thought of it as putting them in a box and putting the box on a shelf. Trying to make the fears just go away wasn't really do-able, but putting them in a box on a shelf meant I could take them down and have a look at them from time to time, but put them away again so that they didn't drive me crazy. I no longer remember what was in the boxes. Perhaps they got lost in a move somewhere along the line.
- Shoulder dystocia. Ever since I learned about it at about 5 months, I couldn't stop thinking about it. Once I decided on a home birth, I had a fear that there would be more than one client in labor at the same time.
I'd like to note that both of these things happened. He was a dystocia and thankfully I was able to move around because I was at home and my midwife handled the situation with such skill. Amazing. Also, there was another client in labor! She went into labor before I did, and had her baby after I did. Two Valentine's Day babies!!! I kept a pregnancy journal. It's so weird to go back and read it now.
- Still birth is the one thing that really makes me stop. Most other things I don't worry about. I guess I just don't let myself worry about them.
- NgM -Thank you, all of you. May all your fears vanish in the wind... or at least, maybe they'll stay put in that box on the top shelf of your closet for the duration of the pregnancy.


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"It was a weekend of great highs and lows," Rich Brierley, who coaches the Montauk Rugby Club, said on the team's return from a regional Sweet 16 tournament outside Pittsburgh over the past weekend.
Montauk, which had finished as the Northeast's runner-up to Middlesex, a Boston-area side, came in as the tourney's eighth seed, setting up a game with top-seeded Naples, Fla., Saturday, a game that the South's champion apparently thought it would win without too much trouble. But, wonderful to tell, the Sharks, whose forwards Brierley credited with the win, pulled off a huge upset, defeating the Hammerheads 26-21 in a sudden-death overtime period that followed upon two 10-minute OTs and 80 minutes of regulation.
Brierley, who began playing with Montauk in 1981, said it was "the best game I've ever seen a Montauk team play, even better than our Sweet 16 win over Provo, Utah, in 2006."
A win Sunday over Rocky Gorge, Md., the mid-Atlantic champ, would have assured the Sharks of a trip to the Final Four in Denver over the June 2-3 weekend, "but we ran out of gas," said Brierley of the 27-17 loss. "They had more depth than we did and they just kept pushing us back and back in the second half, stealing the ball from our rucks before enough of our guys were able to move on to the ball."
That wasn't the case Saturday, however, as Montauk's forwards to a great degree controlled the ball, which frequently made its way out to the backs.
The Sharks drew first blood Saturday after Nick Finazzo, a second row forward, picked up a loose ball at around the Naples 22-meter line and fed it to the number-eight man, Mike Bunce Jr. Bunce, in turn, lateraled to Gordon Trotter, the fly half, and Trotter got it out to the left winger, Steve Turza, who ran it into Naples' try zone.
Naples replied soon after as its forwards pushed the ball in from the 5-meter line, tying the game at 5-5.
Two subsequent penalty kicks and a converted try sent the Southern champs into the halftime break ahead 18-5, but Montauk was not cowed. "We adjusted," Brierley said. "They were stopping our progress early on, interrupting the pattern of our play, but our forwards stepped it up in the second half. They got us back into the game. . . . There isn't a team that tackles as hard as we do. It's not just me talking — other teams have told us that. You can shake off one or two shots, but if you're hit hard repeatedly, it tends to make you more tentative. Eventually, you get worn down." On offense, he added, Montauk's forwards "put in the hard yards."
"Also, I think Erik [Brierley, the coach's nephew] played the best game I've seen him play with us at fullback. He was under a lot of pressure. Their fly half kept trying to kick for field position, but Erik either countered with a run or a kick of his own. He was solid. He made more than two try-saving tackles as well."
With the forwards increasingly controlling the ball "the momentum shifted . . . Gordon scored after three phases from inside the 22, and then Teddy Grabowski, who's had some nagging injuries lately, made a hugely important penalty kick for us from about 35 yards out to bring us to 18-13 with about six minutes left. That's not a lot of time in rugby where the clock never stops. We needed a try to tie."
Montauk got it from Jim Abran, a wing forward who, breaking tackles, ran the ball into the far right corner of Naples' try zone from about the 10 after it had been played out of a ruck.
Grabowski was unable to convert the acutely angled conversion kick, and so the game went into overtime — "two 10-minute periods that you play out. They weren't sudden-death."
Naples made good on a penalty kick in the first one, and Grabowski made good on a penalty kick in the second, again from about 35 yards out. With the game tied at 21-21, a third overtime period, this one a sudden-death OT, ensued.
(Trotter, Montauk's New Zealand-born captain, said later he muffed a chance to score the game-winner in the first OT. Thinking, mistakenly, that Montauk would need a converted try to win, he turned, once having run into the try zone, toward the goalposts behind which he hoped to touch the ball down only to have it knocked from his hands by an alert defender.)
A coin toss resulted in the Hammerheads kicking off to the Sharks, who, "in five or six phases moved all the way down the field — we must have had possession for two or three minutes. We were pushing right and Gordon was waiting for the defense to bite. When it did, he swung the ball out to Matt [Brierley, Rich Brierley's son], who was on the left wing, and Matt ran it in from 10 to 15 yards out, beating his man to the corner."
The dazzling upset of the regional tourney's top seed was the latest in a number of a heady moments the Sharks, who weren't expected to be so good when they took the field last fall, have enjoyed in the past months, during which they topped the Met Union's Division II sides at 8-0, were the runner-up, as aforesaid, to Middlesex in the Northeast region tourney, and defeated three Division I sides in friendly contests this spring.
Asked how Middlesex had done in Pittsburgh, Brierley said, "They lost 39-36 on Saturday to Wisconsin."
Thus Wisconsin and Rocky Gorge are to play in the national Division II Final Four in Denver.
Interestingly, Montauk had a 17-5 lead at the half in Sunday's game with Rocky Gorge, thanks to tries by Jim Abran (converted by Trotter), Nick Lawler, and Trotter.
"They just kept coming at us in the second half," said Brierley, "and we didn't have enough guys to secure the rucks. We found ourselves constantly backing up, backing up. It was a war of attrition at that point. They scored a converted try with 20 minutes left, and then they broke through the middle to tie it at 17-17. Although the pass that led to that try was very suspect. I'm anxious to see the film. I thought it was a forward pass; the referee saw it from a different angle."
"Then, probably with seven minutes to go, their number-eight man scored the go-ahead try off the edge of a ruck near the middle of the field. There were a couple of missed tackles. They converted it and, with about two minutes left, they tacked on a penalty kick for 27-17. We came close to scoring in the last two minutes. We were inside their 22 when the game ended. There was no gas left in the tank."
"Still, while it was disappointing to lose, we all knew it had been a terrific season. Everyone played above expectations, especially the forwards, as I've said, and the credit for that goes to Mike Bunce."
Asked how Montauk would wind up in the national rankings — it was ranked 12th going into the tourney by Rugby magazine, which had Naples ranked second — Brierley said, "I'd be disappointed with anything less than seventh or eighth nationally."


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Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's Vice-Chairman, has said that:
"I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it," Warren Buffett's business partner, Charlie Munger, once said. "And never a year passes but I get some surprise that pushes my limit a little farther."
Machiavelli said it more succinctly in the Prince: that a man will sooner forgive the murder of his parents than being made poor. Obama has made the wealthy corporate leaders of America, well most of them, significantly less wealthy. Not poor, but not what they expected.
The first to be affected were property moguls. Guys like Donald Trump. Shopping malls, luxury condos, office towers, were all hit hard by the recession, and Obama piling on investment choking regulations, uncertainties, and costs. Cheap interest costs did not combat people not shopping (and closing of anchor stores like say, Borders) at malls, or not buying luxury condos (at expected prices) or cutbacks in office space. These folks were sunk-cost trapped, they could not just dump and run. So you had considerable push-back from these types, and Trump flirted with running against Obama.
The next to be affected were those CEOs with significant stock in their companies, or compensated with options. Which is most of the big company CEOs. As long as cheap money from "Helicopter Ben" Bernanke and Turbo-Tax Tim Geithner pumped up risky assets like stocks and bonds, all was well. Even if their companies long-term growth prospects in the US were about zero. They didn't care -- they were making money. China was going to grow forever! And reality set in. Even before the stock market turbulence, earnings were sliding, in internal reports these guys were reading, and they knew enough that stock prices would slide too. Making many if not most of their options utterly useless. And reducing their paper wealth in stocks significantly. Often at 30% or more haircuts.
So if you want to know (Brian Calle of the OC Register is correct, this is very unusual) why Steve Wynn of Wynn Resorts, or Bernie Marcus of Home Depot, or Andy Puzder of CKE are blasting Obama, it is because he made them significantly less rich. He lost them money. And they in turn will do their best to fire him.
No, it is not a "done deal." Obama has many cards to play. Republicans could select someone unelectable (Michelle Bachman, who while admirably Tea Party conservative, is hated by most White Professional women who in my view hold the key to victory). Romney could prove weak and McCain like in confronting Obama (a likely bet). Rick Perry could be painted as George Bush Returns. But very likely, Obama will not be raising huge amounts of money from Corporate America. Sure, Hollywood will kick in. So will Silicon Valley. But that's about it.
Meaning, Obama's likely to play big, some Gotterdammerung attempt, to change everything. Failing the usual Chicago method of digging up dirt or phony court challenges, expect lots of riots and race-baiting. It is the Chicago way.


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