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Oral History of Val Reidhead
July 17, 2008
By Joyce McBride
For the
Show Low Historical Society
Joyce McBride: This is Joyce McBride and I'm interviewing Val Reidhead and Shirley Reidhead for the Show Low Historical Society Museum and today's date is July 17, 2008. Good afternoon! How are you doing, Val?
Val Reidhead: Fine
JM: Good! Okay, now the Reidhead family has been around for a long time, probably since the beginning. Right?
VR: Yeah, yeah, a long time.
JM: Mostly the Reidhead family is known for their sawmills.
VR: Yes
JM: So I'm hoping that you could tell me, if you can remember, the earliest stories that your family told you about coming to the Show Low area? White Mountains? And then how you got into the sawmill business and what was going on in the area then.
VR: Well, what I remember, my family was in the sawmill business all my life, you know, so I remember growing up in lumber camps when I was just a kid around Linden and Pinedale, Clay Springs, all over the country in there you know.
JM: When did your family come to the area?
VR: Well, I can't recall just exactly when they come in the area, but my dad started his first sawmill in 1913.
JM: Okay, and what was your father's name?
VR: Ed Reidhead
JM: Ed Reidhead?
VR: Uh huh
Shirley Reidhead: Edwin
JM: Edwin?
VR: Well, Edwin. We called him E.D.
VR: Yeah
JM: Okay, and did he come with his, was he young when he came here, or was he an adult?
VR: No, he was a young man when he come here.
JM: So his parents didn't come with him?
VR: Yeah, uh, she's up on that more than I am.
SR: I don't know what year or anything. I could look it up real fast.
JM: What was their name?
VR: John, John Oscar, yeah was my grandfather's name. They came from Utah down here.
JM: Salt Lake City?
VR: Uh huh
JM: So they came in the late 1800s?
VR: Yeah, I'd have to look it up. I've got it all. I'd have to look it up, yeah.
JM: And they settled in the Pinedale area?
VR: They first settled around Linden, yeah. My grandma and grandpa settled over here at the old Reidhead place on the White Mountain and lived there for years. And then after my grandpa died, my grandma had a ranch out around Linden and they worked that and also lumber, you know, in the lumber business, all the boys.
JM: That was the only industry here. I mean you had your own ranches or farms, but for making money. . .
VR: Uh, no, there were some bigger mills in the area, but they were just small mills to start with. But cattle and horses, you know, a lot of people raised horses and did trading with the Reservation.
JM: Fort Apache?
VR: Yeah, so my family ran sheep back in the early part of the 1900s there, or 1905.
SR: Your grandma and grandpa, they were here at Lone Pine in 1880 because their oldest son was born in Lone Pine. Clarlie was.
VR: Yeah, 1880 at Lone Pine.
JM: Charlie Reidhead? So they were here when Corydon Cooley was here.
VR: Yeah, uh huh
JM: Hum, pretty much the beginning, (laughs.) So they stayed, or did you say they went back?
SR: They stayed because all their children were born here.
JM: Right there at Lone Pine?
SR: In different areas. Some of them in Taylor, some in Linden, Taylor. Clad Reidhead was the only one born in Show Low. And he's the one that owned the area up there going to Lakeside where the Meadow is?
JM: Yeah, up on the hill there.
VR: That was the old Reidhead Homestead there.
JM: That was it? Where Lloyd lives.
VR: Yeah, where Lloyd is. His dad was the one that. . . He was my dad's youngest brother.
SR: And he was born in 1905 and they were all born here, all the children.
JM: Was there a big family?
SR: Oh yes!
VR: Yeah, there were twelve kids in my family.
SR: And there were eleven here, eleven kids originally, but they were all up here in this area, so.
JM: Did they all work in timber? Or did you say more cattle or sheep?
VR: Yeah, and then all of them mined in asbestos mines in Salt River for years.
JM: Okay! That's that one you can see off the side of the road on the Globe side of the Salt River Canyon? That asbestos mine?
VR: No, that was a big outfit there. That was uh, oh I can't think of the name of it now. It was a big outfit. My dad and his brothers was on this side of the Salt River. And then, in them days they took their, the asbestos down to Salt River and they had a tramway. That was the only way to cross it. There were not roads then, just trails. And they would send the asbestos across on the tramway. There were some big mines on the other side there, but right now I can't recall their names.
JM: That's quite a commute to go all the way to the Salt River.
VR: Yeah, yeah they had to pack everything in, you know, their food and . . . The fact is the whole family worked down there, all my older brothers and sisters.
JM: Was that during the Depression?
VR: Yeah
JM: Oh! Okay.
VR: And before, you know, before the Depression.
JM: So, when were you born?
VR: I was born in 1930.
JM: 1930, so right as the Depression started.
VR: Uh huh
JM: And what was your mother's name?
VR: Cora
JM: Cora, and what was her last name?
VR: Uh, Kay
JM: Kay! She was a Kay.
VR: uh huh
JM: Okay, so, now the Kay family was more of Snowflake, aren't they?
VR: No, Lakeside
JM: Or are they. So your mom and dad met somewhere. Do you know how they met?
VR: Oh, I probably heard it, but I forget.
JM: Probably was a dance, or in high school, if they went to school together in Snowflake.
VR: Yeah, something like that.
SR: I don't think your dad ever went to high school.
VR: No, he never did go to high school.
JM: And you said his name was, again? E.D.?
VR: E.D. was what everybody called him.
SR: But his name was Edwin
VR: Edwin, yeah.
JM: And you have how many brothers and sisters?
VR: There was eleven brothers and sisters, with myself twelve as a total, yeah.
JM: So they all lived around here as well, so you had two families of Reidheads with 11 or 12 kids apiece.
SR: He had a sister that died when she was young, very young.
VR: Well, at birth yeah, one sister. Anyway they raised eleven kids.
JM: Your father then, you said started a sawmill.
VR: Yeah he had sawmills, and then my first uh, you know to go to working around the sawmill was after he . . . Actually they relocated over in Nutrioso. After they left out West here, then Nutrioso and then my brother took the mill over at Nutri and my dad started the mill here in Show Low. That was 1946.
JM: Okay, so by that time, the wood was going to Holbrook on the Apache Railway?
VR: Uh no, back in the old days out there, it would go to Holbrook as railroad ties. They cut a lot of stuff for railroads. And then also they would go down to haul stuff south to the copper mines down around Patagonia and places like that.
JM: For shafts? Mine shafts?
VR: Yeah, to go into the shafts. They'd shore up the mines with the timbers.
JM: How would they haul it?
VR: They hauled it in trucks, just small trucks.
JM: So by that time the road was through.
VR: No, the road was bad. The road was narrow and crooked all the way. The road was going through Salt River then.
JM: Because the original road went through Cassadore Springs and. . .
VR: The original road went down Whiteriver and on down through Black River and came out on the San Carlos, somewhere down there, which I never did know much about that because they were building this when I was just a little kid, you know, through Salt River. I remember driving through there when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, or a little younger than that.
JM: Yeah, I think that was a Depression thing.
VR: Yeah, see some of my cousins worked on that too, did a lot of blasting and stuff like that.
JM: I guess they stayed in camps along the way as the road was built.
VR: yeah
JM: But you were growing up here.
VR: Yeah, I was growing up around here, went to school in Taylor, between. I was born here and then later on we moved on camps around and then moved to Taylor for a couple of years, then back to Show Low.
JM: Did your family follow the sawmill camps?
VR: Yeah, for years. Yeah, we'd be there in the summer, you know through the summer, and when the kids had, the older kids had to go to school, well we'd move back to Show Low or Linden or. Some of my older brothers and sisters went to school in Linden. And then my first schooling was in Taylor.
JM: Your mother would move back, but your, I mean your father would continue working until it snowed? And then shut it down.
VR: Yeah, uh, they'd be there. Well, they'd run the mill all winter, but my mother would be there through the summer, and older sisters, you know, to work, whatever.
JM: So you spent a lot of time outdoors.
VR: Yeah, a lot of time!
JM: Did you go to Standard?
VR: Yeah, we to go to the old Standard. The old Standard mill was built while we lived out there, while we were still there. They had railroads, put railroads all over and they'd come in and run the old Standard mill for not too many years.
JM: It wasn't there long.
VR: Uh uh. McNary . . .
JM: Did they like build a temporary railroad, that just went up and then they'd take it with them?
VR: Yeah, they'd just, yeah they'd lay down the railroad bed and put the rails down and run it. And then when they got through a certain area they'd take that all up and then move. The same way up here around McNary. They had a lot of railroad that they you know, run it all over there.
JM: I know about the train to Maverick, but that was famous because it was the last one?
VR: It was, and then it was the area that they moved a lot of timber out of for years.
JM: So you grew up doing this and went to school. Were you involved with a war?
VR: I was in Korea. My brother older, just a little older than me was in World War II.
JM: So you remember what it was like living here when all the men were gone to war.
VR: Yeah
JM: What was it like?
VR: It was, we run a little old sawmill, you know. My dad, he had a sawmill and had a lot of transients coming through. They'd stop and he'd give them work, you know, to get on to where they were going, and help them out, you know. A lot of them was going to the West Coast to work or, you know in the shipyards or something. It seemed like a lot of them come through here and he always had a little work for them and we always fed them to help them on their way.
JM: Now that road that goes to Payson wasn't here, right?
VR: No, no.
JM: So on their way going north again.
VR: Yeah, there were sawmills out in the area, and then uh. I just don't remember when that road was built. There was evidently no road dropping off that Rim, but I don't know just when. You know, it was really built. Because I think everything had to go around. I don't know.
JM: I know there is a forest road that goes on top of the Rim and it goes up to Winslow. Was that road there?
VR: You know, I don't know. I didn't really know much about it out that far.
JM: This was a pretty remote place at that point.
VR: Yeah, but I do remember the old Linden road, it would go through Linden and then it would go out to Pinedale. And then, to go to Taylor, the road turned to Pinedale and went to Taylor. There was no road between Taylor and Show Low, you know out where it is now.
JM: It kind of curved.
VR: I do remember that.
JM: Did you have to ride the bus up to school up that way?
VR: No, the didn't have busses them days, we just walked mainly. Rode a horse or walked.
JM: What was your favorite subject in school?
VR: Oh, sure wasn't school! (laughs)
JM: The wives always laugh when I ask that question.
VR: No, it was probably geography, cause I was always wanting to be somewhere else. (laughter)
JM: I see by the time the Korean War happened, so that was about 1948.
VR: Yeah, I went in in 1947.
JM: And did you go to Korea?
VR: Yeah, but I didn't mean to. I went in to see the world, you know, and then Korea just come along while I was in there. I had to stay for a while. And I seen the world, you know.
SR: He was on an aircraft carrier in the Navy.
JM: Oh! That's good! Got to see all the water you wanted to see. When did you get out?
VR: I got out in '51.
JM: '51? When did you two meet?
VR: We got married in '51.
SR: '51, we met in about 50. . .
VR: About '47
SR: But I knew his brother and sister.
JM: Which ones?
SR: I knew Eddie, or Edward, and then I knew his sister Lula. I had known them most of my life.
JM: So you grew up here too, then?
SR: Well, I grew up, I was born in Phoenix and then we moved back up here for a few years and then we moved to Phoenix. And I lived in Phoenix then until I started high school when we came back up here.
JM: What was your last name?
SR: Hall
JM: Hall! Oh, you're a Hall! You're from the Hall family that we've a Hall Street here?
SR: I don't know but we're probably the first Hall family here, because Jean Hall is no relation. And then there are some Halls in Snowflake that are no relation. But most of my family lived right here.
VR: Yeah, the all pioneered in here from Utah.
SR: You see, I go back to the Mills and the McNeils.
JM: Okay, yes, those are old names, old families.
SR: My family worked on the road.
JM: Highway 60?
SR: Highway 60
JM: So you remember, everybody talks about the, what was it? The Palace, where you could go dance and they had concerts.
SR: And the Blue Moon
JM: And the Blue Moon
VR: Oh yeah, yeah, the old Blue Moon. That's where I learned to roller skate, up there. They let kids go up there, well anybody could go up there and roller skate, you know. I done that. I was 11 years old when it burned down.
JM: Oh! So, you didn't get the full affects of it.
VR: No, no
JM: It sounded like a magic place, everybody talks about it.
VR: Oh it was, it was something! It would gather crowds all around the mountain, you know, come from far away. Saturday night and I guess Saturday night was was a big dance night, and there was always something going on then. Roller-skating, a lot of entertainment for kids you know, too.
JM: Family events
VR: Yeah
JM: So did you meet at something like that? Or . . .
SR: No, I was too young. I can remember when the Blue Moon burned. We lived here, but shortly after that we moved to Phoenix. I remember hearing a lot about it because my aunt Berta Loveless was married to the West that had that.
VR: Yeah, that owned it.
SR: Owned it. Later he was in the Service and he got killed. I don't remember it. I was too young to actually remember, but it was the talk.
JM: Where was it located?
SR: Over by where the Maxwell House is.
VR: Just about right where the Maxwell House is.
JM: Okay, that's what I was thinking. On the Deuce of Clubs.
VR: Uh hum
JM: Because Leland Nikolaus told me that his parents had a house near the roller skating rink and I'm thinking, what roller skating rink? That would have been off of Eleventh or something though, wouldn't it? Or off of Huning? For the Nikolauses?
SR: Leland lives on the spot where his mom lived when I remembered them. I don't remember anything before. I just remember going to his house when I was a little kid, because his mother was my aunt and if Mom needed somebody to take care of me, that's where she took me.
JM: Oh! Now this Reidhead House that is down here on the main drag here. Who's house is that?
VR: That was Charlie's
JM: Okay, and he was the first one born here.
VR: Yeah, right
SR: Charlie Reidhead
VR: Uh huh, see now he was in the cattle business, raising horses and stuff back in them days. He built that house, but I can't remember just when it was built. It has been there for a long time though.
JM: Yes, and being brick. That has always been curious where the brick came from.
SR: There were several of those houses around.
VR: Yeah, several and they were big houses, two-story houses.
SR: Big houses like that, the Ellsworths across the street and then some more downtown.
VR: That brick might have come out of Gallup. They made a lot of brick over there in Gallup, New Mexico it seemed like back then.
SR: And they were all built about the same time, weren't they?
VR: Yeah
JM: Somebody told me that down about where Pat's Place is they used to make a brick right in that area.
VR: Well, they could have done that. There was a great big brick house right on that road, that back road there. It used to be the old Savage place.
JM: Okay, Charlie Savage?
VR: Yeah, and then the Penrods had an old brick house and they turned the bottom part of it into a store up on White Mountain Boulevard right on Huning Street and Deuce of Clubs. Right there on that. I knew Mrs. Penrod because I used to go in there and buy candy all the time. So I remember her real good. She was a real nice lady.
JM: Okay, so you two got married. You came home and you got married. You decided to get married, or you got married.
VR: No, after I got home.
JM: After you got home you got married, and so you decided to stay here in Show Low?
VR: Yeah, we stayed here. I went to work at the, around the mill, the sawmill.
JM: Okay, was that paper mill here yet?
VR: No the paper mill wasn't here yet. It was in the '60s when the paper mill moved in.
JM: I remember coming as a kid into town. There was that sawmill right down here off of Central.
VR: Yeah, right down there where the old Safeway
JM: Double D Furniture Store?
SR: Yeah
VR: We had a planing mill there and then just up a ways from there was our sawmill where we cut logs. Right behind it just half a block.
SR: They used to store logs, bring the logs in there. That's where we put them.
JM: And there were some houses back in there that were sawmill houses?
VR: We had a whole lot of Indians, Apaches and some Navajos worked for us. And they'd come in there and they'd just go get them some lumber and build them a house.
SR: You know where the Chamber of Commerce is?
JM: Uh huh
SR: That was the office for Reidhead Lumber Company, and then the two houses there by it, before you get over to McNeil Street? Is that what it is in there?
VR: Yeah
SR: belonged to his parents, and then his mother . . .
JM: Where like the Health store is? On that side?
SR: Well, where the road is between the health food store and the office is where his parents lived. See that Central has only been in down there since . . .
VR: About '86, somewhere around there.
SR: Somewhere in there, ''96, '97
VR: See, we closed our sawmill down in '91.
SR: Years before the City put Central in.
VR: Yeah
SR: I can't remember the actual date.
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Get Smart With Negotiation
IN THE THREE YEARS THAT FARLA BINDER has run her home-based entertaining coaching and consulting business, she's tapped into the professional negotiating skills she learned during the 25 years that she operated Creations By Farla, a Los Angeles-based corporate-party-planning company. Her philosophy? She believes in her product and her ability to deliver value; for those reasons, she stands by her fee. If clients ask her to lower her fee, Binder gets creative so she doesn't look like she's caving in to those demands. For example, Binder will offer less consulting time for less money, or she'll offer a menu of services. That way clients can feel more in control of the fee.
"I don't compromise on my prices," says Binder. "However, by giving them a menu, I am giving them choices. But I don't allow clients to negotiate on the menu's fees."
Stand Your Ground
Binder remembers the first time she demanded a fixed fee for a party centerpiece. Though she feared the client would balk at her fee, Binder stood by the price. "I remember taking a deep breath and saying `just do it,'" she recalls. The client paid the fee without haggling.
"Don't compromise on price," Binder says. "When you start negotiating on your fee once, then you're teaching your client to always negotiate with you."
You can have the same fortitude that Binder brings to the negotiating table. First, develop your strength of character during negotiations, says Mimi Donaldson, a Beverly Hills-based negotiating expert and author of Negotiating for Dummies ($20, IDG Books). Home-based business owners who formerly worked at companies where business development specialists handled all the negotiations with clients now have to learn to negotiate for themselves if they hope to win deals and sustain their business, she says.
"If you want to be a master negotiator, you're going to have to cross the lines into foreign territory and be flexible and adaptable," Donaldson says. "If you have a hard time doing this, get over it or leave the game."
Be Prepared
The best way to win at client negotiations is to be fully prepared going in, Donaldson says. Take time to study the client's Web site to learn about the company's products, industry, and personnel, she says. Ask industry contacts if they know anything about the company or its key players. "Go in armed to the teeth with that information before you start negotiating," she says.
To make sure you get the fee that you're after and know you deserve, know exactly what you'd like to earn, adds Bob Laser, senior managing partner for The Negotiating Alliance (www.negotiatingskills.com), an Atlanta- and San Francisco-based negotiating consultancy. After taking time to tend to marketing and other non-billable back-office functions, the maximum number of billable days per year that an independent professional has left to give to a client is usually 100 days (as opposed to 200 for company employees who don't have to multi-task), he says. That translates to 800 billable client hours each year. If you decide that you want to make $60,000 a year, your hourly rate will be $20, says Laser. "Knowing you need to maintain that fee per hour will help you to establish a firm foundation for negotiating your price," he says.
Sell Yourself
Most of all, toot your own horn, Donaldson says. While you may be bidding against others to land a project, your talents and expertise can set you apart from competing companies. "The person who wins the project is the person who is best at selling themselves," she adds.
Get What You Deserve
Follow these five tips at the negotiating table:
Exude self-confidence Believe that you're a professional who brings value to your clients
Keep two figures in mind Establish your ideal asking price and the lowest fee you'll accept so you can stand your ground if a client tries to low-bail your number during negotiations
Know the market rates You'll establish yourself as a professional, you won't price yourself out of a project, and you won't ask a ridiculously low fee
Offer a menu of services Avoid haggling over fees and protect your price integrity without discounting
Evaluate potential Some jobs might open doors to more work and new contacts
Avoiding Scams Is Less Tricky Than You Think
A HOME-BASED BUSINESS OWNER, YOU HAVE A RISK-taking attitude that can culminate in great profits. Alas, this pioneering spirit can also tempt unwary home officers into the jaws of a wide variety of scams, schemes, and nefarious business deals spawned by modern-day Fagans. But if you're forewarned, and exercise some caution and common sense, most of them can be avoided.
"The work-at-home, make-big-money, buy-large-cars, I-will-tell-you-how-to-make-it-rich-overnight multi-level-marketing offers are largely schemes, if not scams," says Lindsey Krause, who worked in the corporate marketing department of a multilevel marketing company (MLM) for more than a year before she discovered its unsavory business tactics and quit. (Krause asked us not to reveal her real name for fear of reprisals.) She says hundreds of people left the company each month, disillusioned and broke, while a core group collected outrageous sums of money.
The bait comes in many forms–savings on office supplies, incredible sales, membership in exclusive trade organizations. And despite the dire warnings of attorneys general and consumer groups, people still fall prey to shady work-at-home business opportunities.
"When people were looking for a little extra cash or an at-home opportunity because of family or physical limits, they were preyed on relentlessly," maintains Krause. "Single moms were their easiest targets."
There are two main reasons why home-based business owners are particularly susceptible to scams, according to James Walsh, author of You Can't Cheat an Honest Man: How Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid Frauds Work and Why They Are More Common Than Ever ($20; Silver Lake Publishing). One is logistical and the other is psychological.
Logistically, home-based businesses offer fewer layers of resistance between an outside promoter and the decision-maker. "Often, the decision-maker is the same person who picks up the phone," Walsh says. "Even if you are just starting a one-person shop and feel as broke as can be, you're still an ideal mark for a scammer because you're easy to reach."
The psychological reason is that some home-based business owners feel a kind of institutional insecurity, as if they need to pay attention to every business proposal that comes their way in order to compete. "If anything, the opposite is closer to the truth," Walsh says. "A home-based business should be even pickier about the proposals they entertain."
The first thing you must do to protect yourself from scammers is gather information. Too often, consumers work with companies on the assumption that they are legitimate. "More than scams and cons, it is a lack of awareness that causes fraud," says David Horowitz, host of the weekly radio show Fight Back, a consumer advocacy program (www.fightback.com).
Horowitz says that before you do business with a company, you need to check them out completely. Call their 800 and local telephone numbers to make sure they work. If the company has a Web site, check it out to get more information about how they operate. You can also search Web-based and Usenet message boards for complaints about the company. Even if the company doesn't have its own Web site, customers often post warnings about disreputable firms on other sites. Some good places to start include www.fightback.com, www.scambusters.com, and www.thepubliceye.com.
The next thing you should do is become acquainted with some of the more common scams. There are countless schemes afoot out there, but here are a few general types of which home workers should be particularly wary.
The most lucrative (at least for the perpetrators) and potentially dangerous scam is the multilevel marketing scheme. These pyramid schemes will come to the home-based business dressed up as marketing opportunities or guaranteed networking systems.
"Sometimes they will suggest that you market their product–pre-paid phone cards, soap, coins–while getting your business off the ground," Walsh says. "Other times, they will suggest that their system can generate sales and clients for your business." In both cases, they're out to get "start-up fees" or "management licenses" from you, as well as everyone you can recruit into the scheme.
Krause was involved in a vitamin venture that also sold weight-loss and beauty cream products. She says the company made a good deal of its money by selling high-priced products of inferior quality. "Most of the products are extremely overpriced compared to purchasing them on the Internet or in a superstore," Krause says.
While the sign-up fees for most programs are minimal, MLMs often encourage new members to purchase large amounts of product. When you join, you are often required to have a three- or even six-month supply shipped–and charged to your credit card–each month.
In addition to paying for the products, these schemes usually require you to incur a great deal of overhead expense. Unlike an employee in a corporate setting, you have to pay for everything, including sales brochures, meeting spaces, photocopying, gas, phone service, conferences, training, and more. Before long, Krause says, your expenses can get wildly out of control. "That's why you see the word `independent' all the time," says Krause. "It doesn't mean freedom from work: it means you pay for everything on your own."
If you are thinking about joining a MLM or franchise, you need to be extremely careful. To avoid falling victim to scams, you need to dig up lots of information about the business, its principals, and your risk.
Walsh says there are some fundamental things you must know before committing any money to a marketing channel or "business opportunity."
First, make sure you understand how the business makes money. What is the product or service being exchanged for value? Are you guaranteed to receive a quality product, or do you have to work with what you have?
You also need to know the people with whom you are working. Do you know all or most of your business partners, or are there producers, license-holders, or others that you haven't met? At the very least, you need to know whether your new partners have had legal trouble in the past.
Third, where did this opportunity come from? Scammers don't just wait for marks to come to them; they seek them out. Trust opportunities that you find and research yourself, and be wary of those that find you.
"Ask to meet principals and read prospectuses–including complete ownership information–before committing any money to a business opportunity," advises Walsh. "Make sure you understand who's involved and where they are located."
The second-most-common type of con is the effort to sell office supplies or equipment to a home-based business at a "discount." The offer can come via e-mail or by phone, and it usually begins with the salesperson asking what kind of PC, printer, and fax machine you have. "Once they get you to tell them about your equipment, you are finished," says Horowitz.
Once they know what you need, the scam artist will quote you prices that are far below those offered by the legitimate competition.
"People who have their offices at home are usually pretty frugal about what they buy," Horowitz says. "But when prices are so low, some of these people–in their infinite wisdom–will buy six of everything." In some cases, the products simply never arrive. In others, the goods arrive, but are of inferior quality and cannot be returned. "The reason they deliver is so they won't be pursued by the federal authorities," says Horowitz.
Other office supply schemes require a home-based business to pay a membership fee or participation fee in order to get amazingly low prices. "The business pays the fee, and the scammer disappears," says Walsh.
In another variation, a shipment of office supplies that the home-based entrepreneur never ordered arrives–along with a bill. When the business owner calls to dispute the charge, they are threatened with an adverse credit report if they do not pay.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled two high-profile cases of office supply fraud in late 2000.
According to the FTC, David, Moreno, doing business as Continental Business Systems (also known as United Products), based in Huntington Park, Calif., used deceptive tactics to get businesses to pay for the supplies he sent to them. He falsely represented that he was the businesses' regular toner supplier and that they had ordered the toner he had shipped, and for which he had billed them. Under the terms of the settlement, Moreno must refrain from future telemarketing sales and turn over all of the company's assets to the state.
In a similar case, the FTC found that International Business Network Inc., based in Tarzana, Calif., would call businesses on some phony pretext to obtain information about their victims' photocopiers and the names of personnel responsible for ordering supplies for the copiers. They used this information to convey the impression that they regularly supplied toner for the victim's copier. Once the victim paid one bill, additional shipments and bills were sent, reflecting outrageous prices.
The FTC settlement in this case banned the company principals, Danny Yahalom and Oren Ben Elkanah, from telemarketing sales and required them to pay $85,000 to the business owners they had ripped off.
Another similar scam revolves around sales of big-ticket items such as computers and copy machines. Horowitz says users should be particularly wary of computers that were assembled or rebuilt outside the United States. Even if the components are delivered as advertised, the warranty may be invalid and leave you hanging if you run into trouble. "Manufacturer warranties on these systems will not be honored because they were assembled in Europe," says Horowitz.
In fact, the source of your warranty may be as important as who made the product. Federal law guarantees you the right to read the warranty before you buy a personal computer, according to Horowitz. "You want to make sure to get a factory warranty," he says. "Dealer and third-party warranties are troublesome because they don't always perform their own repairs."
The Federal Trade Commission offers a number of tips for small businesses that want to avoid becoming victims of office supply scams. Clearly, you are not responsible for products that you did not order. In fact, the law allows you to treat them as a gift! When shipments arrive, you should inspect them immediately to ensure you receive the quantity and quality of items that you ordered. You should also check your bill for charges for items you did not order.
One relatively new scam involves the selling of bogus domain names. Although many top-level domain names (TLDs) are taken, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is in the process of authorizing new TLDs, such as .biz, .info, .pro, and others.
According to the FTC, consumers are receiving fax and e-mail solicitations to secure new top-level domain names–for a fee–as soon as they become available to the public. The promise may guarantee a new top-level extension or some kind of preferential treatment in the registration process; either way, the claims are bogus.
At press time, however, ICANN had not yet authorized the new extensions, and the FTC says it is misleading for any service or entrepreneur to offer pre-registration or accept fees for domain names that may never exist. It is also likely that ICANN will establish rules and regulation regarding the distribution of new TLDs when–and if–they become available.
The FTC advises consumers to protect themselves by avoiding any pre-registration service that asks for fees up-front or guarantees particular top-level domain names or preferential treatment in the assignment of new, top-level domain names. It also recommends that consumers look carefully at any offers that come in unsolicited. To check the current status of new TLDs, check out the ICANN Web site at www.icann.org.
It is also a good idea to protect yourself against the registration of domain names that may infringe on your trademarks or copyrights. Horowitz says he had this problem after he established fightback.com. "I found somebody had registered fightback.org and wanted to sell it for $999," says Horowitz. "We went out and registered 20-something domain names so someone doesn't rip off my trademarks." Horowitz also recommends using a well-established registration service, such as Network Solutions (www.networksolutions.com).
Even if you've taken all conceivable precautions, there's always the chance a particularly wily scammer will catch you napping. If you become a victim, there is nothing to be ashamed of–and reporting the incident quickly could help spare others.
The best thing to do if you think you've been taken by a scam is contact your state Attorney General's office. "These are the law-enforcement agencies that usually keep the best tabs on con men and Ponzi swindlers," says Walsh. The U.S. Justice Department also has an office that focuses on Ponzi schemes and business swindles.
But although the state attorneys general work hard to battle scams, don't expect them to get your money back for you. Many law enforcement officials at the local level consider scams "victimless crimes," and, therefore, low priorities. "In the D.A.'s office in Los Angeles County, you need to sustain at least a $100K loss before the office will take action," says Horowitz. "Sometimes, if you pool resources with other victims, you can reach that level, but it can be hard."
A cautionary note: Although many blame the Internet for the number of scams out there, most scams work just as well by phone as they do online, and use the same methods. In effect, however, the Internet allows scammers to reach a larger number of potential marks while incurring less expense. "Ponzi scammers have always used direct mail to find marks … the Internet is, among other things, a very efficient form of direct mail," says Walsh. "The underlying mechanics of the schemes haven't changed, and probably won't."
Horowitz agrees and adds that the best defense against scams is the same as always: common sense. Issuing a well-worn but nonetheless valid warning, he says, "If it looks like a scam, sounds like a scam, smells like a scam–it's a scam."
Office Furniture Hunting
WORKING AT HOME IS THE PERFECT situation for Chris Williamson. Once a vice president of human resources for a $400 million company, she decided she needed to be at home with her three children more than she needed to be at the office. So, she started her own business, Creative Human Resource Solutions Ltd., which she runs from her 4-bedroom colonial home in Perrysburg, Ohio.
She set up her office next to the master bedroom, in what used to be the catch-all room over the garage. Its large window gives her a magnificent view over the trees toward the historical site of Fort Meigs, a War of 1812 battleground next to the Maumee River. But the one battle Chris confronted was one she didn't expect: She couldn't find suitable home office furnishings.
"I looked for months for office furniture," says Williamson. "I could find armoires, but there was no drawer space. Or I could find metal filing cabinets to put a top on to make a desk, but it just didn't feel like real furniture. And an executive desk didn't really fit in the space the right way."
One store dealer tried to convince her to buy children's bedroom furniture, but the drawers weren't the right size for files. "I'd go to furniture stores, and I'd tell them I needed filing cabinets, which I don't think is an outrageous request," Williamson remembers. "It was hard to find anything that wasn't contemporary–a style I like–but it's not in keeping with the rest of my decor."
Finally, Williamson found an armoire she liked in a furniture store and logged on to the Hooker Furniture Web site (540-632-2133, www.hookerfurniture.com), where she discovered the entire collection of Faith Popcorn's "La Cocoon" office furniture line that the futurist and author designed for the company. "I was so thrilled to find it because it was exactly right for the space," says Williamson of the antique cherry credenza, hutch, lateral file, bookcase, and workstation desk she purchased through a dealer located on the company's site.
With its "gentle French style," as Williamson calls it, the furniture blends in beautifully with the rest of her traditional decor. "Before I found La Cocoon, my options included piecing together odds and ends to try to get what I needed for my home office," she says. "I'm sure I would have ended up spending more money had I gone that route."
No longer her junk room, the 16-foot-by-16-foot office suits her perfectly. "Before, I always had a large office with a large desk and a credenza and a conference table, so that's the way I'm used to working," she says. Now, with all the pieces of La Cocoon in place, she has plenty of space to spread out when she's working–and plenty of places to stash things and close up shop when she's done for the day.
Although her family respects her work space, they like to hang out there, too. "Sometimes, we'll migrate to the office in the evening," says Williamson. "My family will be in there when I'm working." The room's television, two welcoming and oversized chairs, and ottomans make them feel right at home even in the office.
The arrangement suits the family well, says Williamson, who for the past year has been working on such projects as employee-opinion and performance-feedback surveys and writing employee handbooks. "Ideally, my picture of this home business is to be an HR professional for small- to medium-sized companies who need someone for an executive search, or to help evaluate their benefit plans, or design policies, or whatever HR strategy issues they may need," she says.
For now, though, Williamson is concentrating on taking on work that she can do during quieter times of the day, such as when her daughters Paige, 10, and Hannah, 6, are in school, and Meredith, 2, is napping. Because her current projects don't require her to be accessible during the day, she can also work at night, after the kids are in bed, or on the weekend, when her husband can take them out of the house–and everything stays organized thanks to her perfect home office furniture.
The Downsides Of Teleworking
ARE YOUR OFFICE-BOUND COWORKERS green with envy–or resentment–because you telework? Working at home may be your temporary reprieve from office politics, but it's not always "business as usual" when you return to the main office. If your colleagues' resentment festers, it can be the downfall of your telework program, but there are ways to help your office mates accept your work schedule.
The Bitter End
For Pam Waterman, a senior technical marketing writer for Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc., a computer software and hardware company located in Cambridge, Mass., she became aware of resentment over her teleworker status after the birth of her first child. Waterman and a fellow coworker–also a new mom and an engineer who worked in a different department–worked out an arrangement with their respective supervisors to work from home the same two days every week. On those days, they split childcare and work time. But soon after implementing the change, Waterman and her fellow teleworker felt the same chilly reception from their coworkers: Despite the 40- to 50-hour weeks each devoted to the company, they weren't taken seriously. "We got the subtle sense that we were really only considered to be part-timers," says Waterman. "We were made to feel like we were not pulling our weight."
Bit by bit, Waterman felt squeezed out of the communications loop. First, conference meetings that she'd normally attend were scheduled on days she worked at home. "Then, a client would call or raise an issue, or a change would be made to the production schedule, and I'd find out accidentally after the fact," says Waterman. After three months of slights, she threw in the towel and went back to the office full-time.
In all likelihood, that's exactly what Waterman's manager wanted, says Debra Dinnocenzo, author of 101 Tips for Telecommuters ($16, Berrett-Koehler Publishers). Because there was no formal written agreement, it's possible her manager believed Waterman's request to work at home was just temporary. The manager might have had one set of expectations and Waterman another, but there was no way of knowing without the clarity of a written agreement, says Dinnocenzo.
Controlling Resentment
To keep peace on the staff, Dinnocenzo says it's imperative to have a written agreement to spell out expectations on both sides. Before the employee teleworks, it's important to hold a formal staff meeting led by the manager, with the teleworker's key partners within the organization, to explain the arrangement. If the details of a teleworker's agreement aren't shared with the company, the schedule can foster hostility, says Dinnocenzo. "If you're denied a formal written teleworker agreement, then communicate with coworkers one-on-one and explain your reasoning for telecommuting," she adds. "Be clear with coworkers about what days you plan to work from home, how you can be reached, and what work you plan to do from your home office."
Resentment about a teleworker's schedule is not entirely unfounded, says David Fleming, who was chosen to direct California's Telecommuting Pilot Program from 1992 to 1995 and organized the California Task Force on Interactive Telecommunications in Government. "In my workshops for soon-to-be teleworkers, I urge them to be sensitive to what could result in their colleagues having to put out all the fires in the office," explains Fleming. "I encourage teleworkers to take on less attractive duties when they are in the office to give colleagues relief."
Airing Grievances
Al Jacobus, a former telecommunications engineer for the State of California's telecommunications division in Sacramento, worked at home two days a week during the pilot program. As soon as he started telecommuting, his colleagues began making snide comments about his schedule.
Instead of taking offense to his coworkers' resentment, Jacobus started a monthly telecommuting forum where everyone could come and vent problems about the flexible schedules. "We'd meet once a month for one hour," recalls Jacobus. "We'd pick a topic, send a flyer out to 250 people in the division, and we had a great response." During meetings, anyone interested in telework could ask questions, and those affected by the program could report their complaints.
Quelling Jealousy
Ways to keep colleague envy out of your telework arrangement:
* Put your manager's expectations in writing.
* Have your manager hold a staff meeting to formalize and explain your telework status to coworkers.
* Have a one-to-one meeting with coworkers explaining why you're teleworking.
* Lend an extra hand to coworkers when you're in the office.
The Web Has Made Assistive Technology Amazing
People with visual, hearing, or other physical impairments are usually familiar with the assistive technology that helps them live, learn, and communicate with others. But not every home-based entrepreneur is aware that these technologies can help them communicate with the largest possible audience.
There are more than 30 million people with disabilities who can be affected by the design of computer software, according to Mike Paciello, founder and CTO of WebABLE, a Nashua, N.H.-based consulting firm that focuses on assistive technologies. In 1998, the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities reported that consumers with physical disabilities control more than $175 billion in discretionary income. "For SOHOs, that seems to be incentive enough to use these technologies," says Paciello.
At the most fundamental level, your Web site can be specially coded to accommodate people with disabilities. Directions for doing this have been collected by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The organization's Web Accessibility Initiative can be found at www.w3.org/WAI. "The guidelines cover everything from how to create accessible Web sites, designing accessible authoring tools, education, outreach, usability, validation, and best practices," Paciello says. A few tips:
Images & animations. Describe the function of each visual element and avoid unnecessary animations that complicate the site.
Image maps. Use text to interpret hotspots, allowing visually impaired visitors to navigate without assistance.
Multimedia. Provide captioning and transcripts of audio clips and vivid descriptions of video clips.
Hypertext links. Use text that makes sense when read out of context. For example, avoid "click here" in the middle of sentences when referring to links.
Page organization. Use headings, lists, and consistent layout and style wherever possible.
Graphs, charts, and tables. Summarize any visual element or use the Long-desc attribute to interpret visual details.
Scripts, applets, & plug-ins. Provide alternative content in case active features are inaccessible or unsupported. This helps all visitors enjoy the multimedia features on your site.
Frames. Use noframes and meaningful titles so visually impaired visitors can follow the organization of the site.
Check your work. Validate your site. Use the tools, checklists, and guidelines at W3C (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG).
New products hold even more promise for communicating with this audience. For example, with a $399 RIM 950 handheld and Blackberry software (519-888-7465, www.rim.net) hearing impaired users can receive wireless text messages wherever they go. Paciello advises that taking advantage of text messaging allows even small businesses to reach out to the hearing impaired. "I believe we'll see advances in similar services that can be reproduced at the Web level that will greatly enhance communication processes between the deaf and hearing persons," he says.
In addition, text-to-speech software and Braille keyboards keep visually impaired users connected. The 2.9-pound BrailleNote (starting at $3,400, HumanWare, 800-722-3393, www.humanware. com) is a portable console for the blind. The device comes with a keyboard, high-quality microphone, and speaker, and uses a Windows CE-based suite of applications including a word processing program, e-mail package, a PIM, and a phone directory with a relational database that can interface with mainstream computing products. "It's a PDA for people that are blind," says Judy Seiler, director of marketing at HumanWare. Just as the sky is the limit for users of these technologies, so is the market available for the products and services your business provides.


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My interview with Lauren marks the second of (what I hope to be) many interviews with women from whom I find inspiration — or women I think are just plain badass, admirable, or hilarious. Probably a mixture of all those things combined. These women can be anyone — artists, mothers, professors, bloggers, career women — who is awesome in some way, shape or form. I've interviewed a number of women in the name of journalism over the span of my time at UC. Each and every one of those interviews has inspired me and validated my own experiences, choices and passions. I hope to inspire readers in that same way with my series: "Interviews with (Super) Women."
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Lauren Wales first began studying to become a doula when she was 16 years old. Since then, birth and birth culture have been a part of her life in numerous ways. She has worked as both a licensed prenatal massage therapist and a childbirth and childcare educator. She is also the mother of a nearly-ten-year-old girl, whom she became pregnant with during her training to become a certified doula. Although Wales chose to become a certified doula in lieu of attending high school, she hopes to become a midwife someday, and is currently studying American birth culture at the University of Cincinnati. Wales identifies as a full spectrum doula, meaning she offers support for women during all stages of their reproductive cycles, with a focus on childbirth, prenatal and postpartum care. This article has been submitted to The Verge Magazine.
Q: Describe your job as a doula to someone who may not even know what it is.
A: So when a woman is pregnant and thinking about how and where she's going to have her baby, then she may need support for that. She may have questions about places to give birth, about caring for a baby, or about all the possible options she has in regard to birth – options like positions, medications, how she is going to breastfeed her baby, what happens when you go home and have this newborn and you've never had one before.
That's how the role or profession of the doula sprang up, and my job is really to mother the mother because in the US we don't really have very interconnected extended families, so the kind of support that we might get from our mom or our grandma or sister or aunt, the professional doula provides that kind of support. Really I get to do all the fun stuff that comes with being a birthing coach or a birthing supporter without all the technical piece that the midwife or doctor would do. My role is really comfort measures, support and education, and really helping or coaching the mother through her pregnancy, birth and even postpartum.
Q: What made you decide to become a doula?
A: When I was 16. I met a woman who was going to school to become a nurse midwife. She lent me a book called "Spiritual Midwifery," which is this really interesting 1970s hippie-style manifesto about giving birth. It got me really excited about this idea that women can empower one another in their birth experiences, so I thought, 'Well, that's what I'm going to do with my life.' So because I was 16 and didn't have any kids, I was like, 'Well, how can I get involved?' One of the suggestions was to become a doula and learn how to support women like that before you went through all the technical process.
Q: What kind of training did that entail?
A: So this was like 11 or so years ago that I did my training. I was like 20. At that time, there were quite a few certifying organizations. Since then, that's changed a little bit, but is still pretty much true. So what you would do was go to usually a weekend workshop – two to three days or so with a certain number of contact or fieldwork hours – and then you'd read a bunch of books, then you'd go to a bunch of books as a 'doula-trainee' of sorts. Back when I was becoming a doula, there weren't a lot of doulas, so usually you'd go on your own to these births. Thank goodness, now there are a lot more experienced doulas out there so you can shadow someone, like an apprenticeship. But back then, I didn't have that, so I'd go on my own even before I got certified. I just started going.
I would contact people, who were teaching childbirth classes, and my mom does lactation support, so she knew a lot of people – I would just explain that this is what I want to do, and ask if they had anybody who would want me to come to their birth for free or for gas money. I worked for a while for Planned Parenthood in Hamilton because my midwife friend was there. And that was really amazing because I got to deal with a population of women who wouldn't otherwise be able to hire a doula.
Q: How did your client base grown since you first became a doula? How has it continued to grow?
A: It's been really cyclical for me – because I've always also been running this track to become a midwife. The doula work has been there kind of on a case-by-case basis. There are times when it's really active in my life, and time when it kind of is on the backburner a bit. I did a lot of doula from when I was in my early twenties, but I got pregnant when I was 21.
All this doula work was so inspiring, and I was engaged, and I was like, 'Let's have a baby!' So that didn't take a lot of work and we did. And then I took a break for a couple of years and went to school to become a massage therapist, then at the end of that, I started going to births again.
It depends on the doula, though. Often times, we do have kids, and it's a career people choose after they have children, and they're usually fitting it around the rest of their life. Or maybe it's the other way around – you know, life fits in around their doula work. For me, it kind of came organically. The more people I knew, and as the idea of doulas got to be something that more people knew about within mainstream culture, the number of births I attended grew.
Also, through my massage therapy work, people would come to me for prenatal massage, who will then ask me to come to their births and be their doula. The idea of having someone there who knows what they're doing and how to support then is appealing to them. So as I've made more choices and grown myself as a person over the years, the more births I've attended.
Q: So your main goal is to become a midwife?
A: Yes. So I guess I'm kind of a blend of analytical and interpersonal. I love the problem solving and kind of healthcare aspects of being a midwife, but I'm glad I've had all this work as a doula because what it does is give you a lot more time to develop intimacy with women and really understand what's important about the birthing process with each individual woman. So much of what happens in birth is not about the physical. It's about the emotional and relational, so if those things are in a good place, then the woman can be undefended and can be present and can rock out in her birth.
If those things aren't in place in a very good way – either because she's got a something very psychological or relational going on in her life that she needs to let go of or work through, then that's going to impact her physical birth experience as well. So I'm glad that I am able to learn about all aspects of birth – being a doula as I become a midwife has allowed me to do all those things.
As I learn to become a midwife here in a university setting, still practicing as a doula keeps me in touch with why I wanted to become involved in births in the first place.
Q: If you could think back, what was your first experience as a doula like, how have your methods changed, and how have you grown as a doula?
A: I was so young and so enthusiastic. I don't think I can give you one first experience because what ended up happening was that I ended up doing a lot more childbirth and prenatal education classes in the very beginning rather than attending a lot of births. And that was really amazing because it confirmed my feeling that this was definitely what I wanted to be doing and the career path that I wanted to go down in terms of working with women and having deep connections with them and helping them to feel empowered in what their choices were.
So I was working with Planned Parenthood and I was also working with a childbirth education friend of mine at a pregnancy care center here in Cincinnati. So those are these diametric philosophies, but it was all about people having babies.
The first birth that I was at was a young woman's through the pregnancy care center and she was actually married, which was kind of unusual. She wasn't a teen mom. She was actually 21 or 22. She and her husband lived with her family. They were very supportive of her and she wanted a natural birth. She had been to childbirth classes and she was very awesome.
She did great, and she did have a natural birth in the hospital, but she was on Medicaid and she gave birth at University Hospital. I remember how great she did when it was her husband and I in the room, and how disempowering it was when she had medical students – the two medical students did her birth, actually – and their attitude toward her was just so demeaning and awful.
She knew exactly what she wanted and could feel everything, but they treated her as if she had no idea what was going on and like she just needed to lay back and let them do whatever they wanted.
So it was glorious in the fact that I actually got to see this baby being born and this woman that was completely in her power, but at the same time there were active efforts to take that power away from her. After the birth, they took the baby to the warmer right away, which she didn't want, and she had torn a little because they had forced her to push before she was ready.
The next birth I attended was that of a 15-year-old girl. Her story was both beautiful and sad at the same time. She got pregnant through a date rape when she was 15, didn't tell her family, and eventually, they realized she was pregnant. Well, her mom happened to be pregnant at the same time, and they gave birth about a week apart. They were both using the Planned Parenthood clinic because they were undocumented, and she came from a culture in Mexico where her mom had her siblings and her at home with a midwife in the mountains.
So when they moved here, she had all this personal family support to have a natural birth and to breastfeed her baby. She was completely ready for this, and because I was younger, there was this connection between us where she was more comfortable with me, and I was with her through her whole labor, which was a long time, and it was really cool, but I also had another job at the time, and couldn't get anybody to take my shift, so I had to leave her.
When I left her, she was still in early labor, but after I left, the doctor came in, did a vaginal exam on her, and she freaked out because she had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the rape. When she became upset, the doctor said, 'That'll teach you never to get pregnant again."
She asked for an epidural at that point, which was probably the best thing given the circumstances since she was so upset and her mother didn't speak any English, plus they didn't have any interpreters in the hospital.
She ended up having the epidural, and things went really fast. By the time I got back there that night, she had had the baby, but it was just not the kind of birth that she knew she could have, but she also felt powerless to change it. She didn't want to file any complaints against her doctor because she was undocumented.
All of those experiences together helped me realize how important this work was, how difficult it was, how much your position in life and your support system impacts your ability to have a great birth – and that's how it all started for me.
Q: How have birthing laws affected your ability to practice as a doula?
A: There were a few instances where I nearly got into trouble since Ohio laws are so strict and anti-natural or home births, so for a while I made a decision to step back from attending births and focus on massage therapy and raising my daughter. It's only been recently that I have felt comfortable enough to start going to births again. However, those instances taught me what I can do and not do legally in Ohio and how to protect myself while still enriching the birth experiences of other women and supporting them.
For instance, I love going to home births and am friends with a lot of homebirth midwives and know them pretty well, but if I'm at a birth, I'll only go as a doula since I am not a licensed midwife right now. And I'll only go with the agreement that I am not doing anything there that could possibly be perceived by anyone as clinical. Even though I know all the stuff, I won't and can't without putting myself in danger legally. That's how strict the laws have become.
I experienced a situation recently with a midwife who is a massage therapist and is my age and everything, and she was like, 'So, we're going to leave, do you mind doing this and that while I'm gone – I think it was like listening to the heart tones or something like that – and I had to say no. I could do that very easily, but I can't and I won't.
Q: How do you describe your job to your clients when they first approach you?
A: Well, a lot of people who are pregnant know what a doula is already, so it's not as big of a question as it used to be. Where it comes up the most would be from someone who knows me in another capacity other than from my work as a doula. So then we talk a lot about comfort measures. The way I like to approach it is by saying, 'It's not my birth, it's your birth, and so what's important to me about birth culture might not be important to you.'
I like to hear about someone's vision and what kinds of qualities or experiences are important to someone, because no two births or birthing experiences are the same. It's a lot about the qualitative for me. That's kind of how I explain it to people. It's about what they' like their birth to look like, what they'd like for it to feel like, or where they would like to be.
Q: What are some misconceptions about your job?
A: OK this is a huge one: that I do something clinical, like a midwife or a doctor or a nurse, and somehow can do things for you and your labor to actually facilitate the birth. The other major one is that I'm an advocate in that I can speak for you, and that's absolutely not true. That's a really good thing to educate people about. Doulas are an amazing support, but at no point can your doula be a cheerleader in the sense that they are going to speak up for you against your care provider.
It's important for me to let a woman know what is going on throughout her birth, however, I can't physically tell a physician what to do or karate chop a scalpel out of his hand. I can't say to the doctor, 'She does not consent.' All I can do is process the birth afterward with the client to see how she's feeling about it. There's a lot of supporting and acknowledging what's not OK within the system, but at the same time you recognize that you directly cannot change the system and aren't responsible for changing it – women are.
That's why it's so important to empower women maybe before they even get pregnant – maybe we need preconception doulas; I think we do. There's a movement going on right now that's going toward something like that. It's happening sort of jointly between the feminist community and the birth community. It's this idea of a full-spectrum doula, which are doulas that support a woman through any reproductive choice that she makes, whether her choice is to terminate a pregnancy or to use artificial insemination to conceive, or whether or choice is to carry a pregnancy to term and make her own birth choices.
I've even done a bit of work with women who are planning on having hysterectomies or who are going through menopause. It's the movement to support a women's whole reproductive cycle throughout her lifespan and all the choices that involves. It's all about empowerment and putting the power back into the hands of women.
Q: What do you personally take away from your work as a doula?
A: There's this sense of wonderment and joy about being alive that comes from my work. There are very few jobs where you know that this is a pivotal moment in life. I think that there are three really pivotal moments in life that are quintessentially human and transcendent at the same time I would say the first one of those is being born, the second is like sexual experience or intimacy, and then the last one of those would be death. Those three things, throughout human experience everywhere in the world and throughout time, have been vital to who we are as beings but also have been this experience of something more than just daily like – they're like out of time and space experiences.
So I get to be in the room with someone who is giving birth, who is fully standing in her power and harnessing every little tiny bit of herself to focus in on this experience, and knowing at the same time that there is a human being coming in to the world that's also actively choosing to be here in this moment, at this time, in this way, and who is working in this beautiful dance with their mother to come here.
And I watch this happen and I see two people fall in love in this way that will last their entire lifetimes. It's not one of those things where it's like, 'You're my boyfriend today, and then I don't love you tomorrow.' It's like a mother and her child and a father and his child have this bond that will never end. So to be present for an experience like that – it's like, how could you ever not want that to be part of your life, and how could you not be grateful to have that.
I think that's what it is – it's that opportunity to be part of something that is, as a midwife that I used to work with says, ' It's an experience that allows you to tremble at the foot of God.' I'm not a Christian, but this idea of being present of being present for the sacred and special and divine of life…that's what being a doula is about for me.
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Molina's mayoral opponent, Troy McComak, suggested Patterson take a cue from the city of Turlock and offer a $5,000 break on business fees to attract small business relocation and creation.
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In contrast to other candidates, Councilwoman Annette Smith said she believed the city's top priority should be police services, noting that the city's contract with the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department expires this year.
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She said the city was at the mercy of a sheriff's department that had cut salaries and benefits so much that it was hard to employ deputies. If Patterson wanted to add police personnel in the next contract cycle, it would be difficult to place them because of a shortage of deputies within the sheriff's department, Smith said.
When Giventer later asked about the sheriff's services contract, the panel responded with varying degrees of support.
Molina said the contract needed to remain in place, but not as it is written, saying the challenge facing the police department was cost and how much the peace-keeping force could increase as the city expands.
McComak, on the other hand, said Patterson needs to take its police services in-house.
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"With the sheriff department, we're one step closer to chaos," he added, describing deputies as attack dogs who would rather report crime than prevent it.
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McCord said the sheriff's contract needed to be reviewed.
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Giventer then switched the topic to teenagers and ways to keep them occupied.
Molina said the city needed to continue working with grant writers to identify funding to help build a permanent teen center.
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Council candidate Tony Camacho said that youth crave leadership opportunities.
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Giventer also asked candidates about recent Stanislaus County civil grand jury reports and alleged acts of open meeting violations.
The original grand jury report released in June 2011 called for Smith's ouster, by either citizen recall or her resignation, stating she had failed to recuse herself from a vote regarding developer John Ramos' legal fees while she had a "fiduciary" relationship with him. It also stated that Ramos had written off expenses for Smith in the past.
In addition, it criticized Smith for allegedly confronting a resident in a supermarket parking lot and using abusive language.
The report stated she pressured city staff members to fire former Community Development Director Rod Simpson.
The report also recommended former Mayor Becky Campo pay back money she received as mayor, because she allegedly lived outside city limits.
In addition, it stated that the city should file a complaint with the California State Bar to chastise former City Attorney George Logan for alleged improprieties, such as failing to be in the room when the council voted to reimburse Ramos for $27,000 in legal fees. The grand jury advised that Ramos return that money to the city.
It also admonished Councilman Dominic Farinha for wrongfully awarding attorney's fees to Ramos, wrongfully attempt to dismiss a city employee, meeting privately with Campo and Smith to discuss city matters and pressuring a city building official to expedite an inspection on his property.
A second report in June said the city was getting better at complying with the state's open-meeting law, but needed to do more.
Molina said the grand jury hit the mark on a couple of issues, but was a "toothless tiger."
"I take what they say with a grain of salt," he said.
McComak said in relation to the Brown Act, the law that governs open meetings, the city needed to have all meetings in the open, and he would push for that.
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Lustgarten said she agreed with the grand jury reports.
"I personally agree with the grand jury report," she said. "A lot of conflict of interest has passed by our own City Council."
Smith, however, said she was wrongly accused by the grand jury.
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McCord said the perception of ethics was of high importance to those that hold government positions of trust.
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Handy for cleaning changing mat
Does the job and leaves a clean smell behind!
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This product is available as a pre-order. This means that we do not currently have the item in stock but we are expecting it shortly. You can place an order for this product now your expected shipping date will be 14-10-2014
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