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April 07, 2016 11:51 AM
By Colin Sallee
Artist Pierre Leduc is a veteran when it comes to the art competition for the Canadian Wildlife Habitat Conservation Stamp, also known as the Canadian duck stamp.
After having his art featured on the 1995 Redhead and the 2006 Brant Geese stamps, Leduc returns with his depiction of Northern Canada's Surf Scoter duck.
"The Surf Scoter is a large sea duck which breeds in Northern Canada and Alaska, and winters along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts," the Wildlife Habitat Canada website reads. "The drake is easily identified by a full black body, except for white patches on the nape and forehead, and its unique bulbous red, yellow and white bill."
This particular duck is known to for its exceptional eyesight, as well as the ability to fly fast and close to water.
In more news from the north, Canada Post has released a pair of stamps honoring the fictional Capt. James T. Kirk and Starship USS Enterprise from the original Star Trek TV show.
"The stamps appear to be in two different formats: a horizontal commemorative featuring Canadian actor William Shatner in his role as Starship Capt. James T. Kirk, and a smaller coil stamp picturing the Starship USS Enterprise," Michael Baadke writes.
What else is there to know about this galactic stamp set?
The third National Parks stamp design was unveiled this week by the United States Postal Service, and it features a revered American animal.
Baadke writes, "The forever stamp celebrates Assateague Island National Seashore, which extends over much of Assateague Island in Maryland and Virginia. The island is famous for its wild horses, which form two herds on the Maryland and Virginia sides of the island, separated by a fence."
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|I grew up watching old animated black and white Disney and Fleischer Bros. cartoons, Russian cartoons, as well as animation work from China and India. I attended junior colleges in southern California majoring in art with emphasis on cartooning and animation (that was before 3D). Tom Shannon who later became a Disney storyboard illustrator on such hits as Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Hunchback of Notre Dame, just to name a few was a major influence on developing my skill and style in cartoon illustrations. I was fortunate enough to take a 2D animation class by a retired Disney/Hanna-Barbera animator, the late George Goepper at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa. We used pegboards, animation paper, animation cells and learned the very basic foundations of animation. I dabbled with Infini-D, 3DSMax, and Animaion:Master until the rise of Animation Mentor. My goal now is to simply become the best animator that I can be. If I get a job animating for a living, all the better. Or I could simply make my own shorts and tell my own stories, which I also enjoy.
|Art, music, travel, restaurants, nature hikes, movies.
|Favorite Movies
|STAR WARS! (all of them), Ratatouille, Matrix (all of them), Jungle Book, i Robot, Minority Report, Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, A.I., The Incredibles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cars, The Fifth Element, Ice Age ( all of them) 2001 A Space Odyssey, Shrek (all o them)...etc..etc..etc..
|Favorite Music
|I like old blues, big band, some jazz, new age, classical, some Arabic, and whatever I'm in the mood for that moment :) Some of my favorites are Pink Martini, Yanni, Michael Buble, Dianna Krall, Ennio Morricone, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd, Louis Armstrong, Kodo, Johann Strauss, Stokowski's Carmina Burana by Karl Orff, Andy Williams, Fairuz, Abdel Halim Hafez, Um Kulthum, and Muhammad Abdel Wahab.
|Favorite Books
|I am not much of a recreational reader, but I read The Kite Runner and that was very good. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I have read Disney's The Illusion of Life from cover to cover when I frst got it as a gift back in 1981. I like the art books that I purchased way back when, like Roger Dean's Views, Patrick Woodroffe's Mythopoekon, The Art of Patrick Nagel, Boris Vallejo's Fantasy Art Techniques and The Graphic World of M. C. Escher.

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Nine servicemen who died when their bomber was shot down over the Pacific during World War II have been identified, and their remains will be buried in a single casket at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
The Pentagon says the men took off in their B-17E Flying Fortress named "Naughty But Nice" in June 1943 from an airfield in Papua New Guinea. The plane was damaged by anti-aircraft fire and then shot down by Japanese fighter aircraft.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William J. Sarsfield of Philadelphia; 2nd Lt. Charles E. Trimingham of Salinas, Calif.; Tech. Sgt. Robert L. Christopherson of Blue Earth, Minn.; and Tech. Sgt. Leonard A. Gionet of Shirley, Mass., will be buried as a group in a single casket Wednesday at Arlington.
Also in the casket will be the remains of previously identified crew members 2nd Lt. Herman H. Knott, 2nd Lt. Francis G. Peattie, Staff Sgt. Henry Garcia, Staff Sgt. Robert E. Griebel and Staff Sgt. Pace P. Payne. They were buried individually in 1985. A 10th man, the navigator and only survivor of the crash, 2nd Lt. Jose L. Holguin, was held as a prisoner of war until his release in September 1945.
Remains were recovered in 1949 on New Britain Island but couldn't be identified at the time. The remains were buried as unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
In the early 1980s, Holguin returned to the area and located the crash site. In 1985, remains were exhumed and identified as Knott, Payne, Garcia, Peattie and Griebel. A fragment of the aircraft's nose art was recovered and is on display at a museum in Papua New Guinea.
In 2001, a team excavated the site and found additional human remains and related equipment.
The Defense Department said scientists used dental comparisons and DNA matching techniques to identify the remains.
At the end of the war, the U.S. government was unable to recover and identify approximately 79,000 Americans, the Defense Department said. Now, more than 73,000 are unaccounted for from the conflict.


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Is your Mortgage Lender and Where you Bank the Same
Is your Mortgage Lender and Where you Bank the Same – How many of us truly sit down and read every document we sign when we have a stack of papers sitting in front of us and we have some place better to be? This is all too common, especially in Gainesville Real Estate, Car purchases, signing up new bank accounts.
Now, if we all sat down and read the fine print we would see that verbiage that might just make us go "hmmm?"
So let's talk about your short sale lender, mortgage lender or foreclosure lender and having a bank account with them. You may want to think twice! In the fine print, when you sign up for an account it states you give them the right to directly access your bank account and remove the monies owed them if you become behind on your payments, such as a loan.
It is not that Gainesville Home Buyer's intention to default on their mortgage, life happens. This can be attributed to loss of job, financial hardship, medical hardship, death in the family.
Accounts that you share with your children or family are not protected either. In most instances, if you are only an authorized user on the account and it is not in your name the short sale or mortgage lender is unable to touch it. The same goes if the account is opened as Tenancy by the Entireties.
Let's say you are husband and wife and you share a joint bank account however your spouse has a mortgage only in his/her name and they are delinquent on their payments. A creditor cannot go after those monies based upon the joint account being tenancy by the entireties. They are not to consider this money on a financial worksheet as monies that can be accessed when working through a short sale.
This type of account is not permanent. Say your spouse passes away, this type of account is no longer considered tenancy by entireties.
Other Articles to Read:
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Options To Prevent Gainesville Foreclosure when Unemployed
Gainesville Short Sales – Know Your Options
Banks to Prove they Own Note to Foreclose
Call Stephanie Anson today at 352-260-0153 for a confidential phone interview regarding your options.
Please seek legal advice. This information is for informational purposes only.
Contact Stephanie Anson, CLHMS, CDPE, SFR, Realtor®, Anson Properties LLC. Licensed Realtors® in Florida at 352-260-0153 to list your property for sale or to purchase a property in Gainesville, Archer, Alachua, High Springs, Waldo, Keystone Heights, Hawthorne, Melrose, Cross Creek, LaCrosse, Williston, Earlton, Ocala, Micanopy, Newberry, Kanapaha, Haile Plantation, Duck Pond and the rest of Alachua County Florida, Orange County Florida and Seminole County Florida. We are accepting referrals. Gainesville Short Sale Agents


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Hi Lisa, Im Allison a.k.a Bakery101 from deviantART. I love all your crafts and ideas!ReplyDelete
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thank you so much for sharing life乐生活's youtube channel! this channel has so many cute and creative ideas! thank god i'm chinese. i really love your needle felting works, they are SUPER CUTE. <3<3<3 look forward to more of your cute works :)ReplyDelete
hi! i love that channel also! thank you so much for your support, it means alot to me~
I just filmed my needle felting collection today and going to edit it and post on youtube. If you haven't subscribed to me please do ( and you won't miss out any awesome stuff! hehe)
Hi! I just found your blog and love it. I'm planning to use cold polymer clay now to create a pine cone for a decorative bottle I am making. Basically I want the top to be a pine cone stopper. HAve you ever created a pine cone or anything with pointy edges? Any suggestions? I figure it would be similar to creating the roses you made. Also, is there a brand of acrylic pain that you have found works best for coloring the cold clay?
Thank you!!!
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Hi Lisa,
Thank you for posting the Porcelain Clay recipe. I will be using it to cast my granddaughters hand and foot prints. Just a suggestion as for drying your roses, when I make buttercream roses I use one of two things for drying. The green floral foam or an egg carton. Just another option for you in case you need to use the dryer. : )
Sorry for the late reply, yes, green floral foam sounds great! Thanks for the suggestion.Delete
Hi Lisa! I love your work but I have a quick question for you do you have an Etsy shop because I would love to buy your felted animals and clay charms! Tell me when you get a chance!ReplyDelete
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''We are in a decisive battle in which the real enemy is South Africa,'' a senior Mozambican government minister says.
South Africa, many top officials here allege, is craftily making it appear as though increasingly bold attacks on towns, power lines, and bridges in this nation's border regions are staged by Mozambican rebels who are ideologically opposed to the country's leftist leaders.
But in fact, these officials say, South Africa is the driving force behind the rebel strikes. The guerrillas, they assert, are but proxies with no political vision - many of them mercenaries - in a South African maneuver to dislodge Mozambique's leftist-leaning government.
South Africa's main weapon in this drive, say high-level military and civilian officials, is the Mozambique National Resistance (MNR), which they describe as a disparate band of guerrillas organized by ex-Portuguese secret police agents and Rhodesian security agents in 1976. This story is corroborated by former Rhodesian Intelligence Chief Ken Flowers, who was intimately associated with the project.
South Africa's ties to the MNR date from its formation, although it was not until late in 1979, when the Rhodesian government was shifting to black control, that South Africa took charge of the group, the officials say.
The South African parental link to the MNR appears to be corroborated in an MNR document captured by the Mozambican Army and seen by the writers of this story. Minutes of a meeting between MNR Supreme Commander Alfonso Dhlakama and Rhodesian and South African security men, quote Mr. Dhlakama as saying, ''You South Africans are like my parents. . . . Everything depends on you.'' Dhlakama is said to have been handpicked to lead the group by the Rhodesians and South Africans.
Over the past few years, with Pretoria's backing, the MNR has intensified its military activity in the southern half of Mozambique, attacking bridges, railroad lines, and communal villages - apparently in an effort to paralyze Mozambique's economy.
South Africa's overriding objective, however, is said by Mozambican officials to be to sabotage the Southern African Development Coordinating Conference, the regional alliance of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania forged to break South Africa's economic domination of the region.
Another captured MNR document, seen by the writers, describes a meeting between Dklakama and Col. Van Nierok of South African security on Oct. 25, 1980, in which Van Nierok ordered the MNR to ''interdict rail traffic (in southern Mozambique), establish bases inside Mozambique adjacent to the South African border, open a new military front in Maputo Province.''
These activities, according to the captured documents, were intended to discourage Zimbabwe from exporting its commodities through Maputo, Mozambique's capital, which was was drawing substantial traffic away from South African ports.
South Africa promised to supply rebels with large amounts of war material in exchange for specific acts of sabotage, according to the documents. The war material included rockets, mortars and small arms, and advisers ''who will not teach but also participate in attacks,'' according to the documents.
Mozambican Army commanders interviewed by the writers indicated that the Army had encountered ''Boers'' in battles against the rebels in central Mozambique. When pressed to explain what they meant, a young officer who fought in the northern province of Manica said that his battalion discovered the bodies of several European soldiers when they overran an MNR base at Chidogo. South African passports and other documents were captured at other MNR bases, he said.
The Mozambican military and civilian officials say South Africa is training MNR forces at military bases in the Transvaal Province bordering Mozambique. They say it is providing supplies and logistical assistance to the guerrillas inside Mozambique.
According to Mozambican field commanders in Manica and Tete provinces, MNR forces are regularly supplied at night. They say the Mozambique government forces lack the communications and air support to prevent such air drops. And the country's long Indian Ocean coastline is ideally suited for delivering armaments by sea.
Western diplomats here estimate the MNR's numbers at about 5,000. Many, if not most, of the rebel recruits seem to be coerced into joining.
A Mozambican woman, Sara Muchalima, says: ''The bandits came to my house and told my parents I had to go with them. My father refused, but they beat him up, tied my hands, and with a gun to my head took me to their base at Garangua.''
Further corroboration comes from John Burleson, a British ecologist held prisoner by the MNR for several months, who reports seeing hundreds of forced recruits kept under armed guard.
But Mozambique has serious economic problems and this, too, is a factor contributing to guerrilla recruitment, observers say. Droughts, failure of the family farming sector, and lack of consumer goods in some areas provide fertile ground for MNR recruitment. The MNR also appears to play on tribal values against the leftist idealogy.
But as quickly as the support builds for the MNR, it fades. Looting and terrorism in the areas in which the MNR is active are alienating the rural population. A growing number of peasants have fled to Zimbabwe.
In Inhambane Province, refugees said the MNR murdered people and stuffed them into wells. Refugees said an MNR band stopped a train on Aug. 9 and raked it with machine-gun fire; 14 persons were reported killed and 50 wounded.
One top Western diplomat, who admitted that he was initially skeptical of such reports about the MNR, now says he finds ''reports of widespread MNR barbarism credible.''


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Join the Yamhill Butterfly Gardeners
If you live in Yamhill County (or even if you don't – see below), we are a group of gardeners who are interested in sharing butterfly and habitat gardening information with you. We'd love to hear about your experiences. All skill levels are represented and welcome. It would be fun to have an entomologist join us to expand the talent bank.
What we do: meet up occasionally to discuss growing and procuring native plants. Share photos of butterflies, plants, and insects in our gardens. Trade seeds and plants. Tour each others' gardens to learn new things.
We have a listserve via Googlegroups. Just request to join Yamhill Butterfly Gardeners or send a message via our Facebook page.
If you live outside our area, you can virtually join us on Facebook!


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Sudbury Ontario Recreational Sports: Golf information, listings and links
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Background of the Sport
Golf was devised by the Scottish in the 14th or 15th century. It was banned at one time by the Scottish Parliament to ensure that its citizens practiced archery. In the 18th century, the first golf associations and clubs were formed, including the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (1744) and the Saint Andrews Society of Golfers. The latter is now called the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrew's.
The object of golf is to hit a little ball using a "club" into a hole some distance away. While the first golf clubs were fashioned from tree branches, today's clubs are manufactured from graphite and titanium clubs for greater distance and accuracy. Golf courses typically have 18 holes, with long tree-lined fairways and manicured greens. To add to the challenge, some holes are protected by water barriers and sand traps, and the fairways surrounded by "rough" grass. Some holes are even hidden from the tee-off (with a bent "dog leg" fairway).
To golf, you need a set of golf clubs comprised of between nine and 14 clubs (the maximum allowed by the rules of golf) kept in a golf bag. You can rent these at a golf course, or buy them at most sporting goods stores. Serious golfers also invest in golf gloves, to enhance their control of the club.
These clubs include both "woods" and "irons". Woods are heavier clubs used for distance. A 1-wood and 3-wood are needed for teeing off on longer holes. A fairway wood (usually designated a 5-wood) may used on the course to reach the green on a long hole. Today's woods are available in metal, graphite and of course, wood.
Irons are used for shorter shots, typically numbered from the 3-iron up to the 9-iron. The higher the number, the higher the "loft", indicating how high the golf ball will fly through the air. For example, the 3-iron will fly 150-190 yards, while the 9-iron will fly only 90-100 yards.
The remaining specialized clubs are used on or around the green. A pitching wedge, with lots of loft, is used to get the ball out of the rough around the green. A sand wedge, also with a lot of loft, is used to extract the ball out of "bunkers" that often surround the greens.
For most, a bit of practice is good before your first golf game. There are several golf training facilities in town. You can also practice at a driving range at a public course near you (if you've been invited to a game at a private course, the pro will let you practice on their range first. If you are a member of a private club, you can make an appointment with your club professional.
There are over 20 golf courses in and around Sudbury, providing a wide variety of terrain and challenge. Golf courses tend to be built around the natural beauty of the valleys, creeks and rivers, and also the mountains. We provide a listing of Golf Courses along with maps for city golf courses and area.


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Coming up on November 15th in Melbourne, Australia, former women's world boxing champion Holly Holm faces Ronda Rousey in Mixed Martial Arts as she attempts to wrest the UFC's Female Bantamweight championship from the most dominant champion operating right now in the sport of MMA.
A brief look at the lines at the sport books and you can see Holm is not being given much of a shot in most circles.
Rousey is a strong (-1700) favorite, with Holm returning at (+1100), and the five round bout has an over/under at 1 ½, with the over paying (+325) and the under at (-400).
Those numbers show the books giving Holm virtually no chance of even extending Rousey into the deeper rounds.
Holm left boxing to pursue an MMA with a career record of 32 wins, 2 losses and 3 draws.
Her career was formed in the Southwest, and she captured the WBA and WBC Female world titles in March of 2007with a win over Ann Saccurato.
She campaigned at Super Lightweight, winning titles in that weight class, and she faced a steady diet of top female fighters, including the undefeated fighters Duda Yankovich (11-0) and Mary Joe Saunders (25-0), whom she fought twice.
In December of 2011 Holm was knocked out by Anne Sophie Mathis in a sequence that despite its brutality, shows the mettle Holm is made of.
Earlier in 2011, Holm had started her fledgling MMA career, fight twice and going (2-0).
The loss to Mathis showed her she needed to be focused to compete at the highest level, and she put her MMA career on hold to pursue a re-match with Mathis.
In September of 2012, she defeated Mathis in their second encounter with a pair of World welterweight titles on the line.
Holm stayed in boxing long enough to defend the belts twice, against tough Diana Prazak (11-1) and Mary McGee (20-1).
It was at this point that she retired with her fine 33 wins 2 losses and 3 draws.
Holm has since run her MMA record to (9-0), and if she is able to do the improbable and defeat Rousey, Holm will become a truly historic figure in combat sports.
With the sport of boxing so advanced and specialized, it is unlikely that any MMA champion will ever refine their boxing game to a world championship level.
Going from boxing to MMA for a male is likely just as impossible, since the specialization of the MMA game on the ground gives boxers a considerable weakness.
Indeed, after Holm it may never happen again on the female side either.
And it is unlikely that Holm will get the job done this coming November 15th.
But should Holm pull of a win against Rousey, she will be the first and likely only ever cross-over, two sport world champion in combat sport history, and just the possibility is exciting for all of women's sports in the 21st century.


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ten years after the foundation of Venado Tuerto, there
was a plan to change its name. Leoncio de la Barrera,
journalist and historian, refers to this episode in
his book The True History about the Founder and the
Date of Foundation of Venado Tuerto. [3] The neighbours
wanted to use the founder's name Eduardo Casey
instead of Venado Tuerto. They wrote: 'We countrymen
and foreigners in the name of the Provincial Constitution
(Article Seven) address Your Excellency to express the
following. The denomination Venado Tuerto has
nothing to do with the historical and geographical realities
of the Province or of the Republic. Additionally the
denomination does not refer to the fantasy or popular
feelings. It is in some way the Indian remains of some
tradition of the Indian population that inhabited the
place. Our demand is to name it The Colony and Town
Eduardo Casey, since this Argentine man was the
founder of these populations. He was driven by patriotism
and not by money interests. We owe Mr. Casey the transformation
of these areas taken away from barbarians and from the
savageness that reigned in the south of the Santa Fe
province. Presently, there exists in the town of San
Urbano a fortress in which the inhabitants of the place
observed the devastating Indian raids.'
petition was signed by the first inhabitants (Alejandro
Estrugamou, Ramón Urteaga, Pedro Iturbide, Ramón Mariño,
Higueras, Ponciano Belén y Francisco Echeverría), as
well as by members of the Irish community (Turner, Maxwell,
Cavanagh, Downes, and Howlin). There were a great number
of Italian and Spanish immigrants who arrived almost
at the same time and who supported the petition. After
some time these two latter groups became majority.
Country party (circa 1915). Some of the families present
at these parties were Kenny, Downes, O'Farrell,
Chapman, Orr, Guerlach, and Dallegri
(José Brendan Wallace collection)
Mapuche toponym expresses the memory of the land, and
as such impressed Eduardo Casey. But a decade later
it did not show any reference to the geographical history
of the province. Concepts like 'Indian countries' were
closely related to the ideas and policies of the Argentine
government. Less than twenty years had passed after
the military campaign against the Indians. However,
even though a petition existed and that it was followed
by its subsequent committee debate, the decision to
change the name was not adopted. Some of the concepts
in this debate, included those by MPs Lubarry and Lucero,
expressed that 'the denomination Venado Tuerto is
ridiculous, it does not say anything, it has no historical
tradition' (Lubarry). Lucero said that he was 'going
to back up the resolution of the committee, [but] I
think that we must preserve those names attached to
a tradition. If they are to be changed, they should
be replaced by historical names that relate geography
with the history of the country. The name Venado
Tuerto has a tradition. This is why Eduardo Casey
did not want to change the name. The original place
names in the department of General Lopez (south of Santa
Fe province) have an important historical tradition.
It was in those places that civilisation succeeded over
barbarism. These are very simple historic references
and that is why I insist it is a duty to take them into
account when there is a need to give these lands a name'
coincidences and differences between these two
MPs are significant. As a consequence of the campaign
against the Indians the frontiers disappeared,
the landscape changed, and technology left behind
desert and barbarism. There was no possibility
of a social encounter between Europeans and Indians.
But there was disagreement between geographical
and historical facts. According to Lucero, the
original names should be preserved without barriers
between past and present, even though this could
influence the official history. But his petition
was not accepted due to arguments of historical
character. [4]
name of the city reflects the origin of these
lands. But the names of streets, parks, and places
followed a different pattern, with the exception
of one street that in the last decade was known
as Hinojo in reference to a lagoon recorded
in 1806. This name was used by Bartolomé Mitre
(President in 1862-1868) to designate a fortress
in 1864. However Casey followed a different model
to project his town.
[3] Barrera, Leoncio
de la, La verdad histórica sobre el fundador y la
fecha de fundación de Venado Tuerto (second edition,
[4] Leoncio de la Barrera, op. cit.
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Attorney General Says Blow' Energy Drink Glorifying Drug Culture
Chicago Attorney General Lisa Madigan is demanding that a Las Vegas company discontinue its cocaine-themed marketing and sale of an energy drink mix that glorifies drug culture and has raised serious health concerns due to its high caffeine content.
In a letter sent earlier this week to the President of Kingpin Concepts, Inc., Attorney General Madigan demanded that the company immediately cease all marketing and sales of the energy drink called Blow in the State of Illinois.
This is blatant promotion of drug culture and addiction, Madigan said. I am deeply concerned that the design and marketing of Blow will have a detrimental effect on children in Illinois.
The product, which is currently sold online, is packaged in bricks and vials that can be purchased in combination with a fake VIP Blow credit card. The Web site fails to enforce age restrictions or take other precautions to prevent children from purchasing this product, and the company promotes the mix on MySpace, a social networking site popular with children and teens.
The Attorney General also expressed serious concern about the harmful health effects of the energy drink mix, which contains extremely high levels of caffeine. Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its view that Blow is an unapproved new drug and does not meet the requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1), (p).
As an advocate for the health and safety of consumers, I share the FDA's concern that this product may have a harmful impact on the health of its users, Madigan stated. A vial of Blow contains more than three times the caffeine in other non-alcoholic energy drinks on the market. As a result, this product should be subject to proper testing, review and approval by the FDA.
The product also violates the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 410 ILCS 620/15, 17 and the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, 815 ILCS 505/2. Attorney General Madigan warned that if Kingpin Concepts, Inc. does not comply with her demand, her office will promptly seek injunctive relief and civil penalties available under Illinois law.


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Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel and Utica Mayor Jackie Noonan came out swinging for the fences on Monday as they announced plans for construction of a 2,500-seat minor league baseball park that will be home to a newly formed local league as early as next year.
The elaborate plan calls for a local three-team league to play at the multi-million dollar stadium, which will be built on the outskirts of downtown Utica, with each team playing 48 games a year. A fourth team will be added in the future.
Noonan called the project a 'game-changer' for the tiny, 197-year-old city, with Utica attracting families, shoppers and more tax dollars, while parcels that have remained empty for many years will be put to use.
'In my 27 years as mayor, lots of ideas have crossed my desk regarding this land. But this one is incomparable to anything that has come along.
'We,' she added, 'are going to make Utica a destination.'
Rochester-based General Sports & Entertainment hopes to quickly get to work on the stadium and an accompanying 500-space parking deck at an estimated cost of $8 million to $10 million. The company, with some help from tax revenues generated by the business community's Downtown Development Authority, will pay for all expenses. The Auburn Road land, valued at $600,000 and currently under control of the DDA after a tax foreclosure, will be donated to General Sports.
The company has targeted May 15, 2015, for opening day. In the meantime, a lot of plans need to fall into place.
Zain Masters, director of research and strategy for General Sports, said the teams have not yet been formed. The goal is to attract quality ex-high school and college players – an anticipated average age of 22 to 24 – who fell short of landing a spot on a minor league team affiliated with a Major League Baseball club.
The players will be paid but they will be independent from the MLB farm teams. The mayor was quick to note Detroit Tigers pitching ace Max Scherzer came to the majors from an independent league.
'We feel this is something worth shouting about. We're excited to bring minor league baseball to Macomb County and the city of Utica,' Masters said at a press conference at the site.
The playing field, consisting of artificial turf, will match the size of a typical major league stadium. The Utica ballpark will offer 2,500 seats, two grassy areas for spectators at the outfield fences, and up to 18 suites. General Sports has not settled on a series of ticket prices.
Hackel, whose county economic development department helped bring the project together, said the ballpark will not attempt to compete with the Tigers and Comerica Park. The intent is to make the Utica ballfield a close-to-home location for a family-oriented, low-cost night out that offers the opportunity to be 'up close and personal with the players.'
'This will be a minor league ballpark that provides a major league quality-of-life improvement for kids and families,' the county executive said. 'This isn't just a Utica ballpark, it isn't just a Macomb County baseball stadium, it's a major opportunity for southeast Michigan.'
Masters said the season at the park would last from May 15 to Sept. 15 – and he acknowledged an alternative, 2016 start to the opening season may be necessary if any delays are encountered. Other activities at the stadium could include football games, soccer matches, ice skating in the winter and fireworks in the summer.
In Mount Clemens, officials spent several years a decade ago exploring the possibility of establishing a minor league baseball stadium in their downtown area but they eventually abandoned the idea. Clinton Township Supervisor Robert Cannon said over the weekend he tried to lure the General Sports facility to his community but lost out to Utica.
Across the Clinton River from the ballpark, General Sports also plans to develop a mixed-use condominium and retail development within the next three years. A brownstone building partially constructed but never completed on this Phase Two site will be torn down in about two weeks.
All construction on the two contiguous sites will require supervision from the state Department of Environmental Quality as portions of the parcels are brownfields where waste and contaminants exist below the surface.


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My Misty Garden
I used Curious Creek Fibers Etosha in colorway Sunrise on Daffodils - it is such an easy and quick knit that I am thinking of making another one with this yarn.
But for now, next on the needle is either Campus Scarf from Scarf Style with Filatura di Crosa 501 for my father or Interlocking Balloons with Far East Collection Cashmere for my father in law.
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Sunday, August 12, 2012
#sixsunday Before The Morning #15 - When we meet again...
It's back to being cold and wet here in my little nook of Mauritius. Had high hopes this winter was on the way out at the start of the week, but seems we need to bide our time some more. Thank goodness there's good stuff to do online, like Six Sentence Sunday!
Once again, I am taking you to Notting Hill, to Ash Gilfoy's house. After 17 years away, Rayne, who used to work as super-spy and assassin Kali, is about to meet the man she never stopped loving. Last week we saw her apprehension as she walked toward Westbourne Green from Portobello Road. She's spotted his house - the one with the blue door (yep, just like in the movie!), and his silver Range Rover is parked on the curb.
What will their reunion be like? Rayne's heart is beating in her knees; she has forced herself to go up the steps to that front door, and knock...
Her agent's mind knew that no more than four minutes and twenty-five seconds had elapsed, but she couldn't tell that to the frantic beating of her heart, hammering against her rib cage so hard her chest hurt . . . and then the door opened, and she stood there staring at him.
Like the first time she had seen him—exactly two months and three days ago—she lost her breath, and everything inside her mind went blank, because, in her memories, she remembered Ash as she had left him, all those years ago at Waterloo. He thought she was going to Paris, and Angelos' European headquarters, but her destination was the French-Swiss border where she'd take her first initial training before receiving clearance for The Retreat in Prague. Ash was about to enter the Ministry of Defence Police, and with his cropped hair and clean-shaven, boyish face, had looked every bit like the efficient bobby-next-door.
But the man in front of her screamed "dangerous bad boy" from a mile away—never mind the fact he had quit the force to become an ambulance worker; there was nothing next-door-reassuring about the thirty-five-year-old hunk. Taut, tanned skin stretched across hard, chiselled features and a square, strong jaw; his eyes were deep-set pools of molten silver, the same colour as the metal on a Colt Python .357 Magnum, their quiet, subtle intensity just as deadly as the collector's weapon; his long, ash-blond hair—another reason behind his nickname—skimmed massive, well-built shoulders that topped a powerful, barrel chest; the hint of golden stubble on his jaw and cheeks lending him the air of a roguish pirate.
What will be Ash's reaction? Catch that when you grab your copy of Before The Morning (Corpus Brides: Book Two). Yes, I know, that's wicked of me... *grin*
Don't forget to check the official SSS list, and especially those peeps - Jessica Subject, Cara Bristol, Siobhan Muir, Carmen deSousa, Lisa Fox, Monica Enderle Pierce, Gemma Parkes, Kate Warren, Savannah Chase, Christine Warner, Elin Gregory, Samantha Paige, & Cherie Marks, among many others.
Hope you're having a lovely Sunday, with much better weather than me *smile*
From Mauritius with love,
22 comments:
- bw said...
love the pic. once again you've done an amazing six sentence sunday. Check out mines I'd love your input.
- 12 August 2012 at 13:03
- Jessica Subject said...
I love that Ash is still able to cause those reaction in her after all their years away from each other. Great six! :)
- 12 August 2012 at 15:17
- Carmen DeSousa said...
Reaction? Um...faint! LOL! What a description! That is one good-looking man. I forget... Is she supposed to kill him? I hope not! ;)
- 12 August 2012 at 16:35
- Cara Bristol said...
Great writing, great story and you get the prize for packing in the most into six sentences!
- 12 August 2012 at 17:44
- Joanne Stewart said...
I love the emotion behind this. I'm a sucker for reunion stories, and this one has emotion pouring out of just this six. And he's just...yum. Terrific six!
- 12 August 2012 at 19:10
- Zee Monodee said...
Thanks, bw
- 12 August 2012 at 20:01
- Zee Monodee said...
Indeed, Jessica! I'd say - that's the face of true love :) xoxo
- 12 August 2012 at 20:01
- Zee Monodee said...
Lol, Carmen! He's a dreamboat, all right. I "drew" him from Josh Holloway on Lost. :) And no, she isn't supposed to kill him. xoxo
- 12 August 2012 at 20:02
- Zee Monodee said...
Lol, Cara! Thanks, girl xoxo
- 12 August 2012 at 20:03
- Zee Monodee said...
Thanks, Joanne. He is yum indeed, and theirs is definitely a reunion story, albeit a "different" one. :) xoxo
- 12 August 2012 at 20:03
oooh, great tension and description of Ash and her reaction to him. Can't wait to see how he reacts!
- 12 August 2012 at 20:23
Nice description. I particularly like the analogy about the pistol. That tells us a lot about how her mind works.
- 12 August 2012 at 22:19
- Sue Ann Bowling said...
Beautiful description.
- 12 August 2012 at 22:27
- Monica Enderle Pierce said...
I guess she likes him a little. ;P Love that she equates the color of his eyes with weaponry; great insight into her character and her past.
- 12 August 2012 at 23:53
- Silver James said...
Wow. Great descriptions and lots of tension. I also like the way you layer in some of the back story. Well done! Enjoyed this week's six.
- 13 August 2012 at 00:17
- Kate Warren said...
Fantastic descriptions! Her comparing him to weapons is a brilliant touch, given her background. Can't wait to see how he reacts.
- 13 August 2012 at 00:50
- Zee Monodee said...
Thanks Angela! Lol, big suspense, innit, how he'll react. :) xoxo
- 13 August 2012 at 10:41
- Zee Monodee said...
Exactly, Elin - I wanted to think like Rayne and it seemed to me she'd think in terms of weaponry and other such lethal stuff. :) xoxo
- 13 August 2012 at 10:42
- Zee Monodee said...
Thanks, Sue Ann! :) xoxo
- 13 August 2012 at 10:42
- Zee Monodee said...
Lol, Monica. Yep, she likes him a little... :) xoxo
- 13 August 2012 at 10:43
- Zee Monodee said...
Thank you, Silver! Glad you enjoyed the excerpt :) xoxo
- 13 August 2012 at 10:43
- Zee Monodee said...
Lol, Kate! Everyone seems to be waiting for Ash's reaction. :) xoxo
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CREAF runs an annual programme of seminars that showcase the global research work in the field of ecological science both within and beyond our centre. Each seminar normally lasts 30-40 minutes with plenty of time afterwards for questions and discussion. Seminars are usually on Wednesday at 3 pm.
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"Understanding wildfire impacts and the need to 'see the flames': insights from two decades of international research at Swansea University"
Wildfires have shaped the Earth's surface for ~400 Million years. Currently 3-4.5 million km2 burn globally per year, an area nearly ten times the size of Spain. Many landscapes have therefore evolved with naturally occurring fire, while in others, such as some cultural landscapes of Europe, fire has gone beyond its natural role. What remains common, however, is that fire can lead to profound direct and indirect changes to the ecological, hydrological and biogeochemical functioning of the land surface.
Our knowledge to date on these fire impacts is based largely on examining burned areas sometime after a fire and comparing these with 'control' unburned areas, supplemented by small-scale or laboratory-based burning experiments. These have led to many important insights on fire impacts, but few researchers have been able to observe fires directly and therefore important gaps remain in understanding the behaviour and immediate impacts of wildfires.
In this presentation we will explore the main impacts of wildfire on soils and hydrology, with examples from two decades of post-fire research in the Mediterranean, Australia and the USA, followed by insights from our recent research where we did 'see the flames'. In this novel work we used severe experimental wildfires to isolate and quantify directly the processes and immediate impacts of fire on the carbon cycle and water quality in fire-prone regions of Australia, Canada and Spain.
Stefan H. Doerr is Professor of Physical Geography and leads the Environmental Dynamics Research Group at Swansea University, UK. He studied Geography, Geology and Botany at Tubingen University (Germany), and his PhD (University of Wales, UK) focused on the effects of wildfire on soils and hydrology in Portugal. He has investigated for over two decades the environmental impacts of wildfires in Europe, Australia, and North America. He has held collaborative research positions at the CSIRO in Canberra (Australia), Universitat de València (Spain) and the US Geological Survey (Denver, USA), which focused on the relationships between fire severity, fire frequency and post-fire responses of burned terrain. He has published 140 international journal publications with >6200 citations and is Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Wildland Fire.
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Issey Miyake collaborates with Artemide to produce a captivating light inspired by origami
November 28th, 2012
The birth of IN-EI (which means shadow, shadiness and nuance in Japanese) began in 2010 with an exploration of new and inventive forms of cloth making.
Working with his research and development team, Reality Lab, Issey Miyake found a way to incorporate mathematics into fashion to produce clothing that could be folded flat and expanded into 3D shapes like origami to be worn.
Two years on, the project titled 132.5 ISSEY MIYAKE has found a new and lovely purpose as a light. Working in collaboration with Artemide, the new IN-EI ISSEY MIYAKE lamps are made using 2 or 3D mathematical principles, where light and shade harmoniously alternate, resulting in sculpturesque forms that manipulate light and shadow in the most poetic way. Just like their fashion counterpart, IN-EI ISSEY MIYAKE can be expanded when in use or be flattened to be stored away.
The lamps are made of re-treated fibres derived from PET bottles; the bottles themselves are processed using an innovative technology that reduces both energy consumption and Co2 emission by up to 40%.
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Mother's Birth-Related Anatomy
A woman's birthing anatomy includes soft tissues and hard bones.
The bones
Our bones are held together by flexible tendons. In pregnancy, these joints become even more mobile. Waddling is an example of what happens when these joints get softer. The baby passes through the mobile pelvis.
The hormone relaxin helps make the pelvis a dynamic, flexible passageway.
The bony pelvis has four joints. In the front of the pelvis is the symphysis pubis joint. Movement here really isn't that comfortable. Sometimes a pregnancy belt holds this joint stable for walking and rolling over in bed. Symmetry in the symphysis pubis (pubic bone) reduces spasm in the round ligaments and helps the sacrum, around back, to be aligned properly.
On either side of the sacrum are the SI joints (Sacroiliac joints). These are located where the dimples are. Many plastic baby dolls have SI dimples above their bum. The SI joints are a common location for aches when the pelvis is weak or crooked.
Symmetry in the SI joints will help the sacrum be lined up with the pelvic brim. Then the baby can get into a nice, head down position. A chiropractic adjustment helps get the symphysis and the SI joints aligned.
The sacrum, rather than fused, is slightly mobile and in the birth process actually moves to allow the head past.
The tailbone is connected by a joint to the lower end of the sacrum. Sometimes this needs an adjustment, too, especially after birthing a baby. Ligaments connecting to the sacrum and tailbone (coccyx) will become more symmetrical and their tone will be more relaxed and less in spasm after bodywork on the pelvis.
Pelvic types
Four general pelvic types are taught in midwifery and obstetrical schools. Caldwell-Malloy (1933) taught that nearly half of Caucasian women have a Gynecoid pelvis (rounder at the inlet, but wider side-to-side and a little less room front-to-back) while nearly half of women of African descent are said to have an Anthropoid pelvis (oval at the inlet, roomiest front-to-back of all pelvic types). Today there is new evidence that most people share a mix of types.
About 1/4 of all women have been considered to have an android pelvis, with its triangular inlet and a bit smaller outlet than its own inlet. Nowadays, this "type" is described as a more narrow outlet and more narrow "front of the pelvis" and narrower pubic arch. See the pubic arch in the drawing above that has room for only two finger widths across and a triangular arch shape (the second option)?
Only about 5% of women are said to have a platypelloid pelvis. Fetal position of LOT is crucial for engagement.
Kuliukas (2015). looked at 64 women and did not find a clustering of four types but a range throughout.
Some research is suggestive of pelvic shape, especially width, having to do with physical activity habits in childhood.
The variety of pelvic shapes, combined with the variety of fetal head presentations, plus size variations, mean that labors vary greatly.
In the drawing above, we see pelvic inlet shape and the correlating shape of the pubic arch at the outlet.
The gynecoid pelvis has a roundish brim which allows fetal rotation when the muscles and ligaments in and around the pelvis aren't tight and twangy.
The pelvic arch in front would allow three fingers to cover the urethra during a "potty dance" – the type of grab yourself and try not to pee your pants dance of a child waiting to get to the bathroom. Buttocks are round.
Hip size doesn't indicate the roomy inside and a petite woman can birth a large baby. When the pelvic floor and other soft tissues aren't overly tight, the birth tends to go well and a posterior baby can rotate at several various phases of labor.
The android pubic arch may hang quite low, giving a fundal height reading higher than the compact bump may seem to justify. Closely-set, small buttock "muscles" of the android make small roundish or triangular cheeks to her "bottom." The android pelvis definitely has a 2 finger arch, rather than the 3 finger of the gynecoid.
Narrow in the front, this pelvis occasionally catches the posterior baby's forehead. Back it up and let it turn!
Posterior arrest is slightly higher for women with an android pelvis. Good fetal positioning, good flexibility in the pelvic joints and balance in the soft tissues help the natural labor progress. The posterior baby will hope to rotate before engagement or may not be able to rotate until the head fully passes the pelvis rotating on the perineum. Some posterior babies, the larger ones or if a mom can't get out of bed to do some rotation exercises, will need a cesarean, even with a skilled baby spinner present. Manually rotating the baby's head may be an option if a skilled doctor or midwife is present. A little help for the shoulders may be needed as the result of those women with low slung pubic bones. They may catch a shoulder.
Tall women with average size babies often birth without an issue. I recommend flexible and balanced muscles before labor begins. Some women will need to start working out chronic pelvic torsion early in pregnancy or even before.
Recently a woman told me her doctor felt she may not be able to have a vaginal birth after she previously had a cesarean for birthing her first child. She asked me what I thought. While I acknowledge there are more challenges with an android pelvis for some of these labors, most births through an android pelvis are going to be able to finish by the woman's own efforts -and her baby's. I said:
I do know that women in your shoes…in your hips… do give birth every day. 24% of Caucasian women have android pelvis, and, almost that for women of African descent. And these womens' great great grandmothers were birthing their great grandmothers, and their grandmothers were birthing their mothers, and one of them birthed you.
Long pelvis front-to-back, perhaps a narrow arch, perhaps not. Buttocks muscles look longer up and down than the round buttocks of a gynecoid. The Anthropoid pelvic arch can vary.
The arch could be a narrow 2 fingers or a wider 3 fingers at the pubic arch (as shown here in the illustration). Measure the pubic arch about 1/3 of the way between the clitoris and the sitz bones, rather than the very top.
Common for breeches that don't flip. More posterior babies who are born vaginally may have the advantage of the anthropoid pelvis' longer front to back opening. Various vertical maternal positions and movements protect fetal engagement. Understanding unique benefits of this pelvic type help birth finish by the mother's own efforts.
The pubic arch is a wide 4 finger span in the platypelloid, that is quite wide. A woman's hips may seem slightly wider side-to-side than her weight would demand.
In other words, a thin woman with a platypelloid pelvis has wide hips but her pelvis from front and back is quite narrow. Her sitz bones are quite wide apart, more than the width of her fist (if she can reach between them while lying down).
Baby really needs to be in the LOT position to get INTO the pelvic brim for engagement. Long early labor is common, but if baby isn't LOT, the two days of labor will be all about getting baby rotated and strong contractions and mobility are essential. Once baby is into the pelvis labor tends to move along, within 5-8 hours of engagement. Pushing may not be very long because the outlet of the pelvis is large. Using Daily Essentials: Activities for Pregnancy Comfort & Easier Childbirth, and Spinning Babies Parent Class may help your baby get into a LOT or other ideal position.
The pelvic cavities of Gynecoid, Anthropoid, Android (narrowest at the bottom) and Platypelloid (widest at the bottom, narrow at the front to back at the top)
How to fit pelvic shape into a label or category is less important to me than having a set of skills to identify the relationship between the long axis of baby's head with the short distance of the pelvic level where baby waits during a labor stall.
Knowing what is going on between the baby and the mother at the inlet or other diameters of the pelvis and what we can do to help when help is indeed appropriate. This is explained in the low-cost download, Spinning Babies Quick Reference.
Download to where you will keep them. They are no "free refills!" and print them on card stock to become "reference cards".
Pelvic Shape and lack of engagement
Occasionally a woman's pelvic shape relates to fetal position. But this, I believe, is secondary to soft tissue "balance." The android pelvis and platypelloid pelvis don't accommodate posterior presentations. Baby must rotate or will not drop into the pelvis. But the baby in a round pelvis shape (gynecoid) may. A baby in the Anthropoid pelvis (longer front to back) can fit while Occiput Posterior (given average muscle balance) When the mother can re-angle her pelvis to let baby in (See steep inlet in Is baby engaged?). A birth stool, a posterior pelvic tilt and standing and leaning over a dresser feels right.
In the Android pelvis, the baby must be LOA for optimal engagement. In the platypelloid, baby will engage from Left Occiput Transverse before they can engage in pregnancy or in labor because of this pelvic shape. In these two pelvises, there really is an optimal fetal position for engagement. Pelvic shape categories are like points of direction, they are useful for orientation to the practitioner's choice of solutions (as opposed to recent recommendations to skip labor and go to surgical birth). But by far, most people don't live due North, South, East or West. And most of us don't have a "pure" pelvic type but a mixture depending on fascial forces during gestational development and learning to walk.
Rarely, a pelvis is too small to let the baby enter the pelvis. When a pelvis is too small its called CephaloPelvic Disproportion (CPD, or baby's too big). Rickets, injury or an actually too-big-baby may be the cause here. CPD is rare, but does exist.
Before we suspect CPD in pregnancy, check to see if baby is engaged. Until baby is LOA or LOT and in one of those ideal starting positions, it's too soon to call it CPD.
Here's a story of how a woman who had a cesarean for her first baby who couldn't engage in her pelvis went on to use The 3 Principles of Spinning Babies for her second birth:
Dear Gail: Just wanted you to know that the VBAC mom with the platypelloid pelvis had a successful unmedicated birth; surges were very intense with back labor for about 2 1/2 hours, mom was about 8cm dilated until the quality changed into a much more do-able intensity.
What helped was being on all fours, knee-chest position, strong hip squeezes, rebozo > standing did not work for a long time, just too intense, I think the walk to the car to transition to the hospital was helpful though – from there on it seemed so much easier. Active labor lasted just 3 hours, ½ hour pushing – the baby was sitting on the right side throughout the pregnancy, I think ROT; this mom was very dedicated, did chiropractic work (Webster technique) & craniosacral therapy – but the baby stayed on the right side; once we arrived in the hospital baby's heartbeat was found on the left – I think the baby was born LOA; just saw this mom yesterday – she says hello to you – she worked with every bit of information.
Birth Anatomy; The soft tissues
More important than pelvic shape is the tone and relative symmetry of a woman's uterine ligaments and muscles.
Our ability to stand depends on the psoas muscle pair. The psoas begins at T-12 vertebrae and sweeps around from the center of the sides of the spine over the pelvis to attach at the top of the thigh bone (femur). The muscle pair comes around like supporting arms, pulling up the legs so that our backs don't fall over.
As the psoas comes across the pelvis, it makes a diagonal support for our organs. The support can be thought of as a shelf. When the uterus is large, at the end of pregnancy, a tight psoas can hold up a baby from descending and engaging in the womb. Many discomforts of the abdomen can stem from psoas tightness, but there are exercises to release the psoas. A great source is Liz Koch's The Psoas Book.
As the psoas is balanced, so goes the birth!
The psoas is the lower triangle (pointing up) of two great muscle pair triangles that give core strength to the human body. The upper triangle (pointing down) is the trapezius, which is more of a diamond shape really, but I say two opposing triangles to help you to visualize of the polarity or pull between them to support our bodies.
The psoas additionally affects our pelvis and uterus because it shares the tendon connecting it to the thigh with another muscle pair, the iliacus. Together they team up to form the iliopsoas muscle group. The tone of the iliacus is dependent in part by the tone of the psoas. So, as the psoas goes, so goes the iliacus. This muscle spans from the top of the thigh (lesser trochanter) back over the pelvic brim to attach at the inside edge of the ilium (behind the hip bone but not as far to the center as the sacrum).
Uterine shape
The womb is supported by a series of ropes and slings called ligaments and fascia. The ligaments of the womb have a unique mixture of fibrous tissue and muscle cells. The muscle cells allow the ligaments to become longer during pregnancy so that the ligaments can grow with the uterus. Symmetry of the ligaments helps the womb be held upright.
The cervix will be aligned properly, first aiming back in pregnancy and then, during birth, lined up with the birth canal. Dilation is less painful when the cervix is not held to the side or back by spasming cervical ligaments. The baby's head is better positioned with symmetrical ligaments because the lower uterine segment is not in a twist.
Some spiraling and leaning to the right is considered normal for the uterus. But too much lean is not helpful for optimal uterine functioning, including birth.
The fascia is a membranous tissue that wraps every muscle, organ, and bone in the body. The fascia moves with the moving body but also seems to store the "memory" of an abrupt halt. Whether that sudden stop has to do with a trauma or a long-time habit of poor posture, the fascia can get a wrinkle in it that pulls organs and bones out of alignment or symmetry.
Fortunately, craniosacral therapists, myofascial therapists and, to a lesser degree, chiropractic adjustments, can help to release the fascia and so, bring about a greater symmetry of the body. See more at Adrienne Caldwell's blog. She shares insights and references about the fascia in her post which also talks about scar tissues after cesarean section and how multi-directional massage may reduce obstruction in motion and health.
Read a useful description of fascia for the person who is not studying anatomy.
Learn techniques and see more about the anatomy on:
Spinning Babies Parent Class from Spinning Babies on Vimeo.
Baby's Birth-Related Anatomy
The fetal head is heavy in comparison to the rest of the baby's body. The vertical positions of walking, standing and sitting help the heavy head settle lower than the body during the third trimester, and sometimes in the second trimester.
The fetal skull has not yet hardened and remains somewhat flexible for fitting through the pelvis. There are plates of bone and cartilage that are nearly finished coming together at birth. That nearly finished margin is what allows molding. These margins are called sutures.
The skull plates are held together by a coating for strong fascia. This membrane also wraps down the spine to the pelvis and legs. The fascia also connects to membranes that support the brain, called the tentorium cerebelli.
Which angle the head presses past, or onto, the bony pelvic passageway determines molding. When the crown of the head enters the pelvis first molding is most efficient. When a plate, rather than the margin between, or sutures, aims into the narrow part of pelvis, molding takes a long time and does less to reduce the diameter of the baby's head. One example of this is the asynclitic baby. Second stage can take a long time and pushing can be quite strenuous when a baby is asynclitic.
The baby's shoulders can also mold a bit for the birth process. The shoulder girdle is flexible and many times the shoulders are folded towards the chest for the actual emergence. Other times one shoulder comes out just ahead of the other in another natural variation to reduce shoulder breadth.
- Holistic Midwifery, Vol. II by Anne Frye
- Hands of Love by Carol Phillips
- The Female Pelvis by Blandine Calais-Germain
- A New Look at a Woman's Body by Boston Womens' Health Collective
- Gray's Anatomy by Henry Gray
You may like to look at Amy Hoyt's blog posts on Optimal Fetal Positioning with explanations and photos of the pelvis and baby (doll) on her blog: Natural Birth in Kitsap.


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I believe in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
My mother was a stay at home mom until I was about five. I grew up with my two brothers: Landon, who is a year older then me, and Hans, who is three years younger then me. The only time that I remember us being around my mother was when we were either eating or hurt and crying.
Raising three boys must have been quite the experience for my mother, especially since we spoiled the house with toys and clothes on a daily routine. I remember my mother making the sandwiches while we argued about who would get the first one. I know my mother did not make anything close to a perfect sandwich, she just wanted to put some food into our mouths to stop us from bickering. She may never understand how important those sandwiches were to me.
Sitting at the table with our legs swinging, since they were too short to touch the ground, we eagerly waited. Finally, my mother handed the sandwiches and drinks over to us. We watched in awe as my mom seemed like a professional cook. She was flawless making the sandwiches: spreading the contents to all four corners, cutting the crust off for my younger brother, extra jelly for my older brother, and extra peanut butter for me. She even made the three sandwiches with lighting like speed. However, eating the sandwich was almost a slow task for us boys. The bread and peanut butter would stick to the roof of our mouths, and of course three boys with cups of juice is a mess waiting to happen. We all laughed and giggled, even my mother, at one another and the mess we made.
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Even though the Caf at St. Olaf College can cook a lot better then my mom, we still share our bond. There isn't a week that goes by without me calling her at least once to share a laugh.
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Dramatic Finish
Cal edged Stanford on the second hole of a sudden death playoff Thursday to win the inaugural Big Match at sun-splashed Menlo Country Club.
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The inaugural Big Match, a mixed competition between the Stanford and Cal men's and women's golf teams, will be contested Thursday at Menlo Country Club in Woodside, California.
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Heading into the weekend, Tuesday's FOMC meeting was in the mind of most investors. However, the markets were struck with adversity as investors also had to digest a partial shutdown at Prudhoe Bay and a foiled terrorist plot linked to al-Qaeda. The S&P500 was unable to follow through the important 1280 level despite the Fed's decision to pause its string of rate hikes. We believe Wednesday's reversal gives more evidence that a retest of the lows on all "Four Sisters" is likely ahead of Labor Day. Transports continue to slide and we view this action as troublesome for the bulls.
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The Federal Reserve broke its two year string of rate hikes on Tuesday leaving interest rates unchanged on a belief that a cooling economy will dampen inflationary pressure. (Tue 7th)
21 suspects were arrested in a plot to blow up passenger jets heading from the UK to the US. It is believed the suspects have ties to al Qaeda and were very close to execution. (Thurs 10th)
Oil prices jumped when British Petroleum (BP) discovered severe corrosion at the Prudhoe Bay oil field which will cause the pipeline to shutdown. Repairs could last up to several months and will take roughly 400,000 barrels a day off line or 2.6% of our nation's daily supply. (Mon 7th)
The Commerce Department reported a rebound in July retail sales as consumers continue to show resilience in the face of high oil prices and a slowing economy. (Fri 11th)
Apple (AAPL) announced that its restatement of earnings will cause the past quarter's results to be changed "significantly" as it accounts for its stock option expensing. (Fri 11th)
Brazilian mining company Companhia Vale do Rio Doce joined the bidding war over Inco as the mining industry continues on a trend of consolidation. (Fri 11th)
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Retail outlet J.C. Penny (JCP) posted strong second quarter earnings driven by women's apparel and jewelry. (Thurs 10th)
Tech giant Cisco Systems (CSCO) impressed investors with its latest earnings and bullish outlook. (Wed 9th)
Media conglomerate Walt Disney (DIS) easily beat Wall Street estimates as the company continues its stellar performance under new CEO Robert Iger. (Thurs 10th)
Discount retailer Target (TGT) reported a 13% rise in quarterly profit as its credit card operations continue to expand. (Thurs 10th)
American International Group (AIG) reported a 29% dip in quarterly profit, but still beat analysts' expectations. (Wed 9th)
Energy drink maker Hansen Natural (HANS) had its wings clipped when it failed to beat analysts' high expectations. (Mon 7th)
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Most people who travel tend to gain weight because they are always eating on the road. Airport food can often be very heavy and very high in calories. Restaurants and meals claim to be healthy but are they really? I have a photo shoot next week so I did my own investigation on my way to visit my best friend in North Carolina at the BWI airport.
First I came across a vendor with sandwiches and salads. There was not one item that had any nutritional information on it. As I looked at each of the items I noticed that every sandwich had cheese and mayonnaise. Both are high in fat and calories. The salads all had a ton of cheese and crunchy noodles. Those crunchy noodles are yummy but really high in calories. I looked at the dressings and there was not one low fat option. I moved on.
The first restaurant I came to was Nature's Kitchen Fresh Cafe. I was excited that they might offer some green drinks or really healthy salad options, but all I saw were pre made cheesy salads and tons of processed lunch meats and bread. There was nothing nature made about it!
I have been working out hard and eating healthy and feeling great so I am not going to ruin it all with a bad meal. As I continue through the airport I was delighted to find Chipolte! At last, a place that had healthy options and listed the calories. I ordered a salad which consisted of lots of romaine lettuce, black beans, grilled chicken, mild salsa and a little of guacamole. I usually get the chips but when I saw they were 500 calories, I decided I didn't need them. The bowl was more than enough. I didn't need cheese, or a wrap and the salsa and guacamole had enough flavor so why use dressing? The dressing probably contained more calories than the salad itself. The portion was more than I needed so I ate slowly and threw about half of it away. I put it in the trash because I was full. I didn't need anymore and my stomach would thank me later.
You have to eat healthy 90 percent of the time to stay lean and defined, especially as you get older. Next time you're at the airport, eat like your at home. Inquire about calories, choose low fat salad dressings and stay away from creamy dressings, cheese, and bread.
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