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Parental Notice/Consent Laws
For Abortion Services/Family Planning Services
Life and Liberty for Women
opposes all such laws
Life and Liberty for Women
strongly encourages teenage girls and boys to talk with their parents and confide in them about issues surrounding their sexuality.
Life and Liberty for Women
strongly encourages teenage girls and boys to talk with their parents and confide in them about issues surrounding their sexuality.
Life and Liberty for Women
is aware that in some homes, that may not be the case. In homes where abuse is present or where communication about sex is not encouraged, young girls may not feel they can go to a parent. For those young girls, it's critical that medical confidentiality be available to them.
Life and Liberty for Women
believes that a law is wrong, immoral, dangerous and potentially deadly, that cannot guarantee that teenage girls will inform or seek guidance from a parent and would instead give teenage girls an option that today, with guaranteed medical confidentiality, they do not have to consider: self-aborting or unsafe and illegal medical care
in secret.
Life and Liberty for Women
believes that legislating parent-child communication will always fail to produce the desired outcome. We believe that education and skill building in parent child communication has the potential of producing the desired outcome without placing a child's health and life at risk, which parental notice/consent laws would do.
Life and Liberty for Women
believes that requiring parental notice/consent for STD testing, AIDS testing, or contraceptives will: stop teens from seeking such services with devastating consequences to their own health and life, would increase the incidences of sexually transmitted diseases among teens, and would increase teen pregnancy and abortion rates at an alarming rate. We are convinced that it would not lead to increased parental involvement or a decrease in sexual teen activity. Teens themselves are adamant about such results.
Life and Liberty for Women
believes that such laws are intended by the anti-abortion movement as another way to further restrict access to abortion services, and has no basis in a genuine desire to protect the health or life of any teenage girl.
NOTE: The 2003 Colorado Legislature passed and Governor Owens signed a
parental notice law which will take effect in late 2003 or the beginning of 2004.
It says that no minor girl under 18 may obtain an abortion without
notifying a parent and waiting 48 hours or unless they are given
permission by a judge through the judicial bypass provision of the law.
Forty-two states have laws that require a minor to obtain the consent of or to notify an adult, typically a parent, prior to an abortion. (AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NJ, NM, NC, ND, OH, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV, WI, WY).
Thirty-two of these laws are currently enforced.
Of the 32 states that currently enforce notice or consent laws, only Idaho and Utah do not have a judicial or other bypass provision allowing a minor to secure a court order in lieu of notifying her parents. (AL, AR, DE, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, NE, NE, ND, OH, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV, WI, WY).
Eight states permit a minor to notify specified adults, other than her parents, under certain circumstances. (DE, IL, IA, ME, NC, OH, SC, WI).
Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia permit a minor to obtain an abortion without parental consent or notice in certain circumstances if a physician or health professional waives the requirement.
In Maine, a minor may obtain an abortion without parental consent if a physician has secured the informed written consent of the minor and the minor is mentally and physically competent to give consent.
At least 11 states allow a minor to obtain an abortion without parental consent or notice if she declares she is a victim of abuse, neglect, rape, or incest. (AR, CO, IL, IA, KS, MN, NE, OH, SC, VA, WI). The Colorado Parental Notice ballot initiative that passed in November of 1998, is on stay while the court challenge to its constitutionality is litigated.
Connecticut does not mandate parental consent or notice, but requires that before obtaining an abortion a minor must receive counseling that must include discussion of the possibility of consulting her parents.
outweighing forced parental involvement,
is the health and life of all teenage girls
Life and Liberty for Women
recognizes and respects the delicate nature and the serious implications of the parent child relationship. As many supporters of
Life and Liberty for Women
are parents, it stands to reason that we are speaking on this issue, not just as activists and supporters of abortion and reproductive rights for all women of all ages, but we are speaking too as loving, responsible, and caring parents. And as loving, caring, and responsible parents, we have seriously contemplated the issue of parental notice/consent, and its implications for all the young teenage girls of our nation.
Respecting parent's authority over their own children and their right to give guidance, instill a moral value system within their children, and protect them from physical and emotional harm is not lost on
Life and Liberty for Women
. However, having said that, and absolutely having considered that as
Life and Liberty for Women
takes a stand against
parental notice/consent laws, it must be said that we have determined that outweighing forced parental involvement in this case, is the health and life of all teenage girls in this country, including the health and life of those who fervently support such involvement laws.
First, it is important to point out what should be obvious but often times is not for some who support parental notice/consent laws, that is that not all families look like a Leave It To Beaver family. Approximately 3.2 million cases of child abuse (emotional, physical, psychological, sexual abuse, and neglect) were reported in 1997.
An abusive parent or parents very often isolate the young girls they abuse and neglect. That is true because the abuser is trying to protect the "secret" and prevent anyone from finding out that he or she is abusing his or her child. They know that would mean police, an investigation and that they would be held accountable and likely be sent to jail.
In families whose children feel free to discuss such things with a parent,
neither consent laws nor notification requirements are necessary.
Additionally it can be said, that there are untold numbers of homes in which those types of horrible abuses and neglect does not occur but where an open communicative relationship with parents or a parent also does not exist, even though a parent may be adamant that it does. In his 1990 book, "Abortion, The Clash of Absolutes," Laurence H. Tribe says, parental notice/consent laws, "while perhaps intended to foster communication within families, may only compound desperate situations where communication just is not possible. In families whose children feel free to discuss such things with a parent, neither consent laws nor notification requirements are necessary. And even if one could as a general matter legislate intrafamily communication, something that seems most unlikely, there are some circumstances in which the consequences of the attempt would surely be devastating."
Sometimes a parental consent/notice law will include what is described as a "Trusted Adult" clause. That clause would allow another adult besides the parent, usually a aunt, grandmother, stepparent, etc., to be notified or give consent in place of a parent with the intention of providing a remedy for girls who fear telling a parent, especially an abusive parent.
Life and Liberty for Women
supports any idea that parents could utilize to give young girls more options, however, we do not
support such for the sole purpose of providing a remedy for young girls trapped in an abusive home. As discussed above, one of the most easily readable signs of a child trapped in an abusive home is one of isolation; that is the abuser attempts to keep his secret by isolating those he abuses from other family and friends. Consequently, other trusted adults are non-existent for these families. This would provide no remedy for any young girl being abused by a parent.
Life and Liberty for Women
believes that when contemplating the need for a parental involvement law requiring teens to notify one or both parents or obtain consent from one or both parents to obtain an abortion, it is essential that it be from the perspective of the teenage girl we must look. She is probably frightened, unsure of what to expect, maybe unsure of how she got to this point. She may feel alone, hopeless, and helpless. She may very likely feel she can't talk to her parents, or she doesn't want to because she may feel that she will be seen as sorely disappointing them. She may feel very depressed and desperate. And yes this would be the perfect time to have a parent enter into the picture - unless that parent is abusive, neglectful, or unable to provide genuine parental comfort and support or if the parents or parent is perceived to lack those abilities by their daughter. Here it can be said that that perception by the young girl is what it all boils down to.
Becky Bell, had she been able to maintain her medical confidentiality and
gone to a clinic for a safe and legal abortion, would still be alive today
In 1989 Spring Adams, was a 13-year old from Idaho, who became pregnant when her father raped her. Her age was at issue in paying for an abortion or traveling the nearly six-hour journey to the nearest abortion provider. Social Services in Idaho would not cover the abortion cost because there was a law preventing public funding of abortions - even in cases of rape and incest. A private organization stepped forward to pay for her abortion, travel and lodging expenses but the day before she was to leave, her father found out. When she went to sleep, her father went into her room and shot her to death with a rifle.
Around the same time period, news reports were a flutter with the story of a 15-year old honor student at a Catholic high school who became pregnant. She knew she could not seek her mother's help. Seven years earlier her mother had sought an abortion and had regretted it. Since that time, her mother had repeatedly stressed to her children that abortion was murder. So rather than tell her mother, she tried to self-abort. Her mother found her, dead on the bathroom floor. She had died from a pulmonary air embolism caused by the wound she had inflicted on herself as she tried to self-abort.
And of course, the now very well known story of 17 year-old Becky Bell who lived in Indiana, where a parental consent law is enforced. Rather than disappoint her parents who believed they had a wonderful and communicative relationship with Becky, she, just shy of her 18th birthday when she would not have been subjected to the consent law, sought an illegal abortion. She died.
Three very different circumstances but the outcome was the same; three beautiful and very desperate young girls dead. No parental notice/consent law did or could have changed these outcomes. In the case of Spring Adams or the 15 year-old whose mother was now adamantly "pro-life," a parental notice/consent law would not have made these scared and desperate young girls go to their parent. They would have circumvented the law and the results would have been no different. In the case of Becky Bell, had she been able to maintain her medical confidentiality and gone to a clinic for a safe and legal abortion, she would still be alive today. Of that,
Life and Liberty for Women
, is sure of.
Nearly 40% of the teens that would not go to a clinic if
they were forced to tell their parents in order to do so say
they would instead self-abort or find an illegal abortion.
There may be nothing more compelling, however than to hear the facts from the horses mouth. A 1991 study based on a nationally representative sample of more than 1,500 unmarried teenage girls having an abortion, where no mandatory parental consent or notice laws are enforced revealed that, 61% of parents knew of their daughter's pregnancy and abortion. Additionally, 57% of the mothers who knew about their daughter's pregnancy did not tell her father. Seventy-five percent of the parents who knew about their daughter's pregnancy, said their daughter herself had told them and a great majority supported their daughter's decision to have an abortion.
Further, the study revealed that the young girls who did not tell their parents were disproportionately older (aged 16 or 17), white and employed.
In this study, these teens revealed the most common reasons for not telling their parents. First, there was a desire to preserve their relationship with their parents and a desire to protect the parents from stress and conflict.
And of those who didn't tell their parents, 30% had experienced violence within their home and was afraid that violence would occur or were afraid they would be thrown out of their home.
Additionally, and as equally as important, was the revelation by 52% of the young girls whose parents were not aware of their pregnancy and abortion that they had consulted with another adult, other than clinic staff about having the abortion. Twenty-two percent said they had consulted with a professional.
But the fact that is most revealing and disturbing, is that nearly 40% of the teens that would not go to a clinic if they were forced to tell their parents in order to do so, say they would instead self-abort or find an illegal abortion.
The stories above bear out that stark reality.
Life and Liberty for Women
believes that these facts and these stories give us fair warning about the devastating effects these laws can have on young girls lives.
Adolescents are more likely than older women
to obtain abortions later in pregnancy
Having noted all that, it is important to note why the number of teenage deaths from attempts to self-abort or seek an illegal abortion in states where parental involvement laws are enforced, hasn't skyrocketed. In addition to not being able to stop desperate teenage girls from self-aborting or seeking an illegal abortion, these laws have not created a decline in the teenage rate of abortion as was alleged and hoped for by their sponsors. Rather, they have created an influx of teenage girls seeking an abortion into states who do not have such laws. When a teenage girl believes she can make the arrangements and garner the money, sometimes by seeking the help of another adult, a friend, aunt or grandmother, or even her much older adult boyfriend, she seeks a legal abortion in another state that does not require parental notice or consent.
Life and Liberty for Women
prefers young girls to involve a parent, when they choose not to do that, we would prefer they seek a legal abortion out of state rather than consider self-aborting or an illegal abortion. However, the danger to this solution is obvious. For teenagers who already have a history of delaying an abortion decision or procedure because they don't discover they
are pregnant until later in the first trimester or the beginning of the second trimester, or put that knowledge out of their mind until they can no longer ignore the truth, or because they are frightened and do not know what to do or where to turn, and because they must find a way to pay for the abortion itself, these laws add additional considerations that will delay an abortion procedure even further into the second trimester.
Now these young girls must find additional funds to support a trip out of state and perhaps even an overnight trip. She has to figure out how to account for her time away as well and she must find the transportation.
All these considerations can add weeks to an already very progressed pregnancy. Currently, Planned Parenthood notes in their web site Fact Sheet, Abortion After the First Trimester, January, 2000, "Adolescents are more likely than older women to obtain abortions later in pregnancy. Adolescents obtain 29% of all abortions performed after the first trimester (CDC, 1998). Among women under age 15, more than one in four abortions is performed at 13 or more weeks gestation (CDC,1998). The very youngest women, those under age 15, are more likely than others to obtain abortions at 21 or more weeks gestation (CDC, 1998)."
The risk of death associated with childbirth is about
10 times as high as that associated with abortion
The Alan Guttmacher Institute commented in their May/June, 1995 Family Planning Perspectives, on the impact of the Mississippi requirement for parental consent on minor's abortions. Stanley K. Henshaw said that "the state's new parental consent requirement had little effect on the abortion rate among minors. In a comparison of Mississippi residents who had abortions during the five months before and the six months after the law went into effect, the ratio of minors to adults who sought abortions in the state declined by 13%, a decrease offset by a 32% increase in the ratio of minors to adults who obtained abortions out of state. The parental consent requirement increased by 19% the ration of minors to adults who obtained their procedure after 12 weeks of gestation."
The American Medical Association also concluded in a 1992 study that parental consent and notice laws, "increase the gestational age at which the induced pregnancy termination occurs, thereby also increasing the risk associated with the procedure."
The Planned Parenthood Fact Sheet referenced above, also said, "Overall , abortion has a low morbidity rate. Fewer than 1 percent of women who undergo legal abortion sustain a serious complication.
The rate of complication increases by about 20 percent for each additional week of gestation past eight weeks. Presently the death rate from abortion at all stages of gestation is 0.6 per 100,000 procedures. The risk of death associated with childbirth is about 10 times as high as that associated with abortion. The risk of death associate with abortion increases with the length of pregnancy, from one death for every 530,000 abortions at eight or fewer weeks to one per 17,000 at 16-20 weeks, and one per 6,000 at 21 or more weeks.
After 20 weeks gestation there is no statistically significant difference in maternal mortality rates between terminating a pregnancy by abortion and carrying it to term.
Clearly, while legal abortion remains one of the safest surgical procedures done in this country, the risks increase for abortions performed in the second trimester.
Anti-abortion extremists are apparently not swayed by the fact
that these laws will endanger every mother and father's
daughter in America for what is an unattainable goal.
We could decrease those risks in the first place, if we better educated teenagers about the safety of first trimester abortions, the importance of knowing how pregnancy happens, what signs to look for, and how important it is to recognize an unintended pregnancy as soon as possible and make a decision as soon as possible and further, if the decision is to terminate the pregnancy, the importance of having a first trimester abortion verses a second trimester abortion.
It goes without saying that assuming an additional risk would not be necessary if another obstacle were not placed in the way of teenage girls seeking a first trimester abortion, additional risks associated with parental consent and notice laws. Clearly, those laws do not make or guarantee that a girl go to her parents and clearly she can and is likely to circumvent the law, increasing the odds that she will endanger her health and her life whether it be from self-aborting, seeking unsafe illegal medical care, or whether she
finds herself having to undergo a second trimester abortion.
Anti-abortion supporters of parental consent/notice laws have called the safety of legal abortion into question for the purpose of justifying this type of legislation. However, considering that the statistics have always shown legal first and early second trimester abortions to be safer for a woman than carrying a pregnancy to term and giving birth, it belies their true motivation, which is to place another obstacle in the way of every young girls access to safe and legal abortion. They also want the opportunity to stop their daughter's from accessing legal abortion. However, as has been made clear here, there is no way to make a young girl tell a parent but that seems to have had little effect upon anti-abortion extremists. They also are apparently not swayed by the fact that these laws will endanger every mother and father's daughter in America for what is an unattainable goal.
Anti-abortion judges often ignore the standards given them by
the Supreme Court and deny a bypass petition despite its merits.
Finally, the federal courts have consistently ruled that parental consent/notice laws run the risk of being found unconstitutional, especially if it requires the involvement of both parents, if they do not contain what is referred to as a judicial bypass.
Meant particularly to remedy the dangerous situation that parental involvement laws create for abused young girls or for girls who could not for any other reason involve a parent, it is clear that it has failed miserably to be either of comfort to those young girls or a remedy for them. But once again that does not seem to have fazed the anti-abortion extremists.
Again, most young girls, already frightened and unsure of what will happen to them next and with little or no idea of how to navigate the legal and judicial waters, never utilize the judicial bypass. Adults are often intimidated by the legal and judicial system and so to think that a teenager, scared, desperate, embarrassed, and faced with the unknown, could navigate the legal waters, even if they wanted to, seems to also belie the anti-abortion stated motives in pushing for the passage of parental consent/notice laws.
Anti-abortion judges often ignore the standards given them by the Supreme Court and deny a bypass petition despite its merits. For example, in Indiana, lawyers and clinics routinely refer teenagers out of state because local judges either refuse to hold hearings or are widely known to be anti-abortion. In Massachusetts, a number of judges refuse to handle judicial bypass petitions while others focus inappropriately on the morality of abortion and are insulting and rude to the minors and their attorneys. The Supreme Court even found that in Minnesota, many judges refuse even to hear bypass proceedings. In Ohio a 17 year-old who testified that her father beat her was denied a judicial bypass. She was a senior in high school with a 3.0 average who played team sports and worked 20-25 hours a week, paid for her own car expenses and medical expenses. In Louisiana, a judge denied a 15 year-olds bypass petition after asking her a series of inappropriate questions including what the minor would say to the fetus about her decision. Her request was granted only after a rehearing by six appellate court judges. (National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League - Web Site "The Child Custody Protection Act and the Inadequacy of Judicial Bypass Procedures"
In Minnesota, the proportion of second-trimester abortions
among minors terminating their pregnancies increased by
18 percent following enactment of a parental notification law.
Clearly, the manner in which each state conducts its judicial bypass laws is erratic. Planned Parenthood, on its web site, Fact Sheets: Teenagers, Abortion, and Government Intrusion Laws," said, "In Minnesota, the federal district court found that the state courts 'denied only an infinitesimal proportion of the petitions brought since 1981.' (ACLU, 1986). A study in Massachusetts found that only nine of the 477 abortion requests studied had been denied (Yates and Pliner, 1988). But in Ohio, a report found that the percentage of waivers denied ranged from 100% to 2%, depending on the county in which the petition was filed (Rollenhagen, 1992)." Judicial bypass also presents another obstacle to the timely performance of a first trimester abortion. Obviously, navigating the legal and judicial system will further delay what may be a pregnancy that is already approaching the second trimester or which would place the abortion well into the second trimester, increasing the risks of complications. In Planned Parenthood's web site it is noted that, "Court proceedings in Minnesota routinely delayed abortions by more than one week, and sometimes up to three weeks (ACLU, 1986) Further, Planned Parenthood's web site said, "In Minnesota, the proportion of second-
trimester abortions among minors terminating their pregnancies increased by 18 percent following enactment of a parental notification law. Likewise, since Missouri's parental consent law went into effect in 1985, the proportion of second-trimester abortions among minors increased from 19% in 1985 to 23% in 1988 (Donovan, 1992)."
In rural areas, judicial bypass is seen as a threat to young girls confidentiality. For example, in one instance that the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League cites, a young girl discovered that her former Sunday school teacher would conduct her bypass hearing.
Lastly, young girls may be too embarrassed to talk about such a personal and private event in their life, to ever consider navigating the legal and judicial system. Embodied in the idea of confidentiality is a safe environment in which to explore feelings and alternatives to such a very life-changing event and an expectation of comfort and support. The judicial bypass certainly does not offer that kind of environment. It is a very somber legal process and will not be the friend and alternative to any young girl, let alone young girls who are abused.
In the single year following the elimination of a parent consent
requirement for HIV counseling and testing in Connecticut, the number of
teens aged 13-17 obtaining HIV tests at publicly funded facilities doubled.
Life and Liberty for Women
believes that requiring parental consent/notice for minors to obtain STD testing, AIDS testing, or contraceptives is as dangerous and deadly to young girl and young boys health and life as such a requirement to obtain abortion services is.
Approximately 23 states and the District of Columbia give minors the authority to consent to contraceptive services. About 27 states and the District of Columbia authorize a pregnant teenage girl to obtain prenatal care and delivery services without parental consent or notification and 49 states and the District of Columbia give teenage girls and boys the authority to consent to the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. I think the implications of these facts are especially important to note here. Planned Parenthood, on their web site fact sheet Teenagers, abortion, and Government Intrusion Laws, says, "many of these laws allow minors
to give consent to treatments that involve greater medical risk than a first-trimester abortion, such as surgical interventions during pregnancy and Caesarean sections."
The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) on its web site, "Mandatory Parental Involvement In Family Planning Services Threatens Minors' Health," said, "In the single year following the elimination of a parent consent requirement for HIV counseling and testing in Connecticut, the number of teens aged 13-17 obtaining HIV tests at publicly funded facilities doubled. Fifty-eight percent of high school students surveyed in 3 public schools in central Massachusetts reported having health concerns they would like to keep from their parents. Approximately 25% of the students said they would forgo seeking certain types of medical treatment if there were a possibility of disclosure to parents by physicians."
anti-abortion supporters of parental consent/notice laws,
are intent upon trying to stop all abortions and the health and life
of this nation's youngsters pales in importance to that ultimate goal
The NARAL site also said, "A United States District court, in Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Matheson, prohibited a 'blanket parental notification requirement for minors seeking contraceptives. In doing so, the court recognized that 'minors seek contraceptives after becoming sexually active, not before {and}.that a significant percentage of sexually active minors would not cease their sexual activity if access to contraceptives is conditioned on parental notification. Instead, those minors would terminate their use of contraceptives. Thus,.{the law} would expose sexually active minors to the health risks of early pregnancy and venereal disease."
Life and Liberty for Women
believes that medical confidentiality for young girls and boys seeking abortion services, STD or AIDS testing, and contraceptives is essential for these youngsters well being. We are convinced that there is no satisfactory remedy from these laws for young girls from abusive homes.
We believe that educating not legislating family communication, and encouraging youngsters to involve their parents, not legislating them to, will best serve all our youngsters.
Life and Liberty for Women
is also convinced that no law could ever make any young girl go to or confide in even the most loving and understanding parent.
Life and Liberty for Women
is also convinced that no law can guarantee any parent that their daughter won't circumvent the law with dangerous and deadly consequences to their health and life.
Life and Liberty for Women
believes that the anti-abortion supporters of parental consent/notice laws, are intent upon trying to stop all abortions and the health and life of this nation's youngsters pales in importance to that ultimate goal. The Bergen New Jersey newspaper, on March 16, 2000 reported a story about a lawsuit by a suburban Philadelphia couple against a public school guidance counselor who they accused of advising their 17 year-old daughter to get a secret abortion in New Jersey. The school district settled the lawsuit and the parents issued this statement, "The most important thing for us has always been making sure this doe not happen to another family in this district. If even one girl is encouraged to turn to her parents instead of a New Jersey abortion clinic - and if even one baby lives because of this policy - then it was worth the fight."
Life and Liberty for Women
is convinced therefore, that parental
consent/notice laws are ineffective, wrong, dangerous, deadly,
and immoral and we are therefore opposed to all such laws.
Cited References
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, "Who Decides; A State by State Review of Abortion and Reproductive Rights," 9th Edition, 2000
Ching-Tung Wang and Deborah Daro, "Current Trends in child Abuse reporting and Fatalities: The Results of the1997 Annual Fifty State Survey" (Chicago: National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, 1998); H. Amaro, et al., "Violence During Pregnancy and Substance Abuse," American Journal of Public Health, vol. 80 (1990): 575-579
A. Torres, J.D. Forrest, and S. Eisman, "Telling Parents: Clinic Policies and Adolescents' Use of Family Planning and Abortion Services," November/December, Family Planning Perspectives 12
S.K. Henshaw; K. Kost, "Parental Involvement in Minors' Abortion Decisions." September/October 24, 1992 Family Planning Perspectives: 196-207, 213
A. Torres, J.D. Forrest, and S. Eisman, "Telling Parents: Clinic Policies and Adolescents' Use of Family Planning and Abortion Services," November/December, Family Planning Perspectives 12
American Medical Association, "Induced Termination of Pregnancy Before and After Roe v. Wade, Trends in the Mortality and Morbidity of Women," JAMA, vol. 268, no. 22 (Dec. 1992): 3238
Alan Guttmacher Institute, (1998, accessed 1999, July 16). "Facts in Brief: Induced Abortion {Online}. http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/ib13.html
Paul, Maureen, et al. (199). "A Clinician's Guide to Medical and Surgical Abortion." New York: Churchill Livingstone.
Revised August, 2000
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Pakistan and India will achieve peace only with an accord on the disputed territory of Kashmir, Pakistans Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said as Indias government said it wont hold talks until the government in Islamabad tackles terrorism. Gilani said Pakistan wants to resume talks on improving relations, a five-year process interrupted after last Novembers terrorist attacks in Mumbai that India blamed on a Pakistan-based group. For the elimination of terrorism, regional cooperation is vital, the official Associated Press of Pakistan cited Gilani as saying. Talks with Pakistan cant be held until the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks are dealt with, Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said yesterday, state-run broadcaster Doordarshan reported. India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence in 1947, two of them over Kashmir, a divided Himalayan territory claimed in full by both countries. 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Singh visited Jammu and Kashmir in October, renewing a call for talks with Kashmiri groups seeking self- determination and underlining his governments commitment to help the economic development of the region where insurgents have staged a 20-year fight against Indian rule. The All-Parties Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of Kashmiri groups, wants India to pull its troops back from cities and end martial law. Armed Groups India accuses Pakistan of supporting armed extremists in Jammu and Kashmir, a charge denied by Pakistan, which says it offers only moral support to separatists. India and Pakistan account for four-fifths of South Asias $1.3 billion economy and economic progress in the region has suffered because of tensions between the nations. Pakistan takes only 4.8 percent of its imports from India, almost three times less than its biggest partner China, according to U.S. government data. The countries are members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, a group known as Saarc, which includes Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives and Bhutan. Saarc nations, where a quarter of the worlds population lives, contribute less than 2 percent to global commerce 24 years after the association was set up. Prosecution Demanded India says the so-called composite dialogue with Pakistan cant resume until Pakistan upholds pledges to prevent terrorist activity on its territory. India has demanded that Pakistan prosecute members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group who it says carried out the Mumbai attack that killed 166 people. Pakistan acknowledged the raid was planned on its soil. An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan last month charged seven people, including Zaki ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a Lashkar commander, with involvement in the attacks. The groups founder has been put under house arrest. Gilani, speaking in London, said Pakistan is taking steps against terrorism and has carried out a successful military operation to drive Taliban fighters from the Swat Valley in North West Frontier Province and is now engaged in an offensive in the South Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Terror Cost The military campaign against the Taliban is costing the government more than $8.5 billion a year, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin has said. The International Monetary Fund in August agreed to increase a loan to Pakistan by $3.2 billion, after the country was forced to turn to the Washington-based lender for a $7.6 billion bailout in November 2008. The U.S. Senate on Sept. 24 voted to triple annual economic and social- development assistance to Pakistan to $1.5 billion for the next five years. Army operations against the Taliban in South Waziristan provoked retaliatory attacks and suicide bombings that have killed more than 300 people since mid-October in towns and cities, including Pakistans capital, Islamabad. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a security checkpoint near a navy complex in the city yesterday. Two security guards were killed and 14 people were injured, APP reported, citing police. To contact the reporter on this story: Paul Tighe in Sydney at email@example.com.
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How will we feed our billions?
In Galactic Civilizations III, we presume that by the time we are colonizing planets, our home world has reached an equilibrium between food production and population. But let's face it: when we colonize other planets, it'll take many years for those planets to build up sufficient farming infrastructure to produce for the kinds of populations you have on your home world.
Surplus Food
Galactic Civilizations III will be treating food a bit differently to reflect the awareness of just how important a large population is on your planets.
When Galactic Civilizations III first shipped, players built farms on planets and that would increase that planet's population. Because it was so easy to increase your population, our conversion between population to production was: production = the square root of population.
When Galactic Civilizations III v2.0 came out, we changed this so that food became a global resource that was then consumed by cities. You could build as many farms as you wanted elsewhere, and then build cities on another planet that used that food. Because this made increasing population more challenging (requiring two tiles -- a farming tile and a city tile), the formula was changed to production = population. This proved better on paper than in practice because on larger maps, players had no problem dedicating entire worlds just to farming, no matter how terrible the planet or how unrealistic that would be. This worked well for building other planets to huge populations, but it created production quantities that were balance breaking.
Throughout the v2.x series, we have tinkered with the formulas for what it takes to build a farm and what it takes to build a city, to the point where players were becoming frustrated when they discovered they didn't have the right resource to build something.
For v3.0, we have created a much simpler - and we think, more intuitive - system. Good planets have arable land tiles. The better the planet, the more of these tiles it will have. You can choose to build farms on them or you can bulldoze them and build whatever you want. This reflects the fact that Ceti Alpha V (a class 6 world) is never going to have farms while even a wonderful planet like Earth (class 10) can't have its entire surface farmed (and we do abstract farming to an extent in that your initial colony is self-sufficient in food).
Thus, population = production. Arable land produces food without you having to do anything at all, but you can also build them up with various levels of farms and use that surplus food elsewhere. Some worlds will have no arable land. Others will have several.
In this example, my home planet starts with 2 arable tiles, which produces 2 food right away.
Now, unlike other resources, unused food doesn't accumulate. As my wife regularly reminds me, food spoils and I should stop eating it when it does. But it does mean that with a few good early planets, you can start building cities on planets without having to have built a single farm. It's proving to be a really interesting mechanic.
There are two good planets here. One with 3 food tiles and one with 1 food tile and an elerium deposit. Which one should I colonize first?
In the above example, getting the Elerium deposit means I can instantly build enhanced lasers, which have military significance. But if I settle the other planet, I can build a city on my home planet immediately. This creates some interesting strategic choices that simply did not exist before.
Galactic Civilizations III v3.0 is due for release in April.
This isn't Banished. I don't want to have to plan for winter, especially winter on dozens of planets with different seasons!
R.I.P. wild grain. With its +3 on and +1 adjacent population bonus it was always a good spot for a city with a more than self sustaining ring of farms.
I think you're ALL missing the point.
Did you notice that we're currently on version 2.8 and they're going to 3.0?
What happened to 2.9?
Personally, I think we need to put this on the TV series Ancient Aliens and bring this up as a conspiracy theory.
ver, 2.9 is in the same place as Windows 9.
What would this mechanic actually add? Realism is only of value when it improves the game play.
How this improves gameplay is that instead of being only once. It is now twice a year. This would be more competive against synthetics which can mine promethium every turn which does not rot. This could also be done automatically like mining, but requires a farm instead of a starbase.
If Stardock are choosing to go to the "use it or lose it" approach with food, then admiralWillyWilber's point is bang on: If Stardock are going to keep the different "food" methods, then carbon will be at a disadvantage if it's surplus foods dies while synthetics's surplus food ie promethium just goes up and up in storage.
So: either adopt the approach I advocate - all species create food the same way, ultimately. Give it different names to make it "different" if you like, but it works the same. This allows Stardock to keep the "use that food or it starts to stink real bad and get poisened" approach frogboy says they've come to and apply it to all species.
Or keep carbon food as "soilable" after a certain period but give carbon farms a certain buff to compensate (and the speed at which food is produced is a good place to start).
Alternatively, food production speed becomes a disadvantage if you play as carbon. Which is fine if it's one of few reasons and anyway is countered somewhat by a carbon advantage. But you don't want to have a species that has so many disadvantages that you're a fool to play as that species.
The food hasn't changed in the sense some are talking. Food was always use it or lose it (you can't build an inventory).
To summarize:
The net result is that most players will end up being able to build more cities but you won't (realistically) be able to have hundreds of food per turn anymore by those min/maxing the system.
Will the bulldozing mechanism mean that non-carbon civs can do a scorched earth policy on an advancing carbon civ eventually making it impossible for that civ to expand it's population? Might need a tech or mechanism to establish new or former arable tiles.
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I look forward to those massive Martian farms.
One other change:
You can upgrade your colony capital without food to support higher populations.
lol, You misunderstand and complicate my point, which is not about different types of food, but more than one way to generate food. Adding a fishery for food production from the planets oceans is not to give you a food resource called fish but to increase the food resource already used in game. Same that a hydroponic module for starbases isn't to give you a food vegetable icon but to increase your food output. Do you think the starbase manufacturing module complicates the game?
More types of food generation buildings or modules are needed to ease the dependency on tile farming and it would help the AI and not complicate a damn thing. If you find that complicating perhaps you should take up checkers.
Currently in game we can add modules to increase manufacturing, economy, and research. But not food.
They could still keep these for building farms anyway, and they should get creative with it as well. I want to see some that are alien creatures comparable with cows or what not. Should give you not just a food bonus but a +soldiering bonus for the protein.


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On this episode of The GAP Luke Lawrie (Stevivor) and Nathan 'NachosJustice' Lawrence (AusGamers, GameInformer, PC PowerPlay) discuss the latest film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series; can you believe there have been five of these?
They also talk about the games they've been playing which includes Destiny 2, The Surge, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Prey, Geneshift, Quake Champions and more.
Over in the news Red Dead Redemption 2 is pushed back to next year, Tom Holland is the latest to be cast as Nathan Drake in the Uncharted film, and Ubisoft drops a teaser trailer for Far Cry 5. This episode goes for two hours and contains coarse language.
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"Weak demand for electricity across eastern mainland states has sparked a "dramatic fall" in greenhouse gas emissions from Australia's power stations, the latest review of data by consultants Pitt & Sherry has found.
While demand for base-load electricity from black coal-fired power stations has been in retreat for about three years, the decline has extended in recent months to two of Victoria's emissions-intensive brown coal-fired plants, Hazelwood and Yallourn"You can read the whole article here.
We have mentioned the squeeze that is being put on a lot of coal plants previously. The electricity sector is complex but several things seem to be happening at the moment.
1. Demand for (and use of) electricity is dropping and has been for several years. This is likely a response to higher prices causing people and businesses to use less electricity and, at the residential level, has been helped by the widespread uptake of solar panels and solar hotwater. This fall in demand then squeezes out the least competitive generators, which are often coal plants.
2. As the amount of renewable energy available increases but demand does not then the generators who can sell their power for the least cost have an advantage. The renewable energy target means that much of this renewable energy must be used and because their electricity costs so little to generate many renewable energy generators can undercut fossil fuel plant prices anyway. This phenomenon, known as the merit order effect, again squeezes the least competitive generators, often coal plants.
3. The carbon price, which makes makes more polluting electricity more expensive to generate then amplifies points 1&2, making the dirtiest generators even less competitive.
The net effect of all this: C02 emissions from the electricity sector are falling, which is a very good thing.
Update: Giles Parkinson at Renew Economy wrote about this as well, and his article also contains graphs showing the change in the generation mix and energy use in each state.


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Sunday, February 18, 2018
Fan-Made Teasers Trailers For Disney's Upcoming Live-Action Adaptations of Classic Animated Films
Disney fan Tommy Ross is doing a series of fan-made teasers trailers for the upcoming live-action adaptations of Disney's animated films. It's done with no special funds so the fact that it is supposed to be "teaser trailers" allows him to don't have to reveal too much of the characters, something which would have needed a real budget. But, considering that it's done with a mix of drone aerial footage, rides footage, others additional footage apparently filmed by him, and a brilliant editing, i think he's done a great job, check it out below.
The first one below is a teaser trailer for Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Next is the one for Aladdin.
The next teaser trailer is for The Little Mermaid
Next is the one for Mulan
And the last one will be a teaser trailer for Alice in Wonderland
You can follow Tommy Ross on his Youtube channel HERE.
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Welcome to Alanya
Alanya is a seaside resort city in the Mediteranian region of Turkey, which is in Antalya province. It have beautiful scenery with Taurus mountain at the north and the Mediteranian sea at the south. Yes, Alanya is far from Istanbul which is 15 hours by bus. But if you want to get hurry to be in Alanya, you can reach by plane to Gazipaşa airport (from Istanbul) about 1 hour.
Welcome to Alanya and enjoy its beauty.
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Tokyo, as the capital city of Japan, is home to many old buildings with historical significance. Some of these have undergone several renovations but are still being used today. If you would like to be more familiar with Tokyo's historical spots, here are three buildings which are still in use and are highly valued by the city of Tokyo.
The oldest surviving department store chain in Japan is Mitsukoshi. It was founded in 1673 when it began by selling things on a door-to-door basis. In later years, it started up a store which eased their selling strategy as buyers only needed to drop by in order to purchase items. Nowadays, several Mitsukoshi stores can be found internationally, with the main headquarters in Tokyo. In case you can't speak Japanese or understand the language, some shopping assistants are ready to help you with interpretation. Its Foreign Customer Service Counter is located on the second floor.
This historical building is also known as Tokyo Memorial Hall and it serves as an important reminder of the Great Kanto Earthquake which occurred in 1923. It is also a resting place for those who died during the disaster as well as those who lost their lives during the Tokyo air raids during World War II. It was built by Chito Ito, a Japanese architect, as a three-story pagoda in a Buddhist-temple style reaching a height of 41 meters.
Hitachi Mejiro Club is a two-story building with a basement which plays an important part as a dormitory for students in the Gakushuin school, a school educating the children of noble families. It was finished in 1928 and was known for its minimalist design. After World War II, it was purchased by Hitachi Ltd. and served as a facility in helping motivate and retain employees. The building is reachable either by car or by train.
The historical value contributed by these buildings is one thing that makes Japan unique as a country. If you're interested in seeing some historic sights that are not shrines or temples, check out these places!
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The 420 Gourmet: The Elevated Art of Cannabis Cuisine
A foodie's guide to cannabis by "The Julia Child of Weed" (Daily Beast)
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Stanford's L.A. story: loss of aggression
Pity viewers across the country who tuned into the telecast of Saturday's Stanford-USC game to get a look at big, powerful No. 7 Stanford as it prepared for the Pac-10 tournament and a run in the NCAA Tournament.
Most probably were switching channels before long, figuring they had the wrong game, because the Stanford team that lost to USC 77-64 at the Galen Center did not fit the profile. Expecting a Cardinal team that could overwhelm opponents with rebounding and all-around muscle, a team that came within an eyelash of beating No. 3 UCLA two days earlier, they saw instead a team that slipped weakly out of the regular season with its first two-game losing streak of the season.
"They were the aggressor," Stanford coach Trent Johnson said. "They out- played us. They dominated us on the boards."
When Stanford beat USC 52-46 in January, it outrebounded the Trojans 48-31, including 23-8 on the offensive boards.
"They embarrassed us on the boards the first time," USC center Taj Gibson said, "and that has stuck with us the whole time."
On Saturday, USC (20-10, 11-7) made amends by getting 47 rebounds to 31 for the Cardinal, the biggest rebounding deficit in Johnson's four years as Stanford's head coach and the first time since Johnson's first season the Cardinal (24-6, 13-5) had been outrebounded by a double-digit margin.
"I could not have envisioned that going into the game," USC coach Tim Floyd said.
Neither could Johnson. He always takes losses hard, and he was particularly disappointed after this one. An angry Johnson ended his postgame talk with the media by saying, "I'd just like to let them be in a situation where they could be the aggressors." And he punctuated the last word by slamming the statistics sheet into his other hand, making a loud pop.
It's unclear whether Johnson was referring to his team's effort or the officiating, but the ramification of the loss are clear. The top-10 ranking will be gone by Monday, and any chance for a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament presumably has vanished with a No. 3 seed in serious jeopardy unless Stanford comes up big in the conference tournament, in which it will be the No. 2 seed.
The Cardinal open Pac-10 tournament play Thursday evening against the winner of the first-round game between Oregon State and Arizona. Johnson has no doubt his team will bounce back - "I'm not concerned whatsoever," he said - but that beating on the boards will be difficult to forget.
"That's our staple, defense and rebounding, but it's really rebounding," Stanford point guard Mitch Johnson said, "and we got our butt kicked on the boards."
The Cardinal had been outrebounded only three times previously this season and had outrebounded the nation's No. 2 rebounding team, UCLA, on Thursday night in a particularly physical matchup.
The Trojans outmuscled the Cardinal on Saturday from the start, though, jumping to a 22-8 lead and being challenged only because Stanford walk-on Kenny Brown had his best game of the season. He finished with 19 points, and his nine straight points midway through the first half got the Cardinal back in the game.
"I think we were a little tired emotionally and physically," Brown said. "A lot of guys had played big minutes (on Thursday). I think we ran out of gas."
Johnson, who picked up a technical foul late in the game, disagreed that the team was tired, although the Cardinal had much of their success when reserves were on the floor.
The Trojans got 20 points from Gibson and 25 from O.J. Mayo, and focused their defense on the Lopez twins, particularly Brook, who was limited to 11 points on 4-for-13 shooting. Robin Lopez had 16 points, his seventh straight double-digit scoring game.
USC also employed a fullcourt press at the outset, which did not produce a lot of turnovers but did speed up the game, which is not in Stanford's best interests. Of course, neither is getting whipped on the boards.


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In addition, the new emblem reflects Neways' commitment to the environment. In contrast with the previous neon version, the new LED logo provides double the brightness while using only one-fourth the power. Made using aluminum, the new image weighs only one-tenth as much as the previous sign, which gives the installation greater structural integrity.
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The Cub Scouts Visit Culligan
The Cub Scouts from Hallsville go on a field trip to our Bottled Water Production Facility.
On Tuesday, April 21st Cub Scout Pack 12, led by David Athon, visited our production facility and had a great time learning some of the basic chemistry of water. They got to see first hand how a plant like Culligan takes municipal water and transforms it into premium drinking water. If you would like to learn more about how we make and bottle our iconic brand of water CLICK HERE.


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Brunel, Bunny - Bunny Brunel's L.A.. Zoo Revisited
Year of Release: 2004
Label: Mascot Records
Catalog Number: M 7091 2
Format: CD
Total Time: 72:41:00
Bunny Brunel's L.A. Zoo Revisited ... Bunny who? No, this is not an album of a resident of the Hefner mansion. No, Bernard "Bunny" Brunel is a bass-player whose career started in 1978, when he was playing in a jazz club and was noticed by jazz/fusion legend Chick Corea. Since then, Brunel [has] played with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Natalie Cole, Al DiMeola and Joe Farrel. But besides performing, he is also a composer and his music featured Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and the Highlander TV series. His activities go on, as he also designed bass guitars and wrote books and released instruction videos to help others play the bass guitar. So, he is a very active, involved musician.
Looking at the list of people he played with, it will be no surprise to find L.A. Zoo Revisited is an album with a dominate jazz / fusion sound. All together it is a feel-good album: a mellow sound, with some really great guitar parts and funky, jazzy bass lines. Sometimes the sound is a bit bluesy, like "Blue Touch," with Brian Auger on keyboards. The keyboard intro reminds me a bit of what Ray Charles did in the Blues Brothers movie. Bunny Brunel invited a number of guest musicians to join him here, like Vivian Campbell, Brian Auger and Mike stern. Unfortunately the album, as the title already tells a bit, is not that original, as Bunny Brunel released an album called L.A. Zoo already in 1999, with the exact same tracklisting.
Well, there are differences: this version features one additional track: "Tiger," which is a nice addition. A very important difference is Virgil Donati (Planet X), who plays drums on all tracks here. Also some of the bass parts have been re-recorded. So if you are a fan, this album has not much more to offer. On the other hand, if you are new to Bunny Brunel's music, this album might be interesting. But beware: this is not progressive rock! It's more fusion, with some melodic rock songs. Best if you listened to it before you buy it, even if you are a huge Virgil Donati fan![This review originally appeared June 2004 at the ProgPower Online review site -ed.]
Tropicana (7:02) / Ivanhoe (4:39) / Vivian's Boogie (4:44) / Blue Touch (7:28) / Maybe Tuesday (6:12) / Led Boots (6:19) / Ten Years Later (3:52) / Bunny's Blues (4:09) / Stratus (6:50) / L. A. Zoo (4;25) / Vlad (5:58) / Michael (4:18) / Tiger (6:39)
Bunny Brunel - bass
Vivian Campbell - guitar
Ray Gomez - guitar
Mike Stern - guitar
Brian Auger - organ
Virgil Donati - drums
Jeff Grossberg - Hammond B3
Mike Palmer - guitar
Craig Adams -guitar
For You To Play
L.A. Zoo (1999)
L.A. Zoo Revisited (2004)
Bunny Brunel and Friends - Cafe Au Lait (2004)
Genre: Fusion-Jazz Fusion
Origin US
Added: December 7th 2004
Reviewer: Marcel Haster
Artist website: www.bunnybrunel.com
Hits: 1375
Language: english
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December 27, 2017 – Blessed To know That He Knows – Pr. Sonny Shimaoka
"Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take it to heart what is written in it, because the time is near…I know your deeds." – Revelation 1:3 (NIV)
The word "blessed" in context with this verse means to be divinely or supremely favored and fortunate. It can also mean to be happy or overjoyed. Why? Because God is in control over every event that takes place in human history. This includes my history. The phrase "I know your deeds or I know is repeated at least ten times in chapters 3 and 4. What does that mean? It means that nothing gets past Him! He notices everything that I go through in life. He is aware of my commitment to obey His Word and take to heart all of it.
The book of Revelation is the most "comforting" book in all of the Bible because those who read it and take it to heart will be the most highly favored and fortunate people on the planet. I like to tell people that the safest place to be on earth is "In Christ!" The world is literally hanging on a thread that can break at any moment. Believers however hang on to something more secure…the Word of God. God's Word will never fall apart.
The great privilege that I have in the midst of all the chaos going on in the world, is that I get to proclaim that we win. I get to proclaim that I don't know all that the future holds, but that I know WHO holds the future. I get to proclaim that is we are faithful to proclaim that Jesus is the ANSWER! I must stay the course no matter what the cost!
Heavenly Father, like John, I too am truly blessed to read this book and take to heart what is written in it. Help me Holy Spirit to stay vigilant and aware when you are calling me to share my faith, especially since the time is not near but NOW! Thank you for including me for such a time as this…In Jesus Name…Amen.


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Your Summer Song And My Summer Song
It's interesting that I'm still getting e-mails, tweets, and other communications from readers asking me when I'm going to name my Song of the Summer. Maybe, in their busy lives, they missed that moment where I knowingly went entirely off the grid and gave it to "Praying" by Kesha. Maybe it's their way of saying "for real, though."
I've been ready for the last month to write the column acknowledging that "Despacito" is, at the very least, the Record of Summer 2017. If it were just the song that I'd heard the most for the last two-thirds of summer, it would be Shawn Mendes' "There's Nothing Holding Me Back." But "Despacito," by claiming the summer crown for a song (largely) in another language, was clearly more of an event and cultural signifier. "There's Nothing Holding Me Back" was a big hit record, but never phenomenal.
If it were the song I'd heard most this summer altogether, it would be Zedd & Alessia Cara's "Stay." It was really a spring hit. It didn't particularly have the right feel to me. But it was the unavoidable song of Memorial Day weekend, and took the entire summer to fall out of the top 10. Then again, with CHR's current emphasis on recurrents, the lingering spring hit may end up being the biggest hit of every summer.
If it were the song that readers most scolded me for excluding, it would probably be Sam Hunt's "Body Like a Back Road." I never wrote about it as a Summer Song 2017 contender because of tempo, but those considerations have long gone out the window. Clearly, Hunt is phenomenal. Like Taylor Swift a decade ago, Country PDs torture over his role in the format. But he is Swift's truest successor as the "I don't usually like Country, but I love _____" artist. And there were still multiple votes for "Body" at summer's end, when I took to Facebook to ask readers for their Summer Song 2017 choices.
If it were the record I enjoyed most on the radio this summer, it would be Calvin Harris' "Feels." As with much of Harris' worthy output over the last year, "Feels" never quite reached the undeniable heights of its competition. But it still got several reader mentions. "If 'Feels' had come out a few weeks earlier, it would have won the summer," wrote Jay Lawrence.
Timing also plays in to "Feel It Still" by Portugal. The Man. In June, industry vet Mark Gorlick, now part of the band's management team, wrote in on their behalf. But "Feel" it was still a few weeks away from going to pop radio. And given the paucity of Alternative to CHR crossovers, the notion of that song as a pop hit (while exciting to consider) was still an abstraction.
But this week, "Feel It Still" is the fifth biggest gainer at CHR. At this moment, it certainly seems like a song that will still be heavily played on CHR when we start discussing next summer's hits. And it is also the song that the largest number of Ross on Radio readers cite as their Song of Summer 2017, edging "Despacito" and Sam Hunt. Interestingly, much of its support comes from people whose day-to-day world is not focused (or focused entirely) around CHR radio — something worth considering as CHR's primacy in the radio universe starts to falter again.
Then there's my summer song choice. When I wrote about Kesha's "Praying," it really seemed to be in that place from which Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" had been launched skyward. The initial believers were moving it from 15 spins a week to 60 spins. The initially skeptical large-market CHRs were suddenly moving it into significant rotation. As the column hit, the medium-market growth continued, but the large markets held at a few spins a day, waiting for that first good week of callout. And over the next few weeks, the issue went from whether "Praying" would be a song for the ages to whether it would be a power.
At this writing, "Praying" is No. 12 at CHR. The medium-market stories continue. There are encouraging signs of growth in the large markets again, but whether it is ultimately a power or a Harry Styles "Sign of the Times"-type curio is still very much in play. There were derisive comments about my choice, but there were a lot of earnest "I don't get it" responses as well. All of those comments, it is worth noting, were from men. And if any song tests the potential disconnect of our mostly male pop programmers and their female target audience, it will probably be this one.
Seeing the reaction to "Praying" among my female co-workers was, under any circumstances, my galvanizing music moment of the summer. That hasn't changed, even as the song's fortunes fluctuate. Galvanizing music moments are in short supply right now.
And if you haven't reached out yet, what is your Song of Summer 2017?


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Semuc Champey, Guatemala
On the bus from Lake Atitlan to Antigua a great trio was formed, so Josè, Melody and I started traveling together for a while and together decided to head to this place we heard about since we entered Guatemala.
Antigua, Guatemala
What else could I call a well maintained colonial city, laying underneath a majestic volcano, where you can safely walk in the streets while enjoying the immense history each house, building or church has to tell you, where wide clean cobalt streets lead you almost every time to hidden jewels, where you can feel there's a special cultural vibe in the air? I can only call it Antigua!
Lago Atitlan, Guatemala
There's a direct line connecting Chiapas to Guatemala and this route passes right through San Cristobal and Lago Atitlan crossing the border in "La Mesilla". First of all be prepared to spend hrs at the customs, and then on the bus on the streets of Guatemala; you'll be watching astonishing landscapes but the ride is simply gonna take for ever.
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
And here I am, finally in Chiapas, the land of Zapatistas, where el comandante Marcos has his headquarter to bring on the fight for the campesinos and indigenous people right.
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Maria Reyes-Jones knows a great face when she sees one.
The Orlando artist saw the hound puppy with big eyes and floppy ears hanging over the side of a car door at a gas station in Kansas. She and a friend took a few pictures of her, chatted with the guy who owned the puppy and, of course, petted her round little head. The puppy's name was Kate.


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So here goes a story.
We got her totally by chance - we were waiting for another litter of another breed and then there wasn't a puppy for us. We wanted the dog so much that we couldn't wait anymore so I did the most stupid thing: got a dog magazine, opened it on puppy advertisement page and an ad caught my eye: "Particolour cocker spaniels puppies for sale". I didn't even know what a particolour cocker was at that time :P, but we went to see the puppies and after first look into puppy pen we knew she was the one. No puppy tests, no questions asked. This one.
When we brought her home, it turned out she fears nothing, she retrieves to hand (as an 8 wo puppy), she tugs and she's almost house broken already.
That's how our journey started.
People told me that cockers are not good for agility.
People told me that it's the most stupid breed ever.
We knew better than that.
But it's not her achievements, and there were many, that made her special. She was the only dog that I would ever own that could go to an agility competition and win 6 runs out of 6. She was the only dog that people would look at and then come to me surprised after her run: "Wow, that cocker is great". She competed 6 times at the World Championships, she was Polish Agility Champion, she won many competitions and had many pefect runs and she was really extremely easy to teach and to handle . She played in a TV series and was hosted in TV programs because she could do so many tricks and she did them with energy and joy and barking. But it was her joy of life, her naughtiness sometimes, her unpredictability, the way she thought she was so smart when she was so silly, the way she barked on the course all the time that made people notice her, smile and remember her. She helped me get to know so many people that for many of them I am "Olga from Sunday" and that's how they would put my name in their mobiles.
Today I want to share those stories for all the people who wrote me yesterday, expressing their condolences and sadness.
Once let her and Vigo out of their crate on agility competition and she was immedietely gone somewhere. I called her and looked for her for several minutes... and then there she comes, with her tail wagging and the ears sweeping the ground and you could see that she was SOOOO proud of herself. When she came closer I saw that she was carrying a big piece of BACON in her mouth that she probably stole from someone's bag :))). But I couldn't exactly go asking "Hi, is this your bacon?", so in the end I let her eat it.
The other time we started an agility run and someone was feeding their dog just next to the ring. So Sunday took first three jumps in the line and then I turned left and she turned right and went straight to steal the food from the bowl :).
And when we went for walks and she found something to eat she would either try to hide it in her mouth to bring it home and eat it where I wouldn't see it - and that was so cute, because you could see she thought she was so smart and yet it was so obvious from her demeanor that she was hiding something - or she pretended she didn't see it, I walked on... and then she stayed a bit behind - "I'm just sniffing something here!", "Oh, I'm just peeing, I will come right away when I finish" - and then when I wasn't looking she would race back to the food and there was no chance I could catch her :). And she could remember for weeks where the food once was.
And she always wanted to poo after exercise or when she was a little overexcited, so I always tried to make sure she does it before agility run. And we were waiting for our turn at Agility World Championship 2010 in Rieden and she didn't do it, even though I was walking with her and playing with her for what felt like hours and my team captain was like "You have lots of time, I will call you" but then finally we needed to go in. And then the dog before us was running and I was so stressed that Sunday might poo in the ring and that would be a shame at AWC... and then she decided to do it in the preparation ring and while the other dog was running :). I was so relieved that after this I knew I could do everything and we had a cracking clean run.
And she was so hysterical at the vets. She started screaming the moment we got in their office and then she only got louder and louder until everybody in the waiting room would think we are skinning her alive when all that happened was cutting her nails or giving her rabbies shot :). The bravest vets' hands started shaking when she did this and she was so loud that I think everybody around should have protective headphones.
And she was such a princess. Not only she wanted to lie on the sofa, she also needed additional pillow to lie on. And she was fussing with it endlessly, until it was just right.
She was the boss and always got what she wanted. Evo would lie on a couch and she would come and sit directly on him. And he would protest and growl and then would just go away, at which point she just lied on the warm spot, totally happy with herself.
She was really perfect with other dogs, usually just ignoring them, but it happened a couple of times that bigger dog attacked her thinking she's small and vulnerable. Each time they regretted it, because she was fearless and would fight back, no matter how big they were and after a moment the big dog was like "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it was a mistake, please accept my apologies".
She loved chasing birds. She never chased any other animals like rabbits or deer, but she was crazy for pheasants and sometimes she ran away and ran in wild circles, flushing them out one after one, with that crazy barking and ears flapping. She never went far, I could always see her and she would come back after a couple of minutes of doing this.
And she loved squiky balls, the ones that have little faces drawn on them and make horrible noise. It was her obsession, best reward ever.
She loved food and was always hungry. She ate many things that once touched food or had food molecules on them and she grabbed every opportunity to find something edible. She once ate a whole kilogram of sugar when we left it on the table and drank almost a litre of milk with that. She eat amost whole package of coconut bars together with the wrappings and was pooing with blue wrappings days after. Normally we feed the dogs around eight and each day she thought it was her duty to remind us that it's almost eight and almost eight started at about 6 pm. I'm sure she was convinced that eight comes later every day.
And here is a link to my favourite video with her, the one that lots of people shared in order to promote positive dog training. She is not perfect in her obedience exercises - I didn't care to teach her to do them EXACTLY right, but she is so happy in it that you can't find a better reason for reward-based training. And for owning a cocker.
Thank you, Sunday, for everything you gave me, for many happy years together, for forgiving me my mistakes, for being the best first dog one can dream of, for being gentle with all the creatures and humans, for bringing up our other dogs and teaching them manners and being loud :P.
You gave me so many smiles that now you deserve lots of tears and I can't stop crying, but the pain means the joy of our life together was real.
I love you. I always will. Mikhail Bulhakov wrote that there is a theory, no worse than others, that after we die, we get what we hoped to get. I hope to meet you again.